Basic Trope: When Product Placement is damaged, broken or destroyed.
- Straight: In Bob's Vengeance II, a Trope Co. store is destroyed during a particular action segment.
- Exaggerated:
- Trope Co. HQ is destroyed.
- Trope Co. stores being destroyed is a Running Gag.
- Any and all real products shown in the work get destroyed in some way.
- Downplayed: The Trope Co. logo is smashed off.
- Justified: Trope Co. stores aren't any stronger than regular buildings.
- Inverted:
- The first building reconstructed after the city crumbles to ruins is a Trope Co. store (for whatever twisted reason).
- Trope Co. buildings are Made of Indestructium and remain standing even when hit with an explosion.
- Subverted: Buildings are being demolished left to right, but Trope Co. remains intact.
- Double Subverted: Trope Co. collapses in a later fight.
- Parodied:
- In the scene where Trope Co. is destroyed, there's a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen reminding the viewers never to attempt this.
- As a bomb inside of the Trope Co. building ticks down, the protagonist has a series of black-and-white flashbacks to old Trope Co. commercials, including a hidden coupon you can input while ordering online to get 25% off shipping and handling.
- Zig-Zagged: There are multiple product placements, some of which are destroyed and some of which aren't.
- Averted: The battle takes place far away from Trope Co.
- Enforced:
- "We don't want this product placement deal to come off as too blatant, so how about the store gets wrecked during some action scene?"
- Can be a Take That! against the brand.
- Last year's model is destroyed to show that this year's model is much better.
- Lampshaded: "Someone's not getting their deposit back."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Trope Co. makes perfectly clear that they are only going to give the five million dollars to the production if their advertised gizmo makes it intact (or at the very most mildly dirt-laden).
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: An overhead shot shows the city a Trope Co. store is in being blown up by tons of explosives.
- Deconstructed: A Trope Co. store is destroyed during a non-eventful action scene, and this leaves the impression that all Trope Co. buildings have flimsy design.
- Reconstructed: A Trope Co. car is shown being utterly wrecked but saves the lives of the inhabitants and isn't even a case of shilling - the original writer was looking for plausible wrecks that would provoke No One Could Survive That! reactions that someone actually lived through and Trope Co. was behind one account.
- Played For Laughs:
- Trope Co. buildings and gadgets being torn to pieces as coincidentally convenient collateral damage is a Running Gag.
- One of the story's subplots involves Trope Co. executives signing off on product placement money in a Show Within a Show, believing the product will be treated well and doing their damnedest to get it shilled in the most placement-worthy but least suspension-of-disbelief-worthy fashion possible, culminating with the production team telling the Trope Co. people to shove it by getting the product wrecked in an action sequence and the executives doing a Spit Take.
- Played For Drama:
- Bill was carrying a Trope Co. cell phone on his breast pocket and it did not worked well as a Pocket Protector.
- The scene where the Trope Co. product placement is destroyed is a terrorist attack.
- The sub-plot about the Trope Co. product placement being mistreated includes the Show Within a Show being so strapped for money that they literally begged Trope Co. for help, and of course the company executives are outraged about the mere idea of their products being damaged, even threatening to pull their support unless it's rewritten, and the dilemma becomes either keep the artistic vision or let Big Corpo run roughshod over it.
Enjoy a nice glass of Product P[BAM]ent.
