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** One line by Adams about how "it's not like getting involved with your patients causes you to explode" [[Wham! Line|completely destroys the movie's moral]] when one character getting involved with a shady patient causes them to be [[Your Head Asplode|shot in the head]]. Adams's methods directly caused a main character to die, but we're not supposed to notice that.
* Ebert's review of [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030221/REVIEWS/302210304/1023 The Life of David Gale], which is a different type of this trope: the movie's central characters go ''so ridiculously far'' to show that their position is right, you can't help but be disgusted with them.
** They go so far, in fact, that they destroy their own position. 'It is possible for an innocent man to be executed!' kinda loses its punch if you have to add '... if he deliberately frames himself for the crime, withholds exculpatory evidence from the police and his own attorney, and sabotages his own defense at every opportunity.'
* In ''[[Cape Fear]]'', Bowden gets the chief of police to try to drive Cady out of town before Cady has done anything illegal. Cady hires a lawyer who is portrayed as fussy and over-liberal, but who makes the entirely legitimate point that Cady is being harassed for no reason. Of course, Cady does not stay innocent for long.
* In ''[[Look Who's Talking]] Too'', the mooching brother-in-law is essentially a strawman for everything that is not a Proper New York City Attitude, including the fact that he has a gun. However, it's a little difficult to argue with one of his rationalizations for having it:
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