Basic Trope: A character is tired of life in a dull rural area.
- Straight: Alice hates living in dreary Tropeville (population 5,000), and longs for an exciting life in the big city.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice despises her life in Tropeville, a tiny village home to thirty people, six chickens, and a goat.
- Most of the inhabitants of Tropeville are constantly bored out of their minds and wish they could be living anywhere else.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't mind living in Tropeville (population 50,000), but occasionally feels her life could be a bit more interesting.
- Justified:
- Alice is an extroverted, sociable teenager, and there are exactly two other residents of Tropeville under thirty. One is a Jerkass who can't stand her, and the other is a baby.
- Alice is a hyperintelligent Teen Genius, and Tropeville is so small that there's nobody she can have an interesting conversation with in the town, nor any sort of academic or intellectual challenge to engage her.
- Tropeville's town council is dominated by stuffy Moral Guardians who ban practically any form of entertainment.
- Inverted: Big Town Boredom.
- Subverted: Alice leaves Tropeville for Tropopolis. As soon as she discovers exactly what life in the city is like, she flees back to Tropeville as fast as possible.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice loves her life in Tropeville — she personally knows most of the residents, and enjoys living amidst the beautiful and peaceful countryside.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Defied: ???
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Implied:
- Deconstructed: So many people leave Tropeville that it becomes a crumbling Ghost Town.
- Reconstructed:
- Played For Laughs:
- Played For Drama:
- Alice is easily captivated by a roguishly handsome outlaw who passes through the town with his tales of adventure, and decides to join him in his life of crime.
- Alice is more-or-less being held captive in Tropeville by her Abusive Parents, abusive partner, and/or a Cult.
- Played For Horror: Alice is the sole White Sheep in a village of evil hicks. But until she can find some way to escape, she's forced to engage in the murder/torture/cannibalism of travellers so as not to raise any suspicions.
"Ugh, there's absolutely nothing to do around here. What I wouldn't give to take a trip to the main page..."
