Karl Krueger comments on The Stereotype of the Stereotype

[Karl Krueger]

Is this the same thing as what the TVTropes people call a Dead Unicorn Trope?

A plot, character, or story element which is parodied or mocked as overused, even though it wasn’t in broad use to begin with. The result is a strange metacontextual trick where viewers congratulate themselves on the death of something that never lived (hence the title).