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== Comic Books ==
* The [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]] in [[Marvel Comics]]. Many characters are fighting over the issue of a [[Super Registration Act]], but insist on [[Let's You and Him Fight]] with some of their fastest friends rather than getting their act together to prove their case (pro or anti) and finding a solution that doesn't result in very necessary heroes being hunted down like dogs, or ''more'' battles as the pro and anti sides fight and invariably give villains free rein in the chaos. In the end, the Pro side got [[Designated Villain]]s to [[Debate and Switch|simplify the debate]].
** Also, one of the ''leading advocates'' of the new [[Super Registration Act]], [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]], had previously [[Aesop Amnesia|singlehandedly thwarted an attempt at what was apparently the exact same thing]]. While it's hard to be sure since Marvel never bothered to tell readers ''exactly'' what was in the new version (or the old one for that matter), and it was inconsistently described from one comic to the next, the only thing we know for sure is different between the two is that the version Reed ''supports'' involves [[Designated Hero|permanently imprisoning violators in what amounts to]] '''[[Designated Hero|Hell]]''', while the one he opposed did not.
*** Which was, infuriatingly, never really explained, except with some blanket implications that lots of supers on the Pro side did it because it was "rational" given the political climate. This of course falls straight into the Conflict Ball's tendency to operate by shoehorning characters into designated [[Straw Man]] slots (such as "rational scientist") for the sake of plot. Reed Richards actually has an F-triple-minus grade in rational decision-making, (for one, [[The Determinator|his reaction to his best friend's death was to literally march into heaven]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and ask Jack Kirby to give him back,]]) but hey, [[Iron Man]] had a long history of actively using his influence to protect his friends from this sort of political flack, so if you're going to screw things up, you might as well go for the whole hog.
* In a [[Black Panther]] comic, T'Challa is explaining his plan to take out a vampire infested city to Luke Cage, Brother Voodoo and Blade. Blade tells T'Challa that just because he runs a country doesn't mean he can tell him what to do. Cage says Blade is being difficult for no reason since he doesn't have a plan. Blade admits to it and says he just doesn't want to be part of a team. So T'Challa tells Blade to go off on his own and this immediately puts him in a good mood, so good he gives Luke Cage one of his guns before leaving.
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