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Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
10th May, 2024 08:42:29 PM
This is the overlap of Forgotten Trope and Parody Displacement- a parody so thoroughly displaces the straight play of the trope that it becomes the last popular memory of that trope.
Compare Dead Unicorn Trope, a strange situation where the parodied tropes or genre never actually existed outside of satirical use.
Galadriel
Since: Feb, 2015
11th May, 2024 08:56:38 AM
Thank you both!
Is there a trope for when a work satirizing a genre becomes more famous than the thing its satirizing, to the point where many people’s only knowledge of the genre comes from the satirical work? (Sometimes to the point where the satire is no longer noticed.) Examples are usually historic works.
Examples: - Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey was satirizing melodramatic Gothic novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho, but Austen is far more famous now than any of those novels.
- Don Quixote was satirizing a genre of chivalric romance, but nothing from the genre it was satirizing is remotely as well-known as it.
- Romeo and Juliet was apparently satirizing a genre of romance plays but has displaced them in fame so greatly that it’s far from obvious these days that it even was a satire.
Edited by Galadriel