What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A reaction to a minor offense is ridiculously exaggerated.

• Straight: Alice finds out about some parking tickets that Bob hasn't paid yet. She becomes rather furious about it, and after a long lecture, she forces Bob to immediately go and pay them.
• Exaggerated: Bob is at the park eating peanuts and he throws some shells onto the grass. Upon seeing this, Alice falls on her knees and breaks into tears as she says her faith in humanity has been destroyed.
• Justified: Bob and Alice are a duo of criminals are escaping from justice, so even a minor infraction might attract unwanted attention if they aren't careful.
• Inverted: Bob arrives home very agitated and tells Alice he set a bus full of little cancer patients on fire. Without flinching the slightest bit, Alice faces Bob and tells him: "So what, do you want a medal for that? I don't have time for this nonsense Bob! Come back when you do something genuinely bad, you pussy!"
  • Designated Hero
  • Kick the Dog
  • Moral Event Horizon
• Subverted: "Oh, no! Bob, you threw that soda can on the floor, now the police will come after you!" "What?! Are you serious Alice?!" "Ha ha ha ha! Not at all, just kidding you..."
• Double Subverted: "... In fact, the punishment for littering is death. By my own hands!" "Aaaaaaaaargh!"
• Parodied: Bob throws a chocolate wrapper on the ground, which summons a special team with lots of guns, helicopters and a tank from nowhere! They threaten him with the use of lethal force unless he picks it up and deposits it in a proper place.
  • The reaction is done with such Large Ham dramatics that it crosses into Mundane Made Awesome.
• Deconstructed: A dystopian society has reached a point where even the minor crimes get punished with extreme violence, leading to the deaths of lots of innocent people and sending everyone into a perpetual state of paranoia and fear.
• Reconstructed: Alice overreacts to Bob's careless habits as a way to make him more disciplined and organized. Upon achieving that objective, she drops her act.
• Zig Zagged: Alice only over-reacts to Bob's infractions, which makes the whole deal really confusing for him when she doesn't say anything like that to other people's bigger mistakes.
• Averted: Alice's reaction is directly proportional the magnitude of the offense.
• Enforced: "We wanted to use this episode to teach kids about littering... However, I think we exaggerated a little bit."
• Lampshaded: "Not even my mom used to scold me like that... Not even that time when I shaved the house cat!"
• Invoked: Alice was mad at Bob for another reason, so she used this littering instance as an excuse to release her repressed feelings.
• Defied: Despite feeling kinda touchy, Alice calms herself before speaking, and politely asks Bob to pick up his trash.
• Discussed: "We are defenders of justice, Bob! What would the kids think if they found out their heroes go around polluting like a pair of ordinary criminals?"
• Conversed: "You know, I kinda identify with Bob's predicament. Once I got suspended from school a whole week when the teacher caught me chewing gum." "You Monster!!"

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