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** The early episodes especially pull a BaitAndSwitch with making Stan a villain. In "American Dream Factory," Stan initially opposes illegal immigration, but then starts an illegal factory exploiting workers, with Francine using them for housework. At the end, Hayley calls immigration services, the Mexicans sing a song about America and Stan learns... something. Except the episode actually illustrates a legitimate reason people oppose illegal immigration in the first place: without legal status, migrants will mostly end up in jobs where they will be exploited anyway. If anything, Stan was in the moral right ''until'' he switched views. The closest the episode gets to pointing this out is admitting Hayley is a hypocrite for calling immigration, but because she was rejected by one of the Mexican boys and being petty, not because the workers were being exploited.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Jerry frequently falls into this, especially in the first three seasons. He's certainly a selfish, pathetic weasel and a jerk, but he generally makes very valid criticisms of Beth and Rick that are dismissed and treated as him being unreasonable, and tends to be blamed and/or punished for either making these points or for things outside of his control. Later seasons bring him out of this trope, but the narrative tends to treat him as being just as bad as Rick and Beth for being an ExtremeDoormat, when both of them tend to be ''far'' worse and when his family actively sabotages any attempt he makes to be assertive.
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How Frankie is supposed to be John Travolta expy?


** [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed The John Travolta Pigeon]] in "In the Line of Doody" wanted to poop on the parks and recs manager... for trying to get rid of all the pigeons around all the parks. Pigeons are being treated as AlwaysChaoticEvil while the Penguins support this man.

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** [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed The John Travolta Pigeon]] Frankie the pigeon in "In the Line of Doody" wanted to poop on the parks and recs manager... for trying to get rid of all the pigeons around all the parks. Pigeons are being treated as AlwaysChaoticEvil while the Penguins support this man. man just because he's providing them with extra fishes.
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** Blue Hen, at least in her first appearence. Her plan involves fooling everyone into believing she is a psychic chicken, and use those influences to become the president. The only issue is that [[VillainyFreeVillain she never planned to do anything bad once she got to that position of power]]. The only reason why they decide to stop her is because Skipper believes a chicken would accidentally press the doomsday buttom, which Privates lampshades is unlikely to happen.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': The Elemental trio from "Jack and the Gangsters". Sure they try to kill Jack, but only because he's trying to steal the jewel they're guarding which they're trying to keep out of Aku's hands. It's almost odd that the show treats them as [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] while similar characters like X9 were given a sympathetic POV. Perhaps this is why they're ultimately incapacitated after [[HoistByHisOwnPetard accidentally shooting each other]] rather than killed by Jack.

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