Very False Advertising/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Basic Trope: The advertisement and the real thing doesn't match.

  • Straight: Bob goes to an impossibly cheap hotel for a vacation. The brochure and the real hotel differ horrifyingly.
  • Exaggerated: The brochure shows a luxurious palace with indoor and outdoor swimming pool, five bedrooms, a game room, and a big kitchen. The real place is a horrible inversion.
  • Downplayed: The only difference between the brochure and the real thing is a minor one, like the number of trees or the color of the door.
  • Justified: Bob is reading an old advertisement, back when the place was still nice-looking. Now it's scheduled to be demolished in a week.
    • The company trying to cash in on unsuspecting customers.
  • Inverted: The real thing is actually better than the advertisement.
  • Subverted: Bob realized the hotel looks nothing like the brochure and is upset, but he is soon directed to the actual hotel.
  • Double Subverted: Which happens to be even worse than the one before.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: The brochure and the real thing looks exactly the same, no more, no less.
  • Enforced: "Why don't we add some comedy, by making Bob got tricked to staying in an abandoned hotel?
  • Lampshaded: "Gee, that certainly doesn't look anything like the brochure..."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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