History Series / WhaleWars

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fjIbUwuKwU&t One episode]] has the ''Sea Shepherd'' attempting to flood the engine of the whaling ship by aiming their water cannon at the exhaust pipe... then stop after about two seconds. Never mind that all this did was essentially [[EpicFail clean it]], to flood the engine you would have to aim for the ''intake''.
** Ships the size of the one they were aiming at have engines the size of small houses. The tiny amount of water they may have gotten in would have done nothing.

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* BlatantLies: When a Japanese whaler responded to the hurling of butyric acid bottles with flash-bang devices, Paul reaches into his coat and claims to have been shot. Not only did thos out-of-shape and elderly man react to this "gun shot" with DullSurprise (getting shot with a vest on is comparable to getting hit in the chest with a sledgehammer), their own videos show that his coat didn't even have a hole in it.

* BileFascination: A good chunk of the viewership tunes in to see how badly the SSCS fails at what they are trying to do.

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Ever wonder what would happen if a RealLife AnimalWrongsGroup got their own show? Well, that's pretty much what ''Whale Wars'' is about. The show, which aired on Creator/AnimalPlanet from from 2008-2015, follows Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they try to stop Japanese whaling ships from hunting whales. They do this by chasing the ships, and then disabling or throwing rotten butter at them; note that in this case, "disabling" means attempting to sink or scuttle the ships, in the middle of the Antarctic ocean, which could certainly result in casualties. Because of this, the show is highly controversial.

Ever wonder what would happen if a RealLife AnimalWrongsGroup got their own show? Well, that's pretty much what ''Whale Wars'' is about. The show, which currently airs on Creator/AnimalPlanet, follows Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they try to stop Japanese whaling ships from hunting whales. They do this by chasing the ships, and then disabling or throwing rotten butter at them; note that in this case, "disabling" means attempting to sink or scuttle the ships, in the middle of the ocean, which could certainly result in casualties. Because of this, the show is highly controversial.

* RealSongThemeTune: The series uses The Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings".

Ever wonder what would happen if a RealLife AnimalWrongsGroup got their own show? Well, that's pretty much what ''Whale Wars'' is about. The show, which currently airs on AnimalPlanet, follows Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they try to stop Japanese whaling ships from hunting whales. They do this by chasing the ships, and then disabling or throwing rotten butter at them; note that in this case, "disabling" means attempting to sink or scuttle the ships, in the middle of the ocean, which could certainly result in casualties. Because of this, the show is highly controversial.

* {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s: Pretty much the textbook version of this. While causing harm to the whalers themselves is not a priority, Sea Shepherd does not seem to be particularly concerned about their safety. Even ''other'' environmental rights groups such as Greenpeace want ''nothing'' to do with the [[FunWithAcronyms SSCS]] because their tactics are so controversial.
* LaResistance: The Sea Shepherds.
* PunchClockVillain: The whalers.

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* EpicFail:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_KnBKriGog Due to badly-timed maneuvering, Sea Shepherd's state-of-the-art trimaran collides a whaling vessel and sinks.]] Cue both sides accusing each other of deliberate ramming and piracy.
** [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11490958 Crewman admits to being ordered to ram the whaling ship in order to garner sympathy.]]

* MoralMyopia: The Sea Shepherd crews routinely attempt to attack and sink whaling ships, with no regard to the injury this could cause their crews (or loss of life), and brag about the righteousness of it. If the whalers defend themselves, or if the Sea Shepherd crews ''hurt themselves'' in the process, they whine about the evil ol' whalers.

* BlackAndGreyMorality[=/=]GrayAndGrayMorality[=/=]EvilVersusEvil: It's not clear whether we're supposed to root for the [[AnimalWrongsGroup ultraviolent ecopirates]] or the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive unscrupulous Japanese businessmen]]. Which sort of morality this show falls under is really [[YourMileageMayVary a matter of opinion]], but nobody's record is really clean here.

* LaResistance: The Sea Shepherds. YMMV whether Revolution will not be vilified or civilized

* PunchClockVillain: The whalers. Whether the SCSS's response is DisproportionateRetribution to [[TrueNeutral basically decent]] people doing [[DirtyBusiness an unpleasant job]], a fitting retribution against {{Complete Monster}}s, or somewhere in between, [[YourMileageMayVary is a matter of opinion]].