1 | '''Basic Trope:''' A cemetery is filled with some form of supernatural beings. |
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3 | * '''Straight:''' When Alice and her TrueCompanions are dared to venture into the local cemetery they find it's full of the ghosts of the people buried here. |
4 | * '''Exaggerated:''' The cemetery is full of creatures they've never seen before, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, a witch and even some gargoyles. |
5 | * '''Downplayed:''' There are a few ghosts around, but that's just about it. |
6 | * '''Justified:''' |
7 | ** The grounds of the cemetery are cursed to prevent anyone who's buried here from resting in peace. |
8 | ** The spirits here can't go to the afterlife because they have UnfinishedBusiness related to their lives. |
9 | ** The graveyard is considered to be a hub for the supernatural to rest and hide from humanity. |
10 | ** This cemetery brings back some of its deseaced to act as guardians for whose who are still alive. |
11 | * '''Inverted:''' |
12 | ** Alice and her friends are surprised to find the cemetery is full of other people like them. |
13 | ** Alice ''is'' a ghost and goes to visit a cemetery. |
14 | * '''Subverted:''' |
15 | ** When Alice begins seeing the ghosts around them she asks the others if they do too... and to her surprise they don't. |
16 | ** The group are scared by the spirits until [[TheSmartGuy Dylan]] realizes they're just holoprojections. |
17 | ** The group expects to see monsters, but are suprised to see it's just other people... |
18 | ** The ghosts aren't seen until after they exit the cemetery. |
19 | * '''Double Subverted:''' |
20 | ** Of course Alice is a seer, so it makes sense why her normal friends can't. |
21 | ** Alternately they don't believe her until a ghoul begins to crawl out of the ground. |
22 | ** Believing that troublemaker Joseph is around he gets shocked when he sees his dead body and spirit confronted by others. |
23 | ** ...who lost their humanity by TheVirus and have gained other, monstrous forms as a result. |
24 | ** They are from there however, and try to herd the group back in. |
25 | * '''Parodied:''' The moment Alice leads her group past the gates the ghosts there start performing a musical number called "Yes, it's Haunted." |
26 | * '''Zigzagged:''' When Alice and her friends enter they don't see any ghosts. Upon getting farther in however Angie claims to have seen something mostrous... their [[TheFriendNobodyLikes frenemy Joesph]] in a spooky disguise. However they sudenly witnessed him getting killed by seemingly natural circumstances, however Alice see his spirit released form his body... |
27 | * '''Averted:''' The graveyard lacked any inhuman entities. |
28 | * '''Enforced:''' "What do you need we have the characters visit the graveyard and not see any monsters or ghouls there on the HalloweenEpisode? That's a wasted oppotunity!" |
29 | * '''Lampshaded:''' |
30 | --> Davie: "Oh of course, there's ghosts in the graveyard- why else wouldn't there be ghosts in the graveyard?" |
31 | * '''Invoked:''' A considerant witch made this place enchanted so ghosts and other supernaturals could use it as shelter to hide it from horror fanatics. |
32 | * '''Exploited:''' Brutus always wanted to kill [[PerkyGoth Crymson]] and [[{{Keet}} Charlie]], and what better wait to do it than in a haunted cemetery where horrid monsters were to take the fall for him? |
33 | * '''Defied:''' The graveyard is constantly guarded by monsters and exorcists, so there no way they can go there. |
34 | * '''Discussed:''' |
35 | --> Dylan: [[DeadpanSnarker "So... who's surprised that the graveyard is haunted?"]] |
36 | * '''Conversed:''' |
37 | --> Pam: "Oh no, the graveyard is a monster's territory! What will the heroes do?" |
38 | --> Robert: "Babe, relax, they've all got PlotArmor thicker than bread... except Joesph, but [[TheyKilledKennyAgain he'll still be back somehow.]] |
39 | * '''Played for Laughs:''' The ghosts were all mischievous in their life, so they play pranks on the cast until they figured out what's going on. |
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