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A character, often a child or teenager and almost Always Female, who cares deeply about all worthy causes. She wants to protect the environment from polluters, prove that women aren't inferior to men, and Free the Frogs. If she's the main character of the show, she spends a lot of time struggling with her idealism and whether it is too unrealistic. Soap Box Sadie is usually a post-hippie, the type of girl who would have been a hippie had she not been born in the wrong decade. Sometimes she's updated to the more recent counter-cultures of the time like emos, goths, hipsters, etc.
Around the turn of The New '10s, the gender-neutral terms "Social Justice Warrior" and "Woke" started being used for a type of Sadie concerned with issues of social equality and diversity (i.e. race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, etc). It refers to a type of progressive who advocates for social reform in a detrimental way: getting outraged at every petty grievance, speaking for marginalized groups and presuming to know what issues are important to them, and caring more about sounding morally superior than doing anything that actually helps. The terms can also be used as an insult (and usually are an insult when used online by an Internet Jerk), intended to get people to shut up even when the "social justice warrior" actually has a point and isn't expressing it in an unreasonable manner.
In most shows, Sadie exists to teach children about the importance of the environment, feminism, standing up for one's beliefs, and so on. Depending on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism she's as likely to reach someone as she is to get backlash about forcing her beliefs on others.
This character is almost always on the political left. A character on the political right who behaves this way leans more toward The Fundamentalist.
Many of them are working for the greater good even if they are militant, though some take their beliefs way too far. Others, however, only care about sounding morally superior while doing little actual work for their cause.
Compare Granola Girl, Literal Soapbox Speech, Straw Feminist, Straw Vegetarian, Strawman Political, Author Tract, and The Troublemaker. Special bonus if they actually get on a soapbox.
There's also the black equivalent of this trope called Malcolm Xerox.
See Former Teen Rebel for those who have outgrown this.
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First Day: Hannah becomes a nice version, growing into a committed activist for trans rights (and LGBT+ kids more broadly) at her school, pushing to amend the school's dress code so the students can wear what makes all of them comfortable.
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Her mother seems to be this in her one appearance on the show where Willow remarks that the longest conversation they ever had was about the supposed patriarchal bias of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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Sheila ("I'm very social injustice-conscious") from Hair.
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Hacks: Ava's Gen Z wokeness is met with withering remarks from Deborah. Though she's a more nuanced take on this trope as she means well, isn't especially vocal or abrasive and her views are treated as valid by the narrative, even if she can be overly self-righteous at times.
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Gert from Runaways. Apparently, as a little girl, she once stole all of Nico's My Little Pony dolls because she thought that they glorified animal abuse, and when the original series starts, she's arguing with her parents over wanting to join a socialist club at her school.
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House:
For one episode Thirteen comes across as this, constantly scoffing at her teammates for not understanding the work of the performance artist whom they are treating. Doesn't really show up otherwise.
In a rare male example, the episode TB Or Not TB had House diagnosing a doctor who'd gotten sick after years of treating tuberculosis patients in Africa. While he's doing good work and helping people, the guy never stops talking about how bad things are in Africa and literally asks people why they're not more outraged that things are so bad there when they've got it so good. It reaches the point where he refuses any more treatment from House to save his life so he can let the media think he died of TB and use the media outrage to force pharmaceutical companies to send more drugs to Africa.
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Maude Findlay, the title character of Maude, has been described as "a caricature of the knee-jerk liberal."
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The Baby-Sitters Club: Dawn's other defining trait, besides being automatically cool for being from California, is this. Among other things, she starts a sermon whenever someone tries to eat meat and tries to get her middle school to change the script of their production of Peter Pan because she thought Wendy's (whom she was playing) role in it was sexist. In Dawn Saves The Planet, her protesting reaches a point where she runs screaming down the halls at a girl for putting an aluminum can in the trash. That whole book consists of her doing that to EVERYBODY. Also a massive case of Flanderization, as the early books in which she appears give her a much milder personality.
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Jennie from lonelygirl15, charity worker and feminist. She started to irritate fans during series 3, and the writers attempted to redeem the character by demonstrating that she wasn't all talk. For the most part, this seems to have been successful.
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The Simpsons:
Lisa Simpson morphed into this over time. Lisa is shown to care more about being the one to break the mold and/or being on the moral high ground than seeing her ideals being carried out, leading to a lot of Honor Before Reason moments that other characters (including Lisa's own family) find annoying. Flanderization is responsible for a lot of the most extreme moments, but this trope has almost always been present with her to some degree.
In "Lisa the Vegetarian", Lisa becomes a vegetarian. She quickly becomes disgusted with everyone else's carnivorous diet after becoming attached to a cutesy baby petting zoo lamb at a storybook village park, culminating in her ruining Homer's big barbecue because the guests did not want to eat the vegetarian food that Lisa prepared. The point of that episode was Lisa learning that she shouldn't force other people to become vegetarians, and Homer learning to respect his children's choices. They do apologize to each other at the end, but Lisa only accepts part of the blame.
In "The Old Man and the Lisa", Lisa believes that she has turned Burns into an ecologically sensitive businessman. He hasn't changed at all, but when Burns offers Lisa her final cut of the proceeds (which totals twelve million dollars), Lisa rips up the check. This causes Homer to have five simultaneous heart attacks. At no point does she consider using the twelve million to try and fix what Burns did or help the environment in some other way, being too concerned with where the money came from instead of focusing on where it can go.
In "Bart Star", Lisa tries to join the pee-wee football team in an attempt to make a stand for girls. The wind is yanked out of her sails when Flanders not only welcomes Lisa with open arms but reveals that there are four girls already on the team. Lisa then tries to raise a fuss about the fact that footballs are made from pigskin but learns that the balls used by the team are synthetic, and that money is donated to Amnesty International with each purchase. Lisa runs off in tears after hearing this.
"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" briefly highlights Lisa's focus on moral grandstanding instead of actually making a difference. After seeing how crazed and addicted the farm animals have become thanks to Homer's "Tomacco" plants, she implores him to destroy the last remaining crop to stop it from being unleashed onto the world. At no point does she actually try to destroy it herself when it's right in front of her, wasting energy arguing with Homer to make him destroy it. Even when Lisa has the chance to legitimately help the world, the thought doesn't cross her mind when given the chance to nag and lecture someone else into doing it.
In the "Fraudcast News" episode, Lisa and Burns faced off over a free press and were forced to engage in some small talk:
Lisa once goaded Marge into disqualifying herself in the final of a cook-off in "All's Fair in Oven War", because Marge spiked other entrants' foods with baby medicine. The other competitors were deliberately sabotaging Marge's hard work in front of her, meaning Lisa just wanted Marge to quit on principle.
The "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" episode has the kids go on a field trip to Springfield Glacier, which has been reduced to a tiny hunk of ice in a lake. Lisa spends the entirety of the visit whining about Global Warming and even demands of her classmates "How can you stand around being kids when serious things are happening?!"
Lisa protests Christmas by surrounding the Christmas tree with crime scene tape in the "The Fight Before Christmas" episode, on the grounds that they cut down an innocent tree.
Another Christmas-themed version happened in the comic book adaptation (Of the Halloween special), where Lisa pestered Homer to get a live tree to avoid senselessly killing one. Unfortunately, the tree was actually a malevolent alien and a scout for a race that was planning an invasion. Even worse, it was evil enough to tell Lisa this to her face, as it knew she'd never destroy it herself and never convince anyone of its plans. (And it was right on both counts.) Fortunately, humanity was saved when Homer tripped on the cord for the lights while trying to water it, and electrocuted the creature, causing the invasion force to flee in fear.
"Lisa The Skeptic": When Lisa asks Marge what kind of fool believes in angels, Lisa's stunned when Marge replies that she believes in angels. This only causes Lisa to double down, calling her own mother crazy for believing in things she can't prove.
"Homer Vs. The Eighteenth Amendment": Aside from Rex Banner and the anti-alcohol women's league, Lisa is the only other person in the whole of Springfield that actually cares about the dry law. When Homer is discovered to be the "Beer Baron" that is driving Banner crazy, Lisa remarks that the dry law is stupid, but it is the law. Lisa is unable to provide any additional commentary because everybody else tells Lisa to shut up and go to her room.
In "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", the whole plot escalates to the point that Lisa tries to release her own doll to compete, wasting thousands of dollars from the women who helped her design it. This happens because Lisa goes on the warpath about the fact that Malibu Stacy (which Lisa has characterized as a brainy activist like herself) has been given the personality of a Dumb Blonde with her "voiced" version. Marge lampshades Lisa's Soapbox Sadie tendencies, pointing out that Lisa has forced her family to protest every single hot-button topic under the sun, and getting angry over the Malibu Stacy looks like overkill.
In one episode, Marge and Homer discover that Lisa is so well-known to be this among the kids of Springfield that she is completely friendless, and she's okay with that. Marge is concerned about this, so she pays a newly-arrived girl to be Lisa's friend, and after all of the subsequent drama of Lisa discovering this, the girl does want to be Lisa's friend for real. But Lisa instantly ditches her when the girl discloses she's not a vegetarian.
In at least two different episodes ("Homer The Great" and "Today I Am A Clown") Lisa completely destroys all of the power and fame that Homer had managed to obtain by convincing him to use it for social change, pissing off the people who gave Homer this power (the "Stonecutters" Brotherhood of Funny Hats and the producers and audience of his talk show in each respective episode) because they wanted a status quo of Homer leading them into doing stupid things.
Lampshaded (silently) in "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" where Lisa gives a speech to the General Ripper (who was causing trouble in Springfield and the populace just stopped by making the army drunk) about how the U.S. Army cannot defeat a determined insurgent population… and Marge notably goes Oh, Crap! as Lisa's speech begins to become an "America cannot win The War On Terror" speech and tells her to be quiet.
In "Caper Chase", Mr. Burns encounters a group of stereotypical students being this, at Yale University, whose leader calls Mr. Burns "worse than Hitler" for referring to him as a "fellow" as it's a gender-specific pronoun, despite clearly being male.
The namesake of Flanderization, Ned Flanders, has an emotional breakdown in the episode "Hurricane Neddy" where he lashes out at the citizens of Springfield. Naturally, when Lisa says something, he rudely but accurately sums up her entire Soapbox Sadie personality with the following statement: “Do I hear the sound of butting in? It’s gotta be little Lisa Simpson, Springfield’s answer TO A QUESTION NO ONE ASKED!�
In one episode, Lisa mentions that she's signed numerous petitions to have the Nuclear Power Plant shut down, presumably for environmentally-conscious reasons, despite her father working there for a living, and if she got her way, the family would be in serious financial trouble.
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Kotoura-san has Yuriko Mifune who has a different purpose in life: to scientifically prove the existence of Psychic Powers and to protect those who have them. It's a part of how she introduces herself to almost anybody. She's not being Anvilicious at all about it either since she does have a Freudian Excuse in her Backstory.
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Better Things: Frankie is the most socially conscious of the Fox family and also the most serious, even as a teenager. Whenever political issues come up, she'll make pro-feminist statements, plus supporting other leftist causes.
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Parodied in The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear. An advertisement calls for a march of protest in the main street of Zamonia's capital city. Anyone who's interested is offered to choose the cause for protest by themselves, and the organizers have even prepared some white sheets to make the banners.
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Lily Esposito from Popular, especially regarding animal rights/vegetarianism.
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Hold Your Man: One of Ruby's cellmates is a comically earnest socialist who calls Ruby "comrade."
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Millie from Ozy and Millie often seems to aspire to Soapbox-Sadiedom, but lacks the attention span to truly pull it off.
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Britta Perry from Community. She once invoked the Freedom of Information Act to demand a copy of a friend's lecture notes. Several episodes reveal that she's more of a Hypocrite than she likes to think, however, and that a substantial amount of her confrontational self-righteousness was merely posturing designed to make herself feel superior over others.
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In 10 Things I Hate About You, the radical feminist Kat Stratford lectures about her opinions usually whenever she gets a chance to.
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In one episode of Kevin Spencer, a worker hired to tear down the park equipment is met with an angry group of people. The worker thinks they're this, but it turns out that they're just drug dealers, and they wanted the space to deal drugs.
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Nearly everyone in Doonesbury takes a turn on the soapbox.
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In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Pike recruits an Illyrian lawyer named Neera, who has been fighting the Federation’s No Transhumanism Allowed laws, to defend Number One, who had her secret exposed and was going to be made an example. She nearly derails the entire defense to attack the Federation, but is called out for it.
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In Harry Potter, Hermione's pet project is bringing attention to the ill-treatment of House Elves after seeing the potential for nastier wizards to abuse them. Apparently, most of the wizards (and most of the actual House Elves, with the notable exception of Dobby) consider it an aberration and generally aren't interested in her cause; the ones who do show interest do so in exactly that: stopping the abuse of house elves. It's the other aspect she preaches (universal emancipation and applying human labor standards like wages and holidays) that even the house elves themselves don't like. The thing she misses with regard to their emancipation is that for most, Dobby being the standout exception, they either cannot or will not make the distinction between being freed and being sacked in disgrace; most of the other elves consider Dobby to be at least a bit insane due to his insistence on being paid, having vacations (both extremely minimal) and actually wearing regular clothes. And she is shown to gradually come to understand and accept the fact that house elves actually like caring for humans and receiving nothing in return except their kindness (on that note, Dobby's desire for payment, holidays, and general freedom seems to be more to do with defiance against his former masters, seeing as he refused the opportunity for too much pay note Dumbledore offered Dobby 10 galleons a week and weekends off, but Dobby requested one galleon a week and one day off a month). Her fears are vindicated in Order of the Phoenix, as it is revealed that Kreacher's mistreatment indirectly led to Sirius' death, since house elves expect to be treated like crap and are thus fanatically loyal to anyone that shows them even a sliver of kindness. Hermione does eventually seem to grow out of the Soapbox Sadie behaviour and instead actually does something about the issues she's concerned about, as Word of God says she joins the Ministry of Magic and helps eradicate laws that discriminate against magical creatures and Muggleborns.
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Lindsay Bluth Fünke from Arrested Development in a subverted version of this trope, often taking up causes whenever they benefit her personally - even when they're contradictory to her actual values. She'll sometimes use these causes to shame her family, but they're quick to point out her hypocrisy.
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In Bridget Jones's Diary and its sequel, although she's hardly a teenager, Bridget's best friend Shaz fits the trope admirably. This is especially true of the novels, where Shaz's almost constant righteous anger, expressed in politicised rants on a multitude of topics, is contrasted with Bridget's entertainingly patchy awareness of real-world politics.
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Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes is a mild example, in that he can get very passionate about various issues (usually environmental), but since his worldview is still that of a six-year-old, the narrative doesn't mind showing him to be just as naive as he is well-meaning. Also spoofed when Calvin retrieves a small, cardboard soap box to stand on so he can "harangue the multitudes."
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Macrobiotic of the Whateley Universe. Yes, she's a mutant at a Superhero School, and she gave herself the codename Macrobiotic.
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King of the Hill:
Bobby frequently invests himself in various social causes, but he acts like a real adolescent instead of a carefully-constructed mouthpiece for the writers. As soon as he joins a cause, Bobby becomes very self-righteous and emotionally invested in his cause du jour, but he's also very ill-informed and myopic, usually just buying right into whatever his teachers or peers tell him without applying any sort of critical thinking to the matter.
Bobby's Temporary Love Interest in the episode "Bobby Rae". Bobby even points it out:
Another episode has Bobby fall sway to a fire and brimstone style preacher, which leads Bobby to stand in the mall calling everyone around him a fornicator. His highest point of religious zeal is destroying Hank's papier-mache statue of Uncle Sam because Hank was worshiping "false idols".
This was nicely subverted in one of the later episodes of the series where Bobby goes through a green phase due to a movement at school. Hank thinks it's stupid at first but soon learns much of it is common sense and small, reasonable sacrifices. It's shown that many other people in the green movement (who fit more into the usual Soapbox Sadie stereotypes) are only in it because it's "hip", including Hank's boss, who only does it to bed women. After Bobby grows disillusioned with so many people being interested in going green because it's a fad, Hank ends the episode by helping Bobby plant a tree in their yard and telling him he's doing something good, and not to let the people who're only on the bandwagon get to him.
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Discworld
A male example is the zombie Reg Shoe, who spends all his spare time going on and on about dead rights, which he calls "consciousness-raising". Fortunately, this does not irritate his audience too much, as he tends to focus on trying to drum up grassroots support in graveyards, and it has slackened off now he has joined the police force.
The character of Estressa, (sometimes Estrella), Partleigh, an activist human woman who one day took it into her head to campaign for Dwarf rights, and founded the Campaign for Equal Heights. The Dwarfs sigh tolerantly, accept her heart's in the right place, and let her get on with it.
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Courtney from Total Drama qualifies: she does genuinely try to be a polite girl, and thanks to some character development in the first half of season 3 she does come across as genuinely nice at times. At the same time, she's overly preachy, blindly follows the rules, and tends to be rather condescending; Duncan also shows her that being evil is also kind of fun. Hell, she's even written a BOOK SERIES on how to be a successful teen.
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In the Time of the Butterflies has Minerva Mirabal (a real person). A lot of what she does also counts as Values Dissonance since the things she wants to do (such as going to college, waiting to get married, and wearing pants) aren't a big deal at all today.
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Maya DiMeo from Speechless is this on behalf of her son J.J., who has cerebral palsy. She's happy to talk smack at anybody making fun of him and is constantly pushing to make his schools and environments more accessible. Unfortunately, she goes about it so abrasively that some people are put off by this and she's become The Dreaded in each neighbourhood her family moves to.
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The female Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. It seems almost every episode they were volunteering with kids, cleaning up a park, or participating in some charity. The male Rangers were a Gender Flip of this, but not as extreme. Trini might have been the best example.
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X-Men: Evolution: Jean could tip into this, what with her speeches on mutant pride and mutant/human equality. It was even lampshaded at one point, in which she gears herself up for a lecture: "And I for one, am very proud of the fact..." only to be yanked off-screen by Scott. In the Girl's Night Out Episode she and the other mutant girls rail against Scott's overprotectiveness and start fighting crime as the "Bayville Sirens." She mellows out by the end of the episode (although she needed almost getting killed by some random gangsters and Cyke helping with a covert optic blast for her to get it).
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Daily Show correspondent Kristen Schaal seems to have a new cause every time she appears. Due to the show's high cynicism rating, she is also The Woobie as the reality of the situation crushes whatever ideal she starts out with.
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Maya on Just Shoot Me! is the grown-up version. A sometimes strident feminist, she frowns upon men looking at women solely as objects of sexual desire and instead encourages people to admire women for their intelligence or other attributes. Unfortunately for her, this is not a popular view for a fashion magazine.
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Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You, a more extreme version of the Kat Stratford from the 1999 film.
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Homestuck:
Kankri demonstrates the horrifying synergy between this trope and Motor Mouth.
Porrim occasionally drifts this way, but luckily has Kankri's example to warn her off.
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Yehuda Moon of Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery is this way about cycling activism.
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Hayley Shanowki from Hope & Faith. She is a precocious smart child who gets promoted to high school in season two and is an animal rights activist.
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The First Lady: The series is about three different First Ladies who were/are outspoken and politically active, often punishing their President husbands to do more even when it's inconvenient. All of this is portrayed positively, however it might be frustrating to others.
First we have Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who advocates for feminism, civil rights in the 1930s, giving refuge to Jews escaping Europe and then world peace.
In the 1970s, Betty Ford (wife of Gerald Ford) also advocates for feminism and more liberal views on issues like abortion or drug use more specifically along with breast cancer awareness once she gets a mastectomy. Later once she's recovered from her own addictions, Betty starts advocating for people who need alcohol and drug treatment, starting her own center to help them.
Michelle Obama supports healthcare reform, feminism, same-sex marriage, gun control laws, and better treatment of black people generally.
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Amy Jellicoe from Enlightened definitely qualifies. She is presented compassionately, though. She can be irritating, but she does genuinely care.
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PCU characterizes virtually all rank-and-file college kids of the 1990s as politically correct drones who champion every social issue that crosses their path until they get distracted by another issue. The heroes, a bunch of renegade slobs, and the villains, a bunch of conservative snobs, are the only exceptions.
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Monique from Sinfest always drifted into this sometimes, but Xanthe/"Trike Girl" lives, breathes, and embodies the trope, always and only. She's also a sort of Author Avatar, so she's always right and never gets the smackdown put on her smug face. Jesus, God, the Devil, and to a lesser extent the Buddha are used as the butt of jokes, but Trike Girl is invariably treated as Serious Business. Not to be outdone, Monique turned the preachiness up at about the same time as Trike Girl first appeared in the comic. Later, Monique manages to take it even further by becoming a lesbian and says unironically that she wants to kill all men.
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Rik from The Young Ones is a particularly vicious parody of a male version of this trope; the 'right-on' leftie student activist who, despite coming from an upper-middle-class background, has half-read the works of Trotsky and Marx and decided that he represents the working class. Rik is also convinced that he's a ground-breaking poet who, as the 'People's Poet', is an important voice in revolutionary politics and the fight against Margaret Thatcher, and is well-liked and admired by everyone around him. He's wrong on all counts.
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To a point, Alissa White-Gluz of The Agonist. She's a straight-edge vegan animal rights activist who writes songs about humans being bastards who need to show more respect for each other and the environment.
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In Turning Red, this is downplayed. In the official trailer, Mei and her friends are seen marching down the school hallway, protesting with megaphones and picket signs about anti-littering and protecting the environment. However, this scene was mysteriously cut from the final version, with Mei's activism toned down. Although, there are still shades of this side of her in the final cut when her parents use pictures of deforestation and animal abuse to test her control over her emotions.
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Burying the Ex: Evelyn is a committed vegan and environmentalist who blogs about this as her job. She's very pushy about it to her boyfriend Max, while berating other people who don't abide by her principles, like Olivia.
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India Sweets And Spices: Alia is established in her very first scene as a social justice activist at UCLA, having a party with her fellow activists to reward them for their hard work fundraising over the year. She's quick to stand up for herself against her community's disapproving conservatives later too and is interested later after learning her mother was once a feminist activist. She's very impressed by how fierce her mother was in her feminist activism and is pretty disappointed by how she has settled into the life of a rich housewife upon coming to the US. Both are portrayed positively for their activism.
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Hayley Smith in American Dad!, usually in defiance of her dad. Post-hippie is probably the perfect way to describe her. Plots involving her that don't focus on her and Jeff being stoners usually focus on her being noisily feminist, anti-gun, anti-capitalism, anti-CIA, pro-environment, pro-Eskimo, and pro-rock-music.
Parodied in the episode "Camp Refoogee"
While Hayley is strongly against her father's views on how wives (and women in general) should be treated or act, one episode revealed Hayley in an outfit and hairstyle from the 1950s while baking pie. Francine discovers this and humorously points out the hypocrisy in it all.
Another episode has Hayley attempting to shut down a strip club because she believes the women there are being exploited for their bodies. When she actually goes "behind the scenes", she finds actually the complete opposite is true: horny men are emptying their wallets, and all the women have to do is do a little stripping, do a little dancing.
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On Moonlight Bay features a Rare Male Example of this trope in Love Interest Bill Sherman. On his first date with protagonist Marjorie, he rails against men of his cohort frittering away their time on women and baseball. Marjorie is a Passionate Sports Girl. He later starts a rant against banks – in front of Marjorie's father, the vice president of the local bank.
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Kerry from 8 Simple Rules falls into this on occasion. Although primarily a Deadpan Snarker, she is also a passionate activist who cares strongly about animal rights.
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Perkins and Cecil, Chris "Rowdy" Moore's stuffed cats, from TV Trash. If a show has a negative portrayal of cats in ANY way, they will rant about it. In one case, they actually DID one of Moore's reviews for him.
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Katara of Avatar: The Last Airbender has a kind and nurturing nature, but her Soapbox Sadie tendencies have been prominent in some episodes:
In "Imprisoned", she let herself be captured by the enemy to infiltrate and liberate a rig of Earthbenders.
In "The Painted Lady", she faked Appa's illness to stay and have more time in a village to help their sick people, putting on hold the team mission.
In "The Waterbending Master", she confronted the traditions of a culture to gain the right to learn combative waterbending, which was forbidden to the women of the tribe (and, by extension, to her).
Of course, in "The Ember Island Players", the woman who plays Katara in the play about the Avatar's journey is a very over-the-top, swooning, love-and-friendship preaching mess. Katara tries to deny that she is anything like that in real life, earning an awkward "uh, yeah you are" from her friends. Though she does have her moments of badass straightforwardness, in general Katara is (sometimes blindly) idealistic.
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Ophelia on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee is a comic example of the angry Goth. When June wants to keep people out of a particular forest, her brother simply makes up a new endangered species that lives there, and Ophelia, like a flash, is barricading the forest off.
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On Archer, Lana Kane, not surprisingly for the child of academic parents from Berkley, has a history of animal rights and environmental activism. She tends to get very preachy about the moral pros and cons of the missions they get, sometimes endorsing missions for ideological reasons that even her boss Mallory doesn't really care about, and just as often opposing them.
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Suzette from Precocious is this to the point that when she runs out of things to protest, she uses Insane Troll Logic to invent a new one.
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The Order: Lilith is outspoken in objecting to things she finds sexist.
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Prodigal Son: The agora in Eskendereyya is full of people giving "free lectures," most of which being crazy people preaching like prophets.
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Some early episodes of Seinfeld have Elaine as one, though it seems that she just uses it as an excuse to argue with people. Later episodes totally subvert it, however. When Jerry asks if Elaine has a problem with the fur industry (in an early episode she made a scene at a party seeing a woman wearing a fur coat), she wearily said, "Eh, who has the energy anymore?"
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Degrassi: The Next Generation:
Emma Nelson in the first three seasons is the prime example. She mostly lost this afterwards, though she did climb back on the soapbox every now and then, most notably in the sixth-season episode "Love My Way." Her stepfather Snake, who is also her teacher, catches her buying birth control and gives her a hard time over it. In response, she gives a class presentation on how men are hostile toward female sexuality, which amazingly wins him over instead of making him angry.
In the seventh-season episode "Hungry Eyes", where, after initially taking a job as a spokesmodel for "Purple Dragon" energy drink in order to defuse criticism that she was too "predictable", takes a stand against, no, not the sexual objectification of the models (although she did have some criticism of that, too), but with the company's ideals. She does this by ripping off her Purple Dragon outfit on stage in front of the whole school.
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The Simpsons: As in the show, Lisa. An issue that has the family go to a Banana Republic has Lisa stumble upon black marketers smuggling literal giant bananas, and she promptly starts yelling at them for "despoiling nature's bounty". They react exactly as you'd expect armed black marketers to react - they try to kill her.
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Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls has San Francisco, who also has a touch of Granola Girl. Most of the time, she'll lecture someone on why it's important to vote wisely, eat healthy, etc.
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The main character's girlfriend in Orange County is a pretty cute use of this trope - she's always getting sentimental about baby seals, while the rest of the class try not to roll their eyes.
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Tabby in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is very knowledgeable in social politics and doesn't hold back on her opinions, making it her mission to fight the system for the underdogs. She's vocal about wanting her film class curriculum to be more inclusive and the sexism in cinema. Tyler being a misogynistic douchebag gets him a broken nose courtesy of Tabby.
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Kaeloo: The titular character has strong moral values and will stand up for what she thinks is right, sometimes behaving like an activist.
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Animal Man is a rare male example of the trope, due to his ability to communicate with animals. At one point, Grant Morrison, the writer who made him that way, actually directly interacts with the character. Among other things, Morrison admits that he was using Animal Man as a mouthpiece for his own beliefs on animal cruelty and vegetarianism. Also deconstructed, since Morrison (or at least his Author Avatar) also admits to a certain level of hypocrisy, in that he was using Animal Man as a mouthpiece for said beliefs while writing the book in such a way as to inflict maximum pain and suffering on Animal Man; did he really have the right to righteously lecture the world on not inflicting pain and suffering on something which couldn't fight back if despite his vegetarianism he nevertheless clearly possessed the same impulses on some level?
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From Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High:
Caitlin Ryan, whose character Emma Nelson was very much a successor to. She fought against pollution, animal testing, Spike's expulsion from school because she was pregnant with Emma, and later nuclear missile production (in Canada!).
Also Liz, Spike's best friend, who was the angry Goth version.
At times, Lucy could fit this, though her causes were more focused on feminism and equality.
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Liz Lemon starts out as this in 30 Rock, constantly jumping onto any cause she can find, even when nobody asks for her help. This is lampshaded and criticized by the others regularly. Eventually she grows out of this after she realizes that her behaviour is negatively impacting her health and is just being exploited by the minority members of the cast to get their way (Tracy in particular loves to do so).
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Not Okay: Rowan is a positive example, a teen who had survived a school shooting who's been an activist opposing gun violence ever since, with angry spoken word poetry she's recited publicly. After she's learned Danni faked surviving a terrorist attack (and used her words to do this) Rowan recites another which then denounces Danni for her action, especially highlighting that since Rowan's black while Danni's white she also received way more attention (she particularly complains that her sister, who'd been murdered in the shooting, is hardly mentioned by news reports at all).
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The Sex Lives of College Girls: Alicia is a committed feminist and activist for LGBT+ rights who's part of the women's center on campus. She angrily berates the receptionist over their funding being cut, insulting her and the college president for the fact.
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Surprisingly, Doug Heffernan in The King of Queens episode "Offensive Fowl". In this episode, Doug becomes a vegetarian after almost running over a chicken with his truck. Carrie gets tired of having to eat meat in private when he forces his new beliefs onto her. At the episode's end, let's just say thank God for status quo.
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The female prosecutors on Law & Order tend to be written this way. Usually to make the lead prosecutor seem smart and reasonable by comparison.
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Miss Grotke from Recess can be this in her lessons at times, and a rare example of not being a teenager/child, as she's roughly in her thirties somewhere.
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In Animorphs, Cassie often voices her opinions on issues she considers morally compromising. The other characters (and the readers) sometimes get annoyed with this.
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In Dinosaurs, Robbie Sinclair is a rare male variant. He will argue for environmentalist and humanitarian topics such as protecting endangered species and not stealing land from cavemen (who are like Native Americans in this universe). This naturally puts him in conflict with the status quo of the dinosaur world and in particular, his father Earl.
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Resident Alien: Though it's downplayed, Sahar is a young feminist judging by her saying things such as "strong women will not go away" and quite bold in standing up for what she believes overall.
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Linda from Round the Twist. At first this was just one facet of her character - later she suffered Flanderization and was turned into an annoying example of the trope while simultaneously losing her judo-fighting badassitude.
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Mokey once convinced everyone in Fraggle Rock to stop eating Doozer constructions before learning the hard way that Doozers don't build their constructions for any purpose other than needing to build; without the Fraggles eating them, Doozer buildings began to take over the rock until the Doozers were planning to leave. To really drive the point home, they lamented (within earshot of Mokey, no less) how cruel the Fraggles were to stop eating their towers for absolutely no reason.
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Dan of Dan Vs.: "Say no to parenthood!"
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Daria:
The title character is an exception: While she is very self-righteous about her chosen causes, and often wonders whether she's forcing her beliefs on others, the fact that she doesn't seem to care much whether she actually has any influence on others means she does not fit the standard two types very well. This is gradually subverted in the last season episode "Fizz Ed," when she is convinced she has to personally take action against the school's soda pop contracting and succeeds in reining it back. Worth noting that even when she did take action in "Fizz Ed", Daria didn't actually get the results she was after. It took the school's principal suffering a Freakout brought on by stress and high amounts of caffeine, followed by the district's superintendent walking in and witnessing the proverbial carnage. It's actually noted at the end of the episode that the scaling-back of the contract couldn't be traced to her. Also, Daria was not exactly willing to confront Ms. Li or the superintendent on the matter because she doesn't "get involved" until Jodie and Tom told her she only has the right to complain if she's willing to do something about it.
Jane's older sister Penny backpacks in third world countries while attempting to sell handmade knickknacks as a way to salvage the economies. However, Penny clearly has little understanding in terms of foreign languages and the countries she's trying to "save".
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Velma: Velma holds a number of progressive ideals and isn't afraid to constantly express them. Unfortunately, she does it in such a judgmental and overly aggressive way that she's basically become a parody of the "Social Justice Warrior" stereotype, which a number of other characters call her out on.
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Huey Freeman from The Boondocks is a male variant. He tends to deliver long monologues about what was wrong with the things that people were doing and that people are blind to the truth. This notably cooled after Season 1, but still.
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Betty Cooper of Archie Comics will take up whatever cause the plot dictates... and sometimes subvert the hell out of them just because.
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Alluded to in The Good Place. Being a vegan earns you a decent number of the points required to get you into the Good Place. Never discussing veganism without being asked, however, earns you significantly more.
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Based on flashbacks, Mermaid Queen Otohime of One Piece spent her life as one of these, constantly campaigning against her own people's Fantastic Racism against the humans (though she also opposed human racism against mermaids and fishmen) and going around harassing people to sign her petition. Her own people found her annoying, only putting up with her because she was the Queen and they knew her heart was in the right place. She's assassinated by a human, not long after finally getting people to sway with her opinions. Even in her dying breath, she tells her children not to let her death cause more anger in this world and continue to fuel the racism. Driven home when you realize that she, along with other Fishmen and mermaids, are Shout Outs to various black-freedom fighters, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X., and the Black Panthers. It's even sadder because she was really killed by Hody Jones. The human 'assassin' was just the human Hody hired to burn the petitions. Hody betrayed and framed the guy to stir up anti-human sentiments.
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Good Omens:
A male example: For at least part of the book, Adam, after being introduced to Age of Aquarius dogma, suddenly turns into the most militant environmentalist it's possible to be... considering he actually has the power to do something about it....
Anathema Device, who introduced him to those magazines, strongly believes in "seals, whales, bicycles, rain forests, whole grain in loaves, recycled paper, white South Africans out of South Africa, and Americans out of practically everywhere down to and including Long Island" and is happy to share her beliefs with Adam. She is quite frustrated that Adam decided it's better for him to not use his Reality Warper powers to change the world. Not even to improve it by bringing back the whales and the like.
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Leela on Futurama occasionally takes up causes due to her love of various animals.
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"Saint" Sarah from Hannah Montana, crusading for such worthy causes as the California Low-Flow Toilet Initiative.
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The Boondocks: It's often suggested by other characters (notably Caesar) that Huey's stance as an ultra-left wing Afrocentrist usually becomes an excuse to be as big as a Jerkass as he wants. Granddad even points out that Huey's "right to be hostile" just amounts to him making himself miserable in lieu of actually doing any real work for his causes.
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Conversations with Friends: Frances performs feminist prose with Bobbi. This is portrayed positively, and pretty downplayed since they don't make many political statements otherwise.
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Saturday Night Live:
Parodied in the "High School Theatre" sketches. They are about a trope of middle-class white high-school theater students (both male and female) who have clearly only recently learned about both avant garde theatre and various social justice issues such as homophobia, transphobia, and racism. This leads to a series of skits that are the worst combination of insufferably self-righteous, ill-informed, pretentious, and just plain sucky, which their long-suffering parents are forced to endure in the audience with a combination of sarcasm, deconstruction, and complaining.
Cecily Strong's "The Girl You Don't Want to Sit Next To at Parties", from Weekend Update, often comes across this way.
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Acapulco: As a teenager, Maximo's sister Sara was prone to rants about capitalism and cultural exploitation.
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Fluttershy in The Cadanceverse. As the Element of Generosity, she finds herself advocating for a variety of important causes.
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Nemi, from the Norwegian comic strip by the same name. When she's had a bit to drink she turns into a Cloud Cuckoolander Goth. When she hasn't, she is very likely to give you a long Anvilicious speech on everything that is wrong with this world.
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Hector's former girlfriend Autumn on Zits was like this. Usually she was the Straw Vegetarian type, giving Jeremy the whole "meat is murder" routine (which he always seemed to have a clever comeback to) but there was one storyline where she tried a Free the Frogs variation with locusts, at their school, and convinced the boys to help. (Surprisingly Realistic Outcome when the Hazmat unit shows up).
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Good Omens (2019): Pepper is a young version who denounces war and relationships as a violation of the feminist ideas she's learned from her mum. Anathema also has a little of this, though downplayed, when she lectures Adam about how GMOs and nuclear plants are evil.
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In Hamilton, Samuel Seabury counts as one in "Farmer Refuted", right down to actually stepping up on a box to give his (ridiculously repetitive) speech on staying loyal to the British. In the original staging, Hamilton steps up with him to give his rebuttal, and one performance had Burr lift Hamilton off the box before saying his piece.
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Vamps: Goody was an abolitionist in the early 1800s, and continued to advocate causes (like trying to save the Rosenbergs) throughout her long life.
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Sam Manson from Danny Phantom, pictured above, is an example of the angry Goth; she once put up an entire protest in a single night to counter her best friend's views (though he did the same). She both complained about people not accepting her for herself and fought to force the whole school to go vegan. Both of those things happened in the same episode — Tucker's protest was in response to Sam forcing the whole school to go vegan, and Sam's counter-protest was a response to Tucker's protest. She's also an avid defender of animal rights in general, as well as environmental protection and women's rights.
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Skye Blue from Carl² is Carl's vegetarian girlfriend who has a dream to save nature itself. She always makes fundraisers for stray animals and tries to raise awareness of nature.
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Tales of the Pack:
Blythe is a committed feminist and egalitarian in general, lecturing anyone who will listen on these subjects. Lexie is taken aback somewhat initially by this and doesn't understand all the terms which Blythe uses in her speechifying.
Renee also likes to do this, but not as much, along with the others. There are several conversations that the Pack have about what would be the right course based on their beliefs in social justice.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
In the episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Pinkie Pie has an ability to predict the future that Twilight Sparkle can't seem to explain rationally. When Pinkie asks what the difference is between her ability and Twilight's magic, Twilight stands on a literal soapbox and lectures Pinkie on how magic is practiced and codified, while her "Pinkie Sense" is random and unexplainable. However, by the end of the episode, Twilight learns that just because you can't explain something doesn't mean it's not real, as she's forced by experience to concede that Pinkie's powers are real.
Twilight Sparkle also likes to soapbox about The Magic Of Friendship any chance she gets, which has earned her a couple of swift Shut Up Kirks from a couple of defeated villains.
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Sarah Jane Smith from Doctor Who was often very forward about her feminist ideals, especially in The Monster of Peladon.
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In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Wonderella used to be one, but almost exclusively because she's an Attention Whore.
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The Great Greene Heist: Carmen Cleaver runs a club dedicated to recycling, vegetarianism, and low carbon footprints. After Keith mocks her beliefs and deliberately throws a recyclable soda can in the trash to taunt her, she joins Gaby's campaign once it becomes clear they have some common beliefs. She also renames her club "Students against Keith Sinclair."
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Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is a very passionate and unfortunately judgmental social crusader. She looks down on those she believes aren't doing enough to help the world, which is to say, literally everyone else.
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Boardwalk Empire has an example less ham-fisted than usual in Margaret Schroeder, to the point that it can be considered a subversion. Margaret is an adult woman, and she usually fights against injustices she has genuinely suffered herself: in Season 1 she campaigns for female suffrage, being an immigrant from a country (Ireland) where women can vote to one (America) where they can't; she supports Prohibition because her abusive husband gets even more violent when he drinks, rather than because she thinks that alcohol is intrinsically immoral (and she drinks herself with moderation); and in Season 3 her main struggle is to open a clinic that teaches women to take better care of themselves during pregnancy, having already suffered two miscarriages before age 30 herself. The one time she considers fighting for a hopeless cause (bringing Nucky's criminal empire down, which is the basis of her own wealth and status to boot) is when she is stressed and not thinking rationally because of her daughter being sick and blaming herself for it.
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Edna Strickland from 2010's Back to the Future: The Game is an odd deconstruction. In 1931 she's a crusader for moral and social causes, opposing the speakeasy run by Kid Tannen both because of the alcohol and the sultry singer. She even burned down the first speakeasy. Thanks to Marty's alterations to the timeline, Edna falls for a young Doc Brown and, by 1986, she's used his scientific advances to turn Hill Valley into an Orwellian state where "bad behavior" is controlled via brainwashing.
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The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy features a character whose name is sometimes Kirsty or Kasandra (depending on her mood) who latches onto a particular cause du jour with all the tenacity of a white shark. Subverted in that Kirsty is anything but meek or flower-child-like; she's dismissive, sarcastic, and ruthlessly efficient.
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Done by Jenny in My Life as a Teenage Robot in a one-off episode involving "Wizzly World", where robots were "slaves" by her estimation. She frees them to disastrous results - including one blowing up because it couldn't do its job.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Susan often gets very preachy on her one-woman campaign against technology.
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Carmen Lopez in the two episodes of The George Lopez Show "guest starring" George W. Bush. Thankfully, to tone down the preachy aspect of Soap Box Sadie, she only fits this archetype for those two episodes and it never happens again.
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Dumbing of Age:
Roz is progressive but tends to be rather obnoxious, condescending, and self-righteous about it.
Roz is also nonplussed that Leslie is adamantly not okay with Roz shaming Joyce in the class. Roz asks if Joyce gets a pass for shouting over and ignoring gay people her whole life, to which Leslie counters, "Said the straight girl to the gay girl who's been asking her to shut up for the past five minutes." When called on her hypocrisy, Roz leaves the class.
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In The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Olivia's old college friend Laurie turns out to have become one in the years since Olivia saw her last. When she's staying with the Hayes family, she follows an insanely restrictive diet where she doesn't eat wheat, sugar, dairy, soy, non-free-range meat, non-organic food, or anything else she considers too artificial (in practice, this means she eats practically nothing but nuts, seeds, and vegan foods like goat milk and almond butter). She quickly starts trying to force the Hayes family to follow her diet and constantly lecturing them about their diets being full of artificial ingredients, chemicals, and toxins, which they find extremely irritating.
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The titular character from Mafalda, and possibly the best know example in Latin America. She even steps on a literal soapbox at one point calling for an end to wars, then commenting that she, the U.N., and the Pope have the same effect.
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Wendy Testaburger from South Park. Sometimes Played for Laughs (unsurprising, given the nature of the show) but there have been frequent moments where Matt & Trey have used her for delivering legitimate liberal Aesops and Author Tracts.
Kyle dips into this frequently as well, especially when he learned something today.
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The Debbie and Carrie Show: The two title characters embody this trope. Justified in that they were atheists and LGBT also in a conservative and highly religious town.
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Main character Mia's best friend Lilly in The Princess Diaries, though she may better fit the "angry self-righteous activist Goth" description above.
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In In the Heights, some performances will have Sonny literally step up on a box before going into his political rant in "96,000." Notably, the narrative doesn't dismiss his opinions on the matter as frivolous, but the characters clearly do.
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Michael "The Militant Midget" Evans from Good Times. A spiritual ancestor to The Boondocks' Huey Freeman, he probably would've been a Black Panther, had he been born ten years earlier. Unfortunately, this aspect of his character diminished as he got older. To white '70s audiences, an opinionated black child is cute and precocious, but an opinionated black teenager is something else entirely.
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The Family Plan: Nina is initially very preaching on social justice, often lecturing her family about them. It turns out to be the influence of her long-distance boyfriend, and once she learns he's cheating, Nina drops this, relieving them as they'd found it pretty annoying.
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Played with on ContraPoints, particularly "Abigail Cockbane, Radical Feminist."
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Marzipan in Homestar Runner, also a Granola Girl.
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From Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Willow edges onto this trope now and then, at the whim of whoever's writing the current episode. The most obvious case was probably in the 4th-season episode "Pangs," in which she rants against the evils of Thanksgiving. In "The Freshman" she says jocularly that she's heard about five different issues and is angry about each and every one of them. In later seasons she also becomes this whenever disparaging stereotypes of witches come up.
Her mother seems to be this in her one appearance on the show where Willow remarks that the longest conversation they ever had was about the supposed patriarchal bias of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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On Pramface, Beth harangues both her friends and strangers if they do anything to contradict one of her personal causes, no matter how (sometimes wildly) inappropriate that is.
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In 2010, Kana (who later became WWE's Asuka) published a "manifesto" about the state of Japanese women's wrestling that annoyed a lot of that community. The late Stuart Allan, co-founder of the ringbelles.com website, commented: "The actual suggestions were all sensible, but the issue wasn't as much with the suggestions as the Japanese mentality at this 'rookie' wrestler with a reputation for being overly stiff in the ring telling all the joshi veterans and promoters what they needed to do to fix the entire scene." This was actually intentional, though she was hoping it would get her heat with the fans who respected and admired the joshi veterans and promoters she was calling out rather than with the veterans and promoters themselves.
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: Nadia holds true to her beliefs even in the epilogue, although she does seem to act more forgiving towards people who disagree with her. Grandis DID tell her that she may end up growing out of it.
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Brian from Family Guy mutated into this in later seasons, delivering liberal and atheist aesops left and right. A few of them made perfect sense (Don't discriminate against gay people) but eventually morphed into such gems as "Religion is for idiots!" and "If we legalized pot everything would be, like, a billion times better!" The fact that Brian is Seth MacFarlane's Author Avatar makes you wonder how much of this is mirrored in his own personal life. He repeatedly gets run down by other characters who point out he's simply a contrarian with a pathological need to feel morally and intellectually superior to every one around him.
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DarkMatter2525: Dark Matter's videos criticize people who take this too far in his opinion, particularly when God gets onboard, though he's careful to note he agrees in general with opposing racism, sexism, etc.
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Riley in Detention. Her getting thrashed in her debate with Gord on the morality of eating meat triggers an existential crisis that ends with the former vegan eating a burger and trying to hang herself. Gord himself is also one, though his views are an inversion of Riley's — he believes that not eating meat is morally wrong. That's because he's a vegetable-based alien lifeform, who is leading the invasion of Earth in order to stop vegans like Riley from eating his kin.
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Sally, Steve Jobs' girlfriend in Nerds: A Musical Software Satire. So much so that she leaves him when he becomes absorbed in his own narcissism and stops caring about environmental issues.
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Liz Tuttle from Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has the same views on house-elves as Hermione, has hunger strikes over the mistreatment of pixies, opposes the use of fairies as decoration (despite the fact fairies in the HP universe are vain and like doing this), refuses to eat meat, and won't touch animal-based potion ingredients among many other things. All of Liz's dialogue not about her Seer mother is about creatures and her perceived mistreatment of them. Ironically, she's completely okay with firecrabs being used to power a bonfire.
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Phoebe from Friends slips into this. She vocally criticizes her friends when they do anything that she disapproves of, even when she does them herself. In the episode planning Phoebe's wedding, Monica says one of Phoebe's friends is not welcome because she smells bad. Phoebe retorts that her friend will shower when Tibet is free.
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Roxie from Sabrina the Teenage Witch She is also The Snark Knight and her opinions on social causes often clash with Sabrina's more preppy attitude towards life.
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Lynette Fromme in Assassins, although much of the time she seems confused about exactly what cause or causes she is advocating: especially when compared with Leon Czolgosz, who knows exactly what he is doing and why he is doing it.
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Only Fools and Horses: Rodney starts off as one, given to delivering speeches about nuclear war, the environment, unemployment, and other typical concerns of left-wing young people in The '80s. In later series, as he matures, he becomes, of all things, a Deadpan Snarker.
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Alyssa from My Dad the Rock Star fits the trope in that she campaigns for nature and individuality, but mostly not to an obnoxious level.
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Foli "the politically correct, vegetarian, feminist activist Succubus" from Lil i Put. Basicaly a Granola Girl passionately preaching Political Overcorrectness on every ocasion and promptly boycotting anything she finds midnly offensive, who's relentless lecturing other characters find unsufferable... who just so happen to be a cute teenage demon from hell (only adding extra-tongue-in-cheek layer to the of Take That! of the tropes she is ment to be satirical commentary on)
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The musical TV film Mrs. Santa Claus actually features a character named Sadie Lowenstein, who has this nickname. She's a young suffragette in 1910 Manhattan who literally gets up on her soapbox (that is, she made her speeches atop a box marked "SOAP"). She's not the Trope Namer, however; the term predates the film by several decades.
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Sharon in Braceface is a very stubborn one at that. She is a vegetarian and animal rights activist.
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Young Hearts: Harper is outspoken in supporting reproductive rights or opposing sexist double standards toward women. This is treated positively, and Tilly's dad agrees, praising that Harper advocates such views while urging Tilly along with Adam (Harper's brother) to speak out as well. She later delivers a speech in class on how feminism needs to be more inclusive to women of color, with her shutting down one teacher's objection as another praises her for what she'd said. Later she also tells another girl in no uncertain terms a boy who had stuck his hand down her pants was wrong, shouldn't have assumed that she'd wanted it, and should have been expelled by the school (he transferred at least). Harper decries double standards in regard to her being labeled a slut for having sex, while Tilly (her boyfriend) has been praised as a result.
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Soapbox Sadie
 A People's History of the American Empire (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Gen¹³ (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Katie the Catsitter (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Lil i Put (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Runaways (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Truth: Red, White & Black (Comic Book) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Doonesbury (Comic Strip) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Mafalda (Comic Strip) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Nemi (Comic Strip) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Zbeng! (Comic Strip) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Zits (Comic Strip) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Archmage's Last Bow (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script (Fanfic) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 A Possible Encounter for a Phantom (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Danny Phantom Vs The Paranormal (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Loyalty Among Worlds (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 PokemonPsychicsOrigins
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Prodigal Son (Fanfic) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Total Drama Cabin Fever (Fanfic) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Twice Gleeful (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ultimate Sleepwalker (Fanfic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 American History X / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Back to School / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Barbie (2023) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Black Christmas (2019) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bodies Bodies Bodies / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bros / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Detention / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Drive Me Crazy / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ella Enchanted / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Grace of My Heart / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Lajja / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Lemonade Mouth / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Long Shot / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Not Okay / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 On Moonlight Bay / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Poltergay / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Rampage (2009) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Roman J. Israel, Esq. / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Selena / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Sisters (1973) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Solo / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Sorry to Bother You / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Atomic Cafe / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Best House in London / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Family Plan / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Green Inferno / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Grey Fox / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Mighty Ducks / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Princess Diaries / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Way We Were / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 A Confederacy of Dunces / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Binder of Shame / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bridget Jones / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 I Kissed Shara Wheeler / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Insane City / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Jessica Darling / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Johannes Cabal the Detective / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Johnny Maxwell Trilogy / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Kill Time or Die Trying / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Leaphorn & Chee / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Like Other Girls / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Looking for Alaska / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ordinary Time / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Saving Francesca / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Skyward / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Soul Sucking Brain Zombies Duology / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Space Beasts / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Sweet Pickles / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Tales of the Pack / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Temeraire / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Clique / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Curse Workers / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Princess Diaries / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Wednesday Wars / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Titanic / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Unsong / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Wraith Lord / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Zeus Is Dead / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 HistoricalRecreation
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Jketchum31
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Luna87
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Phyrry
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Political Stereotype
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 PostWarBritishPolitics
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 SHAENTheBrain
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 SixStudentClique
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 SoapboxSadie
sameAs
Soapbox Sadie
 Ani DiFranco (Music)
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Fifth Harmony (Music) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Only a Lad (Music) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Stromae (Music) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Clare in the Community (Radio) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Newfangle (Radio) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Adam Carolla Show (Radio) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 A Different World / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Acropolis Now / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 All Rise / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 American Born Chinese (2023) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 American Vandal / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Andor / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Better Things / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Black Snow (2022) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Boarders / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Breaker High / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bridgerton / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Charles in Charge / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Community / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Dance Moms / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Degrassi High / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Degrassi Junior High / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Designing Women / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Dinosaurs / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Edward the Seventh / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 First Day / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 4400 / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Fraggle Rock / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Good Omens (2019) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Good Times / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Gossip Girl (2021) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Grand Army / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ha Chartzufim / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Hacks / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Hannah Montana / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 How I Met Your Father / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 In Living Color! / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Just Shoot Me! / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Langt fra Las Vegas / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Last Man Standing (2011) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Les Minikeums / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Life with Derek / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 M.I. High / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Major Dad / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Misfits / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Mozart in the Jungle / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ms. Marvel (2022) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 National Treasure: Edge of History / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Next of Kin / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 No Good Nick / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 One Day at a Time (2017) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Only Fools and Horses / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Party of Five (2020) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Plebs / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Queen Sugar / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Real Time with Bill Maher / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Round the Twist / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Sabrina the Teenage Witch / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Saved by the Bell (2020) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Scènes de ménages / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ship to Shore / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Smart Guy / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Swingtown / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Teenage Bounty Hunters / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 10 Things I Hate About You / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Brothers García / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Curse (2023) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The End of the F***ing World / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Eric Andre Show / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The First Lady / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Outlaws / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The People v. O. J. Simpson / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Thick of It / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Wonder Years / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 UnREAL (2015) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 WKRP in Cincinnati / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 You (2018) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Assassins (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Nerds: A Musical Software Satire (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Last Breakfast Club (Theatre) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 West Side Story (Theatre) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Back to the Future: The Game (Video Game) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (Video Game) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Signs of the Sojourner (Video Game) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Westfall (Video Game) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Elite: Dangerous / Videogame / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 After Hours (Web Video) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Avatar: The Abridged Series (Web Video)
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 ContraPoints (Web Video) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Infamous Sphere (Web Video)
seeAlso
Soapbox Sadie
 Luke Mochrie and the Inners (Web Video) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Oxventure (Web Video) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 TV Trash (Web Video) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Pacificators (Webcomic) / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Springhole (Website) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Braceface / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Carl² / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Daria / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Doug / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Fillmore! / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 My Dad the Rock Star / int_6eec6377
type
Soapbox Sadie
 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Thugaboo / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Turning Red / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Undergrads / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Everworld / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie