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* FantasticVoyagePlot: The episode in ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' in which Sun Wukong transforms himself into a fly to enter the belly of Princess Iron Fan is a prototypical example of the trope.
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* AnuscapePlan: Literature/TomThumb gets swallowed by a red cow, and the cow is given a laxative and Tom passes from her in a "cow pat". He is taken home and cleaned thereafter.
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* IBangedYourMom: Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''
-->'''Demetrius:''' Villain, what hast thou done?\\
'''Aaron:''' That which thou canst not undo.\\
'''Chiron:''' Thou hast undone our mother.\\
'''Aaron:''' Villain, I have ''done'' thy mother.
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*** ''Art/RaphaelRooms''
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* PressGanged: The Kingdom of England started the practice of impressment in 1563.

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*** ''[[Art/SevenVirtues Fortezza]]''


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** ''Art/SevenVirtues'' (including Botticelli's ''Fortitude'')
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From printing to the steam engine (1439-1698), a time also generally known as the Early Modern Era. The arrival of movable type printing in Europe made books plentiful, and helped standardize the languages that used it. Much more survives from this period than from earlier.

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From printing to the steam engine (1439-1698), a time also generally known as TheLateMiddleAges, the Early Modern Era.Era or UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance. The arrival of movable type printing in Europe made books plentiful, and helped standardize the languages that used it. Much more survives from this period than from earlier.






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*** ''Art/{{Fortezza}}''''[[Art/SevenVirtues Fortezza]]''
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* GoodIsNotNice: In ''Theatre/Macbeth'', Macduff is a good and noble knight out to avenge his family's deaths, get revenge on the one who killed them, and reclaim the throne for the true heir.

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* GoodIsNotNice: In ''Theatre/Macbeth'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', Macduff is a good and noble knight out to avenge his family's deaths, get revenge on the one who killed them, and reclaim the throne for the true heir.
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* AntiHero: Creator/ChristopherMarlowe's Theatre/DoctorFaustus, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, and Cervantes' ''Literature/DonQuixote'' are all contenders for the first deliberate example of This Very Wiki's definition as "they are good guys, but has flaws to work out."

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* AntiHero: Creator/ChristopherMarlowe's Theatre/DoctorFaustus, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, Theatre/{{Hamlet}} and Cervantes' ''Literature/DonQuixote'' are all both contenders for the first deliberate example of This Very Wiki's definition as "they are good guys, but has flaws to work out."



* GoodIsNotNice: Literature/DonQuixote causes unwarranted harm to others despite being positive that he's doing the right thing.

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* GoodIsNotNice: Literature/DonQuixote causes unwarranted harm In ''Theatre/Macbeth'', Macduff is a good and noble knight out to others despite being positive that he's doing avenge his family's deaths, get revenge on the right thing.one who killed them, and reclaim the throne for the true heir.
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* {{BFG}}: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_matchlocks.jpg This illustration] in the ''Baburnama'' (the memoirs of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor) shows matchlocks that are larger than the soldiers that carry them.

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* {{BFG}}: [https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_matchlocks.jpg This illustration] illustration]] in the ''Baburnama'' (the memoirs of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor) shows matchlocks that are larger than the soldiers that carry them.
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* {{BFG}}: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_matchlocks.jpg This illustration] in the ''Baburnama'' (the memoirs of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor) shows matchlocks that are larger than the soldiers that carry them.
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Please note, that when we say steam engine we mean useful steam engine. Not Heron's [[OlderThanFeudalism first century]] toy, not UsefulNotes/JeronimoDeAyanz's device, not [[{{UsefulNotes/Steam}} the store]], and ''definitely'' not the gaseous form of water (which predates mankind by hundreds of millions of years).

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Please note, that when we say steam engine we mean useful steam engine. Not Heron's [[OlderThanFeudalism first century]] toy, not UsefulNotes/JeronimoDeAyanz's device, not [[{{UsefulNotes/Steam}} [[Platform/{{Steam}} the store]], and ''definitely'' not the gaseous form of water (which predates mankind by hundreds of millions of years).
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* TrueCrime: With the proliferation of the printing press, street literature detailing true crimes (both sensationalized and not) became widespread in Britain from as early as the 1550s.
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Please note, that when we say steam engine we mean useful steam engine. Not Heron's [[OlderThanFeudalism first century]] toy, not [[{{UsefulNotes/Steam}} the store]], and ''definitely'' not the gaseous form of water (which predates mankind by hundreds of millions of years).

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Please note, that when we say steam engine we mean useful steam engine. Not Heron's [[OlderThanFeudalism first century]] toy, not UsefulNotes/JeronimoDeAyanz's device, not [[{{UsefulNotes/Steam}} the store]], and ''definitely'' not the gaseous form of water (which predates mankind by hundreds of millions of years).
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* {{Technobabble}}: ''Theatre/TheAlchemist'' contains rather a lot of baffling alchemical jargon. Some uses it straight to confuse the audience with the cleverness of the characters who understand alchemy, and some is in-universe technobabble employed by charlatans pretending to be actual alchemists.

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* {{Technobabble}}: Creator/BenJonson's ''Theatre/TheAlchemist'' contains rather a lot of baffling alchemical jargon. Some uses it straight to confuse the audience with the cleverness of the characters who understand alchemy, and some is in-universe technobabble employed by charlatans pretending to be actual alchemists.
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While this is fine and good, Big Beautiful Woman is already listed as being Older Than Dirt.


* BigBeautifulWoman: The female subjects of Renaissance art would actually be pretty chubby by today's standards. Fat was a sign of wealth and health back then.
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* JustFollowingOrders: [[https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1223&context=lawreview One of the first recorded attempts at using this as a legal defense occurred in 1474 at the trial of German governor Peter von Hagenbach for crimes in office.]] Von Hagenbach tried to pin it on his superior, the Duke of Burgundy, with the line "Is it not known that soldiers owe absolute obedience to their superiors?" The court ruled this was not, in fact, known, and von Hagenbach was convicted and executed.
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: In ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', the title character initially doesn't start plotting to kill King Claudius on the grounds that he needs absolute proof of Claudius's guilt first: the ghost claiming to be Hamlet's late father might be lying. Later in the play, he has Claudius dead to rights but holds himself back because Claudius is praying at the time, so Hamlet thinks Claudius might go to Heaven instead of Hell if he assassinates him right then.
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* TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower: Shakespeare's ''Theatre/RichardIII'' is the TropeMaker, codifying UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor's accusation against Henry VII's rival for the throne in its most remembered form. The UrExample is the Tudors' own propaganda on which the play was based.
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* OutDamnedSpot: ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is the TropeNamer.


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* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is the likely TropeCodifier.
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Uncovered evidence of a much older example. This is being moved to Older Than Feudalism.


* DiedOnTheirBirthday: ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', 1599

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This specific example that is named has now been absorbed by the more relevant subtrope Died On Their Birthday.


* ABirthdayNotABreak: ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', 1599


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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', 1599

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