Animal Wrongs Group: Difference between revisions

 

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* The Space Warriors from the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Gateway Shuffle" ''were'' once a legitimate environmentalist group, but were taken over by a more radical leader. They wanted to save a "rare" Ganymede sea rat, and were willing to turn everyone on Ganymede into monkeys to do so (and an orbiting restaurant into little more than bullet holes).

* The [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Elite Four]] in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' planned on committing [[Kill All Humans|genocide]] in hopes of creating a Pokemon paradise. Ironically, Lance didn't even notice how much pain his Dragonite was in after it waited in lava for who knows how long while setting an ambush. Or how many Pokemon he and his group had injured/killed in the process.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Polish superhero parody comic book series ''Likwidator'' intentionally embraces this trope and takes it to its logical extreme. The storyline consists mostly of the main hero wandering around killing evil people who mistreat nature—eg. cut trees, work in environment-polluting factories, hunt, buy meat in the store, keep their dog on a leash... Most readers get gravely offended, which is probably the point.

* One of the most blatant examples of this trope is [[Batman]] villain Ra's Al Ghul, who, in the comics and animated series based on them, has tried multiple times to wipe out more than eighty percent of Earth's population, because it would allegedly return Earth to a more stable ecosystem. However, the moments at which he really shows his Animal Wrongs side are when dealing with the menagerie of endangered animals he collects and keeps. In one comic in particular, he was shown to have had a henchman murdered because he accidentally killed a rare sort of tiger cub by feeding it chocolate, dooming its species to extinction according to Ra's.

* Parodied in the German comic ''[[Rudi]]'' with a group which protests the inhuman killing of ''vegetables''.

* ''The Authority'' is associated with a British secret service named 'Kev', a focus of a few comic books. Kev's buddy from his squad abandoned his post with a tame tiger instead of shooting it on orders. Later, both are implicated in the murder of a Japanese whaler.

 

== Film ==

* In the backstory of ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', it is revealed that PETA was indirectly responsible for the RDA getting mining rights on Pandora. Given how RDA abuses that right during the film, this would make PETA an [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]].

* The heroes of ''[[Jurassic Park]] 2'' fit this trope to a T. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Releasing dangerous animals en masse, nearly getting trampled by them as a result, and getting numerous people killed]]. Getting too close to wild animals, activating their territorial instincts, and just generally failing every rule for how to treat wild animals like they're going down a checklist. Acting as though people taking these totally unnatural genetically engineered dinosaurs out of their "natural" habitat is some kind of crime against nature, even though they don't naturally exist anymore in the first place and would wreck any ecosystem they were introduced to (how many normal animals did you see left alive on that island?). Unloading the gun that was going to be used to defend the humans from the rampaging T-Rex.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[State of Fear]]'' one of these is given serious (low supervillain grade) backing on the organization and shenanigans sides, plus alliance with a lot of opportunistic politicians. If you read the article this far, you already know there's no way their next move would lead to anything wholesome or healthy to be around.

 

* Animal rights terrorist groups have turned up a few times in British crime dramas.

** One episode of ''[[Spooks]]'' involving an animal rights group who instigated a bombing campaign against vivisectionists that made Al Qaeda look like a cheerleading squad.

* Parodied by ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' with a human rights activist who [[Inverted Trope|explains that his chosen method of raising awareness about cruelty to humans is inflicting it on animals]], since the reverse approach seems so popular.

* ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'' parodied this when Andrew and Julian posed as anti-fur activists - at Taronga Zoo. "Some leopard died for you to wear that leopard skin!"

 

== Music ==

* Aqua's music video for their song "We Belong to the Sea" pokes fun at this trope... Lene runs grabs a goldfish in a bowl and runs from pursuers for the entire video, until the end where she successfully flings it into the sea. Never mind that goldfish are freshwater fish, the video ends with a shark's fin cruising across the ocean!

* The page quote is from a Folk Comedy song about a ''vegetable'' wrongs activist.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* German caricaturist Markus once drew one of them protesting the slaying of dragons - on stage during a [[Richard Wagner]] opera.

{{quote|Actor of Siegfried: "[[Alliteration|Grolle nicht grämlich]], [[Gratuitous German|geifernder Gauch von Greenpeace!]]"}}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** It turns out {{spoiler|Team Plasma's [[Man Behind the Man]], Ghetsis, just wants to outlaw the use of Pokemon for everyone but himself, [[Fantasy Gun Control|making it pretty easy to take over the world]]. Most members aren't aware of this, even their figurehead of a leader (Ghetsis's son, N).}} It's also subverted in that said leader is a pretty good guy, just misguided. A lot of the members also turn out to truthfully have joined because they had Pokemon's best interests at heart.

* Thetis from ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent'', who wants to use his powers to punish every person on earth for all the sea creatures they've killed with their incessant water pollution.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' contains "[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1497 Goldfish Liberation Army]". And "[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1827/ fur is murder!]", of course.

* ''[[Something*Positive]]'' has a parody of this mentality in the Teddy Bear Liberation Front, whose members assault plushies for having sex with, yes, stuffed animals.

* ''[[The Japanese Beetle]]'' used this a couple of times. One arc had the [[Fun with Acronyms|Militia for Ethical Animal Treatment]] stop the eponymous hero's battle with a [[Kaiju]] by pelting him with "Bricks of Love" and trying to let it go free (it ate their leader). A later story had an aged hippie concoct a formula that made anyone who ate meat suffer "sympathetic pains", usually manifested as violent reactions followed by blackouts; Ken thwarted him by injecting him with his own formula, then making him eat a soy burger, [[Hoist by His Own Petard|causing him to feel the same sympathetic pains]].

* Pierrot in ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' is mostly portrayed sympathetically, but he arguably crosses a line when he saves a cage full of furryites (stated to be vicious killers) from being eaten... by setting them free in the middle of a crowded restaurant. It's all played for [[Black Comedy]].

* A bunch of college students in an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' free laboratory animals, and then immediately toss them into the wild to fend for themselves... usually in the wrong habitats, in part thanks to completely misidentifying the species. This includes taking the titular laboratory mice and tossing them out of a plane into the Amazon Jungle.

{{quote|"Can mice fly?"

* PETA in ''[[South Park]]'' was depicted as a bunch of zoophiles who thought having a cow as a sports mascot was degrading.

** In the episode "Free Willzyx", animal activists shot down a group of police officers, border patrol officers, and an innocent bystander to get a whale to Mexico. Worse yet, the reason, which the animal liberation group was unaware of, was that the whale was being transported to Mexico not to get it to the ocean, but to the moon. It got there. As you might have expected, it didn't last long. The episode was parodying the movie ''Free Willy''.

 

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[[Category:The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics]]

[[Category:Just for Pun]]

[[Category:Animal Tropes]]

[[Category:The War On Straw]]