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A work portray a group as being an [[Acceptable Target]]: If Bob is a member of this group, this is portrayed as automatically making him evil, a [[Straw Loser]], and/or similar. Please note that this is only for in-universe examples: Do not add tropes or examples that are [[Audience Reaction]] or otherwise [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]. |
A work portray a group as being an [[Acceptable Target]]: If Bob is a member of this group, this is portrayed as automatically making him evil, a [[Straw Loser]], and/or similar. Please note that this is only for in-universe examples: Do not add tropes or examples that are [[Audience Reaction]] or otherwise [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]. |
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Tropes that are, or often work as, subtropes of this, include: |
Tropes that are, or often work as, subtropes of this, include: |
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* [[The Unfair Sex]] |
* [[The Unfair Sex]] |
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== [[Comic Books]] == |
== [[Comic Books]] == |
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* In ''[[Sin City]]'', Marv designates hitmen in this way: "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them you don't feel bad." |
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', Marv designates hitmen in this way: "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them you don't feel bad." |
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Latest revision as of 20:45, 21 February 2018
A work portray a group as being an Acceptable Target: If Bob is a member of this group, this is portrayed as automatically making him evil, a Straw Loser, and/or similar. Please note that this is only for in-universe examples: Do not add tropes or examples that are Audience Reaction or otherwise YMMV.
Tropes that are, or often work as, subtropes of this, include:
- Activist Fundamentalist Antics
- All Gays Are Pedophiles
- Animal Wrongs Group
- Bondage Is Bad
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
- Depraved Homosexual
- Depraved Bisexual
- Everyone Hates Mimes
- Evil Lawyer Joke
- Hollywood Atheist
- Orderlies Are Creeps
- Stop Being Stereotypical
- The Unfair Sex
Individual examples that discuss designating groups as targets:
Comic Books
- In Sin City, Marv designates hitmen in this way: "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them you don't feel bad."
Web Original
- The Inside Scoop episode Ban Left Marriage is all about arguing for why left-handed people should be designated as an acceptable target group. (The whole thing is a satire about homophobia.)