History Main / TropeMakers

* ...Music/LedZeppelin, who created heavy metal, along with HeavyMithril, and Viking Metal.

* Creator/JRRTolkien:
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheHobbit'' -- Created the HighFantasy genre. He's the reason OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame, and kicked off (well, codified) the whole ElvesVsDwarves thing.

* Pulp Magazines -- Created WeirdScience

** His short story "The Chronic Argonauts" (1888) and novel ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' (1895) are the source of the term "time machine", and thus a Trope Maker for TimeTravel - but not the UrExample, because a few authors had time machines before Wells.

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* ''Film/{{Superman}}'' -- Not the first {{Superhero}} movie by any means, but it was the first true SummerBlockbuster to feature a comic-book hero as its lead.

* [[http://wiki.c2.com/?FrontPage WikiWikiWeb]] is the first wiki (technically user-editable website), debuting on the World Wide Web in March 1995 as an easy way for programmers to exchange ideas. Though digital hypertext databases existed prior (think Apple's Hypercard), [=WikiWikiWeb=] was that cemented the idea of a wiki first and led to similar websites, including the TropeCodifier Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* Creator/JayneMansfield is probably the Trope Maker for DarkSkinnedBlond, partly because Hollywood movies were just switching over to color when she came along (1955).

* ''VideoGame/SweetHome'' is the first Survival Horror game, predating even ''[[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark Alone in the Dark (1992)]]'' by three years.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' -- There's a reason they're called [[TropeNamers Super Heroes.]]

** Music/{{Rush}} was the pioneer in blending HardRock and ProgressiveRock, and no wonder many progressive metal bands cite Rush as an influence.

* Literature/DragonridersOfPern invented the DragonRider trope as we know it today, and is also the TropeCodifer (possibly alongside Literature/TheInheritanceCycle and Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon, depending on who you ask).

** Before that, however, ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' invented the NuclearNasty trope, with the first ever giant monster to be linked to [[ILoveNuclearPower atomic radiation]]. It was also the first giant monster movie of TheFifties, and the first since ''Film/KingKong'' back in 1933.

* Machinima/RedVsBlue, the first modern Machinima.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' -- Invented the {{Metroidvania}} genre.

** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' -- The first Japanese example of a {{yandere}} in Yukako Yamagishi, a schoolgirl whose unrequited crush on Koichi Hirose leads to [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]], [[AbductionIsLove kidnapping]], and eventually [[IfICantHaveYou attempted murder]]. She was actually meant to be a {{subversion}} of a YamatoNadeshiko, and went on to influence many similar anime and manga characters.

** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' -- Stands are the first deliberate use of {{Guardian Entit|y}}ies as {{Fighting Spirit}}s, with the first one introduced being [[RapidFireFisticuffs Star Platinun]], and the first one created being [[TimeStandsStill The World]]. Stands were even cited to be the inspiration behind the TropeCodifier for Guardian Entities and Fighting Spirits, ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' features the first Japanese example of a {{yandere}} in Yukako Yamagishi, a schoolgirl whose unrequited crush on Koichi Hirose leads to [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]], [[AbductionIsLove kidnapping]], and eventually [[IfICantHaveYou attempted murder]]. She was actually meant to be a {{subversion}} of a YamatoNadeshiko, and went on to influence many similar anime and manga characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' (and by extension, Creator/{{Pixar}} themselves) -- Bringing the AllCGICartoon to the big screen.

* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' -- Made and several battle shonen tropes (that were later codified in ''Manga/DragonBall'') and codified the concept of [[ManlyTears extremely manly characters showcasing a lot of motions]].

** Music/BlueCheer really need to get the credit for creating heavy metal the way the early bands played it. Their influence was heavily evident in the most popular of the early metal bands, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/GrandFunkRailroad, and Music/IronButterfly. That influence extended through Music/{{Motorhead}} and Music/{{Venom}}.

* ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' is the trope maker for the PoliceProcedural.

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is often credited as the first straight example of the PlanetEater trope, being an iconic example that many defer to when this trope comes up even today.

* {{WebOriginal/Chrontendo}} is the very first work in the chronogaming genre.

* Creator/SteveRoden is the almighty pioneer of the lowercase genre in which he took {{Ambient}} and {{Minimalism}} and pumped them UpToEleven, {{Iron|y}}ically. His album ''Forms of Paper'' was 50 sheers minutes of silence and ambient noises that he amplified using digital equipment.

** The "[[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]" were created by Dr Asimov because he believed that robots were machines that would be built with [[MoralityChip restrictions on their behaviour]]. However, those restrictions would rarely make robots 100% safe, and most stories showed how the "Laws" would fail to account for one corner-case or another. Many later works refer to these laws by "Asimov's Laws".

* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' -- Created the SpaceOpera genre.

* Credit Prog Rock to Music/KingCrimson, Music/{{Yes}}, Music/{{Genesis}}, Music/ProcolHarum and Music/TheMoodyBlues.