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Analogy Backfire
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One character makes an analogy comparing two things, often intending to make one of them sound positive or inspirational. Another character then deconstructs the analogy by pointing out a further fact about it, which changes or even inverts its original meaning. A common example is someone comparing two lovers to Romeo and Juliet, unaware or forgetting that the play ends with the two lovers killing themselves. On the other hand, clues that the original speaker might actually be aware of the real nature of the analogy are fertile breeding grounds for Alternative Character Interpretations and Fridge Logic. A rare subversion is to have the guy providing the analogy bringing additional facts that make the original analogy still work or demolishes the other guy's attempt to make it backfire ("...just so you know, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have ended up killing themselves if the freaking mailman had delivered on time!"). Compare Metaphorgotten, Sidetracked by the Analogy, Dissimile, What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?, Insult Backfire, Rhetorical Question Blunder, and Bad Omen Anecdote. Contrast So Was X. A wiseguy is likely to invoke this trope whenever met with a "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal. |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: It's actually a very good analogy, although Penny doesn't know it — Dr. Horrible, being a supervillain, wants take over the world; that is, replace the current leadership; that is, metaphorically cut off the head. She did, in fact, know that — not about the supervillain part, but about changing the system and thus, the leadership. Unfortunately, he was speaking rather quickly, and he was talking about cutting off the head of the human race, so metaphor or no metaphor, that's... a bit grim. |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: During the dinner scene, after their uncles make fun of them and their commercial, Mario and Luigi's mom tries to cheer them up saying "The world laughed at da Vinci too", to which Luigi replies "I'm not sure they did, Ma". | |
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Advice and Trust: Rei's suggestion to Kaworu on how to respond to the influx of girls that are bound to come after him is to be more like Kensuke (i.e. act like a gentleman and don't let it go to your head). Given that Kaworu has No Social Skills, he misinterprets it. | |
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In the musical adaptation of Frankenstein, Victor sings a song where he proudly and excitedly calls himself "the modern Prometheus" (the subtitle of the source material novel). Henry Clerval quickly points out he should neither want nor strive to end up like Prometheus and that if he proceeds with his insane plans, "Your fate will be the same as his!" The myth of Prometheus has been interpreted throughout ages either as going against divine plan and suffering the price, or as fighting against all odds for the betterment of all mankind, regardless of the risks to oneself; Mary Shelley's original story sided wholly with the former, and was not complimenting Frankenstein by comparing his exploits to the fire thief's. | |
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In Reefer Madness: The Musical, Jimmy and Mary compare themselves to Romeo and Juliet, not having read the ending. Mary dies because of Jimmy, and Jimmy is arrested for her murder. It's surprisingly tragic for such a funny movie. Mary unintentionally makes the comparison more apt as she's dying: "We are just like Romeo and Juliet; we're happy, young, and ? (cough) ? hemorrhaging blood..." |
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Turbo F.A.S.T.: | |
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Very prevalent in the fanfic, Equestria: A History Revealed, in which the narrator's poor analogies end up backfiring in her face and ruining the points she was trying to make. | |
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Bye Bye Birdie: | |
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The Simpsons: Here are just a few instances: "Bart the Murderer": "Boy-Scouts 'n the Hood": "The PTA Disbands": "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": "Trash of the Titans": "Mountain of Madness": "Lisa the Beauty Queen": "Dog of Death": "Mommie Beerest": |
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In Hell's Paradise Keane reassures Jarid that they'll make it out alive because their story is crazy enough for Hollywood to make a movie about, and what movie kills off the main characters? Jarid proceeds to list several popular movies where the main characters die. | |
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ProJared did a review of Sonic Adventure 2, which rated the game as "a bowl of Lucky Charms/10", explaining that, like how Lucky Charms has tasty marshmallow bits scattered in much blander cereal, SA2 has a number of really fun stages surrounded by slow and uninteresting ones. He concludes by noting that the game should probably have dropped the different gameplay of the weaker stages entirely and added more of the good ones, and punctuates his point by eating a handful of Lucky Charms marshmallows... and then nearly pukes, because it turns out they dilute those marshmallows for a reason. | |
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Animal Behaviour: Dr. Clement tries to tell a reluctant new patient, Victor, that therapy is like peeling an onion, in that it takes time to get past the outer layers and reveal your best self. Victor objects that all you get from peeling an onion is more onion and watery eyes. | |
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The Drowsy Chaperone has the song "Love Is Always Lovely in the End", in which the singer, Mrs. Tottendale, is blissfully oblivious to the fact that every couple she mentions in the song (Romeo and Juliet, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, (Samson and Delilah) had an unhappy ending. Her butler tries to point this out to her, to no avail. | |
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In Project Wingman, during Hitman team’s third encounter with Crimson squadron, Crimson 1 brings up how there are three types of people in the world, the sheep, the wolves, and the sheepdogs, with him calling Hitman the wolves to his squadron’s sheepdogs. Comic fires back by telling him that sheepdogs herd lambs to the slaughter. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: In the final case, Godot says that "a cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal". Phoenix counters that a cornered fox is "scared and petrified", which catches the prosecutor off guard for a moment before he can recover. | |
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In Champions of Far'aus, when the goddess Leilusa tries to comfort her head priestess Wila who is freaking out over becoming the guardian of a young Will after his parents deaths, Leilusa compares it to a flower Wila was taking care of. Wila then points out that the flower died. | |
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In a Dilbert comic, the Pointy-Haired Boss used an apple to represent the company's "core values". Dilbert pointed out that the apple's core is the part you throw away and added "maybe the stem can represent our loyalty to the company". Dilbert was actually very fond of this. In commentary, Scott Adams wrote that all analogies are bad. Another one. Yet another one has the PHB tell Asok that interns are as important to a company as minks are to a coat. Asok pointed out that minks do not enjoy the benefits of a coat. |
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Cracked took this view of political comic Diversity Lane, noting that its analogies were so elaborate and overblown they tended to undermine the message. For instance, one comic attempted to analogize the North Korea situation by showing the main character preparing to fight a giant snake while her parents tell her to not aggravate it and create a bad atmosphere for negotiation. The problem is, the main character is a little girl and she's wielding a golf club. Not provoking the giant snake is a pretty good idea. | |
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Vision of Escaflowne Abridged gives us a great set of these from Dornkirk. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Who's For Dinner?", this exchange occurs between George and Peter when the former finds out that the latter quit school two years before the episode's events: | |
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King of the Hill, when Bobby is trying to teach Peggy how to ride a bike: | |
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This nice little quip from Kid Icarus: Uprising when Pit defeats Phosphora. | |
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Pocahontas has Powhatan exhort Pocahontas to be like the steady river. When he leaves, Pocahontas notes that the river, in a sense, isn't steady; the water continually changes. | |
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A positive example is seen in a flashback from Blue Eye Samurai. When Mizu confesses her heritage to the blind swordsmith that took her in she uses the analogy "of mixed metals" to describe herself. Eiji promptly points out how the greatest blades are often forged by mixtures of metal, and she could just as easily be something strong rather than shameful. | |
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In Freakazoid!, Lord Bravery argues with his wife and mother-in-law about his unsuccessful superhero career: "You think Superman started right at the top?" "YES!" | |
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This conversation between Po and Lord Shen near the end of Kung Fu Panda 2 after Po has destroyed Shen's largest cannon is an interesting example as correcting the bad analogy arguably makes it a stronger and more relevant analogy: | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In "Cry Freedom Fighters!", Plastic Man declares that he is "as patriotic as Benedict Arnold!". Which is actually truer than was likely intended, as Benedict Arnold actually was very patriotic... right up until a severe case of Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal. | |
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Robbie the Reindeer In Hooves of Fire, Robbie worries that he won't be able to measure up to his dad's legacy, but Old Jingles assures him with, "You think him perfect, no one is. He's just a man, like all of us." Robbie responds, "Actually, we're all reindeer." | |
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From the Sonic Boom episode, "Multi-Tails", when Dr. Eggman discovers his lair has been trashed by Tails' clones: | |
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Inverted in this exchange from How Green Was My Cactus: | |
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In Persona 5, when Eiko Takao meets Student Council President Makoto Niijima, she's so shocked by seeing that Makoto has a Buchimaru-kun pencil case that she says her impression of Makoto as an overly serious "robot" did "a complete 360 today." Makoto then points out that it's a full circle, the opposite of the usual expression, a 180 (or in other words, turning to the opposite direction). | |
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During the Two Best Friends Play video of Heavy Rain, Matt calls Heavy Rain "The God of War of video games", because of all the quick time events it has. | |
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In an early Schlock Mercenary strip: | |
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Happens in xkcd: Parodied in "Aeris Dies". A guy is sad that his girl is "gone". Another guy tries to say he has to move on like in Final Fantasy VII, where the player has to move on after Aerith dies, only for his friend to say he downloaded a mod that let him replace other characters with Aerith to let her stay in the party. The analogy further backfires when the guy decides he can just use his friend as a Replacement Goldfish and act like she never left. Pictured above, "SkiFree": A girl using the Abominable Snow Monster's Super-Persistent Predator behavior as a metaphor for death falls appart by a single key. "Bridge" illustrates the problem with asking "if all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you do it?" (If all your friends are jumping off a bridge at the same time, there's probably a good reason for it). |
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Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Clover tries to use the "you only live once" saying, only to keep backspacing because of the mechanics of the afterlife and reincarnation. Pinkie even lampshades that it doesn't really fit. | |
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Eek! The Cat tried to cheer some people up by saying they're like a nearby campfire, but the campfire is going out. | |
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There's one episode of Batman Beyond that has an exchange that goes along the lines of: | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the end of chapter 3. As the culprit is about to be executed... | |
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Grim Fandango features Manny's rival, Domino Hurley, giving Manny a minor "The Reason You Suck" Speech, all while ranting that Manny should act more like him. This culminates in Domino shouting, "If you just adopt the proper attitude, just look what could happen to you!" He's then immediately ground into powder by the pair of crushers he didn't notice advancing towards him. | |
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May occur in a flirtatious exchange between Commander Shepard and Ash Williams in the original Mass Effect. The latter quotes Whitman's "O captain! My captain!" line, and the former is quick to point out that the captain is "fallen cold and dead" in the poem. Which is kind of Harsher in Hindsight when the sequel came out, due to Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome. | |
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Pinky and the Brain did this, although the roles were switched from what you'd expect. | |
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Phineas in Phineas and Ferb decides to make a romantic boat ride around Danville Harbor for Baljeet and his friend Mishti in "That Sinking Feeling"... leading to the very obvious conclusion that he and Ferb had watched Titanic and completely overlooked the tragedy of the ending. Sure enough, the ship ends up getting damaged and sinking. Good thing they had plenty of life preservers. In the same episode, Candace wishes her relationship with Jeremy could be more romantic, like in Romeo and Juliet, but "without all the dying." | |
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Paranatural: When Johnny's defending his collection of golfer trading cards and the money they'll be worth in the future: | |
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Oxventure: Extinction: Panniers claims that he "sleeps like a baby" inside a whale (long story). Egbert (or, more accurately, Mike, who has at least one young kid) spends a good amount of time snarking about how babies are notoriously poor sleepers. | |
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Garfield and Friends: A cricket comes up to Garfield in one episode, appalled with his behavior and tells him that he needs a conscience and volunteers to be one for him just like the cricket in The Adventures of Pinocchio. After some advice ends up going horribly wrong, Garfield gets fed up and glances through the copy of the book that the cricket gave him, only to find that unlike the movie, Pinocchio got angry with the cricket and squashed him, so Garfield proceeds to attempt just that. It appears that the cricket had only seen the movie and never read the book himself. In one of the US Acres segments, Roy is supposed to be on guard in case a wolf shows up, but he keeps sounding the alarm for the sake of a prank. Orson warns Booker and Sheldon about the dangers of Crying Wolf, and tells them the story of "The Wolf Who Cried Boy", as everyone ignores Roy sounding off yet another alarm. The story goes as a wolf is set to keep watch of hunters as his pack slept, but kept crying "Boy" until they stopped paying attention to it... which was when the hunters actually showed up. As he's finishing the story, Orson realizes that even liars will tell the truth sometimes, and that Roy might not actually be pulling another false alarm. |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged: Archer tells Shirou that his Chronic Hero Syndrome is stupid and comments Shirou would probably try to save Rider if she were about to get hit by a bus, even though she tried to kill him earlier. Shirou gets confused and asks why he would do that, as Servants cannot be harmed by non-magical attacks, so a bus would be no threat to Rider. When Archer lets Caster escape instead of finishing her off, Shirou calls him Batman and asks him why he let Zatanna getaway. Archer points out that Batman doesn't kill and Zatanna is a good guy. |
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When Archer lets Caster escape instead of finishing her off, Shirou calls him Batman and asks him why he let Zatanna getaway. Archer points out that Batman doesn't kill and Zatanna is a good guy. | |
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In Gargoyles, the gargoyles initially feel they have No Need for Names. After being transported to 1990s New York, the gargoyle elder tries to compare their namelessness to rivers, only to be informed that humans name rivers. It's at this point that the elder gives up and takes the river's name (Hudson) as his own. | |
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In one of the flashbacks in L.A. Noire, Cole mentions to a fellow officer as they're preparing to ship out to Japan that he feels like "Odysseus at the start of his journey". The officer points out that the Odyssey lasted ten years and hopes that their stint doesn't last that long. | |
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In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Mina Loveberry claims that "good ideas" tend to stick around "like a bad fart". She meant it to come out as righteously defiant, but given she's talking about racism (and genocide) against monsters being a "good idea", it's ironically an apt description. | |
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In the final part of Ghost Trick, Sissel is prompted to possess a fountain and spray "as if your life depended on it!" | |
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In one of the last Dykes to Watch Out For strips so far (December 2007), as the cast attends Stuart's winter solstice ritual: | |
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Cactus Flower: | |
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Fender ends up doing this to himself in Robots. When the two arrive at Robot City, Fender reassures Rodney by telling him he knows the city like the back of his hand, then shows he actually doesn't know it very well when he suddenly notices something new about the back of his hand, which distracts him from one of the city's many hazards that hits him in the back. | |
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Shrek: The titular character tries to illustrate how ogres have hidden depths by telling Donkey that "ogres are like onions," only for Donkey to latch onto various aspects of onions that, while valid, aren't what Shrek was going for, as well as several foods with layers that otherwise have very little in common with either onions or ogres. Shrek also completely misses the point in that onions don't have hidden depths at all - every layer is the same right down to the core, which is also just more onion—making it work better as a metaphor for Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk than Jerk with a Heart of Gold. The onion metaphor originated in the play Peer Gynt, where it stood for the irredeemable Villain Protagonist's soul. In-universe he used the analogy because he just happened to have an onion in his hand at the time; when Donkey grasps his meaning he suggests cake and parfait as better analogies. Later in the film, when Shrek is rescuing Fiona, she learns that he didn't slay the dragon yet. She starts chastising him for it and stated that the previous knights had attempted to do it, in which Shrek points out that they all got killed, and even pass by their charred remains. |
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Discussed in Leftover Soup 501, moreso in The Rant. | |
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Downplayed example in Ambition of the Red Princess, where Naofumi is giving a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to Motoyasu and says that even fictional heroes like Superman can't be everywhere at once and save people. This initially confuses Motoyasu because in his universe Superman is the evil Mirror Universe counterpart of Ultraman. Thankfully, this only distracted the two briefly and they were able to get back to the main subject of Naofumi's speech immediately. | |
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Daria: In the movie, Is It Fall Yet, Mr. O'Neil does this when he tries to have a chat with Link, a despondent kid in his summer day-camp program. Jake, in one episode, experiments in the kitchen by making Johnny cakes. He gives one to Daria to try, and mentions that Stonewall Jackson fed them to his men the night before the battle of Chancellorsville. Daria then says, "Well, that explains why they shot him there." |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: In the very first case, Larry Butz insists he and his late ex-girlfriend were like "Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Marc Anthony!", and Phoenix thinks, "Didn't they all die?" In the bonus case of the first game, Angel Starr compares a certain detective to a fresh white cheese (just go with it), and the judge says that then he himself must be "hard, yellowed, and sharp as a tack". Ema cheerfully pipes up, "I bet you stink, too." |
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From the Disney version of The Jungle Book, when discussing the idea of letting Mowgli stay in the jungle... | |
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Brilliantly subverted in one Life With Kurami strip: | |
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In an episode of Freeman's Mind, Gordon is concerned about being convicted for the murder of several soldiers and ponders if there's a "Rambo clause" that might exonerate him. He then remembers that Rambo went to prison at the end of the first movie, so he's out of luck. | |
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The Men from the Ministry: Invoked by Sir Gregory in the Finnish version of the episode "Flushed with Success". After Lamb presents him with a petition by the civil servants to fix the Ministry's plumbing, Sir Gregory asks if Lamb believes himself to be a new Spartacus leading a slave uprising. When Lamb reluctantly answers yes, Sir Gregory devilishly points out that Spartacus was executed. | |
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Darths & Droids author-comment: | |
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In the Lucifer (2016) AU fic "A Darker Beginning", when Chloe learns that Adam and Eve actually raped Lucifer in the Garden of Eden, she comments that Eve's not the first rapist to blame the victim but then has to correct herself since Eve actually was the first rapist in this context. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick notices how the examples of love conquering the impossible referenced at the start of Don Bluth's Thumbelina backfire drastically: The same film also subverts this precise thing during Ms. Fieldmouse's song, as the ending of Romeo and Juliet was the whole reason she brought it up. |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "The Gland Plan", when Cosmo needs a gland transplant from Anti-Cosmo, but Jorgen won't let him out of Fairly World Prison, Timmy decides to pull a jail break. Wanda comments that nobody has every busted out of the prison, to which Timmy replies the same thing was said about the Anti-Fairy Zone, but he released Anti-Cosmo from that. Wanda retorts that he did that by accident, and adds that it was the very reason Fairy World Prison was built. | |
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The intro to Thumbelina (1994) features Jacquimo giving a monologue on The Power of Love and its power to overcome adversity... citing Samson and Delilah and Romeo and Juliet as examples, seemingly unaware of the problems love causes in those stories, as well as how they end. While no one directly calls him out on it, Ms. Fieldmouse later in the film correctly points out that Romeo and Juliet's love led to them dying, so Jacquimo's bad analogy is meant to be a show of his ditziness. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All: In the third case, Moe the Clown insists that he saw clearly the defendant that night as he has eyes like a hawk, and Phoenix thinks "Umm... Don't birds have terrible night vision?". The final case includes a defendant with an image "refreshing as a spring breeze". When Edgeworth gets, er, wind of this, he wonders aloud "What's so refreshing about a spring breeze?!", leading Phoenix to think to himself that perhaps the spring allergies weren't kind to Edgeworth. The defendant in question turns out to be an extraordinarily evil person, so perhaps the analogy wasn't so poor after all. |
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Bequeathed from Pale Estates: King Robert Baratheon becomes an Abhorrent Admirer to Princess Lyarra Martell, the wife of Prince Oberyn Martell, due to her Strong Family Resemblance to her aunt/mother Lyanna Stark (Robert's deceased betrothed). In trying to justify his behavior to his best friend and Lyarra's father, Ned Stark, Robert compares himself to Aemon the Dragonknight, dutifully ensuring the comfort and happiness of a beautiful lady married to a man utterly unworthy of her hand. This is completely ignoring the fact that, unlike Naerys, Lyarra very much loves her husband and is disgusted with being the object of Robert's "affections". | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: In "Extra Sausage", an educated pizza boy refuses to be seduced by a lady who ordered extra sausage because the kind of sausage they use on pizza isn't remotely phallic.note You could say he's missing the point that it's about the expression "extra sausage" being used with different meanings rather than the physical sausage being a metaphor, but that would reveal that it's a pun instead, and what intellectual snob is going to value a pun? (Unless it's in Latin, of course.) Subverted in "Backdoors". "We make it so that all of your clothes are see-thru all the time, but only for a small group of distant people whose motives and identity are secret to you." That analogy only makes governments having backdoors to all software sound worse, only it wasn't an analogy but another literal truth. "Hamster": Subverted in "Blind", as paraphrased below, this time by the analogy working after all:note For those that don't get it, it means that the analogy holds true when people take things out on others who had nothing to do with wronging them |
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Rats SMP: On Day 47, Owen and Oliver try to convince everyone to let Scott off the hook for accidentally causing a catastrophic potions mishap, and cites how the other rats blew up the Mansion's boiler back on Day 29. Bek and Will, the main instigators for the incident, are quick to remind everyone that that was deliberate and not an accident. | |
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In the Immersion episode about Mario Kart, Michael brings up some safety concerns with his real life Kart to Burnie: | |
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FoxTrot Peter once used The Metamorphosis as an example to Jason, who had been transformed into a girl (it was All Just a Dream), commenting on how well things had worked out for Gregor Samsa. Jason says that Gregor starved to death, abandoned by his family. It then transpires that Peter had never actually finished was still on the first page of the book. When Jason goes off to science camp, his counselor reprimands him for doodling in his notebook and asks if Bernoulli and Da Vinci spent all their time doodling. Jason was quick to point out that Da Vinci actually doodled quite a bit. He then was reprimanded for talking back. |
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Danny Phantom: Parodied in the episode "Torrent of Terror" where Vlad enlists the aid of Vortex, a weather controlling ghost, to make it look like he caused it to rain during a heatwave to make himself look good. Before letting him go to do as he wished, Vlad asked Vortex to stop the rain. Later on in the same episode, following the Op Center being blown off the FentonWorks roof by Vortex's high winds, Jack welds it back into place, confident it won't be going anywhere as he has it 'locked down tighter than a drum'. A second later, the Op Center breaks away from the roof and converts into the Fenton Blimp, courtesy of Sam and Tucker. |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", after Babs's bath overflows and hits them both with a tidal wave, Buster asks Babs for a Q-tip, prompting a cutaway to a bland Q-tip lecture. Buster complains at that point that this episode's script must've been written by 13-year-olds, but Babs tells him that 13-year-olds did write it. | |
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The Judgement of the World (5Ds): Witch of the Black Rose asks Aki why the latter is suddenly being so humble in her email to Lord Kaiba asking him to forgive Yusei for hacking Kaiba Corporation's computer systems. Aki responds with the standard "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," to which the Duel Spirit counters that apple cider vinegar is actually very effective at attracting fruit flies. | |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: | |
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In one episode of Brows Held High, when Kyle reviews the Malian fantasy film Yeelen, he makes a comment about one character gallivanting around "...from here to Timbuktu". Then he remembers that the movie takes place in Mali... so it's probably not actually that far from Timbuktu. | |
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WORLD BEYOND: When debating on killing Hawkmoth to get the stolen Miraculous back, Chat Noir tells Ladybug about how Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender had to face the decision of killing or sparing Fire Lord Ozai to stop the Fire Nation. It doesn't work as Aang used Energy-Bending to take Ozai's Bending away, though Chat has better luck using Dark Disciple and how the Jedi had to decide to assassinate Count Dooku to end the Clone Wars. | |
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In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, upon hearing that SpongeBob was past over being the manager of the Krusty Krab 2 in favor of Squidward because Mr. Krabs thought SpongeBob was a kid, Patrick called it insane: | |
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Played with in Beast Wars. Silverbolt compares Blackarachnia to the planet Venus, presumably intending that it be equated to beauty. It backfires because she immediately sums it up as "hot, poisonous, deadly," three traits that describe her rather well, and gets subverted when she thanks him for the compliment. Silverbolt takes a minute to realize she's completely misinterpreted his comparison, positively or not. Also an Actor Allusion, as Blackarachnia is voiced by actress Venus Terzo. | |
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This exchange happens while Merlin is busy turning the family car into a time machine in In Love and War: | |
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Life (2012) has the conversation between Felicia and Madison following Felicia's complaint that her webcomic hasn't had any hits. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Damien", Stan is trying to convince Jesus not to give up during his boxing match with Satan. A version that's not really called out in-universe appears in the episode "Cartman Sucks", in which the head of the anti-gay camp tells the boys that "Just like a paperclip, God has to bend you, and shape you, and make you... straight." Isn't a straightened paperclip useless for its intended purpose? Come to think of it, the straightened paperclip will still have some bends anyways, and the best one could do without tools when playing with a paperclip is to bend it in different directions. |
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In "The Universe Doesn't Cheat", Captain Sivuk (the man responsible for handling the heroes' "Kobayashi Maru" test) throws the old "it's a no-win scenario and the universe is not fair" argument regarding the "Kobayashi Maru" when he defends the heroes' bad grading. T'Var calls that logic fallacious. The computer went so far in playing Killer Game Master and adjusting to Eleya's tactics that it manufactured perils that are utterly impossible in reality In-Universe (Klingon vessels that behave way beyond their known spec limits, for example) and demolished the tested students' Willing Suspension of Disbelief, which they say puts the effectiveness of the test in question; as Eleya says the universe doesn't cheat. | |
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There was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic wherein it is maintained that Angel is in no way responsible for Angelus' Season 2 actions, just as Dr. Jekyll is not responsible for the actions of Mr. Hyde — when the entire point of the original story is that Jekyll was responsible for Hyde as he deliberately created him so he could indulge his sadistic urges, and his refusal to take responsibility is a failing as a person. | |
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Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: In the very first case, Larry Butz insists he and his late ex-girlfriend were like "Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Marc Anthony!", and Phoenix thinks, "Didn't they all die?" In the bonus case of the first game, Angel Starr compares a certain detective to a fresh white cheese (just go with it), and the judge says that then he himself must be "hard, yellowed, and sharp as a tack". Ema cheerfully pipes up, "I bet you stink, too." Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All: In the third case, Moe the Clown insists that he saw clearly the defendant that night as he has eyes like a hawk, and Phoenix thinks "Umm... Don't birds have terrible night vision?". The final case includes a defendant with an image "refreshing as a spring breeze". When Edgeworth gets, er, wind of this, he wonders aloud "What's so refreshing about a spring breeze?!", leading Phoenix to think to himself that perhaps the spring allergies weren't kind to Edgeworth. The defendant in question turns out to be an extraordinarily evil person, so perhaps the analogy wasn't so poor after all. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: In the final case, Godot says that "a cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal". Phoenix counters that a cornered fox is "scared and petrified", which catches the prosecutor off guard for a moment before he can recover. In the Special Episode "Turnabout Reclaimed" in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the prosecutor Simon Blackquill compares the seemingly Open-and-Shut Case against the defendant like signing a contract after a fellow inmate told him that it requires a document and a witness, like a witness and evidence needed to convict a culprit. Phoenix correctly guesses that said inmate was convicted of contract fraud. Simon doesn't admit this. |
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Hello Cheeky had this, which isn't so much 'exposing another fact about the analogy' as 'exposing the way the analogy couldn't possibly work': | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: During Liam's loyalty mission, he tries comparing his plan of infiltrating a raider ship to the Trojan Horse. Near every other squadmate's reaction is to point out how this doesn't work, except Jaal, who doesn't know what a horse is. | |
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In the first Disney episode of Doug, Doug is getting frustrated with all the changes around town. Judy explains to him that life is all about change, and that's why we aren't like rocks. Doug clearly understands the analogy, but decides to mess with her and asks, "But what about erosion? But what about earthquakes?" causing her to storm off. Later on, Doug tells the same analogy to Skeeter who then asks, "But what about lava?" What's strange about this is that the analogy's inaccuracy actually enforces its meaning, as even rocks change eventually. | |
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Zero Punctuation has had a few, such as this one from his Assassin's Creed II review: | |
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Academy of Discontent When Junko helps Shuichi investigate after Hifumi's death, she says that every handsome detective needs a sexy female sidekick, comparing Shuichi to James Bond. But, Shuichi points out James Bond wasn't a detective, he was a spy. Gundam proclaims that the Necronomicon given to them by Monokuma is as legitimate as the souls of the damned. Miu takes this to mean that it is a fake. |
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A cricket comes up to Garfield in one episode, appalled with his behavior and tells him that he needs a conscience and volunteers to be one for him just like the cricket in The Adventures of Pinocchio. After some advice ends up going horribly wrong, Garfield gets fed up and glances through the copy of the book that the cricket gave him, only to find that unlike the movie, Pinocchio got angry with the cricket and squashed him, so Garfield proceeds to attempt just that. It appears that the cricket had only seen the movie and never read the book himself. | |
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SMBC Theater has a video parodying the end of WarGames. The film used Tic-Tac-Toe as an analogy for nuclear war: Tic-Tac-Toe is a solved game where, if neither player makes a mistake, the game always results in a draw, showing WOPR that some games don't have a winning solution and nuclear war is futile. However, in the SMBC version, WOPR realizes that you can win in Tic-Tac-Toe if your opponent makes a mistake, and furthermore, the game also favors whoever goes first. It then concludes that the way to win a nuclear war is to hit your opponent first and hope they make a mistake. | |
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On The Critic, Marty is chosen for the school play. | |
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Agreement and Disputation: Holmes expresses doubt about whether Shakespeare's comparison of his loved one to a summer's day quite works as a compliment, given the unpleasantness of the stifling heat. | |
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Pepper Ann uses the Romeo And Juliet analogy as she tries to help her sister and her boyfriend see each other. Nicky points out that Romeo and Juliet ended up dead. Pepper Ann lists off other famous couples that met unfortunate ends, and Nicky shoots each one down. | |
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In the second season of Cobra Kai, this happens a few times to Demitri. Whenever he notices a situation that brings the Rival Dojos closer to their respective boiling points, he compares it to a Game of Thrones incident. Daniel (his sensei) is always able to counter it. | |
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