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** Another one that is found throughout multiple points in the series is that vengeance does nothing but harm. Everything Wily did was to get revenge in response to his Double Gear System to be rejected. Wily's lust for vengeance led, as stated above, [[spoiler: to humanity's extinction]]. Another example is in ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'': Iris wanted to avenge Colonel, who was just [[spoiler: killed by Zero, and then she ended up dying herself, again at Zero's hands. Not only it ended horribly for her, but it also utterly broke Zero]].
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** Another one that is found throughout multiple points in the series is that vengeance does nothing but harm. Everything Wily did was to get revenge in response to his Double Gear System to be being rejected. Wily's lust for vengeance led, as stated above, [[spoiler: to humanity's extinction]]. Another example is in ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'': Iris wanted to avenge Colonel, who was just [[spoiler: killed by Zero, and then she ended up dying herself, again at Zero's hands. Not only it Iris' attempt at vengeance ended horribly for her, but it also utterly broke Zero]].
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** Another one that is found throughout multiple points in the series is that vengeance does nothing but harm. Everything Wily did was to get revenge in response to his Double Gear System to be rejected. Wily's lust for vengeance led, as stated above, [[spoiler: to humanity's extinction]]. Another example is in ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'': Iris wanted to avenge Colonel, who was just [[spoiler: killed by Zero, and then she ended up dying herself, again at Zero's hands. Not only it ended horribly for her, but it also utterly broke Zero]].
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* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'': There is no short path towards success, and selling out your friends for it is not going to pay off in the long run. This is played out in two sides by Lina and Tyler:
** Tyler and co had to start from zero after Lina sold his crew out, and all they did- any cars they got, any friends they got from the seven non-House leagues, are all purely from their own hard work. It pays off nicely when they beat the Outlaw's Rush, winning vast fame and fortune for themselves and benefactor/ally Marcus Weir.
** Lina, by contrast, sold out her friends for everything the Collector can offer to her- a high position as TheDragon, a CoolCar (her [=P1=]), and everything she has achieved from that point on. When she loses a large sum of the Collector's money due to overconfidently accepting Marcus' wager, The Collector ditched her as a failure, no better off or even worse off than when she was still in the Barrio.
** Tyler and co had to start from zero after Lina sold his crew out, and all they did- any cars they got, any friends they got from the seven non-House leagues, are all purely from their own hard work. It pays off nicely when they beat the Outlaw's Rush, winning vast fame and fortune for themselves and benefactor/ally Marcus Weir.
** Lina, by contrast, sold out her friends for everything the Collector can offer to her- a high position as TheDragon, a CoolCar (her [=P1=]), and everything she has achieved from that point on. When she loses a large sum of the Collector's money due to overconfidently accepting Marcus' wager, The Collector ditched her as a failure, no better off or even worse off than when she was still in the Barrio.
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* ''VideoGame/MiasmaChronicles:'' The Editor Archive is destroyed by a Collector strike. Always keep offsite backups!
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-->'''Author:''' [The book is] a metaphor for aging. People are [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent victims of society as children,]] rebels of society as teenagers, and then come to accept all the fucked up shit of society as adults. That was [the heroine's] arc.
-->'''Reader:''' You just made that up this second, didn't you?
-->'''Author:''' (''smiling sheepishly'') Yeah...
-->'''Reader:''' You just made that up this second, didn't you?
-->'''Author:''' (''smiling sheepishly'') Yeah...
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-->'''Author:''' [The book is] a metaphor for aging. People are [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent victims of society as children,]] rebels of society as teenagers, and then come to accept all the fucked up shit of society as adults. That was [the heroine's] arc.
-->'''Reader:'''arc.\\
'''Reader:''' You just made that up this second, didn'tyou?
-->'''Author:'''you?\\
'''Author:''' (''smiling sheepishly'')Yeah...Yeah...
* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'': The economic angle of the goblin threat can be taken as a critique of capitalism. It's mentioned early on that goblins are dangerous enough that it takes experienced adventurers to root them out (in the series' infamous RRatedOpening, a group of greenhorns went after a goblin den and got slaughtered), but at the same time, they mostly attack frontier farming communities that can't afford to pay very much by way of reward. However, the AdventureGuild is a for-profit entity, and experienced adventurers usually ignore goblin jobs because there's no money or glory to be made, which can result in the goblins multiplying into unstoppable hordes capable of wiping out cities. Goblin Slayer gets by because he doesn't care about fortune and glory, and is implied to only break even because Cow Girl and her uncle give him free room and board in exchange for guarding their farm. [[spoiler:He's also fortunate that his reputation in the AdventureGuild is so good that the administrators foot the bill to save the farm from the Goblin Lord at the end of Volume 1.]] [[AccidentalAesop The profit motive is poor at solving problems that it isn't immediately profitable to solve]] (e.g. [[GreenAesop human-caused climate change]]).
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'''Reader:''' You just made that up this second, didn't
-->'''Author:'''
'''Author:''' (''smiling sheepishly'')
* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'': The economic angle of the goblin threat can be taken as a critique of capitalism. It's mentioned early on that goblins are dangerous enough that it takes experienced adventurers to root them out (in the series' infamous RRatedOpening, a group of greenhorns went after a goblin den and got slaughtered), but at the same time, they mostly attack frontier farming communities that can't afford to pay very much by way of reward. However, the AdventureGuild is a for-profit entity, and experienced adventurers usually ignore goblin jobs because there's no money or glory to be made, which can result in the goblins multiplying into unstoppable hordes capable of wiping out cities. Goblin Slayer gets by because he doesn't care about fortune and glory, and is implied to only break even because Cow Girl and her uncle give him free room and board in exchange for guarding their farm. [[spoiler:He's also fortunate that his reputation in the AdventureGuild is so good that the administrators foot the bill to save the farm from the Goblin Lord at the end of Volume 1.]] [[AccidentalAesop The profit motive is poor at solving problems that it isn't immediately profitable to solve]] (e.g. [[GreenAesop human-caused climate change]]).
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*''Series/AlRawabiSchoolForGirls'': While a huge focus on the series is misogyny and bullying faced by woman, a good chunk of the perpetrators are {{Female Misogynist}}s - Ruqayyah is victim-blamed for her photos by Miss Abeer and many other girls are just as eager to slut-shame their female peers as their male ones. It goes to show that misogyny from females is just as deadly as misogyny from males, even in a society as patriarchal as the Middle East.
