History Sandbox / FleetingDemographicRuleWickCheck

# Recap.AgentsOfSHIELDS4E12HotPotatoSoup: Three years after HYDRA, infiltrated within S.H.I.E.L.D., came within milliseconds of executing every threat to their new world order on the planet with drone strikes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, conspiracy theorists are again a kooky minority; QED, the fourth Koenig brother, Thurston, who's a slam poet activist at a beatnik bar with no clientele.
# RenamedTropes.FToK: Fleeting Demographic Rule was a merger of two tropes that needed a rename pretty badly. One was "Seven-Year Rule", which didn't actually refer to what happens after seven years. The other was "NOHAMOTYO", a bizarre and obtuse acronym standing for "No One Has a Memory Over Two Years Old". In the renaming process, the two tropes were found to be redundant — not that anyone could figure that out.
# ComicBook.TeenTitans: Raven becoming evil because of her demonic heritage and the team fighting a group of evil Titans were two plots commonly recycled.
# Literature.TheBerenstainBears: Interestingly averted for the 2002 TV series. Despite there being more than enough space between it and the 1985 series for a grown up demographic, the 2002 series avoids adapting any books that had already been done in the prior series.
# Wrestling.RandyOrton: Independent maverick superstar takes the Championship by joining up with corporate forces against all continuity and character logic? Are we talking about Randy Orton or "Stone Cold" Steve Austin?
# ComicBook.TheLeperFromKrypton: Every so often, Superman gets infected with a seemingly incurable alien illness. The Last Days of Superman (1962), The Jungle Line (1985) …
# ComicBook.RomSpaceknight: Secret Invasion is awfully similar to the Dire Wraiths storyline... (since Dire Wraiths are a deviant offshoot of the Skrulls. However the latter isn't too keen on sharing spoils of war with their distant relatives).
# Sandbox.DivineRankingSystem: 25 (Overdeity) note You have no idea who he is? He's the embodiment of the FleetingDemographicRule. By being one of the Pantheon's chief Anthropomorphic Personifications, he gets this by default. Unless said god is not an Overdeity, a Mind Screw, or an Anthropomorphic Personification of something incredibly silly.
# WesternAnimation.BluesCluesAndYou: "Meet Josh!" is similar to the plot of "Joe Gets A Clue" from the original series, in which the older hosts teach the new host how to play the titular game. It is also similar to "Snack Time", the original series premiere, as both episodes involve figuring out what Blue wants to eat.
# Creator.StanLee: Lee was in charge when Marvel first began to abandon its real-time storytelling in favor of "Marvel time" in 1968. The statement that comics do not represent change, but "the illusion of change" is usually attributed to either him or Marv Wolfman.
# Wrestling.AlbertoDelRio: Fans with good memories quickly recognized the method in which Del Rio won his second Last Man Standing match with The Big Show - because John Cena won a match with Batista in the same manner a few years ago.
# Characters.MarvelComicsCosmicEntities: When the Defenders visit, it's used to illustrate the cyclical nature of comic book storytelling, by having heroes fight amongst themselves or against villains in regular crises.
# Trivia.StarTrekEnterprise: "E2" is often remembered for ripping off half a dozen episodes. What isn't too well-known is that the writer was specifically asked to make a number of edits in order to mimic previous ideas.
# Series.{{Teletubbies}}: Variant. 365 episodes were made with no defined Pilot and Grand Finale; this meant that either children would outgrow the show before they started to notice reruns between 1997 and 2001, or stop watching because the vignettes made kids crap themselves.
# Wrestling.CarleneMoore: Her 2002 feud with Trish Stratus was quite similar to Bull Nakano vs Alundra Blayze - dark-skinned, crazy 'beast' vs beautiful blonde plucky 'beauty'. It would even be repeated somewhat when Victoria feuded with Trish later in the year - although with Victoria portraying a Yandere. Beth Phoenix would have similar feuds with Candice Michelle and Kelly Kelly later on (and her Glam Slam was similar to Jazz's Bitch Clamp).
# OneSteveLimit.{{Pokemon}}: Given that the show usually has a new character every episode for only a single episode, this trope comes into play very frequently, mostly due to writers forgetting or not caring about previous characters, since it's been years since we saw them. Even amongst anime-exclusive characters. The first of these was Harrison, who appeared in Episode 265, sharing a name with Harrison, who appeared in Episode 216. Others have appeared since then.
# Series.{{Fringe}}: ABC aired Strange World back in 1999. It had a very similar premise and was canceled after 3 episodes. Strange World itself suffered from the Fleeting Demographic Rule, as it aired during the run of (and shared an executive producer with) the X-Files.
# Recap.BarneyAndFriendsS2E8GrownUpsForADay: The second time Barney and Friends tackles the topic of different careers one can have after season 1's "When I Grow Up".
# Website.JollyRogerTelephoneCompany: A particularly special case. Though it's possible that some of the callers will figure out what's going on if their calls are picked up by bots enough, the turnover rate in the telemarketing industry is huge. Therefore, at any given time, it's likely that that any call redirected to one of the bots will be handled by someone who is still rather new on the job. That said, this doesn't necessarily prevent supervisors from warning agents about these bots, which means that the company must still be innovative in coming up with new tactics, routines and bots to try to stay ahead of the game.
# DoctorWho.TropesDToF: Female companions are rather unfairly associated with the Screaming Woman stereotype, so the revival team keeps reminding people not to think that about the latest companion.
# ComicBook.TheLastDaysOfSuperman: Superman dying because of a mysterious illness which turns out to be caused by a Kryptonite pebble embedded in Jimmy's camera was a plotline used for the first time in Superman (Volume 1) #66 (September 1950).
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2014Episodes: Right before the commercial break, the Critic decides to eat some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fruit snacks. Tamara reacts in disgust before being told that they're current snacks. So she decides to take out a My Little Pony toy, with Malcolm asking if she got it from her attic, but only to be told that it's a current toy. So Malcolm take out an Optimus Prime toy, with them asking if he got that out of his attic, only to tell them it's also current. Cue the dreaded realization that nothing has changed.
# WesternAnimation.DanielTigersNeighborhood: Starting around 2015, certain episode plots from older episodes would be recycled due to the kids who originally watched the series when it premiered having outgrown the show, but with slight changes. One notable example was "Daniel Can't Get What He Wants", which was basically "Daniel Gets Mad" but with the moral of "take a deep breath when you get mad" changed to "stomp your feet when you are angry". Season 4 reuses many strategies from older episodes, mainly with new character Jodi (or sometimes her twin brothers) having the problem and Daniel helping her, or showing Daniel facing a different scenario from the one where the original scenario was used.
# Funny.MockTheWeek: Hugh: Spider-Man is dead. And so is Fly Man, swallowed by There Was an Old Lady Woman. Andy: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can... HELP! I'M STUCK IN A BATH! Josh Widdicombe: A gas leak at the orphanage? Sounds like a job for me, The Human Torch. Ed Byrne: I am Patient Man. I work out every day, eat a high-fibre diet, and simply outlive my enemies. Hugh: You are the superhero every man wants to see: Girl-On Girl. Ed: "They're getting away! What do we do Patient Man?" "We wait."
# Series.ElChavoDelOcho: A variation is used by both Don Ramón and Jaimito the Mailman during their respective turns at being photographers. When they are asked how much they charge for a picture, they start with a high price, gradually reducing the value as the quality becomes worse and worse. Don Ramón tells Doña Florinda if Quico is in the picture it's free, while Jaimito tells Profesor Jirafales that his picture will be free if he's in it. Both Don Ramón and Jaimito inform their respective clients that by taking Doña Florinda's picture, then they will have to pay up.
# Trivia.DisneyAdventures: There were articles on historical topics (such as mummies and space) that the magazine would reuse after a few years, with new illustrations/images of course. Several comics were reused as well; a Toy Story comic from 1995 was later reprinted to help promote Toy Story 2.The T-rex on the cover of the July 1993 issue was later reused for the April 1996 cover. Averted with the reprints of Bone. The magazine reprinted the first issue of "Out From Boneville" as a three-parter, followed by a DA-exclusive one-off, in 1994 at the tail-end of the Burbank years. Bone then didn't return to DA until three years later, and picked up where the last "Out From Boneville" issue had left off.
# RaceLift.DiversifyingACast: Marvel used to run a title called Marvel Tales, which reprinted old Silver Age comics for newer readers. During the 80s, colorist Andy Yanchus would sometimes change the skin tones of one-shot characters or people in crowd scenes to make The Amazing Spider-Man's version of New York City more realistically diverse.
# Series.PowerRangersNinjaStorm: It's been 8 years since the last ninja-themed Rangers. Also, regarding Cam being the Green Samurai Ranger: 8 more years later, we have a whole team of Samurai Rangers. With a Green among their ranks no less! (and no, it's not Cam this time)
# Franchise.BreathOfFire: Breath Of Fire IV; "Utsurowazarumono" is a term meaning roughly "The Unchanging Ones" and is usually translated in English-language adaptations as "Endless") is a straight Comic-Book Adaptation with additional material from the artbook. It's also an example of the FleetingDemographicRule, and the final volume was released in time for the 10th anniversary of IV's release in Japan.
# Wrestling.HulkHogan: While Hulk Hogan had some success in TNA, it is generally looked upon as one of his failures, a re-heating of the nWo/Hollywood angle.
# ComicBook.HouseOfM: The Avengers went through a much more drastic reality warp caused by Morgan Le Fay only a few years earlier, and they reacted to that one almost as if it were routine, because they've been through so many similar incidents before. This time around, everyone acts as if they've never seen anything remotely like this, and they're all on the verge of stark panic.
# Characters.MarvelComicsUltron: Every time Ultron is seemingly destroyed, he ends up returning in a new form.
# Literature.AmericanGirlsCollection: The Girl of the Year Line tends to reuse themes over the years including horses, dance, and feminine sports. Given that the demographic age of eight to twelve is likely to have aged out by the next time a theme comes around again, it makes sense—especially because aspirations of dance, certain sports, and/or bonding with horses continue to be girlhood fantasies. 2007's The Light in the Cellar and 2018's The Legend of the Shark Goddess were both mysteries written for the 1940s characters (Molly and Nanea, respectively) where the plot revolves around suspicions of theft and black-market activity to circumvent rationing. They end differently: In Nanea's, nobody was guilty at all, and the characters who look suspicious all have valid reasons.
# Trivia.ValVenis: His first feud as Val Venis was vs. Kaientai and their manager Mr. Yamaguchi-San, over Val having made a porn movie with Yamaguchi-San's "wife." Then he feuded with Dustin Runnels over his then-Real Life wife Terri Runnels siding with Val, leading to Dustin going back to the Goldust gimmick for revenge. Then he feuded with Ken Shamrock over Ken's "sister" Ryan Shamrock. Jim Cornette has said that there is a seven-year rule on recycling wrestling angles. Val ran through all three feuds in less than a year.
# WebVideo.{{Vinesauce}}: Subverted in Vinny's compilation streams; whenever he plays a game he's already covered in a previous stream, it's because he himself doesn't remember playing that game until the chat points it out to him. Whenever this happens, he keeps his time with the game short before moving on to a fresh new game.
# Wrestling.TheMidnightExpress: Subverted, Cornett claims that in the Mid-Atlantic region he still gets greeted with excited cries of “Midnight Express!” In fact, Cornette stated that Vince McMahon expressed surprise that, despite appearing regularly on WWF tv at the time, Cornette would still be greeted with shouts of “Midnight Express” in airports ten years after their heyday. Cornette has suggested that the New Midnight Express was at least partially inspired by Vince’s bemusement at their continued popularity.

# TotallyRadical.RealLife: At some award show a few years ago, Joan Rivers made a comment about a rapper along the lines of "always getting some bling for him and his crew." Oops.
# Pantheon.SocialAndRecreationalWork: Fashion Model, The Fashionista, dresses coming from fan submissions, partakes in Passive-Aggressive Kombat, Unlimited Wardrobe, the beloved Blonde in her clique, Fashion Dissonance in the early 60s and late 70s, stories redone for different demographics, humor to romance-adventure and then back, Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold, dressing to sell products unrelated to her outfit
# Creator.JoeQuesada: <a title=: Spider-Man's One More Day, which attempts to make Peter Parker Younger and Hipper by dissolving his marriage to Mary Jane Watson... via a deal with a Satan expy. His name has become proverbial thanks to this story becoming the embodiment of chasing the FleetingDemographicRule to ridiculous extremes. The fact that he decided to return to artist duties for this story, more or less in his words, "putting his money where his mouth is" as he described it also makes it hard for it not to become his hair-shirt. Quesada for his part always defends this story on corporate grounds rather than artistic ones.
# Wrestling.JinderMahal: When announcing he would be defending his championship against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison Match at Battleground, he referred to The Great Khali, for whom the match was designed after, as his "personal hero". Older fans will remember his manipulating his then (kayfabe) brother-in-law. Then doubled as Khali would return at Battleground, helping Mahal defeat Randy Orton, without explanation as to how or why they became allies.note There was possibly some Reality Subtext in Jinder's promo about Khali, as Khali had been the first Indian wrestler signed by the WWE, debuting five years before Jinder did and becoming the first Indian World Heavyweight Champion, which would have made the older wrestler a likely role model and genuine source of inspiration for Jinder.
# Series.TheJoeSchmoShow: Perhaps the reason for the 9-year hiatus between Joe Schmo 2 and 3.
# ComicBook.SupermanBrianMichaelBendis: This isn't the first time a villain claims responsibility for the destruction of Krypton, a Superboy gets invited to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Superman loses his secret identity.
# Wrestling.BigELangston: His gimmick in NXT was beating down opponents enough for a five count pin as opposed to a three count, a gimmick made famous by King Kong Bundy.
# JustForFun.AnagramBin: Fleeting Demographic Rule Reformulated help nice gig.
# Wrestling.EricBischoff: Hogan and Bischoff did a whole lot for TNA, commercially at least, that the Jeff Jarrett era could seemingly never do. The reason the wheels fell off is that they moved the show to Mondays, and then they botched the On-The-Road move in 2013, causing a chain reaction which led to them losing a ton of money, having to offload a lot of big stars, and causing Spike to drop them the next year. WrestlingCrap handed their annual Gooker Award to the "New" Monday Night War.
# Theatre.{{Dreamgirls}}: Many Beyonce fans were confused when the film turned out to be about Jennifer Hudson though the fact the original promos only showed Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx, you can understand some of their confusion.In-universe example: When Michelle replaces Effie, Curtis—and by extension the world—acts like Michelle had been in the group the whole time, even though Effie was with them when they started achieving international fame.
# WMG.SgtFrog: They refuse to acknowledge Character Development because they assume Viewers Are Morons. This is also why they rely so heavily on the FleetingDemographicRule, such as repeating the "Momoka tries to set up a romantic interlude with Fuyuki" plot over and over and over...
# Series.MashinSentaiKiramager: It has been 15 years since the last magic-themed Sentai (which coincidentally featured genies). In fact, Kiramager pulls very liberally from Magiranger itself, including a Red that's a high school-aged The Baby of the Bunch with a civilian Love Interest, having the Yellow be The Lancer, having a standardized Custom Uniform, and being very sparkly (unsurprisingly, both series share a producer). A whopping 24 years since the last magically-powered vehicle-themed Sentai (which also recycles the base plot of a sole survivor of a fallen race granting humans magitek to fight the invasion moving on to Earth), and 31 years since the one before (which also uses the same base plot). 8 years since the last human-looking female villain. (7 years if Candelilla's Human Disguise is counted.)
# Memes.WWE: Michael Cole must suffer from long-term memory loss.

# Narm.ProfessionalWrestling: A very similar incident ten years earlier was another instance of narm. During The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness days when he was stalking Stephanie McMahon, he impersonated a limo driver as Stephanie was chased into the limo by members of his Ministry. When she told him to go, he turned around, revealing who he was, and saying "Where to Stephanie!? Ahahahaha!!" as Stephanie screamed.
# TropeNamers.ProfessionalWrestling: Fleeting Demographic Rule
# Music.MariyaTakeuchi: NostalgiaFilter: The young listeners of "Plastic Love" or other City Pop hits regularly have the same wistful, "rose-tinted glasses" sentiment of feeling weirdly nostalgic over an era that many of them... late Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z... were too young or born too late to experience. It's like an inverse of the FleetingDemographicRule. Wordsmiths have actually coined a neologism for this phenomenon: "Anemoia".
# Franchise.TouhouProject: Formerly-inanimate objects plot social upheaval. Are they a dollnote Medicine's route in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, released 2005, or musical instrumentsnote The plot of Double-Dealing Character, released 2013?
# ComicBook.SupermanReborn: Nearly every decade since the '60s someone writes a "Superman is split into two twins" plotline. Examples include The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue (1963), Two for the Death of One (1983), Superman Red/Blue (1997)...
# FrDictionnaireProvisoire.SchemasNonTraduits: Fleeting Demographic Rule Le Public A La Mémoire Courte (Circeus)
# Wrestling.TripleH: What his WrestleMania 27 feud with The Undertaker was. They last fought each other at WrestleMania X-Seven.
# VideoGame.CallOfDuty: Call of Duty ended with the Soviets storming the Reichstag and planting the flag on top. Guess how World at War ends. They end differently. COD 1 had someone else wave a flag while you watched. COD 5 had you surviving a bullet wound and get a rousing speech... and then the last cutscene shows historical black-and-white footage of the actual flag. While the WWII-era games in general are no strangers to retreading battles covered by previous titles, ''WWII'' in particular has a mission structure composed almost entirely of battles already seen earlier in the series.
# Administrivia.TropesNeedingTRS: This trope has many examples of works that don't have a fleeting demographic, such as animated shock comedies. *
# ComicBook.GirlPower: Supergirl learns to get over her grief, anger and feelings of abandonment and accepts Earth as her new home. Are we talking about Girl Power (2005), Last Daughter of Krypton (2011), Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) or The Killers of Krypton (2018)? Dark Supergirl is a modernization of Satan Girl, a Supergirl evil duplicate spawned by exposure to Red Kryptonite in The Condemned Legionnaires (1963).
# Awesome.RandySavage: A lot of casual fans were more surprised by the fact that Savage was only just being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. He was so integral to wrestling history as a whole that people everywhere just assumed he'd already been inducted years before note the FleetingDemographicRule is a major factor here, for those who are wondering how this happened.
# Series.ShurikenSentaiNinninger: It's been 12 years since the last ninja Sentai (Hurricaneger), and 20 years since the one before that (Kakuranger). It's been 10 years since the last Super Family Team (Magiranger), 16 years since the one before that (GoGoFive), and 25 years since the one before that (Fiveman).
# Theatre.MedievalTimesDinnerAndTournament: Inverted; the show undergoes a new iteration every six years, with the show remaining largely unchanged within those periods.
# ImageSource.ProWrestling: <a title=: Kane FleetingDemographicRule Name of Cain SpecialEffectFailure.Professional Wrestling
# Wrestling.RosaMendes: She was the third Diva to debut as an obsessed fan to the reigning Women's Champion - after Tori to Sable and Mickie James to Trish Stratus.
# Headscratchers.PowerRangersNinjaSteel: Basically, the show is written with FleetingDemographicRule in mind to prevent Continuity Lockout for the new batch of elementary school students coming in to the franchise every year. Two seasons means the kids just old enough to watch during Super Whatever Force will be curious enough to buy the first season when they realize they've missed something.
# YMMV.TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl: HilariousInHindsight: Shortly before the storyline where Captain America was 'revealed' as an agent of Hydra, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl had this◊. Even better, Squirrel Girl's solution to the situation involves lampshading the FleetingDemographicRule by invoking another, earlier story where Captain America was turned evil by Red Skull's mind control. In issue #21, Chipmunk Hunk and Koi Boi deduce that the Spider-Man they saw foiling a robbery was an imposter because he casually walked inside instead of swinging in. The very next month, Spider-Man: Homecoming has the real Spidey awkwardly walking into a bank while a robbery's in progress.
# Series.KaizokuSentaiGokaiger: Mixing up which Sentai they're supposed to be transforming into. So far, they've gone with Turboranger instead of Carranger, King Ranger instead of Shinken Gold, Kakuranger instead of Hurricaneger, and Abare Blue instead of Tricera Ranger. It's also a reference to the repeated themes in Sentai teams.Gai has helped them break this one by making them a book of all the Sentai for them to study. This comes in handy because when all six are turned into the same team, they can perform a powerful team attack. However, if #30 is any indication, the core team may still be rather Book Dumb in this regard, as they still wonder where to find a lion riding a skateboard before Gai helpfully shows them a picture of Yellow Lion in the book.
# Literature.DiaryOfAWimpyKid: One of Fregley's lines, "Betcha I can find your 'tickle spot'!", is taken word for word from the earlier tie-in do-it-yourself book.
# TheOfficeUS.TropesPToZ: "Subtle Sexuality" also features Kelly wearing Lady Gaga's once-signature eye lightning bolt.David Bowie would like to have a word with you (though Kelly was almost certainly imitating Gaga, not Bowie).
# Literature.WatershipDown: Literally in-universe, due to rabbits' short lifespan. The main events of the novel are the stuff of legend some five years later, and humans are already portrayed as driving cars and smoking cigarettes in what rabbits consider the mythic past.
# VideoGame.WWEVideoGames: Mickie James's RtWM in 2010. Her RtWM involves Natalya as her crazy stalker, a part Mickie herself played against Trish Stratus when she arrived at WWE.2007 has a storyline with Stephanie McMahon that is very close to the "Higher Power" angle, with Roddy Piper taking the place of The Undertaker. Both involve Vince McMahon aligning with someone he was feuding with to rescue his kidnapped daughter, and Vince is the mastermind of both kidnappings.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E4BigNewsWithBlue: This episode is the modern version of the episode “Blue's News”, where Blue reveals to Steve about Paprika's birth. Funny enough, Paprika and Cinnamon are the only ones to actually age since that episode.
# ComicBook.AvengersNoSurrender: An event based around the dissolution of the current Avengers line-up to make way for a relaunched book with a different, more high profile cast? Sounds a lot like Avengers Disassembled. Tom Brevoort even acknowledged this, saying that No Surrender could be seen as Disassembled for the modern era of Avengers books that began with All-New, All-Different Avengers.

# Wrestling.WCW: After Hulk Hogan arrived to WCW in 1994, the company apparently looked to Hogan's past, as his tenure during his first two years before turning heel and founding the nWo featured some 80's-era Hulkamania Call-Backs such as:Hogan and Savage's past history with each other in the WWF, leading them to not only reform the Mega Powers (and bringing back Miss Elizabeth as well in January 1996), but also to later break up and feud against one another once more (keep in mind that The Reveal of Hogan being The Outsiders' "third man" was done via Hogan attacking Savage). Mr. T reunited with Hogan during the latter's '94 feud with Flair. WCW tapped Brutus Beefcake, Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, John Tenta, Sherri Martel, Kamala, and Zeus, all of whom had a history with Hogan in the WWF. The Giant was initially portrayed as the son of André the Giant looking to avenge his father after his loss to Hogan at WrestleMania III.
# Webcomic.{{Multiplex}}: Expect Jason to point out when this rears its ugly head in any new movie.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E7SadDayWithBlue: This episode is basically an updated version of "Blue's Sad Day".
# Recap.KaizokuSentaiGokaigerE1TheSpacePiratesAppear: Fleeting Demographic Rule Highlighted in the Legend War, which shows Red Turbo fighting side-by-side with Red Racer, Ryu Ranger with Geki Red, and Ninja Red alongside Hurricane Red.
# Series.PowerRangersDinoThunder: It's been 11 years since the last dinosaur-themed Rangers.It's played with, however, mostly because of Tommy's return.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E8LaughWithBlue: An updated version of “What’s so funny”.
# BreatherEpisode.LiveActionTV: Kamen Rider Gaim's plot was so fast-paced that almost every other episode was just a breather episode near the end. Examples include an episode dealing with the fallout of the previous episode, hijinx involving the baker and his sidekick, a crossover with a rebooted Tokusatsu, and The Rival ending up in an alternate universe where everyone plays soccer. And if you count the direct-to-DVD movie, said rival also has a similar story to Blade's.
# NightmareFuel.RomanReigns: In the match itself, Roman made damn good on his promise to beat up Jey, demanding that Jey stay down and acknowledge him as the Tribal Chief, and only becoming more violent and vicious every time Jey denied him. It got so bad an injured Jimmy had to limp out, throw in the towel despite Jey imploring him not to, throw himself into the line of fire and acknowledge Roman as the Chief himself to stop the beating on his brother from getting dire. Freaking Karrion Kross would've had to eat his heart out, except all the reviewers just plain forgot he'd also provoked a potential white-towel scenario less than two months earlier. Roman Reigns was on such a different level of vile tyrant that even the FleetingDemographicRule dared not speak up to him.
# Wrestling.BigShow: During the Smackdown after Vengeance 2011 (in which Mark Henry superplexed him to destroy the whole ring), he came out to the ring and sheepishly said "I did it again!" All while all the commentators (especially Michael Cole, who was at the first incident) were trying to claim that they've never seen anything like it.
# Fr.LePublicEstAbruti: <a title=: Le Public A La Memoire Courte (FleetingDemographicRule)
# Wrestling.TotalNonstopActionWrestling: Whenever WWE announced an event that would be occurring "for the first time ever", or whenever any significant events happen to one of their former stars, TNA would upload similar matches and footage from years prior.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds: You've collected the three Plot Coupons, retrieved the Sword of Plot Advancement, and stormed the castle. Now all that's left is to defeat this evil wizard guy, but that ends up being the hardest part: Yuga, during the battle, sends Link to Lorule, and the latter is told by Princess Hilda that he has to rescue seven sages there. Up to that point, Link had only completed one third of his quest. ...Wait a minute...
# Awesome.RomanReigns: less than two months prior, Karrion Kross, Keith Lee, and Dominik Dijakovic had already used the "throw in the towel" angle over on NXT, in particular repeating the Bloodsport/Rocky IV angle where the villainous challenger destroys the friend of the champion in the fight preceding their showdown. Normally, hardcore fans and critics of pro wrestling are notorious for noticing recycled scripts or premises, and in some cases taking a dump on whatever company or booker decided to do it and supposedly hope that no one would notice. You will have a hard time finding ANY reviewer for Clash of Champions who dared compare Roman Reigns to Killer Kross, Chong Li, or Ivan Drago. The man was so damn good even the FleetingDemographicRule couldn't touch him. The Dreaded became an understatement at that point.

# Anime.DokiDokiPrecure: Fleeting Demographic Rule
# ComicBook.TwoForTheDeathOfOne: This isn't the first time Superman has been split in two, and it was not the last one: The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue (1963), Superman Red/Blue (1997) and Superman Reborn (2017) are some of the storylines which have used and recycled that particular plotline.
# Newsletter.News2012-01-28: NOHAMOTYO + Seven-Year Rule = FleetingDemographicRule. The first two were merged into the latter since they were more or less the same concept but one had a long acronym of a title and the other was needlessly concise.
# Series.TokumeiSentaiGobusters: It's only been two years since the animal-vehicle hybrids in Tensou Sentai Goseiger, and four years since that was combined with Robot Buddies in Engine Sentai Go-onger.Not to mention, a whopping thirty-seven years since the last espionage-themed sentai.
# YMMV.JurassicPark: A one-sided one with Barney & Friends back in The '90s, as both works came out in the same timeframe and provided radically different portrayals of dinosaurs. Jurassic Park was loved by the general moviegoing public for bringing its dinos to life via Visual Effects of Awesome and using them masterfully for suspense and action scenes, a stark contrast to Barney giving a saccharine portrayal of dinosaurs for very young children and nobody else. Jurassic Park III even takes an apparent shot at Barney by featuring a young child distracted by an episode of the show during a pivotal moment.
# Recap.PowerRangersDinoChargeNoMatterHowYouSliceIt: We've seen a scissors-themed monster turn most of the Rangers against each other by cutting their bonds of friendship before, in "Snip it Good" from Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
# Series.DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger: It's been 4 years since the last Sentai with any sort of Animal Motif (Go-Busters), and 9 years since the last dedicated, non-dinosaur animal-themed Sentai (Gekiranger).
# JustForFun.TropeEpitaph: Here lie Seven Year Rule and NOHAMOTYO — Their demographics didn't care about them being repeated in a new trope.note The latter was an unwieldy acronym, while the former was the same, but applied to professional wrestling.
# Literature.TheJewelKingdom: The 2020 reprint is advertised as a whole new series (and considered one in the copyright information, due to the altered text and new illustrations), since its audience would be the children of the girls who read the 1997 version.
# Recap.AgentsOfSHIELDS4E12HotPotatoSoup: Three years after HYDRA, infiltrated within S.H.I.E.L.D., came within milliseconds of executing every threat to their new world order on the planet with drone strikes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, conspiracy theorists are again a kooky minority; QED, the fourth Koenig brother, Thurston, who's a slam poet activist at a beatnik bar with no clientele.
# RenamedTropes.FToK: Fleeting Demographic Rule was a merger of two tropes that needed a rename pretty badly. One was "Seven-Year Rule", which didn't actually refer to what happens after seven years. The other was "NOHAMOTYO", a bizarre and obtuse acronym standing for "No One Has a Memory Over Two Years Old". In the renaming process, the two tropes were found to be redundant — not that anyone could figure that out.
# ComicBook.TeenTitans: Raven becoming evil because of her demonic heritage and the team fighting a group of evil Titans were two plots commonly recycled.
# Literature.TheBerenstainBears: Interestingly averted for the 2002 TV series. Despite there being more than enough space between it and the 1985 series for a grown up demographic, the 2002 series avoids adapting any books that had already been done in the prior series.
# Wrestling.RandyOrton: Independent maverick superstar takes the Championship by joining up with corporate forces against all continuity and character logic? Are we talking about Randy Orton or "Stone Cold" Steve Austin?

# ComicBook.RomSpaceknight: Secret Invasion is awfully similar to the Dire Wraiths storyline... (since Dire Wraiths are a deviant offshoot of the Skrulls. However the latter isn't too keen on sharing spoils of war with their distant relatives).
# Sandbox.DivineRankingSystem: 25 (Overdeity) note You have no idea who he is? He's the embodiment of the FleetingDemographicRule. By being one of the Pantheon's chief Anthropomorphic Personifications, he gets this by default. Unless said god is not an Overdeity, a Mind Screw, or an Anthropomorphic Personification of something incredibly silly.
# WesternAnimation.BluesCluesAndYou: "Meet Josh!" is similar to the plot of "Joe Gets A Clue" from the original series, in which the older hosts teach the new host how to play the titular game. It is also similar to "Snack Time", the original series premiere, as both episodes involve figuring out what Blue wants to eat.
# Creator.StanLee: Lee was in charge when Marvel first began to abandon its real-time storytelling in favor of "Marvel time" in 1968. The statement that comics do not represent change, but "the illusion of change" is usually attributed to either him or Marv Wolfman.
# Wrestling.AlbertoDelRio: Fans with good memories quickly recognized the method in which Del Rio won his second Last Man Standing match with The Big Show - because John Cena won a match with Batista in the same manner a few years ago.
# Characters.MarvelComicsCosmicEntities: When the Defenders visit, it's used to illustrate the cyclical nature of comic book storytelling, by having heroes fight amongst themselves or against villains in regular crises.
# Trivia.StarTrekEnterprise: "E2" is often remembered for ripping off half a dozen episodes. What isn't too well-known is that the writer was specifically asked to make a number of edits in order to mimic previous ideas.
# Series.{{Teletubbies}}: Variant. 365 episodes were made with no defined Pilot and Grand Finale; this meant that either children would outgrow the show before they started to notice reruns between 1997 and 2001, or stop watching because the vignettes made kids crap themselves.
# Wrestling.CarleneMoore: Her 2002 feud with Trish Stratus was quite similar to Bull Nakano vs Alundra Blayze - dark-skinned, crazy 'beast' vs beautiful blonde plucky 'beauty'. It would even be repeated somewhat when Victoria feuded with Trish later in the year - although with Victoria portraying a Yandere. Beth Phoenix would have similar feuds with Candice Michelle and Kelly Kelly later on (and her Glam Slam was similar to Jazz's Bitch Clamp).
# OneSteveLimit.{{Pokemon}}: Given that the show usually has a new character every episode for only a single episode, this trope comes into play very frequently, mostly due to writers forgetting or not caring about previous characters, since it's been years since we saw them. Even amongst anime-exclusive characters. The first of these was Harrison, who appeared in Episode 265, sharing a name with Harrison, who appeared in Episode 216. Others have appeared since then.
# Series.{{Fringe}}: ABC aired Strange World back in 1999. It had a very similar premise and was canceled after 3 episodes. Strange World itself suffered from the Fleeting Demographic Rule, as it aired during the run of (and shared an executive producer with) the X-Files.
# Recap.BarneyAndFriendsS2E8GrownUpsForADay: The second time Barney and Friends tackles the topic of different careers one can have after season 1's "When I Grow Up".
# Website.JollyRogerTelephoneCompany: A particularly special case. Though it's possible that some of the callers will figure out what's going on if their calls are picked up by bots enough, the turnover rate in the telemarketing industry is huge. Therefore, at any given time, it's likely that that any call redirected to one of the bots will be handled by someone who is still rather new on the job. That said, this doesn't necessarily prevent supervisors from warning agents about these bots, which means that the company must still be innovative in coming up with new tactics, routines and bots to try to stay ahead of the game.
# DoctorWho.TropesDToF: Female companions are rather unfairly associated with the Screaming Woman stereotype, so the revival team keeps reminding people not to think that about the latest companion.
# ComicBook.TheLastDaysOfSuperman: Superman dying because of a mysterious illness which turns out to be caused by a Kryptonite pebble embedded in Jimmy's camera was a plotline used for the first time in Superman (Volume 1) #66 (September 1950).
# Funny.TheNostalgiaCritic2014Episodes: Right before the commercial break, the Critic decides to eat some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fruit snacks. Tamara reacts in disgust before being told that they're current snacks. So she decides to take out a My Little Pony toy, with Malcolm asking if she got it from her attic, but only to be told that it's a current toy. So Malcolm take out an Optimus Prime toy, with them asking if he got that out of his attic, only to tell them it's also current. Cue the dreaded realization that nothing has changed.
# WesternAnimation.DanielTigersNeighborhood: Starting around 2015, certain episode plots from older episodes would be recycled due to the kids who originally watched the series when it premiered having outgrown the show, but with slight changes. One notable example was "Daniel Can't Get What He Wants", which was basically "Daniel Gets Mad" but with the moral of "take a deep breath when you get mad" changed to "stomp your feet when you are angry". Season 4 reuses many strategies from older episodes, mainly with new character Jodi (or sometimes her twin brothers) having the problem and Daniel helping her, or showing Daniel facing a different scenario from the one where the original scenario was used.
# Funny.MockTheWeek: Hugh: Spider-Man is dead. And so is Fly Man, swallowed by There Was an Old Lady Woman. Andy: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can... HELP! I'M STUCK IN A BATH! Josh Widdicombe: A gas leak at the orphanage? Sounds like a job for me, The Human Torch. Ed Byrne: I am Patient Man. I work out every day, eat a high-fibre diet, and simply outlive my enemies. Hugh: You are the superhero every man wants to see: Girl-On Girl. Ed: "They're getting away! What do we do Patient Man?" "We wait."
# Series.ElChavoDelOcho: A variation is used by both Don Ramón and Jaimito the Mailman during their respective turns at being photographers. When they are asked how much they charge for a picture, they start with a high price, gradually reducing the value as the quality becomes worse and worse. Don Ramón tells Doña Florinda if Quico is in the picture it's free, while Jaimito tells Profesor Jirafales that his picture will be free if he's in it. Both Don Ramón and Jaimito inform their respective clients that by taking Doña Florinda's picture, then they will have to pay up.
# Trivia.DisneyAdventures: There were articles on historical topics (such as mummies and space) that the magazine would reuse after a few years, with new illustrations/images of course. Several comics were reused as well; a Toy Story comic from 1995 was later reprinted to help promote Toy Story 2.The T-rex on the cover of the July 1993 issue was later reused for the April 1996 cover. Averted with the reprints of Bone. The magazine reprinted the first issue of "Out From Boneville" as a three-parter, followed by a DA-exclusive one-off, in 1994 at the tail-end of the Burbank years. Bone then didn't return to DA until three years later, and picked up where the last "Out From Boneville" issue had left off.
# RaceLift.DiversifyingACast: Marvel used to run a title called Marvel Tales, which reprinted old Silver Age comics for newer readers. During the 80s, colorist Andy Yanchus would sometimes change the skin tones of one-shot characters or people in crowd scenes to make The Amazing Spider-Man's version of New York City more realistically diverse.
# Series.PowerRangersNinjaStorm: It's been 8 years since the last ninja-themed Rangers. Also, regarding Cam being the Green Samurai Ranger: 8 more years later, we have a whole team of Samurai Rangers. With a Green among their ranks no less! (and no, it's not Cam this time)
# Franchise.BreathOfFire: Breath Of Fire IV; "Utsurowazarumono" is a term meaning roughly "The Unchanging Ones" and is usually translated in English-language adaptations as "Endless") is a straight Comic-Book Adaptation with additional material from the artbook. It's also an example of the FleetingDemographicRule, and the final volume was released in time for the 10th anniversary of IV's release in Japan.

# ComicBook.HouseOfM: The Avengers went through a much more drastic reality warp caused by Morgan Le Fay only a few years earlier, and they reacted to that one almost as if it were routine, because they've been through so many similar incidents before. This time around, everyone acts as if they've never seen anything remotely like this, and they're all on the verge of stark panic.
# Characters.MarvelComicsUltron: Every time Ultron is seemingly destroyed, he ends up returning in a new form.
# Literature.AmericanGirlsCollection: The Girl of the Year Line tends to reuse themes over the years including horses, dance, and feminine sports. Given that the demographic age of eight to twelve is likely to have aged out by the next time a theme comes around again, it makes sense—especially because aspirations of dance, certain sports, and/or bonding with horses continue to be girlhood fantasies. 2007's The Light in the Cellar and 2018's The Legend of the Shark Goddess were both mysteries written for the 1940s characters (Molly and Nanea, respectively) where the plot revolves around suspicions of theft and black-market activity to circumvent rationing. They end differently: In Nanea's, nobody was guilty at all, and the characters who look suspicious all have valid reasons.
# Trivia.ValVenis: His first feud as Val Venis was vs. Kaientai and their manager Mr. Yamaguchi-San, over Val having made a porn movie with Yamaguchi-San's "wife." Then he feuded with Dustin Runnels over his then-Real Life wife Terri Runnels siding with Val, leading to Dustin going back to the Goldust gimmick for revenge. Then he feuded with Ken Shamrock over Ken's "sister" Ryan Shamrock. Jim Cornette has said that there is a seven-year rule on recycling wrestling angles. Val ran through all three feuds in less than a year.
# WebVideo.{{Vinesauce}}: Subverted in Vinny's compilation streams; whenever he plays a game he's already covered in a previous stream, it's because he himself doesn't remember playing that game until the chat points it out to him. Whenever this happens, he keeps his time with the game short before moving on to a fresh new game.
# Wrestling.TheMidnightExpress: Subverted, Cornett claims that in the Mid-Atlantic region he still gets greeted with excited cries of “Midnight Express!” In fact, Cornette stated that Vince McMahon expressed surprise that, despite appearing regularly on WWF tv at the time, Cornette would still be greeted with shouts of “Midnight Express” in airports ten years after their heyday. Cornette has suggested that the New Midnight Express was at least partially inspired by Vince’s bemusement at their continued popularity.
# Wrestling.EddieGuerrero: Eddie claiming to be the "father" of Rey Mysterio's son was a recycling of Brian Pillman claiming to be the "father" of Dustin "Goldust" Runnels' and Terri Runnels' daughter Dakota in 1997, the difference being that Eddie wasn't a physically-deteriorated maniac and never got Rey's wife as a valet.
# TotallyRadical.RealLife: At some award show a few years ago, Joan Rivers made a comment about a rapper along the lines of "always getting some bling for him and his crew." Oops.
# Pantheon.SocialAndRecreationalWork: Fashion Model, The Fashionista, dresses coming from fan submissions, partakes in Passive-Aggressive Kombat, Unlimited Wardrobe, the beloved Blonde in her clique, Fashion Dissonance in the early 60s and late 70s, stories redone for different demographics, humor to romance-adventure and then back, Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold, dressing to sell products unrelated to her outfit
# Creator.JoeQuesada: <a title=: Spider-Man's One More Day, which attempts to make Peter Parker Younger and Hipper by dissolving his marriage to Mary Jane Watson... via a deal with a Satan expy. His name has become proverbial thanks to this story becoming the embodiment of chasing the FleetingDemographicRule to ridiculous extremes. The fact that he decided to return to artist duties for this story, more or less in his words, "putting his money where his mouth is" as he described it also makes it hard for it not to become his hair-shirt. Quesada for his part always defends this story on corporate grounds rather than artistic ones.
# Wrestling.JinderMahal: When announcing he would be defending his championship against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison Match at Battleground, he referred to The Great Khali, for whom the match was designed after, as his "personal hero". Older fans will remember his manipulating his then (kayfabe) brother-in-law. Then doubled as Khali would return at Battleground, helping Mahal defeat Randy Orton, without explanation as to how or why they became allies.note There was possibly some Reality Subtext in Jinder's promo about Khali, as Khali had been the first Indian wrestler signed by the WWE, debuting five years before Jinder did and becoming the first Indian World Heavyweight Champion, which would have made the older wrestler a likely role model and genuine source of inspiration for Jinder.

# Wrestling.BigELangston: His gimmick in NXT was beating down opponents enough for a five count pin as opposed to a three count, a gimmick made famous by King Kong Bundy.
# JustForFun.AnagramBin: Fleeting Demographic Rule Reformulated help nice gig.
# Wrestling.EricBischoff: Hogan and Bischoff did a whole lot for TNA, commercially at least, that the Jeff Jarrett era could seemingly never do. The reason the wheels fell off is that they moved the show to Mondays, and then they botched the On-The-Road move in 2013, causing a chain reaction which led to them losing a ton of money, having to offload a lot of big stars, and causing Spike to drop them the next year. WrestlingCrap handed their annual Gooker Award to the "New" Monday Night War.
# Theatre.{{Dreamgirls}}: Many Beyonce fans were confused when the film turned out to be about Jennifer Hudson though the fact the original promos only showed Beyonce, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx, you can understand some of their confusion.In-universe example: When Michelle replaces Effie, Curtis—and by extension the world—acts like Michelle had been in the group the whole time, even though Effie was with them when they started achieving international fame.
# WMG.SgtFrog: They refuse to acknowledge Character Development because they assume Viewers Are Morons. This is also why they rely so heavily on the FleetingDemographicRule, such as repeating the "Momoka tries to set up a romantic interlude with Fuyuki" plot over and over and over...
# Series.MashinSentaiKiramager: It has been 15 years since the last magic-themed Sentai (which coincidentally featured genies). In fact, Kiramager pulls very liberally from Magiranger itself, including a Red that's a high school-aged The Baby of the Bunch with a civilian Love Interest, having the Yellow be The Lancer, having a standardized Custom Uniform, and being very sparkly (unsurprisingly, both series share a producer). A whopping 24 years since the last magically-powered vehicle-themed Sentai (which also recycles the base plot of a sole survivor of a fallen race granting humans magitek to fight the invasion moving on to Earth), and 31 years since the one before (which also uses the same base plot). 8 years since the last human-looking female villain. (7 years if Candelilla's Human Disguise is counted.)
# Memes.WWE: Michael Cole must suffer from long-term memory loss.
# Series.InaiInaiBaa: This is the reason for the onee-san on this show changing every four years, and the song used for the exercise changing every eight years.
# Narm.ProfessionalWrestling: A very similar incident ten years earlier was another instance of narm. During The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness days when he was stalking Stephanie McMahon, he impersonated a limo driver as Stephanie was chased into the limo by members of his Ministry. When she told him to go, he turned around, revealing who he was, and saying "Where to Stephanie!? Ahahahaha!!" as Stephanie screamed.
# TropeNamers.ProfessionalWrestling: Fleeting Demographic Rule
# Music.MariyaTakeuchi: NostalgiaFilter: The young listeners of "Plastic Love" or other City Pop hits regularly have the same wistful, "rose-tinted glasses" sentiment of feeling weirdly nostalgic over an era that many of them... late Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z... were too young or born too late to experience. It's like an inverse of the FleetingDemographicRule. Wordsmiths have actually coined a neologism for this phenomenon: "Anemoia".
# Franchise.TouhouProject: Formerly-inanimate objects plot social upheaval. Are they a dollnote Medicine's route in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, released 2005, or musical instrumentsnote The plot of Double-Dealing Character, released 2013?
# ComicBook.SupermanReborn: Nearly every decade since the '60s someone writes a "Superman is split into two twins" plotline. Examples include The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue (1963), Two for the Death of One (1983), Superman Red/Blue (1997)...
# FrDictionnaireProvisoire.SchemasNonTraduits: Fleeting Demographic Rule Le Public A La Mémoire Courte (Circeus)
# Wrestling.TripleH: What his WrestleMania 27 feud with The Undertaker was. They last fought each other at WrestleMania X-Seven.
# VideoGame.CallOfDuty: Call of Duty ended with the Soviets storming the Reichstag and planting the flag on top. Guess how World at War ends. They end differently. COD 1 had someone else wave a flag while you watched. COD 5 had you surviving a bullet wound and get a rousing speech... and then the last cutscene shows historical black-and-white footage of the actual flag. While the WWII-era games in general are no strangers to retreading battles covered by previous titles, ''WWII'' in particular has a mission structure composed almost entirely of battles already seen earlier in the series.
# Administrivia.TropesNeedingTRS: This trope has many examples of works that don't have a fleeting demographic, such as animated shock comedies. *
# ComicBook.GirlPower: Supergirl learns to get over her grief, anger and feelings of abandonment and accepts Earth as her new home. Are we talking about Girl Power (2005), Last Daughter of Krypton (2011), Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) or The Killers of Krypton (2018)? Dark Supergirl is a modernization of Satan Girl, a Supergirl evil duplicate spawned by exposure to Red Kryptonite in The Condemned Legionnaires (1963).
# Awesome.RandySavage: A lot of casual fans were more surprised by the fact that Savage was only just being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. He was so integral to wrestling history as a whole that people everywhere just assumed he'd already been inducted years before note the FleetingDemographicRule is a major factor here, for those who are wondering how this happened.
# Series.ShurikenSentaiNinninger: It's been 12 years since the last ninja Sentai (Hurricaneger), and 20 years since the one before that (Kakuranger). It's been 10 years since the last Super Family Team (Magiranger), 16 years since the one before that (GoGoFive), and 25 years since the one before that (Fiveman).
# Theatre.MedievalTimesDinnerAndTournament: Inverted; the show undergoes a new iteration every six years, with the show remaining largely unchanged within those periods.
# ImageSource.ProWrestling: <a title=: Kane FleetingDemographicRule Name of Cain SpecialEffectFailure.Professional Wrestling
# Wrestling.RosaMendes: She was the third Diva to debut as an obsessed fan to the reigning Women's Champion - after Tori to Sable and Mickie James to Trish Stratus.
# Headscratchers.PowerRangersNinjaSteel: Basically, the show is written with FleetingDemographicRule in mind to prevent Continuity Lockout for the new batch of elementary school students coming in to the franchise every year. Two seasons means the kids just old enough to watch during Super Whatever Force will be curious enough to buy the first season when they realize they've missed something.
# YMMV.TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl: HilariousInHindsight: Shortly before the storyline where Captain America was 'revealed' as an agent of Hydra, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl had this◊. Even better, Squirrel Girl's solution to the situation involves lampshading the FleetingDemographicRule by invoking another, earlier story where Captain America was turned evil by Red Skull's mind control. In issue #21, Chipmunk Hunk and Koi Boi deduce that the Spider-Man they saw foiling a robbery was an imposter because he casually walked inside instead of swinging in. The very next month, Spider-Man: Homecoming has the real Spidey awkwardly walking into a bank while a robbery's in progress.
# Series.KaizokuSentaiGokaiger: Mixing up which Sentai they're supposed to be transforming into. So far, they've gone with Turboranger instead of Carranger, King Ranger instead of Shinken Gold, Kakuranger instead of Hurricaneger, and Abare Blue instead of Tricera Ranger. It's also a reference to the repeated themes in Sentai teams.Gai has helped them break this one by making them a book of all the Sentai for them to study. This comes in handy because when all six are turned into the same team, they can perform a powerful team attack. However, if #30 is any indication, the core team may still be rather Book Dumb in this regard, as they still wonder where to find a lion riding a skateboard before Gai helpfully shows them a picture of Yellow Lion in the book.

# TheOfficeUS.TropesPToZ: "Subtle Sexuality" also features Kelly wearing Lady Gaga's once-signature eye lightning bolt.David Bowie would like to have a word with you (though Kelly was almost certainly imitating Gaga, not Bowie).
# Literature.WatershipDown: Literally in-universe, due to rabbits' short lifespan. The main events of the novel are the stuff of legend some five years later, and humans are already portrayed as driving cars and smoking cigarettes in what rabbits consider the mythic past.
# VideoGame.WWEVideoGames: Mickie James's RtWM in 2010. Her RtWM involves Natalya as her crazy stalker, a part Mickie herself played against Trish Stratus when she arrived at WWE.2007 has a storyline with Stephanie McMahon that is very close to the "Higher Power" angle, with Roddy Piper taking the place of The Undertaker. Both involve Vince McMahon aligning with someone he was feuding with to rescue his kidnapped daughter, and Vince is the mastermind of both kidnappings.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E4BigNewsWithBlue: This episode is the modern version of the episode “Blue's News”, where Blue reveals to Steve about Paprika's birth. Funny enough, Paprika and Cinnamon are the only ones to actually age since that episode.
# ComicBook.AvengersNoSurrender: An event based around the dissolution of the current Avengers line-up to make way for a relaunched book with a different, more high profile cast? Sounds a lot like Avengers Disassembled. Tom Brevoort even acknowledged this, saying that No Surrender could be seen as Disassembled for the modern era of Avengers books that began with All-New, All-Different Avengers.
# ComicBook.LastDaughterOfKrypton: Supergirl dealing with her Survivor Guilt and "teenager stranger in a strange land" status as learning to accept Earth as her new home was previously used in "Girl Power" (2005) and would be used again in Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) and The Killers of Krypton (2018).
# Wrestling.WCW: After Hulk Hogan arrived to WCW in 1994, the company apparently looked to Hogan's past, as his tenure during his first two years before turning heel and founding the nWo featured some 80's-era Hulkamania Call-Backs such as:Hogan and Savage's past history with each other in the WWF, leading them to not only reform the Mega Powers (and bringing back Miss Elizabeth as well in January 1996), but also to later break up and feud against one another once more (keep in mind that The Reveal of Hogan being The Outsiders' "third man" was done via Hogan attacking Savage). Mr. T reunited with Hogan during the latter's '94 feud with Flair. WCW tapped Brutus Beefcake, Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, John Tenta, Sherri Martel, Kamala, and Zeus, all of whom had a history with Hogan in the WWF. The Giant was initially portrayed as the son of André the Giant looking to avenge his father after his loss to Hogan at WrestleMania III.
# Webcomic.{{Multiplex}}: Expect Jason to point out when this rears its ugly head in any new movie.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E7SadDayWithBlue: This episode is basically an updated version of "Blue's Sad Day".
# Recap.KaizokuSentaiGokaigerE1TheSpacePiratesAppear: Fleeting Demographic Rule Highlighted in the Legend War, which shows Red Turbo fighting side-by-side with Red Racer, Ryu Ranger with Geki Red, and Ninja Red alongside Hurricane Red.
# Sandbox.WickCheckProject: Fleeting Demographic Rule (needs 50)
# Series.PowerRangersDinoThunder: It's been 11 years since the last dinosaur-themed Rangers.It's played with, however, mostly because of Tommy's return.
# Recap.BluesCluesAndYouS1E8LaughWithBlue: An updated version of “What’s so funny”.
# BreatherEpisode.LiveActionTV: Kamen Rider Gaim's plot was so fast-paced that almost every other episode was just a breather episode near the end. Examples include an episode dealing with the fallout of the previous episode, hijinx involving the baker and his sidekick, a crossover with a rebooted Tokusatsu, and The Rival ending up in an alternate universe where everyone plays soccer. And if you count the direct-to-DVD movie, said rival also has a similar story to Blade's.
# NightmareFuel.RomanReigns: In the match itself, Roman made damn good on his promise to beat up Jey, demanding that Jey stay down and acknowledge him as the Tribal Chief, and only becoming more violent and vicious every time Jey denied him. It got so bad an injured Jimmy had to limp out, throw in the towel despite Jey imploring him not to, throw himself into the line of fire and acknowledge Roman as the Chief himself to stop the beating on his brother from getting dire. Freaking Karrion Kross would've had to eat his heart out, except all the reviewers just plain forgot he'd also provoked a potential white-towel scenario less than two months earlier. Roman Reigns was on such a different level of vile tyrant that even the FleetingDemographicRule dared not speak up to him.
# Wrestling.BigShow: During the Smackdown after Vengeance 2011 (in which Mark Henry superplexed him to destroy the whole ring), he came out to the ring and sheepishly said "I did it again!" All while all the commentators (especially Michael Cole, who was at the first incident) were trying to claim that they've never seen anything like it.
# Fr.LePublicEstAbruti: <a title=: Le Public A La Memoire Courte (FleetingDemographicRule)
# Wrestling.TotalNonstopActionWrestling: Whenever WWE announced an event that would be occurring "for the first time ever", or whenever any significant events happen to one of their former stars, TNA would upload similar matches and footage from years prior.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds: You've collected the three Plot Coupons, retrieved the Sword of Plot Advancement, and stormed the castle. Now all that's left is to defeat this evil wizard guy, but that ends up being the hardest part: Yuga, during the battle, sends Link to Lorule, and the latter is told by Princess Hilda that he has to rescue seven sages there. Up to that point, Link had only completed one third of his quest. ...Wait a minute...
# Awesome.RomanReigns: less than two months prior, Karrion Kross, Keith Lee, and Dominik Dijakovic had already used the "throw in the towel" angle over on NXT, in particular repeating the Bloodsport/Rocky IV angle where the villainous challenger destroys the friend of the champion in the fight preceding their showdown. Normally, hardcore fans and critics of pro wrestling are notorious for noticing recycled scripts or premises, and in some cases taking a dump on whatever company or booker decided to do it and supposedly hope that no one would notice. You will have a hard time finding ANY reviewer for Clash of Champions who dared compare Roman Reigns to Killer Kross, Chong Li, or Ivan Drago. The man was so damn good even the FleetingDemographicRule couldn't touch him. The Dreaded became an understatement at that point.
# Music.SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand: Variation. Before this album, The Beatles had been putting out albums and touring almost unendingly, and they were feeling burnt out. So, from this album onward, they decided to stop touring and take their time working on the album instead of working as hectically as they had been. However, since that meant the album took much longer to be completed and the band wasn't making any official public appearances during the process, the perceived decreased productivity of the band in the public's eye led critics to declare that the band was officially dead. These people were proven to be very wrong.
# Anime.DokiDokiPrecure: Fleeting Demographic Rule
# ComicBook.TwoForTheDeathOfOne: This isn't the first time Superman has been split in two, and it was not the last one: The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue (1963), Superman Red/Blue (1997) and Superman Reborn (2017) are some of the storylines which have used and recycled that particular plotline.
# Newsletter.News2012-01-28: NOHAMOTYO + Seven-Year Rule = FleetingDemographicRule. The first two were merged into the latter since they were more or less the same concept but one had a long acronym of a title and the other was needlessly concise.
# Series.TokumeiSentaiGobusters: It's only been two years since the animal-vehicle hybrids in Tensou Sentai Goseiger, and four years since that was combined with Robot Buddies in Engine Sentai Go-onger.Not to mention, a whopping thirty-seven years since the last espionage-themed sentai.
# YMMV.JurassicPark: A one-sided one with Barney & Friends back in The '90s, as both works came out in the same timeframe and provided radically different portrayals of dinosaurs. Jurassic Park was loved by the general moviegoing public for bringing its dinos to life via Visual Effects of Awesome and using them masterfully for suspense and action scenes, a stark contrast to Barney giving a saccharine portrayal of dinosaurs for very young children and nobody else. Jurassic Park III even takes an apparent shot at Barney by featuring a young child distracted by an episode of the show during a pivotal moment.
# Recap.PowerRangersDinoChargeNoMatterHowYouSliceIt: We've seen a scissors-themed monster turn most of the Rangers against each other by cutting their bonds of friendship before, in "Snip it Good" from Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
# Series.DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger: It's been 4 years since the last Sentai with any sort of Animal Motif (Go-Busters), and 9 years since the last dedicated, non-dinosaur animal-themed Sentai (Gekiranger).
# JustForFun.TropeEpitaph: Here lie Seven Year Rule and NOHAMOTYO — Their demographics didn't care about them being repeated in a new trope.note The latter was an unwieldy acronym, while the former was the same, but applied to professional wrestling.
# Literature.TheJewelKingdom: The 2020 reprint is advertised as a whole new series (and considered one in the copyright information, due to the altered text and new illustrations), since its audience would be the children of the girls who read the 1997 version.
# Recap.BarneyAndFriendsS2E8GrownUpsForADay: The second time Barney and Friends tackles the topic of different careers one can have after season 1's "When I Grow Up".