History BrokenAesop / Literature

** The series spares no effort to criticize classism and make the point that a person's status should be decided by their own merits and not their birth, which is supposed to be exemplified by the protagonist saving the day despite being looked down upon by his fellow students and most of society as a whole. The problem is that said protagonist is [[PersonOfMassDestruction a comically-overpowered genetically-engineered super-mage]] from a rich family, and being literally created to have ridiculous powers that hardly anyone on else on earth can match is the definition of being born into privilege.
** This aesop is broken in perhaps the most blatant way during the first battle between the Bloom and Weed classes. Tatsuya and the others start the conflict and go to great lengths to prove that someone's worth can't be decided by something as simple as a power level number, and that everyone has unique skills and traits that make them valuable in their own way. However, instead of using creative methods that make use of their skills to defeat the arrogant Blooms, the Weeds simply win through brute force. Later arcs show that despite the story taking great pains to convince the reader that everyone has worth and can contribute, Tatsuya's friends can't save the day on their own, and have to rely on him to rescue them from certain defeat.

* The novel ''Such A Pretty Girl'' is so devoted to portraying pedophilia as a serious issue that it portrays it as an ''insurmountable'' one. It more or less goes; 'Don't tell your parents you were raped, because they're abusive assholes who will blame you for it. Don't tell the cops, because AdultsAreUseless. Don't run away from your rapist, because then he will abuse other children in your place (and you don't want to be ''selfish'', right?)' Also, none of the many characters in the novel who have been raped ever recover from it. ThereAreNoTherapists, and no point in ever trying to be happy again. Pretty bleak, given that in RealLife thousands of rapists are jailed ''per year''.

* ''Franchise{{Dune}}'' is supposedly about the dangers of following charismatic religious leaders, as the protagonist Paul Atreides manipulates an army of desert nomads into thinking he is TheChosenOne according to their religious beliefs, which were actually engineered by a cult his mother belongs to, and unleashes a holy war that kills tens of billions, with his son Leto becoming a nigh-immortal GodEmperor who is even ''more'' tyrannical than his father. The problem is, said prophecy is fulfilled very much ''in spite'' of the desires of said cult and Paul himself (or his son, or both) seems to be the genuine article despite it being supposedly artificial, and both Paul and Leto develop genuine powers of prescience that let them see into the far future and are utterly certain that the atrocities they commit are the '''only''' path to avoid the extinction of the human race, so it comes off to many readers that everything is a necessary evil and the characters literally do not have any choice (and if they do, their despicable actions are still the "least bad"). It doesn't help that most of their atrocities [[ShowDontTell happen offscreen]], or that their enemies are [[BlackAndGrayMorality not much better]] and often just short-sighted and selfish, with Paul himself being the only character who angsts over his genocides half the time. The actual aesop arguably comes off more as "religious zealotry is dangerous, sure, but it's better than the alternative and works out in the long run."

* Franchise{{Dune}}'' is supposedly about the dangers of following charismatic religious leaders, as the protagonist Paul Atreides manipulates an army of desert nomads into thinking he is TheChosenOne according to their religious beliefs, which were actually engineered by a cult his mother belongs to, and unleashes a holy war that kills tens of billions, with his son Leto becoming a nigh-immortal GodEmperor who is even ''more'' tyrannical than his father. The problem is, said prophecy is fulfilled very much ''in spite'' of the desires of said cult and Paul himself (or his son, or both) seems to be the genuine article despite it being supposedly artificial, and both Paul and Leto develop genuine powers of prescience that let them see into the far future and are utterly certain that the atrocities they commit are the '''only''' path to avoid the extinction of the human race, so it comes off to many readers that everything is a necessary evil and the characters literally do not have any choice (and if they do, their despicable actions are still the "least bad"). It doesn't help that most of their atrocities [[ShowDontTell happen offscreen]], or that their enemies are [[BlackAndGrayMorality not much better]] and often just short-sighted and selfish, with Paul himself being the only character who angsts over his genocides half the time. The actual aesop arguably comes off more as "religious zealotry is dangerous, sure, but it's better than the alternative and works out in the long run."