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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Half of the commercial spots for the Mexican beer ''Corona'' (Specially during any of the soccer tournaments that the Mexican soccer team plays) that are aired on national television. The other half consists on [[Scenery Porn]] with a dash of Patriotic Fervor.
* Molson Canadian, who produced comercials like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rc7qd8xdEs I Am Anthem] and the ever-famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg I Am Canadian].
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* [[Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters]]: Mishima and Isao have this badly. {{spoiler|It doesn't end well for them.}}
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger|Captain America the First Avenger]]'' puts less emphasis on Steve being a super-patriot and more on him being [[The Cape (trope)]]. He just wants to help people, and the costume and Hitler-punching persona is cooked up by a propaganda machine he'd be a lot happier without.
* The [[Torture Porn]] film ''[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tNpVUSCoWEA/TsvCYG6YnWI/AAAAAAAAAjU/zfGU3DZ3o0M/s1600/territories-movie-poster-2010-1020700446.jpg Territories]''{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Uncle Sam]]'', a slasher about the title character killing off the unpatriotic (flag burners, draft dodgers, sleazy lawyers, soldiers, and politicians, etc.) But in reality, he's not some super patriot vigilante, just a psycho who likes killing people.
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* [[Discworld]]:
** In ''[[Jingo!]]'' the nobles of Ankh-Morpork have an army consisting of officers with no experience leading troops with no training, yet they expect it to take no more than a day to defeat an army several times larger with years of experience. There's also little old ladies who try to shame the city's police officers for not abandoning their posts to join the army. The set-up is more than slightly reminiscent of the popular image of [[World War I]]. The book takes its name from the rhyme (quoted in the book itself) that gave us the word "jingoism".
** Reg Shoe is another example from [[Discworld]]. In fact, when he actually
* A combination of Patriotic Fervor and Daniel Webster's eloquence wins over the [[Jury of the Damned]] in ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]''.
* "[[Altum Videtur|dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.]]" <ref>"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country."</ref> -[[Ancient Rome|Horace]]
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