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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', the principal of one of the high schools values motivational ''murals'' more than anything else. Those things range from odd to disturbing to hilarious -- [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-06-24 "READ or the owl] [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2004-07-03 will eat you]", or "[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-10-29 Homework rules!]", or "[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-07-23 Thespians are neato]" (as [[The Rant]] points out, a play on [[Chivalrous Pervert|Tedd]]'s motto "[[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|lesbians are neato!]]").
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]:'' [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=73 "READ. It makes you cool. Honest."] [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=186 "Knowledge is power."]
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*** And the page is also a [[Genius Bonus|spiffy reference for those who know alchemy]]: it's from the Mutus Liber, a 17th century Huguenot alchemy text, Latin and all.
* ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'' had a [[Story Arc]] (beginning [https://web.archive.org/web/20080625053233/http://www.starslip.com/2005/10/31/starslip-598/ here]) in which curator-snob Vanderbeam sees the "Hang In There" cat poster on Jovia's wall, and becomes obsessed with finding out what a fellow lover of [[True Art]] could [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?|possibly see]] in such a piece of obvious shlock.
* [http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=QOW3001 This] appears to be a literacy poster showing Kestrel from ''[[Queen
* Fauxtivational posters are one of the most popular subjects on the [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49314 twin] [[Remix Comic|art-remix]] [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49479 threads] on the ''[[Erfworld]]'' forum.
* ''[[Concerned]]'' had Frohman make some of these, with slogans like "Being beaten hard, or hardly being beaten?"
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* In the ''[[Zodiac (webcomic)|Zodiac]]'' spinoff Quetzalcoatlus, a "demotivational poster" can be seen in Leo's office contaning a picture of a nuclear explosion and the caption "'''Patience''': Don't expect any. Ever."
** Related to the above is a similar poster depicting a lion. Its caption: "'''Humor''': [[Brick Joke|See notes on Patience]]."
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