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[[Moral Guardians]] often get into a tizzy over any sort of naughty, nasty, or even questionable business portrayed in the media. After all, in their minds those kids will [[Don't Try This At Home|imitate anything they see on the screen]]. This tends to result in a [[Black and White Morality|world of clear-cut heroes and villains]] in media marketed as being "kid-friendly".
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Comics Code]] Authority wouldn't pass ''The Amazing [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] #96-98'' because it contained drug use despite the fact that it was commissioned by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [[Very Special Episode|as a warning against it]]. [[Stan Lee]] published them [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|without CCA approval]], which led to the 1971 CCA revision and the eventual downfall of the CCA.
== Fan Works ==
* Xabiar, author of the ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'' fanfic ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7400362 XCOM: The Hades Contingency]'', was banned from the Sufficient Velocity forums for Islamophobic content. Never mind that the Commander is explicitly shown from early on to be Not A Good Person, a war criminal who won a nastier-than-OTL War on Terror by [[He Who Fights Monsters|repaying atrocity with atrocity]] and was kept alive instead of getting executed only in case of [[Godzilla Threshold]] and is called out on his past crimes by almost everyone who learns the truth. No, apparently that wasn't clear enough for impressionable readers or something.
== Film ==
* ''[[Killer Klowns from Outer Space]]'' was originally simply going to be called ''Killer Klowns'' but was changed so movigoers wouldn't assume it was a [[Slasher Movie]].
== Radio ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[J. K. Rowling]] was attacked by some of the aforementioned fringe groups for having the recently-revealed ''villain'' {{spoiler|Quirrell}} (or in the [[Film of the Book]] ''Voldemort himself'') say [[What Is Evil?|"There is no such thing as good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it."]] in ''[[
* This happened with the second book in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'': It was banned in one school because the villain says "Damn!" and "Hell!", and the really absurd part is that Snicket uses this as an occasion for an parody of overly moralistic children's authors about how swearing is something only a villain would do.
** Daniel Handler eventually stated in an interview that he was deliberately trying to provoke this kind of thing, and was actually disappointed that he got so little attention compared to ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. His one real "victory" was the series being banned from a Georgia school due to Olaf trying to marry his own relative in the first book. After jokingly hinting at why southerners in particular would object to that plot point, he went on, "I'm at a loss for how to write a villain who doesn't do villainous things."
** There was also some amount of scandal involved with the book when several Christian groups found out Daniel Handler was an atheist, and [[Insane Troll Logic|claimed that the book series would turn children into atheists.]]
* Every villain in any of the ''[[Land of Oz]]'' books by [[L. Frank Baum]]. Baum talks about how evil and nasty they are and how they love being that way, but they're all talk and no show. In his sixth book, four teams of villains band together to make war on Oz in secret, but Ozma had three annoyingly convenient plot devices that put the kibosh on the war just seconds before it could happen. In his previous book, ''The Road to Oz'', there is absolutely no conflict
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* Let's not even get into Lord Zedd, one of the truly genuinely creepy villains in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', who got turned into an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] by the network after parents complained he was "too scary" for their kids.
** Made especially jarring considering that the rangers' response to any monsters' crime is to [[All Crimes Are Equal|blow them up (twice!)]]. Heck, most monsters don't even get to commit a crime before being [[Never Say "Die"|destroyed.]]
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Over the past several years, [[heel]]s in [[
== [[Theater]] ==
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*** Even in his heyday, Bart could almost be a subversion. While he genuinely enjoyed causing mayhem, most of his antics were more meant to drive authority figures crazy rather than cause any genuine harm. There were lines that [[Even Evil Has Standards|even Bart wouldn't cross]], and when he realized he went too far, he'd actually feel bad about it and try to make up for it.
* In ''[[Gargoyles|Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles]]'', [[Big Bad]] Xanatos and his wife Fox got a really jarring [[Heel Face Turn]] and became complete saints (in the canon comics by the original creator, [[Greg Weisman]], they do a much more natural semi-[[Heel Face Turn]] to become ''[[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]]'', and even though they're now allies of the protagonists are still very morally grey and rather untrustworthy).
* The original version of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' - that was rejected by [[Hanna-Barbera]] - had the two kids making [[Deal with the Devil]], the Devil being the same [[Laughably Evil]] lovable doofus Grim would become in the final version. When the creator tried with [[Cartoon Network]], they suggested the switch as a less evil alternative, and it worked.
== Other ==
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