History AnalogyBackfire / ComicBooks

'''Red Skull:''' You call that rising, do you? Slowly losing a war for five decades while your entire country crumbles at your feet?○○

* "ComicBook/{{Commando}}": In one issue, British platoon is sent to hunt German "Werwulfs" after Third Reich has capitulated. [[note]]The comic plays into common misconception: while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf Werwulfs]] were a real unit, they were intended to fight in parallel with Wehrmacht behind Allied lines, not as guerrillas after the war.[[/note]] After few days of combing a forest, the men get nervous (they've had multiple false alarms and a friendly fire incident by this point.) Sergeant tries to remind main character, a superstitious private who is starting to believe in literal wolf-men, of "Boy who cried wolf." Private points out that in the end of the story, a real wolf appears.

-->'''Lukin:''' This isn't what we agreed on, Skull. Our pact was highly specific in the details.
'''Red Skull:''' So was the pact between Stalin and Hitler, and we know how ''that'' ended.
'''Lukin:''' Yes, with the death of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler your master]] and the rise of the Motherland.
'''Red Skull:''' You call that rising, do you? Slowly losing a war for five decades while your entire country crumbles at your feet?

-->'''Whitey:''' So weird. And Pugs was just saying animals can't change--\\

* "ComicBook/Commando": In one issue, British platoon is sent to hunt German "Werwulfs" after Third Reich has capitulated. [[note]]The comic plays into common misconception: while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf Werwulfs]] were a real unit, they were intended to fight in parallel with Wehrmacht behind Allied lines, not as guerrillas after the war.[[/note]] After few days of combing a forest, the men get nervous (they've had multiple false alarms and a friendly fire incident by this point.) Sergeant tries to remind main character, a superstitious private who is starting to believe in literal wolf-men, of "Boy who cried wolf." Private points out that in the end of the story, a real wolf appears.

-->'''Lukin''': This isn't what we agreed on, Skull. Our pact was highly specific in the details.
-->'''Red Skull''': So was the pact between Stalin and Hitler, and we know how ''that'' ended.
-->'''Lukin''': Yes, with the death of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler your master]] and the rise of the Motherland.
-->'''Red Skull''': You call that rising, do you? Slowly losing a war for five decades while your entire country crumbles at your feet?
-->'''Lukin''': And how is your Glorious Thousand-Year Reich faring, then?

* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel''

--> It wasn't until the 1970's that someone looked up from the drawing table and said, "You know, maybe if we're trying to sell the idea of the X-Men being hated and feared for being different, we shouldn't have a team [[MonochromeCasting made up entirely of young, handsome, middle class white people]]."

* ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' has a scene wherein the titular character has a philosophical debate about determinism with Destiny of the Endless. In this, Lucifer compares God's creation to a prison; Destiny, in turn, compares Lucifer's own creation to an asylum, and says that a prison would be preferable. Lucifer responds violently to this.

* In one ''Comicbook/Superboy1994'' storyline, S-Boy's friends are worried about how much he's hanging out with Knockout, a former Female Fury who has been implicated in a murder. When Tanya remonstrates with him, she calls him "kid", and he angrily responds that Knockout is the only person who doesn't call him that, or think of him as being one. He then flies off before Tanya can point out that Knockout's name for him is "pup", which doesn't exactly imply she thinks of him as an adult.

* The ComicBook/XMen, who were famously built around the FantasticRacism trope, were created in the '60s but never took off until Creator/ChrisClaremont [[MyRealDaddy heavily revamped the franchise in the '70s]]. Writer Jesse Schedeen pointed out one of the big reasons why the premise didn't work up until that point:

* In an early '80s ''ComicBook/XMen'' story, [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} Illyana Rasputin]] is pressing her best friend ComicBook/KittyPryde for details regarding Kitty's teenage romance with Illyana's brother [[ComicBook/{{Colossus}} Piotr]], commenting, "Juliet was younger than you when she met Romeo." Kitty countered, "And look what happened to her!"
* In the mini-series ''X-Men: True Friends'', Kitty and ComicBook/RachelSummers find themselves transported to 1930s Great Britain, at the start of the Blitz. At one point, a handsome German officer chats up a skeptical Kitty, saying in regard to the Nazi party that she shouldn't "judge a book by its cover." Kitty answers, "I read the book. ''Literature/MeinKampf''. Still gives me nightmares."

* "ComicBook/Commando": In one issue, British platoon is sent to hunt German "Werwulfs" after Third Reich capitulates. [[note]]The comic plays into common misconception: while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf Werwulfs]] were a real unit, they were intended to fight in parallel with Wehrmacht behind Allied lines, not as guerrillas after the war.[[/note]] After few days of combing a forest, the men get nervous (they've had multiple false alarms and a friendly fire incident at his point.) Sergeant tries to remind main character, a superstitious private who is starting to believe in literal wolf-men, of "Boy who cried wolf." He responds by pointing out that in the end of the story, a real wolf appears.

::Shortly after that, they run into Digger, whose face fur has turned from black to white with shock.

* In an early '80s ''ComicBook/XMen'' story, ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin is pressing her best friend ComicBook/KittyPryde for details regarding Kitty's teenage romance with Illyana's brother [[ComicBook/{{Colossus}} Piotr]], commenting, "Juliet was younger than you when she met Romeo." Kitty countered, "And look what happened to her!"

-->'''Red Skulll''': So was the pact between Stalin and Hitler, and we know how ''that'' ended.