Hoist by His Own Petard/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* In 2011, a group called Million Mom March protested against an issue of [[Archie Comics]]' ''[[Life With Archie]]'' in which one of the characters, a gay man, married his partner. End result? The issue selling out in record time and copies being sold higher on eBay. When they caught wind of what [[Marvel Comics]] was doing in an issue of ''Astonishing [[X-Men]]'', they did the same. Marvel's response? [[What an Idiot!|"Please, ''keep protesting''."]]

* One notable aversion was a literal petard in the 1948 Siege of Jerusalem. In a final attempt to storm the Old City the IDF used what was basically an updated petard-a shaped charge mine intended to be placed against the wall and blow a breech by remote detonator. However it was a dud so in one sense nobody was hoisted. As the attack failed in another way it was an indirect example.

 

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