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* CementShoes: With gangster fiction nowadays, it's much more efficient to have the crooks just shoot the guy and go on their way.
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* CementShoes: With gangster fiction nowadays, it's much more efficient and quick to have the crooks just shoot the guy or bash his head in and go on their way.
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It\'s not even an Undead Horse Trope. Random Encounters are no longer universal, but they\'re still used.
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* RandomEncounters: As a remnant of technical limitations of video games and its tabletop origins, they're lately replaced by other methods to engage a fight.
** Some games made in ''RPG Maker'' play with this trope, by having the "Random Encounters" actually be regular encounters, but with the wandering monsters being invisible.
** Retro tabletop-style games are sometimes used in some games where they fit the flavor better. Additionally, some pretty big games such as ''Fallout 3'', many MMOs, any dungeon-crawler patterning itself after Diablo, and most of the JRPG genre still use these types of encounters. This may be an UndeadHorseTrope instead.
** Some games made in ''RPG Maker'' play with this trope, by having the "Random Encounters" actually be regular encounters, but with the wandering monsters being invisible.
** Retro tabletop-style games are sometimes used in some games where they fit the flavor better. Additionally, some pretty big games such as ''Fallout 3'', many MMOs, any dungeon-crawler patterning itself after Diablo, and most of the JRPG genre still use these types of encounters. This may be an UndeadHorseTrope instead.
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* The idea that women hate sports. For the longest time (ie. until about the 1970's), it was considered "un-ladylike" for a woman to play sports. A lot of this had to do with the idea that WomenAreDelicate, along with the idea that a woman being unclean (in a literal sense) was somehow immoral. This changed once second-wave Feminism took off and physical fitness became greater emphasized within our culture. It even became perfectly common for women to watch sports (albeit with more of a focus on team spirit than competitiveness). While this perception still shows up from time to time (usually in works where a woman's physical beauty is an important part), it's far less prevalent now than it used to be.
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* ShrinkRay: Due to ScienceMarchesOn, this is now limited to more-or-less humorour works.
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* ShrinkRay: Due to ScienceMarchesOn, this is now limited to more-or-less humorour humorous works.
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* HenpeckedHusband: As Many DomesticAbuse cases start to have more Gender Nuetrality be added to them, this type of relationship is seen as either unrealistic or [[UnfortunateImplications horrifying]]. Many Sitcom's still use them, however.
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* HenpeckedHusband: As Many DomesticAbuse cases start to have more Gender Nuetrality gender neutrality be added to them, this type of relationship is seen as either unrealistic or [[UnfortunateImplications horrifying]]. Many Sitcom's sitcoms still use them, however.
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** An exception is ''Series/BurnNotice'', which does both the Opening Narration as well as "Previously..." It works because it does what it's [[TropesAreTools intended to do]]. The series' episodic nature, especially in the earlier seasons, meant a viewer wouldn't likely realize the basic premise if they started watching after the pilot aired, and the "Previously..." segments can set up just ''why'' the return of such-and-such antagonist is a Very Bad Thing, or to set up a temporary EnemyMine plot.
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Also untrue. Credit cards are just as subject to abuse as always, due to the mentioned safety precautions being largely optional.
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* CreditCardPlot: Now that [[TechnologyMarchesOn we're in the days of pre-paid credit cards and anonymous preloaded credit cards]], this is impossible to play straight anymore, except when it's PlayedForLaughs.
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* ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs: Kid cereals are actually more nutritious than this these days.
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* ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs: Kid Modern children's cereals are actually made with much more nutritious than this these days.of an eye towards nutrition, thanks to backlash regarding marketing junk food to kids.
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While romance is certainly more common than not, it\'s untrue to say that celibate heroes are not taken seriously in modern fiction or that heroes are only celibate if they are physically incapable of sex.
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* "Doctor" or "Captain" in the codename: Having a Doctorate means little to the general public in today's climate, and being a military officer isn't always taken as a symbol of moral authority in today's largely anti-war political landscape. Even Doctor Doom has dropped the Doctor from his name for the most part.
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* "Doctor" or "Captain" in the codename: Having a Doctorate means little to the general public in today's climate, climate (when having at least a college degree is mandatory for most white-collar jobs), and being a military officer isn't always taken as a symbol of moral authority in today's largely anti-war political landscape. Even Doctor Doom has dropped the Doctor from his name for the most part.
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* "Doctor" or "Captain" in the codename: Having a Doctorate means little to the general public in today's climate. Even Doctor Doom has dropped the Doctor part from his name for the most part.
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* "Doctor" or "Captain" in the codename: Having a Doctorate means little to the general public in today's climate. climate, and being a military officer isn't always taken as a symbol of moral authority in today's largely anti-war political landscape. Even Doctor Doom has dropped the Doctor part from his name for the most part.
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** There's also the common phrasing of the trope, "Does this make my butt look big?". Because of evolving beauty standards in the 21st century, the implication that a woman has a big butt isn't always considered an insult.
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** There's also the common phrasing of the trope, "Does this make my butt look big?". Because of evolving beauty standards in the 21st century, the implication that a woman has a big butt isn't always is a lot less likely to be considered an insult.insult than it once was.
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* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: You see this every day, so it's not really a plot device.
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* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: You see this every day, so it's not really a plot device.
** There's also the common phrasing of the trope, "Does this make my butt look big?". Because of evolving beauty standards in the 21st century, the implication that a woman has a big butt isn't always considered an insult.
** There's also the common phrasing of the trope, "Does this make my butt look big?". Because of evolving beauty standards in the 21st century, the implication that a woman has a big butt isn't always considered an insult.
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* HighSchoolRocks is rarely played straight anymore. Now that shows like ''FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''MySoCalledLife'', not to mention movies like ''{{Superbad}}'' and (to a lesser extent) ''DazedAndConfused'', have subverted it into oblivion, it's almost impossible to take this trope seriously anymore.
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* The "heavy metal guitar solo" (that wild "doodily-doodily" sound you heard in ''every'' Eighties rock song). It's become such a cliché that metal musicians themselves tend not to use it anymore.
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* Ending a song with a saucy "Cha-cha-cha!" - probably because [[PetPeeveTrope it's just so annoying]].
* Similarly, the "Shave and a haircut, two bits" jingle will ''only'' be heard in "old-timey" contexts.
* Similarly, the "Shave and a haircut, two bits" jingle will ''only'' be heard in "old-timey" contexts.
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** Similarly, the "Previously on..." trope. (If you didn't "Tivo" the previous episode, it's your own damn fault.)
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* The line "Hi, honey, I'm home!" was a stock standard phrase in many American family sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s. Back then it was used straight forward, but since then it has been discredited due to its corniness and unrealistic routine. It is also a tad less believable now that there are far more women with families in the workplace (and even many stay-at-home dads), meaning that a man coming home from work to greet his wife isn't nearly as universal and routine as it once was.
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* The line "Hi, honey, I'm home!" was a stock standard phrase in many American family sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s. Back then it was used straight forward, straightforwardly, but since then it has been discredited due to its corniness and unrealistic routine. It is also a tad less believable now that there are far more women with families in the workplace (and even many stay-at-home dads), meaning that a man coming home from work to greet his wife isn't nearly as universal and routine as it once was.
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** Parodied in ''BatmanReturns'', with Selina Kyle saying this every time she comes home to her apartment, consistently forgetting that she isn't married (and, apparently, that she isn't a man).
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** Similarly, "One man...", "A hero will rise...", etc.
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* WildSamoan: Obvious UnfortunateImplications and SocietyMarchesOn make this discredited now.
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* WildSamoan: Obvious UnfortunateImplications and SocietyMarchesOn make this discredited now. (This doesn't apply to ProfessionalWrestling, the performance art that time forgot.)
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Can You Hear Me Now has been split into Super Cell Reception and Cell Phones Are Useless. Bad examples and Zer Context material is being deleted.
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** This has caused the trope to [[CanYouHearMeNow generally morph in various ways]]: the area has no reception, dead/missing battery, interference due to solar flares, etc.
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** This has caused the trope to [[CanYouHearMeNow [[CellPhonesAreUseless generally morph in various ways]]: the area has no reception, dead/missing battery, interference due to solar flares, etc.
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* HenpeckedHusband: As Many DomesticAbuse cases start to have more Gender Nuetrality be added to them, this type of relationship is seen as either unrealistic or [[UnfortunateImplications horrifying]]. Many Sitcom's still use them, however.
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* MayanDoomsday: December 21, 2012 is in the past now, and suffice to say, the world and civilization in general remain intact. It's hard to imagine any new works taking this trope seriously with that in mind.
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* BarbaricBully: Heightened school security in the post-Columbine era means that beating a kid up in a crowded school hallway usually comes with consequences. Not to mention that the advent of cyberbullying and the recent rash of bully-related suicides proves that a good deal of bullying is psychological rather than physical (and that psychological bullying can be just as harmful as physical bullying).
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* BarbaricBully: Heightened school security in the post-Columbine era means that beating a kid up in a crowded school hallway usually comes with consequences. Not to mention that the advent of cyberbullying and the recent rash of bully-related suicides proves that a good deal of bullying is psychological rather than physical (and that psychological bullying can be just as harmful as physical bullying). Not discredited in British works due to ValuesDissonance.
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*** Actually still being fought out,with a stay on it.
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* BarbaricBully: Heightened school security in the post-Columbine era means that beating a kid up in a crowded school hallway usually comes with consequences. Not to mention that the advent of cyberbullying and the recent rash of bully-related suicides proves that a good deal of bullying is psychological rather than physical (and that psychological bullying can be just as harmful as physical bullying).
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* OpeningScroll: Today, the general stance is that you should just ShowDontTell. May occasionally pop up as an homage to one of the [[Franchise/StarWars most famous examples]]
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* RevengeOfTheSequel: An overused stock sequel title, especially for horror movies.
* RevengeOfTheSequel: An overused stock sequel title, especially for horror movies.
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** Some conservative Christian sects (mostly of the Baptist and Evangelical denominations) still sometimes play into this.
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* TheGenerationGap is definitely becoming this, with Generations X and Y becoming parents and today's children growing up in an unusually similar cultural landscape to the one their parents grew up in. Fortunately, recent shows like ''Series/ModernFamily'' and ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' have realized this, and thus, the trope has been gradually phased out of television and movies during the past decade-and-a-half or so.
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* TheGenerationGap is definitely becoming has pretty much become this, with Generations X and Y becoming parents and today's children growing up in an unusually similar cultural landscape to the one their parents grew up in. Fortunately, recent shows like ''Series/ModernFamily'' and ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' have realized this, and thus, the trope has been gradually phased out of television and movies during the past decade-and-a-half or so. Today, it's relegated mostly to parody, although even ''that'' is becoming [[DeadHorseTrope old hat]].
