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Went through live action and animated film sections. Had to go through a lot of square pegs. If you disagree with my edits, discuss.
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The Justice League one should be put back. Its an entirely valid entry as Justice Lord!Batman really does have a point.
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Something that is deliberately intended as a moral grey area is not a strawman.
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More square pegs have been pulled out. Anime, Literature, Theater, and Video Games sections still need to be gone through.
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Theater has been taken care of; only two entries qualified. Video games were also taken care of. Amusingly, video games which leave the moral choice to the player were included. Professional Wrestling really looks like a huge mess and I am tempted to just cut the entire thing. Are there really arguments to be caricaturized in that category, or is it all a case of characters not getting along?
edited 21st Apr '13 7:15:19 AM by EditorPallMall
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I say cut. I was gonna say "check the wrestling forum" but we don't have one.
I checked around and found what I think is a valid example for literature from the New Jedi Order series, one that was eventually discarded because later authors recognized it for a strawman.
edited 21st Apr '13 10:50:56 AM by StarSword
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Though I checked back and somebody's added a questionable sentence to it, and I'm not at all sure about the Fate of the Jedi one (it seems more like a Broken Aesop than SHAP).
edited 21st Apr '13 10:59:00 AM by StarSword
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No one has any thoughts on Professional Wrestling? Anyone believe we loose anything by cutting it?
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I don't even know why we count it as a medium of its own. It's reality TV WITH HUGE SWEATY GUYS!
edited 22nd Apr '13 7:35:12 PM by StarSword
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Purged the section wholesale. Analysis showed that the trope was being regarded as 'Heel Has a Point' instead of 'Strawman Has a Point'. If there are legitimate examples of SHAP in Professional Wrestling feel free to add them; but it has to be about an argument being characterized that makes at least some amount of sense.
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No, the other one.
Heel Has A Point is Villain Has a Point, so they'd fit there.
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Is there still misuse? Seems like there are some people purging the dubious examples.
OK, I cleaned the sections that Editor Pall Mall didn't edit and watchlisted the page for further quality control. It is clean now.
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No. That is a trope (though it seems redundant but that is for another thread), this is an Audiance Reaction.
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