Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped/Web Original

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Examples of Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped in Web Original works include:

  • The Whateley Universe is chock full of these, since the stories revolve around ideas like tolerance for people who are different. They're mutants. But most of the protagonists are also Transgender or otherwise LGBTQI, so there's less of a Space Whale Aesop than usual. Several of the main characters, like Phase and Diamondback, have been treated horrifically by their own families since they 'came out' - as mutants.
  • Linkara in one of his videos ("Athena" IIRC) went on a rant about how a guy can dislike exploitation of women and not be gay/hate women's bodies/whatev. With so many people willing to accuse him of being gay just because he dislikes the way that women's bodies are unrealisticly portrayed in comics, the rant was AWESOME.
    • Even more awesomely, he did it while still being respectful of LGBT people.
  • Ma-Ti in Kickassia

Ma-Ti: Stop being a douchebag, it will totally backfire!

  • The Nostalgia Chick's video on The Smurfette Principle. While suffering from the same flaws as the Critic's Nick Month did (as in, she probably didn't have time to look over the newer stuff properly), it was intelligent along with being funny and she never came off as a Straw Feminist.
    • Ditto for her brief commenting on whether a character is feminist or not. She makes several good points as to why you could or couldn't consider some characters feminist, and then says that the bottom line is how you look at it.
  • CR's character look at Anne Gwish and how subcultures like goth aren't bad, it's just conceited jerks like her who ruin it for everyone else.
    • In his Green M&M vid, its ok to be attracted to fictional characters. They make them that way for a reason.
    • For his "Top 11 Fluffy and Uranus Eviscirations", you can't pussify society. It's alright to hear "Respect others" and "Take care of yourselves and the environment" but its wrong to hear it 24/7. How someone crass can raise above a baser instinct and want to change something or say something straight from the heart, that is far greater than something sugar-coated. When they say something, it may be snarly and innappropriate, but it can be honest. When they sweeten it, its dishonest and insulting.
  • In the I'm a Marvel... And I'm A DC's first After Hours series drops the anvil that powerful heroes like Superman aren't outdated, because they still need to be there for others to aspire to be.
    • While the second season dropped one on how making all heroes Darker and Edgier is bad, since first, some heroes, it just will never work for, and second, that without the Lighter and Softer heroes to contrast to, darker and edgier losses its meaning.
  • In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, the primary Aesops were "Don't fight the battles that you can win, fight the battles that deserve to be fought", and "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Do not allow evil to triumph. Do not do sit by and do nothing." Which are sentiments that need to be said quite a bit more than they are usually said.
  • Film Brain pointed out in his Bride Wars review that far from being fat, Kate Hudson's character in it would look healthy if she gained five pounds. There was also the commentary for Seven Pounds, in which Film Brain continues to go on about how horrible it is that suicide is glorified as the ultimate sacrifice, when Will Smith's character had a fantastic education and could have done so much more to help others if he didn't martyr himself.
    • In the same film, he snarks about one of the characters doesn't allow her dog to eat meat. ("Ya! Animals don't eat meat in the wild beat wait) Not to mention that most vets will very specifically advise you against doing this, so it's also a case of Artistic License Animal Care.
  • If an innocent child is getting mistreated in a movie, The Nostalgia Critic will more often than stop the review for a long rant about it. Nice enough, but then you remember that the character is supposed to have been badly abused as a kid. It's almost poignant in a sense.
    • In his The Legend of the Titanic review, he makes it clear, several times, that what the film did (outright deny the deaths of hundreds of people in favor of a "SAVE THE WHALES" aesop) is completely disrespectful to those who were related to those who died on the Titanic.
    • He says over and over again that just because something is a kid's movie, doesn't mean it has to be worthless or have no effort put into it. Depending on how he much suffers in an episode, this can vary in desperation.
    • Relating to that, non-stop loud music, sound or talking is annoying and takes away from building kid's appreciation for building up atmosphere.
    • The Moulin Rogue review has "Even if I don't like the film, maybe you do, and neither of us are definitely wrong" as well as "Guilty Pleasures are nothing to be ashamed of."
  • Todd in the Shadows review of Fifteen

A woman has more worth than her body!

  • Arby and Chief is a delicious and very relevant anvil on Fan Dumb and Hate Dumb, even if delivered with crude humor, which is directed against the Halo fanbase but can be applied to everything. The episodes "Glitch" and "Panic" are a good point, because The Arbiter delivers a well-placed Reason You Suck Speech against an user named assassininja4827, who is 39 years old and freaking out because of the title glitch in the game. The moral is that there's nothing wrong with being an adult and playing computer game, but you also must act like one!
  • g.com gives us a good few:
    • From David Wong:
      • 5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't): The pursuit of things like fame and wealth are pointless. Friendship, love, and altruism are where it's at.
      • The God Fuse: Just because you're in the right (or you think you're in the right) about something, doesn't mean you need to be a dick about it. Also, you'll never truly harass the other side out of existence.
      • What Is The Monkeysphere? basically sums it up by talking about Osama bin Laden: "Now, the truth is that bin Laden is as deserving of a bullet in the head as the four-color image on some redneck's T-shirt. But what you've got to realize is this: we're the caricature on his T-shirt."
    • John Cheese in general writes a lot about being a recovering alcoholic and how much of a struggle it's been. He repeatedly - and to great effect - points out that it's not alcohol that makes you an alcoholic, it's that addiction in your brain, and he also points out that you're never truly "cured" from it. A powerful message. But not the only one from him:
    • Christina H's "8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides": Yes, depressed people often build up a wall around them. Yes, breaking down that wall can be extremely difficult. But sometimes, all it takes to get started is a small crack in the wall, courtesy of a friendly phone call, a hug, or something else.
  • "Why Nice Guys are often such LOSERS" from Heartless Bitches International points out the horribleness of being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and how insecure nice guys are the worst material for boyfriends.
  • "On the Genealogy of "Art Games": A Polemic" about the way the term art has been missused in videogames and the degeneration of society in general.
  • "Have you ever tried *not* being a rapist?" makes a number of points about rape, starting with the title, and proceeding to cut directly to the argument that instead of teaching people how not to get raped, society ought to teach people how not to be rapists. The article is blunt, minces no words, and is beautifully direct. It was followed up with another article, "Playing the Devil's Advocate", this one on the all-too-often ignored topic of how men suffer rape just as much as women. Finally, there is "A Message to Rape Survivors", which is powerful, comforting, and hopeful.
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