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* Also from Marvel, the Crusader, a [[Fundamentalist| fundamentalist]] who believes that the church should become more active in fighting paganism and godlessness in modern society, is also satire. His methods are questionable at best, and include murder. His actions have led to his defeat (and usually humiliation) at the hands of [[The Mighty Thor| Thor]], the [[The Avengers| Black Knight]], [[X-Man| Nate Grey]], [[Doctor Strange]], and [[Wolverine]], the last one costing him an eye, with Wolvie pointing out his hypocrisy [[As the Good Book Says...| by quoting the Bible]] with "an eye for an eye". Since that defeat, Crusader seems to have wised up, preferring to stay in prison than accept the Hood's invitation to participate in the ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''.
* The original [[Foolkiller]] (Ross G. Everbest) was another religious extremist. Inspired by anti-Vietnam War protests and counterculture movements, he believed he was chosen by God to eliminate sinners and dissidents, those he called "fools". Ironically, his first victim was the pastor he was inspired by (a faith-healer televangelist) who he [[Does This Remind You of Anything?| caught in a drunken orgy.]] He was eventually killed in a freak accident while fighting [[Man-Thing]], and given his cameo in ''[[Thunderbolts|Thunderbolts Annual 2000]]'', he [[Hell Is War| didn't get the ultimate reward he expected to receive...]]
== Fan Works ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Abridging of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' (episode 2).▼
{{quote|'''Mikuru:''' If you plan on doing what you thought in episode 1, it's not gonna work.▼
'''Kyon:''' umm... How did you...▼
'''Mikuru:''' It's because there's already enough sexual content in this show as it is. Adding any more and we'd have children-sheltering mothers lined outside the writer's door armed with pitchforks and torches. But... we can still be friends if you want.▼
'''Kyon:''' Curse you, sheltering mothers of the internet. Curse you all!! }}▼
== Literature ==
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== Web Original ==
* [Semi-]parodied by Intuitor: [http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/ The minds of our children and their ability to master vectors are (shudder)] [[Hollywood Science|at stake]].
▲* Parodied in ''[[The Abridging of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' (episode 2).
▲{{quote|'''Mikuru:''' If you plan on doing what you thought in episode 1, it's not gonna work.
▲'''Kyon:''' umm... How did you...
▲'''Mikuru:''' It's because there's already enough sexual content in this show as it is. Adding any more and we'd have children-sheltering mothers lined outside the writer's door armed with pitchforks and torches. But... we can still be friends if you want.
▲'''Kyon:''' Curse you, sheltering mothers of the internet. Curse you all!! }}
* Naturally, ''[[The Onion]]'' has parodied Moral Guardians more than once, as well as the science of "psychology" excuses as a whole: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090726103956/http://origin.theonion.com/content/node/30883 U.S. Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV]". To think—some of them weren't even one year old... oh, the horror!
* ''[[TV Tropes]]'': Although they formally deny it, if one reads the discusson threads in which wiki pages are reported and judged for possibly violating TVT's content restrictions, one will see that work pages are not judged by their content but by the work they describe. One will almost never see a discussion like "Will this page as written cause us trouble with Google Ads? Can we change it so that it doesn't?" Rather, the commentary is almost universally along the lines of "the work this page describes is offensive to me, we should not even acknowledge it exists" and decisions are made on that basis alone. Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, except in the cases of certain famous works whose removal would bring (and have brought) negative press attention, TVT imposes a moral standard for the works that are allowed to appear on the wiki. That standard is determined by the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] of [[Squick]] and/or prudery found among the vocal minority who report (and demand removal of) pages.
== Western Animation ==
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