Disproportionate Retribution/Advertising

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Two Infiniti commercials. In one, a man is pelted with a few snowballs by a neighbor, so he rolls a giant monster snowball that utterly destroys the neighbor's car. In the other, the same man is hit by a single snowball by the neighbor, so he calls his son and recruits all the children in the neighborhood to pummel the neighbor with snowballs as he gets out of his car.
  • Commercials for Jello Temptations revolve around parents punishing their children for -- GASP—eating their adult pudding! In one, the mother uses storytime as a not-so-veiled threat that she's going to make all her daughter's favorite things disappear FOREVER because she stole her snack; another uses a campfire horror story about 'the Chocobeast' to terrorize her kids with her husband's help. A third involves an Imagine Spot where a boy thinks about how his parents will turn him out onto the streets if he dares eat their pudding...
  • New commercials for a kind of macaroni and cheese features kids doing this to their parents for taking some of their mac and cheese. The punishments involve pawning their jewelry and golf clubs and getting them arrested.
  • The infamous "No Pressure" commercials for the 10:10 campaign, which had people (including Children Are Innocent!) getting blown up for not agreeing to take part.
  • The "Respect the Pouch" ads for Capri Sun juice. For the unforgivable crime of not respecting the pouch, innocent kids are turned into various Humanoid Abominations, like having their hands and feet turned into whoopie cushions, having their entire body, except their head deflate, and one kid being being turned into a dog's chew toy.
  • Spilling coffee is unforgivable.
  • WIND, a phone company has released a set of commercials in Greece that go like this: A man goes to hell for expensively paying his economy.
  • This Audi advert features a boy at a public pool causing a public outrage all for getting into the pool just after eating instead of waiting for an hour to do so.
  • If you reject a specific product, you'd better pray it's not being advertised by Wilkins the murderous Muppet.