The Cake Is a Lie: Difference between revisions
A franchisee is not the parent company, it's usually a local entity way down the pecking order
(→Anime) |
(A franchisee is not the parent company, it's usually a local entity way down the pecking order) |
||
Line 121:
** Hades promises Cloud assistance in exchange for his services, and it turns out he lied. Both in the first game and ''Chain of Memories''.
** Subverted with Ursula; in the first game she planned on keeping her promise, for once, but she would have done it in a way that mirrored the [[Jackass Genie]] trope. In the sequel, she still planned on keeping her promise, but it was more along the lines of [[Loophole Abuse]]. It was played straight in the third game.
* [[Super Mario]]: "Our princess is in another castle."
* Throughout the first three sections of ''[[Haunting Ground]]'' {{spoiler|the protagonist is helped by a mysterious man called Lorenzo, who promises her (through his many letters/memos/notes) that his only intention is to help her escape the Castle. However, once the first three antagonists have been dealt with, Lorenzo reveals his true intentions; to steal Fiona's Azoth from her all for himself}}.
* Gamesoft's mobile phone version of [[Oregon Trail]] has this exchange between two characters:
Line 180 ⟶ 181:
* Although the exact amount is disputed Thomas Edison reportedly promised 10-50,000$ (1.1 million today) to anyone who could solve the crippling inefficiencies in his prototype automobile motors and electrical generators. [[Nikola Tesla]] solved them both while Edison refused to honor his agreement. Edison told Tesla he had a lot to learn about an American sense of humor—the cruel irony is that Edison ''still'' gets the credit for being a genius despite inventing very little of what he's credited with while Tesla, who invented more things than Edison had patents, was all but forgotten (though that's starting to change).
:Edison also refused to raise Tesla's salary from 18 to 25 dollars a week (a rather reasonable request as the original salary was for a line worker while Tesla was now making some of the most advanced creations at Edison's plant). All of this was the main reason why Tesla went to work for Westinghouse, who not only fully acknowledged him, but also paid him a crap-load of money, which Tesla then immediately spent [[Mad Scientist|on various bizarre inventions]]. That said, Tesla indeed was one of the fathers of a modern AC power grid, and won the "War of Currents" for Westinghouse.
* Jodee Berry, a former Hooters waitress in Panama City, Florida, won a contest for most beer sales held by her boss, who announced that the grand prize was a new Toyota. On the day of the presentation, she was blindfolded and led to the restaurant's parking lot to receive her prize...which turned out to be a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Toy]] [[Star Wars|Yoda]]! She quit immediately and won an undisclosed settlement against Gulf Coast Wings,
* Swedish-Finnish journalist, writer and talk-show host Mark Levengood once said this happened to him. His mother told him that if he did not start smoking before his 18th birthday, she would pay for his drivers license. When he turned 18 and asked for his reward, his mother [[Hypocritical Humor|lit another of her cigarettes]] and told him she had never planned to pay his driving lessons. "The important thing was that you did not start smoking, and it did succeed, didn't it?"
* A literal, if subverted, example: Twinkies. [[Squick|Read the ingredients list]]; very little of it sounds even remotely like cake, more like industrial sludge...and yet, like the disgusting ingredients of the infamous [[Portal (series)|Portal]] cake, it all comes together to form...yup. Cake.
| |||