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Here come The Cynics, sporting a nice pair of Jade-Colored Glasses, and when average people, especially the Wide Eyed Idealists, call them out on it, they are quick to claim that I Did What I Had to Do, or Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! They are strongly convinced their attitude is inherently more logical and realistic, and that those without it are supposedly too childish to accomplish anything. As far as they're concerned, altruism, kindness, compassion, and selflessness are only for fools and will only hinder you and get you taken advantage of, and open displays of those are, at best, hopelessly naive, and at worst are hollow and performative, attention-seeking displays. According to these cynics, we live in a Dog-Eat-Dog world where everyone either has a hidden dagger or is too naive and deluded to realize it, and the only way to succeed is to carry a bigger dagger and have a faster hand. These cynics, however, are wrong. Their pessimistic and negligent attitude ironically made them turn lazy, cruel and selfish themselves, wasting their entire philosophical intellect and strength of character in their lamentations. In their sheer apathy, they have sat by and allowed otherwise manageable problems to ferment and fester into full-blown crises and Crapsack Worlds, all while missing several golden opportunities to make the world a better place due to constantly thinking about themselves alone in the Despair Event Horizon for all eternity. And in some cases, these misanthropes have even actively made the world a worse place by falsely assuming that everyone was out to screw them and thus opting to screw over and exploit everyone else first. They thus prove themselves to be just as dogmatic, narrow-minded, and damaging as they think the overtly idealistic characters are, all while soothing their egos with an unearned sense of superiority, claiming they're being "realistic" for wallowing in defeatism, rather than taking a risk to change the situation they claim to despise so much. These characters are often summarily called out for their wangst precisely because of this. Fittingly, it tends to be done by the very people that the cynic had regarded as fools. It can also happen when an old-fashioned or young character tries too hard to be what they think an adult is, like a Perpetual Frowner. This trope is the Inversion of Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!, showing that being extremely cynical is not exactly better. Yes, extreme idealism does tend to result in stupid decisions and disasters, but extreme cynicism results in laziness, negligence, cruelty and callousness, and is just as bad, if not even worse, than its idealistic counterpart. This is to show that The Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism does not always stick to one end, but tends to lie somewhere in the middle, and that you need a bit of both to really see the world for what it is. Can be a trait of The Anti-Nihilist or the Knight in Sour Armor, and used to deconstruct the Straw Nihilist mentality. The argument can however be abused, if it's used to stifle legitimate protest, such as when someone justifiably complaining about some social ill is told to shut up and stop ruining everyone's fun — or, worse yet, blamed for the misfortune, or it can also be used to demonstrate a character's naivety. It can also meet somewhere in the middle, as the character doing the calling-out may be overly idealistic and may be oversimplifying the situation but still has a good point, while the cynic may be doing the same about the idealist having an overly sunny view of a truly bad situation. The general consensus however is that the trope is justified to be applied if, after understandably complaining about a legitimate and serious problem, the cynic then uses the same argument as an excuse to either do absolutely nothing about the situation, or to do something horribly selfish and cruel that makes the problem even worse. See also Sour Supporter for character types that can fall into this. May invoke Good Is Not Dumb. A subtrope of The Complainer Is Always Wrong if this means that characters who don't agree with idealists are frowned upon. Often overlaps with Wangst, typically when the character is using it as an excuse for inaction, or when they are immature, conflating extreme pessimism and nihilism with maturity. |
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This is one of the main messages of The Rise of Skywalker, Zorii Bliss tells Poe that the forces of darkness are actually depending on people's fear and cynicism, reminding him that the forces of good and decent people greatly outnumber those of the dark. She is proven correct, during the climax of the Film. | |
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Over the Garden Wall: The defeatist Wirt expects the worst of everything he encounters. Constantly anticipating humiliation or rejection, his cynicism has stopped him from interacting with people normally, and he gave up The Quest much quicker than his brother did. He only gets better after realizing he has to stop being afraid. The villain himself invokes this - he can only feed off those who have given up, and purposely waits for his victims to cross the Despair Event Horizon. |
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In their various conflicts, Harry himself rarely wastes time trying to appeal to Voldemort’s “better nature”; the major exception being their final showdown at the end of Deathly Hallows, where he gives clear warning that unless the dark lord sees past his own limited understanding and tries for some real remorse, things will not end well for him. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Kakeru Kamisato calls Touma Kamijou naive for wanting to save everybody. He says the smart thing is to concentrate on saving one or a few and leave the rest to die, because if you waste time trying to save everybody, you won't save anybody. However, Touma consistently manages to save everybody by never giving up and using methods Kakeru never thought of, causing Kakeru to admit he was wrong. | |
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Angel gives a speech like this to Kate at the end of an episode in which his enemies were trying to make him lose hope. | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: Often a particularly jaded character (such like Urumi, Miyabi, Ms. Daimon...) will go in a rant about the rotting of society, Adults Are Useless or abusive/perverted creeps, kids are delinquents, you can't trust anybody or they'll abuse you or take advantage of you... Only to be told they're just blind cynics and that mindset is one of the roots of those troubles. Onizuka went so far to tell Urumi her outlook is not logical; it's cowardly. | |
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In Umineko: When They Cry, this is the whole point behind the final game. Battler deliberately shows Ange an idealistic scenario where the entire Ushiromiya family's on their best behavior, and Ange quickly catches on that this isn't the actual truth of what happened on Rokkenjima. Battler responds by challenging Ange's negative preconceptions of the family that led her to become so bitter and resentful in the first place, and points out that remembering how much she was really loved is more important than knowing the truth of what happened. Interestingly, this allows Bernkastel to try pulling the opposite lesson on Ange, and it works for a bit before Ange discovers the truth for herself and eventually sides with Battler. This is further reinforced in the Magic ending and the manga conclusion, where Ange goes on to become a bestselling author and reopens the Fukuin household that Kinzo had founded. | |
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The Simpsons: A cautionary tale version is seen in Panic on the Streets of Springfield. Lisa becomes infatuated with the work of an 80’s musician and begins hallucinating him as an imaginary friend. Eventually, however, she understands that his personality is 90% edgier-than-thou nihilism, and calls him out for sneering and/or whining at everything he disagrees with (which is a LOT). When they see his real-life self at a music festival, the imaginary version is horrified at how he’s not only completely washed-up, but has abandoned all his staunchest values and become even more cynical than ever. Before disappearing, he warns Lisa not to turn out like him, and at least try to listen to others. | |
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In Death Parade, shortly after realizing she is human, the dark-haired woman calls out Decim's condescending, impassive behavior, essentially saying that bringing out the worst in people makes him nothing more than a walking Cynicism Catalyst who could never hope to care for or understand anyone. He always insisted that this was about analyzing human behavior and brushed off her criticisms before this, but for once, he's unable to fight back. | |
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Smiling Friends: Charlie & Pim end up with Straw Nihilist evil twins who start a rival company called the Frowning Friends across the street from them. The Frowning Friends then go across town, spreading their pessimism to others and trying to undo all of Charlie and Pim's work. When their boss snaps and confronts them with a rifle, Pim's double breaks down crying and begging for his life moments after saying life doesn't matter since we're all going to die anyway, making them lose their audience. The episode carries An Aesop that while it's important to be aware of the issues with the world, unrelenting cynicism is just as unhealthy and useless as unrealistic idealism. | |
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The Killing Joke has The Joker profess that the entire world, or at least every individual person, is "one bad day" away from becoming a monster just like him. Batman counters that Joker is wrong, and the comic's plot proves it — Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon with a bullet through the sternum, kidnapped her, then tied up Jim Gordon while showing off horrific photos of Barbara's suffering. But, neither Jim nor Barbara Gordon broke and surrendered to cynicism like Joker did. And for that matter, neither did Batman despite his own "one bad day" in the past; Batman chose to be a light in the world and renew hope rather than give into nihilism. At the end of the comic, Batman even offers to help the Joker try and turn things around, but Joker rejects it, showing how self-defeating and pointless it all was. | |
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While Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann doesn't endorse blind idealism, the series is a battle between idealism and cynicism, where idealism tempered through experience wins through. This is shown in the final battle where Team Dai Gurren counters the Big Bad's Shut Up, Kirk! and Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! with this trope and Shut Up, Hannibal!. While the villain might have had a good reason for doing what he did, the heroes counter that it doesn't excuse his actions, since he never attempted anything else. | |
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This is a major theme in Naruto: The younger generation of ninja that Naruto belongs to are idealists, while the older ninja are cynics. Somewhat understandable in that Naruto's generation are young and haven't lived through a war yet. However, the narrative frequently depicts the cynical views that peace is impossible and people can't understand each other as completely wrong. The people who buy into this cynicism most are villains, some of whom are fallen idealists that turn around and help the heroes when Naruto or another challenges their cynical outlook—or in cases where they aren't redeemed, still goes through a massive Heel Realization moments before their defeat. Nobody embodies this trope better than the Big Bad Duumvirate: Madara and Obito Uchiha. Both have completely given up on the world and plan to use Infinite Tsukuyomi to trap everyone in a "perfect" dream-world with them. Obito is clearly shown doing this because his life experiences have turned him into a nihilist that doesn't care about anything but leaving behind the reality he's come to hate so much, while Madara, the biggest cynic in the series, talks about their "accursed world" and how people are always destined to be losers as long as winners exist anywhere —similarly, though not as widely detailed, it is a result of living a brutal life of war during the infamous Warring States era. Danzo also embodied this mindset. Playing the dark to Sarutobi's light, he was quite the Well-Intentioned Extremist. Unfortunately, his actions contributed to the Start of Darkness of Nagato, Kabuto and Sasuke, among other indirect consequences of his actions. By the time Danzo was killed off, he ultimately left behind a huge mess for everyone else to clean up while he utterly failed to accomplish anything. |
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Injustice: Gods Among Us starts with The Joker making Superman suffer that "one bad day that could drive a man to madness" by making Superman accidentally kill his wife Lois Lane and their unborn child, which also set off a bomb that wiped Metropolis off the map. Superman is so blinded by his grief that he decides to ditch heroics and Take Over the World alongside the Regime, which is comprised of other superheroes that have been driven to similar levels of cynicism by various misfortunes. The heroes that fight against the Regime all believe that bad things happening to you doesn't means that you get to take it out on the rest of the universe. And in the majority of the Multiple Endings, the heroes go on to become the symbols of hope that the world desperately needs. A few crossover appearances of the Injustice-verse in comics sees the heroes of the tale (and even a few villains) essentially calling the Regime a bunch of super-powered whiners who have giving into cynicism. The Regime's belief that fascism and throwing their weight around because nobody can stop them somehow making them morally superior is frequently shown as a self-defeating surrender to cynicism. This is shown at the end of the first Injustice game with a Mirror Match between the prime version of Superman and the Regime version of Superman, where Prime Superman says that Lois dying doesn't justify what the Regime has done, to which Regime Superman can't counter except with self-righteous whining. | |
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The message had also existed in the earlier Batman films. Joel Schumacher's Batman convinced Dick Grayson to let go of his anger in Batman Forever and convinced Mr. Freeze to help him save Alfred in Batman & Robin. Even the Burton films, which usually proposed the opposite trope, occasionally challenged cynicism, if more subtly. In the 1989 film, both Alfred and (much more tactfully) Vicki Vale try to tell Bruce that being Batman is a waste of time ("I have no wish to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss of old friends — or their sons" / "It doesn't have to be a perfect world"); Bruce doesn't listen in either case, and Gotham City is so much the better for it. And Batman Returns contains this little gem: | |
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Learning this is essentially Jeff Winger's whole character arc on Community. He's a jaded ex-lawyer who, initially at least, honestly believes that everyone is selfish and out for themselves, the world is corrupt and other people only exist to be used to benefit you before being cast aside when you're done with them before they do the same to you. It's pretty clear, though, that his cynicism has left him lonely, miserable, and objectively speaking just as big a failure as everyone else at Greendale no matter how much he may disdain them. | |
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Probably his crowning example of this trope is the story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?: Superman is presented with a team of supers who think killing the bad guy is the first and only solution, or, as they put it, 'cutting out societies tumors'. When public opinion starts to sway to their way of thinking, it seems like Superman had finally given in and started to kill the members of the team... Only to eventually reveal that it was a Scare 'Em Straight act to show the world exactly why they do not want a Superman who thinks killing is okay. What really sells this trope, however, is the final dialogue between Superman and Manchester Black. | |
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In RWBY, the Eldritch Abominations called the Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. In short, the worse you expect the world to be, the worse it actually will be, both figuratively and literally. As Roman Torchwick demonstrated by going on a Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! rant while Grimm were swarming around him, getting himself eaten by a giant Griffon. There's a reason for the "victory is a simple soul" motif, and why the show is Anvilicious in its portrayal of how pointless cynicism can be. Salem, in a somewhat unusual stance for a villain, holds firmly to this, believing that humanity can overcome any problem so long as they work together. Of course, as she is a villain, her ultimate goal is thus to encourage cynicism so that nobody can trust each other long enough to overcome her. Raven Branwen gets her own cynical plan thrown back into her face by Yang, who points out that there is no third option when fighting a war against total annihilation; for all her posturing, Raven is just scared of Salem. This is one of General Ironwood's major flaws; while he genuinely wants to save the world, his deeply-ingrained militaristic mindset (and a generous dose of PTSD) has firmly convinced him that nothing can be gained without sacrifice, which is why he plans to take Atlas away from Salem rather than stay and fight for the city of Mantle. And when Cinder nudges him into a mental breakdown, he becomes fixated on these views to the point of total irrationallity. Volume 8 features the team themselves starting to fall into cynicism, particularly Yang, Ren, and Ruby, with their recent failures leading them to believe that they're simply not able to affect any meaningful change in the war against Salem. Learning that they need to accept the risks inherent in trying to save people and that they have made a difference despite their failures is key to their character arcs and arguably the volume's Central Theme, which is what finally allows them to Take a Third Option and find a way to save both Atlas and Mantle. |
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In one short story in the Batman: Black and White series, a battle between Batman and the Joker ends with the two of them at the top of a ferris wheel, but the Joker in captivity. On the way down, the Joker taunts Batman about his mission and points out that he'll never stop crime (the societal ill). After a moment, Batman smiles and retorts that he stops crime (people breaking the law and terrorising the innocent) every night. Point being, it just depends on how you look at it. | |
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Harry Potter: Zig-zagged. While Voldemort is not “cynical” per se - indeed, he often celebrates his power and influence in the wizarding world - the initial description of his outlook in Philosopher’s Stone largely holds true for the entire series: “There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to seek it.” In their various conflicts, Harry himself rarely wastes time trying to appeal to Voldemort’s “better nature”; the major exception being their final showdown at the end of Deathly Hallows, where he gives clear warning that unless the dark lord sees past his own limited understanding and tries for some real remorse, things will not end well for him. |
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Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises isn't exactly a sunny optimist himself, but he never loses faith that cynical, hardbitten thief Selina Kyle can be a better person than she is — even after she betrays him, much to her incredulity. He's eventually proven right. In the previous film The Dark Knight, Bruce is also confident that the Joker's scheme to prove that deep down everyone is as ugly as him will fail. The people of Gotham prove him right in the end. And in the film before that Batman Begins, he rejects Ra's Al Ghul's belief that Gotham is beyond saving. By the end of the trilogy, Bruce is vindicated. | |
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No Exit: This is part of Jean-Paul Sartre's point. At the end of the story, it's implied that the main characters could leave at any time they wished to, but their own character flaws and lack of empathy with each other prevent them from doing so. | |
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths: The thrust of Batman's Shut Up, Hannibal! to Owlman. | |
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Supernatural: When Dean goes back in time and finds out that Eliot Ness was secretly a monster hunter, Dean asks him who he lost. Ness doesn't understand the question. Dean tells him that every hunter he ever met became one as a result of a personal tragedy, even relating a little bit of his own life story. Ness calls Dean the most depressing person he ever met, and tells him that he hunts monsters because it's fun. | |
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Discworld: Somewhat common, especially with Rincewind. The guy would be so obviously right in his cynicism... but Twoflower would come out fine anyway, leaving Rincewind looking like an idiot. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising: Pit has a song that goes "you gotta stay upbeat, upbeat, upbeat. Or you're gonna be dead meat, dead meat, dead meat". Dark Pit, naturally, thinks it's annoying. | |
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout challenges Ethan Hunt's refusal to compromise his morals even if it jeopardizes his missions. In the beginning, terrorists manage to steal plutonium right from under his nose when he refuses to sacrifice Luther for it. The CIA chief Erica Sloan is not happy about this and thinks this is proof that IMF is a bunch of "grown men running around in Halloween masks". Hunt's superior Hunley however believes that Hunt's refusal to sacrifice one life for the "greater good" is actually his greatest strength since it means people trust Hunt. The movie ultimately ends by vindicating Ethan. Erica Sloan even comes around and realizes the value of having someone who cares about individual lives as well as the mission (if only because that means she doesn't have to care). To emphasize this even further, it was Sloan's own cynical refusal to trust IMF that jeopardizes the mission and culminated in Hunley's death. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV taps this button a couple of different times throughout the main story plot, before making it the entire focus of the Endwalker expansion. The Warrior of Light is put through the ringer, undergoes quite a bit of Heroic Fatigue from a lack of respect from common people, and is expected to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In spite of that, the Warrior also passes many a Secret Test of Character that proves they have not just Heroic Resolve, but the determination to keep going in spite of things continuously looking more and more hopeless. The Warrior could give into cynicism and give up, but they never do, because somebody's got to step up and fight when things are hard. Endwalker also features a prayer from Matsya and the people of Radz-at-Han, which says essentially that life can be hard but you must never give up hope, for Misery Builds Character. | |
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Overly Sarcastic Productions Red is a firm believer in this. While discussing grimdark as a trope on "Trope Talk", Red openly states that she finds the whole prospect of grimdark to be inherently boring, and she doesn't see the appeal, along with this trope's counterpart. She thinks that the idealists ultimately have it better. The world can get dark, yes, but one look at history will tell you that it has gotten immensely better over time, usually thanks to idealists. For this reason, Red also bashes the '90s Anti-Hero in a video about the Anti-Hero subtypes, saying that being such a hero means being a Jerk Sue, that she really dislikes the character type, and further hates how it brought about the idea that being cool means being a cynical self-righteous asshole. "Satirizing Superman" is an analysis of Superman by Red and Blue. The video examines Superman's origins as a character, what makes him tick, and his role both inside his stories and as part of the greater superhero ecosystem, along with the best examples of Superman at his finest. Two of the examples are from Alan Moore, who Red and Blue note fundamentally understands Superman, and lament that Moore's work is so chronically misunderstood by less-skilled writers who tend to only see the surface-level cynical aspects. They end the diatribe with a Kirk Summation that caring is a genuinely good thing and the world isn't and shouldn't just be bad and miserable, and we always should be striving for a better world and to hold bad actors accountable. Red and Blue close the video by saying that to give into cynicism and not do anything about the darkness in the world will cause a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. |
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Beka Cooper: In Terrier, the first book, Beka's Dog (police) mentors, Tunstall and Goodwin, don't search for the Shadow Snake (a comfort/profit serial child killer who's terrorized the Lower City for three years), or the person who was mining fire opals and killing the people who dug them out to keep it secret (eight or nine at a time), because, as they explain to Beka, idealism just doesn't work in the Lower City. There's just too much crime, and they advise Beka to forget about that before she commits suicide in despair over not being able to help everyone. Beka nonetheless continues her search, enlisting the help of the lovable rogues who share her house, and in the end is able to catch both the one responsible for the Opal Murders (as they have been dubbed by the time of the next book) and the Shadow Snake. Now you know why they call her Terrier... | |
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It's not just cynicism that makes the world of Kamen Rider Build seem terrible. It really is a terrible place that just keeps on falling apart because Humans Are Bastards. Sento Kiryu believes that it can be better and uses what meager existence he has to make it work. It's hard to stay a true hardcore cynic when hanging out with him as several people found out. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: One of the main themes of The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's work in general is the evils of cynicism and despair. Evil triumphs because people believe it can't be fought and give up (Denethor and initially Théoden) or join it (Saruman). The only way for good to triumph is fight against despair, even if things look hopeless. And it's the acts of good by the smallest of people that end up saving Middle-Earth. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Ian Starshine, Haley's father, is very much this. After the death of his wife, he raised Haley in their town of Greysky City (a wretched hive where most of the population are rogues) to have a strong sense of paranoid and distrust. While it did serve Haley well in survival, it left Haley an emotional wreck and she was able to find happiness through trust, especially in Elan. Contrast this with her dad who remains in prison and distrusts Elan despite Elan's blatant open kindness (though the fact that Elan's the preferred son of Tarquin explains it.) When she calls him out on it he does temporarily crack and reveal that he did indeed feel problems with everything he did. They do reconcile before they part ways and Ian manages to start getting along with Elan. This also seems to have been the case for Girard Draketooth, who distrusted paladins to the point where he expected his paladin friend Soon Kim to break an oath not to investigate other gates and gave him false directions, which ended up biting everyone in the rear since the heroes got their directions from Soon's successors. Soon, of course, never broke his oath and made the rest of the order swear never to do so either. Rogue-like types are subject to this, it seems. note When you spend your life behind people (either to put a hand in their pocket or a knife in their back), it's only natural you start thinking everyone's behind your back, waiting to put their hand in your pocket, or a knife in your back. This is why Gresky City is a Wretched Hive; most of the population is rogues. |
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In Cinderella, a key divide between Ella and her stepmother is that Tremaine has grown bitter after spending years unloved and poor while Ella has kept herself hopeful. Because of this, Tremaine resents Ella even more for not breaking like she has, and keeps abusing her in hopes that the young woman too will crack. Then when interrogating Ella about her glass slipper, she cannot believe that it was just given to her when Tremaine has had to pay and bargain for everything. The idea that Ella's idealism would be rewarded is unthinkable to her, and in her Motive Rant she suggests it's unfair that Ella would just receive a happily ever after with "no effort" while Tremaine's "hard work" would come to nothing. | |
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House, M.D. gets a speech like this at least once a season, hammering him over and over that he's only so miserable because he chooses to be miserable. It never sticks... until the Grand Finale where his subconscious finally gets through to him that he can either die or change, and he chooses the latter by faking his death. | |
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Flex Mentallo: The Hoaxer says as much to Moonman, telling him that he wants to kill everyone because they remind him of everything he's missing out on and that his 'realism' is just pessimism. | |
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Ash and Serena's Atomic Odyssey: Chapter 37 reveals that Sayaka, Serena's most antagonistic rival in Pokémon Contests, used to be a lot like Serena when she started competing, wanting to make people smile with her performances. But after she failed miserably in the competitions, she decided she had to become stronger and more ruthless, and force herself to leave behind her childhood dreams if she wanted to make it to the top. As Serena reminds her a lot of her former self, Sayaka has a compulsive need to beat her to prove that she made the correct choice, and during their battle she tries to break Serena telling her that she will never beat her with that mindset. However, Serena counters that Sayaka is a quitter for abandoning her childhood dreams, and while she ultimately loses the battle for the ribbon, it only gives her extra motivation to become stronger to beat her and eventually prove her wrong. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic takes this approach to his rather scathing review of the 2013 dystopian sci-fi film The Purge, spending much of his review's running time skewering the film's implausibly bleak vision of the future, and of humanity in general. As his review points out, extreme cynicism does not always translate to authenticity, and being cynical does not mean that a film actually has something intelligent to say. | |
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In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Batgirl (paranoid and mistrustful) tells Supergirl (idealistic and innocent) that she has no clue what real life is, but Supergirl replies that Batgirl doesn't know the real world as well as she likes to believe. | |
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Tomorrowland features this as an underlying theme, as the Big Bad himself admits people choose apathy precisely because it requires no effort, and only idealistic Science Heroes are willing to put in the work of making things better. | |
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This is Sakura's stance in Zombie Land Saga. Sure, she's an amnesiac zombie caught up in a madman's plan to restore Saga's reputation through singing, and that is a situation that is both extremely traumatic and completely bonkers... but that's no reason to give up on life, and in the second episode she calls out the other zombies for assuming there's no hope in their situation. While Battle Rapping with the one that thinks she's just a doormat. Bonus points for turning to the old people watching them and telling them their lives aren't over yet either, so they can do something about it (despite them living in a retirement home). And then when she falls head-first into cynicism when she gets her memories of her frankly shitty life back at the cost of forgetting her accomplishments as a zombie, thinking that she should just stop in order to keep from failing yet again, the rest of the cast turn this back on her. | |
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In The Promised Neverland Emma is frequently criticized for her seemingly naive plan to escape Grace Field with all of the children, rather than just with Norman and Ray, which would be significantly easier. And while she does have to make a small concession to practicality, namely only escaping with the children that are old enough to walk on their own two feet, with the intent to rescue the younger children at a later date, in sticking to her beliefs she is on track to achieving her ideal ending, something that would be impossible if she gave in to cynicism. | |
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In the stage adaptation of An American in Paris, composer Adam, a World War II veteran, holds to the belief that True Art Is Angsty, while his friend Henri maintains that art should be inspiring and uplifting. After Adam learns that Henri fought in the French Resistance during the war, he slowly comes to the decision that, if Henri can still believe in the idea of beauty after witnessing the ugliness of the war, then maybe he has the right idea all along. Although he can't resist one last bit of snark: "I hate it when French people are right!" | |
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Green-Sky Trilogy: The cynical Neric tells Raamo that Genaa cannot be trusted and is too steeped in Ol-Zhaan privilege to be sympathetic to their plans. Not only does Neric turn out to be wrong, but Genaa turns out to be the one with the tactical savvy to pull off their scheme. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: This is a major theme. In Alethkar the nobility are very suspicious of each other to the point where any sense of honor is a façade at best and true friendships impossible. Normally an alliance results in a Gambit Pileup as the allies work against each other from the outset. However, the series looks like its making the argument that in such a cynical system, no matter how sensible mistrust would be, is ultimately unsustainable and self-defeating. | |
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Black Lagoon: Revy gets this from "the little maid" Fabiola at the end of the "El Baile de la Muerte" arc, but it's doubtful it had any effect. | |
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Animal Farm: Zig-Zagging Trope with Benjamin the Donkey. His cynicism makes him one of the only characters to see past the pigs' lies, but at the same time, he's too jaded to do anything about their oppression, which makes him somewhat complicit in their crimes. | |
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My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: The show's cynical creator/narrator DWK, and by extension the characters, regularly act like the world is just a sad, messed up place, viewing anyone who shows lots of optimism and has a positive attitude as abnormal. At the same time, it also portrays the cynics as miserable and often empty, with many of the show's lessons shifted to say that sulking in cynicism and misery just wastes time that could be devoted to having fun and improving ones self. When Maud is nearly Driven to Suicide because she can't tell herself she's happy in her lonely existence anymore, but feels trying to improve her situation would be too much work, Pinkie helps snap her out of it with "We All Die Someday, so don't speed it along and try to enjoy the time you have. Worst case, you'll get what you wanted in the end anyway, but you might actually be happy." The recaps of Equestria Girls preach the lessons that "you'd be surprised what people are willing to forgive, but you've got to make the effort," along with "age and maturity are two entirely different things." |
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Even Deep Space Nine — quite possibly the darkest show in the Star Trek franchise — has a number of episodes railing against cynicism. It often shows cynics as self-hating losers who do nothing but whine, while idealists do something to fix the problem. | |
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Steven Universe: Mayor Bill Dewey is cynical, and very much a loser. He pessimistically assumes that elected officials are incapable of enacting any genuine change, so he never even tries. Instead, he's content to keep the populace distracted with pointless civic projects and self-aggrandizing speeches while the problems either work themselves out or are handled by someone else. The people of Beach City inevitably turn against him once his usual leadership style fails to prevent a series of kidnappings, and once Nanefua Pizza runs against Dewey as Mayor and proposes radical and well-thought-out solutions to problems (ideas that require actual effort and planning on the part of the Mayor), Dewey sees how wrong his cynical attitude has always been and concedes that Nanefua would make a better leader. | |
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Tales of Symphonia: It doesn't matter if the current system of how the world works has been used for 5,000 years or if prejudice and hatred prevents things from getting better. Lloyd will absolutely never stop believing that there's always a better way that can save everyone without somebody or a world needing to be sacrificed. | |
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In Mass Effect, the more cynical Renegade decisions Commander Shepard can make tend to go badly. Most notably, choosing to let the Council die in the first game ends with humanity being generally hated by the other races, while the human Council isn't even willing to meet with Shepard. This really comes out in the third game. A Shepard who has tried to do right by others throughout the series, and is willing to give others the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to prove they can do right, ends up being responsible for eventsnote The reconciliation of the quarians and the geth, ending their 300 year war and returning the quarians to their homeworld and proving that biological and artificial life can live peacefully; saving the krogan from their inevitable extinction and leading to a renaissance of their civilization; returning the rachni from their supposed extinction; causing multiple species with ancient grudges to work together for a common goal that would have been unthinkable just a few years before that make them a legendary figure even before the defeat of the Reapers. | |
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In Wargames, the death of his son left Stephen Falken with the attitude that if humanity is going to eventually be extinct, anyway, there's no point in stopping the computer from launching missiles at the Soviet Union. David responds that if we're all dead, it's just stupid. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court in Chapter 29 has Paz, of all people, setting straight Kat (who is at that moment quite disenchanted with the Court after stumbling upon some of its old secrets). | |
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Batman: Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises isn't exactly a sunny optimist himself, but he never loses faith that cynical, hardbitten thief Selina Kyle can be a better person than she is — even after she betrays him, much to her incredulity. He's eventually proven right. In the previous film The Dark Knight, Bruce is also confident that the Joker's scheme to prove that deep down everyone is as ugly as him will fail. The people of Gotham prove him right in the end. And in the film before that Batman Begins, he rejects Ra's Al Ghul's belief that Gotham is beyond saving. By the end of the trilogy, Bruce is vindicated. The message had also existed in the earlier Batman films. Joel Schumacher's Batman convinced Dick Grayson to let go of his anger in Batman Forever and convinced Mr. Freeze to help him save Alfred in Batman & Robin. Even the Burton films, which usually proposed the opposite trope, occasionally challenged cynicism, if more subtly. In the 1989 film, both Alfred and (much more tactfully) Vicki Vale try to tell Bruce that being Batman is a waste of time ("I have no wish to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss of old friends — or their sons" / "It doesn't have to be a perfect world"); Bruce doesn't listen in either case, and Gotham City is so much the better for it. And Batman Returns contains this little gem: |
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Star Trek is very big on this trope. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", the Eminian leader insists that peace is impossible and that their 500-year-old simulated war with declared casualties reporting in to be neatly and cleanly killed is the lesser of two evils. Kirk insists that they can make peace if they just try harder. Kirk helpfully provides them with motivation to do so by shutting down the war computer and forcing them to choose between real-world messy warfare and swallowing enough pride to find a peaceful solution. Even Deep Space Nine — quite possibly the darkest show in the Star Trek franchise — has a number of episodes railing against cynicism. It often shows cynics as self-hating losers who do nothing but whine, while idealists do something to fix the problem. |
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The recaps of Equestria Girls preach the lessons that "you'd be surprised what people are willing to forgive, but you've got to make the effort," along with "age and maturity are two entirely different things." | |
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Final Fantasy IX centralizes this with Vivi. After learning that he's going to die at an early age, Vivi doesn't let it get him down. He still chooses to keep going, because he has friends who need him and care about him. | |
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Final Fantasy VI has this as its central theme. As bad as things can sometimes get, you can still find something to live for and hold on to. And it's never bad to hope. The game's villain, Kefka, is a Straw Nihilist who says that nothing has meaning since everything will die one day. The characters go through Hell and back, but they prove him wrong. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: Merle's interactions with John in The Stolen Century are built on this trope. | |
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Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth's cynical outlook on life allows Wickham to completely dupe her about Darcy's true nature. The irony is that Elizabeth acted this way in order to avoid being played for a fool; she was still played, but it just happened in a different way. | |
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Danganronpa: Despair Time: In Chapter 2, after Teruko has decided to stop trusting people, Eden, who's been on her side since the beginning, repeatedly attempts to befriend her. When the two make lunch together and Eden tries to open up to her, Teruko shuts her down and makes it clear she's only humoring her, and also makes it clear that, because she's been so kind to her, Eden is the last person she wants to be friends with; that when her kindness and naive optimism shatter, it'll be too much to handle. Eden shuts her down and makes it clear that she's not optimistic because she's naive, she simply chooses to be that way. She firmly believes that being kind is how they'll survive the killing game, and that not caring is the worst way to live. Teruko then thinks to herself that her words made her chest hurt, but claims it's just her injury acting up. | |
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The Cleveland Show: Double subverted in "Squirt's Honor". Although Cleveland Jr. does get burned for his naive, idealistic outlook - technically proving Rallo's cynical worldview correct - Roberta harshly berates Rallo for his actions: He was so dead set on proving himself right that he failed to see the human value in Jr.'s positivity. Also, given the many traumatic events Jr. has dealt with in his life, the fact that he maintains such an outlook is a sign of inner strength. This rebuke causes Rallo to do something of a Heel–Face Turn and encourage Jr. to see the good in the world again. | |
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Superman's Arch-Enemy Lex Luthor frequently laments that Superman has caused mankind to become lazy and kept people from progressing. Luthor claims that without Superman, scientists (especially Lex himself) could have time and motivation to make world-changing inventions to end the suffering of millions. Superman retorts that he isn't stopping anyone from doing such things; the reason Lex doesn't use his genius to benefit mankind is because Lex doesn't want to, with or without Superman in the picture. Superman once said as much, point-blank, to Luthor in All-Star Superman, where Superman is dying and Luthor is trying to get in one final parting shot. During a Villainous Breakdown, Luthor ends up saying that he could have saved the world if it wasn't for Superman's interference. Superman's response is "You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor." This actually makes Luthor drop the Mask of Sanity and admit as much. Probably his crowning example of this trope is the story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?: Superman is presented with a team of supers who think killing the bad guy is the first and only solution, or, as they put it, 'cutting out societies tumors'. When public opinion starts to sway to their way of thinking, it seems like Superman had finally given in and started to kill the members of the team... Only to eventually reveal that it was a Scare 'Em Straight act to show the world exactly why they do not want a Superman who thinks killing is okay. What really sells this trope, however, is the final dialogue between Superman and Manchester Black. |
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While Some Jerk with a Camera tends to mock the Disney corporation and their theme parks, the Jerk tries to do it lightheartedly, since he's really a fan of Disney. This means that he also comes down hard on works like Shrek and Escape from Tomorrow, which attack Disney as kids' stuff, or say that escapism is for losers who can't grow up. | |
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A recurring theme in the Persona series. As self-perception heavily influences the cognitive worlds and Persona abilities, the idealistic protagonists are able to grow and find new possibilities for themselves thanks to how they see the world in a positive light. Meanwhile, the cynical antagonists gain a lot of power very quickly, but also level off just as quickly, leaving them stuck in a rut because of how close-minded their way of thinking is. | |
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Wings of Fire: The fifth book in the series focuses on Sunny, and spends a good deal of time showing why idealism is so important to her. Her friends have a tendency to dismiss her idealism... which has naturally been less than psychologically helpful to her. However, she makes it a very clear point that she believes in making the world better, because that is how the world gets better—and if nobody tries to improve things, then nothing will improve. Her actions make her friends start to see her in a new light. | |
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Animorphs: Team cynic Marco notes this to Rachel while Jake is out of commission. They need a fast, straightforward plan for a high-risk rescue, and he explains that that's not his territory — his cynicism makes him too cautious to address that situation, so she needs to lead. | |
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In Roommates Javert of all people called out Disbelief on being too cynical by stating that even he wishes sometimes to believe. | |
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In the German film Sterne, Walter, who is disillusioned both by his service on the Eastern front and by the treatment of prisoners in a nearby concentration camp, gets this response from Ruth, a Jewish woman, who eventually convinces him that even if he's powerless to put a stop to the evils around him, he can still make a difference — no matter how small. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", the Eminian leader insists that peace is impossible and that their 500-year-old simulated war with declared casualties reporting in to be neatly and cleanly killed is the lesser of two evils. Kirk insists that they can make peace if they just try harder. Kirk helpfully provides them with motivation to do so by shutting down the war computer and forcing them to choose between real-world messy warfare and swallowing enough pride to find a peaceful solution. | |
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As dark as the games can sometimes get, this is a recurring theme of the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy VI has this as its central theme. As bad as things can sometimes get, you can still find something to live for and hold on to. And it's never bad to hope. The game's villain, Kefka, is a Straw Nihilist who says that nothing has meaning since everything will die one day. The characters go through Hell and back, but they prove him wrong. Final Fantasy VIII: Squall seems aware that his dark attitude denies him opportunities for what he thinks would be brief moments of happiness, but he does it to avoid feeling further pain as a result of the loss of those moments. The whole game is about Squall overcoming this mindset and learning to be better for it. Final Fantasy IX centralizes this with Vivi. After learning that he's going to die at an early age, Vivi doesn't let it get him down. He still chooses to keep going, because he has friends who need him and care about him. Both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 give Yuna a choice: do what's easy and sacrifice others, or do what's hard and push yourself. Yuna, being The Hero, always chooses the hard options. The cynical maesters, and those who say Sin can never be defeated, at best, end up worse off than before for their selfish actions, and several end up dead. Yuna, however, is ultimately rewarded. Final Fantasy XIV taps this button a couple of different times throughout the main story plot, before making it the entire focus of the Endwalker expansion. The Warrior of Light is put through the ringer, undergoes quite a bit of Heroic Fatigue from a lack of respect from common people, and is expected to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In spite of that, the Warrior also passes many a Secret Test of Character that proves they have not just Heroic Resolve, but the determination to keep going in spite of things continuously looking more and more hopeless. The Warrior could give into cynicism and give up, but they never do, because somebody's got to step up and fight when things are hard. Endwalker also features a prayer from Matsya and the people of Radz-at-Han, which says essentially that life can be hard but you must never give up hope, for Misery Builds Character. |
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Fear Effect: Royce Glas is the cynical one. Hana Tzu-Vachel is the idealistic one. Glas is treated as the Butt-Monkey and The Lancer. Hana is treated as the Iron Woobie and The Hero. It probably won't surprise you that the best ending in the first game essentially has Hana winning out without having to shoot Glas. | |
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In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, it's the Grumpy Old Man Emperor of all people who berates Magnus for doubting his utopian vision for the future. Magnus believes that men are just a herd of squabbling animals, but Emperor claims that they have potential for greatness. | |
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Dragon Age: Asunder: The Divine Justinia V gives a retort to the cynicism of Lord Seeker Lambert: | |
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In Fate/stay night, this is Shirou Emiya's eventual response to Archer's constant mocking of his idealism and hope for being a Hero, to which Archer responds that he's only saying that because he doesn't understand the full ramifications of his dream. This becomes much more poignant when one learns Archer is actually a potential future version of Shirou, who took that dream to its conclusion and fell into despair at realizing all the pain and suffering he brought upon himself and others didn't amount to anything in the end, which is why he hates Shirou and wants to kill him to potentially create a Time Paradox to erase himself. Despite this, Archer in all the routes does begrudgingly admit that Shirou's idealism might not be so bad after all, and dies content that one way or another he won't follow the same path as himself. | |
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Critical Role has Caduceus, The Heart of the Mighty Nein, say a speech to this effect to Trent Ikkithon in a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. It looks like Caduceus is going to compliment Ikkithon before taking a left turn into an insult, and about how The Power of Love saves people and that Ikkithon is a fool for trying to control people through fear. It's enough to firmly rattle Ikkithon, as he gets up and leaves immediately after Caduceus gives the speech. Given the reaction by Ikkithon's servants, it's likely that no one had spoken that way to him in a long time. When Trent Ikkithon shows up at the home of Caduceus as the last encounter of the campaign, Trent Ikkithon is defeated in spite of his power, left to rot in a jail cell while being unable to move, cast spells, or do much of anything besides being force-fed to keep him alive. The Mighty Nein, meanwhile, each manage to Earn Their Happy Ending, including Trent's abused student Caleb. | |
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Haroun and the Sea Of Stories: Haroun's problem is that he has become so cynical he can't accept the reality of the sea of stories despite being beaten over the head with it. Pointed out by Blabbermouth. | |
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Brows Held High: This is the ultimate thesis of Kyle Kallgreen's review of Melancholia. While he understands and appreciates the insight of Lars von Trier into depression, he also points out that depression is not something that should be romanticized as it is in the film, and for all of the issues and shallowness of modern life, it is still life to be lived and enjoyed for what it is. | |
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In issue #11 of Daredevil (Mark Waid), Matt encounters a female protégé of the Punisher (who lost her fiancé) and tries to sympathize with her by bringing up heroes who also lost loved ones. However, when she says that nobody can be as driven as her and Matt without a tragedy, he ultimately throws his billy club at her face, and gives a speech stating that the idea that you need a tragic event to fight for justice is ludicrous. | |
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Both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 give Yuna a choice: do what's easy and sacrifice others, or do what's hard and push yourself. Yuna, being The Hero, always chooses the hard options. The cynical maesters, and those who say Sin can never be defeated, at best, end up worse off than before for their selfish actions, and several end up dead. Yuna, however, is ultimately rewarded. | |
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In Samurai Gourmet, this is sometimes what Kasumi would like to say to say to a fellow patron, but can't because of Japanese Politeness. Then the samurai demonstrates that it's really the right thing to do. Occasionally, Kasumi will actually follow through on this inspiration; other times, it will be made moot before Kasumi can embarrass himself. | |
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In Doctor Who, the Doctor calls out various cynical, dark mindsets throughout the series. Those who attempt a Breaking Speech on the Doctor will often end up themselves on the receiving end of the same. Or a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Maybe both. The Doctor in most incarnations relies on the Doctor’s companions to help the Doctor out, begrudgingly or otherwise. This often puts the Doctor at odds against the scum of the universe that the Doctor faces down, who believe It's All About Me and act accordingly. The Doctor is very quick to correct this attitude. The Thirteenth Doctor is a rather dorky Genki Girl after her regeneration. However, she refuses to consider the possibility of a cynical outcome, even outright ignoring the most hardcore cynics. Craig Ferguson said something to this effect as a summary of the main theme of Doctor Who. Indeed, the arc of the very first Doctor was that of a bitter old man realizing the importance of kindness and empathy. Since then, the main theme of the show is the triumph of these ideals, no matter how dark the world gets. |
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The Catcher in the Rye: Both Phoebe and Mr. Antolini try to get Holden Caulfield to see that he's just as narcissistic as the "phony" people he claims to hate, and that much of his unhappiness is self-inflicted. In the end, Holden at least concludes that he has to let Phoebe grow up and be her own person. Holden also tries to prevent kids from seeing a giant graffiti spray of the word "FUCK" on a wall during the final chapter, implying they at least partially got through to him. | |
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This is what happens to the dwarves at the end of The Last Battle — they end up in Aslan's country with everybody else, but they're too cynical to believe it, and manage to delude themselves into believing they're still locked in the dark stable they were thrown into. Even when Aslan makes a feast appear before him, they change it in their minds to the yucky stuff you might find in a stable (hay, donkey water and so on). | |
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Hornbeck, having spouted off cynical one-liners at everyone for most of Inherit the Wind, gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Drummond at the very end. | |
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This is one of the recurring themes of the Lunar series: in the (remakes of the) first game, the villain is convinced that humanity needs the Goddess Althena to rule because people aren't capable of solving their own problems by themselves. Obviously, he's wrong. In the second game, The Hero and his friends believe they can fix things even when the local God of Evil just swallowed the local God of Good and become The Omnipotent while they are Brought Down to Normal. It is no exaggeration to say that their optimism is what causes the downfall of the Big Bad. It restores their magic power and then inspires Lucia to break free. | |
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This is the main message of The Veronica Exclusive. Veronica's final monologue essentially sums up to, "Yeah, the world sucks, and yeah, people can be terrible — but that doesn't mean we should all give in and become as horrible as life can be sometimes. If we all work together, things can get better, and mindless cynicism isn't helping anyone." | |
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Sailor Moon: Sailors Uranus and Neptune can't seem to get it through their heads that choosing the more cynical options will only make the end results worse. At the end of the story, the selfish actions of Uranus and Neptune have amounted to absolutely nothing, whereas the optimistic characters like Moon and Chibi-Moon are the ones who end up prevailing over the forces of darkness. Usagi became one of the targets of the Death Busters halfway through the third season, which meant Uranus and Neptune may have had to kill her if her pure heart held one of the talismans. After learning of her real identity, Haruka and Michiru haven't yet grasped that they were willing to kill the girl whom they're trying to ensure will live long enough to become Queen. And once the threat of the Death Busters is gone, they attempt to kill Usagi anyway because they were angry at her for not being cynical enough. Even after they finally concede defeat on Usagi, Uranus and Neptune still don't let go of their cynical viewpoint until the final arc, where they kill Sailors Saturn and Pluto in a desperate attempt to reach Galaxia. Uranus and Neptune manage to get to Galaxia and attempt to take her Star Seed, only to discover after all of their efforts that Galaxia doesn't have a Star Seed. Uranus and Neptune end up dying in front of Sailor Moon, Chibi-Chibi, and the Starlights. This means that the cynical Uranus and Neptune have nearly killed their own charge, actually killed two of their closest friends, and committed a Senseless Sacrifice, all because they just couldn't accept any viewpoint besides the most cynical one. |
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It's Walky: Anti-Hero Knight Templar Sal, who is attempting to destroy every alien abductee in the United States (and, by extension, the continent itself) tells Joyce, the quirky, innocent goofy girl trying to stop her, that she's just a naive, deluded little girl. Joyce shoots back that Sal is the 'little girl'; Joyce has been through as many difficult and painful moments in her life as Sal has, but has matured enough to be able to cope with them without letting them poison her essential goodness and optimism, whereas Sal has been weak enough to let them corrupt her, and her reaction is the world-destroying equivalent of a childish attention-seeking temper tantrum. Sal has no comeback to that, and later events in the strip prove Joyce to be correct. | |
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South Park had Stan join the goth kids in wallowing about the hopelessness of life after Wendy dumps him. However, when Butters also gets dumped he says he still loves life and finds beauty in being human enough to feel pain, snapping Stan out of his funk. | |
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Paths of Glory: Colonel Dax turns General Broulard's dismissal of Dax's idealism back on the General with a single resigned remark. | |
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Valvrave the Liberator's Haruto has this quality. Not only does he deal with an Expy of the bitter Lelouch, but also villains who believe humans and immortal vampires can never live together. At the cost of his life, he succeeds, and his ideals are honored by his friends and allies. | |
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In the Ace Attorney series, the people who subvert or use the law as a means to an end tend to get what they want in the short term, but lose out in the long run when their cynical way of thinking slams into a metaphorical brick wall. The last case of Apollo Justice exemplifies this with its Big Bad, who says that "the law is absolute" and professes the cynical belief that humanity is a collection of "ignorant swine" who will do nothing but make the world worse. The Big Bad gets called out on this behavior by everyone in court, with the Judge in particular saying that the law is constantly changing based on what humanity thinks is good, and that the question of To Be Lawful or Good should always be answered with "be good", because humans are inherently good people and the law must constantly change to help as many people as it can. | |
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Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh is on the receiving end of this in the penultimate chapter of The House at Pooh Corner. Eeyore is bitterly complaining about being alone all the time, until Rabbit essentially tells Eeyore that he's always alone because he isn't making the effort to connect with anyone. Instead of constantly feeling sorry for himself and stewing in cynicism, Eeyore has to make an effort and visit his friends instead of expecting them to come to him all the time. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII: Squall seems aware that his dark attitude denies him opportunities for what he thinks would be brief moments of happiness, but he does it to avoid feeling further pain as a result of the loss of those moments. The whole game is about Squall overcoming this mindset and learning to be better for it. | |
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The core message of the Misery Index songs "The Weakener" and "Gallows Humor": evil loves lazy cynics and blind nihilists, especially the vocal ones, and it really doesn't matter how little you care when it's at your doorstep and ready to take you away. | |
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1632: In the Author's Notes of the first novel, this trope is all but named as the driving source for the tone of the series, as a response to the cynicism that had flooded the Sci-Fi genre at the time. Eric Flint specifically calls Cynicism weak and narrow-minded as a philosophy. | |
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The Babylon 5 episode "Intersections in Real Time" focuses on a State Sec interrogator attempting to break Sheridan's will and get him confess to a laundry list of political crimes. The interrogator consistently displays a very cynical outlook, stating that the preeminent truth of the time is that you can't fight City Hall, and tries to paint Sheridan's idealism as futile. Sheridan disagrees at every turn, remaining true to his ideals even in the face of grueling torture. At one point, he sums up his attitude by stating that all he has to do to win is to say "No, I won't," one more time than the people trying to oppress him can say "Yes, you will." The interrogator asks him if he thinks he can win, and he says "Every time I say 'no.'" | |
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In Oracle of Tao, Ambrosia at the end of the First Disc (so to speak) heads off for the second world. Unless she bothered to do the romance sidequest (or can get past the Beef Gate of skipping a key romantic scene and heading directly through the entrance without stopping at the vacation town first), the plot requires you to visit Nevras at his castle. If you decide not to, or if you didn't get the memo, the story suddenly gets much darker, most notably in the endings. The point is, because Ambrosia decided her love life with Nevras was doomed, things got a whole lot worse for her. | |
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In Maximum Carnage, Peter confronts his father on his Crapsack World view. Peter points out that the world is full of people who listen to their hearts and do the right thing, every single day, because that's who they are. As such, people like Carnage can never win as long as ordinary people are decent and kind. | |
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