Before the main horror action starts, Jessie battles for Cassie's affections while avoiding the wrath of her father, who doesn't approve of the pure love that blossoms between a mulleted, herpes-ridden guitarist and his school-age daughter. This is a sentiment that runs through the entirety of Hard Rock Zombies: The backward, ultraconservative townspeople just don't understand. Why, they're even determined to ban rock 'n' roll music because of its evil influences. But it's hard to sympathize with the plight of rockers when the rock musicians in question are actually raising the dead with rock while banging underage girls.
I know Danny is meant to be the strawman villain of the series, but…I mean…look at this. What about Spot's behavior isn't strawman villain incarnate? Danny has done nothing wrong and is simply playing a game on a console he likes, doing nothing to prevent Spot from playing it on his own preferred console. Yet Spot "comically" overreacts, calls it sacrilege to play a game he likes on a console he hates, and threatens Danny with violence for not enjoying a game his way. The whole premise of Danny and Spot was meant to be "reasonable dude vs. mean strawman", but really it's just "mean strawman vs. meaner strawman" and this comic is what really clenched it for me. Spot is just as much of a strawman as Danny. No two ways around it. This is Pot & Kettle: The Comic.
How much of a bad sign is it when the foreign, supposed to be unlikeable, semi-villainous German with an all-white team counterpart to your main character is the cuddly voice of reason?
This is probably the first time I saw a strawman argument that made more sense than the rebuttal. In case you missed it, the rebuttal is Brew humping a sex-doll that resembles the woman in the foreground.
— Lilith Ester, reviewing Shredded Moose
Some books against Deism fell into my hands... It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
"/you build the strawman, you attack the strawman, the strawman somehow kicks you in the nuts"
— User on Fark
I mean... REALLY, film?! The character who offers discipline and obedience is dubbed the VILLAIN in this film?! I mean, okay, he’s going to remove fun and stuff, I get that – but at least he actually has good REASON TO! The character they call CRAZY wants to bring obedience to children? I mean, okay, KIDNAPPING them is wrong... but still... What he wants to DO when he kidnaps them is fine. As long as he doesn't turn them into donkeys like the Coachman did...
— Duckyworth
, The Elf That Rescued Christmas
, The Elf That Rescued Christmas...But you should hate [Christian], because he's the asshole Christmas-hater of the family who Kirk needs to brainwash into loving Christmas. Now, I actually agree with just about every problem [Christian] has with Christmas in this movie. In fact, it's perfectly reasonable, what he says and what his problems are. But Kirk and everybody else treat him like he's some kind of monster!
— I Hate Everything on Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Mr. Threehorn: First, a flying rock is a flying rock. Second, fire can't be cold. And third, there is nothing beyond the Mysterious Beyond!
Bob: One, I'm very impressed that you've accepted flying rocks as a scientific reality. Two, the chemical processes that would create "cold fire" won't be invented for millions of years; so yeah, for all intents and purposes, fire can only be hot. Three, the Mysterious Beyond can literally be applied to everything in the universe outside of the Great Valley. So yeah, there is no beyond the mysterious beyond. The hateful, ignorant, racist, xenophobic bigot is right on every single account.
Bob: One, I'm very impressed that you've accepted flying rocks as a scientific reality. Two, the chemical processes that would create "cold fire" won't be invented for millions of years; so yeah, for all intents and purposes, fire can only be hot. Three, the Mysterious Beyond can literally be applied to everything in the universe outside of the Great Valley. So yeah, there is no beyond the mysterious beyond. The hateful, ignorant, racist, xenophobic bigot is right on every single account.
Easily agreed-upon statement coming from the villain who we're not supposed to agree with.
—Cinemare Sins on the episode covering My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games
The other Max is quite odd. She is the personification of ideas that we're supposed to be disagreeing with, right? But for the most part, almost everything she's saying are things I agree with. You know, like calling Max a hypocrite, how she's wasting her time powers, and how Chloe is a bad friend.
— uricksaladbar, "Life is Strange - The Worst Best Friend"
"And the purpose of [Eliot's] presence is to essentially tell Chloe that Rachel... is just using her. Okay! This is what I wanted. An acknowledgment of Rachel's behavior that Chloe has to confront. [...] But then we find out that he's not saying this for Chloe's safety, but as a way to question why Chloe doesn't love him. He states that he cares more than Rachel, and as such he deserves more time and attention from Chloe. What a dork. Anyway, Chloe just dismisses everything Eliot says and he either gets arrested for her crime or moves on from loving her.
—uricksaladbar, "Life is Strange: Before the Storm - The Worst Best Friend"
""The weird thing is, the strawmen that he attempts to make into his antagonists make more agreeable points than he does in their fictitious debates with him."
—The Bad Webcomics Wiki on So... You're a Cartoonist?
"Infinite Crisis is trying to be critical of that mindset, but it also has no answer to the rightful criticisms that mindset lobbed at the DC Universe. It has gotten too dark. The heroes have done morally questionable things that have ended up hurting themselves and others. And while it's still shaking its finger at all that, it revels in those same elements: Excessive violence, death, the heroes failing. All of it is personified in a teenager bawling his eyes out while literally ripping people apart, and screaming, "YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING!"."
"The 'evil corporate guy' decides they need to send astronauts instead of the people who built it. This sounds like some horrible, short-sighted decision... but he's absolutely f*cking right."
