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Tropes Are Tools, but some have aged better than others.

Over the course of time, a trope may be overused, misused, opposed, made obsolete, out of fashion, subverted or deconstructed on many notable occasions, or just end up being widely disliked. Eventually, a trope may reach the point where it becomes one which no writer should dare use seriously outside of period pieces, though can still be played with in parody, satire, homage or pastiche. Often, if one of these is used straight, people will assume it's a Red Herring, and react with annoyance or disdain when it isn't.

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In some cases, a trope may be discredited due to changes in our knowledge of history or science. Use of the trope in fiction may change to reflect this. See the Time Marches On index.

Notes:

Just because a trope is discredited does not necessarily mean it is not Truth in Television, or that it's necessarily a Forgotten Trope. This is not bad writing because the writing itself is bad, but because the writer doesn't know its audience. After all, Tropes Are Tools. Just because a trope is not Truth in Television does not necessarily mean it is discredited. Just because a trope is used a lot does not necessarily make it discredited. (Take a glance at Overdosed Tropes, many of which are still popular and thriving, if you need any further proof of this.) Just because a trope falls in prominence does not make it discredited: it very well could have a niche that keeps it alive. A trope can be considered discredited in some parts of the world, but not in others, due to differing intellectual and moral commitments between cultures. For instance, Stay in the Kitchen is offensive to the sensibilities of modern Western liberals, but raises far fewer eyebrows in African and Asian countries, and some variant on such was widely-held throughout most of history even in the West.

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Omnipresent Tropes are immune to being discredited, mostly because those tropes are too natural to the medium of storytelling to ever be considered tired cliches.

See also:

Compare Discredited Meme.

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