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Can someone neaten up the massive film example? How To Write An Example specifically says that entries should not be piled together, and anyway it's not a good way of doing things.
Boobah: Pulled the example:
- This trope is often a chic accoutrement to Lovecraft Country.
ralphmerridew: The wikipedia description for "Walking Distance" seems nothing like this trope. Was it confused with a different episode?
What about the town from House of Wax where the whole town was fake, ALL it's inhabitants having been murdered by the "Evil Brother and his Insane Twin" and turned into wax dummy corpses? Would that be an aversion or a subversion or something?
BritBllt: Down with the natter! Reducing...
- Silent Hill.
- Arguably, Silent Hill is somewhat different. The vast majority of people in Silent Hill have no clue what is going on, and even the ones who do don't seem to understand all of it. The movie version is an example, though.
- The inhabitants' cluelessness is justified in that Silent Hill has two alternate/protodimensions stacked upon a normal American town: The Misty World that's a mostly vacant mirror of the 'real' Silent Hill with Bottomless Pits and grotesque monstrosites roaming about, and the perpetually black blood-and-rusty-metal motif Other World where even more nightmarish creatures lurk about, particularly the Boss Fight. Silent Hill 3 demonstrates this phenomenon most clearly, with Heather waking up from a nightmare opening sequence to find herself in a mall that's fog-free, corrosion and monster-free, and populated with people going about their own lives. Of course that all changes once the player's allowed to take control of her.
- Arguably, Silent Hill is somewhat different. The vast majority of people in Silent Hill have no clue what is going on, and even the ones who do don't seem to understand all of it. The movie version is an example, though.
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- Silent Hill, a small town founded by cultists and harboring a very twisted Dark World.
Nothing about the trope said the town had to be deserted, so none of that's relevant. Silent Hill is a famous Mind Screw of a series, which is all the more reason for the entry to just stick to the bare facts.
