'''Basic Trope''': A nightmarish orphanage that is terrible to the kids living there.
* '''Straight''': The [[SdrawkcabName Nomed]] Orphanage routinely abuses the kids living there, and only feeds them when they're about to die.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The Nomed Orphanage employees regularly beat and even occasionally kill some of the orphans there.
** The Nomed Orphanage [[{{Squick}} doubles as a brothel]].
** The Natas Orphanage is actually a front for a terrorist organization who force the orphans to become ChildSoldiers.
* '''Downplayed''': The Nomed Orphanage employees treat the kids like recruits at a boot camp.
* '''Justified''':
** It's running in a country with very little government oversight for such things, so they can get away with anything.
** The institutional budget is just too small for anything beyond barest survival--even the staff aren't doing too well.
** It's a front for a criminal operation or some other Very Bad Thing done at the kids' expense.
* '''Inverted''': OrphanageOfLove.
* '''Subverted''': While it's made out to be an OrphanageOfFear at first, you later learn that the UnreliableNarrator is making things up to make things seem more dramatic than they are--it's not bad at all.
* '''Double Subverted''': It's actually ''worse'' than first thought--the narrator is so warped that the best thing he can think of is a slightly less evil orphanage.
* '''Parodied''': The Nomed Orphanage doesn't allow the children to watch TV for more than four hours a day. [[FelonyMisdemeanor Everyone treats this as if it were the worst child abuse ever.]]
* '''Zig-Zagged''': After a while, it becomes obvious that the orphanage runs on tiers--orphans they like get the royal treatment you'd see in an OrphanageOfLove, whereas orphans they don't like get treated horrendously.
* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name]], treats the orphans nicely.
* '''Enforced''':
** "How can we give Alice a DarkAndTroubledPast?"
** "Bob has to leave his home and collect {{Power Crystal}}s, but he would never leave a loving home. Let's put him in an abusive place to give him an excuse to leave."
* '''Lampshaded''': "How the hell is the place still in business?"
* '''Invoked''': The BigBad runs the orphanage in a hopes to raise someone who is just as evil as him to adopt.
* '''Exploited''': A orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster--if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.
* '''Defied''': As soon as an orphan gets adopted, he tells his foster parents what the orphanage is like. They go to the authorities and get it shut down.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
%%* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families.[[note]]Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.[[/note]]
* '''Reconstructed''': Former Nomed Orphanage orphans get help for their psychological problems.
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': The orphans at the Nomed Orphanage get {{Hilariously Abusive Childhood}}s.
* '''Played For Drama''': TheHero visits Nomed Orphanage and discovers how horribly the children there are treated. They spend the final act of the plot trying to rescue the children from it and/or have the Nomed Orphanage shut down.
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