Line #16 PlayingWith/IndividualityIsIllegal

Context PlayingWith / IndividualityIsIllegal

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1	'''Basic Trope''': Society doesn't allow anyone to be their own individual person.
2	* '''Straight''': Community Metropolis is a city where all of the citizens are forced to be like each other. Anyone who does things differently from the Fellowship will be sentenced to prison for life.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': The ''entire human race'' is a strong HiveMind, and anyone who thinks differently will be automatically killed on the spot.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Tropesville is a town with a noticeable collectivist bend. Individuality is frowned upon, and those that deviate from its norms are ostracized by its residents.
5	* '''Justified''': The leaders of Community Metropolis believe that citizens who think alike will benefit society in the long-run and those who think differently are a hindrance to the best interests of society.
6	* '''Inverted''': The society enforces citizens to think differently from each other, and anyone who shares the same interests with at least one person is punished harshly.
7	* '''Subverted''': It turns out that the anti-individual aspect was misunderstood greatly. Community Metropolis's insistence upon the uniform vaccsuits, regimented schedules, and uniform gene-mods was because they were the only combination that could survive the vast bioweapon pandemic - inability to maintain the schedule at all was a sign of infection to quaranteen. Inside the suits the people were very different.
8	* '''Double Subverted''': However the measure took on a life of its own as even after it is solved the vast majority view any change from it as heresy.
9	* '''Parodied''': ???
10	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
11	* '''Averted''': Community Metropolis doesn't enforce laws on being collective with society.
12	* '''Enforced''': The writer uses this trope as the premise of his {{Dystopia}}n novel.
13	* '''Lampshaded''': "You have no choice. You must be like the rest of the world, or the leaders of Community Metropolis will find you and punish you!"
14	* '''Invoked''': ???
15	* '''Exploited''': ???
16	* '''Defied''': Any attempt to establish such a collective fails spectacularly because without an individuality to refer to they are incapable of having a norm to define.
17	* '''Discussed''': ???
18	* '''Conversed''': ???
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Context PlayingWith / IndividualityIsIllegal