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* '''Exploited''': A [[TotallyNotACriminalFront criminal front]] discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
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* '''Exploited''': A [[TotallyNotACriminalFront criminal front]] front discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
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* '''Invoked''': The BadGuyBar is a [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub front for illegal operations]], and instructs their brewery to intentionally make the beer taste bad so that they can keep casual customers away.
* '''Exploited''': A LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
* '''Exploited''': A LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
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* '''Invoked''': The BadGuyBar is a [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub [[TotallyNotACriminalFront front for illegal operations]], and instructs their brewery to intentionally make the beer taste bad so that they can keep casual customers away.
* '''Exploited''': ALegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub [[TotallyNotACriminalFront criminal front]] discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bad Guy Beer is cheap and kind of bad.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bad Guy Beer is cheap and kind of bad, but not "it tastes like piss" levels of bad.
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** Bad Guy Beer, the beer served at the local BadGuyBar, tastes bad.
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** Bad Guy Beer, the beer served at the local BadGuyBar, tastes bad.like piss.
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** Bad Guy Beer appeals to a very small niche of people who can actually stomach that crap.
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** Alice drinks a bottle of urine disguised as Bad Guy Beer and thinks it is an improvement.
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** Bad Guy Beer is quite literally moose piss.
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** The reason Bad Guy Beer tastes bad? To mask the taste of poison if the bar ever wants/needs to kill a customer.
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** The reason Bad Guy Beer tastes bad? To bad is to mask the taste of poison if the bar ever wants/needs to kill a customer.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Another brewery finds out that it can get away with selling awful beer if it's cheap (which at least makes it appeal to people who just want to get drunk).
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* '''Reconstructed''': Another The brewery finds out that it can get away with selling awful beer if it's cheap (which at least makes it appeal to people who just want to get drunk).
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** Bad Guy Beer tastes so awful most characters vomit after a sip or two.
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** Bad Guy Beer tastes so awful that most characters vomit after a sip or two.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': The brewery that makes Bad Guy Beer is very inconsistent: sometimes the beer is delicious, sometimes it's passable, and sometimes it's awful.
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'''Basic Trope''': An alcoholic drink -- usually beer -- that tastes bad (or has no flavour).
* '''Straight''':
** Bad Guy Beer, the beer served at the local BadGuyBar, tastes bad.
** Bad Guy Beer is almost flavourless.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bad Guy Beer is so terrible that actual moose urine tastes better.
** Bad Guy Beer tastes so awful most characters vomit after a sip or two.
** Bad Guy Beer has no flavour whatsoever.
* '''Downplayed''': Bad Guy Beer is cheap and kind of bad.
* '''Justified''':
** Bad Guy Beer is a cheap, crappy beer. It's still on the market because it appeals to people who just want to get drunk for as cheap as possible.
** Bad Guy Beer is the result of a LethalChef trying to make beer.
* '''Inverted''': Bad Guy Beer is so delicious that it always causes {{Beergasm}}s.
* '''Subverted''': Alice complains about the taste of Bad Guy Beer, but she turns out to be the kind of person who thinks ''all'' beer tastes bad.
* '''Double Subverted''': In the case of Bad Guy Beer, everyone agrees with Alice that it tastes bad.
* '''Parodied''':
** Bad Guy Beer is literally carbonated urine.
** Bad Guy Beer is just carbonated water with brown food colouring.
** The BadGuyBar only offers beer "for rent". (It looks like urine, tastes like urine, and quickly comes out as urine...)
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': Bad Guy Beer tastes just fine.
* '''Enforced''': The executives forced the writers to portray alcohol in a negative light. If all the beer in the work is shown to taste bad, will the young audience still be tempted to try it?
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "This bar doesn't serve anything drinkable. I'm surprised it's still in business."
** "Bad Guy Beer. More like Bad Beer."
* '''Invoked''': The BadGuyBar is a [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub front for illegal operations]], and instructs their brewery to intentionally make the beer taste bad so that they can keep casual customers away.
* '''Exploited''': A LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
* '''Defied''': The brewery behind Bad Guy Beer notices the horrible reception of its products and tries to improve them.
* '''Discussed''': "That bar looks shabby. I bet the beer tastes like urine or warm water."
* '''Conversed''': "Why does so much beer in fiction taste awful?"
* '''Implied''': Bob orders a glass of Bad Guy Beer. Even though he's thirsty, he doesn't finish it.
* '''Deconstructed''': The brewery goes out of business because no one wants to buy the awful Bad Guy Beer.
* '''Reconstructed''': Another brewery finds out that it can get away with selling awful beer if it's cheap (which at least makes it appeal to people who just want to get drunk).
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bad Guy Beer is so bad that the characters like to prank each other by secretly replacing good beer with Bad Guy Beer.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** The reason Bad Guy Beer tastes bad? To mask the taste of poison if the bar ever wants/needs to kill a customer.
** The work is about Bob's struggle to run a brewery. He's sympathetic and wants to offer a good product, but struggles to make anything that's even drinkable...
* '''Played for Horror''': Bob drinks some Bad Guy Beer and complains that it tastes even worse than usual. He find out too late that it's because the beer was laced with a bitter poison/drug, and now a horrifying death awaits him...
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* '''Straight''':
** Bad Guy Beer, the beer served at the local BadGuyBar, tastes bad.
** Bad Guy Beer is almost flavourless.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bad Guy Beer is so terrible that actual moose urine tastes better.
** Bad Guy Beer tastes so awful most characters vomit after a sip or two.
** Bad Guy Beer has no flavour whatsoever.
* '''Downplayed''': Bad Guy Beer is cheap and kind of bad.
* '''Justified''':
** Bad Guy Beer is a cheap, crappy beer. It's still on the market because it appeals to people who just want to get drunk for as cheap as possible.
** Bad Guy Beer is the result of a LethalChef trying to make beer.
* '''Inverted''': Bad Guy Beer is so delicious that it always causes {{Beergasm}}s.
* '''Subverted''': Alice complains about the taste of Bad Guy Beer, but she turns out to be the kind of person who thinks ''all'' beer tastes bad.
* '''Double Subverted''': In the case of Bad Guy Beer, everyone agrees with Alice that it tastes bad.
* '''Parodied''':
** Bad Guy Beer is literally carbonated urine.
** Bad Guy Beer is just carbonated water with brown food colouring.
** The BadGuyBar only offers beer "for rent". (It looks like urine, tastes like urine, and quickly comes out as urine...)
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': Bad Guy Beer tastes just fine.
* '''Enforced''': The executives forced the writers to portray alcohol in a negative light. If all the beer in the work is shown to taste bad, will the young audience still be tempted to try it?
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "This bar doesn't serve anything drinkable. I'm surprised it's still in business."
** "Bad Guy Beer. More like Bad Beer."
* '''Invoked''': The BadGuyBar is a [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub front for illegal operations]], and instructs their brewery to intentionally make the beer taste bad so that they can keep casual customers away.
* '''Exploited''': A LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub discovers an awful brand named Bad Guy Beer, and decides to exclusively serve it in order to keep casual customers away.
* '''Defied''': The brewery behind Bad Guy Beer notices the horrible reception of its products and tries to improve them.
* '''Discussed''': "That bar looks shabby. I bet the beer tastes like urine or warm water."
* '''Conversed''': "Why does so much beer in fiction taste awful?"
* '''Implied''': Bob orders a glass of Bad Guy Beer. Even though he's thirsty, he doesn't finish it.
* '''Deconstructed''': The brewery goes out of business because no one wants to buy the awful Bad Guy Beer.
* '''Reconstructed''': Another brewery finds out that it can get away with selling awful beer if it's cheap (which at least makes it appeal to people who just want to get drunk).
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bad Guy Beer is so bad that the characters like to prank each other by secretly replacing good beer with Bad Guy Beer.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** The reason Bad Guy Beer tastes bad? To mask the taste of poison if the bar ever wants/needs to kill a customer.
** The work is about Bob's struggle to run a brewery. He's sympathetic and wants to offer a good product, but struggles to make anything that's even drinkable...
* '''Played for Horror''': Bob drinks some Bad Guy Beer and complains that it tastes even worse than usual. He find out too late that it's because the beer was laced with a bitter poison/drug, and now a horrifying death awaits him...
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