Basic Trope: A comment that comes off as more insulting than what was intended.
- Straight: Danny jokingly asks his friend Charlie "Who dropped you as a kid?" when he does something irresponsible, only to find out that Charlie had Abusive Parents and that he really was dropped when he was younger. Danny decides to apologize.
- Exaggerated:
- Innocently Insensitive - Danny didn't even intend to say anything insulting in the slightest, but still offended Charlie anyway.
- Danny accidentally presses all of Charlie's trauma buttons when trying to make a light insulting joke.
- Downplayed:
- Charlie simply asks Danny not to ask him that question because he nearly had a rather hard fall when he was younger and doesn't like to think about it.
- Charlie isn't necessarily offended, but Danny realizes That Came Out Wrong when he says it.
- Justified: Danny had no idea that Charlie would feel upset by his statement.
- Inverted:
- Insult Backfire.
- Danny's comment to Charlie is understood to be insulting by those who know Danny's life and what Danny is referencing, but Charlie doesn't have that context.
- Danny compliments Charlie's piece of artwork, who considers it to be high praise given Charlie painted it himself.
- Subverted: Charlie is revealed to have made up the story about his abusive parents.
- Double Subverted: Still, he doesn't like that Danny insinuated that he was dropped on the head as a kid.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No insults come off as harsher than they were intended.
- Enforced: To set up a conflict.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Danny chooses his words more carefully to avoid offending anyone.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to More Insulting than Intended, you idiot- sorry, I didn't mean it like that.
