Basic Trope: A town is portrayed as strange, but pleasant nevertheless.
- Straight: Tropeville is a town full of peculiar but friendly people. Each Quirky Household is strange in its own way: Alice and Bob Troper are generic graffiti artists who never get in trouble with the law. The Namespacer family eats rotten food and other inedible items, the O'Taku family wears cosplay 24/7, and so forth.
- Exaggerated:
- The weirdness of the culture extends to the entire country, or even continent.
- There is nothing normal about Tropeville. Vampires, werewolves, witches, and zombies wander the streets, Eric the policeman and Freya the drug dealer are best friends, the courthouse is a Transforming Mecha, the mayor is the craziest of the town yet somehow manages to run the town and keep the people safe, Daniel is the Only Sane Man of the town but even then, he has his own quirks that'll get him singled out as weird anywhere else, and no one bats an eye when Charlotte and Bob fight each other in the nude on Alice's front lawn.note
- Downplayed:
- The townsfolk have some strange hobbies, but it's not like they do anything stupid, dangerous, or illegal.
- There is a neighborhood of strange people within a mostly "normal" town.
- Tropeville is a small village with three Quirky Households, while the rest of its people are normal.
- Justified:
- The townsfolk are proud of their quirks, and love how said quirks attract tourists to Tropeville.
- Tropeville is strange because it's isolated.
- Inverted: Tropeville is very normal and boring.
- Subverted: The townsfolk only act quirky to frighten and/or confuse the Big Bad.
- Double Subverted: After they act quirky and successfully scare away any potential enemies, they decide they want to be quirky.
- Parodied: Tropeville isn't that quirky, but people from nearby towns think that it is. When the Five-Man Band visits it, they point out everything about it that they think is strange. (Example: "Oh my goodness, that's strange. The fire hydrants here are green.")
- Zig Zagged: The Hero visits Tropeville and sees how strange it is. However, when he takes some friends there later on, it seems perfectly normal. He tries to convince them of what he saw, but they won't believe him.
- Averted: Tropeville is just as normal as other towns.
- Enforced: "We need a town that's fairly small and isolated, but interesting to the audience. Let's make it a Quirky Town full of Eccentric Townsfolk."
- Lampshaded: "This place is very odd. What other town has such strange inhabitants?"
- "Anything unusual going on around here?" (Beat) "Perhaps I should rephrase."
- Invoked: The townsfolk decide to be quirky to attract tourists.
- Exploited: The Eccentric Townsfolk decide to attract tourists to their town with an ad campaign detailing their oddities.
- Defied: The townsfolk realize how strange they are and decide to be more normal.
- Discussed: "This town gives me the creeps. Its people must be weirdos."
- Conversed: "Tropeville sure is strange. I'd really like to live there."
- Deconstructed: The townsfolk are endlessly ridiculed by people from nearby towns.
- Reconstructed: Everyone stops laughing when they realize that Tropeville is a major tourist attraction.
- Implied: Tropeville is not seen, only mentioned. The characters refer to the townsfolk as "weirdos", but never specify how they're weird.
- Played For Laughs:
- The Eccentric Townsfolk realize how quirky their town is, and laugh at themselves (or at each other).
- They consider themselves the normal ones and often remark on how strange the out-of-towners who come through are for things the audience would consider normal. Sometimes, they have a point.
- Played For Drama:
- Tropeville is a Town with a Dark Secret.
- Everyone in Tropeville is depressed because they want to be more "normal".
- Played For Horror:
- Tropeville is a Stepford Suburbia.
- The quirk of the citizens of Tropeville is them being Satan worshippers, cannibals, Obsessively Normal in the "enforced by murder" fashion, aliens getting ready to invade, the people in the middle of an apocalypse trying to ignore the apocalypse, or something equally atrocious that is going to lead to Jim, who is from out of town, getting a Kill on Sight order.
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