Basic Trope: Important landmarks remain standing in a disaster.
- Straight: Although Emperor Evulz bombs the city of Citopolis, laying waste to the area, the historically significant Brilla Lighthouse remains standing.
- Exaggerated: Despite Evulz turning the entire city into rubble, the lighthouse looks like it got a fresh coat of paint.
- Downplayed: As a whole, Citopolis is worse for wear, but the Lighthouse District wasn't hit too badly.
- Justified:
- The Lighthouse was far away from the strategically important targets.
- Due to its age, the Lighthouse was massively overengineered.
- The Lighthouse was specifically built to withstand an attack.
- The attackers see the city as a cancer surrounding their sacred Lighthouse and are liberating it from said cancer.
- Inverted: Brilla Lighthouse is the only structure significantly damaged.
- Subverted: Although the Lighthouse seems fine at first, it quickly becomes clear that the bombing caused structural damage.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However, for all practical purposes, the Lighthouse can continue to serve its purpose without a significant rebuild.
- ...That was a stress nightmare from a city council member. Stress from the recovery efforts is seeping into their sleep.
- Parodied: Citopolis collapses into literal nothingness. The whole area is a blank white void, an intact Brilla Lighthouse being the sole exception.
- Zig Zagged: Citopolis is famously built around an impact crater. When an explosion hits the crater, it's unclear whether the landform is damaged or enhanced.
- Averted: Brilla Lighthouse falls during the bombings, just like the rest of Citopolis.
- Enforced:
- The work set in Citopolis is Backed by the Pentagon, who wouldn't take kindly to a national symbol being destroyed, even fictionally.
- Brilla Lighthouse is intentionally kept around as an easy visual identifier of the work's setting.
- Lampshaded: As bombs fall through the air, the ones heading towards Brilla Lighthouse stop abruptly, move out of the way, then finish their descent.
- Invoked:
- Brilla Lighthouse was intentionally overengineered so at least one landmark would be in tact in case of a disaster.
- Evulz, having a soft spot for historical landmarks, makes a point to avoid damaging the lighthouse at all costs.
- Exploited: Brilla Lighthouse becomes a base of operations for whichever group is best able to defend the location.
- Defied: Seeing bombs have little impact on Brilla Lighthouse, Evulz specifically goes back to knock it down with a wrecking ball.
- Discussed: "I don't understand why, out of everything hit by the attack, the historic lighthouse just happens to make it out alright."
- Conversed: "Be reasonable. If monuments aren't destroyed with the rest of the area, it's easier to tell the setting at a glance."
- Implied: Brilla Lighthouse is the only structure standing among a pile of rubble. We never learn anything about it, but it seems old and pretty important.
- Played For Laughs: Brilla Lighthouse is an engineering disaster that would never fly under today's codes. Somehow, despite the surrounding area taking realistic wear, Brilla Lighthouse comes out in better condition than it started.
- Played For Drama:
- Brilla Lighthouse may have survived, but it only serves as a point f contrast, emphasizing just how horribly the rest of Citopolis was annihilated.
- Brilla Lighthouse is viewed by many as a sign of class inequality and oppression. When Brilla is left standing, this parallels the rich having far better odds of surviving the attacks and bouncing back, while the poor were more likely to die, and those who did not will have a lot harder time recovering.
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