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** Alice was really looking forward to eating the food.
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** "[[WasItWorthIt You're going to lose everything you worked for over a $2 cupcake!]] Are you happy?" Alice stops her rampage completely… or just long enough to decide that yeah, she wanted that cupcake ''[[WorthIt this]]'' bad enough.

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** "[[WasItWorthIt "[[WasItReallyWorthIt You're going to lose everything you worked for over a $2 cupcake!]] Are you happy?" Alice [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stops her rampage completely… completely]]… or just long enough to decide that yeah, she wanted that cupcake ''[[WorthIt this]]'' bad enough.enough (or she wanted to kick Bob's ass ''this'' bad enough, and the cupcake was as good enough of an excuse as any).

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* '''Played for Drama''': Alice actually becomes violent or depressed.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Drama''':
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Alice actually becomes violent or depressed.depressed.
** "[[WasItWorthIt You're going to lose everything you worked for over a $2 cupcake!]] Are you happy?" Alice stops her rampage completely… or just long enough to decide that yeah, she wanted that cupcake ''[[WorthIt this]]'' bad enough.
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** Alice's standard response to people stealing her cupcakes includes copious amounts of gunfire, attempted murder, and standoffs with the police.

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** Alice's standard response to people stealing her cupcakes includes [[DisproportionateRetribution copious amounts of gunfire, attempted murder, and standoffs with the police.]]
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* '''Enforced''':

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* '''Enforced''':'''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny
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** Alice has a StressEating habit, so when Bob took Alice's food away, her stress had no release and quickly [[RageBreakingPoint transformed into rage]].

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** Alice has a StressEating [[ComfortFood stress eating]] habit, so when Bob took Alice's food away, her stress had no release and quickly [[RageBreakingPoint transformed into rage]].

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** Bob's been eating Alice's cupcakes a lot [[RageBreakingPoint and she's sick of it]].

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** Bob's [[{{Jerkass}} Bob's]] been eating Alice's cupcakes [[RunningGag a lot lot]], [[RageBreakingPoint and she's sick of it]].


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** Alice has a StressEating habit, so when Bob took Alice's food away, her stress had no release and quickly [[RageBreakingPoint transformed into rage]].


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** Alice's food was incredibly expensive and took effort to acquire (for further [[YankTheDogsChain chain-yanking]], it may even have been some kind of limited-edition item that Alice can only enjoy a limited number of times in her lifetime, if not once). She is understandably Not Happy that her efforts to get the damn thing just [[AllForNothing turned into a waste]].
** The piece of food had high sentimental value (ex. made by Alice's children).
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** Alice has had a very bad day, and having nothing to eat doesn't helps.

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** Alice has had a very bad day, and having nothing to eat doesn't helps.help.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice just mutters angrily under her breath.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Alice just mutters angrily under her breath.breath.
** Bob doesn't necessarily render the cupcake ''inedible'', but does put some ingredients on it that Alice doesn't like. She gets rather upset, but can possibly pick the ingredients off.
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** Alice hasn't eaten in days.

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** Alice hasn't eaten in days.over a week and is literally starving, while Bob is not.
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** Alice hasn't eaten in days.
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** Alice's response to having her cupcakes stolen is to [[DrivenToSuicide run into heavy traffic]].
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* '''Reconstructed''':'''Reconstructed''': The cast is [[Film/{{Alive}} stuck in a remote valley in the Andes, starving to death]] and that cupcake Bob just rendered utterly inedible was the only food that remained. Alice has a very good reason to flip her lid.
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** "Do you have any idea of [[ImpliedDeathThreat what I'm going to do to you]] if you try to kick my ass over a fucking cupcake, uh, Alice?"

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** "Do you have any idea of [[ImpliedDeathThreat what I'm going to do to you]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil if you try to kick my ass over a fucking cupcake, cupcake]], uh, Alice?"
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** "Do you have any idea of [[ImpliedDeathThreat what I'm going to do to you]] if you try to kick my ass over a fucking cupcake, uh, Alice?"

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is usually extremely happy-go-lucky and hard to offend, but when Bob eats her cupcake, she gets so angry that she [[FlippingTheTable flips the table]] and starts [[TantrumThrowing throwing random objects around]].

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Alice is usually extremely happy-go-lucky and hard to offend, but when Bob eats her cupcake, she gets so angry that she [[FlippingTheTable flips the table]] and starts [[TantrumThrowing throwing random objects around]].around]].
** Alice's standard response to people stealing her cupcakes includes copious amounts of gunfire, attempted murder, and standoffs with the police.



** Bob's been eating Alice's cupcakes a lot and she's sick of it.

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** Bob's been eating Alice's cupcakes a lot [[RageBreakingPoint and she's sick of it.it]].



** Bob is Alice's SitcomArchNemesis and taking her cupcake is just one more attack in his campaign to bully and annoy her.
** Alice has had a very bad day, and having nothing to eat doesn't helps.



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* '''Deconstructed''':'''Deconstructed''': The standard way this trope presents itself (violence or the threat of it) is DisproportionateRetribution no matter what. People have a good reason to think Alice is insane.
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* '''Played for Horror'': Alice doesn't just goes violent -- she makes the news as yet another story of a mad person that kills dozens in a merciless massacre before being taken down by the police.

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* '''Played for Horror'': Horror''': Alice doesn't just goes violent -- she makes the news as yet another story of a mad person that kills dozens in a merciless massacre before being taken down by the police.
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* '''Played for Horror'': Alice doesn't just goes violent -- she makes the news as yet another story of a mad person that kills dozens in a merciless massacre before being taken down by the police.
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* '''Parodied''':'''Parodied''': Bob eats Alice's cupcake, Alice attempts to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill Bob]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is usually extremely happy-go-lucky and hard to offend, but when Bob eats her cupcake, she gets so angry that she does a TableFlip and starts throwing random objects around.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is usually extremely happy-go-lucky and hard to offend, but when Bob eats her cupcake, she gets so angry that she does a TableFlip [[FlippingTheTable flips the table]] and starts [[TantrumThrowing throwing random objects around.around]].
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone has an over-the-top negative reaction when somebody else steals their food or renders it inedible.
* '''Straight''': Alice is about to eat a cupcake, but Bob eats it. This causes Alice to yell at him in an extremely aggro manner.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is usually extremely happy-go-lucky and hard to offend, but when Bob eats her cupcake, she gets so angry that she does a TableFlip and starts throwing random objects around.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice just mutters angrily under her breath.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is a toddler.
** Alice has a HairTriggerTemper.
** Bob's been eating Alice's cupcakes a lot and she's sick of it.
** Alice was extremely hungry, so she's "hangry".
** Alice is drunk or high or whatever, so she isn't thinking straight.
* '''Inverted''': When Bob gives her a cupcake, Alice acts extremely happy like she's won the lottery.
* '''Subverted''': Alice does an angry face and opens her mouth to speak, but decides not to say anything.
* '''Double Subverted''': She still gives Bob a DeathGlare.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Alice flips between sad, angry and apathetic about Bob stealing her cupcake.
* '''Averted''':
** Alice does not overreact to Bob stealing her cupcake.
** Alice gets to eat her cupcake.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "Jeez, all that over a cupcake?!"
* '''Invoked''': Bob steals Alice's cupcake [[TheGadfly just to anger her.]]
* '''Exploited''': Bob does this to distract Alice.
* '''Defied''':
** Alice refuses to get too emotional.
** Bob decides not to steal Alice's cupcake for fear of angering her.
* '''Discussed''': "I don't want to steal from her, she might flip her lid!".
* '''Conversed''': "Why did that character go crazy like that over just one cupcake?!"
* '''Implied''': The first scene has Alice preparing to eat the cupcake and Bob looking at it hungrily, the second scene has her angrily chasing him around.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': The episode begins with Bob eating Alice's cupcake and throughout the episode there's a RunningGag of Alice being mad at Bob for that reason.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice actually becomes violent or depressed.
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