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* '''Played for Horror''': Bob was trying to hide from a monster. [[SoMuchForStealth His cell phone goes off]]. The monster [[SoundtrackDissonance tears Bob apart]] with "Spanish Flea" (a.k.a. "Series/TheDatingGame"'s theme) as background music.

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Bob was trying to hide from a monster. [[SoMuchForStealth His cell phone goes off]]. The monster [[SoundtrackDissonance tears Bob apart]] with "Spanish Flea" (a.k.a. "Series/TheDatingGame"'s theme) as background music.music.
** Bob's embarrassing ringtone is [[ThoseWackyNazis an SS marching song]]. You can guess [[HeKnowsTooMuch what he does to people who hear it]].

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* '''Played For Drama''': The other characters bully Bob for having a disco ringtone.

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The other characters bully Bob for having a disco ringtone.
** It's pretty probable that the widower who insists he is moving on from his wife's death is lying if he kept "our song" as a
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** Bob (a successful businessman and humanitarian) is getting an award received through his anti-racism work, simulcasted on TV and Internet, when his cell phone goes off and it's an old hip-hop song [[MistakenForRacist with the singer yelling the N-word in a rapid-fire barrage that goes for way too long]].



** Bob (a successful businessman and humanitarian) is getting a Humanitarian of the Year award received through his anti-racism work, when his cell phone goes off and it's an old hip-hop song [[MistakenForRacist with the singer yelling the N-word in a rapid-fire barrage that goes for way too long]].
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** Bob (a successful businessman and humanitarian) is getting a Humanitarian of the Year award received through his anti-racism work, when his cell phone goes off and it's an old hip-hop song [[MistakenForRacist with the singer yelling the N-word in a rapid-fire barrage that goes for way too long]].

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* '''Double Subverted''': Doesn't stop the ringtone from being embarrassing on it's own.

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Doesn't stop the ringtone from being embarrassing on it's own.own.
** He will have plenty of reason to find it embarrassing after somebody who ([[TraumaButton for whatever reason]]) ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' hates that ringtone makes him spit all of his teeth.
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* '''Parodied''': Bob's embarrassing ringtone goes off in a disco art, and the DJ hears the tone and sees Bob's embarrassment. No sooner does he whip up a quick song using the ringtone, as it can be easily searched and downloaded.

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* '''Parodied''': Bob's embarrassing ringtone goes off in a disco art, disco, and the DJ hears the tone and sees Bob's embarrassment. No sooner does he whip up a quick song using the ringtone, as it can be easily searched and downloaded.
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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob's embarrassing ringtone goes off in a disco art, and the DJ hears the tone and sees Bob's embarrassment. No sooner does he whip up a quick song using the ringtone, as it can be easily searched and downloaded.
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** Bob is slightly embarrassed at the winding down ringtone reminding him that he forgot to charge the batteries. [[labelnote:question]] He's still using one of those bricks? Oh well, at least it's not a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC Motorola shoebox]][[/labelnote]]

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** Bob is slightly embarrassed at the winding down ringtone reminding him that he forgot to charge the batteries. [[labelnote:question]] He's still using one of those bricks? mini-bricks? Oh well, at least it's not a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC Motorola shoebox]][[/labelnote]]

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob gets slightly red when his disco ringtone goes off.

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Bob gets slightly red when his disco ringtone goes off. off.
** Bob is slightly embarrassed at the winding down ringtone reminding him that he forgot to charge the batteries. [[labelnote:question]] He's still using one of those bricks? Oh well, at least it's not a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC Motorola shoebox]][[/labelnote]]
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* '''Justified''': ???Bob forgot to set his phone to silent. As for why his ringtone is disco/[=AC/DC=]? He just likes that kind of music.
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* '''Played for Horror''': Bob was trying to hide from a monster. [[SoMuchForStealth His cell phone goes off]]. The monster [[SoundtrackDissonance tears Bob apart]] with "Highway to Hell" as background music.

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* '''Played for Horror''': Bob was trying to hide from a monster. [[SoMuchForStealth His cell phone goes off]]. The monster [[SoundtrackDissonance tears Bob apart]] with "Highway to Hell" "Spanish Flea" (a.k.a. "Series/TheDatingGame"'s theme) as background music.
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* '''Played for Horror''': Bob was trying to hide from a monster. [[SoMuchForStealth His cell phone goes off]]. The monster [[SoundtrackDissonance tears Bob apart]] with "Highway to Hell" as background music.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Double Subverted''': ???Doesn't stop the ringtone from being embarrassing on it's own.

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Added examples. Gave Bob some reasons to be proud of his ringtone.


* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] blushes and exits the room when his ringtone goes off in the middle of training, revealing that it's a disco song.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob and the rest of the TrueCompanions all get embarrassed by their ringtones for various reasons.

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[[TheHero Bob]] blushes and exits the room when his ringtone goes off in the middle of training, revealing that it's a disco song.
** Bob is at church when his phone starts blasting Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Highway to Hell".
** Bob is trying his best to appear cultured. Then his ringtone goes off, and it's a crappy pop song about [[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks butts]].
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Bob and the rest of the TrueCompanions all get embarrassed by their ringtones for various reasons. reasons.
** Bob is at a funeral when his phone starts blasting Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Highway to Hell".
** Bob is attending a memorial for Emperor Evulz's victims when his ringtone goes off, revealing that it is Evulz's VillainSong.



* '''Inverted''': Bob smiles proudly when his ringtone goes off during training.
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Bob smiles proudly uses a badass song as his ringtone, so he just feels empowered when his ringtone it goes off during training.training.
** Bob is a successful artist who uses his greatest hit as a ringtone, and smiles proudly whenever it goes off.

* '''Subverted''': ???It turns out that Bob was embarrassed not by the ringtone, but by the fact that his phone went off at all -- he was supposed to turn it off before the training started.



* '''Averted''': Nobody has cell phones.
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Nobody has cell phones.
** Everyone just uses a mundane default ringtone.
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It's a (questionable) form of musical ProductPlacement.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"A disco song as a ringtone? Really?"
* '''Invoked''': ???Alice steals Bob's phone and changes his ringtone to a crappy disco song to embarrass him.



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* '''Discussed''': ???

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Bob decides to use the default ringtone to avoid revealing that he's a DiscoDan.
* '''Discussed''': ???"Let's call Bob in the middle of his training. If we're lucky, he has a stupid ringtone that'll make it pretty embarrassing."



* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's ringtone goes off at church. It's an IntercourseWithYou song, and everyone but Bob knows that it's about sex.
* '''Played For Drama''': The other characters bully Bob for having a disco ringtone.



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'''Basic Trope''': A character's ringtone is about something that embarrasses them or is inappropriate to the situation.
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] blushes and exits the room when his ringtone goes off in the middle of training, revealing that it's a disco song.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob and the rest of the TrueCompanions all get embarrassed by their ringtones for various reasons.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob gets slightly red when his disco ringtone goes off.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Bob smiles proudly when his ringtone goes off during training.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''ZigZagged''': Bob's disco ringtone makes him blush when it goes off during training; Alice grins proudly at the sound of her ringtone and Charlie's ringtone is too basic to affect anyone either way.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Averted''': Nobody has cell phones.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
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