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That's pure complaining. If you don't know how to rewrite it in a more fitting way, I'd say it's probably best to just delete it.
That page has gotten 34 edits in six years. Are we sure this is even a tropable concept?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
^Possibly more than six years. It was renamed from Idiot of the Week in 2013 (the move date is shown as the page creation date), with the move to Strawman Ball being the only edit listed for Idiot of the Week.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
I removed the Captain Planet example since it fits The Complainer Is Always Wrong trope better, but I do think the page is worth keeping, especially the Live Action TV examples.
On the Strawman Ball trope, this example for Captain Planet felt a bit weird to me:
This was essentially Wheeler's place on Captain Planet, being the unenlightened American pig. Even when he makes perfectly valid points, the show refuses to let him be right. Often, it fell to the sage communist girl to correct his incorrect opinions, especially when Wheeler's plans involved ANY violence. Gaea forbid the kid with the flamethrower should use his flamethrower. The one time he was allowed to be right, he was right for the wrong reason. He was the only Planeteer who believed Dr. Blight's sister wasn't evil, but he believed it because she was an attractive Hollywood actress. At least he got to share the Idiot Ball with his friends that week — a nice change from his normal "It's my Idiot Ball and you can't play!" status. One of the worst examples is when Wheeler points out (quite rightly) that it's really not a good thing to be taking random wildlife back to their HQ. But nope, who cares? It's cute! What Wheeler Learned About Overpopulation: "no matter which side of an issue you choose, you're wrong". Whichever opinion Wheeler chose, the others would oppose it... even if it was the opinion THEY were behind earlier in the episode. It seemed they simply refused to agree with the ignorant American swine, even if it meant changing their opinion, just so long as they held a different one from him.
Not only is Wheeler repeatedly referred to as an "american pig", Linka is called a "communist girl" despite not being described as such in the show (which started after the soviet union collapsed), and the whole thing seems unnecessary since there's already a Captain Planet example on The Complainer Is Always Wrong, which seems to fit better.