Basic Trope: A work where the majority of characters are Jerkasses.
- Straight: The majority of characters in Troperville are assholes, which includes the main characters — Alex, Bob, Charlie, Danielle, Eric. There are only a few nice characters such as Harold, who is the series' Butt-Monkey.
- Exaggerated:
- Every single character, major or minor, protagonists or antagonists are all sadistic, sociopathic, narcissistic, and psychopathic jerks, and there are no nice guys in sight. Even Gods are Jerkasses to each other in this world. In short, everyone's Always Chaotic Evil
- Crapsack World.
- World of Hate Sinka.
- World of Complete Monsters.
- There are no redeemable characters in sight, the best people are all selfish, abrasive, insufferable, moronic Jerkasses, and Black-and-Grey Morality rules the day. All the citizens are vapid, apathetic Gullible Lemmings with a severe case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder who will leave their family and 'friends' to die in the cold if it benefits them or because they have failed them, basic human decency doesn't exist, people are either simple-minded woobies who are ruthlessly exploited for their kindness and Driven to Suicide when they are no longer useful or have grown wise to the ways of the world, or Ax-Crazy sociopaths who cruelly slaughter innocents For the Evulz and because it amused them. All negative stereotypes are true in some way, shape or form; all politicians are sleazy, corrupt opportunists, The Lopsided Arm of the Law is enforced by cigar chomping, donut eating, fat, lazy dirty cops (or rabid when it comes to pesky jaywalking), every single person who decides to get a business major automatically is a greedy, selfish piece of crap who would sell their employees' souls for 62 cents, Kids Are Cruel, Teens Are Monsters, Adults Are Useless who couldn't be bothered to get off the couch if their kids are being mauled by bears, which means the animals are assholes, too. Plus, the Domino's Pizza takes forever to deliver, which is probably the worst crime of all.
- Downplayed:
- While it can't be said that they are good people, the people of Troperville are ultimately have enough positive traits to make them endearing and likable, if not enough to redeem their flaws.
- Troperville is a World of Snark, but with enough sincere moments to emphasize that its characters aren't altogether terrible.
- Justified:
- Troperville takes place in an office with utterly cutthroat politics — nice guys find new jobs or get drummed out.
- Troperville is filled with traumas, hardships and Jerkass Gods which negatively shapes the characters' attitudes and personalities.
- Troperville takes place in a world with Blue-and-Orange Morality. What comes across as jerkass behavior to others is normal troper custom.
- Inverted: World of Nice Guys: Troperville is a work where the majority of characters are nice.
- Subverted: At the start of the second season, most of the characters Took a Level in Kindness.
- Double Subverted: They go back being assholes by the next episode.
- Parodied: Troperville is renamed into Jerkville because of how rude and unpleasant the people are.
- Zig Zagged: Every single character swing from mean to nice depending on the episode.
- Averted: There's an even balance of nice characters and mean ones.
- Enforced:
- The author wants Troperville to demonstrate how it's a Crapsack World where life is crap and so are the characters.
- "People love assholes, so we make a show where everyone's an asshole."
- Troperville is a Sadist Show.
- The author wants to make a point that Humans Are Bastards in Troperville. So why not make everyone a jerk there?
- Lampshaded:
- "At least Harold's one of the decent people out here."
- "You’re damn right we're assholes! What were you expecting, dumbass? A world where everyone is nice to each other? Where’s the fun in that? Get the fuck out of here if you don't like it, you wuss!"
- Invoked: An evil villain uses his jerk potion to turn everyone mean.
- Exploited: A Con Artist gets rich pulling various scams that rely on the greed and cruelty of Troperville's inhabitants.
- Defied: "Oh, the hell with this. I'll be nice, even if it kills me."
- Discussed:Alice: "Why are all of these characters mean to each other?"
Bob: "Who cares? I love this show! It's more entertaining and realistic than watching a bunch of goody-goody-two-shoes getting along all the time!" - Conversed: "Gosh. This show is awful. Just about every character is horrible to each other."
- Deconstructed:
- The characters are so mean to the point that it becomes hard for a few nice characters to function in a society full of assholes.
- Some characters just get sick of living in Troperville that they board the next train out.
- Troperville eventually falls apart as a society because the people can't cooperate with each other.
- Reconstructed:
- Well, you can't really reconstruct the first one. The trope still functions just fine; The characters sure as hell don't. Ah well, if you can't beat them, join them.
- Troperville becomes some kind of strange tourist attraction because of an In-Universe Bile Fascination; People go there to see if it really is that terrible living in Troperville.
- A Corrupt Corporate Executive sees Troperville and immediately enslaves the people who were about to leave; Every inhabitant is forced to hate each other and be unable to leave.
- Played For Laughs: Troperville is a comedy show filled with Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists who are always on the receiving end of over-the-top punishments for their assholish behavior.
- Played For Drama: Troperville is a drama where the characters live in a Crapsack World and the only way for them to cope with the harsh realities of life is by being ruthless, uncaring, and abusive to each other along with committing cruel and heartless deeds. The characters are so unpleasant that some of the nice and innocent characters would either break emotionally because of the harsh mistreatment from the mean characters, become just as mean as them, or commit suicide. For the last one, the people who committed suicide are labelled as "Pansy Fucks Who Can't Handle Reality".
- Played For Horror:
- Anybody who shows any kind of weakness in Troperville immediately becomes Bully Magnet. And these bullies will be so thorough and determined to destroy their targets that not even in death there is an escape (and that without putting into account the possibility of them being responsible for said death).
- Let us just say that when people get fed up with the Jerkasses of Troperville, blood tends to flow, by the gallons, in one way or another.
- World of Psychopaths
- Implied: When someone mentions Troperville, anyone from that place is quick to shut any discussion of it down.
Welcome to World of Jerkass! NOT! Hope your pillows are warm on both sides, you half-assed, illegitimate, and all around useless excuse of a sad human being!
