History PlayingWith / InsultFriendlyFire

** [[{{Jerkass}} Alice doesn't gives a damn if Alice is insulted too, and makes it clear]]. If Alice's insult also insults herself, she tries to wave if off as NWordPrivileges.

* '''Averted''': No insults apply to friends and enemies alike.

* '''Defied''': “I don’t care about your weight, but I do care about Carol’s feelings, so I’ll spare the jokes.”

** Alice assumes that the severely overweight Bob would take offense and the mildly pudgy Carol would not. She does not realize that Bob is apathetic to his weight, while Carol is deeply insecure about her's.
* '''Inverted''': Alice complements Bob, and it’s Carol who says thank you.
* '''Subverted''': “And I mean you too Carol!”
* '''Double Subverted''': “…Uhhh, sorry about that one Dave.”

** Alice can’t think on an insult that doesn’t apply to Carol in some way.
* '''Zig Zagged''': “Damn, Bob! You’re so fat you make Carol here look thin, and [[SelfDeprecation so dumb you make me look smart!”]]

* '''Defied''': “I don’t care about your weight but I do care about Carol’s feelings, so I’ll spare the jokes.”

* '''Conversed''': “Alice needs to check herself before she wrecks herself, or at least before Carol wrecks her...”

* '''Deconstructed''': The insult, and other likes it ruin Carol’s friendship with Alice, as it indicates what the former really feels about Carol’s life choices.

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** Bob is Alice’s brother and she just called him the son of a whore. There’s only one way that insult works.

** Alice ends up insulting herself as well…

* '''Zig Zagged''': “Damn, Bob! You’re so fat you make Carol here look thin, and [[SelfDeprecation so dumb you me look smart!”]]

** PresentCompanyExcluded.

* '''Exploited''': It’s used as part of a breaking speech by Bob, who uses it as evidence that Carols’ friends don’t like her.
* '''Defied''': “I don’t care about you weight but I do care about Carol’s feelings, so I’ll spare the jokes.”

* '''Downplayed''': Carol is HollywoodPudgy, while Bob is a FatBastard who can barley move. The insults are not that comparable.

'''Insult Friendly Fire''': A character insults someone, not realising it also applies to one of their friends.

* '''Exaggerated''': [[FiveTokenBand Alice manages to upset her friends one by one in the process of insulting Bob.]]

* '''Justified''': Alice didn’t even realise Carol was there.

* '''Parodied''': Alice keeps [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging herself deeper.]] [[InsultBackfire Bob is highly amused,]] [[InsultMisfire while Carol has curled into]] a TroubledFetalPosition.

* '''Zig Zagged''': “Damn, Bob! You’re so fat you make Carol here look thin, and [[SelfDepreciation so dumb you me look smart!”]]

* '''Lampshaded''': PresentCompanyExcluded.

* '''Invoked''': Alice is VitrolicBestBuds with Carol, and is gently ribbing her while majorly insulting Bob.

* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': Carol is HollywoodPudgy, while Bob is a FatBarstard who can barley move. The insults are not that comparable.

* '''Implied''': Don’t hear the insult, only the rections of both Bob and Carol.

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