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== Live Action Television == |
== Live Action Television == |
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* ''[[Torchwood]]'' |
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** A twisted version appears in one episode: the "monster" is actually harmless, something along the lines of a tremendous alien bovine with an incredible [[Healing Factor]]. The people who capture it [[Squick|harvest it as an endless source of meat]]. True, the meat is apparently safe for human consumption, but in contrast to the show's tendency for [[Aliens Are Bastards]], this monster is actually a non violent, peaceful slug like being that is being cut apart for meat ''while it's still alive'', and the true villain is the asshole in charge, who ignores the Torchwood-3 team, his own conscience ridden [[Mooks]], not to mention his own conscience, blithely ignoring the agony he's causing a perfectly innocent alien by telling everyone [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|"it's only meat."]] |
** A twisted version appears in one episode: the "monster" is actually harmless, something along the lines of a tremendous alien bovine with an incredible [[Healing Factor]]. The people who capture it [[Squick|harvest it as an endless source of meat]]. True, the meat is apparently safe for human consumption, but in contrast to the show's tendency for [[Aliens Are Bastards]], this monster is actually a non violent, peaceful slug like being that is being cut apart for meat ''while it's still alive'', and the true villain is the asshole in charge, who ignores the Torchwood-3 team, his own conscience ridden [[Mooks]], not to mention his own conscience, blithely ignoring the agony he's causing a perfectly innocent alien by telling everyone [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|"it's only meat."]] |
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** In the episode "Reset", a medical firm that is in some way an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Torchwood-3 harvests alien material to make medical advances for the benefit of humanity. Unfortunately, the leader is a [[Mad Scientist]] who coldly tortures and exploits aliens like the villain of "Meat", and he callously eliminates humans he has used as guinea pigs for his alien derived treatments if it might expose what he has done. |
** In the episode "Reset", a medical firm that is in some way an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Torchwood-3 harvests alien material to make medical advances for the benefit of humanity. Unfortunately, the leader is a [[Mad Scientist]] who coldly tortures and exploits aliens like the villain of "Meat", and he callously eliminates humans he has used as guinea pigs for his alien derived treatments if it might expose what he has done. |
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== Western Animation == |
== Western Animation == |
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* A recurring event on ''[[Scooby |
* A recurring event on ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''. The Scooby Gang exists to solve mysteries; unfortunately, Crystal Cove's primary source of income is spooky tourism, and the mayor (Freddy's dad!) and the eternally ineffectual sheriff don't appreciate them exposing every [[Monster of the Week]] for the hoaxes they really are. |
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** The town in ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' does the same. Then we learn there really is a ghost. |
** The town in ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' does the same. Then we learn there really is a ghost. |
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* A variant appears in the ''[[ |
* A variant appears in the ''[[Adventure Time]]'' episode "Donny". The eponymous character is [[Jerkass|an obnoxious grass ogre]] who enjoys terrorizing a town of house-people: Finn and Jake manage to make him mend his ways, but it turns out that his noxious presence was the only thing keeping a ferocious pack of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|whywolves]] at bay. In the end, [[We Want Our Jerk Back|they have to convince Donny to go back to his old self]], or else the whywolves will devour the entire town. |
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