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== Comics ==
* Because the Marvel ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'' crossover was written by multiple authors, most of whom didn't agree with the direction Marvel was going, the moral behind the story seems to jump from book to book. It's okay to sacrifice liberty for security, especially when dealing with superpowered individuals -- except wait, no it's not. America means freedom and righteousness and all that is good -- wait, it means [[My Space]] and [[YouTube]]. Allowing the leaders to do their jobs is a perfectly legitimate course of action -- wait, you'll get drafted into a superpowered army and made a slave of the state. Iron Man is cool -- wait, he's a douche!
* ''[[JLA: Act of God (Comic Book)|JLA Act of God]]'' is confusing and written by only one writer. Is the moral of the story that powers leads to arrogance? You're only a real super hero if you don't have super powers? You should work inside the system? Other than "Batman is awesome," it's never really clearly told.
* ''[[Wild Cards the Hard Call]]'' seems to be making a statement on acceptance, beauty, and medical experimentation but what that statement is couldn't be more opaque.
* In "Countdown to Final Crisis" Trickster and Piper went on a Journy that was intended to lead to Trickster overcoming his Homophobia and learning a lesson, but the story deevoled to the point where Trickster received a bullet to the head due to attack unrelated to the intended moral, no lesson was ever apparent from this resolution.
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* ''[[Westworld]]'' is an odd case in that the Aesop is still ''present'' till the end, but isn't ever ''explained''. We're given that people are living out their fantasies by committing horrible deeds against robots, and that the robots are now killing them, but are we supposed to sympathize with the robots? Are we supposed to think they've gone too far? Are they just supposed to be [[The Scourge of God]], with no true thoughts of their own? And let's not get into [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|the Black Knight on his throne]].
** There are two or three aesops that might be plausible from ''Westworld'', one would be 'Don't let fantasy take over too much of your real life', or 'Even if you're living out evil or bad deeds in fantasy, it's still wrong.' Or it would be just as plausible to read the aesop as 'make sure your machines are properly designed and maintained and that you _understand how they work_.'
* ''[[Terminator]]'': not any individual entry in the series but the franchise as a whole jumps between [[Screw Destiny]] and [[You Can't Fight Fate]] with regard to whether or not the heroes can stop Skynet from being built and initiating [[The End of the World As We Know It|Judgment Day]] in which it kills off most of the human race. The first film has Skynet create a [[Stable Time Loop]] when Cyberdine uses a recovered piece of the Terminator it sent back [[You Already Changed the Past|to build what will become Skynet]]. The second film [[Screw Destiny|cancels this out]], as the heroes have become [[Genre Savvy]] about the [[Stable Time Loop]] and do everything they can to destroy all Terminator/Skynet technology that could be used to build Skynet. The 3rd film <ref>and the beginning of the post-Cameron canon that was intended to end with Terminator 2</ref> has Skynet activate and start Judgement Day later than originally fated but [[You Can't Fight Fate|the message is it will still happen nonetheless]]. ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' fleshes it out even further, showing Skynet using [[Time Travel]] to [[Tricked
* ''[[The Invention of Lying]]'': A world without lying is a sad place where everyone everyone is bluntly cruel and shallow. In a world ''with'' lying, however, religion becomes the opiate of the masses, tricking people into feeling good about life, but it's all a sham. So are religion and lying good or bad for us?
** Perhaps that there's a time when lying is the better option, but that we should also value the truth, and know when to stop a lie before it goes to far? [[MST3K Mantra|Or maybe we're all just reading too far into it.]]
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* The ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' episode "All About Beevil" mostly acts as a warning against trusting people, seeing Dustin first lose his bike to a scammer (the guy promised to improve it, but when Dustin went to pick it up, all he found was an empty lot), then get backstabbed when he tried to help Marah through a [[Heel Face Turn]]. But at the end as he's reeling from Marah's betrayal, the other Rangers remind him of decisions to trust that worked out, and the "scammer" returns the bike saying that the printers must have mixed up his address on his business card. Dustin sums up, "Sometimes you just gotta trust people!" Uhh...
** That last was said jokingly. Also, put all together... well, one person who seemed trustworthy wasn't, and one who seemed untrustworthy was. So... don't be paranoid but do keep your wits about you. The person who repeatedly tried to blow you up probably didn't get over it in one day, but with any given human it could go either way.
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* The ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession" is a monster-hunt story that revolves, for the most part, around Kirk's titular obsession with the monster. When the creature first attacked him and the ship he was serving on, 11 years earlier, he hesitated to fire at it and the creature killed half the ship's crew. In the episode itself, a young security officer on the Enterprise also hesitates when faced with the same creature, and the creature ends up killing several men. Both Kirk and the young officer blame themselves for their crew-mates' deaths, and there is plenty of angst over the matter. How is this solved? Turns out that the creature is immune to phasers, and neither of the two men could've stopped it when they had the chance. The Aesop that was being set up is that "humans hesitate by nature, sometimes it can't be helped, and you can't spend your life blaming yourself for it". This is even outright explained by Spock. However it ends up being something like "failure is sometimes okay in hindsight" - which is no Aesop at all. Needless to say, once the creature is revealed to be nigh-invulnerable, the episode proceeds with the monster-hunt and never touches on any of the above in any way.
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