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* In the Website/GoAnimate "Grounded" videos, just about ''anything'' can result in someone getting grounded, arrested, or worse. Even just calling someone a rude name, littering, pulling a prank on a sibling, or even ''getting a math problem wrong'' can, and very much has, resulted in [[DisproportionateRetribution absurdly long]] [[YouAreGrounded grounding]] [[GroundedForever times]] or [[HumiliationConga Humiliation Congas]] in the form of (sometimes fatal) "Punishment Days".

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* In the Website/GoAnimate Platform/GoAnimate "Grounded" videos, just about ''anything'' can result in someone getting grounded, arrested, or worse. Even just calling someone a rude name, littering, pulling a prank on a sibling, or even ''getting a math problem wrong'' can, and very much has, resulted in [[DisproportionateRetribution absurdly long]] [[YouAreGrounded grounding]] [[GroundedForever times]] or [[HumiliationConga Humiliation Congas]] in the form of (sometimes fatal) "Punishment Days".
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* In ''ComicBook/ZiggyPigSillySealComics'', ComicBook/DoctorDoom had Ziggy Pig brought before him in the middle of the night for the unforgivable crime of breaking into Silly Seal's Facespace account and "unfriending" Doom.
-->"One does not unfriend Doom!"
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-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'''s "Dirty Fork Sketch"

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-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'''s "Dirty Fork Restaurant Sketch"
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-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'''s "Restaurant Sketch"

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-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'''s "Restaurant "Dirty Fork Sketch"
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* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': President Orion, the "tubby tyrant," makes it a capital offense to call him fat.

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* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': President Orion, the "tubby tyrant," tyrant", makes it a capital offense to call him fat.
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* ''Fanfic/OneForAllAndEightForTheNinth'': A hero tries to arrest some teens because they were ''watching a Gentle Criminal video'', claiming they were aiding and abetting a villain.
** Gentle Criminal and his crew, the Tea Spillers, are even marked as S-Class Villains just because they are revealing corruption schemes.
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* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'':
** Misaka-11111 calls out Eiko for using her power to steal from a soda machine. Eiko rolls her eyes and says it's not like she's ''killing'' anyone. 11111 notes to herself that the city authorities have historically been far more accepting of mass murder than petty theft.
** When Misaka-11111 forgets her lunch, she thinks she's going to starve to death and bugs the rest of the Network for help. Once she's annoyed them enough, Misaka-10032 throws some sandwiches over the fence for her. But she ate one and a half of the sandwiches first, which 11111 complains about for the rest of the fic.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual
* AndThatsTerrible
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking
* ComicalOverreacting
* DeliberateValuesDissonance

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* AllCrimesAreEqual
AllCrimesAreEqual: Even the most minor crimes have extreme punishments.
* AndThatsTerrible
AndThatsTerrible: When a work states that something is bad without saying why.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking
ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Listing a list of bad things, but the last one is the least worst.
* ComicalOverreacting
ComicalOverreacting: A character overreacts to something as a gag.
* DeliberateValuesDissonanceDeliberateValuesDissonance: A different culture is deliberately played as immoral compared to the writer's culture.



* EasyRoadToHell
* EverythingIsRacist
* EvilIsPetty

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* EasyRoadToHell
EasyRoadToHell: A character is sent to {{Hell}} over something very minor.
* EverythingIsRacist
EverythingIsRacist: A character who routinely mistakes blatantly non-bigoted things as bigoted.
* EvilIsPettyEvilIsPetty: A villain is not just evil, they're mean in mundane ways too.



* GroundedForever
* InformedWrongness
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse
* LoonyLaws
* LostFoodGrievance

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* GroundedForever
GroundedForever: A ridiculously-long [[YouAreGrounded grounding]].
* InformedWrongness
InformedWrongness: A YMMV page for when the audience disagrees with the author's claim that a character was in the wrong.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife
JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: A character is punished horribly for a minor crime.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse
LawOfDisproportionateResponse: Characters who routinely deal with all kinds of crazy stuff, but lose it over something minor.
* LoonyLaws
LoonyLaws: Something bizarre is illegal.
* LostFoodGrievanceLostFoodGrievance: A character becomes very sad or angry over lost food.



* PokeThePoodle
* PoliticalOvercorrectness

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* PokeThePoodle
PokeThePoodle: An "evil" act that's ludicrously minor.
* PoliticalOvercorrectnessPoliticalOvercorrectness: A character tries too hard to be PC.



* SillyReasonForWar
* TrivialTragedy

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* SillyReasonForWar
SillyReasonForWar: Characters war over something bizarre.
* TrivialTragedy
TrivialTragedy: A character is ridiculously sad over something minor.

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* SillyReasonForWar
* TrivialTragedy
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* DisproportionateRetribution

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* DisproportionateRetributionDisproportionateRetribution: A harsh punishment for minor offenses.



* FauxHorrific

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* FauxHorrificFauxHorrific: Fearing over something mildly intimidating.
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* MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld: People react to a slip-up with understanding and forgiveness.
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** "Don't Download This Song" mocks the DigitalPiracyIsEvil message (making it a type 3).

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** [[Music/StraightOuttaLynwood "Don't Download This Song" Song"]] mocks the DigitalPiracyIsEvil message (making it a type 3).



** Also by Weird Al, the narrators of "Young, Dumb and Ugly" [[PokeThePoodle treat their]] ''[[PokeThePoodle own]]'' [[PokeThePoodle actions like this]].

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** Also by Weird Al, the narrators of [[Music/{{Alapalooza}} "Young, Dumb and Ugly" Ugly"]] [[PokeThePoodle treat their]] ''[[PokeThePoodle own]]'' [[PokeThePoodle actions like this]].
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* In ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'', Al gets arrested for lewd behavior when, during a drunken bender in front of 20,000 concertgoers, he suddenly whips out... his accordion. And no, that's not a [[UnusualEuphemism euphemism]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'':
** The Rivera family react to seeing a Mariachi player offer to let Miguel play his guitar with the same horror and protective outrage as if he was street dealer offering the kid drugs, and they chase him away just as ferociously.
** Héctor's arrest charges include "falsifying a unibrow".
--->'''Héctor:''' That's illegal?
--->'''Officer:''' Very illegal.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': In a flashback set in the tyrannical Genasi Empire, a palace representative threatens to seize a noblewoman's entire estate when she doesn't answer the door quickly enough.
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** Also by Weird Al, the narrators of "Young, Dumb and Ugly" [[PokeThePoodle treat their ''own'' actions like this]].

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** Also by Weird Al, the narrators of "Young, Dumb and Ugly" [[PokeThePoodle treat their ''own'' their]] ''[[PokeThePoodle own]]'' [[PokeThePoodle actions like this]].
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* In his opening number, Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}} threatens to kill anyone in the audience whose cell phone goes off during the performance.
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--> You see, Group W is where they put you if you may not be ''moral'' enough to join the US Army and burn women, kids, houses and villages after committing your ''special crime'' ...\\
Furthermore, the mother-rapers, father-stabbers, and father-rapers on the group W bench all move away from him in disgust when he admits he was in for littering.

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--> You see, Group W is where they put you if you may not be ''moral'' enough to join the US Army and burn women, kids, houses and villages after committing your ''special crime'' ...\\
crime'' ...
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Furthermore, the mother-rapers, father-stabbers, and father-rapers on the group W bench all move away from him [[EvenEvilHasStandards in disgust disgust]] when he admits he was in for littering.
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* ''Webcomic/BakeryEnemies'': While Marinette is [[ExhaustionInducedIdiocy going on two days with minimal sleep]], she thinks Adrien is pure evil for violating labor laws. The violation in question being that he himself is working unpaid overtime.

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# '''Writers use ValuesDissonance for [[PlayedForDrama dramatic effect]].''' This is common in {{Dystopia}}s, police states, HistoricalFiction, and cults. But it can also be used to make organizations look like this when they aren't, like with [[MarySuetopia Straw Dystopias]]. But thanks to ValuesDissonance, this is often about [[TruthInTelevision real cultures]] from the past or present.

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# '''Writers use ValuesDissonance for [[PlayedForDrama dramatic effect]].''' This is common in {{Dystopia}}s, police states, HistoricalFiction, and cults. But it can also be used to make organizations look like this when they aren't, like with [[MarySuetopia Straw Dystopias]].{{Dystopia}}s. But thanks to ValuesDissonance, this is often about [[TruthInTelevision real cultures]] from the past or present.
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* The ''ComicBook/HellBoy'' short story "Pancakes" involves a young Hellboy being convinced by his human father to eat Pancakes. Hellboy decides he likes them. The end, except the Princes of Hell are shown lamenting this momentous turn of events, declaring Hellboy "lost to them now."
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* Limefrost Spiral in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' develops a grudge towards Leviathan. Why? Because the Reploid dive-bombed a swimming pool while Limefrost was trying to sunbathe close by.

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