History YMMV / ChickTracts

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClcHGYgUkAAMk8K.jpg This edited tract]] that replaces Jesus's dialogue with the text[ (which originates from the infamous Blog/{{Dril}} Twitter account) "blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin" (sic) is commonly brought up on Tumblr.

** [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1041/1041_01.asp "Moving On Up!"]] includes the line [[Music/KanyeWest "I am a god!"]]

** The costumed new age healer from "The Last Generation" tract who became popular thanks to WebVideo/TheBibleReloaded giving him a name (Harold Penisman) and an expanded characterization that's just hilarious.

** Jack Chick is violently opposed to anarchism, communism, socialism and liberalism. He has far more in common with fascism then any other political ideology.

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClcHGYgUkAAMk8K.jpg This edited tract]] that replaces Jesus's dialogue with the text[ (which originates from the infamous WebOriginal/{{Dril}} Twitter account) "blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin" (sic) is commonly brought up on Tumblr.

* MemeticMutation: The images from the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sandwich-chef Sandwich Chef meme]] came from [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0076/0076_01.asp this tract]].
** Not memetic itself, but from the same tract, Charlie's expression in the second panel has an uncanny resemblance to the "troll face".

** "'''[[http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0042/0042_02.gif Moon god?]]'''"
** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClcHGYgUkAAMk8K.jpg This edited tract]] which has Jesus say "blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin" (sic) is commonly brought up on Tumblr.

** Some conservative Christians have a StopBeingStereotypical view of Chick, and real problems with points of his theology, but also find the tracts entertaining because of the Narm.
* MisaimedFandom: Chick tracts are intended to be passed on indefinitely, but most people who pick them up (and don't throw them away) ''keep'' them. Many people actually collect them. Then there are the people who think they are parodies.

** The demon befriending David in "Wounded Children" is downright handsome. Possibly too much so, as this is one tract since recalled by Chick himself.

** In [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0070/0070_01.asp The Traitor]], an in-universe example comes up when the Hindu priest Ramu asks the Christian protagonist about how powerful Jesus is, asking about traits such as how many heads he has, what weapon he uses and the sacrifices he demands. It also falls into UnfortunateImplications by making Ramu (and Hindus as a whole, by extension) seem barbaric. ({{A|rsonMurderAndJaywalking}}lso, the whole tract is an incredibly transparent ripoff of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.)

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: College professors, who run the gamut from stick-in-the-mud strawmen to [[CardCarryingVillain active agents of the unholy]] but are almost never portrayed as in the right. Inverted, strangely, with doctors, who seem to be the only occupation consistently ''not'' in Satan's pocket.
* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Far and away, Roman Catholics are the single most vilified group in Jack's work. He blames them for practically everything, and insists they are Satanic--or at least, that [[CorruptChurch the senior church hierarchy is]], though ''individual'' Catholics as portrayed in the comics can range all the way from [[HateSink irredeemably evil villains]] to [[NotAlwaysEvil perfectly nice people]] (with the latter being unaware of the corruption in the higher ranks). Paganism and Islam are also generally presented in a negative light.

** Depending on the tracts, he'll even make the devils funny or sufficiently clever to provide comic relief, which makes anyone who wins against them seem like a bit of a killjoy. Who wouldn't want to have help from a demon like Bruth from ''[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0064/0064_01.asp?Store=True&C=C The Poor Little Witch]]'', who can make your enemies look like fools and talks like a schmoozy Hollywood agent?

* AccidentalInnuendo: "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp But you have been trapped in a dungeon of bondage.]]" And then there's his site, chick.com, which probably gets quite a few hits from people looking for [[TheInternetIsForPorn porn]].[[note]]Althought this might be intentional.[[/note]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The EasyRoadToHell, along with the general idiocy of people in his setting, can provoke this feeling in many readers.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Chick doesn't like Communism or Nazism, which is entirely normal. [[InsaneTrollLogic He blames both on Catholicism]], which is entirely abnormal. He also hates most flavors of social liberalism.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Chick doesn't like Communism or Nazism. [[InsaneTrollLogic He blames both on Catholicism]]. He also hates most flavors of social liberalism.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: You’d be surprised, but there are some solid messages to take from many of the comics:
** When you criticise Christianity (or anything), at the very least read the texts you criticise and know what you’re talking about. ‘[[https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0086/0086_01.asp The Sissy?]]’ Exemplifies this fairly well, turning the idea that Jesus was a wimp (which was actually a [[http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/hvitkrst.shtml common insult]] used by [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse pagans]] against Christians, calling Jesus ‘White Christ’ to imply his cowardice as opposed to the virile "[[ARealManIsAKiller Red Þórr]]"), pointing out that he was obviously holding back and deliberately walked into tremendous danger and suffered horrifically for a greater cause.
** Even small transgressions you commit against others (e.g. stealing some office supplies or telling some lies) are still hurtful and should be acknowledged as such and avoided.
** Perhaps unusually for such conservative Christian works, several tracts have very strong anti-authoritarian overtones (as long as the authority figure in question isn't God); cops, lawyers, judges, politicians, soldiers, clerics, teachers, and even parents are often portrayed as at least as sinful as anyone else, while prisoners, the poor, and ethnic minorities are often treated sympathetically, assuming they're sufficiently faithful or convert at some point.
** [[https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=5020&ue=m "Who Cares?"]] condemns Islamophobic hate crimes as both immoral and unchristian.
--> '''Omar''': "The guys who beat me up were Christian!"
--> '''Good Samaritan''': "Real Christians wouldn't do that. Jesus told us to love our enemies."
** Overlaps with JerkassHasAPoint and EveryoneHasStandards, since their tract criticizing Jehovah's Witnesses depicts a little girl dying because her parents [[AgainstMyReligion not believing in modern medicine]]. {{Glurge}} aside, this shows even Jack Chick wants your children to have proper medical attention rather than just praying to make it go away! Sadly even overlapping with VindicatedByHistory since anti-medicine views are even stronger among certain sections of the general population (some including the tracts' target audience) than when the tract was first published.

* IdiotPlot: Pretty much every Tract operates under the assumption that Christianity is smaller than it is, as usually you have one person having to explain what they believe and why, despite pretty much every one of them taking place in the modern day USA, a largely Christian country. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, good going, Jack.]] There are even some cases like "Gomez is Coming" in which Catholics are apparently ignorant of basic aspects of Christianity (i.e. Jesus' sacrifice), and in "The Bull," a prison chaplain doesn't seem to be fully aware of who Jesus was.
** It's insane even for a religious fanatic like Jack Chick to claim that the USA is being taken over by atheists/communists and/or Muslims. It's like the Cold War never happened and the War on Terror (which is STILL ongoing) went completly under the radar for him.

** The name of the dark-haired teenage heroine who saved the world from the [[TheAntichrist vampire Antichrist]] in the "First Bite" tract is [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerFaithLehane Faith]].

** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter''--a twist that's more complicated but that makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to have taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son took each other's places using a {{humanshifting}} potion. The mother drank the potion regularly until death and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).

** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' -- a twist that's more complicated but makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son took each other's places using a {{humanshifting}} potion. The mother drank the potion regularly until death and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).

** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' -- a twist that's more complicated but makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son took each other's places using a {{humanshifting}} potion. The mother took the potion until death and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).

** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' -- a twist that's more complicated but makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son took each other's places using a {{humanshifting}} potion. The mother died while under the potion's influence and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).

** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' -- a twist that's more complicated but makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son took each other's places using a HumanShifting potion. The mother died before the potion wore off and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).

* AccidentalInnuendo: "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp But you have been trapped in a dungeon of bondage.]]" And then there's his site, chick.com, which probably gets quite a few hits from people looking for [[TheInternetIsForPorn porn]].[[note]]Althought this might be intentional.

* AccidentalInnuendo: "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp But you have been trapped in a dungeon of bondage.]]" And then there's his site, chick.com, which probably gets quite a few hits from people looking for [[TheInternetIsForPorn porn]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Averted in Chick's eyes, as utterly terrible people can convert and go to heaven. Whether the readers or the characters can forgive those people is another question, though.

* ValuesDissonance: The extreme fundamentalist rhetoric clashes with many people harder than a fly clashes with the windshield of a car on a highway. Including the vast majority of Christians, as they typically don't hate everyone. Even those who do hate the tracts.

** Chick's feeling the need to have special [[http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractbykeyword.asp?subject=Black%20Tract%20Series "black editions"]] of tracts. The implication being that black people are so different they need their own special versions of tracts already made. Bonus for Chick in-that he doesn't have to come up with any new material, he just makes the good artists make new drawings for them. Even more bizarre, he doesn't usually even change the context of what's happening to be more culturally relevant to said audiences, which would at least make some sense; merely changing characters' skin colors instead.
--->'''Adapted for black audiences.'''
*** Even worse if you consider how it sets white people as the default.
*** ''Your Big Moment'' "is drawn specifically for black women" and ''You Have a Date'' is "tailored for women." They're both adaptations of ''This Was Your Life'' which already had a "black adaptation" in ''It's Your Life''.

** The notorious "Dark Dungeons" made roleplaying out to be an exciting life-or-death scenario that introduced real occultism and gave players fabulous supernatural powers that they can use to [[MindControl brainwash]] their parents into buying them stuff. [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales More than a few roleplayers love the tract]] and it has been parodied and affectionately referred to in innumerable ways among the subculture. The tract has become so famous that a live-action movie was funded on kickstarter. [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295102457/rpgs-are-evil-dark-dungeons-the-movie "Dark Dungeons: The Movie!"]] seems to have gotten most of its backers from the gaming community.