Very False Advertising/Playing With

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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