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* AliensAreBastards: The Pollutians are a race of alien invaders who seize and then ruin the land that belonged to the Wumps.

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* AliensAreBastards: The Pollutians are a race of alien invaders who seize and then ruin the land that belonged to the Wumps.wumps.
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* BeneathTheEarth: When the Pollutians arrive, the Wumps hide in caves, going deeper and deeper and living off of fungi as the Pollutians spread over and despoil the surface world.

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* BeneathTheEarth: When the Pollutians arrive, the Wumps wumps hide in caves, going deeper and deeper and living off of fungi as the Pollutians spread over and despoil the surface world.



* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.

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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Wumps wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.

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* BeneathTheEarth: When the Pollutians arrive, the Wumps hide in caves, going deeper and deeper and living off of fungi as the Pollutians spread over and despoil the surface world.



* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get the message that they need to preserve natural resources. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World, ruined it as well and set off to do the same to a third planet.

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* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get the message that they need to preserve natural resources. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World, ruined ruin it as well and set off to do the same to a third planet.



* ReclaimedByNature: The peaceful, grass-eating wumps are driven underground when an alien race called the Pollutians arrives and begins building all over the planet. Eventually, they smog it up so much they have to leave... But it turns out they haven't completely destroyed the greenery, and in time it begins to grow back over the cities.

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* ReclaimedByNature: The peaceful, grass-eating wumps are driven underground when an alien race called the Pollutians arrives and begins building all over the planet. Eventually, they smog it up so much they have to leave... But but it turns out they haven't completely destroyed the greenery, and in time it begins to grow back over the cities.



* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.

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* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: An unusual example, in that the Badland and Arcadia are the same place at different points in time. Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.
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* AliensAreBastards: The Pollutians seize then ruin land that belonged to the Wumps.

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* AliensAreBastards: The Pollutians are a race of alien invaders who seize and then ruin the land that belonged to the Wumps.



* HostileTerraforming: What the Pollutians do to Wump World.
* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get the message that they need to preserve natural resources. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.
* LastFertileRegion: The Pollutians take over a Garden Of Eden world and pave it pole to pole, driving the titular Wumps underground, but when they move on, the plants regrow from one little park.

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* %%* HostileTerraforming: What the Pollutians do to Wump World.
* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get the message that they need to preserve natural resources. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World World, ruined it as well and set off to do the same to a third planet.
* LastFertileRegion: The Pollutians take over a Garden Of Eden an idyllic world and pave it pole to pole, driving the titular Wumps underground, but when they move on, the plants regrow from one little park.
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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.

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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.space.
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''The Wump World'' is a 1970 children's storybook by Creator/BillPeet.


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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.



* MeaningfulName: The Pollutians.

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* MeaningfulName: The Pollutians.Pollutians pollute every planet they settle.



* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.

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* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.cities.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.
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The peaceful wumps (creatures that look like a cross between a sheep and a groundhog) live happily in their untouched green world until a new race, the Pollutians, arrive and begin industrializing it. Will the wumps ever get their planet back?

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The peaceful wumps (creatures that look like a cross between a sheep and a groundhog) live happily in their untouched green world until a new race, the Pollutians, arrive and begin industrializing it. Will the poor wumps ever get their planet back?



* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get this message. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.

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* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get this message.the message that they need to preserve natural resources. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.



* VillainousBadlandsHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.

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* VillainousBadlandsHeroicArcadia: VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.

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* EsotericHappyEnding: The Wump World has been reclaimed by nature, and the Wumps have survived. But the Pollutians are still out there, presumably destroying more planets.



** IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get this message. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.



* IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get this message. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.



* SignatureSoundEffect: The wumps are named for their habit of making "wump" noises when excited or alarmed.

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* SignatureSoundEffect: The wumps are named for their habit of making "wump" noises when excited or alarmed.alarmed.
* VillainousBadlandsHeroicArcadia: Before the arrival of the Pollutians, the wumps' planet sports lush green grass and clear water as far as the eye can see. The Pollutians transform the planet into a smoggy concrete wasteland after taking over. The happy ending consists of nature overtaking the ruins of their cities.

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The peaceful wumps live happily in their untouched green world until a new race, the Pollutians, arrive and begin industrializing it. Will the wumps ever get their planet back?

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The peaceful wumps (creatures that look like a cross between a sheep and a groundhog) live happily in their untouched green world until a new race, the Pollutians, arrive and begin industrializing it. Will the wumps ever get their planet back?


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* EsotericHappyEnding: The Wump World has been reclaimed by nature, and the Wumps have survived. But the Pollutians are still out there, presumably destroying more planets.


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* PokemonSpeak: The Wumps are named after the sound they make.
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* AliensAreBastards: The Pollutians seize then ruin land that belonged to the Wumps.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Wumps regain their home world by simply waiting for the Pollutians' society to self-collapse and force them to retreat elsewhere in space.


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** IgnoredAesop: The Pollutians don't get this message. They ruined their home world, then they colonize on Wump World and set off to do the same to a third planet.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Pollutians are suffocating from their own actions polluting the air and water of whatever planet they're on. When they run out of planets to colonize, they're sure to be doomed to extinction.
* HostileTerraforming: What the Pollutians do to Wump World.


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* MeaningfulName: The Pollutians.
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* ReclaimedByNature: The peaceful, grass-eating wumps are driven underground when an alien race called the Pollutians arrives and begins building all over the planet. Eventually, they smog it up so much they have to leave... But it turns out they haven't completely destroyed the greenery, and in time it begins to grow back over the cities.
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The peaceful wumps live happily in their untouched green world until a new race, the Pollutians, arrive and begin industrializing it. Will the wumps ever get their planet back?
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!!This book contains examples of the following tropes:
* GreenAesop: The story demonstrates how terrible it is that the Pollutians destroy the greenery and pure air that the planet had before they came. The happy ending consists of them taking off for another planet, the Wumps discovering a green patch they left untouched, and nature beginning to reassert itself over the ruins.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: The wumps are completely nice animals that run and hide when the Pollutians arrive, rather than attacking, and they eat grass (or other plants or mushrooms, while hiding underground).
* LastFertileRegion: The Pollutians take over a Garden Of Eden world and pave it pole to pole, driving the titular Wumps underground, but when they move on, the plants regrow from one little park.
* SignatureSoundEffect: The wumps are named for their habit of making "wump" noises when excited or alarmed.

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