Basic Trope: A regular place with a really intimidating name, regularity optional.
- Straight:
- "Murderville"
- "Crime City"
- "Spooktown"
- Exaggerated:
- "83 People Died Here Last Nightville"
- "Everyone Here Will Sell Your Organs If They Get The Chance City"
- "Bring Another Pair Of Underweartown"
- The town slogan is "New Jersey, New York, Florida, Detroit, Philadelphia, Wisconsin, and every other possible place worse than death all have fucking NOTHING on us."
- Downplayed:
- "Ouchville"
- "Jail City"
- "Bootown"
- "Jerkville"
- "Weenertown"
- Justified:
- The village is actually named Maryville. Murderville is a nickname, since it has an abnormally high rate of murders.
- The city nicknamed Crime City has a really high crime rate, since it has many, many valuables.
- The town was founded in an area believed to be haunted, and the founder was superstitious.
- Inverted:
- Cutesy Name Town, if the place with an intimidating name has normal people.
- Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom if the above does not apply.
- Subverted:
- May overlap with Justified.
- The village was named after Murdoc Verider, but Murdocville was taken.
- The city is actually just a penal colony. heh, penal
- The town was supposed to be "Spoontown", but the district-maker mistook it for "Spooktown" and it ended up sticking.
- Double Subverted:
- It also happens to have a lot of murders.
- Half of the people there will also sell your organs if they get the chance to.
- The town is also haunted, which is why the name stuck.
- Lampshaded: "I know this town has a homicide problem, but 'Murderville' is a bit on-the-nose."
- Implied: Bobby reads the sign and says "I do not like the sound of this." We never learn the town's name.
TV Tropes, a website where you can look at one page and end up reading it for days at a time? I Don't Like the Sound of That Place...
