'''Basic Trope''': Bad media is treated as traumatizing or even physically injuring.
* '''Straight''': ''Tropers: TheMovie'' is a horrible movie that causes Alice psychological pain and traumatizes her when she sees it.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice ends up having an aneurysm from the abysmal quality of the movie, which in turn causes her to suffer a seizure not five minutes into the movie and end up hospitalized.
** ''Tropers'' causes Alice's head to [[YourHeadAsplode explode]] after the first horrible pun.
** ''Tropers'' is ''so'' terrible that it causes Alice to GoMadFromTheRevelation and [[TransformationTrauma undergo a slow, hideous, agonizing metamorphosis]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath before violently exploding]], as well as the summoning of an EldritchAbomination.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is disgusted by the movie to the point of vomiting, but not actually physically injured.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice's sensation of illness has been unintentionally triggered by a subconscious Pavlovian response, as the images in the movie instinctively remind her of a traumatic event.
** ''Tropers'' contain scenes that are just plain [[{{Squick}} icky]].
** ''Tropers'' was [[HauntedTechnology cursed]].
** Or the viewers were {{curse}}d to feel sick or pain when they watch a bad movie.
* '''Inverted''':
** ''Tropers'' is such a [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome great movie]] that it cures Alice's illness.
** ''Tropers'' is such a [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome great movie]] it causes anyone who views it to have a spontaneous orgasm.
** A more downplayed inversion: ''Tropers'' is so good a movie, it makes the viewers feel like they're getting a massage.
** ''Tropers'' is so awesome, people who watch it hear a thousand angels singing.
** ''Tropers'' is so awesome, anyone who watches it [[AwesomenessIsVolatile explodes violently]].
* '''Subverted''':
** It wasn't the movie -- the theater was filling with poisonous gas from a terrorist plot.
** Alternatively: The pain is in Alice's stomach, because [[SoBadItsGood the movie is so unintentionally hilarious]] that she's nearly died laughing.
* '''Double Subverted''': Actually, the gas was an accident. The movie, swapped with a decent one, was [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment the terrorists' actual weapon]].
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice is so traumatized that she becomes a gibbering wreck whenever anyone even says the word "movie", much to her friends' confusion.
** Masochists like the movie.
** ''Tropers'' is threatened to be used as torture, making anybody who hears the threat surrender.
** A dictatorial regime employs forced viewings of ''Tropers'' as a means of executing dissidents, noting it to be a cheaper and more efficient way to kill people than a firing squad.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ''Tropers'' causes Alice to fluctuate between extreme psychological pain and extreme psychological pleasure.
* '''Averted''': ''Tropers'' merely depresses Alice briefly before she forgets about it.
* '''Enforced''':
** The author includes ''Tropers'' which is actually a parody of another horrible work.
** Or ''Tropers'' is that horrible piece of work.
* '''Lampshaded''': [[NoInnerFourthWall "Hey! You in the audience! Are you feeling it yet?]] [[ToThePain Well, you will be]] -- [[OhCrap from now on]] [[DreadfulMusician this shall be a musical!"]]
* '''Invoked''': Weapons designers hired somebody who had never made a movie before to create a MindRape device in the form of a movie.
* '''Exploited''': A villain steals a copy of ''Tropers'' and broadcasts it around the world to MindRape mankind.
* '''Defied''':
** Alice takes an aspirin before watching ''Tropers''.
** Alice makes a point of not watching ''Tropers'' because she heard it was awful.
* '''Discussed''': "Wouldn't that movie cause people inside it to turn into a sea of vomit?"
* '''Conversed''': "Ah, movies. Useful as instruments of torture."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** ''Tropers'' was created by the government as a weapon of torture. It's a double-edged sword -- the cast and crew all suffered physical and psychological harm by making it.
** Alice's extreme reaction is a sign of some mental health problem. After all, it's just a movie.
* '''Reconstructed''': ''Tropers'' was created by [[StarfishAliens beings]] with very different concepts of what makes a good movie, who can therefore watch it safely. They just hadn't considered its effect on humans.
* '''Implied''': Alice watched ''Tropers'' offscreen and has a blank, ThousandYardStare in her first appearance after she saw it.
* '''Played for Laughs''':
** Alice's reaction to watching ''Tropers'' is [[ComicalOverreacting so over-the-top it makes the people around her burst out laughing]].
** ''Tropers'' is the newest InUniverse project [[TakeThat of a memetically bad director]] such as Creator/UweBoll. The moment the characters hear who directed it, which is [[NowYouTellMe when they have their butts in the theater seats]], [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they know they're doomed]].
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%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???