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In the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement, may we add in the Cop Show as a discredited trope?

Here is my skeleton of an entry:

• The Cop Show ended up taking a massive hit in the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Beyond the fact that Police Brutality had now become an extremely touchy subject, people also began to start looking into the root problems associated with crime and the fact that the War on Drugs disproportionately affected Black Americans and other minorities. While the genre as a whole is still going, two of hte most well known shows, COPS and Live PD, were canceled when it came to light that the officers on the show had deliberately tampered with footage to make themselves look better, and the remaining cop shows have all been forced to acknowledge the changing views.

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Duplicate Trope, started by Lophotrochozoa on May 21st 2012 at 7:44:05 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Is Evil Cripple a Discredited Trope?

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Is it okay to list The Power of Friendship? It obviously can and has been done right, but it's surprisingly easy to screw up, and can just as easily be Anvilicious.

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Dont see a lot of difference with cyclical tropes.

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Would Asian Drivers count here or on Dead Horse Trope? If it does count, here's an example: "While it's too much to say that anti-Asian sentiment is fully gone, the stigma that Asians are bad at driving, alongside the belief that it is caused by eye size, are largely gone from the media. In fact, if records are to go by, most drivers of Asian descent are actually shown to be the exact opposite of this."

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Can someone add Nice Guys Finish Last? My kindle keeps blanking out when I try to edit this page. I think it's discredited because in recent years, "Girls only like asshole spouses" has been viewed as incredibly sexist, and if this trope shows up the "Nice Guy" in question is delusional and not really nice at all

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Shouldn't Rated M For Manly be an Undead Horse Trope? While it does face scrutiny, this hasn't stopped dozens of games from playing it straight and selling well and several movies and TV shows continue to play it straight. After all, manliness is a flexible topic and does not necessarily imply the explosive bravado of 80's action flicks the description implies.

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I added something to the end of it, but I probably should've discussed it here first: Maybe they're getting subtle about it, but I do still play plenty of games with Floating Platforms. But maybe that's because I mainly play platformers, and of those, I'm most often playing a Super Mario game or a Sonic the Hedgehog game, both of which still make heavy use of floating platforms to this day.

Is this something specific to certain genres and/or certain regions of the world where they're produced? In particular, I see this a lot for 2-D platformers, even a lot of the recent indie ones.

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I think Totally Radical shouldn't be here. It's the unintentional invocation of discredited slang.

Yes, people are aware that they should avoid this... the thing is that avoiding it all the time will be impossible for all writers of all works.

This is one trope that I think isn't going away, as it can't really go away.

Star Trek Movie Curse should not be Discredited, as the _Galaxy Quest_ modification has held firm through both reboot films.

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Truth in Television example confusion watchlist (will add examples which appear to me to be on here because they are not Truth in Television, instead of being discredited):

Black Helicopter

Bermuda Triangle

I Broke a Nail

Cement Shoes

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I want to add this paragraph to the description:

"Sometimes, a trope is only discredited in specific kinds of media, but is accepted in others, due to a different audience or a different structure"

Example: Not Allowed to Grow Up, accepted in animations, comics and games, discredited in live-action media.

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Henpecked Husband is discredited because men can get divorced? What? This is a highly unrealistic and ignorant comment. Divorce typically means ruination for men, even if they initiate it and can prove the abusive nature of their spouses.

Why is Celibate Hero listed? I've seen a lot of media (at least a few, anyway) where the main character doesn't get involved in a relationship of any kind, either because Love Is a Weakness or just the outright possibility they're asexual. How is it a Cliché?

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Diablo 3 is not a good example for "Real is Brown". Real is brown is where realistic games have oddly desaturated/browned-out colours. While Uncharted is a good example of a game having a full colour pallet and being realistic, Diablo 3's graphics are cartoonish, chunky and intentionally unrealistic, similar to Super Mario Galaxy or World of Warcraft

Mirrors edge would be a better example, being brightly colourful but realistic

Shouldn't "The Chosen One" be on here?

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Why is "ANYTHING related to Santa Claus" listed?

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