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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 [[
* ''[[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.
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** This is one occasion where the [[Death of the Author]] is probably beneficial. Mary Shelley ''was'' writing for the Romantic movement, so the former can be taken as implied.
** In Victor's case, they are one and the same thing. When he gained the ability to create life, Victor became obsessed with making an artificial man...but his motive was purely ''self-centered''. Prior to animation, everything he visualized about his creation was in reference to himself, how his creations would think of him, the importance of his role in the history of the future, there was no concept, no recognization, of the reality of his creation as a ''separate'' entity, with a life and nature and role of its own separate from Victor's wants and needs. When face-to-face with the ''actuality'' of that separateness, as opposed to the fantasy that had obsessed him, Victor was repulsed and abandoned his creation in digust. In later time Victor comes to look back and recognize his own obsession, but too late. Victor was like a couple that planned every step of their child's life during pregnancy, with no thought whatever for the actuality of the child.
* In his novel ''[[Podkayne
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** Another arises in "The Cartridge Family". In this episode, Marge and Homer are at odds over a gun he buys, which even leads Marge to briefly leave him. In the end, Homer finally agrees to let Marge get rid of the gun, so Marge heads to the nearest garbage bin to throw it out. However, seeing herself holding the gun from a reflection in the lid, she decides to hold on to the gun, putting it in her purse. The writers said that there was no real message from the story, but if there was, it'd be that a man like Homer Simpson should not have a gun, so... mission accomplished?
* An episode of ''[[The Boondocks]]'' animated series comes to mind, first presenting the Aesop of "You can't engage in racial profiling, it's just wrong in multiple senses of the word" when an innocent, intelligent, and very moral black ''prosecutor'' of all people gets arrested and psychologically coerced and tricked into confessing to the "X-Box murder" that he never committed, basically because he was black...only to just minutes later reveal that a bunch of random middle-eastern men who seem to be innocent store owners are actually a terrorist front...oh wait, they're not really terrorists, just stereotypical Middle Easterners packing heavy firepower for self-defense but everyone believes they're terrorists because Ed Wuncler is [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|the son of a rich white man and therefore could never have been committing armed robbery against the store owners]]. We never truly find out if they're terrorists or just overly-cautious store owners and the [[
* ''[[Justice League]]'':
** ''A Better World'' averted this in the finished product, but lost its Aesop when they were ''writing'' it. Batman and an [[Knight Templar|overly enthusiastic]] version of Batman from a [[Evil Twin|parallel world]] are engaged in a freedom vs. safety debate. When writing the exchange, the writers intended to have the "real" Batman win with his freedom argument, however when they gave the "evil" Batman a line about the murder of the Wayne family the writers could not think of any retort for the "good" Batman to make. They had meant for him to win the argument, but ended up convincing ''themselves'' that the "evil" argument was the right one (At least, that it was the right argument from the Batmans' perspective). Thankfully, they developed a retort for a later scene which featured one of the downsides of the totalitarian regime, and the final episode maintained its "Safety at all costs is not worth the price" message.
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