Basic Trope: An area that's mostly safe by day gets more dangerous at night.
- Straight: Trope Meadow is perfectly safe during the day, but at night dangerous monsters come out.
- Exaggerated: The Trope Meadow is incredibly idyllic during the day, but at night the very air is known to make people drop dead.
- Downplayed:
- The Trope Meadow is actually pretty dangerous no matter the time of day, but it's still considered safer to go there during the day than at night, as you can at least see the monsters then.
- Trope Meadow advertises itself as a pretty nice place, but at night, the streets are littered with more hoodlums than Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Detroit combined.
- Justified:
- Most monsters native to the Trope Meadow happen to be nocturnal.
- Since it's dark, it's a lot harder to see dangers than it is during the day.
- Inverted: Dangerous monsters come out during the day in the Trope Meadow, but at night they all go to sleep and it's safe to come out.
- Subverted: The Trope Meadow is believed to be safer during the day, but it turns out that it's still dangerous then.
- Double Subverted: ...But the most dangerous things still only come out at night.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Different monsters come out at different times in different parts of the Trope Meadow, so safety depends on where you are at different times of day.
- Averted: The Trope Meadow stays the same level of safe or dangerous no matter the time of day.
- Enforced:
- The writers wanted to give a reason why you don't see any friendly NPCs at night.
- The work is a documentary or historical drama based on a real place where this trope was demonstrated, such as the sundown towns
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- Lampshaded: "Should've known this place would get dangerous after dark."
- Invoked: Alice and Bob decide to stick around the Trope Meadow overnight to see how dangerous it gets.
- Exploited: An invading army is tricked by the locals into making camp in the Trope Meadow at night, in hopes that the dangerous monsters will kill them all before they reach their village.
- Defied: Alice and Bob make sure they're somewhere safe by nightfall.
- Discussed: "Why do all the monsters only come out at night?" "Beats me."
- Conversed: "Lots of videogames tend to have the most dangerous monsters come out at night."
- Implied: As it approaches dusk on the Trope Meadow, people start getting nervous and begin to leave, and the cries of monsters start filling the air.
- Played For Drama: The people of a nearby village come by the Trope Meadow to collect resources, but have to move quickly lest they're caught by monsters at night. One day, a person is left there after dark and must survive till morning, constantly attacked by monsters.
- Untwisted: Alice and Bob are used to night being a time when monsters don't come out despite the beliefs of people in the other places they've visited, only for the Trope Meadow to be the exception to that rule.
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