History Main / SpaceWhaleAesop

* The movie ''Teeth'' evokes a old SpaceWhaleAesop: "Don't rape women, or [[spoiler: the [[VaginaDentata teeth in their vaginas]] will bite off your dick."]] Of course, now they've invented an anti-rape device that works almost like that, so, well, don't. At least "Don't rape women" would be a valid message, but in the film only her first victim actually tried to rape her - by the end of the film, her choice of victim just appears to be ''men who vaguely piss her off in some way''. Also, having the aesop "don't rape women" is like having the aesop "don't [[EatsBabies eat babies]]" or "[[KickTheDog puppy-kicking]] isn't a very good sport."
** To be fair, it was FAR from "picking men who vaguely pissed her off". She ''was'' raped/abused. ''Twice'', including by a ''gynecologist''. Her 3rd victim was an accident after she found out [[spoiler: he had tricked her into trusting him, used her for a bet, and talked to his friend about winning the bet ''while he was still inside her'']]. She didn't even mean to do it, her body reacted instinctively. She lured [[spoiler: her brother]] to his demise because [[spoiler: he let her incredibly ill mother cry for help in the hallway for hours, because he ''didn't want to stop having sex and go help her'']]. The last one is clearly a sexual predator, and while it may lead to some [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications]] for her character, it doesn't count as "vaguely pissing her off" either.

* [[IronMaiden Bruce Dickinson]] put it best. "And the moral of this story is: This is what not to do if a bird shits on you."

** Thanks. Personally, [[ThirdPersonPerson this troper]] viewed the same movie and interpreted it as a pretty straightforward allegory about the AIDS epidemic, thus reaching the much more straightforward - if also more troubling -Aesop of [[UnfortunateImplications "Don't have sex with lesbians/bisexuals, because they are walking death machines."]]

** The children turned into donkeys were all lazy and chose to play rather than go to school. So another lesson could be that you should get a good education or else all you'll be able to do is hard labor. FridgeBrilliance

** Thumb-sucking summons up a scissor-wielding tailor who snips of the offending digits; fussy eating habits result in death by starvation; and going out in a rainstorm to play leads to being hurled away to your doom by a sudden gust of wind. There is also a girl who ends up as a pile of ashes after playing with matches despite admonitions from her parents and her two pet cats. The there are stories about a tomboy girl who became a real boy. And many similar.

* The [[SoBadItsGood ever-so-wonderful]] film ''{{Gamera}} vs Zigra'' gives us the message "Don't pollute the earth's oceans, or else a giant Nazi space fish will mind-control the Earth." Fortunately, we have a giant turtle on our side that'll fight for us... SoYeah...

** The second film's Teevee is a hell of a {{BrokenAesop}}, what with him being the only one in either film to ''earn'' his way into winning, rather than just pure karma luck (Charlie) or pure brute force (Veruca). The {{HandWave}} was that he looked at a few of the [=UPCs=], and ''doing the math'' figured out which bar to buy, winning on the first actual purchase. Sure, he was a little shit, but most kids are, while few if any are that kind of ''impossibly brilliant''.
** Even in the first film, Teevee is the only one to approach the Factory with scientific curiosity, and he is the only person to verbalize its potential and volunteer to be the first human to be tested on it. His most egregious sin is his intelligence and spirit of scientific endeavor (being not much more reckless than a handful of self-experimenting Nobel laureates), which apparently wasn't at all stunted by his television watching.
*** Um. He zapped himself with a ''prototype'' device that he had just witnessed firsthand shrink a large object to about 5% its original size and which had (to his knowledge) only been tested on non-living matter. To get to this device, he backhanded two people out of his way. Plus, he had witnessed the earlier fates of the three children who overstepped their bounds. And that was before Wonka had a chance to mention that sometimes only half of the signals make it to the TV. Scientific endeavor and intelligence are this kid's most egregious sins?

** Also gives some serious FridgeLogic. [[spoiler:The plants were mad at us for ruining the environment but not for ''eating them''?]]
*** This is not necessarily FridgeLogic. [[spoiler: Animals eating plants is part of the cycle of life. Pollution is not. If plants are able to secrete a neurotoxin, they probably are aware of that better than humans.]]
**** Ummm, [[spoiler: since when is pollution NOT a part of the cycle of life? Decomposers have been around a LOT longer than humans have, and the planet generates plenty of waste on its own and usually cleans up after itself as well. Even the truly nastier forms of pollution like open air degredation and landfills tend to fade away after a century or two. The main difference is in HOW humanity pollutes, and even then it rarely does so in ways vastly different from some of what happens in the "cycle of life."]]
**** Not to mention that far more pollutants go into the air from methane from animal flatulence than from automobiles each year. For the good of the earth, kill all flatulent animals! So the plants won't be mad at us!
***** Or, you know, stop keeping the flatulent animals' numbers unnaturally high, unnaturally sedentary, and fed an unnatural diet, which increases the amount there to fart and increases the volume of gas passed. SoYeah, still our fault.
*** Someone (I think it was {{Moviebob}}), pointed out that it's easy get the BrokenAesop of "Nature is out to kill you, so [[TheDogShotFirst kill it first]]".

* ''TalesOfVesperia'' does pretty much the same thing as FinalFantasyVII.