History Main / TropeCodifier

** {{Star Wars}} also abandoned the Used Future concept with episodes 1-3, which depended heavily on CGI. In fact, the style reverts to the classic Sci Fi Utopian motif with regards to environment. I've always wondered why as this significantly changed the dramatic ambiance of the franchise.

* ''DuneII'' was the codifier for the RealTimeStrategy genre, especially the central elements of YouRequireMoreVespeneGas and ConstructAdditionalPylons (both named for the much later ''{{Starcraft}}''.)

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* It's unclear whether or not ''DungeonsAndDragons'' was the first to present an alignment alignment system beyond good/neutral/evil, but it was definitely the most prominent, and its nine-point alignment system comprises all of the CharacterAlignment tropes today. Ironically, the most recent version of the game has done away with the alignment system, for the most part.
** The OrderVersusChaos aspect was borrowed from MichaelMoorcock, for what that's worth.
* The Zerg of ''{{Starcraft}}'' may have been the namers for ZergRush, but the Tyranids, of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', were infamous for the tactic long before the Swarm came around. Of course, both being based on the Bugs from ''StarshipTroopers'' the similarities are unavoidable, the Result being an odd case where the TropeNamer came after the Codifier.
** Also The book also broke all the Bugs into casts of Worker and Warrior bugs, all directed by a special hierarchy of subterranean Brain Bugs.
* ''{{GURPS}}'' quite literally defined the WeirdnessMagnet trope.
* Although there were TradingCardGames older than MagicTheGathering (mostly using baseball cards), most of the tropes associated with modern TCGs started with Magic.
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** It should be mentioned that ResidentEvil4 was released a year earlier, and is equally credited with GodOfWar as TropeCodifires of ActionCommand and PressXToNotDie

* ''{{Unreal}}'' is the codifier for {{Secondary Fire}}, as every weapon in the game has an alternative firing option. This persisted through the entire Unreal series, including Tournament games, and is now considered virtually mandatory in an FPS game.

* The StandardFantasySetting's TropeMaker was ''TheLordOfTheRings''; the Trope Codifier was ''DungeonsAndDragons''.[[hottip:* :As a minor footnote, the concept of a Trope Codifier was originally suggested by the fact that Dungeons And Dragons clearly pioneered and set in stone certain aspects of the StandardFantasySetting, but didn't seem to qualify for full TropeMaker status.]]

** UglyGuyHotWife greatly precedes ELR. TheSimpsons and MarriedWithChildren, for example (though with her fasion sense, Peg is debatable. Put her in nice clothes, though, and KateySagal is ''gorgeous''). An older example, possibly the Maker, possibly the Codifier, would be TheHoneymooners, with a fat guy married to a snide wife, which was produced in the mid-fifties. It inspired TheFlinstones in 1960, which could also arguably be the Codifier.

**** Of course, as LoveHina is very similar to MaisonIkkoku + a touch of RanmaOneHalf (especially during the Motoko arcs) and UruseiYatsura (especially during the Suu arcs) - 90+% of the [[JerkAss Jerkassery]]...
* [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably]], FullmetalAlchemist popularized the concept of EquivalentExchange and MagicAIsMagicA.

* While there had been examples and uses of CyberPunk tropes in other series such as ''{{Appleseed}}'', ''GhostInTheShell'' is seen as codifying CyberPunk themes into anime such as [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots cyborgs]], TheMetaverse, and other such themes.

* {{DigitalDevilStory}} codified the MegaTen metaseries, providing the original source material that eventually set the rules for all {{Mons}}.

* Fortune teller characters now days will likely take some influence from Miss Cleo. This results in {{Roma}}nians with Jamaican accents.

* ''[[TheMatrix The Matrix]]'' is this for BulletTime. TropeMaker and [[TropeNamer Namer]] is ''[[MaxPayne Max Payne]]''.

* EverybodyLovesRaymond was hugely influential to later sitcoms. It is the Codifier for both AllWomenArePrudes (the notoriously anti-sex Debra) and UglyGuyHotWife (got ''really'' common among copycats).[[/folder]]

* RaymondChandler is considered the Trope Codifier of hard-boiled crime fiction, following Carroll John Daly (who TheOtherWiki considers to be the UrExample) and DashiellHammett (the TropeMaker).
** An alternate way of thinking has Hammett as the UrExample, Chandler as the TropeMaker and MickeySpillane (author of the Mike Hammer novels) as the Trope Codifier. It's probably just as valid; Chandler appropriated as many tropes from Hammett as Spillane did from Chandler.

* ''The Red Badge of Courage'' did this for {{War Is Hell}}. For some reason, it's particularly likely to be mistakenly identified as the {{Trope Maker}}.

** CapcomVsWhatever games for the concept of "tag battle" fighters (discounting wresting games, which have wildly different gameplay.)