Basic Trope: A character gets very worked up over a minor insult.
- Straight: During an argument, Alice calls Bob a "Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head". He starts crying and insisting that Alice apologizes.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is so distraught by the insult that he is Driven to Suicide, or alternatively kills Alice over it.
- Alice didn't even intend to insult Bob at all.
- Downplayed: Bob isn't necessarily that worked up, but does give a rather dramatic "You take that back!" to Alice.
- Justified: Bob Can't Take Criticism.
- Inverted: Alice takes directly to all of Bob's flaws and insecurities and very blatantly talks about how everyone hates him and he's going to die alone. He just shrugs it off.
- Subverted: Bob was acting dramatic to mess with Alice.
- Double Subverted: ..But he still found it rather offensive.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody reacts strongly to minor insults.
- No one gets insulted anyway.
- Enforced: "We need to give Bob a character flaw.... let's give him a Minor Insult Meltdown!"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice is deliberately insulting Bob to get him to have a Minor Insult Meltdown.
- Defied: Bob says nothing about it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Minor Insult Meltdown, where you can go apologize to the main trope for calling it that, it seems pretty upset.
