History Main / TropeCodifier

* Website/{{Wikipedia}} is an encyclopedia, and so influential that [[TheWikiRule few wikis exist that aren't, functionally, specialized encyclopedias]] rather than, say, community projects or collections of cross-referenced essays. The most obvious counterexample, WebSite/EverythingTwo, predates Wikipedia.

* TimeTravel: the UrExample is hard to identify, the TropeMaker is ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' by Creator/HGWells, the TropeCodifier is ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* While ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' was the first modern codifier for [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric tropes]], ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'' by Creator/AnneRice was a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] that served to codify the current template used by everyone from [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem White Wolf]] to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Film/{{Underworld}}''. [[UndeadHorseTrope Both kinds of vampire are in active use, of course.]]

* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' popularized the {{Tsundere}} stereotype.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' popularized the CastFullOfCrazy trope, with everyone (across three storylines, no less) being [[BrokenBird horribly broken]], [[AxCrazy downright unhinged]], or [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} just plain nuts]].

* VideoGame/ResidentEvil for the SurvivalHorror despite not being the first of its kind.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid 1}}'' was [[TropeMakers the first]] {{Metroidvania}}-game, and ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' is the Trope Codifier.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' codified the ActionAdventure genre, boasting innovations such as a battery save feature and open-ended gameplay, while eliminating irrelevant tropes such as ScoringPoints. However, [[TropeMaker it was predated]] by ''VideoGame/{{Adventure}}'' for the Atari 2600.

* The mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant originates with ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' and its stage predecessors. But the boilerplate [[TheIgor Igor]] -- bugeyed, dressed in hooded Medieval clothing, and named "Igor" -- was codified by Mel Brooks' parody ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. (His name was borrowed from ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', but Ygor there is a villain in his own right and not merely Frankenstein's sidekick.)

** For PopPunk, the codifiers are generally considered to be Music/GreenDay and Music/TheOffspring (with some also crediting Music/blink182 with creating the sound that early to mid 2000's pop-punk bands would be influenced by). The concept of combining fast, aggressive music with pop lyrics, however, was invented much earlier by bands like Music/{{Buzzcocks}} and The Undertones.

** In TheSixties, ''Kyojin No Hoshi'' started the ''supokon'' ([[HotBlooded sports and guts]]) genre, putting the focus on the [[TrainingFromHell grueling training and sacrifice]] in the [[SeriousBusiness dogged pursuit of the top]]. It is the closest thing to a codifier for all sports anime and manga, and especially baseball. ''Manga/TigerMask'' and ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'' similarly codified wrestling and boxing series, respectively. All of them were written by Creator/IkkiKajiwara, who makes him singlehandedly responsible for starting the genre.

* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' popularized the {{Tsundere}} stereotype. While ''Evangelion'' had already introduced one of the most popular tsunderes in anime, ''Shana'' popularized the concept of the ShanaClone, and ''Familiar'' was the one of the first works to use it.

* Disney/Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' codified [[SentientVehicle Sentient Vehicles]].

* ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' was the Trope Maker for the Slasher genre, but ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' was the Trope Codifier. In particular, ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' was the actual Trope Maker for DeathBySex rather than Death By Not Paying Attention (Including Having Sex) for all the imitators that followed.
** Arguably, the Italian proto-slasher ''{{giallo}}'' film ''Film/ABayOfBlood'' was the trope codifier for ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' itself (and, by extension, slasher movies with its derivative formula), featuring the aforementioned DeathBySex trope; a [[DontGoInTheWoods seemingly desolate forest setting]] (on an idyllic waterfront, no less); an exceedingly high body count; and an all-around liberal employment of {{Gorn}}. Indeed, both ''Friday the 13th'' and [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 its first sequel]] directly recreated certain scenes from ''A Bay of Blood'' (including [[spoiler:spearing a copulating couple to death ''twice'' and embedding a sharp instrument in a respective victim's face]]). Earlier ''gialli'' (and American slasher antecedents such as ''Film/{{Psycho}}'') also employed certain variations of these tropes, but not in formulaic tandem with one another.

* ''Art/SleepingVenusGiorgione'': It's credited as being the {{art}}work that made the RecliningVenus a StockPose, inspiring a number of copycats from {{paintings}} by Girolamo da Treviso to Titian, Valesquez, and Creator/{{Cabanel}}.

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* Many paintings featuring the RecliningVenus pose from the Renaissance onward credit the ''Art/DresdenVenus'' as their direct inspiration, with every other painting being recursively inspired by those.

** Bioware's games, especially ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', codified the modern variation of RomanceSidequest in Western RPGs, with subsequent works popularizing having the capacity to date party members by giving them gifts and spending time with them, as well as popularizing having at least one GayOption in games.

* Sandro Botticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'', while not the creator of the HandOrObjectUnderwear trope, was one of the first to come out of the Early Renaissance and has been emulated ever since, directly inspired from the various ''Capitoline Venus'' ("Modest Venus") statues from AncientRome.

Anime/TekkamanBlade - made the angst hero main character, and some of dark settings and backstory.

* By the time of Music/MichaelJackson, {{music video}}s were evolving beyond just shots of the band, but he set the standard for everything that came after him.
* Music/TupacShakur and Music/TheNotoriousBIG are the joint codifiers for GangstaRap.

** For PopPunk, the codifiers are generally considered to be The Offspring and Green Day (with some also crediting blink-182 with creating the sound that early to mid 2000's pop-punk bands would be influenced by.) The concept of combining fast, aggressive music with pop lyrics, however, was invented much earlier by bands like Music/{{Buzzcocks}} and The Undertones.
* Pierre Schaeffer's 1948 opus ''Cinq Études de Bruits'' was not the world's first musique concrète. John Cage's ''Imaginary Landscape'' and perhaps other such works predate it. But it was the first music to have that label (coined by Schaeffer), and codified the genre.
* Music/RichardWagner coined the term "{{leitmotif}}" in an 1851 essay and codified the concept in his famous cycle ''Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen'', which he had been working on at the time. But the trope was invented two decades earlier by Hector Bérlioz, who called it "idée fixe" in his own writings.
* Using Auto-Tune for a robotic effect didn't become prominent until the arrival of Music/TPain in 2005. Unlike other artists that relegated it to subtle uses or genres aiming for a digitalized sound (such as electronica or techno), T-Pain used it obviously and flagrantly on nearly all of his releases. His huge success led to a slew of imitators within pop, R&B, and hip hop.
* If this trope is possible on one network, then Music/HilaryDuff is the trope codifier for the current batch of teenage {{Idol Singer}}s on Creator/DisneyChannel. Before her, Disney Channel stars didn't really do much outside of the show. After her, Disney practically required all of their actresses to sing regardless of talent.

* While Music/ToddEdwards certainly didn't invent sampling, he made it into an ''art form.'' What he does is he takes sometimes up to ''100'' samples from different songs and creates new melodies with them. This type of sampling is often referred to as "microsampling", and has since been used artists such as [[Creator/NickBertke Pogo]] and Music/{{Skrillex}}.
* Dizzee Rascal's debut album, ''Boy in da Corner'', popularized grime, a fusion genre mixing rap with electronic music.
* Nitzer Ebb combined many of the particulars of early EBM bands and brought all the elements together for the sound that most EBM bands afterward would follow. Front 242 created the name EBM, and DAF (or perhaps Kraftwerk) had many of the elements of the sound, but Nitzer Ebb would be the model for the future.

* Music/SkinnyPuppy was the codifier for {{Industrial}} Music's current, electronica-influenced sound; before them, {{Industrial}} tended to be a [[UnbuiltTrope dark, dissonant, and experimental affair]].
* Music/TinaTurner is the trope codifier for female diva singers with over the top wardrobes. She specifically has influenced female African-American singer such as Music/{{Beyonce}}.

* Music/JanetJackson codified many tropes for female pop/R&B singers in the decades since she became popular, such as her performance style, fashion and even her ability to crossover into the mainstream from R&B music (which historically has been somewhat difficult for non-white artists). More specifically, her dancing and performance style has been cited as an influence by a variety of musicians, from Music/BritneySpears, to Music/{{Usher}}, to Music/{{NSYNC}}, to Music/{{Beyonce}}, to Music/LadyGaga.
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} is the TropeMaker of ElectronicMusic, and Music/AphexTwin is the TropeCodifier with his seminal ''Selected Ambient Works 85-92'' album.
* {{Vaporwave}} has two. For first-wave vaporwave (2011-2013), Music/{{Vektroid}}'s ''Floral Shoppe'' album under the pseudonym MACINTOSH PLUS was easily the most popular vaporwave album. For second-wave vaporwave, that title belongs to 2814's ''Birth of a New Day'' album. Case in point? It was featured in '''''Magazine/RollingStone'''''.
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer are almost certainly the codifiers for RockMeAmadeus; they used it far, far more than anyone else had before them and brought classical works like ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' to entirely new audiences who otherwise would probably never have heard them. Each of their albums contains at least one example of this trope. Keith Emerson's previous band, The Nice, also did this a lot.
* Granted while he was not the first to do it or even make a full album out of it, John Oswald was the one who gave the [[TropeNamer name to the genre]] Plunderphonics and also its very identity with his album Plunderphonics.

* While songs complaining about how much jobs suck have existed since the invention of jobs, "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis (later made popular by Music/TennesseeErnieFord) is the leading example that all modern {{Working Class Anthem}}s owe one to; a song about the day-to-day of a working class man who's laborious job is a constant cycle of paying of debts and feeding back into the very business they give their lives to.

* While his [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} original comic book counterpart]] is the codifier to CaptainFishman, the version of Aquaman from ''WesterAnimation/SuperFriends'' is the rason why most examples of the trope are made into {{Joke Character}}s.

* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} is an encyclopedia, and so influential that [[TheWikiRule few wikis exist that aren't, functionally, specialized encyclopedias]] rather than, say, community projects or collections of cross-referenced essays. The most obvious counterexample, WebSite/EverythingTwo, predates Wikipedia.