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''If you make an entry here, expect some [[Older Than They Think|heavy challenges]].''
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== Theatre ==
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Astro Boy]]'' -- The first modern anime to make its way to the United States, it also included the first [[Anime Theme Song]]. It was a creation of [[Osamu Tezuka]], who also defined the style of manga and anime for decades with it and other works.
* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' -- [[In the Name of The Moon|Pre-battle speeches]], naked [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]], [[Mono
* ''[[Dragonball]]'': -- Made [[Shonen]] anime big in the Western world and probably made most of the tropes it named.
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' -- Made and codified several shonen tropes as well as [[Manly Tears]].
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* ''[[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 (Anime)|Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' - The origin of the formal [[Five
* ''Mazinger Z'', ''Gatchaman'', and ''[[Getter Robo (Manga)|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 (Anime)|Raideen]]'' -- First [[Transforming Mecha]].
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* ''[[Equilibrium]]'' -- [[Gun Kata]].
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' -- Generally considered the first [[Film Noir]].
* ''[[Its a Wonderful Life]]'' -- First example of [[
* ''[[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]]'' -- Contained a lot of film firsts, such as recruiting a group of quirky heroes to achieve a goal and introducing the main protagonist in a way unrelated to the plot. Sometimes is considered to be the first modern action movie or first modern epic movie.
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* [[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.
* [[
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' -- The familiar strapped-into-a-chair-with-your-eyelids-taped-open method of [[Brainwashed|Brainwashing]].
* [[Childhoods End]] made the [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]] trope.
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* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs (Creator)|Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'', along with his Venus books, defined [[Planetary Romance]].
* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'' -- Created the [[Jury of the Damned]].
* [[L. Frank Baum (Creator)|L Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|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 (Creator)|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 (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'' by Chaucer is recognized as one of the first uses of satire and sarcasm.
* ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'' -- Defined the hero's journey for every protagonist from Middle-English on.
* [[Nineteen Eighty
* 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 (Literature)|Carmilla]]'', one of the segments of ''In a Glass Darkly''.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'' -- among the first of many American sitcoms to feature all of the following things: on location production, lack of a laugh track and the single camera setup. The fact that it was a children's show on a [[Nickelodeon|cable network]] meant that most were unaware of this new style of sitcom until ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]'' (the [[Trope Codifier]]) helped popularize it in the late 1990's.
** ''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 ''[[
* ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family An American Family]'' -- The first contemporary [[Reality TV]] program.
* ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'' was said to have inspired the first [[Magical Girl]] anime.
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* ''[[Lizzie Mcguire]]'' -- paved the roads of every [[Disney Channel]] sitcom post-2000s with its format.
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' -- Changed the word "Kafkaesque" to "Pythonesque"; made "surrealism", "sex jokes" and "British comedy" go hand in hand from then on. ''The'' quintessential British comedy around the world.
* ''[[My So
* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' -- Believe it or not, technically it was the first [[Space Western]], as that's how Gene Roddenberry pitched it. Popularized [[Space Opera]] and created [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|quite]] [[Spock Speak|a few]] [[Red Shirt|tropes]] [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|of its own.]]
* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]'' -- This nearly forgotten series was TV's first [[Genre Anthology]].
* ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Soup Talk Soup]'' -- Started the snarky pop culture daily (at the time)/weekly clip show. First aired in 1991, ended in 2002. Revived in 2004 as ''[[The Soup]]'', spun off ''The Dish'', ''Sports Soup'' and ''Web Soup''. It has imitators in ''Infomania'' and ''Tosh.0''
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* ''[[Adventure (Video Game)|Adventure]]'' -- Created the console [[Action Adventure]] genre, and the first [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.
* ''[[Body Harvest]]'' -- The first 3D GTA-like. The game was made by the company who became Rockstar and introduced many of the ideas which would be fine-tuned in their next game, ''Grand Theft Auto III''.
* ''[[Boiling Point Road to Hell]]'' -- [[Wide Open Sandbox|Open-world]] [[First
* ''[[Cabal]]''-- A shooting game that spawned a lot of clones such as ''Blood Bros'' and ''[[Wild Guns (Video Game)|Wild Guns]]''.
* ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'' -- First [[Stealth Based Game]]
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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' -- Popularized and defined the standard of the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.
* ''[[Halo]]'' -- Popularized FPS on Consoles, Vehicles in games outside racers, Online Gaming on consoles, [[Machinima|Machinimas]] and possibly even [[Beating a Dead Player|Teabagging]], and proved the relevancy of the [[X Box]] in the [[Console Wars]].
** 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 [[
* ''I, Robot'' -- First game to use polygon-based graphics, camera control and a sandbox option. All of this in [[Older Than They Think|1983]]!
* ''[[Kana Little Sister (Visual Novel)|Kana Little Sister]]'' -- Defined the [[Utsuge]]-tropes in Japanese [[Visual Novel|visual novels]] for the English audience.
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* ''[[Pong]]'' -- The first successful [[Arcade Game]], and the first home [[Videogame Systems|Video Game System]], laying out many of the basics.
* ''[[Rogue (Video Game)|Rogue]]'' -- Y'see, there's this type of game called a [[Roguelike]]... Also called "dungeon-crawlers".
* ''[[Kunio Kun|Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun/Renegade]]'' - established the foundations of the [[Beat
* ''[[R-Type]]'' -- Introduced the idea of a formal system of powerups each of which did a specific thing (as opposed to the ''Gradius'' system of using powerups as currency). Introduced the idea of a controllable [[Attack Drone]], and the [[Reflecting Laser]], [[Charged Attack]] and [[Battleship Raid]] tropes.
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]'' -- Turn-based Artillery.
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* ''[[Sim City]]'' -- Created the [[Sand Box]]/SimulationGame genre (or at least popularized it).
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' -- Pioneered the [[Mascot With Attitude]].
* ''[[Space Invaders]]'' -- Created the [[Shoot
* ''[[Space War]]'' -- The first real [[Video Game]]!
* ''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]'' -- Created the idea of a gallery of fighters from which you could pick and fight against. Also, stages.
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* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' -- Created the modern [[Dating Sim]] genre, especially of the non-H type, and pionnered many Romance and [[Unwanted Harem]] tropes in Japanese sub-culture such as [[Anime]].
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' -- Created many of the tropes of 3D [[Action Adventure]] games.
* ''[[Ultima]]'' -- Created the [[RPG]], [[First
** 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]]'' -- The first successful 3D [[Fighting Game]], and one of the first to use more realistic fighting styles as opposed to [[Ki Attacks]] and projectiles.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* [[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 Two]], predates Wikipedia.
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* ''[[The Beatles (Animation)|The Beatles]]'' -- The first [[Band Toon]].
* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' -- The first animated [[Sit Com]].
* ''[[Winky Dink]] and You'' -- The first [[Merchandise
* ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' -- First true sound cartoon, first real use of [[Mickey Mousing]].
* 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]]'' -- The first [[Gross Out Show]]. Also the first to make extensive use of [[Gross Up Close Up]].
* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'' -- First use of the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]
* ''[[Popeye]]'' -- [[Power
* ''[[Daffy Duck]]'' -- The first real [[Screwy Squirrel]] cartoon character.
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'' - First clear example of a [[Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate|morally ambiguous duck]].
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