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* After learning how bad UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was while researching for her role in ''Shining Through'', actress Creator/MelanieGriffith said in the ''New York Daily News'': "I didn't know that 6 million Jews were killed. That's a lot of people."

[[caption-width-right:350:Dude, you're like, the richest man in Metropolis.\\
Can't you just buy some cakes?[[note]]This was actually made before he became such.[[/note]]]]

* ''Manga/SorcererHunters'': In the very first episode, the heroes meet someone raising a dragon that feeds on tortured girls. Of course, the team points out that that's bad, even for a sorcerer.
* Onime no Kyo of ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' kills people for fun. Of course, since he's the hero, every one of the villains in the series has to be called "You MONSTER!" at some point, [[BlackAndGrayMorality just so we remember which of them is less bad]].

** In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', before fighting each Dark Kingdom General so far, Usagi generally rattles off their evil scheme from that episode before declaring, "That's unforgivable!", followed swiftly, of course, by "InTheNameOfTheMoon, [[CatchPhrase I will punish you!]]"

* ''Constantly'' in ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', which Creator/GustaveFlaubert provided the page quote about. Indeed, some contemporary abolitionist critiques of the novel could be boiled down to "people seriously need this spelled out for them?!" Sadly they did, as numerous Southern people — and some Northerners — defended slavery; the book garnered a ''huge'' number of responses trying to rebut it. Not just as a necessary evil too, but in some cases even ''a positive good''. This came from leading thinkers often mind you (and not all were even slave owners themselves). Yes, it was necessary.

* Literature/TheBible can come across this way at times, particularly Proverbs.
-->"Don't follow the ways of the wicked; don't do what evil people do.\\
Avoid their ways, and don't follow them. Stay away from them and keep on going,\\
Because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.\\
They feast on wickedness and cruelty as if they were eating bread and drinking wine."\\

* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', Salamandra attempts to [[DrugsAreBad gain control the drug trade]] at one point. Every non-addict (and even some of them as they are concerned about their supply) in game seems to think it is bad. This is silly because they already include murderers and rapists, both of whom net nowhere near the response by the game or {{NPC}}s. It is also unfitting for the entirety of a [[GrayAndGreyMorality morally ambiguous]] WorldHalfEmpty to show universal contempt for anything. Not helped in the least by the [[{{Narm}} "dealing in death"]] line red shirt guards use during the quest.

* In the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'' (in which the characters are ''much'' more AffablyEvil than their cinematic counterparts), there are quite a few levels where you're pretty much required to mug innocent New Yorkers; the very first level even teaches you precisely how to do this. The male victims usually just run off to call the police (or at least try to, since you can order your fellow gang members to "wreck" any squealers), but the female victims put up more of a fight, often accusing you of trying to rape them [[EvenEvilHasStandards (which, to their credit, the Warriors never actually do)]], sometimes [[EyeScream macing you in the face]], and (if the mugging is successful) shouting "Stealing is ''wrong'', boy!" after you as you run off.

** They dedicate an entire song to it with 'DrugsAreBad, M'Kay?"

* In issue #709 of Franchise/{{Superman}} a flashback reveals the young Comicbook/LexLuthor was placed in detention for, you guessed it, ''[[Literature/TheSuperdictionary stealing cakes]]''. [[AscendedMeme Forty of them]] from his school's bake sale, in fact. In revenge for the school administration refusing to allow him to enter a fission powered toaster. And that's terrible. ''[[AscendedMeme Terribly awesome]]''.
* In Jeff Smith's re-make of ''The Monster Society Of Evil'', starring [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], there's a scene where it's explained Dr. Sivana doesn't want to destroy the machines made by Mr. Mind, only to capture and sell them to the army so he can get rich. Upon hearing this, Tawky Tawny helpfully exclaims for the audience, "War profiteering! That is immoral-- and illegal." Considering that the book had a wide age appeal and most 7 year olds don't have a clear understanding of war profiting this could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[CutLexLuthorACheck Dude, you're like, the richest man in Metropolis.\\
Can't you just buy some cakes?]][[note]][[NewerThanTheyThink This was actually made]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn before he became such.]][[/note]]]]

* Gul Dukat's appearances in the last two seasons of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' generally included a lot of this. WordOfGod says that the creators were concerned about MisaimedFandom. So the episode "Waltz" ends with this speech:

--->''And Odo the hero, they bore him back home\\

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' combines this with a form of ArsonMurderAndJaywalking when Sarge finds O'Mally's first victim.

Can't you just buy some cakes?]][[note]][[NewerThanTheyThink This was actually made]][[CharacterizationMarchesOn before he became such.]][[/note]]]]

Can't you just buy some cakes?]]]]

* In game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers, wideout Randy Moss inflamed the rivalry by fake-mooning the Packers' crowd after a touchdown. Notoriously [[TheStoic stoic]] announcer Joe Buck emoted, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw "That is a DISGUSTING act by Randy Moss!"]] though the two have since made up.

--> Random kid: [[CaptainObvious … if that happens, that'll be bad]].

* The TropeNamer is referenced in an April Fool's chapter of ''[[FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria Mare of Steel]]'' when the local Lex Luthor {{Expy}} steals forty cakes after Supermare defeats Brainiac.

** "That movie turns Jews into ''steereeuhtypes''! And stereotyping minorities is ''teeribulle''!"

When used unironically, it can be bad writing as a SubTrope of ShowDontTell. Might be justified if the villain in question is edging toward DracoInLeatherPants territory. Certainly justified if there is controversy about whether an evil thing is really so bad (the page quote, for example, was about a book published shortly before an entire civil war was fought over whether or not slavery was acceptable).

* After Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi expressed admiration for Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina at the latter's 100th birthday party in 2002 and said he wished that Thurmond had been elected President in 1948, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush felt compelled to deliver an {{Anvilicious}} reminder that segregation was wrong - nearly four whole decades after it had ceased to be a relevant issue.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' tends to do this whenever kiddie porn peddlers are involved. One episode featured a convicted pedophile set up a "safe" website for pedophiles to get their fill: [[LoopholeAbuse pictures of underaged children, fully dressed, not in any sexual situations]]. The show tried to sell us that this was bad by having him post a picture of one of the detective's children, causing him to snap and attack him. Not that it was exactly "good", either. \\
Worse, such an episode could conceivably lead some viewers to believe that posting non-sexual pictures of children in ''any'' context has UnfortunateImplications, and is [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad completely unjustifiable]].\\

* ''WesternAnimation/CareBears'': Adventures in Care-a-Lot has the characters use a lot of [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Feelings Talk]] to deliver the episode's {{aesop}}, so it's no wonder that [[HarmlessVillain Grizzle]] would get called out at least once in this manner.

* Lampshaded by Vaarsuvius in strip 696 of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. ""As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero..." (familiar whispers in his ear)"...And that would be wrong".

This could be considered a villains-only SubTrope of {{Anvilicious}}. Named for a page from [[Literature/TheSuperdictionary ''The Super Dictionary'']], where even though we see that ComicBook/LexLuthor has stolen forty cakes, the panel still reminds us, "And that's terrible.".

* In issue #709 of Franchise/{{Superman}} [[http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/124/317/cakes.png a flashback]] reveals the young Comicbook/LexLuthor was placed in detention for, you guessed it, ''[[Literature/TheSuperdictionary stealing cakes]]''. [[AscendedMeme Forty of them]] from his school's bake sale, in fact. In revenge for the school administration refusing to allow him to enter a fission powered toaster. And that's terrible. ''[[AscendedMeme Terribly awesome]]''.

* ''Constantly'' in ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', which Creator/GustaveFlaubert provided the page quote about. Indeed, some contemporary abolitionist critiques of the novel could be boiled down to "people seriously need this spelled out for them?!" Sadly they did, as numerous Southern people (and some Northerners) defended slavery (her book garnered a ''huge'' number of responses trying to rebut it). Not just as a necessary evil too, but in some cases even ''a positive good''. This came from leading thinkers often mind you (and not all were even slave owners themselves). Yes, it was necessary.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' had a tendency to do this. Richie or Joe tells Duncan that the past "crimes" of some Immortal of the week weren't [[ValuesDissonance quite as heinous]] in [[SocietyMarchesOn the time period they were committed]]. Duncan retorts it was "always wrong" and since he's TheHero, is [[WriterOnBoard framed as being right]].