Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped - Television Tropes & Idioms

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

—Winston Churchill

Sometimes, a work can be Anvilicious without suffering in the process. Some works not only pull it off gracefully, but are effective because of the Anvil — and not in a So Bad Its Good way, either. Often seen in reconstructions.

Other times the anvil comes across very blatant which might turn off some viewers, but in the era which the story is told the message itself is more important then the story or allegory it is presented in.

A reminder that An Aesop is not bad because Tropes Are Not Bad. And don't let the fact that the anvils of one work are often incompatible or in direct opposition to another's get in the way either.

Of course, one should keep in mind that the author of an Anvilicious work almost always believes that his or her particular anvil is one of these.

Has nothing to do with Anvil On Head.

For examples, see SugarWiki/AnvilsThatNeededToBeDropped.