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== Anime And Manga ==
* [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna
* [[Fractale|Fractalegate]]: The simulcast by Funimation was briefly put on hold due to a request by the Japanese rights holders to take down all unauthorized copies of the series before the simulcast can continue.
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{{quote| '''Mitchell:''' ...Aquagate?}}
* Modelgate: The scandal on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' involving Bob Barker, Dian Parkinson and many, many others that he fired as a result of what he did with Dian.
* On ''[[Community]]'', the main characters conspire to make "Star-burns" lose his job in a scandal. The school newspaper headline reads "[[Name's the Same|Star-Gate!]]" in big letters, and underneath reads "[[Lampshade Hanging|Headline in reference to Watergate, not]] [[Stargate (
* Hugh Dennis on ''[[Mock the Week]]'' made a joke about this, calling a scandal about tapping the phones of celebrities "stargate" and one about politicians buying pornography "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|masturgate]]."
* ''TMZ'' is fond of blowing seemingly minor events out of proportion, often with the "-gate" suffix. For instance, they attributed the Los Angeles Lakers' troubles in the 2010 NBA Finals (you know, ''before'' the epic Game 7 close call) to the fact that many of their key players ate steak with heavy, buttery sauce the night before at Ruth's Chris Steak House. They dubbed it "Steakgate" and over the next few days made repeated reference to it. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on how funny each individual reference was.
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== Video Games ==
* Scandal involving an ''[[Eve Online]]'' CSM member using privied information to invest in certain market materials was dubbed "Larkonis Gate" after the member's name. He was then forced to step down Nixon-style.
* Bulletstormgate: A [[Fox News]] article<ref>Particularly, an attributed quote from a psychiatrist in the article.</ref> suggesting that the game ''[[
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* A user on this forum is actually lamenting the loss of "gate" being attached to anything and everything. [http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/white-house/55462-notice-how-gate-has-disappered.html Link.]
* Gerstmanngate: Used by some video game sites to describe the scandal when Jeff Gerstmann was fired from Gamespot after his middling ''[[Kane and Lynch]]: Dead Men'' [[Four Point Scale|review]].
* Roomgate: [[
* WikiLeaks included the word "cablegate" in the URL to the 250,000+ diplomatic cables they leaked in November 2010, as if they were naming their own scandal that they were trying to make.
* The [[Yogscast]]'s second [[Podcast|YoGPoD]], Sipsgate, in which Lewis randomly calls his internet friend [[Yogscast Sips
* Elevatorgate: The reaction among the Internet atheist community to Rebecca Watson complaining that a man hit on her in the elevator. Made more interesting by the fact that although such people as P.Z. Myers were on her side, [[Richard Dawkins]] was ''not''.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Kent Brockman:''' This reporter suggested "Waitergate" but was shouted down at the Press Club.}}
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** He also noted: "How did Memogate get a gate? How did ''Nipplegate'' get a gate? We invaded a country based on faulty intelligence, and Janet Jackson's ''tit'' got a gate!"
** Was also used by ''The Economist'' after a scandal involving a company called GATE.
* [[Countdown
** The last one is often referred to more succinctly as "Torturegate".
* Iguanagate. An Australian politician and his wife were forced to undergo anger management classes after yelling at the staff of a nightclub called Iguana Joe's.
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* "GatesGate" was the name given to the scandal involving the arrest for disorderly conduct of (black) Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who believed that the arrest was the product of racial discrimination and profiling.
* Iraqgate: Anneli Jäätteenmäki, then-Prime Minister of Finland, had acquired secret Foreign Ministry documents relating to the War on Terror in 2003 with the ensuing scandal eventually leading to her resignation.
* Aquagate: On January 31, 2007. Boston police officials were alerted of a suspicious object on a section of Interstate 93. Bomb Squad, and numerous other personnel were called into action. This [[Artifact of Doom|strange object]] was determined to possibly be an improvised bomb. They were determined to be [[Shocking Swerve|"hoax devices"]]. [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|Several others]] were reported elsewhere. Turns out, the were promotional pieces (similar to litebrites, featuring the Mooninites) for the ensuing ''[[
** There's more on [[wikipedia:Aquagate|That other Wiki]]
* Handleygate: An Iowa man named Christopher Handley served six months for possession of seven obscene manga. This scandal shook the entire otaku community in the United States, though on the ANN bulletin's announcement of the sentencing a blacklist was compiled consisting solely of all the obscene manga Handley was found in possession of, meaning nobody except those who owned any of the titles on the blacklist had to worry after all.
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