History DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / Literature

-->'''Abby''' ''(writing in her diary)'': She said I had betrayed an innocent child's trust. She said Wynter would bear lifelong scars. She made it sound like I had committed an awful crime.

** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', on the other hand, the clash of ideals between moderate and extremist dwarven factions closely resembles similar conflicts in the history of religion, Islam being the most prominent one recently.

** ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' was centered around a conflict between the Westernized Ankh-Morpork and the Arabia-metaphor country of Klatch. Anti-Klatchian prejudice bore a remarkable similarity to the xenophobic ignorance shown against Middle Eastern peoples, and the illogic of this stance is lampooned many, many times.
*** Though the prejudices were less about the modern religious terrorists angle, but about the old British colonial stereotypes.
** There's also the Black Ribbon Society, a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent group of vampires which have pledged to give up blood]], which is clearly meant to be similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
** In Guards! Guards!, drunk Vimes says (paraphrased): Ah, life... it grabs you... kicks you in the... in the... y'know, thingies... that you have in the mouth... Teeth. That's it.

* In the eighth LightNovel of SuzumiyaHaruhi, Haruhi tries to get the last page of Kyon's short story because she wants to know the aftermath of the date. He unconsciously touches his blazer, and Haruhi, being the GenreSavvy girl, immediately works out where he hid it and wrestles him to the floor, in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_%28grappling%29 this position.]] Followed soon after by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(grappling) this position.]] Guess what came to Mikuru's mind when she walks in on this. You're right.

** It's named ''Arrakis''. [[hottip:*:Which comes from the traditional name of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Draconis Mu Draconis]], which comes from the Arabic ''al-Raqis'', "The Dancer". Yes, we know that Arrakis orbits Canopus, another star entirely.]] I think that's [[{{Anvilicious}} a bit more than reminding]].

* In ''TheAmazingDaysOfAbbyHayes,'' Laurie, a ''very'' stringent GranolaGirl, finds chocolate in her five-year-old daughter's sleeping bag that Abby gave to her and immediately becomes very angry with her. The scene is played out as if the chocolate was an illegal drug of some sort (which, from Laurie's point of view, it is).
-->'''Abby:''' ''(in her diary)'' She said I had betrayed an innocent child's trust. She said Wynter would bear lifelong scars. She made it sound like I had committed an awful crime.

* Toward the end of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', the vampire forces Mina to [[spoiler:drink some of his blood from his chest]]. The protagonists walking in on this event feel both awkward and enraged. Afterwards, Mina is traumatized and ashamed, and struggles to explain what happened to her husband. She [[UnfortunateImplications laments her doomed soul]] and [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization blames herself for "wanting" it]].

* In ''TheAmazingDaysOfAbbyHayes,'' Laurie, a ''very'' stringent GranolaGirl, finds chocolate in her five-year-old daughter's sleeping bag that Abby gave to her and immediately becomes very angry with her. The scene is played out as if the chocolate were an illegal drug ("Abby deliberately gave Wynter sugar! She knows how bad it is for her!").

* In ''TheBabySittersClub'', the whole plotline about Stacey's diabetes and the associated stigma leading to her moving away from New York lest she lose all her friends. In retrospect, the series' origins in the late [[TheEighties eighties]] makes it likely the diabetes stood in for HIV (considering very few people lose their friends over having diabetes).

* In ''TheBerenstainBears'' book about the Beanie Babies, The Bears go over to the Bear City, to a Bears R Us, to a long line, and the narration actually mentions two dads who are being arrested for getting into a fight. That was probably one of the more grittier elements of the usually light-hearted books.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': See what this sounds like: An eleven-year-old girl exchanges messages with an older stranger she has never met in real life. It's so easy! She enters her thoughts and he immediately transmits back. She confides in him, but he's really using her and preying on her insecurities. He makes her do horrible things for him which she doesn't want to do, but she still doesn't tell anyone. Finally, he meets her in person and nearly kills her. After she's been rescued, her father chides her for knowing better than to trust someone like that.
** More blatantly, the werewolf Fenrir Greyback seems to have some pretty heavy "sexual predator" undertones, what with all his salivating over young children and whatnot.

* In Jasper Fforde's ''The Fourth Bear'', the MP Sherman Bartholomew built his reputation on being the first openly gay Member of Parliament, but is secretly straight. His husband is aware of his dalliances with women, and has agreed to support him if any of them were to become public knowledge. The same book also featured [[TalkingAnimal talking bears]] who developed addictions to honey and porridge, which were therefore controlled substances.

* In ''TheWitcher'' novels the presence of the Witchers can be sensed as a tingling sensation by sensitive people. There's a reason why they all seem to attract the opposite sex quite a bit. Likewise, in ''The Blood of the Elves'' a 13-year old girl learning to be a sorceress draws power from the earth, an experience that's described in a manner reminiscent of menstrual cramps and concluding in an orgasm.
* Creator/RoaldDahl's ''TheWitches'' includes a scene where the protagonist is dragged out of hiding by a group of witches and force-fed a potion as they hold him down.

* ''GoblinMarket'' is full of this trope, sometimes disturbingly so, with multiple scenes that suggest a connection between the consumption of food and seduction or attempted rape.

* In the ''{{Taltos}}'' novels, the Teckla rebellion is clearly reminiscent of a communist revolution. In fact, in one book, a ridiculously long-lived character actually seems familiar with Marx's text and makes this comparison.

--> '''Jeeves''' ''It is often the way, sir.''

* In Vikram Seth's novel ''Literature/AnEqualMusic'', brilliant musician Julia suffers gradual hearing loss. [[LudwigVanBeethoven Guess who else did?]]

--> ''Powell grinned humorlessly at Donovan.'' "Did you get that? Those were the days of the first talking robots when it looked as if the use of robots on Earth would be banned. [[FantasticRacism The makers were fighting that and they built good, healthy slave complexes into the damned machines.]]"

** That has more to do with the fact that the InheritanceCycle page is really biased against it

* Detractors like to say this about the ''InheritanceCycle'', claiming that Paolini copied plot points or even the entire storyline wholesale from other, better books or movies. This is somewhat helped along by the fact that the plot synopsis on this very wiki's page for the series was constructed to read like a {{Troperiffic}} plot synopsis of ''StarWars''.

* DrSeuss' ''The Butter Battle Book'' concerns two peoples split by a [[SillyReasonForWar trivial ideological difference]] (which side toast should be buttered on), locked in an arms race that escalates to the point that if either side actually acts, both will be destroyed. If this sounds ''exactly'' like the ColdWar as seen by its detractors, congratulations, you just got the point of the book.

--> ''Powell grinned humorlessly at Donovan.'' "Did you get that? Those were the days of the first talking robots when it looked as if the use of robots on Earth would be banned. [[FantasticRacism The makers were fighting that and they built good, healthy slave complexes into the damned machines.]]"

* Aside from the meta-example of "Harry Peters" (Peter Harris' disguise in ''[[AuntDimity Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea]]''), there are other in-universe examples:

* In ''The Penderwicks,'' [[LonelyRichKid Jeffrey's]] only friends (as far as we know) are the titular quartet of Penderwick sisters and he is revealed to have a talent for playing music. However, his overbearing mother wants him to go to a military school to follow in his father's footsteps. [[CureYourGays Hmmm...]]
* Used InUniverse in Literature/TheForbiddenGame. After an accident at her Grandfather's house when she was five, Jenny was covered in scratches, her clothes were torn and she refused to talk to anyone. Jenny's friends had been under the assumption that her Grandfather had hurt her before disappearing, but after confronting her memory in the game they eventually find out [[spoiler:it was the Shadow Men.]]

* In ''The Penderwicks,'' [[LonelyRichKid Jeffrey's]] only friends (as far as we know) are the titular quartet of Penderwick sisters and he is revealed to have a talent for playing music. However, his overbearing mother wants him to go to a military school to follow in his father's footsteps. [[CureYourGays Hmmm...]]

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' series:

* In ''The Penderwicks,'' [[LonelyRichKid Jeffrey]]'s only friends (as far as we know) are the titular quartet of Penderwick sisters and he is revealed to have a talent for playing music. However, his overbearing mother wants him to go to a military school to follow in his father's footsteps. [[CureYourGays Hmmm...]]

* Toward the end of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', the vampire forces Mina to [[spoiler:drink some of his blood from his chest]]. The protagonists walking in on this event feel both awkward and enraged. Afterwards, Mina is traumatized and ashamed, and struggles to explain what happened to her husband. She [[UnfortunateImplications laments her doomed soul]] and [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt blames herself for "wanting" it]].

* In John Green's ''An Abundance of Katherines'', Lindsey has a cave. It seems like more of a short tunnel. She's never had anyone else in there, but she wants the protagonist to go in. She remarks that it's a bit tight, but she'll guide him in. She also notes that she must have overlooked that opening a hundred times before noticing something special around eighth grade, when she started using it whenever she was having "me time".

*** ''Discworld/{{The Fifth Elephant}}'' makes the point in the same Dwarvish context that "conservative" does ''not'' necessarily mean "extremist".
** ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' was centered around a conflict between the Westernized Ankh-Morpork and the Arabia-metaphor country of Klatch. Anti-Klatchian prejudice bore a remarkable similarity to the xenophobic ignorance shown against Middle Eastern peoples, and the illogic of this stance is lampooned many, many times.
*** Though the prejudices were less about the modern religious terrorists angle, but about the old British colonial stereotypes.

** In Guards! Guards!, drunk Vimes says (paraphrased): Ah, life... it grabs you... kicks you in the... in the... y'know, thingies... that you have in the mouth... Teeth. That's it.
** Angua wears a leather collar as a part of her everyday clothing and calls her boyfriend "master" (albeit not to his face). She's a werewolf, and has a mild case of dog-like instincts towards humans.
* In the ''{{Taltos}}'' novels, the Teckla rebellion is clearly reminiscent of a communist revolution. In fact, in one book, a ridiculously long-lived character actually seems familiar with Marx's text and makes this comparison.

* In ''{{Lord of the Flies}}'', there is a scene with a mother pig, whom the boys force away from her piglets, and then spear. This is reminiscent of some soldiers [[spoiler:who have just gone AWOL, as Jack and his tribe have just left the main group]] gang-raping a mother. A few quotes, in chronological order:

* Toward the end of ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'', the vampire forces Mina to [[spoiler:drink some of his blood from his chest]]. The protagonists walking in on this event feel both awkward and enraged. Afterwards, Mina is traumatized and ashamed, and struggles to explain what happened to her husband. She [[UnfortunateImplications laments her doomed soul]] and [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt blames herself for "wanting" it]].

* In ''The Dresden Files'' the eternal rivalry between the Summer and Winter courts of the fairies bears more than a passing resemblance to the Cold War between America and Russia. Both sides are pretty much equal in strength, and it's clear that a full scale conflict between them would, in the most likely scenario, largely wipe both sides out and send the world into a new ice age, but if it looks like one side's showing weakness ... well, they just ''have'' to exploit it. That's what archenemies do, right?

* RoaldDahl's ''TheWitches'' includes a scene where the protagonist is dragged out of hiding by a group of witches and force-fed a potion as they hold him down.

--> Orion Pax listened, and cataloged, and archived, and indexed, but his mind was not on his work... Who was this Megatron, this gladiator thug, killer of criminals and criminal himself, who gave voice to a longing that Orion Pax had never known he felt?

* ''GoblinMarket'' is full of this trope, sometimes disturbingly so, with multiple scenes that suggest a connection between the consumption of food and seduction or attempted rape.

** That has more to do with the fact that the {{Inheritance Cycle}} page is really biased against it

* [[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]] has young men literally exploding out of their clothes when they turn into animals. Predatory animals.

** Wasn't that part of Venerian culture in Heinlein's Space Cadet?

* DrSeuss' ''The Butter Battle Book'' concerns two peoples split by a trivial ideological difference (which side toast should be buttered on), locked in an arms race that escalates to the point that if either side actually acts, both will be destroyed. If this sounds ''exactly'' like the ColdWar as seen by its detractors, congratulations, you just got the point of the book.