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Basic Trope: Someone throws fruit and/or vegetables at the people they hate.

  • Straight: Alice and Bob throw fruit and vegetables at the Big Bad.
  • Exaggerated: Alice and Bob throw every type of plant in the world at the Big Bad.
  • Downplayed: Alice throws one banana at The Dragon.
  • Justified:
    • Alice and Bob want the Big Bad to give up, so they think throwing fruit and vegetables will discourage them.
    • For whatever reason, fruits and veggies are the only things they have to throw.
  • Inverted:
    • Confetti Drop.
    • Alice and Bob wear armor made of fruit and vegetables.
  • Subverted: Alice tries to throw an apple at the Big Bad, but Bob tells her to run away.
  • Double Suverted: She doesn't listen.
  • Parodied:
  • Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice and Bob throw fruit and vegetables at people they hate, other times not.
  • Averted: Nobody throws produce at anyone.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Whoa, enough with the throwing fruit and vegetables at me, already?"
  • Invoked: Carol is The Bully and sees Alice and Bob, and she has an apple in her hand, she aims for them.
  • Exploited: Homeless and hungry Dave goes around to collect all the vegetables and fruits that remain intact enough so that he can at least have something to eat for dinner.
  • Defied: "I am not going to waste perfectly good food!"
  • Discussed: Someone asks where they get all the fruit and vegetables.
  • Conversed: "Why do characters throw fruit and vegetables at people they hate?"
  • Deconstructed:
    • The fruits and/or vegetables people threw at someone they hated are eaten on purpose, and the throwers get called out for their behavior and/or get arrested for vandalism.
    • Someone is seriously injured by the thrown fruits and/or vegetable as a result of an unlucky shot or something hard and heavy like a coconut or squash being thrown
  • Implied: A villain is seen covered in fruit and vegetables.
  • Played for Laughs: They make puns like "Why are you so fruity?"
  • Played for Drama: Alice has Stage Fright, and worries people will throw fruit and vegetables at her if she does badly.
  • Played for Horror:
    • The Big Bad gets angry after he gets pelted and decides to pelt the two back and kill them.
    • Similarly, when a characters get pelted, they get so mad and humiliated, that they make fun of the audience, pelts them back, and kills them.

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