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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* Lord Voldemort, of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fame, champions the cause of pure-blooded wizards over [[Fantastic Racism|"Mudbloods" and Muggles]]. By all appearances, though, he's just a sociopath trying to stave off his own death. And he himself is only a half-blood--his father was a Muggle. |
* Lord Voldemort, of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fame, champions the cause of pure-blooded wizards over [[Fantastic Racism|"Mudbloods" and Muggles]]. By all appearances, though, he's just a sociopath trying to stave off his own death. And he himself is only a half-blood--his father was a Muggle. |
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** He seems to have been genuinely hateful towards those groups, whether it made sense or not. Voldemort being a half-blood was probably a reference to the [ |
** He seems to have been genuinely hateful towards those groups, whether it made sense or not. Voldemort being a half-blood was probably a reference to the [[wikipedia:Adolf Hitler#Ancestry|similar rumours]] about Hitler being part-Jewish. |
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*** In the fifth book, Delores Umbridge spent much of her time lecturing everyone about how "the Unforgivable Curses are BAD". Toward the climax, however {{spoiler|she threatens to give Harry a dose of the Cruciatus curse to get information}}. When Hermione lampshades the hypocrisy of this statement her basic response is "[[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|I make the rules so I don't have to follow them]]." |
*** In the fifth book, Delores Umbridge spent much of her time lecturing everyone about how "the Unforgivable Curses are BAD". Toward the climax, however {{spoiler|she threatens to give Harry a dose of the Cruciatus curse to get information}}. When Hermione lampshades the hypocrisy of this statement her basic response is "[[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|I make the rules so I don't have to follow them]]." |
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* In [[Andrew Vachss]]' ''Dead and Gone'', the lead villain pretends to be a Nazi/White Supremacist in order to enlist the aid of a White Supremacist group to help him carry out his revenge on the [[Anti-Hero|anti-hero]] Burke, who had him sent to prison for being a pedophile. While giving his [[Just Between You and Me|Big Villain Speech]] he reveals that he has been manipulating the skinheads and that he really thinks they are all retards for believing in Nazi ideology. He is, of course [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|unaware that Burke]] is [[Engineered Public Confession|broadcasting this back to his henchmen]]. |
* In [[Andrew Vachss]]' ''Dead and Gone'', the lead villain pretends to be a Nazi/White Supremacist in order to enlist the aid of a White Supremacist group to help him carry out his revenge on the [[Anti-Hero|anti-hero]] Burke, who had him sent to prison for being a pedophile. While giving his [[Just Between You and Me|Big Villain Speech]] he reveals that he has been manipulating the skinheads and that he really thinks they are all retards for believing in Nazi ideology. He is, of course [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|unaware that Burke]] is [[Engineered Public Confession|broadcasting this back to his henchmen]]. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', a particular scene between Cavil and Tyrol is a [[Heaven]] for subtext when rewatching the series from the beginning. |
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## Brother Cavil is posing as a human priest in the human fleet (and in the Caprica resistance), but he's actually a [[Artificial Human|Cylon]] abusing his position to orchestrate destructive acts. |
## Brother Cavil is posing as a human priest in the human fleet (and in the Caprica resistance), but he's actually a [[Artificial Human|Cylon]] abusing his position to orchestrate destructive acts. |
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## He's talking to Chief Tyrol to give him counseling and talk him down from his fear that he, like his girlfriend, is a Cylon sleeper agent. Cavil assures him he hasn't seen him in any of their super secret meetings... because {{spoiler|Cavil reprogrammed Tyrol to forget his life as one of the five creators of Cavil and the bio-Cylon race.}} |
## He's talking to Chief Tyrol to give him counseling and talk him down from his fear that he, like his girlfriend, is a Cylon sleeper agent. Cavil assures him he hasn't seen him in any of their super secret meetings... because {{spoiler|Cavil reprogrammed Tyrol to forget his life as one of the five creators of Cavil and the bio-Cylon race.}} |
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