When the authors of a work do something badly or weirdly, on purpose, to achieve a particular reaction.
- Alternate Monochrome Version
- Artistic License: A work of fiction disregards how certain things are in real life for the purpose of the story.
- Bathos
- Deliberately Bad Example
- Deliberately Monochrome: A modern work is deliberately colored in black-and-white despite the production company having the resources necessary to shoot it in color.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: A work set in the past doesn't try to whitewash any aspect of the era and shows the beliefs and practices of the time that haven't aged well on full display.
- Deliberate VHS Quality
- Fan Disservice: A scene that would ordinarily be fanservice is intentionally made as unsexy and disgusting as possible, often by either having the subjects of the fanservice put through unpleasant and disturbing situations or by showing a very unattractive person in a state of undress.
- Intended Audience Reaction: The way the audience responded to the work is exactly what the creators anticipated.
- Intentional Engrish for Funny
- Stylistic Suck: The work is made to be of poor quality on purpose.
- Unnervingly Heartwarming
When the author claims afterwards that they were aiming for this, it's a Deliberate Flaw Retcon.
