"Nowadays, it would be unacceptable for the Arch-Enemy of a superhero to be anything but equal or greater in power than the hero." I don't think this is true, the idea that the Villain who's Brian rather then brawn is the greatest threat remains what audiences prefer to see whether they admit it or not. hell TDK made The Joker less of a physical threat then he usually is in the Comics.

Does the British royalty count as this or an Artifact?

Hey - not meaning to step on anybody's toes, but I excised the bit about why Chekhov's accent was poorly done (by Koenig) in the original Trek. The description of his bad accent was that he "replaced v's with w's rather than vice-versa" - but that's actually not a poorly-done Russian accent.

For one thing, it's a well-known foreign accent phenomenon sometimes called "overcompensation," where speakers of a foreign tongue know they'll have a tendency to mispronounce certain things based on their own native tongue (like "V" instead of "W" for Russian speakers of English), and self-consciously (accidentally) do the reverse (i.e., pronouncing a "W" in place of a "V").

For another, I can vouch for this phenomenon first-hand: my wife is Russian-born, an excellent speaker of English (she was a translation major at university), and occasionally does precisely this! (So do many of her friends who I speak with.)

So, no slam intended, but while I agree that Koenig's accent left something to be desired, the swapping of the "V" and "W" sounds wasn't a good reason why.

Didn't want to try to fit all of that into the edit justification and not make it clear.

Does anyone else think that Pluto should be subject to the Grandfather Clause?

Can there meta examples be added like TV Tropes ones?

The part of the C99 rationale below made me think of this trope, but since it isn't the main point of the page anyway, I'll just dump it here: