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Art has always been an outlet of dissension. These days, this reputation is most strongly associated with The Power of Rock. And where you get dissension, you get people trying to stamp it out. That's where the Culture Police come in. The Culture Police are bad guys who try to stamp out art (most commonly rock and pop music and/or dancing) for whatever reason. Mundane versions may simply be exaggerated versions of real-life Moral Guardians operating on a local level, or trying to drum up support to expand their pro-censorship campaign. Fantastic versions may be a SPECTRE-esque organization or Scary Dogmatic Aliens whose scheme to Take Over the World involves stamping out freedom of expression. The fantastic variety will usually come with armies of Faceless Goons who go around confiscating or destroying books/records/paintings/what have you, and arresting (or killing) people who so much as whistle. The canonical alignment for these bad guys is Lawful Evil, as they are very much control freaks. Can easily be perceived as a Take That! against any art deliberately allowed by the Culture Police. Unfortunately, this trope is Truth in Television. Several authoritarian, totalitarian and/or theocratic regimes have had (and have still) cultural or religious polices whose function is to curb the dissidents and guard the morals. Let's say they do exist, and any specific examples are therefore redundant. Overlaps with Thoughtcrime. Compare Moral Guardians and Fan Haters. See also Political Correctness Is Evil and Political Overcorrectness for two sides of a similar coin. noreallife Examples |
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In Matched by Ally Condie, there are only 100 of the best artworks of the past allowed to be appreciated, and people are not taught to write or draw. | |
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Logan's Run: In "Turnabout", all books except the holy texts are banned in Zidor. | |
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Rocketship Voyager. Captain Janeway has decorated the officer's wardroom with surviving relics of Earth culture, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stated to be "one of the few copies to survive the pyres of the House Committee for the Protection of Youth" and still illegal in certain American city-domes, and a jade dragon "smuggled out of Red China before the End of History". | |
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Mocked, like all tropes, on The Simpsons with the episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge". After Maggie hits Homer on the head with a mallet, Marge creates a Culture Police group to protest the hyperviolent Itchy & Scratchy cartoons that inspired Maggie's attack. She successfully convinces the studio behind the cartoons to clean up their act. Later in the episode, when Michaelangelo's David is brought to Springfield as part of a coast-to-coast American tour, the group Marge started is appalled to discover that she doesn't want it banned despite the exposed genitals. When grilled about it on a local talk show, Marge is called out on her hypocrisy and is forced to admit that it's wrong to censor one form of art but not others; Itchy & Scratchy return. | |
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The Spanish comic Fanhunter involves all of Europe being taken over by self-proclaimed Pope Alejo Cuervo, a deranged ex-librarian who believes himself to be channeling the ghost of Philip K. Dick. After Cuervo bans all forms of subculture, an organization of sci-fi, comic, anime, and other fanboys known as La Resistencia organizes to fight Cuervo and his crack teams of "Fanhunters". | |
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Monster of the Year: Myrna Smud's idea of censorship involves trying to wipe out anything creative (such as outdoor advertising, monsters and fairy tales), which she claims will stimulate the imagination and lead to crime. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Essence of Life", the HR2 virus wiped out billions of people worldwide in 2003. The Global Code of Conduct, which was introduced sometime later, bans open displays of emotion and reflecting on the past as it is believed that such behavior is detrimental to the rebuilding of society. The Code Enforcement Agency (CEA) is a global organisation charged with investigating violations of the Code, which carry strict penalties. By 2014, the authorities are working on a drug which can chemically suppress emotions as they have come to the conclusion that it is impossible for people to control their emotions indefinitely. In "Final Appeal", anti-grieving laws were introduced after a nuclear war wiped out 80% of humanity in 2059. They were repealed at some point prior to 2076. In "Stasis", books have been transferred to discs. Hardcopy versions can only be procured on the Black Market. |
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"The Originist": A week after the funeral Leyel Forska threw for Hari Seldon, a representative from the Commission of Public Safety appears to explain to Leyel how concerned they are for his old age. Through subtext (which Leyel's inner narration explains for the reader's benefit), we learn that Leyel (and his wife) will have to submit their scientific research for approval first. | |
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V for Vendetta: The Norsefire regime tightly controls all entertainment in Britain, censoring everything which ever appears on the British Television Network (BTN) which is government-run. Presumably the Interlink and any other media is also under their thumb. A specific example is Sutler ordering a painting which had once mockingly portrayed him dressed in drag, called "God Save The Queen", destroyed - but Gordon Dietrich apparently managed to pull a switcheroo of some sort, or at least benefitted from such, noting that Sutler believes he had it destroyed, and that buying it cost him more than his house. Gordon then makes the mistake of believing he is too popular with the people to be disappeared, and proceeds to mock Sutler on his show. He promptly gets disappeared and - when they find a copy of the Quran in his house - summarily executed. | |
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Kaiserredux: Several of the possible American leaders — William Pelley, Elijah Muhammad, William R. Hearst, etc. will try to regulate Hollywood and other media in order to reshape America's culture. | |
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In RWBY, an enormous Culture War figures prominently in the history of Remnant. Taking place eighty years before the start of the series, the war saw all four kingdoms fighting over issues of trade and borders, but also over, as Professor Ozpin puts it, "the destruction of all forms of art and self-expression." (The rationale behind it was that, as negative emotions attract the Creatures of Grimm, keeping "the emotions of the masses" in check would serve as a measure of protection. In practice, this was enforced on the populace of the outer territories, leaving the wealthy and elite free to enjoy themselves as normal.) As a form of rebellion against this, Remnant's tradition of Colourful Theme Naming was started after the war. | |
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In the Night Shift short story "Children of the Corn", the eponymous children have destroyed a pipe organ and plugged it up with corncobs. On the music stand they have placed a presumably biblical passage regarding the sinfulness of artificially produced music (i.e., by instruments, rather than pure vocals). But then, He Who Walks Behind the Rows has some strange ideas about sin. | |
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The most famous example of the fantastic variety would be the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine. | |
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The cartoon Madballs has Commander Wolfbreath and his men, who had banned music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment on their home planet and were trying to capture the protagonists (a rogue rock band that fled to Earth). | |
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Library War is about a future Japan where the government institutes a policy of book burning and culture policing. An intentional loophole built into the law by its less enthusiastic signers allow public libraries to 'confiscate' books and save them from the bonfires, which has led to an elaborate system of ritualized warfare between culture police and the libraries. | |
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Rush's album 2112 had a similar theme — but Rush, at least, got it from Ayn Rand's Anthem (which also lent its title to one of their songs). | |
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Killer Queen and Globalsoft in We Will Rock You, the rock musical based on the music of Queen, are bent on eliminating all music and, thus, free thought, on Planet Mall, aka Earth. Ironically, Killer Queen sings a song about half way through the play. This is excusable, though, because it's a musical. And who else but a villain could do "Another One Bites The Dust"? | |
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Normality can be argued to represent the final total victory of the Culture Police. | |
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The first episode of the Excel♡Saga anime parodies this. Lord Il Palazzo believes manga is corrupting the youth of Japan, and sends Excel out to assassinate manga authors, starting with the author of the Excel Saga manga. She succeeds, and is promptly bitched out by the personification of the universe — essentially a living Reset Button — for breaking reality by killing her own author. It's that sort of show. | |
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In the Discworld novel Soul Music the Guild of Musicians (specifically Mr. Clete) are opposed to Music With Rocks In, because it's a type of music they can't control. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, the first emperor of Garlemald was an avid patron of the arts, so much so that he personally commissioned a grand airship for his favorite theatre troupe to take their performance all over the empire. By contrast, his grandson and successor placed strict regulations and censorships on all forms of art and theatre so that only Imperial approved works could be shown to the public. | |
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Dr. Robotnik's goal in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is to stamp out music and fun via his roboticizer and the converted Beanville citizens. | |
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Utopia Falls: New Babyl's government is very suspicious about any new style of dance or music. Aliyah and Bodhi were interrogated for performing hip-hop by the police as it's potentially subversive in their view. | |
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An episode of Xena: Warrior Princess had a town outlaw dancing and music while simultaneously passing a law that forced all children into military service. Xena was conscripted to train the children, and she undermined the changes by teaching the children dance and rhythmic music masked as military drills. | |
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The Serious Police in the Toonpunk 2020 1/2 setting for Toon. In a game based on wacky Looney Tunes type stuff, they're The Comically Serious with assault weaponry. | |
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In an episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, a popular song about Sonic (written more or less to the show's theme song) prompts Dr. Robotnik to attempt to forcibly ban all music. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Obsolete Man", the State has banned all books, which leads to the librarian Romney Wordsworth being declared obsolete, and thus he's sentenced to death. In "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", the works of William Shakespeare, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Aristotle, Socrates and Fyodor Dostoevsky were all banned many years earlier as their ideas were considered subversive. Professor Sigmund Friend accuses Marilyn of introducing smut to the interview when she mentions that she has read them. |
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In the Crusade episode "The Needs of Earth", a refugee thought to have information about a cure for the Drakh plague turns out to have recordings of his planet's cultural heritage, which is being systematically destroyed by its governing Moral Guardians. | |
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Perhaps the pinnacle of this trope is 1984, which has essentially banned all music except patriotic anthems, and any other form of media except propaganda. As the story ends, the government plans to delete the very words for rebellion out of the language. | |
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In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, the Confederacy's morality laws severely stunt the country's cultural growth. According to the movie, Confederate culture never evolved beyond state-inspired propaganda. Many take their talents to Canada, which benefits greatly. | |
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Several storylines in Fans! played this trope hilariously straight. Apparently, the only thing standing in the way of would-be world conquerors is science fiction fandom. Ban sci-fi, or go back in time and kill someone big like H. G. Wells, and Earth is all yours. | |
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The Book of Lord Shang advocates making music and learning illegal so the average person will devote his attention to farming. | |
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AKB0048 has an the DES, who crack down on Idol Singers and are willing to open fire on them and their fans. In fact, it's meant to be a ban on all forms of entertainment, although as AKB discovers in one episode, the wealthy elite who sponsor the DES have a casino. The reason being they've discovered the Sugar Bowl equivalent of Warhammer 40,000 ascension and want to monopolize. | |
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The Quantum Leap episode "Good Morning, Peoria" had Sam leaping into the body of a DJ during The '50s and fighting a movement by the local government to ban rock music. | |
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The final stage of Elite Beat Agents features a race of music-hating aliens that take over the world and outlaw music. Anyone caught singing, dancing, or enjoying music in general gets either Taken for Granite or sent to what is essentially a concentration camp. However, they didn't do that just because they hate music, but because music actually hurts them, which leads to their inevitable downfall as a result of a worldwide rock concert. | |
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In The Borgias, Cesare meets Niccolò Machiavelli earlier than he likely did in real life, when they work together against Girolamo Savonarola, the proto-Puritan monk who took over Florence after the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, and became famous for his "Bonfires of the Vanities". As is Truth in Television, Savonarola sent around bands of children to knock on doors and threaten people for their "vanities" — any art, books, clothing, or anything else that Savonarola deemed irreligious. Machiavelli outsnarks them, not that that puts them off. | |
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The fascist Norsefire Government does this in V for Vendetta, confiscating or suppressing most forms of art and music; V, as a contrast, uses the suppressed materials as an iconic symbol. | |
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Revolution X has the New Order Nation, an anti-youth culture organization consisting essentially of Kerri Hoskins as Mistress Helga, a hot authoritarian woman in a dominatrix-esque leather outfit, and her throngs of machine gun-wielding mooks in yellow jumpsuits, which takes over the American government, bans television, rock music, and video games, and kidnaps Aerosmith. | |
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018): The Firemen, who destroy nearly all books as the ideas they contain simply make people unhappy, in their view. | |
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The Grammaton Clerics of the film Equilibrium were an elite police force tasked with destroying all art and killing anyone who possesses art. This was because the dystopian government was attempting to stabilize society by completely eliminating human emotion (why the government needs an elite, Gun Kata trained task force to carry this out is never really explained). | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror Halloween story "The Exorsister." Reverend Lovejoy starts a pressure group called Families For Tamer Television (FFTT) that starts out by boycotting products that sponsor TV shows they find objectionable for one reason or another. They target anything even remotely subversive: not only do they get a cop show cancelled just because the officers are girls in bikinis, but they send hate mail to and make threatening phone calls to Krusty the Clown to bully him into removing all "squirting seltzer bottle" gags from his kiddie show lest they encourage schoolchildren to misuse fire extinguishers. (Krusty at first delivers an awkward apology personally to the group, but then snaps and tells them they can all go to hell.) Funny thing is, though, Families For Tamer Television turns out to be right about one thing: not only is Madonna's music extremely sinful, but Madonna herself is an evil demon capable of entering human hosts and turning them into near-carbon copies of her (which she tries to do to Lisa). | |
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In The Goodies Rule—OK?, the government has had enough of Dance Sensations and Silly Walks bringing the country to a halt, so send out "Mirth Inspectors" on horseback, dressed in medieval gear, to burn books and beat up anyone who's enjoying themselves in public. The Goodies respond by becoming outlaw comedians that make people laugh whether they want to or not. | |
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Downplayed in No Straight Roads with the title company; it strongly encourages all aspiring musical artists to use EDM, ignoring anyone who uses a genre that doesn't fit the criteria, and has banned rock outright shortly after the game starts. | |
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The surreal Swedish comedy Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso in the States) have Prohibition being not about alcohol, but art. Secret galleries work as speakeasies for people who want to see art, and are raided by the police; smugglers bring in paintings and sculpture from Canada, and Picasso gets a job producing, essentially, the art equivalent of moonshine for art-starved Americans... | |
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The Nixels in Mixels are entirely anti-creativity...something the Mixels have loads of, and are always out to destroy the Cubits and creativity of the Mixels, hoping to turn the landscape as black and white as they are. | |
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Shimoneta manages to simultaneously parody and deconstruct this. Sixteen years before the start of the series, a series of censorship laws lead to the brutal repression of anything deemed obscene, such as foul language, pornography, sexually explicit images, and even mention of the correct medical terms for certain body parts. On top of the SWAT team for busting people for watching porn, the current generation is receiving no sex education of any kind, which leads to situations like that of Anna. Once she has her first kiss, she becomes a nymphomaniac and wannabe rapist who thinks what she's doing to the object of her affection is love. | |
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Some of the less liberal of the Successor States in BattleTech have this. (So do the Clans, although their "police" is more likely to be either active or mustered-out warriors with all that implies.) | |
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Professional Wrestling example: The WWF heel stable Right to Censor was a group based on the Parents' Television Council, and were dedicated to stamping out sex and filth in the WWF. Their presence was used to lampshade a lot of changes to the product to make it less racy, such as the removal of Val Venis and The Godfather's smutty gimmicks (both of them renounced their "evil" ways and joined the RTC), and the loss of Billy Gunn's nickname, "Mr. Ass" (he lost the nickname as a stipulation in a match against one of the members). | |
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The Pianist from Syria - A Memoir: The radical Syrian Muslims oppose music and do not like that Ahmad is a musician, and ISIS members even burn his piano. | |
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The online supplementary material for the Bernice Summerfield novel Down (still available via the Internet Archive) features the Culture Cancellation Authority (note the acronym) which in the 2530s "was publicly burning morally suspect pulpzines". | |
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The world in the book Fahrenheit 451 has outlawed books, and employs professional book burners called "firemen". Beatty, the fire chief, explains that it's many books' messages upset people, with bans increasing up to the point that they decided they'd just burn them all. | |
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Sliders: In "Map of the Mind", the Corporate States of America controls its population by banning all forms of creativity. Anyone who displays such tendencies is subjected to brain remapping in order to eliminate them. Originally intended for mental health treatment, and to achieve some strange form of enlightenment, unscrupulous politicians used it to eliminate creativity, to the point where the creative impulse became classified as a mental disease. This was done to solidify their hold on power. Unusually for that part of the series, the group didn't solve this problem before they left. | |
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Frontier Circus: In "The Courtship", the circus arrives in New Atlanta, a town with laws against public performances like circuses. | |
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Society in The Giver is strictly regulated under a policy of "Sameness," in which life is carefully regulated to eliminate strife and division. Music and media have been eliminated. Weather is kept constantly pleasant, only raining at night to water crops while the people sleep. Sex drives, or "stirrings" as they're called in the Community, are suppressed by mandatory drugs (except for the few whose job it is to breed), as are other strong emotions. Even positive emotions like familial love have been carefully eliminated so as to avoid making waves. Animals of all descriptions have been eradicated, at least in the areas where people might actually see them, and even the ability to see color has been carefully removed from the general population. Everyone is kept in blissful ignorance of the fact that life has ever been any different, with the exception of one individual per Community called "the Receiver of Memory," who is entrusted with the memories of life before Sameness in case a situation arises that requires such knowledge to resolve. | |
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Stargate: Written language has been banned on Abydos for millennia (though there is a wall of hieroglyphics that's somehow survived for all this time), and when Daniel Jackson tries to communicate with Kasuf, leader of the Abydonians, through writing in the sand, Kasuf immediately erases it in fear. In-universe, this is explained as Ra not wanting them to learn about and follow the examples of those who rebelled against the Go'auld on Earth. | |
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The final episode of Max Headroom features a battle between the heroes and the Censor Board. | |
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In The LEGO Movie, creativity in Bricksburg is harshly discouraged, with anything not built to pre-specified instructions getting destroyed, and repeat offenders threatened with being "put to sleep". In reality, the movie takes place in a Lego collector's basement; the father wants to recreate the models perfectly, while his son secretly builds mix-and-match settings but can't save them because he doesn't use glue. | |
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In My Immortal, it's apparently okay to send people to Azkaban for being Goth. Professor Sinister is sent there, and in the past Albus Dumbledore was so virulently anti-gothic that he'd send any goth he saw to Azkaban. | |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Washingtoon", Buster and Babs had to appeal to then-President George H. W. Bush and the United States Congress to keep a stick-in-the-mud moral guardian from turning Acme Acres into the setting for a saccharine Edutainment Show. | |
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The Inquisition and Adeptus Arbites of the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40,000 are pretty laid-back about culture, so long as planets revere the Emperor in some way, shape or form, pay tribute to the Imperium and don't consort with aliens or Chaos. However, if they see anything that could possibly be interpreted as a sign of Chaos, the purge will be swift and without mercy. And culture can easily be one of the inroads for Chaos, through the cults of Slaanesh. So they can actually have cause for extreme reactions. On the Chaos side of things; the Word Bearers are a legion fanatically devoted to the Dark Gods. Should they take over an Imperium planet their first target is usually the Imperium's churches. As far as they are concerned, their war with the Imperium is a holy war - therefore their main enemy is the Imperium's religious structure. |
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In the Doctor Who serial "The Happiness Patrol", ruler Helen A insists her subjects be happy at all times and her enforcers, the Happiness Patrol, try to stamp out all depressing artforms, such as blues music. Being a 'Killjoy' is punishable by death. | |
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The Martian Chronicles: In "Usher II", all works of fiction on Earth have been destroyed during the Great Burning. When the Moral Climate Monitors threaten to spread their censorship to Mars, a couple of literary aficionados plan an elaborate revenge. | |
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The INKT corporation in de Blob bans music and color. They take a more proactive approach on color, sucking it away with robots... which they then leave around for the protagonist to slam into and gain color to go spread around Chroma City once more. | |
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Lordi's "Rock Police" is basically about said police enthusiastically and brutally suppressing (presumably — it's never quite stated, but heavily implied by context nonetheless) non-rock music. | |
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In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, as the newly installed ruler of Freedonia, lays down the law in a jaunty tune: | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), it is repeatedly stated that Dr. Robotnik hates all music and has technically banned it. Because he's a jerk. | |
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The Jet Set Radio games have regular police and later trained assassins playing this role, trying to suppress a skater counterculture. Pompadoured police chief Onishima employs an oversized revolver loaded with rubber bullets, hordes of riot-shield wielding goons, and even tanks and helicopters armed with anti-riot gear to take your character down. All this turns out to be the plan of an evil corporate mogul so he can smother Tokyo in nothing but homogeneous, mediocre mainstream entertainment, as the first part of his plot to conquer the world with dark powers. No, really. | |
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One Nation, Under Jupiter: The Roman office of censor is still alive and well in Nova Roma. | |
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Kyle's mom Sheila on South Park is the freakin' CHIEF. In "Death", she convinces the parents of South Park to commit mass suicide in order to get the networks to pull an offensive Terrance and Phillip episode, and in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, she ends up starting a war with Canada (and eventually The End of the World as We Know It) over the Terrence and Phillip film Asses of Fire. | |
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Utilized in Pleasantville as the presence of two kids from the real world starts making a small town from a sitcom set in an idealized version of The '50s more and more real. One particularly non-subtle scene visually feature an angry mob breaking into a store and tearing paintings apart — then moving on to burn books. The town establishes a Code of Conduct prohibiting all recorded music except "Pat Boone, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Jack Jones, the marches of John Philip Sousa or 'The Star Spangled Banner'." | |
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In The Legend of Korra cultural revolutionaries the Equalists want to eradicate the Supernatural Martial Arts of Bending and extend this to opposing its most popular culture, the Fictional Sport of pro-bending, on the grounds that it leads to idolizing benders. The Magocracy's anti-Equalist task force target the Equalist's chi-blocking dojos in turn, stamping out Muggle martial arts in the process of fighting terrorists. | |
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The Delegation in Poster Girl did not outright ban various 'indecent' pieces of media, yet watching them would incur a huge penalty in the regimes Fictional Currency Des Coin and a low Des Coin could could get a person 'disapeared' by the regime. It`s mentioned that the rich elite could afford these payments, yet for the majority of the population it could mean the end of their existence. | |
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Bearheart: Native American education is banned in universities. | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe: Perhaps the most extreme example in the mod is the Aryan Brotherhood; a group of Russians with a Foreign Culture Fetish for Germany that they seek to impose on their countrymen. Should they manage to take over Russia they begin a process of "Aryanizing" the country — this means banning the Russian language, making everyone change their names to German ones, model the country after the Third Reich, and kill anyone who doesn't comply as Slavic untermensch. In case you are wondering how the actual Nazi Germans react to them, the answer is mostly confusion. A close runner-up is the SS-Ordensstaat Burgund; a state ruling over eastern France and Belgium. The SS seek tp erradicate the cultures of the region in the place of a man-made culture based around service to the totalitarian state. There are, of course, far less extreme examples. Fascist Italy has a "Ministry of Popular Culture" that tries to monitor it's citizens who mostly mock it for being innefective. Should Yockey be elected president of the U.S.A., the first thing he does is pass the "Safeguarding America's Fundamental Exceptionalism (SAFE) Act" to allow censorship. |
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The Coalition States in Rifts makes literacy itself a crime. This is the primary reason why the number one person on their Most Wanted List is an outspoken 65-year-old woman who mostly writes books about her travels and freely teaches and encourages others to read. | |
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In the Chaos Timeline in Technocratic Germany. Censors the book "Das Paradies der Goldis" by Katherine Geller (apparently a bit like Valley of the Dolls) for the depiction of mental diseases, drug addiction and lesbian love. | |
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In the Delirium Series, dancing, poetry, certain types of music, loud laughter and public displays of affection are all banned. This is so because of the Dystopian Edict that states that love is a disease and forces everyone to get a surgery that removes the capability to love (and most other strong emotions). | |
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The cartoon Oscar's Orchestra takes place in a dystopian future, and revolves around a plucky band of sentient instruments lead by a talking piano (the eponymous Oscar) and their efforts to fight Thadius Vent, the evil dictator and ruler of the world who has banned all music. | |
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In The Good Hunter, this exists among the ranks of both The Order and the Monster Lord, if the fact that The Wild Hunt by the Wandering Scholar being censored is of any indication. | |
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Fallen London: The Ministry of Public Decency, and their Special Constables, play this role, complete with book-burning insignia. They mostly crack down on obviously revolutionary literature and simple digs at the government (in particular the Masters of the Bazaar), but they're known to go after plays and books for stranger reasons, which is only partially explained by the fact Mr. Pages loves to steal books from the "for burning" pile and occasionally bans rare books just to have them itself. All romantic literature is also subject to heavy revision and taxation, and getting caught smuggling it is about as bad as getting caught soul-smuggling. That's because the city itself feeds on love stories. | |
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In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, Cesare Borgia and his best friend Miguel da Corella encounter Girolamo Savonarola (famous for his "Bonfires of the Vanities"), before his rise to power. He is already well-known in Florence for preaching against the new Renaissance arts and changing cultural values. At first, the two joke over how Savonarola wants both of them dead (Miguel because he's Jewish, Cesare because he's a foreign noble and beneficiary of the Corrupt Church). But later, when it becomes clear that the people of Florence are choosing Savonarola over the Medici, they start to get really worried — Cesare, especially, because he also opposes the church's corruption (despite — or, precisely because of — the fact that it's the foundation of his life), but Savonarola's ideas about how to deal with it are far worse than anything the cardinals are doing. | |
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In Bad Faith, there's no one select group of people in the Haven that act as this, but this is essentially the purpose of the Apologia Assemblies— instead, everyone is encouraged to act as Culture Police, and anything can be subject to scrutiny. In the beginning of the game, Maria's friend Jael is sentenced to banishment for indulging in culture from the outside world deemed "insane," and it's revealed that Magda once was the subject of an Assembly for writing "unsafe" things. As it turns out, not even personal diaries are exempt from this. | |
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The Mayor in The Word Weary has a Grand Jury indict Yorick for his performance art. | |
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Shows up in A World of Laughter, a World of Tears, in the form of the Mickey Mouse Club, which manages to suppress, among other things, Elvis and Beatniks, causing them to leave for Europe. | |
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