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* '''Enforced''': Justified done/shown [[Visual Pun|openly in front of Alice's eyes]]. |
* '''Enforced''': Justified done/shown [[Visual Pun|openly in front of Alice's eyes]]. |
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Wait a minute, you're an AI, how on earth would you even go about getting a cake in the first place?" |
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wait a minute, you're an AI, how on earth would you even go about getting a cake in the first place?" |
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* '''Invoked''': |
* '''Invoked''': |
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* '''Exploited''': Alice understood that since GeneSYS is a villain and they usually use cakes as bribes, she declines the offer. |
* '''Exploited''': Alice understood that since GeneSYS is a villain and they usually use cakes as bribes, she declines the offer. |
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* '''Defied''': Alice simply buys a cake instead, since GeneSYS is probably lying about it anyways. |
* '''Defied''': Alice simply buys a cake instead, since GeneSYS is probably lying about it anyways. |
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* '''Discussed''': |
* '''Discussed''': |
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{{quote|'''GeneSYS''': "[[Expospeak Gag|I find it kind of funny, in the dictionary sense of the term]], when I request assistance from homo sapiens beings, they believe that a murderous, truth-fabricating, [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|crapshoot AI]] will actually carry out with its truth-fabrication and reward them with their malnutritional object of desire."}} |
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* '''Conversed''': "Oh look, she's being promised cake, it's probably going to be a lie." |
* '''Conversed''': "Oh look, she's being promised cake, it's probably going to be a lie." |
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* '''Played For Laughs''': GeneSYS insists that its actions aren't a [[Portal ( |
* '''Played For Laughs''': GeneSYS insists that its actions aren't a [[Portal (series)|Portal]] reference, even more so than he insists that there will be cake. That turns out to be a lie. |
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* '''Played For Drama''': |
* '''Played For Drama''': |
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': |
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': |
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Latest revision as of 09:48, 9 April 2017
Basic Trope: A character lies about the reward that will be given for completing a task.
- Straight: The evil computer GeneSYS promises Alice cake, she never gets it.
- Exaggerated: GeneSYS promises Alice cake, a party, and to end world hunger. It never happens.
- Justified: There was cake, but then somebody else ate it.
- Inverted: GeneSYS insists that there is no cake, but it turns out that there is.
- Subverted: The Stinger reveals that the cake is in fact not a lie.
- Double Subverted: ...only it turns out the cake is made of plastic.
- Parodied: GeneSYS says the eponymous line; Alice groans at this, telling GeneSYS that the meme got old years ago.
- Deconstructed: The promised reward had a significant amount of important to Alice, and she ends up very distraught after she's lied to.
- Reconstructed: This motivates Alice to defeat GeneSYS.
- Zig Zagged: Alice discovers that The Cake Is a Lie, and that the real cake is waiting for her in the next level. This process repeats itself until the final boss fight.
- Averted: There is no mention of a reward for any of Alice's actions.
- Enforced: Justified done/shown openly in front of Alice's eyes.
- Lampshaded: "Wait a minute, you're an AI, how on earth would you even go about getting a cake in the first place?"
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Alice understood that since GeneSYS is a villain and they usually use cakes as bribes, she declines the offer.
- Defied: Alice simply buys a cake instead, since GeneSYS is probably lying about it anyways.
- Discussed:
GeneSYS: "I find it kind of funny, in the dictionary sense of the term, when I request assistance from homo sapiens beings, they believe that a murderous, truth-fabricating, crapshoot AI will actually carry out with its truth-fabrication and reward them with their malnutritional object of desire." |
- Conversed: "Oh look, she's being promised cake, it's probably going to be a lie."
- Played For Laughs: GeneSYS insists that its actions aren't a Portal reference, even more so than he insists that there will be cake. That turns out to be a lie.
- Played For Drama:
- Plotted A Good Waste:
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