History Main / FormulaWithATwist

* ''Film/FortyEightHrs'' marketed itself on the novel gimmick of pairing a StraightManAndWiseGuy OddCouple from different ethnicities (Creator/NickNolte and Creator/EddieMurphy, specifically) in an action/crime film. This led to the explosion of the {{Buddy Cop|s}} and WunzaPlot sub-genres, especially ones partnering people of different cultures/ethnicities like ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.

Naturally, whether a work succeeds or fails with this structure is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools based on its own merits]], as some will simply become [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks forgotten derivatives]] and others may [[SubGenre redefine a new formula themselves]]. If they become overshadowed by its copycats, then it may become a case of SeinfeldIsUnfunny.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' was the first attempt to create a prominent superhero who was also a flawed, but developing KidHero. Creator/StanLee wanted to avoid the practice of making a KidHero into a KidSidekick, and also wanted the character to naturally grow older and wiser. While heroic to a fault, Peter Parker was very much still a teenager with selfish concerns, personal insecurities, and life lessons yet to be learned.

* ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'' opens as the hero is about to confront the demon king and end the war between humans and demons. However, the demon king ([[SamusIsAGirl who turns out to be a woman]]) convinces him that neither slaying her nor ending the war will actually fix most of the world's problems and that only the two of them, together, can hope to turn things around for the better. Thus, the story actually becomes a socio-political-economic thriller about how the advanced ideas she has envisioned will improve the world. Complicating things is that since [[ForeverWar the war has been raging for centuries]], both the humans and demons have built their entire economies around sustaining the war and thus it takes a lot of effort to transition to a peacetime economy. And powerful factions on both sides ''want'' the war to continue forever.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' takes the typical fairy-tale kingdom that you would find in a Disney work and instead casts the ogre as the hero. Most other twists in the plot center around that singular idea, although the sequels flesh out many others.

* The Western was [[GenreKiller dead]] by the late 60’s. However there were successful revivals since then, but all put either a minor or major twist on the traditional formula.

* ''LightNovel/ICouldntBecomeAHeroSoIReluctantlyDecidedToGetAJob'' asks: what happens to all the other Heroes in the world after a Demon King is defeated? Raul is one of the thousands of Heroes who don't know what to do after the war against the Demon King suddenly comes to an end. He thus starts to work at a department store, where he's later joined by the Demon King's daughter as well as others from his past. However, many Heroes never really coped with [[NoPlaceForAWarrior losing their purpose in life]] and have become [[OutdatedHeroVsImprovedSociety antagonists seeking to ignite a new war]].

For works to qualify for this, the premise, plot and characters have to [[WholePlotReference follow most of the same basic beats]], except for some twist that is ''unique to that work'' ([[FollowTheLeader at least at the time of its release]]). It has to deliberately invoke enough similarities to an established formula that the [[{{Cliche}} intended audience]] ''[[{{Cliche}} instantly]]'' [[{{Cliche}} recognizes what it is]]--the same type of {{Heroes}}, the same type of {{Villains}}, and the same general setting and plot progression. (For videogames, it may be all of the above, as well as similar controls, mechanics and gameplay typical of the genre.) Granted, by virtue of whatever unique "gimmick" this work introduces, some of these conventions can be [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] or otherwise [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in relation to said gimmick, but they still ''exist'' in some form or another. This trope is also not for cases where the only "changes" are [[SerialNumbersFiledOff minor things like names, superficial appearances, etc.]], but instead changes that turn familiar ideas on their heads.

* ''WebAnimation/BurgerBrawl'' combines the aspects of Joke Shows and Object Camps into a new hybrid sub-genre called "Friend Shows" in which the competition and everything else is played for laughs (Like the former) but the cast consists of Objectsonas[[labelnote:Definition]] An anthropomorphic object representing the online persona of an OSC member[[/labelnote]] based on the creator (Gery)'s real-life friends (Like the latter) with Gery [[TalkingToHimself voices everyone]] using his best impressions of them. Other similar shows include ''WebAnimation/GreenysGrandGame'' and ''WebAnimation/MickeyMouseBattleHouse'' made by Gery's friends themselves or the friends in their friend group.

* ''LightNovel/AestheticaOfARogueHero'' is a combination of both the {{Isekai}} and ExtranormalInstitute tropes in which people from the mundane world are so commonly summoned into other worlds that they then return with new powers which don't allow them to fit back into normal society. They are thus mandated to enter a special school for people with their credentials. The protagonist was a hero summoned to such a world but, after killing the Demon King, respected the man's dying wish by taking his daughter back to his world with him, where she can live a new life.

* ''Film/FortyEightHrs'' marketed itself on the novel gimmick of pairing a StraightManAndWiseGuy OddCouple from different ethnicities (Creator/NickNolte and Creator/EddieMurphy, specifically) in an action/crime film. This led to the explosion of the {{Buddy Cop|s}} and TheyFightCrime sub-genres, especially ones partnering people of different cultures/ethnicities like ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.

* ''Film/FortyEightHours'' marketed itself on the novel gimmick of pairing a StraightManAndWiseGuy OddCouple from different ethnicities (Creator/NickNolte and Creator/EddieMurphy, specifically) in an action/crime film. This led to the explosion of the {{Buddy Cop|s}} and TheyFightCrime sub-genres, especially ones partnering people of different cultures/ethnicities like ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.

* There were some object shows that primarily uses {{Living Polyhedron}}s in the cast including ''WebAnimation/ShapeWorld'', ''WebAnimation/BattleForCircle'', ''WebAnimation/ShapeBattle'' and ''WebAnimation/QuickUawesomeAmazingDicksbattling''.

* ''WebAnimation/JeopardizedObjects'' takes the form of a quiz show than the reality-tv format.
* ''WebAnimation/ObjectConnects'' has the contestants working in pairs rather than teams in spite of its large cast of twenty and put a twist on the Object Show cliche of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} being EvilAllAlong by letting the audience know right from the start as opposed to haphazardly reveal it out of nowhere at the very end.

* ''Film/{{A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'' created the idea of a slasher villain that could invade dreams and kill his victims when they slept. Said villain, Freddy Krueger, also began the trend of the wisecracking, {{Reality Warp|er}}ing serial killer later seen in films like ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' and ''Film/Warlock1991''.

* ''Film/{{A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'' created the idea of a slasher villain that could invade dreams and kill his victims when they slept. Said villain, Freddy Krueger, also began the trend of the wisecracking, {{Reality Warp|er}}ing serial killer later seen in films like ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' and ''Film/{{Warlock}}''.

Super Trope to DieHardOnAnX, LikeThatShowButWithMecha, and RecycledInSpace. Sister Trope to a WhatIf story. A ClicheStorm is either an extreme version of this trope, or its extreme opposite; either it has so many cliches that it's indistinguishable from others in the genre, or it has so many that it stands out ''because'' of that.

* ''ComicBook/BlueMarvel'': As per WordOfGod, this character was created based on the question: "What if Superman had been a Black guy?" Answer: [[RememberTheNewGuy we've never heard of him until only now]] because PoliticallyCorrectHistory was painfully, painfully [[AvertedTrope Averted.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' was the first major attempt to create an [[AntiHero flawed]] costumed {{superhero}}. After learning that the monstrous ComicBook/TheThing was the most popular member of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Creator/StanLee decided to take the idea UpToEleven and make a monster and less than a perfect hero.

* The Western was [[DeaderThanDisco dead]] by the late 60’s. However there were successful revivals since then, but all put either a minor or major twist on the traditional formula.

* ''Film/YoungGuns'' and ''Film/YoungGunsII'' made a notorious outlaw as the main protagonist and an EnSembleCast of teen stars as its’ leads in an attempt to make the Western “cool.” The films were critical and financial successes.