History WMG / TheBurgerKing

Usually, the BrokenTears trope is associated with someone who has experienced a huge emotional trauma: A close friend or family member dies, they lose a job, their home, ... list goes on. But imagine if BrokenTears were shed for something not that important ... like a customer who orders his McDonalds hamburger without any pickles. So it is in a commercial that was part of Burger King's "your way, right away" campaign. A customer goes into a fast-food restaurant, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute suspiciously similar]] to [=McDonald's=] and orders a hamburger but doesn't want the pickles. Please hold the pickles. The background noise and chatter immediately become silent, and all the smiles and laughter turn into "Oh My God! What has just happened?" Pan to the cashier, who is dresses suspiciously similar to RonaldMcDonald! He immediately bursts into tears and with deep sobs, asks, "Why do you want your hamburger without any pickles???!!!???" And the deep sobs and BrokenTears continues, as the other clerks and everyone in the restaurant sits there either in disbelief or [[EverybodyCries acts like they want to cry]]. The customer looks disgusted and begins to leave, before the FadeToBlack and the words "Your way, right away (without the crying)" appear on the screen, then the then-current Burger King logo.

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[[WMG: The King is [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Hastur]] [[CthulhuMythos the Unspeakable]].]]

[[WMG: The King is [[TheKingInYellow Hastur]] [[CthulhuMythos the Unspeakable]].]]

[[WMG: The various looks of the king are actually different kings]]

[[WMG: The King is [[TheKingInYellow Hastur]] [[CthulhuMythos the Unspeakable]].

In the future, as the world gets more P.C., fast food restaurants continually get blamed for the fattening of America. [=McDonald's=], desperate to cleanse themselves of this image, completely revamp themselves, the board turns on Ronald [=McDonald=] in their anger, and ousts him from the company. But Ronald knows all the corporate secrets, so the restaurant's shareholders hire assassins to eliminate the clown, as well as the citizens of [=McDonaldland=]. Grimace, the Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, and most of the rest are killed in the ensuing holocaust. Although Ronald (and close ally Birdie) survives the assassination attempt, the experience leaves him severely scarred, both physically and mentally. He decides to create a new restaurant, one where he can be in charge again. He travels into the past and adopt a crude disguise of a plastic king mask, and begins to form his own franchise to counter his former restaurant, thus fulfilling the ancient Sumerian prophecy (circa 1950 BC) that "When a clown falls, a king shall rise." Birdie gets extensive plastic surgery, dyes her pigtails red and renames herself "Wendy", but that's another story...

[[WMG: The King wrote the song [[ProtonJon "What]] [[KnyttStories Is]] [[{{Nifflas}} Love?"]].]]
[[ProtonJon He did so while he was on fire.]]

In the future, as the world gets more P.C., fast food restaurants continually get blamed for the fattening of America. [=McDonald's=], desperate to cleanse themselves of this image, completely revamp themselves, the board turns on Ronald [=McDonald=] in their anger, and ousts him from the company. But Ronald knows all the corporate secrets, so the restaurant's shareholders hire assassins to eliminate the clown, as well as the citizens of [=McDonaldland=]. Grimace, the Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, and most of the rest are killed in the ensuing holocaust. Although Ronald (and close ally Birdie) survives the assassination attempt, the experience leaves him severely scarred, both physically and mentally. He decides to create a new restaurant, one where he can be in charge again. He travels into the past and adopt a crude disguise of a plastic king mask, and begins to form his own franchise to counter his former restaurant, thus fulfilling the ancient Sumerian prophecy (circa 1250 BC) that "When a clown falls, a king shall rise." Birdie gets extensive plastic surgery, dyes her pigtails red and renames herself "Wendy", but that's another story...

[[WMG: The King is [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer The First]].]]

[[ProtonJon He did so while he was on fire.]

* This also explains why there are multiple Kings, such as the Klingon King and the Cybertronian King; various people have sold their souls to him.

He did so while he was on fire.

[[WMG: The King is Ronald McDonald from a dystopian future]]
In the future, as the world gets more P.C., fast food restaurants continually get blamed for the fattening of America. McDonalds, desperate to cleanse themselves of this image, completely revamp themselves, the board turns on Ronald McDonald in their anger, and ousts him from the company. But Ronald knows all the corporate secrets, so the restaurant's shareholders hire assassins to eliminate the clown, as well as the citizens of McDonaldland. Grimace, the Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, and most of the rest are killed in the ensuing holocaust. Although Ronald (and close ally Birdie) survives the assassination attempt, the experience leaves him severely scarred, both physically and mentally. He decides to create a new restaurant, one where he can be in charge again. He travels into the past and adopt a crude disguise of a plastic king mask, and begins to form his own franchise to counter his former restaurant, thus fulfilling the ancient Sumerian prophecy (circa 1250 BC) that "When a clown falls, a king shall rise." Birdie gets extensive plastic surgery, dyes her pigtails red and renames herself "Wendy", but that's another story...

* Impossible. The Sumerian people were absorbed by their neighbors by the long before then. How could they possibly write a prophecy in 1250, hm?

Is if he was part [[DoctorWho weeping angel]].

Is if he was part weeping angel.