History Main / GenreKiller

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* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the early part of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/HarlockSpacePirate and Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews. Until now, most CGI anime series are more likely to mix with the 2D drawings, or TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects to give traditional anime impression rather than the "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart.

* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the early part of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/HarlockSpacePirate and Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews. Until now, most CGI anime series are more likely to mix with the 2D drawings, or render 3D model to 2D (also known as 2.5D) to give traditional anime impression rather than the "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart.

* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the first half of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/HarlockSpacePirate and Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews, until now, most CGI anime series are more likely to mix with the 2D drawings, or render 3D model to 2D (also known as 2.5D) to give traditional anime impression rather than the "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart.

* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the first half of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/HarlockSpacePirate and Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews, until now, most CGI anime are more likely to render 3D model to 2D (also known as 2.5D) to give traditional anime impression rather than the "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart.

* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the first half of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/HarlockSpacePirate and Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews, until now, most CGI anime are rather rendered 3D model as 2D (known as 2.5D) to give traditional anime impression rather than "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart.

* The universally negative reception of Anime/AbunaiSisters kills off the potential for [[AllCGICartoon 3D anime]] for the first half of TheNewTens, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Anime/StandByMeDoraemon receive positive reviews and Anime/KemonoFriends become a SleeperHit.

* The one-two punch of both failing 1990's cartoons ''WesternAnimation/{{Hammerman}}'' (Music/{{MC Hammer}}) and ''Little Rosey'' (Creator/RoseanneBarr) effectively brought the curtain down on the CelebrityToons genre, which had been popular on Saturday mornings dating back to the [[TheSeventies mid 1970s]].

* At the same time, such cynicism led to the slow death of the traditional circus in the industrialized world: clowns became regarded as [[MonsterClown evil]] or [[SadClown bitter]] instead of [[NonIronicClown colorful jesters that children loved]], mundane takes on popular routines demystified everything but the tightrope, and the [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals allegations of animal abuse]] became PR nightmares. If this wasn't enough, the rise of the "premium circus" led by the Cirque du Soleil made older circuses [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny look old-fashioned and hackneyed]]. By the 2010s, most North American and European circuses had either closed down or were on the verge of it. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the last major American circus, filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Though Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey [[https://www.yahoo.com/news/ringling-bros-announces-comeback-tour-135456609.html announced a return]] in 2022, with the first shows set for September 2023. The rebooted circus will operate without animal acts.

* The massive success and sweet-hearted tone of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' led to cartoons turning away from the SadistShow genre at the beginning of TheNewTens. In addition, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' one of the most iconic and popular cartoons of the SadistShow genre, suffered SeasonalRot in the 2010s (and got [[Series/TheFairlyOddParentsFairlyOdder a universally despised sequel]] later on) that caused its popularity to plummet.

* The massive success and sweet-hearted tone of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' led to cartoons turning away from the SadistShow genre at the beginning of TheNewTens. In addition, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' was one of the most iconic and popular cartoons of the SadistShow genre, but suffered SeasonalRot (and got [[Series/TheFairlyOddParentsFairlyOdder a universally despised sequel]]
) so bad that it became niche.

* The massive success and sweet-hearted tone of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' led to cartoons turning away from the SadistShow genre at the beginning of TheNewTens.

* ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'' killed off the potential for computer-animated shows for adults, which is now [[AnimationAgeGhetto seen as a format for family entertainment]] (with very few adult CGI shows such as WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil and WesternAnimation/TheDrinkyCrowShow made afterwards with varying success,) while the more "adult" fare is almost always 2D animation. It would be a while before ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' would revive any ideas of CGI adult animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'' killed off the potential for computer-animated shows for adults, which is now [[AnimationAgeGhetto seen as a format for family entertainment]] while the more "adult" fare is almost always 2D animation. It would be a while before ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' would revive any ideas of CGI adult animation.

* Up through the 1980s, Las Vegas showrooms were dominated by {{Variety Show}}s in the mold of Paris' Foliés Bergére, alternating beautiful, scantily-clad showgirl routines with a hodgepodge of variety acts that ranged from celebrity impersonators to comedians to Rat Pack-style singers to acrobats to magicians, with little linking them together thematically. The rise of magicians Siegfried and Roy as Vegas headliners was a bad omen, but the real killer was Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Mystere}}'' in 1993 -- a circus as lavish, varied, and exciting as any variety show with a cohesive, if surreal and rock/pop-influenced artistic vision holding it all together. The rather outdated approach of older shows lost its luster quickly, Cirque brought even more spectacular productions to other Vegas showrooms in subsequent years, and the classic format died for good when ''Jubilee!'', which opened in 1981, closed in 2016. Newer attempts at "Vegas-style" shows are really straightforward variety showcases -- they might bring out showgirls for a few numbers, but as equals to the acts that once played second fiddle to them at best and as window dressing at worst.

* Music/{{Madonna}} killed the "Nymphet Culture" in the ''entire'' entertainment industry. Throughout TheSeventies, there was a lot of media that simultaneously fetishized and infantilized young girls, often based off a [[MisaimedFandom preverse misreading]] of ''{{Literature/Lolita}}''. The movement was in its death throes at the time Madonna emerged on the public scene, but her raw and unapologetic sexuality instantly made it look creepy.

* ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' killed NewWaveScienceFiction in ''both'' film and literature. The movement was tottering anyway by the time ''Star Wars'' was released, and its massive success convinced publishers and producers that there was more money to be made with simple action-adventure sci-fi than more cerebral stories that were often [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible difficult to understand]]

* The publication of both ''Literature/JeffTheKiller'' and ''Fanfic/SonicEXE'' in 2011 both [[TropeCodifier codified]] and eventually killed the "[[TeensAreMonsters teenage]] SerialKiller" and "[[TheMostDangerousVideoGame evil video game]]" genre of {{Creepypasta}}s respectively, as both genres were soon flooded by [[FollowTheLeader a sea of imitators]] that [[StrictlyFormula copied them wholesale]] until they eventually drowned in a sea of excess and readers began looking for more original material. Both ''Jeff the Killer'' and ''Sonic.exe'''s critical reappraisals [[CondemnedByHistory for the worse]] have ensured that neither genre will be able to recover any time soon.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' is often labeled as killing off the standard "adult hero with KidSidekick" formula, as a consequence of being the TropeCodifier in comics for the KidHero. Other than [[LegacyCharacter new]] versions of Characters/{{Robin}}, mostly getting a pass via the GrandfatherClause, very few sidekick heroes have debuted since then, since the Kid Hero allowed for the same reader-identification youth appeal, without the headache of justifying a sidekick, a trope that was never very popular among creators to begin with, or the patronizing nature of the EscapistCharacter being a secondary one. Most of the younger sidekicks who existed before Spider-Man (including quite a few Robins) are now treated as essentially solo heroes who happen to operate with the approval of their old mentor.

* Starting in the 1960s, for nearly 30 years it was commonplace for American and Canadian cities with both a baseball team and a football team to build one large, multipurpose stadium, derisively known as "Cookie-Cutter Stadiums" or "Concrete Donuts" for their almost identical architecture and typically circular shape. While they made sense from a taxpayer standpoint, and usually good for concerts, they were considered awful for actually viewing games in, as [[MasterOfNone the dimensions and sightlines of the two sports did not line up even with movable seating]], and their cavernous, sterile, concrete, quasi-brutalist nature did no favors to baseball games, which typically rely on a homey, gentle atmosphere. This trend was finally killed with the near-simultaneous opening of two stadiums: Comiskey Park II (now Guaranteed Rate Field) in Chicago in 1991, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore in 1992. Both stadiums were baseball-only and built to the smaller capacities that could be expected of an average baseball game, reducing ugly, empty seating. Furthermore, Oriole Park at Camden Yards' architecture called back to early 20th-century stadiums like Wrigley Field and Fenway Park, the same kind of stadiums the "Cookie-Cutters" had replaced, earning it rave reviews and sparking huge rises in attendance, sparking the age of the "Retro-Classic" style in stadium design [[note]]Chicago's stadium, which despite being baseball-only was still largely in the same architectural style as the old multipurpose venues, would even be heavily renovated later to better match the "Retro-Classic" look[[/note]]. With that, the age of the cookie-cutter was done. Thirty years later, while some of the stadiums from the multipurpose boom are still in use, none of them are used as dedicated multipurpose venues, and some formerly multipurpose stadiums, such as Angel Stadium of Anaheim and Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, have since been renovated to remove their multipurpose functionality. Oriole Park at Camden Yards can also be credited with killing off the Mega-Stadium Complex design for baseball stadiums (the idea is still quite common in football stadiums) that was also predominant in the multipurpose age, in which stadiums would be built far away from the center of the city, either in the outskirts of city limits or in the suburbs, surrounded by nothing but huge parking lots. When Oriole Park at Camden Yards was built in 1992, it was built on former industrial space near the edge of downtown Baltimore, surrounded by houses and vacant warehouse space. When the ballpark opened, however, businesses near the ballpark started reporting a surge in business, and the land value for the surrounding neighborhoods and warehouses suddenly shot up, revitalizing the neighborhood. Cities began realizing that, thanks to the fact that a Major League Baseball season lasts, at minimum, 81 games over six months, the construction of a stadium in or near the downtown could be used to A. revitalize and clean up run-down neighborhoods, and B. save on civic planning costs, as the stadium could just use the necessary infrastructure (parking, highways, public transit, etc.) in downtown that would otherwise be unused at the end of the business day. Today, the "Ballpark Village" concept, in which a stadium is surrounded by a selection of shops, restaurants, and hotels, is the more common method of stadium design for baseball, so much so that ballparks built to the old suburban parking lot model, like American Family Field in Milwaukee, face criticism for their lacking it.

* The once quite lucrative wresting "shoot interview" DVD market was killed off by the trend of basically every notable retired wrestler starting their own podcast in the late 2010s, along with the sharp decline in the sales of physical media in general. Sean Oliver, who produced and hosted many of those interviews for his company Kayfabe Commentaries, finally threw in the towel and began hosting the Kliq This podcast with Wrestling/KevinNash in 2022, though the archived interviews are still available on the Kayfabe Commentaries [[https://kayfabecommentaries.com/index.html website]], and some are on Website/YouTube.

* Music/{{Madonna}} killed the "Nymphet Culture" in the ''entire'' entertainment industry. Throughout the 70's, there was a lot of media that simultaneously fetishized and infantilized young girls, often based off a [[MisaimedFandom preverse misreading]] of ''{{Literature/Lolita}}''. The movement was in its death throes at the time Madonna emerged on the public scene, but her raw and unapologetic sexuality instantly made it look creepy.