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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her lawyer is confused as to why the system has prosecuted seemingly minor property damage as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building. Adding onto those, the explosion also caused debris to fall and claim the lives of 15 more people outside the apartment building, the fact that the apartment building's already poor and unstable foundation to fall and crumble, claiming an extra 30 lives of the inhabitants of the apartment building, as well as 38 more bystanders, the neighboring nuclear powerplant getting hit with some of the debris and going into a meltdown before exploding, claiming well over a thousand lives of the workers in that powerplant, and tens of thousands more in the vicinity (pretty much taking the entire neighborhood out), and now her lawyer is confused as to why the system had informed him that Alice was prosecuted for seemingly minor property damage as a felony, and not, y'know, ''the thousands of lives she accidentally claimed and the neighborhood she just wiped off the map''.

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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her lawyer is confused as to why the system has prosecuted seemingly minor property damage as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building. Adding onto those, the explosion also caused debris to fall and claim the lives of 15 more people outside the apartment building, the fact that the apartment building's already poor and unstable foundation to fall and crumble, claiming an extra 30 lives of the inhabitants of the apartment building, as well as 38 more bystanders, the neighboring nuclear powerplant getting hit with some of the debris and going into a meltdown before exploding, claiming well over a thousand lives of the workers in that powerplant, and tens of thousands more in the vicinity (pretty much taking the entire neighborhood out), and now her lawyer is confused as to why the system had informed him that Alice was prosecuted for [[SkewedPriorities seemingly minor property damage as a felony, felony]], and not, y'know, ''the thousands of lives she accidentally claimed and the neighborhood she just wiped off the map''.
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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her lawyer is confused as to why the system has prosecuted seemingly minor property damage as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building.

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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her lawyer is confused as to why the system has prosecuted seemingly minor property damage as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building. Adding onto those, the explosion also caused debris to fall and claim the lives of 15 more people outside the apartment building, the fact that the apartment building's already poor and unstable foundation to fall and crumble, claiming an extra 30 lives of the inhabitants of the apartment building, as well as 38 more bystanders, the neighboring nuclear powerplant getting hit with some of the debris and going into a meltdown before exploding, claiming well over a thousand lives of the workers in that powerplant, and tens of thousands more in the vicinity (pretty much taking the entire neighborhood out), and now her lawyer is confused as to why the system had informed him that Alice was prosecuted for seemingly minor property damage as a felony, and not, y'know, ''the thousands of lives she accidentally claimed and the neighborhood she just wiped off the map''.

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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her defendant is confused as to why seemingly minor property damage is getting charged as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building.

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** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her defendant lawyer is confused as to why the system has prosecuted seemingly minor property damage is getting charged as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building.



** The clock is never tampered with.
** Alice electrocutes Bob with a charged broken cord so that Bob knows full well that she had nothing but malicious Intent.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want the conflict to be introduced with BaitAndSwitch joke to keep a comedic tone.
* '''Lampshaded''':

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** The clock is never tampered with.
Nobody tampers with the clock.
** Alice electrocutes Bob with a charged broken cord cord, so that Bob knows full well that she had nothing but malicious Intent.
intent.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want Introducing the conflict to be introduced with a BaitAndSwitch joke to keep keeps a comedic tone.
* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':



'''Charlie:''' That seems like DisproportionateRetribution... I'm sensing this is worse than just changing the wakeup sound.

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'''Charlie:''' That seems like DisproportionateRetribution...DisproportionateRetribution ... I'm sensing this is worse than just changing the wakeup sound.



* '''Discussed''': "Bob is late for work. Alice tampered with the clock again, killing 56 and injuring 3."
* '''Conversed''':

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* '''Discussed''': "Bob is late for work. Alice tampered with the clock again, killing 56 fifty-six and injuring 3.three."
* '''Conversed''': '''Conversed''':



'''Chad:''' Yeah, she [[SarcasmMode only]] made a surgeon late and [[LeftForDead caused multiple patients to die from their wounds]]. Please use more than 1 braincell while speaking.

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'''Chad:''' '''Darla:''' Yeah, she [[SarcasmMode only]] made a surgeon late and [[LeftForDead caused multiple patients to die from their wounds]]. Please use more than 1 braincell one brain cell while speaking.speaking.
* '''Implied''': Alice is shown doing something with Bob's alarm clock. The next morning, Bob is in a dire state: ashy-faced with his hair on end. The narrative lets us fill in the chain of events.



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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Subverted''': Bob accuses Alice of tampering with his alarm clock. When she claims it was a harmless prank, Bob pauses, face reddening...and says it was bad enough.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob accuses Alice of tampering with his alarm clock. When she claims it was a harmless prank, Bob pauses, face reddening... and says it was bad enough.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice gets an award for fighting [[LittlestCancerPatient childhood cancer]].... [[MoralEventHorizon by killing all of the patients]].

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* '''Parodied''': Alice gets an award got on the news for fighting [[LittlestCancerPatient childhood cancer]].... [[MoralEventHorizon by killing all of the patients]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob goes on adding extra information for several minutes, each revelation making things worse.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
**
Bob goes on adding extra information for several minutes, each revelation making things worse. worse.
** Alice is arrested for the tampering. Her defendant is confused as to why seemingly minor property damage is getting charged as a felony. The prosecutor shows footage of the [[StuffBlowingUp alarm clock exploding]] and killing Bob along with 27 other people in the apartment building.



* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???
Alice gets an award for fighting [[LittlestCancerPatient childhood cancer]].... [[MoralEventHorizon by killing all of the patients]].
* '''Averted''': ???
'''Averted''':
** The clock is never tampered with.
** Alice electrocutes Bob with a charged broken cord so that Bob knows full well that she had nothing but malicious Intent.
* '''Enforced''': ???The writers want the conflict to be introduced with BaitAndSwitch joke to keep a comedic tone.



* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???
Alice makes the alarm clock explode in an attempt to injure Bob and then play it off as a prank to save face.
* '''Exploited''': ???Alice commits horrific crimes and disguises them [[FelonyMisdemeanor as minor ones]] so that the police don't go out of their way to arrest her.



* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???
"Bob is late for work. Alice tampered with the clock again, killing 56 and injuring 3."
* '''Conversed''': ???'''Conversed''':
-->'''Eric:''' We should still invite Alice, tampering with a clock is not that big of a sin.\\
'''Chad:''' Yeah, she [[SarcasmMode only]] made a surgeon late and [[LeftForDead caused multiple patients to die from their wounds]]. Please use more than 1 braincell while speaking.
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-->'''Bob''': Alice messed with my alarm clock. I'm gonna kill her!
-->'''Charlie''': That seems like DisproportionateRetribution... I'm sensing this is worse than just changing the wakeup sound.

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-->'''Bob''': -->'''Bob:''' Alice messed with my alarm clock. I'm gonna kill her!
-->'''Charlie''':
her!\\
'''Charlie:'''
That seems like DisproportionateRetribution... I'm sensing this is worse than just changing the wakeup sound.



Alright, who connected the link to a different page...On Website/TheOtherWiki?

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Alright, who connected the link to a different page...On on Website/TheOtherWiki?
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Alright, who connected the link to a different page...On Wiki/TheOtherWiki?

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Alright, who connected the link to a different page...On Wiki/TheOtherWiki?Website/TheOtherWiki?

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* '''Double Subverted''':

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* '''Double Subverted''': Bob then points out that Alice [[LaxativePrank also added Turbo-Lax to his morning diet shake]] and the actual reason he arrived late was because he had to get his stomach pumped.



* '''Defied''': Bob outright accuses Alice of everything straight away.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
**
Bob outright accuses Alice of everything straight away.away.
** Bob's debriefing of whatever bad things Alice has done to him is delivered with the "worse" part first and/or with no [[{{Beat}} pauses]] that would allow Alice to sneak in a question of what is supposed to be wrong about what she did.
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'''Basic Trope''': Something innocent or mildly bad gets worse when you know all the facts.
* '''Straight''': Bob accuses Alice of tampering with his alarm clock. When she claims it was a harmless prank, he answers that it nearly electrocuted him.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob goes on adding extra information for several minutes, each revelation making things worse.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob accuses Alice of tampering with his alarm clock. When she claims it was a harmless prank, he answers that it zapped him painfully.
* '''Justified''': Bob is giving Alice a chance to confess without making a public scene.
* '''Inverted''': Bob thanks Alice for making him a sandwich. When she brushes it off, he answers that it was the first food he'd had a chance to eat all day.
* '''Subverted''': Bob accuses Alice of tampering with his alarm clock. When she claims it was a harmless prank, Bob pauses, face reddening...and says it was bad enough.
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': Alice messed with my alarm clock. I'm gonna kill her!
-->'''Charlie''': That seems like DisproportionateRetribution... I'm sensing this is worse than just changing the wakeup sound.
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob outright accuses Alice of everything straight away.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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