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Except in Video Games, a medium where it seems to work better than comic books, though even in that medium this trope seems to be on a slow decline note And games that play this straight like BlazBlue and Tales of Berseria pull it off by giving the brooding anti-hero some Hidden Depths. '90s Anti-Hero: While there are still plenty of dark superhero comics, the typical costume and characterization tropes in the '90s are considered laughable instead of cool, with several of the original characters either being retooled, or Put on a Bus.

After Domino's was forced to stop using the offer, the trope fell out of favor in fiction.

#Cowboy analog weather indicator drivers#

30 Minutes, or It's Free!: Domino's Pizza, the chain that started this, had it end up leading to a ton of bad publicity and several multi-million dollar lawsuits against the pizza chain after their drivers ended up causing fatal car crashes.

Writing Pitfall Index: A list of tropes that can be seen as bad writing if they aren't done right.

Unfortunate Implications: While Audience Reactions are not tropes and thus cannot be discredited, countless tropes have become discredited for carrying Unfortunate Implications.

Undead Horse Trope, for tropes that have been subverted, parodied or ridiculed to death, but are still played straight often enough to avoid being considered Discredited or Dead Horse Tropes.

Reimagining the Artifact: When a Long Runner and/or an adaptation takes the Discredited Trope or The Artifact and revises it to accommodate modern sensibilities and to justify its continuation.

Grandfather Clause: When a work (usually a Long Runner or an adaptation of one) can get away with playing a Discredited Trope straight because the trope is too essential to the work's formula for it to be abandoned.

Forgotten Trope, which describes tropes that aren't used in recent works at all they may have been considered Discredited Tropes years ago, or just fell from use for other reasons.

In some cases, these tropes end up changing beyond recognition.

Evolving Trope: As mentioned above, many a discredited trope has regained use through transformations.

For instance, Stay in the Kitchen is offensive to the sensibilities of modern Western liberals, but raises far fewer eyebrows in African and Asian countries, and some variant on such was widely-held throughout most of history even in the West.

A trope can be considered discredited in some parts of the world, but not in others, due to differing intellectual and moral commitments between cultures.

Just because a trope falls in prominence does not make it discredited: it very well could have a niche that keeps it alive.

(Take a glance at Overdosed Tropes, many of which are still popular and thriving, if you need any further proof of this.)

Just because a trope is used a lot does not necessarily make it discredited.

Just because a trope is not Truth in Television does not necessarily mean it is discredited.

This is not bad writing because the writing itself is bad, but because the writer doesn't know its audience.Just because a trope is discredited does not necessarily mean it is not Truth in Television, or that it's necessarily a Forgotten Trope.

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