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Laurie, a foreign exchange student to the Troperian high school where the new student council is elected, is dazzled to see candidate banners and posters hanging everywhere and students bickering about the right candidates up to outright brawls in the corridors. Alice assures her that the students of her school are just taking everything a little bit too important.
* '''Double Subverted''':???But in Troperia, you need to have been student body president at school to have any kind of chance in any leading position in adult life, and the student body election shall prepare students for that. Alice just doesn't like that fact.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': The President candidates promise things too outrageous like abolishing homework forever.
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* '''Straight''': A school is deciding on a new class pet by allowing students to vote for either a rabbit, hamster, or turtle. The voting is treated very similarly to a presidential election.
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* '''Straight''': A school is deciding on a new class pet by allowing students to vote for either a rabbit, hamster, or turtle.student body president. The voting is treated very similarly to a presidential election.
** The candidates are two really spiteful rivals.
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* '''Implied''': A school is mentioned to have suspended their student council due to safety concerns.
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** The losing candidate falls into a depression.
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'''Basic Trope''': Elections are always SeriousBusiness, regardless of what they're about.
* '''Straight''': A school is deciding on a new class pet by allowing students to vote for either a rabbit, hamster, or turtle. The voting is treated very similarly to a presidential election.
* '''Exaggerated''': Any process that would involve voting, including Alice and her friends trying to choose which kind of pizza they'd like to order, is ''very'' SeriousBusiness to the point in which [[DisproportionateRetribution those who don't vote can be executed]].
* '''Downplayed''': The election is for the new mayor, but some individuals are getting too competitive and serious about it.
* '''Justified''': The voters are already very competitive to begin with.
* '''Inverted''': Actual presidential elections are treated similarly to casual experiences with voting, such as choosing what kind of food to order.
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* '''Invoked''': The class pet election is set up in a way so similar to voting to introduce students to the concept.
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* '''Straight''': A school is deciding on a new class pet by allowing students to vote for either a rabbit, hamster, or turtle. The voting is treated very similarly to a presidential election.
* '''Exaggerated''': Any process that would involve voting, including Alice and her friends trying to choose which kind of pizza they'd like to order, is ''very'' SeriousBusiness to the point in which [[DisproportionateRetribution those who don't vote can be executed]].
* '''Downplayed''': The election is for the new mayor, but some individuals are getting too competitive and serious about it.
* '''Justified''': The voters are already very competitive to begin with.
* '''Inverted''': Actual presidential elections are treated similarly to casual experiences with voting, such as choosing what kind of food to order.
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* '''Averted''': There is no election.
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* '''Invoked''': The class pet election is set up in a way so similar to voting to introduce students to the concept.
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* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Why are they getting so serious over choosing a class pet?!"
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