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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': The episode "If It's Doomsday, This Must Be Belfast" explores this. One of the villains, [[ForTheEvulz for the heck of it]] plants a nuclear bomb in three areas of ethnic conflict, and gives detonators to one member of each side, in an attempt to prove humanity will destroy itself. The individuals from each conflict act petty, stubborn, and have their fingers on the button at one point. But neither side is portrayed as truly malicious, just a product of conflicts that go back generations. And when shown a vision of nuclear war, they agree to dismantle the nukes. This would have been a fine message had it not for the [[SoBadItsGood poor but unintentionally hilarious writing]] (turning what would be an analysis on sectarian conflict into a ''Theatre/WestSideStory''-esque gang feud), [[ArtisticLicense little (or lack of) research]] (usage of Fenian Prots instead of its usage as separate terms of Fenian for Catholic and Prots for Protestants), and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent ridiculous dialogue]] for the Belfast inhabitants.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': The episode "If It's Doomsday, This Must Be Belfast" explores this. One of the villains, [[ForTheEvulz for the heck of it]] plants a nuclear bomb in three areas of ethnic conflict, and gives detonators to one member of each side, in an attempt to prove humanity will destroy itself. The individuals from each conflict act petty, stubborn, and have their fingers on the button at one point. But neither side is portrayed as truly malicious, just a product of conflicts that go back generations. And when shown a vision of nuclear war, they agree to dismantle the nukes. This would have been a fine message had it not for the [[SoBadItsGood poor but unintentionally hilarious writing]] (turning what would be an analysis on sectarian conflict into a ''Theatre/WestSideStory''-esque gang feud), [[ArtisticLicense little (or lack of) research]] (usage of Fenian Prots instead of its usage as separate terms of Fenian for Catholic and Prots for Protestants), and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent ridiculous dialogue]] for the Belfast inhabitants.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': For the Cadmus Story Arc, Cadmus is presented as rather dodgy, but with legitimate fears about the dangers of superheroes. The heroes, meanwhile, had a habit of putting the good of their own members ahead of that of unpowered individuals most at risk of supervillains. Notably, this went so far that [[spoiler:the writers were forced to have [[HijackedByGanon a more 'traditional' supervillain]] take over the BigBad seat, because they had no way to finish the arc in a satisfactory way with the time given without massive MotiveDecay to make Cadmus [[CardCarryingVillain arbitrarily 'evil']].]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': For the Cadmus Story Arc, Cadmus is presented as rather dodgy, but with legitimate fears about the dangers of superheroes. But have more than once created supervillains, and often hiring them with disastrous results. The heroes, meanwhile, had a habit of putting the good of their own members ahead of that of unpowered individuals most at risk of supervillains. Notably, this went so far that [[spoiler:the writers were forced to have [[HijackedByGanon a more 'traditional' supervillain]] take over the BigBad seat, because they had no way to finish the arc in a satisfactory way with the time given without massive MotiveDecay to make Cadmus [[CardCarryingVillain arbitrarily 'evil']].]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In the trilogy of shorts where WesternAnimation/BugsBunny competes in a foot race against Cecil Turtle (''WesternAnimation/TortoiseBeatsHare'', ''WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare'', and ''WesternAnimation/RabbitTransit''), neither Bugs nor Cecil are really better than the other. Bugs Bunny is depicted as very short-tempered and arrogant in these shorts, whereas Cecil is a ManipulativeBastard who quite blatantly cheats his way to victory.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'': None of the four tribes are entirely good or evil and no faction is ever portrayed as truly villainous. However, it's not entirely balanced; the Overworld is made of mostly heroic characters and there are a handful of wretched individuals coming from the Underworld.

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