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Single-Target Law
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A law is passed where the real target is a single person, most likely a personal enemy (or ally) of the lawmaker, but usually affects everyone. Often leads to a Forbidden Fruit or Streisand Effect. In many cases, the law ends up screwing people over in completely unintended ways or long after the original lawmaker has died. Often overlaps with Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! and Screw the Rules, I Make Them!. Compare Obvious Rule Patch and Rule-Breaker Rule-Namer. May involve an Original Position Fallacy if the lawmaker discovers the new law applies to them as well. |
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In the Happy Days episode "The Physical", Sgt. Beckler says that everyone in jackets must move to the end of the line as revenge for Fonzie calling him "Belcher" because Fonzie is the only one in a jacket. He moves to the front end of the line. | |
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Discworld: The Assassin's Guild School went through this on two separate occasions, with an initial rule—one banning the keeping of pet crocodiles, the other enforcing gender segregation in the dormitories—that then kept having to be amended to cover various forms of Rules Lawyering by individual pupils. In the latter instance there was an extreme case where the notation "A girl is defined as a young person of the female persuasion" was immediately followed by the rule "No matter how persuaded he feels, Jelks Minor in Form IV is a boy." | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: After Harry gives an interview to the fringe magazine The Quibbler revealing Voldemort's return, Umbridge puts out a blanket ban on the magazine as part of her ongoing campaign to discredit Harry. Naturally, this ensures that everyone in Hogwarts will try to get their hands on it to know why it was banned (and Luna Lovegood, the editor's Cloudcuckoolander daughter, is amazed at how popular the magazine has gotten). | |
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Labyrinths of Echo: Juffin Hally, the chief of the Secret Investigations, is forbidden from gambling in public spaces anywhere in the United Kingdom by a royal decree. This is because Juffin was Born Lucky and became infamous as a card-sharp soon after he moved to the capital, so the law was needed to protect public peace. He doesn't mind at all, however, since being singled out by the king himself like that greatly boosted his ego, and nobody wanted to play against him anymore, anyway. | |
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Nodwick: One strip has the main characters hired by a town to get rid of an Obviously Evil sorcerer that just moved in. They're unable to do so because it turns out that the sorcerer has been very careful to avoid breaking any laws while in town, which they report to the town leaders. They then arrest the sorcerer for breaking the town's newest law: looking evil without a license. | |
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At the finale of The Black Magician Trilogy, the Wizarding School revises its laws to make the protagonist Sonea the one exception to the ban on Black Magic, at least until she retires and appoints a successor as Black Mage. It's done in part to reward her for saving the country and in part to secure a uniquely powerful asset — especially since the school's rivals have been exposed as extraordinarily powerful black magic practitioners. | |
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In Shortpacked!, Robin garners a huge amount of public support when she campaigns for a law that would force two of her male coworkers to fight in a giant vat of pudding. | |
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In the Book of Daniel, the courtiers are envious of the prophet Daniel's prosperity and know that he prays to the Lord every day. They have King Darius decree that prayers can only be said to himself, on pain of death, knowing that the only person who won't obey it is Daniel. Once it ends up only affecting Daniel (who was the king's chief advisor and best friend), Darius becomes distraught, but can't find a way to repeal the law, or even pardon him. He sentences Daniel to be devoured by lions, who escapes unscathed by Divine Intervention. The King then makes Judaism the state religion and has his courtiers fed to the lions instead. | |
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Something*Positive has a city official get humiliated when his attempt to hijack Mike's Real Life Superhero persona for PR purposes backfires in public. When next seen he's trying to pass a law to ban those activities (and making no effort to disguise that it's solely to get back at Mike, calling it the "Who's laughing now, jerk" ordinance). | |
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Haman, the main antagonist of the Book of Esther, continuously manipulates king Xerxes into oppressing the Jewish people solely to get back at Mordecai, who had refused to bow down to him on religious grounds. It's turned against him when Xerxes asks Haman how to reward a man who'd performed a great service to the king. Thinking he's the one, Haman suggests a massive parade, only for Xerxes to agree and state that Mordecai will be thus rewarded for foiling a regicide plot. | |
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In the A Series of Unfortunate Events book "The Bad Beginning or Orphans", the narrator claims that there's a town that has a law that forbids him from entering it. | |
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The Accursed Kings: The infamous "Salic law" that prevents a woman or descendants thereof from inheriting land is an integral plot point and causes much of the conflict in the latter part of the series. In reality, the law was all but forgotten by that point, with later jurists (and Shakespeare) retroactively using it to justify the exclusion of women from the line of succession. The law is dug up by Philippe V to prevent his "alleged" niece Jeanne (daughter of his deceased brother Louis X) from inheriting the thronenote or rather, Jeanne's family and the Burgundian faction, as she's still a child at that point, despite the dubious legality of expanding the ancestral law of a single region to all French territory, interpreting it as applying to the woman's line rather than just the woman, and the irony of Phillipe V only being on the throne thanks to female machinations, his mother-in-law Mahaut d'Artois having poisoned both Louis X and his posthumous son (in reality both are believed to have died of natural causes). Philippe is named regent and is then crowned king after the infant king dies, then everything starts going wrong: Philippe V's son dies during a Time Skip, and when Philippe dies, he had only daughters, so the throne goes to his inept brother Charles. Charles also dies without issue, so the throne goes to their cousin Philippe of Valois. Philippe V's sister Isabelle of France (married to the English king Edward II) argues that Philippe IV's grandson Edward III (her son) should inherit the throne of France rather than his nephew (and from a pragmatic standpoint, Edward is shaping up to be a much better ruler). Unfortunately, the French have no intention of giving up the rest of their territory to an Englishman (as most of France's Atlantic coast belonged to English nobles at that point), so France and England end up going to war (again). |
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The Bible: King Herod supposedly ordered the mass execution of male Hebrew infants due to a prophecy about the birth of the King of the Jews, fearing he might be dethroned. Thanks to divine intervention, Jesus's family fled so all babies but Jesus were killed. Haman, the main antagonist of the Book of Esther, continuously manipulates king Xerxes into oppressing the Jewish people solely to get back at Mordecai, who had refused to bow down to him on religious grounds. It's turned against him when Xerxes asks Haman how to reward a man who'd performed a great service to the king. Thinking he's the one, Haman suggests a massive parade, only for Xerxes to agree and state that Mordecai will be thus rewarded for foiling a regicide plot. In the Book of Daniel, the courtiers are envious of the prophet Daniel's prosperity and know that he prays to the Lord every day. They have King Darius decree that prayers can only be said to himself, on pain of death, knowing that the only person who won't obey it is Daniel. Once it ends up only affecting Daniel (who was the king's chief advisor and best friend), Darius becomes distraught, but can't find a way to repeal the law, or even pardon him. He sentences Daniel to be devoured by lions, who escapes unscathed by Divine Intervention. The King then makes Judaism the state religion and has his courtiers fed to the lions instead. |
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One of Jiraiya's first acts as Hokage in Son of the Sannin was to pass a law criminalizing discrimination based on someone's clan, an act that proved to be incredibly unpopular because it was specifically meant to protect Shisui, Itachi, and Sasuke from retaliation for their now dead clansmen's failed coup. | |
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At the end of Aladdin, the sultan repeals the law that forces the princess to marry a prince so that his daughter can get married to the commoner Aladdin. | |
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King: In "Never Be Nice To A Pubrick", after seeing everyone blaming the titular creature for things it couldn't possibly have any control over, Russell passes a law to get people to stop blaming it for things. He later learns that the Pubrick has to be blamed for things all the times, or else it will grow into a violent monster. | |
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Babylon 5: In "Knives", one of Londo's old friends, Urza Jaddo, comes to him for help when the Centaurum (the Centauri legislature) is debating a bill of attainder declaring him a traitor. Londo goes to his ally Lord Refa to kill the bill... but Urza refuses Refa's aid since it was Refa's idea in the first place, and challenges Londo to a Duel to the Death, planning to throw the fight so that Londo's family will be forced to absorb Urza's, protecting them. | |
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