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A Windmill is a quite different creature from its distant cousin, the [[Strawman Political|Strawman]].
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# Any [[The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics|fanatic]] who needs excuses to make his beliefs socially relevant. This may be an overlap between the first two alternatives, since the fanatic is likely to honestly believe everything that doesn’t fit his narrow worldview to be actual threats as well as being hypocritical enough to [[Utopia Justifies the Means|lie and tell himself that it’s the only way to make people see the truth]].
Compare [[Gravity Is Only a Theory]] and [[Dead Unicorn Trope]]. Contrast with [[No Mere Windmill]] for something that is not a windmill but gets mistaken for one
Compare and contrast [[The Scapegoat]]: This character gets wrongly blamed for a real problem, while a windmill gets blamed for a problem that isn't real in itself - but might be used to explain away a real problem. For example, the Nazi attitude towards the Jews was two levels of scapegoat with one level of windmill in between. Ordinary Jewish citizens got [[The Scapegoat|blamed]] for the evil actions of the non-existent "global Jewish conspiracy", and that conspiracy was in turn given the [[The Scapegoat|blame]] for why Germany lost the previous war.
{{noreallife|[[Poe's Law|While there are some people with views so extreme it's hard to believe they're not a joke]], this is not the place to settle what threats are real and what threats are windmills. Stick to how Windmills are portrayed. If we don't, the windmills are going to come and take away our children in the night.}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The "Cannon Fodder" short in [[Katsuhiro Otomo]]'s [[Memories]] shows a society whose sole apparent motivation for life and development is to attack an unseen enemy using cannons.
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* In the YA novel ''[[The King of Dragons]]'', the hero's father is a severe PTSD case of [[Windmill Crusader]]. His PTSD from military service causes him to believe that the government is out to get him and that terrible things will happen if he and his son are found by the authorities, so he gives the boy Survival [[Training from Hell]]. At the end of the book, the father is recovering, and tells his son, "I mistook molehills for mountains, but I taught you how to climb mountains."
* According to ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved'' from 1975, the danger of [[The Bermuda Triangle]] is a simple hoax. [[wikipedia:Bermuda triangle|There is no special danger associated with traveling in that area.]]
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
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* In ''[[Animal Farm]]'', Farmer Jones, his spies, and {{spoiler|eventually Snowball}} are all accused of being the source of all the farm's problems, long after Jones has apparently left the farm for good. The literal windmill, however, is not.
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', Goldstein and the Brotherhood are known as [[La Résistance]] against the Party, but O'Brien suggests that they were invented to keep more control over the population and to identify dissidents.
** On the other hand, the same is true of Big Brother.
{{quote|'''Winston:''' Does he exists as you and I exist?
'''O'Brian:''' [[Unperson|You do not exist.]] }}
* In the ''[[Bionicle]]'' novel "Island of Doom", the villains use a Type 2 example in order to convince the Matoran that they're really the good guys by using their powers to create a fake monster which they then "defeat."
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