Basic Trope: An Eastern/Central European Fantasy Counterpart Culture is a land of Gothic Horror
- Played Straight: Tropesylvania is a vaguely Germanic country filled with vampires, werewolves, ghosts and mad scientists.
- Exaggerated: Tropesylvania is Germany in all but name and has more monsters than people.
- Downplayed: Tropesylvania is clearly Eastern European, but doesn't have many more monsters than any other place in the setting
- Justified: Tropesylvania’s backwardness and superstition makes it an ideal hunting ground for the supernatural.
- Inverted: Tropesylvania is the only region in the setting without monsters.
- Subverted: Alice visits a spooky castle in the mountains, presided over by Count Bob, dressed in black. He does not fear crosses, hates blood and loves garlic...
- Double Subverted: Because he’s not a vampire. He’s a werewolf.
- Parodied:
- Tropesylvanian accents are completely impossible to understand, noblemen are required to be a monster of some kind and locals can sign up to a "Be eaten by the Things That Go "Bump" in the Night TODAY!" program.
- Everything supernatural and gothic in Tropesylvania is faked with actors and special effects to entertain the tourists. The vampire count is a Fake Aristocrat, and the werewolves are wearing rubber and faux-fur suits. The Mad Scientist is actually a scientist, though — he has to pay off his college debt somehow.
- Invoked: A vampire deliberately suppresses modern technology in order to make Tropesylvania like this.
- Exploited: Monsters hide in Tropesylvania because the ignorance and superstition makes the locals easy prey.
- Enforced: Diese Fernsehsendung wurde von Nachtbuilde unter der Reihenfolge von ZDF produziert. translation
- Lampshaded: "Why is every Ruritania infested with monsters!?"
- Discussed: "These kinds of places are so isolated that monsters hide in them a lot."
- Defied: During World War II werewolves and vampires were rendered extinct by the militaries of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union respectively for being subhuman filth and literal blood-sucking aristocrats, also respectively. Any place which looks the part is either using the castle as a tourist attraction if they have plenty of traffic or for storage otherwise.
- Conversed: "Haven't you seen one of those old Hammer Horror movies where all monsters come from some place Eastern European?"
- Deconstructed: The skewed predator-to-prey relationships cause humans to be wiped out in Tropesylvania.
- The humans get sick of being trodden down by the supernatural and sharpen unused bits of wood, melt down old silver, stock up on crucifixes and break out the Torches and Pitchforks.
- Tropesylvania never even made it to the renaissance under vampiric rulers, let alone Frankenstein time frames. Being walking unholy blasphemies lead to simultaneous Crusades and Jihads being declared on them as Christians and Muslims both agree that those abominations need to be slain.
- Reconstructed: This makes Tropesylvania a favorite hunting ground for monster hunters because they don`t have to worry about collateral damage.
- Averted: No Eastern European-esque countries appear, haunted or otherwise.
