The image is broken. Wikia images will break after a few minutes if you try to link the exact URL. You have to chop off everything after ".png" for the image to appear properly. Here's a curtesy upload either way.
Also, I'm not sure if it's depicting the trope. The trope is for when dictators rename a city after themselves, which I don't think is obvious by this image. I agree that the current isn't fantastic, but it is at least showing the city's name.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Agree. I would rather have something that shows the name of the city.
To be fair, I don't get that from the current either.
Ah I see (about the image thing AND the criticism). It's funny, I think there's an image that shows the Bikini Bottom sign replaced with a Planktopolis on in the movie-based game but I don't know where it is. Either way, you might be right (unless there's a better image of this trope in the film somewhere)
Edited by Jobyrdthegamerbyrd on Apr 13th 2023 at 8:49:46 AM
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
While the majority of the description is focused on dictatorships, the page quote and the line "Also covered is the practice of naming something after a close friend, family member, benefactor, loved one, or favorite pet" both support that it actually includes any place named after a person for any reason. A TRS to determine scope might be in order - Grooseland is an example of a self-promoting explorer naming landmarks after himself, rather than a dictator imposing a name on an existing city or founding a new capital in order to replace existing government institutions with their own (though there can be overlap between these), and I feel like Egopolis serves a different narrative purpose from Commemoratopia.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Apr 13th 2023 at 5:08:00 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Plankton was already solidly downvoted in favor of the current in the previous thread
.
Clocking this one in light of that.
Hi
Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus.
Throwing in a suggestion to replace the current image since it does (in my opinion) a little better at displaying the "Villain takes over and has everything dedicated to himself" part of the trope better than the current. (Also it IS a wikia image because I don't know how to make it TV Tropes-sized or however it's supposed to be.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/4/48/Planktopolis.png/revision/latest?cb=20150620183757
Edited by Jobyrdthegamerbyrd on Apr 13th 2023 at 8:01:08 AM