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Satire is a form of humor, and is considered the cruelest form of comedy. Satire points out the folly of people, organizations, institutions, and ideas.

Often, satire will use {{fictional counterpart}}s of real people as characters, as a {{parody}} of RealLife. However, a satirical work can also use original characters to explore the foibles or ramifications of an organization or course of action.

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Creator/AlexanderPope and John Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush I]] (or, perhaps more justifiably, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon) can often be easily applied to UsefulNotes/BillClinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at UsefulNotes/BobDole were recycled in 2008 to target UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain.

The Roman poets Ennius and Lucilius are considered the progenitors of the genre, though almost all of their work has been lost. Latin satire was generally delivered in verse, like most literature of the time. It was considered the sole branch of literature native to AncientRome and there was no Greek equivalent, though some Greek comedy, such as Creator/{{Aristophanes}}, had elements that we would consider satiric. Creator/{{Horace}}, Persius, and Creator/{{Juvenal}} are perhaps the three most famous Roman satirists, ranging from good-natured (Horace disposing of a dreadful bore) to savage (Juvenal's condemnation of sodomites pretending to be philosophers). They are for the most part preoccupied with urban life, morality, and how other people suck.

Literary convention divides satire into the Horatian (good-natured, almost {{affectionate|Parody}}, light-hearted, and more likely to view the target as [[HanlonsRazor foolish rather than evil]]) and the Juvenalian (contemptuous, abrasive, scornful, and outraged, relentlessly mocking a target often regarded as outright evil).

See also {{Parody}}, {{Pastiche}}, {{Farce}}, MetaTropeIntro. Compare {{Deconstruction}}, as a lot of satire incorporates elements of it, as well as BlackComedy and TakeThat. See also TheComicallySerious, which is often a key component of satire.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Alternate Reality Games]]
* ''ARG/OmegaMart'': Creator/MeowWolf's primary intention with this {{Alternate Reality|Game}} supermarket is to provide a {{Surreal|ism}}ist {{Satire}} of the American grocery store, with surreal parodies of common grocery store items designed to make people who go through it think about the relationship they have with the products they purchase.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' makes dark commentary on general shallowness, {{escapism}}, [[TakeThatAudience otaku]] and society in general.
* ''Literature/KinosJourney'' basically does this OnceAnEpisode as Kino travels from one city to another. Notably one episode has a democracy where only a single citizen is still alive, all the others having died because of their absolute belief in majority rules.
* ''Anime/OhEdoRocket'' is a [[{{Farce}} farcical]] meta-satire of its own genre, managing to (hilariously) savage just about every cliche and character type in the world of anime and manga.
* Depending on if you consider it a parody or not ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' is this towards the over-the-top violence that was '90s anime.
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[[folder:Arts]]
* Superflat is a [[PostModernism Post-Modern]] art movement that was started by Creator/TakashiMurakami who was inspired by Creator/HideakiAnno. It sometimes satirizes many aspects of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} (particularly things sparked by {{Anime}}) such as consumerism, the prevalence of {{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}}, {{Lolicon|AndShotacon}}, and {{Fanservice}} along with the {{Otaku}} subculture that is the driving force behind all of them. However, since certain artists associated with Superflat are lolicon otaku themselves, it could also be seen as a form of SelfParody. Furthermore, it should be noted that not all Superflat works are satirical in nature -- Superflat Monogram, by Murakami and Creator/MamoruHosoda, for instance, is merely a Louis Vuitton commercial.
* UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} was a [[PostModernism Post-Modern]] movement that was a satire of modern art and post-WWI malaise.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is a {{Deconstruction}}/satire of Victorian era fiction and values.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''
** Especially the album ''The Blue Lotus'', which references the Chinese-Japanese War in the 1930s.
** ''The Broken Ear'' is a satire of the Gran Chaco War in South America.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske''
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes''
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}''
* ''Creator/RobertCrumb''
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': An excessively Juvenalian satire of American consumer culture, Politics, Journalism, {{Television}}, Religion, {{Cyberpunk}} writing, Utopian futurism and {{the future}} in general.
* ''ComicBook/NotBrandEchh'' had satires of many Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} {{comic book}} heroes as well as a few other companies' characters.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is a satire on zero-tolerance policing, with a main character who is a JudgeJuryAndExecutioner in a CrapsackWorld and a decent amount of BlackComedy.
* ''ComicBook/{{Invader Zim|Oni}}''
* ''ComicBook/ISummonedCthulhuToFundMyKickstarter'' is a satire on the crowdfunded comics industry and its overreliance on offering adult content.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Al Capp's ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' is a brutal but comedic satire on society and culture.
* The ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic strip is a satire of the corporate world. Mostly Horatian.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' contains a variety of satire. Most often Calvin himself acts as satire of [[ItsAllAboutMe narrow-minded self-centeredness of people]] or the shallow ethos of the consumer society, sometimes other things. His father's behavior is often satire of certain kind of parental behavior. Both of them sometimes offer satire of [[SeriousBusiness hobbies taken too seriously]] (bicycling for Dad and chewing gum for Calvin). And there's more.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}''
* ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}''
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' dabbles in this occasionally:
** Linus' obsession with The Great Pumpkin was Charles Schultz's way of making fun of Santa Claus.
** A series of strips in October of 1964 featured Linus running for president as a strongman candidate, only to have his political career ruined by a gaffe involving (you guessed it!) The Great Pumpkin. Later adapted into ''WesternAnimation/YoureNotElectedCharlieBrown''.
* ''ComicStrip/PugadBaboy''
* ''ComicStrip/AndyCapp'''s titular protagonist is a satirical take of people in [[Main/OopNorth northern England]]. [[Main/MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales He's surprisingly popular]] in that region, all things considered.
* [[Main/PoliticalCartoons Political cartoons]] tend to be satirical by nature.
** ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': One of the few comic strips to win the Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning.
** ''ComicStrip/NonSequitur'' is a left-of-center example.
** ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'' is a more right-leaning strip.
** ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'' is another right-leaning strip.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/LilyAndTheArtOfBeingSisyphus'' is a hilarious and exceptionally well-made satirical mockery of popular conventions in ''Harry Potter'' FanFiction, the ''Harry Potter'' fandom, and the universe of ''Harry Potter'' in general. Of special note is the relationship between the Mundane and Wizarding worlds -- which is sharply delineated in the source material and most fanfiction. In the protagonist's eyes ''there is no divide'', and a significant element of the humor stems from everyone around her being unable to parse this.
* ''Fanfic/{{Edgar}}'' satirizes Disney's trend of creating live-action sympathetic origin story movies for their classic villains by making one of these for Edgar of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Munro}}'' is a satire of the American armed forces circa TheFifties. A little boy gets conscripted into the military, but everyone involved is so wrapped up in red tape and unquestioning loyalty to the system that the only way they notice is having the evidence shoved into their faces.
* ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' Animated Films:
** ''WesternAnimation/YoureNotElectedCharlieBrown'' as seen above.
** ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' makes fun of the commercialization of Christmas, and famously caused the decline of aluminum Christmas trees.
* Several of Creator/RalphBakshi's animated feature films are heavy on satire, particularly ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' is a satire of censorship.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' is a satire of religion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', the direct-to-video animated film of the series, jabs its toes further into Summertime Activities, such as water fights, boating, including a car trip to a satirical Disneyland Park, Johnny Depp in the form of a skunk cartoon, and even the late 1980s horror films ''Friday the 13th'' and ''The Hitcher''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'' mockingly puts it feet down further at The U.S. Federal Governments incompetence, inadequacy and inefficiency, especially when dealing with dangerous criminals and terrorists, predating the 9/11 tragedy of 2001. It also shows us about life on the lam, through the eyes of two idiotic teenage boys.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The movie ''Film/ThePlayer'' satirized Hollywood's crushing effect on the visions of individual artists as well as the kind of people that environment attracts.
* ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}'' shows how far African-American portrayals on television can really go, and how television network executives will do anything to keep their ratings up, at the cost of racially exploiting and ruining the lives of others.
* ''Film/BeingThere'', which brought us [[SeeminglyProfoundFool Chance the Gardener]], is a satire of the human tendency to favor style over substance and take things at face value, particularly where media and politics are concerned. Basically Horatian.
* ''Film/BuriedOnSunday'': The plot has its serious moments but is has a fousi on satirizing Canadian politics.
* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': It is the most sick, vile, twisted, bloody and most violent piece of satire ever made by a film director. Creator/EliRoth's ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' is more bloody, gorier and more barbarically gruesome, not to mention even more controversial.
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' is a satire of the battle against violence in society.
* ''Film/DontLookUp'' is a satire of the GlobalWarming crisis and society's response to it. The approaching comet is a thinly-veiled metaphor for climate change, and the heroes who are trying to address the issue are stymied by various short-sighted people out to exploit it for their own interests.
* ''Film/DreamScenario'' is a satire on fame in the Internet age, as an ineffectual teacher and HenpeckedHusband finds himself appearing in everyone's dreams.
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' is one of the most well known satires of the Cold War, and of the foolishness of the nuclear arms race. An interesting case where Horatian techniques were put to a Juvenalian end.
-->''"Mr. President, we must not ''allow''... A MINE SHAFT GAP!"''
* Bruno Dumont's ''Film/{{France|2021}}'' satirizes modern French media, the fabric of "star journalism", "news as entertainment" and the intellectual dishonesty of news-based TV channels.
* ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'' is a satire on the topics of war and disease.
* Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' is a satire on Hitler, Nazism and Fascism. Given the subject, it's Juvenalian, but surprisingly mildly so.
* ''[[Creator/RobertTownsend Hollywood Shuffle]]'' is a satire of Hollywood's attitudes about black actors in the 1980's.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': A satirical dystopian SciFi critique on human evolution in modern society, mass pop culture, mainstream media and commercialism. It also both references and lampoons classic dystopian sci-fi films like ''Film/TheRunningMan'', ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/LogansRun'', plus the novels ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* The films of Creator/JacquesTati are a satire on the contrast between the traditional society and the technological innovations of the modern world.
* ''Film/ManBitesDog'' is a satire on the sensationalism of the TV industry.
* ''Film/MeetJohnDoe'' is a satire on the populist movement in the United States and Europe following TheGreatDepression.
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' is a satire on religions and ideologies and their followers, more specifically Christianity. Generally Horatian and very gently toward Chistianity, but other ideologies get sharper treatment.
* ''Film/{{Network}}'' by Creator/SidneyLumet is a satire on the television industry. Quite Juvenalian.
* ''Film/{{Placido}}'' ruthlessly mocks the hypocritical upper-class people of a town in 1961 Spain, who take in homeless people for dinner on Christmas Eve not because they want to, but because they want to look charitable in front of their neighbors.
* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' is a satire ([[LyingCreator supposedly]]) of modern Serbian cinema and the history of the nation as a whole. So Juvenalian, [[PoesLaw some couldn't even tell it was a satire]].
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', [[BrokenBase controversially]], satirized the UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era anticommunist hyper-militarism of [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the original novel]] and gung-ho war fiction more generally, the genesis of which was director Creator/PaulVerhoeven being unable to finish reading it when he got the job because [[TraumaButton it reminded him too strongly of his childhood in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands]]. The very Juvenalian film is formatted as a gung-ho PropagandaPiece to aid Terran Federation recruitment, even though the war is probably unnecessary, nearly everyone involved in it is incompetent, and ''they're losing''.
-->''"[[RunningGag Would you like to know more?]]"''
* ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'' is a satire of the tobacco industry. Combines Juvenalian and Horatian techniques to great comic effect.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' is a satire of rock bands.
* ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' is a satire of Nazism.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' is a satire of {{reality TV}} and {{television}} in general, yet it inspired the television show ''Series/BigBrother''.
* ''Film/WagTheDog'' is a particularly Juvenalian satire on the US news media and politics.
* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' is a comedic take on the SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll musician {{Biopic}} film, applying the tropes to an exaggerated version of the life story of Music/WeirdAlYankovic. WordOfGod from Al himself is that specific inspirations were ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' and ''Film/Rocketman2019''.
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'': Music/WeirdAl's film mocks retro pop culture, TV shows and movies. Targets include ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', ''Film/{{Network}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', ''ThePinwheelChannel'', ''Series/TheATeam'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', and ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* [[Literature/BookOfJonah The Book of Jonah]]: Possibly the [[Main/UrExample Ur-example]]. The title character is a Main/TakeThat toward people who desire God's mercy for themselves, [[Main/{{Hypocrite}} but not for other people]].
* ''Literature/AdrianMole'' satirises "the Iron Lady" UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher (whom he despises), in the form of a poem:
--> Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?\\
Do you wake, Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep?\\
Do you weep like a sad willow? On your Marks and Spencer's pillow?\\
Are your tears molten steel? Do you weep?\\
Do you wake with "three million" on your brain?\\
Are you sorry that they'll never work again?\\
When you're dressing in your blue, do you see the waiting queue?\\
Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?
* Creator/JonathanSwift in general, really. His ''Literature/AModestProposal'' and ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' are among the most Juvenalian works ever produced.
* Creator/SamuelJohnson was another notable satirist. An example of his work being ''The Life of Richard Savage.''
* Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 novella Literature/{{Flatland}} is a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
* The works of Creator/HonoreDeBalzac, Creator/MarcelProust, Rabelais and Voltaire.
* Some of Terry Pratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} books are satires of government, religion, and other things, often with the assistance of parody and pastiche. Typically Horatian.
* Miguel de Cervantes' ''Literature/DonQuixote'' satirizes nearly all of its contemporary examples of literature and theater and ridicules them; also a Juvenalian take of Spanish society at TheCavalierYears.
* Creator/{{Horace}}'s satires tend to be playfully sly and give the characteristics of [[ShapedLikeItself Horatian satire]]. He even provides his own description of satire here in his first satire:
->Furthermore, not to go rattling off lists the way comics tell one joke\\
After another, — yet what's to forbid our amusement at telling\\
Truths, the way teacher cajole little boys by awarding them cookies,\\
Coaxing them on to the point where they want to learn more of their letters?
* Creator/{{Juvenal}}'s satires, on the other hand, tend to be much more abrasive and establish the characteristics of [[ShapedLikeItself Juvenalian satire]]. Juvenal provides his own description in his first satire:
->When a flabby eunuch marries, when well-born girls o crazy\\
for pig-sticking up-country, bare-breasted, spear in fist;\\
when the barber who rasped away at my youthful beard has risen\\
to challenge good society with his millions; when Crispinus —\\
that Delta-bred house-slave, silt washed down by the Nile —\\
now hitches his shoulders under Tyrian purple, airs\\
a thin gold ring in summer on his sweaty finger\\
('My dear, I couldn't ''bear'' to wear my ''heavier'' jewels') —\\
it's harder ''not'' to be writing satires; for who could endure\\
this monstrous city, however callous at heart, and swallow\\
his wrath?
* ''Literature/TheConfidenceMan'' has characters that are satirized {{expy}}s of 19th-century authors.
* ''Literature/ForrestGump'':
** The novel (but not the movie) was a fairly biting satire of Americana from the '50s to the '70s. The novel was more Juvenalian, the film being Horatian.
** Its sequel, ''Gump and Co.'' was a less-biting satire of the '80s and '90s, including a light dig at the original novel's [[Film/ForrestGump film adaptation]].
* Many of the works of Creator/MarkTwain are clear examples of satire -- most famously, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' (protestations to the contrary on the back cover notwithstanding).
* Andrew Martin's novel ''Bilton'' is a satire on lifestyle journalism, involving a rude and alcoholic Marxist intellectual who works at the Daily Globe, a newspaper so swollen and fatuous that it has a supplement listing all the other supplements.
* ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary'', satirizing a wide variety of topics (and Juvenalian to the core). Notably contains an entry on "satire" teeming with sarcastic disdain for those who don't get satire.
* Alexander Pope's ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'' is mocking the hubbub that sprang up when a friend of his cut a woman's lock of hair. Long story short: [[TraumaticHaircut hair gets cut]], [[SillyReasonForWar war erupts]]. Very obviously Horatian (the targets of Pope's satire were his friends, whom he thought were making a mountain out of a molehill).
* Creator/TomSharpe's ''Literature/{{Wilt}}'', while primarily comic farce, is also a bitter satire on academic bureaucracy and the heirarchy within colleges and universities. The theme is more deeply developed in the later books of the Wilt series, but Sharpe, a veteran of the unglamorous end of British higher education, makes some pretty trenchant points about what education should actually be ''for'', and lays into the sort of people who let ambition, or wooly thinking, or vested interests, get in the way of delivering education to the people who arguably need it most. the Ipford Technical College is there primarily to provide vocational trades education and continuing education to adults who missed out earlier in life: its Principal misses the point entirely and is wasting the budget trying to get the place one step nearer becoming a university, for his personal prestige. Despite the fact this is not what it is intended to be and it is far more effective doing the job it was built for. Interfering politicians, Ministry of Education bureaucrats, political extremists, trendy teachers, ridiculous or grandiose "Mickey Mouse courses" and others who get in the way of the purpose of education are also mercilessly hammered.
* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Very Juvenalian, the novel satirizes [[TheEmpire Imperialism]]: The ''Nautilus'' itself is a parody of TheEmpire - a OddlySmallOrganization that manages to be a NGOSuperpower, their members only [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden consumes sea products]] and [[ConLang speak only their own language]], but we never know any of them, nameless masses. The only one who matters is Captain Nemo (the Emperor), who [[{{Egopolis}} claims a entire continent on his name]] and constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon [[AboveGoodAndEvil for no other reason because he can.]] The three prisoners personify the attitudes about TheEmpire of the conquered nations: [[StockholmSyndrome Aronnax is the high class, who tries to get all the knowledge he can from the Empire]], [[TrueNeutral Counseil is the middle class, who passively accepts his loss of freedom as something inevitable and doesn’t want to make a decision without the approval of the high class,]] and [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Ned Land is the lower class who rebels constantly and uselessly]]. However, after seeing Nemo’s KickTheDog moment with his WeaponOfMassDestruction, the three classes agree that [[StartMyOwn Nemo’s empire]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters is as bad as any other]].
* ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' (the original novel) satirized Red Scare politics of the 1950s and [=McCarthyism=] in particular. Extremely Juvenalian.
* ''Literature/BeautyQueens'' is a satire of the media, consumerism and gender roles.
* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' satirizes parents who coddle and indulge their children, and the [[SpoiledBrat spoiled brats]] that said children become (embodiments of gluttony, greed, pride, and sloth), with a contemptuous, Juvenalian approach as the brats meet a variety of blackly comic fates. The SeriousBusiness of the Golden Ticket hunt and its media coverage come in for gentler, Horatian satire, especially in adaptations. The 1971 and 2005 film adaptations dial back the aggressiveness of the satire with regards to the brats. But the [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical]] not only updates two of the brats to satirize vapid modern celebrity (Violet) and parents who try to excuse a child's downright malicious behavior (Mike) but tightens the screws -- several of them suffer karmic DeathByAdaptation.
%%* ''Literature/TheVaginaAssOfLuciferNiggerbastard'' cleverly criticizes society's standards. One must examine the book closely to notice. %% Zero content. Please write up an actual example before uncommenting.
* [[ConspiracyTheorist James and Harrison]] of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfSteveStollberg'' believe that Mickey Mouse faked his death and was cryogenically frozen respectively, which is portrayed as extremely stupid as they believe so despite overwhelming contrary evidence. This satirizes people who believe that Tupac Shakur faked his drive-by-shooting death, and also satirizes people who believe that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen.
* ''Literature/TheSatyricon'' satirizes, among other things, poetic conventions, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} Neronian court]], and various aspects of Roman life.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov:
** "Literature/TheDeadPast": Dr Asimov takes the idea of an ObstructiveBureaucrat, creating a world where governments dictate scientific progress, and then [[{{Deconstruction}} takes it apart to see how it fails]]. The government is trying to preserve our way of life (rather than withholding the technology for selfish motives). The hyper-focus in narrow fields of study was supposed to prevent the advancement of certain fields (except an unrelated field was responsible for a huge leap forward in a suppressed field of study). The story ends with the suppressed technology [[InformationWantsToBeFree getting worldwide publication]], essentially proving that trying to suppress science will never work.
** ''{{Literature/Franchise}}'': Dr Asimov explores the idea of computer programs that [[PrescienceByAnalysis predict voting habits based on broad swaths of information]]. The story itself ends on a bit of irony; [[DramaticIrony Muller sees himself as being the expression of open and political voting, while the reader is expected to notice that Muller is never asked a question about political platforms or political candidates]].
* Creator/AndrewMarvell is mostly remembered for his poetry on more abstract themes, but he was active in politics and wrote prose and verse satire attacking both Britain's enemies and its [[CorruptPolitician corrupt court]] -- sometimes fiercely enough that his authorship had to remain {{anonymous|Author}}.
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': The entire book is one of cliched fantasy settings, all encapsulated into "Fantasyland", with the "Management" being their collective authors who stage "Tours" from our world. Many entries poke fun at the ignorance or laziness that causes frequent problems with how all this "Fantasyland" gets depicted. Lots of "Original Management Terms ([=OMTs=])" (i.e. hackneyed, overused phrases) are listed as well.
* The essay "Body Ritual Among the [[SdrawkcabName Nacirema]]" was a not-very-subtle jab at both anthropology and American culture.
* Creator/CSLewis:
** His most notable satirical work is ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', an Main/EpistolaryNovel in which a more experienced devil named Screwtape writes a series of letters to a younger devil named Wormwood on how to successfully tempt a man, with the idea being that readers will notice when their own devils are trying such tactics. Has spawned a number of [[Main/FollowTheLeader copycats]], with none of them as successful as the first.
** ''Screwtape Proposes a Toast'', the pseudo-sequel to ''The Screwtape Letters'', makes fun of Main/TallPoppySyndrome in the American educational system. (Screwtape actually says it's the ''British'' system, but that's only because Lewis didn't think Americans would take a Brit criticizing them very well)
** ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'' features a lot of characters who refuse to go to heaven because they can't let go of their vices, most of whom are Main/PlayedForLaughs. It's also a more direct Main/TakeThat to ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' by Creator/WilliamBlake.
* ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronciles'': The books poke fun at many fairy tales and cliches in them, but lovingly.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' satirizes modern US and global news events, as does the SpinOff, ''Series/TheColbertReport''. Whether their satire is Juvenalian or Horatian depends on the subject: Fox News Channel? Juvenalian (particularly when it comes to Radio/GlennBeck or Sean Hannity). UsefulNotes/BarackObama? Horatian. UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush? Are we talking 2001-2006 or 2006-2009?[[note]]First period is mostly Juvenalian, thanks to the Iraq War, etc., while second period he was seen as more or less pathetic, and leaned more Horatian.[[/note]] The rest of the media? What are they saying now? Etc., etc., etc.
* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': Hosted by ''Daily Show'' graduate Creator/JohnOliver, it can do the Horatian, but is usually fiercely, fiercely Juvenalian. Oliver has a habit of selecting a single target and pointing out how unbelievably horrible it is for 20 minutes at a time and unabashedly insulting people and institutions he regards as idiots or evil.
* ''Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee'': Hosted by another ''Daily Show'' graduate, Creator/SamanthaBee. Furiously Juvenalian, freely mocking everyone Bee regards as awful (and Bee regards a ''lot'' of people as awful). Carries on the ''Daily Show'' tradition of sending "correspondents" to conduct man-on-the-street interviews in which interviewees' responses to questions are made the subject of ridicule.
* When [[Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert Stephen Colbert took over]] ''Series/TheLateShow'' in 2015, he took with him his satiric roots. He did change his approach, becoming rather more Horatian, as he shed his "Stephen Colbert-the-right-wing-pundit" character and simply appears as someone more or like his actual self (a rather mild-mannered liberal and suburban dad of deep but unostentatious Catholic faith).
* On a meta level, the ''Onion's'' ''[[https://www.theonion.com/politics/youre-right You're Right]]'' satirizes political late night hosts such as Stewart and Colbert, accusing them of pandering to their audience and only telling them what they want to hear.
* ''Series/YesMinister'' satirized 1980s UK Governmental policy and decision-making. Generally Horatian with occasional dips into Juvenalian territory.
* ...and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' now satirises UK politics in the 21st century. Purely Juvenalian.
* ''Series/{{Veep}}'', TransAtlanticEquivalent of ''The Thick of It'', is, despite coming from the same crew, surprisingly far less Juvenalian and even moves into Horatian territory, with the politicians and staffers mostly being overworked or likeably incompetent rather than scheming sons-of-bitches. It helps that there is no clear equivalent to Malcolm; the InvisiblePresident's messenger to the VP's office is possibly the saddest schmuck in the District (and the District is ''full'' of schmucks). This is partly because Creator/ArmandoIannucci was struck (while researching for ''Film/InTheLoop'') about how ''young'' everyone in the American government seemed to be. (Today, "the ''Veep'' explanation" (or similar) of a political phenomenon is a common Beltway shorthand descriptor for "the explanation that assumes that the phenomenon is the result of overworked and/or incompetent staffers trying to make sense of their equally-overworked and/or incompetent bosses' pronouncements without any of it being part of a plot for anything more nefarious than temporary political advantage this news cycle.")
* ''Series/BrassEye'' satirized the reporting methods of 90s UK news media as well as wider social and political issues. Out-Juvenals Juvenal himself.
* ''Series/{{Frontline}}'' satirized Australian current affairs programmes in the 1990s.
* ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou''. Fittingly for the editor of Juvenalian satirical magazine ''Magazine/PrivateEye'', Ian Hislop's contributions are toward the Juvenalian end of the scale, while Paul Merton tends more toward the Horatian end when he isn't making plays on words or indulging in surrealism and flights of fancy.
* ''Series/MadTV1995'': This took Magazine/MadMagazine, and put it on our television screens in the form of a sketch comedy show.
* ''Series/MockTheWeek''
* ''Series/UglyBetty'' satirizes the fashion industry. Horatian.
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' continually satirizes American conformity, consumerism, and racism. More or less Horatian, per the standards of the day.
* ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'' satirized Canadian politics and current events and just about every other aspect of of Canadian life in its long run. It was something of a [[FollowTheLeader forerunner]] for Canadian television and influenced the Creator/{{CBC}} in particular for a number of years.
* Another Canadian series, ''Series/ThisHourHas22Minutes'', was a satirical presentation of current events and was shown in a news format. It was known for having strictly Newfoundland performers and a particularly eastern perspective on things.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''
* ''Series/SpittingImage'': satirizing politicians and other celebrities of the day. Its more enduring portrayals are typically more Juvenalian (e.g. "I've Never Met a Nice South African", which calls all Afrikaners racist, ignorant, talentless, humourless, murderous, smelly loudmouths who exiled [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach their one and only decent countryman]]).
* ''Series/ThatWasTheWeekThatWas'' kickstarted the British television satire boom of the 1960s. Juvenalian.
* The "Really!?! with Seth (and Amy)" skit on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Constantly points out the absurdity of celebrities or politicians by comparing their actions with how the same actions would affect ordinary people. Typically Juvenalian, although Creator/TinaFey's "Really!?!" to Greece on her first guest appearance in 2008 was more disappointed than nasty.
* Creator/VanKootenEnDeBie: Dutch comedic duo satirizing Dutch society from 1964 until 1998.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'': ''Dinosaurs'' is entirely a satire of society that condemns environmental pollution, political correctness, corporate greed, government controlling citizens' private lives, propaganda on television and religion.
* ''Series/BlackMirror'' takes a dark commentary on how people and society abuse technology, showing the negative aspects that it will bring about.
* ''Series/{{Corporate}}'' is an extremely Juvenalian satire on the modern corporate workplace and its denizens.
* ''Series/MidnightMass2021'': The show ultimately tries to point out the folly of being religious. The first two episodes clearly establish that the writers respect those with religious beliefs by accurately portraying Catholicism, but after that the show gets more and more offensive to religious people. By the end of the the first season, it's clear this is a satire that favors atheism over religious beliefs.
** The DecoyProtagonist is an atheist who tries to stop [[spoiler:the Catholic vampires]], and the first victim of the show, a dog, is killed [[spoiler:by the most well-read Catholic character.]]
** There are some "classic" anti-Catholic tropes present throughout the season, such as [[spoiler:only one Catholic knowing much about Scripture, Catholics drinking literal blood as opposed to blood in the form of wine, the Church embezzling people's money, the monsignor regretting becoming a priest and fraternizing with a member of his flock, the faithful being timid and subservient to the one person who quotes Scripture the most, and Catholics being generally closed-minded concerning other religions.]]
** While there are two characters who are Muslim, [[spoiler:one of them converts to Catholicism]] and by the end of the show [[spoiler:they both die while praying.]] Moreover, [[spoiler:the Catholic vampires all die while singing a hymn, which is a form of prayer.]]
** In the season finale, one of the supposedly devout Catholics, who has attended Mass every day, suddenly goes through a "death-bed conversion" [[spoiler:to atheism, insisting that she will become one with the universe after decomposing and even going so far as to use the phrase "I am that I am," making herself equivalent to God,]] which is the last thing one would expect a devout Christian to say.
* Israeli show ''Series/EretzNehederet'' satirizes politics, culture, and current events, similar to ''The Daily Show''.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/TheRutles are a satire on Music/TheBeatles.
* Even Music/JohannSebastianBach took a crack at satire, with his "[[Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht Coffee Cantata]]" satirizing the then-emerging opinion that [[MustHaveCaffeine drinking coffee]] was a bad habit. Apparently, MoralGuardians were just as annoying in Bach's time as they are today. To top it all, the piece is not actually a {{cantata}} but a mini {{opera}}.
* Mike Posner's "I Took A Plane to Ibiza" single in 2018 was a satire of the Ibiza lifestyle and CelebrityIsOverrated, and also veered into SelfParody, since Mike actually did visit the club scene, but was not involved in drug scandals etc.
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[[folder:Print Media]]
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''
* ''Website/TheOnion'': Arguably the most famous satire site on the internet, it started out in print before becoming a digitally-exclusive paper in 2013.
* ''Magazine/{{Punch}}'', a British magazine launched in 1841, was a groundbreaking satirical periodical, including satire of then-contemporary society and politics. (It closed, a shadow of its former self, in 2002, having been fighting a losing battle against ''Private Eye'' -- for which see below -- for at least 30 years).
* ''Punch'' was an express attempt at replicating a French satirical magazine of the day, ''Le Charivari'', a Paris magazine that lampooned July Monarchy-era French politics and mores -- as evidenced by the British publication's full title, ''Punch, [[EitherOrTitle or the London Charivari]]''. The actual ''Charivari'' of Paris stopped doing satire shortly after ''Punch'' started, turning into a lifestyle magazine, after falling afoul of Louis-Philippe's censors.
* ''Punch'' also inspired an [[TransAtlanticEquivalent American publication]] named ''Puck'' (which ran 1871-1903).
* The pornographic magazine ''Magazine/{{Hustler}}'' uses satire to express Larry Flynt's beliefs and opinions. Almost always Juvenalian.
* The articles in ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' are mostly Juvenalian satire... when they aren't hard-hitting straight-up exposés of real wrongdoing. Sometimes articles do dip into the Horatian (particularly the Prime Minister parodies, which are usually too ridiculous to be truly stinging). Incidentally, the founders of ''Private Eye'' in TheSixties specifically cited (again) ''Punch'' in its heyday as their inspiration -- rather than as it existed in their time, which they found rather insipid (and which eventually was reduced to writing nasty articles at the ''Eye''[='s=] expense).
* ''The New Yorker'' is known for its satire, particularly ''The Borowitz Report'' by Andy Borowitz.
* P. J. O'Rourke is another satirical columnist who wrote articles for ''The Weekly Standard'' and ''The Daily Beast'', known for his conservative-libertarian bent.
* ''Creator/DaveBarry'': Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist for ''The Miami Herald.'' He makes fun of everything from [[Main/OnlyInFlorida Florida]] to [[https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html his colonscopy]] to [[http://www.davebarry.com/misccol/decaf.htm specialty coffees]], usually with an absurdist, exaggerated brand of humor.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* On his radio show, Creator/HowardStern will satirize any number or things he doesn't care for, most notably the hypocrisies of {{Media Watchdog}}s.
* ''Radio/AbsolutePowerBBC'' was a satire on spin-doctoring in modern politics, and media manipulation. The SoundToScreenAdaptation shifted its focus: still satirizing media manipulation, but more in the context of the nature of celebrity.
* ''Brian Gulliver's Travels'' is a six-part SettingUpdate of ''Gulliver's Travels'' on BBC Radio 4. It updates the satire to be about 21st century Britain, giving us, for example, Sham, the land of alternative therapies.
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%% * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' were both originally satirical, but they're played so straight these days that many fans see them as SeriousBusiness. (ZCE -- how were they satirical?)
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' is a satire of media sensationalism and the American justice system, depicting the circumstances of a murder trial as if it were a theatrical production. Roxie's press conference is portrayed as a ventriloquist performance with her lawyer Billy puppeting her, the media is treated like a "three-ring circus," and Billy's fraudulent arguments in the trial are likened to a skillful tap dance.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Everything made by 2D Boy and Creator/TomorrowCorporation is a satire of some aspect of corporations. The satire even extends to the [[http://tomorrowcorporation.com/ website itself!]]
** ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' is a satire on corporations ruining the environment.
** ''VideoGame/LittleInferno'' makes fun of mobile game monetization tactics.
** ''VideoGame/HumanResourceMachine'' and ''VideoGame/SevenBillionHumans'' are about automation and how corporations dehumanize their employees.
* ''VideoGame/BadDayLA'' makes fun of how dysfunctional modern society is.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is a satire of video game violence.
* ''VideoGame/GoingUnder'': The game is a satire of corporate and start-up culture. In the setting, failed start-ups go under literally, being sunken under the earth, have their members turned into monsters, and become dungeons. A lot of the dungeons poke fun at the kind of projects they do (an app to facilitate the Gig Economy, a dating app, a new cryptocurrency, etc), but a lot of the story also point out the excess of start-ups, their poor management, hiding flaws behind corporate speak, the conflict between bosses and workers, and stealthily supports worker unionization.
* No game represents the worst aspects of the political and sociocultural lens of TheNewTens than ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. To give you an idea, the vast majority of the characters in this game are caricatures with the most deplorable and toxic elements of the stereotype they embody. Their own ignorance blinds them to the utter self-parody they represent, something that, even after almost a decade since this game was released, [[TruthInTelevision doesn't seem too far removed from real life]].
%% * The WebGame developer Creator/{{Molleindustria}} has specialized in making satirical games with relatively simple gameplay.
* ''VideoGame/{{Harvester}}'' makes a bloody and cruel joke of suburban American life during the 1950s.
* ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}}'' is a satire of American neoconservatism and War on Terror politics, as well as a {{Parody}} of Paul Verhoeven's ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. The Helldivers are the forces of a dystopian Super Earth fighting offensive wars against various alien races in the name of "spreading freedom and democracy". Of course, Super Earth is actually a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and the brainwashed citizens do not even really understand what democracy ''is''. Where it gets really on the nose is the reasons for war against Super Earth's enemies: The Cyborgs? They blew up District 48 and [[UnreliableNarrator might be]] DirtyCommunists; the [[SpaceElves Illuminate]]? Super Earth Senator John W. Killjoy has evidence that the squid aliens have [[WeaponOfMassDestruction nano-fusion obliterator bombs]] and the government feels threatened by an alien race who can rival or exceed human technology; and the [[BugWar Bugs]]? Well, when they die and decompose, the create an ''awful'' lot of oil byproduct...
* ''VideoGame/TheMagicCircle'' pokes fun at video game developers, by showing a game that's been in Main/DevelopmentHell for 20 years.
* ''VideoGame/MrSaitou'': The game pokes fun at several aspects of Japanese work culture, such as sticking unwanted employees on mind numbing tasks rather than firing them and being pressured into drinking and socializing with colleagues after work.
* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series, particularly its earlier installments, contained very tongue-in-cheek satire of consumerism.
* ''[[https://opoulos.itch.io/simnimby Sim Nimby]]'' is a satire of anti-development activism, particularly where affordable housing is concerned.
* ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' is another jab at game developers, particularly ones who try to railroad the player onto their preferred method of playing their game. Stanley himself is also a Main/TakeThat at players who try to find meaning through [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me-sx-QQXrs their choices]], or who use video games as a means of escape from their dull, boring lives.
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[[folder:Visual Novel]]
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' is designed to be a satirical spoof of Japan's infamously [[KangarooCourt rigged legal system]], which, while creating its own set of rules and supernatural happenings, covers many of the issues Japanese citizens have with their legal system.
* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' satirizes the relationship between video game players and characters by invoking VideoGameCaringPotential, then having bad things happen to the characters, and then having dialogue reacting to this as in VideoGameCrueltyPotential, showing that kind of thinking as horrifying rather than fun.[[note]]The creator has also called it "satire" of the genres it's initially a pastiche of, but that mostly matches the definition of parody.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/WorkingDoodles''
* ''Webcomic/PortSherry'' [[http://portsherry.com/ (Here)]] delivers horatian satire on a lot of things.
* ''Webcomic/ImMyOwnMascot'' often contains horatian satire of nerd culture and {{fandom}}s in general.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Website/TheOnion'': Arguably the most famous satire site on the web, whose brand of fake news stories inspired a lot of copycats:
** ''Website/ClickHole'': A spinoff of ''The Onion'', poking fun at clickbait sites like ''Buzzfeed''.
** ''Website/BabylonBee'': A conservative Christian version of the Onion.
** ''Reductress'': Another fake news website poking fun at women's magazines.
* ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia'' frequently pokes fun at the film industry or nerd culture.
* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' often deals in horatian satire, largely due to Strong Bad thinking of himself as being more juvenalian.
* ''WebSite/MinistryOfHarmony'' satirizes news stories from UsefulNotes/{{China}} in a Juvenalian style.
* WebVideo/TJOmega has his ''Plastic Addict'' series which does this of the bad {{toys}} he reviews during them. He's repeatedly pointed out that they're not to be taken seriously and are meant to be entertaining.
* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' satirizes the concept of Evil itself, it being seen as something that is never solidly defined but is treated as though it can be bought, sold, measured, and enhanced among the EvilInc the show takes place in. Bear in mind that the podcast functions as a news style WorkCom while having this as the central plot.
* The extremely short ''Literature/YoungAdult'' one-shot manages to satirize recurring tropes in young adult book series, mainly in the popular ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' series.
* ''WebVideo/CityNerd'': While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor land uses.
* ''WebVideo/ClimateTown'' does satire on the two-faced nature of politicians, the fossil fuel industry and other corperations that are contributing to climate change while lining their pockets.
* Webvideo/TheCinemaSnob started out as one of film critics that use biased and stupid arguments against exploitation\genre films (inspired by Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning''). Eventually it also became one of TheMovieBuff who is equally pretentious.
* ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525'': Many if not most of the videos involve this, running with common apologetics claims to show what they entail in RealLife. For instance "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyAx5RUDIKk How To Be Like God]]", which displays how defenses against the problem of evil[[note]]the ancient question how an all-good, all-powerful, all-wise deity can possibly coexist with the evil in the world.[[/note]] like respect for free will, being simply "[[InMysteriousWays mysterious]]" etc. would seem if a person did them (i.e. a huge sadistic jerk who lets you die rather than give help he could easily provide).
* WebVideo/{{Jreg}}: ''Centricide'' makes fun of political extremists, by putting them on the same team to fight against the centrist threat. [[spoiler: Becomes so much more on the nose when its revealed that Jreg is actually using the anti-centrists for jreir agenda of becoming [[OmnicidalManiac Accelerationist]], who causes ideologies to lose their meaning.]]
* LetsPlay/{{Videogamedunkey}} occasionally delves into this. A couple notable examples are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK158ih4smY "Anthem Legends: Exodus,"]] which parodies cliched copycat video games, as well as his video on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ysxb_nL7w "Twitter"]].
* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', in addition to parodying the source material, also satirizes the video game industry and its questionable practices. For example, the very first joke in the series mocks game companies that aggressively force adverts in players' faces and use micro-transactions to extort money for features that should be in the game from the beginning (such as, in this case, removing the ads). The titular game itself is shown to be an [[invoked]] ObviousBeta with many {{Game Breaking Bug}}s that occurred because it was ChristmasRushed, paralleling real games like ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' that fell to the same fate. It also attacks "crunch time" and overworking developers by showing that this led to many of the bugs plaguing the game. In addition, real companies like Creator/{{Bethesda}} and Creator/{{Ubisoft}} are [[TakeThat made into targets of ridicule]] by being the publishers who are responsible in-universe for the games releasing in their terrible state, as well as fostering toxic work environments that overwork their best developers ([[spoiler:Akihiko Kayaba]]) and allow sexual predators to do as they please (Noboyuki Sugou).
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' satirizes adventure shows like ''Jonny Quest'' by showcasing just how psychologically scarring being a boy adventurer can become.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is one huge satire of late 20th and early 21st century Western society.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', often in the most controversial sort of manner.
* The more recent seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' usually use satire as their primary source of humor.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' frequently satirizes aspects of modern life, from our waste and consumerism, technological evolution to our short-sightedness to relentless and irritating evangelists.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' is a spiritual and satirical successor to ''Series/MadTV'', in the form of an animated sketch series; it even had the nerve to ridicule James Cameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' in the very first episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' did an excellent job poking fun at human life; even the aspects of daily life in the far-future have devolved into a tortured mockery of itself in a most Juvenalian manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' often satirizes feminism by bringing up the hypocrisy done or said by radical feminist Saranoia, and to a lesser extent Yin. The episode "A Walk in the Woods" satirizes childhood obesity where Yin and Yang stayed indoors surfing the Internet all day and eating junk food.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' mocks and laughs at American Retro Pop culture alongside old fashioned media censorship policies as well.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'': The show loves to take aim at and spoof many of the most popular topics of the day, including poiltics, history, and Warner Bros itself.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has the one-hour special ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling'' which satirizes, what else, modern life: the [[IPhony O-Phone]] upgrades constantly and people charge into the store for a new one and Rocko's old job is gone, replaced with a 3D printer that makes the comic book for you.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' pokes its cartoonish fingers at early 20th Century pop-culture, both American and foreign.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': This element wasn't as prevalent after Creator/JohnKricfalusi left the show, though certain episodes, such as "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" and "Reverend Jack", satirized what working under John K.'s tenure was like.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' often does this; for example, "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E12TheUpgrade The Upgrade]]" takes a huge swipe at the concept of Planned Obsolescence.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': Following the show's GrowingTheBeard, episodes sometimes have a satirical bent to them, mainly about the entertainment industry.
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E25WhichWitchIsWhichGetOffMyLawnie Get Off My Lawnie]]" takes on stan culture. Granny Tentacles accidentally becomes a famous TV star, resulting in her getting an unwanted army of {{Loony Fan}}s who break into her house and think ''everything'' she does is part of her "character" on the show. After chasing her relentlessly, they beg her to say her famous CatchphraseInsult: "[[IResembleThatRemark SAY WE HAVE NO LIVES!]]" At the end, once Granny Tentacles finally embraces her fame, her fanbase has moved on to an incredibly vapid thing to obsess over: [[IncrediblyLameFun an old man painting a fence]].
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E26BubbleBassReviewsPatricksPrisonPals Bubble Bass Reviews]]" is an AffectionateParody of [=2010=]s {{Video Review Show}}s, and how hostile these reviews can be towards people who work on the shows. Bubble Bass flat-out calls Patrick and Squidina the "enemies of the state" and rants that they be thrown in jail just because they make a show he doesn't like. At the end, Patrick and Squidina make their ''own'' review show on his review show, proving that he [[{{Hypocrite}} can't handle the same thing when it's done to him]].
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Patrick Show Cashes In]]" is one on the treatment [[CashCowFranchise overly marketed franchises]] receive. It revolves around Patrick and Squidina licensing a variety of [[MyLittlePanzer questionable and dangerous]] products. Even though the first ParodyCommercial ends with the kids being bandaged and fainting, they continue to sell the products because they make money. However, the episode does have a legitimate moral that TV shows aren't about making money but instead DoingItForTheArt.
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E5MovieStarsDrSmartScience Movie Stars]]" has a brief joke about franchise milking when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick go to see "the new ''Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy Pets Movie: 'Mermaid Worm & Barnacle Barnacle: Episode 6: The Bubble Blowers Revenge, Part 2'''!" The title is so long that [=SpongeBob=] can barely say it in one breath. Squidina also assumes that blatant ProductPlacement in films doesn't work, [[InstantlyProvenWrong only to see that Cecil has immediately fallen victim to it.]]
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E5MovieStarsDrSmartScience Dr. Smart Science]]" has some choice words about pop psychology and pseudoscience. Patrick preaches astrology on his show, describing, "if you've ever thought, 'coming up with my own personality is too hard,' you're gonna ''love'' this!" He then launches into a prediction for Sagittarius: they will be very unlucky unless they purchase his products and healing crystals. [[RefugeInAudacity An old man excitedly dials in, planning to cancel his doctor appointment.]]
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E7ChumBucketListBigBabyPatrick Big Baby Patrick]]" satirizes the SpinOffBabies phenomenon, pointing out just how dull and uninteresting these shows are because there's not a lot that babies can actually do, and they're too young to really have a clue what's going on anyways.
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