1 | '''Basic Trope''': A game mocks, taunts or otherwise insults the player. |
2 | * '''Straight''': If you fail a puzzle, an NPC appears on screen to laugh at you. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** If you so much as make a single mistake, the game dedicates a full fifteen seconds to throw several different insults at you before you can keep playing. |
5 | ** If you get a Game Over, [[GameOverMan an NPC appears on screen]] and [[TheDissTrack performs a full song about how the player sucks]]. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': The player character's partner appears on screen to mock you, but does so in a [[VitriolicBestBuds light hearted manner]] before encouraging you to solve the puzzle. |
7 | * '''Justified''': The NPC is a FourthWallObserver, and [[TheGadfly likes messing with the player]]. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** The game mocks or insults [[SelfDeprecation itself]]. |
10 | ** Whenever you solve a puzzle, the player character appears on screen to praise you. |
11 | ** The player mocks the game after effortlessly breezing through a level that was supposed to be very difficult. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': The NPC is revealed to have been laughing at a FunnyBackgroundEvent. |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': Then they notice you failed a puzzle and start laughing at you as well. |
14 | * '''Parodied''': The NPC is really bad at throwing insults, and ends up looking ridiculous by calling the player a BigStupidDoodooHead. |
15 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': ??? |
16 | * '''Averted''': The game doesn't mock the player. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': "People will really want to beat the game just to get this NPC to shut up". |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': [[AudienceWhatAudience "Who are you making fun of, Bob? I don't see anyone there".]] |
19 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
20 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
21 | * '''Defied''': Another NPC appears on screen to call out the initial NPC before they can start mocking the player. |
22 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
23 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
24 | * '''Implied''': The player character gets word that Bob has been making fun of some [Save file name] person as of late. |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
26 | * '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
27 | * '''Played for Laughs''': The NPC intentionally chooses insults that the player is likely to find ActuallyPrettyFunny. |
28 | * '''Played for Drama''': After the player loses a life to a boss, the BigBad appears on screen to laugh at the player and remind them of what will happen if they fail to save the day. |
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30 | Go back to TheComputerShallTauntYou, loser. |
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