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1'''Basic Trope''': An ad shows people doing reckless, bad, stupid or foolish things to get their product.
2* '''Straight''': An ad shows Alice running across train tracks to get a box of doughnuts.
3* '''Exaggerated''': In the ad, Alice runs across the train tracks, interrupts a surgeon, teases a lion and wrestles a shark just to get ''one'' doughnut.
4* '''Downplayed''': Alice plays hooky off work to get the box of doughnuts.
5* '''Justified''': Alice is TheDitz and doughnuts are her TrademarkFavouriteFood.
6* '''Inverted''': Alice does something sensible to get doughnuts in the ad.
7* '''Subverted''': It turns out that Alice running across the train tracks was AllJustADream.
8* '''Double Subverted''': But then she wakes up and sells her own house for a box of doughnuts.
9* '''Parodied''': ???
10* '''Zigzagged''': Alice tries several tricks to get the doughnuts, some of them are dumber than others.
11* '''Averted''': Alice just goes out and buys the doughnuts the normal way.
12* '''Enforced''': "We want to make the doughnuts seem so good, people would risk their lives to eat them."
13* '''Lampshaded''': "Why did I do that? I could've died! I'm better off hungry than ''dead''!"
14* '''Invoked''': ???
15* '''Exploited''': A villain tries to kill Alice by putting the doughnuts on the other side of the tracks.
16* '''Defied''': "These doughnuts are yummy, but don't risk your life over them."
17* '''Discussed''': "What would you do for a box of donuts?"
18* '''Conversed''': "Do these advertisers think that their products are worth losing your pride, brain, morality or ''life'' over?!"
19* '''Implied''': ???
20* '''Deconstructed''': Alice dies from being hit by the train.
21* '''Reconstructed''': She manages to zip back just before the train comes.
22* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
23* '''Played for Drama''': Alice ends up being hit by the train and gets seriously injured.
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