History Main / UnfortunateImplications

* The music video to LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-__lBS6a4 "Mask"]] shows the streamer [[NoMedicationForMe throwing away his "normal pills"]], which represent ADHD medication. [[https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/dream-responds-to-controversy-over-his-comments-about-adhd-medication-1591871/ This was interpreted by some fans]] as a condemnation of medication for mental health issues in general, as he appears much happier afterwards. Dream had to clarify in an interview that it was meant to be specifically about how in his personal experience, he felt better after going off his meds, and that he wasn't necessarily encouraging others to do the same.

* Anthony Pryor [[http://www.anthonypryor.com/?p=1834 points out in]] his review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' that the director's words that the film's conflict between [[AlwaysLawfulGood good]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] {{mutants}} is supposed to represent [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict a real-life conflict in Israel]] gives bad implications. The BigBad seemingly being born hideous and evil is also pointed as potentially giving a bad message.

* The play ''All in a Row,'' which premiered in London in 2019, faced some [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/casting-puppet-as-autistic-child-step-backwards-new-play-row-other-actors-played-by-humans serious]] [[https://themighty.com/2019/02/uk-play-all-in-a-row-puppet-gate-autism-outrage/ backlash]] for portraying an autistic child as a puppet, as it implied that autistic characters could easily be replaced by props. Not helping was the puppet's design as [[UnintentionalUncannyValley "grey and mawkish"]] and the flimsy excuse that it would have been too hard to get consent from an actual nonverbal autistic child (since verbal autistic children exist and are often capable of tasks like acting).

* The Creator/DiscotekMedia rerelase of ''Anime/LupinIIIThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure'' [[https://twitter.com/BradyHartel/status/1291486168362745858 put a disclaimer]] concerning the work's homophobic content due to the main villain Hermann Von Diett being a homophobic stereotype, ranging from him being a cross-dressing [[EffeminateMisogynisticGuy misogynistic]] Neo-Nazi cult leader, to his name being a pun on the word "hermaphrodite" to the several gay panic-style jokes towards his subordinates.

* Stephen Krosecz of ''WebVideo/AnimatedAnalysis'' [[http://blip.tv/sketchdcomedy/animated-analysis-202-cars-2-5934433 argues]] that the heroes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' are [[FantasticRacism prejudiced against the Lemon cars]], that the film doesn't seem to treat this as a bad thing, and that one could interpret this as an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableist ableist]] message. Likewise, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qMgiA-VY0 Jack Saint has observed eugenics undertones in the film]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ABogGvDtY Oakwyrm]] also notices ableist undertones in the treatment of lemon cars, such as Mater casually making anti-lemon remarks and even remarking that he sees towing lemons as a key source of income, and notes that if cars are sentient and the discontinuation of eugenics is treated as normal, that sounds disturbingly like eugenics.

* WebVideo/MarkRober's "Glitterbomb" videos, where he constructs glitter/stink bombs and similar pranks for porch pirates and scam call centers and includes a camera to record their reactions, have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odp6gKQ62LA rubbed a few folks]] the [[https://millennialchaos.substack.com/p/mark-rober-tortures-poor-people-for wrong way]]. While there's no denying that theft and con artistry are wrong, it's been noted that the people resorting to such measures are dirt-poor and trying to survive. And since Mark is a well-off engineer who has never lost anything he couldn't afford to replace, his Glitterbomb videos have been criticized for serving no purpose beyond humiliating poor people for views and likes.

* The Christmas carol [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaExYpc7Cm8 "Baby, It's Cold Outside"]] (originally written by Frank Loesser, sung here by Music/JamesTaylor and Natalie Cole) has in TheNewTens drawn fire from listeners [[https://www.npr.org/2018/12/05/673770902/baby-it-s-cold-outside-seen-as-sexist-frozen-out-by-radio-stations leading to it being banned by some radio stations]] for what sounds like QuestionableConsent on the part of the female speaker (the line "[[SlippingAMickey Say, what's in this drink]]?" especially can raise eyebrows). [[https://www.bustle.com/p/a-tumblr-post-about-baby-its-cold-outside-historical-context-explains-that-the-song-may-have-entirely-different-meaning-6617625 As this article explains]], ValuesDissonance is largely to blame here: the woman ''is'' actually consenting, but a "good girl" in TheForties wasn't ''supposed'' to actually say yes to sex.

* WebVideo/MarkRober's "Glitterbomb" videos, where he constructs glitter/stink bombs and similar pranks for porch pirates and scam call centers and includes a camera to record their reactions, have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odp6gKQ62LA rubbed a few folks]] the [[https://millennialchaos.substack.com/p/mark-rober-tortures-poor-people-for wrong way]]. While there's no denying that theft and con artistry are wrong, it's been noted that the people resorting to such measures are dirt-poor and trying to survive. And since Mark is a successful engineer and Youtuber who has never lost anything he couldn't afford to replace, his Glitterbomb videos have been criticized for serving no purpose beyond humiliating poor people for views and likes.

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* ''Webcomic/ThePrincesssJewels'': The webcomic is about Princess Ariana, whos mission in the comic is to collect a bunch of beautiful men to make a RoyalHarem. Over the course of her adventure, she pulls her chosen men away from their lives and their homes, treats them like objects for her own amusement, and even threatens a ColdWar between her country and another if they don't do what she says. The critics in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDOztc0L78 this video]] rip the premise to pieces, pointing out how nobody would like this comic if it were about a man doing this to a bunch of women. Of course, [[DoubleStandard since it's about a woman doing this to a bunch of men, that makes it okay]].

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' gets this a lot regarding its use of RapeAsDrama.
** Mother's Basement [[https://youtu.be/Oz-BjFoVa9o?t=20m39s had some choice words]] about Asuna's two sexual assaults, calling them unnecessary in the context of the plot and pointing out how uncomfortable it was to play her AttemptedRape for {{Fanservice}}.
** Megan Peters [[https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/13/sword-art-online-anime-sexual-assault-rape-explanation-story/ has also criticized]] the series’ repeated use of AttemptedRape of female characters by the villains as a plot device to motivate the male heroes, saying that the women are "[left] to suffer for misogynistic silence". The article features snippets of an interview with series creator Reki Kawahara, who agrees with the criticism and admits that he only used this trope because it was fairly common in light novels at the time he wrote the story. He felt that a certain scene in ''Alicization'' was far more unpleasant to watch in animated form as a result, and apologized to everyone (directors, animators, & voice actresses) involved for having to do something so demeaning.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'' has [[https://www.animefeminist.com/the-wasted-potential-of-death-notes-women/ attracted]] [[http://theevaluationzone.blogspot.com/2014/11/top-ten-reasons-why-i-hate-death-note.html fire]] [[https://theathenaeumbooks.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the-inherent-misogyny-in-death-note/ for]] implicit misogyny. This started with the brief tenure in the story of former Naomi Misora, a former FBIAgent who is briefly shown to be a talented investigator (and got an ExpansionPackPast in the {{prequel}})... but whose concerns are dismissed by her active-duty fiancee Raye Penber (even her English voice actor Creator/TabithaStGermain criticized that scene) and then unceremoniously killed off by Light. The only other female character in the series with any agency worth mentioning is Misa Amane, an AxCrazy fangirl of VillainProtagonist Light whose presence in the story is almost entirely counterproductive to everyone involved, and whom even while dating her to keep her around for his use, he openly cheats on with his high school flame Kiyomi Takada--who doesn't fare any better herself, being made by Light to kill Mello and then [[SelfImmolation burn herself to death]].