History Main / AnalogyBackfire

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0 this video]] about the same woman, two years apart, 29 and 31, one says, "When God closes a door, you see, He opens a window," to which the other answers, "You realize that's a smaller opening right? You use to just walk on the front door and now I have to climb out and probably fall five stories to my death or something..."

--> '''James:''' If I'm gay, then Creator/NeilPatrickHarris is gay!\\

* In the second season of ''Series/CobraKai,'' this happens a few times to Demitri. Whenever he notices a situation that brings the RivalDojos closer to their respective boiling points, he compares it to a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' incident. Daniel (his sensei) is always able to counter it.

-->'''Penny''': You're not really interested in the homeless, are you?\\
'''Billy''': No, I am, but... It's a symptom. You're treating a symptom, and the disease rages on, consumes the human race. The fish rots from the head, as they say. So what I'm thinking is, why not cut off the head?\\
'''Penny''': ...Of the human race?\\
'''Billy''': It's not a perfect metaphor...

* ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}: Extinction'': Panniers claims that he "sleeps like a baby" inside a whale ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]). Egbert (or, more accurately, Mike, who has at least one young kid) spends a good amount of time snarking about how babies are notoriously poor sleepers.
* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' has had a few, such as this one from his ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' review:
-->"In heaven the food is Italian, the police are British, the platformers are French (with a pop-up of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time), and the shooters are Croatian and it's all run by two international software giants and an electronics corporation. In Hell the food is British the shooters are Canadian and I forget the rest..."

-->'''Joey's Heart''': What do all of history's greatest lovers have in common? Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet! Anthony and Cleopatra! Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet's character!\\
'''Joey''': All the guys die horribly first.\\
'''Joey's Heart''': Uh eh- BAD EXAMPLE. How about Spider-Man and Mary Jane?\\
'''Joey''': [[SarcasmMode Oh yeah they worked out]] [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay PERFECTLY.]]

--> '''Emperor Dornkirk''': Look, you can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs!
--> '''Hitomi''': Yes, you can. My Grandma used to make me vegan cake all the time!
--> '''Dornkirk''': You ''can''? Oi, Folken! Did you know you can bake a cake without breaking any eggs?
--> '''Folken''': Yes my lord, yes you can.
--> '''Dornkirk''': Do you think that means we should stop killing people?
--> '''Folken''': No my lord, I think you just need a better metaphor.
--> '''Dornkirk''': Right! Now listen, you can't test cosmetics without killing a few bunnies!
--> '''Hitomi''': Yes! Yes, you can!
--> '''Dornkirk''': Oi, Folken! Did you know-
--> '''Folken''': Omelet, my lord!
--> '''Dornkirk''': Folken says you can't make an omelet without killing a few bunnies.
* [[http://failbook.failblog.org/2011/01/08/funny-facebook-fails-treat-girls-how/ This]] failbook post has someone asking boys to treat girls as good as their videogames, only for many to point out they don't treat videogames that good to begin with.
* During the ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' video of ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Matt calls ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' "The ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' of video games", because of all the quick time events it has.
* Analogy backfire is major theme of the political cartoon commentary site [[http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/ A Good Cartoon,]] whose title is actually sarcastic; it takes cartoons arguing one perspective and then discusses why its visual elements suggest it would be better used to argue the opposite perspective, and analogy backfire is one aspect of this.
-->[[http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/22777059112/unless-germany-moves-more-towards-frances#notes "Unless Germany moves more towards France’s position, everyone’s in a lot of trouble. A good cartoon."]]
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0 this video]] about the same woman, two years apart, 29 and 31, one says "When God closes a door, you see, He opens a window" to which the other answers "You realize that's a smaller opening right? You use to just walk on the front door and now I have to climb out and probably fall five stories to my death or something..."
* In the ''WebVideo/{{Immersion}}'' episode about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IifP_edmLw Mario Kart,]] Michael brings up some safety concerns with his real life Kart to Burnie:
-->'''Michael''': This thing's half made of plastic!\\
'''Burnie''': Nah, it's fine. In the game it's made of pixels. You'll be good.\\
([[{{Beat}} Burnie walks away disconcertingly]])\\
'''Michael''': ''(to himself)'' In the game they ''die''!
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick notices how the examples of love conquering the impossible referenced at the start of Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' backfire drastically:
-->'''Jaquimo:''' [[Literature/TheBible Samson loved Delilah...]]
-->'''Nostalgia Chick:''' That ended... kinda bad.
-->'''Jaquimo:''' [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo, et Juliet]]... oh, impossible!
-->'''Nostalgia Chick:''' Al-so somewhat unfortunate...
** The same film also subverts this precise thing during Ms. Fieldmouse's song, as the ending of ''Romeo and Juliet'' was the whole reason she brought it up.
* In one episode of ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'', when Kyle reviews the Malian fantasy film ''Film/{{Yeelen}}'', he makes a comment about one character gallivanting around "...from here to Timbuktu". Then he remembers that the movie takes place in '''Mali'''...so it's probably not actually that far from Timbuktu.
* The [=PalletTownHeroes=] version of ''Pokemon: The Abridged Series'' provides us with [[AmbiguouslyGay James']] response to the suggestion that he should come out of the closet:
--> '''James:''' If I'm gay, then Creator/NeilPatrickHarris is gay!\\
'''Meowth:''' Neil Patrick Harris from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''? He's ''incredibly'' gay!
* In an episode of ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'', Gordon is concerned about being convicted for the murder of several soldiers and ponders if there's a "Franchise/{{Rambo}} clause" that might exonerate him. He then remembers that Rambo went to prison at the end of the [[Film/FirstBlood first movie]], so he's out of luck.
* WebVideo/ProJared did a review of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', which rated the game as "[[BrokeTheRatingScale a bowl of Lucky Charms/10]]", explaining that, like how Lucky Charms has tasty marshmallow bits scattered in much blander cereal, ''[=SA2=]'' has a number of really fun stages surrounded by [[ThatOneLevel slow and uninteresting ones]]. He concludes by noting that the game should probably have dropped the [[UnexpectedGameplayChange different gameplay]] of the weaker stages entirely and added more of the good ones, and punctuates his point by eating a handful of Lucky Charms marshmallows... and then nearly pukes, because it turns out they dilute those marshmallows for a reason.
* ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged'':
** Archer tells Shirou that his ChronicHeroSyndrome is stupid and comments Shirou would probably try to save Rider if she were about to get hit by a bus, even though she tried to kill him earlier. Shirou gets confused and asks why he would do that, as Servants cannot be harmed by non-magical attacks, so a bus would be no threat to Rider.
** When Archer lets Caster escape instead of finishing her off, Shirou calls him Franchise/{{Batman}} and asks him why he let ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} getaway. Archer points out that Batman doesn't kill and Zatanna is a good guy.
* ''WebVideo/SMBCTheater'' has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY video]] parodying the end of ''Film/WarGames''. The film used TabletopGame/TicTacToe as an analogy for nuclear war: Tic-Tac-Toe is a solved game where, if neither player makes a mistake, the game always results in a draw, showing WOPR that some games don't have a winning solution and nuclear war is futile. However, in the ''SMBC'' version, WOPR realizes that you ''can'' win in Tic-Tac-Toe if your opponent makes a mistake, and furthermore, the game also favors whoever goes first. It then concludes that the way to win a nuclear war is to hit your opponent first and hope they make a mistake.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Gland Plan", when Cosmo needs a gland transplant from Anti-Cosmo, but Jorgen won't let him out of Fairly World Prison, Timmy decides to pull a PrisonBreak. Wanda comments that nobody has every busted out of the prison, to which Timmy replies the same thing was said about the Anti-Fairy Zone, [[CallBack but he released Anti-Cosmo from that]]. Wanda retorts that he did that by accident, and adds that it was the very reason Fairy World Prison was built.

** Gundam proclaims that the Necronomicon given to them by Monokuma is as legitimate as the souls of the damn. [[ThisIsReality Miu takes this to mean that it is a fake]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

** In the [[DownloadableContent Special Episode]] "Turnabout Reclaimed" in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', the prosecutor Simon Blackquill compares the seemingly open-and-shut case against the defendant like signing a contract after a fellow inmate told him that it requires a document and a witness, like a witness and evidence needed to convict a culprit. Phoenix correctly guesses that said inmate was convicted of contract fraud. [[StunnedSilence Simon doesn't admit this]].

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'' has this exchange occur between Olive and Oprah regarding Orchid and her training. It starts off strong, but the two girls eventually get sidetracked and get into a spat with each other.
--> '''Oprah:''' Her power -- it's like someone blowing up a balloon, but at the same time someone's trying to stuff the balloon in a bag that was too small for it to begin with. Does that make sense?
--> '''Olive:''' Well, if you want to keep going with this, if the person suppressing the balloon cares at all about the balloon's well-being, she'll stop trying to get it in the bag. Otherwise the balloon will just...pop.
--> '''Oprah:''' Are you accusing me of trying to shell out Orchid?
--> '''Olive:''' I'm not accusing you of trying to shell her out. I'm accusing you of trying to break her before she can get strong enough to resist that balloon bag.
--> '''Oprah:''' Forget the balloon bag! Having no power is certainly better than being cursed!

** "Mountain of Madness"

--->'''Lisa:''' I'm hideous!'''Marge:''' Lisa, I know a song that will cheer you up. There once was an ugly duckling...\\

** "Dog of Death"

** "Mommie Beerest"

'''Lisa:''' I'm hideous!
'''Marge:''' Lisa, I know a song that will cheer you up. There once was an ugly duckling...
'''Lisa:''' So you think I'm ugly?