Basic Trope: A small town is portrayed as having a lot more going on for it than would be realistic.
- Straight: Bob lives in a Troperville, a small town that has an international airport, a major TV studio and even gets visits from important political figures (and may also have more crime than would be seen in an actual small town).
- Exaggerated: Troperville is besieged by crime and supernatural occurrences.
- Downplayed: Minor inaccuracies, such as a small town being portrayed as having an unrealistic amount of job potential.
- Justified:
- Troperville is a suburb of a major city.
- Troperville has a small population, but it is still important in some other way (it could be home to a major university or government institution, be on or near the source of an important resource, or located in a strategically important or heavily-trafficked location) and as such has many of the things that would normally only be found in a larger city.
- Troperville is at the start of a boom… it's small now, but oh you wait.
- Inverted: A large city that seems to have nothing going on in it, to the point that everyone knows everyone, and any murder is big news.
- Subverted:
- Troperville is said to have an airport, TV studio, several sports teams, and other features that would normally only be seen in a big city. When these things are actually shown, they turn out to be appropriately-scaled for a small town: the airport is a small landing strip that can only handle Cessnas and Piper Cubs, the TV studio is a public-access station, and the sports teams are all amateur or minor-league teams.
- The booklet on Troperville, that the hero used for reference on what to expect, predates its most recent boom.
- Double Subverted: ??
- Parodied: ??
- Zig Zagged: ??
- Averted: Troperville is portrayed as having a tight knit community with few amenities.
- Enforced: The work in question (sometimes explicitly) runs on Rule of Funny.
- Lampshaded: "All this fits in a small town?"
- Invoked: ??
- Exploited: ??
- Defied: ??
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