History PlayingWith / SleazyPolitician

* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm sitting out this election. Neither the lying {{Jerkass}} nor the {{corrupt|Politician}} [[HandsomeLech skirt chaser]] deserves my vote."

* '''Downplayed''': Polly Ishan breaks many of her election promises and has been involved in a few sex scandal, but isn't too bad otherwise.

* '''Deconstructed''': As every politician seems to be sleazy, the people of Tropetown get political TooBleakStoppedCaring. By the time someone [[CorruptPolitician truly bad]] appears, few people even notice the threat, and most of those who do are too desensitized to care. This eventually causes a young firebrand to rise up against the evils, and whip everyone back into shape; He's so damn ''tired'' of the constant corruption that he's going to get it by tooth and nail, come hell or high water, ''consequences be damned.''

* '''Downplayed''': Polly Ishan breaks many of her election promises and has been involved in a sex scandal, but isn't too bad otherwise.

* '''Conversed''': While watching ''Politicians of Troperia'', John laughs at Polly Ishan's behaviour, asks "how the heck did someone like that get elected anyway?" before comparing her to his most hated politician and saying "well, if ''he'' got elected, Ishan can too".

* '''Deconstructed''': As every politician seems to be sleazy, the people of Troperia get political TooBleakStoppedCaring. By the time someone [[CorruptPolitician truly bad]] appears, few people even notice the threat, and most of those who do are too desensitized to care.
* '''Reconstructed''': A young firebrand manages to defeat a major corrupt politician, whipping the others into shape and restoring the electorate's faith.

* '''Exaggerated''': Polly Ishan is [[CorruptPolitician highly corrupt]], focuses most of her campaigns on smearing her political opponents, is guilty of ''everything'' she falsely accuses her opponents of (including several felonies), [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabs anyone who tries to work with her]], and never even makes a token attempt to tell the truth or keep her promises.

** Audrey the author knows that politicians are AcceptableProfessionalTargets, and slaps a SleazyPolitician into her work because she thinks politician bashing sells.

** Polly Ishan and her equally sleazy rival [[CorruptPolitician Cory]] [[PunnyName Uption]] run for office. Poppy Stardom, an in-universe celebrity, joins the race as a PR stunt. [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Polly and Cory are so hated]] that [[SpringtimeForHitler Poppy wins]], and now has to deal with the issues that come with an unwanted position of power.

* '''Played For Horror''': Polly's corruption and incompetence is [[HanlonsRazor Grey's Law]] incarnate - it does not matters if it's born out of more human fallibilities such as greed or [[ForTheEvulz unspeakable evil]], at some point her contribution to creating the horrors that have decimated the population and allowing them to continue existing is so great that there is no real difference, and as a matter of fact revealing that she is just some idiot has greater chances of ''causing'' [[GoMadFromTheRevelation people to snap]] than not.

** Polly Ishan and her equally sleazy rival Cory Uption run for office. Poppy Stardom, an in-universe celebrity, joins the race as a PR stunt. Polly and Cory are so hated that [[SpringtimeForHitler Poppy wins]], and now has to deal with the issues that come with an unwanted position of power.

* '''Double Subverted''': Nate's description was exaggerated, but not entirely false - there are plenty of proven instances of Polly engaging in corruption and hypocrisy.

* '''Deconstructed''': As every politician seems to be sleazy, the people of Troperia get political DarknessInducedAudienceApathy. By the time someone [[CorruptPolitician truly bad]] appears, few people even notice the threat, and most of those who do are too desensitized to care.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Polly Ishan is [[CorruptPolitician highly corrupt]], focuses all her campaigns on smearing her political opponents, is guilty of ''everything'' she falsely accuses her opponents of (including several felonies), [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabs anyone who tries to work with her]], and never even makes a token attempt to tell the truth or keep her promises.

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm sitting out this election. Neither the lying {{Jerkass}} nor the corrupt womanizer deserves my vote."

* '''Deconstructed''': As every politician seems to be sleazy, the people of Troperia stop caring about politics thanks to DarknessInducedAudienceApathy. By the time someone [[CorruptPolitician truly bad]] appears, few people even notice the threat, and most of those who do are too desensitized to care.