Can the following be added:
Some tropes can become Forgotten Tropes before becoming Discredited or Dead Horse Tropes first. Sometimes the usage of a trope just fade away, or is recognized as a trope only in retrospect.
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If you don't get a reply soon, you could bring this up on the description improvement thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13164954120A97000100&page=209#5218
I'm not so sure Rags to Riches really qualifies. Yes, people don't write Rags to Riches quite like they did in the Victorian era anymore (just as any genre changes over time), but it's not really forgotten, and it's still done straight-up unironically. More of an Undead Horse trope if anything.
Description and example section revised per TRS here.
Is the misspelling of "wonder" on the trope description intended?
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Let Only One Remain to Tell the Tale
Not sure where this is qualifying nowadays, but it's been played out often enough in modernity that I'd say it's starting to qualify (again?) as an Undead Horse (which has died and lived again an unknowable number of times) instead of a truly Forgotten Trope. As added, this trope is arguably the entire point of the graphic novel 300 and its screen adaption and has played a minor role for either comedy or character building in other works. Pirates of the Caribbean played it for comedy, and while I don't have examples on hand I'll start hunting because the idea of "But then who will tell the horrific tale of what I/We've done?" seems more than passingly familiar.
"In the United States, the era of Prohibition (1920-1933) had a fair number of Comedy Tropes associated with it which have since been forgotten. (Mercifully forgotten, some might say.)"
Can somebody who knows the tropes in question elaborate on this? It's frustratingly vague.
Does anyone know if the "theatre dog" seen in Shakespeare In Love was an actual trope at the time, or was it invented for the movie?
Removed this entry since it was disputed and leading to natter:
- Laundry hanging on a line behind an apartment building was once movie shorthand for a poor, run-down neighborhood. This was very much Truth in Television, since only the poor did their laundry in-house at the time — anyone who could afford to sent their laundry out to a service. This only changed after the automatic clothes dryer became affordable.
- And now the visual cue for a run-down neighborhood is a janky-looking coin laundromat in the middle of the block. Pac Man machine with cigarette burns in the faceplate glass optional.
- This trope is very much alive in many parts of Australia as it has plenty of sunny days and hanging your sheets and clothing on a hills hoist is seen as a cheaper (electricity is expensive) and more environmentally-friendly way to dry things, even in the 21st century.
- Still a trope in effect in Mexico. Newly built apartment buildings are trying their best to have it go away but many homes hang their clothes to dry to this day.
- I think it's pretty safe to say that this one still exists in many poorer nations, especially those with warmer climates.
- Laundry lines can be found in some of the low-end residential zones in City Of Heroes, like Kings Row.
- This trope is still believed by the majority of Americans, and a lot of neighborhoods outright ban clotheslines for fear it will make the area look poorer and thus lower property values.
- As far as I know, this trope doesn't exist in Britain AT ALL, especially recently as people have recently tried to be more "green", or at least save energy costs. Many fairly well-off people use clothes lines (at least weather permitting, which can be problematic). This troper was shocked recently to read that some US neighbourhoods banned line-drying clothes: even the concept of a neighbourhood actually having the power to ban anything is hard for a troper from such a centralised country to grasp.
Is "A male character either spying on women in the shower (such as in Porky's), or even cross-dressing to get into a women's locker room" really a Forgotten Trope?
It seems to me that it's more a Discredited Trope, maybe even Dead Horse Trope, but this seems going too far. Also, I suspect it might be culturally-variable. It's been rather a long while since I watched any "teen sex comedies", but it wouldn't surprise me to see the trope still kicking around in Asia, Europe, or Latin America, even if it's politically incorrect in North America.
Jet-a-Reeno!
"The 'pipe dreaming' term does not mean tobacco smoking but an opium-smoking pipe and the dreams born of opium."
If this correction is correct, the example was incorrect to use that term. Therefore, correction removed and example modified.
10-20-30 melodrama . . . what is it? the google and the other wiki are silent.
How often do Calculator Spelling and Embarrassing Ringtone show up in contemporary works? I think it's inevitable that they'll end up on this page sooner or later, but is it premature to add them now?