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* For decades, the depiction of [[Superman]] and heroes inspired by him changing costume in phone booths was common in homage and parody [[Dead Unicorn Trope|despite rarely being used straight]]. It remained common in superhero parody in the early 1980s but by then phone booths were being replaced with boothless pay phones — [[Superman (film)|the 1978 Christopher Reeve movie]] acknowledged this with a knowing wink. Now, with phone booths and even pay phones vanishing or gone from most public areas thanks to the omnipresence of cell phones, this supposed cliche isn't even parodied anymore.
** On a related matter, ''any'' trope involving a [[Phone Booth]] is pretty much dead and is only likely to appear in works set between 1930 and 1975, when phone booths were commonplace.
* [[Food Pills]] (a complete meal — usually offered in a variety of perfectly convincing flavors — in a tiny capsule) were all the rage for the well-stocked future of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, but today's future food is more food-like. If there ''is'' concentrated food — such as the "protein pastes" that may be [[Food Pills]]' spiritual descendants — it tends to taste nasty. The change is no doubt due to the growth of the health-and-exercise industry and the subsequent general awareness that the human body needs considerably more than just a few milligrams of vitamins per day. The one area ultra-condensed food shows up is [[Concentrated High-Calorie Goo|terrible-tasting emergency rations]].
* The use of blood typing to exclude suspects in a mystery story now only appears in rare period pieces, as evidence in resurrected old cases, and as preliminary evidence in the ''very'' few stories that have [[Instant Forensics|DNA tests take realistic amounts of time to process]].
** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left.
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** Thus, the idea of personifying nations as seen in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' and ''[[Scandinavia and the World]]'' is [[Older Than They Think]]. Also, 'Columbia' has popped up again in ''[[BioShock (series)]] Infinite'', interestingly.
** Columbia, Marianne, John Bull, Brittania, and Uncle Sam are all gods in the World War II setting in ''[[Scion]]''.
* Everything's Greener With Chlorophyll: a minor trope in [[The Fifties]], afterwards forgotten. The brief fad for chlorophyll as an additive centered on its supposed deodorizing and "healing" properties, not to mention giving products like toothpaste a natural green color. [[Time (magazine)|''TIME Magazine'']] reported a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721160859/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857175,00.html chlorophyll boom] in April 1952 which had become a [https://web.archive.org/web/20081222130620/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860075,00.html bust] by October of the next year. Chlorophyll derivatives are still used as "natural coloring" in certain instances, with exact regulations varying by country, but their inclusion is never overt.
* 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.)
* [[Once-Acceptable Targets|Polack jokes]]. Everyone knows the jokes about them being stupid, but nobody remembers the stereotype at all.
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