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Something that seems relevant to this trope, but I’m not sure where to put it: it’s fairly common for HorrorComedy MusicalTheatre to involve a realistic or slightly-exaggerated villain who comes across as more cartoonish purely because of genre conventions. Thinking of police brutality in Theater/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals, domestic abuse in Theater/LittleShopOfHorrors, and predatory medical insurance in Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera - a common fandom joke I’ve heard about all of them is that they’re actually an improvement over their real-life equivalents, because [[PoesLaw their exaggerated actions]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic are more typical than you might think]] and [[MusicalWorldHypothesis at least the fictional characters do it while being amazing singers]]. (I’ve heard the more revival of \'\'Little Shop\'\' a few years ago deliberately made Orin’s abusiveness quieter and more sinister to clarify that it wasn’t meant to be funny.) I’m not sure if that might qualify as an invoked trope (or some other variant) here, or if it’s better discussed as another trope or a fan reaction.
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Something that seems relevant to this trope, but I’m not sure where to put it: it’s fairly common for HorrorComedy MusicalTheatre to involve a realistic or slightly-exaggerated villain who comes across as more cartoonish purely because of genre conventions. Thinking of police brutality in Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals, domestic abuse in Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors, and predatory medical insurance in Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera - a common fandom joke I’ve heard about all of them is that they’re actually an improvement over their real-life equivalents, because [[PoesLaw their exaggerated actions]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic are more typical than you might think]] and [[MusicalWorldHypothesis at least the fictional characters do it while being amazing singers]]. (I’ve heard the more revival of \\\'\\\'Little Shop\\\'\\\' a few years ago deliberately made Orin’s abusiveness quieter and more sinister to clarify that it wasn’t meant to be funny.) I’m not sure if that might qualify as an invoked trope (or some other variant) here, or if it’s better discussed as another trope or a fan reaction.
