Not really an example.: Family Unfriendly Aesop

Bill Watterson is more so parodying this kind of thinking than promoting it. I'm not sure what else to suggest, but I'd rather it be imageless than have this kind of non-example for a page image.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

Parodies are still examples. Just because the author doesn't agree with it doesn't mean it isn't an example.

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I'm not sure how it's a nonexample. It's just a parody there of. Since it's a YMMV page, it's probably for the best that we have some kind of parody.

Fight smart, not fair.

Picture is perfect.

It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird

I think the current picture is fine. It's just showing an in-universe example.

edited 10th Sep '11 7:25:36 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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I'm good with the current pic.

Uh, doesn`t this trope refer by definition to the message of the work itself?

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

keep the image

Yes, but it's not limited to unintentional examples. It's not a Bad Writing trope. For example, Democracy Is Bad is a stock Family-Unfriendly Aesop, and is almost always done intentionally.

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I wasn`t saying it was for unintentional aesops; on the contrary, I was referring to aesops deliberately done by the work itself.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

All it means is that the example is occurring in-universe rather than in Real Life.

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I dunno if this would work, but the Designated Hero team of the new show Redakai(a kid's show) lynch a guy at the end of episode 7. They strap him to a pterodactyl with a twenty-foot rope and let it drag him through the sky like he was being dragged by a truck. I can think of few things family unfriendlier.

Then again, Lynching in general is just poor taste, so the current image is fine.

edited 19th Sep '11 10:03:14 PM by Kohdok

I'm not sure that's An Aesop.

Fight smart, not fair.

True, the big moral of the episode has to do with trust and betrayal, but the lynching is the retribution for said betrayal, making it tie right in. Calling the authorities is even given as an option that is ignored by the heroes in favor of stringing him to a fast-moving animal. "If someone betrays you and threatens your life, don't call the feds, lynch the guy!"

edited 19th Sep '11 10:37:34 PM by Kohdok

Is that shown in the image?

Fight smart, not fair.

How's this?◊

"Lynching: one of the many "hilarious" ways Team Stax solves their problems."

edited 19th Sep '11 10:51:08 PM by Kohdok

Actually, This One◊ might be better. Look at how much fun Mookie is having riding that OH DEAR GOD HE'S DRAGGING THAT MAN LIKE HE WAS STRAPPED TO A TRUCK!! These two frames are literally about a second apart. The Family-Unfriendly Aesop about it being treated as appropriate retribution can be explained in the examples section.

edited 19th Sep '11 11:08:56 PM by Kohdok

Do keep in mind that being an example is not as important as showing the trope. Particularly if the reader hasn't consumed the work themselves.

Fight smart, not fair.

Well, the goofy-looking Mookie seems to be having a lot of fun while he drags the guy behind him in the second image I posted. If that's not endorsement, I don't know what is. That, and I think (and hope) that your average Joe knows that lynching is wrong.

I could push in on Mookie to show his mirth better, if you want.

EDIT: Like this?◊

edited 19th Sep '11 11:32:54 PM by Kohdok

fine with current image

This is Mimi-don't let her cuteness fool you-she's got spunk.

Having a work portraying something doesn't mean that the work automatically endorses it. And it doesn't really look like a lynching anyway.

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I'm not seeing a problem with the current image.

Rhymes with "Protracted."

For an alternative, how about this cover for a recent issue of TIME? Parental favoritism is a pretty touchy subject, and many parents guilty of it tend to be in denial; so outright saying things like "mom liked you best" is pretty family-unfriendly.

edited 12th Oct '11 3:39:06 PM by HiddenFacedMatt

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

Possibly.

I don't know...I don't really have much of a problem with the current picture.

This is Mimi-don't let her cuteness fool you-she's got spunk.