I have been told not to browse the imageboard that must not be named a gazillion of times. It's not that bad.

I wrote a fic based on Lolita once to deconstruct lolicon-and received a message from someone who obviously had never read the novel asking if ''I'' had ever read it, and that the book promoted lolicon and Dolores was the villain who killed her mom or something. ''Where'' did that come from?? Oh...this trope in action.

This troper, during high school, had to watch a video in Health class about LSD, which, surprisingly enough, ''wasn't'' an Anvilicious Main/DrugsAreBad story. It talked about the history of the drug, and how it initially seemed to be something useful but it was soon discovered that it often had bad side effects. After it was over, his classmates were talking about how appealing the film had made taking LSD seem.

Similarly, this troper had to write a report on a drug of choice and its affects. She chose Magic Mushrooms, and through research found how interesting it seemed to take. In fact, not even {{Mother 3}}'s Tanetane Island has put a dampener on this desire.

This troper, having "health" as a required course from middle school through 10th grade, had it mostly from a few teachers that were clearly old enough to have been... uh... flower children... and probably... well, they discussed the effects of some drugs in suspiciously accurate, yet, loopily-presented detail.

This troper absolutely loves ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' - it was one of two books she was supposed to read for school that she liked (the other being ''Macbeth'') - and, having read it, became even more amoral and fascinated by war.

This troper, although she found them effectively horrifying, did notice that the illustrations of the horrible event the heroes have failed to stop in {{Watchmen}} are clearly the images the artist spent the most work on out of the whole comic. There are some other impressive images, but those are the best-composed, the most detailed by far, and the largest-- there are no other full-page spreads in the entire comic. It almost makes it seem as if the TruffautWasRight aspect is intentional.

Maybe not the TruffautWasRight being intentional, but those pages ''are'' supposed to be the most affecting pages- if you go through the previous pages, all of the panels are on a strict grid. The last few pages break most of the conventions of the rest of the book so that you subconsciously feel it as well as consciously read it.

I was watching GraveOfTheFireflies once on TV, AsYouKnow the biggest aversion of this trope EVER, when my Dad went over to watch. He didn't see what was so sad about it and quickly changed the channel to watch something that counteracts the message of the film. What

I gotta confess: playing through the No More Heroes games, I know that it's showing Travis as a loser, the assassins as wasting their lives, the monstrosity of using death as a cheap tool in entertainmet, and I get all that, I understand it. And yet, somewhere between the Henry fight and the aquisition of the Rose Nasty beam katana, Travis became head of my personal badass list, and now I really, ''REALLY'' want a lightsabre.

It's always been my assumption that this was intentional, but then again, it's SUDA 51, so who knows?

It's one part Enforced and one part SpoofAesop: The main villain of Desperate Struggle is...a bald midget with a squeaky voice. Instead of giving us a cool, evil son of a bitch, we got a guy who normally you'd probably feel sorry for. But of course, this is SUDA, so every single aspect is tongue-in-cheek. Even then, it's not the ''revenge'' that makes Travis cool: it's that he's ''fucking cool''.

This editor enjoys playing ''{{Iji}}'' as a {{Beyond The Impossible}} {{Crazy Awesome}} run-and-gun with the explosions and weaponry being over-the-top, rather than looking at it as a {{War Is Hell}}-themed {{Deconstruction}}. In fact, when killed all the last remenants of the Tasen, my first thought was "I wanted to do that!". Going To Hell For This}} I'm going to hell for that. Also, I consider Iji yelling "Shut up!" at Tor as he accuses her of hypocricy to be her CrowningMomentOfAwesome - I blame ''GurrenLagann'', ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWA and all that.

Also, I ''desperately'' wish I could play FLARP and I think Alternia would be a cool place to live.

Lampshaded in JackMackerel's anime script for a bunch of rag-tag super-soldiers, mercenaries, assassins, and regular grunts killing bad people: Several soldiers (including several normal soldiers that aren't equipped with cutting edge tech) get into an argument over ApocalypseNow.

Also, I may be somewhat anti-war, but ''God help me I love shooting terrorists in vidya gaems.''

In middle school I read a book about a girl who (in addition to being bulimic, which was the main plot) was a shoplifter. The book gave a number of tips on how not to get caught stealing. She eventually did, I think, and the whole point of the book was how this girl had completely fucked up her life, but it was still kind of... tempting.

Ohh, I read that one too! It was actually okay. But, now I see things in stores and know how to get them out. (Not that I actually do it, I just, know.)

A while back, there was an episode of one talkshow, I believe it was the Today Show, that was about shoplifting and how it could be prevented. They did this by bringing in an ex-shoplifter, who showed all these methods that shoplifters use to get away with what they do; including slipping the items in their sleeves and pant legs, as well as lining a shopping bag with lead or alluminum foil or something so the store alarm wouldn't go off as they brought a stolen item through the door. So... yeah.

In my high school, there are several posters on the walls saying "95% of athletes at this school are drug-free!". This reminds me of the other anti-drug ads that tell you NOT to do drugs because everyone else is doing them. Those ads alone are kind of a TruffautWasRight kind of thing because they're saying "Be who you are, don't do what others say", and then it backfires because it's saying "Be who you are, don't do what others say, just do what WE say". My school's ads, though... Some people, especially rebellious teenagers, will sometimes go out of their way NOT to conform.

This Troper's dad recalls some old anti-cigarette ads that would say "Kids, don't smoke. Smoking is for adults". And what the kids hear? "Smoking is for adults, not kids. If you want to be an adult, smoke!". This can also probably apply to a lot of sex ed programs that tell teenagers "sex is for mature adults ONLY".

This troper had to watch SuperSizeMe in her high school biology class. Afterwards, always we could talk about is how we were craving [=McDonald=]'s like never before. Even thinking back to it makes me want a giant pack of French fries.

{{YMMV}}. This troper had eaten at Burger King before watching the movie. Afterwards, she puked it all out again (not intentionally, she just felt sick!)

People protesting how offensive EvelynEvelyn was made me ''more'' keen to listen to them.

This troper follows Eat This, Not That! on Twitter, and often finds that when they mention what not to eat, it makes this troper say "That actually sounds pretty good right about now..."