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A stock [[Settings]] for any work set in [[Suburbia]], [[The Mall]] can be seen as the modernized version of the Main Streets that populate [[Everytown, America]]. Stores lined up along clean hallways populated by teenagers, parents with kids, and elderly people who have little better to do than walk around the mall all day. Will usually have a movie theater, a central meeting place (often with a fountain), and a food court. A job at a mall store is usually treated as second only to [[Burger Fool|working in fast food]] in the hierarchy of Most Humiliating Jobs for Teenagers (bonus points if they work at a fast-food restaurant located ''inside'' a mall). The security guards will often be depicted as guys who washed out of (or were rejected from) basic training or the police academy, have an inflated sense of entitlement, and have nothing better to do than harass our heroes over trivial matters.

A stock [[Settings]] for any work set in [[Suburbia]], '''The Mall''' can be seen as the modernized version of the Main Streets that populate [[Everytown, America]]. Stores lined up along clean hallways populated by teenagers, parents with kids, and elderly people who have little better to do than walk around the mall all day. Will usually have a movie theater, a central meeting place (often with a fountain), and a food court. A job at a mall store is usually treated as second only to [[Burger Fool|working in fast food]] in the hierarchy of Most Humiliating Jobs for Teenagers (bonus points if they work at a fast-food restaurant located ''inside'' a mall). The security guards will often be depicted as guys who washed out of (or were rejected from) basic training or the police academy, have an inflated sense of entitlement, and have nothing better to do than harass our heroes over trivial matters.

Like its close cousin, [[Suburbia]], the sterility of malls has often been used for the purposes of social commentary, satirizing the corporatization and consumerism of American society, and has frequently been employed as a symbol of mainstream conformity (especially in youth-focused works) and the destruction of the "little man" by big chain stores.