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* '''Downplayed''': A real [[Emergency Broadcast]] ran as a crawl (done for weather warnings in places that have a lot of them, sometimes). In-Universe, the same, or one actually ignored or relegated to a secondary story in a case of [[Worst News Judgment Ever]].
* '''Justified''': There is an emergency present in [[Real Life]] or in story, power systems haven't been disabled and/or communications systems hacked or hijacked yet, and the system can contact a means of communication used.
* '''Inverted''': There was no emergency in the first place OR the system itself has been compromised or [[Nineteen Eighty
* '''Subverted''': The emergency broadcasts, in a continuation of the above inversion, actually are encouraging people toward a [[Death Trap]] or are driving them to suicide. Or there is an emergency worthy of such widespread warning, but none is given.
* '''Double Subverted''': The broadcast encouraging people toward what seems to be a stupid action or [[Death Trap]] or outright suicide is meant to deceive viewers into believing that is actually happening in a form of [[I Surrender, Suckers]]. Or an [[Emergency Broadcast]] is issued when an emergency exists - but for one of multiple emergencies that may not be the most dangerous or relevant (such as a flash flood warning taking precedence over a far more urgent tornado warning)
* '''Parodied''': The quote at the end of the article "If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been advised to drop to your knees, grab you ankles, and kiss your ass goodbye," an [[Emergency Broadcast]] [[For the Lulz]] or for an extremely ridiculous reason, or if anything even tepidly boring is announced as if it is an apocalyptic emergency...
* '''Deconstructed''': An [[Emergency Broadcast]] may be needed, but the story shows the problems inherent in trying to get the warning out: communications systems are hacked and/or down, power itself has been disabled, people interpreting the warning as a joke or as [[Crying Wolf]], the people who are supposed to issue or confirm the warning are already dead... [[Lawful Evil|and/or the broadcast is being issued as a sop to the soon-to-be-dead-and-dying masses by the elites.]]
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