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* [[Steve Ditko]]'s comics, which attempted to mix superheroic action of a street-level variety with [[An Aesop|Aesops]] on various principles derived from [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Objectivism]].
* [[Reginald Hudlin]]. His primary messages in ''[[Black Panther]]'': Africans (and thus African-Americans) are good and genetically superior, while white people are inferior and evil.
* Lest we forget, [[Jack Chick]] is famous for creating his "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Chick Tracts]]", which have thin stories whose only purpose is to provide a framing story for an illustrated extract from [[The Bible]] and/or rant about how [[The Pope]] [[Conspiracy Theory|secretly rules the world]] and ''[[Dungeons
** "[http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/index.html Why We're Here]" is a parody tract in the style of Jack Chick's works, but instead of being based on Christianity, follows the conversion of someone to [[H.P. Lovecraft|the cult of Cthulhu]], complete with supporting quotations from the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]].
** [http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/archives/2006/11/galactus_is_com.html This parody] uses the Chick tract format to promote [[Marvel Comics]] instead of Christianity.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* Similar to and inspired by the above, ''[[Luminosity]]'' is designed to explain [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|luminosity]]—i.e., self-awareness.
* "Harry Potter Turns to the Lord" is a fanfiction about a Gary Stu teaching Harry Potter that witchcraft is evil.
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* ''The Land of Mist'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] is a novel-length tract justifying the author's conversion to Spirtualism, including the massive change in character of ultra-rationalist Professor Challanger, who converts to Spiritualism. There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of "ten million young men" in World War I was punishment by the Central Intelligence for humanity's laughing at the alleged evidence for life after death.
* Matthew Dickens spends the last hundred pages of the book ''[[Magnus]]'' telling the reader about his personal views on religious doctrines, evolution, theology, [[Superman Returns]], etc.
* This trope was [[Charles Dickens]]' stock in trade. All of his works are morality plays meant to drive home his socialist ideals. In ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', Ebeneezer Scrooge rails that the poor are lazy and inferior and deserve to die, on scientific principle, and then an innocent child almost does. In ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'', and ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', more innocent children are mercilessly abused, either by predators that society chooses to do nothing about, or by the very institutions of that society. In ''[[Little Dorrit]]'', citizens are reduced to professional beggars by the debtors' prison system. And the list goes on.
* [[Piers Anthony]] does these occasionally. One story he wrote was basically a [[Take That]] explaining why the sci-fi publishing business was worthless (Anthony having struggled against it for quite some time before learning the tricks of the trade). One supposes that subjectivity enters in over where the line is drawn between Author Tract, [[Author Filibuster]], and [[Author Appeal]] where his other books fall, though he's never been very shy about making his ideas on sexuality (and the ages at which people take notice of it), body modesty, and other things an important plot element of his stories.
* The Arthur Hailey novel ''The Moneychangers'' has a recurring character to filibuster about how Gold is Good. Given that he's a pundit with his own popular newsletter, and is married to one of the secondary characters, and the book is about banking, it kinda makes sense. Then, after the 'real' ending, the US establishes a gold-backed dollar, and we are treated to the full text of one of said pundit's newsletters. Guess what it's about? The book ends with the lead putting the newsletter down and reflecting how wise said pundit is.
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* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sometimes has this happening, most likely because the host differs from week to week. Christina Aguilera hosted in the midst of her ''Dirrty'' phase, and about three-quarters of the sketches where she played a central role (either as herself or someone else) had her character lecturing the others on how she chose to express herself as a woman. Some sketches in this style were [[Anvilicious]], others were [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|anvilicious but got the point across with a good punchline]].
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' varied a lot over time - the writing staff was mostly Republican in later seasons, leading to things like Arnold Vinick being the better candidate in the Season 7 election, to the point where {{spoiler|he would have won had actor John Spencer not died, forcing a last-minute rewrite}}.
* Sorkin's follow-up, ''[[Studio 60
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' pretty much turned into a show protesting societal wrongs after a couple seasons. The most glaring was probably the one that opened with a warning about a graphic portrayal of a de-horned rhinoceros, then spent about half its running time explaining the poaching in Africa and ended with Richard Dean Anderson as himself narrating about what can be done about it. [[Very Special Episode]], indeed.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'' frequently involved the writers concocting a storyline that would allow James Spader to sue and deliver increasingly lengthy closing arguments. Frequently [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|lampshaded]].
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* Speaking of things produced by Joss... "Smashed" and "Wrecked" from Season 6 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' felt to some a lot like a great big 'just say NO to drugs' thing. ''Especially'' "Wrecked", which was written by Marti Noxon.
** Season four's "Beer Bad" is not exactly pro-boozing either. It was written specifically to get reward money being offered to shows that dealt with the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse. This failed because the episode failed to deal with alcohol consumption realistically, instead having a magical potion in the beer turn drinkers into cavemen.
* An [[In-Universe]] application of this trope occurs in the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[iCarly]]'': [[Dan Schneider]] drops his Anti-[[Shipping]] anvil at the end of the episode ''iStart A Fan War'', basically mocking the fans who made his show popular online, and then following it up with Carly mouthing something that could have come from one of his blog posts, which basically boils down to 'shut up about romance and watch the show for the comedy'.
** He later expanded in his blog that he was in fact just mocking ship to ship combat and not shipping itself.
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