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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.
* The popular 1990s kids' magazine ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' would feature as one of their monthly columns a "cool"/"not cool" comparison chart, based on a poll taken at a different American middle school or high school every week. [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man|(Don't think too hard about a mainstream magazine trying to tell you what is "cool," by the way.)]] At one school, the examples of "uncool" things given by the kids included Barney the Dinosaur, golf, bell-bottom trousers, and the expression "Cosmic!" (which, believe it or not, [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|was an actual slang word back in the late '80s and early '90s]]). So, one of the magazine's artists summed all this up by creating a Straw Loser collage depicting [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Barney playing golf in bell-bottoms while saying "Cosmic!"]]▼
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▲* The popular 1990s kids' magazine ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' would feature as one of their monthly columns a "cool"/"not cool" comparison chart, based on a poll taken at a different American middle school or high school every week. [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man|(Don't think too hard about a mainstream magazine trying to tell you what is "cool," by the way.)]] At one school, the examples of "uncool" things given by the kids included Barney the Dinosaur, golf, bell-bottom trousers, and the expression "Cosmic!" (which, believe it or not, [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|was an actual slang word back in the late '80s and early '90s]]). So, one of the magazine's artists summed all this up by creating a Straw Loser collage depicting [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Barney playing golf in bell-bottoms while saying "Cosmic!"]]
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