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* Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{Fortezza}}'' is a regal and armored woman as an allegory of fortitude (''"Fortezza"'' in Italian).

** The Absorbaloff from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Love and Monsters]] is an allegory for the darker aspects of fandom culture, specifically the "super-fans" who take Doctor Who too seriously and ruin the fun for everyone else through their obsession with the show.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Skithra from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror Nikola Tesla's Night Of Terror]]" are a distillation of all of Thomas Edison's flaws with none of his redeeming qualities - They both exploit inventors like Tesla for their own benefit, but unlike the [[OvershadowedByAwesome merely-less-prolific]] Edison, the Skithra [[CreativeSterility don't create anything at all]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkJoiningThePanderverse'': Kathleen Kennedy is used as a representative for all of Disney and pretty much Hollywood in general [[{{Misblamed}} (since that's how people treat her)]], the amount of control she has over the company being ridiculously exaggerated, and Cartman represents all obnoxious fans who do nothing but complain about the things they allegedly love and insist that [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil "wokeness is ruining movies"]], he was said to have been single-handedly responsible for every piece of hate mail Kennedy received. The BigBad was a [[CompositeCharacter fusion of the two]] to demonstrate the bitter cycle of doubling down the two create.

* ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'': The A.I. [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Zein]] is a cautionary tale for authoritarianism taken to the most logical and terrifying extremes: abuse of power, stifling individuality, forced compliance, fearmongering through gaslighting, surveillance, and violence, and the ability to evade accountability due to being an artificial intelligence, by using someone as a scapegoat to take the blame for its actions.

* ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'': The A.I. [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Zein]] is a cautionary tale for authoritarianism taken to the most logical and terrifying extremes: abuse of power, stifling individuality, forced compliance, fearmongering through gaslighting, surveillance, and violence, and the ability to evade accountability for its crimes due to being an artificial intelligence by having someone being used as a scapegoat.

** Furthermore, Xavier's emotional state is a metaphor for America's mindset during the time period these movies depict. In 1962, the character's optimism is an extension of the hopeful outlook President Kennedy's administration tended to exude, whereas Charles' melancholia in 1973 is not unlike the general malaise American citizens felt while under the shadow of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Xavier's descent into despair began in 1963, which is the same year Kennedy was assassinated--the end of "Camelot"[[note]]Kennedy's presidency is sometimes called this[[/note]] parallels the end of Professor X's school. At least in the AlternateTimeline, Charles starts to piece himself together again shortly after the Paris Peace Accords are signed. TheEighties in the USA was an era of excess and materialism (both were regarded as not just acceptable, but ''desirable''), so Xavier's vanity is at its peak in 1983, and we get to see much more of his lavish estate and everything he owns within its boundaries. The combination of his smug demeanour, dressing like he had just stepped off the set of ''Series/MiamiVice'', and driving around in a gorgeous, well-maintained vintage car announces to everyone that "[[TheBeautifulElite I'm beautiful, I'm rich]], and I love it."

* Charity was a popular character in painting meant to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[EmbodimentOfVirtue her namesake]]. Artists like Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau made multiple portraits of the virtue, including [[Art/CharityBouguereau one]] that highlights the difficulties of the demands of love while still glorifying it.

* In ''Art/{{Dawn|Bouguereau}}'' by Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau, the woman presented in the image is meant to represent the time of dawn.

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* In ''Literature/{{Arifureta|FromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest}}'', there's Kouki Amanogawa. In a DeliberateValuesDissonance way. Kouki's views of "justice" (in a GoodFeelsGood way), TheNeedsOfTheMany (i.e. thinking of the group besides one's own individuality), bullying and the use of UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it.

** Nehellenia can be seen as the embodiment of childish nihilism. Her entire motive in ''Stars'' is wanting to destroy Usagi's life, kidnap her friends and lover and erase Usagi's daughter out of existence because she is deeply envious of the happiness Usagi has with her loved ones.

* ''Art/MediciChapels'', by Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Matteo Nigetti: The sculptures on the side tombs of the "New Sacristy" are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the four times of the day. Michelangelo himself notes this trope because he called them "Allegories". "Dawn" and "Dusk" are placed in such a way that they receive light respectively when the sun is rising and when it's setting. Although all of them are vague in imagery, there are certain cues to their identities. "Night" is deep in a tense sleep, "Dawn" is languidly resting as if she were waking up because the sun rays bother her, "Day's" muscular frame evokes the energy needed to do one's daily activities, and "Dusk's" rough edges represent tiredness.

** ''ComicBook/TheSentry'': A recurring enemy of Sentry, even appearing more than the Void, in the ''Age of the Sentry'' mini is a villain named Cranio who has three brains. He always boasts of being [[{{Catchphrase}} three steps ahead of him]] and is a recurring figure in hallucinations. Given Sentry normally has three personalities in conflict with each other he might be a representation of Bob being his own greatest enemy and the greatest threat to others.

*** As the embodiment of toxic masculinity, Soldier Boy matches the criteria for the [[RatedMforManly stereotypical manly man]], i.e. has a beard, hot-blooded, muscular, and stoic, but these traits are shown to be unhealthy. His hot-bloodedness makes him aggressive and abusive toward his teammates in Payback, he discriminates against the non-whites and non-heterosexuals, he's sexist and misogynistic, and his bottled-up emotions are now symbolically expressed through nuclear blasts whenever his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is triggered by a Russian song called "Escape".

* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', [[CompellingVoice Kilgrave]] is pretty much the personification of male vices, often associated with rape, entitlement, and neagtive agression.

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* In many films about the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', a handful of named characters take up traits, quotes or actions of different people onboard, to avoid having to spend time with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Sometimes fictional characters are used to avoid HistoricalVillainUpgrade.

* In ''Literature/{{Arifureta|FromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest}}, there's Kouki Amanogawa. In a DeliberateValuesDissonance way. Kouki's views of "justice" (in a GoodFeelsGood way), TheNeedsOfTheMany (i.e. thinking of the group besides one's own individuality), bullying and the use of UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it.

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* In [[Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest Arifureta]], there's Kouki Amanogawa. In a DeliberateValuesDissonance way. Kouki's views of "justice" (in a GoodFeelsGood way), TheNeedsOfTheMany (i.e. thinking of the group besides one's own individuality), bullying and the use of UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', the Wolf bounty hunter may appear to be symbolizing "death", as he gives an appearance usually associated with TheGrimReaper - he has sickles, a black poncho with a hood, and a face mark that resembles that of a skull. The Wolf's defeat of with Puss after the cat learns he is on his last life of nine works as a symbolic reckoning with mortality after a life of reckless danger. [[spoiler:Defied when the Wolf reveals he ''is'' [[TheGrimReaper Death]]. Not metaphorically, rhetorically, poetically, theoretically, or any other fancy way. [[NotHyperbole He is Death straight up]], and he's here to reap Puss early because the cat [[AesopEnforcer didn't value any of his previous lives]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', the Wolf bounty hunter may appear to be symbolizing "death", as he gives an appearance usually associated with TheGrimReaper - he has sickles, a black poncho with a hood, and a face mark that resembles that of a scar. [[spoiler:Defied when he reveals he ''is'' [[TheGrimReaper Death]]. Not metaphorically, rhetorically, poetically, theoretically, or any other fancy way. He is Death straight up.]]