History PlayingWith / CrapsaccharineWorld

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** Alternately: Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and virtually no poverty or crime. However, actual violent crime does happen even if it's much less frequent (it's not just Mr. Meanie stealing a little food for selfish reasons like in a SugarBowl; it's actual murder, robbery, arson, rape, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jaywalking]], and those kinds of things). It seems more jarring because of how bright and happy everything is. Hence, in this case, the setting is more of ThePollyanna than a StepfordSmiler.
** Sugarville looks like SugarBowl while [[AWorldHalfFull actualy a normal town]].
** FromBadToWorse: Sugar[[MeaningfulName vile]] already looks bad

** Sugarville has perpetually nice weather, every day is a holiday and everyone is singing and dancing all the time. Eventually it turns out the townspeople are prisoners in their own bodies that are controlled like puppets by an EldritchAbomination.

* '''Exaggerated''': Sugarville has perpetually nice weather, every day is a holiday and everyone is singing and dancing all the time. Eventually it turns out the townspeople are prisoners in their own bodies that are controlled like puppets by an EldritchAbomination.

** Sugarville looks like SugarBowl while actualy a normal town.

* '''Parodied''': Bob the unsuspecting traveler tours cheerfully around the town, oblivious to the black robes on cloth-lines, the hanging rope that doubles as a children's swing and surprisingly large knives in his hostess' kitchen.

** The cult doesn't want to attract the attention of federal police. It does, however, want to attract the attention of unsuspecting lost travelers.

** Sugarvile looks like SugarBowl while actualy a normal town.
** FromBadToWorse: Sugarvile already looks bad

* '''Exploited''': The hero steals all the unused items and sees all the cameras before entering. He loads all the items in his caravan before interacting with he town.

** FromBadToWorse: Sugarvile already looks bad but then rerevaled that it's even worse

* '''Double Subverted''': Except that was the result of the Big Bad's mind control.

* '''Straight''': Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and no virtually no poverty or crime. Eventually it turns out that the town is secretly run by a murderous cult.

* '''Averted''': Sugarville is as good or bad of a place as it appears.

** Alternately: Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and virtually no poverty or crime. However, actual violent crime does happen even if it's much less frequent (it's not just Mr. Meanie stealing a little food for selfish reasons like in a SugarBowl; it's actual murder, robbery, arson, rape, and those kinds of things). It seems more jarring because of how bright and happy everything is. Hence, in this case, the setting is more of ThePollyanna than a StepfordSmiler.

** Sugarville looks like an decent town, but citizens have an extreme political ideology.

* '''Exaggerated''': Sugarville has a perpetually nice weather, every day is a holiday and everyone is singing and dancing all the time. Eventually it turns out the townspeople are prisoners in their own bodies that are controlled like puppets by an EldritchAbomination.

* '''Exaggerated''': Sugarville has a perpetually nice weather, everyday is a holiday and everyone is singing and dancing all the time. Eventually it turns out the townspeople are prisoners in their own bodies that are controlled like puppets by an EldritchAbomination.

** Alternately: Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and virtually no poverty or crime. However, actual violent crime does happen even if it's much less frequent (it's not just Mr. Meanie stealing a little food for selfish reasons like in a SugarBowl, it's actual murder, robbery, arson, rape, and those kinds of things). It just seems more jarring because of how bright and happy everything is. Hence, in this case, the setting is more of ThePollyanna than a StepfordSmiler.

** OR Alternately: Sugarville has been hit with hard times and rather than sit and cry about it, they make the best of it.
* '''Inverted''': Darksdale is a dirt-poor hamlet in an inhospitable wasteland, and all villagers are ugly, grim-faced and snarky. Nevertheless, most of them are content with their lives and have a warm community.

* '''Exaggerated''': Sugarville has a perpetually nice weather, everyday is a holiday and all everyone is singing and dancing all the time. Eventually it turns out the townspeople are prisoners in their own bodies that are controlled like puppets by an EldritchAbomination.

* '''Subverted''': The people that talk about the dark secrets, admit that there were rumors.

** Alternately: Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and virtually no poverty or crime. However, real world crime does happen even if it's much less frequent (it's not just Mr. Meanie stealing a little food for selfish reasons like in a SugarBowl, it's actual murder, robbery, arson, rape, and those kinds of things). It just seems more jarring because of how bright and happy everything is. Hence, in this case, the setting is more of ThePollyanna than a StepfordSmiler.

* '''Downplayed''': Sugarville looks like an decent town, but citizens have an extreme political ideology.
** OR Alternately: Sugarville is a beautiful, tidy town with kind and smiling citizens and virtually no poverty or crime. However, real world crime does happen even if it's much less frequent (it's not just Mr. Meanie stealing a little food for selfish reasons like in a SugarBowl, it's actual murder, robbery, arson, rape, and those kinds of things). It just seems more jarring because of how bright and happy everything is. Hence, in this case, the setting is more of ThePollyanna than a StepfordSmiler.
* '''Justified''': The cult doesn't want to attract the attention of federal police. It does, however, want to attract the attention of unsuspecting lost travelers.

* '''Inverted''':
** Darksdale is a dirt-poor hamlet in an inhospitable wasteland, and all villagers are ugly, grim-faced and snarky. Nevertheless, most of them are content with their lives and have a warm community.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The nice and peaceful city turns out to have traps placed in all the homes! But they only activate if somebody other than those on an approved list, keeping intruders out. But they seem to get oddly violent when you talk about the outside world. Actually, one of their best citizens who helped to get the city running as well as it is write a guide to talking with people outside of the community named "the outside world".

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': The town's "dark secret" is that most of its citizens have an extreme political ideology.

** Sugarville is a dirt-poor hamlet in an inhospitable wasteland, and all villagers are ugly, grim-faced and snarky. Nevertheless, most of them are content with their lives and have a warm community.
** Darksdale is very dark and depressing, but the people feel free in their state.
* '''Subverted''': SugarBowl
* '''Double Subverted''': SugarApocalypse

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Sugarville is a dirt-poor hamlet in an inhospitable wasteland, and all villagers are ugly, grim-faced and snarky. Nevertheless, most of them are content with their lives and have a warm community.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The nice and peaceful city turns out to have traps placed in all the homes! But they only activate if somebody other than those on an approved list, keeping intruder's out. But they seem to get oddly violent when you talk about the outside world. Actually, one of their best citizens who helped to get the city running as well as it is write a guide to talking with people outside of the community named "the outside world".