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| 11 | [[quoteright:350:[[Literature/TheSuperDictionary https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/40cakes_4996.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[EvilIsPetty Dude, you're like, the richest man in Metropolis.\ |
| 13 | Can't you just buy some cakes?]]]] |
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| 15 | ->''"Is it necessary to utter one’s ideas about slavery? Show it, that’s enough."'' |
| 16 | -->-- '''Creator/GustaveFlaubert''', on ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' |
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| 18 | When the bad guy's acts are unquestionably evil, but the show's writers feel the need to have characters or the narrator say this out loud. This can be a sign of a DesignatedVillain: in this case, the sentence is used to make sure that the reader knows that what the villain does is wrong, when out of context it wouldn't seem particularly evil. |
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| 20 | This could be considered a villains-only SubTrope of {{Anvilicious}}. Named for a page from ''Literature/TheSuperDictionary'', where even though we see that [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] has stolen forty cakes, the panel still reminds us, "And that's terrible." |
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| 22 | If they're established as bad by an actual ''action'', see KickTheDog and MoralEventHorizon. If this is used as ''most'' of what is supposed to make the villain bad, it's OffstageVillainy. YoureInsane can often be used as an alternative. |
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| 24 | When used unironically, it can be bad writing as a SubTrope of ShowDontTell. Might be justified if the villain in question is edging toward DracoInLeatherPants territory. Certainly justified if there is controversy about whether an evil thing is really so bad (the page quote, for example, was about a book published shortly before an entire civil war was fought over whether or not slavery was acceptable). Also justified for works aimed at young children (such as the aforementioned Super Dictionary) who have just started to wrap their minds around the whole "morality" thing. |
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| 26 | See also CaptainObvious, CaptainObviousAesop, DoNotDoThisCoolThing, ThereShouldBeALaw, ThatMakesMeFeelAngry, AndThatWouldBeWrong, InformedWrongness, and FelonyMisdemeanor. Contrast ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels. |
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| 29 | !!Examples: |
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| 31 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 33 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 34 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/GalileiDonna'' -- Kazuki Ferrari is a somewhat spacey law school student. Thus, when a sky pirate named Cicinho invades her home, holds up her family, has her father beaten, and demands the location of [[MacGuffin "Galileo's Inheritance"]], she starts listing off every law he just broke in the last five minutes before topping it off with, "You're the worst male scumbag in Italy! Oh, and you'd make the top three in all of Europe, too! If there was a world cup for scumbags, you'd be totally in the running. Congrats!" Cicinho finds this amusing and decides to add the crime of nicknaming her "Bambina" to the list. |
| 35 | * The ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E35 "Gorilla Tactics"]] has Jigen listing [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Fujiko's]] misbehaviour, blatantly stating she was terrible in the original Japanese. |
| 36 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': |
| 37 | ** ''Anime/SailorMoon'' the Creator/DiCEntertainment dub version [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Says]]! "Queen Beryl did a terrible thing when she destroyed the Moon." ''...oh, really?!'' |
| 38 | * Onime no Kyo of ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' kills people for fun. Since he's the hero, every one of the villains in the series has to be called "You MONSTER!" at some point, [[BlackAndGrayMorality just so we remember which of them is less bad]]. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/SorcererHunters'': In the very first episode, the heroes meet someone raising a dragon that feeds on tortured girls. The team points out that that's bad, even for a sorcerer. |
| 40 | * A GagSub for ''Anime/StarDriver'' reminds its viewers, "Please do not imitate rapists!" |
| 41 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', the 7th episode, Goodwin reveals to Jack Atlas (the current King of Duelists) that [[spoiler:the Demon Lord and his army from the shadow realm were sealed under the earth by the crimson dragon, and that by absorbing negative emotions for millennia, they will soon break free with more power than when they were sealed, and return to pillage the earth]]! Jacks response? "Thats bad!" |
| 42 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' when Yukina's situation and capture are being described. Botan's reaction is a dramatic 'That's terrible!' |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder: Art]] |
| 46 | * Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': It's such a pity that Lucifer has betrayed God because not only it's obvious he was going to fail, but it also has cost him God's love and favor, and that's the cause of the emotional hurt he's feeling in the painting. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 50 | * Comedian Eugene Mirman often writes letters to companies he's mad at to read aloud on stage. A lot of the letters include a description of why he's mad, followed by "That's terrible." Things tend to get silly after that. ("Fleet Bank, you should be ashamed of all the things I made up that you would do.") |
| 51 | * Creator/BobSaget reminds the audience of this several times regarding his own black/blue comedy in his 'That Ain't Right' Stand-up tour. |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 55 | * ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' fall into this sometimes. Remember, kids, [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0058/0058_01.asp Satanic sacrifices are a slap in God's face]]. |
| 56 | * From the ''[[Comicbook/{{Doom}} Doom Comic]]'' we get the immortal line "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!" |
| 57 | * In Jeff Smith's re-make of ''The Monster Society Of Evil'', starring [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], there's a scene where it's explained Dr. Sivana doesn't want to destroy the machines made by Mr. Mind, only to capture and sell them to the army so he can get rich. Upon hearing this, Tawky Tawny helpfully exclaims for the audience's sake, "War profiteering! That is immoral-- and illegal." Considering that the book had a wide age appeal and most 7-year-olds don't have a clear understanding of war profiting this could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/NewTeenTitans'': The second part of the arc introducing Brother Blood has the first page show the villain standing triumphant over the unconscious Titans and ordering his underling Mother Mayhem to seal the Titans in the pits and let them die. The narration box proceeds to state that Brother Blood is [[{{Understatement}} not very nice]]. |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': |
| 60 | ** "Gideon stole ThePowerOfLove! What a dick!" |
| 61 | ** "What a dick." is repeated after Gideon [[spoiler:stabs Ramona]]. |
| 62 | * A direct reference to the {{Trope Namer|s}} from the ''ComicBook/SonicX'' comic issue 31: "Eggman's already stolen forty cakes! That's terrible! |
| 63 | * In issue #709 of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' (part of ''ComicBook/SupermanGrounded'') a flashback reveals the young [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] was placed in detention for, you guessed it, ''[[Literature/TheSuperDictionary stealing cakes]]''. [[AscendedMeme Forty of them]] from his school's bake sale, in fact. In revenge for the school administration refusing to allow him to enter a fission-powered toaster. [[TitleDrop And that's terrible.]] ''[[AscendedMeme Terribly awesome]]''. |
| 64 | * Parody version [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/489/881/cdc.jpg here]] replacing Luthor with Adrian Veidt and stealing 40 cakes with killing millions of people. Spoilers for ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/GarfieldInAlongCameASplut'' uses this twice; first, it says that the Mama Bran wants to kill the human race, [[CaptainObvious "and we all know that's not nice."]] Then the trope namer is directly referenced when Lex Luthor cameos, stealing forty cakes when Garfield ran him over with the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Delorean.]] |
| 69 | * ''FanFic/HiddenProphices'' uses this trope a ''lot'', especially where Deathstar/Lilyblossom is told of this many times after he does something deliberately bad. The earliest example is where he [[spoiler:murders one of Glasswater's kits at a few minutes old and she just tells him she forgives him and will teach him that being evil is terrible]]. |
| 70 | * In ''FanFic/HogwartsSchoolOfPrayerAndMiracles'', Draco's views on women cause both Harry and the author to start ranting about what a horrible person he is whenever they are brought up. |
| 71 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', the Storyteller usually describes Heather in neutral terms ("the queen bee", "the [[DragonLady dragon girl]]", etc.), but describes her in negative terms ("the Dark Queen", "the Princess of Darkness", etc.) when Heather is planning or doing something underhanded. |
| 72 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} is referenced in an April Fool's chapter of ''[[FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria Mare of Steel]]'' when Silversmith steals forty cakes after Supermare defeats Brainiac. |
| 73 | ** Another Pony reference from a different author is the aptly-named fanfic ''And That's Terrible'', in which [[SeriousBusiness Lex Luthor comes to blows with Celestia over stealing 40 cakes from her]] (after all, in the excitement of finally preparing a trap that would kill Superman he ''had'' missed lunch--[[DidntSeeThatComing and he didn't expect that stealing the entries to Equestria's most important baking contest right before Celestia could gorge herself on them would cause such a mess]]). Luthor's shock when he finds out Celestia is more pissed about the cakes than him trying to take over Equestria is priceless. |
| 74 | * In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', the narration frequently refers to Satanists doing "wrong" things, but doesn't even elaborate on what those things are before skipping to the part where the Prayer Warriors butcher them. Interestingly enough, Jerry's narration says that "killing is bad, and is a sin against lord Jesus Christ," before then reminding us that the Prayer Warriors have a narrower definition than most people when he says, "Killing a Christian is a sin," [[{{Hypocrite}} before murdering]] [[Literature/PercyJackson Thalia Grace]] [[HeelFaceDoorSlam on the off chance]] [[FakeDefector she's lying about her]] HeelFaceTurn. |
| 75 | * ''WebVideo/PrincessTutuAbridged'': Child abuse! "It's bad!" |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/TheSpiderses'': After Twilight gets turned into a spider, she decides to not get help from Spike because he might squish her out of fear. The narration notes that Spike doing so would "make her dead spider twilight abd that is bad." |
| 77 | * In the second book of the ''FanFic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony'' series, Cobalt references the Trope Namer with this line: |
| 78 | ** "Super villainy is much more rewarding. See, I just stole and hid forty books. That's as many as four tens, and that's terrible." |
| 79 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': |
| 80 | ** Yami Marik saying that he got Creator/TeamFourStar's account on Platform/YouTube suspended, and everyone is shocked at such a horrible act. [[CloudCuckoolander Except for Tristan]]. |
| 81 | --->'''Tristan:''' Oh my God! Who's Team Four Star? |
| 82 | ** Pegasus may have kidnapped Yugi's grandfather, but Kaiba [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney cheated in]] [[SeriousBusiness a children's card game]] and [[ThisIsUnforgivable that's unforgivable]]. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 86 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', the backstory is revealed that [[spoiler:Anna and Elsa’s grandfather was a bigot who knowingly led the Northuldra people to ruin in an attempt to subjugate them, but later murdered the Northuldra leader to incite collapse of their society to speed things along]]. Anna and Olaf (the kid-appeal character, no less) have a moment where they firmly assure the audience, especially the kids, that these actions go against everything Arendelle stands for. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 90 | * Inverted with ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin''. Whose dub gives us this gem: |
| 91 | --> ''If Shaolin techniques could be taught here, then the people could use them to fight Manchu troops! That would be GOOD!'' |
| 92 | * In the ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' movie the villain at one point tortures Odie with a shock collar. Garfield looks straight at the FourthWall and reminds us that "that's inhumane!" |
| 93 | * In ''Film/GoForIt'', near the end the two protagonists learn of the EvilPlan of K1, which will remove from everyone's minds the concept of "number". When they're given a pause to decide wether to join him or not, they discuss the potential, terrible consequences of such a plan in a tone which makes clear that they're not taking the threat seriously (like the impossibility of calling a hooker or eating more than one hamburger per time)... but they do once they realize that, without numbers, they'll be unable to enjoy their secret stash of a million dollars. |
| 94 | * One of Mark Whitacre's inner monologues in ''Film/TheInformant2009''. |
| 95 | -->"I've been to Tokyo. They sell little-girl underwear in the vending machines right on the main drag, the Ginza, or whatever. Guys in suits buying used girl panties. How is that okay? That's not okay." |
| 96 | * ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' has this gem: |
| 97 | -->'''The Chosen One:''' Killing is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like... badwrong. Or... badong. Yes. Killing is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing. Gnodab. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', this is the gist of the summation to C.D.'s [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech diatribe to his volunteer fire department]] when he comes to work to find a burning barrel ''[[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket in the fire house]]''. |
| 99 | -->'''C.D.:''' You can't have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, "Whatever you do, don't call the fire department!" '''That would be bad.''' |
| 100 | * ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'' gives us this wisdom: |
| 101 | -->'''Balthazar Blake:''' Horvath wants to free his fellow Morganians and destroy the world. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS. MUST. NOT. HAPPEN.]] |
| 102 | * In ''Film/SupermanII'', Perry White informs Clark Kent that terrorists are threatening to destroy the Eiffel Tower (and [[NukeEm much, much more]]). |
| 103 | -->'''Clark:''' Well, jeez, Mr. White, that's terrible!\ |
| 104 | '''Perry:''' That's why they call them ''terrorists'', Kent. |
| 105 | * Garth does in ''Film/WaynesWorld'', when he and Wayne denounce ProductPlacement... [[HypocriticalHumor while doing product placement]]: |
| 106 | -->'''Garth:''' ''[wearing Reebok-branded clothing]'' It's like people only do things because they get paid, and that's just really sad. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 111 | * In the Scholastic character guide for ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', there are a few examples of this. From Golf Ball's bio: |
| 112 | --> Golf Ball doesn't have the best people skills. Once she became angry at Spongy for how smelly he is. Not cool! |
| 113 | * Literature/TheBible can come across this way at times, particularly [[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs]]. |
| 114 | -->"Do not enter on the path of the wicked; do not walk on the way of evil men.\ |
| 115 | Avoid it; do not pass through it; turn away from it; pass it by. \ |
| 116 | For they cannot sleep unless they have done evil; unless they make someone fall they are robbed of sleep. \ |
| 117 | They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of lawlessness. "\ |
| 118 | ''Proverbs 4:14-17'' |
| 119 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Ren feels the need to deliver a speech of that kind to the soldiers who accompany her. In her opinion, they're insufficiently shocked by finding the dead body of a man who was raped and died of having his tongue cut off. She asks what the rapists intended to tell their children (if they succeeded in conceiving). That their father was raped and had his tongue cut off? Most terrible things that are done are lampshaded to be terrible by at least one protagonist, or the narrative itself, just in case the reader misses it. (Which, with [[MaritalRapeLicense marital rape]] is a justified concern. Maybe [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale female-on-male rape]] warrants a "and that's terrible", too.) |
| 120 | ** It's then pointed out to Ren that she's one of the few people there who knew a father and wasn't a ChildByRape; women in this society who can't afford husbands conceive children by going to "cribs" full of drugged men. |
| 121 | * After [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]] escapes in the ''[[Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' story ''[[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/the-winter-quests/ The Winter Quests]]'', Pythe feels the need to remark to Juliet: |
| 122 | --> '''Pythagoras-858:''' "Oh, this is very bad. This is very very bad. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how bad this is, but it bears repeating." |
| 123 | * In ''Literature/DeathStar'', all but the most truly evil members of the large ensemble cast are horrified when the superweapon they live and work on is tested [[TestedOnHumans on Despayre]] and much much more so when it's used on Alderaan. They all have thoughts on the morality of this and, Vader and Tarkin and Motti aside, those thoughts are very similar. Of course, those characters are all in the process of [[DefectorFromDecadence turning on the Empire]] out of sheer moral outrage so it would be odd if the book ''wasn't'' having them think about how monstrous the situation is. |
| 124 | * ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': In ''Five on Kirrin Island Again'', Anne has this reaction when Dick tells of how he trod on Timmy's tail to make him whine, to distract George. |
| 125 | --> '''Anne:''' That was ''horrid'' of you, Dick. |
| 126 | * The writers of ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'' series apparently felt [[TheEmpire the Galactic Empire]] was not ObviouslyEvil enough. Yes, the Empire from ''Franchise/StarWars''. The books dealt with this by taking the bad guys to sublime levels of {{Card Carrying Villain}}y. ("I bid you Dark Greetings!") And not even that stopped the narration from constantly referring to them as evil. |
| 127 | * Andrej Kuraev, an Orthodox deacon, when arguing about ''Literature/HarryPotter'' with its detractors, essentially moved to ConversationalTroping by explaining this trope, giving a couple examples from popular culture, and then pointing out Rowling's uses of it (particularly the one about a ceiling splattered with frog brains, where Rowling just went out of her way to tell people it's disgusting, as a narrator no less), pondering whether the detractors actually read the book in question, as their point was something like "Rowling says it's okay to kill frogs."\ |
| 128 | From the series itself: |
| 129 | -->''And Odo the hero, they bore him back home\ |
| 130 | To the place that he'd known as a lad.\ |
| 131 | They laid him to rest with his hat inside out\ |
| 132 | And his wand snapped in two, which was sad.'' |
| 133 | * ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Harry has this reaction when Luna Lovegood tells him that people keeping stealing or hiding her belongings. |
| 134 | * From the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, we get this gem from ''War of Honor'' as the [[SleazyPolitician High Ridge government]] discusses the possibility of facing a new war that could cause their navy huge casualties: |
| 135 | --> "That's terrible," New Kiev said softly. Which, Janacek reflected, was probably one of the most superfluous things even she'd ever said. |
| 136 | * In ''Literature/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles'', when Zyn starts to turn evil, everyone goes on about how he's so "nasty" that he's spreading nastiness like a disease. The talking animals, the Muggles (including Zyn's adopted mother), and dear lord the ''narrator herself'' can't go for two sentences without reminding us how evil Zyn is. |
| 137 | * Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: The author went into this at least once. ''Deadly Deals'' has an unscrupulous lawyer named Adel Newsom, who has helped another unscrupulous lawyer named Baron Bell in the selling of babies. He abandons her, she tries calling the two surrogate mothers connected to this operation, but it doesn't go well, her records get snatched, she is reduced to stealing money and trying to get out of Washington, D.C. The author puts in this one line "Not once did she give a thought to the babies or their well-being." It's almost as if the author was afraid that she was turning this character into a JerkassWoobie and felt the need to throw that in there to remind us to not sympathize with her. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/TheSuperDictionary'': The trope namer and the trope maker. Lex Luthor is pictured stealing 40 cakes. That's 4 tens. '''And that's terrible.''' |
| 139 | * ''Constantly'' in ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', which Creator/GustaveFlaubert provided the page quote about. Indeed, some contemporary abolitionist critiques of the novel could be boiled down to "people seriously need this spelled out for them?!" Sadly they did, as numerous Southern people — and some Northerners — defended slavery; the book garnered a ''huge'' number of responses trying to rebut it. Not just as a necessary evil too, but in some cases even ''a positive good''. This came from leading thinkers often (and not all were even slave owners themselves). Yes, it was necessary. |
| 140 | [[/folder]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 143 | * An ''Series/AllThat'' sketch has Miss Fingerly continually catching one of her students cheating on a test in various ways. The first time it happens, she yells out, "That's cheating, which is bad!" |
| 144 | * In "Chains" from the second series of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', Blackadder suddenly thrusts his sword through somebody in a cow costume. Believing it to be Nursie, Queenie's immediate reaction is "You've killed Nursie! That's ''horrid!''" |
| 145 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 146 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]", Xander has perhaps his most CaptainObvious moment ''ever.'' |
| 147 | --->'''Xander:''' I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good. |
| 148 | ** Parodied in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E16WhoAreYou Who Are You?]]" when Buffy and Faith (a rogue slayer) switch bodies. Faith assumes Buffy's catchphrase is (variations on) "you can't do that, because it's wrong." |
| 149 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'' does this in an episode where Jeff visits his old law firm and Pierce gets certain ideas about hunting man for sport. |
| 150 | -->'''Jeff:''' Pierce, do I even need to say this? It's bad to hunt man for sport.\ |
| 151 | '''Pierce:''' Bad Ass! |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' does this with child molesters quite a lot, too, to contrast them with the frequently jovial treatment they give killers on the show and to say, "But this is ''really'' bad!" |
| 153 | * One episode of ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' that its creators were ''very'' nervous about airing an episode that pitted the Nazi Waffen SS and the Viet Cong together in a fantasy scenario. That's right, the "round-up-Jews-strip-them-naked-then-spray-them-with-shower-nozzles-that-squirt-poison" guys versus the "place-tiger-traps-in-areas-where-American-soldiers-are-likely-to-hide-so-they'll-fall-through-and-get-impaled-on-punji-stakes-smeared-with-human-feces" guys. The ''DW'' crew knew they were going to tick off all kinds of viewers no matter who won (it was [[spoiler: the Nazis]]), so they prefaced the episode with a disclaimer insisting they did not sympathize with either faction. However, this wasn't the first time they did an EvilVersusEvil matchup (that was the fifth episode: Mafia vs. Yakuza, won by [[spoiler:the Mafia]]), nor the last (they've done a number of them, including Saddam Hussein vs. Pol Pot), but they ''always'' made it a point that they do not endorse evil actions and that the purpose of the show, as always, is to play "What If?" |
| 154 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' is fond of this: |
| 155 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]]: The Master goes off on a rant about how the human race needs a strong leader, which the Doctor compares to both Hitler and Genghis Khan. |
| 156 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]]: |
| 157 | --->'''Margaret Slitheen:''' This is persecution. What did I ever do to you?\ |
| 158 | '''The Doctor:''' You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.\ |
| 159 | '''Margaret Slitheen:''' Apart from that. |
| 160 | ** You'd think the Master turning everyone on Earth into a copy of himself in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] was evil enough without referring to them as the [[GodwinsLaw "Master Race"]]. |
| 161 | * Inverted in ''Series/TheFastShow'', where a nice middle class man is standing in his nice kitchen, and tells us of a wonderous event, only to completely underplay it by calling it nice: |
| 162 | --> So I was in the loft last night, and I found the original copy of the Bible. So that was nice. |
| 163 | * ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' had a tendency to do this. Richie or Joe tells Duncan that the past "crimes" of some Immortal of the week weren't [[ValuesDissonance quite as heinous]] in the time period they were committed. Duncan retorts it was "always wrong" and since he's TheHero, is [[WriterOnBoard framed as being right]]. |
| 164 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' tends to do this whenever child pornography is involved. One episode features a convicted pedophile setting up a "safe" website for pedophiles to get their fill: [[LoopholeAbuse pictures of underaged children, fully dressed, not in any sexual situations]]. The show tries to sell us that this is bad by having him post a picture of one of the detective's children, causing him to snap and attack him. Not that it's exactly "good", either. Worse, such an episode could conceivably lead some viewers to believe that posting non-sexual pictures of children in ''any'' context constitutes child pornography, and is completely unjustifiable.\ |
| 165 | Some TruthInTelevision -- in the UK paedophiles in prison can be denied pictures even of their own children -- any request to have them in possession is vetted. Even after on release possession of 'innocent' images while on licence can get them recalled. Pictures don't have to be sexualised (eg just be a school uniform catalogue) to be a cause for concern. |
| 166 | * ''Series/LawAndOrder'' itself tends to be just as bad when their cases have sex crimes connection (with a side of FelonyMisdemeanor when dealing with escort services). |
| 167 | * Colonel Blake sums up the theme of the episode "To Market To Market" of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' perfectly in two lines of conversation. |
| 168 | -->'''Colonel Blake:''' ''[to General Hammond over the phone]'' Sir what I wanted to talk to you about was the black market.\ |
| 169 | '''General Hammond:''' What about it?\ |
| 170 | '''Colonel Blake:''' Well sir... it's terrible. |
| 171 | * Many instances in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Once, a scientist roughly handles a female scientist in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E10KingDinosaur King Dinosaur]]", to the degree that Tom Servo laughs and scolds at the same time, "That's terrible!" |
| 172 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', "Toxic": PlayedForLaughs when arresting the murderer of the week, as Tony feels the need to crack a joke of this kind. |
| 173 | -->'''[=McGee=]:''' You are under arrest for the murder of nurse Hannah Dunsten.\ |
| 174 | '''[=DiNozzo=]:''' That is correct. And many, many more bad things, because you're a very bad man. |
| 175 | * Played for laughs in ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'', when David Brent will often end a conversation about sexism or racism with 'which I hate!' just to vainly try and affirm his PC credentials. |
| 176 | * ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Egg", Mr. Conklin is the DesignatedVillain for wanting to take a photograph of a hatching chick. Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks are worried the chick will be harmed by the flashbulbs. |
| 177 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' used this to push itself into RefugeInAudacity when J.D. has a day dream of a Public Service Announcement for Munchausen's by Proxy i.e. child abuse to get attention. Remember--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClhuzy6d2o don't smother your kids.]] |
| 178 | * Gul Dukat's appearances in the last two seasons of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' generally included a lot of this. WordOfGod says that the creators were concerned about MisaimedFandom. So the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E11Waltz Waltz]]" ends with this speech: |
| 179 | -->'''Sisko:''' Sometimes life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of grey. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil. |
| 180 | * The series finale of ''Series/UltramanAce'' has a particularly groan-worthy line when Yapool, unleashing his most powerful monster Jumbo King on humanity, threatens to ''destroy the entire city and kill everyone in it''. Prompting a child who's with Hokuto (Ultraman Ace's human form) to deliver this line: |
| 181 | --> '''Random kid''': [[CaptainObvious … if that happens, that'll be bad]]. |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 185 | * Music/TheArrogantWorms would like you to know that carrot juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime). |
| 186 | * From the song 'Chuck Al Hashib', "and one day/without being provoked/he killed bob (and that ain't right)" |
| 187 | * In Christy Moore's "Don't Forget Your Shovel", he rants briefly about the number of Irish migrants in London who will be unable to make it back home, and concludes, "I think that's terrible." |
| 188 | * In Music/PinkFloyd's "The Trial", the prosecutor says that the defendant is charged for "showing feelings of an almost human nature", and says "this will not do." |
| 189 | * [[AvertedTrope Averting]] this trope for "Angel of Death" is more than likely what got people into thinking Music/{{Slayer}} were Nazi sympathizers. According to guitarist Jeff Hanneman, "…there's nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily [Josef Mengele] was a bad man, because to me--well, [[KickTheDog isn't that]] [[MoralEventHorizon obvious]]? I shouldn't have to tell you that." |
| 190 | * Music/{{Supertramp}}'s "Crime of the Century" tells you that the people committing said crime (raping the universe) have gone from bad to worse. |
| 191 | * "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" by the Temptations includes the immortal couplet: "Some bad talk goin' around town sayin' Papa had three outside children and another wife / And that ain't right." |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 195 | * In the fourth episode of ''Podcast/Hathor61'', Mel has to remind herself a few times that someone being murdered at the hotel she's staying at is a bad thing, due to her slight obsession with classic detective fiction, and subsequent wanting to solve the case herself. |
| 196 | -->'''Mel:''' It's just ''too'' good... an opportunity. Right, it's bad that someone was killed, but it's just so like what I've been absorbed with these past few weeks! |
| 197 | * In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', whenever the Apache Tracker is mentioned, Cecil makes sure to emphasize that his MagicalNativeAmerican persona is racist and offensive, to the point of ignoring anything else about him. Manages to work as a RunningGag because it's far from the only time that Cecil lets his own opinions color his broadcast. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 201 | * This is very common in Catholic editorials to the point where one wonders if it's an EnforcedTrope. No sin, no matter how heinous, can ever be mentioned without a preface that it is "vile", "disgusting", "atrocious", or "loathsome to God", as if the writers are worried that people will think they approve of such actions otherwise. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 205 | * Annoyingly common, especially during long matches with occasional lulls. In part this is because the commentators have anywhere from between five to thirty minutes (and, in the case of Iron Man Matches, ''sixty'' minutes) of time to fill, but another reason is that, in the context of {{Kayfabe}}, the commentators are fictional characters as well, and they view the matches as [[ThisIsReality actual athletic contests]] and [[StupidGood take it for granted]] that all participants, faces and heels alike, will [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen play by the rules]]. |
| 206 | * Inverted in the case of heel commentators, who will [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad vociferously condemn the actions of the]] ''[[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad faces]]'', especially if the heels suffer as a result. |
| 207 | * A particularly amusing example was when a wrestler in the middle of a FaceHeelTurn cemented his evil by... ''[[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoking a cigarette]]''. The PG Era, ladies and germs. |
| 208 | * Taken to extremes when a sports-entertainer is punished in ''real life'' for some really heinous kayfabe deed. Just ask Wrestling/BryanDanielson, who was fired after his choking of a victim with a necktie which a sponsor of WWE deemed inappropriate. Daniel Bryan was brought back after the heat died down (he said Vince implied he would be brought back in a few months) and not due to fan backlash as was previously stated. Or Wrestling/ChrisJericho, who was nearly jailed in Brazil when (in character) [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain he tore up a Brazilian flag]] due to this being illegal in Brazil. |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 212 | * According to [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mokey_Mokey Mokey Mokey]]'s card description from the [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh TCG]], "Sometimes he gets mad and that is dreadful." |
| 213 | ** [[UnstoppableRage Oh it is dreadful]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mokey_Mokey_Smackdown very dreadful]]. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 217 | * The opening number of ''Theatre/BatBoyTheMusical'': |
| 218 | --->''They stripped him of his dignity,\ |
| 219 | they beat him like a gong\ |
| 220 | and he was kicked repeatedly\ |
| 221 | and that was wrong!'' |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 225 | * In ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Dual Strike]]'', Koal drops the following gem after explaining how the Black Crystals drain energy from the planet: |
| 226 | --> "I'd say that I care, but I'd be lying. And that would be wrong." |
| 227 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' when Torri says that Wake is a nice person. And that's good. |
| 228 | * In ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'', Jack just couldn't believe that the BigBad was interested in [[spoiler: the large amounts of gold ore under the city]]. |
| 229 | * This is Sigrun's entire role in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'', when she's not smugly antagonizing Justice with her pickpocketing. |
| 230 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Characters, mostly Paimon, often feel the need to verbally point out how sad some event was, how evil a certain villain is or otherwise give an emotional reaction the player is supposed to have at the moment. |
| 231 | ** In Xinyan's Mirage in Golden Apple Archipelago we see a memory of [[StrawCharacter several people criticizing her appearance and interest in music]]. All the other characters are visibly displeased when listening to this, but Paimon additionally bursts out with "Why are they being do mean!?" |
| 232 | ** In Act I of Sumeru Archon Quest, Dunyazard tells a story of Sabzeruz Festival and how it's disregarded by Akademiya and other citizens. Then, the following exchange occurs: |
| 233 | ---> '''Paimon:''' Aw, but that's awful! |
| 234 | ---> '''Dunyarzad:''' It is. It's absolutely terrible! |
| 235 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', when you pick up a [[PoisonMushroom Rupoor]]: "You picked up a Rupoor! That means you've lost 10 Rupees. And that's a little bit sad." |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/MutantFootballLeague'' invokes this after some tackles. |
| 237 | -->'''Grim Blitzrow:''' Oh, that's a vicious hit! And the crowd loves it!\ |
| 238 | '''Brickhead Mulligan:''' He just turned that guy into 300 pounds of ground mutant meat!\ |
| 239 | '''Grim Blitzrow:''' And you can't hit a guy much harder than that... ''and that is unfortunate''. |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The text for one zombie-killing quest reads "They're not pleasant, they're peasant! And that's terrible!". |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' offers this gem. "He stole the Pokémon and ran away so fast. And that's horrible because stealing other people's Pokémon is really bad!" |
| 242 | * [[Funny/Portal2 Hilariously]] [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] by [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' when [[spoiler:she tries to confuse Wheatley.]]. It is ambiguous whether [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] is sympathizing with or taunting the target, though. |
| 243 | --> [[spoiler:'''[[EnemyMine GLaDOS]]''' ''(loudly, to Wheatley)'': What exactly is wrong with being adopted? ''(quieter, to Chell)'' For the record, [[AdoptionDiss you are adopted]] and that's terrible, just work with me.]] |
| 244 | * ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' has one such moment: |
| 245 | --> '''Sonic:''' They're gonna [[UnwillingRoboticisation turn Tails into a robot!]] That's horrible! |
| 246 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Starflight}} 2'' if the player brings Endurium to Starbase, after being fined heavily by Intersel, the message sent to the player will end with "Shame on you." |
| 247 | ** [[spoiler:The reason for this is that the first game's ending reveals that Endurium is not starship fuel, but a race of ancient, intelligent, crystalline lifeforms.]] |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' makes no secret of the fact that everyone hates Luca Blight and that he is a [[PsychoforHire malicious, bloodthirsty, soulless monster]]. |
| 249 | %%* ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' has the Godwin faction and Nether Gate. |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis'' is rather heavy-handed in this. You're told three times that the Order is deeply messed-up within five minutes of first encountering it, and when you get to its capital city, the message becomes near-continuous until you leave. What makes it either better or worse is that they really are that bad--they're [[TheWarOnStraw strawman]] [[TheFatalist fatalists]] who make fundamental logical errors in their arguments, then use those arguments to justify attempts to violently TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 251 | * ''VideoGame/{{Supplice}}'' have the report where alien monsters have completely taken over the mining outpost on Planet Methuselah, and they cannot mount an effective resistance against the horde. It ends with a single sentence: "This is Not Good". |
| 252 | * The ''[[VideoGame/TalesSeries Tales]]'' series loves this. Especially ''Abyss''. And ''Symphonia''. You'd think racism and genocide aren't apparently such a big deal in the worlds of the Tales universe, the way the main characters constantly have to denounce it. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': While most of the time being hurt results in MajorInjuryUnderreaction or simple, wordless screaming, general class response to being hit by Jarate (yellow-ish fluid in a jar) and Mad Milk (described as "non-milk substance") generally are either this trope or BigNo. |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII's'' [[AllThereInTheManual manual]]. The back stories of the species take pains to distinguish antagonists from protagonists with expressions like "the evil group of orcs" and the like. |
| 255 | * In the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'' (in which the characters are ''much'' more AffablyEvil than their cinematic counterparts), there are quite a few levels where you're required to mug innocent New Yorkers; the very first level even teaches you precisely how to do this. The male victims usually just run off to call the police (or at least try to, since you can order your fellow gang members to "wreck" any squealers), but the female victims put up more of a fight, often accusing you of trying to rape them [[EvenEvilHasStandards (which, to their credit, the Warriors never actually do)]], sometimes [[EyeScream macing you in the face]], and (if the mugging is successful) shouting "Stealing is ''wrong'', boy!" after you as you run off. |
| 256 | * In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', Salamandra attempts to [[DrugsAreBad gain control the drug trade]] at one point. Every non-addict (and some of them as they are concerned about their supply) in game seems to think it is bad. This is silly because they already include murderers and rapists, both of whom net nowhere near the response by the game or {{N|onPlayerCharacter}}PCs. It is also unfitting for the entirety of a [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally ambiguous]] CrapsackWorld to show universal contempt for anything. Not helped in the least by the [[{{Narm}} "dealing in death"]] line red shirt guards use during the quest. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 260 | * In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', the characters and [[MarathonBoss especially the game itself]] WILL make a point about [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]] being a massive arrogant dick for the rest of the case. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 264 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' combines this with a form of ArsonMurderAndJaywalking when Sarge finds O'Mally's first victim. |
| 265 | -->'''Sarge:''' Once again I find myself torn. On the one hand, there's one less blue in the Universe. But now Doc's got a bigger body count than me! ''And that just won't do.'' No sir. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 269 | %%* [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0599.html This]] ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' comic uses it as part of a bit of BlatantLies. |
| 270 | %%* [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1790 This]] ''Dinosaur Comics'' strip. And probably a lot more. |
| 271 | * ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' does this with Duke Antium describing the zombification of his commander as "vile". Given his expression, it's clear that he is only trying to stay [[TheStoic stoic.]] |
| 272 | * ''WebComic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'' [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=863-through-the-backdrop invokes the trope-namer]]. |
| 273 | %%* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. In ''[=On the Origin of PCs=]'', Vaarsuvius keeps invoking this during Haley's explanation on why elves don't simply have godlike powers with magic due to their long lifespan. Haley gets fed up at the umpteenth invoking of the Trope and threatens to smack V on top of the head. |
| 274 | * From the ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic [[https://xkcd.com/547/ "Simple"]] (where a character is aping the language of the Simple English Wikipedia: |
| 275 | --> We can't put the broken part in the machine. It wouldn't smash the right tiny things together. The machine might break. That would be very bad. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 279 | * Syera of ''Website/{{Springhole}}'' calls these "rightitudes" and states only arrogant and tryhard people say things along the lines of this trope. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 283 | * ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': Captain Hammer's penultimate speech. Once he drops the 'tiny cue cards', he says, "She turned me on to this whole homelessness things. Which is terrible. And I realized something..." |
| 284 | * ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' cracks eggs like they crack smoke. Smoke crack? [[DrugsAreBad No, that's bad]]. |
| 285 | * This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZTJYbdQ4g4&feature=youtu.be video]] by the ACLU about the higher levels of violence in private prisons. The narration is well-written throughout almost all of the video, but then there's this: |
| 286 | --> "Now the Corrections Corporation of America is trying to buy more prisons. That's a terrible idea." |
| 287 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/TheWizard'' had a running joke based on Nintendo's old slogan "Now you're playing with power". One of the jokes was, "Now you're playing with paedophilia. And that's just wrong." |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 291 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic says "[[CluelessAesop If someone tries to touch you in a place or in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable]], [[MemeticMutation that's no good!]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Although, this ''was'' to [[TooSmartForStrangers educate children]], who aren't expected to know such things.[[/labelnote]] |
| 292 | * A rather [[{{Narm}} narmy]] version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' in the series finale, when [[spoiler:Zuko]] finishes explaining what [[spoiler: Ozai]] is actually going to do ([[spoiler:burning down the entire Earth Continent, plants and people alike]]). And then [[PluckyComicRelief Sokka]] points out for our convenience: |
| 293 | -->'''Sokka:''' I always knew the Fire Lord was a bad guy, but... his plan is just pure evil. |
| 294 | * In "The Coin" on ''Literature/{{Babar}}'', everyone gets upset when Rataxes suggests that he might take various things of theirs... but everyone stops their complaining to Babar at once to express outrage when Isabelle reveals that he threatened to take her dolly. |
| 295 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has an epic example with Rath at the end of ''Con of Rath'', when it turns out the baby they were escorting the whole episode was intended to be offered as a snack to an alien king. Rath uses this trope as a PreAssKickingOneLiner: |
| 296 | -->'''Rath:''' [[EatsBabies Eating.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Babies.]] Is NOT! ''COOL!'' |
| 297 | * In one ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode, Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy are engaged in idle chit-chat, (Before preparing to rob a bank) when Gin utters this line about text messaging: |
| 298 | -->'''Gin Rummy:''' As if that wasn't enough, you have to type with your ''thumbs''. YOUR ''THUMBS''...'''which I just don't approve of.''' |
| 299 | * ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' has the characters use a lot of [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Feelings Talk]] to deliver the episode's aesop, so it's no wonder that [[HarmlessVillain Grizzle]] would get called out at least once in this manner. |
| 300 | -->"Well, what you did was bad! And wrong! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And a lot of feelings got hurt.]]" |
| 301 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' where Eek becomes a [[SuperPowersForADay Super Hero For A Day,]] he tell some bank robbers, "Didn't anybody ever tell you stealing is wrong?" They look at each other in surprise and then tell Eek that no, no one ever did. Eek says, "Oh. Well, it is!" They put the money back and apologize. |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': |
| 303 | ** From ''Nectar of the Odds'': |
| 304 | --->'''Timmy:''' What do you mean I can't just make three tickets [to ''Crash Nebula on Ice''] appear like magic?!\ |
| 305 | '''Wanda:''' Timmy, it's sold out! If we gave you three of the tickets, it means we'd be taking them away from somebody else who already has them!\ |
| 306 | ''[Timmy looks at Wanda as if he doesn't understand the implications of this]''\ |
| 307 | '''Wanda:''' And that would be stealing!\ |
| 308 | ''[Timmy still doesn't get it]''\ |
| 309 | '''Wanda:''' Which is bad. |
| 310 | ** Also, in Crocker's debut episode: |
| 311 | --->'''Principal Waxleplax:''' ''[why she's given Crocker detention]'' And you, [[ItMakesSenseInContext for trapping me in a toilet paper cocoon and telling two small boys they could enslave the Earth!]] That's not right! |
| 312 | * A downplayed example from Johnny in the ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' episode "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesStrings Strings]]". |
| 313 | -->'''Johnny:''' Oh come on, that's just evil. [[ItMakesSenseInContext You can't just go and make a guy's nose itch!]] |
| 314 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gives [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Zoidberg]] the wonderful "[[MemeticMutation Your music is bad, and you should feel bad!]]" |
| 315 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Big Dreams and Blue Skies," this is Molly's reaction to learning that women have been left out of history books. |
| 316 | -->'''Molly''': That is so unfair! |
| 317 | * In an especially {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', the gang discovers that the villain of the week is involved in drugs. Every time drugs are mentioned, Scooby says, without fail, "Drugs?! Yuck!" |
| 318 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' had a very similar ''If someone tries to touch you in a place or in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable" PSA at the end of one episode that said almost the same thing. Though very {{Narm}}y, it actually prompted a few kids to confess to having been molested, so it did its job. |
| 319 | * Both justified and not in "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part I", a summer cliffhanger on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]the second part not being aired until a few months later[[/note]] that gave [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Charles Montgomery Burns]] as many KickTheDog moments as possible (in one case quite literally) to create a situation in which [[WhoMurderedTheAsshole practically everyone in Springfield would have a motive for shooting him]]. Burns has become obsessed with forcing the people of Springfield to rely only on nuclear power from his power plant, and when oil is discovered in the town, Burns hijacks the oil fields to preempt their exploitation by the townspeople. Then, to prevent everyone from using solar power--the one energy source that Burns cannot monopolize--Burns deploys an invention of his that effectively blocks out the sun, plunging Springfield into eternal night. Waylon Smithers, Burns's assistant, has reluctantly gone along until now, primarily out of respect and genuine admiration for Burns, but now tells his boss that his plan is "unconscionably fiendish." Burns promptly fires Smithers for insubordination, reducing the servant to a drunken wreck. He then goes to City Hall just to taunt the townspeople, many of whom are wielding guns at the meeting and some of whom have already threatened to kill him. As Burns [[TemptingFate crows that no one in Springfield has the courage to shoot him in the open]], the citizens stand up one by one and together deliver a drawn-out TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, saying that Burns deserves to die and should go to Hell and so forth. (Ironically, after all this, the one who eventually shoots Burns in a darkened alley does so ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation possibly]]) by accident: [[spoiler: Maggie Simpson]].) |
| 320 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. |
| 321 | ** PlayedForLaughs, ''especially'' when the episode has a civil-rights message. |
| 322 | ** The visit to the Museum of Tolerance in "Death Camp of Tolerance," for one. The tour guide speaks to the group of adults and children as if they're all five years old. |
| 323 | ** "It makes Jews into ''steereeuhtypes''! And stereotyping minorities is ''teeribulle''!" (The jews referring to ''Film/{{The Passion|OfTheChrist}}'') |
| 324 | ** They dedicate a song to it with 'DrugsAreBad, M'Kay?" |
| 325 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Walking Small", when Spongebob realizes Plankton was manipulating him in order to clear everyone off the Goo Lagoon beach and build a new Chum Bucket, Spongebob dramatically shouts "You ''used'' me... for ''land development''!" Then he adds, in a pitiful tone, "That wasn't nice." |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' plays this trope so straight it crosses over into SoBadItsGood territory on an episode dealing with the horrors of racism. No, really. ''Verbatim.'' |
| 327 | -->'''Richie:''' My best friend is gone because of you and your stupid racism! ''I hate you!'' |
| 328 | * 1973/74 ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' episode "The Weather Maker''. The villains have been diverting the Gulf Stream and causing severe weather disruptions in the U.S. When the Big Bad turns his WeatherControlMachine to "Irreversibly On" so they can't turn it off, the Super Friends comment on the situation. |
| 329 | -->'''Batman:''' Unforgivable!\ |
| 330 | '''Wonder Woman:''' That's terrible!\ |
| 331 | '''Aquaman:''' Criminal!\ |
| 332 | '''Robin:''' It's not right at all! |
| 333 | * Characters in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' have a tendency to punctuate descriptions of bad things that might happen with "...and that will never do." |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' is really prone to doing this. What with his [[TheDitz mental state]], this is not particularly surprising. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tigtone}}'': Tigtone sets out to slay the wielder of a [[TalkingWeapon singing sword]] that is murdering townsfolk. When he finds the wielder is a ten year old boy, his [[ExpositionFairy Memory Gnome]] stops him. |
| 336 | -->"Remember Tigtone! Killing children... is WRONG!" |
| 337 | * The DVD sets for ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' contain disclaimers (the former had unskippable speeches from Creator/WhoopiGoldberg) about some of the racist content of a few shorts, emphasizing that the racial humor was "wrong then and is wrong now", but is included on the DVD for the sake of historical preservation (though that ''still'' doesn't stop them from editing or outright excluding some shorts because of {{Blackface}} gags and such). |
| 338 | ** Some Disney DVD collections place similar disclaimers before otherwise-controversial cartoons (often those portraying ethnic minorities or foreigners in an insulting way). |
| 339 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldandFriends U.S. Acres]]'': |
| 340 | ** In the episode "Wanted: Wade!", it seems that [[MattressTagGag tearing a tag off a pillow]] is so bad a crime it even gets two hardened robbers of banks and gas stations (a mouse and bulldog) to grab the bars of the cell and want out when Wade admits his "crime" to them. |
| 341 | ** Wade sees a police car on the farm and gets him into his panic. When Orson tries to convince Wade he won't go to jail for it, a voice tells them and Roy "We know you're in there, come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded!" The three adults run for it. [[spoiler: It was all Booker playing a joke. Sheldon asks if it was very nice, and Booker, in an IronicEcho asks "What harm can it do?"]] |
| 342 | * In the [[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode2GodWantsMeToForgiveThem second episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', Bob says a variant of this after hearing about the Grapes of Wrath insulting Junior Asparagus to the point of tears. |
| 343 | -->'''Bob:''' Well that's just terrible. Don't those grapes know it's not nice to make fun of people? |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 347 | * Message on A&W to-go cups: |
| 348 | -->"Why is there no ice in our drinks? Our soda fountains chill our drinks to the perfect temperature. Ice just melts and dilutes the taste. And that just won't do." |
| 349 | * Related to this trope: [[https://www.thelocal.se/20100312/25498 members of the Black Cobra gang stole one-hundred twenty boxes of cake in Denmark.]] That's as many as twelve tens. And that's terrible. Some people at Wikipedia have even tried to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Cobra_%28gang%29&diff=505208287&oldid=497677031 add it]] a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Cobra_%28gang%29&diff=518517748&oldid=515799786 couple of times]] to their article. |
| 350 | * The Catholic Church's 2009 apology for the 19th century excommunication of Australian Saint Mary [=MacKillop=] in revenge for reporting a paedophile priest: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100926152706/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/25/3021772.htm "On behalf of myself and the archdiocese I apologise to the sisters, especially to the sisters for what happened to them in the context of the excommunication when their lives and their community life was interrupted and they were virtually thrown out on the streets and that this was a terrible thing."]] |
| 351 | * An MSNBC story ended with, "Now they will be without a grandmother, without a mother, and a man without a wife. And that's terrible." |
| 352 | * After Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi expressed admiration for Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina at the latter's 100th birthday party in 2002 and said he wished that Thurmond had been elected President in 1948, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush felt compelled to deliver an {{Anvilicious}} reminder that segregation was wrong - nearly four whole decades after it had stopped being acknowleged by the majority of Americans. |
| 353 | * After learning how bad UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was while researching for her role in ''Shining Through'', actress Creator/MelanieGriffith said in the ''New York Daily News'': "I didn't know that 6 million Jews were killed. That's a lot of people." |
| 354 | * At the end of Game 4 of the 2011 NBA 2nd round playoff series between the Lakers and Mavericks. The Lakers were about to be swept in 4 games and were clearly frustrated. Starting center Andrew Bynum threw a blatant elbow at Mavs guard J.J. Barea while in midair driving to the basket. Barea crumpled to the ground while Bynum was ejected and walked away to his locker room showing no remorse. ABC announcer Mike Tirico cried out "That is one of the biggest bush league things I've ever seen. That is TERRIBLE!" on the air during the aftermath. |
| 355 | * In game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers, wideout Randy Moss inflamed the rivalry by fake-mooning the Packers' crowd after a touchdown. Notoriously fragile announcer Joe Buck emoted, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw "That is a DISGUSTING act by Randy Moss!"]] though the two have since made up. |
| 356 | * While covering the infamous Pacers-Pistons brawl in 2004, ESPN sportscaster Bill Walton stated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyqIh4nJ3Y&t=36s "This is a disgrace."]] |
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