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Man of the City

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Man of the City	type	TVTItem
Man of the City	label	Man of the City
Man of the City	page	ManOfTheCity
Man of the City	comment	A city is a living organism. It grows, it flourishes and, sometimes, it gets sick and dies. The Man Of The City will not allow that to happen. Though not Always Male, the Man Of The City is a character whose entire purpose in life is to ensure the well-being of a city. For some reason, perhaps altruistic, perhaps sinister, this character has a vested interest in the well-being of the citizens and the quality of the infrastructure. This type of person may sometimes use illegal means to ensure that the city is in order, and he might be ruthless enough to make sure that any unwanted elements in his city leave at best and are buried in a shallow grave at worst, but it's still with the city's best interests in mind (gentrification on their own terms, in other words). The city is the Man's home, and woe unto anyone who commits offense against it. Expect them to give a "No More Holding Back" Speech about why they love that city. "City" can also refer to a small town or county. As long as it's an individual all-encompassing area, this trope applies. When the city's best interests are secondary or ignored, it's either I Own This Town, which happened by Taking Over the Town, or outright Villainous Gentrification.
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Man of the City / int_1045c71a	type	Dying Town
Man of the City / int_1045c71a	comment	Mayor Wappler collects an annual salary of less than $1,000 for his work as the mayor and the city's mail is forwarded to his barbershop. He is also the first person to grasp that Eagle Rock can enter the tobacco cold turkey contest and revitalize the Dying Town with the $25,000,000 prize, even though he's a heavy smoker and going cold turkey will be hard for him. He plays a decent role in rallying people to sing the pledge and enforcing the tobacco ban without being tyrannical. He does get caught up in the showmanship and media circus of the contest and has some self-interested moments (like wanting to spend some of the money on a proper city hall despite the difficulty making a good budget), but manages to seem Only Sane by Comparison next to everyone else.
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Man of the City / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Man of the City / int_23015b1f	comment	Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of the City of Ankh-Morpork. He may be a scheming, conniving Magnificent Bastard, but he's Ankh-Morpork's scheming, conniving magnificent bastard. The novels have actually shown that, when he somehow loses his position, the city starts to fall apart.
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Man of the City / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Man of the City / int_970c790a	comment	Ironically enough, the Big Bad of the game, Crawford Starrick, is this. When the Bank of England's Governor is assassinated, he raises his workers' pay in an attempt to counteract the inflation that follows said assassination, while wishing to do the same to all of London.
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Man of the City / int_9cdb5ec5	type	Genre Anthology
Man of the City / int_9cdb5ec5	comment	The western Genre Anthology "Ghost Towns" features such a character as the protagonist of the story "The Ghost of Two Forks'' He starts out trying to help his town get a railroad stop to boost the economy through various impassioned means. When this fails and his neighbors are gradually forced to leave, he won't leave and spends the rest of his life as The Hermit. This is due to feeling that as long as the town has one person living in it, it isn't officially dead. When he finally dies, a cowboy friend of his makes it seem as if his ghost is still there so the town will become a tourist attraction and will still endure in some form.
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Man of the City / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Man of the City / int_c145f69b	comment	Lex Luthor is a mild subversion: he does genuinely care for Metropolis, and has served as its benefactor in myriad ways. He gives its citizens jobs, organizes charities for the city's welfare and has constructed various important landmarks, including reconstructing Metropolis whenever a supervillain has a field day with the infrastructure. However, he'd be more than willing to personally slit every Metropolis citizen's throat if it furthered his vendetta against Superman.
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Man of the City / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Man of the City / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Just try to commit a crime in Mega-City One, and face the long arm (and explosive side-arm) of Judge Dredd. He is the law, after all.
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ILoveThisTown	seeAlso	Man of the City
Man of the City	hasFeature	Recruited from the Gutter / int_542dc9d0
Man of the City	hasFeature	The City / int_542dc9d0

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