Basic Trope: An Always Chaotic Evil group of (to the author at least) ideologicalically mocked targets as the antagonists.
- Straight:
- The entire Troperthian race want to bring everyone under their rule by force, have a Marxist-style economy, are big on collectivism and consider individuality a capital offence.
- The Troperithians believe themselves to be superior and try to herd humanity into concentration camps.
- Exaggerated:
- The Troperthian race have all of the above, while also being militant atheists, having a Cult of Personality around their leader, rewriting their history to the point of removing all mention of certain undesirables from it, have a symbol involving the color red, a literal Assimilation Plot and Big Brother Is Watching You.
- They are literally aliens who've allied with the Soviet Union.
- Downplayed:
- They are a tyrannical government bigoted against a particular group or race.
- Justified:
- There are only so many different kinds of evil society possible, and Earth's history covers a pretty wide spectrum of them. The Troperthians were almost bound to resemble some evil human civilization.
- The aliens visited Earth and were inspired by a particular creed.
- This is a Bad Future where a tyrannical institution managed to contact the aliens, who took up their ideology.
- Inverted:
- The aliens are benevolent people who take their imagery and cues from a real-life ideology or creed (if not outright adapting the ideology themselves).
- The aliens are ideologically moderate. Humanity has degenerated to one of its worst ideologies.
- Subverted:
- The aliens were only mistaken for communist. They were always one being with many bodies. Trying to apply communism would be like describing the human body as oppressive for its treatment of its own cells.
- Double Subverted:
- But every now and then, one of them develops an individual consciousness, and is punished severely for this.
- Parodied: The aliens are dogmatic about firmament cosmology despite trivially disproven by their own space travel without so much as a handwave that they are just tunneling deeper into the heavenly dome.
- Zig Zagged: The alien's culture only vaguely resembles a variety of significantly different and coexisting human ideologies. The human description of their civilization is limited by their own beliefs and perceptions. However, they do have certain values that humans can easily agree/disagree with.
- Averted: The aliens have no ideologies resembling human politics, and while they are actively malevolent, they cannot be related to humans or even communicate with them.
- Enforced: The producers are trying to get brownie points by condemning authoritarian regimes.
- Lampshaded: A old Russian man says, "Yes, Troperithians are very much like Soviet Union."
- Invoked: The Troperithians were corrupted by old Soviet propaganda broadcasted into space for the sake of spreading their ideology.
- Exploited: Right-wing humans create a new red scare out of fear of the Troperithians.
- Defied:
- An effort is made to fight hatred and intolerance.
- The aliens are dogmatic, but their dogma tells them to make friends with other intelligent species instead of conquering them.
