Basic Trope: A big city that is a truly awful place.
- Straight: Trope City is a polluted, crime-ridden hellhole dominated by gangsters and evil corporations.
- Exaggerated: Trope City is actually worse than hell.
- Downplayed: Trope City is a dingy city with realistic levels of crime and corruption, but living there still has some upsides.
- Justified: The sheer number of people in a big city results really does present an administrative challenge.
- Inverted: Trope City is a Solar Punk Shining City that everyone loves to live in, with endless excitement and activity. Meanwhile, the surrounding small towns are fill of Hillbilly Horrors.
- Subverted: Trope City is notably gritty, but it turns out to be a cultivated aesthetic. In reality, it's a well-run, affluent place that pretends to be a Wretched Hive to appeal to tourists.
- Double Subverted:
- Trope City's tourist board is incredibly corrupt and pushes people into genuine poverty.
- Trope City is a shiny metropolis now. You don't want to know what was done to clean up the place... or keep it clean.
- Parodied: The sign on Trope City's limits says any of the following:
- "Welcome to Trope City! A good place to die."
- "Welcome to Trope City! New Jersey has NOTHING on us."
- Zig-Zagged: Trope City has a heavy level of economic equality, and only some neighborhoods are hellscapes.
- Averted: Trope City is not a notably awful place.
- Enforced: The producers need to appeal to nostalgia for the gritty cities of the seventies.
- Lampshaded: "Well, that's life in the big city...I Always Wanted to Say That."
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz has been quietly subverting Trope City to make it more dangerous as part of his evil plan.
- Exploited: The mayor of a struggling rural town manages to convince people to move in, as it's not as bad as Trope City.
- Defied: After Trope City starts having problems, most of its citizens immediately leave, turning it into a Ghost Town.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- Trope City is never actually seen, but everyone reacts with disgust when it's mentioned.
- Barbaric Bully Flash Young, the most dangerous fighter in the cast, boasts (both with pride and sarcasm) that he learned to fight on the streets of Trope City.
Try not to get shanked on your way back to Urban Hellscape.
