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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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