History AnalogyBackfire / RealLife

** Such people will also claim that humans are the only animals that regularly consume the milk of another creature, even though there have been several noteworthy examples of dogs nursing kittens, etc.

* Creator/AynRand said, "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win." However, some substances that are poisonous in large quantities are harmless or even necessary for life in smaller quantities. A good example of this is sodium.

** Such people will also claim that humans are the only animals that regularly consume the milk of another creature, even though there have been several noteworthy examples of dogs nursing kittens, etc.

* Creator/AynRand said, "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win." However, some substances that are poisonous in large quantities are harmless or even necessary for life in smaller quantities. A good example of this is sodium.

* The quote "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" has been disproven by a recent study that shows that you ''can''. Older dogs are more intelligent, more experienced, and more disciplined than their younger counterparts, making them easier to train.
* The saying "you can't turn back the clock". It's actually fairly easy to change the time on a clock, as people who live in places with daylight savings can tell you.

* The phrase "fighting like cats and dogs", referring to the centuries long clashes between the two species. Except, there's just as many examples of ''loving'' relationships between them as well.

* [[https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1668083952039362561 This headline]] from ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' describes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_Dam Kakhovka Dam collapse]] as "[[[UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} Ukraine]]]'s UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}," referring to the Chernobyl disaster that happened in...Ukraine.[[note]]To be fair, Chernobyl occurred while Ukraine was still part of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]].[[/note]]

* [[ScienceIsBad Anti-Biotechnology]] groups often refer to genetically modified crops and farm animals as "Frankenfood," presumably arguing that because it was created in a lab like the [[IAmNotShazam Frankenstein Monster]], it must be as dangerous as the FrankensteinsMonster. Anyone who has read the book or seen the movie knows that the monster was originally innocent and benign and only turned to evil when provoked by the bigotry of humans. On the other hand, it's possible that they ''did'' read the novel, and were thinking of ''Victor Frankenstein'''s failure to foresee or take responsibility for the ultimate results of his attempt to play God ForScience. Naturally, Bio-Engineered Food Scientists are ''quite'' concerned with testing or tracking their creations, but whether or not they are required to do so enough or to have their research independently verified by non-industry sources is the central issue here.
** Ironically, non-genetically engineered food is almost never tested for safety, despite the fact that there is no particular reason to believe it would be any less hazardous; indeed, plants produce natural insecticides to deter predation, and traditional plant breeding is actually more likely to introduce undesirable variations in the expression of these traits.
* As Jimmy Carr has pointed out, this applies to the people who have described UsefulNotes/BarackObama as a cross between JFK and Martin Luther King. Both of whom were shot. Let's hope we won't get something worse than a bad analogy.

** He's also been favorably compared to [[Series/TwentyFour David Palmer,]] who was the first black President, led a country in turmoil in the UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and was also assassinated after several failed attempts. Like the above examples, it is hoped that in this instance LifeImitatesArt is averted.

--> (Speaker) -Comrades, we have an unprecedented issue here: about nullifying the membership in our Academy for Sakharov...
--> ([[OnlySaneMan Capitza]]) -Why unprecedented? [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler]] once nullified the membership of Einstein in German Academy...
--> The issue was promptly dropped.

* During the 2010 California gubernatorial election, Meg Whitman said in a speech she wanted California to be like it was back when she first moved there. It took approximately 30 seconds for Jerry Brown's campaign to put out a commercial helpfully pointing out that when Whitman had moved to California, Brown had been the governor.
* During the earlier stages of Obamacare, UsefulNotes/SarahPalin tried to speak out against it by doing a parody of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''. Critics of Palin were quick to point out that the moral of the original story was [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam "do not claim that you hate something without even trying it first",]] and that the protagonist ''really liked them'' when he tried them.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil Once Brazilian people started protesting in 2013]], a few of the revolted started calling the movement "Brazilian Spring" or "Brazilian Autumn" after UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring. While both were popular uprisings, the Arab Spring was met with much repression, at times evolving into armed conflict, and had already at that point seen its pro-democracy intentions instead installing some much worse governments. Not exactly the outcome the South Americans expect...

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* A Mexican left-leaner informative/satirical political magazine ran an informative strip criticizing the Mexican Drug War, denouncing it as being orchestrated by "greedy U.S. capitalists" in order to take control of Mexico just as the Opium Wars were orchestrated by "greedy British capitalists" to take control of China; unfortunately, if the parallel was correct then it would make the ''Mexicans'' greedy capitalists who would want to take control of the U.S. and impose the legal sale of drugs. (Unless the author is also [[FridgeBrilliance making a point about]] history being WrittenByTheWinners.)
** And from the same author of the aforementioned strip, [[http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/09/26/cartones/0 this editorial political cartoon]] referring to the new Mexican Labor Laws: [[ShoutOut It depicts a poor worker being crushed by the]] "[[Film/ModernTimes Modern Labor Machinery]]" while representing two of the major political parties that are pushing these new laws ([=PAN=] and [=PRI=], that hold opposing views from the author's) as the main cogs of this evil mechanism; however you'll notice that the positioning of the [=PRI=] cog would ''[[SpannerInTheWorks actually prevent]]'' [[SpannerInTheWorks the whole system from working]], something that's actually true, since historically the [=PRI=] has opposed many of the [=PAN=]'s proposed reforms.
* Simon Hoggart pointed out that any speech from John Major included a fair few of these. For example, Major once said that Labour and taxes go together like peaches and cream, causing Hoggart to remark that people actually like peaches and cream?
* Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he was inspired by King David when he ran for office. Unfortunately he didn't read the entirety of 2 Samuel which led to infidelity, murder, rebellion, and Israel on the brink to ruin. Guess what happens to the city of Detroit after Kilpatrick's sex scandal and other crimes were exposed? Thankfully no rebellion was carried out.

* The religious Evangelical subculture in the US tend to promote old fashioned courtship rules for young people (girls never left unattended with boys, no physical contact until marriage, dating only as a prelude to marriage, etc). One of the more prominent programs is Bill Gothard's "Lancelot Lives", only going to show that no one involved seems to realize they named their program after one of literature's most famous adulterers.
* In response to reports of PoliceBrutality, one official claimed in 2016 that "Are there a few bad apples? Yeah," in an attempt to dismiss the reports as [[VocalMinority a handful of]] BlackSheep [[VocalMinority making the majority of good cops look bad]]. Creator/JohnOliver had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XayaS1OSc a good time pointing out]] on his show, ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', that the full phrase is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch" (because rotting apples release a chemical which causes nearby apples to accelerate ripening)-- which suggests the exact opposite, [[InherentInTheSystem that the existence of these bad cops is reason to believe that the whole organization is corrupt]].
* Shortly before the 2016 Presidential Election, Mike Huckabee appeared on Fox News where he compared Donald Trump to the character Quint from Film/{{Jaws}}, saying that one could overlook his vulgar and unconventional ways because he was going to save everyone from the shark, which he likened to Hillary Clinton. As Megyn Kelly immediately pointed out however, the movie ends with [[spoiler: Quint getting eaten by the shark]].
* [[http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-the-wrongest-harry-potter-related-anti-abortion-signs-youll-ever-see-2 This]] anti-abortion sign invoked the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' franchise by asking, "If Lily Potter had an abortion, then who would stop Voldemort?". Website/{{Tumblr}} users quickly pointed out that Lily Potter was an educated, healthy, financially-stable woman in a happy marriage with a large support network and was carrying a wanted child who was developing healthily in the womb, so she had no reason to consider having an abortion. They then pointed out that if Voldemort's mother, Merope Gaunt (who was an impoverished and uneducated woman pregnant by a husband who had abandoned her, who had an abusive father and brother that she had run away from, had several mental and physical health issues that contributed to her DeathByChildbirth, and no friends or anybody else she could turn to for support), had access to safe abortion services, then all the suffering in the ''Harry Potter'' books never would have happened.
** Another take simply reads: "Neville" [[note]] The character would have been the subject of the prophecy ''Harry Potter'' centers around had Voldemort decided to target the Longbottoms first instead of the Potters, [[AudienceColoringAdaptation which isn't shown in the movies]] [[/note]].

* A common argument in favour of veganism is that gorillas, which are closely related to humans, have very large canine teeth and obviously get enough protein despite being herbivores. Except gorillas are actually omnivores; while they mostly eat fruit, they occasionally eat insects [[{{Squick}} and other gorillas, especially babies]].
** Besides, "closely related" doesn't mean "exactly the same", so what works for a gorilla won't necessarily work for a human.

* During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Director-General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin made [[https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1502375246183211008 a tweet]] comparing the invasion of a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon where Tom is bullying Jerry, Jerry seeks the protection of BullyBulldog Spike, but Spike can't help him due to leash laws leaving him stuck by his doghouse. He analogizes Tom to Russia, Jerry to Ukraine, and Spike to NATO. People were quick to point out that the defining trait of ''Tom and Jerry'' is that Jerry basically always wins against Tom, and the cartoon is no exception; it ends the leash law being repealed and Spike beating Tom senseless and humiliating him.
* After the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas in May 2022, many conservative politicians rebutted calls for stronger gun control laws by saying "We didn't ban airplanes after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].". This argument ignores that: 1.) All air travel ''was'' suspended immediately after the attacks. 2.) Airplanes aren't designed with the intent to harm others the way guns are. 3.) Airplanes aren't available to be bought the way guns are. 4.) Anybody that wants to become a pilot must go through strict training before becoming certified as a pilot.
* On May 24, 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed after winning the primaries that, "We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they're as safe as they are in a classroom." On the exact same day, a gunman killed 21 people in Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, most of whom were children, and this was merely the ''latest'' in a long line of mass shooting incidents at schools. It didn't take long for people to call Sanders out for her poor choice of words.

* In April 2023, Rep. Webster Barnaby of Florida defended a law prohibiting transgender people from using their preferred bathroom by comparing transgenders to [[https://www.wonkette.com/florida-bigot-unclear-on-concept-are-trans-people-x-men-because-those-guys-are-awesome the mutants from the]] ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' - movies. He was apparently not aware that the mutants in the X-Men franchise are either superheroes or, at worst, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]], while the real villains are the anti-mutant bigots.
* In early 2020, as UsefulNotes/BernieSanders was the frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, there were pundits arguing against Sanders's popularity, with MSNBC's Chris Matthews [[GodwinsLaw comparing Sanders' victory in the Nevada primaries to Adolf Hitler's invasion of France]]. [[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/23/msnbc-chris-matthews-sanders-nevada-win-nazi-invasion Sanders supporters and many others immediately pointed]] out that not only was Sanders Jewish, but ''some of his relatives were killed during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust'', which led to Matthews resigning from MSNBC.
* After Caesar Augustus became the supreme leader of the Roman Empire, he set up a temple for Mars and Venus in Rome to subtly sanctify his leadership. Augustus' family, the Julians, claimed to be descendants of Venus and Mars, as Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, were their sons. Witty Romans, however, quickly pointed out that Mars and Venus famously had an affair behind Venus' husbands' backs, so Augustus had essentially built a temple for adultery. Augustus' fondness for advocating traditional moral values made this even funnier.
* The cartoon [[https://img.ifunny.co/images/02382e5335b76fa833fc3de80b4c255701ddc5e6c4017572114b3b8d1a7824a9_1.webp "Victim mentality will get you killed"]] compares building an IslandHelpMessage on a FarSideIsland and waiting to be rescued to saving yourself by using the wood to build a raft, in an attempt to make a point about personal responsibility. Setting off into the open ocean on an improvised craft without so much as a coconut on board is ''even more likely'' to get you killed.

* In the 2007 NCAA Basketball tournament, upon being asked about his match-up with future NBA #1 pick (and much taller) Ohio St.'s Greg Oden, U. of Memphis center Joey Dorsey infamously remarked that this was a 'David and Goliath' match-up... "and I'm Goliath." Turns out, he was right after all: Dorsey was held scoreless and Oden had a monster game.
* Likewise, on the eve of the infamous 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Miami and Penn State, the Miami players attended a pregame banquet clad in combat fatigues while the Penn State players wore suits. Some Penn State players performed a skit onstage and made offensive jokes, causing Miami defensive tackle Jerome Brown to attempt a walkout. Brown was televised saying "Did the Japanese go sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?" As the Miami players began to walk out, Penn State punter John Bruno retorted "Excuse me, but didn't the Japanese lose the war?" At the Fiesta Bowl afterwards, Penn State proceeded to upset Miami 14-10 and win their second national championship.

* During the final days of the infamous biotech firm Theranos (in which it finally came to light that their technology never worked and they had committed fraud on a massive scale), CEO Elizabeth Holmes bought [[SkewedPriorities a puppy to serve as their mascot]]. She named the puppy Balto, after a legendary Alaskan sled-dog that in 1925 trekked 600 miles from Nenana to Nome carrying medicine to fight a diphteria outbreak. Balto was clearly supposed to be an analogy for Theranos' current struggles. However, according to ''Time'', Balto only completed the last leg of the trip and got all the credit for carrying the medicine into town while another dog, Togo, who ran 261 miles and saved his driver and the dogs at one point was ignored. To add insult to injury, she routinely claimed that this puppy ([[BlatantLies which was very obviously a husky]]) [[https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/elizabeth-holmes-told-everyone-her-husky-dog-was-a-wolf.html was a wolf]], playing into her reputation for dishonesty.

* In UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Robert E. Lee had copies of Literature/LesMiserables given to all the officers of the Confederacy, because he thought it symbolized their cause. Now, if you've ever read the book/seen the musical/watched one of the many film adaptations/read a synopsis online so you could look smart by knowing the plot and understanding allusions to it without having [[{{Doorstopper}} to read it]], you know that the June Uprising was an absolute failure. All but one of the rebels die, the barricades fall after one day, the failed revolt didn't lead to any changes in government, and Les Amis d'ABC didn't even take anyone down with them. Fittingly, the Confederacy lost the war. The same applies to protesters who use "Do You Hear the People Sing?", Les Amis' AngryMobSong, as their ProtestSong. For extra points, Creator/VictorHugo was famously anti-slavery and even wrote a pamphlet against the execution of John Brown (whom Lee helped ''arrest'').

* After Caesar Augustus had become supreme leader of the Roman Empire, he set up a temple for Mars and Venus in Rome. This was meant as a subtle way of sanctifying his leadership, as Augustus' family, the Julians, claimed to be descendants of Venus, and Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, were sons of Mars. Witty Romans, however, quickly pointed out that Mars and Venus famously had an affair behind Venus' husbands back, so Augustus had essentially built a temple for adultery. This was made even funnier by Augustus' fondness for advocating traditional moral values.

* In 2018, Marco Rubio appeared at a gun control debate, where he tried to argue that background checks wouldn't be effective, because 'Once you start looking at how easy it is to get around it, you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle that's sold in America.' The crowd immediately broke out into applause.

* On May 24, 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed after winning the primaries that, "We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they're as safe as they are in a classroom." On the exact same day, a gunman killed 21 people in Rob Elementary School in Uvalde Texas, most of whom were children, and this was merely the ''latest'' in a long line of mass shooting incidents at schools. It didn't take long for people to call Sanders out for her poor choice of words.

* When Angus Deayton was fired from his job on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' after the second round of wacky cocaine-and-prostitute hijinks, a longtime panelist from the show said "We've lost Zeppo, it's no big deal". You'd think a very big aficionado of old comedy (to the point of having written a book on the subject) like Merton would remember that while Zeppo is often perceived as the blandest, a lot of people claim he's just as funny as his brothers, but subtler and more of an acquired taste. Although like the Marx Brothers post-Zeppo, ''Have I Got News for You'' managed to continue clicking along quite nicely without Deayton, which restores the validity of the analogy.

* [[https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1668083952039362561 This headline]] from ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' describes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_Dam Kakhovka Dam collapse]] as "[[[UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} Ukraine]]]'s UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}. Just one problem with this analogy: Chernobyl ''is'' in Ukraine.[[note]]To be fair, the Chernobyl disaster occurred while Ukraine was still part of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]].[[/note]]

* Back in TheEighties, the media liked to compare Music/MichaelJackson to Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin (one of the ''Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge'' yearbooks titled a whole article "The Pied Piper of Pop"), owing to his huge popularity. Such comparisons forgot [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what the Pied Piper did to Hamelin's children]] when the mayor and his underlings wouldn't pay him. In the years since Jackson was first accused of child molestation in 1993, this analogy is usually not applied by those speaking up for Jackson, [[http://www.innermichael.com/2010/01/michael-and-shadow but this author]] not only uses it, but seems unaware that the reason the children followed the Piper is because ''they were bewitched into doing so'', not because they instinctively knew he was a good guy.

* When Creator/ReginaldHudlin had the ComicBook/BlackPanther and [[ComicBook/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] of the ComicBook/XMen [[TokenRomance married]] (pissing off many fans), Creator/JoeQuesada gave it the heads up, and called it the Creator/MarvelComics equivalent of "Prince Charles and Princess Diana". The thing is, Princess Diana was believed to be trapped a loveless marriage, separated in 1993, had a romantic fling with Dodi al-Fayed, heir to Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, before the couple were killed in a car crash after being zealously hounded by paparazzi. Maybe Joe's trying to tell us something here...

* A Website/TVTropes related one! Creator/WaltDisney has an extensive [[WeCare Corporate responsibility page]]. In the [[ThinkOfTheChildren "Children and Family"]] section, they have a [[ThinkOfTheCensors Standards and Practices]] page [[http://disney.go.com/crreport/childrenandfamily/contentfordifferentages/standardsandpractices.html located here]]. The show they use to illustrate it? ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', noted for [[Radar/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace getting the you-know-what past the you-know-what]].

* When Creator/ReginaldHudlin had the ComicBook/BlackPanther and [[ComicBook/{{MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] of the ComicBook/XMen [[TokenRomance married]] (pissing off many fans), Creator/JoeQuesada gave it the heads up, and called it the Creator/MarvelComics equivalent of "Prince Charles and Princess Diana". The thing is, Princess Diana was believed to be trapped a loveless marriage, separated in 1993, had a romantic fling with Dodi al-Fayed, heir to Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, before the couple were killed in a car crash after being zealously hounded by paparazzi. Maybe Joe's trying to tell us something here...

-->'''President Trump''': You fucking generals, why can't you be like the German generals?
--> '''General John Kelly''': Which generals?
-->'''President Trump''': The German generals in World War II.
--> '''General John Kelly''': You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?
-->'''President Trump''': [[KnowNothingKnowItAll No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him.]]

* In April 2023, Rep. Webster Barnaby of Florida defended a law prohibiting transgender people from using their preferred bathroom by comparing transgenders to [[https://www.wonkette.com/florida-bigot-unclear-on-concept-are-trans-people-x-men-because-those-guys-are-awesome the mutants from the]] ''Film/XMen'' - movies. He was apparently not aware that the mutants in the X-men franchise are either superheroes or, at worst, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]], while the real villains are the anti-mutant bigots.

* After Caesar Augustus had become supreme leader of the Roman Empire, he set up a temple for Mars and Venus in Rome. This was meant as a subtle way of sanctifying his leadership, as Augustus family, the Julians, claimed to be descendants of Venus, and the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of Mars according to legend. Witty Romans quickly pointed out that Mars and Venus famously had an affair behind Venus' husbands back, so Augustus had essentially built a temple for adultery. This was made funnier as Augustus was very much a "family values" kind of politician.

* At his trial for multiple murders, John Wayne Gacy's defense team argued that he suffered from split personality disorder, comparing Gacy to [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]. Gacy's lawyers apparently made this argument based on the [[PopCultureOsmosis popular assumption]] that Jekyll has neither awareness nor control over Hyde's crimes in the book. The prosecutor then read the book and, as he pointed out in his closing arguments, realized that not only is Jekyll aware of Hyde's evil acts, but [[ForTheEvulz he keeps taking the potion because he enjoys said acts]]. The jury then sentenced Gacy to death.

* On May 24, 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed after winning the primaries that, "We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they're as safe as they are in a classroom." On the exact same day, a gunman killed 21 people in Rob Elementary School in Uvalde Texas, most of whom were children, and this was merely the ''latest'' in a long line of mass shooting incidents at schools. It didn't took long for people to call Sanders out for her poor choice of words.

** Another take simply reads: "Neville" [[note]] The character would have been the subject of the prophecy ''Harry Potter'' centers around had Voldemort decided to target the Longbottoms first instead of the Potters [[/note]].
* A common pro-choice argument is to compare a human fetus to a [[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/4/15/1082439/-The-fetus-is-a-parasite parasite.]] Pro-Life activists regularly point out that parasite is defined as "an organism that lives and feeds on or in an organism of a different species and causes harm to its host," and that the [[https://gizmodo.com/fetuses-can-donate-their-stem-cells-to-help-heal-their-5861990 fetus can send their stem cells to help their mother.]]

* On May 24, 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed after winning the primaries that, "We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they're as safe as they are in a classroom." On the exact same day, a gunman killed 21 people in Rob Elementary School in Uvalde Texas, most of whom were children, and this was merely the ''latest'' in a long line of mass shooting incidents at schools. It wasn't long before people took Sanders to task for her poor choice of words.

* The cartoon [[https://img.ifunny.co/images/02382e5335b76fa833fc3de80b4c255701ddc5e6c4017572114b3b8d1a7824a9_1.webp "Victim mentality will get you killed"]] unfavorably compares building an IslandHelpMessage on a FarSideIsland and waiting to be rescued to saving yourself by using the wood to build a raft, in an attempt to make a point about personal responsibility. Setting off into the open ocean on an improvised craft without so much as a coconut on board is ''even more likely'' to get you killed.

** Another take simply reads: "Neville" [[note]] The character in question also could have been the subject of the prophecy ''Harry Potter'' centers around, if Voldemort decided to target the Longbottoms first instead of the Potters [[/note]].
* A common pro-choice argument is to compare a human fetus to a [[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/4/15/1082439/-The-fetus-is-a-parasite parasite.]] Anti-abortion activists regularly point out that parasite is defined as "an organism that lives and feeds on or in an organism of a different species and causes harm to its host," and that the [[https://gizmodo.com/fetuses-can-donate-their-stem-cells-to-help-heal-their-5861990 fetus can send their stem cells to help their mother.]]

* When Creator/ReginaldHudlin had the ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ComicBook/XMen [[TokenRomance married]] (pissing off many fans), Creator/JoeQuesada gave it the heads up, and called it the Creator/MarvelComics equivalent of "Prince Charles and Princess Diana". The thing is, Princess Diana was believed to be trapped a loveless marriage, separated in 1993, had a romantic fling with Dodi al-Fayed, heir to Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, before the couple were killed in a car crash after being zealously hounded by paparazzi. Maybe Joe's trying to tell us something here...

* In early 2020, as UsefulNotes/BernieSanders was the frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, there were pundits arguing against Sanders's popularity, with MSNBC's Chris Matthews [[GodwinsLaw comparing Sanders' victory in the Nevada primaries to Adolf Hitler's invasion of France]]. [[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/23/msnbc-chris-matthews-sanders-nevada-win-nazi-invasion Sanders supporters and many others immediately pointed]] out that [[UnfortunateImplications not only was Sanders Jewish, but]] ''[[UnfortunateImplications some of his relatives were killed during]] UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust'', [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor which led to Matthews resigning from MSNBC]].

* After Caesar Augustus had become supreme leader of the Roman Empire, he set up a temple for Mars and Venus in Rome. This was meant as a subtle way of sanctifying his leadership, as Augustus family, the Julians, claimed to be descendents of Venus, and the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of Mars according to legend. Witty Romans quickly pointed out that Mars and Venus famously had an affair behind Venus' husbands back, so Augustus had essentially built a temple for adultery. This was made funnier as Augustus was very much a "family values" kind of politician.

* At his trial for multiple murders, John Wayne Gacy's defense team argued that he suffered from split personality disorder, comparing Gacy to [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]. Gacy's lawyers apparently made this argument based on the [[PopCultureOsmosis popular assumption]] that Jekyll has neither awareness nor control over Hyde's crimes in the book. The prosecutor then read the book and, as he pointed out in his closing arguments, realized that not only is Jekyll aware of Hyde's evil acts, but [[ForTheEvulz he keeps taking the potion because he enjoys said acts]]. The jury sentenced Gacy to death.

* After Caesar Augustus had become supreme leader of the Roman Empire, he erected a temple for Mars and Venus in Rome. This was meant as a subtle way of sanctifying his leadership, as Augustus family, the Julians, claimed to be descendents of Venus, and the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of Mars according to legend. However, witty Romans were quick to point out that Mars and Venus famously were having an affair behind Venus' husbands back, so Augustus had essentially built a temple for adultery. (This was made funnier as Augustus was very much a "family values" kind of politician.)

* At his trial for multiple murders, John Wayne Gacy's defense team argued that he suffered from split personality disorder, explicitly comparing Gacy to [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]. Gacy's lawyers apparently made this argument based on the [[PopCultureOsmosis popular assumption]] that Jekyll has neither awareness nor control over Hyde's crimes in the book. The prosecutor then read the book and, as he pointed out in his closing arguments, realized that not only is Jekyll aware of Hyde's evil acts, but [[ForTheEvulz he keeps taking the potion because he enjoys said acts]]. The jury ultimately sentenced Gacy to death.