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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs.
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap, and urges its viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store and kill every worker who works there.

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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults Alice And and Bob's Pizza and Subs.
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A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And and Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap, and urges its viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store and kill every worker who works there.there.
** The commercial outright lies about Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs.



* '''Justified''': Tyrone Victor Tropington, the company's founder, has a personal vendetta against Alice and Bob, and made it his life's mission to destroy their business.
* '''Inverted''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults their own food, and says that their customers should eat at Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs, instead.

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* '''Justified''': Tyrone Victor Tropington, the company's founder, has a personal vendetta against Alice and Bob, and made it his life's mission to destroy their business.
* '''Inverted''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults their own food, and says that their customers should eat at Alice And and Bob's Pizza and Subs, instead.



* '''Implied''': "They said some NASTY stuff about Alice And Bob's in that commercial.

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* '''Implied''': "They said some NASTY stuff about Alice And and Bob's in that commercial."
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'''Basic Trope''': A company's advertisement insults that company's competitor(s).

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'''Basic Trope''': A company's advertisement insults [[TakeThat insults]] that company's competitor(s).
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* '''Subverted''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???[[OurProductSucks Tropington's Pizza is a fiction created for advertisements of Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap and urges its viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store.

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* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap crap, and urges its viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store.store and kill every worker who works there.



* '''Deconstructed''': The negativity from Tropington's Pizza puts them off, and they decide to go to Alice and Bob's, instead.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The negativity from Tropington's Pizza puts them off, is bashed for its insults, and they decide all the customers who frequent Tropington's Pizza begin to go to frequent Alice and Bob's, Bob's Pizza and Subs instead.



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%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap and urges tits viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store.

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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs
Subs.
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap and urges tits its viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store.

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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults {{Alice And Bob}}'s Pizza Delivery.
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap.

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* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults {{Alice Alice And Bob}}'s Bob's Pizza Delivery.
and Subs
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap.crap and urges tits viewers to burn down every Alice and Bob's Pizza and Subs store.



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"So now insulting competitors is good now, huh?"



* '''Defied''': "Why do we have to insult our competitors food? Can't we just tell people how good '''OUR''' food is?"

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* '''Defied''': "Why do we have to insult our competitors competitor's food? Can't we just tell people how good '''OUR''' food is?"



* '''Deconstructed''': The negativity from Tropington's Pizza puts off, and they decide to go to Alice and Bob's, instead.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The negativity from Tropington's Pizza puts them off, and they decide to go to Alice and Bob's, instead.



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* '''Implied''': "They said some NASTY stuff about Alice And Bob's in that commercial.
* '''Deconstructed''': The negativity from Tropington's Pizza puts off, and they decide to go to Alice and Bob's, instead.



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'''Basic Trope''': A company's advertisement insults that company's competitor(s).
* '''Straight''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults {{Alice And Bob}}'s Pizza Delivery.
* '''Exaggerated''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insinuates Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs serves literal crap.
* '''Downplayed''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial says that its food is superior to the food served at Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs.
* '''Justified''': Tyrone Victor Tropington, the company's founder, has a personal vendetta against Alice and Bob, and made it his life's mission to destroy their business.
* '''Inverted''': A Tropington's Pizza commercial insults their own food, and says that their customers should eat at Alice And Bob's Pizza and Subs, instead.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': All companies focus on making quality products rather than stooping to negative advertising.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "Why do we have to insult our competitors food? Can't we just tell people how good '''OUR''' food is?"
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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