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* You need people conducting basic services in a city. If your characters need to buy an X, or you have a great scene planned requiring a store ''and'' the apocalypse you're going to need ApatheticCitizens to run it. If store owners and people followed realism and closed up their shops as alien spaceships you lose some story potential.
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* You need people conducting basic services in a city. If your characters need to buy an X, or you have a great scene planned requiring a store ''and'' the apocalypse you're going to need ApatheticCitizens to run it. If store owners and people followed realism and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere closed up their shops shops]] as alien spaceships started showing up, you lose some story potential.
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* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those nameless people who don't believe or don't care?
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* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those nameless people who don't believe or don't care?care?
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* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those who don't believe or don't care?
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* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those nameless people who don't believe or don't care?
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!!Why this trope exists
* You need people conducting basic services in a city. If your characters need to buy an X, or you have a great scene planned requiring a store ''and'' the apocalypse you're going to need ApatheticCitizens to run it. If store owners and people followed realism and closed up their shops as alien spaceships you lose some story potential.
* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those who don't believe or don't care?
* You need people conducting basic services in a city. If your characters need to buy an X, or you have a great scene planned requiring a store ''and'' the apocalypse you're going to need ApatheticCitizens to run it. If store owners and people followed realism and closed up their shops as alien spaceships you lose some story potential.
* Some stories need RedShirts. What better people to kill off than those who don't believe or don't care?
