Basic Trope: A city is destroyed then rebuilt repeatedly.
- Straight: A massive fire destroys Tokyo, then it gets rebuilt. Then, a meteor impact obliterates downtown Tokyo, and it gets rebuilt. Then, Tropezilla goes on a rampage throughout the city, and Tokyo gets rebuilt. And so on...
- Exaggerated: Tokyo gets destroyed to a smoldering pile of rubble and completely rebuilt once a day.
- Downplayed: Tokyo repeatedly gets badly damaged, but remains mostly in tact.
- Justified: The various crises are all part of a conspiracy to try and destroy the city for good. But Tokyo is a major city, and people won't give up on it easily.
- Inverted: Multiple attempts are made to construct a new city, but it always gets quickly destroyed and goes back to being an open field.
- Subverted: After the second time Tokyo is destroyed, the council meets to plan the next rebuild. Someone suggests they abandon Tokyo and move the evacuees somewhere less prone to destruction, and the council ultimately agrees.
- Double Subverted: The council's decision is met with protest, and ultimately, they give in and rebuild Tokyo, so the cycle continues...
- Parodied:
- After Tokyo is destroyed, the council sighs that Tokyo was destroyed again, then they nonchalantly say to start the normal rebuilding process. The construction equipment and people needed to rebuild the city were already on standby.
- A scientist invents a construction machine, that's pre-programmed with the blueprints of Tokyo, designed specifically to rebuild the city when it gets destroyed.
- Zig-Zagged: Each time Tokyo is destroyed, the council debates extensively on whether they should even bother with the rebuild or not.
- Averted:
- Tokyo is never destroyed.
- Tokyo is never rebuilt after it's destroyed.
- Tokyo is destroyed and rebuilt once, but doesn't get destroyed again after that.
- Enforced: Status Quo Is God
- Lampshaded: "Tokyo's in ruins!" "Again? Well, time to rebuild..."
- Invoked: The head of the council responsible for rebuilding Tokyo secretly masterminded many of the disasters that destroyed the city.
- Exploited: An architect buys a plot of land in Tokyo to experiment with different building designs. Knowing how often the city gets destroyed, he can try out new designs each time.
- Defied:
- When rebuilding Tokyo, the builders make sure to super-reinforce everything, so it's much more difficult to be destroyed again.
- A special police force is assigned to thwart each crisis before it can put the city in real danger of destruction.
- Discussed: "There's a fire downtown, an angry Tropezilla is heading our way, and we're in the path of a falling meteor to come next month. How many times are we going to have to rebuild this city?"
- Conversed: "They destroyed Tokyo!" "Relax, it'll just get rebuilt by the next episode as if nothing happened."
- Implied: The multiple times Tokyo was destroyed and rebuilt are only mentioned in passing - we don't actually see the destruction or get the specifics.
- Deconstructed:
- Despite Tokyo being repeatedly rebuilt, the city gets weaker. The population quickly starts to drop as people would rather live a more stable life somewhere that doesn't get destroyed as often, and the workers put less time and effort into the rebuild, feeling it's futile.
- Arisa is a poor woman who lives in Tokyo. Every time Tokyo gets destroyed, she's out of work while her workplace is rebuilt, and she needs to pay to fix up her house, and replace many of her possessions, each time it's destroyed. She can't afford better insurance, because the insurance rates have gone through the roof due to the number of claims each time Tokyo is destroyed. Though she wants to move someplace safer and more stable, she loses too much money on each rebuild, and can't afford to.
- Reconstructed: However, Bunzo, a man volunteering from Osaka to lead people back to safety, escorts Arisa to a train to Dotonbori, Osaka. This chance meeting blossoms into love, and Arisa is inspired by Bunzo's compassion to join the force and escort other people to trains going out of Tokyo in an attempt to save everyone living there. Even if Tokyo is destroyed, at least its people will have left with their lives.
- Played for Laughs: Tokyo, and the Kanto Region as a whole, is mocked by the surrounding regions (especially with the Kansai Region and Osaka) for being constantly targeted and rebuilt. Suddenly, Osaka swiftly gets hit by a spreading fire, a huge meteor, and all the Kaiju that Tropezilla faced, and soon the chaos and destruction spreads to the other regions of Japan.
While we're rebuilding Tokyo, again, you should go back to The Tokyo Fireball.
