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[[caption-width-right:350:You know... "Remember, boys and girls, don't be a dimwit!" How could you not know that?]]

->''"One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 14:16]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''

A pair of characters are [[{{Foil}} compared and contrasted against each other]], where one character demonstrates the proper, moral, or effective way to do things, while the other... is a complete [[EpicFail failure]].

The characters are likely TheParagon vs. the AntiRoleModel, although any contrasting foils will do. There's probably AnAesop (at least implied) that we're meant to [[WhatWouldXDo act like the Right Way character]] and not act like-- yeah, [[CaptainObviousAesop you see where this is going]].

As the TropeMaker is Literature/GoofusAndGallant, the characters, if they are named, set up in an ImagineSpot or something similar, will have [[RhymesOnADime rhyming]], [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal alliterative]] or ThemeNaming. Quite a few examples could count as StockParodies.

When the characters are related, compare FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling and YoungestChildWins. In humor, compare BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Also compare GoodAngelBadAngel. May be an example of BlackAndWhiteMorality. The "wrong" character may or may not be a DeliberatelyBadExample.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A fairly OmnipresentTrope where Brand X contrasts itself against Brand Y.
** Apple uses this in the "[[Advertising/GetAMac I'm a Mac / I'm a PC]]" commercials.
** Various cell phone companies will use this and models of their clients to show why each is superior.
* An anti-drunk driving radio PSA has two girls telling stories of going home from a bar. They're basically the same girl, ''Film/SlidingDoors'' style: one drives home and the other takes a cab.
-->'''Girl 1:''' A squirrel ran across the road.\\
'''Girl 2:''' A squirrel ran across the road.\\
'''Girl 1:''' I swerved.\\
'''Girl 2:''' The cab swerved.\\
'''Girl 1:''' I hit a guy.\\
'''Girl 2:''' The cabbie just missed a guy.\\
'''Girl 1:''' I wish I'd taken a cab home.\\
'''Girl 2:''' Thank God I took a cab home.
* A public service announcement on radio for emergency preparedness had two copies of a mother; one of whom had a plan. After introducing themselves, they talk simultaneously about an emergency they both experienced, sometimes in unison.
* A beer ad in Brazil had compared the lives of two men: one spent a night at the bar and the other spent it at home. It pointed five good reasons the bar would be better and none for home.
* A UK advert for [=HomeServe=] home insurance as a split screen with Bob and Doug. Both of them have the same DIY accident, but Bob has cover, and [=HomeServe=] send a very professional looking plumber round. Doug doesn't and has to get a slightly dodgy-looking plumber who does the job, but then Doug has to keep forking over money. The slogan is "Don't be a mug, like Doug".
* Russian commercials for Fairy dishwashing liquid pictured two villages: Villaribo, which used Fairy, and Villabadzho, which didn't. These commercials [[MemeticMutation achieved memetic status]] and spawned plenty of jokes.
* There is a series of Japanese TV public service announcements urging young people to conserve energy, which involves TemporalThemeNaming pair Ima, a.k.a Present, a lazy girl with a messy room and bad habits, receiving advice from Mirai, a.k.a Future, her organized and tidy counterpart from another dimension.
* Nova Scotia's ''Advertising/SexualViolenceWithTheBirdsAndTheBees'' [=PSAs=] about sexual violence awareness features one in the first video: Zach the Great horned owl [[ButLiquorIsQuicker who attempts to take advantage of a drunken female bee]] and Noel the Atlantic puffin [[AboveTheInfluence who talks him out of it.]]
* A series of advertisements for the Alliance and Leicester building society featured Creator/StephenFry (wrong way) and Creator/HughLaurie (right way) - Laurie's character would demonstrate why his building society account was so wonderful, Fry's would promptly attempt to show that his dodgy (and fictional) building society could go one better, and fail disastrously.
* A magazine advertisement for Lapland Computers, set on a beach, showed Mr. Wrong Way (in a scruffy suit) being sold a dubious laptop by a grinning anthropomorphic shark, while Ms. Right Way (who was also MsFanservice) relaxed on a sun lounger with the company's product and the company's polar bear mascot.
* A commercial for The General (an auto insurance company) has basketball player Shaquille O'Neal failing to perform certain tasks, contrasted with singer Montell Jordan succeeding at said tasks while singing "This Is How We Do It".
* Several Fox [=DVDs=] came with a PSA narrated by Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor, contrasting Bob, who bought a DVD from a store that looks and sounds perfect, makes sense and brings all of his friends closer together, with Jim, who brought a [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirated DVD off the street]] that has grainy picture quality, feedback in the sound, nonsensical editing and it makes all of his friends abandon him.
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[[folder:Arts]]
* ''Industry and Idleness'' by William Hogarth is about the apprentices Francis Goodchild and Tom Idle. Goodchild is a diligent and gracious worker who eventually becomes Lord-Mayor of London. Idle, on the other hand, proves to be too apathetic to work, turns to crime, and is eventually hanged for murder.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica demonstrate in ''Baby's First Deadpool''.
--->Though he doesn’t share their viewpoint, Captain America is considerate of the feelings of his vegetarian friends.\\
Deadpool bounds up vegetarians and force-feeds them meatloaf.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' comics had "Villain Do's and Don'ts," in which a strongman named Uranos demonstrates the right way to be a villain, and [[HarmlessVillain the Eggplant Wizard]] demonstrates the wrong way. For instance, Uranos uses a forbidding fortress as his base of operations, while the Eggplant Wizard uses a baseball stadium.
* Played with in ''Comicbook/RichieRich''. Cadbury serves as a one-man example of this when he trains another butler by showing him first the wrong way, then the right way to act in a particular situation (e.g., making a pass at the maid as opposed to greeting her politely). However, the trainee's employer, checking up on his progress, always manages to catch Cadbury only when he's acting the wrong way, and in increasingly [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] fashion. She finally kicks him out, then is pleasantly surprised when her own butler performs his duties so well.
* ''Creator/ArchieComics'':
** The cover in one comic depicts Reggie and Archie as ski instructors. Reggie informs their students that he will teach the correct skiing technique, while Archie will show them how not to ski.
** One story had Betty and Veronica make a film showing the right way/wrong way for guys to behave, using Jughead as the wrong example. It backfires as all the guys want to be like Jughead.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'''s "Melvin and Jenkins". Jenkins, a nerdy-looking chap, is polite and intelligent and always tries to do his best; Melvin, on the other hand, is a gangsta wannabe hoodlum who delights in petty mischief.
* ''ComicStrip/ThisModernWorld'': Goofball and Galahad (seen in [[https://images.dailykos.com/images/571670/story_image/TMW2018-08-01color.png?1532908420 these]] [[https://images.dailykos.com/images/1069227/story_image/TMW2022-05-18color.png?1652471924 two]] strips) are parodies of Goofus and Gallant, with the twist that Goofball brings up legitimate problems that Galahad tries to dismiss or explain away.
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[[folder: Fairy Tales]]
* Numerous fairy tales have this motif with either two siblings or two people with the same occupation being the pairing. Of course one gets rewarded and the other gets punished.
** ''Toads and Diamonds'' (also called ''The Fairies'') features two sisters; one who is kind and polite and the other who is rude and spiteful. The kind sister gives water to an elderly peasant woman at a well and is rewarded by having flowers and gemstones fall from her mouth every time she speaks. The spiteful sister refuses to give her any water to a wealthy and fashionable woman so every time she speaks, snakes and toads fall from her mouth.
** ''Frau Holle'' also features two sisters; one diligent, the other lazy. Both go to a magical land and meet the titular character. The diligent sister does as she is told and works to makes sure the snows fall when asked. The lazy sister skives on her new chores to the point where she won't even get out of bed. When they leave the first sister receives a rain of gold and a chest of jewels, the second ends up covered in pitch and is gifted a box of angry vipers.
** The Irish Fairy Tale, ''The Legend of Knockgrafton'' features two hunchbacks who have a run in with the titular moat, its fairy inhabitants and their music. The first, Lusmore, pays close attention to the music and when he joins in or adds words, he makes sure not to disrupt the melody. The fairies remove his hump and give him some fine new clothes. The second, Jack Madden, is loud and out of tune, and adds words willy-nilly so ends up spoiling the song. The fairies put Lusmore's hump on his back as punishment.
*** Also a case of [[ExactWords exact words]] as in some variations, Jack went to the fairies to get the gold Lusmore refused, saying he wanted what [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "Lusmore left behind."]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/ColosseumOfTheHeart'': [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Bonnie]] shows [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] a video of one of Ash's Alola League battles to show how the announcers are ''supposed'' to hype the crowd up, contrasting him with the terrible commentator they're listening to in [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Phenac City]].
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[[folder:Film]]
* A training film for the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII OSS]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJfIh_vGnw "Undercover"]] (directed by John Ford) has as main characters two undercover agents showing the "right" and "wrong" ways to perform various operations; and their handlers-slash-MrExposition to the basics. The "right" agent meticulously plans his way into and up the social ladder of an enemy factory and uses a BoringButPractical method, while the "wrong" agent prefers to [[MilesGloriosus brag about being such a good agent that he doesn't require preparedness]] and tries to barge into a submarine base to make a "sensational discovery", [[EpicFail instead blowing it and becoming a security risk to the local espionage ring very early in his mission]].
* An American UsefulNotes/WorldWarII military training movie "Welcome to Britain" contrasts a clueless and rude American GI with our polite and respectful host, Creator/BurgessMeredith, showing soldiers stationed in Britain how they should behave when out in public. Rather amusingly, Meredith's advice on how to get into the good graces of some aloof pub dwellers occasionally comes across a bit like he's trying to seduce them.
* ''Film/StopLookAndListen'': The safe driver and the unsafe driver are this. The safe driver is obeying the speed limit, signaling when he turns, changing lanes responsibly. The unsafe driver is speeding and cutting people off and swerving through traffic and tailgating. The unsafe driver suffers the consequences, getting a speeding ticket before eventually wrecking his car.
* ''Film/StrikesAndSpares'': This 1930s short film is basically a documentary in which Andy Varipapa, a champion bowler, performs all sorts of jaw-dropping trick shots, like bowling a ball down a lane of pins or rolling a ball that curves in an S around two pins on the lane. He is contrasted with another bowler, a bumbling goof who keeps bowling the ball into gutters, or slipping and falling, or getting his thumb stuck in the ball. The goof even has a DodgyToupee to complete the package.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** The Literature/BookOfProverbs' first 29 chapters carry the thread of contrasting the wise man and a fool.
** Many of the parables of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in Literature/TheFourGospels take this form. The wise man built his house on a rock foundation; the foolish man built on the sand. The Pharisee was arrogant and HolierThanThou in his prayers, the Tax Collector was humble and repentant and got right with God. The wise virgins kept enough oil for their lamps; the foolish virgins ran out and missed the wedding party. The rich man made himself comfortable on earth and [[{{Hell}} suffered in the afterlife]]; poor Lazarus suffered on earth and was [[{{Heaven}} comforted in the afterlife]].
** {{Subverted}} in the parable of the Prodigal Son: his foil TheDutifulSon did not make the same mistakes as his brother, but his self-righteousness and refusal to show grace demonstrate that he has his own moral problems to deal with.
* ''Doofus and Darling: Manners for the Modern Man'', a humor book demonstrating the right and wrong ways to navigate various social situations.
%%* Creator/RichardScarry's ''Pig Will and Pig Won't''.
* The children's picture book ''Matilda and Hans'' by Yokococco contrasts two cats; Matilda does good things like watering flowers, and Hans does naughty things like watering passers-by. Subverted when [[spoiler: it turns out that "Hans" is just Matilda in a costume]].
* ''Literature/{{molesworth}}'' has one cartoon titled "HOW TO BE A GOODY-GOODY (a smug chart for sissies)", showing the protagonist eating messily from a dog bowl, contrasted against the saintly Eric who "sits erect and chews his food at leisure becos the weed hav got up early".
--> ''now look at nigel, ugh!''
* UnbuiltTrope in "Twice Times" by Creator/AAMilne. The contrasts aren't actually comparable. Good Bear learns his two times table while Bad Bear doesn't dress himself properly. Then "[[PerspectiveReversal one got Better and the other got Wuss]]", showing that anyone can slip up or redeem themselves.
* In the ''Literature/PigThePug'' series, Pig is bad and a troublemaker, while Trevor is sweet and kind. Things always end up going Trevor’s way in the end, while Pig ends up in trouble thanks to his own actions.
* Subverted in ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', where both approaches work, but only with the right context. When [[MasterOfDisguise Wayne]] and [[FairCop Marasi]] need to get a bank's ledgers, Wayne concocts elaborate disguises and backstories for the both of them (a rich old lord and his niece), so he can distract the employees while she sneaks in the back. [[BoringButPractical Marasi just tells the manager that they're with the police and need to look at their ledgers]], and the manager gives the ledgers as soon as he confirms their identities via telegram. They then trace their clue to a local graveyard, where they need the help of a gravedigger. Marasi is about to flash her badge again, but Wayne stops her and says that while authority worked on the bank manager, it would just make the gravedigger (who is running a less-than-legal graverobbing business) clam up. He then disguises himself as a criminal and her as his servant, and is chummy with the man within the hour.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/LateNight'' with Creator/DavidLetterman featured comic skits called 'Do's and Don't's with Frank and Fred'. Fred is a polite, responsible, well-groomed young man who works hard and treats women with respect. Frank is an obnoxious, disheveled, spiky-haired man who regularly commits perverted acts against women, torments his co-workers, and is generally a nuisance and danger to everyone around him.
* Cruelly parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit "Sexual Harassment and You" [[note]]that later gained [[MemeticMutation memetic status]] on the Internet[[/note]], which showed Frank, an awkward and unattractive coworker, approaching women awkwardly but with perfectly innocent and non-sexual advances and getting a lawsuit or worse for it. Meanwhile, Greg is attractive and cocky, casually fondling women and approaching them in his underwear, and [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful getting a far more positive response for it]].
* In ''Series/WorldsDumbest'', there was a parody of ''Goofus and Gallant'' with two criminals one who did things the wrong way (Doofus) and one who did things the right way (Valiant).
* ''Series/AllThat'' had sketches of “Life With Peter & Flem” (played by Kel Mitchell and Josh Server, respectively), which took Flem's wrong way to the next level.
-->After watching a fine program, Peter turns off his television with the remote control. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Flem uses a brick]].
* A strange 50's-style fantasy sequence in ''Series/That70sShow'' had "Doofus and Diligent" (Kelso and Eric, respectively) working at a fast-food restaurant. The segment was an ImagineSpot by Jackie’s dad, using minimal character exaggeration, to show why Eric got the job and Kelso didn’t. Jackie's dad intentionally (and rightly) framed her boyfriend Kelso as "Doofus". Eric, with the threat of his dad's foot up his ass, was of course "Diligent".
* The original ''[[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Mickey Mouse Club]]'' had a series of shorts hosted by Jiminy Cricket about safety entitled "I'm No Fool". Each episode ended with a contest between [[AudienceSurrogate "You"]] and "a common, ordinary fool". "You" follows all safety precautions and wins, while the fool got nothing but AmusingInjuries.
* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim Taylor, on his [[ShowWithinAShow Tool Time]] show, is considered to do this deliberately. He has gotten a few rewards for what they consider deliberately doing the wrong thing in contrast to [[HyperCompetentSidekick his assistant Al]], and showing what happens. Subverted in the ShowWithinAShow as they're both talented, but Tim is really just accident-prone.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': When Malcolm and Reese went to play bowling, their parents briefly wondered over which one of them took them to the bowling alley. The story then divided into two universes: one where Lois took them and one where Hal took them. Subverted in that neither outcome was the "right" outcome.
* An early episode of ''Series/GoodEats'' had Alton and his EvilTwin B.A. making spaghetti. Alton did it the right way, and B.A. did it the wrong way, resulting in a boilover and a bad texture. Later episodes simply have B.A. demonstrate a way of preparing a savory (usually spicy) version of a sweet recipe Alton does.
* The children's show ''Series/RomperRoom'' had the duo Mr. Do-Bee and Mr. Don't Bee, as in "''do'' this thing right" and "''don't'' do this thing wrong."
* ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'' parodied ''Series/RomperRoom'' by having President Obama play the role of Do-Bee and his predecessor President Bush play Don't Bee, as a means of highlighting various policy mistakes by the latter which the former did right during his tenure.
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[[folder:Magazine]]
* ''Literature/GoofusAndGallant'': the TropeMaker. A comic strip appearing in ''Magazine/HighlightsForChildren'' intended to teach the kids how to deal with and how ''not'' to deal with various situations by showing Gallant doing the right thing and Goofus doing the wrong thing.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* ''Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Florida]] has an instructional cartoon in the queue line that's known as "Doofus and Do-Right", which depicts Doofus, who can never do anything correctly, and Do-Right, who always knows the proper MIB rules.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'':
** An in-game example in Duke and Dimwit (pictured above), a pair of young boys frequently featured in Columbian propaganda throughout the game, from posters to penny arcade machines. The twist is that the pair are for educating children in the extremely screwed-up morality of Columbia (best described as "North Korea meets [[TheGildedAge Gilded Age]] {{Eagleland}}, with [[BodyHorror horrific cyborgs]]").
--->''Are you a Duke or a Dimwit?''
** ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' introduces Rapture's answer to Duke and Dimwit, Ryan the Lion and Peter the Parasite, a thinly-veiled reference to Andrew Ryan, the founder of Rapture (who Peter refers to is anyone's guess, they probably just needed something to alliterate with "Parasite").
* In [[ForcedTutorial Lyn's normal-mode story]] of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', Sain and Kent take this role to explain the game mechanics. Sain charges at axe-wielding bandits with a lance ([[SkewedPriorities it looks more heroic!]]) so Kent can tell him [[TacticalRockPaperScissors he should have used a sword]]. Sain admits he didn't actually bring a sword, so Kent gets to explain the item-trading system. Sain whiffs against a bandit hiding in the forest, Kent explains GeoEffects...
* ''VideoGame/WarioWareDIY'': This is the approach for the tutorial for the game, in which Wario recklessly tries out the features of the game engine forming the core of the game, upon which Penny will demonstrate how to use it correctly. Occasionally, Wario will misinterpret what Penny means and not get the results he wants, upon which Wario gets nervous and Penny has to correct him. A downplayed example, however, in that Wario genuinely wants to understand the engine and eventually picks up on everything Penny teaches him. Wario is also a better artist than Penny and is able to demonstrate a few things himself that Penny cannot, such as artistic shortcuts unrelated to using the engine.
* In ''VideoGame/Wasteland3'', Peek and Poke are a BigGuyLittleGuy pair of robots that illustrate the various skills and statistics for the player characters, much like the iconic Vault Boy in the ''[[VideoGame/FallOut Fallout]]'' series. In-universe, however, they're from a series of wartime cartoons where they're an example of this trope.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGamesShorts'': The short "Pinkie Spy" has Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie eavesdropping on the students at Crystal Prep Academy to prepare for the Friendship Games; while Rainbow does the more traditional stealthy method of hiding and being quiet, Pinkie tries more outlandish and conspicuous methods which could easily give them away, such as party balloons, a giant boom mic, and a pink camouflage suit.
* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE176Hygiene "hygiene"]], Strong Bad makes a PSA on the subject of hygiene, contrasting "popular rich kid Gene" ([[HerCodeNameWasMarySue modeled after Strong Bad himself]]) and "cruddy fifth-grader John" ([[TakeThatAudience named after the guy who asked Strong Bad to make a PSA in the first place]]). The PSA goes off the rails as Strong Bad forgets to have Gene actually model any good behavior, instead describing how awesome Gene's life is because he has rich parents. Then he {{subvert|edtrope}}s it at the end: John goes to an out-of-state college and turns his life around, while Gene suffers under the pressure of his own reputation, knowing that if he slips up once, his "friends" will tear him apart like ravenous wolves.
* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': Invoked by Lucas, who rats on Lake all of the time for the most minor of infractions to make him a DeliberatelyBadExample in the eyes' of their teacher so that he'll look better in comparison. By the end of the short, Lake has had enough and calls him out on it.
* A parody of this is done regarding driving habits in the flash "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbnjGiGFxG8 Yes and No: A Dyseducational Road Film]]", where the red car is the "wrong" one and the green car is the "right" one. Unlike most examples, the "right" option [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished involves bad things and inconveniences happening to that person]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/NobodyScores'', Sara invokes this trope when she tries to pick up a guy by contrasting her career-focused, responsible, socially adept behaviour point-by-point with that of her unemployable, shiftless, insane roommate Jane... who ends up walking off with the guy because she likes to wrestle.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', the real-life medieval tales that pit the cunning, tricky Reynardine against the gullible, foolish and brutish Ysengrin are said to be part of why Ysengrin hates humanity so much, especially since he feels misrepresented by them in-universe.
* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', the characters Maya and [[spoiler:Incubus]] were, in their youth, taken on as students by the legendary but eccentric MasterSwordsman Meti after much pestering. She trained them together and taught them the same lessons, but with the implication that she only accepted the latter in order to show the former what not to do. The latter learned Meti’s lessons to the letter, and used his skill to become a worlds-conquering warlord. Maya, however, picked up on the spirit of Meti’s lessons, and while she also became a worlds-conquering warlord (implied to be far mightier than her counterpart), she ended up disillusioned with the kind of power you earned with swordpoint and abdicated to become a beggar, just like Meti, and regrets ever picking up a sword in the first place (also just like Meti). In the comic, [[spoiler:[[https://imgur.com/a/fanUp2a Incubus consistently wields and uses a sword in ways that Meti's sword manual says one should ''not'' do.]]]]
* {{Parodied|Trope}} with the ''Webcomic/VirginVsChad'' meme. An image of the "Virgin Walk" was posted to Website/FourChan, supposedly showing the signs of a [[StrawLoser shy loser "Virgin" character]] and their typical walking habits. In response, a parody counterpart for the [[TheAce successful alpha "Chad" character]] was created to invert every described trait to an absurd degree. These images side by side have formed the template for depicting a normal yet reserved character and their "superior" counterpart, whether said "superiority" is ironic or genuine.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/TheArtOfManliness'' has an adult variation of Literature/GoofusAndGallant (called Dim and Dash) in order to display proper male etiquette.
* The French webseries "[[https://www.youtube.com/user/eaumelimelo/playlists Graie Méli Mélo]]" uses this setup to answer common questions about water treatment, using two actors best known for their parts in ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}''. Unfortunately, while the "Wrong Way" guy is just as ignorant and clueless as his character on the show, the effect is tarnished by the fact that the "Right Way" guy's character is an IneptMage specializing in getting his facts wrong.
* ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'''s original videos used the same mechanic as the “I’m A Mac / I’m A PC” commercials, as “I’m A {{Creator/Marvel}} / I’m A [[Creator/DCComics DC]] to show the right (later Marvel films, Batman) and wrong (earlier Marvel films, ''everything else'' DC) way to make a film series around similar concepts. As [=ItsJustSomeRandomGuy=] is a fan of both companies, the jabs were [[AffectionateParody fairly lighthearted]]. Except for the stupidity that was the [[Film/SupermanReturns kryptonite mountain]].
* The ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008'' had a pair with Terry and Gonad, with Terry presenting interesting gaming concepts while Gonad finds ways to make those concepts either inconvenient or downright unusable.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' shorts were made for this. Snafu did it wrong, then went back and did it right (that is, if he managed to avoid getting his stupid ass killed, which [[NegativeContinuity happened a few times]] and was intended to [[AntiRoleModel show soldiers the consequences of being inattentive/irresponsible]]). Except in "Booby Traps", where [[XylophoneGag doing it right was the wrong thing to do]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had shorts of "Good Idea, Bad Idea", although one character demonstrates both ideas. Good Ideas are usually simple, practical, unimportant everyday things, while Bad Ideas are hilariously useless or dangerous to the user. [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mr._Skullhead More found on the Other Wikiquote]].
-->Good Idea: Buying a pair of shoes on sale.\\
Bad Idea: Buying a ''parachute'' on sale.
* Duck from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' holds the philosophy that there are two ways of doing things - The Great Western Way and the wrong way, and the Great Western Way implies that he works diligently without fuss. This was into play in "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS17E12TheThomasWay The Thomas Way]]" where Duck informs Thomas that the Great Western Way is to take Harold to the repairs without showing him the sights of Sodor which is a distraction from their work. Deconstructed as both methods cause "confusion and delay" and they end up [[TakeAThirdOption Taking A Third Option]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** Done a few times with Stan and Francine in terms of providing for the family, with Stan's overzealous extremist (and occasionally psychotic) approach pretty much always making him the Wrong Way guy.
** Deconstructed in a handful of instances where they're both wrong; the prime example is an episode where Stan clones Steve so they can see who's the better parent. Stan's DrillSergeantNasty parenting turns his Steve into a violent psychopath who kills (and eats) stray cats, while Francine's spineless babying makes her Steve become a spoiled, overweight slob who pushes her around.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The episode "Krusty Krab Training Video" compared {{Workaholic}} [=SpongeBob=] and LazyBum Squidward as respective good and bad employees.
** The reversed order is done in "Boat Smarts" with good driver [[ButtMonkey Squidward]] getting injured, while bad driver [[IdiotHoudini [=SpongeBob=]]] makes it through with hardly a scratch.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' TV movie "WesternAnimation/DestinationImagination" use Frankie and Mr. Herriman as the right and wrong one respectively. When World does wrong, Frankie is stern but firm with him, and explains to him the consequences of his actions, which makes him feel remorseful for his actions but happy that Frankie understands and forgives him; Herriman, on the other hand, harshly scolds him on the spot and threatens him with the harsh punishment of separating him and Frankie forever, which causes him to have a panic attack and go OneWingedAngel on the gang.
* The whole point of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel,'' with Weasel as the practically-perfect person and Baboon who fouls up everything he comes near.
* This trope plays a significant role in Cartoon Network's ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', with Rigby being the lazy, sloppy buffoon and Mordecai being more intelligent and hard-working. Mordecai rarely makes Benson angry on his own; it's usually Rigby who makes Benson angry at ''[[GuiltByAssociationGag both]]'' Mordecai and Rigby.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Bart join The Jr. Campers to get his hands on a pocketknife. Before he can though, he has to read a safety book that, among good examples, also has Donny Don't. [[TagLine Don't do what Donny Don't does!]]
--> '''Bart:''' They could have made this clearer.
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