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Author: hszmv1

Jun 19th 2017 at 7:15:13 AM

* Coolsville from the Franchise/ScoobyDoo Franchise, has an inordinate amount of alleged hauntings that turned out to be people trying to scare locals away from illegal activities.  Depending on the show, the town is depicted as a thriving EverytownUSA, a TouristTrap town that promotes known hoaxes as the real deal for their tourist industry, or a town where their primary source of industry has pulled up and left or some combination there of.  Again, subverted in that it is rarely if ever depicted as a town conspiracy, and often it's not even named in the series, it just has a bunch of crooks who all have the same idea.

*  The town of Sanford in HotFuzz.  The name itself isn't a true example of this trope, but it does boast being named the "Best place to live in Britain" and has quite a few "accidents" that are secretly for TheGreaterGood.

* A recurring theme in DannyPhantom was that the city of Amity Park was constantly advertising itself as a pleasant place to live, only to have the fight between Danny and the MonsterOfTheWeek wreck the sign.