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** Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ in a fake Mr T PSA]] on Series/KeyAndPeele, where all the anvils he throws down are about him.
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* YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.

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* YoungFrankenstein's Film/YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.
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* Creator/BradJones reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]] on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist Christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.

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* Creator/BradJones reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]] on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist Christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', them''; Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
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** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."

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** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper... fanny... walloper... [[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...typewriter]]... batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...crease... bellend... tuna sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
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* ''DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?

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* ''DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]].setting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
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* ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that everyone who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard.

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* ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that everyone who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dAFbpk9_GM Russell Brand's "parody" of Parklife]] is about as subtle about corporate greed and political corruption as using a chainsaw to trim threads. Filled with obvious {{Take That}}s against UKIP, Starbucks and David Cameron, it seems to paint Brand as a Straw Liberal. Worse still, it's not even funny.
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** "So, I was trying to communicate that women, uh, enjoy {{Tetris}} a lot. Is that clear?
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* {{Brental Floss}} in one of his original songs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKTdrQqpNk Tetris WITH LYRICS]].

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* {{Brental Floss}} in one of his original songs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKTdrQqpNk Tetris WITH LYRICS]].
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* {{Brental Floss}} in one of his original songs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKTdrQqpNk Tetris WITH LYRICS]].
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** The Onion is often anvilicious non-ironically, as the writers' very liberal bias is worn like a badge. One recent article was simply about people in the future scolding people in the present for not legalizing gay marriage (also, in the future, every single person in the entire world is pro-choice).

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** The Onion is often anvilicious non-ironically, as the writers' very liberal bias is worn like a badge. One recent article was simply about people in the future scolding people in the present for not legalizing gay marriage (also, in the future, every single person in the entire world is pro-choice).
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* [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]], a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.

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* [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] Creator/BradJones reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]], Decision]] on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist christians Christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
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** Another common problem is that sex educational videos buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.

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** Another common problem is that older sex educational videos materials (and even modern abstinence-only ones) buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.
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* ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that '''everyone''' who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard who spits on compassion for their fellow man.
-->'But y’see, science is a double-edged razor. It provides us with better ways to feed ourselves, protect ourselves, and move from place to place, but it also breeds isolation and a “me-first” mentality. When people— Garou included — don’t feel like they have to struggle to survive, they get soft and selfish. After a while, everyone starts feeling like the lead in their own personal movie. Everyone and everything else in the world becomes supporting cast and background material. At that point, nothing is good unless it enriches you. Unless it makes your life safer, more comfortable, more fun. Don’t shake your head, you know I’m right! After a while, nothing in this world matters unless it somehow makes you feel better! Now multiply that by the amount of people in the world today, square it by the economies of nations, and subtract any sort of feeling of community or family. Our family tree is dying — literally! — because we don’t feel or feed its roots any longer.''

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* ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that '''everyone''' everyone who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard who spits on compassion for their fellow man.
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* ''WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that '''everyone''' who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard who spits on compassion for their fellow man.
-->'But y’see, science is a double-edged razor. It provides us with better ways to feed ourselves, protect ourselves, and move from place to place, but it also breeds isolation and a “me-first” mentality. When people— Garou included — don’t feel like they have to struggle to survive, they get soft and selfish. After a while, everyone starts feeling like the lead in their own personal movie. Everyone and everything else in the world becomes supporting cast and background material. At that point, nothing is good unless it enriches you. Unless it makes your life safer, more comfortable, more fun. Don’t shake your head, you know I’m right! After a while, nothing in this world matters unless it somehow makes you feel better! Now multiply that by the amount of people in the world today, square it by the economies of nations, and subtract any sort of feeling of community or family. Our family tree is dying — literally! — because we don’t feel or feed its roots any longer.''
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* Creator/HenrikIbsen dropped some heavy anvils in his play {{Theatre/Brand}}. The title character is a notorious carrier and tosser of anvils all the way, and one scene, showing a starving and freezing mother with a child begging for clothes and shelter on christmas eve, is anvilicious in spades. The anvil dropped is so heavy it actually kills off one of the lead characters in-play (Agnes, the wife of Brand).
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** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwhich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."

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** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwhich", sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
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* Face it. At one point in your life, you've come across something, a TV Show, a Movie, a Article, A website, at least something you have come across has turned out to be anvilicious, whether or not [[TropesAreTools that's a bad thing]], is up to you. Just remember to keep a open mind and make sure they aren't pulling things out of thin air or going for the reactionary stuff.
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* Face it. At one point in your life, you've come across something, a TV Show, a Movie, a Article, A website, at least something you have come across has turned out to be anvilicious, whether or not [[TropesAreTools that's a bad thing]], is up to you. Just remember to keep a open mind and make sure they aren't pulling things out of thin air or going for the reactionary stuff.
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* ''TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?

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* ''TheChroniclesOfFate''.''DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
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* ''TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29426 Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers]]

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* During WorldWarTwo, many radio shows devoted some time to explaining and/or promoting various wartime programs (rationing, War Bond drives, etc). Most of them were less than subtle about it.

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* During WorldWarTwo, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, many radio shows devoted some time to explaining and/or promoting various wartime programs (rationing, War Bond drives, etc). Most of them were less than subtle about it. \n [[http://files.libertyfund.org/img/2358/RideAlone_b_1000.jpg Such as this infamous poster]].



* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the BlackEyedPeas took a moment during the halftime show to tell Obama to reform the school systems.
* Practically every child has had to attend an Assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some Health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.

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* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the BlackEyedPeas Music/BlackEyedPeas took a moment during the halftime show to tell Obama to reform the school systems.
* Practically every child has had to attend an Assembly assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some Health health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.
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* During WorldWarTwo, many radio shows devoted some time to explaining and/or promoting various wartime programs (rationing, War Bond drives, etc). Most of them were less than subtle about it.
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* WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever: A population of short, brown people who live in a part of town that looks like your typical post-Soviet city and even speak Polish[?] are exploited by the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation aptly named White society]] as cheap labor [[spoiler: and [[HumanResources spare parts]].]] SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, though.

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* WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever: A population of short, brown people who live in a part of town that looks like your typical post-Soviet city and even speak Polish[?] Polish [?] are exploited by the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation aptly named White society]] as cheap labor [[spoiler: and [[HumanResources spare parts]].]] SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, though.
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* WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever: A population of short, brown people who live in a part of town that looks like your typical post-Soviet city and even speak Polish[?] are exploited by the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation aptly named White society]] as cheap labor [[spoiler: and [[HumanResources spare parts]].]] SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, though.
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* The BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".

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* The BigFinishDoctorWho AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".
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* A [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Downfall parody]], ''The Antic Menace'' condemns human {{greed}} in its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYnB0lYn4Gg fourth episode]], via a quote by Creator/CharlieChaplin.
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* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts''. Evangelical tracts are overt teaching materials by nature (as their purpose is to convert people), but Chick manages to make some of the others look almost subtle, in his merciless attempts to batter home points in a fashion a four year old would find obvious.
* A fair amount of ECComics stories are spectacularly unsubtle; [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgement Day]] in particular. A robot civilization with clear different castes for robots with orange casing and robots with blue casing being evaluated for whether or not it's worthy to join TheFederation falls short, the two castes mirror "Separate But Equal" very closely, and at the end we see that the evaluator is black.
* "What's So Funny 'Bout Truth, Justice, and the American Way", an issue of ''{{Superman}}'' that satirized the comic team ''TheAuthority'' and their violent approach to crime fighting.
* The graphic novel ''As the World Burns'' slams home its belief that all forms of "going green" are complete BS and that renouncing all forms of modern life and returning to the wild is the only way to save the planet.
* Marvel's [[SarcasmMode delightful]] Free Comic Book Day offering ''ComicBook/IronMan[=/=][[TheMightyThor Thor]]'' features {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s with [[CardCarryingVillain mustache twirling dialogue]] such as these gems, played 100% straight:
--> '''Publicity Representative:''' Living on Earth is expensive and dangerous! There are pandemic diseases, oppressive laws, and poor people that refuse to be controlled.
--> '''Extremely Evil Executive:''' We're elite! We are powerful! Who cares about the rest of them? [[{{Narm}} We are incredibly rich! We have more rights than you!]]
* SteveDitko's ''MrA'' tales are this trope personified. Characters who think they're in the grey area of morality keep telling themselves they're not fully evil because they're doing a few bad things, Mr. A continuously delivers long-winded speeches about how there's only good and evil while reminding victims that he has no remorse for the fate of evildoers.
* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', when Arrowette's school psychologist is brutally killed by gun violence, she explodes at a pro-gun rights Congressman who tries to blame it on violent video games and comic books. Therefore, the gun control message also doubles as an attack against MoralGuardians. In the official DC forums at the time, the writer PeterDavid mentioned that few readers picked up on the ''third'' anvil he dropped, that the enraged Arrowette apparently had no problems at all hurting people with her own weapons of choice during this story. It didn't help that the psychologist was killed by an abusive ex-boyfriend, not school or gang violence which made the "Guns are bad" message seem very forced (What would Arrowette have done if the psychologist was murdered by being stabbed or strangled?). Not to mention that on occasion, David put in his own views on gun control into the book (this being one such instance) that he was protective of, which led to a flame war on his forums once which was started when David himself sarcastically dismissed a fan who had criticized one such use of the heavyhandedness of this message in a book which the fan had already stated was good otherwise.
* The 1970's ''Comicbook/GreenLantern''/''GreenArrow'' (co-starring BlackCanary) series, touching on issues such as xenophobia, racism and drugs, all in a highly unsubtle fashion.
* Early Superman stories basically saw our hero as a leaping anvil. The formula went like this: someone was doing something bad (profiteering off of a war, running a corrupt orphanage or mining operation, etc.) and Superman came in to either give them a taste of what they were doing (making him join the war, trapping him in a collapsing mine) or just giving them a taste of his fist or some such. This was more like a fantasy escape for readers riding on the wave of Roosevelt's New Deal, who were fed up with society and just wished they could punch out all the corrupt rich and powerful people who they blamed for society's ills, specifically TheGreatDepression. This changed when Superman stopped being a grassroots folk hero, and became an arm of the power structure he fought against, turning his attention to less controversial societal ills such as petty crime, treason, robbery, and murder.
* And then there's ''{{Batman}}: Fortunate Son'', in which Batman has a nigh-psychotic hatred of rock music (particularly punk) because some time in the past, he saw an {{Expy}} version of [[SexPistols Sid Vicious]] killing Expy-Nancy Spungen. This leads to the memorable line "Punk is nothing but death and crime... and the rage of a beast!" As crazy as it may seem, the comic actually seems to ''support'' Batman's attitude by setting him against Robin, who comes off as TooDumbToLive because he refuses to believe that his favorite rocker could be a criminal just because he makes enjoyable music. On top of that, the villain (said rocker's manager) did it because he wanted to [[WarForFunAndProfit martyr the guy in order to boost record sales]], and ends up [[DisneyVillainDeath falling off of a tall building]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic and gets impaled on a cross-shaped fence]].
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* Parodied/played for laughs in ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "The MoneySong" starts with an over-the-top {{Anvilicious}} moral on charity and being generous... then halfway through the song, everybody [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall runs into the audience]] asking for money.]]
* ''{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.
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* Parodied/played for laughs The BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "The MoneySong" starts its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with an over-the-top {{Anvilicious}} moral on charity and being generous... then halfway through the song, everybody [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall runs into the audience]] asking for money.]]
* ''{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.
* YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar
statements like "Money that should have went to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared space exploration went to the movie the sexual humor is a lot develop more heavy-handed.weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".



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* It's not uncommon for political cartoons to have a simple message with each side, country, ideology or issue explicitly labeled. However, this does not necessarily mean the cartoon is of low quality: in most cases it's done to avoid ambiguity or at least the kind of miscomprehension that leads to angry letters to the editor.
* Bill Watterson admitted that the GreenAesop in a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' story where Calvin and Hobbes took a trip to Mars was "pretty heavy-handed."
** Still, [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html his cartoons on his anti-commercialist views]] need to be seen to be believed. Watterson was under constant pressure to sell out during the original run ''CalvinAndHobbes'', something that embittered him quite a lot.
** An in-universe example is Calvin's story "The Dad Who Lived to Regret Being Mean to His Kid", which he asks his dad to read to him.
* Sometimes ''{{Mutts}}'' doesn't have a joke. Instead there's an ad for some save-the-animals cause, one that doesn't even feature the regular cast of the strip. It's like if the last five minutes of ''Seinfeld'' were replaced with a PETA infomercial.
* Hey, {{Nemi}}-readers? Being cruel to animals is bad, okay? Got that? Too bad, because we're gonna repeat it a hundred times anyway.
* ''MallardFillmore'' wants you to know that liberals are bad, bad, stupid, stupid, bad, bad people. And they're stupid and bad, MMKAY?
* Spoofed in one ''BloomCounty'' arc where Milo has a nightmare about being a cartoonist with a black-hooded TortureTechnician as his "boss", punishing him for typos and the like. After he [[CatapultNightmare wakes up]], he starts to deliver a speech about how great is is that we have cartoonists, only for Opus to walk in with a level glare on his face and say "Oh, just stop."
* On multiple occasions, ''Bloom Country'' would let the anvils drop. One strip in particular was a parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and basically ranted about the shrinking amount of space available to newspaper comics.
* ''Doonesbury'' is so heavy with some of its political commentary that some newspapers put it on the editorial page.

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* It's not uncommon for political cartoons to have a simple ''TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message with each side, country, ideology or issue explicitly labeled. However, this does not necessarily mean the cartoon about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is of low quality: in most cases bad]]. That's it. That's all it's done to avoid ambiguity or at least about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the kind of miscomprehension that leads to angry letters to rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the editor.
* Bill Watterson admitted that the GreenAesop in a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' story where Calvin and Hobbes took a trip
creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to Mars was "pretty heavy-handed."
** Still, [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html his cartoons on his anti-commercialist views]] need to be seen to be believed. Watterson was under constant pressure to sell out during the original run ''CalvinAndHobbes'', something that embittered him quite a lot.
** An in-universe example is Calvin's story "The Dad Who Lived to Regret Being Mean to His Kid", which he asks his dad to read to him.
* Sometimes ''{{Mutts}}'' doesn't have a joke. Instead there's an ad for some save-the-animals cause, one that doesn't even feature the regular cast of the strip. It's like if the last five minutes of ''Seinfeld'' were replaced with a PETA infomercial.
* Hey, {{Nemi}}-readers? Being cruel to animals is bad, okay? Got that? Too bad, because we're gonna repeat it a hundred times anyway.
* ''MallardFillmore'' wants you to know that liberals are bad, bad, stupid, stupid, bad, bad people. And they're stupid and bad, MMKAY?
* Spoofed in one ''BloomCounty'' arc where Milo has a nightmare
say something]] about being a cartoonist with a black-hooded TortureTechnician as his "boss", punishing him for typos their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
* ''EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism
and the like. After he [[CatapultNightmare wakes up]], he starts to deliver a speech about how great is is that we have cartoonists, only for Opus to walk in with a level glare on his face and say "Oh, just stop."
* On multiple occasions, ''Bloom Country'' would let the anvils drop. One strip in particular was a parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and basically ranted about the shrinking amount of space available to newspaper comics.
* ''Doonesbury'' is so heavy with some of its political commentary that some newspapers
anarchy. Let's put it on this way: the editorial page.main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.



[[folder:Radio]]
* The BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".

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[[folder:Theater]]
* Parodied/played for laughs in ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "The MoneySong" starts with an over-the-top {{Anvilicious}} moral on charity and being generous... then halfway through the song, everybody [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall runs into the audience]] asking for money.]]
* The BigFinishDoctorWho audio truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every moment of foreshadowing in the musical, but also appears at the end to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what the message was.
* ''{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.
*
''The Last'' Toxic Avenger'', based on the campy movie of the same name, could be a hilarious hour of nothing but New Jersey jokes, which it is ridiculously anvilicious in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went need to space exploration went hammer "Pollution BAD!" into the audience. Emphasis on hammer.
* YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar
to develop the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".heavy-handed.



[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]
* ''TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
* ''EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism and anarchy. Let's put it this way: the main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.

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* ''TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] ''[[http://www.vimeo.com/6898451 Yellow Cake]]'' is loaded with anvils since it's an allegory of this setting is basically one big anarchist message the evils of imperialism and ends with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, YouBastard.
* [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]], a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist christians
about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society rock is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character who believes in law, order, and following of the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only movie talks about how people who practice chaos at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and freedom listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are heroes]]. Perhaps bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
* One episode of [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] ''Classic Series/DoctorWho Reviews'' series featured a graphic of MESSAGE falling on him when he examines
the creator of this setting [[TakeThat anti-Margaret Thatcher]] theme in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]. At the end as the Doctor explains how wrong the villain is [[WriterOnBoard trying the MESSAGE returns to say something]] beat him about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
* ''EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism and anarchy. Let's put it this way:
the main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.head.



[[folder:Theater]]
* The truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every moment of foreshadowing in the musical, but also appears at the end to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what the message was.
* ''The Toxic Avenger'', based on the campy movie of the same name, could be a hilarious hour of nothing but New Jersey jokes, which it is in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its need to hammer "Pollution BAD!" into the audience. Emphasis on hammer.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]
* The truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator Creator/MrT, in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every incarnation, is anvilicious to the point of [[ButtMonkey becoming a running joke]], thanks in no small part to the ironic humor of a large violent macho man screaming at you things a meek female kindergarten teacher would normally tell you. This resulted in a favorite satirically jumbled line from SNL: "If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs, you can get work!"
** The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibberjabber. He tells it like it is.
* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the BlackEyedPeas took a
moment of foreshadowing in during the musical, but also appears at halftime show to tell Obama to reform the end school systems.
* Practically every child has had
to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what attend an Assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some Health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the message was.
* ''The Toxic Avenger'', based on
students pictures of an STD infection.
** Another common problem is that sex educational videos buy into
the campy movie of AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the same name, could be a lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.
** A particularly
hilarious hour of nothing one the Scottish "well-meaning but New Jersey jokes, comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which it is in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its need to hammer "Pollution BAD!" begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the audience. Emphasis on hammer.[[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwhich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."




[[folder: Web Comics ]]
* ''Pastel Defender Heliotrope'' was blatantly banging the readers over the head with ideas of the oppression of women and sexual identities and [[PathOfInspiration evils of religion]]... [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible when it bothered to make sense]]. Then, just to make sure ALL the bases were covered, JDR reveals in the ending that the entire thing was started because some robots wanted to ask permission to do we're-not-sure-what but no one was around to ask. Just to make sure that she's striking out against anti-piracy legislation in the most Anvilicious and crazy way possible.
* ''UnicornJelly'' by the same author.
* [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?p=721 This]] ''{{Nodwick}}'' storyline. Yes, Mr. Williams, we ''all'' know Microsoft is doing all that. Stop rubbing it in and switch to [[http://www.reactos.org/ ReactOS]] already!
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a particularly painful anvil dropped in an oddly familiar explanation of how religion works on the Uryuom homeworld.
* ''IrregularWebcomic'' decide to drop the anvil of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2182.html this]] strip. Intentionally, with the link to this page.
* Tim Buckley's self insert into [[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/51840032_3281fe1467.jpg?v=0 this]] CTRL+ALT+DEL strip, where he rants at Jack Thompson. Also contains the irony that Tim is threatening Jack Thompson for saying that gamers are violent and that his video game obsessed main character performs acts of extreme violence on a regular basis.
* ''DominicDeegan'' drops numerous anvils of "intolerance is bad!" We know this because everyone who acts intolerantly is usually portrayed as irredeemably evil, not to mention the fact that something horrible will probably happen to them before the end of the arc.
* The [[http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/?s=anvil Comics I Don't Understand site]] has a special tag for anvilicious comics.
* Made fun of in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00772.html this]] ''NipAndTuck'' comic. Nip, a B-movie writer/star, talks about why he does not do romance in his movies. He explains how bad Hollywood romance plots are. He mentions ''MyFairLady'' and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and how a girl with nothing wrong with her is run through a "Magic Makeover Machine" which is supposed to end up with the hero seeing her true inner beauty. The illustration that accompanies the talk shows a simple caricature of a woman getting smashed by a hydraulic press with the word "AESOP" written on it.
* While Chris is usually pretty good about it, ''{{Misfile}}'' has [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=129 a few strips]] that make it more than clear that Ash's character is supposed to be read as a [=FtM transsexual=], and that everything he goes through is supposed to drive home AnAesop about accepting transsexuals, except for the ones that are supposed to drive home AnAesop about accepting homosexuals.
* Lampshaded/parodied [[http://www.rhjunior.com/TH/00149.html here]] in ''TallyHO!''. With an actual anvil no less.
* The [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p45 Final Thoughts]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' often make a point of dropping several anvils. Most completely irrelevant to the story's content.
* ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'' [[http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=451 drops the anvil.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' is incredibly guilty of this. In almost every strip.
* ''BittersweetCandyBowl'', [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c28.1/p1.html BEING GAY IS A-OKAY!]]
** Possibly, [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c19/p3.html David's]] finding Tess attractive in no uncertain terms.
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[[folder: Web Original ]]
* ''[[http://www.vimeo.com/6898451 Yellow Cake]]'' is loaded with anvils since it's an allegory of the evils of imperialism and ends with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, YouBastard.
* [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]], a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
* One episode of [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] ''Classic Series/DoctorWho Reviews'' series featured a graphic of MESSAGE falling on him when he examines the [[TakeThat anti-Margaret Thatcher]] theme in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]. At the end as the Doctor explains how wrong the villain is the MESSAGE returns to beat him about the head.
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[[folder: Real Life ]]
* Creator/MrT, in every incarnation, is anvilicious to the point of [[ButtMonkey becoming a running joke]], thanks in no small part to the ironic humor of a large violent macho man screaming at you things a meek female kindergarten teacher would normally tell you. This resulted in a favorite satirically jumbled line from SNL: "If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs, you can get work!"
** The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibberjabber. He tells it like it is.
* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the BlackEyedPeas took a moment during the halftime show to tell Obama to reform the school systems.
* Practically every child has had to attend an Assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some Health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.
** Another common problem is that sex educational videos buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.
** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwhich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
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* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts''. Evangelical tracts are overt teaching materials by nature (as their purpose is to convert people), but Chick manages to make some of the others look almost subtle, in his merciless attempts to batter home points in a fashion a four year old would find obvious.
* A fair amount of ECComics stories are spectacularly unsubtle; [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgement Day]] in particular. A robot civilization with clear different castes for robots with orange casing and robots with blue casing being evaluated for whether or not it's worthy to join TheFederation falls short, the two castes mirror "Separate But Equal" very closely, and at the end we see that the evaluator is black.
* "What's So Funny 'Bout Truth, Justice, and the American Way", an issue of ''{{Superman}}'' that satirized the comic team ''TheAuthority'' and their violent approach to crime fighting.
* The graphic novel ''As the World Burns'' slams home its belief that all forms of "going green" are complete BS and that renouncing all forms of modern life and returning to the wild is the only way to save the planet.
* Marvel's [[SarcasmMode delightful]] Free Comic Book Day offering ''ComicBook/IronMan[=/=][[TheMightyThor Thor]]'' features {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s with [[CardCarryingVillain mustache twirling dialogue]] such as these gems, played 100% straight:
--> '''Publicity Representative:''' Living on Earth is expensive and dangerous! There are pandemic diseases, oppressive laws, and poor people that refuse to be controlled.
--> '''Extremely Evil Executive:''' We're elite! We are powerful! Who cares about the rest of them? [[{{Narm}} We are incredibly rich! We have more rights than you!]]
* SteveDitko's ''MrA'' tales are this trope personified. Characters who think they're in the grey area of morality keep telling themselves they're not fully evil because they're doing a few bad things, Mr. A continuously delivers long-winded speeches about how there's only good and evil while reminding victims that he has no remorse for the fate of evildoers.
* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', when Arrowette's school psychologist is brutally killed by gun violence, she explodes at a pro-gun rights Congressman who tries to blame it on violent video games and comic books. Therefore, the gun control message also doubles as an attack against MoralGuardians. In the official DC forums at the time, the writer PeterDavid mentioned that few readers picked up on the ''third'' anvil he dropped, that the enraged Arrowette apparently had no problems at all hurting people with her own weapons of choice during this story. It didn't help that the psychologist was killed by an abusive ex-boyfriend, not school or gang violence which made the "Guns are bad" message seem very forced (What would Arrowette have done if the psychologist was murdered by being stabbed or strangled?). Not to mention that on occasion, David put in his own views on gun control into the book (this being one such instance) that he was protective of, which led to a flame war on his forums once which was started when David himself sarcastically dismissed a fan who had criticized one such use of the heavyhandedness of this message in a book which the fan had already stated was good otherwise.
* The 1970's ''Comicbook/GreenLantern''/''GreenArrow'' (co-starring BlackCanary) series, touching on issues such as xenophobia, racism and drugs, all in a highly unsubtle fashion.
* Early Superman stories basically saw our hero as a leaping anvil. The formula went like this: someone was doing something bad (profiteering off of a war, running a corrupt orphanage or mining operation, etc.) and Superman came in to either give them a taste of what they were doing (making him join the war, trapping him in a collapsing mine) or just giving them a taste of his fist or some such. This was more like a fantasy escape for readers riding on the wave of Roosevelt's New Deal, who were fed up with society and just wished they could punch out all the corrupt rich and powerful people who they blamed for society's ills, specifically TheGreatDepression. This changed when Superman stopped being a grassroots folk hero, and became an arm of the power structure he fought against, turning his attention to less controversial societal ills such as petty crime, treason, robbery, and murder.
* And then there's ''{{Batman}}: Fortunate Son'', in which Batman has a nigh-psychotic hatred of rock music (particularly punk) because some time in the past, he saw an {{Expy}} version of [[SexPistols Sid Vicious]] killing Expy-Nancy Spungen. This leads to the memorable line "Punk is nothing but death and crime... and the rage of a beast!" As crazy as it may seem, the comic actually seems to ''support'' Batman's attitude by setting him against Robin, who comes off as TooDumbToLive because he refuses to believe that his favorite rocker could be a criminal just because he makes enjoyable music. On top of that, the villain (said rocker's manager) did it because he wanted to [[WarForFunAndProfit martyr the guy in order to boost record sales]], and ends up [[DisneyVillainDeath falling off of a tall building]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic and gets impaled on a cross-shaped fence]].
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[[folder:Magazines]]
* ''TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29426 Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers]]
** Seeing as this is The Onion, the anvilicious message is basically lampshading the trope, by mocking serious news reports on the problems. It's in dire need of pointing out, remembering the [[http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/the-onion-keeps-on-embarrassing-newspapers/ Bangladesh incident]]. It should also be noted that there about 50 Klingon speakers (at the most) and about 170,000 Navajo speakers, thanks to revitalization efforts.
** Also parodied: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/political-cartoon-even-more-boring-and-confusing-t,1706/#enlarge Political Cartoon Even More Boring And Confusing Than Issue]]" in which nobody can understand an {{Anvilicious}} comic strip.
** The Onion is often anvilicious non-ironically, as the writers' very liberal bias is worn like a badge. One recent article was simply about people in the future scolding people in the present for not legalizing gay marriage (also, in the future, every single person in the entire world is pro-choice).
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[[folder:Musical]]
* Parodied/played for laughs in ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "The MoneySong" starts with an over-the-top {{Anvilicious}} moral on charity and being generous... then halfway through the song, everybody [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall runs into the audience]] asking for money.]]
* ''{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.
* YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.
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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]
* It's not uncommon for political cartoons to have a simple message with each side, country, ideology or issue explicitly labeled. However, this does not necessarily mean the cartoon is of low quality: in most cases it's done to avoid ambiguity or at least the kind of miscomprehension that leads to angry letters to the editor.
* Bill Watterson admitted that the GreenAesop in a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' story where Calvin and Hobbes took a trip to Mars was "pretty heavy-handed."
** Still, [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html his cartoons on his anti-commercialist views]] need to be seen to be believed. Watterson was under constant pressure to sell out during the original run ''CalvinAndHobbes'', something that embittered him quite a lot.
** An in-universe example is Calvin's story "The Dad Who Lived to Regret Being Mean to His Kid", which he asks his dad to read to him.
* Sometimes ''{{Mutts}}'' doesn't have a joke. Instead there's an ad for some save-the-animals cause, one that doesn't even feature the regular cast of the strip. It's like if the last five minutes of ''Seinfeld'' were replaced with a PETA infomercial.
* Hey, {{Nemi}}-readers? Being cruel to animals is bad, okay? Got that? Too bad, because we're gonna repeat it a hundred times anyway.
* ''MallardFillmore'' wants you to know that liberals are bad, bad, stupid, stupid, bad, bad people. And they're stupid and bad, MMKAY?
* Spoofed in one ''BloomCounty'' arc where Milo has a nightmare about being a cartoonist with a black-hooded TortureTechnician as his "boss", punishing him for typos and the like. After he [[CatapultNightmare wakes up]], he starts to deliver a speech about how great is is that we have cartoonists, only for Opus to walk in with a level glare on his face and say "Oh, just stop."
* On multiple occasions, ''Bloom Country'' would let the anvils drop. One strip in particular was a parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and basically ranted about the shrinking amount of space available to newspaper comics.
* ''Doonesbury'' is so heavy with some of its political commentary that some newspapers put it on the editorial page.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* The BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".
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* ''TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this sitting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?
* ''EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism and anarchy. Let's put it this way: the main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* The truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every moment of foreshadowing in the musical, but also appears at the end to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what the message was.
* ''The Toxic Avenger'', based on the campy movie of the same name, could be a hilarious hour of nothing but New Jersey jokes, which it is in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its need to hammer "Pollution BAD!" into the audience. Emphasis on hammer.
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* ''Pastel Defender Heliotrope'' was blatantly banging the readers over the head with ideas of the oppression of women and sexual identities and [[PathOfInspiration evils of religion]]... [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible when it bothered to make sense]]. Then, just to make sure ALL the bases were covered, JDR reveals in the ending that the entire thing was started because some robots wanted to ask permission to do we're-not-sure-what but no one was around to ask. Just to make sure that she's striking out against anti-piracy legislation in the most Anvilicious and crazy way possible.
* ''UnicornJelly'' by the same author.
* [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?p=721 This]] ''{{Nodwick}}'' storyline. Yes, Mr. Williams, we ''all'' know Microsoft is doing all that. Stop rubbing it in and switch to [[http://www.reactos.org/ ReactOS]] already!
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a particularly painful anvil dropped in an oddly familiar explanation of how religion works on the Uryuom homeworld.
* ''IrregularWebcomic'' decide to drop the anvil of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2182.html this]] strip. Intentionally, with the link to this page.
* Tim Buckley's self insert into [[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/51840032_3281fe1467.jpg?v=0 this]] CTRL+ALT+DEL strip, where he rants at Jack Thompson. Also contains the irony that Tim is threatening Jack Thompson for saying that gamers are violent and that his video game obsessed main character performs acts of extreme violence on a regular basis.
* ''DominicDeegan'' drops numerous anvils of "intolerance is bad!" We know this because everyone who acts intolerantly is usually portrayed as irredeemably evil, not to mention the fact that something horrible will probably happen to them before the end of the arc.
* The [[http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/?s=anvil Comics I Don't Understand site]] has a special tag for anvilicious comics.
* Made fun of in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00772.html this]] ''NipAndTuck'' comic. Nip, a B-movie writer/star, talks about why he does not do romance in his movies. He explains how bad Hollywood romance plots are. He mentions ''MyFairLady'' and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and how a girl with nothing wrong with her is run through a "Magic Makeover Machine" which is supposed to end up with the hero seeing her true inner beauty. The illustration that accompanies the talk shows a simple caricature of a woman getting smashed by a hydraulic press with the word "AESOP" written on it.
* While Chris is usually pretty good about it, ''{{Misfile}}'' has [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=129 a few strips]] that make it more than clear that Ash's character is supposed to be read as a [=FtM transsexual=], and that everything he goes through is supposed to drive home AnAesop about accepting transsexuals, except for the ones that are supposed to drive home AnAesop about accepting homosexuals.
* Lampshaded/parodied [[http://www.rhjunior.com/TH/00149.html here]] in ''TallyHO!''. With an actual anvil no less.
* The [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p45 Final Thoughts]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' often make a point of dropping several anvils. Most completely irrelevant to the story's content.
* ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'' [[http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=451 drops the anvil.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' is incredibly guilty of this. In almost every strip.
* ''BittersweetCandyBowl'', [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c28.1/p1.html BEING GAY IS A-OKAY!]]
** Possibly, [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c19/p3.html David's]] finding Tess attractive in no uncertain terms.
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* ''[[http://www.vimeo.com/6898451 Yellow Cake]]'' is loaded with anvils since it's an allegory of the evils of imperialism and ends with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, YouBastard.
* [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]], a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them'', Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
* One episode of [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] ''Classic Series/DoctorWho Reviews'' series featured a graphic of MESSAGE falling on him when he examines the [[TakeThat anti-Margaret Thatcher]] theme in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]. At the end as the Doctor explains how wrong the villain is the MESSAGE returns to beat him about the head.
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[[folder: Real Life ]]
* Creator/MrT, in every incarnation, is anvilicious to the point of [[ButtMonkey becoming a running joke]], thanks in no small part to the ironic humor of a large violent macho man screaming at you things a meek female kindergarten teacher would normally tell you. This resulted in a favorite satirically jumbled line from SNL: "If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs, you can get work!"
** The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibberjabber. He tells it like it is.
* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the BlackEyedPeas took a moment during the halftime show to tell Obama to reform the school systems.
* Practically every child has had to attend an Assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some Health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.
** Another common problem is that sex educational videos buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.
** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby...fanny...walloper...[[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]...batting from the wrong end of the crease...bellend...tuna sandwhich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
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