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** The institutional budget is just too small for anything beyond barest survival - even the staff aren't doing too well.

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** The institutional budget is just too small for anything beyond barest survival - even survival--even the staff aren't doing too well.



* '''Inverted''': OrphanageOfLove
* '''Subverted''': While it's made out to be an OrphanageOfFear at first, you later learn that the UnreliableNarrator is making things up to make things seem more dramatic than they are - it's not bad at all.
* '''Double Subverted''': It's actually worse than first thought - the narrator is so warped that the best thing he can think of is a slightly less evil orphanage.

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* '''Inverted''': OrphanageOfLove
OrphanageOfLove.
* '''Subverted''': While it's made out to be an OrphanageOfFear at first, you later learn that the UnreliableNarrator is making things up to make things seem more dramatic than they are - it's are--it's not bad at all.
* '''Double Subverted''': It's actually worse ''worse'' than first thought - the thought--the narrator is so warped that the best thing he can think of is a slightly less evil orphanage.



* '''Zig Zagged''': After a while, it becomes obvious that the orphanage runs on tiers - orphans they like get the royal treatment you'd see in an OrphanageOfLove, whereas orphans they don't like get treated horrendously.
* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name, treats the orphans nicely.]]

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': After a while, it becomes obvious that the orphanage runs on tiers - orphans tiers--orphans they like get the royal treatment you'd see in an OrphanageOfLove, whereas orphans they don't like get treated horrendously.
* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name, name]], treats the orphans nicely.]]



** "How can we give Carina a DarkAndTroubledPast?"
** "David has to leave his home and collect {{Power Crystal}}s, but he would never leave a loving home. Let's put him in an abusive place to give him an excuse to leave."

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** "How can we give Carina Alice a DarkAndTroubledPast?"
** "David "Bob has to leave his home and collect {{Power Crystal}}s, but he would never leave a loving home. Let's put him in an abusive place to give him an excuse to leave."



* '''Exploited''': A orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster - if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.

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* '''Exploited''': A orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster - if headmaster--if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.



* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[note]]Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.[[/note]]

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* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[note]]Depressingly, families.[[note]]Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.[[/note]]



%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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%%* * '''Played For Drama''': ???TheHero visits Nomed Orphanage and discovers how horribly the children there are treated. They spend the final act of the plot trying to rescue the children from it and/or have the Nomed Orphanage shut down.

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** The Natas Orphanage is actually a front for a terrorist organization who force the orphans to become ChildSoldiers.



* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name, treats the orphans fairly.]]

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* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name, treats the orphans fairly.nicely.]]
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"How the hell is the place still in business?"
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* '''Exploited''': A GenreSavvy orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster - if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.

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* '''Exploited''': A GenreSavvy orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster - if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.
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* '''Parodied''': The Nomed Orphanage doesn't allow the children to watch TV for more than four hours a day. Everyone treats this as if it were the worst child abuse ever.

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* '''Parodied''': The Nomed Orphanage doesn't allow the children to watch TV for more than four hours a day. [[FelonyMisdemeanor Everyone treats this as if it were the worst child abuse ever.]]



* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, despite its name, treats the orphans fairly.

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* '''Averted''': The Nomed Orphanage, [[NonIndicativeName despite its name, treats the orphans fairly.]]
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* '''Downplayed''': The Nomed Orphanage employees treat the the kids like recruits at a boot camp.

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* '''Downplayed''': The Nomed Orphanage employees treat the the kids like recruits at a boot camp.
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** It's a front for a criminal operation or some other Very Bad Thing done at the kids' expense.

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* '''Justified''': It's running in a country with very little government oversight for such things, so they can get away with anything.
** Or the institutional budget is just too small for anything beyond barest survival - even the staff aren't doing too well.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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It's running in a country with very little government oversight for such things, so they can get away with anything.
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** Or the institutional budget is just too small for anything beyond barest survival - even the staff aren't doing too well.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[hottip:*:Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.]]

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* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[hottip:*:Depressingly, families[[note]]Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.]][[/note]]

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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???The Nomed Orphanage doesn't allow the children to watch TV for more than four hours a day. Everyone treats this as if it were the worst child abuse ever.



* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???
The Nomed Orphanage, despite its name, treats the orphans fairly.
* '''Enforced''': ???'''Enforced''':
** "How can we give Carina a DarkAndTroubledPast?"
** "David has to leave his home and collect {{Power Crystal}}s, but he would never leave a loving home. Let's put him in an abusive place to give him an excuse to leave."



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* '''Reconstructed''': Former Nomed Orphanage orphans get help for their psychological problems.
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': The orphans at the Nomed Orphanage get {{Hilariously Abusive Childhood}}s.
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???



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* '''Exaggerated''': The Nomed Orphanage employees regularly beat and even occasionally kill some of the orphans there.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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** The Nomed Orphanage [[{{Squick}} doubles as a brothel]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': The Nomed Orphange employees regularly beat and even occasionally kill some of the orphans there.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': The Nomed Orphange Orphanage employees regularly beat and even occasionally kill some of the orphans there.
* '''Downplayed''': ???The Nomed Orphanage employees treat the the kids like recruits at a boot camp.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[hottip:*:Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[hottip:*:Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.]].]]



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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???The BigBad runs the orphanage in a hopes to raise someone who is just as evil as him to adopt.
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'''Basic Trope''': A nightmarish orphanage that is terrible to the kids living there.
* '''Straight''': The [[SdrawkcabName Nomed]] Orphanage routinely abuses the kids living there, and only feeds them when they're about to die.
* '''Exaggerated''': The Nomed Orphange employees regularly beat and even occasionally kill some of the orphans there.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': It's running in a country with very little government oversight for such things, so they can get away with anything.
* '''Inverted''': OrphanageOfLove
* '''Subverted''': While it's made out to be an OrphanageOfFear at first, you later learn that the UnreliableNarrator is making things up to make things seem more dramatic than they are - it's not bad at all.
* '''Double Subverted''': It's actually worse than first thought - the narrator is so warped that the best thing he can think of is a slightly less evil orphanage.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': After a while, it becomes obvious that the orphanage runs on tiers - orphans they like get the royal treatment you'd see in an OrphanageOfLove, whereas orphans they don't like get treated horrendously.
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': A GenreSavvy orphan blackmails the orphanage's headmaster - if he doesn't give him the royal treatment, he'll go to anyone that will listen.
* '''Defied''': As soon as an orphan gets adopted, he tells his foster parents what the orphanage is like. They go to the authorities and get it shut down.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Orphans that are adopted out of the Nomed Orphanage, because of how terrible they were treated, often develop psychological problems and lash out at their adoptive families[[hottip:*:Depressingly, this fact is TruthInTelevision.]].
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