Basic Trope: A game mocks, taunts or otherwise insults the player.
- Straight: If you fail a puzzle, an NPC appears on screen to laugh at you.
- Exaggerated:
- 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.
- If you get a Game Over, an NPC appears on screen and performs a full song about how the player sucks.
- Downplayed: The player character's partner appears on screen to mock you, but does so in a light hearted manner before encouraging you to solve the puzzle.
- Justified: The NPC is a Fourth-Wall Observer, and likes messing with the player.
- Inverted:
- The game mocks or insults itself.
- Whenever you solve a puzzle, the player character appears on screen to praise you.
- The player mocks the game after effortlessly breezing through a level that was supposed to be very difficult.
- Subverted: The NPC is revealed to have been laughing at a Funny Background Event.
- Double Subverted: Then they notice you failed a puzzle and start laughing at you as well.
- Parodied: The NPC is really bad at throwing insults, and ends up looking ridiculous by calling the player a Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The game doesn't mock the player.
- Enforced: "People will really want to beat the game just to get this NPC to shut up".
- Lampshaded: "Who are you making fun of, Bob? I don't see anyone there".
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Another NPC appears on screen to call out the initial NPC before they can start mocking the player.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: The player character gets word that Bob has been making fun of some [Save file name] person as of late.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: The NPC intentionally chooses insults that the player is likely to find Actually Pretty Funny.
- Played for Drama: After the player loses a life to a boss, the Big Bad appears on screen to laugh at the player and remind them of what will happen if they fail to save the day.
Go back to The Computer Shall Taunt You, loser.
