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Potemkin Village
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A character needs to build a town, fast. Maybe it's to make themselves seem important, or maybe they need to lay a trap for some unsuspecting victim. Unfortunately, they don't have the time nor the resources to make an actual town. The solution? Slap up some plywood billboards made to look like the fronts of buildings. As long as no one looks behind it, the illusion should be effective. For a version not as dependent on viewing angle, you could also slap up empty shell buildings made from cardboard or other cheap materials. It doesn't need to be structurally sound, it just needs to hold up long enough to fool whoever it needs to fool. Potemkin villages, according to a popular rumor, were supposedly an invention of a Russian minister, Grigory Potemkin, in which fake buildings were erected and filled with adoring crowds as the oblivious royal convoy went past, then torn down and rebuilt further ahead. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })These "villages" may be built for different reasons, but frequently for deceiving purposes: in a Crapsaccharine World, they're helpful for creating a falsely peaceful and idyllic atmosphere, hiding away unpleasant realities; they can be built as a trap to lure enemies or, conversely, as a tactical decoy, to distract them away from a crucial target; in time of war, this often turns out to be a rather useful military strategy. When they lack a deceptive purpose, they may be set up as a staging ground for simulations, trainings or experiments, with its occupants aware of the fictitious condition of the place. This makes them excellent Simulated Urban Combat Area or Deadly Training Area, if something has to be tested in an environment that resembles an actual inhabited place, but, for safety reason, there would better be no civilians around. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })A similar concept is Artificial Outdoors Display, although that tends to be used mostly for esthetic purposes with no deceptive intention. Do not confuse with Ghost Town or Ghost City, as they used to be actual functional living areas at some point, unlike Potemkin Villages which are built specifically for non-residential purposes. Although it may literally be a world made out of cardboard, do not confuse with "World of Cardboard" Speech. Nothing to do with the classic 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin, though the titular battleship was also named in honour of Grigory Potemkin. Examples: |
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Afterfall: Insanity: The player flees the underground vault, where most of the game takes place, to a city on the surface inhabited by mutants, but it turns out it's actually a fake city built inside an even larger vault. It was part of an experiment to study how the survivors would fare on the real surface, which is reached later in the game. | |
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The Truman Show: It's revealed that many of the buildings in the titular character's home town are nothing but empty façades. This makes sense in context since Truman lives inside a giant television studio. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: In a Deleted Scene, Pacha is making his way out of the palace when he walks into a room with a replica of his village. He then watches as Kuzco's guards attack it, as a run-through for when they level the real village to make room for the emperor's new summer home. | |
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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst: The Age of Ahnonay is an island with several other islands visible in the distance, some of which have buildings on them. When the player manages to calm the ocean currents and swim to them, however, they'll find that the buildings are just painted onto screens and, moreover, the islands and the sea around them are all part of a gigantic artificial sphere. | |
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DuckTales (2017): "The Town Where Everyone Was Nice" takes this trope Up to Eleven with an entire Brazilian town populated by fake people. They're puppets on the end of the tendrils of an intelligent, carnivorous plant. Turns out that it had invited Donald Duck's old band to be entertained so that the flower could eat them together with visiting tourists. | |
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The Interview plays with this trope with an apparently nice and well stocked supermarket in Pyongyang. Later in the movie, when Dave is stepping outside alone, he comes across it again and realizes that the "aisles" are merely wallpapers and the "food" in the basket is fake, made of plaster. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Rose's Room", Steven's attempt to leave the titular room just causes it to make a fake version of Beach City, one riddled with errors. The room's intent may have been accidental or deliberately deceptive to prove a point. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Allies can erect fake buildings to set up decoy bases and deceive enemy forces. | |
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Mother 3: New Pork City was built by the leader of the Pigmasks as a monument to their power. However, more than 99% of the buildings are plywood cutouts. | |
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Tintin: In the very first story, Tintin sees a group of English communists being shown Soviet factories that appear to be working at full speed. From where he is, he can see that the factories are façades with people burning wet straw and banging on sheet metal to make it look like the factories are running at all. | |
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Deltora Quest: The Ralad tribe build one of these in order to fake their extinction and thereby remain safe from the Evil Overlord. (Their real city is an elaborate underground complex.) It works like a charm, not least because the Ralads' hat is architecture. | |
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Blazing Saddles: The decoy version of Rock Ridge, built by the inhabitants of the real Rock Ridge as a trap for outlaws that are threatening their town. Its design is similar to a movie set for an Old Western street scene — plywood façades and nothing behind them. Things then take a sharply meta turn when in-universe it's revealed that it actually is a movie set when the fight spills out across the studio and into LA. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discussed but not used in "Swarm of the Century". Ponyville gets overrun with parasprites just before an official visit from Princess Celestia. When Twilight realizes she can't get rid of the infestation in time, she goes crazy from panic and suggests that they build an exact replica of Ponyville and trick Celestia into visiting that instead. | |
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Doctor Who: "Castrovalva" has this trope as its major plotline. Castrovalva looks and feels like a city, except it's a trap set by the Doctor's frenemy, the Master, in order to trap the Doctor, but it ends up turning on the Master. "Under the Lake"/"Before the Flood": The sunken village the Drum is built among the remains of is revealed in the second half of the story to have been a fake Russian town built to train British personnel in. |
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Mercenaries has the Propaganda Village at the southern end of the southern map. The "village" consists of "buildings" with only two sides and a roof so that they look like real buildings from the south. The game takes place in North Korea where this apparently Truth in Television. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: After the title character escapes from the warehouse, he comes upon a suburban neighborhood and goes in looking for help. In short order, he discovers the neighborhood is entirely populated by mannequins. A short time later, he realizes he's walked into a nuclear test site and that the test bomb is about to go off. | |
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