Down in the Dumps/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: The setting is a garbage dump or junkyard.
  • Played Straight: An episode takes place in a dump or junkyard.
  • Exaggerated: The entire series takes place there
  • Inverted: The show is all about garbage dumps and junkyards, but those places are never the setting for the show.
  • Justified: The main character or a Chekhov's Gunman lives and/or works in such a setting.
  • Subverted: The main story doesn't take place in a dump or junkyard.
  • Double Subverted: But a side story does.
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
  • Parodied: The story is told from the perspective of...the garbage.
  • Lampshaded: "What are we doing in a dump like this?"
  • Averted: The series makes no mention of a dump or junkyard.
  • Enforced: We need a setting that could best be described as Darker and Edgier
  • Invoked: Someone tries to get a MacGuffin back that wound up in the garbage.
  • Defied: The characters refuse to go to a dump or junkyard, feeling that it's too dangerous or gross.
  • Discussed:
  • Conversed:
  • Played For Laughs: Hey! I think I found the MacGuffin! *pulls out old boot*
  • Played For Drama: A fight takes place in the junkyard

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