Line #24 PlayingWith/TheComputerShallTauntYou

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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.

Context PlayingWith / TheComputerShallTauntYou