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Per TRS, removed from No On-Page Examples because it's an index and Not a Trope.

Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.

Would Scam Religion count here to?

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Strawmen don't exist in real life, started by HersheleOstropoler on Oct 20th 2010 at 3:41:20 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Proposal To Rename "Straw" Tropes, started by Discar on Jul 21st 2011 at 3:47:42 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Why is Agent Scully considered a straw man, but Agent Mulder isn't?

I have a couple of angles in the world of straw that either I wasn't able to recognize in the list, or might make a good page.

overstuffed strawman: A strawman so exaggerated to be extremely obvious. This can be used on one's own position to highlight strawmen used against it. (Which makes it something of a strawman of a strawman.) Or it can be a stawman without enough finesse to be convincing.

buried in straw: A group or position that has been so heavily misrepresented that being taken seriously becomes difficult or impossible. Something of the inverse of a sacred cow.

General Ripper should be on the list as a common straw representative of the military industrial complex. Then again, maybe there should be a supertrope/subtrope in between, since even where there isn't an identifiable ripper, there can be a cast of straw.

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