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Whiny, pale, and possibly even intent on eliminating the entire human race to make way for fluffy bunnies, the Straw Vegetarian is a thinly-veiled Strawman who is desperate for a bacon sandwich or would really like meat "if they just tried it". In some works, vegetarians or vegans are also shown arrogantly forcing their meat-eating family and friends to stop eating meat, often referring to them as murderers. More often than not, no one likes folks like this, often saying under their breaths, "Can't I have just one meal in peace?" The vast majority of vegetarians and vegans, however, are not like this. Most have eaten meat before and stop doing so for multiple reasons (ethical, health, environmental, etc.). The more well-rounded ones are also respectful of what others eat, though it helps if that respect is returned. Also, the distinction between vegan and vegetarian is fairly simple: vegans avoid animal products altogether, whereas vegetarians will eat animal products as long as killing the animal is not a requirement to obtaining them. Common stereotypes: Really stupid, often a Dumb Blonde, sometimes to the point that they'll happily eat chicken "because they're not animals, they're birds!" Will baulk at the idea of eating mammal or avian meat, but can happily eat fish for much the same reason, or the hotly debated excuse "it's okay, fish don't feel pain!" People who eat seafood, but do not eat any other form of meat are known as "pescetarians". Calls themselves "vegan" without understanding the difference between vegetarianism and veganism. The former eats no meat, the latter eats no animal by-products (meat, milk, eggs, honey, gelatin, etc). Vegans in film cannot eat most conventional baked goods, which contain eggs or butter, and have what other Americans would consider a very restrictive diet (here's a good outline of some of the issues even for people trying to avoid animal products). Vegans also tend to extend their abstinence from animal products beyond food. They usually avoid wearing clothing made from animal skin or fur (as well as silk) and avoid using cosmetic or grooming products that either contain animal by-products or are tested on animals. Some vegetarians also do this, but others don't. It all depends on whether they follow a vegetarian diet for health or for ethical reasons. Hates people who wear furs or support any businesses that use Animal Testing, claiming all such people are evil sadists who hate animals. Almost always Caucasian, and often female and blonde. Often a Soapbox Sadie and/or Granola Girl. Very pale and physically weak (especially if male).note It should be mentioned that a crash vegetarian or vegan diet can have quite serious effects on the body, mostly because some of the most important vitamins in the diet (e.g. Vitamin B12) are extremely low or even absent in plants. Repressed and secretly desperate for meat. Continually pushes their views on others, and always tells everyone about it. Even people they've never met. Even the wildlife. Even inanimate objects. Cannot resist the urge to proselytise non-vegetarians or vegans, and seemingly always looks for the perfect moment to criticise or shame meat eaters. May have a rose-tinted view of the animal kingdom, sometimes to the point of delusion. May lead to the Straw Vegetarian either getting attacked by the animals they claim are harmless, or reacting with utter shock and disbelief upon learning that animals kill each other for meat, too. May wish that humans were wiped out so they'd stop killing animals. Acts like a dietary fundamentalist, quasi-religiously treating vegetarianism as a moral absolute while looking down on meat eaters with smug contempt. A member of an Animal Wrongs Group. Almost has to be a Strawman Political by definition; generally portrayed as an annoyingly self-righteous liberal or left-leaning politically. Right-wing examples are exclusively Those Wacky Nazis. If female, they have a good chance of also being a Straw Feminist. Black examples are almost invariably Malcolm Xerox. Compare and contrast Evil Vegetarian, where an evil villain abstains from meat (out of conviction, squeamishness, personal taste, or whatever) but is nonetheless prepared to do things most people would consider far worse than meat-eating to attain his ends. The Evil Vegetarian is always a straight-up villain, and also differs from the Straw Vegetarian in that his villainy is not necessarily directly connected to his vegetarianism; for him, the latter might simply be a lifestyle choice of little immediate importance to his other activities. The tropes are not mutually exclusive, however, and a character can easily be both. See also Meat Versus Veggies, and further Real Men Eat Meat. People who exhibit some or many of the typical traits of the Straw Vegetarian as described here certainly exist in real life; probably the most (in)famous was Adolf Hitler, who promoted vegetarianism and animal rights and sometimes filibustered against meat-eating at the dinner table, regaling his guests with horror stories about the abuses of the meat industry. However, like all "Strawman" tropes, this one refers specifically to fictional characters deliberately crafted by an author to exhibit particular traits, and/or make a point: a living person by definition cannot be a strawman. Therefore, No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: The Vulcans criticize humans who eat meat whenever they have the opportunity. For instance, one episode featured a group of Vulcans stranded in a remote area and two of them preferred to starve rather than eat an animal to survive. This was in sharp contrast to other portrayals of Vulcans, such as Spock, who maintained a vegetarian diet as much as they could but were willing to eat meat if there was nothing else available, seeing voluntary starvation as illogical. | |
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House: Subverted. One of the clinic patients is the baby of a vegan couple. The couple are initially presented as idiots who unintentionally starved their baby by making it eat a vegan diet. They even get arrested for child endangerment. However, the couple had actually consulted a college-educated nutritionist who created a vegan diet plan suited for an infant. The baby was suffering from a genetic condition that prevented it from properly absorbing nutrients, and thus the health problems had nothing to do with the diet. | |
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The Simpsons: Lisa Simpson tries to convince everyone not to eat meat at Homer's barbecue and eventually throws away the roasted pig. At the end of that episode, Lisa learns from Paul and Linda McCartney not to be judgmental about non-vegetarians, after which she mostly settles down — but it doesn't stop her occasionally lapsing into aggression in later episodes, mostly as jokes. Also Lisa once fell in with a crowd of extreme environmental activists. She develops a crush on the leader and visits him in jail. |
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Parks and Recreation: Chris Traeger isn't a vegetarian, but his health nut tendencies are treated in the same manner. One episode sees him attempt to get hamburgers removed from City Hall's cafeteria because they're unhealthy, and he makes a proposal to Ron Swanson: They have a cook-off where Chris makes a turkey burger and Ron makes a hamburger. Chris slaves over his burger, making it with expensive ingredients, while Ron just slaps ground beef on a grill. Ron wins in a landslide, and when Chris has a bite, he admits that beef is just inherently better than turkey. | |
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A Diplomatic Visit: There are those in the Equestrian Border Guard who are… selective about how they interpret and enforce the laws, and some of them can come off as this. Among other things, they try to arrest any prospective newcomers who work with meat, claiming their profession isn't recognized in Equestria. (They conveniently ignore that there are ponies who work with meat, to supply food to the domestic cat and dog population.) Members of the PVE (Pony Vegan Environmentalists) can also come off as this with their pony-first propaganda and especially their prejudice against meat-eating races. |
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Played with by Beast Boy in Teen Titans Go!. While he reacts with disgust when he's presented with a meat dish (the reason why he's vegetarian is since he can transform into any kind of animal, he sees meat-eating as a form of cannibalism), and spends one episode trying to get his teammates to eat vegetables (which naturally results in them becoming veggie-hungry zombies because it's just that kind of show), he does acknowledge that even though he thinks meat is gross, it's fine if others decide to eat meat, but you should have a balanced diet no matter what your diet is like. In fact, him getting his friends to eat vegetables wasn't to force them to give up meat, but for them to have a healthier diet. | |
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Britta from Community is one, as well as highly hypocritical about it, smugly announcing to the Study Group that she's a vegetarian while wearing a leather jacket. | |
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Subverted in Hannibal by having Hate Sink Freddie Lounds be the show's vegetarian. Ironically, this leads to her being one of the only main characters who has not eaten human flesh. | |
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Victor Volt of The Secret Show is a vegetarian. Though, thankfully, this trope is Averted. He never shoves it down anyone's throat. In fact, it only really ever comes up once when a race of utterly delicious aliens show up and he's the only one that can keep from eating them with a slurp, which causes horrible mutations in the eater. | |
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Camp Lazlo: Chef McMuesli is a hippie goat who serves as Camp Kidney's chef and often goes on vegan kicks, forcing the campers to eat his vegan dishes which are disgusting and ironically just as unhealthy as the junk food and non-vegan food he obsessively confiscates and hoards from the campers. He is completely oblivious to how much everyone in camp hates his cooking. Many episodes suggest that he can cook edible food as the cast is shown eating in the mess hall without complaint, but when he tries to force his homemade vegan recipes on the cast, his cooking skills evaporate. | |
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Total Drama: Julia is one as part of her hippie lifestyle and for Mother Earth but in reality, she's doing it to pander to her social media followers and not come off as a Hypocrite. She later admits in the confessional that "avocado toast is gross", ate the disgusting dishes in "The Wheel of Vomit" containing various types of meat and in spite of not having eaten red meat or carbs in a while, she would kill half the world's population for a slice of pepperoni pizza. Word of God states she's the type to claim she's vegetarian or vegan on social media but when no one is looking, she gourges on double-bacon cheeseburgers. | |
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Penny on the pilot episode of The Big Bang Theory. | |
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Eustace and his parents in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader are vegetarian; they also follow other restrictions like avoiding alcohol and tobacco. All these lifestyle choices tie into their characterization as bland, effete snobs and trend-followers who subscribe to secular intellectualism instead of the Good Old Ways. He says they're also Quakers though, and there is a dose of Straw Pacifist too. | |
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Inverted in DC Super Hero Girls; Poison Ivy (aka Pam Isley) only eats meat because she hates seeing any kind of plant die for the sake of human consumption and doesn't like that Jessica Cruz (who sometimes plays the trope straight, herself, but most of the time she respects other peoples' dietary choices) is a vegetarian since that diet is mostly plant-based. She apparently doesn't understand that the animals raised for meat have to eat an even larger quantity of plants in order for the farmers and the slaughterhouses to produce meat in the first place. | |
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The Scott The Woz episode "A Very Madden 08 Christmas" has Scott being invited to the third annual Vegans Anonymous Gathering, a convention/cult meeting of vegans during the holiday season. Said vegans aren't too happy when they discover that Scott has brought milk strapped onto his person to the gathering. They also later talk about the joys of consuming vegan bread and coffee. | |
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Hayley in American Dad!. An adamant vegetarian, yet in one episode, she spends her time stuck in Africa with Stan and Steve in the American Embassy, clearly eating meat dishes. In another, she admonishes her boyfriend Jeff for eating a corn dog, telling him they're vegetarian. Jeff replies "Still?" In yet another episode, she decides to have a "cheat day" after eating one of Klaus's omelettes which she didn't know contained veal and spends the whole day indulging in increasingly decadent meat dishes. It takes eating the brain of an endangered gorilla to finally make her feel guilty enough to stop (though unbeknownst to her, this was actually a scam). Both she and Jeff seem to be under the impression that animals coexist peacefully in the wild, which couldn't be further from the truth. She would eventually ditch her vegetarianism for good after getting a job at Sub Hub. | |
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The Best Page in the Universe portrays all vegetarians everywhere like this, and urges carnivores to eat more meat than usual to compensate for the animals that aren't dying. | |
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The Mutants & Masterminds adventure “The Reign of Cats and Dogs� features the neophyte villain Moonbeam, an angry vegan who gets hold of a reality-bending gem and uses it to give superpowers to every animal in the city, creating chaos. In her civilian identity, she once got banned from the campus coffee shop after insisting that every customer who used real milk in their latte was disrespecting her. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The entire Air Nomads civilization. They strictly avoid eating any kind of meat because their culture believes that all life has value. However, they do eat eggs and dairy products and the airbenders from the Western Temple believe that eating meat is acceptable if the food is being shared by a person from another nation or if eating meat is the last resort to end extreme hunger/starvation. The rebuilt Air Nation follows their predecessors' vegetarianism. | |
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Archer: Cecil, Cheryl's brother, is revealed to be a vegan due to the insistence of his Granola Girl fiancee Audrey, to the point that the seafood buffet on their boat is actually made from tofu, albeit very well-crafted and almost identical to the real thing. | |
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Some early Seinfeld episodes have Elaine as one, with the strong implication that she only wants a cheap excuse to argue with people. | |
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Magrat Garlick, in her first appearance in Wyrd Sisters, is the kind of vegetarian who is prone to informing non-veggies how much undigested meat they probably have in their colons. Lords and Ladies balances it out by contrasting her with an absurdly old-fashioned cook who doesn't believe vitamins exist. | |
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Averted by Karen in Sims Big Brother 8. While her interview makes her sound like one, where she states her goal is to introduce one houseguest to veganism or at least vegetarianism but she doesn't outright say it. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, we find out his class is full of these at the Krelboyne picnic. Hal becomes a hero to all the beleaguered dads in attendance (who very obviously were not vegetarians) by sneaking in real meat, but chaos ensues when the Krelboynes realize their "tofu" is bleeding. | |
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Madeline Bassett, a recurring character in Jeeves and Wooster books is an unbearably mushy and sentimental girl. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves she becomes a vegetarian and she's incredibly self-righteous about it. She forces her fiancé to follow her diet. As a result, he leaves her for a cook, who won his heart with her steak-and-kidney pie. | |
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Free Waterfall Jr. from Futurama, the leader of the ironically named Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment (M.E.A.T) who protested the consumption of "Popplers" (baby omicronians) only to be Eaten Alive by Lrr, making him the first of the Waterfall family to suffer Death by Irony. He also taught a lion to eat tofu, making him very sick in the process. | |
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Tales From the Internet covered the disastrous Woody Harrelson Reddit AMA, in which he did nothing but shill his new movie Rampart and/or its director Oren Moverman instead of honestly answering the questions... with one exception: a question about his veganism, which did get an honest answer without any shilling whatsoever. Whang chalks this up to vegans simply being physically incapable of resisting the urge to proselytize to the unwashed masses if given the opportunity. | |
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Tharg's Future Shocks: Parodied by the "Vegetable Liberation Front", who raid grocery stores to free 'enslaved vegetables'. They only eat edible rocks, because eating fruit or vegetables is wrong. One guy notes that they might get a bad rep with the "Mineral Liberation Front", but his partner says that doesn't matter because most of them have already died of starvation. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Steve Small once actually said that he was only vegan for the feeling of superiority it created. "The Potato" reveals that he hides meat in his desk because he can't stop eating it. Leslie the flower is an inversion; being a plant himself, he refuses to eat anything but meat and tries to convince Penny (a peanut) to do the same. |
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Regine from Living Single becomes one after watching a daytime talk show where it's said being a vegetarian is not only good for you but will keep you active and young looking when you get old (as well as have a hot, young boyfriend). | |
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The Comedians: Mr. Smith is a nincompoop who comes to Haiti—a country that is desperately poor, politically unstable, and run by a murderous despot—with the idea of establishing a "vegetarian center". His center will supposedly offer vegetarian food, classes on the wonders of vegetarianism, and eventually a theater that presents "vegetarian drama". Brown rolls his eyes at Mr. Smith's ignorance (Smith has come to Haiti without the slightest idea of the conditions there) and notes that 95% of the people of Haiti are vegetarians already because they are too poor to buy meat. There is another layer of satire in that Mr. Smith isn't just some cuckoo vegetarian evangelist, he's also typical of the Americans who are ignorant of the outside world, as shown by how he blunders into the brutality of Duvalier's Haiti. | |
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Hector's ex-girlfriend Autumn from Zits. The first time she saw Jeremy eating a burger, she got a hysterical fit as if she truly had never seen anything so terrible before. | |
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Sam Manson from Danny Phantom. In the very first episode of the series she tries to get meat banned from the school café in favour of her parody vegetarian diet of turf (yes turf, as in grass) — the result is mass protests from both sides. It's played for laughs, however, and is an Affectionate Parody (her opposite, Tucker, is utterly meat-obsessed). | |
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BOB �� ABISHOLA: While Bob is being rushed into the hospital during his heart attack in the pilot episode, his sister Christina comments that maybe now he'll stop eating defenseless animals. Though she is shown eating chili in "The Cheerleader Leader" and since Bob cooked it for the whole family, it most likely isn't vegetarian chili. | |
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Dawn from The Babysitters Club. Especially bad since she didn't start out like this (possibly a case of Flanderization). She went from being a normal girl who just happened to be a vegetarian to one who would self-righteously lecture the other girls every time they ate meat, going on and on about how she was going to outlive all of them because of her healthier lifestyle. | |
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Two and a Half Men has Mia, one of Charlie's fiancees, trying to make Charlie stop eating meat. Not only was she a straw vegetarian, she was making Charlie give up everything he liked, including drinking, cigars, and even sex. | |
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That's So Raven: Raven's best friend Chelsea is a vegetarian and the show's Cloudcuckoolander. Her mother may also be a vegetarian as well as a hippie. | |
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Proving that the "obnoxiously self-satisfied vegetarian" stereotype has been around for quite a while, a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch begins with a waiter welcoming the characters to his restaurant in this fashion: Although in typical Python fashion, it's played with; he ends a crazed rant about how he'd never subject an innocent, defenceless animal to any number of unpleasant tortures with "not for food, anyway." It also turns out that while the restaurant won't serve animal flesh, it's quite willing to serve human flesh. |
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In CSI, the paleontology student who died on the set of the animatronic Walking With Dinosaurs live show. He not only pressured his girlfriend into swearing off meat, but he idolized herbivorous dinosaurs and despised the carnivores to a degree that seems idiotic in a science student. | |
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Victor the Vegan from Pearls Before Swine, possibly the only person on earth more arrogant than Jeff the Cyclist. | |
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Brad's grandmother in the second Critters film has shades of this, given that she constantly preaches about how vegetables are far healthier to eat than meat and going so far as to infer that humans were never meant to consume meat. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World plays with this, portraying vegans as Large Ham superhumans who have superpowers and taking Brandon Routh on a role, who at that time was the last performer of the role of Superman and was explicitly used as Actor Allusion. Of course, this was done to ridicule the "narcissism" of the vegans but as a result, it looks like Stealth Parody. Todd turns out is not even faithful to his own diet. | |
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Specific diets and anyone who follow them are poked fun at in Two 4 One as though they're this. It's especially played for laughs when the protagonist starts coming out to his co-workers as transgender, and one assumes the important thing he has to tell them is that he's a vegan. | |
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How I Met Your Mother "Shelter Island": Stella's sister Nora is introduced as a preachy, holier-than-thou vegetarian, to Ted's contempt. Zig-zagged when her fiancé dumps her and she goes on a steak binge. Strawberry, a Granola Girl who was one of Ted's exes that Lily brought up as an example of him bringing his random girlfriends to their special events, threw soy sauce on the hibachi chef at the dinner they had celebrating Marshall's graduation while yelling "Meat is murder!" |
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In a recent issue of Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew discovered that an Evil Chef in a Canadian ski lodge was serving human flesh to his diners, and played Straw Vegetarian to stop people from eating; knocking bits of food out of their mouths and shouting things like "MEAT IS MURDER!" Her actions in this case were justified (well, more so than for the obvious reason that the villain was a murderer) in that, in the Marvel Universe, anyone who eats human flesh in the Canadian Woods turns into a Wendigo, and the chef was intentionally attempting to turn all of his unknowing patrons into Wendigos. | |
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La Ventana (2008): The servants assume Don Antonio's son Pablo is one, based on his urbane life in the present, his estrangement from his country-living father, and because allegedly "Europeans don't eat meat". We don't find out if he really is a vegetarian. | |
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Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: During his introduction, Konotegashiwa berates Shokudaikiri for serving "senseless death" and flips the food he cooks to the floor for containing fish and cream. Of course, seeing as he is a sword, this also makes him hypocritical on top of already massively jerkish – though to be fair, he acknowledges this. | |
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In Surviving Mars, colonists with the "Vegan" trait get a morale penalty for living in a dome with a ranch. The trait description is "Don't worry, they'll tell you". | |
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