Is Sam from Danny Phantom really the best page image? There are plenty of examples that are more iconic than her—Lisa Simpson, for one.
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The image has to illustrate trope - people have to understand what the image means without having seen the work it is from and this image does
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Thar be flabbergasting!
Is Huey Freeman in The Boondocks (and the TV show) a Soapbox Sadie as well?
He tends to go beyond protesting, believing them ineffective, and actually physically fight the people he feels are his enemies though.
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What does "Sadie" means? I found in google that it is a nickname for Sarah... so Soapbox Sarah? Or what I used to think it was "Soapbox sadist"...
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It's a generic name. Like how someone says "well, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but..." Sadie is the name that gets attached to Soapbox.
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That's common for more slangy terms, yeah.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
I stand corrected.
- The namesake for this trope is the character of Sadie Lowenstein, who had this nickname in the musical TV film Mrs. Santa Claus. Sadie was a young suffragette in 1910 Manhattan who literally got up on her soapbox (that is, she made her speeches atop a box marked "SOAP").
It probably stuck because of the alliteration and catchiness, but I guess it is specifically named for her.
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This seems to imply there's something wrong with protest in general,what's the difference and [1]?
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I think the condition should be added that it must be played for laughs. I don't think every activist character counts as this.
Betty Cooper?
Unless this trope is intended to be a lot broader than the description details, Betty Cooper (Archie Comics) doesn't fit the bill.
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This definitely needs narrowing,it seems to be saying that any protestor is automatically wrong and whiny
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I wonder, how come this trope is always female? I can recall seeing plenty of male examples on documentaries and the news.
I admit it, you can call me a Soapbox Steve. I'm really passionate about eradicating sinophobia throughout the world and making Chinese as widely used a language as English.
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