The Trope Codifier is not "the most famous example", but the archetypal example that is most commonly thought of and imitated. For example, the Death Star battle in A New Hope for Airstrike Impossible (maneuver down a dangerous path to hit a difficult target), or Harry Potter for the Wizarding School that is a Boarding School of Horrors: both of those tropes are much older than the works in question (George Lucas made his film crews watch The Dam Busters and 633 Squadron to show them how he wanted the sequence to go) but general audiences and writers are going to think of those works first.
Edited by StarSword on Sep 8th 2024 at 4:23:12 AM
Trust me, I'm an engineer!It's possible there are individual examples that inspired the proposal of the trope, which may have been Gibbs and NCIS, but that's a very narrow distinction that doesn't really mean much in the broader scheme of things.
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I hope this is the right place for this but I want an answer to this.
Whenever I think of the Dope Slap trope, I always think of Gibbs (granted I’m fan of NCIS) since he’s known to do this to his teammates. I know Dope Slap is already been around for a long time before NCIS but I feel he’s the most famous example of doing this and I honestly couldn’t even think of anyone else well known for doing the Dope Slap except I’m pretty sure The Three Stooges, so does Gibbs count as a Trope Codifier?
Bonus points the Dope Slap main page referenced Gibbs in the image caption.
dope slaps you* HEY GET BACK TO WORK! We got a dead body