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It has long been known that the older generation has always been suspicious of those things that capture the attention of the younger generation. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of entertainment. At least once a decade, something new — a new genre, a new medium, what have you — comes along and grabs society by the cojones. Everybody's heard of it, and it's not long until someone comes by and realizes, "Hey, if I complain about this, everyone will listen to me!" Things that are new are inherently unknown, and when something is unknown, a dash of Nothing Is Scarier can be injected. So they do; they make great warnings about how it's corrupting the moral fiber of poor, helpless children with inexorable brainwashing; they claim it increases juvenile delinquency, decreases attention span, and pollutes their bodily fluids. If they actually bother to back these assertions up, they'll pull out a few rare examples of it "corrupting" people, that when you examine carefully, usually turn out to be exaggerated (or flat-out fabricated) anyway (or the lowlifes in question were pretty messed up to begin with). And people listen; not everyone, not even a majority, but enough to cause a stir. Often, this causes bannings, panicky newspaper articles, and Very Special Episodes about the subject. Usually, within a few years, the fever has died down, and there's only vague echoes of "oh, yeah, that's Satanic" left in the communal memory. Some subcommunities forget faster than others, of course... And there's always the possibility that parents will revive the moral panics that were popular twenty years ago when they were their kids' age. Note that cultures confronting actual social problems or actual external enemies will tend to skip an iteration of the cycle. Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 is another expression of this, resulting in the perception video games are Murder Simulators. New Media Are Evil is related, as is Nostalgia Filter, Everyone Is Satan in Hell, Rotten Rock & Roll, and Rock Me, Asmodeus!. Compare Banned in China and Satanic Panic. The appearance of The Moral Substitute is a possible result of this trope. Subtrope of Public Medium Ignorance. Compare and contrast A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll", when it's treated as a curious novelty rather than a dangerous influence. |
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Pegasaurus Games in Dork Tower, at one point, had so many groups coming in to protest role-playing games that the owner started scheduling them. This was during an arc in which Pokémon (the TCG) was being protested. Matt and Igor went to check out the bonfire the protesters were using to burn cards as a demonstration, during which Igor sorted through cards and prevented the protestors from burning rares and Matt got annoyed when someone claimed that protesting role-playing games was "passé". |
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This type of hysteria was predicated in the '80s by outcries against both The Smurfs and The Care Bears. With the Smurfs, it at least somewhat made sense, since there were urban legends circulating that the Smurfs were either Hindu deities (because they had blue skin) or Communists (because their leader, Papa Smurf, looked like Karl Marx). There have also been accusations that "Smurf" is an acronym for Socialist Men Under Red Father; the argument falls apart when you realize that "The Smurfs" is just the anglicization of the original Belgian, Les Schtroumpfs. Certain people also complained about the Smurfs promoting the Occult; to be fair, this IS what their Christmas Special looked like. |
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The infamous film Reefer Madness depicted young users becoming violently crazed after smoking marijuana — in 1936, around the time it was first banned federally in the U.S. It was used by a number of jazz musicians in the 20s and 30s and became a hip thing at the time, something Moral Guardians (and William Randolph Hearst with his pulp-mill interests) did not like. | |
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Believe it or not, but in the 1970s and 1980s some concerned parents were actually trying to get Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes banned and/or censored for the excessive use of violence. In the United States, some cartoons have been censored in syndication for showing troubling behaviour that could be imitated by children. Sometimes understandable (characters committing suicide, yet not being quite dead afterwards), but in some cases they managed to censor every gag where a character is shot, hit or exploded, thus ruining much of the comedy. What made the hysteria especially odd was that these cartoons were already more than 30 years old when organizations started to complain about them. As Chuck Jones said: "Everything above 30 was raised on these cartoons." | |
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Reactions were even more extreme for ragtime, about which one historian wrote "not even Elvis Presley rolling his hips had as many parents and preachers up and howling and sending for the exorcism unit as ragtime did. After all, not too many kids have hips like Elvis's, but anyone who could play "Chopsticks" or whistle "The Star-Spangled Banner" could syncopate (everybody owned pianos back then). | |
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The Simpsons: In the early 1990s the show came under attack for supposedly encouraging kids to imitate Bart (never mind that it's not really a kids' show in the first place). That, of course, and all the other subversive stuff, including criticism of the United States, critique of (organized) religion and adult references (smoking, drugs, sex, politics,...) that children should not be exposed to at their young age. | |
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In 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head took over the Simpsons' crown as the most subversive animated TV show. Especially since this was an actual show not intended for children and broadcast on MTV to a global audience. The controversy especially took off when a child who lit his sibling's bed on fire was linked to an episode of the show. Later it turned out that the child had never watched the show, but nevertheless Beavis and Butt-Head became the new "corruption of youth that had to be stopped now". Ironically enough the series actually became tamer after that. Beavis and Butthead weren't allowed to say "Fire" in syndication and their antics changed from juvenile delinquency to general acts of stupidity. | |
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An episode of The Good Wife featured a sleazy murderer who had manga-style artwork in his house, which he even referred to as manga to make sure we got it. And then he gave one of them to the main character as thanks for helping him beat the rap. This was all gratuitously and embarrassingly irrelevant to the episode's story and was clearly thrown in just because the writer thought this is what manga fans are like. | |
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The game HuniePop was briefly taken off of Steam (as well as various visual novels) following a campaign of concerned parents led by a group known as the "National Center on Sexual Exploitation" (NCOSE) as part of a move to ban all games featuring sexually explicit or implicit content with the stance that such content incentivizes real-life acts of sexual assault, or that all of the content on the platform is sexual violence in some serious shape or form. While the developer of HuniePop began asking users to help reverse the decision, NCOSE initially ran a congratulatory article about Steam finally removing all sexual content from the platform, and even wrote two follow-up articles further patting themselves on the back while calling out tweets from upset Steam users over what they saw as censorship by NCOSE. Not even a full month later, Steam went on record reversing its decision after serious backlash from the community, deciding to curate basically no content from the site that wasn't explicitly criminal sexual assault, and NCOSE became incredibly upset and ran several articles claiming Steam was now "welcoming" sexual violence. Given HuniePop's popularity amongst streamers and youtubers at the time, the news spread much faster across Steam and quickly gained traction, and thanks to this HuniePop was reinstated back to the store with no changes made. NCOSE has never forgiven Steam for the reversal, and runs regular articles attacking Valve for their stance. | |
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In Elizabethan England, there was a movement to ban tragedies on stage, for fear that all the weeping would corrupt British masculinity. That's right, Hamlet will make you gay. | |
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Little Sweetheart, which came out in 1989, features a character with this mindset towards rock n' roll. It's uncertain if we're supposed to agree with her, even as she switches over to a televangelist (and remember, it was made by a UK team), but at the same time, the rock fan is an amoral, psychotic, backstabbing, blackmailing sociopathic 9-year-old girl. | |
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Anime in Chile met a lot of controversies during its peak in popularity, especially with the most popular series. Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya were accused of promoting violence, Ranma ½ was said to be too sexualized for minors, and Pokémon: The Series was blamed for creating obsessive fanaticism (not to mention that some Moral Guardians "found" evidence of it having diabolical messages). To fix this, a new rating system was designed, with children's series given one of three possible ratings: "I" for everyone, "I 7" for kids seven and older, "I 12" for kids over 12, and "A" for adults only (anime films like AKIRA got this). However, that didn't work very well, since all those shows were broadcast at the same time (after school) and parents didn't bother to check the rating of the anime their children were watching, so it fell out of use quickly. Most anime that hit public TV nowadays tend to be very child-friendly series, as otakus looking for more serious shows download them from the internet or buy them at specialized stores. | |
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Footloose is set in a small town where dancing is prohibited and we hear the pastor's sermons against the evils of rock music. Ren (Kevin Bacon's character) is able to work around it by appealing to the town by explaining the historical use of dance to celebrate life. | |
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During the first chapters of Don Quixote, we see characters burning chivalry stories, referencing the real-life outcry against people reading them because they tempted away young women and distracted everyone else away from reading The Bible. What makes this scene ironic is that Don Quixote was written decades after the controversy died down, and would be like people in the 21st century upset over Jazz; naturally, Don Quixote is all about someone who's stuck in The Old Ways, and whether that's a good or bad thing. It's a bad thing. | |
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The book Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe, and its later Made-for-TV Movie starring Tom Hanks, both accuse tabletop RPGs, such as Dungeons & Dragons, of encouraging occultism and Satanism, and even allege that players get so caught up in the game that they can't tell fantasy from reality. Ironically, the purely fictional book was cited as a "case study" by several rabidly anti-D&D groups, so one must ask which side actually has this problem. This is a case of I Lied. "Mazes and Monsters" was based on a missing persons case, which was actually only the official version of the story anyway, since the detective involved was trying not to alert the actual people so he could continue his investigation. The media released this assertion as fact. Strangely enough, the movie makes it clear that the game itself was not responsible, it was just what he happened to be doing when he snapped. The other players are well-balanced with active social lives (although one does invent larping as an alternative to suicide). | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian caused an international outcry for being a blasphemous satire of Jesus and Christianity. In many countries, it was banned. In the United States, several religious groups protested against it. | |
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When Sesame Street (Yes, THAT Sesame Street) premiered in the 1970s, some PBS stations in the South wouldn't air it because it showed children of different races playing together. Then there were protests against showing Sesame Street in German TV, "because there were no poor children in Germany, who would play on dirty streets." Some people would find any bizarre reason to complain. |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers got many complaints from parents for being too violent for children. Despite the fact that the characters just jumped around and were hitting air most of the time. In Malaysia, the show was banned because the word "morphin'" sounds like "morphine". | |
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An in-universe example in The Music Man using pool as an example. | |
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On Sept. 18, 2007, a teenage girl in Kyoto hacked her father's head in half with an axe. The event made a huge impact in Japanese media, where it was linked to an event in the first season of Higurashi: When They Cry where a teenage girl cleaves a man's head in half (to defend her father). Despite the episode in question having aired over a year ago, the next scheduled episode of the second season was canceled, as was the final episode of School Days. That the girl had said in an earlier interview that she wanted to be a mangaka didn't help. | |
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Head Trip had a snide "public warning" review on consequences of video games. Hear about a victim of Super Mario Bros. who got a lifelong habit of trying to explore pipes. Tragic! | |
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In Turning Red, this is exaggerated InUniverse with Ming, who thinks that 4*Town are "glittery delinquents", abhors their "gyrations" and calls their discography not music but "filth". She even goes so far as to completely ruin their concert in her hundred foot panda form. Turning Red itself was a victim of this overall by various parent groups. The belief in these groups was that the movie's message was "Defy your parents to get what you want". While it is true Mei does do things her mother, Ming, disapproves of despite Ming's insistence against them, the movie is much moreso about the generational trauma Ming inherited from her mother and passed down to her child, causing her to act like a helicopter parent who actively causes problems for her daughter, and the fact that Ming is unwilling to accept that Mei has interests of her own and should be given some level of independence. Apparently missing the point completely, these parent groups warned other parents that the movie was raunchy and had extremely bad morals, and should be skipped. |
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In an attempt to pass under the radar, Dungeons & Dragons took out all references to demons, devils, Hell, and anything else even vaguely related to That Place Down There from 2nd Edition. These were restored in 3rd Edition, which came out at least a decade later... by which point nobody except Jack Chick really cared enough to be offended any longer (and even he seems to have lost some interest, because Dark Dungeons is no longer published unless someone explicitly puts in an order). | |
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Mortal Kombat is perhaps the ultimate example. While its violence looks quite cartoonish today, no game up to that point (1993, to be precise) had featured quite so much blood and gore (except perhaps for Wolfenstein, and that was nowhere near as realistic-looking as Mortal Kombat). What's worse, grade-school kids were playing it, which was alarming since, had the game been a movie, it probably would have received a PG-13 rating at the very least. One could theorize that future editions of the game getting Lighter and Softer were either a concession to this outcry or an ironic mockery of it. ("You want wholesome? We'll give you wholesome!") Fittingly, the ESRB rating system was created as a result of Mortal Kombat's media attention. It was only a few years prior to its release that video games were considered a kid's hobby; before that, the target audience was whoever had money to spend on them. Basically, what the trend is becoming today. |
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The Harry Potter books have been accused of getting kids interested in the occult, thanks to an infamous article published by The Onion (a parody news site) that claimed J. K. Rowling was a self-professed devil worshipper who wrote the books to spread her evil religion. Moral Guardians didn't realize it was a parody and started a furor which took years to die down completely. | |
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Steven Universe contains numerous covert and overt discussions of gender conformity, gay relationships, and female empowerment. In particular, the Russian Government and many Russian citizens (especially those in the older demographics) heavily disproved of the relationship between characters Ruby and Sapphire. Due to prevailing homophobia and transphobia, the moral guardians in charge felt it necessary to censor the relationship, which resulted in some lines of dialogue trying not to refer to Ruby by any pronoun (the often-circulated rumor of her being edited to have a beard is false). Eventually, the show was canceled entirely in its Russian dub due to the continuous gay theming and laws against depicting such things to minors. This, of course, did not stop fans from finding Russian fansubs of the original English dub and just watching it wholly unedited. | |
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In late January 2008 there was an uproar over a lesbian sex scene in the game Mass Effect. Cybercast News Service blogger Kevin McCullough claimed that Mass Effect had a full-frontal sex scene which took place with the player character volunteering information on how to make the act proceed. Yeah. This article would have fallen into the abyss of stupid blog articles never to be mentioned again — except that Fox News, for reasons unknown, took everything the article said at face value and actually ran a story on the whole affair in cable prime time. One of Fox's guest commentators, Cooper Lawrence, made the mistake of doing this while having a new book released. She showed the world what a genius she is by shrieking that she had never played the game but knew it was exposing children to a virtual sex simulator. Gamers showed her why that was a mistake by sending the book's Amazon.com rating screaming into the pits of damnation. In less than a week, Lawrence issued an apology and admitted that she was relying solely on rumor. Even noted frothingly anti-video game fruitcake Jack Thompson called Lawrence's comments uninformed, and the controversy thus raised "contrived". All of this managed to actually improve the game's popularity, proving that there really is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity. Some of the reviews on Lawrence's book were genuine reviews, too, from people who had read the book and still gave it one star. Not only had Fox chosen an "expert" who did no research, but they also chose an expert who wasn't even one. The whole debacle is especially amusing when you play the game knowing it happened - the potential lesbian partner (an alien) mentions that there are many misconceptions and bizarre rumors about her species's sexuality, but people tend to obsess over it regardless. It's almost like they knew it would happen (admittedly, it wouldn't be hard to predict). |
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A Christian talk show from Canada complained about Billie Eilish for being a bad role model for her target audience of teenage girls because of some of her lyrics (especially the pre-chorus of "Bad Guy," where she describes herself as the "might seduce your Dad type") and the fact that she put a tarantula in her mouth in a music video.note Gently. It was her pet Green Bottle Blue (an easygoing type) an elderly fellow at the time, named Cool. He is seen coming out of her mouth in "You Should See Me In A Crown." The same talk show complained about Marshmello simply for cross-promoting his music through Fortnite. | |
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Deconstructed in Goblin Hollow when Penny calls out the new priest for using sob stories about kids who were 'corrupted' and snapped to fund his (non-religious) organization and control the local area. At first it looks like she's just ranting, but then she explains in sordid detail (with real-life statistics) how teenagers have learned self-control (compared to the priest's generation) and how the system tortures these kids, waits for one to snap, and uses the violent outburst as an excuse to tighten the system even MORE. And then we learn that a different priest did this and ended up indirectly causing a friend of Penny's to commit suicide, and he got to reap the benefits by blaming rock music. | |
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Girl Genius had a case of Old Rock'n'Roll. only in this case with polka. | |
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Death Note has earned some media attention, with various public figures overreacting to people creating replicas of the titular note. To be fair, this is partially justified, as someone bringing their hit-list to school probably should raise a few eyebrows. And, well... if the teachers at Light's school had raised a fuss over a student bringing in a Death Note, it would've saved the SPK plenty of trouble finding him. | |
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Rainbow Brite is occult propaganda — look at her, she has a star (pentagram!) on her cheek and a rainbow (stolen from Christians, now an occult symbol)! (Go check out the WMG page — this is a theory published in an actual book.) | |
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Invoked to some extent in Animorphs with the introduction of Sixth Ranger David. It's foreshadowed early and often that he's going to go Sixth Ranger Traitor, and among the many hints given is the revelation that he likes heavy metal bands like Megadeth and reads 90s-era comic books like Spawn as opposed to the more wholesome fare that Jake and Marco subside on. Marco himself even lampshades it. However, in the sentence immediately following that one, Jake claims that David has good taste in comics, suggesting that the protagonists are not above enjoying such works themselves. |
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This was during an arc in which Pokémon (the TCG) was being protested. Matt and Igor went to check out the bonfire the protesters were using to burn cards as a demonstration, during which Igor sorted through cards and prevented the protestors from burning rares and Matt got annoyed when someone claimed that protesting role-playing games was "passé". | |
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Mildly parodied in Super 8 when the Sheriff makes a passing mention to the store clerk (who's listening to a Walkman), that the Walkman is "a slippery slope of juvenile distraction". | |
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There is also Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, which was decried as a glorification of the massacre itself and violence in general. Since the game is actually doing the opposite of that, it's safe to assume the people accusing it of this never played it. | |
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Pokémon, prompting at least one Christian fundamentalist to say that other Christian fundamentalists were decrying Pokémon for the wrong reasons. See article here. | |
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One of the most infamous and parodied Chick Tracts, "Dark Dungeons", targeted D&D. Whether it actually converted any D&D players is highly doubtful, though it may have made them laugh uproariously at the constantly absurd claims it makes. | |
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Magic: The Gathering decided to nip this problem in the bud by turning all Demons into Beasts for a few years. This is referenced in Infernal Spawn of Evil which has demon crossed out in its typeline and Beast written in marker. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! is also no stranger to controversy as a card game with various themes across its monsters. From fiends to dragons, Egyptian iconography and angelic depictions, the cards drew ire from various Christian sources during its initial release. Thanks to its heavy theming of Egypt in the anime, the card game was demonized during the first year of its run, but thankfully felt significantly shorter and less extreme backlash due to the Pokémon TCG having been out much longer and already having gone through this debacle. While there are still Christian organizations that denounce it for its themes of sorcery and occultism, most have, over time, simply spoke of it as any other vice: dangerous if overindulged and harmful if you cannot recognize that it is just a game. | |
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A Clockwork Orange caused a lot of controversy during the early 1970s. Especially when copycat crimes occurred inspired by the rape and violence in the film. In Great Britain, Mary Whitehouse led a campaign to ban the movie and actually succeeded. Stanley Kubrick was so frightened of being attacked himself that he withdrew the film from circulation in the entire United Kingdom until his death in 1999. This, of course, led to its near-mythical status in England. | |
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Schmigadoon!: Parodied In-Universe. Bobby can apparently get accused murderers in ther 60s-70s city declared innocent by having them say their minds were corrupted by jazz. It appears to work well enough until Josh goes off-script. | |
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Animal Crossing has also had its share of critics, who say that no adult would be playing a cute social game because they actually enjoy it. Perhaps one of the most hilarious video game witch-hunts was done by the state of Missouri in which they began warning parents about a pedophile who goes from game to game trying to get pictures from minors. It's even more ironic since the character pointed out in the video clip as the "potential pedophile" is Mayor Tortimer — an NPC. | |
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Similarly, "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf, a strongly worded anti-drug song, is often cited as encouraging drug use. Now we're headed into "Born in the U.S.A." territory. | |
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Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht was Johann Sebastian Bach's commentary on this attitude towards coffee addiction in 18th-century Leipzig. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart commented too - his C-A-F-F-E-E canon is well known. |
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The trope becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy any time a rock, metal, or other "heavy" song even so much as has the WORD "devil" or "Satan" in it; including instances where Satan is, in fact, the villain, where the minions of hell are punishing evildoers, or the devil/hell are being used as metaphors (often for drugs or abusive relationships). A crowning glory was a treatise dedicated to showing "the hideous birth of heavy metal and it's forcing the devil's will into our lives", whose entire premise stemmed from the line "Satan, laughing, spreads his wings! Oh lord, yeah!" That would be the final line of War Pigs, by Black Sabbath, and is speaking of Satan laughing as all the evil war-mongers who led the world to destruction just to line their pockets are damned to hell by God and the angels on Judgement Day. Apparently the book of Revelation is a glorification of Satan! | |
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The Finnish metal band Lordi has occasionally been accused of encouraging Satanism or other unsavory things. While their general appearance and stage demeanor◊ is slightly demonic, more than one of the band members are Christian and have actually put God among their personal acknowledgements on the back of the CD. Song titles like "Hard Rock Hallelujah" and "Devil Is a Loser" is not the kind of thing your average Satanist puts out. Just to make it even stupider, the song "Devil Is a Loser" was used as proof that they were Satanists. It's not exactly clear how a song about how selling your soul to the Devil is an easy way out for the weak that carries strong consequences even beyond losing your soul can be pro-Satan. Similarly, "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf, a strongly worded anti-drug song, is often cited as encouraging drug use. Now we're headed into "Born in the U.S.A." territory. |
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Forever: An extremely detailed graphic novel about a demon that makes people kill (including a number of famous serial killers throughout history) is assumed by the mother of a teenaged suspect to be the cause of his interest in, and suspected committing of, murders. The actual killer was using it as a how-to guide for mimicking famous killers, but it's made pretty clear that he would have been perfectly happy killing any other way, and the graphic novel was just something he chose for a theme. Hanson zig-zags the trope; he doesn't think the comic causes violent behavior, he just thinks a person would have to already be sick and twisted to want to read it. For good measure, the far-from-psychopathic Lucas is seen still reading Soul Slasher during the closing voiceover. | |
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The Catcher in the Rye was the most banned novel of the 1950s and 1960s, because it featured a young adult smoking, drinking, cursing, being thrown off campus, and showing no respect for authority. Many parents, schools, libraries, and religious leaders reacted against the book and punished youngsters for owning a copy of it. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club! was blamed for the suicide of a 15-year-old boy in Britain by the boy's father and various news outlets. The game was accused of "dragging kids in" to suicide. | |
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When the movie The Warriors came out, there were a number of published incidents involving gang members fighting and that movies that "glorify" gangs shouldn't be made. Well, duh, when you make a movie about gangs, it's probably likely to attract members of gangs, and some might be from gangs outside the area where the theatre is located. Some of those accusations weren't without merit, though. The movie did ludicrously romanticize street gangs, turning them into various combinations of the Noble Savage and Loveable Rogue archetypes. Even the theme song, "Last of an Ancient Breed," suggests that gang life is a proud calling and something to which young people should aspire. | |
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From 1997 onward South Park became the new shocking and subversive animated TV series. This time actually living up to its reputation with taboo topics specifically intended for adults and a lot of offensive imagery and quotes that upset both right-wingers and left-wingers. | |
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Parodied in Kagetsu Tohya when Akiha calls manga the work of the devil and a corruption of innocent teens etc. after Hisui reads one and apparently goes berserk. But apparently it's an ordinary girl's romance story. Which did, in fact, cause her to go berserk. What were we talking about again? | |
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Several heroes in Astro City most recently Glamorax, are the Anthropomorphic Personification of this; they are the physical embodiment of counter-culture music, "whatever's new, and moving young people to feel, to move, to act". | |
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In an attempt to avoid such allegations, Rifts and other Palladium Games all come with disclaimers like the White Wolf books, though not as tongue-in-cheek. It's usually something along the lines of "This book contains depictions of magic, evil, and the supernatural, which some parents may find inappropriate for younger readers. Palladium does not condone nor encourage drugs, violence, or demon worship." They even request that anyone running a Rifts website also puts up a disclaimer. | |
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