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* This happened at least twice in the [[Game Show]] genre:
** ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy!]]'' helped re-popularized quiz-type game shows, which were previously thought dead after the rigging scandals of the 1950s. In fact, the show's signature "answer and question" format was inspired by a discussion between creator Merv Griffin and his wife about those very scandals. Between the 1950s and ''Jeopardy!'''s debut, most game shows were either [[Panel Game|Panel Games]] or very low-stakes parlor games such as ''[[Password]]''.
** After a rather dormant period in the late 1990s, the genre got another major reboot in 1999 with the success of ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa Millionaire?]]''. The show revitalized the entire genre and was the [[Trope Maker]] for many game show elements in use today — [[All or Nothing]] money ladders, [[Lifelines]], dramatic sets and music, [[Commercial Break Cliffhanger|Commercial Break Cliffhangers]] and of course, massive payoffs.
* As mentioned on the [[Genre Killer]] page, the once great genre of British telefantasy was pretty much killed by ''[[Crime Traveller]]'' (some might argue that it was killed by the cancellation of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', and ''[[Crime Traveller]]'' was just a death rattle). Since ''Doctor Who'''s revival in 2005 showed that there's still a vast audience for SF&F, we've had ''[[Primeval]]'', ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', ''[[Life On Mars]]'', ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'', ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', ''[[Being Human (TV)|Being Human]]'', the ''[[Discworld]]'' TV movies...
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' brought back the movie musical after the disaster that was ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]''.
* The updated ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'' film franchise brought redemption to the superhero movie industry after the travesty of the Schumacher ''[[Batman]]'' films.
* Titles such as ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' and the [[Telltale Games]] ''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' [[Retool]] helped restart the popularity of [[Adventure Game|Adventure Games]] in America after roughly a decade of dormancy. Note that this genre was never dead overseas, however; it largely mutated into genres such as [[Visual Novel|Visual Novels]].
* [[Nintendo]] and the NES single-handedly brought the home video game console market back from the dead, after [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]].
* [[Thrash Metal]] had a resurgence in the mid 2000's on the backs of bands like [[Evile]] and [[Municipal Waste]].
* Depending on who you ask, the strategy RPG genre was revived by either [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]] or [[Disgaea]], two games that came out in summer of 2003.
* [[Kingdom Come]] pretty much revived the Silver Age super hero.
* The 2d fighting game genre was in decline until the release of ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]'' and ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' in 2009.
* The [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] franchise made pirates fun for the twenty-first century (although its influence has mostly been in literature rather than in more films).
* The [[Disaster Movie]] genre was left for dead by 1980, but experienced a resurgence in 1996 with [[Roland Emmerich]]'s [[Independence Day]].
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