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* Trump supporters used the catchphrase "Release the Kraken" to refer to Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, apparently forgetting that in [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 the movie]] from which that phrase originates, the Kraken is slain by the hero.
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* Trump supporters used the catchphrase "Release the Kraken" to refer to Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, apparently forgetting that in [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 the movie]] from which that phrase originates, the Kraken is slain by the hero.
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* Trump supporters used the catchphrase "Release the Kraken" to refer to Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, apparently forgetting that in [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans the movie]] from which that phrase originates, the Kraken is slain by the hero.
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* Trump supporters used the catchphrase "Release the Kraken" to refer to Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, apparently forgetting that in [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 the movie]] from which that phrase originates, the Kraken is slain by the hero.
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* Trump supporters used the catchphrase "Release the Kraken" to refer to Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, apparently forgetting that in [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans the movie]] from which that phrase originates, the Kraken is slain by the hero.
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* One French idiom for MortonsFork choice is "choisir entre la peste et le choléra" (literally: "choosing between plague and cholera"), due to both being lethal and highly unpleasant diseases. Progress in medicine and hygiene made the idiom sounds less relevant in French-speaking areas, because plague and cholera are now rare, easily preventable, and easily treatable diseases.
* The famous French bank Caisse d'épargne uses a squirrel as its logo, as a reference to the rodent's well-known habit of hoarding grains to stash food and avoid starving. In practice, squirrels tend to be unable to find back their stashes. Hiding stuff in random place and losing most of your treasury is probably not how you would expect ''a bank'' to manage your money...
* The famous French bank Caisse d'épargne uses a squirrel as its logo, as a reference to the rodent's well-known habit of hoarding grains to stash food and avoid starving. In practice, squirrels tend to be unable to find back their stashes. Hiding stuff in random place and losing most of your treasury is probably not how you would expect ''a bank'' to manage your money...
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* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as [[VocalMinority a handful of]] BlackSheep [[VocalMinority making the majority of good cops look bad]]. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] on his show, ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', that the full phrase is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops is reason to believe that the whole organization is corrupt.
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* "Pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" is sometimes used in a non-ironic sense where one is expected to get themselves out of a tough situation by their own resources and determination. This ignores that the phrase was originally meant to signify an ''impossible'' task, because, after all, [[RealityEnsues you can't lift yourself up by your bootstraps]].
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* Animal rights activists often compare animal suffering to various forms of oppression, such as rape, racism, and slavery. Going by this analogy, this compares the victims of said oppression to animals, which is something that the perpetrators of oppression often do.
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* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage and was carrying a wanted child, so she had no reason to have an abortion, and flipped the question, "What if Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
* There is a popular American chain of indoor waterparks called Kalihari Resorts. Kalihari is a desert in Africa.
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* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Voldemort?". Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, Voldemort because he also qualified for the prophecy that foretold Voldemort's defeat, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage with a large support network and was carrying a wanted child, so she had no reason to have an abortion, and flipped the question, "What abortion. They then pointed out that if Voldemort's mother, Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an Gaunt, (an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant woman with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, no husband, an abusive father and brother that she had run away from, and had no friends or anybody else she could turn to for support) had access to an abortion safe abortions and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
term, then all of the pain and the suffering in the ''Harry Potter'' books could have been avoided.
* There is a popular American chain of indoor waterparks called Kalihari Resorts. Kalihari is a desert in southern Africa.
* There is a popular American chain of indoor waterparks called Kalihari Resorts. Kalihari is a desert in southern Africa.
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* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage and had no reason to consider having an abortion, and flipped the question, "What if Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
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* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage and was carrying a wanted child, so she had no reason to consider having have an abortion, and flipped the question, "What if Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
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* A Mexican left-leaner informative/satirical political magazine ran an informative strip criticizing the Mexican Drug War, denouncing it as being orchestrated by "greedy U.S. capitalists" in order to take control of Mexico just as the Opium Wars were orchestrated by "greedy British capitalists" to take control of China; unfortunately, if the parallel was correct then it would make the ''Mexican'' greedy capitalists who would want to take control of the U.S. and impose the legal sale of drugs. (Unless the author is also [[FridgeBrilliance making a point about]] history being WrittenByTheWinners.)
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* A Mexican left-leaner informative/satirical political magazine ran an informative strip criticizing the Mexican Drug War, denouncing it as being orchestrated by "greedy U.S. capitalists" in order to take control of Mexico just as the Opium Wars were orchestrated by "greedy British capitalists" to take control of China; unfortunately, if the parallel was correct then it would make the ''Mexican'' ''Mexicans'' greedy capitalists who would want to take control of the U.S. and impose the legal sale of drugs. (Unless the author is also [[FridgeBrilliance making a point about]] history being WrittenByTheWinners.)
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* Animal rights activists often compare animal suffering to various forms of oppression, such as rape, racism, and slavery. Going by this analogy, this compares the victims of said oppression to animals, which something that the perpetrators of oppression often do.
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* Animal rights activists often compare animal suffering to various forms of oppression, such as rape, racism, and slavery. Going by this analogy, this compares the victims of said oppression to animals, which is something that the perpetrators of oppression often do.
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* When Angus Deayton was fired from his job on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' after the second round of wacky cocaine-and-prostitute hijinks, longtime panelist from the show said "We've lost Zeppo, it's no big deal". You'd think a very big aficionado of old comedy (to the point of having written a book on the subject) like Merton would remember that while Zeppo is often perceived as the blandest, a lot of people claim he's just as funny as his brothers, but subtler and more of an acquired taste. Although like the Marx Brothers post-Zeppo, ''Have I Got News for You'' managed to continue clicking along quite nicely without Deayton, which restores the validity of the analogy.
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* When Angus Deayton was fired from his job on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' after the second round of wacky cocaine-and-prostitute hijinks, a longtime panelist from the show said "We've lost Zeppo, it's no big deal". You'd think a very big aficionado of old comedy (to the point of having written a book on the subject) like Merton would remember that while Zeppo is often perceived as the blandest, a lot of people claim he's just as funny as his brothers, but subtler and more of an acquired taste. Although like the Marx Brothers post-Zeppo, ''Have I Got News for You'' managed to continue clicking along quite nicely without Deayton, which restores the validity of the analogy.
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** Or as ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' would [[http://xkcd.com/357/ point out]], you actually attract more flies with vinegar. I guess NiceGuysFinishLast, then.
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* Simon Hoggart pointed out that that any speech from John Major tended to included a fair few of these. For example, Major once said that Labour and taxes go together like peaches and cream, causing Hoggart to remark that people actually like peaches and cream?
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* Simon Hoggart pointed out that that any speech from John Major tended to included a fair few of these. For example, Major once said that Labour and taxes go together like peaches and cream, causing Hoggart to remark that people actually like peaches and cream?
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** He's also been favorably compared to [[Series/TwentyFour David Palmer,]] who was the first black President, led a country in turmoil in the TheWarOnTerror and was also assassinated after several failed attempts. Like the above examples, it is hoped that in this instance LifeImitatesArt is averted.
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** He's also been favorably compared to [[Series/TwentyFour David Palmer,]] who was the first black President, led a country in turmoil in the TheWarOnTerror UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and was also assassinated after several failed attempts. Like the above examples, it is hoped that in this instance LifeImitatesArt is averted.
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* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops suggests that the whole organization is corrupt.
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* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops suggests is reason to believe that the whole organization is corrupt.
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* The religious Evangelical subculture in the US tend to promote old fashioned courtship rules for young people (girls never left unattended with boys, no physical contact until marriage, dating only as a prelude to marriage, etc). One of the more prominent programs is Bill Gothard's "Lancelot Lives", only going to show that no one involved seems to realize they named their program after one of literature's most famous adulterer.
* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops proves that the whole organization is corrupt.
* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops proves that the whole organization is corrupt.
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* The religious Evangelical subculture in the US tend to promote old fashioned courtship rules for young people (girls never left unattended with boys, no physical contact until marriage, dating only as a prelude to marriage, etc). One of the more prominent programs is Bill Gothard's "Lancelot Lives", only going to show that no one involved seems to realize they named their program after one of literature's most famous adulterer.adulterers.
* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad copsproves suggests that the whole organization is corrupt.
* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as a handful of BlackSheep making the majority of good cops look bad. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] that the full phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"--which suggests the exact opposite, that the existence of these bad cops
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* One Amazon ad has a worker compare herself and her coworkers to the kids with golden tickets in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' and their workplace to the eponymous factory. Those who have actually read the book can infer that Amazon has NoOSHACompliance and 80% of the workers will suffer horrific industrial accidents.
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* The religious Evangelical subculture in the US tend to promote old fashioned courtship rules for young people (girls never left unattended with boys, no physical contact until marriage, dating only as a prelude to marriage, etc). One of the more prominent programs is Bill Gothard's "Lancelot Lives", only going to show that no one involved seems to realize they named their program after one of literature's most famous adulterer.
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* In December 2019, the official Trump campaign Twitter account posted a video of his head superimposed on ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'s during the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Thanos/Trump says, "I am inevitable" while he snaps his fingers and dusts away Speaker Pelosi and her leadership team while she's talking about impeachment. This moment, in the context of the film itself, is actually Thanos not realizing he doesn't actually have the Infinity Gauntlet and that he's lost due to his own hubris. He dies not even a minute later. Many pointed out what a huge self-own this was as they're implying he's a genocidal maniac and too dumb/arrogant to realize he's been beaten.
* After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's speech during the 2020 State of the Union Address, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a image from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of Lisa Simpson crying while tearing up a speech, trying to liken Pelosi to a crying child. The image, from the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", shows Lisa tearing up her speech on American greatness after witnessing a congressman accepting a bribe. Twitter users were [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/lisa-simpson-actress-blasts-mike-pompeo-over-tweet-mocking-nancy-n1130916 quick to point out he was missing the point of the scene's context]], "In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty."
* After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's speech during the 2020 State of the Union Address, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a image from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of Lisa Simpson crying while tearing up a speech, trying to liken Pelosi to a crying child. The image, from the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", shows Lisa tearing up her speech on American greatness after witnessing a congressman accepting a bribe. Twitter users were [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/lisa-simpson-actress-blasts-mike-pompeo-over-tweet-mocking-nancy-n1130916 quick to point out he was missing the point of the scene's context]], "In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty."
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* The expression "to sleep like a baby," meaning to sleep deeply and soundly, is often remarked on for this reason; babies tend to wake up at the slightest (or even no) provocation.
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* In December 2019, the official Trump campaign Twitter account posted a video of his head superimposed on ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'s during the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Thanos/Trump says, "I am inevitable" while he snaps his fingers and dusts away Speaker Pelosi and her leadership team while she's talking about impeachment. This moment, in the context of the film itself, is actually Thanos not realizing he doesn't actually have the Infinity Gauntlet and that he's lost due to his own hubris. He dies not even a minute later. Many pointed out what a huge self-own this was as they're implying he's a genocidal maniac and too dumb/arrogant to realize he's been beaten.
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* After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's speech during the 2020 State of the Union Address, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a gif from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of Lisa Simpson crying while tearing up a speech, trying to liken Pelosi to a crying child. The gif, from the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", shows Lisa tearing up her speech on American greatness after witnessing a congressman accepting a bribe. Twitter users were [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/lisa-simpson-actress-blasts-mike-pompeo-over-tweet-mocking-nancy-n1130916 quick to point out the scene's context]] was the opposite of what Pompeo intended, "In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty."
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* After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's speech during the 2020 State of the Union Address, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a gif image from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of Lisa Simpson crying while tearing up a speech, trying to liken Pelosi to a crying child. The gif, image, from the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", shows Lisa tearing up her speech on American greatness after witnessing a congressman accepting a bribe. Twitter users were [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/lisa-simpson-actress-blasts-mike-pompeo-over-tweet-mocking-nancy-n1130916 quick to point out he was missing the point of the scene's context]] was the opposite of what Pompeo intended, context]], "In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty."
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* After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's speech during the 2020 State of the Union Address, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a gif from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of Lisa Simpson crying while tearing up a speech, trying to liken Pelosi to a crying child. The gif, from the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", shows Lisa tearing up her speech on American greatness after witnessing a congressman accepting a bribe. Twitter users were [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/lisa-simpson-actress-blasts-mike-pompeo-over-tweet-mocking-nancy-n1130916 quick to point out the scene's context]] was the opposite of what Pompeo intended, "In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty."
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* "A broken clock is right twice a day" means that even someone who is wrong a lot can be right sometimes. And it was a good analogy back when all clocks were analog clocks. It falls apart now that we have digital clocks.
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** Such people will also claim that humans are the only animals that regularly consume the milk of another creature, even though there have been several noteworthy examples of dogs nursing kittens, etc.
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** Mythbusters is late to the game here, back in the '70s when BobBarker was doing the game show ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'', one of the contests that people had to try to do was take candy from a baby, without causing it to cry. HilarityEnsues. ''Very'' difficult, indeed! Then again, at least in fiction, the people who tend to use this phrase are the sort who would have no problems with ''[[EatsBabies killing]]'' [[WouldHurtAChild said baby]], in which case it probably ''would'' be quite easy.
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** Mythbusters is late to the game here, back in the '70s when BobBarker Bob Barker was doing the game show ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'', one of the contests that people had to try to do was take candy from a baby, without causing it to cry. HilarityEnsues. ''Very'' difficult, indeed! Then again, at least in fiction, the people who tend to use this phrase are the sort who would have no problems with ''[[EatsBabies killing]]'' [[WouldHurtAChild said baby]], in which case it probably ''would'' be quite easy.
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* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign [[https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1204503645607333888 tweeted]] a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the mass-murdering villain of the film, and that he [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
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* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the mass-murdering villain of the film, and [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
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* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted [[https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1204503645607333888 tweeted]] a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the mass-murdering villain of the film, and that he [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
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* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the villain of the film, was a mass murderer, and [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
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* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the mass-murdering villain of the film, was a mass murderer, and [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
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* ''Trojan'' condoms. Sure, [[Literature/TheTrojanCycle the city of Troy withstood a siege for 10 years]], but the adjective "Trojan" in every other case comes from the TrojanHorse, which was used to sneak a bunch of seamen inside the walls and ruin the place.
** Plenty of sports teams go by the nickname "Trojans," which tends to raise the same question.
** Throughout Homer, the Trojans are shown as honorable and the Greeks are susceptible to corruption (in the form of classic tragic flaws). And the horse story just shows all the seamen were only a problem inside the Trojan (city)...
* Similarly, Ramses condoms are named after a guy who fathered over 100 children.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2008 During the 2008 Democratic primaries]], UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton tried to compare herself to Creator/SylvesterStallone's Franchise/{{Rocky}}. A lot of people commented that he lost in the [[Film/{{Rocky}} first movie]]. Presumably the desired implication was that she'd stick it out 'til the end. Even worse, Rocky loses to a charismatic black man. Hillary should have seen it coming.
** Creator/StephenColbert used the same metaphor in reference to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush at the Correspondents' Dinner, and was halfway into it before he realized that Rocky lost to Apollo Creed.
---> ...The point is, it is the heart-warming story of a man who was repeatedly punched in the face.
*** Colbert seems to like this. He once discussed one politician who used an analogy of the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Men of the West's diversionary attack]] and Iraq distracting the Bush Administration from the election, pointing out that by the terms of the man's analogy, this makes the US {{Mordor}}.
* In the 2007 NCAA Basketball tournament, upon being asked about his match-up with future NBA #1 pick (and much taller) Ohio St.'s Greg Oden, U. of Memphis center Joey Dorsey infamously remarked that this was a 'David and Goliath' match-up... "and I'm Goliath." Turns out, he was right after all: Dorsey was held scoreless and Oden had a monster game.
* Likewise, on the eve of the infamous 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Miami and Penn State, the Miami players attended a pregame banquet clad in combat fatigues while the Penn State players wore suits. Some Penn State players performed a skit onstage and made offensive jokes, causing Miami defensive tackle Jerome Brown to attempt a walkout. Brown was televised saying "Did the Japanese go sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?" As the Miami players began to walk out, Penn State punter John Bruno retorted "Excuse me, but didn't the Japanese lose the war?" At the Fiesta Bowl afterwards, Penn State proceeded to upset Miami 14-10 and win their second national championship.
* [[ScienceIsBad Anti-Biotechnology]] groups often refer to genetically modified crops and farm animals as "Frankenfood," presumably arguing that because it was created in a lab like the [[IAmNotShazam Frankenstein Monster]], it must be as dangerous as the FrankensteinsMonster. Anyone who has read the book or seen the movie knows that the monster was originally innocent and benign and only turned to evil when provoked by the bigotry of humans. On the other hand, it's possible that they ''did'' read the novel, and were thinking of ''Victor Frankenstein'''s failure to foresee or take responsibility for the ultimate results of his attempt to play God ForScience. Naturally, Bio-Engineered Food Scientists are ''quite'' concerned with testing or tracking their creations, but whether or not they are required to do so enough or to have their research independently verified by non-industry sources is the central issue here.
** Ironically, non-genetically engineered food is almost never tested for safety, despite the fact that there is no particular reason to believe it would be any less hazardous; indeed, plants produce natural insecticides to deter predation, and traditional plant breeding is actually more likely to introduce undesirable variations in the expression of these traits.
* As Jimmy Carr has pointed out, this applies to the people who have described UsefulNotes/BarackObama as a cross between JFK and Martin Luther King. Both of whom were shot. Let's hope we won't get something worse than a bad analogy.
** Being a legislator from Illinois who was elected president, he's also often compared to UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, another victim of assassination.
** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0 rather funny]] video has a group of Obama campaigners singing ''One Day More'' shortly before the election. Website/YouTube commentary was quick to point out that most of the characters of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' died.
** He's also been favorably compared to [[Series/TwentyFour David Palmer,]] who was the first black President, led a country in turmoil in the TheWarOnTerror and was also assassinated after several failed attempts. Like the above examples, it is hoped that in this instance LifeImitatesArt is averted.
* After UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, there were the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising Communist Spartacist uprisings]] in Germany. Named after the famous Film/{{Spartacus}} who led the slaves' uprising against the Roman republic-verging-on-empire. And was defeated by Crassus (the richest man in Rome, and maybe in the world history), and crucified together with 6000 of his fellow slaves. Guess what happened to the German Communists. (OK, they weren't ''crucified''.)
* A Swedish ad campaign for pasta sauce used the slogan "What would Romeo be without Juliet?" (The correct answer being "alive". But a very EmoTeen, however.) As mentioned at the top of this page, misguided comparisons to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' are very nearly a trope unto themselves.
* Radio/GlennBeck [[http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/Story?id=7795824&page=4 compared]] himself to [[Film/{{Network}} Howard Beale]], apparently missing the fact that Beale went insane... [[spoiler:and eventually was murdered by his own network]]. To be fair, how do we know ''[[FridgeHorror he didn't know that already?]]''
* A ''deliberate'' case of backfiring analogy. When member of Soviet Academy of Science Sakharov became a dissident, the speaker of the academy held a meeting:
--> (Speaker) -Comrades, we have an unprecedented issue here: about nullifying the membership in our Academy for Sakharov...
--> ([[OnlySaneMan Capitza]]) -Why unprecedented? [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler]] once nullified the membership of Einstein in German Academy...
--> The issue was promptly dropped.
* [[https://overheardinnewyork.com/archives/4976.html This]] quote:
--> Pilot: Welcome to the Titanic of airliners.
--> --Delta plane, La Guardia
* When Angus Deayton was fired from his job on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' after the second round of wacky cocaine-and-prostitute hijinks, longtime panelist from the show said "We've lost Zeppo, it's no big deal". You'd think a very big aficionado of old comedy (to the point of having written a book on the subject) like Merton would remember that while Zeppo is often perceived as the blandest, a lot of people claim he's just as funny as his brothers, but subtler and more of an acquired taste. Although like the Marx Brothers post-Zeppo, ''Have I Got News for You'' managed to continue clicking along quite nicely without Deayton, which restores the validity of the analogy.
* The analogy that life is like a roller coaster in that it has its ups (good times) and downs (bad times). When a rollercoaster is going down, isn't that when it is the most fun? [[note]] And what does that make the loops? [[/note]] On the other hand, it could still work if the intended meaning was that the ''up'' parts were the bad times (the difficult, slow, uphill slog) you have to get through in order to experience the ''down'' parts (the fun, quick and easy bits everyone enjoys).
** It's also worth mentioning that some people find the uphill parts of the roller coaster to be relaxing and the downhill parts to be scary.
* There are several companies named for Midas, the king whose touch turned things to gold. Excellent, until you remember that this included all the things he touched that were better before they were solid gold (water, food, air, his daughter...)
* Changing {{values|dissonance}} and [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage meaning]] along with [[PoorCommunicationKills poor phrasing or lack of context]] can cause an Analogy Backfire ''[[ZigZaggingTrope backfire]]''. For example, the phrase "It's always darkest before the dawn" (a common phrase for comedians' complaints) is not inaccurate because of false dawn, but rather means "It's darkest before it starts to get lighter".
* Oftentimes political debates, such as the healthcare debate, involve comparisons that run against the point one is trying to make. ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'' involved Bill mimicking sarcastic anti-government questions before answering them with a BluntYes.
-->'''Bill:''' I mean, how stupid is it when people say "[[SarcasmMode oh that's what we need, the federal government telling Detroit how to make cars, or Wells Fargo how to run a bank, you want them to look like the post office?]]"\\
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'''Bill:''' [[FlatYes Yeah.]] I mean, a place that takes a little note from my hand from LA on Monday, to give it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday, for 42 cents? Well, let me be the first to say that I would be THRILLED if America's healthcare system was anywhere near as functional as the post office.
** It is notable that he changed it to the post office for this joke to work. The actual comparison he's mocking is with the DMV, which is the usual go-to example for bureaucratic inefficiency.
* During the 2010 British Airways strike, Sir Creator/IanMcKellen said "Nice well-behaved [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings hobbits]] don't join unions". Creator/DavidLangford was [[http://news.ansible.co.uk/a273.html quick to point out]] that "nice well-behaved hobbits were easy meat for Saruman until the rough aggressive ones got home." And when they ''did'' get home, the hobbits took "collective action" to a whole new level (as in, shooting their oppressors by hundreds).
* PETA attempted to put up a billboard in Ohio depicting a sow, a piglet, and a human microwaving a pork chop in reference to the China Arnold murder case along with the caption "Everybody's somebody's baby." For those unfamiliar with the case, Ms. Arnold was convicted of cooking ''her own child''. While this behavior is congruent with that of many domestic pigs [[OffingTheOffspring toward their offspring]], that was probably not the message that PETA intended. [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Or is it?]]
* Animal rights activists often compare animal suffering to various forms of oppression, such as rape, racism, and slavery. Going by this analogy, this compares the victims of said oppression to animals, which something that the perpetrators of oppression often do.
* Back in the older days of Website/GameFAQs, the old administator, [=CJayC=], compared notorious message board ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'' to "a cancer" due to its tendency to invade other boards and cause general mayhem wherever it goes. LUE was quick to point out that "there's no cure for cancer", which briefly became the message board's motto.
* In April 2011, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, trying to connect to younger voters, said that "If this was a Music/LadyGaga song, the relationship between the youth vote and Barack Obama would be 'Bad Romance.'" Apparently he missed the point of the song -- to want all of someone, their good AND their bad.
* During the 2010 California gubernatorial election, Meg Whitman said in a speech she wanted California to be like it was back when she first moved there. It took approximately 30 seconds for Jerry Brown's campaign to put out a commercial helpfully pointing out that when Whitman had moved to California, Brown had been the governor.
* A Wiki/TVTropes related one! Creator/WaltDisney has an extensive [[WeCare Corporate responsibility page]]. In the [[ThinkOfTheChildren "Children and Family"]] section, they have a [[ThinkOfTheCensors Standards and Practices]] page [[http://disney.go.com/crreport/childrenandfamily/contentfordifferentages/standardsandpractices.html located here]]. The show they use to illustrate it? ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', noted for [[Radar/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace getting the you-know-what past the you-know-what]].
* A Mexican left-leaner informative/satirical political magazine ran an informative strip criticizing the Mexican Drug War, denouncing it as being orchestrated by "greedy U.S. capitalists" in order to take control of Mexico just as the Opium Wars were orchestrated by "greedy British capitalists" to take control of China; unfortunately, if the parallel was correct then it would make the ''Mexican'' greedy capitalists who would want to take control of the U.S. and impose the legal sale of drugs. (Unless the author is also [[FridgeBrilliance making a point about]] history being WrittenByTheWinners.)
** And from the same author of the aforementioned strip, [[http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/09/26/cartones/0 this editorial political cartoon]] referring to the new Mexican Labor Laws: [[ShoutOut It depicts a poor worker being crushed by the]] "[[Film/ModernTimes Modern Labor Machinery]]" while representing two of the major political parties that are pushing these new laws ([=PAN=] and [=PRI=], that hold opposing views from the author's) as the main cogs of this evil mechanism; however you'll notice that the positioning of the [=PRI=] cog would ''[[SpannerInTheWorks actually prevent]]'' [[SpannerInTheWorks the whole system from working]], something that's actually true, since historically the [=PRI=] has opposed many of the [=PAN=]'s proposed reforms.
* The saying that encourages people to be nice rather than coarse: "You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar." Some cynical people will quickly point "Who would want to attract flies?"
** Or as ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' would [[http://xkcd.com/357/ point out]], you actually attract more flies with vinegar. I guess NiceGuysFinishLast, then.
*** It is also true, as noted by Sheldon on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' above, that you can attract more flies with a nice pile of manure than either of the above.
** Winston Groom once wrote in ''Literature/ForrestGump'' that "...you can catch more flies with garbage than either of them other two things; assuming you're into catching flies."
* The saying "sure as the sky is blue". Most of the time the sky isn't blue -- at night it's black, at sunset & sunrise it's all the colors of the rainbow, and if you count clouds it's grey / white a lot of the time as well. And if you want to get technical about it, the sky isn't ''actually'' blue at all; nothing, in fact, has any inherent colour, it's all wavelengths getting bounced back.
** Another way to get technical is to say that the sky still is blue. It's just the clouds that got in the way that have a different color.
* The phrase "like taking candy from a baby" is virtually a [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse Analogy]] now, as it's only likely to be seen if it's followed by the obligatory "Have you ever actually ''tried'' taking candy from a baby?" retort. And looks overused and trite, even with that corollary.
** Hilariously, the Series/{{Mythbusters}} actually tested this. They found out that taking candy from a baby was actually incredibly difficult; the babies had a strong grip that made simply pulling the candy away hard to do, and the older ones knew how to use evasive strategies to hide the candy from the arm trying to take it from them. Then there's the guilt that is quickly felt when the baby begins crying.
** Mythbusters is late to the game here, back in the '70s when BobBarker was doing the game show ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'', one of the contests that people had to try to do was take candy from a baby, without causing it to cry. HilarityEnsues. ''Very'' difficult, indeed! Then again, at least in fiction, the people who tend to use this phrase are the sort who would have no problems with ''[[EatsBabies killing]]'' [[WouldHurtAChild said baby]], in which case it probably ''would'' be quite easy.
* The controversial German classical liberal politician Guido Westerwelle once said on one of his party's assemblies, "Here stands the Statue of Liberty of this republic!". The very leftist comedian Volker Pispers was quick to retort: "Can someone kindly tell this man... that the Statue of Liberty is hollow and accessible on the inside?"
* The dove is the internationally used symbol for peace. [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying Every ornithologist]] (and many other people) know that doves are very aggressive animals amongst each other -- even more so than falcons.
* Back in TheEighties, the media liked to compare Music/MichaelJackson to Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin (one of the ''Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge'' yearbooks titled a whole article "The Pied Piper of Pop"), owing to his huge popularity. Such comparisons forgot [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what the Pied Piper did to Hamelin's children]] when the mayor and his underlings wouldn't pay him. In the years since Jackson was first accused of child molestation in 1993, this analogy is usually not applied by those speaking up for Jackson, [[http://www.innermichael.com/2010/01/michael-and-shadow but this author]] not only uses it, but seems unaware that the reason the children followed the Piper is because ''they were bewitched into doing so'', not because they instinctively knew he was a good guy.
* Simon Hoggart pointed out that that any speech from John Major tended to included a fair few of these. For example, Major once said that Labour and taxes go together like peaches and cream, causing Hoggart to remark that people actually like peaches and cream?
* Sarcastically suggesting that someone clearly guilty of something is [[Series/TheFugitive "blaming the one-armed man"]], in reference to the lame excuses the accused keeps offering--this is frequently quoted on legal shows. Completely forgetting that as bizarre as his story was, [[CassandraTruth Richard Kimble was telling the]] ''[[CassandraTruth truth]]''.
* Stating that someone going through a difficult situation is like "Daniel in the lions' den", or experiencing "the trials of Job", disregarding the fact those guys came out of their ordeals okay -- Job was even rewarded twofold for keeping faith that everything would work out. (Unless the point is to suggest that whoever's in the difficult situation will pull through just fine.)
* Hybristophilia (a paraphilia in which women are attracted to violent criminals) is often called "Bonnie and Clyde syndrome". Ironically, unlike most hybristophiliacs (whose relationships usually end in DomesticAbuse and/or death), Bonnie and Clyde themselves had a quite happy relationship. Also, Bonnie and Clyde were ''both'' criminals, in contrast to most hybristophiliacs who simply admire their violent partner from the sidelines.
* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage and had no reason to consider having an abortion, and flipped the question, "What if Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
* There is a popular American chain of indoor waterparks called Kalihari Resorts. Kalihari is a desert in Africa.
* There's a DigitalPiracyIsEvil ad that uses out-of-context clips from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. Unfortunately for their message, they used the scene where Ilsa is holding Rick at gunpoint to get him to give her the letters of transit so she and Lazlo can help the Allies and claimed that Ilsa is the digital pirate. So, they accidentally (or maybe not so accidentally) implied that digital piracy is analogous to fighting the Nazis.
* In UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Robert E. Lee had copies of Literature/LesMiserables given to all the officers of the Confederacy, because he thought it symbolized their cause. Now, if you've ever read the book/seen the musical/watched one of the many film adaptations/read a synopsis online so you could look smart by knowing the plot and understanding allusions to it without having [[{{Doorstopper}} to read it]], you know that the June Uprising was an absolute failure. All but one of the rebels die, the barricades fall after one day, the failed revolt didn't lead to any changes in government, and Les Amis d'ABC didn't even take anyone down with them. Fittingly, the Confederacy lost the war. The same applies to protesters who use "Do You Hear the People Sing?", Les Amis' AngryMobSong, as their ProtestSong.
* During the earlier stages of Obamacare, UsefulNotes/SarahPalin tried to speak out against it by doing a parody of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''. Critics of Palin were quick to point out that moral of the original story was [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam to not claim that you hate something without even trying it first,]] and that the protagonist ''really liked them'' when he tried them.
** During the 2008 election, Palin would also deflect criticism of her youth and inexperience by comparing herself to [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt another outdoors-loving Republican governor of similar age who became Vice President]]. Detractors were quick to point out that by the time Roosevelt was made UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley's running mate, he'd already been [[ColonelBadass an Army officer]], [[TheCommissionerGordon New York City Police Commissioner]], and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (where he [[GeniusBruiser wrote multiple books]]). Palin had only been mayor of a small town before serving two years as Governor of Alaska.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil Once Brazilian people started protesting in 2013]], a few of the revolted started calling the movement "Brazilian Spring" or "Brazilian Autumn" after UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring. While both were popular uprisings, the Arab Spring was met with much repression, at times evolving into armed conflict, and had already at that point seen its pro-democracy intentions instead installing some much worse governments. Not exactly the outcome the South Americans expect...
* During his term, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has compared his government's long austerity policies to a "marathon" and that "getting to the end too quickly" could put the country in jeopardy. At least one pundit pointed out that according to legend, the original marathoner ''dropped dead'' at the end.
* Whoever said "Words are like toothpaste, once you get them out, you can't put them back in" probably never even tried putting toothpaste back into the tube. It's more like, "Words are like toothpaste, you can put them back in with relative ease, and once you wash your hands of the matter, it's like it never happened."
* [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/09/16/431CE36F00000578-4775104-image-a-26_1502292486475.jpg This posting]] from Royal Dutch Airlines faced ridicule from all sides for how terrible an analogy it presents, with even those who wholeheartedly agree with its message pointing out that it comes off as positively heteronormative because of how anything other than a male/female set of buckles ''can't fasten a seatbelt''.
* The infamous "This is Your Brain on Drugs" PublicServiceAnnouncement, which showed a man frying an egg to simulate the mind-destroying effects [[DrugsAreBad drugs]] have on the user, is [[MemeticMutation notorious not just for its message]], but of all the ways people (including children) picked apart the analogy, from substituting "brain" for "eggs" just to drive the joke home, to suggesting that [[WebVideo/JonTron drugs are a healthy, nutritious breakfast that helps [your] brain grow]].
* Edmund Stoiber, former president of Bavaria (Germany) is infamous for not only stammering heavily, but also for throwing around analogies that either don't work out, are absolutely nonsensical or implicate the very opposite of what he was trying to say. Among others did he say that his party shall "spark passion to fire up the flood" where rival parties didn't even bother to point out how weak any fire would be to the ocean.
* The quote "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" has been disproven by a recent study that shows that you ''can''. Older dogs are more intelligent, more experienced, and more disciplined than their younger counterparts, making them easier to train.
* Creator/AynRand said, "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win." However, some substances that are poisonous in large quantities are harmless or even necessary for life in smaller quantities. A good example of this is sodium.
* The "A Good Cartoon" Tumblr largely runs on this, by picking apart (usually conservative) political cartoons that often end up disproving their own analogies when given the wrong interpretation. In particular, [[http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/163268013140/obamacare-is-a-tragic-figure-cobbled-together-from one cartoon]] by Ben Garrison compared the Affordable Care Act to the monster of Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, and depicted Rand Paul desperately trying to rally a mob to defeat the monster. As the Tumblr pointed out, the monster in nearly every version is [[TorturedMonster a benign and tragic creature]] that means well despite its sordid origins, and is only ever dangerous (if that) because of unfair persecution and mistreatment, while the angry mobs that try to kill it are always depicted as misled or evil, and [[BullyingADragon never successful]].
* The saying “you can't turn back the clock”. It's actually fairly easy to change the time on a clock, as people who live in places with daylight savings can tell you.
* 1956, Władysław Gomułka, leader of post-war Poland: "we have made a huge step forward". Previously in the very same sentence: "we stood on the edge of a precipice".
* The health insurance company [[http://www.redshirttreatment.com/ slogan]] "You Deserve The {{Redshirt}} Treatment" isn't terribly reassuring given the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries pop-culture usage]] of the term.
* The saying "There's no I in 'team'" is often used as meaning that selfishness has no place in teamwork. However, some wiseguys[[note]]Including those who think [[ItsAllAboutMe it's all about them]].[[/note]] have pointed out that there is, in fact, an M and an E in "team."
* One Anti-vaccine meme featured a picture of toddlers crying as a vaccine is being prepared. This was countered by showing a picture of a toddler crying because he was forced to wear a lifejacket near water, proving the point that little kids will cry over anything they find discomforting, even if it's for their own good.
* The simile "as pure as the driven snow" and similar expressions. Snow naturally has carbon dioxide and other impurities mixed in it as it falls, like rain does, so it isn't exactly pure, even without taking acid snow into account.
* Parents often say "the early bird catches the worm" to get their children out of bed, which is highly unlikely to work if you look at it from the worm's point of view.
** It also has potential to fail even if you look at it from the bird's POV. Who wants to eat worms?
* Medical doctor and vegan activist Dr. Michael Klaper said that "the human body has no more need for cow's milk than for dog's milk, horse's milk, or giraffe's milk." Horse's milk is actually a staple in eastern Europe. The larger "we don't drink dog/cat/whatever milk" argument doesn't really stand up to logical scrutiny either; we don't drink the milk of these animals because they don't produce a large enough yield to make them worth the trouble of farming for milk the first place.
* During the final days of the infamous biotech firm Theranos (in which it finally came to light that their technology never worked and they had committed fraud on a massive scale), CEO Elizabeth Holmes bought [[SkewedPriorities a puppy to serve as their mascot]]. She named the puppy Balto, after a legendary Alaskan sled-dog that in 1925 trekked 600 miles from Nenana to Nome carrying medicine to fight a diphteria outbreak. Balto was clearly supposed to be an analogy for Theranos' current struggles. However, according to ''Time'', Balto only completed the last leg of the trip and got all the credit for carrying the medicine into town while another dog, Togo, who ran 261 miles and saved his driver and the dogs at one point was ignored. To add insult to injury, she routinely claimed that this puppy ([[BlatantLies which was very obviously a husky]]) [[https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/elizabeth-holmes-told-everyone-her-husky-dog-was-a-wolf.html was a wolf]], playing into her reputation for dishonesty.
-->'''[[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/as-theranos-burned-elizabeth-holmes-was-partyingat-burning-man Nick Bilton]]''': Holmes had used Balto as a metaphor for her vision for Theranos. In reality, it was almost too apt. Balto represented Holmes’s own shallow desire to be famous and take credit for something that wasn’t true.
* When people say something is "a snap", they almost invariably mean it is easy. Even if they are one of many people who finds it hard to snap his fingers.
* A common argument in favour of veganism is that gorillas, which are closely related to humans, have very large canine teeth and obviously get enough protein despite being herbivores. Except gorillas are actually omnivores; while they mostly eat fruit, they occasionally eat insects.
* The name of the OedipusComplex comes from a [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Greek myth]] featuring a man who killed his father then married his mother. The mythological Oedipus actually ''didn't'' suffer from Oedipus complex: he was abandoned at birth (because of a prophecy saying he would commit both those heinous acts) and adopted. Once adult, he killed a man he encountered while travelling, then married the queen of a city he helped to saved, and learned those two strangers were his biological parents ''years later''. When Oedipus and his mother learned the truth, the mother is DrivenToSuicide, and Oedipus ''[[EyeScream gouged out his own eyes]].'' The name for the DistaffCounterpart, Electra complex, isn’t any better. Electra did kill her mother (or at least help her brother to) but there’s no (stated) element of ParentalIncest in the story and in fact Electra’s father was dead before she killed her mother...because the whole motive for Orestes and Electra to kill Clytemnestra was that she killed Agamemnon.
* When Creator/ReginaldHudlin had the ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ComicBook/XMen [[TokenRomance married]] (pissing off many fans), Creator/JoeQuesada gave it the heads up, and called it the Creator/MarvelComics equivalent of "Prince Charles and Princess Diana". The thing is, Princess Diana was believed to be trapped a loveless marriage, separated in 1993, had a romantic fling with Dodi al-Fayed, heir to Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, before the couple were killed in a car crash after being zealously hounded by paparazzi. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Maybe Joe's trying to tell us something here...]]
* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the villain of the film, was a mass murderer, and [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
* "When life closes a door, it opens another one". An insurance company turned this on an ad into "When life closes a door, you open it again. It's a door, that's how they work".
* The old-fashioned metaphor "If you have an itch, scratch it" is used to say "If you want to have sex, don't fight the urge - do it." Unfortunately, any doctor will tell someone suffering from chicken pox, poison ivy, etc. that if you have an itch, you're ''not'' supposed to scratch it because of the risk of infection...
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* ''Trojan'' condoms. Sure, [[Literature/TheTrojanCycle the city of Troy withstood a siege for 10 years]], but the adjective "Trojan" in every other case comes from the TrojanHorse, which was used to sneak a bunch of seamen inside the walls and ruin the place.
** Plenty of sports teams go by the nickname "Trojans," which tends to raise the same question.
** Throughout Homer, the Trojans are shown as honorable and the Greeks are susceptible to corruption (in the form of classic tragic flaws). And the horse story just shows all the seamen were only a problem inside the Trojan (city)...
* Similarly, Ramses condoms are named after a guy who fathered over 100 children.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2008 During the 2008 Democratic primaries]], UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton tried to compare herself to Creator/SylvesterStallone's Franchise/{{Rocky}}. A lot of people commented that he lost in the [[Film/{{Rocky}} first movie]]. Presumably the desired implication was that she'd stick it out 'til the end. Even worse, Rocky loses to a charismatic black man. Hillary should have seen it coming.
** Creator/StephenColbert used the same metaphor in reference to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush at the Correspondents' Dinner, and was halfway into it before he realized that Rocky lost to Apollo Creed.
---> ...The point is, it is the heart-warming story of a man who was repeatedly punched in the face.
*** Colbert seems to like this. He once discussed one politician who used an analogy of the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Men of the West's diversionary attack]] and Iraq distracting the Bush Administration from the election, pointing out that by the terms of the man's analogy, this makes the US {{Mordor}}.
* In the 2007 NCAA Basketball tournament, upon being asked about his match-up with future NBA #1 pick (and much taller) Ohio St.'s Greg Oden, U. of Memphis center Joey Dorsey infamously remarked that this was a 'David and Goliath' match-up... "and I'm Goliath." Turns out, he was right after all: Dorsey was held scoreless and Oden had a monster game.
* Likewise, on the eve of the infamous 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Miami and Penn State, the Miami players attended a pregame banquet clad in combat fatigues while the Penn State players wore suits. Some Penn State players performed a skit onstage and made offensive jokes, causing Miami defensive tackle Jerome Brown to attempt a walkout. Brown was televised saying "Did the Japanese go sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?" As the Miami players began to walk out, Penn State punter John Bruno retorted "Excuse me, but didn't the Japanese lose the war?" At the Fiesta Bowl afterwards, Penn State proceeded to upset Miami 14-10 and win their second national championship.
* [[ScienceIsBad Anti-Biotechnology]] groups often refer to genetically modified crops and farm animals as "Frankenfood," presumably arguing that because it was created in a lab like the [[IAmNotShazam Frankenstein Monster]], it must be as dangerous as the FrankensteinsMonster. Anyone who has read the book or seen the movie knows that the monster was originally innocent and benign and only turned to evil when provoked by the bigotry of humans. On the other hand, it's possible that they ''did'' read the novel, and were thinking of ''Victor Frankenstein'''s failure to foresee or take responsibility for the ultimate results of his attempt to play God ForScience. Naturally, Bio-Engineered Food Scientists are ''quite'' concerned with testing or tracking their creations, but whether or not they are required to do so enough or to have their research independently verified by non-industry sources is the central issue here.
** Ironically, non-genetically engineered food is almost never tested for safety, despite the fact that there is no particular reason to believe it would be any less hazardous; indeed, plants produce natural insecticides to deter predation, and traditional plant breeding is actually more likely to introduce undesirable variations in the expression of these traits.
* As Jimmy Carr has pointed out, this applies to the people who have described UsefulNotes/BarackObama as a cross between JFK and Martin Luther King. Both of whom were shot. Let's hope we won't get something worse than a bad analogy.
** Being a legislator from Illinois who was elected president, he's also often compared to UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, another victim of assassination.
** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0 rather funny]] video has a group of Obama campaigners singing ''One Day More'' shortly before the election. Website/YouTube commentary was quick to point out that most of the characters of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' died.
** He's also been favorably compared to [[Series/TwentyFour David Palmer,]] who was the first black President, led a country in turmoil in the TheWarOnTerror and was also assassinated after several failed attempts. Like the above examples, it is hoped that in this instance LifeImitatesArt is averted.
* After UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, there were the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising Communist Spartacist uprisings]] in Germany. Named after the famous Film/{{Spartacus}} who led the slaves' uprising against the Roman republic-verging-on-empire. And was defeated by Crassus (the richest man in Rome, and maybe in the world history), and crucified together with 6000 of his fellow slaves. Guess what happened to the German Communists. (OK, they weren't ''crucified''.)
* A Swedish ad campaign for pasta sauce used the slogan "What would Romeo be without Juliet?" (The correct answer being "alive". But a very EmoTeen, however.) As mentioned at the top of this page, misguided comparisons to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' are very nearly a trope unto themselves.
* Radio/GlennBeck [[http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/Story?id=7795824&page=4 compared]] himself to [[Film/{{Network}} Howard Beale]], apparently missing the fact that Beale went insane... [[spoiler:and eventually was murdered by his own network]]. To be fair, how do we know ''[[FridgeHorror he didn't know that already?]]''
* A ''deliberate'' case of backfiring analogy. When member of Soviet Academy of Science Sakharov became a dissident, the speaker of the academy held a meeting:
--> (Speaker) -Comrades, we have an unprecedented issue here: about nullifying the membership in our Academy for Sakharov...
--> ([[OnlySaneMan Capitza]]) -Why unprecedented? [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler]] once nullified the membership of Einstein in German Academy...
--> The issue was promptly dropped.
* [[https://overheardinnewyork.com/archives/4976.html This]] quote:
--> Pilot: Welcome to the Titanic of airliners.
--> --Delta plane, La Guardia
* When Angus Deayton was fired from his job on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' after the second round of wacky cocaine-and-prostitute hijinks, longtime panelist from the show said "We've lost Zeppo, it's no big deal". You'd think a very big aficionado of old comedy (to the point of having written a book on the subject) like Merton would remember that while Zeppo is often perceived as the blandest, a lot of people claim he's just as funny as his brothers, but subtler and more of an acquired taste. Although like the Marx Brothers post-Zeppo, ''Have I Got News for You'' managed to continue clicking along quite nicely without Deayton, which restores the validity of the analogy.
* The analogy that life is like a roller coaster in that it has its ups (good times) and downs (bad times). When a rollercoaster is going down, isn't that when it is the most fun? [[note]] And what does that make the loops? [[/note]] On the other hand, it could still work if the intended meaning was that the ''up'' parts were the bad times (the difficult, slow, uphill slog) you have to get through in order to experience the ''down'' parts (the fun, quick and easy bits everyone enjoys).
** It's also worth mentioning that some people find the uphill parts of the roller coaster to be relaxing and the downhill parts to be scary.
* There are several companies named for Midas, the king whose touch turned things to gold. Excellent, until you remember that this included all the things he touched that were better before they were solid gold (water, food, air, his daughter...)
* Changing {{values|dissonance}} and [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage meaning]] along with [[PoorCommunicationKills poor phrasing or lack of context]] can cause an Analogy Backfire ''[[ZigZaggingTrope backfire]]''. For example, the phrase "It's always darkest before the dawn" (a common phrase for comedians' complaints) is not inaccurate because of false dawn, but rather means "It's darkest before it starts to get lighter".
* Oftentimes political debates, such as the healthcare debate, involve comparisons that run against the point one is trying to make. ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'' involved Bill mimicking sarcastic anti-government questions before answering them with a BluntYes.
-->'''Bill:''' I mean, how stupid is it when people say "[[SarcasmMode oh that's what we need, the federal government telling Detroit how to make cars, or Wells Fargo how to run a bank, you want them to look like the post office?]]"\\
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'''Bill:''' [[FlatYes Yeah.]] I mean, a place that takes a little note from my hand from LA on Monday, to give it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday, for 42 cents? Well, let me be the first to say that I would be THRILLED if America's healthcare system was anywhere near as functional as the post office.
** It is notable that he changed it to the post office for this joke to work. The actual comparison he's mocking is with the DMV, which is the usual go-to example for bureaucratic inefficiency.
* During the 2010 British Airways strike, Sir Creator/IanMcKellen said "Nice well-behaved [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings hobbits]] don't join unions". Creator/DavidLangford was [[http://news.ansible.co.uk/a273.html quick to point out]] that "nice well-behaved hobbits were easy meat for Saruman until the rough aggressive ones got home." And when they ''did'' get home, the hobbits took "collective action" to a whole new level (as in, shooting their oppressors by hundreds).
* PETA attempted to put up a billboard in Ohio depicting a sow, a piglet, and a human microwaving a pork chop in reference to the China Arnold murder case along with the caption "Everybody's somebody's baby." For those unfamiliar with the case, Ms. Arnold was convicted of cooking ''her own child''. While this behavior is congruent with that of many domestic pigs [[OffingTheOffspring toward their offspring]], that was probably not the message that PETA intended. [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Or is it?]]
* Animal rights activists often compare animal suffering to various forms of oppression, such as rape, racism, and slavery. Going by this analogy, this compares the victims of said oppression to animals, which something that the perpetrators of oppression often do.
* Back in the older days of Website/GameFAQs, the old administator, [=CJayC=], compared notorious message board ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'' to "a cancer" due to its tendency to invade other boards and cause general mayhem wherever it goes. LUE was quick to point out that "there's no cure for cancer", which briefly became the message board's motto.
* In April 2011, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, trying to connect to younger voters, said that "If this was a Music/LadyGaga song, the relationship between the youth vote and Barack Obama would be 'Bad Romance.'" Apparently he missed the point of the song -- to want all of someone, their good AND their bad.
* During the 2010 California gubernatorial election, Meg Whitman said in a speech she wanted California to be like it was back when she first moved there. It took approximately 30 seconds for Jerry Brown's campaign to put out a commercial helpfully pointing out that when Whitman had moved to California, Brown had been the governor.
* A Wiki/TVTropes related one! Creator/WaltDisney has an extensive [[WeCare Corporate responsibility page]]. In the [[ThinkOfTheChildren "Children and Family"]] section, they have a [[ThinkOfTheCensors Standards and Practices]] page [[http://disney.go.com/crreport/childrenandfamily/contentfordifferentages/standardsandpractices.html located here]]. The show they use to illustrate it? ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', noted for [[Radar/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace getting the you-know-what past the you-know-what]].
* A Mexican left-leaner informative/satirical political magazine ran an informative strip criticizing the Mexican Drug War, denouncing it as being orchestrated by "greedy U.S. capitalists" in order to take control of Mexico just as the Opium Wars were orchestrated by "greedy British capitalists" to take control of China; unfortunately, if the parallel was correct then it would make the ''Mexican'' greedy capitalists who would want to take control of the U.S. and impose the legal sale of drugs. (Unless the author is also [[FridgeBrilliance making a point about]] history being WrittenByTheWinners.)
** And from the same author of the aforementioned strip, [[http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/09/26/cartones/0 this editorial political cartoon]] referring to the new Mexican Labor Laws: [[ShoutOut It depicts a poor worker being crushed by the]] "[[Film/ModernTimes Modern Labor Machinery]]" while representing two of the major political parties that are pushing these new laws ([=PAN=] and [=PRI=], that hold opposing views from the author's) as the main cogs of this evil mechanism; however you'll notice that the positioning of the [=PRI=] cog would ''[[SpannerInTheWorks actually prevent]]'' [[SpannerInTheWorks the whole system from working]], something that's actually true, since historically the [=PRI=] has opposed many of the [=PAN=]'s proposed reforms.
* The saying that encourages people to be nice rather than coarse: "You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar." Some cynical people will quickly point "Who would want to attract flies?"
** Or as ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' would [[http://xkcd.com/357/ point out]], you actually attract more flies with vinegar. I guess NiceGuysFinishLast, then.
*** It is also true, as noted by Sheldon on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' above, that you can attract more flies with a nice pile of manure than either of the above.
** Winston Groom once wrote in ''Literature/ForrestGump'' that "...you can catch more flies with garbage than either of them other two things; assuming you're into catching flies."
* The saying "sure as the sky is blue". Most of the time the sky isn't blue -- at night it's black, at sunset & sunrise it's all the colors of the rainbow, and if you count clouds it's grey / white a lot of the time as well. And if you want to get technical about it, the sky isn't ''actually'' blue at all; nothing, in fact, has any inherent colour, it's all wavelengths getting bounced back.
** Another way to get technical is to say that the sky still is blue. It's just the clouds that got in the way that have a different color.
* The phrase "like taking candy from a baby" is virtually a [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse Analogy]] now, as it's only likely to be seen if it's followed by the obligatory "Have you ever actually ''tried'' taking candy from a baby?" retort. And looks overused and trite, even with that corollary.
** Hilariously, the Series/{{Mythbusters}} actually tested this. They found out that taking candy from a baby was actually incredibly difficult; the babies had a strong grip that made simply pulling the candy away hard to do, and the older ones knew how to use evasive strategies to hide the candy from the arm trying to take it from them. Then there's the guilt that is quickly felt when the baby begins crying.
** Mythbusters is late to the game here, back in the '70s when BobBarker was doing the game show ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'', one of the contests that people had to try to do was take candy from a baby, without causing it to cry. HilarityEnsues. ''Very'' difficult, indeed! Then again, at least in fiction, the people who tend to use this phrase are the sort who would have no problems with ''[[EatsBabies killing]]'' [[WouldHurtAChild said baby]], in which case it probably ''would'' be quite easy.
* The controversial German classical liberal politician Guido Westerwelle once said on one of his party's assemblies, "Here stands the Statue of Liberty of this republic!". The very leftist comedian Volker Pispers was quick to retort: "Can someone kindly tell this man... that the Statue of Liberty is hollow and accessible on the inside?"
* The dove is the internationally used symbol for peace. [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying Every ornithologist]] (and many other people) know that doves are very aggressive animals amongst each other -- even more so than falcons.
* Back in TheEighties, the media liked to compare Music/MichaelJackson to Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin (one of the ''Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge'' yearbooks titled a whole article "The Pied Piper of Pop"), owing to his huge popularity. Such comparisons forgot [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what the Pied Piper did to Hamelin's children]] when the mayor and his underlings wouldn't pay him. In the years since Jackson was first accused of child molestation in 1993, this analogy is usually not applied by those speaking up for Jackson, [[http://www.innermichael.com/2010/01/michael-and-shadow but this author]] not only uses it, but seems unaware that the reason the children followed the Piper is because ''they were bewitched into doing so'', not because they instinctively knew he was a good guy.
* Simon Hoggart pointed out that that any speech from John Major tended to included a fair few of these. For example, Major once said that Labour and taxes go together like peaches and cream, causing Hoggart to remark that people actually like peaches and cream?
* Sarcastically suggesting that someone clearly guilty of something is [[Series/TheFugitive "blaming the one-armed man"]], in reference to the lame excuses the accused keeps offering--this is frequently quoted on legal shows. Completely forgetting that as bizarre as his story was, [[CassandraTruth Richard Kimble was telling the]] ''[[CassandraTruth truth]]''.
* Stating that someone going through a difficult situation is like "Daniel in the lions' den", or experiencing "the trials of Job", disregarding the fact those guys came out of their ordeals okay -- Job was even rewarded twofold for keeping faith that everything would work out. (Unless the point is to suggest that whoever's in the difficult situation will pull through just fine.)
* Hybristophilia (a paraphilia in which women are attracted to violent criminals) is often called "Bonnie and Clyde syndrome". Ironically, unlike most hybristophiliacs (whose relationships usually end in DomesticAbuse and/or death), Bonnie and Clyde themselves had a quite happy relationship. Also, Bonnie and Clyde were ''both'' criminals, in contrast to most hybristophiliacs who simply admire their violent partner from the sidelines.
* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign asks, "If [[Literature/HarryPotter Lily Potter]] had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?", to which Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly replied that (A) Neville Longbottom would stop Voldemort, and (B) Lily Potter was an educated, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage and had no reason to consider having an abortion, and flipped the question, "What if Merope Gaunt [Voldemort's mother], an impoverished and uneducated single woman ... pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not the immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?"
* There is a popular American chain of indoor waterparks called Kalihari Resorts. Kalihari is a desert in Africa.
* There's a DigitalPiracyIsEvil ad that uses out-of-context clips from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. Unfortunately for their message, they used the scene where Ilsa is holding Rick at gunpoint to get him to give her the letters of transit so she and Lazlo can help the Allies and claimed that Ilsa is the digital pirate. So, they accidentally (or maybe not so accidentally) implied that digital piracy is analogous to fighting the Nazis.
* In UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Robert E. Lee had copies of Literature/LesMiserables given to all the officers of the Confederacy, because he thought it symbolized their cause. Now, if you've ever read the book/seen the musical/watched one of the many film adaptations/read a synopsis online so you could look smart by knowing the plot and understanding allusions to it without having [[{{Doorstopper}} to read it]], you know that the June Uprising was an absolute failure. All but one of the rebels die, the barricades fall after one day, the failed revolt didn't lead to any changes in government, and Les Amis d'ABC didn't even take anyone down with them. Fittingly, the Confederacy lost the war. The same applies to protesters who use "Do You Hear the People Sing?", Les Amis' AngryMobSong, as their ProtestSong.
* During the earlier stages of Obamacare, UsefulNotes/SarahPalin tried to speak out against it by doing a parody of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''. Critics of Palin were quick to point out that moral of the original story was [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam to not claim that you hate something without even trying it first,]] and that the protagonist ''really liked them'' when he tried them.
** During the 2008 election, Palin would also deflect criticism of her youth and inexperience by comparing herself to [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt another outdoors-loving Republican governor of similar age who became Vice President]]. Detractors were quick to point out that by the time Roosevelt was made UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley's running mate, he'd already been [[ColonelBadass an Army officer]], [[TheCommissionerGordon New York City Police Commissioner]], and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (where he [[GeniusBruiser wrote multiple books]]). Palin had only been mayor of a small town before serving two years as Governor of Alaska.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil Once Brazilian people started protesting in 2013]], a few of the revolted started calling the movement "Brazilian Spring" or "Brazilian Autumn" after UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring. While both were popular uprisings, the Arab Spring was met with much repression, at times evolving into armed conflict, and had already at that point seen its pro-democracy intentions instead installing some much worse governments. Not exactly the outcome the South Americans expect...
* During his term, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has compared his government's long austerity policies to a "marathon" and that "getting to the end too quickly" could put the country in jeopardy. At least one pundit pointed out that according to legend, the original marathoner ''dropped dead'' at the end.
* Whoever said "Words are like toothpaste, once you get them out, you can't put them back in" probably never even tried putting toothpaste back into the tube. It's more like, "Words are like toothpaste, you can put them back in with relative ease, and once you wash your hands of the matter, it's like it never happened."
* [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/09/16/431CE36F00000578-4775104-image-a-26_1502292486475.jpg This posting]] from Royal Dutch Airlines faced ridicule from all sides for how terrible an analogy it presents, with even those who wholeheartedly agree with its message pointing out that it comes off as positively heteronormative because of how anything other than a male/female set of buckles ''can't fasten a seatbelt''.
* The infamous "This is Your Brain on Drugs" PublicServiceAnnouncement, which showed a man frying an egg to simulate the mind-destroying effects [[DrugsAreBad drugs]] have on the user, is [[MemeticMutation notorious not just for its message]], but of all the ways people (including children) picked apart the analogy, from substituting "brain" for "eggs" just to drive the joke home, to suggesting that [[WebVideo/JonTron drugs are a healthy, nutritious breakfast that helps [your] brain grow]].
* Edmund Stoiber, former president of Bavaria (Germany) is infamous for not only stammering heavily, but also for throwing around analogies that either don't work out, are absolutely nonsensical or implicate the very opposite of what he was trying to say. Among others did he say that his party shall "spark passion to fire up the flood" where rival parties didn't even bother to point out how weak any fire would be to the ocean.
* The quote "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" has been disproven by a recent study that shows that you ''can''. Older dogs are more intelligent, more experienced, and more disciplined than their younger counterparts, making them easier to train.
* Creator/AynRand said, "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win." However, some substances that are poisonous in large quantities are harmless or even necessary for life in smaller quantities. A good example of this is sodium.
* The "A Good Cartoon" Tumblr largely runs on this, by picking apart (usually conservative) political cartoons that often end up disproving their own analogies when given the wrong interpretation. In particular, [[http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/163268013140/obamacare-is-a-tragic-figure-cobbled-together-from one cartoon]] by Ben Garrison compared the Affordable Care Act to the monster of Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, and depicted Rand Paul desperately trying to rally a mob to defeat the monster. As the Tumblr pointed out, the monster in nearly every version is [[TorturedMonster a benign and tragic creature]] that means well despite its sordid origins, and is only ever dangerous (if that) because of unfair persecution and mistreatment, while the angry mobs that try to kill it are always depicted as misled or evil, and [[BullyingADragon never successful]].
* The saying “you can't turn back the clock”. It's actually fairly easy to change the time on a clock, as people who live in places with daylight savings can tell you.
* 1956, Władysław Gomułka, leader of post-war Poland: "we have made a huge step forward". Previously in the very same sentence: "we stood on the edge of a precipice".
* The health insurance company [[http://www.redshirttreatment.com/ slogan]] "You Deserve The {{Redshirt}} Treatment" isn't terribly reassuring given the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries pop-culture usage]] of the term.
* The saying "There's no I in 'team'" is often used as meaning that selfishness has no place in teamwork. However, some wiseguys[[note]]Including those who think [[ItsAllAboutMe it's all about them]].[[/note]] have pointed out that there is, in fact, an M and an E in "team."
* One Anti-vaccine meme featured a picture of toddlers crying as a vaccine is being prepared. This was countered by showing a picture of a toddler crying because he was forced to wear a lifejacket near water, proving the point that little kids will cry over anything they find discomforting, even if it's for their own good.
* The simile "as pure as the driven snow" and similar expressions. Snow naturally has carbon dioxide and other impurities mixed in it as it falls, like rain does, so it isn't exactly pure, even without taking acid snow into account.
* Parents often say "the early bird catches the worm" to get their children out of bed, which is highly unlikely to work if you look at it from the worm's point of view.
** It also has potential to fail even if you look at it from the bird's POV. Who wants to eat worms?
* Medical doctor and vegan activist Dr. Michael Klaper said that "the human body has no more need for cow's milk than for dog's milk, horse's milk, or giraffe's milk." Horse's milk is actually a staple in eastern Europe. The larger "we don't drink dog/cat/whatever milk" argument doesn't really stand up to logical scrutiny either; we don't drink the milk of these animals because they don't produce a large enough yield to make them worth the trouble of farming for milk the first place.
* During the final days of the infamous biotech firm Theranos (in which it finally came to light that their technology never worked and they had committed fraud on a massive scale), CEO Elizabeth Holmes bought [[SkewedPriorities a puppy to serve as their mascot]]. She named the puppy Balto, after a legendary Alaskan sled-dog that in 1925 trekked 600 miles from Nenana to Nome carrying medicine to fight a diphteria outbreak. Balto was clearly supposed to be an analogy for Theranos' current struggles. However, according to ''Time'', Balto only completed the last leg of the trip and got all the credit for carrying the medicine into town while another dog, Togo, who ran 261 miles and saved his driver and the dogs at one point was ignored. To add insult to injury, she routinely claimed that this puppy ([[BlatantLies which was very obviously a husky]]) [[https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/elizabeth-holmes-told-everyone-her-husky-dog-was-a-wolf.html was a wolf]], playing into her reputation for dishonesty.
-->'''[[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/as-theranos-burned-elizabeth-holmes-was-partyingat-burning-man Nick Bilton]]''': Holmes had used Balto as a metaphor for her vision for Theranos. In reality, it was almost too apt. Balto represented Holmes’s own shallow desire to be famous and take credit for something that wasn’t true.
* When people say something is "a snap", they almost invariably mean it is easy. Even if they are one of many people who finds it hard to snap his fingers.
* A common argument in favour of veganism is that gorillas, which are closely related to humans, have very large canine teeth and obviously get enough protein despite being herbivores. Except gorillas are actually omnivores; while they mostly eat fruit, they occasionally eat insects.
* The name of the OedipusComplex comes from a [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Greek myth]] featuring a man who killed his father then married his mother. The mythological Oedipus actually ''didn't'' suffer from Oedipus complex: he was abandoned at birth (because of a prophecy saying he would commit both those heinous acts) and adopted. Once adult, he killed a man he encountered while travelling, then married the queen of a city he helped to saved, and learned those two strangers were his biological parents ''years later''. When Oedipus and his mother learned the truth, the mother is DrivenToSuicide, and Oedipus ''[[EyeScream gouged out his own eyes]].'' The name for the DistaffCounterpart, Electra complex, isn’t any better. Electra did kill her mother (or at least help her brother to) but there’s no (stated) element of ParentalIncest in the story and in fact Electra’s father was dead before she killed her mother...because the whole motive for Orestes and Electra to kill Clytemnestra was that she killed Agamemnon.
* When Creator/ReginaldHudlin had the ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ComicBook/XMen [[TokenRomance married]] (pissing off many fans), Creator/JoeQuesada gave it the heads up, and called it the Creator/MarvelComics equivalent of "Prince Charles and Princess Diana". The thing is, Princess Diana was believed to be trapped a loveless marriage, separated in 1993, had a romantic fling with Dodi al-Fayed, heir to Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, before the couple were killed in a car crash after being zealously hounded by paparazzi. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Maybe Joe's trying to tell us something here...]]
* During the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Creator/DonaldTrump, his reelection campaign tweeted a video of Trump's head superimposed on Thanos from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[FanNickname Snapping]] various Democratic leaders out of existence and describing his reelection as "inevitable". [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/12/10/donald-trump-campaign-thanos-video/ Approximately the entire Internet quickly pointed out]] that Thanos was the villain of the film, was a mass murderer, and [[spoiler:lost and was Snapped out of existence himself seconds after the part of the movie the clip came from]].
* "When life closes a door, it opens another one". An insurance company turned this on an ad into "When life closes a door, you open it again. It's a door, that's how they work".
* The old-fashioned metaphor "If you have an itch, scratch it" is used to say "If you want to have sex, don't fight the urge - do it." Unfortunately, any doctor will tell someone suffering from chicken pox, poison ivy, etc. that if you have an itch, you're ''not'' supposed to scratch it because of the risk of infection...
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