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* Likewise, [[Anal Probing]] is not actually a preoccupation in [[Real Life]] UFO abduction communities. Whitley Strieber described a recovered memory of it in his first nonfiction UFO book, ''Communion'', whereupon it took on a life of is own.
** '''Dead Unicorn Trope''' indeed: the idea of the hind-quarters, rather than the reproductive organs (and hence, potential genetic engineering connections in the literature, etc.) is due to the media having one thing on their minds far too much. And some think it's quite intentional, to get people to chuckle at what is actually rather terrifying stuff when you read the real stories: a supposedly advanced alien intelligence, behaving in ways reminiscent of Nazi doctors.
* [[Fairy Tale]]s and their supposed idealism and inevitable happy endings are commonly mocked and "deconstructed," most people being unaware that the real stories were often violent, cynical and depressing. Something of a [[Cyclic Trope]], since the original stories had such a grim tone, before being [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerized]] and [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] because [[Children Are Innocent]] (which is in itself an example of this trope), causing the stories
** And on the other end of the spectrum, the belief that ''all'' fairytales were "originally" gory grimdark horror stories before their [[Disneyfication]]. Some were gory by modern standards and there's a ''lot'' of [[Values Dissonance]], but overall it's not as bad as many people make it out to be.
** For some reason, knights in shining armor rescuing [[Damsel in Distress|distressed damsels]] from dragons is commonly associated with fairytales, even though this is something that almost ''never'' happens.
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