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I think there’s also an inverse of that, in which a reviewer reacts as though a particular trope has never been used before – like a few years back when apparently some conservative types got all up in arms about Happy Feet being omggaypropaganda because the plot could be boiled down to “bullied outsider saves his community, who then decide that being Different is OK after all” and everyone else just looked on in astonishment and wondered if said conservatives had ever watched *any other children’s movies at all.*