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Basic Trope: A character breaks the fourth wall by chastising the audience for enjoying something they shouldn't.

  • Straight: Amazing Girl calls out the audience for enjoying the violence Emperor Evulz brings forth in her comic book series.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed:
    • Amazing Girl pleads with the audience to stop enjoying the violence and sexual themes of her comic book series.
    • The fourth wall tongue lashing is rather vague at who it is aimed at, either the audience or the author.
  • Justified: The series is an anti-violence Author Tract made by a disgruntled author who finds the genre/setting they're deconstructing morally reprehensible.
  • Inverted:
  • Subverted: Amazing Girl calls out the readers... actually, she's calling out her sidekick for staring at her.
  • Double Subverted: Said sidekick is representative of the audience: a fat, lazy, no-good nerd manchild who devotes all his time to useless trivia and not doing anything except enjoying puerile stories meant for kids.
  • Parodied: Amazing Girl is a shrill harpy who bashes on the audience for... not brushing their teeth, liking things other people don't like (specifically, things she and the "author" don't like), and is generally a gigantic, moralizing, sanctimonious elitist.
  • Zig Zagged: Amazing Girl's issues swerve between reveling in the violence and calling the reader out for it.
  • Averted: Violence is played straight.
  • Enforced: The author had took the Moral Guardians' advice, and in the next episode, he has Amazing Girl point out the things the audiences has been enjoying.
  • Lampshaded: "Oh, the writer wants to make us look bad, eh?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Feeling that the audience might stop watching his show, the author doesn't use Amazing Girl to chastise the audience for enjoying the immorality in the series.
  • Discussed: "Is this going to be another story where the author gets angry at us for liking what he's writing?"
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: The audience doesn't appreciate being scolded or talked down to, so they start bashing the Amazing Girl comic books in turn for being "so preachy and demeaning" to its target audience. Essentially, the audience is giving the author a massive "screw you" for being so sanctimonious and hypocritical. As a result, they stop buying Amazing Girl comic books and the publisher loses so much money, that it goes bankrupt and closes down.

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