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{{quote|''"[[Crapsack World|Crapsack worlds]] and anti-heroes have their place. Sometimes, they are very necessary. [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy|But an endless diet of dreary cyberpunk and dark fantasy won't do us any more favors than an endless feast of glurge]]. I'd argue that the cynical nature of these really hurt our ability to hope and work for better. It gets us to accept the hopelessness and jaded outlook of things as 'That's the way it is. I can't change it,' and stops us from fighting when we NEED to fight."''|''A poster on the forums for [[The Silver Lining (Video Game)|The Silver Lining]]''}}
A character is incredibly cynical. They are sporting a nice pair of [[Jade
They are wrong. It turns out that their overly cynical attitude can blind them just as easily as an overly idealistic or optimistic attitude can. They turned lazy and missed golden opportunities due to thinking about themselves in the [[Despair Event Horizon]] [[You Can't Fight Fate|for all eternity]], thus proving themselves to be just as blind and dogmatic as they '''think''' the more idealistic characters are. He or she is summarily called out for his [[Wangst]], often by the very people that he/she had regarded as fools. It can also happen when a character tries too hard to be what they think an adult is, like a [[Perpetual Frowner]].
This trope is the [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]] of [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]], showing that being more cynical is not necessarily better. In fact, it can be seen as being just as ignorant and called out just as easily. This is to show that The [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] does not always stick to one end, but tends to lie somewhere in the middle, and that you need a bit of both to really see the world for what it is. Can be a trait of [[The Anti Nihilist]], and used to deconstruct the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] mentality.
See also [[Grumpy Bear]], or [[Sour Supporter]] for character types that can fall into this.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "A Taste of Armageddon", the Eminian leader insists that peace is impossible and that their 500-year-old simulated war with declared casualties [[We Will Have Euthanasia in The Future|reporting in to be neatly and cleanly killed]] is the lesser of two evils. [[Kirk Summation|Kirk insists]] that they can make peace if they just try harder. Kirk helpfully provides them with motivation to do so by shutting down the war computer and [[
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