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Family-Unfriendly Aesop

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Family-Unfriendly Aesop	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Everyone knows the Stock Aesops: Be Yourself; appreciate what you have; people are more important than things; follow your dreams. Sometimes, these morals contradict each other, but nobody is surprised to see any of them in a story. However, sometimes a story aims to teach a lesson well outside the pale of accepted wisdom. For example, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished", "It's okay to Be a Whore to Get Your Man," or "Sometimes Violence Really Is the Answer". "Family-Unfriendly" does not necessarily mean "wrong": the lesson may be both true and well-supported in context, but it frequently jars the audience since they weren't expecting it. After all, most shows, especially ones aimed at children, teach viewers that they should help the less fortunate, be modest, and solve their problems without coming to blows. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })When your work promotes a lesson that is seldom taught and/or contradicts general morality, you have a Family-Unfriendly Aesop. Your audience may not be able to argue that you're "wrong", but they'll still walk away feeling a bit uncomfortable. Note that being "jarring" is not necessarily the same as being pessimistic. Some more optimistic Family-Unfriendly Aesops might be, for instance, "peer pressure is good for you because it convinces you to try new things" (or, conversely, "Rejecting the wisdom of the crowd could end badly,") or, "Having sex reduces stress and makes you happier, so go have some." Note also that how the Aesop is conveyed may be what makes it family-unfriendly: for instance, Good People Have Good Sex almost always gets a far friendlier reception from Moral Guardians than You Need to Get Laid, though both promote sex as a good thing. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })A Family-Unfriendly Aesop is not the same as a Clueless Aesop, which is a moral (usually a family-friendly one) presented so ineffectively that the audience either misses the point or doesn't find it at all persuasive. When delivered straight and effectively, the Family-Unfriendly Aesop jolts the audience entirely because the message they figure out is exactly the one the writers wanted them to catch. Nor is it the same as Broken Aesop, wherein a show contradicts or otherwise undermines its own (again, usually family-friendly) moral. An unusual moral also doesn't count if it's played for laughs (Spoof Aesop). Due to Values Dissonance and Society Marches On, a moral that is family-unfriendly in one time and place may be very family-friendly in another (or vice versa), especially morals about social mores or civil rights (see Fair for Its Day). This list is for morals that were family-unfriendly even for the culture for which they were written. A prime target for dropping anvils. See also Unfortunate Implications and The Complainer Is Always Wrong. Note: Understand that not everything needs or has an Aesop. A depiction is not an endorsement; a character behaving in a certain way does not mean the show is saying that behavior as good (let alone telling the audience that they should do the same). If you are drawing absurd conclusions from a story which doesn't have a moral, take it to Warp That Aesop on Darth Wiki.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_10b8d7fe	comment	Mrs. Doubtfire: Sometimes, divorce actually is the best option for a struggling couple, especially if children are involved, and most couples who get divorced don't get back together. Also, people who are way too different from one another cannot function together as a romantic couple, especially in the long run.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_12f6b48	comment	Probably the best is The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the moral of which is essentially, "Life Isn't Fair, and sometimes just when you've worked your hardest to get something right, something will come out of nowhere and screw it up for no reason."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica has two of them, which co-exists in universe despite being contradictory: 1. There's no such thing as selflessness; 2. If you somehow become capable of selflessness, you will cease to have a self.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_14892b8d	comment	"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" seems to be saying that freaks will only be accepted if someone in authority finds that their difference can be exploited to the authority's benefit. The song glosses over bullying, suggests that society is very shallow and opportunistic and that perhaps even Santa is indifferent to your suffering.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_14e0f4f9	comment	From Izzy's perspective: if you try to be an independent-minded modern woman who can make her own decisions on life and love, maybe you shouldn't—your meddling elders are right after all and you really should be with the nice Jewish guy they pick out, even if he's a lowly, seemingly boring pickle-seller. Kind of like Fiddler on the Roof, but in reverse.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1543f8a	comment	Junpei's subplot in Zero Time Dilemma basically goes 'Trusting people might fatally backfire on you, but trusting nobody will definitely kill you'. Even when the group he's in starts to actually work together, they do so not out of trust (or even mutual respect) but because they'll die if they don't and nobody has the time to think up a better plan.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1682583	comment	One of the themes at the end of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam seems to be "Peace is a nice ideal, but you have to be willing to fight because the world is full of bad people who delight in tormenting others". Indeed, the Grand Finale basically has Kamille getting over his earlier "Why do we have to keep fighting?!" attitude and killing the Big Bad.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_16861a09	comment	The Incredibles teaches against Tall Poppy Syndrome and false accomplishments - pretending that everyone is equally special is wrong, because some people really are better at certain things than others, and trying to bring them down to the level of everyone else will ultimately only make everyone worse off. While "be who you are, not who others want you to be" sounds like a fairly family-friendly Aesop, the rather cynical implication is that people in general will always tend to envy you for being better than they are unless your superiority is immediately beneficial to them. It also gets a bit muddy when the same Arc Words ("When everyone is special, no one is") are used by both the protagonists to complain about artificial praise devaluing praise for the genuinely extraordinary, and the antagonist to describe his plan to democratize superpowers through technology, implicitly equating the two (and framing the latter as villainous).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1afaadc2	comment	RENT: "You can have a day job or be an artist. One or the other." Aside from Mimi, none of the characters have ostensibly paying jobs that they actually like (except for Benny and Joanne, and their jobs are more mainstream than the others'), and the play actively looks down on Mark for taking a paid job instead of working on his film without ever considering the option that he could do both at the same time. Off the back of that first moral: "It's fine to avoid paying rent, mooch off local cafes, and even steal from ATMs, as long as you're an artist or bohemian." "Driving a dog to commit suicide for money is an acceptable activity that should be Played for Laughs".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1b71921c	comment	Misfile tried to give An Aesop about accepting responsibility when the old road was being taken over, but Ash repeatedly points out that his title grants him no obligation to help anyone else and the other racers freely admit that they aren't friends, they just need someone to fight their battles for them. It becomes less about responsibility and more about giving in to peer pressure.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Invoked in-universe in the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. A policeman incapacitates Rev. Stryker at a rally as Stryker was prepared to shoot and kill Kitty Pryde. When questioned about it, he said "If that's the word of God, then it's sure changed since Sunday School." Whenever Rogue considers having her powers removed—a storyline that often comes up in the comics, the cartoons, and the movies—the moral is always "Be proud of the things that make you different." It's often stated or implied that a mutant neutralizing their X-gene would be akin to a black person bleaching their skin. However, the issues here are more than skin-deep: 1. Rogue's involuntary Power Copying creates a burden on her life by not allowing her physical contact without harming the other person. 2. Since she often struggles with the absorbed psyches in her head, her powers are a danger to herself as well. 3. It's her body. She shouldn't be shamed for what's essentially a medical decision. It also ignores the issue of the number of mutants who have such extreme physical changes that they're regarded as monsters and can't integrate with society even if their powers are harmless or at least controllable. It uncomfortably implies that body autonomy must take a backseat to political posturing.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance ends the "Aylee" Story Arc with An Aesop that you should always stand by and trust your friends, even if there's a very real chance they might destroy all life on Earth.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1d417633	comment	Monsters University: Well, current-societal-attitudes unfriendly, at least. You can be successful without a university education if you work hard and make your way up through the ranks over time. Not really a negative one at all, since it's not as though it's telling people to slack off; Mike and Sulley's path is harder than that of the graduates, though they make it eventually. The film also has a more brutally honest message: No matter how hard you try or how much you love and know about the material, there are just things in life you can't do, at least not in the traditional sense, much like the message of Wreck-It Ralph. Accept it, and find where your real talents lie at. This is notably balanced out in that it clarifies that you can still work for the thing you love, but with a different task as Mike never becomes an on-field Scarer, but an assistant and is treated like an equal to Scarers. A rather broken message in that the Oozma Kappa monsters do ultimately become successful scarers through a combination of hard work and sheer creativity. Mike is the only member never to do this, sticking with the standard "jump out and say 'rawr' method" and giving up when it fails him miserably. A more accurate, albeit unintentional Aesop might go something like "be prepared to revise your approach multiple times." The film often shows that, yes, cruel people have a point. Jerks like ROR are correct in pointing out Oozma Kappa lack traditional Scaring build (but are clearly wrong for belittling them). In a sense, this notion drives Oozma Kappa to look further to prove that traditional build is not all there is to it.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1e7bc8cd	comment	Sonic X: Dark Chaos claims that Muslims are all psychopathic pedophile fundamentalists who enjoy rape and torture because Islam says they should. Both Christianity and Judaism - and their followers - are depicted as stupid and naive at best or complete Religion of Evil at worst. Lampshaded in Episode 68:
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_1f00cb01	comment	While the original Death Wish makes it clear that the main character, Paul Kersey, has become unbalanced due to his trials and vigilante actions, the sequels increasingly support vigilantism as a necessary means to clean up the streets. Well, some people think Paul Kersey is unbalanced, apparently on the theory that it's impossible for a sane person to believe that "Sometimes Violence Really Is the Answer." Others see Kersey as having woken up to reality.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_222b64ac	comment	A character in Slaughterhouse-Five suggests that The Bible's Aesop is that you should make sure someone doesn't have connections before you kill them.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: The series has the repeated message that some people have no good in them. Anyone who thinks otherwise will only be harmed. It's most stark in Outcast of Redwall, where it is feared an infant is born bad... and they turn out to be right. To the point that it turns out they gave him a name which is an anagram for "evil" and "vile". Even after he dies saving someone, this attitude doesn't change. It's portrayed as the nature of certain species (with a few exceptions), an obvious case of severe unfortunate implications.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_255e22be	comment	Legend of Mana: In-Universe, the prevailing opinion is Be Yourself (even if said self is a Jerkass Omnicidal Maniac) and that the ends justify the means (even if your ultimate goal is The End of the World as We Know It). Reality Ensues—the world is a mess as a result and It's Up to You to solve everyone's problems.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_25d97c04	comment	Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Goldfinger contains its fair bit of casual racism and sexism, but what qualifies it here is an extended anti-homosexuality message. Being a lesbian is bad, as the tragic fate of Tilly Masterton demonstrates. And to make sure the reader gets the point, there is also a Character Filibuster by Bond, musing on how our decadent society produces damaged and unhappy people like her through its permissiveness and political correctness:
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_273f25ec	comment	A surprising one from the Mega Man comic comes after half of Dr. Wily's robots from the second and third line decide they'd rather be shut down than be reprogrammed. Rock and Roll are deeply saddened by seeing them commit the robot version of suicide, with Dr. Light sadly telling them that you can't save everybody and not everyone wants to be saved.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_2a77a546	comment	Inside Out teaches that living a life of happiness, wonder and simple pleasures is simply unrealistic beyond early childhood, and that everyone will have some bad experiences that shape them for better or worse. It also teaches that sadness is a necessary part of life and that growing up means losing some parts of childhood and dealing with complex emotions, which will make you a stronger and more rounded person. Even more family-unfriendly: it also teaches you that trying to always live up to your family's expectations of you can drive you crazy, or at any rate destroy your sense of yourself.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_2bca217e	comment	Into the Woods added "It's probably not a good idea to marry someone you just met" Aesops to the Cinderella and Rapunzel stories. Cinderella's prince is a philanderer (probably both of them are, it's just that Cinderella's is the only one who explicitly does it on or rather just off stage), whereas Rapunzel is somewhat crazy. The only original story Aesop it leaves intact is Little Red Riding Hood's Aesop of "Don't talk to strangers," who became a good deal creepier (as a bonus, traditionally the wolf is played by the same actor who plays Cinderella's prince). Near the end, we get an Aesop of "Listen to people who know what they're talking about, even if they're witches." And the overarching moral is "don't tell your children stories that feature a Family Unfriendly Aesop, because it will mess them up." "Nice is different than good". And, even more damningly, neither "nice" nor "good" are necessarily the same as "right".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_2e1df124	comment	The film also has a more brutally honest message: No matter how hard you try or how much you love and know about the material, there are just things in life you can't do, at least not in the traditional sense, much like the message of Wreck-It Ralph. Accept it, and find where your real talents lie at. This is notably balanced out in that it clarifies that you can still work for the thing you love, but with a different task as Mike never becomes an on-field Scarer, but an assistant and is treated like an equal to Scarers.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_2f3e3c72	comment	Shattered Reflection: This Fire Emblem Awakening story has a pretty interesting lesson taught to the two main protagonists through experience with the other protagonists. No matter how hard you try to do right by others and support the people you love, there will still be individuals who treat you like shit for completely arbitrary reasons. You should try to do the right thing anyway.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_30065ab	comment	The message of Cuphead seems to be this at the end of the game: you welch on a deal, beat your creditor into submission, and then set all his debtors, who all tried to kill you, free. And everyone loves you. Of course, they owed a debt to the Devil, who won their souls and everyone else's in a rigged game, so the message is "You have to cheat when the game is rigged from the start."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: It's later revealed that Black Zetsu somehow manipulated the Uchiha into evil and they are later forgiven despite their atrocities. The moral here: Because the devil made you do it, your crimes should be ignored. The Aesop here is in fact even worse than that, as characters like Naruto, Hashirama, and Minato are endlessly forgiving of the Uchiha clan long before this plot twist is revealed or even hinted at and have always viewed them as fallen friends, and in truth, this twist seemed to have been tacked on just to retroactively excuse their misdeeds. It actually ends up being "If you consider someone your friend, you should forgive anything wrong they do based solely on that." Another big one in Naruto is Naruto's willingness to stick his neck out for Sasuke, advocating that he's really a nice guy deep down in a way reminiscent of a platonic version of I Can Change My Beloved, and asking world leaders (including one who believes Sasuke killed his brother, and Naruto has no reason or evidence to believe he hasn't) to put off their plans to kill him, all while Sasuke is merrily skipping around committing every crime he can. Again, this is based solely on the fact that Naruto considers Sasuke his friend, giving a message that reads like "You should place your friendship with someone above the greater good, even if your friend is the one directly threatening the greater good." At the end, Sasuke has a child with Sakura, the same girl he mind raped and tried to kill at least once. And according to the Word of God, giving up on him would somehow make her a bad person. More specifically, Word of God stated that it would make her a horrible person if she gave up on him and "suddenly" just "switched over" to Naruto. More plainly put: giving up your feelings for someone, despite being hurt by them both physically and emotionally, makes you a bad person. A simpler yet effective one is when Kakashi at one point tells his students that "thinking you get it and actually getting it are two different things." Basically, it's a saying that there's no hard substitute other than experience yourself to teach you in ways a mere lecture can provide for you.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_314d5ed2	comment	Serendipity: According to this movie, it is perfectly fine to go searching for the love of your life whilst neglecting the person you are about to marry.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_327f503	comment	At the end of Eden of the East, Akira (the hero) makes a comment to the effect that Japanese have great potential but need someone to rule them to unlock that potential. In the end, though, it actually subverts this Aesop by more or less stating that while it might achieve great results, it would be wrong to do so. Similarly, Akira/the series seems to take the viewpoint that since national tragedies/catastrophes bring a country together, causing one is a great idea so long as you can figure out a way of doing it without killing anyone.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_32fb0c3a	comment	Avenue Q contains many such unconventional Aesops, though some are tongue-in-cheek. Examples include "The Internet Is for Porn" and "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist." Another Aesop in the show is "it's perfectly fine if you're gay, unless you're a Republican." The biggest Aesop in the play can be summed up in Lucy the Slut's line: "Everyone only has one revelation in life: they find out they aren't special."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_38304f2a	comment	Phantasy Star IV has a Secret Test of Character that ends with the lesson that negative emotions like hatred and rage aren't evil, they're a necessary aspect what it means to be human.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal features in-universe humorous examples. For example, the hare put in far less effort than the tortoise, but still got second place, which is, you know pretty freaking good.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_39c5ea8a	comment	Puss in Boots (a.k.a. "The Master Cat") is an outstanding example. The story's message may be more prudential than moral; specifically, "if you would be successful in life, learn the way of the cat: how to evade your predators, how to catch your prey, and how to curry favor with the powerful."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_3bdd6423	comment	In the live recordings of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, whenever they cover a news story involving inept criminals, Tara has a habit of pointing out everything they did wrong and what they could've done better, to the point that Nash jokingly calls those segments "How To Be A Better Criminal."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_3beb4f3f	comment	In the famous science fiction short story The Cold Equations, the moral is "life is fundamentally unfair." This serves as a deconstruction of stories where the day is always saved somehow, all too often by Contrived Coincidences or Applied Phlebotinum. However, some people were not impressed, feeling that the writer created a very contrived situation riddled with logical holes to justify the Aesop. Enforced in that John Campbell sent the story back to Tom Godwin three times because Godwin kept saving the girl without resorting to either plot device.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_3c912cc2	comment	Some people believe that Tales of Vesperia glorifies vigilantism and murder. Summary Vigilante Execution of powerful government officials by Yuri Lowell is shown to save more lives in the here and now than the more methodical approach by Flynn Scifo who seeks to change the law from within the system. One of these government officials had been exposed as feeding innocent children to his pet monsters but he was simply too powerful for the law to touch. Another was pretty much the person in charge of law enforcement in the area and kept sending people off to die. The game seems to imply that Murder Is the Best Solution for dealing with people like that.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: The trope picture comes from this comic. His mom ends up grudgingly giving him the pie. Calvin is clearly portrayed as a brat, though. In one strip, Calvin is debating whether he should spend his time playing outside, or focus on his schoolwork. He decides that playing will make him happier in the short term, studying will make him happier in the long term, but going to play outside would also make better memories. Not every day you see a comic tell kids to not care too much about their homework. In fairness, it isn't necessarily endorsing this. Usually things are portrayed from Calvin's view, and of course it's as a bratty six-year old sees them (obviously different from most adults).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_404c9387	comment	Red vs. Blue: After all of the shenanigans of The Blood Gulch Chronicles, Church takes a moment to reflect on how he's learned that it's wrong to hate people based on arbitrary political or military delineations. Instead, you should strive to "despise people on a personal level." Obviously, it's not necessarily a great moral, but it still rings true to an extent in that one should not mindlessly hate just because they were told to.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4132166	comment	Utøya: July 22: There are no safe places left anymore. Tragedy can strike at any time, at any place. Very terrifying, but sadly true. Doing what's right comes at a cost. In the worst case, you die for it (compare A Song of Ice and Fire). That doesn't mean it's wrong to do so, but you must be aware of the cost. Alternatively: no matter how clever and brave you are, if you are caught in a shooting, and don't have skills useful against attackers, you run or hide ASAP - trying to play a hero will get you uselessly killed.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4584d69e	comment	Rambo IV: Sometimes Violence Really Is the Answer. Naive pacifistic missionaries try to go into Burma and help stem the violence, after being detained Rambo brought in a group of mercenaries and had to massacre dozens of enemy soldiers in order to retrieve them.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_48e4fb93	comment	The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign: The needs of the many take priority over the needs of the one, even if that 'one' is trying to free himself from enslavement by an Eldritch Abomination.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4991e325	comment	In the third Halloweentown movie, Dylan (a half-human warlock who Does Not Like Magic) bonds with a girl named Natalie, only to have a minor freak-out when he discovers that her real form is a furry pink-skinned troll. Naturally she's offended and points out that from her perspective, he's pretty weird-looking himself. They eventually make up and are going to kiss at the end of the movie...only to agree that they're Better as Friends, because they each find the other too gross. Despite the general theme against Fantastic Racism in these movies, the point seems to be that physical attraction is an important component in a romantic relationship (with most, that's true, unhappy though such an aesop may be).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4d6ad22f	comment	In Virtue's Last Reward, Tenmyouji raised the orphan Quark not because he wanted to be a father but because, post-apocalypse, all human lives are precious. This causes a lot of friction between the two.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4da7528e	comment	In The Berenstain Bears: The Bully: Getting targeted by a bully at school? Don't bother to contact adults - Adults Are Useless. Instead, fight back! ONLY the bully will get in trouble... even though in real life, most schools have a "Zero tolerance" policy that would result in Sister being in just as much trouble as Tuffy (though it was written before such policies became as common). Oh, and all bullies have bad home lives, too. Some will argue that sometimes Adults are Useless, and physically self-defense can be necessary against a bully, but keep in mind that no other options were explored for dealing with said antagonist, and Violence Is the Only Option seems very out of place in a book aimed at preschoolers. Though, the above example does have at least one mitigating factor. After Brother Bear gives Sister Bear lessons in self-defense, he reminds her emphatically that the first tactic is to simply avoid Tuffy, in accordance with what their parents decided would be best. Sister does manage this for two days before she intervenes because of Tuffy being cruel againnote Granted, it was for throwing stones at a bird, but it's the thought that counts. And even then, she only hits back when the Bully tries attacking her first. So a more charitable interpretation of it is, "it pays to know how to defend yourself so people don't just hurt you or others without consequences." Similarly in Too Much Teasing. How do you deal with teasing? Easy - get a kid to humiliate them in public. Bad Habit: Develop a bad habit and your parents will bribe you to break it. Messy Room: Clean your room or your parents will throw all your toys away! Mama Bear is clearly shown as losing her temper and acting irrationally. Once Papa calms everyone down the ultimate Aesop is clearly much more a normal "Everyone will be happier if you keep things neat."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4ea00d55	comment	Third Year At Malory Towers has the subplot with Zerelda, a new student who is obsessed with acting and wants to become a famous actress. After getting the chance to play Juliet in class and completely blowing it, the teacher flat-out tells her that she just doesn't have the skill to become one of the greats, and Zerelda learns that when a teacher tells you that your dream will never come true, the best thing to do is give it up for good, instead of improving your skills and continuing to try to achieve your dream.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_4fc1c922	comment	Wicked: The message of "Popular", Glinda's "I Am" Song, is that being liked by others will get your farther than merely being a good person. You may think this is only to show what a shallow and pretentious character Glinda starts out as... Except she's ultimately proven right. Elphaba's actions, no matter how heroic and selfless, all fail to change anything as Madame Morrible launches a smear campaign against her and makes everyone too afraid of her to listen to the problems she's trying to fix. In the end it's Glinda who gets the power to dispose of the villains and change Oz for the better, but does she do it by speaking out against their crimes or trying to help their victims? No, she does it by sucking up to them and endearing herself to the dim-witted people of Oz until she has enough power and influence of her own to launch a non-violent coup d'état.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_50ec52bd	comment	In Harriet the Spy, young writer Harriet learns that sometimes you have to lie to people to help them feel better about themselves so they won't hate you.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_513c73f3	comment	Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World expounds on Regal's refutation of Mithos' plan to eliminate all racism by making everyone the same by having the human citizens of both Sylvarant and Te'thealla quickly develop a deep-seated hatred of each other, showing that bigotry will always exist in some form or another - it doesn't have to just be about race.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5285b4e2	comment	Beautiful Darkness: By the end of the story, Aurora learns that Fairies Are Bastards, you can't trust anyone, and the only way to survive is to kill them before they can kill you.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade has one that combines an Imaginary Friend with a Precision F-Strike.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_53b30902	comment	Valkyria Chronicles: Being different is bad. It's better to completely cut yourself off from everything that makes you different or special than to stand out too much and risk attracting people's attention.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_53ccae27	comment	The moral of Irresponsible Captain Tylor as a series can be taken 2 ways: 1) Being an individual in a conformist society will lead to extreme success, or 2) Rigid military discipline is actively bad for winning wars, and treating it like a joke will make everything better. The former is one for the Japanese, and the latter is one for Americans.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5717177a	comment	One story from the Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Forgiveness edition has the aunt of a teenaged girl urging her to forgive her stepmother because the woman lost her family at a young age and spent time in an orphanage. However, what should be a great lesson in forgiveness is undermined by the woman's Wicked Stepmother tendencies of driving a wedge between her and her father, criticizing everything she did, verbal abuse and even slapping the girl for being understandably outraged at her reading her diary.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry: The moral of the Tsumihoroboshi-hen arc appears to be "friends help friends hide the bodies." But in a more directly stated example, it's okay to hide things from your friends if they don't need to know about it. Even though they're your friends, it doesn't require complete disclosure. While Higurashi certainly emphasizes the importance of trusting your friends, at this point it acknowledges that there are some things people just can't tell others and shouldn't have to. Saikoroshi-hen (whether you accept it as All Just a Dream or not) seems to advocate a rather ruthless approach to pursuing one's own happiness at the expense of others.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In order to join the Dark Brotherhood, you have to complete a quest from a little boy who wants you to kill the cruel headmistress at the orphanage he was being held in. If you do, he'll proudly proclaim that he now wants to be an assassin when he grows up and decides that you can solve a lot of problems by offing the right person.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5af5c254	comment	Professor Arc: The fic is about Jaune becoming a teacher, rather, then a student as he intended, because his forged transcripts are just that good. He manages to become a rather respected teacher, and even ends up headmaster-with Beacon's staff willing to maintain the lie, if only to protect their reputation. The message being, "fraud and lies are forgivable as long as you do a lot of good with them".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight: Sometimes it's better to have people believe in a lie if it serves a greater good and prevents widespread despair. When your society's greatest hero turns evil and then dies, lying to everyone that he met a heroic death can be the lesser evil; in this case, giving Gotham hope and keeping dozens of guilty criminals off the streets. The sequel subverts it, however.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: When Juno and Asta ask the Wizard King about what they must do to achieve his rank, he gives the answer that nothing is more important than producing results, and he came to be the current Wizard King due to producing more and better results than any other of the captains. While the manga makes clear that effort and kindness are important, this is also a very pragmatic way to see the world.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_60515a97	comment	Fans! had this strip involving Rikk, Aly and Rumi eating pot-laced brownies. "Don't do drugs, kids, or they might impair your ability to enjoy drugs later in life!"
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_61a39969	comment	In Avengers: Infinity War, both Loki and Gamora agree to hand over infinity stones to Thanos because they can’t stand to watch him torture their siblings. They are both killed not long after they essentially bargain with Thanos to spare their siblings’ lives. Every other character who tries to keep Thanos from getting the infinity stones falters in some way that is tied to caring for another person, or grief over losing someone who was killed by Thanos. Thanos, on the other hand, is willing to kill the only person he loves for his cause, and gets everything he wants in the end. In sum, their ability to care for others is what allows Thanos to defeat them, whereas his decision to sacrifice the only person he “loves” to accomplish his goals leads directly to his success.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_62203e9d	comment	The Devil's Advocate argues that lawyers should not competently defend guilty clients; that's literally the Devil's work. Lawyers should only defend the innocent (never mind that even their lawyer doesn't always know that-most don't even want to).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6276800c	comment	Discussed at length in The Nostalgia Critic's "Top 11 The Simpsons Episodes", where he names "Bart Gets an F" his favorite episode of the show, in large part, because it's the rare piece of pop culture that's brave enough to teach the Family-Unfriendly Aesop "Failure is an unavoidable part of life — and we all fail sometimes, even when we try our very hardest." He argues that this is one of the most important lessons that anyone can learn, but admits that it's rarely used as An Aesop in pop culture because it's so much more uplifting to show a protagonist succeeding through hard work. In the same episode, Critic discusses this trope when naming "Homer's Enemy" one of the 11 best episodes of the show. He sums up the episode's moral as "Sometimes bad things happen to good people for no reason, and sometimes dumb people are rewarded more than smart people", but argues that the episode is brilliant because it faces such a grim message so unapologetically, and manages to make it surprisingly funny.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins is full of those and sometimes lampshades them. At the mage starting quest you get several of them, the most prominent being that guile and trickery are sometimes preferable to trust and altruism. The overarching story in Orzammar delivers the message that a progressive-minded individual who is personally a manipulative, sleazy jerk sometimes makes a better leader than a kindly, democratic individual bound by stagnant social traditions. This even applies to Paragon Aeducan, one of the most venerated individuals in Dwarven history. His decision to ignore the Assembly and lead the Warrior Caste in the defense of the city, prevented the Darkspawn from breaching Orzammar and saved their race from being wiped out. In other words, democracy is all good an well, but when you're too busy arguing to see the enemy about to kill you, a military coup is the only solution.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged's rendition of Android 16's pep talk to Gohan before he goes Super Saiyan 2, it goes from an understanding speech about how it's not wrong to fight for what you love, to 16 viciously ripping Gohan apart for acting like he's the only one of the cast who suffers, and for rigidly sticking to his pacifist principles instead of doing the right thing.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_633bef5e	comment	Perelandra, the second book of the The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis. The plot of the book is that the planet Venus is in the "Adam and Eve" phase and the devil has sent his agent-a man named Professor Weston-to corrupt "Eve." The angels send a man named Elwin Ransom to make sure that Tinidril chooses wisely. In the end, good triumphs over evil, but in an unexpected way: Ransom kills Weston and drops his body into a volcano. This is actually lampshaded by the protagonist, who assumed that the fight would be purely intellectual, that he would win by the sheer force of his argument, and was initially horrified at the idea that he'd have to make the fight a physical one. It was very much a Take That! at the pacifists who opposed Great Britain's military opposition to the evils of Nazi Germany and promoted Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy, and against the anti-confrontational passivity that was popular in much of the liberal Christian community.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony has a few of these, as a satirical sendup of the unintentional messages that could be read into the source material. In "Fillin' Dem Plot Holes, Bro!": In "Everybody Hates Gilda": In "The Longest Episode:"
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3. There is a quest called Tenpenny Tower, about a luxurious hotel inhabited by prejudiced humans and a nearby gang of civilized ghouls (a form of monstrously mutated human) who want to live in it. There are three ways to solve this quest — Two of them involve killing either party and being rewarded by the other for it. The final option is, through a lot of tedious diplomacy, to convince the humans to let the ghouls live alongside them, and it ends with the two species coexisting peacefully and happy-happy. Except, a few days later, all the human inhabitants have been slaughtered by the ghouls. Sometimes the oppressed, when presented with the opportunity, can be just as inhuman as the oppressors. The player may not realize that that would happen in the first place, so this could also function as an Aesop about how even noble acts can bring unforeseen and unpleasant consequences. On a more meta level, this could have been an attempt at cementing the setting's Black and Gray Morality (in this particular case, it's more like Black And Black Morality) and teaching the player not to assume that the seemingly peaceful option provides the best rewards. There's also a hefty serving of Strawman Has a Point with respect to the "prejudiced" tower inhabitants that don't want to let the ghouls in.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: The best outcome involves obliterating your own son's legacy by inducing a full-scale war in the most isolated and peaceful community in Boston (albeit arrogant and ruthless), and forcing the surviving scientists to work for various extremist factions. Remember kids, isolationism is bad, because it leaves you oblivious to how your agents on the field torture and murder innocent people. But if you work for a group of extremists then they'll give you major funding for your wacky and dangerous science and hit you whenever you do something horribly wrong and everything will be okay! Alternatively, another (and possibly even darker, yet arguably timelier) message can be read from the Minutemen/Railroad/Brotherhood of Steel brutally wiping out the Institute in all endings aside from the Institute's own, where the Sole Survivor joins the cabal of Mad Scientists and becomes their Evil Overlord as they oppress the surface world in the name of "progress" (read: profiting off the surface world's suffering for their own benefit): Namely, that corrupt systems of power, no matter how many genuinely innocent or nice people are a part of them, deserve to be crushed no matter what. Furthermore, those aforementioned "good people" are complicit in the suffering brought about by those aforementioned systems and deserve to be punished all the same.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6c5467fe	comment	Paparazzi: The paparazzi are all puppy-kicking monsters who get their jollies out of destroying lives, so what's wrong with a little paparazzi murder spree?
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6d8aa98	comment	Tuck Everlasting: You'll eventually have to die at some point, young or old. Living forever is unambiguously a terrible idea.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	The Princess Bride has one in-universe: the narrator notes how horrified as a kid he was, because some events of the story just didn't work out as as they did in traditional fairy tales and adventure stories, and found relief only when he realized that the Aesop was "life is not fair".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_7236b8b4	comment	My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: Sometimes children shouldn't blindly listen to their elders, because they may be selfish jerks that are full of crap.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_751cea2d	comment	Death of a Salesman says that "it's okay to stop pursuing a dream if your talents and passions lie elsewhere." In addition to their obsession with popularity, Willy and Biff do not realize the amount of effort needed to achieve their dreams. To illustrate, Charlie's son Bernard works hard to become a successful lawyer and Uncle Ben goes into the jungle for four years to find diamonds and come out rich. On the other hand, Willy and Biff are always looking for an easy way out and hate what they do, and that's why they ultimately fail in life. Or, perhaps more cynically, its message can be read as "life sucks, and then you die."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_756f586b	comment	The moral of Birds of Prey: The Battle Within, the arc from issues 76 to 85, appears to be the fairly stock Aesop of "You should accept your friends for who they are and not try to change them," except that what Oracle was trying to change about Huntress is her tendency to kill people. In the end, Oracle apologizes to Huntress, and, in the Dead of Winter story arc (issues 104-108), actually tells Huntress to use deadly force against the Secret Six if she thinks it appropriate, making the moral that sometimes killing people is a good idea.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock gives a pretty horrible shot at the common aesop of "Study hard and become a doctor/banker/lawyer/surgeon/white collar executive" or "You're paid in what you are worth in society". Rapture was supposed to be a city made up of the best and brightest of humanity... but in the end, someone still has to do dirty jobs that keep society running.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_791e7b7f	comment	Considering how Zootopia is a commentary on modern-day prejudices using mammals in place of humans, it was kind of inevitable. The movie demonstrates that intentionally or not, anybody is capable of being a carrier of prejudice (up to and including the main characters themselves), even those who are open-minded and/or suffer the most from it. While it's harsh, and not really a thing anybody wants to admit, it's pretty much how prejudice works in the real world. Fortunately, the blow is softened in a couple of senses; 1), it shows that anybody can overcome their biases if one acknowledges and actively works on moving past them. 2) Some bigoted characters are able to become more open-minded and accepting of other groups when given the time and encouragement, such as Judy's parents and Chief Bogo.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_792239e5	comment	One of the major Aesops in Tales of Symphonia (besides the obvious "racism is bad" one) is about knowing when to quit, and that sticking to your beliefs isn't always a good thing. Lloyd and the Big Bad act as basically a Deconstruction of the Determinator trope, with Lloyd eventually learning that he needs to change his outlook on the world and becoming a better person as a result, while the Big Bad stubbornly refuses to change to the bitter end, even when his own sister, who he was enacting his schemes for to begin with tells him that what he's doing is wrong and he needs to stop. Another aesop is that when the oppressed rise up against their oppressors, they risk becoming oppressors themselves. Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World expounds on Regal's refutation of Mithos' plan to eliminate all racism by making everyone the same by having the human citizens of both Sylvarant and Te'thealla quickly develop a deep-seated hatred of each other, showing that bigotry will always exist in some form or another - it doesn't have to just be about race.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_7ba9ab8c	comment	Simple Samosa: In Makhi Makhi, Samosa, Jalebi, Dhokla, and Vada befriend a talking fly. The fly constantly gets them into trouble and uses Insane Troll Logic to justify his actions. Instead of ditching the fly and allowing him to be punished for what he does, the gang continue hanging out with him and even make an aesop about not ditching your friends, even if said friend provides Toxic Friend Influence and brings you nothing but trouble.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_7d4d4d90	comment	Case 39. Sometimes, parents are totally justified in abusing their child. (The astonishing number of children in Real Life who suffer physical and mental abuse because their parents think they're possessed by demons may have a bone to pick with this movie. The ones who survive the abuse, anyway.) Some types of exorcisms kill people, and glorifying those ones for the sake of cheap scares isn't exactly socially responsible.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_7f5bc680	comment	The short Fallout fan video "Friendship!" parodies this, by teaching the viewers an important lesson about friendship is the wasteland: It doesn't exist, and those who naively believe in it make excellent Human Shields, that have plenty of free money on them.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_84c5576d	comment	The Cher Lloyd song "Want U Back" teaches us that it's a-okay to dump a boy for petty reasons, then demand that he break up with his new girlfriend and start dating you again because you can't stand to see him being happy with somebody else. After all, you "had [him] first!"
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8509db53	comment	Grease: So the guy you like turns out to be a stupid jerk, who refuses to be with you in front of his "cool" friends? That totally means that you have to start smoking and change your whole appearance, so you can become a "cool girl" and be good enough for him! The message is supposed to be that Sandy needed to stop being so uptight, and that Danny did things for her as well. But seriously!
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_85d1a843	comment	How to Train Your Dragon 2: Hiccup learns the surprisingly dark Aesop that some people simply cannot be reasoned with and can only be brought down by violence. This drives his entire conflict with his father, as Hiccup believes he can talk sense into the Big Bad Drago while The Good King Stoick knows better than to even try.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_86814ea1	comment	Discussed in Final Fantasy XV. After completing a quest involving the hunter Dave's aunt Kimya, Kimya tells the party to pass along a message to her nephew- that he should believe in himself and make his own decisions. After finishing the quest, the party discusses Kimya's advice, as well as the fact that she'd had a falling out with her own sister (the former leader of the Hunters) over using methods to fight demons that her sister didn't approve of.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_870b2821	comment	The moral of The Screaming Skull, according to the folks of MST3K, is "Don't trust anyone. Ever."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8976f8e2	comment	Courtship Rite borders on Spoof Aesop territory. On a Lost Colony where cycles of famine have made cannibalism common and acceptable, he has a preacher teaching that cannibalism is wrong. At first, the reader may expect that cannibalism is being used as a metaphor, and that we're going to learn an ordinary Aesop about violence being wrong, but in the end, the preacher is forced to learn a valuable lesson: cannibalism isn't so bad, really.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8a35dc8d	comment	You, Me and Dupree: It doesn't matter if you work your ass off to please everyone around you. Since you're a responsible adult and not fun anymore, your efforts will never be truly appreciated.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8b5820ed	comment	While Red Dead Redemption has a few over-arching Aesops, the side quests mostly promote a philosophy of "Be careful doing nice things for people, because it may not end well for all involved". While there are some examples of a good deed having a genuinely good outcome, most do not follow this line of reasoning. Give an inventive aviator the means to create his flying machine? Congratulations, you just gave him the means to fly off of a cliff to his doom. Rescue a seemingly love-struck Chinese immigrant from cruel indentured servitude? Good job, you find out later his "love" is an addiction to heroin. Decide to rescue a mountaineer from rampaging Sasquatch? Nice work, you just single-handedly reduced a peaceful species to a single suicidal survivor. This even applies to minor side-activities, where stopping to help someone on the side of the road can get you either killed or left horseless. While mostly played for the sake of dark humor, the general message is the same; people will manipulate your sense of justice, honor or altruism to deceive you and sometimes the worst thing you can do for a person is giving them the help they seek.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8b8730f0	comment	Anger Management: At the end of the film, it's revealed that Dave's girlfriend Linda had set up his entire fiasco involving Dave getting put up with psychological torture which involves getting framed for public assaults and constantly getting gaslighted by his counselor, just to make him stop being such a pushover. So the film pretty much states that it's okay to put a man's life through living hell as long as he finally learns to become more self-assertive at the end.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8c1324fe	comment	In Little Orphan Annie, one World War II strip has Annie seeing a man physically attack an obnoxious war-profiteer for declaring that he hopes the war will continue for another twenty years. When a policeman tries to intervene, Annie stops him because "it's better some times to let folks settle some questions by what you might call democratic processes."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	The final book of A Series of Unfortunate Events had the widely-disliked Aesop of "some mysteries will never be solved."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8e0322a5	comment	During the conclusion of 102 Dalmatians, a major character explicitly states, as an Aesop, "For people like Cruella, there are no second chances." Okay, sure she's obsessed with making a fur coat out of the pelts of adorable puppies, and she's nowhere near the first Disney villain to be irredeemably evil. But hearing it put so bluntly...
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8e9eb558	comment	Remember Me tells us that painful memories, particularly painful, traumatic ones, are still valuable to us as people because they make us who we are. Memory remixes drastically change people's personalities and perceptions of their situation because of this. Of course, the actual events of the game contradict it pretty thoroughly, but that's the lesson it's trying to put forth anyway.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8f58ab76	comment	Liar Liar: As good a quality as honesty is, being brutally honest all the time will piss people off and get you into as much trouble as lying all the time. Sometimes lying to someone is better than telling them the truth. As explained by Fletcher when he talks about how a pregnant Audrey asked if she looked fat and he said no, and that if he'd told her she looked like a cow, it'd have hurt her feelings. Max then says "My teacher says that real beauty is on the inside". Fletcher responds "That's just something ugly people say". It's pretty much irrefutable that physically attractive people usually fair better in society and are treated more favorably than average-looking or unattractive people, even if their beauty is only external. The (in)famous scene with the woman in the elevator also demonstrates this.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_8f668221	comment	And while on the subject of Sandra K. Fuhr, one of the possible endings to Friendly Hostility teaches us that even with the best intentions, you can't force a relationship to last.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_92ef018a	comment	In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it's okay to lie, cheat and steal if you're living life to its fullest.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_93133ff6	comment	Beyond: Two Souls Has a similar one to the Loneliness example below where one of the antagonists whose primary motivation is to just see his dead family again shoots himself... and instantly becomes a spirit reunited with his family who happily welcome him despite the years of unwitting torture. The extremely dark Aesop being off yourself and you'll immediately be reunited with your loved ones with no consequences.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_932dba19	comment	The Stalking Zuko Series portrays Aang's decision not to kill Ozai as a selfish act that is primarily motivated by his desire to keep with Air Nomad teachings. His actions result in him getting called out on it by most of the protagonists, except for Arnook, who's happy that Aang destabilized the Fire Nation, and Aang comes to regret what he did. The lesson is supposed to be that essentially, "You must listen to what others have to say and compromise your ideals for the greater good," but it can also be read as "It's sometimes easier to kill your enemies than to leave them alive and have them face justice for their crimes."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_935f154	comment	The oldest version of Sleeping Beauty (Sun, Moon, and Talia) features the titular heroine getting raped by the king, which results in a pregnancy that ultimately results in her being awoken. When the king returns and finds her awake, he proceeds to sneak Talia and their twin children into his castle so that his current wife won't find out; but she does, and tries to kill all three but is foiled and executed for the attempted murders, leaving the king free to marry Talia. This is allegedly a happy ending. To summarize what we learn from this tale: cheating on your wife to rape somebody is fine so long as your victim isn't conscious to experience any of it and you marry her to legitimize her children; if someone who raped and impregnated you while you were in a coma is rich and powerful, his offer to marry you is a good deal and you should accept it; and if you go seeking revenge on your husband for cheating on you, your jealousy will turn you into an Ax-Crazy shrew who'll let Revenge Before Reason overtake her. To make matters worse, the original moral is stated to be: "Lucky people, so ’tis said, Are blessed by Fortune whilst in bed." In other words, getting raped is allegedly fortunate as long as you're not conscious to experience your virginity being taken and your rapist is a rich and powerful ruler willing to remove any social stigmas his subjects might place on you and raise your public standing in his kingdom by marrying you. Values Dissonance much?
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_97ce01ba	comment	Bee Movie: Successfully advocating for a cause might actually make things worse for everybody, especially if you don't do the proper research into what you're advocating for or against in the first place.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_98f107f3	comment	Bokurano has a few, which is unsurprising given the nature of the show. Kirie, having learned that every time you win, another universe is destroyed, has a talk with Tanaka, believing he cannot fight in light of that information. Tanaka essentially gives him two lessons. 1) People's lives are not equal, and when people are forced into a situation where they must choose one person's life or another's, they will choose the one they value more. 2) People exist because of sacrifice, from the plants and animals they eat every day to continue living, to the ones who died to ensure their standard of life, and even Jesus and the Buddha are no exception. The ending of Chizu's arc has her family understandably appalled at her killing innocent people in her quest for vengeance against Hatagai. In response, they decide not to press charges against Hatagai, sending the message that it's better to let the guilty escape than cause innocents to suffer through revenge.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_99213972	comment	Maid in Manhattan: In a movie geared toward the very impressionable preteen/young teen set (many of whom idolized star Jennifer Lopez at the time the movie came out), the titular character and her paramour sleep together despite barely knowing each other and believing (at the time) that they're never going to see each other again.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_9a15686c	comment	Fate/Zero has Kiritsigu Emiya always killing the few to save the many but realizing that even by killing people he deems evil, he'll never create a world free of evil, cruelty, suffering and conflict. So he consults a wish granting device, the Holy Grail, after a long bloody war to get the miracle of world peace. The Holy Grail decides the only way for the world to have peace is for all beings capable of conflict to be dead, so there will be an absence of conflict. Needless to say, Kiritsugu was bothered by the implications that humanity is not capable of ever lasting peace. It should be noted, however, that the Grail had been corrupted such that it would twist any wish it could into a wish for worldwide destruction.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_9ad7adc8	comment	The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" is the namer for a trope of this nature which translates to "revolution is futile because the person in charge is always going to make it tough for everyone else". Occasionally, Pete Townshend has put a more positive twist on this as "Don't listen to the boss in the first place. Think for yourself."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Doing what's right comes at a cost. In the worst case, you die for it (compare A Song of Ice and Fire). That doesn't mean it's wrong to do so, but you must be aware of the cost.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_9f37740	comment	Oracle of Tao has loads of these, and they aren't always consistent (since the message is largely a Taoist-Christian-other religion hybrid). For example, Ambrosia learns from one Oracle that evolution (specifically, survival of the fittest) is bad, and we need to work together and help one another, almost to the point of communism. Elsewhere, the book reads almost like an Objectivist book, strongly condemning globalism, being largely indifferent to saving the world, and essentially about self-interest. In another segment, the group meets Jesus. He basically lets people bite him and suck his blood to become immortals. While this is nice to know about Jesus's blood being shed for you, I do not think that's what they meant.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_a33d74a4	comment	In the later Sword of Truth novels, the Aesops start to draw strongly on Objectivist themes. The anti-communist themes are pulled straight from Ayn Rand. People who try to give charity to others and "spread the wealth" ultimately turn poor people into lazy, greedy assholes and destroy the economy.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_a44ac02e	comment	Jack has a few overarching themes in its stories, mostly centering on the nature of sin, punishment, repentance and redemption, understandable for a comic about Heaven and Hell. One of these is that almost no one is good enough to get into Heaven, and almost everyone who goes Hell will never get out... not because of anything they do or don't do personally, but because Hell itself can screw them out of their chance at redemption.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_a59597f2	comment	While we're at it, Cinderella itself. Charles Perrault announced at the end that the moral was: Good looks and all sort of other wonderful traits are useless without connections.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_a78cc92f	comment	The Chick Tract "Lisa" was heavily freighted with Unfortunate Implications and several rather disturbing Accidental Aesops, which is probably why Jack Chick ceased publishing it long ago. Its intended Aesop by itself, however, remains as edgy and controversial as ever to this day: that while child molesters are indeed terrible sinners, they're just as human and need forgiveness and salvation just as much as any other kind of terrible sinners (e.g. rape merchants, mass murderers, terrorists, and despots). Also, as the doctor who saves the child molester in the comic points out, the Villain Protagonist was already headed to Hell for his "lesser" sins long before he took up raping his little daughter; by implication, we readers shouldn't think ourselves safe from damnation just because we haven't committed any sins as terrible as this guy. (Also, that means rape is not such a special kind of evil after all.)
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata has a existentialist theme of "The world is cruel, unforgiving and meaningless, and just the act of being alive in such a world is terrifying, but it's still possible to find purpose in a purposeless world, or find new purpose if your purpose is lost."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_adfe9cfc	comment	Invoked in-universe in the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. A policeman incapacitates Rev. Stryker at a rally as Stryker was prepared to shoot and kill Kitty Pryde. When questioned about it, he said "If that's the word of God, then it's sure changed since Sunday School."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_af917481	comment	Jackie and Craig: Yep kids, life is vicious, miserable and totally indifferent to your suffering, so be sure to cling to those precious few bright spots for the brief time that they last!
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: Forgiveness can backfire (just ask Eraqus note Betrayed again, this time fatally, by the same guy. and Ansem the Wise note Loses most of his memories due to The Power of Hate no longer reinforcing him against the Dark Realm's effects.), The Power of Friendship can fail (the main trio get a Bittersweet Ending/Downer Ending despite giving it their all), and The Power of Hate can be your best friend (it's what lets Terra create the Lingering Will, the ultimate Spanner in the Works against Big Bad Xehanort).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b0f977aa	comment	Star Ocean: The Last Hope ends with everyone agreeing — and signing into law — that everyone should just stick with their own kind instead of cooperating with other races.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b4169ede	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero teaches that sometimes the lesser of two evils is the right thing to do, and that good deeds done half-assedly can cause serious harm. Three of the Four Heroes go about performing good deeds throughout Melromarc, but because they don't stop to consider or mitigate the resulting consequences, said good deeds snowball into utter disaster as soon as they're gone, leaving Naofumi to clean up the mess by being more thorough and putting more thought into his actions. Naofumi is also a slave owner, but because he treats his demi slaves well and because Melromarc is such a racist hellhole towards demis they're actually safer and better off than they'd be free because they're under Naofumi's physical and legal protection. Contrast with Motoyasu, who wants to free Naofumi's slaves by force even though he'd be putting them at risk, simply for the short-term gratification of feeling like a hero (and because he's creepily obsessed with one of them and wants her for himself, believing she'll join his party out of gratitude if he frees her.)
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b4a10c6c	comment	This occurs in-story in Solitude where as a child Light takes away one from his therapy session — that people don't really want others to be happy. They want everyone to appear "normal" at all costs.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b5ac5dd2	comment	Avatar: The Abridged Series:
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b7ee0471	comment	In the original version of The Frog Prince, the princess doesn't change the frog back into a prince by learning how to be courteous to him and kissing him; she does it by getting so fed up with his requests that she throws him against a wall so hard that his frog skin splits open. Remember, kids: if you want to land a handsome prince, refuse to honor your promises, be as bratty as possible, and feel free to inflict violence upon someone who helped you when he didn't have to! Turning things around, one odd aspect of this original story is that it mentions getting thrown against the wall like that was the only way to break the spell. In other words, the solution to his problems was to find a princess spoiled and petulant enough that he could provoke her into abusing him. Then, unlike the sanitized later versions in which he promptly gets married to her first, the original just has him hopping into the sack with her that night and then promptly marrying her the next day "so that the christening might not follow the wedding too closely." Early advocacy for masochism and Shotgun Weddings, anyone?
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_b85c5aca	comment	Papo & Yo has an intentional one, as the game is a thinly-veiled metaphor for the author's relationship with his alcoholic, abusive father.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bb834769	comment	The musical Carousel and the play Liliom on which it is based contains one of these, personified in the immortal line: "It's possible for a man to hit you, hit you real hard, and have it feel like a kiss." Amanda Palmer did a cover of the song "What's the Use of Wondrin" as a creepy domestic abuse ballad...and didn't have to change a word.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bba9da2d	comment	Zero Escape: In one ending of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, one piece of evidence for Ace being the murderer is that he has prosopagnosia. When this is mentioned, he says it's prejudice to say that prosopagnosia makes him a bad person... except it ultimately turns out his prosopagnosia was the whole motive for him starting the original Nonary Game experiment, which also led to the deaths, meaning it literally did make him a bad person. Score one for prejudice! In Virtue's Last Reward, Tenmyouji raised the orphan Quark not because he wanted to be a father but because, post-apocalypse, all human lives are precious. This causes a lot of friction between the two. Junpei's subplot in Zero Time Dilemma basically goes 'Trusting people might fatally backfire on you, but trusting nobody will definitely kill you'. Even when the group he's in starts to actually work together, they do so not out of trust (or even mutual respect) but because they'll die if they don't and nobody has the time to think up a better plan.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive had one at the end of "Death Sentence": When confronted with a bad situation, one shouldn't simply decide that the worst outcome is inevitable and plan for that. People should, by all means, try to make better plans so that things might end peacefully and without anyone getting hurt. However, what they need to remember is that sometimes that isn't going to work at all, and in fact their plan might be doomed from the beginning, and so if their plan goes to hell, they should be prepared for the bad ending- but that doesn't mean that they should stop making plans where Everybody Lives. It's a pretty depressing message, though the rather idealistic character to whom it gets delivered does accept it (but not happily).
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bd91db47	comment	Pokémon: The debut episode of Duplica and her Ditto featured one. Her Ditto was unable to change its face when transforming, a shortcoming it couldn't get rid of, no matter how hard Ditto and its caring trainer worked on overcoming it. Then the Team Rocket trio kidnapped Ditto and finally got it to overcome its problem by threatening it with violence. So apparently, being nice and supportive and encouraging someone to overcoming their shortcomings just isn't enough; you have to intimidate and force them to do it. The moral here: The ends justify the means. Which is a rather odd moral to have in a franchise that highlights the close and friendly bond trainers can develop with their Pokémon.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bf661555	comment	The Parent Trap: It's completely unrealistic to try to make two people who are obviously unfit for each other get back together again. In real life, making two people who aren't right for each other marry again might only cause pain to both them and the child(ren), as it most likely causes constant arguments that may leave a lot of emotional turmoil on the child constantly having to watch a loveless marriage. The film tried to show an idealized situation instead of showing the healthy way to deal with a divorce. It's worse when you consider that Hailey's father never even told her about her mother and twin sister, not letting Annie have the benefits of dual citizenship.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_bff78dfe	comment	Early on in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Martha Kent gives Superman a rousing speech about being a hero, and a symbol, and then abruptly ends it by saying, "Or be none of it. You don't owe this world a thing. You never did." Although it's obvious from the context that what she's saying is "having super powers does not mean you are obligated to be a hero, especially to those who won't appreciate it" and "be a hero because that's what you feel is the right thing to do, not because people demand that you should"; people have had Comes Great Responsibility beaten into their head by superhero media for decades, so it elicits a very strong reaction.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c1fd1265	comment	On the surface, the motivational book Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson encourages being adaptive to changing situations in both your job and everyday life. In the process, it also encourages employees to fall in line with changes in company policy that might not be in their own best interest. The success of this Business Fable is partly due to managers distributing it on the eve of a large and unpopular decision by the top brass.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c2eb1b78	comment	Delicious in Dungeon: In Chapter 14, Laios is sure to be wrong about Anne the kelpie. Her friendship with Senshi means she would never attack him even though she's a monster, right? Wrong. She tries to eat him as soon as he gets on her back and the reader learns a brutal lesson about trusting wild creatures; just because they seem tame doesn't mean they can't turn on you in an instant. There's a big difference between "has never attacked" and "safe". Regarding Namari, most stories would penalize her for leaving Team Touden in Chapter 1 because they couldn't pay her fee. Here however she's treated as being in the right and Chilchuck even scolds Marcille for trying to make her return to the party later when she's on another job. She's not shamed for prioritzing her own career and professional reputation over wanting to help old friends, which might damage her job prospects very badly in the future. It teaches the lesson that looking out for yourself is okay sometimes and you shouldn't bend to others if you know what they want is not right for you.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c2fcda	comment	The aesop of SHAZAM! (2019) is "Your real family is the people who care about you," which is family-friendly, but early in the movie, a social worker adds a blunt addendum: If someone's not making an effort to be part of your life, give up on them and move on (even if it's the mother that you love). Sometimes, there is no compromising. There are no misunderstandings that can be cleared up. Sometimes you might not even get closure.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c3b69789	comment	The Aesop of "Why Lying is OK!" by Matthew Santoro is that some lies are necessary for society to function, and that always telling the truth is a bad thing.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02 had an episode in which the digidestined are trapped in an underwater rig that is slowly running out of air, with only one escape pod: despite knowing that he's afraid of water, the kids coerce Cody into going, creating the Accidental Aesop of "it's okay to force your friends to have contact with their phobias - it'll help them!" Though, it is possible they just wanted him to go into the pod so he wouldn't have to stay trapped and underwater with them and, thus, be able to avoid his fear. (Note that this is dub-induced; the phobia is nonexistent in the original Japanese version.) Upon reaching the surface, he finds out that to get Joe's help, he would have to lie, something Cody is deeply uncomfortable with, to the point that he later feels that he doesn't deserve the digi-egg of Reliability. This leads to the episode's Aesop: that lying is sometimes perfectly okay, if you have a good reason for doing it. While this isn't necessarily a damaging message (as depending on the context, white lies can be beneficial), it is incredibly odd considering that most children's shows would advocate for honesty.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c4d1c0e8	comment	Bloom Into You has an example in the School Play that the main characters are putting on in-universe. The play stars a girl who's lost her memory, and gets visits from three people close to her who see her three different ways- her schoolmate sees her as The Ace Student Council President, her brother sees her as an Aloof Big Sister, and her lover claims she has a vulnerable side that she only shows when they're together. Facing an identity crisis, the main character chooses to act the way her lover saw her as, thus sending a message that it's better to live the way someone else sees you than to be yourself. Because Touko, who plays the girl, has felt pressured to "become" her seemingly perfect sister after the latter's death in a car accident, Yuu convinces Koyomi to change the ending so that the main character's nurse convinces her to just be herself, resulting in the main character telling the other three that she intends to start over. Most of the student council besides Touko likes the new ending better, partly because they believe this outcome makes more sense.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_c5b0066b	comment	Soul Food: Ironically, it plays out more like Family-Friendly. Career-focused oldest sister Teri is on her second marriage, which is itself in serious trouble and she's such a bitch that when her husband cheats on her, our sympathies are clearly supposed to be with him. Meanwhile, second sister Maxine is a Happily Married housewife and mother of three kids. It's not hard to assume the writers are implying that career women are bad while stay-at-home moms are good. Also, youngest sister Bird's (admittedly underhanded) efforts to help husband Lem find a job by asking her ex-boyfriend to give him one. Lem is furious when he finds out and the whole situation blows up. . .and everyone makes Bird out to be in the wrong and chews her for not letting Lem "be a man" and find his own job. The idea of a woman helping a man is made out to be something utterly abhorrent.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ca8aa2a6	comment	The God's Not Dead series: so, basically, not being a Christian makes you retroactively "evil", while being a Christian gives you the right to belittle/discriminate against non-Christians?
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! had, in its filler DOMA arc, an Aesop that Valon/Varon teaches Mai: The Power of Friendship won't win her battles for her, and she can't rely on her friends to help her. On the other hand, he may have been saying that to further convince Mai to leave her old life behind and remain in the DOMA cult.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_cdb56166	comment	Daisuki! BuBu ChaCha: Prolonged exposure may result in creepiness when your preschooler somehow ends up believing that one of his toys is the reincarnation of or is possessed by the spirit of the recently deceased family pet.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ce06dda3	comment	Many of the original Aesop's Fables have this trope - in fact, family friendly modern selections of Aesop's Fables have to tactically omit many of the original ones. Some examples include: The Bat and the Weasels: it's sometimes wise to change or lie about your affiliation in order to save your own skin. The Fox and the Goat: don't trust anyone who's in trouble, because they're likely to be using you to get out of it. The Farmer and the Nightingale: never believe a captive's promise and never give up what you have. The Ass and the Lap Dog (and The Eagle and the Crow): just because someone else achieves something good doesn't mean that you can. The Porcupine and the Snakes: be careful who you take as a guest, because they might be an asshole. The Fox without a Tail: avoid miserable people because they'll try to make you miserable too. The Lark and her Young Ones: if something is worth doing, the only one you can trust to do it is yourself. The Wolf and the Lamb: arguing rationally with the powerful is useless, they'll just overwhelm you. The Wolf and the Crane: the higher your hopes, the more likely you are to be disappointed. If you put yourself in danger to help someone, they won't always be grateful and it will be nothing more than a waste of time. The Two Pots: don't hang around powerful people, if there's any mutual trouble you'll get the worst of it. The Man and the Lion: never believe what anyone says in their own defense. The Lion's Share or The Lion and Other Beasts Go Hunting: just because someone wants you to co-operate with them in work does not mean they will give you a share of the reward. The Farmer and the Snake: some people are just plain evil and no amount of building trust will change that. The Ass and his Driver: if someone is determined to destroy themselves, step back and let them, or they'll destroy you too. The Man, the Boy, and the Ass: No matter what you do, someone will dislike it, and trying to change what you do to please everyone will literally make you lose your ass.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_cf10c600	comment	TRON: Legacy: Creating an open and free system that is accessible to everyone isn't always a good thing, because all entities are not created equal, and some entities, when given infinite rights and access, will use them to force their will upon others, and remove their infinite rights and access. Sometimes proprietary is the way to go.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_cf39ca4f	comment	Parodied with Rat's children's stories in Pearls Before Swine.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_cfe32855	comment	Boy Meets Boy ends with the lesson that people change, friendships don't last, and you'll probably have to settle for second best, because the love of your life simply isn't interested.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_d4caf593	comment	Galloway's arc in Bully focuses on the issues between two teachers: Galloway is friendly and well-liked, but an alcoholic, and Hattrick is a Jerkass who abuses everyone around him and actively exploits students, but calls Galloway on drinking during school. The students, however, don't mind at all (and are shown not to follow his example), because Galloway is a decent guy whose belligerent co-worker makes his life difficult, and Jimmy ends up helping him get into recovery because he needs help, not because he needs to be punished. And all this is on top of the actual authority figures doing nothing to solve the real problems because they think it builds character. Overall, the message is that some adults are too corrupt or too ignorant to understand what is and isn't Harmful to Minors, and bullying isn't just a childhood problem.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_d502170c	comment	The postgame Eevee sidequest in Pokémon Sun and Moon provides some stunningly harsh and sober lessons about getting older that the game makes very little attempt to sugarcoat. In summation: you will get old someday, and as you do you'll likely have to give up on your interests and dreams from when you were younger and settle for a boring, mundane career as your priorities change to adult things like getting the bills paid (especially if you have a family) as shown by about half of the old trainers involved. There's a good chance your mind (the Jolteon trainer) and body (the Umbreon and Leafeon trainers) will simply start giving out on you as you age, and even if you manage to stave off aging on the outside with cosmetics, your body will continue to age on the inside (as shown by the Leafeon trainer). And finally, you will die someday (the Sylveon trainer already died and the one you battle instead is her granddaughter). The whole sidequest carries the somber implication that as the times go by and new generations take over, it's most likely that your accomplishments from when you were younger will be forgotten and will end up meaning nothing in the long run.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_d6b7adcf	comment	The Little Mermaid ends in the Little Mermaid dying, however she can gain an eternal soul and go to heaven if she does good deeds to children for 300 years. This is supposed to be a happy, hopeful ending but even many Christians don't like its message. As a result, many retellngs just end with the title character dying. The story's ending has been critiqued as one of these for decades. P. L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) is quoted as saying:
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_d890ebc6	comment	Shiki basically has the moral that if things get bad enough, anyone can and will turn into a murderous monster regardless of his or her original personality because most people just care about themselves and their own more than anything else, and that it doesn't matter if you do decide to be selfless and nonviolent because you're screwed either way.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_da14b9f	comment	The Dr. Seuss book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose completely inverts the Stock Aesop about generosity. For more information, please see this article. But watch out for spoilers.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_da973332	comment	The Angry Birds Movie The explorer pigs come to the island, and most of the birds accept them, with the exception of the protagonist Red. It turns out that the pigs just want to steal the bird's eggs. This can easily be interpreted as "if someone who doesn't look like you comes to your country, chances are, they want to take advantage of you". The film's Aesop has also been interpreted as "embrace your anger and use it to get revenge".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_db47f8fc	comment	Walkyverse has "Morals mean diddly squat without experiences to back them up... which is a license to screw around and do stupid things".
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_db5628d7	comment	In book 2 of Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Laurie explains that she lies because "lying works," and nothing in the story contradicts this claim. This, from a book aimed at 6-12 year olds.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia contain the lesson that the real world is a harsh and violent place that sometimes takes a fair amount of violence to survive in. C. S. Lewis was even quoted once as saying that pretending otherwise would do a great disservice to children. Once again, an example of a very true and important Aesop, but one that many parents would rather their children didn't know.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_dd21323c	comment	In Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic stops Merlina's plan because he doesn't like the idea of a world that won't end. It's this because of how unclear it is. Though he could actually mean he doesn't like the idea of a world unable to change, the dialog makes it murky.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_e0f3d2b6	comment	Honest Trailers discusses this trope whenever they make a video of a children's movie. Notably with The Little Mermaid, as mentioned above.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_e46a501d	comment	The freeware RPG The Crooked Man follows the main character as he retraces the steps of the previous tenant of his apartment, which align creepily with his own. Each of the people he meets is facing the dilemma of struggling bravely forward, or giving up, on whatever conflict they're dealing with. Invariably, the answer is to accept one's own limitations. There are some things in life that, no matter how badly you want them and no matter how hard you try, you will never be able to achieve; if you don't fit a certain mold, there's no honor in ruining yourself to force it. Another one is that, sometimes, helping the victim can and will seriously backfire, despite any good intentions. Attempting to console the woman will have her instead think that she should bottle it all in yet again, instead of seeking closure and move on. Encouraging the student will make him angry, thinking you're mocking him, which is a huge Berserk Button for said guy. And finally, attempting to negotiate with the suicidal man will get both him and you killed, mainly because it's not exactly his finger pulling on the trigger...!
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_e8d13e52	comment	In-universe example: in Urusei Yatsura, Ataru tells a class of kindergartners a story about the legendary Kintaro, who through ceaseless effort, finally became the assistant to a great man.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_eb8193b6	comment	Lost in Blue is about two people shipwrecked on an island and having to work together to survive, which ends up being sort of a gender-role/marriage simulator. The thing is, the AI isn't all that bright, and your "spouse" is likely to die of stupidity no matter who you're playing. It's set up as being very much the traditional idea of what a married couple will be to each other, but the complications caused by the faulty AI generally turn this message into "Partnership and teamwork is necessary, but it sucks to be married to a useless moron."
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ebfefbc1	comment	In many old fairy tales and folk tales (especially the ones featuring a young or powerless protagonist), the moral is "Lie, cheat, and steal to save yourself or your family. If you do it well enough, you could become royalty." Modern versions often Bowdlerise this, eliminating the original moral.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco deconstructs the "follow your dreams" Aesop common to children's films. Yes, pursuing something you love is a good thing, but taking it to the point where you'd do anything to achieve it is only going to cause you and your loved ones pain. Also, be careful who you look up to, as some famous people had to do very unscrupulous things to get where they did.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ec2e3e2a	comment	Whenever Rogue considers having her powers removed—a storyline that often comes up in the comics, the cartoons, and the movies—the moral is always "Be proud of the things that make you different." It's often stated or implied that a mutant neutralizing their X-gene would be akin to a black person bleaching their skin. However, the issues here are more than skin-deep: 1. Rogue's involuntary Power Copying creates a burden on her life by not allowing her physical contact without harming the other person. 2. Since she often struggles with the absorbed psyches in her head, her powers are a danger to herself as well. 3. It's her body. She shouldn't be shamed for what's essentially a medical decision. It also ignores the issue of the number of mutants who have such extreme physical changes that they're regarded as monsters and can't integrate with society even if their powers are harmless or at least controllable. It uncomfortably implies that body autonomy must take a backseat to political posturing.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_ef1cc2c3	comment	The Lost Village: The end of the series has the message that everyone copes with their issues in their own way, and sometimes the way they find is to run away from them, and when that happens, it's just as valid of a way to deal with it as any other. While not uplifting, the message isn't exactly invalid.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_f168045c	comment	Kakegurui: The Debt Swapping Game Arc has Yumeko stating that if someone don't do anything to get out of a bad situation, specially when the opportunity to do so presents itself, the person likely deserves to be in that position. The Choice Poker Game has the aesop that if you want something big, then you also need to be willing to risk big. If you face nothing but grief and pain after it, then that's the price of trying to achieve what you want.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_f41ef4ca	comment	College: Academic success is for nerds and to win girls you have to be a jock.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_f574c454	comment	One of the Mass Effect Foundation comics, had Kaidan's father offer the advice that even the right decision has terrible consequences.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_f6b79960	comment	In one ending of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, one piece of evidence for Ace being the murderer is that he has prosopagnosia. When this is mentioned, he says it's prejudice to say that prosopagnosia makes him a bad person... except it ultimately turns out his prosopagnosia was the whole motive for him starting the original Nonary Game experiment, which also led to the deaths, meaning it literally did make him a bad person. Score one for prejudice!
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_f88df431	comment	Mega Man Legends has a terrific one that comes from the villains. After their Last Villain Stand (Or so you think) against The Flutter when they're shot down, Tron apologizes for failing and Tiesel says "Don't worry your pretty little head over it, Tron. We tried our best, but sometimes your best isn't good enough. We lost fair and square. That's life." While it's jarring and not as optimistic as "you can achieve anything", it's also sound advice that not only teaches "you will fail sometimes, get used to it" but also that there's no shame in trying your best and failing.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_fae48d18	comment	The Prayer Warriors seems to go out of its way to make its lessons as family-unfriendly as possible. For starters, anyone who has sex is immediately a whore and must be killed. Yes, this includes rape victims. Another frequently used one is how women should Stay in the Kitchen. Thankfully, this is also a Broken Aesop, since the women turn out to be critical to the Prayer Warriors' efforts, possibly more so than the author realizes.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_fe117549	comment	The Devil Wears Prada begins by suggesting the very audacious Aesop that if you take a job you don't especially care for, occasionally prioritize it over events in your personal life, ignore your friends when they passive-aggressively criticize you about your job, start to sympathize with your coworkers whom you'd previously viewed with scorn, and, horrors, enjoy some of the perks associated with it, life might turn out okay. It even suggests that The Power of Love might not conquer all in the case of a casual relationship! However, it ends up reverting to the Broken Aesop that if you do any of those things, you are a bad bad person who is selling out on her deepest ideals.
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Family-Unfriendly Aesop / int_fe66f6d4	comment	Listen To Me: The message sent, intentional or not, seems to be "win at any cost".
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