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Author: Q

Sep 7th 2012 at 6:58:08 PM

If there's nothing special about witches, then there's no reason to restrict the title and description, aside from TropeNamerSyndrome, perhaps.  By using more general terminology and descriptions, it could be understood as a more deceiving variant of EveryoneIsATomato. This would also cover cases in which everyone in a small town turns out to be cannibalistic serial killers. I'm fairly sure we have that trope already, though. Those aren't tomatoes, per se, but would still be considered tomatoes due to their status within the story. I think there's enough examples of that sort of scenario to make it tropeworthy.

And you're right that EveryoneIsATomato doesn't say anything about the things you mentioned. That's because it doesn't have to. The same trope applies whether everyone is a ''killer'' tomato, or a ''friendly'' tomato, or an ''indifferent'' tomato, or a tomato masquerading as an apple.

Edit due to ninja: And I was totally trying to find TownWithADarkSecret. Just mentally add a Pothole in the right place when you come to it.