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Basic Trope: A location is destroyed following the conflict of a work, but by the time of the next installment, it gets rebuilt.

  • Straight: Before being defeated by the Mighty Tropin' Power Rangers, the Monster of the Week of the titular show mostly destroys Troperville. But by the next episode, the city is completely rebuilt as if it never took any damage at all.
  • Exaggerated: The next episode of MTPR is an Immediate Sequel to the last, and the city is not only instantaeneously built, but improved upon and gentrified as well.
  • Downplayed: After the main villian of MTPR: The Movie is defeated, it takes a few months for Troperville to be rebuilt, and it is still in the process of being worked on come the sequel.
  • Justified: MTPR takes place in the distant future where monster attacks in Troperville are common, so technology to fix the damage they cause is very developed.
  • Inverted: The monster instead fixes and gentrifies everything it touches, but it still needs to be defeated because the gentrified buildings are more expensive to live in and maintain. The people of Troperville set out to destroy them offscreen almost instantly following its defeat.
  • Subverted: After defeating the monster with his team, the Red Ranger remarks how the damage it caused Troperville was worth hundreds of millions and may take years to fix.
  • Double Subverted: But by the next episode, Troperville is shown to be perfectly intact.
  • Parodied: The Tropin' Rangers mentor is a wizard that is well aware of the damage monsters cause, and after almost every episode, he uses a spell that instantly resets everything to pre-attack.
  • Lampshaded: "Welcome to Troperville, the town that gets rebuilt once a week!"
  • Conversed: "Ever notice how Troperville gets destroyed every episode, and is always fine by the next one?"

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