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*** The other issue with the Rohan/Gondor theme is that the Rohirrim are early Anglo-Saxons with horses, closer to the native culture than the culture after Christianity (Tolkien thought the conversion was an improvement). The Numenoreans, of course, are a superior race in every regard, including ''and particularly'' genetics (Tolkien originally meant Eowyn to marry Aragorn but decided she wasn't worthy of him [!]and sort of slapped Arwen in at the last moment). Part of his wise Numenorean/barbarian ProudWarriorRaceGuy Rohirrim dichotomy is exactly that: he viewed the native Germanic culture as barbaric, and that culture is one of the best real-life examples of ProudWarriorRaceGuy.

* Dante has a couple of characters''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' who suddenly have really strong opinions on the Ghibellines and Guelphs only because he wants to express his own views. This makes sense for a couple of his contemporary Italians, but when the Emperor Justinian starts having strong takes on Florentine politics, you know it's really Dante doing the talking.

* Website/TVTropes itself has shades of this. Editors will frequently inject their opinion about something they don't like. [[YMMV/HomePage Subjective Tropes]] pages have plenty of these.

** Exaggerated in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E21TeaPeter Tea Peter]]", which paints the Tea Party as stupid, insane anarchists who would destroy the country if they had their way; the episode's writer is a loud-and-proud supporter of the Occupy movement.

** At the end of his career, ''Literature/StateOfFear'' is an anti-climate change screed about environmentalists planning mass murder to cause a climate change panic and receive funding, and when he got called out on his blatant misuse and misrepresentation of science, he turned one of his critics into a child molester with a small penis in ''Literature/{{Next}}''.

* A very early episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', "Emancipation", was centered on Samantha Carter becoming a BlitheSpirit on a planet where [[NoWomansLand women were oppressed in every way possible]]. The feminist message was conveyed with all the subtlety of a naquadah explosion. The events from it were [[CanonDiscontinuity never mentioned again]]. Carter had other moments of {{Straw Feminis|t}}m in the early seasons that later became CanonDiscontinuity -- her infamous reproductive organs speech from the first episode is a prime example.

* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': Johnson's anti-feminism drips from this strip. One example: Anthony convinces Therese to have a baby, even promising to take care of it. However, when Therese wants to go back to her high-paying job, Anthony admits he doesn't want to care for their kid; he expected "maternal instincts" to kick in. Anthony's later {{Wangst}}ing over Liz causes Therese to seek a divorce. The other characters view her as a [[StayInTheKitchen harpy for wanting a good job rather than staying home and popping out kids.]]

AuthorAppeal is a specific form of this. AuthorTract is when the main purpose of the work is to push the author's opinions. TranslationWithAnAgenda is what happens when a translator imposes this trope on ''somebody else's'' story. See also CreatorBreakdown, and IdiotPlot. Compare OutOfCharacterMoment. If a fan does this to facilitate a romantic pairing, RonTheDeathEater and DieForOurShip may ensue.

A minor subtrope of this is "Actor On Board", a related phenomenon in which an actor in a work has, for example, the script of a program changed to suit his beliefs. (e.g. [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Munch's issues]] with [[DomesticAbuse child abuse]])

AuthorAppeal is a specific form of this. TranslationWithAnAgenda is what happens when a translator imposes this trope on ''somebody else's'' story. See also CreatorBreakdown, and IdiotPlot. Compare OutOfCharacterMoment. If a fan does this to facilitate a romantic pairing, RonTheDeathEater and DieForOurShip may ensue.

* The infamous DarkFic ''Fanfic/AllHeEverWanted'' is a ridiculously obvious case of this. A good part of the fandom does NOT like how the authors's personal opinions keep seeping into the characterization and the plot (re: Prussia the monstrous villain vs. Austria the DesignatedVictim vs. Hungary the {{Chickification}} victim [[spoiler: whom Prussia needlessly tortures and rapes to show off his power to Austria]]; plus Austria is Jewish ''despite canon all but stating that he's Catholic'', paralleling how one of the authors is Jewish too), as well as their rather... arrogant behavior during certain wanks. How the authors both wrote the Website/TVTropes page for their fics (particularly blatant when comparing it to one of them's [[Fanfic/X2009Epic page on her X1999 epic]]) and later were caught '''monitoring what other people said about the fic online and bullying any dissenters''' at the height of the wank days does NOT help their cases.

** Several episodes of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' deal with discrimination against poor people, the need for solidarity in society, the unfairness of class differences and how people might accuse easily an orphan like Chavo of been a robber than they’ll do to other people of a better social status.

* In just about anything by Robert Heinlein, sympathetic characters are constantly giving lectures which essentially push the author's views. Obviously, whether this is a good or bad trope depends on how you feel about the specific concept being espoused. Unrestricted all-American capitalism, the charm of cats, the poor knowing their place, the evils of religious dogma, incest, free love, the superiority of the "down home" values prevalent in the US in the first half of the 20th Century, chivalry and politeness, how wonderful babies are, the need to encourage scientific education - all of these things are constant preoccupations of characters in his work. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement No comment will be made as to whether any of these individual tropes are good or bad]], but that they are most definitely constant preoccupations of the characters very much illustrates the trope.

** The Writer is also a bit vocal at times. For instance, there was the Writer arc, where several members were chosen to be killed and their wishes reversed because they represented something that the character--and Lemurian himself--didn't even like. And then there was the "Two Sentences" incident in the [[DorkAge Incarnates arc]]...

** Most episodes penned by the Berman/Braga team, as they have the opinion that the future is going to be a bad place, taking the franchise away from Gene Roddenberry's vision of hope and optimism. Many of their episodes are rather dark, depressing, and pessimistic. Their episodes introduced corruption and hipocracy into the Federation and questioned whether it really deserved its characterization as a moral good.

* Creator/CharlesStross seems to have a lot of anger against superhero fans in ''Literature/TheAnnihilationScore''.

* As was ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' director Creator/YoshiyukiTomino, but [[KillEmAll for a different reason]].

* Karen Traviss when she writes ''[[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Star Wars]]''. Her writing on the Jedi tends to be, well, less than favourable, compared to the rest of the franchise. Which is '''nothing''' compared to her obsession with [[MarySuetopia Mandalorians]]:

** Most episodes penned by the Berman/Braga team, as they have the opinion that the future is going to be a bad place, taking the franchise away from Gene Roddenberry's vision of hope and optimism. While it has sometimes worked when taken as a whole (the latter seasons of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', for instance, were quite good--and Braga had nothing to do with the series), taken individually many of the episodes are rather dark, depressing, and pessimistic. Not quite {{downer ending}}s, but definitely not the "Let's explore space and have fun!" endings that Roddenberry's episodes typically possessed.
** Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself may also be listed here. He was the one who made TheFederation a moneyless MarySuetopia, although there is some doubt as to whether he did it to deliver a message or just because he preferred writing about that sort of thing. Gene's atheism has been portrayed in several Star Trek episodes and movies here and there, but most prominently in "Who Watches the Watchers", where several Enterprise crew members strongly denounce religion as superstition and imply that they view it as nothing but a roadblock to progress. This attitude is [[CanonDiscontinuity never seen again in any Star Trek episode]].

* Creator/AaronSorkin often used ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' as a soapbox to air his thinly-disguised personal grievances, particularly to vicariously lecture [[Creator/KristinChenoweth his ex-girlfriend]]. This also happened in ''Series/TheWestWing'' when he had a disagreement with the website Website/TelevisionWithoutPity.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' had a minor version where any and all cute kids and robots were [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off in a very blunt and mean-spirited way.]]
** In general, JMS tried as hard as he could to avoid shilling his own views, and present both sides of an argument with no judgment calls made by the episode itself (though the actual characters involved generally had ''very'' strong views). Ironically, this often had the opposite effect. For instance, he got hate mail for the first season episode "Believers," with people claiming it was either blatantly pro-religious or blatantly anti-religious. No complaints to be had on [[spoiler: the blunt killing off of the cute kid]] in that episode, though.
* A very early episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', "Emancipation", was centered on Samantha Carter becoming a BlitheSpirit on a planet where [[NoWomansLand women were oppressed in every way possible]]. The feminist message was conveyed with all the subtlety of a naquadah explosion, and it wasn't exactly the show's best episode. The events from it were [[CanonDiscontinuity never mentioned again]].
** Carter had many moments of {{Straw Feminis|t}}m in the early seasons that later became CanonDiscontinuity -- her infamous reproductive organs speech from the first episode is a prime example (Amanda Tapping apparently told the writers, 'yeah, women don't actually talk like this'), and if you're only familiar with the show through later episodes it's quite jarringly out of character. The SelfParody episode ''200'' also mocked the speech.

* Creator/RalphHayesJr, alias [=RealityCheck=], does this in some of his ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics. Bullying is one of his biggest [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] and what he believes to be the series' poor handling of the issue is brought up in ''Fanfic/PartingWords'' and ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'', while ''[[Fanfic/RealityChecksNyxverse Nightmare Night and Nyx]]'' has a scene where Rainbow Dash's date goes into an AuthorFilibuster that berates her for treating "being feminine like it was some sort of disease" (a behavior she has unwittingly passed on to Scootaloo), due to the author's belief that [[RealWomenDontWearDresses pop culture is hostile to traditional feminine behavior.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', in [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy its fifteenth and sixteenth seasons]], introduced new head writer Joe Nicolosi. Unlike the personality-driven comedy of seasons past, Nicolosi's primary outlets of humor involve [[ReferenceOverdosed pop culture references,]] and constant dialogue centered around [[TroperRific movie tropes]] and [[ClicheStorm cliches]]. Regardless of whether or not said jokes fit with the characters who say them, which is especially prominent once AuthorAvatar Jax leaves the main cast. Season 17 conversely, which was penned by Joe's Co-Writer Jason Weight and the main writer of [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]], Miles Luna, all but removed the referential humor in favor of returning to character dynamics and loads of ContinuityPorn.

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* Aldous Huxley set a new standard for this, as well as acting as an inspiration for later writers such as Rand, Heinlein, and Card. Almost all of his post ''Brave New World'' novels feature an author stand-in who lectures the reader about the Way Things Should Be (e.g. Propter in ''Literature/AfterManyASummer''). This reached its ultimate point of absurdity in ''Literature/{{Island|1962}}'', which is essentially a several-hundred-page lecture on the perfect society bookended by a couple of chapters of narrative.

* Creator/JohnRingo's Let's list them because it's in all his books

* Wiki/TVTropes itself has shades of this. Editors will frequently inject their opinion about something they don't like. [[YMMV/HomePage Subjective Tropes]] pages have plenty of these.