History Main / AdDissonance

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* ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper: Quartz Zone Massacre'' - The opening scene is a Nort propaganda video boasting about how much the Southers have been beaten. At the end of the scene, the camera pans out to show the TV is lying in the middle of a battlefield in which the Norts were creamed.

* ''RogueTrooper: Quartz Zone Massacre'' - The opening scene is a Nort propaganda video boasting about how much the Southers have been beaten. At the end of the scene, the camera pans out to show the TV is lying in the middle of a battlefield in which the Norts were creamed.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}'' does this with holographic billboards on Earth, and uses them to detail the movie's backstory. Pixar then took it UpToEleven by giving Buy-N-Large it's own functional website, which expands on said backstory and is packed with black humor/social commentary worthy of TheOnion.

* The publicity ad for Shell Beach in ''Film/DarkCity.'' It is one of the few happy and bright images in the entire movie, where the city is [[CaptainObvious dark]] and run down. It gets truly dissonant because while the main character and his uncle remember growing up and living there, no one knows how to get there. Turns out [[spoiler: the [[RealityWarper reality warping]] aliens have implanted FakeMemories of the place in everyone, ''it never existed!'']]

* Modern [[TheNewRussia Russia]] ''IS'' this trope.
** Has anyone else seen the {{DVD}}s you can get of old Russian propaganda cartoons? Try watching "Plus Electrification Now" while also picturing Russia of the 70s. Ouch.
** Turning propaganda into HypocriticalHumor this way became a canonical part of the RussianHumour.
---> A kindergarten teacher expounds on how cool it is to live in Soviet Union. One of kids starts to cry.
---> '''governess''': What's up, Vovochka?
---> '''kid''': I want to go to Soviet Unio-o-on!
* As long as we're talking about a real life section, North Korea beats Russia, [[http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/218-koreas-dark-half hands]] [[strike:[[http://www.filination.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-peek-into-north-korea/ down]]]] [[http://www.north-korea-travel.com/north-korea-information.html raised in salute to the wise leader Kim Jong Il!]]

* ''PenniesFromHeaven'' is all about this trope, starring Steven Martin and Bernadette Peters, in a comedy about how during the Depression, movies just portrayed everyone as rich, happy-- and DANCING.

* The various posters in ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}''. The special edition of ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}'' even comes with some print outs of them [[spoiler: with hidden messages printed in UV ink on the front]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VnIrXmdYhY Used with depressing effectiveness]] in ''ChildrenOfMen''.
* This was the trailer for the third ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie.

* AufWiedersehenPet featured this in its first title sequence with one of the characters walking towards the dole office in front of Satchi & Satchis famous 'Labour isn't working' poster.

[[TheGreatDepression http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/standing-in-line-for-free-food-bread-line_1135.jpg]]

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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Armageddon Factor" opens with a PatrioticFervor speech between young lovers that turns out to be a soap opera being shown on a war ravaged world.
* AufWiedersehenPet featured this in its first title sequence with one of the characters walking towards the dole office in front of Satchi & Satchis famous 'Labour isn't working' poster.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' adventure ''Double Exposure''. One illustration had a billboard for Project Hope, with a happy family and the words "The Bravest Future". Under the billboard some Project Hope goons are giving a man a bloody beating.

* The various posters in ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}''. The special edition of ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}'' even comes with some print outs of them [[spoiler: with hidden messages printed in UV ink on the front]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is madly in love with this trope.

* The publicity ad for Shell Beach in ''DarkCity.'' It is one of the few happy and bright images in the entire movie, where the city is [[CaptainObvious dark]] and run down. It gets truly dissonant because while the main character and his uncle remember growing up and living there, no one knows how to get there. Turns out [[spoiler: the [[RealityWarper reality warping]] aliens have implanted FakeMemories of the place in everyone, ''it never existed!'']]

* As long as we're talking about a real life section, North Korea beats Russia, [[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/218-koreas-dark-half/ hands]] [[strike:[[http://www.filination.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-peek-into-north-korea/ down]]]] [[http://www.north-korea-travel.com/north-korea-information.html raised in salute to the wise leader Kim Jong Il!]]

* This was the trailer for the third ''ResidentEvil'' movie.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is madly in love with this trope.

* ''WallE'' does this with holographic billboards on Earth, and uses them to detail the movie's backstory. Pixar then took it UpToEleven by giving Buy-N-Large it's own functional website, which expands on said backstory and is packed with black humor/social commentary worthy of TheOnion.

* ''{{Shadowrun}}'' adventure ''Double Exposure''. One illustration had a billboard for Project Hope, with a happy family and the words "The Bravest Future". Under the billboard some Project Hope goons are giving a man a bloody beating.

* The various posters in ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}''. The speacial edition of ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}'' even comes with some print outs of them [[spoiler: with hidden messages printed in UV ink on the front]].

* The various posters in ''{{Bioshock}}''. The speacial edition of ''Bioshock 2'' even comes with some print outs of them [[spoiler: with hidden messages printed in UV ink on the front]].

* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series is madly in love with this trope.

* ''{{Borderlands}}'', especially in the areas added by Secret Armory of General Knoxx has optimistic, 20's style billboards advertising settlement on [[DeathWorld Pandora]].

* The ''DoctorWho'' serial "The Armageddon Factor" opens with a PatrioticFervor speech between young lovers that turns out to be a soap opera being shown on a war ravaged world.

* AufWidersehenPet featured this in its first title sequence with one of the characters walking towards the dole office in front of Satchi & Satchis famous 'Labour isn't working' poster.

The ad will (almost) ALWAYS be for the MegaCorp that caused the whole mess in the first place, especially if this is a CyberPunk work.