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See also [[Trope Codifier]], which is the example of a trope that defines all other uses. If a [[Trope Codifier]] is very different in outlook than the [[Trope Maker]], then the [[Trope Maker]] worked on an [[Unbuilt Trope]].
And, of course, don't confuse with [[Ur Example]]
To provide a concrete example of all three, the [[Detective Story]]'s [[Trope Maker]] is [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s Dupin stories, and [[Sherlock Holmes]] is the [[Trope Codifier]]; but the [[Ur Example]] may well be [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Three_Apples "The Tale Of the Three Apples"] in ''[[Arabian Nights|1001 Nights (The Arabian Nights)]]''.
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== Theatre ==
* [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''[[Orfeo]]'' sought to revive Greek theater, in which music played an equally important role to the drama. Although it failed in this regard, it created the notion of a "drama set within music"; inventing opera and all other musical theater. Curiously, ''Orfeo'' is the name of both the [[Ur Example]] and the [[Trope Codifier]]: two separate works written by separate composers.
== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Astro Boy]]''
* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' -- [[In the Name of the Moon|Pre-battle speeches]], naked [[Transformation Sequence
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'': -- Made [[Shonen]] anime big in the Western world and probably made most of the tropes it named.
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]''
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''
* ''[[Princess Knight]]'' - One of the first [[Shoujo]] series.
* ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' - Was the first to combine the classic [[Magical Girl]] genre with sentai and superhero themes (both by the same author and in-continuity with each other, ''Sailor V'' came first, but was developed in parallel with ''Sailor Moon'', the later becoming better known).
* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' - The origin of the formal [[Five-Man Band]] concept, which predates even [[Super Sentai]].
* ''Mazinger Z'', ''Gatchaman'', and ''[[Getter Robo]]'' are the three candidates for first [[Combining Mecha]]. Mazinger is the weakest of these because while it is two entities coming together to form a whole, there's only one pilot and robot.
* ''[[Raideen]]''
* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' - The first epic [[Space Opera]].
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Superman]]'' - There's a reason they're called [[Trope Namer|Super Heroes.]]
* ''[[Watchmen]]''
* ''[[Peanuts|Franklin]]'' - [[Black Best Friend]].
== Film ==
* '' Sallie Gardner at a Gallop''
* ''The Sneeze''
* ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' -- [[Circus of Fear]], [[Looks Like Cesare]], [[Cuckoos Nest]], [[Twist Ending]].
* ''[[Equilibrium]]'' -- [[Gun Kata]].
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''
* ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''
* ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' was the first wide-release film, opening in hundreds of theaters at once instead of a gradual release with the movie travelling from town to town. As a result, it was the first [[Summer Blockbuster]].
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]''
* ''[[Since You Went Away]]''
* ''[[Toy Story]]'' (and by extension, [[Pixar]] themselves) -- Bringing the [[All CGI Cartoon]] to the big screen.
* ''[[Scanners]]''
* ''[[Cat People (film)|Cat People]]'' -- [[Cat Scare]]. But despite the name, they used a bus.
* ''[[Intolerance]]''
* ''[[Birth of a Nation]]'' created the modern Hollywood movie as it stands today.
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' -- [[The Tokyo Fireball]] was created by, and is a staple of, everybody's favorite giant radioactive lizard. He also invented kaiju and tokusatsu!
* ''[[Bullitt]]'' -- [[Cowboy Cop]]. [[Unbuilt Trope|Unbuilt]] as his behavior royally screws up the case.
* ''[[Superman]]''
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''
* ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]''
* Although it is difficult to determine for sure, the first entertainment on moving film appears to have been the 1895 short ''L'Arroseur arrose'', viewable [http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm here]. This is the first time in film a 'script' was used rather than simply filming everyday life like boxing matches, cock fights, or people leaving a factory after a long day of work. It's an old gag of standing on a hose to stop the water, waiting for the guy to look into the hose to find the problem, and releasing the pressure on the line to squirt the man in the face. It's film being used for the first time to tell a story.
* Akira Kurosawa made everything we know about [[Chanbara]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
* 12AngryMen - [[Rogue Juror]]
* ''[[The Kid]]'' - First film [[Dramedy]].
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* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' -- [[Older Than Dirt|One of the earliest known written stories.]] If there's a written story that was written before it, we don't know about it.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] --
** ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]''
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
* Pulp
* [[H. G. Wells]]
* [[Jules Verne]]'s ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is considered the first sci-fi story.
* ''[[Dune]]'' took [[Used Future]] to the logical extreme and has been copied countless times.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''
* [[Childhood's End]] made the [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]] trope.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''
* Nick Carter created the a boy sidekick, and the [[Rogues Gallery]].
* ''[[The Leatherstocking Tales]]''
* ''[[Don Quixote]]''
* ''[[Lensman]]''
* ''Vernor Vinge''
* ''[[Varney the Vampire]]''. It introduced most of the modern vampire concepts like hypnotic ability, super strength, puncture wounds from fang bites, and going crazy if a long time pass without feeding. Also a reluctant one. Stoker was inspired quite a bit by it.
* [[Isaac Asimov]]
* [[Mark Twain]]
** ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''
* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'', along with his Venus books, defined [[Planetary Romance]].
* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]''
* [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' - Kicked off the whole Worldbuilding thing.
* The works of [[William Gibson]]: Acknowledged as the father of [[Cyberpunk]] and many related tropes.
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]'s ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' arguably created the [[Monster Clown]] with the evil-and-murderous-yet-holier-than-thou jester-man, No-Name-the-Clown.
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' by Chaucer is recognized as one of the first uses of satire and sarcasm.
* ''[[Beowulf]]''
* [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]] is this for the [[Dystopia]].
* Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's ''In a Glass Darkly'' (1872) had the first [[Occult Detective]] with Dr. Martin Hesselius, and also created the [[Lesbian Vampire]] with ''[[Carmilla]]'', one of the segments of ''In a Glass Darkly''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]''
** ''Pete & Pete'' is more or less tied as the Trope Maker with ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'', which started around the same time. However, since ''Larry'' was not only broadcast on a cable channel but [[HBO|one you had to pay extra for]], that meant that ''fewer'' people outside of its small cult audience were likely aware of the shared innovations of ''Sanders''.
** You're probably asking yourself "but what about ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]''?", well, [[Ur Example|that's a different trope]] altogether (and it also drastically predates all other shows with this style by ''decades'', it being very ahead of its time in that respect).
* ''[[wikipedia:An American Family|An American Family]]''
* ''[[Bewitched]]'' was said to have inspired the first [[Magical Girl]] anime.
* ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'' laid the groundwork for similar fantasy, [[Monster of the Week]] shows such as ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Charmed]]'' and ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]''. Before it there were afterschool specials populated with one-shot characters, there were ensemble dramas with teenage characters and there were teen [[
* ''[[wikipedia:The French Chef|The French Chef]]'' with [[wikipedia:Julia Child|Julia Child]] was the first nationwide [[Cooking Show]] and Child was the world's first actual "celebrity chef", predating Britain's Graham Kerr by a decade.
* ''[[Good Times]]''
* ''[[Guiding Light]]''
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]''
* ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
* ''[[My So-Called Life]]''
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]''
* ''[[wikipedia:Talk Soup|Talk Soup]]''
* ''[[Wide World of Sports]]''
* ''[[Password]]'' — First game show to have a definitive [[Bonus Round]]
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** With Richard Lester, they made the first music videos with the films ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Help!]]'' and with their promos for ''Rain'' and ''Paperback Writer''. [[MTV]] credited Dick Lester as the father of music videos. His response was [[Deadpan Snarker|asking for a blood test]].
* [[The Who]] directly created [[Punk Rock]], and also innovated in hard rock. Along with [[Led Zeppelin]], made heavier rock and metal as we know it.
** Despite there being one before it (by the same group, no less), ''[[Tommy]]'' by [[The Who]] is the
** Additionally, [[The Who]][[X Meets Y|+]][[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]=[[Power Pop]].
* [[The Yardbirds]] are practically a who's-who of blues-rock guitarists (at different times, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page numbered amongst their members). They popularized riff-driven songs and pioneered the use of fuzz, distortion, feedback and innovative recording techniques. And evolved into...
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]''
* ''[[Yellow Kid]]''
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Kriegspiel]]'' was the first war game, created by a German nobleman to train his generals in military strategy. The name means "wargame."
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' was the first major horror RPG, and is the acknowledged Trope Maker of the [[Sanity Meter]], a variation of which can be found in almost all horror RPGs that followed it (e.g. Humanity in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Madness Meters of ''[[Unknown Armies]]'', etc, etc). As with ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', this aspect is often copied in video games as well as tabletops.
* It's a rare [[Card Games|collectible card game]] that owes nothing at all to ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. It could be argued that there's no such thing, since Richard Garfield essentially invented the ''idea'' of a game with collectible pieces.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]''
* ''[[Body Harvest]]''
* ''[[Boiling Point: Road to Hell]]'' -- [[Wide Open Sandbox|Open-world]] [[First-Person Shooter|first-person shooters.]]
* ''[[Cabal]]''
* ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]''
* ''[[Colossal Cave]]''
* ''[[Columns]]'' -- [[Match Three Game]]
* ''[[Doom]]'' created many tropes of the [[Space Marine]] genre.
* ''[[Dragon Quest]]''
* ''[[Elite]]''
* ''Stonkers'',<ref>Added point-n-click interface, as well as the real-time action</ref>
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]''
* ''[[Half Life]]''
* ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]''
* ''[[Halo]]''
** Ironically, saying that Halo is a [[Trope Maker]] and/or a [[Trope Codifier]] in anything can cause massive [[Internet Backdraft]] in any [[Console Wars]] threads. Although these days saying that any [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|popular title created or popularized a good trope]] can cause massive rage, this itself is an unfortunate [[Trope Maker]] for Halo.
* ''I, Robot''
* ''[[Kana: Little Sister]]''
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''
** Also one of the first and most well known open-world games.
** Trope maker for games having secrets and sidequests.
* ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]''
* ''[[Metroid]]''
* ''[[Modem Wars]]'' was the first networked multiplayer game.
* ''[[Myst]]''
* ''[[Pac-Man]]''
* ''[[Pitfall]]''
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
* ''[[Pong]]''
* ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]''
* ''[[Kunio Kun|Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun/Renegade]]'' - established the foundations of the [[Beat'Em Up]] genre as we know it, or the "belt-scrolling" beat-em-ups at the very least, which was built upon by [[Double Dragon]] and [[River City Ransom|its own sequel]].
* ''[[R-Type]]''
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]''
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''
** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'' was also revolutionary in its handling of apocalyptic disasters, angels, gods, demons, balance of power and morality in the face of [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* ''[[Sim City]]''
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''
* ''[[Space Invaders]]''
* ''[[Space War]]''
* ''[[Street Fighter II]]''
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].''
* ''[[Super Mario 64]]''
* ''[[Tetris]]''
* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]''
* ''[[Ultima]]''
** The series did, although the specific games mentioned here would be [[Ultima I]]: The First Age of Darkness, [[Ultima Underworld]]: The Stygian Abyss, and [[Ultima Online]].
* ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''
* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]''
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''
* [[Red vs. Blue]], the first modern Machinima.
* [[Wikipedia]] is an encyclopedia, and so influential that [[The Wiki Rule|few wikis exist that aren't, functionally, specialized encyclopedias]] rather than, say, community projects or collections of cross-referenced essays. The most obvious counterexample, [[Everything 2]], predates Wikipedia.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]''
* ''[[The Flintstones]]''
* ''[[Winky Dink]] and You''
* ''[[Steamboat Willie]]''
* Short theatrical animation such as [[Classic Disney Shorts]], ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and [[Fleischer Studios]] shorts created countless animation tropes, so many that this entire page could be filled with nothing but examples of this.
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''
* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]''
* ''[[Popeye]]'' -- [[Power-Up Food]]. He also may be an [[Ur Example]] of the modern [[Superhero]], in a way.
* ''[[Daffy Duck]]''
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'' - First clear example of a [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|morally ambiguous duck]].
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