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A subset of Acceptable Targets. These examples deal with targets that are often just very unlucky. These are things that could happen to just about anybody. In a way, these might be even worse than other Acceptable Targets. While many people do show pride in their culture, ethnic group, nationality, etc. - people generally (with few exceptionsnote the Deaf culture being one) don't show pride in a disability, illness or whatever hardship that they have. It's usually considered bad enough that they have the disability, illness, or any other hardship - that being discriminated for it would add insult to injury, so to speak. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Of course, in some cases, there's some circular logic here — they're only unlucky because they happen to be Acceptable Targets. Examples: |
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Alison from Melrose Place battled alcoholism throughout the five seasons she was on, which she used to cope with her very abusive childhood of incest and neglect. The times that both she and the disease are treated sympathetically are in short supply and she is usually portrayed as being needy, self-destructive, reckless and unstable and often having to be rescued by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Billy. | |
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Looney Tunes. Almost all the characters have some type of speech impediment or verbal tic. | |
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Boomhauer doesn't seem to actually have a speech impediment in the usual sense of the word. He mumbles and slurs his words together in an exaggeration of an Appalachian accent (Mike Judge based it off of an irate caller complaining about Beavis And Butthead, but the general impression he gives is that he just doesn't bother to try to enunciate better, not that he can't. Inverted in the "Rashomon"-Style episode. During Boomhauer's version of the events, he enunciates clearly and is perfectly understandable, while everyone else mumbles and slurs the way he normally does. Which might explain why he talks that way if that's actually how he perceives everyone else. |
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Naruto has Gai and Lee, who are frequently made fun of for their Big Ol' Eyebrows and their oddly shaped eyes and lashes, in canon, fanon, and just the fandom in general. The jumpsuit, haircut and poses are all their own choices, though, so those don't count. | |
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Essentially the entire point of The King's Speech, in which George VI is humiliated by his stutter. | |
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Brutally deconstructed with Dennis in Double Homework. At first glance, he’s just a stereotypical nerd. Under the surface, he’s a misogynist who creates fake nudes of the girls around him, catfishes his classmates and teachers into giving him real ones, and plans to blackmail or manipulate his classmates into sleeping with him. | |
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The treatment of albinism in fiction is startlingly harsh. The condition seems to have been declared officially creepy with Moby-Dick (although the whale in question only had a white hump). There are no ordinary people who happen to be albino; instead there are an assortment of insidious operatives and psychopathic killers. There is a sense of albinos having some kind of otherworldly powers, when all they can really claim is poor vision and susceptibility to skin cancer. | |
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In an episode of King of the Hill, Hank Hill's reaction to being told he can sue for "Male on Male Sexual Harassment" is... "BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" followed by his shocked expression. The other person he shows it to also is too afraid to admit it. It's amazing how real it can be. Another episode had him being borderline-stalked by a female cop with the hots for him, which wasn't shown as being the least bit acceptable. Yet still played for laughs. |
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The treatment of Dale (played by Charlie Day) in Horrible Bosses zig-zags this. On one hand, his friends don't seem to think that his problem—his sex-crazed and very hot (played by Jennifer Aniston) boss constantly hitting on him at work—is all that bad. On the other hand, the creators go out of their way to make her seem insane and kind of creepy, and make him seem like a really nice guy happily engaged to his fiancee and not in the least bit interested in any other woman—which accentuates the horror. | |
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Averted in The Big Bang Theory. Kripke is a jerk to the main characters, but they never pick on his rhotacism. Of course, it's still pretty clearly intended. Played with in the episode "The Discovery Dissipation", in which Kripke mercilessly mocks Sheldon over his retracted paper, calling him "The Wetwactor". Sheldon eventually tries to retaliate by mocking Kripke's speech impediment, much to the horror of everybody else present. Sheldon apologises and takes it back, only for Barry to triumphantly conclude, "Of course you do! Because you're the Wetwactor!" |
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Uhura calls Kirk one in Star Trek (2009), although considering her talented ears, it may just have been an accurate descriptor - breathing through your mouth is of course quieter, and he was trying to hide. | |
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Red Dwarf: Subverted. Arnold Rimmer is desperate to find out what break his Alternate Universe counterpart Ace Rimmer got that led to him becoming... well, The Ace, and Arnold becoming the spineless, gormless, neurotic, whiny, back-stabbing, ass-kissing piece of human refuse that he is. It turns out Ace was held back a year in school, hit rock bottom and decided that if he was going to get anywhere in life he was going to have to apply himself and build his skills. Arnold Rimmer, who did not receive this much-needed helping of Humble Pie, instead relied on his father pulling some strings. | |
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Roxanne is a modern adaptation of Cyrano De Bergerac starring Steve Martin. Instead of a knight, he's a firefighter. Since it takes place in the modern day where you can find dozens of plastic surgeons in even the smallest town in America, his current condition is justified in that he's allergic to anesthesia. But he does go to therapy. | |
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Spoiler alert! In the movie Chinatown directed by Roman Polanski. Used and then subverted. A Japanese gardener refers to the "grasses" but the detective (along with the audience) only identifies the gardener's bad grammar and so dismisses him as a humourous red herring with nothing valuable to offer. Later, the detective returns and comes to realizes an essential clue from the gardener, who wasn't saying "grasses" but "glasses". The error wasn't in grammar, but in pronunciation: the 'r' and 'l' being commonly mispronounced by those Japanese who attempt to speak English. Shame on the detective for being so quick to dismiss an unsophisticated foreigner, eh? | |
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Worth noting that the actor who played the stuttering public attorney in My Cousin Vinny actually had a speech impediment in real life for years and only recently beat it before signing up for the role. He thought of his character having a speech impediment as a "sick joke." | |
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Another Michael Palin example, in A Fish Called Wanda, in which his character stutters like crazy, but only the villain makes fun of him for it. Palin based this aspect of the character partially on his father, who had a stammer. There now exists, in London, the Michael Palin Institute for Stammering Children. | |
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Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender (the main villain of Season 1) has a nasty burn scar on his face, which was given to him by his own father. He does get a Heel–Face Turn in Season 3, though. Zuko is an interesting example, as his scar doesn't prevent him from being Mr. Fanservice. |
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Pretty much the whole message of Michael Crichton's Disclosure and the MacGuffin for the book. He also waxes at length on the (presumably correct for the time) statistics and what they mean. | |
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Red Dragon was about a man teased all his life for his cleft palate, and eventually driven to become a Serial Killer. However, the few chapters about his childhood make him extremely sympathetic. | |
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Jack Donaghy of 30 Rock is liable to call you one if he thinks you're stupid. He's called Kenneth a mouth-breather at least once. | |
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Jaye's supervisor is nicknamed this by her and her family on Wonderfalls. He doesn't take kindly to it, telling Jaye that it's due to an undeviated septum, but this doesn't stop her from using it. It should be noted that she rather dislikes him anyway, due to being younger but promoted over her, and for being annoyingly upbeat at their retail job. | |
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The Roman emperor Claudius stuttered due to cerebral palsy, and in I, Claudius, his family is presented as very cruel because of the way they shun him for this. He is able to overcome this impediment through a lot of training, although he continues to pretend to stutter prior to becoming emperor to preserve his public image as "poor Claudius". | |
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Played with in M*A*S*H, when a wounded soldier with a bad stutter treated as an idiot by his commanding officer. However, the normally snobbish and rude Charles was very sympathetic and mentions that many very intelligent people also had stutters. At the end of the episode, it was revealed that Charles's sister also has a stutter. | |
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Mentioned in Hogfather, with the stupid thug Banjo who "looked as though he was living on invisible plankton". Who is, in fact, a sympathetic - and surprisingly well-treated - character. |
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Vegan Artbook dismisses allergies to vegan staples (along with limited ability to absorb non-heme iron) as nothing but lazy excuses concocted by callous egotists in order to avoid going vegan. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Gilderoy Lockhart actually justifies putting a Memory Charm on a witch and taking credit for her work just because she had a cleft lip. Averted in that Lockhart is making himself out to be a horrible person to the reader. | |
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In Shrek, Lord Farquaad's height is ridiculed on several occasions. It doesn't help that he's the villain and must be Compensating for Something, or that he's incompetent, or sexually abusive, or (laundry list of his character flaws). Especially egregious since the movie is meant to have the message of accepting people for their physical appearance and that there are different types of beauty. |
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Averted in What Did You Eat Yesterday?, the lawyer protagonist took a case in which a big guy is abused by his small girlfriend, it is portrayed realistically. | |
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An episode of What Would You Do? tested peoples' reactions to abuse by different sexes, by having two actors playing a couple alternate being abusive. When the man was the one yelling and being rough, more often than not people stepped in to stop it. When the woman was the abuser, most people did nothing — in fact, several women who saw it happening looked satisfied, including one who did a little fist-pump after she passed them. When asked her about her reaction, she said she assumed he had it coming. | |
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Daniel Jackson in Stargate, on top of other nerdy traits, spends about half the movie sneezing because he gets allergies when he travels. This is done to make him stand out as different from the soldiers in the movie. This trait was dropped in the show, aside from a brief Shout-Out in the first episode. One or two other episodes make passing reference to his allergy medication (including being an essential plot point in at least one episode) so it seems the trait stuck around but lost relevance. |
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Walter, Annie's fiance from Sleepless in Seattle, has many allergies including some foods. While he's not unsympathetically treated on the whole, it is presented as if it's a nerdy and less-than-sexy trait. | |
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Foreign/unusual accents and dialects are also typically considered speech impediments, and therefore become subjects of mockery. Examples include Borat, Inspector Clouseau, Ricky Ricardo, "Fes," King of the Hill's "Boomhauer," etc. It's hard to classify Boomhauer because nearly every character in the show can understand him perfectly, even if the audience can't. Though in one episode he accidentally ends up in another town and is quickly thrown into a mental institution because nobody can understand him so they assume he's crazy and saying gibberish (and also because he's walking around in a Speedo), so it seems only people in Arlen can understand him, presumably because they're used to how he talks. Boomhauer is also kind of a special case in that he's pretty clearly at least as smart as any other regular on the show, and arguably better adjusted to boot. He just has a strong Appalachian accent compounded by a Motor Mouth. |
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Subverted in JAG, wherein major character Bud Roberts gets a leg amputated as result of stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan, yet he's ultimately able to fully recover (with the aid of a prosthetic leg) and to live a happy family life. | |
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In season four of One Tree Hill, Nathan's mother, Deb, who had devolved into an alcoholic, a pill-popper and overall an unpleasant person to be around. By the end of the season, when he finally calls her out on her behavior, she admits that she has a disease. To this, he angrily rebuffs her, stating how she doesn't have a disease, and that Peyton's biological mother, Ellie, who eventually died from battling it had a real disease in cancer. | |
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Deconstructed in the South Park episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", in which Ike begins a very physical relationship with his attractive school teacher. Kyle, understandably horrified, goes to the police. They take the case seriously until he reveals that the perpetrator is a woman and not a man (or an unattractive woman). Then Kyle and Cartman team up to take her down themselves. | |
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Going off on that, people with funny accents, like Homestar Runner's Coach Z or Zoidberg from Futurama. | |
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Subverted in Pan's Labyrinth and used for horror, when the character who stutters is told that he will be set free if he can just count to three without stuttering. He can't, and is tortured. | |
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An episode of Family Guy had Peter being sexually harassed by his boss, to the point that she demanded he come to her house and have sex with her. While she was clearly shown as being in the wrong, the whole thing was Played for Laughs, and Lois outright refused to believe that a woman could sexually harass a man (mostly because All Men Are Perverts). Later on, the boss tells Peter she's a virgin because she was too ugly to get laid, itself an Acceptable Target. | |
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Japanese musicians are often mocked for their accents (especially by racists or other haters, but occasionally even by fans) even if the musician is not a vocalist and the accent only shows up in interviews or at most stage patter. A sad example here is the hate Yoshiki Hayashi gets for his accent — while he does interviews on behalf of the band and talks/yells doing stage patter, he is a drummer, pianist, and occasional guitarist, none of which are affected by what remains of his accent, and his English is actually native-level for the most part. | |
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The entire driving plot of Cyrano de Bergerac is that despite being a smooth-talking literary genius who has a way with words, he couldn't get a girlfriend to save his life because he has a big nose. We're not talking a slightly-larger-than-average Roman nose. We're talking about an epic schnozzola that has defined the very real former Gascogne knight and playwright for over 300 years. | |
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