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1'''Basic Trope''': Buildings which get destroyed in the action just so happen to be empty; no-one gets hurt.
2* '''Straight''':
3** Amazing Girl, trying to stop Super Evil Dude from committing nefarious acts, flies at him and ploughs straight through a disused skyscraper in the process.
4** With a swish of its tail, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Gigantosaurus]] demolishes the AbandonedWarehouse before [[HumongousMecha Megabot-7]] [[RocketPunch rocket-punches]] it into the nearby disused offices.
5* '''Exaggerated''':
6** Amazing Girl hurls a small asteroid at Super Evil Dude, turning the whole of downtown Trope City into a kilometer-wide crater. Lucky the city had been evacuated first.
7** The empty building Alice destroyed was stated to note be not built up to code. Alice is praised for destroying it, as it was unsafe for it's occupants.
8* '''Downplayed''': Amazing Girl hurls Super Evil Dude at the nearest building, smashing the windows and denting the wall slightly. Since most people had gone home for the night, no-one gets hurt.
9* '''Justified''':
10** The hero(es) deliberately drew the villian/kaiju to a disused industrial estate due for redevelopment, to make sure no-one gets hurt.
11** Trope City experiences so many superhero vs. supervillain/giant robot vs kaiju battles that the city council has drawn up plans for rapid evacuation, and/or most residents and businesses saw sense and moved elsewhere.
12** Everyone was already dead to begin with.
13** It's night. How many live in an office? [[note]] To be fair, many will be out of a job.[[/note]]
14* '''Inverted''': [[GiantWoman Gigantia]] [[RapeAndRevenge stomps on the hideout of the gang that raped her before she grew in size, deliberately killing all inside.]]
15* '''Subverted''':
16** Luckily no-one was hurt... except, it later turns out, for the unfortunate nightwatchman.
17** Everyone ''did'' live. Injuries, however, are a completely different story.
18* '''Double Subverted''': Or so they assumed. The nightwatchman turns up shaken but unhurt, having just nipped out for a cigarette break.
19* '''Parodied''': Constructing buildings that have no other purpose but to be smashed down by superbeings is an essential part of Trope City's urban planning.
20* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
21* '''Averted''':
22** There are people still in the building when it gets destroyed. They die.
23** The building does not get destroyed.
24* '''Enforced''':
25** The producers don't want to make the heroes seem reckless without a care for the lives of innocent bystanders.
26** The producers want to make the work kid-friendly, and don't want to expose their young audiences to death. (If it's an edited translation of a foreign work, expect dubbing-in of dialogue pointing out the building was evacuated and removal of the scene where workers get buried under falling masonry.)
27* '''Lampshaded''':
28** "Look how ugly and run down this building is! Arrgh!" [kicks wall in]
29** "Good job that building was condemned! I'd hate to be ringing my insurance broker tomorrow morning if I was the boss of Trope Co.!"
30* '''Invoked''':
31** Amazing Girl deliberately goaded SED into fighting her at [[AbandonedWarehouse the warehouses of the recently defunct Tropican Furniture]].
32** A construction company makes good money by setting up a "battle district" full of empty buildings where supers can fight each other.
33* '''Exploited''': A construction company basically uses superheroes as a free demolition service and recycles the wreckage for future projects.
34* '''Defied''': Evil Dude deliberately launches his attack from the middle of downtown when all the skyscrapers are full and the roads are busy, so that Amazing Girl will have a hard time stopping him without hurting civilians.
35* '''Discussed''': ???
36* '''Conversed''': ???
37* '''Implied''': Nobody is seen exiting the building, and there are also no known deaths that occurred from the building being destroyed.
38* '''Deconstructed''': Due to the amount of superhero vs. supervillain battles taking place in the city, businesses desparate to protect their assets, employees and affordable insurance premiums have relocated out of the city leading to a large number of vacant skyscrapers.
39* '''Reconstructed''': Regular business leave the city in droves, but the economy does just fine thanks to superhero tourism. Many empty buildings and piles of wreckage become instant tourist attractions because of being involved in some battle.
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41Back to ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding to survey the wreckage. Lucky no-one died.
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43%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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46%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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