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* '''Downplayed''': Arcadia is genuinely a "safe zone" from zombies, but it's also callously pragmatic and highly authoritarian. Alice isn't willing to give up her freedom for security, and moves on.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Arcadia is genuinely a "safe zone" from zombies, but it's also callously pragmatic and highly authoritarian. Alice isn't willing to give up her freedom for security, and moves on.on.
** The revelation that Arcadia is an unsafe place gives Alice pause for a few seconds, then she rallies and spends the climax killing the zombies and making it safe.
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** Arcadia, Queensland is a disappointment, but the rumors were about Arcadia, Peloponnese.

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** Arcadia, Queensland is a disappointment, but the rumors were about [[LondonEnglandSyndrome Arcadia, Peloponnese.Peloponnese]].

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* '''Subverted''': It seems Arcadia is a disappointment and there's nothing... but it turns out they are just hiding underground.
* '''Double Subverted''': We find out about the above when they come to the surface, running for their lives from zombies that overrun the place.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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It seems Arcadia is a disappointment and there's nothing... but it turns out they are just hiding underground.
** Arcadia, Queensland is a disappointment, but the rumors were about Arcadia, Peloponnese.
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We find out about the above when they come to the surface, running for their lives from zombies that overrun the place.place.
** Not that that place is doing any better.
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* '''Played For Horror''': The revelation that Arcadia is not a safe spot at all is a CruelTwistEnding and [[EverybodyDiesEnding it kills all of the remaining cast members]].
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** "It's a [[PreQuel prequel]], you know how ''[[ForegoneConclusion Trope Adventures I]]'' [[ForegoneConclusion started!]]"

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** "It's a [[PreQuel prequel]], you know how ''[[ForegoneConclusion Trope Adventures I]]'' [[ForegoneConclusion [[DoomedByCanon started!]]"

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* '''Enforced''': Producers want to make another season of the show, and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Alice's Adventures in Arcadia]] would be kind of boring.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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Producers want to make another season of the show, and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Alice's Adventures in Arcadia]] would be kind of boring.boring.
** "It's a [[PreQuel prequel]], you know how ''[[ForegoneConclusion Trope Adventures I]]'' [[ForegoneConclusion started!]]"

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* '''Downplayed''':
** Arcadia is genuinely a "safe zone" from zombies, but it's also callously pragmatic and highly authoritarian. Alice isn't willing to give up her freedom for security, and moves on.

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'''Downplayed''': Arcadia is genuinely a "safe zone" from zombies, but it's also callously pragmatic and highly authoritarian. Alice isn't willing to give up her freedom for security, and moves on.



* '''Averted''': People are cynical pessimist and such rumors are dismissed as children's tales.

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* '''Averted''': People are cynical pessimist Reaching Arcadia is the climax of the story, and such rumors are dismissed it is more or less exactly as children's tales.promised.



* '''Defied''': Alice doesn't believe such rumors.

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* '''Defied''': Alice doesn't believe such rumors.ignores the rumors as irrelevant, if not false. She'd rather make the world she knows better, instead of pinning her hopes on distant stories.

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* '''Downplayed''': Arcadia is just as (un)safe as everywhere else, it's just that rumors blew it out of proportion.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Arcadia is just as (un)safe as everywhere else, genuinely a "safe zone" from zombies, but it's just that rumors blew it out of proportion.also callously pragmatic and highly authoritarian. Alice isn't willing to give up her freedom for security, and moves on.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice throws a childish temper tantrum.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Laughs''':
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Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice throws a childish temper tantrum.tantrum.
** The thing that makes Arcadia a "hope spot" is not its lack of safety but something idiotic and FauxHorrific like it being the world's largest congregation of Music/{{Nickelback}} fans.

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* '''Exaggerated''': It turns out Arcadia is the ''source'' of the zombie apocalypse and the most deadly zombies are there.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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It turns out Arcadia is the ''source'' of the zombie apocalypse and the most deadly zombies are there.there.
** There's rumors about Arcadia and in Arcadia there's rumors about Elysium and in Elysium there's rumors about Haven and in Haven there's rumors about Utopia and in Utopia there's rumors about Alexandria [[OverlyLongGag and in Alexandria there's rumors about Thunder Mountain and in Thunder Mountain there's rumors about Outpost 69]]... and every single one of those rumors are written in someone's ApocalypticLog.
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** DeathByDespair is a typical response by people who have sacrificed everything to reach a place as unsafe as the rest of the world, leaving them completely devoid of will, even to live.

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** DeathByDespair is a typical response by people who have sacrificed everything to reach a place as unsafe as the rest of the world, leaving them completely devoid of will, even to live.and discover it [[AllForNothing the hard way.]]
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* '''Zig Zagged''': "Dead Zone" turns out to be just a rumor - but Alice makes it an Arcadia and all is going fine. Until it isn't and "safe zone" attracts zombies, who overrun the place. Then it turns out there was something in Arcadia that kills the zombies and when Alice learns to harness it, Arcadia becomes a true safe zone.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': "Dead Zone" turns out to be just a rumor - but Alice makes it an Arcadia and all is going fine. Until it isn't and "safe zone" attracts zombies, who overrun the place. Then it turns out there was something in Arcadia that kills the zombies and when Alice learns to harness it, Arcadia becomes a true safe zone.zone... until Emperor Evulz comes because that gizmo is the MacGuffin he needs to TakeOverTheWorld, and he orders his armies to bombard the place to rubble. But Alice and her TrueCompanions survive and manage to rebuild after taking care of Evulz. But Evulz' Dragon is out there, trying to decide whether or not he should take revenge and if he does, whether or not he should aim for maximum suffering...

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** Emperor Evulz wants Alice in his grasp. The best way to trap somebody is by giving them nowhere to run.



* '''Played For Drama''': Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice has HeroicBSOD and a FreakOut.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Drama''':
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Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice has HeroicBSOD and a FreakOut.FreakOut.
** DeathByDespair is a typical response by people who have sacrificed everything to reach a place as unsafe as the rest of the world, leaving them completely devoid of will, even to live.
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** Arcadia was deliberately targeted by a HopeCrusher.

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** Arcadia used to be safe, but Alice is the BigBad and she brought ZombieApocalypse with her.

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** Arcadia used to be safe, but Alice is the BigBad and she brought the ZombieApocalypse with her.her.
** Arcadia may have survived all of the horrors tossed at it for decades on end, but they didn't had someone actively hindering things (willingly or not) from the inside. Which means that all it takes is either someone declaring AHouseDivided or Alice being a WalkingDisasterArea and everybody is doomed.
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* '''Downplayed''': Arcadia is just as (un)save as everywhere else, it's just that rumors blew it out of proportion.

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* '''Downplayed''': Arcadia is just as (un)save (un)safe as everywhere else, it's just that rumors blew it out of proportion.
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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???



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* '''Conversed''': "And yeah, you guessed it - it was a RoomFullOfZombie."

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* '''Conversed''': "And yeah, you guessed it - it was a RoomFullOfZombie.RoomFullOfZombies."
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'''Basic Trope''': The rumored safe zone turns out to be pretty much unsafe.
* '''Straight''': Alice follows the rumors of zombie-safe zone, Arcadia. Upon reaching Arcadia, it turns out to be abandoned and have zombies inside.
* '''Exaggerated''': It turns out Arcadia is the ''source'' of the zombie apocalypse and the most deadly zombies are there.
* '''Downplayed''': Arcadia is just as (un)save as everywhere else, it's just that rumors blew it out of proportion.
* '''Justified''':
** People keep on making rumors and Arcadia's name feeds the imagination.
** Arcadia used to be safe, but Alice is the BigBad and she brought ZombieApocalypse with her.
* '''Inverted''': The rumored "death zone" turns out to be thriving and safe community.
* '''Subverted''': It seems Arcadia is a disappointment and there's nothing... but it turns out they are just hiding underground.
* '''Double Subverted''': We find out about the above when they come to the surface, running for their lives from zombies that overrun the place.
* '''Parodied''': Arcadia is rumored to be the last place safe... from annoying commercials. And even there those pesky kids have brought their adverts.
* '''Zig Zagged''': "Dead Zone" turns out to be just a rumor - but Alice makes it an Arcadia and all is going fine. Until it isn't and "safe zone" attracts zombies, who overrun the place. Then it turns out there was something in Arcadia that kills the zombies and when Alice learns to harness it, Arcadia becomes a true safe zone.
* '''Averted''': People are cynical pessimist and such rumors are dismissed as children's tales.
* '''Enforced''': Producers want to make another season of the show, and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Alice's Adventures in Arcadia]] would be kind of boring.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Did you honestly believe that there is some mystical 'safe zone'? Open your eyes, you idiots, we're all gonna die!"
* '''Invoked''': BigBad spreads rumors of "Arcadia" to gather test subjects.
* '''Exploited''': Despite knowing it's not there, Alice uses the rumor to organize grand journey to Arcadia and put her people out of zombie's way.
* '''Defied''': Alice doesn't believe such rumors.
* '''Discussed''': "What if it turns out to be nothing more than a rumor?"
* '''Conversed''': "And yeah, you guessed it - it was a RoomFullOfZombie."
* '''Implied''': Alice goes to Arcadia and promises she'll come back. We never hear from her again.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice throws a childish temper tantrum.
* '''Played For Drama''': Seeing that Arcadia's not there, Alice has HeroicBSOD and a FreakOut.
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