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* Creator/DennisHopeless has openly admitted that the decision to have [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Spider-Woman]] become pregnant came about after his own wife became pregnant.

** John Romita is on record saying that he did all he could to make Gwen as interesting as MJ but to no avail. MJ was an immediate hit -- readers started writing letters asking for her to be made Peter Parker's girlfriend on the strength of [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the iconic panel that first showed her face]] as well as her long-introduction and the fact that [[CoolOldLady Aunt May, Peter's mother in essence,]] was a ShipperOnDeck and saw MJ as "the one" for Peter. Lee's and Romita's best efforts to make Gwen prettier and feistier were not enough especially since a lot of these fans didn't forget that when artist and co-plotter Creator/SteveDitko was around, Gwen Stacy was a narcissistic arrogant AlphaBitch who found Peter attractive but was otherwise too proud to act on it and basically played mean pranks and social bullying to "express her affection" and they saw through Lee and Romita's rewrites to make Gwen stick for the transparent CharacterShilling it was.

* The earlier seasons of ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' would toss in several ostentatious diatribes against UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, none of which had any bearing whatsoever on the plot. Not just a few little {{Take That}}s here and there; the writers would practically pull the handbrake on the story just so they could whine at-length through a character's mouth about how much they hated him. The best(worst?) example being the kid winning a debate competition by using Bush's name as his sole argument against the Electoral College; his teammates, his opponents, the judges, and the entire audience ''all'' cheer him on in agreement.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}Lunars: Fangs At The Gate'', unlike previous editions of the splatbook, had a sidebar paragraph where the authors point out that they haven't used the word "barbarian" anywhere in the book and congratulate themselves for it. The gameplay details that readers ''paid'' for are put on hold.

* A monologue in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo20thAnniversary'', that has Maguro going on a long, unprompted rant about how he feels that TabletopRPG Sourcebook-scalpers are robbing him of his chance to pass his childhood hobby on to younger children makes a lot more sense once you read tweets of the game's scenario writer stating that she is a passionate ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' player. Crosses over into SelfDeprecation, since Risukuma, who the rant is directed at, is absolutely ''terrified'' by how serious his underclassman is taking the issue and wishes out loud to never relive the experience once Maguro is out of earshot.
* Half way through ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'', Aemilia and Hamil has a short discussion on the social causes of the decline of TheEmpire that doesn't fit the themes, adds nothing to the plot, and is never mentioned again.

* The entire "Patriarchy" arc of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' seems to be a hefty, ''hefty'' example of this, with characters being ''drastically'' altered as it goes on to make the arc work out in a "Feminists are good, nearly all men are useless misogynists and there are no male allies in this world" manner, [[StrawHypocrite (The creator is male, by the way)]] with some of the biggest examples of this alteration being Slick and Squig. And then the author's views on transgender people started coming up and things got even more insane, which messages that seem to amount to "transgender women will ''never'' be real women, they are simply delusional men being enabled by the establishment". Which is when most of the audience that was left by then packed up and left.

* Website/TVTropes itself has shades of this. Editors will frequently inject their opinion about something they don't like. [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]] pages have plenty of these, but they do pop up occassionally on trope pages like this one as well.

* It'd be easier to count the times that ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' ''doesn't'' use a CompressedVice to say exactly what the writers opinions are on the subject ("Thoughts and Prayers" actually being with a character outright stating that that gun violence is the literal direct result of violent movies), especially when it comes to feminism, which is rarely challenged if even questioned (If it is, it's usually by a StrawCharacter and thrown away). The show has actually been accused of its seemingly careless use of other, more controversial topics as a springboard for a feminist agenda, such as one episode where whales in captivity are used as a metaphors for how sexist and dehumanizing strip clubs are.

** Though in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E10FOXyLady FOX-y Lady]]", Brian's flaws are pointed out perfectly.[[spoiler: Lois was ordered by her new employers at Fox News to expose Creator/MichaelMoore's (theorized) homosexuality. When it is discovered Creator/RushLimbaugh is (possibly) his lover, the exposé is cut. Brian is repulsed by Fox News avoiding the truth to protect a fellow conservative, but urges Lois to do the story anyways to nail Limbaugh. Lois asks why this is any different than Fox trying to discredit Moore. Brian stammeringly claims it is OK because he is admitting his hypocrisy. At the end of the episode, it transpires that former child star Fred Savage invented both Limbaugh and Moore out of whole cloth (which, of course, is totally untrue in real life), and ''then'' the ''Family Guy'' team made "Excellence in Broadcasting" and got Limbaugh a guest spot as himself on the episode. As well as playing a giant version of himself in the ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' parody "It's a Trap" taking the place of the Rancor.]] In RealLife, Rush Limbaugh and Creator/SethMacFarlane were good friends, [[OddFriendship despite their opposing political views]], and Limbaugh considered the show's satirical [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]] version of himself to be ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* ''Theatre/MaratSade'': InUniverse. The UsefulNotes/MarquisDeSade is the writer of the [[ShowWithinAShow play-within-a-play]] being performed by his fellow inmates of Charenton and is a character within the play, as well.

** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] himself, particularly during his run. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] was introduced as merely a foil for [[Characters/SpiderManLoveInterests Gwen Stacy.]] However, Mary Jane was infamous for [[EnsembleDarkHorse stealing every scene she entered,]] largely overshadowing Gwen's [[GirlNextDoor softer]] personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a [[DVDBonusContent featurette]] on the ''Film/SpiderMan2'' DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it.

** He uses Characters/{{The Punisher|FrankCastle}} to speak out against US military actions, not a trait of his before.

* In the early [=2000s=] a new storytelling rule was made at Creator/MarvelComics: heroic characters could not be shown smoking. The head editor at the time, Creator/JoeQuesada, lost his father to cancer brought on by smoking. Even Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}, whose love of cigars had in the past been used to deliver an ''anti-smoking'' message to those who don't share his [[HealingFactor immunity to their effects]], is no longer allowed to smoke.

** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' #17-19 (a.k.a ''Most Wanted''), in which the Outsiders approach real-life hero and [[SpecialGuest Very Special Guest Star]] John Walsh for help in tracking down the leader of a child slavery ring. It doesn't speak well of the team that when their leader, a Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}}-trained detective (i.e. Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}}), is unable to find any leads that his next plan of attack is "Let's get that guy on TV to help us!" This arc had ExecutiveMeddling written all over it.

* The original English language manga ''Manga/{{Dramacon}}'' has an OEL manga artist pause to commiserate about people who think OEL works aren't "really" manga. She's immediately set upon by a [[TheWarOnStraw representative]] of the opposing view: he's ten, dressed as Naruto, only able to talk by shouting...oh, yeah, and racist.

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

** There's also a strangely subverted example involving gun control. At first glance ''Literature/MenAtArms'' appears to be an unusually heavy-handed diatribe against gun ownership, to the extent that [[spoiler: the BigBad is in fact ''the gun itself'']]. However, later books have a considerably softer outlook on the issue; Sam Vimes in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' even espouses a version of the pro-gun proverb, "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns."

* ''TabletopGame/ExaltedLunarsFangsAtTheGate'', unlike previous editions of the splatbook, had a sidebar paragraph where the authors point out that they haven't used the word "barbarian" anywhere in the book and congratulate themselves for it. The gameplay details that readers ''paid'' for are put on hold.

** If there's anything to go by, though, is that Aaron REALLY doesn't like [[KidHero kids and teenaged superheroes]] fighting supervillains, as the bulk of the Schism conflict and Wolverine's main reason for being pissed at Cyclops is Cyke's willingness to take teenagers out into the field. Never mind that Cyclops has been an X-Man since he was ''14'', or that the X-Men have done this regularly since their inception, ''or'' that Wolverine himself [[{{Hypocrite}} is well known for taking young teenage girls as his sidekicks]]. Because of the absurdity of this, other writers using his side of the X-Men ignore this and have teenaged X-Men fight in missions regardless, but Wolverine repeatedly makes a big deal about it, even making a point to jab at Cyke for how 'green' his [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen new team]] were, even though he ''wasn't'' taking them out on a mission at the time, and that they were all ''college-aged young adults''.

* Creator/ChuckDixon, a political conservative, made ComicBook/{{Robin}}'s love interest Spoiler pregnant for no other reason than to give himself a soapbox for his pro-life views. Ironically, he claims DC fired him because he loudly objected to Creator/JuddWinick doing pretty much the same thing (except with AIDS instead of teen pregnancy) during the latter's run on ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''.

* Creator/DennisHopeless has openly admitted that the decision to have ComicBook/SpiderWoman become pregnant came about after his own wife became pregnant.

** Frank also has gone on record that he ''really'' wanted to do this to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. After 9/11, he apparently told Marvel they were lucky to have a character like Cap who they could use for stories about UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and has made it clear he wants to write the character. Given how he handled ''Holy Terror'', it's a really good thing Marvel knew better.

** He uses ComicBook/ThePunisher to speak out against US military actions, not a trait of his before.

* Creator/JephLoeb appears to have, or at least ''had'' at some point, an ax to grind against organized religion. In the famous "ComicBook/EmperorJoker" storyline, there's an early scene making fun of a monastery, and ComicBook/TheJoker later spouts some atheistic viewpoint towards the end (although granted, this is probably in character for the Joker). Then in the "Return to Krypton" story, the entire point was [[{{Anvilicious}} Jor-El and an army of scientists fighting against the priestly clan of Krypton]]. To make the point more glaringly {{Anvilicious}}, at the beginning when a time-traveling Jor-El shows up to meet present-day Superman, Superman exclaims "Great Rao!" (Rao is the Kryptonian sun god), and Jor-El moans "No, not Rao!!!"
* Creator/JimStarlin does not like religion, and he writes about it often in his comics. He also has very strong opinions on how some things in comics ''should'' be and doesn't mind using the power of {{Retcon}} to have things his way--the biggest example is his take on the [[ComicBook/NewGods Anti-Life Equation]], which is nothing like Creator/JackKirby's. He also once used ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, Marvel's planet-devouring star god, as a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy.
** Starlin also did not like ComicBook/{{Robin}}, and did everything he could to make the Robin at the time (Jason Todd) [[TheScrappy unlikable]].

** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' #17-19 (a.k.a ''Most Wanted''), in which the Outsiders approach real-life hero and [[SpecialGuest Very Special Guest Star]] John Walsh for help in tracking down the leader of a child slavery ring. It doesn't speak well of the team that when their leader, a Franchise/{{Batman}}-trained detective (i.e. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}), is unable to find any leads that his next plan of attack is "Let's get that guy on TV to help us!" This arc had ExecutiveMeddling written all over it.

* The Franchise/{{Batman}} mythos character ComicBook/{{Anarky}} exists to be a vehicle for his creator Alan Grant's political views. This is why Anarky's ideology abruptly shifted from libertarian socialist to Neo-Tech between appearances (matching Grant's own conversion) and why few other writers use him (one of the exceptions being Kevin Dooley, who himself used Anarky as a mouthpiece for his views on gun control.) In particular, Grant's 1997 Anarky miniseries is essentially a four-issue-long AuthorFilibuster, delivered via Anarky's InnerMonologue, long philosophical debates with Batman, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, and occasional pauses in the action to allow Anarky to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] to [[CharacterFilibuster lecture the reader directly]] on his alternative view of human history and development. Ironically, one of the few times Anarky has ever appeared in an adaptation (in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''), he was revealed to be [[spoiler:a clueless teenager trying desperately to act grown up by spouting talking points with no understanding of what they mean]], possibly hinting at how other writers feel about him.

* Creator/DCComics writer Keith Giffen is unabashed about his hatred of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' character Karate Kid and his [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower "super karate",]] and has stated outright that any time he ends up writing the Legion comic, Karate Kid will die. Once downplayed when Giffen did write Karate Kid's death in one run of the Legion comic, he gave the character a respectful send-off via HeroicSacrifice, rather than simply [[DroppedABridgeOnHim dropping a bridge on him.]]

* Jamie Delano's run on ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' is quite blatant about its left-wing politics, with [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle nods]] like demons celebrating Margaret Thatcher's election (since it will result in more miserable people looking to [[DealWithTheDevil sell their souls]]), tracts against nuclear power, and active promotion of "free love" hippie lifestyles, to the point that the FinalBoss of the run, a giant dragon god, is defeated by Constantine and his two love interests having a threesome [[SexMagic under the right mystical circumstances]]. Delano's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' also features the titular hero and his daughter founding a hippie commune.
* In the early [=2000s=] a new storytelling rule was made at Creator/MarvelComics: heroic characters could not be shown smoking. The head editor at the time, Creator/JoeQuesada, lost his father to cancer brought on by smoking. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, whose love of cigars had in the past been used to deliver an ''anti-smoking'' message to those who don't share his [[HealingFactor immunity to their effects]], is no longer allowed to smoke.

** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] himself, particularly during his run. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson was introduced as merely a foil for [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy.]] However, Mary Jane was infamous for [[EnsembleDarkHorse stealing every scene she entered,]] largely overshadowing Gwen's [[GirlNextDoor softer]] personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a [[DVDBonusContent featurette]] on the ''Film/SpiderMan2'' DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it.

** Dan Slott notes this about the famous {{Revision}} of ''Parallel Lives'', the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone [[LovesMyAlterEgo who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter]]. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Creator/GerryConway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, given Spider-Man's HeroWithBadPublicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views [[UndyingLoyalty which Mary Jane never did]], this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically {{deconstruct|ion}}ed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up [[ProgressivelyPrettier handsome]] (as repeatedly told in stories [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko in the Ditko era]], and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but the ComicBook/BlackCat.

* While labeled as ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfics of all things, the stories ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048227/1/APH-Israel-s-Workout Israel's workout]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5874478/1/Axis-Powers-Hetalia-Two-Americas The Two Americas]]'' are really very extreme Conservative and racially insensitive propaganda at that. The first depicts the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Palestine as an AxCrazy thug and ends with the protagonist, Israel, ranting about how Palestinians are AlwaysChaoticEvil. The Second depicts a ''UsefulNotes/BarackObama'' as a StrawLiberal that antagonizes the "real" conservative America.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', Creator/LeonardNimoy preaches his pro-environmental views and gives a [[SpaceWhaleAesop nonsensical justification]] for it. Yet by ''not'' putting those views front and center, and keeping the movie strong on character and humor (also thanks to the screenplay by four skilled writers), [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools the trope is barely noticeable when watching.]] It helps that he avoids demonizing the opposition with [[StrawmanPolitical strawmen]] or a cackling, anti-environmental villain. In fact, except for the probe that starts it all (which can [[BlueAndOrangeMorality hardly be considered malevolent]]), this is the one of the relatively rare ''Franchise/StarTrek'' stories that can be considered to have NoAntagonist.

* Ever wonder why none of the characters in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' are ever seen smoking, even though that's what the entire movie is about? That was an idea enforced by the director, Jason Reitman, and the intrusion shows. Granted, he did this in order to subvert DoNotDoThisCoolThing, but not having a single visible smoker in a film that is almost completely about smoking steers the film straight into... [[InformedAttribute a few]] [[ShowDontTell other tropes.]]

** The ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series' primary overarching antagonists are a bunch of radical "environmentalists" employing Green Peace marines. Also the enviromentalists don't shower or use deoderant.
** ''Literature/TroyRising'' the protagonist got to be wealthier than the rest of the planet through hard work. Also we're treated to his views on taxation, unemployement and welfare. At one point an alien takes time to complain directly about "liberals".
* Creator/JRRTolkien makes a number of pointed comments through his [[Literature/TolkiensLegendarium Legendarium]]. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.

** However, at one point the BigBad has a conversation with the narrator, whom the villain intends to torture to death for fun. They ''both'' agree that as evil as the Big Bad is, at least he's not as utterly loathsome and without any redeeming moral qualities as the worst human in recorded history, Vice President Dick Cheney.
* William S. Lind, author of ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' lampoons much of modern society, in a mean-spirited way. Many characters agree that things went wrong for civilization around the early 1960s, some say the 30s and by the end, the heroes have agreed to restrict their nonmilitary technology to that level. So Victoria flourishes while more advanced US successor states fail.

-->'''Prof. Jirafales''' ''(to Dón Ramon after he tries to teach El Chavo boxing)'': If I see El Chavo del Ocho wearing boxing gloves [again], I, am going, [[BrokenAesop to break everything that you call a face!]]

* In an example of Actor on Board, Creator/LisaWhelchel cited her own evangelical Christian beliefs and had herself completly written out of a ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'' script in which her character Blair loses her virginity outside of marriage. The episode was re-written to make Natalie (Creator/MindyCohn) the character who loses her virginity.

* All three of the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episodes written by Ben Steed [[CharacterDerailment trample characterisation]] for the sake of sexism. In "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos}} The Harvest of Kairos]]" Supreme Commander Servalan goes meekly along with the manly Jarvik (rather than killing him, which was statistically more likely). "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS3E11Moloch}} Moloch]]" had women as helpless victims; Servalan is briefly added to their number, and she doesn't do much more than look outraged. "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS4E2Power}} Power]]" featured a war of the sexes and an [[AuthorFilibuster uncharacteristic sermon]] from Avon -- usually an equal-opportunity misanthrope -- about how he, as a man, would always be stronger than a woman.

** Marti Noxon herself generally had a [[AllMenArePerverts men are bad]] vibe to her episodes as early as Season 3 when she made her debut as a writer. Prominent examples are the episodes "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndTheBeasts}} Beauty and the Beasts]]", "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E15Consequences}} Consequences]]", and "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E6WildAtHeart}} Wild At Heart]]". A lot of her episodes tended to feature males as villains or be the bad character in a relationship. It gets so extreme that Willow's reaction to Oz's cheating comes off as [[DoubleStandard not quite as sympathetic as intended]] considering what Willow was doing with Xander the season before.

* The ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'' episode "A Child of God" features the story of a young professional woman who [[spoiler: has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer]] and attempts to reconcile with her estranged father, a minister, who is still angry because she had an affair with a married man 7-8 years prior, had a daughter from the affair, and never repented of it. The woman's affair is treated sympathetically by Jonathan, who emphasizes that there was no sin at all on the woman's part (even though she ostensibly slept with a man against the wishes of said man's wife). In the end, [[spoiler: the woman's father has a change of heart and admits that he was in the wrong, delivering an {{Anvilicious}} Aesop about how being kind to others is more important than an explicit belief in God.]] Given that this episode was written and directed by Michael Landon, it's hard to imagine that his rather sympathetic portrayal of adultery was not influenced by Landon's own recent life experiences, which included having an extramarital affair with a woman he met on the Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie set, then later divorcing his second wife so that he could marry her as his third.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd constantly references his (as in James') childhood in many of his videos. For one example, his childhood hatred of ''Ghostbusters'' for the NES not only resulted in a longer-than-usual episode, but it also resulted in the very next episode being ''another'' review of the same game.

** Though in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E10FOXyLady FOX-y Lady]]", Brian's flaws are pointed out perfectly.[[spoiler: Lois was ordered by her new employers at Fox News to expose Creator/MichaelMoore's (theorized) homosexuality. When it is discovered Radio/RushLimbaugh is (possibly) his lover, the exposé is cut. Brian is repulsed by Fox News avoiding the truth to protect a fellow conservative, but urges Lois to do the story anyways to nail Limbaugh. Lois asks why this is any different than Fox trying to discredit Moore. Brian stammeringly claims it is OK because he is admitting his hypocrisy. At the end of the episode, it transpires that former child star Fred Savage invented both Limbaugh and Moore out of whole cloth (which, of course, is totally untrue in real life), and ''then'' the ''Family Guy'' team made "Excellence in Broadcasting" and got Limbaugh a guest spot as himself on the episode. As well as playing a giant version of himself in the ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' parody "It's a Trap" taking the place of the Rancor.]] In RealLife, Rush Limbaugh and Creator/SethMacFarlane were good friends, [[OddFriendship despite their opposing political views]], and Limbaugh considered the show's satirical [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]] version of himself to be ActuallyPrettyFunny.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E18MeetTheQuagmires Meet the Quagmires]]", Peter accidentally creates an alternate timeline where Al Gore won the 2000 US Presidential election instead of George W. Bush. This alternate timeline is presented as a utopia where all the Democratic Party's desired (but highly controversial) policies such as universal healthcare and strict gun control are implemented. Climate change is solved and Al Gore also personally killed Osama Bin Laden. In addition, many of America's most prominent Republican supporters [[DroppedABridgeOnHim die in a very violent and humiliating accident.]]

** This goes beyond politics. For example, there have been ''two'' episodes that express their disapproval of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

* The entire "Patriarchy" arc of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' seems to be a hefty, ''hefty'' example of this, with characters being ''drastically'' altered as it goes on to make the arc work out in a "Feminists are good, nearly all men are useless misogynists and there are no male allies in this world" manner, with some of the biggest examples of this alteration being Slick and Squig. And then the author's views on transgender people started coming up and things got even more insane, which messages that seem to amount to "transgender women will ''never'' be real women, they are simply delusional men being enabled by the establishment". Which is when most of the audience that was left by then packed up and left.

* The last six issues of Creator/KyleBaker's ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'' run, [[BitingTheHandHumor not coincidentally]] written after Baker was told the book would be cancelled, are an extended satire on everything Baker disliked about mid-'00s DC Universe comics, and specifically ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' and related plot arcs: DarkerAndEdgier plots full of gratuitous character death, BlackAndGrayMorality, and overt sexual violence; traditionally lighter characters getting [[KillTheCutie killed off]], [[CorruptTheCutie corrupted]] or [[BreakTheCutie traumatized]]; overlong, sprawling {{Crisis Crossover}}s; {{Stripperiffic}} costumes on female characters and generally excessive fanservice; and overblown writing and general pretensions on the creators' part that they were making superhero comics Serious Adult Drama. While many critics agreed with the views expressed, there was a general feeling that the satire was too heavy-handed and took up too much of the comic.

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'': ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendsForeverIssue14 Friends Forever Issue #14]]'' was written for the sole purpose of pushing the author's views on racism, specifically the ending of ''Dragon Quest'' which the author thought had UnfortunateImplications. Unfortunately the fan consensus is that it did an ''incredibly'' poor job of it by being ''far'' [[{{Anvilicious}} too preachy]], being riddled with UnfortunateImplications, having little to no actual plot, [[WolverinePublicity an outright lying cover]][[note]]It depicted Luna and Spike in a fierce battle against fire-breathing adult dragons, which ''don't even appear in the comic''[[/note]], putting no focus on Princess Luna and Spike's friendship, having Luna only be present for about two pages, and having Spike's role delegated to "listening to {{Anvilicious}} {{Author Tract}}s from a bunch of {{Canon Foreigner}}s who never appear in the entire franchise again". It remains the single most disliked and unpopular issue in the entire [=IDW=] Friendship Is Magic series as a result.

** ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series primary overarching antagonists are a bunch of radical "environmentalists" employing Green Peace marines. Also the enviromentalists don't shower or use deoderant.

%%* While labeled as ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfics of all things, the stories ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048227/1/APH-Israel-s-Workout Israel's workout]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5874478/1/Axis-Powers-Hetalia-Two-Americas The Two Americas]]'' are really very extreme Conservative and racially insensitive propaganda at that. ##explain what about it is conservative and intrusive

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.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastMachines]]''. The author outright admitted that he deliberately ignored aspects of the prequel series ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' because he wanted to "tell his own story", as opposed to, for instance, an actual ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' story. The result wasn't pretty; near-universal CharacterDerailment is just the start of the problems. For the most part, he acted as if this were a completely new series, and not a sequel to another.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' has many mostly in the form of Shipping Wars as each writer tries to pitch their own ship:
** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] himself. Particularly his run on the ComicBook/SpiderMan comics. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson was introduced as merely a foil for [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy.]] However, Mary Jane was infamous for [[EnsembleDarkHorse stealing every scene she entered,]] largely overshadowing Gwen's [[GirlNextDoor softer]] personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a [[DVDBonusContent featurette]] on the ''Film/SpiderMan2'' DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it.

** Dan Slott notes this about the famous {{Revision}} of ''Parallel Lives'', the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone [[LovesMyAlterEgo who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter]]. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Creator/GerryConway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, that given Spider-Man's HeroWithBadPublicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views [[UndyingLoyalty which Mary Jane never did]], this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically {{deconstruct|ion}}ed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up [[ProgressivelyPrettier handsome]] (as repeatedly told in stories [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko in the Ditko era]], and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but the ComicBook/BlackCat.

* Rick Remender has been accused of doing this in his ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''. Remender is outspoken in his belief that the mutant-rights movement within the stories is a poor metaphor for real-world civil rights, because unlike real minorities, many mutants ''are'' legitimately dangerous, and several characters within the story express the view that the mutant rights movement is completely different from, say, the African-American or gay rights movements. Particularly controversial has been his handling of Rogue and to a lesser extent Wolverine and Sunfire, who hold the view (shared with the majority of writers and fans) that the parallels ''do'' work, and who are [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong portrayed as unreasonable]] for it.

** Though in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E10FOXyLady FOX-y Lady]]", Brian's flaws are pointed out perfectly.[[spoiler: Lois was ordered by her new employers at Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} to expose Creator/MichaelMoore's (theorized) homosexuality. When it is discovered Radio/RushLimbaugh is (possibly) his lover, the exposé is cut. Brian is repulsed by Fox News avoiding the truth to protect a fellow conservative, but urges Lois to do the story anyways to nail Limbaugh. Lois asks why this is any different than Fox trying to discredit Moore. Brian stammeringly claims it is OK because he is admitting his hypocrisy. At the end of the episode, it transpires that former child star Fred Savage invented both Limbaugh and Moore out of whole cloth (which, of course, is totally untrue in real life), and ''then'' the ''Family Guy'' team made "Excellence in Broadcasting" and got Limbaugh a guest spot as himself on the episode. As well as playing a giant version of himself in the ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' parody "It's a Trap" taking the place of the Rancor.]] In RealLife, Rush Limbaugh and Creator/SethMacFarlane were good friends, [[OddFriendship despite their opposing political views]], and Limbaugh considered the show's satirical [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]] version of himself to be ActuallyPrettyFunny.

** John Romita is on record saying that he did all he could to make Gwen as interesting as MJ but to no avail. MJ was an immediate hit -- readers started writing letters asking for her to be made Peter Parker's girlfriend on the strength of [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the iconic panel that first showed her face]] as well as her long-introduction and the fact that [[CoolOldLady Aunt May, Peter's mother in essence,]] was ShipperOnDeck and saw MJ as "the one" for Peter. Lee's and Romita's best efforts to make Gwen prettier and feistier were not enough especially since a lot of these fans didn't forget that when artist and co-plotter Creator/SteveDitko was around, Gwen Stacy was a narcissistic arrogant AlphaBitch who found Peter attractive but was otherwise too proud to act on it and basically played mean pranks and social bullying to "express her affection" and they saw through Lee and Romita's rewrites to make Gwen stick for the transparent CharacterShilling it was.
** Dan Slott notes this about the famous {{Revision}} of ''Parallel Lives'', the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone [[LovesMyAlterEgo who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter]]. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Creator/GerryConway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, that given Spider-Man's HeroWithBadPublicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views [[UndyingLoyalty which Mary Jane never did]], this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically {{deconstruct|ion}}ed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up [[ProgressivelyPrettier handsome]] (as repeatedly told in stories [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko in the Ditko era]], and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but ComicBook/BlackCat.

* There are myriad fanfics that have UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden being skewered by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud's]] {{BFS}}.
* There's an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic featuring Zuko and a self-insert girl starting a communist revolution.
* There was a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fanfic wherein 9/11 brought Spike to tears. And not in a jealous "Why can't I be that evil?" way. In a [[TheWoobie woobie]] needing-a-cuddle-to-make-the-bad-go-away way.

* "A Crushed Empire", a long-gone ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fanfic where the Emperor is evil, all non-humans are trying to be friendly and [[EasyEvangelism everyone converts to Christianity]]. That the instigator is a Dark Angel (read:uber-fanatic) who {{Wangst}}s just because his home planet got hit by an [[ApocalypseHow Exterminatus]]. The sequel is just as bad, as the races well known for their FantasticRacism and OmnicidalManiac tendencies are being nice to each other, and the MartyStu Dark Angel-wannabe somehow banished the Chaos Gods. The cause of all this? Literature/TheBible.

** There is a fic about Harry Potter [[RedScare battling the threat of communism]]. It had Lucius Malfoy as a communist who was taking over the Ministry of Magic, and they planned to defeat him by... pointing out the fallacies of communism. The first Harry Potter book is set in 1991, the year the UsefulNotes/ColdWar ended.
** In many conversion fics, Harry abandons 'witchcraft' and becomes devoted to some monotheistic religion.
* While labeled as ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfics of all things, the stories ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048227/1/APH-Israel-s-Workout Israel's workout]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5874478/1/Axis-Powers-Hetalia-Two-Americas The Two Americas]]'' are really very extreme Conservative and racially insensitive propaganda at that. One also wonders why someone opposed to Gay Marriage would write fanfiction for a series that encourages Yaoi.

* One ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fic has a female velociraptor (with wings) who converts Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters to Christianity.
* One ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' fanfic had a Koopa kid converting another to Christianity via EasyEvangelism for no good plot-related reason.

* Director Creator/HideakiAnno, who had gone through a [[CreatorBreakdown serious bout of depression]] pre-production, was famously accused of this practice in regards to the later opaque parts of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* In ''"The Money Pit"'', Donald Duck gets the genius idea to start asking to collect his 30 cents an hour from Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin, for him to resell the rare coins to coin collectors. Scrooge figures out the scheme, giving Creator/DonRosa a chance to rant about "Investment Collectors" amongst comic book fans.
-->'''Donald:''' Those coins aren't doing you any good, and some coin collector will appreciate them. \\
'''Scrooge:''' That is precisely where you are wrong, nephew! Coin collectors make me sick! They collect their coins because ''other'' people put a value on them. They look their old coins up in ''price guides'' that tell them the fool things are worth more than face value. But why?! They don't ''enjoy'' their coins. They don't ''dive'' in them like porpoises or burrow through them like gophers, or toss 'em up and let them hit them on the head. No, they put their coins in plastic sleeves, and are even afraid to ''touch'' them for fear they'll be worth ''less'' to somebody ''else''! They spend their lives building a meaningless collection that they only plan to someday ''sell''... to a buyer who only plans to ''resell'' it! It's all so ''silly!'' \\
'''Donald:''' And I suppose ''your'' three-cube coin collection is ''sane''? \\
'''Scrooge:''' The difference is that ''I'' value each and every coin as a personal memento. Nephew, I have learned to treasure that which has value to ''me'', not to someone else. That's what life is all about!
* Creator/DCComics writer Keith Giffen is unabashed about his hatred of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' character Karate Kid and his [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower "super karate",]] and has stated outright that any time he ends up writing the Legion comic, Karate Kid will die. Once downplayed when Giffen did write Karate Kid's death in one run of the Legion comic, he gave the character a respectful send-off via HeroicSacrifice, rather than simply [[DroppedABridgeOnHim dropping a bridge on him.]]
** A few reviewers have accused Giffen of trying to co-opt [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Midnighter]], one of the only openly gay superheroes, after reading their run wherein Midnighter disbands the team, leaves his husband, Apollo, and moves to a tiny apple-pie town where he lives with a young woman named Mindy. The ResetButton was pounded so hard after that it nearly ''cracked''.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' has many mostly in the form of Shipping Wars as each writer tries to pitch their own ship:
** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] himself. Particularly his run on the ComicBook/SpiderMan comics. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson was introduced as merely a foil for [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy.]] However, Mary Jane was infamous for [[EnsembleDarkHorse stealing every scene she entered,]] largely overshadowing Gwen's [[GirlNextDoor softer]] personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a [[DVDBonusContent featurette]] on the ''Film/SpiderMan2'' DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it.
** John Romita is on record saying that he did all he could to make Gwen as interesting as MJ but to no avail. MJ was an immediate hit -- readers started writing letters asking for her to be made Peter Parker's girlfriend on the strength of [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the iconic panel that first showed her face]] as well as her long-introduction and the fact that [[CoolOldLady Aunt May, Peter's mother in essence,]] was ShipperOnDeck and saw MJ as "the one" for Peter. Lee's and Romita's best efforts to make Gwen prettier and feistier were not enough especially since a lot of these fans didn't forget that when artist and co-plotter Creator/SteveDitko was around, Gwen Stacy was a narcissistic arrogant AlphaBitch who found Peter attractive but was otherwise too proud to act on it and basically played mean pranks and social bullying to "express her affection" and they saw through Lee and Romita's rewrites to make Gwen stick for the transparent CharacterShilling it was.
** Dan Slott notes this about the famous {{Revision}} of ''Parallel Lives'', the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone [[LovesMyAlterEgo who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter]]. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Creator/GerryConway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, that given Spider-Man's HeroWithBadPublicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views [[UndyingLoyalty which Mary Jane never did]], this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically {{deconstruct|ion}}ed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up [[ProgressivelyPrettier handsome]] (as repeatedly told in stories [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko in the Ditko era]], and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but ComicBook/BlackCat.
** Co-creator Creator/SteveDitko a few years after he finished Spider-Man became known as an Objectivist, and his abrupt departure is often seen as a result of a political disagreement between him and Lee. Much of which is conjecture and unverifiable because Ditko was a famous ReclusiveArtist who refused to discuss Spider-Man in detail after he quit. After Ditko left, Lee who was himself quite apolitical at the time but tended to go with general social trends once they became mainstream, in later years would use Spider-Man to put out VerySpecialEpisode most notably the "drug trilogy" and where Ditko in TheSixties made fun of college protestors as BourgeoisBohemian, Lee trying to tap into the college crowd he had come to know on the campus lecture circuit showed them more sympathetically.
* Creator/JuddWinick's work for Creator/DCComics, particularly his [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special Issues]], have been accused of this.
** ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' #154, in which we learn the very important lesson that Beating People Up For Being Gay Is Wrong after Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's personal assistant Terry Berg is beaten up by a group of random thugs while leaving a club with his boyfriend. Despite having lost his first girlfriend to super-villain violence in the incident which defined the StuffedIntoTheFridge trope and seeing numerous other violations of basic human decency on a daily basis, THIS particularly display of man's inhumanity to man is so bad that it inspires Kyle Rayner to abandon the Earth in favor of wandering outer space and helping random non-human species.
** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' #44, in which we learn that Oliver Queen's adopted daughter Mia is a recovering meth addict ''and'' HIV-positive. Despite having been portrayed by Winick as an unrepentant womanizer and having been so during a time when knowing such things would be vital, Oliver is completely ignorant as to what HIV is and how it is contracted, prompting a text-book recital on how HIV is contracted and treated.
** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' #17-19 (a.k.a ''Most Wanted''), in which the Outsiders approach real-life hero and [[SpecialGuest Very Special Guest Star]] John Walsh for help in tracking down the leader of a child slavery ring. It doesn't speak well of the team that when their leader, a Franchise/{{Batman}}-trained detective (i.e. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}), is unable to find any leads that his next plan of attack is "Let's get that guy on TV to help us!" This arc had ExecutiveMeddling written all over it.
** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' #61, in which newly elected Mayor Oliver Queen sums up his plan for rebuilding Star City with two words: gay marriage. In exchange for living in the city for two weeks, gay couples can have a free wedding on the steps of city hall - the hope being that all of these couples will stay and settle in the city, bringing money which will go into the local economy. Sadly, the plan is a bit of a non-starter seeing on how it is dependent on finding gay people who are so desperate to be legally married they will willingly move to a city that is currently divided by a massive wall built to separate the poor side of town from the rich side of town in the wake of a super-villain attack. Ollie does privately admit, however, that the main purpose of the announcement is as a headline grabber, designed to keep media attention on Star City and its problems, and that he doesn't expect it to do much else.
* ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' has been accused of this, with people saying Creator/MarkMillar made just about everyone in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse into idiots just so he could pit them against each other. The fact that some writers seemed to agree with this only compounds the problem.
* A somewhat humorous example: ComicBook/AnimalMan. Creator/GrantMorrison used it to constantly pitch for animal rights, particularly stating that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and eating animals is wrong. [[MediumAwareness Part of the plot was also the fact that the main character was slowly realizing he was in a comic book.]] In the last issue of Morrison's run, Animal Man and [[AuthorAvatar Morrison]] talk face to face, and Animal Man points out that animal rights are all well and good - but sometimes they verged on eco-terrorism. And that sharing minds with animals shouldn't automatically make you a vegetarian since half of the time you're going to be sharing minds with a carnivore. And all of this felt like CharacterDerailment. Morrison admits they has some good points but wonders if the next writer will take that too far and have Animal Man run down a zebra and eat it alive. As both a ContinuityNod and a TakeThat, the ''next writer had him do just that in the very next issue.''
* Creator/JephLoeb appears to have, or at least ''had'' at some point, an ax to grind against organized religion. In the famous "ComicBook/EmperorJoker" storyline, there's an early scene making fun of a monastery, and ComicBook/TheJoker later spouts some atheistic viewpoint towards the end (although granted, this is probably in character for the Joker). Then in the "Return to Krypton" story, the entire point was [[{{Anvilicious}} Jor-El and an army of scientists fighting against the priestly clan of Krypton]]. To make the point more glaringly {{Anvilicious}}, at the beginning when a time-traveling Jor-El shows up to meet present-day Superman, Superman exclaims "Great Rao!" (Rao is the Kryptonian sun god), and Jor-El moans "No, not Rao!!!"
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': During the latter half of Creator/KenPenders' period as head writer, many of the stories either revolved around his own [[DoesntLikeGuns anti-gun views]] or would come to a screeching halt for a few panels for an AuthorFilibuster about the same. An example of the former was an entire story devoted to showing how the great [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Overlander]] vs. [[FunnyAnimals Mobian]] war began: two children - one Overlander, the other Mobian - meet between the two kingdoms to play, one of them brings a gun one day and accidentally shoots the other while they're horsing around, war engulfs both races, [[VerySpecialEpisode After School Special]] credits roll. An example of the latter has one of the less scrupulous members of the Freedom Fighters ([[spoiler:Fiona, who goes on to betray the team and join the bad guys in a later issue]]) ask why they don't just use guns to solve their current dilemma and is given a verbal bitch-slap by Rotor Walrus about how they have ''never'' used guns and ''never will'' use guns. This sudden MoodWhiplash is made even more jarring by the fact that Bunnie Rabbot, a character that had worn six-shooters holstered in a bullet belt up until the issue in question, can be seen in the background, without the pistols but still wearing the belt. Further, not but twenty or thirty issues previous, Rotor had developed a huge bazooka-like laser cannon that purportedly operated much like a [[{{BFG}} hand-held]] WaveMotionGun and which Rotor actually fired ''directly at [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]]'' at one point.

* Jim Starlin does not like religion, and he writes about it often in his comics. He also has very strong opinions on how some things in comics ''should'' be and doesn't mind using the power of {{Retcon}} to have things his way--the biggest example is his take on the [[ComicBook/NewGods Anti-Life Equation]], which is nothing like Creator/JackKirby's. He also once used ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, Marvel's planet-devouring star god, as a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy.
** Starlin also did not like ComicBook/{{Robin}}, and did everything he could to make the Robin at the time (Jason Todd) [[TheScrappy unlikable]].
* J.M. [=DeMatteis=] is a strict pacifist writing in an industry that's basically defined by people punching each other. Inevitably, this results in a certain tension when he writes {{superhero}} stories (or his one issue of ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977''.) Either you have a pacifist writer telling stories about violence solving problems, or characters embracing pacifist ideals despite long histories of solving problems with violence.
* After 9/11, Creator/FrankMiller proposed a Batman story called ''Holy Terror Batman!'', in which the Dark Knight hunts down terrorists. DC refused to let him use Batman for the project, which was released as ''ComicBook/HolyTerror'' with original characters instead.
** Frank really likes two things: Angry, over-the-top sociopathic antiheroes for protagonists, and prostitutes. Male characters tend to have any antiheroic tendencies ramped up, and women are frequently retconned into being prostitutes, strippers, or otherwise heavily sexualized depictions (also often with a helping of sociopathy too). Batman and Catwoman are the most notable examples of that as, in his writing, [[DesignatedHero Batman is a bullying jerk who regularly insults anyone with superpowers because they have the power to take over the world but don't while spouting homophobic language]], while Catwoman's [[MultipleChoicePast vague backstory]] was established as her being a former hooker who, inspired by Batman, adopts a costume to become a masked thief.
** Frank also has gone on record that he ''really'' wanted to do this to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. After 9/11, he apparently told Marvel they were lucky to have a character like Cap who they could use for stories about UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and has made it clear he wants to write the character. Given how he handled ''Holy Terror'', it's a really good thing Marvel knew better.
* Creator/AlanMoore has admitted that his series ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' was a mouthpiece for his views on magic.
* A bizarre and infamous example of this trope appears in the ComicBook/{{Doom}} Comic when Doom Guy suddenly rambles about the dangers of nuclear power and the need to preserve the ecosystem for the children of mankind, in the middle of shooting demons and zombies left and right. Probably ''PlayedForLaughs'', though, but who knows...

* Like Remender and Giffen above, Jason Aaron's recent Marvel work that involves Cyclops to some extent usually involves at some point or another either Cyclops doing something he views as wrong and being called out on it (usually by Wolverine), or having someone call him out on something he did previously, usually something he did while under Aaron's pen (both ''Schism'' and ''Avengers Vs X-Men'' being keen examples of such). Cyclops will either give weak defenses for this or he will be cut off by some big speech about why he's a horrible person and why they're much better than him, with him not responding and the scene ending there. In his contributions to ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'', he even has Cyclops' time-lost teen self remind him and the viewer he's still against his recent behaviour and will stop it (despite the fact that he's since learnt that what he thought about him was wrong) and had Kitty criticize Illyana (who's currently siding with Cyclops), despite both characters actually expressing appreciation for his attempts at helping them [[spoiler:and having the two leave Wolverine's side to join him]] in Bendis' parts. In general, if Aaron is writing something X-Men related and Cyclops pops up, he'll be a pathetic jerk who exists to be hated and blamed, and it doesn't matter if the other character ends up coming off as childish, immature, idiotic, hypocritical, or just down-right asinine. Other writers follow suit in order to keep continuity, but they at least give Cyke credence and have him point out what an ass they're being about it.
** If there's anything to go by, though, is that Aaron REALLY doesn't like [[KidHero kids and teenaged superheroes]] fighting supervillains, as the bulk of the Schism conflict and Wolverine's main reason for being pissed at Cyclops is Cyke's willingness to take teenagers out into the field. Never mind that Cyclops has been an X-Man since he was ''14'', or that the X-Men have done this regularly since their inception, ''or'' that Wolverine himself [[{{Hypocrite}} is well known for taking young teenage girls as his sidekicks]]. Because of the absurdity of this, other writers using his side of the X-Men ignore this and have teenaged X-Men fight in missions regardless, but Wolverine repeatedly makes a big deal about it, even making a point to jab at Cyke for how 'green' his [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen new team]] were, even though he ''wasn't'' taking them out on a mission at the time, and that they were all ''college-aged young adults''.
* Creator/ChuckDixon, a political conservative, made ComicBook/{{Robin}}'s love interest Spoiler pregnant for no other reason than to give himself a soapbox for his pro-life views. Ironically, he claims DC fired him because he loudly objected to Creator/JuddWinick doing pretty much the same thing (except with AIDS instead of teen pregnancy) during the latter's run on ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''.
** He's also frequently had Batman [[TookALevelInJerkass become a massive dick to his allies]] [[CallingTheOldManOut so that they can]] [[WhatTheHellHero call him out on his BS]], for reasons that aren't quite understood. It's somewhat strange as he ''can'' write a decent Batman, but just as often makes Batman turn into an unrepentant jerkass so that he can have other characters hate him.
* ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Friends Forever Issue #14]]'' was written for the sole purpose of pushing the author's views on racism, specifically the ending of ''Dragon Quest'' which the author thought had UnfortunateImplications. Unfortunately the fan consensus is that it did an ''incredibly'' poor job of it by being ''far'' [[{{Anvilicious}} too preachy]], being riddled with UnfortunateImplications, having little to no actual plot, [[WolverinePublicity an outright lying cover]][[note]]It depicted Luna and Spike in a fierce battle against fire-breathing adult dragons, which ''don't even appear in the comic''[[/note]], putting no focus on Princess Luna and Spike's friendship, having Luna only be present for about two pages, and having Spike's role delegated to "listening to {{Anvilicious}} {{Author Tract}}s from a bunch of {{Canon Foreigner}}s who never appear in the entire franchise again". It remains the single most disliked and unpopular issue in the entire [=IDW=] Friendship Is Magic series as a result.
* Jamie Delano's run on ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' is quite blatant about its left-wing politics, with [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle nods]] like demons celebrating Margaret Thatcher's election (since it will result in more miserable people looking to [[DealWithTheDevil sell their souls]]), tracts against nuclear power, and active promotion of "free love" hippie lifestyles, to the point that the FinalBoss of the run, a giant dragon god, is defeated by Constantine and his two love interests having a threesome [[SexMagic under the right mystical circumstances]]. Delano's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' also features the titular hero and his daughter founding a hippie commune.
* Creator/DennisHopeless has openly admitted that the decision to have ComicBook/SpiderWoman become pregnant came about after his own wife became pregnant.
* The last six issues of Kyle Baker's ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'' run, [[BitingTheHandHumor not coincidentally]] written after Baker was told the book would be cancelled, are an extended satire on everything Baker disliked about mid-'00s DC Universe comics, and specifically ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' and related plot arcs: DarkerAndEdgier plots full of gratuitous character death, BlackAndGrayMorality, and overt sexual violence; traditionally lighter characters getting [[KillTheCutie killed off]], [[CorruptTheCutie corrupted]] or [[BreakTheCutie traumatized]]; overlong, sprawling {{Crisis Crossover}}s; {{Stripperiffic}} costumes on female characters and generally excessive fanservice; and overblown writing and general pretensions on the creators' part that they were making superhero comics Serious Adult Drama. While many critics agreed with the views expressed, there was a general feeling that the satire was too heavy-handed and took up too much of the comic.
* The first issue of ''ComicBook/EarthPrime'' is ostensibly a ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'' story, but heavily features Lena Luthor, a character from ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' who has never met either the original Batwoman or the current one, and who keeps making comments implying that she and Kara Danvers are a couple. Incidentally, the issue was co-written by Natalie Abrams, a former ''Supergirl'' writer who also ships Kara and Lena.
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Creator/RogerStern openly said in an interview that the reason he killed Starhawk and Aleta's kids when he took over the title from Mike Gallagher is he simply felt they didn't fit the characters (and with a note that if someone wished, there was a way to undo their deaths. In the five decades since, no-one actually has.)
* The various writers of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' were obviously ''very'' thirsty for the idea of a [[HeelFaceTurn reformed King Sombra]] ever since his introduction in the ''Reflections'' arc, as they outright reference it every chance they get. It actually bordered on WriterRevolt, as they at first wrote a follow-up to Sombra's ''[=FIENDship=]'' issue that ended with a rather abrupt HeelFaceTurn for Sombra that turned him into a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to their version, complete with a [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1045453 reference]] to their version of the character. When the show instead had him come back, evil as ever, and capped it off with Sombra being [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2004578 killed off for real in the Season 8 finale]], the comics responded with an entire issue about Spike being the author of the comics... that quite literally ends with [[https://derpibooru.org/images/3012513 Andy Price and Katy Cook's OCs]] declaring it would have been better if Sombra was redeemed while taunting a StrawMan of fans of MLP.
* Creator/SimonFurman has always had problems accepting the idea of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' being a gendered species, always having headcanoned them as an asexual genderless species who only use gendered pronouns for dealing with species with genders. This means he will write them as such unless mandated otherwise. While he's good about not letting it affect his stories, it means he stumbles when it's time to female Cybertronians to show up and he feels the need to justify it. The worst moment of this being Arcee's introduction into ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' which came off as unintentionally offensive to trans people and got him in hot water with fellow author Mairghread Scott, though the two eventually worked it out.

* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' usually dips only occasionally into Tom Batiuk's views. However, in mid-September of 2009, he suddenly ran a plot line in which a group of angry parents protests a production of ''Wit'', a play about "cancer" and "death". As Batiuk's own dip into these two topics was a source of mockery and harsh criticism (mainly due to his lack of skill in shifting a gag-per-day strip into [[CerebusSyndrome heavy drama]]), it was pretty obvious that he still had a chip on his shoulder.

* Very common in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfics:
** In the infamous ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', everyone turns into a goffik Stanist who swears a lot and sticks their middle finger up at preps. They also develop an unhealthy preoccupation with slitting their wrists. However, due to its status as a ([[PoesLaw possible]]) TrollFic, this ridiculousness is likely quite intentional.
** There is a fic about Harry Potter [[RedScare battling the threat of communism]]. It had Lucius Malfoy as a communist who was taking over the Ministry of Magic, and they planned to defeat him by... pointing out the fallacies of communism. The first Harry Potter book is set in 1991, the year the UsefulNotes/ColdWar ended.
** In many conversion fics, Harry abandons 'witchcraft' and becomes devoted to some monotheistic religion.

* While labeled as ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfics of all things, the stories ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048227/1/APH-Israel-s-Workout Israel's workout]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5874478/1/Axis-Powers-Hetalia-Two-Americas The Two Americas]]'' are really very extreme Conservative and racially insensitive propaganda at that. One also wonders why someone opposed to Gay Marriage would write fanfiction for a series that encourages Yaoi.

** One ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fic has a female velociraptor (with wings) who converts Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters to Christianity.
* There are myriad fanfics that have UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden being skewered by [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud's]] {{BFS}}.
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* There's an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic featuring Zuko and a self-insert girl starting a communist revolution.
* Chatoyance uses her ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau Conversion Bureau]]'' fics to espouse her views.
* Cori Falls. Trying to find a fic where she doesn't preach the glories of paganism and the evils of "mainstream" popular kids is like finding a needle in a haystack.
* Creator/RalphHayesJr, alias [=RealityCheck=], does this in some of his ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics. Bullying is a sore subject for him 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.]]
* [=Redskin122004=], author of ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', has also written {{Deconstruction}}s for the "Fall of Equestria" universe (wherein the ponies are forced into sexual slavery by the patriarchal caribou). He has stated an explicit hatred for the universe to rival his distaste for ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' that stems from his own hatred of what goes on in real life.

* Roberto Gómez Bolaños aka Creator/{{Chespirito}} was a very complex man. On one hand, he was very socially conservative and a vocal opponent of abortion and gay marriage (though he was OK with gay civil unions) but much more progressive on economic issues and social reform, probably because he was a devoted Catholic.[[note]]Notice that is very common in Latin America for political Catholicism to be left-wing in political and economic issued but more conservative in social issues, as most Christian Democratic Parties would show.[[/note]] His views went into his shows in many ways:

* Many people believe the famous/infamous Franchise/PowerRangers episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceS1E34ForeverRed Forever Red]]" was essentially used by PromotedFanboy Amit Bhuamik to force his fanfic hoax "Scorpion Rain" into canon with the series. Although actually, Bhuamik only provided the voice of Tommy in the fanfic, which was actually created by Derik Smith. Still, Bhuamik admitted that he considered the fanfic "completely in canon" when writing Forever Red, taking advantage of what was originally supposed to be a sequel to Countdown to Destruction (but got changed due to ExecutiveMeddling from Jonathan Tzachor and Koichi Sakamoto) to put his old friend's fan works into continuity.

* Director Hideaki Anno, who had gone through a [[CreatorBreakdown serious bout of depression]] pre-production, was famously accused of this practice in regards to the later opaque parts of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* The original English language manga ''Manga/{{Dramacon}}'' has an OEL manga artist pause to commiserate about people who think OEL works aren't "really" manga. She's immediately set upon by a [[TheWarOnStraw representative]] of the opposing view: he's ten, dressed as Naruto, only able to talk by shouting...oh, yeah, and racist.

* ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', wherein Christopher Reeve was given creative control of the story, is a thinly-veiled veneer for his anti-nuclear, anti-corporate media philosophies. In one particularly jarring scene from the movie, Superman saves the passengers aboard a runaway subway car, then gives a speech to a crowd of pedestrians about the benefits of mass transit. Amusingly, Reeve himself later admitted the final product of the film was terrible but reminded people it had a SoBadItsGood quality.
* ''Film/TheLastJedi'' - the eighth episode of the Star Wars saga was directed by Creator/RianJohnson and deconstructs and criticizes a number of long-standing Star Wars tropes. Johnson uses a burnt out and depressed Luke Skywalker to discuss his thoughts on the negative aspects of the Jedi Order, the nuances of the Force, and the fan's mythologizing of Luke. Additionally, he uses the hopeful, but bitter Rose Tico to espouse his personal politics such as condemning slavery, war profiteering, and a giving speech about how the military-industrial complex gets richer from the suffering of others and how they will always support those who will benefit the most.
* The biggest failing of ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' was that it was just two hours of Creator/MNightShyamalan rubbing his self-indulgence in our faces. The movie is pretty much centered around inspiring a writer (not surprisingly, played by Shyamalan himself) into writing a book that will change the world for the better at the cost of being martyred in a HeroicSacrifice. He also includes a TakeThat against the [[TakeThatCritics film critics]] who gave his earlier movies negative reviews by putting in a film critic character who is an [[StrawCritic arrogant, unlikeable man]] who dies a horrible death... and was one of the most popular characters among viewers.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', Creator/LeonardNimoy preaches his pro-environmental views and gives a [[SpaceWhaleAesop nonsensical justification]] for it. Yet by ''not'' putting those views front and center, and keeping the movie strong on character and humor (also thanks to the screenplay by four skilled writers), [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools the trope is barely noticeable when watching.]] It helps that he avoids demonizing the opposition with [[StrawmanPolitical strawmen]] or a cackling, anti-environmental villain. In fact, except for the probe that starts it all (which can [[BlueAndOrangeMorality hardly be considered malevolent]]), this is the one of the relatively rare ''Franchise/StarTrek'' stories that can be considered to have NoAntagonist.
* Any Creator/QuentinTarantino film usually has a scene that is obviously a theory or pet peeve of Tarantino's shoved into the mouth of one of the characters. Sometimes even by playing the character himself. Most memorably: ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' features his character rambling about the true meaning of Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Like a Virgin", and ''Film/PulpFiction'' features his character going on a rant about his hatred of cheap coffee. Possibly the weirdest is ''Film/KillBill'' coming to a dead stop so Bill (who has shown ''zero'' interest in comic books up to this point) can rant about what '''''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''''' actually means.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun 2 ½'': the GreenAesop is laid on pretty thick when the villains outline their devious plan. Ironically, David Zucker would become a hard-line conservative and write [[Film/AnAmericanCarol a whole movie]] on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
* ''Film/AnnieHall'' parodies it, by having Alvy Singer write his failing relationship into a play he's working on. In real life, Singer and his girlfriend break up, but in the play, he delivers a poorly-written speech about how their relationship was far too superb to end in a hell-hole like Los Angeles. Singer lampshades it by [[NoFourthWall turning to the screen]] and saying, "What do you want, it was my first play."

* Creator/AkiraKurosawa makes use of this trope in ''Film/SevenSamurai''; Kikuchiyo, [[spoiler:a farmer's son, not a samurai]], dissuades the other samurai from blaming the villagers for killing and stealing from samurai in the past; after all, it was samurai rule that had forced them to live that way. This is widely seen as Kurosawa apologizing; he came from a family with samurai ancestors.
* ''Film/Revolver2005'' seemed set to be the next awesome Creator/GuyRitchie crime film, but what had appeared at first to be a rather promising plot eventually turned out to be a MindScrew[=y=] delivery system for the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Kabbalistic]] beliefs Ritchie picked up during his marriage to Music/{{Madonna}}.

* In Creator/FrancisFordCoppola's original mid-1960's screenplay for ''Film/{{Patton}}'', General Patton's contemporary General Omar Bradley was merely a supporting character; while Patton and Bradley knew and respected each other in RealLife, they were not close by any means. When the film was finally made several years later and Bradley was added as a technical consultant to assist with Edmund North's rewrite, Bradley was suddenly the second-leading character to Patton, they were portrayed as lifelong best friends, and Bradley was often shown as the more reasonable of the two.

* Ever wonder why none of the characters in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' are ever seen smoking, even though that's what the entire movie is about? That was an idea enforced by the director, Jason Reitman, and the intrusion shows. Granted, he did this in order to subvert DoNotDoThisCoolThing, but not having a single visible smoker in a film that is almost completely about smoking steers the film straight into... [[InformedAttribute a few]] [[ShowDontTell other tropes.]]
* ''Film/InsideMan'' has a BigLippedAlligatorMoment featuring a little boy playing an ultra-violent, black ghetto-themed handheld video game that commands the player to "kill that nigga," this in a heist movie that is not at all about the black ghetto, or new media, or even race. What do you think the odds of seeing this would have been if Spike Lee had not been the director?

* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo:'' All of the good characters are or were supporters of Napoleon, and nearly all of the bad ones are royalists. Creator/AlexandreDumas' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Alexandre_Dumas father]] was a famous general in Napoleon's army.

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Experiment'' was ghost-written and a heavy-handed anti-meat screed, so much that the primary author and series creator K. A. Applegate [[ArmedWithCanon stepped in to rewrite the final chapter so that the Animorphs are happily chowing down on hamburgers]] (except [[GranolaGirl Cassie]], for whom vegetarianism is in-character). Though Applegate herself doesn't have much room to throw stones, as ''The Secret'' is just as much of an excuse to rant about the logging industry.
* 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 Mandalorians:
** That being said, during her later books before her contract with Lucasfilm was cancelled due to retcons, Traviss did make an attempt to show the inherent hypocrisy of her character's actions. It didn't stop them from being the primary focus of the novels, but she was aware of this trope being in effect and was striving towards fixing things. And before anyone says that her stories are no longer canon, the ExpandedUniverse had the situation covered before her contract had even finished.
*** Not to mention what happens in ''Allies'' and ''Vortex'':[[spoiler: Mandalorians murdering a Padawan, and massacring slaves, respectively]]. Ouch.
** The ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' novel ''Aspho Fields'' that she wrote pretty much beats the reader about the head with the idea that "weapons developers = war criminals." Traviss' Mandalorian "super tribal warrior" fixation carries over into the novel as well, with its hyper-competent, misunderstood, absolutely perfect Pesanga warriors, who are pretty much Mandalorians with machetes.
*** Bonus points? This a setting where these so-called "war criminals" are ''[[CluelessAesop the only reason the human race is still alive.]]''
** Her ''Literature/HaloGlasslands'', ''[[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar The Thursday War]]'', and ''[[Literature/HaloMortalDictata Mortal Dictata]]'' novels provide a very alternate perspective on everything we know about Dr. Catherine Halsey and has most of the characters (including characters who were on her side in all previous ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' media) treat her like the worst human being who ever lived. Even Halsey herself starts to think this way at times. As far as the author is concerned, stealing children from their parents is the worst atrocity anyone can commit. Even if you happen to save your civilization (and every sentient being in the galaxy) by doing it.
*** Not to mention that Dr. Halsey's inquisitors are none other than the Office of Naval Intelligence, the very same people who recruited her and approved of everything she did, including the "kidnapping young children to be turned into indoctrinated supersoldiers" part, all to crush what at the time were only human rebellions. Traviss also tries to paint the Director of ONI as a hero, despite the fact that she has done even worse things than Halsey, like approve of the SPARTAN-[=IIIs=], which were recruited en mass from war orphans and made into expendable commandos by their early teens.
*** This got to the point where ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[='s=] main writers had to give official explanations in later media like ''VideoGame/Halo4''[='s=] prologue for why ONI decided to condemn Halsey in the first place. As it turns out, ONI's problems with Halsey have nothing to do with morality; they just want a convenient scapegoat for the sins of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as to make the SPARTAN-IV Program look better in comparison.
** A more general trend in Karen Traviss's work is a ColonelKilgore-level obsession with warfare, militarism, and military figures. The ProudWarriorRaceGuy is held as the ideal, and anyone who is not as much of a violent he-man is deemed inferior by the narrative.
* ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' has been criticized for having a protagonist with no personality, who simply serves as a mouthpiece for Creator/DanBrown's theories. And it's not just the protagonist, either. Brown repeatedly pauses the plot for {{Author Filibuster}}s that would give Creator/AynRand a run for her money, if not in length or research, then certainly in obviousness.
** It is helped at least somewhat by the fact that the [[spoiler:BigBad]] ConspiracyTheorist is the main proponent and spokesman of the "secret history", which the protagonist disagrees with over major details. In fact, the filibusters primarily focus on religious ideas and symbols rather than practical facts, often going out of their way to defend the same conservative Christian beliefs they would appear to be criticizing. [[spoiler:The AncientConspiracy ends up being a subversion, and the ending is ultimately ambiguous as to whether the theory is true or not. It's simply another belief system with its own interpretation of Christ.]]
* Creator/OrsonScottCard does seem to have a habit of doing this.
** In ''Literature/{{Empire}}'', characters will pause during the action to explain exactly why any disrespect for the military whatsoever is unpatriotic and therefore evil. Not to mention the fact that, despite apparently being a warning against partisanship, the [[BigBad Big Bads]] are still liberals.
** In one very uncharacteristically blatant and unmistakable example, several characters near the beginning of ''Literature/EnderInExile'' espouse the view that monogamy is the only and best successful means of human society, using the exact same phrasing consistently enough to put conservative pundits' talking points to shame. Thankfully, he drops this act soon enough to make the book as a whole still enjoyable.
*** Likewise ''Literature/EndersShadow'' series has some moments during the arc of Bean's CharacterDevelopment. In ''Shadow Puppets'' in particular, the adamantly childfree Bean[[note]](the same genetic engineering that makes him a genius also dooms him to a short lifespan ending an unpleasant death before middle age and he was determined to ''not'' have children who would be similarly BlessedWithSuck)[[/note]] [[CharacterDerailment turns around on the idea of reproducing very suddenly]] after getting lectured by a StraightGay man who married a woman simply so he could have kids, [[NotWantingKidsIsWeird because a heterosexual marriage with children is the only way to be truly happy]], [[AuthorTract and all other reasons a person might not want that are just lies they tell themselves]].
* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series by Creator/TerryGoodkind begins as a typical sword and sorcery series, but becomes increasingly a vessel for the author to express his [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] beliefs. For example, the central struggle in ''Faith of the Fallen'' is between free-market capitalism and socialism. The main character Richard delivers a number of {{Author Tract}}s in which he states Goodkind's Objectivist opinions, which often contradict views the character expressed earlier in the series--or even the story's reality itself, such as claiming that belief in the afterlife is unfounded, [[FlatEarthAtheist when Richard has been there and back himself]]. The afterlife thing is particularly noteworthy, since Goodkind's attempt to justify it is more baffling than any RetCon could be. It is revealed in a later book that since [[TheMagicGoesAway the world was devoid of magic for a time]] the afterlife, magical in nature, has ceased to exist. So ''now'' belief in the afterlife is unfounded, even though it could be proven to exist before. This overwhelming change in the world and its profound impact on the human condition is mentioned exactly once, and after that, all the characters behave as if they had always lived in a world where there was no life after death. This is not so coincidentally in line with an Objectivist view, which disbelieves in any afterlife.
* Creator/VictorHugo does this all the time. He has a tendency for: [[AuthorFilibuster "Okay, now let's stop the story and have a "short" explanation about something that has nothing to do with the plot!"]] Meanwhile, his characters are usually in big trouble. In Hugo's defense... [[MoneyDearBoy he was paid by the word]].
* In the ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' series, after [[{{Subtext}} bubbling under the surface]] for the first two-thirds of the trilogy, the final volume explodes into a massive TakeThat against Christianity. Creator/PhilipPullman's admitted intention with his series was to set up an atheist response to the fantasy novels of Christian writer/philosopher Creator/CSLewis.
* Creator/AnthonyBurgess' ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'' is generally believed to suffer from Writer On Board in its last chapter, where [[spoiler:the villain protagonist suddenly gets bored with evil and desires to start a family]]. Burgess' inspiration for the story was his wife's rape at the hands of World War II deserters, so the desire for an uplifting end is understandable. However, until 1986, the book's American editions left out the offending chapter. Adaptations, including the [[Film/AClockworkOrange film version]] and the 1990 play written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, also leave it out.

* Spider Robinson's ''Literature/VeryBadDeaths'' occasionally lapses into sermons about why marijuana is great and conservatives are evil. Fortunately, it doesn't dominate the book.
** However, at one point the BigBad has a conversation with the narrator, whom the villain intends to torture to death for fun. They ''both'' agree that as evil as the Big Bad is, at least he's not as utterly loathsome and without any redeeming moral qualities as the worst human in recorded history, Vice President Dick Cheney.
* The early works of lesbian author Katherine V. Forrest fall victim to some clumsy all-men-are-evil soapboxing. ''Daughters of a Coral Dawn'' is the most extreme, having men (who are suffering from one giant inferiority complex) outlawing some AppliedPhlebotinum that renders them redundant in the act of procreation. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum (and the precise nature of the phlebotinum is never explained). Fortunately, Forrest appeared to have toned it down by the time she started on the Kate Delafield books.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Time Paradox'' by Eoin Colfer. The entire book is about rescuing a lemur from being killed by the [[StrawCharacter Extinctionists]]. Artemis' having sent this lemur to its death is continually treated as a horrendous act, even though he did it in an attempt to save his father. There is virtually no disagreement on this point. Holly is horrified (as are the other fantasy creatures present), Artemis is filled with remorse, and even Artemis' younger self feels a twinge of guilt that apparently never bothered him during any of his other countless criminal escapades. The sheer magnitude of the overreactions of the characters when they learn that Artemis sent the lemur to die makes this an Author on Board.
** The series, in general, is fairly loaded to the gills with {{Green Aesop}}s, with heaping helpings of HumansAreBastards for good measure. Even amoral characters like Mulch Diggums expressing disgust at how humans are destroying the Earth.
* Since 2001 or so, if the particular AlternateHistory setting allows for it, Creator/HarryTurtledove will include some kind of analogy to Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. No problem on the surface, as analogies are standard stock-in-trade for alternate history stories. The problem came when, in a timeline where the South won the American Civil War, he chose Mormons for this role. Many fans believe that he's crossed the line from "BrokenAesop regarding repression of religious expression leading to violence" into outright bigotry. In the same work, he also turns Canadians into Irish nationalist terrorist bombers, blacks into Communists and Mexicans into Nazi satellite state collaborators.
** ''Literature/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' takes this to extremes about his feelings on the Iraq War. Reinhard Heydrich lives to run a partisan campaign. Body bags are showing up as everyday Germans become radicalized and engage in terrorist acts. It's subtle as a brick when you have mothers of dead soldiers acting just like a certain famous protester and it leads up to the Republicans winning control of Congress and getting us out from the Democrats' war -- after which the Nazis are poised to take over again.
* Creator/MichaelCrichton tended to do this a lot, albeit that he was somewhat more subtle about it as the characters whom he boarded were created more or less for the purpose of espousing a philosophy central to their characters. He also did it a lot because his ''modus operandi'' was to take a source of public fear/apprehension/paranoia and then base a novel around it. Fear of computers/robots: ''Film/{{Westworld}}''. Fear of genetic manipulation: ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. Fear of the Japanese: ''Film/RisingSun''. Fear of sex discrimination: ''Literature/{{Disclosure}}''. Fear of the media and flying: ''Literature/{{Airframe}}''. And so on.
** 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|2006}}''.
* The ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'' series by Bernard Cornwell gives us the impression that Mr. Cornwell really, ''really'' dislikes aristocrats, particularly when they hold military rank.
** This is very obvious in his other books, usually aimed at the Church (though generally just its leaders. Various characters, particularly Uhtred get on quite well with the quirkier/better priests/devout Christians, e.g. Fathers Pyrlig, Beocca, Willibald, and Cuthbert, Galahad and Bishop Bedwin.) with it being presented as an often corrupt institution.
*** Cornwell was raised in a very strict Christian sect called the Peculiar People, who are, well, peculiar. He says his portrayal of religion (individual parish priests=good, hierarchies=bad) is intended to reflect both the historical realities (there were and are good bishops and bad bishops, but the bad ones are more fun to read about) and his views on religion in general: he recognizes the comfort value, communal benefits, encouragement of virtue, etc. but also dislikes the way in which organized religion can become corrupt and self-defeating.
* This trope is OlderThanSteam: Creator/{{Moliere}}'s plays often were whole essays against the hypocrisy and vulgarity that ran rampant throughout French society, as well as tirades against doctors (medicine ''was'' horrible back then, and many physicians were VERY ignorant), pseudo-intellectuals, and self-appointed MoralGuardians. (''Theatre/{{Tartuffe}}'', one of his most well-known plays, was censored for years because of this.) Characters like Philinte (''Theatre/TheMisanthrope'') and Cléante (''Tartuffe'') serve as {{Author Avatar}}s for the playwright.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'':
** While the entire franchise is a massive AuthorTract, the Writer On Board aspect comes into play when a previously independent, scientifically minded character is suddenly touched by God, converts, and from that moment on reminds us repeatedly how happy they are now that they got rid of their delusions and bloated self-importance brought on by education (self-importance through HolierThanThou is fine).
** Another example is how the authors keep trying to cram anti-abortion plot points into a story that starts with the Rapture, an event where every child and fetus on earth magically vanished. Not only are the pro-choice arguments often [[TheWarOnStraw ridiculous caricatures]], but they make even less sense in the context of the story.
*** Every parent on Earth lost their young children, but Planned Parenthood grief counselors can't find any job except wait for new pregnancies to abort.
*** Neither can the gynecologists, despite the billions of formerly pregnant women who'd need examinations and would want to know if they even can get pregnant again.
*** And the government wants to promote abortion as population control, despite an entire generation having been wiped out overnight.
* William S. Lind, author of ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' lampoons much of modern society, in a mean-spirited way. Many characters agree that things went wrong for civilization around the early 1960s, some say the 30s and by the end, the heroes have agreed to restrict their nonmilitary technology to that level. So Victoria flourishes while more advanced US successor states fail.

* Klaus Mann does this in his novel ''Literature/{{Mephisto}}''. There is a middle part where the narrative is abandoned for a heated anti-fascist rant and then the novel resumes without breaking stride.

* Creator/AndrewVachss is unabashed about his condemnation of government and society's failures in his Burke books. These comments are usually delivered through said first-person protagonist, who has a DarkAndTroubledPast involving precisely that.
* Stephenie Meyer's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is rife with allegories to Mormon beliefs despite none of the characters being obvious practitioners. It is one of the reasons why, despite using plenty of romance novel tropes and author-constructs, and having main characters who are teenagers (or are at least in the bodies of teenagers), the main couple don't even think of sex before marriage -- despite there being no reason why they would not, given that they have no particular objections to said activity or religious restrictions to follow.
* Stieg Larsson was obviously not a fan of guns. In a chapter of ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl Who Played With Fire]]'', told from a veteran policeman's perspective, he criticizes hollow-point ammunition. The character calls it "hunting ammunition" and says that it is "unclear" why law enforcement uses it. A real police officer would be well aware of the reasons, such as reducing the chances of the bullet passing through a target and hitting bystanders, or the fact that ''shooting someone'' constitutes "deadly force" and is thus done with the intent of killing the target (hence why it's the last resort for police officers), even if he didn't agree with them. Shortly thereafter, another policeman calls a Colt handgun a "cowboy pistol" and says they should be banned outright because apparently, some guns are somehow "more" bad than others.
* ''Literature/TheNeanderthalParallax'' descends into this, what with the Neanderthals' perfect society that is wholly devoid of crime. Not like us nasty humans, eh? Of course, [[UtopiaJustifiestheMeans it's based on sex segregation, plus eugenics -- sterilizing not only violent criminals but their near relatives, and, in the past, those with low intelligence]]...
* While ''[[Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm Year of the Griffin]]'' is normally a FantasticComedy about the trials and tribulations of [[WizardingSchool Wizarding University]] students, it takes one moment in a chapter to get [[AnAesop Aesoptinial]] about sexism and women's education. Thankfully, rather than disrupt an existing character, it creates a new one--a horrifying misogynist gangster--to serve as its designated vice-target. Since the author has autobiographically noted that she was seen as a weird girl in her childhood for wanting to be smart and intellectual, it's somewhat understandable why she would feel strongly about this.
* In the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' series, the fourth book - ''The Final Warning'' abruptly switches to a clumsy Aesop about GlobalWarming, completely ignoring whatever semblance of a plot and characterization the previous books had. Among other things, the BigBad is defeated by a random hurricane, which is explicitly linked to GlobalWarming.

* Diane Carey's ''Dreadnought!'' Star Trek book is, at times, a thinly-veiled Libertarian propaganda piece; government intervention is portrayed as uniformly bad, be it [[spoiler: an admiral trying to use a new Federation starship as the flagship of his private army to cement control over the Galaxy]], or socialism as described derogatorily by her human POV character, Cadet Piper and Piper's Vulcan sidekick, Sarda.
** All of her ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels carried some form of this - major characters tended to develop a deep fascination with things of a nautical nature (one of Carey's loves), among other things.
** She also had a well-documented dislike of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (no doubt because it was TNG that made it quite clear the Federation is socialist), which was made apparent when she actually was contracted for novels for the series, often finding ways to justify writing around the characters/setting (re: ''Ancient Blood,'' separating Worf from the rest of the crew with a B-plot of Picard and Alexander experiencing a Revolutionary War period holo-program, and ''Ship of the Line,'' separating Picard from the crew and putting a captain pulled forward from the 23rd century in command of the Enterprise, complete with his own crew taking positions on the ship).
** She was also contracted to write episode novelizations. Her last one (and last Star Trek novel to date), for the pilot episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise,'' was actually brought to the attention to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the showrunners, who felt that it was openly critical of the script, declaring it to be 'reeking of hatred' for the show.
* It's absent in the film, but if you read the novel ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' by B. Traven, it seems rather clear that Traven ''really'' didn't like the Catholic Church.
* In an apologetic example of this trope, Glen Gook's ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Gilded Latten Bones]]'' contains a scene where playwright Jon Salvation admits it was unkind of him to snub Crash, a young fan of his work and explains what it's like for a writer to keep hearing the same questions over and over. Salvation eventually makes amends by inviting her to attend one of his play rehearsals. Been getting a bit tetchy at conventions and book-signings, Glen?
* Creator/HarlanEllison's hatred of computers crops up quite a bit in his later work.
** ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' is about as blatant as it gets, too. Ironically, it would go on to be adapted into a computer game which Ellison himself collaborated on.
* Creator/FrankHerbert clearly had serious issues with homosexuality; BigBad Baron Harkonnen in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' is a DepravedHomosexual who even lusts after his own nephew, and even his henchman Piter is briefly said to have a vaguely feminine personality. Then ''The Dosadi Experiment'' features the omniscient narrator discussing how gay people make ideal suicide bombers, an aside that comes right the hell out of nowhere and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never even has any impact on the plot]].
* Similarly, thriller writer Dick Francis had a thing about sado-masochism: if a character in any of his books is any sort of kinky they are bound to be among the bad guys. This gets so predictable that when one hero has a suspicious character followed and finds that all he's hiding is that he visits a spanking prostitute, genre-savvy readers are ready for it when he turns out to be part of the evil conspiracy after all.
* It doesn't stick out as painfully as most other examples, but you can easily use the collective ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels by Creator/TerryPratchett to teach a child about the basic values and ethics of secular humanism. It's more obvious in the more serious novels like ''Literature/SmallGods'', ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' or the later Watch novels, but subtly permeates the entire setting and standard narrative. Note for example how the only people ever truly condemned and removed from society for the greater good are obvious sociopaths -- other types of antagonists get some chance of redemption and are depicted as just misguided or scared or stupid, but not outright evil. And the gods are there to be mocked, not venerated; or in the case of truly benevolent higher powers (like Death), they don't care what people believe. And basic human (dwarvish/trollish/undead/etc.) kindness and decency always, always wins the day in the end. All this is no real surprise, considering that Sir Terry was an outspoken member of the British Humanist Association.
** The only way for a religious figure to be depicted positively is for him to rebel against his religion and tell his god, in effect, "Fine, we'll worship you but we don't want you to do or say anything ever again" or accept that Granny Weatherwax is right and the best use for his holy book is as firelighters. Similarly, when Cohen meets The Lady in ''Literature/TheLastHero'' he gets to give her, personally, a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that renders her dumb (although, ironically, it was Cohen's poorly-thought-out revenge plot that stood to doom the entire Disc right down to the Turtle itself).
** This also goes double for ''Literature/GoodOmens'', even if that's obviously not ''secular'' humanism.
** There's also a strangely subverted example involving gun control. At first glance ''Literature/MenAtArms'' appears to be an unusually heavy-handed diatribe against gun ownership, to the extent that [[spoiler: the BigBad is in fact ''the gun itself'']]. However, later books have a considerably softer outlook on the issue; Sam Vimes in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' even espouses a version of the pro-gun proverb, "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns."
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' series has a particularly uncomfortable section where he inserts his own real-life incident of being hit by a reckless driver into the plot. Not only does he use the actual real name of the person who hit him, but he also spends a considerable amount of time demonstrating and discussing that the driver was an absolute inbred moron that had no business driving on the road. This is especially awkward considering that the driver had died the year after the accident, which was before this section was written. Supposedly, King had expressed sorrow at the man's death, so it's unknown why he was determined to demean him in his later book.
* Early installments in Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser's ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' series depict the protagonist as a [[MagnificentBastard lecherous, lying coward]] who somehow [[KarmaHoudini comes out on top]], accompanied by a jaundiced view of British imperialism. In later books, however, Fraser [[BadassDecay makes Flashman more sympathetic]] (or at least less craven), play up the Empire's righteousness and takes [[{{Anvilicious}} potshots at liberals, "political correctness" or modern society in general]]. See for instance ''Flashman and the Redskins'', with its long prologue of Flashman calling out a [[StrawCharacter liberal whining about mistreatment of the Sioux Indians]]. Most egregious is the final book, ''Flashman on the March'', which celebrates the British invasion of Abyssinia as an example of a moral foreign intervention in contrast with, say, the Iraq War.
*** Though most people who knew Flashman as his readers know him would listen to his moral advice...and then immediately take the opposite position. Even when he's at his most sympathetic, it's still a consider-the-source issue.
** This regrettably carries over into Fraser's other works. His memoirs ''Quartered Safe Out Here'' and ''The Light's on At Signpost'' are loaded with [[TakeThat take thats]] directed towards [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil modern, multicultural Britain]]. Even his last novel ''The Reavers'', set in medieval Scotland, evinces a similar attitude. Fraser became an arch-Tory later in life and increasingly let it bleed into his writing.
* Creator/JRRTolkien makes a number of pointed comments through his [[Literature/TolkiensLegendarium Legendarium]]. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.
** His {{Green Aesop}}s, celebrating the countryside and agriculture and deriding mechanization without care for the natural world, is particularly prominent in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' with the tree-shepherding Ents: "I am on nobody's side because nobody is on my side." Saruman's crimes include the ruin of the park in Isengard and the wanton destruction of the ancient trees in Fangorn Forest as much as his assault on Rohan.
** WarIsHell. The Dead Marshes are based directly on his memories of flooded battlefields in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and he was still working on the books when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII broke out and his son went to fight. When there's a direct comparison between Rohan and Gondor (made, admittedly, by a Gondorian), Rohan is shown as less wise because they embrace the ProudWarriorRaceGuy ethos, glorying in battle for its own sake, whereas Gondor only slid into that due to necessity and it's not good for their culture. Beregond also laments that Faramir should be more admired but because he's scholarly and only kills at absolute need, people think that Boromir (who was more like the men of Rohan) was better. Also, TheProphecy concerning Aragorn's return is about his HealingHands rather than his prowess in war.
*** 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). 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.
** There is also a pointed dig on both themes in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' in Goblin-Town: "It is not unlikely that [goblins] have invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once [...] but in those days and those wild arts they had not advanced (as it is called) so far."
** His beliefs regarding Catholicism also drip heavily into his work, through its cosmogony. In particular, the Valar are effectively a way to integrate polytheism into Middle-Earth, while also showing monotheism as "correct." His later writings on the Elves essentially show them as Catholic on a ''biological'' level; for one, non-marital intercourse is somewhere between disgusting and physically impossible for them. The Oath of Feanor (the primary plot driver for ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'') is derided not simply because of its murder-happy consequences, but because Feanor and his sons blasphemously swore it to God.
* Creator/CharlesStross seems to have a lot of anger against superhero fans in ''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles The Annihilation Score]]''.
* 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. 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.

* Thriller author Brad Thor does this on occasion, but ''Hidden Order'' is one of his most blatant examples of this. It begins with special operations expert Scott Harvath suddenly taking on the role of a freelance investigator looking into a series of serial murders, and breaks down into a scree against the Federal Reserve, who to no one's surprise, turn out to be the BigBad of the story, eventually getting to the point where the narrative gets shoved aside for a character to become a mouthpiece for Thor's views on the Reserve for a chapter and a half.

* Creator/CharlesDickens frequently used his novels as pulpits for his social commentary. He was famously critical of poverty and child labor owing to his own childhood experience working in a factory to help pay his family's debts. This is most overt in ''Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop'' and ''Literature/OliverTwist''.
* Dante has a couple of characters in ''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.
* British author Simon Scarrow's novel ''Blackout'' is set in Berlin in 1939. One of the characters, who secretly opposes the Nazi regime, thinks about how "the party leapt on a slender majority vote and declared it the inviolable will of the people that could never be undone". This line is as much about the result of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union (Scarrow is an outspoken opponent of Brexit) as it is about Reichstag elections of the 1930s.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Creator/GeneRoddenberry expressly made TheFederation an aspirational utopia. Some of its characteristics include secularism, multiculturalism, and a PostScarcityEconomy.
** 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 hypocrisy into the Federation and questioned whether it really deserved its characterization as a moral good.
** Jeri Taylor is often accused of this since she often wrote episodes with [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Janeway]] being a bland powerhouse and how everyone on the ship loved her. In a Taylor-made episode in which Janeway apparently (but not really, of course) died, the crew had a memorial service in which ''every'' cast member made a speech about how awesome Janeway was. This scene was twice as long as Spock's funeral in ''Wrath of Khan''.
* ''Series/RobinHood'': Pacifists Dominic Minghella and Foz Allan's created whole ''plotlines'' about Robin's anti-killing mantra. Fine for modern-day folk at home, but in a ruthless, medieval setting it produces an IdiotHero who prefers endless slaughter to killing the one man responsible for it. The most glaring example is early in Season 1 when Robin's reluctance to just ''shoot'' the Sheriff (who is about ''ten feet'' away from him) causes the death of one of his ''own men''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** There's two stories by vegetarian writers which [[MeatVersusVeggies promote vegetarianism]] - "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]", which takes a less judgemental {{Veganopia}} approach (being about a group of scientists trying to develop a perfect fungus-based meat substitute, similar to [[RippedFromTheHeadlines then-new]] Quorn); and the more {{Anvilicious}} [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]], written by Creator/RobertHolmes, which compares meat-eating to cannibalism and has the Doctor explicitly convert to vegetarianism at one point. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]", also Holmes, contains the Doctor ranting at the villains and audience about the evils of keeping animals in zoos.
** Season 12-14 has a lot of anti-religious and pro-rationality themes, especially in Season 14 where every villain was a cultist or a DarkMessiah. Creator/TomBaker, who'd been a monk as a young man (in an environment that had left him with a certain amount of psychological damage) before losing his faith, enjoyed the opportunity to work out his religious issues.
** Creator/RobertHolmes' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" contains some pretty vicious commentary on the British political system, the British public school system and the Catholic Church. There's also an unflattering reference to UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson's resignation honours list and the Doctor espousing anti-politics views.
** Holmes' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunmakers The Sunmakers]]", which has the Doctor make all kinds of sizzling one-liners about the evils of taxation and has an evil taxman as the villain, was inspired by his own tax problems (as he was both a writer and a script editor on ''Doctor Who'', he had to pay double the amount of tax on a single income).
** Creator/RussellTDavies was all about this trope, particularly in the Ninth Doctor's run, where most episodes had a criticism of some sort. The man himself has acknowledged putting his beliefs on religion into his work, pointing to its banning in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] as an example. The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Slitheen]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree two-parter]] is one long TakeThat against the then-current Iraq War.
** Creator/SylvesterMcCoy is quite open about how he and script editor Creator/AndrewCartmel used ''Doctor Who'' to protest against UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's government.
-->'''Sylvester [=McCoy=]:''' At the time ''Doctor Who'' used satire to put political messages out there in the way they used to do in places like Czechoslovakia. Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered.
** When writing "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]", Kit Pedler (himself a doctor) wrote the Cybermen based on his views on what scientific medicine like pacemakers and artificial limbs would eventually do to a person. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However, this is what makes the Cybermen (in particular that story's incarnation of them) so appealing/terrifying to many viewers]].
** The Thirteenth Doctor tends to have episodes which focus more on modern social critiques rather than actual sci-fi adventure, with the two most prominent examples being "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa Rosa]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhos37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]". "Rosa" was co-written by Malorie Blackman, who is known to base her stories around the subject of racism. "Demons of the Punjab" was written by Vinay Patel, who has done work criticizing honor killings.

* Much of Series Two of ''Series/{{Extras}}'' is Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant giving their thoughts on show business and celebrity. Andy is regularly faced with a dilemma between seeking riches and fame or artistic honesty, and he ends up having not much of either by shooting for riches and fame. It ends with an AuthorTract by Andy against modern society's obsession with celebrity.

* Pretty much the last three years of ''Series/LawAndOrder''. In particular, Jack [=McCoy's=] vendetta-like attacks on defendants who use religion as a defense. It is stopped just short of being completely {{anvilicious}} by being well within his character and having him [[WhatTheHellHero regularly being called out on it]].
** Highlighted in the extreme in ''Law & Order: Trial By Jury'' were Creator/DickWolf's negative views toward defense attorneys who were at times portrayed as more immoral than their clients (who were all inevitably guilty). But the polarity of the integrity of the DA's office vs. the sliminess of defense attorneys can often be seen in all of the Law & Order series.
** Curiously subverted in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' where Elliot Stabler enjoys his rants about how violating his morals is evil and horrible.
** In an instance that might be called "Actor On Board", ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has Detective Sergeant JustForFun/JohnMunch, whose utter devotion to the civil liberties of every human being stops rather abruptly at the right to end one's own life. This character is played by an actor (Richard Belzer) whose own father committed suicide, as did Munch's in-universe, thus explaining this inconsistent stance. Munch in one episode attempts to explain his feelings because of this to the assisted suicide advocate (Creator/MarleeMatlin) they've arrested, convincing her not to kill herself on a hunger strike.
** One particularly blatant example: Stabler and Benson are investigating an [[GroinAttack attempted castration]] when they discover the victim made parts for [[AttackDrone military drone planes]], and speculate that the controversy surrounding said planes could be a motive. Said possibility is ruled out in ''the very next scene'', but not before Benson tells the guy's wife point-blank, "Your husband kills people for a living!" This angle is then never mentioned again.
** In The Mothership's original cast seasons (before the [[ExecutiveMeddling network-mandated]] cast overhaul and before the show settled into its standard BodyOfTheWeek format), any crimes with a sexual angle (that weren't rape) were treated with visible disgust by both the senior detective (Phil Ceretta or Paul Greevy in those seasons). Ben Stone would tend to be more professional about things - unless the porn industry was involved somehow, then the moral gloves came off. The biggest example of the latter may be "Aria" (Season 2, Ep. 3), where Stone prosecuted a StageMom for the suicide of her daughter: she killed herself rather than perform a hardcore sex scene, and Stone charged her with having driven her to it via pressure to perform. The porn pros were all portrayed as sleazy borderline criminals or victimized women with various substance abuse problems.
* The fourth episode of the first season 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. This episode was noteworthy for being written by the same writer as the fourth episode of the first season of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Code of Honor" which incorporated many similar plot points. The events from it were [[CanonDiscontinuity never mentioned again]].
* The earlier seasons of ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' would toss in several ostentatious diatribes against UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, none of which had any bearing whatsoever on the plot. Not just a few little {{Take That}}s here and there; the writers would practically pull the handbrake on the story just so they could whine at-length through a character's mouth about how much they hated him. The best(worst?) example being the kid winning a debate competition by using Bush's name as his sole argument against the Electoral College; his teammates, his opponents, the judges, and the entire audience ''all'' cheer him on in agreement.

* ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' suffered from this with the eco-storyline and the minority-treatment arc at the end of last season. Nothing like a good GreenAesop to pull the handbrake on a perfectly decent whodunit.
** In fairness to the writers, this was during a period where just about ''all'' UsefulNotes/PrimeTime tv shows had some awkward and obvious addition of greenness to it; being uber earth-friendly was like the chickenpox for all the major networks, with many of the networks forcing the green line on the people who made their shows.
** Also in line with the trope, at many various points the main characters talk about what they're doing to be eco-friendly, up to and including building a windmill in the backyard for power and including a filter-collector for rainwater.

* Many people believe the famous/infamous Franchise/PowerRangers episode "Forever Red" was essentially used by PromotedFanboy Amit Bhuamik to force his fanfic hoax "Scorpion Rain" into canon with the series. Although actually, Bhuamik only provided the voice of Tommy in the fanfic, which was actually created by Derik Smith. Still, Bhuamik admitted that he considered the fanfic "completely in canon" when writing Forever Red, taking advantage of what was originally supposed to be a sequel to Countdown to Destruction (but got changed due to ExecutiveMeddling from Jonathan Tzachor and Koichi Sakamoto) to put his old friend's fan works into continuity.
** Jackie Marchand did the same thing with [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Thrax.]]
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'s'' writing staff comes off as aggressively atheist. Jack refers to religion as superstition and rants about how primitive cultures cling to anything that denies the randomness of existence. It's repeatedly stated that there is no afterlife, and anyone with a belief in some form of deity is shot down as naive or just wrong. There's also the fact that EveryoneIsBi. The series was created by Creator/RussellTDavies, who also wrote ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', and is openly gay along with being atheist.
** In series one, a number of the people the team resurrected had memories of darkness and a hungry thing which turned out to be quite literal, real, and verifiable (and, at one point, summoned into the living world). This wasn't a minor plot point, either; it was the first series arc, making every character around before series 2 that says something like "this life is all there is" something of a FlatEarthAtheist. Admittedly the Torchwood afterlife is apparently extremely ''boring'', but nonetheless.
* All three of the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episodes written by Ben Steed [[CharacterDerailment trample characterisation]] for the sake of sexism. In "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos}} The Harvest of Kairos]]" Supreme Commander Servalan goes meekly along with the manly Jarvik (rather than killing him, which was statistically more likely). "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS3E11Moloch}} Moloch]]" had women as helpless victims; Servalan is briefly added to their number, and she doesn't do much more than look outraged. "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS4E2Power}} Power]]" featured a war of the sexes and an [[AuthorFilibuster uncharacteristic sermon]] from Avon -- usually an equal-opportunity misanthrope -- about how he, as a man, would always be stronger than a woman.
* Creator/AlanAlda began writing episodes for the later seasons of ''[[Series/{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'' and the show tended to become his personal soapbox when those episodes were aired.
** "Peace on Us" -- Hawkeye steals a jeep and runs off to interrupt the peace talks. At no time in the episode does Colonel Potter get upset with Hawkeye for going AWOL and pulling such a stupid stunt. Instead, the unit throws a party. Even worse, the General that Hawkeye confronts at the peace talks seems to be on his side as well, letting him off with a slap on the wrist and a hinted agreement at what Pierce had done.
** "Images" -- Getting tattoos is stupid and regrettable, not to mention unhealthy. Hawkeye doesn't like tattoos and BJ, Charles, and Potter all agree with him. Slightly moderated in that the tattooed character who inspires Radar to get one is not portrayed in a negative manner, and it is argued (correctly) that a tattoo should only be created in a sterile environment, something far from guaranteed in the back room at Rosie's Bar.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' did this at least twice, with one episode in which Laura Roslin was forced to weigh the consequences of protecting a woman's right to an abortion with the need to protect the small amount of human life that was left, and again with another episode where Tyrol was used to champion the greatness of organized labor (he later became a union leader). In the Battlestar Galactica podcast, Ronald D. Moore admitted that he was engaging in this trope with these two episodes, but that he basically didn't care.
* When ''Series/{{Glee}}'' did a brief story arc in the third season where Beiste was being abused by her new husband Cooter, it was quite clear that the whole thing was orchestrated by [=NeNe=] Leakes, the actress playing Roz since domestic violence is her pet cause. Besides the fact that Beiste's Aesop of "Big burly people have feelings too" had been run into the ground in the second season, the storyline resulted in out-of-character moments for almost everyone involved, from Cooter--previously portrayed as a nice guy--suddenly becoming a wife-beater offscreen[[note]]Yes, it's truth in television that most abusers come across as nice people in public, but from a narrative standpoint, it came out of nowhere[[/note]], to the girls of New Directions acting completely nonchalant towards Beiste's plight and claiming that their own boyfriends would never hit them (even though two of the girls in the group were dating each other), necessitating Roz to set them straight.

* All the characters of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' go out of their way to express the fact that homeless people, prostitutes and other kinds of transients and vagrants are still people worth helping and protecting just like those who do have their lives in order.

* Creator/DonaldPBellisario served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the Marines and the episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' that was about the JFK assassination was his rebuttal to the various theories about it, including the film ''Film/{{JFK}}'', as he does believe that Oswald was capable of committing the act on his own. The episode reproduces a conversation he really had then with Oswald, in fact.
* Roberto Gómez Bolaños aka Creator/{{Chespirito}} was a very complex man. On one hand, he was very socially conservative and a vocal opponent of abortion and gay marriage (though he was OK with gay civil unions) but much more progressive on economic issues and social reform, probably because he was a devoted Catholic.[[note]]Notice that is very common in Latin America for political Catholicism to be left-wing in political and economic issued but more conservative in social issues, as most Christian Democratic Parties would show.[[/note]] His views went into his shows in many ways:
** Several episodes of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', ''Los Caquitos'' and at least one in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' deal with rehabilitation of criminals. Chespirito strongly believed that criminals should be rehabilitated by society and treated in a humane way and ex-convicts should be given second chances. He also was a strong opponent of the death penalty (and his characters too, of course).
** 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 being a robber than they’ll do to other people of a better social status.
** As a pacifist he hated violent sports, particularly boxing. ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' gets {{Anvilicious}} sometimes with his treatment of boxing as the worst thing in the world.
-->'''Prof. Jirafales''' ''(to Dón Ramon after he tries to teach El Chavo boxing)'': If I see El Chavo del Ocho wearing boxing gloves [again], I, am going, [[BrokenAesop to break everything that you call a face!]]
** In several episodes one character would say: “No one, '''no one''' has the right to take another human being’s life” (if this is an anti-abortion or anti-death penalty or both statement is up to the viewer).

* Parodied in ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', in which the ShowWithinAShow is frequently derailed by [[SmallNameBigEgo the arrogant head writer’s]] nonsensical and bigoted [[AuthorTract Author Tracts]]. Amongst other things, he grinds the plot to a halt to moralize about [[MerchandiseDriven buying name brand batteries]] and devotes the plot of an entire episode to a bizarre racist screed against Scottish people.
* The Series/HighwayToHeaven episode "A Child of God" features the story of a young professional woman who [[spoiler: has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer]] and attempts to reconcile with her estranged father, a minister, who is still angry because she had an affair with a married man 7-8 years prior, had a daughter from the affair, and never repented of it. The woman's affair is treated sympathetically by Jonathan, who emphasizes that there was no sin at all on the woman's part (even though she ostensibly slept with a man against the wishes of said man's wife). In the end, [[spoiler: the woman's father has a change of heart and admits that he was in the wrong, delivering an {{Anvilicious}} Aesop about how being kind to others is more important than an explicit belief in God.]] Given that this episode was written and directed by Michael Landon, it's hard to imagine that his rather sympathetic portrayal of adultery was not influenced by Landon's own recent life experiences, which included having an extramarital affair with a woman he met on the Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie set, then later divorcing his second wife so that he could marry her as his third.

* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'', Payne can eavesdrop on two cops who mock the idea that video games cause violence.
* Half way through ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'', Aemilia and Hamil has a short discussion on the social causes of the decline of TheEmpire that doesn't fit the themes, adds nothing to the plot, and is never mentioned again.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Ulysses, the game's Kreia, as he too is written by Chris Avellone. Throughout the game and 3 out of 4 [[DownloadableContent DLCs]], Ulysses is talked about being the biggest badass that has ever lived but when you face him in ''Lonesome Road'' he dumps the Courier with Avellone's opinions on the series[[note]]Basically to revert the series back to being people struggling to eke out a life in the wastelands[[/note]] before you fight him. When/if you fight him [[ThatOneBoss he is the hardest boss in the entire game]].

* ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Transformers: Beast Machines]]''. The author outright admitted that he deliberately ignored aspects of the prequel series ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' because he wanted to "tell his own story", as opposed to, for instance, an actual ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' story. The result wasn't pretty; near-universal CharacterDerailment is just the start of the problems. For the most part, he acted as if this were a completely new series, and not a sequel to another.
** Though it's undoubtedly a fact that Bob Skir derailed almost all of the Beast Wars characters, the matter cannot be entirely blamed on him alone. On his website, Skir admitted that Hasbro specifically hired him because he had no prior experience with Transformers and they even ordered him not to watch ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Bob Skir receives the most flack for Beast Machines because out of all the writers and producers on the show, he was the one who made himself the most accessible to the fans (which resulted in him having to cancel a Botcon appearance due to death threats). Others such as Marty Isenberg and many other writers on the show received no such backlash from the fandom, even though they played an equal part in making Beast Machines what it is.

%%** "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E14Raisins Raisins]]" was another result of the above incident.
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'' deliberately jerked protagonist Toa Vakama [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character]] for the entire movie, because the writers thought that him becoming a traitor would be more dramatic than, you know, someone to whom it might have made sense to play that role. So they [[CharacterDerailment derailed him]] to be more reckless, foolish (the exact opposite of how what he was like in the previous movie) and dangerously misguided (... again), and the other characters consequently acted meaner toward him. Also, this fit in well with their plans to make the movie one giant ''Franchise/StarWars''-{{Homage}}. Greg Farshtey, Bionicle's main writer, detests this story to this day.
* In Creator/RalphBakshi films, the mafia are almost always portrayed as outright scoundrels with no redeeming qualities. Bakshi grew up in the kind of gritty, low-income neighborhoods that the mob controlled and hated ''Film/TheGodfather'' for [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing seemingly glorifying them]]. [[HilariousInHindsight Ironically the film's producer, Albert S. Ruddy, would later work with Ralph on his third film,]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}''.

* Just like ''The Simpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' can engage in this at times; one of the most blatant examples is "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E3Decision3012 Decision 3012]]", which is about a Presidential candidate (who's UsefulNotes/BarackObama in all but name and ethnicity) who is portrayed as a messianic genius who could save the universe if only [[TheWarOnStraw the drunken idiots of America and Fox News]] (which is somehow still around 1000 years in the future) would stop obsessing over minor things like his "foreign-sounding" middle name and just let him do his job. Unsurprisingly, it's near unanimously considered the series' worst episode.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E14FameAndMisfortune Fame and Misfortune]]" is seen as mostly a retort against criticisms of the show by the PeripheralDemographic. It's really telling that even people who like this episode tend to only defend the [[TakeThatAudience potshots it takes at fans]] and you would honestly be hard-pressed to find people actually praising or even commenting on the near non-existent plot itself. In this case, the writer on board isn't the actual writer; M.A. Larson, who wrote the episode, has gone on record saying [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives ordered him to write the episode]], and he has [[CreatorBacklash disowned the episode due to them not allowing him to make the episode less mean-spirited]].
* It'd be easier to count the times that ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' ''doesn't'' use a CompressedVice to say exactly what the writers opinions are on the subject ("Thoughts and Prayers" actually being with a character outright stating that that gun violence is the literal direct result of violent movies), especially when it comes to feminism, which is rarely challenged if even questioned (If it is, it's usually by a StrawCharacter and thrown away). The show has actually been accused of its seemingly careless use of other, more controversial topics as a springboard for a feminist agenda, such as one episode where whales in captivity are used as a metaphors for how sexist and dehumanizing strip clubs are.

* In ''"The Money Pit"'', Donald Duck gets the genius idea to start asking to collect his 30 cents an hour from Uncle Scrooges Money Bin, for him to resell the rare coins to coin collectors. Scrooge figures out the scheme, giving Creator/DonRosa a chance to rant about "Investment Collectors" amongst comic book fans.

* Creator/DCComics writer Keith Giffen is unabashed about his hatred of ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' character Karate Kid and his [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower "super karate",]] and has stated outright that any time he ends up writing the Legion comic, Karate Kid will die. Once downplayed when Giffen did write Karate Kid's death in one run of the Legion comic, he gave the character a respectful send-off via HeroicSacrifice, rather than simply [[DroppedABridgeOnHim dropping a bridge on him.]]
** A few reviewers have accused Giffen of trying to co-opt [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Midnighter,]] one of the only openly gay superheroes, after reading their run wherein Midnighter disbands the team, leaves his husband, Apollo, and moves to a tiny apple-pie town where he lives with a young woman named Mindy. The ResetButton was pounded so hard after that it nearly ''cracked''.

** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] himself. Particularly his run on the ComicBook/SpiderMan comics. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson was introduced as merely a foil for [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy.]] However, Mary Jane was infamous for [[EnsembleDarkhorse stealing every scene she entered,]] largely overshadowing Gwen's [[GirlNextDoor softer]] personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a [[DVDBonusContent featurette]] on the ''Film/SpiderMan2'' DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it.

** Dan Slott notes this about the famous {{Revision}} of ''Parallel Lives'', the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone [[LovesMyAlterEgo who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter]]. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Creator/GerryConway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, that given Spider-Man's HeroWithBadPublicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views [[UndyingLoyalty which Mary Jane never did]], this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up [[ProgressivelyPrettier handsome]] (as repeatedly told in stories [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko in the Ditko era]], and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but ComicBook/BlackCat.

** ''[[Comicbook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' #17-19 (a.k.a ''Most Wanted''), in which the Outsiders approach real-life hero and [[SpecialGuest Very Special Guest Star]] John Walsh for help in tracking down the leader of a child slavery ring. It doesn't speak well of the team that when their leader, a Franchise/{{Batman}}-trained detective (i.e. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}), is unable to find any leads that his next plan of attack is "Let's get that guy on TV to help us!" This arc had ExecutiveMeddling written all over it.

* A somewhat humorous example: Comicbook/AnimalMan. Creator/GrantMorrison used it to constantly pitch for animal rights, particularly stating that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and eating animals is wrong. [[MediumAwareness Part of the plot was also the fact that the main character was slowly realizing he was in a comic book.]] In the last issue of Morrison's run, Animal Man and [[AuthorAvatar Morrison]] talk face to face, and Animal Man points out that animal rights are all well and good - but sometimes they verged on eco-terrorism. And that sharing minds with animals shouldn't automatically make you a vegetarian since half of the time you're going to be sharing minds with a carnivore. And all of this felt like CharacterDerailment. Morrison admits they has some good points but wonders if the next writer will take that too far and have Animal Man run down a zebra and eat it alive. As both a ContinuityNod and a TakeThat, the ''next writer had him do just that in the very next issue.''

** He uses Comicbook/ThePunisher to speak out against US military actions, not a trait of his before.

** Even when he wrote for ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD'', this was pretty clear, particularly in some of his ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' stories, most notably ''The Muzak Killer'' which showcases a rant against pop music.
* Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's ''Comicbook/SupermanGrounded'' storyline features Kal-El taking [[WalkingTheEarth walking across America]] to "reconnect" with ordinary people while lecturing them at length along the way. The "walkabout" theme is a deeply personal one for Straczynski, based on a turning point in his own life, and has turned up in his work before (with Dr. Franklin on ''Series/BabylonFive''). Those with a suspicious mind might also think Superman's expressed views are mostly the writer's own.

* After 9/11, Creator/FrankMiller proposed a Batman story called ''Holy Terror Batman!'', in which the Dark Knight hunts down terrorists. DC refused to let him use Batman for the project, which was released as ''Comicbook/HolyTerror'' with original characters instead.

* Rick Remender has been accused of doing this in his ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers''. Remender is outspoken in his belief that the mutant-rights movement within the stories is a poor metaphor for real-world civil rights, because unlike real minorities, many mutants ''are'' legitimately dangerous, and several characters within the story express the view that the mutant rights movement is completely different from, say, the African-American or gay rights movements. Particularly controversial has been his handling of Rogue and to a lesser extent Wolverine and Sunfire, who hold the view (shared with the majority of writers and fans) that the parallels ''do'' work, and who are [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong portrayed as unreasonable]] for it.

*** Not to mention that Dr. Halsey's inquisitors are none other than the Office of Naval Intelligence, the very same people who recruited her and approved of everything she did, including the "kidnapping young children to be turned into indoctrinated supersoldiers" part, all to crush what at the time were only human rebellions. Traviss also tries to paint the Director of ONI as a hero, despite the fact that she has done even worse things than Halsey, like approve of the [=Spartan-IIIs=], which were recruited en mass from war orphans and made into expendable commandos by their early teens.
*** This got to the point where ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[='s=] main writers had to give official explanations in later media like ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}''[='s=] prologue for why ONI decided to condemn Halsey in the first place. As it turns out, ONI's problems with Halsey have nothing to do with morality; they just want a convenient scapegoat for the sins of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as to make the SPARTAN-IV Program look better in comparison.

* Jamie Delano's run on ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' is not subtle about its left-wing politics, with [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle nods]] like demons celebrating Margaret Thatcher's election (since it will result in more miserable people looking to [[DealWithTheDevil sell their souls]]), tracts against nuclear power, and active promotion of "free love" hippie lifestyles, to the point that the FinalBoss of the run, a giant dragon god, is defeated by Constantine and his two love interests having a threesome [[SexMagic under the right mystical circumstances]]. Delano's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' also features the titular hero and his daughter founding a hippie commune.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' consistently goes into extremely left-wing tracts, with [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle nods]] like demons celebrating Margaret Thatcher's election, book-long tracts against nuclear power, or active promotion of hippie lifestyles and crying out for a revolution to bring down "the man". In some stories, like "Fear Machine", it assumes the reader agrees with the author's point, and it derails the story for any reader who is unfamiliar with or disagrees with the author's politics.

** His Catholicism also drips heavily into his work. In particular, the Valar are effectively a way to show Middle-Earth cultures as essentially polytheistic, while also showing monotheism as "correct." His later writings on the Elves essentially show them as Catholic on a ''biological'' level; for one, non-marital intercourse is somewhere between disgusting and physically impossible for them. The Oath of Feanor (the primary plot driver for ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'') is derided not simply because of its murder-happy consequences, but because Feanor and his sons blasphemously swore it to God.