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* Maybe the [[Punisher]] isn't a fascist, and just wants every single murderer and rapist to die.

* Pretty much anything written by [[Grant Morrison]].

* Somebody came up with the idea that the [[Fantastic Four]] represent the four elements (Thing is Earth, Invisible Woman is Air, Human Torch is Fire (duh), and Mr. Fantastic is Water). This sounds like something that was developed retroactively. [[Stan Lee]], of course, has no problem with being labeled a genius, so he hasn't discouraged this. Lampshaded in the "Ultimate" version.

** When [[John Byrne]] took over the title in the 80s, one of his first issues features the Four fighting four elementals, who were ordered not to face their counterparts, thus making the mapping explicit. [[Neil Gaiman]] later took advantage of the scheme for his ''[[Marvel 1602|1602]]'' version of the Fantastic Four.

** The whole "Carroll was a pedophile" thing has been proven as false since ages ago and has absolutely no basis in fact.

* The seven ''Chronicles of [[Narnia]]'' have been claimed to be [[An Aesop]] focusing on one of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]]. Just goes to show that this trope applies even when there's plenty of actual, valid symbolism, allegory, and "supposition" to choose from. And a book was just published saying that each novel corresponds with one of the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos.

** It's safe to say, however, that The Deplorable Word of ''The Magician's Nephew'' is a nuclear metaphor, as Aslan says that humans are working on weapons just as dangerous. And that Earth will soon have [[Red Scare|rulers]] just as [[Those Wacky Nazis|disinterested in human life]] as Jadis. This is pretty overt. [[Word of God]] confirms.

* The Greek poet and Literature Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis once attended a celebration in his honor, where samples of his work were read and then had their meaning analyzed in detail by distinguished scholars. When his turn came to speak and thank everybody, he put his tongue in his cheek and gave special credit to the scholars for finding more depth to his poetry than even he had thought of.

*** And of course:

{{quote|"You want it all, ''but you can't have it!''"}}

** There are some fans [[Epileptic Trees|who believe]] that [[The Eighties]] pop album ''Invisible Touch'' is a [[Concept Album]] about [[The End of the World as We Know It|nuclear war]].

** Or Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play". Or "Dark Side of the Moon", and everything [[Pink Floyd]] did afterwards.

** Dr. John Zmirak [http://takimag.com/article/where_bad_ideas_go_to_die#axzz1d3X0POvP identified] one major reason why this kind of analysis can sometimes produce results that seem so outlandish and bizarre to ordinary laymen. All too often, scholars simply state their premises and proceed to analyze a work in light of those premises... but rarely does anyone ask whether those premises are actually ''true''. A scholar might, therefore, produce a Marxist or Freudian or Feminist reading of Tony Orlando's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" without ever considering whether Marxism or Freudianism or Feminism have or do not have any instrinsic validity as philosophical systems (he takes it as instructive that Economics departments rarely teach Marxism anymore and Psychology departments have been quietly moving away from Freudianism for decades).

{{quote|-- ''"I look forward with interest to [[Artistic License Chemistry|alchemical]] readings of Sophocles and [[Artistic License: Biology|Lamarckian]] Biblical criticism. I’d really enjoy a good, solid account of Toni Morrison firmly grounded in Nostradamus."''}}

 

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