Basic Trope Description: Characters are forced to compete in a dangerous game in which defeat means to die in some way.
- Straight: Every year in summer, the wealthy elite of Troperia kidnaps girls from their homes and forces them to fight each other to death to their amusement in a pageant named the Summer Games until only one winner is left alive.
- Exaggerated: Every summer in Troperia, all children of the country's citizens are forced to participate in a match that only ends when one winner is left alive that is called the Summer Games. The children who are forced to fight not only get killed when defeated, but their souls also vanish from existence (meaning no afterlife), and everything that could remember anyone that they ever existed also vanishes in the moments of their death. Also, their loved ones and everyone else forget them in this respective moment, and the winner also only gets Released to Elsewhere.
- Downplayed: Every year, random Troperian girls have to fight against each other in a big match named the Summer Games for the amusement of the elite...but only to first blood.
- Justified:
- The Government wants to instill fear in the populace to stay in power.
- Troperia is The Theocracy ruled by a Religion of Evil, and the Summer Games are a Human Sacrifice needed to keep their gods calm, or at least it started out that way.
- Inverted: When the girls are defeated, it means they are free to go. Only the winner gets killed in the end, since the Summer Games are a rite to choose someone for Human Sacrifice to assure a good harvest.
- Subverted: Defeated girls are getting killed - but then Alice, the winner, finds out that they are in fact only imprisoned by The Government to be turned into Super Soldiers, and their deaths are faked.
- Double Subverted: After the defeated girls outlived their usefulness, they get executed anyway.
- Enforced: The author aims to show how evil the antagonists are and thinks that governments suck anyway. Also, the storyboard wants to profit from the success of The Hunger Games.
- Averted: Every year, girls are kidnapped and put against each other in a game for the amusement of The Beautiful Elite that is named the Summer Games, but nobody dies in the Games.
- Parodied: The Summer Games are renamed. They're now called the Summer Mass Execution.
- Lampshaded: "Well, the game is something similar to the Hunger Games or the Program in Battle Royale."
- Invoked: Bob, who wants to get rid of Alice, coincidentally meets Charlie, an insecure newbie in the rows of the kidnappers for the Summer Games, who asks him whether he knows a teenage girl around who wouldn't be missed really much. He tells him about Alice.
- Defied: The leaders of Troperia discuss what to do to punish the populace for rebelling. Lord Bad suggests to pit random girls in a death match against each other to make the citizens too fearful of the government, but the other leaders refuse that idea.
- Discussed: "My cousin hasn't come home for days. What if they kidnapped her for the Summer Games?" "My deepest condolences ahead."
- Conversed: "The Summer Games are just another Hunger Games copycat. Really, we had enough teenagers forced to kill each other."
- Deconstructed: The fear of the Summer Games leads to teenage girls fleeing the country as soon as they come of age, or committing suicide en masse. This leads to a shortage in possible contestants, and finally to a sharp population decrease.
- Reconstructed: A new law makes all citizens possible involuntary combatants, the borders get closed, foreign countries stop taking in refugees from Troperia, and a phlebotinum that makes people forget the deceased is discovered. The Summer Games make a return.
- Played for Drama: Claudia is caught as a participant of the Summer Games and has to find a way out.
