History Sandbox / TheMallWickCheck

'''Wicks checked''': 25/50

# VideoGame.{{Zombi}}: The events of the game wholly take place inside a mall and a small part of its outside terrain. The numerous zombies beyond the mall's borders make it impossible to leave by any means but the helicopter, finding fuel for which is the main objective. The secondary objectives until then are to clear the mall of zombies, get the light working again, and finding food and beds to keep the protagonists healthy. '''As written, mall just happens to be the setting.'''

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# Recap.InsideJobS1E5TheBrettfastClub: Lampshaded. Because Still Valley is stuck in TheEighties they still have a thriving mall (actually a front for Cognito, Inc. to unload merchandise they can't sell in the present). '''Mall as symbol of TheEighties.'''
# ThatNostalgiaShow: ''Series/StrangerThings'' (2016-present) is one of the archetypal examples of this trope in modern media. The first season was set in 1983, with follow-up seasons set in the following years. The third season went all-out on the '80s aesthetic, with the production renovating part of a dying [[TheMall shopping mall]] in suburban UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} to look like a place that an '80s ValleyGirl might shop at, complete with period-appropriate stores and films like ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' and ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' playing in the mall's theater. '''Mall as symbol of TheEighties.'''

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# VideoGame.MarioKart7 [[TheMall Coconut Mall]] (''Wii'') '''Pothole references a mall game level.'''
# VideoGame.{{Zombi}}: The events of the game wholly take place inside a mall and a small part of its outside terrain. The numerous zombies beyond the mall's borders make it impossible to leave by any means but the helicopter, finding fuel for which is the main objective. The secondary objectives until then are to clear the mall of zombies, get the light working again, and finding food and beds to keep the protagonists healthy. '''As written, mall just happens to be the setting.'''
# VideoGame.SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesZapped: The third stage is the Greendale Mall, complete with multiple floors and escalators. Raccoons like to hide in pots and Chameleons climb the walls. '''Mall game level.'''
# VideoGame.TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants: The second level takes place in the Springfield mall. '''Mall game level.'''

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# VideoGame.DeadRising: The main setting, as part of the game's {{homage}} to ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. '''Mall used as homage to a movie setting.'''
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# StarVsTheForcesOfEvil.TropesAToM: Quest Buy is a transdimensional example. '''No context.'''
# Webcomic.{{Dolmistaska}}: The entire setting! It helps that it spans three cities. It's so large and sprawling that it mirrors actual cities in multiple ways, with parts of it being modern, lively and crawling with people, while other parts are decaying and abandoned, with nature overtaking it and wild animals (and [[ClownSpecies clowns]]) roaming freely. '''Unclear. Can't tell if this is just "setting is a mall" or if the additional context makes it a decent example.'''
# WesternAnimation.{{Recess}}: The Townsedge Mall, which the gang visit in "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave" and appears again in "Gus's Fortune" '''Commented-out ZCE.'''
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# VideoGame.SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesZapped: The third stage is the Greendale Mall, complete with multiple floors and escalators. Raccoons like to hide in pots and Chameleons climb the walls. '''Just happens to be set in a mall.'''
# VideoGame.TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants: The second level takes place in the Springfield mall. '''Just happens to be set in a mall.'''

# VideoGame.MarioKart7 [[TheMall Coconut Mall]] (''Wii'') '''Pothole just references a mall.'''

# VideoGame.{{Zombi}}: The events of the game wholly take place inside a mall and a small part of its outside terrain. The numerous zombies beyond the mall's borders make it impossible to leave by any means but the helicopter, finding fuel for which is the main objective. The secondary objectives until then are to clear the mall of zombies, get the light working again, and finding food and beds to keep the protagonists healthy. '''As written, mall just happens to be the setting.'''

'''Why?''': TheMall contains multiple possible definitions in one--malls as teenage hangouts, malls as social commentary, and just "malls exist". This wick check will determine if it can be split into new tropes.

'''Wicks checked''': 20/50

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# VideoGame.DeadRising: The main setting, as part of the game's {{homage}} to ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. '''Mall used as homage to a movie setting.'''

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# StarVsTheForcesOfEvil.TropesAToM: Quest Buy is a transdimensional example. '''No context.'''
# Webcomic.{{Dolmistaska}}: The entire setting! It helps that it spans three cities. It's so large and sprawling that it mirrors actual cities in multiple ways, with parts of it being modern, lively and crawling with people, while other parts are decaying and abandoned, with nature overtaking it and wild animals (and [[ClownSpecies clowns]]) roaming freely. '''Unclear. Can't tell if this is just "setting is a mall" or if the additional context makes it a decent example.'''

'''Wicks checked''': 5/50

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'''Wicks checked''': 0/50

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