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Smug Straight Edge
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Drugs Are Bad. But for some people, any sort of run-in with drugs, including alcohol — and in some cases, extended to smoking and even prescription drugs as well — makes you instantly less of a human being. These people feel not only that alcohol and other drugs should be avoided, but that those who don't accept this philosophy are weak, brainwashed, generally inferior. In especially extreme cases, this attitude even applies toward people who have recovered from past problems with drugs, or have only done them once. Naturally, such people also often double as Moral Guardians. Direct descendant of the Dry Crusader and often shares the Dry Crusader's self-righteousness. Not to be confused with Straight Edge Evil, although villainous straight-edge characters often fall into this. If too villainous or smug, it's not unheard of for the Smug Straight Edgers to be less than sincere in their convictions, if not an outright Straw Hypocrite. |
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One of Bob Roberts' songs is titled "Drugs Stink", and contains the lyrics "Drugs stink/They make me sick/Those that sell 'em/And those that do 'em/String 'em up/From the highest tree/Without a trace of sympathy." | |
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There's a smug Straight Edge guy at the quiet mining town in Skins, who tries to woo Effy. When the crew escapes the town, they mock his crossed arms salute. | |
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In PartnerShip, Nancia's first brawn Caleb has such a strict and limiting code of honor that even a single off-duty alcoholic beverage would compromise it, and he's affronted when one of Nancia's friends offers to buy him a drink. | |
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Todd Ingram from Scott Pilgrim, who says a big part of committing to veganism is knowing that you're better than most other people. Granted, this is a world where going vegan gives you powerful psychic abilities. He also isn't even a real vegan (well, he seemed to think so in the movie). Subverted with the other vegans seen though. | |
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Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, had a very negative view of drug dealers and users, and like many other Badass Normal, thought himself better than they were for staying straight. Then his sidekick Speedy started doing Heroin. The ensuing confrontation went...badly. Later a Retcon in the Green Arrow: Year One mini-series gave Oliver some motivation for this attitude, other than misdirected anger at himself for neglecting his sidekick - he had been injured while defending the enslaved population of a tropical island turned drug-farm and the only painkiller available to the woman who treated his wounds was heroin. Ollie just barely survived the withdrawal, which left him wondering how anyone could willingly subject themselves to such an experience. |
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Metalocalypse featured one Rikki Kixx, who runs a rehab movement and fronts a newly clean-and-sober band — it turns out sobriety has been legally and medically forced on him (and the potential loss of PR he'd get if he was caught imbibing doesn't help) and he's determined that everyone else should be as miserable as he is. The concert he headlined to promote his movement ends horribly, as a little-known side effect of a drug his bandmates took in the past kicked in, causing hallucinations in the audience, leading everyone to turn to drugs to cope with them. It doesn't help that his other big-name sobriety partner, Dr. Rockso, failed the Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere trope and fell off the wagon. And Pickles beats the shit out of him. | |
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has the Scrubb family as a satire of this mentality. | |
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Late 1970s WWE, with a line Punk should have stolen: From an interview Vince McMahon was conducting with The Grand Wizard and "Crazy" Luke Graham: | |
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Grrl Power: Peggy (the Team Normal) describes superpowers as like vegans. "They can't wait to tell you about it." | |
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CM Punk has this as a catchphrase - "straight edge means I'm better than you" or "drug-free, alcohol-free, and better than you". The opening of his ROH\FIP theme, Miseria Cantare - AFI, even had him boasting about his straight edginess. When Punk works heel, he is of this sort and takes every opportunity to gloat about his straight-edge lifestyle. | |
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Major Dick Winters (subject of Band of Brothers) admits in the book that he thought like this - he didn't drink until the evening of D-Day and thought that taking a single swallow of liquor would have a noticeable deadening effect on his reflexes and thinking. | |
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Frank spends the entirety of House Party (2017) keeping the other party-goers from drinking any alcohol; he wasn't even invited to the party, he just makes it his mission to attend parties nearby and keep the liquor on lockdown. He's also a giant hypocrite about it — not only will he allow you to take some alcohol if you perform favors for him, but he's also a drug dealer in the neighborhood. | |
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Bort the lapsed Straight Edge from Nothing Nice to Say hasn't abandoned two parts of the straight edge lifestyle; taking himself too seriously and beating people up. | |
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On A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, often the villains got involved with drugs (Yuck! Patooie!) and that's why they are messed up. A good example is a former skateboarding champion who's "no good at all" after he tried steroids. | |
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The Good Place: Every action someone performs in life gives them either a positive or a negative effect to their total score, which ultimately determines which afterlife they end up in. Eating vegan gives a reasonable bonus... but not bragging about it gives over twenty times as much. | |
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Daniel Bryan in 2012 while not straight edge per se, repeatedly bragged that being a vegan makes him better than everyone, and even mocking people and saying they're eating garbage when they try to eat meat. CM Punk threatened to sue him for gimmick infringement. | |
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During Hatoful Boyfriend Yuuya takes sleeping pills to access a shared dream, then is injected with psychotropics to give him an advantage. Nishikikouji Tohri, looking on, is appalled by this behavior and berates Leone for lax morals - after administering the dose Leone asked him to use. | |
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Saruman shows these tendencies in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey by criticizing Radagast's consumption of mushrooms. In The Lord of the Rings, he makes similar comments about Gandalf's use of pipeweed. Saruman's a hypocrite since he has a large stash of pipeweed too (according to LotR's Appendicies, the tobacco crop of the entire South Farthing). | |
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Ted Nugent has been known to be patronizing towards alcoholism and other drug abuse. Then again, knowing Ted and his views and reactions towards supporters of gun control, veganism, and so on, would you expect anything less? | |
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Measurehead from Disco Elysium does not engage in alcohol, drugs or masturbation, and will not stop lording it over The Alcoholic Detective. | |
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A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Darnay's disapproval of Sydney Carton's drinking problem leads Sydney to say "You are smug, Mr. Darnay, when you ask why people drink." Sydney goes on to say he drinks so he can tolerate people like Charles. (Later, to himself, he admits that the real reason he dislikes Charles is that Charles reminds him of what he could have been if not for his drinking.) | |
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The mindset (although not necessarily the movement itself) is parodied in Black Books; at one point, a rather uptight looking customer approaches the shabby, chain-smoking alcoholic Bernard in the shop while he's smoking a cigarette and rather pompously says "You know, I'm inhaling a lot of second-hand smoke from you." Bernard nonchalantly responds with: "Don't worry about it, buy me a drink sometime." In one episode, Fran takes up yoga with a friend who turns out to be the New-Agey version of this, berating Fran for drinking, smoking, eating wheat or meat or chocolate, and hanging out with people who do all of the above. Fran tries to emulate her, briefly turning into a smug straight edge herself, but cracks by the end of the episode and returns to being the dissolute chain-smoker Bernard knows and tolerates. |
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South Park portrays Rob Reiner this way in his crusade against smoking. It also portrays him as a hypocrite, indulging in unhealthy eating habits while lecturing people about how unhealthy smoking is. This same episode features the boys being mortified at a Totally Radical school assembly that discourages smoking. The performers close out by saying if they don't smoke, they can be just like them. Smash Cut to the boys behind the school smoking as many cigarettes as they can. Said critics at the time... |
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Cactus Jack did a few promos in ECW bragging about how hardcore he is and did brag about never using drugs in high school or during his at the time 10-year career.note Foley admits to pain pills, though he's not exactly abusing them. | |
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