For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
1980s GI Joe is the most glaring example I can instantly think of.
I am still baffled by the fact that decades later some blue curtain bazinga in my guild in one of the games I played insisted that the good old days of cartoons had zero political messaging, unlike today, and his example was... GI Joe.
After I gave exhaustive examples of the political messaging of that show (everything from the plain as day glorification of the US military, the OPEC oil crisis being simplified as being backed and perpetuated by a bunch of terror-loving puppet governments... puppets of Cobra of course) and what I got back was, verbatim, "did anyone ever tell you... the curtains are fucking blue?"
I was too young to watch the G1 Transformers cartoon (although I did have Transformers toys and comics), but it had a Gaddafi expy called Abdul Fakkadi (back when Libya was Amerikkkan non-Soviet boogeyman #1) who ruled a country called Carbombya.
That's exactly the episode I was bringing up when it came to the OPEC stand in and summary for little kids to absorb.
I would actually hunt someone down and kill them for this
Bruh
I want to chain this guy up and forcibly give him a basic literature class
If you did that, you'd have to somehow prevent him from chanting "DEATH OF THE AUTHOR!" all the way through it to justify whatever he already wanted to believe about anything he consumed.
People who simultaneously believe Death of the Author and The Curtains Are Fucking Blue.
Lots of people bounce from one to the other like a metronome without the slightest hesitation or awareness of the contradiction because they want their treats to mean exactly and only what they want them to mean.