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1Tropes pertaining to industry, factories, construction, and similar subjects.
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5* AcmeProducts: '''A''' '''C'''ompany that '''M'''akes '''E'''verything needed for the plot.
6* ClockworksArea: An area featuring inordinate amounts of large-scale clockwork.
7* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A type of conflict where the building of a new structure threatens a CloseKnitCommunity.
8* ConstructionZoneCalamity: A construction zone, usually the skeleton of a skyscraper made up of steel beams, where comical disasters happen.
9* CriticalStaffingShortage: Somewhere that used to have a massive staff, but now finds itself with a bare skeleton crew.
10* DangerouslyLoadedCargo: Cargo wasn't loaded correctly on its transport.
11* DangerousWorkplace: Workplaces where life- and limb-threatening accidents happen surprisingly often.
12* EternalEngine: A titanic factory or machine typically filled with sprawling tangles of dangerous mechanisms.
13* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: Conveyor belts placed without rhyme or reason, beyond perhaps inconveniencing the hero.
14* IndustrialGhetto: Impoverished, neglected neighborhoods taken over by or built to service industry.
15* IndustrializedEvil: Evil deeds performed in a systematic, automated and impersonal manner, reducing victims to one more cog in the machine or object on the assembly line.
16* IndustrializedMercury: Mercury becoming a hub for industry and mining, due to energy from the Sun and its rich metal deposits.
17* IndustrialWorld: An entire planet, country or other large area completely dedicated to industrial production.
18* TheInspectorIsComing: An inspector comes to rate a workplace, and everyone scrambles to squeak by a passing grade.
19* LumberMillMayhem: Lumber mills provide dangerous settings filled with heavy logs, conveyor belts, and saws.
20* MobileFactory: A factory that can move from one location to another.
21* NightmarishFactory: Factories portrayed as terrifying, sometimes outright hellish places.
22* NoOSHACompliance: A building, usually a factory or somewhere else with a lot of machinery, with dangerous architecture that can easily kill people.
23* NoProductSafetyStandards: Potentially hazardous things made and released with minimal to no safety or quality-ensuring procedures.
24* OneManIndustrialRevolution: When one person single-handedly revolutionizes a setting's technological base.
25* PollutedWasteland: A contaminated, barren waste created as a byproduct of careless industrialization and hunger for resources.
26* ProudIndustriousRace: A race that loves to be busy with production and may even regard workshops and factories as home.
27* RoboticAssemblyLines: A montage of an automated factory line.
28* SantasSweatshop: Santa Claus' workshop portrayed as a filthy, unsafe sweatshop.
29* XDaysSince: An institution, most often a workplace, has a sign outside stating how long it's been since the last time something bad happened.
30* WorkCom: A SitCom which generally confines itself to a place of employment.
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