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  • Danny Phantom: A Trip to Tomobiki (Of Ghosts and Aliens): Destiny Production Management Bureau decides the fates of every living being in the universe, and Status Quo, the godlike being that influences the story's conflict, represents executive meddling in cartoons and shows. Status Quo explains that "he is the embodiment of the desires of the beings beyond the fourth dimension," and Destiny Production Management Bureau is like the producers of a television show. Status Quo and Destiny Production Management Bureau would mostly watch events to play out naturally, but sometimes, when they see potential, they ensure that certain events happen to make the world they observe more exciting for entertainment purposes. They would also cut out planned events like Vlad Plasmius's deal with the Fright Knight. They also change events to keep the status quo and prevent characters from getting character development to increase the length of the show, like the time Danny Phantom's parents discovered his identity, and despite accepting him, he, for some reason, erased his parent's memory.
  • Infinity Train: Blossomverse: Unsub from Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria pretty much embodies the unfair and backward way the narrative has been treating Goh and many others since Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail. He takes a single look at people and judges them based on that impression rather than learning more about them. Whether right or wrong, he does something he thinks is helping them but is actually doing more damage than good. And just like how Blossoming Trail's characters were highly self-indulgent, Ogami doesn't say or do what he does out of altruism but because it makes himself feel better.

Danny Phantom

  • Danny Phantom: Stranded
    • Beatrice Traville represents all the worst stereotypes associated with rich people by being an elitist snob who doesn't care about anything but herself and her classist views.
    • Colette Bevier
      • She’s a rather frighteningly realistic example of a yandere and Stalker with a Crush since her obsession with Danny isn’t born out of affection or a desire for companionship but an immature sense of entitlement and a petty refusal to accept “no” for an answer. Colette quickly proves to be a danger to Danny as well as others by resorting to illegal behavior such as stalking and spying on him without his consent, along with threats and violence to force him to be with her, including threatening Danny's life and plotting to kill his girlfriend Star when she gets ghost powers in “Empowered”, and blackmailing him into dating her in “Blackmailed” by threatening to reveal his secret identity to the world and framing his friends for crimes they didn't commit, promising to ruin their lives even further if he disobeys or even displeases her.
      • She’s an accurate portrayal of a Domestic Abuser who showers her “partner” with shallow affection only to turn into a nightmare when they dissatisfy her, and sees them as a pet for her own satisfaction. This is best shown shown in “Blackmailed” when she blackmails Danny into dating her and snaps at him whenever he says or does anything that displeases her.
      • As Star and her loved ones so eloquently stated, Colette represents every negative stereotype associated with Spoiled Brats, mean girls, and wicked stepsisters.

Infinity Train

  • The Sun Will Come Up And The Seasons Will Change: Dana Summers represents how toxic Autism Warrior Parents can be. At her best which is not often, Dana treats her youngest daughter Mary Summers, who is autistic, like a baby that can't think for herself. At her worst, she's utterly abusive to her daughter and obsessed with making her normal and curing her daughter's autism. While Dana ultimately thinks she's in the right in her treatment of her daughter, everyone around her, including her husband Todd and eldest daughter Reagan, sees that her behavior is unacceptable, and while Dana may complain about her daughter acting out, she is the one making a scene. Things come to a head when Todd and Reagan read Dana's blog and discover to their horror, how much she hates Mary, that not only does Dana not miss Mary when she ran away, but has also considered forcibly sterilizing Mary once she turns 18. According to the story's author, Dana is based on parents of autistic children who have written memoirs on how much of a burden it was to raise their children and how they don't respect their children as people.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Throughout Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, it's made repeatedly clear the author has great disdain for America's school system. This is taken to its extreme with the arrival of the most detestable character in the story, the Knight of Cerebus Dr. Nicole Cho. Virtually all of her actions mark her as an allegory for ableism, particularly in the American education system. As shown through Nicole Cho having zero tolerance for students' discomfort, being intensely impatient, unreasonably demanding, stifling creativity, and only resorting to silencing and punishment to keep students in line.

Psychonauts

  • Like the video game the story is a fanfic of, Later, Traitor has many allegorical characters inside the minds of the characters.
    • Bonfear is the physical representation of Dogen's Power Incontinence anxieties, the thing that's holding him back from full control over his blastokinesis.
    • Freezie is a representation of Phoebe's negative impression of Frazie after she accidentally burns down a part of her mind that causes her to lose control over her drumming abilities.
    • The boss of Clem's mind is a giant Killer Gorilla representing his abusive father.
    • Everyone in Maloof's mind is completely invisible save for the clothes they wear, including the mental Mikhail. Maloof hasn't formed any meaningful connections with most of the people in his life, so they're all faceless to him. Maloof sees Mikhail as a tool to get back at his bullies with, so he's faceless too.
    • In Chloe's mind, there's a planet filled with tiny little cavemen and the beautiful alien matriarch who watches over them. This represents the orphanage she lives at and the matron. She dislikes the kids and thinks they're too dumb to understand her, but the matron is intelligent and accommodating to her, so she holds her in high regard.
    • The Drag-on is the personification of Vernon's long-windedness.
    • Obsessions Draw Aggro, making it so that you only focus on them.
    • Egos are small little goblin-like creatures who grow to monstrous sizes if left unchecked.

RWBY

  • Craving the Sky: Many of Weiss's issues and insecurities parallel those of trans people. Weiss's struggles to come to terms with her identity as a faunus are likened to someone coming to terms with their gender identity, while the operation to get her wings removed is compared (somewhat paradoxically) to getting gender reassignment surgery.

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