Basic Trope: A character decides not to fix the problems of a society.
- Straight:
- Victor decides to abandon Troperville and let the people there to suffer and die for all that he cares.
- Louise decides that trying to make Troperville better is an impossible task, and decides to burn it to the ground in hopes whatever comes after will be better.
- Exaggerated:
- Victor decides to abandon the world and allow it to plunge into darkness.
- Louise plans to remake the universe to her specifications, as she can't imagine any other way.
- Downplayed: Victor decides not to fix problems of a part of Troperville.
- Justified:
- Victor had plans to better the world through extreme acts, but finds out that the problems stay the same and has to leave Troperville.
- The people grew worse than usual, and Victor, putting on his Jade-Colored Glasses, decides to give up changing Troperville.
- Inverted: Victor is initially neutral to the conflicts of Troperville, but witnesses a good deed and decides to get involved to save Troperville.
- Victor decides that the town doesn't need saving.
- Formerly villainous Victor decides to leave Troperville he went to seeking redemption because he sees it as incapable of fixing him.
- Subverted: Victor wishes to leave Troperville... to retrieve some things needed to improve conditions.
- Double Subverted: Seeing that the task is too cumbersome for him, Victor abandons Troperville for good.
- Parodied: After Victor gets framed for a crime, Troperville's citizens become an Angry Mob, burning down Victor's house, murdering Victor's family, and start to jaywalk way more often. The citizens' jaywalking convinces Victor that Troperville doesn't deserve saving.
- Zig Zagged: Victor's solution is mixed and can be said to have both saved and destroyed the town in different senses - he has drained the evil from the people of the excuse for a town and put it into the land itself making it a wasteland. The now good people burn what remains of the town and depart to atone for their past misdeeds.
- Averted:
- Victor refuses to give up to save and change society.
- Troperville has no significant problems that aren't addressed satisfactorily by existing authorities.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded:
- "Victor, any reason why you're making your way to the exit?"
- "And here's our resident nihilist claiming the town is no longer suitable for saving. Did you really try to do something about it, man?"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz convinces Victor that Troperville is problematic and that he should give up.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Just because things are getting worse doesn't mean that I should give up on Troperville."
- Discussed:Victor: Troperville is horrible and should be allowed to die.
Louise: What gives you the right to decide who should and shouldn't be saved? - Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Victor leaving Troperville to die costs him the respect and admiration from his allies and the citizens who label him as a coward for giving up too easily.
- Reconstructed:
- The citizens of Troperville end up causing their own downfall even as they blame Victor for it, and Victor, realizing that Troperville isn't the only city on his planet, decides to spend his efforts protecting and supporting other cities that can appreciate and improve from Victor's help more than Troperville ever could.
- Victor rethinks his decision on abandoning Troperville, becoming a low-profile vigilante that looks out for the few citizens of Troperville who really deserve the help. Troperville as a whole may be beyond saving, but that doesn't mean everyone in Troperville is necessarily beyond saving either.
- Played For Drama: Victor sees that Troperville becomes worse no matter how many times he tries to make it better. After leaving it, Victor gets called out by his friends for giving up hope, but Victor doesn't listen and crosses the Despair Event Horizon and is Driven to Suicide.
Back to It Is Beyond Saving
