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Dealing with the Association Fallacy that anything done, liked or enjoyed by a bad person is innately bad in Fan Works.


Harry Potter
  • The Accidental Courtship:
    Harry: Why is the Ministry trying to make it so only fourth-years can study Arithmancy?
    Hermione: They claim that some of the Death Eaters were using Arithmancy to predict their enemies' movements. So obviously it's evil and terrible and fourth-years will be so much more mature about it than third-years.
  • In A King's Path Harry balks at performing a fairly innocuous ritual because Voldemort did it.
    Slytherin's portrait: Tom Riddle was a boy, as are you. Does sharing a particular trait with him automatically make you bad?

Miraculous Ladybug

  • The Karma of Lies:
    • Adrien runs headlong into this after his father is unmasked as Hawkmoth. Lila further fans the flames by setting him up as her scapegoat, making herself out to be an Unwitting Pawn that Gabriel hired as a model so he could keep tabs on teenage drama that he could potentially exploit, and implying that Adrien had some hand in this as well.
    • Inverted with Marinette's former classmates once she transfers into Ms. Mendeleiev's homeroom. Others swiftly notice that she's cut ties with them and suspect that, since she's such a good person, she must have had ample reason for doing so. All the more so since everyone knows she's Ladybug now.
  • Karma's a Bitch:
    • Adrien manages to avoid this due to being revealed as Chat Noir and publicly denouncing his father upon learning he was Hawk Moth, even after being tempted with the idea of resurrecting his mother using the Wish. Though a minority still believe he might have been involved, most people take these revelations as a sure sign of his innocence, offering condolences and wishing him luck.
    • Zoe is careful to avoid leaving any traceable connection to Lila so that when everything inevitably comes crashing down, no one will have proof that she was involved if and when Lila tries to throw her under the bus.
    • After Gabriel is revealed as Hawk Moth, his employees jump ship en masse, not wanting anything to do with him or his numerous crimes. Vincent the photographer specifically worries that working for a supervillain, even unknowingly, might make it difficult for him to find another job.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • In Equestria: A History Revealed, the narrator reasons that she doesn't understand the scientific process behind baking a cake, and therefore, sees it as something that cannot be explained. She also reasons that dark magic cannot be explained. Therefore, baking must be a representation of dark magic. It gets worse from there on out.
  • In Loved and Lost, Jewelius reasons that the town of Ponyville needs to be made an example of since it's the hometown of the "traitorous" Mane Five. He does this by raising taxes, banning trade with other towns, and sending his soldiers to brutalize the citizens.
  • A somewhat more rational example than the usual in RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse. As a result of its association with Corona, the Tyrant Sun, gold is all but taboo.

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