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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Hulk Hogan. At the height of his popularity in 1985, he hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and was on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated''. When 1994 rolls around, he's seen as a self-parody whose shelf life was such that he needed to [[Face Heel Turn|ditch the hero routine]] [[New World Order|altogether]] just to [[WereWe're Still Relevant, Dammit!|remain relevant]]. However, in 2002, his return to WrestleMania -- still in his villain persona -- resulted in the fans cheering him over the Rock. To this day, he and [[Dwayne Johnson|the Rock]] are among the closest things the [[WWE]] has produced to A-list deities.
 
 
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* ''[[Pokémon]]''. Back in the late '90s, it was the king of kid fads. But it quickly faded among people who only played it to be "cool", and in a few short years, the only people who would still publicly admit to liking it were small children (though the games were still system sellers). Now, as the [[Turn of the Millennium]] comes to a close, it is making a comeback. Kids can safely admit to liking it in public again, longtime fans are no longer bashed for it, and those kids who were only fans back in the day are now grown-ups old enough to wax nostalgic about it. In fact, a Japanese clothing company released a line of Poké-merchandise specifically targeted at adult Poké-fans, with an "artsier" bent to it. However, the above is mostly restricted to the games: while there is not as much hate for the ''Pokémon'' anime as around the Johto arc, it still hasn't recovered quite as much as the games did.
* Indie gaming and the [[Wii]] have brought back quite a few genres of gaming that were once assumed to have died during [[Video Game 3D Leap|the switch to 3D]].
** 2D side-scrollers, such as ''[[Castlevania]]'', ''[[Contra]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[Double Dragon]]'', once made up the bedrock of the industry. Later, they were viewed as quaint relics of the pre-[[Play StationPlayStation]] era, and were relegated to handhelds and cheap Flash games... until ''[[New Super Mario Bros]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'' tore up the charts, and titles like ''[[Braid]]'' and ''[[Eversion]]'' became critical darlings.
* Retro gaming, in particular the 16 bit period. Emulators have led people to discover a lot of old classics that can be played for free, take up hardly any space and do not take any time to install. Companies have followed suit by reissuing older games.
** [[PS 1]] gaming is also making a comeback via the Playstation Network and emulation on PSP.
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