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* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has made a number of animal rights-themed [[Web Games|Flash parodies]] of popular games.
** ''[http://features.peta.org/super-meat-boy-parody/ Super Tofu Boy]'' was their version of ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]''. Funnily enough, Team Meat decided shortly after to [[Ascended Fanon|add Tofu Boy to the PC version as an actual playable character]]... while [https://www.webcitation.org/68aCXPqBr?url=http://www.supermeatboy.com/65/Super_Meat_Boy_vs_Peta_/#b simultaneously] [[Take That|mocking PETA]] and thanking them for the publicity. [[Word of God]] is that the developers of ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]'' trolled PETA by posting messages to PETA sites about their game, precisely in hopes of provoking a response.
** PETA also has a version of ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros]]'' on their web site called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111129160153/http://www.peta2.com/superchicksisters/index.asp Super Chick Sisters]''. The titular characters have to save [[Baywatch|Pamela Anderson]] from Colonel Sanders and the evil Kentucky Fried Chicken lair.
** And now ''[http://features.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/Default.aspx Super Tanooki Suit]'', in protest of Mario's Tanooki suit. Which comes from a leaf, and [[Super Mario Bros 3|has been around for over 20 years]]. Also, we're talking about a guy who routinely uses turtle shells as weapons. It's the Tanooki suit you're taking issue with? They later claimed [[Parody Retcon|it was just meant as a joke]] after getting [[Internet Backdraft|hordes of Nintendo fans on their case]].
* [[Word of God]] claims that ''[[Ultima IV]]'' (the [[Trope Codifier]] for the [[Karma Meter]]) was intended to be this to the first 3 games, after hearing the complaints of [[Moral Guardians]]. A prime example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] since said game revolutionized the RPG genre.
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*** And then, to bring things full-circle, in 2013 the BSA ended the restriction on gay scouts and allowed troops to select gay leaders. This prompted the founding of [[wikipedia:Trail Life USA|Trail Life USA]].
** In Norway, there were two Scout groups, the KFUM/KFUK scouts (Christian), and the NSF (mostly Christian). However, the NSF was the one to operate on a semi-official basis, because unlike the KFUM/KFUK, it was not sex-segregated when whoever it was made the pick. The KFUM/KFUK scouts has since stopped their segregation and the NSF and KM (their new name) co-operate on nearly everything.
* Several churches, appalled at the pagan influences of [[All Hallow's Eve|Halloween]] and the monsters seen in traditional haunted houses, have taken to doing "Halloween alternative" parties like the "[https://pwhs.ph/march-of-saints/ March of Saints]" as done in Catholic parishes in the [[Philippines]] and elsewhere, in which children [[Cosplay|disguise themselves]] as Biblical characters or saints. Some take this to extremes by setting up "hell houses," in which the attendees are shown scenes meant to portray the decadence of secular culture, finally ending in a room occupied by [[Satan]], claiming that all of the characters they had seen are now firmly in his grasp. In the worst of these, the Hell House is marketed as a normal haunted house, and is thus a [[Bait and Switch]], and in some the attendees must either agree to be saved (i.e. become born-again Christians) or must traverse the length of the building in order to get out. The whole concept is savagely mocked in a [[Something*Positive]] sequence starting [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511113008/http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10042006.shtml here]. Perhaps more common are the Harvest Parties, which feature game booths, contests, and the requisite candy, typically hosted in whatever part of the church has an open floor and forgoing the ghouls-and-ghosts theme.
** Alternatively, some who do celebrate Halloween instead made it a point to dress up as fictional characters or celebrities in lieu of the usual ghoulish if not outright demonic costumes, either due to religious concerns or simply because the aforementioned occult or monster costumes can be disturbing to some regardless of beliefs.
** Christmas and Easter had some pagan influences as a matter of fact, like the Christmas tree being derived from a pagan tradition. Legend has it that Saint Boniface witnessed a pagan gathering where a group of people dancing under a decorated oak tree were about to sacrifice a baby in the name of Thor. Boniface took an axe and chopped the tree in the name of [[Jesus]]. Behind the fallen tree was a baby fir. Boniface said, "let this tree be the symbol of the true God, its leaves are ever green and will not die." The tree's needles pointed to heaven. From then on, Christmas trees became a quintessential symbol of the holidays; despite being criticised by some as out of place in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II declared the Christmas tree as a symbol of Christ, exalting the value of life.
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