Basic Trope: A place that suddenly gets major influence and status in-story.
- Straight: Kleintown, a rather small town with a very minor economical and political influence, becomes the centre of its responding region or the whole country of Troperitania overnight.
- Exaggerated: Kleintown, a tiny place where nothing notable happened before somehow gets to be the capital of a Space-Filling Empire, One World Order, or even an Interstellar Empire.
- Downplayed:
- Averageburg, a not-so-small town housing a few important factories and holding marginal political prominence, gets to be a major city of Troperitania (though not a capital).
- Aliens in Cardiff
- Justified:
- Kleintown undergoes a really big economic boom (due to Unobtanium mining, or a unique industry which happens to be in high demand), so its importance gradually grows.
- Troperitania is at war with neighboring West-Uberwald, and the government moves to Kleintown because the actual capital is dangerously close to frontline or is already taken by enemy.
- Kleintown's political insignificance made it seem the most neutral site for hosting an international/-planetary/-galactic organization.
- Inverted: The City is reduced to a Dying Town after a disaster, a massacre following its conquering or years of economic recession.
- Subverted: It turns out that Kleintown had been a prominent city (or even the capital!) of Ancient Troperitania.
- Double Subverted: That was a lie made up by amateur 'historians' who were taken seriously.
- Parodied: Kleintown, which was depicted as containing just a single shack beforehand, instantly transforms into a major sprawling metropolis literally a minute after a politician declares it the new capital.
- Zig Zagged: Kleintown becomes a provisional capital and seat of the government during the war with West-Uberwald. But when the war (and restoration of the actual capital) is over, the authorities move back there. Soon, however, when Unobtanium is found near Kleintown...
- Averted: Kleintown has always been a major city, or has never been.
- Enforced:
- Author Appeal and/or Creator Provincialism.
- The programmers of the 4X game set no 'arbitrary' limits on what town can be made Capitol, so as to let the player (try to) pull off Crazy Enough to Work strategies.
- Lampshaded: "It's like this place sprouted up like a weed overnight."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Kleintown is destroyed in the very event that they have the opportunity to rise to this, along with basically the entirety of Troperitania.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: After 2355 all encyclopedic Kleintown entries were A-Class, but from its founding date of 1255 to then it only garnered footnote entries.
Did you also notice how greatly your quite sleepy hometown changed while you were away?
