Windmill Crusader: Difference between revisions

== Anime ==

* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'': A major theme, especially the latter half of the series. Amusingly, one could say that Gai Daigouji basically ''is'' [[Don Quixote]], only this time some of the windmills really ''[[No Mere Windmill|are]]'' [[Humongous Mecha|giants]]. [[Killed Off for Real|Naturally, he doesn't last very long]].

* ''[[Working]]'': Inami was taught from a young age by her father that males would all {{spoiler|try to rape her}} (the 'windmill'). By the time the story rolls around, she has a severe fear of men because of this {{spoiler|including said father. When she falls in love, she's trying to get rid of the training, but it's been so deeply engrained in her psyche that, even being able to see the 'windmill' for what it really is, isn't enough to stop the crusade.}}

* The utterly insane and [[Obliviously Evil]] inquisitor Mozgus in [[Berserk]]. His list of activities include: self-mortification by slamming his body into the ground thousands of times a day during prayer, using his sacred book to bash the brains of any "heretic" he comes across (in addition to bludeoning them on breaking wheels), and torturing the rebellions of the poor and starving population (including a young mother) - all under the desire to make those he considers sinful (which means everyone) to repent (by torture) so that their souls will be saved.

 

* ''[[Dilbert]]'' features many surreal jokes based on the premise that one character lives in his own little reality. Sadly, this is often a character who has power - or who gains power by enforcing her crazy perceptions on others.

* ''[[Bitchy Butch]]'': Bitchy is infamous for this among her fellow gay rights activists. She's paranoid about men (oppressors all of them!) and heterosexual women (traitors!) as well as lesbians (potential traitors, "not real", or whatever), and see [[Heteronormative Crusader|the religious right]] in every shadow.

* ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'': Played straight for drama. Quantum is convinced that David Warrant engineered the deaths of his and Woody's fathers, and tried to kill them in the accident that gave them their powers. He ''still'' suspects this even after repeated non-violent encounters with Warrant, including one time when Warrant helped save Woody's life. It reaches cataclysmic proportions when {{spoiler|Quantum absorbs all of their shared power, neutralizing Warrant at a critical point as he tried to save the Eternals on the Moon.}}