Line #15 PlayingWith/ToxicInc


1	'''Basic Trope''': A company that pollutes heavily.
2	* '''Straight''': Evulz Industries is a well-known company that manufactures a wide range of products, but they are infamous due the high amounts of pollution their factories produce.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': The mere existence of an Evulz Industries factory turns any of its surroundings areas into a hazardous wasteland in matter of seconds.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Evulz Industries' factories generate a lot waste, but in enough quantities to be manageable, for the most part.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Evulz Industries lacks the budget to replace its toxic machinery with better and more eco-friendly equipment.
7	** Evulz Industries manages clandestine sweatshops, so they don't care about inconveniences like ethics or the environment.
8	** Evulz industries existed from the 1920s to the 1950s, predating the EPA.[[note]] and [[NoOSHACompliance the OSHA]] for that matter[[/note]]
9	* '''Inverted''': Evulz Industries' factories are famous for being among the cleanest, safest, and most efficient facilities money and [[HonestCorporateExecutive a conscience]] can buy.
10	* '''Subverted''':
11	** An investigation reveals that Evulz Industries' byproducts are actually chemicals designed to ''clean'' the air and water.
12	** Evulz has his factory in a PollutedWasteland, but it turns out that it was naturally filled with high levels of a toxic substance usually found in waste for millennia. He simply exploits it for widgets where there is little to no life to disturb.
13	* '''Double Subverted''':
14	** But a later investigation reveals it was a marketing scheme designed by Evulz Industries to shift attention from their factories.
15	** The chemicals somehow backfire and become pollutants themselves.
16	** However, his irresponsible harvesting results in the pollution spreading.
17	* '''Parodied''': ''Polluting the world'' is listed among the services Evulz Industries proudly offers.
18	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Evulz Industries tries to keep an eye on all the factories, and while some keep their pollution levels in check, the most ignored ones don't.
19	* '''Averted''':
20	** Evulz is not in business.
21	** Evulz Industries does not pollute overmuch.
22	* '''Enforced''': [[TruthInTelevision Industries pollute a lot]], so there's no better choice for an antagonistic force in a GreenAesop than them.
23	* '''Lampshaded''': "The amount of pollution my workplace generates is so high and deliberate, sometimes I feel like I'm some rich psycho's evil minion."
24	* '''Invoked''': Evulz is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who decides he's just going to try to make as much money as he can, externalities be damned.
25	* '''Exploited''': ???
26	* '''Defied''': Somebody in the government, the firm, or both makes Evulz Industries use non-polluting methods and clean up the damage it's done.
27	* '''Discussed''': ???
28	* '''Conversed''': ???
29	* '''Deconstructed''': Evulz Industries goes out of business even before regulation or lawsuits, because even with their cut-rate margins, their waste means they need more inputs for their output. They need to buy the input toxic chemicals from somewhere. Meanwhile, their competitor, [[ALighterShadeOfGrey Naughty Corp]], pollutes as well, but they try to reduce the usage and use less toxic alternatives [[CutLexLuthorACheck because the toxic chemicals cost money]], so they try to get the most from it, and less toxic chemicals are easier to handle and thus more efficient to work with.
30	* '''Implied''': Almost all of Tropetown has abundant and varied native flora and fauna except for the area around the Evulz factory, which is a dead zone.
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35	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
36	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
37	%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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