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== Literature ==
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] likes to double up [[The War On Straw]] by making sure his [[Strawman Political]] is also an unimpressive, uncool human being, as does [[Ayn Rand]].
** How so?
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** Peter Pettigrew in, who is consistently portrayed in flashback as being a wimpy weasel who ''wets himself'' in the presence of his much cooler friends.
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* In ''[[The Talmud]]'', this plays out with the rival schools of the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The latter basically exists to be always wrong- whatever Jewish practice is, it will be the one endorsed by Hillel, and Shammai will take a position that wasn't adopted. Given this and the above example, it's probably fair to say that philosophical dialogues tend to attract this trope.
* Many of [[Socrates]]' interlocutors in [[Plato]]'s dialogues fall into this trope. Most notable is Thrasymachus from ''[[The Republic (novel)|The Republic]]'', who refuses to listen to anything Socrates says, and cries after he loses the debate.
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