History Main / FantasticAesop

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' the main party learn that the taboo against eating monsters is pointless and using them as a food supply when DungeonCrawling is a better idea than trying to survive on nutritionally limited rations from the surface.

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* The "moral" for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' and its "sequel" ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' is basically "Don't use magic recklessly or frivolously, or you might cause a RealityBreakingParadox and kill yourself."

A common Fantastic Aesop is a warning against the use of magic or non-existent technology -- when the work seems to be warning against the use of ''any'' new technology, see ScienceIsBad and LuddWasRight. Other common uses include the ButterflyOfDoom (be careful with time travel!) or BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, in cases where the wish is literally granted, immediately, by magic.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in the first ''VideoGame/BioShock''. The narrative offers up a lot of perfectly valid points for why each games' respective "ideal" utopian society (Objectivist, Socialist, and Hypercapitalist) cannot ultimately sustain itself, but Rapture's society also heavily depends on the proliferation of genetic modifiers and performance enhancers that drive their users violently insane; something that would eventually cause ''any'' kind of political or economic system to collapse on itself, no matter how conceptually or even practically perfect it is.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in the first ''VideoGame/BioShock''. The narrative offers up a lot of perfectly valid points for why each games' respective "ideal" utopian society (Objectivist, Socialist, and Hypercapitalist) cannot ultimately sustain itself, but Rapture's society also heavily depends on the proliferation of genetic modifiers and performance enhancers that drive their users violently insane; something that would eventually cause ''any'' kind of political or economic system to collapse on itself no matter how conceptually ''or'' practically perfect it is.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in the first ''VideoGame/BioShock''. The narrative offers up a lot of perfectly valid points for why each games' respective "ideal" utopian society (Objectivist, Socialist, and Hypercapitalist) cannot ultimately sustain itself, but Rapture's society also heavily depends on the proliferation of genetic modifiers and performance enhancers that drive their users violently insane; something that would eventually cause ''any'' kind of political or economic system to collapse on itself no matter how conceptually perfect it is.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in the first ''VideoGame/Bioshock''. The narrative offers up a lot of perfectly valid points for why each games' respective "ideal" utopian society (Objectivist, Socialist, and Hypercapitalist) cannot ultimately sustain itself, but Rapture's society also heavily depends on the proliferation of genetic modifiers and performance enhancers that drive their users violently insane; something that would eventually cause ''any'' kind of political or economic system to collapse on itself no matter how conceptually perfect it is.

* IRobot (along with ''most'' robot stories, including [[{{Theatre/RUR}} the one which coined the term "robot"]]): Don't create artificial servants, as any sufficiently advanced device will either spontaneously decide to eliminate humanity or be too stupid to realize we didn't ask it to.

* A similar Aesop can be seen in the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Frenchfry", where the titular experiment cooks addictive, bloating junkfood, after which point he is supposed to eat whomever ate his food. The message is supposed to be about healthy eating, but it comes off more as 'don't use alien mutants to cook for you'. Lampshaded when Nani,[[note]]who at that point had become somewhat GenreSavvy from previous run-ins with Stitch's cousins[[/note]] upon being notified of Lilo's recent weight gain, immediately realizes that it is far greater than what is physically possible with unhealthy living and that Jumba's mad science is to blame.

** One of them was originally created to bring puppets to life, and can resurrect a person if their body is habitable, but will cost the jutsu user their life.
** Finally, the Samsara of Heavenly Life technique can only be used by someone who possesses the Rinnegan, an eye power which was held centuries ago by the Messiah figure. This technique was used by Nagato to revive nearly the entire population of the most politically important city in the world. As confirmed by [[spoiler:Obito Uchiha]] in a recent chapter, this technique also costs the user their life.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': One story arc involves Calvin [[{{Snowlems}} bringing a snowman to life.]] The snowman became a vicious monster and created an army of "snow goons" that kept trying to kill Calvin. After defeating them by spraying them with the hose to freeze them solid, Calvin stated that he had learned a lesson from this misadventure: "Snow goons are bad news", which he was glad was completely inapplicable.

* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', the main character suddenly manifests time travel powers after seeing a girl shot. She discovers a lot of clever ways to use it, but no matter what she does, it never seems to make anything better in the end, and it's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:her use of the time travel is what's causing the coming [[ClockRoaches apocalyptic storm]], and the only way to stop it is to go back to the first time she used her powers and let the girl get shot]]. In other words, you shouldn't use time travel powers that are miraculously given to you after a terrible event, because the universe might have arbitrary rules that make time travel a bad idea to use.

* ''Manga/FrankenFran'': [[OncePerEpisode Practically every issue]] Fran observes a flaw of human nature and takes some bit of wisdom from it that the reader can share. Things like, "Don't get so addicted to being revived from death by a maestro surgeon that you keep killing yourself over and over", or "Don't turn yourself into an anime character for love, or your skin will molt off and your lover will crush you to death trying to escape the alien you appear to be", or maybe "Inner beauty may shine through a layer of bandages, but those bandages are there to cover something ''horrifying''".
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' bringing people back to life requires human sacrifices and is considered wrong by almost everyone.

* Literature/CaptainUnderpants: "But what George and Harold forgot was the ''other'' moral, that is, never, ever, '''EVER''' hypnotize your principal. Because if you do, your life may go from bad to worse at the snap of a finger!"