History Main / AuthorTract

* A lot of Creator/LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle's collaborative work have a message that technology and science are good, religion and tree-hugging liberal extremists who hate technology are bad.

* British children's author Jean Ure almost ''always'' brings up the topic of vegetarianism in her books, and the main characters are often converted to it by the end of the book, such as Cherry in ''Skinny Melon and Me'', Pumpkin from ''Pumpkin Pie, or the character who is a vegetarian tends to be portrayed as the most sensible person in the novel, like Harmony in ''The Secret Life of Sally Tomato'' or Stephanie in ''Passion Flower''.

[[TropesAreNotBad This is not always a bad thing]]. For some works, the premise is simply a way of putting a political point across in an interesting and imaginative way. Also, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped sometimes things just have to be said in the most blatant way possible to be understood.]] However, when the message come across as [[{{Glurge}} forced]] or [[BlackAndWhiteMorality one]]-[[TheWarOnStraw sided]], it may prevent some readers from enjoying the book and it will hinge upon where an individual puts their line for where it becomes annoying.

Note that this only applies when the entire universe and characters have been created to put forward the author's viewpoint. If an existing fictional universe or character has been altered to create a medium for a tract, then it's due to a WriterOnBoard (AuthorFilibuster is an extreme example of that). If the author's just filling up their story with stuff they like, that's AuthorAppeal. If it's gotten to the point where the tracting (or whatever personal issues the author has) has all but taken over the author's work, then the author has entered FilibusterFreefall.

** Incidentally, most of this came about of it being based off of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* Masashi Kishimoto, author of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' really, ''really'' wants you to know that revenge is bad, kids. Also that friendship, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice will solve anything.

* Most of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's movies have at least one segment that preaches the importance of respecting and preserving nature. That is, if the plot itself isn't completely built around the {{aesop}}. Miyazaki often protests that he does not make films with the intent of sending messages, he just makes them to entertain and [[MoneyDearBoy for profit]]. Fans have a hard time believing that given his [[http://www.ghibliworld.com/news.html#3103_02 criticism about capitalism and globalization]].

** Some of his stories that focus on nature like ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' tend to have a GreenAesop, but Tezuka tends to make it play back-burner to other aesops about family and sacrifice.
* The manga ''Manga/YuGiOh'' has the main theme of friendship - namely, that it can overcome anything and is better than working alone. This is all well and good, except that Kaiba insists on working alone and has achieved quite a lot for it - namely, his own company and is able to provide for his little brother. Situations where friends can be poisonous don't tend to be shown, and while support makes it easier to win with high stakes, players in real life can't give one another hints. Similarly, manga-ka Takahashi said in an interview that he believed Jonouchi / Joey's casual attitude towards games was stronger than the philosophies of the other characters, which makes sense more in real life than in ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', where losing a game can actually cause people to die.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' wants to remind you that friendship is powerful and good. And that your friends are important. And that they make you strong. And you can't lose with friends at your side. And that even the impossible is possible with friendship. etc. Nearly every battle has at least one character proclaiming this, and sometimes even pointing out that the reason that the villain is losing is because they lack such friends. Note that while it is extremely common for Shounen series to preach the importance and power of friendship (and ''Fairy Tail'' in particular can get away with the fact [[EmotionalPowers powerful feelings like friendship can actually fuel magic]]), both fans and detractors of ''Fairy Tail'' can agree that the series takes it a little too far sometimes and it's almost like Mashima doesn't want us to forget that ''Fairy Tail'' is made of these good friends.

* Creator/GeorgeCarlin's later concerts have tended to include at least one section that comes across as not so much comedy as a rant to the effect that "the very concept of religion, and in particular Christianity, is inherently illogical and overbureaucratic."

* This is a major theme in ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''. Since the beginning of its publication, writers have been putting their own political and philosophical British ideals in it, and since it follows real time than ComicBookTime, a lot of those ideals are come from what was happening in contemporary UK. Examples of this include Jamie Delano's negative views of Thatcher's regime and by 2005, includes the War against Terrorism. When Garth Ennis took over writing, he included racism, drugs, and religious fanaticism, which were popular at that time. The most controversial writer, Brian Azzarello, tackled issues such as Neo-Nazism, prison rape, and homosexuality. During Warren Ellis' run, he included American school shootings in a one-shot issue which led to a major controversy. As such, much of Hellblazer's horror often arises from the crises and controversies of its time.

* "The Truth for Youth" by Creator/TimTodd are comics done in Japanese style artwork. They're like Chick Tracts, but a bit more sane. It's pretty odd to read [[{{Animesque}} Japanese-style]] characters talking about the evils of porn. They still aren't that sane, however. For example, this statement about evolution:
--->'''Rashad:''' Did you know that evolution is basically a racist concept? Some evolutionists still teach that white people evolved from "negroes" who evolved from apes--'''meaning "[[GoalOrientedEvolution white people are more evolved]]!"'''

* Creator/ReginaldHudlin ''really'' wants you to know that the ComicBook/BlackPanther is the coolest badass alive, and that the American government has selfish motives in dealing with African countries.

* The infamous original GrandFinale of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', "Graduation Day", was essentially three issues of Judd Winick ranting about how kids and teenagers have no place in the super hero business and trying to act like adults will only get them horrifically killed.

* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', as well as [[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks its animated TV show adaptation]]. Often expresses the feelings of Aaron [=McGruder=] on race, entertainment, religion, and politics. Be warned however, that some of that is also just Huey being Huey. This is subverted, however, by Huey being the character that often voices [=McGruder's=] beliefs, making it difficult to distinguish what the character thinks, and what the author thinks. Michael Caesar's role provides a bit of realism or LampshadeHanging to make the tract less Anvilicious or provide a more temperate view.
* Bill Watterson admitted that he wrote a lot of his troubles with the syndicate into ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', as well as his opinions on comics, film, TV, commercial and other industries, humans' role in nature, art, and general philosophy. However, he always tried to keep the tone of the comic consistent, and would scrap ideas that diverted too far.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' is really just Gary Trudeau telling people what he thinks about politics day-in and day-out, with occasional asides for other things. In its later years, however, the comic has become as much about exploring the gigantic cast of characters' lives as it has about politics. In the beginning it focused almost entirely on humor about the college life of the (''much'' smaller cast of) main characters.

** Henry has based his entire view of the fairy tale world off of the book, and has become convinced from it that Regina was always the Evil Queen. He is then shocked learn of her own [[BreakTheCutie tragic past]], and that she really was a [[GoodGirlGoneBad good person]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid once]]. He asks her why this wasn't included in the book, when every other villainous character was portrayed at least slightly sympathetically.

** The author manages to avoid doing this in the story itself however. Regina is well aware of the horrible things she has done, isn't very pleasant, and makes it clear she is working with the heroes to stop her mother, she doesn't care about any other challenges they are facing. The other characters aren't very fond of her, and no-one has yet commented that they misjudged/mistreated her.

* Chatoyance's stories set in the ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' universe have been ''extremely'' [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy handed]] attempts to preach the author's views regarding religion, human nature, environmental issues and sexuality.

* Pretty much any time any fanfiction creates a DesignatedVillain based on the author's personal experiences/views/current events, it's getting into an author's tract. It can be excused in some cases, if it's related to the plot, but if it comes [[AssPull out of the blue]] it looks like a giant lecture in the middle of an otherwise unrelated story.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gisaku}}'' mostly exists to tell viewers how aswesome Spain is, forcing national science programs and wildlife protection funds into the story. For instance, one character is an [[CatFolk antropomorphic lynx-man]] who used to be an ordinary lynx, but took on his new form to protect his species. Only now he's desperately searching for a way to return to normal, because Spain's wildlife protection programme is so good that his change turned out to be unnecessary! Amusingly, the film was made shortly before the financial crisis of 2008 and talks up Spain's economy quite a bit. A few years later, Spain was hit by the economic recession and unemployment rates are still very high.

* Tom Laughlin's ''Billy Jack'' was slowly overshadowed/overwhelmed by Laughlin's political views. Many a [[TheWarOnStraw war is waged on Straw]], specially if it's anyone on the opposite end of Laughlin's political views. The sequels gradually swapped out much of their predecessor's face-kicking action for even ''more'' heavy-handed pontificating, leading to critical panning for ''The Trial of Billy Jack'', while the third movie ended up being both a BoxOfficeBomb and CreatorKiller.

* ''Film/TheBlot'' by Lois Weber is all about attacking the sub-poverty wages given to university professors, going so far as to quote magazine editorials. The whole plot concerns the struggle of Prof. Griggs's family to survive. His daughter faints from hunger and his wife steals a chicken form the neighbors (but she puts it right back).

* Richard Linklater's film version of the non-fiction book ''Literature/FastFoodNation'' went from an exposé of the practices of the fast food restaurant industry to a two-hour rant about why people shouldn't eat meat. Despite becoming an InNameOnly adaptation of the book, author Eric Schlosser (who is not a vegetarian) still endorsed the final product (which may not be that surprising when one coniders that the original book is below and its ideas are not that different).

* Uwe Boll's ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' films are a particularly weird breed of an Author Tract. Its EvilGenius VillainProtagonist Bill Williamson is a deranged psychopath and domestic terrorist who, while GoingPostal, murders innocent people by the dozens for nothing but his own self-serving reasons. However, at least once per film he'll go on a minutes-long rant explaining that his violent actions are supposed to wake up humanity, giving a very thought-out analysis about political and economic corruption.

* Anna Sewell's ''Literature/BlackBeauty'' was originally written as an Author Tract about the abuses suffered by carriage horses in 19th century England, '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids not]]''' as a children's novel.

* ''Literature/ElsieDinsmore'', written by Martha Finley, aimed to teach Children how to be more Christlike by way of the adventures of the title character, and was even reprinted under the ''Life of Faith'' banner in the 1990s, though rampant amounts of UnfortunateImplications and ValuesDissonance toned down significantly. Finley was also the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, just in case you were curious, and most of her other works follow a similar format.

* ''Literature/EverythingFlows'' is basically one long statement by Vasily Grossman on Stalinist oppression and the necessity of freedom, with story to help the digestion.

* The elves of the ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Inheritance]]'' books (''Eragon'', ''Eldest'', ''Brisingr'', and ''Inheritance'') are atheist vegetarians who impart their 'wisdom' to the main character and the reader, by spending quite a bit of time expounding upon how 'stupid' religion is ([[ElvesVersusDwarves particularly to the dwarves]]). Creator/ChristopherPaolini denies that this was a representation of his own beliefs, claiming it was simply an attempt to portray various cultures and viewpoints in the series. [[AuthorsSavingThrow This became a lot more plausible after the third book.]] However, in the fourth book Eragon devotes two paragraphs to discussing the stupidity of religion, and in many places it is hinted that religion is scoffed at by all the main characters except Orik (the dwarf king) and Nasuada (the human queen).
* Norman Spinrad's ''Literature/TheIronDream''. An AlternateHistory UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (who became a writer instead of a politician) writes ''Lord Of The Swastika'', a pulp SF adventure with a plot that mirrors the real-world rise of the Third Reich. It's followed by a review where a scholar heaps praise on Hitler as a brilliant writer of rollicking good adventure stories, and whose only criticism is that he thinks it was a bit implausible for the protagonist to rise to power by creating a rather silly cult of personality and machismo. Naturally the whole thing is one giant TakeThat at the BrokenAesop morality of pulp SF and fantasy stories--and more generally, a TakeThat at Utopian fiction in general, satirizing the idea that you can write a book to "prove" your social theory will work in practice. In other words, it's an Author Tract about Author Tracts (specifically saying that if your tract is about the real world--rather than fiction--it's pointless).
* The Literature/JakubWedrowycz stories are written by a conservative author, and it shows sometimes; in one of the stories, the bad guys are radical left-wing ecologists, and in another the heroes chase away a European Union official.
* ''Literature/TheJungle'' by Upton Sinclair is perhaps one of the most compelling examples we have of an author tract, or rather two tracts -- first about the hellishness of the meat-packing industry in Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century, and then a defense of socialism. More literal than the usual author tract, because at first he had to self-publish. The meatpacking half (based on Sinclair's undercover observations) was so horrifying that it led to nearly-immediate regulation: the Meat Inspection Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act (which established the FDA). The socialist half made little lasting impact in America, where the burgeoning movement was forcibly shut down by the government, but was part of a sweeping movement that radically transformed the politics of Europe and Asia.
* ''King John of Canada'' by Scott Gardiner, although nominally a political satire, in reality consists of one AuthorFilibuster after another against Natives, Quebec Separatists, environmental activists, Saudi Royals, the Asper family, American-style conservatives... in short, everyone that the author doesn't like, all stuck together by a paper-thin plot and shallow characters.

* ''The Land of Mist'' by [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] is a novel-length tract justifying the author's conversion to Spirtualism, including the massive change in character of ultra-rationalist Professor Challenger, who converts to Spiritualism. There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of "ten million young men" in World War I was [[GodIsEvil ''punishment by the Central Intelligence]] for humanity's [[DisproportionateRetribution laughing at the alleged evidence]] for life after death''.

* The Arthur Hailey novel ''The Moneychangers'' has a recurring character to filibuster about how Gold is Good. Given that he's a pundit with his own popular newsletter, and is married to one of the secondary characters, and the book is about banking, it kinda makes sense. Then, after the 'real' ending, the US establishes a gold-backed dollar, and we are treated to the full text of one of said pundit's newsletters. Guess what it's about? The book ends with the lead putting the newsletter down and reflecting how wise said pundit is.

* Creator/AstridLindgren wrote ''Pomperipossa in Monismania'' to make a point about taxes -- the point being that it shouldn't be possible to have to have a marginal tax rate of 102%. Obviously not a very ''generic'' point, but it was relevant to when and where she wrote it (since it was written in reaction to finding out that her marginal tax rate ''was'' 102%), and it has the advantage of it being something that most people would agree with (it wasn't actually ''intended'' to be the case by the taxation system's designers, they'd just failed to anticipate the combination of being self-employed with having a high income).

* Creator/HPLovecraft's short story "The Silver Key" consists almost entirely of his AuthorAvatar Randolph Carter, who is exactly like Lovecraft except that his family didn't lose its wealth and prestige, musing about all things wrong with the society. He bashes both religion and science for their obsession with order and structure, and declares that dreams are equal to reality, and that the only things worth valuing in a meaningless universe are beauty and harmony. The ending implies a romanticized view of suicide, as Carter abandons the Waking World, ironically in perfect opposite to the {{Aesop}} he was supposed to have learned in ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.

* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' is an Author Tract, all right. Robert A. Heinlein wrote it in protest of America signing a nuclear treaty with Russia--whom he did not believe would keep nuclear treaties.
* A large part of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' revolves around nudism and polyamory, both of which Heinlein practiced in his real life (''Literature/ForUsTheLivingAComedyOfCustoms'', a [[MissingEpisode lost early Heinlein manuscript]] which was first published in 2003, contains similar themes). Indeed, his works can largely be divided into pre-''Stranger'' and post-''Stranger'', with the latter showing far more evidence of this. There's also a greater-than-average amount of incest, including a mention that in his distant future it's genetically safer in some cases for a woman to bear her brother's children than an unrelated man's -- a couple's decision to have children together (or not) is based purely on their gene scans, not on consanguinity. Not that that necessarily stops them from ''marrying''; there's a reference to a happily married couple who are raising seven children, "four his, three hers, none theirs," using donor sperm for hers and donor eggs for his because the genetic risks of having children together were too great. Apparently HollywoodEvolution leads to a world where [[MarySuetopia whatever the creator thinks is hottest happens]]. Heinlein was probably unaware of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect#Westermarck_effect Westermarck Effect]], or he would have been less sanguine about the possibility of genetic scans completely replacing the incest taboo as society's method of minimizing pregnancies and births marred by reinforced harmful recessive genes.

* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'', written under a pseudonym by William Pierce, who was leader of the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance until his death in 2002. Largely about ''eeeevil'' [[StrawmanPolitical liberals and Jews]] enslaving America, and the actions of the DesignatedHero terrorist cell 'The Order' trying to overthrow said ''eeeevil'' strawmen. For a scary note, a scene in which the Order blow up a federal building probably inspired the actions of one of its biggest fans -- Timothy [=McVeigh=], the Oklahoma City Bomber.

* ''Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine'' by Jostein Gaarder consists of letters criticizing the works of an early Christian theologian, written from his fictional lover's point of view. His beliefs about sex and joy are contested in particular, and often in a way that might be seen as an appropriate reaction to mindsets still relevant, thus instrumentalizing 1500-ish year old texts to point out present day hypocrisy.

* This trope was Creator/CharlesDickens's stock in trade. All of his works are morality plays meant to drive home his socialist (or at least social-democratic) ideals. In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Ebeneezer Scrooge rails that the poor are lazy and inferior and deserve to die, on scientific principle, and then an innocent child almost does. In ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'', and ''Literature/OliverTwist'', more innocent children are mercilessly abused, either by predators that society chooses to do nothing about, or by the very institutions of that society. In ''Literature/LittleDorrit'', citizens are reduced to professional beggars by the debtors' prison system. And the list goes on. Most of these were cases of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, though.

*** There is also Santa, of all people, who discourages Susan and Lucy from fighting, because they're girls. ("War is ugly when women fight"). One would expect Santa to be anti-war, but he does give their brother a sword, so there is that.

* Even Creator/EdgarAllanPoe wasn't immune to this, though to either his credit or his fault, he restricted it to philosophy.

** He hoped to convey a new way to understand religion through exemplifying the themes of guilt and free will in writing ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov''. This can be seen in what many critics call the pivotal chapters of the book, which include the parable called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor ''The Grand Inquisitor''.]] The way in which events play out conform with the Elder Zosima's idea expressed throughout of "everyone is guilty for all and before all."

** ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' is an Author Tract in the same vein, with the main character being a cruel nihilist who kills an elderly loan shark to rob her of the money he needs for university, justifying it on the grounds that "great men" such as Cesare Borgia showed no qualms about doing such things in pursuit of their goals. He winds up repenting and becoming Orthodox Christian. Not surprisingly, this was Dostoevsky's religion.

** ''Literature/TheConfession'': The book attacks the death penalty by constructing a miscarriage of justice where the pro-death penalty side are all grossly negligent and unlikable, in contrast to the anti-death penalty side. To top it off, once the message is thoroughly beaten through you, Grisham decides to dedicate a few pages to having a character rail against the death penalty.
** ''The Appeal'' featurs a long discourse on the need for an independent judiciary, how ads manipulate the truth, and how often big businesses will hide behind certain causes as an excuse to manipulate tort law to be more favorable. Including having a train of accidents hit the winning election candidate to get him to try and convert, but he stays bought.

** In ''Through the Looking Glass'', a grandmother ponders why her local Democrats can't be both liberal ''and'' patriotic, though this is also a first-person perspective. Later, it turns out various Terrorists and Insurgent groups tried to use captured aliens as a bioweapon, which escaped of course and butchered most of the Islamic fundamentalist movement in the Middle East. It's a good thing to the characters.

* A lot of Creator/LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle's collaborative work have a message that technology and science is good, religion and treehugging liberal extremists who hate technology are bad.

* A great deal of Creator/MegCabot's books, especially her YA novels. It was especially apparent in ''Literature/ReadyOrNot'', where Ms. Cabot literally stopped the narrative to rant against the abstinence movement. Her other books contain some amounts of similar commentary.

** More recently his novella ''Hamlet's Father'', a retelling of {{Theatre/Hamlet}}, has been accused of this. In it Hamlet gets portrayed as staunchly Christian with a firm belief in the afterlife, very different from his doubts about this in the play, but in keeping with the author's beliefs. These revisions would be controversial enough themselves, but it's also shown that his father was a predatory pedophile who sexually abused Hamlet and many other male characters. In fact, his father was not killed by Claudius, but Horatio, in revenge for this abuse. Worse, it's implied this turned Hamlet and the other victims gay. Card has disputed this view, but it agrees with his publicly stated theory on what causes homosexuality.
* Petrarch's [[AuthorExistenceFailure unpublished final work]], a poem on Scipio Africanus, was full of long {{Author Filibuster}}s on how AncientRome was [[MarySuetopia better than everything ever]]. Technically, this is true of all of Petrarch's work, and indeed, most things written during UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, but he took the cultural inferiority complex UpToEleven. There's also apparently a fictitious bit where Scipio goes to see a fortuneteller, who speaks of a dark time when poetry will die out and only a man named [[AuthorAvatar Petrarch]] will be able to save it.

* Jan Guillou digresses in ''The Bridge Builders'' on American railroads mistreating Chinese "slaves" building railroads in the American West, and draws the conclusion that Americans in general are "the world's most brutal people" -- even though the novel has no scenes in the US or China and none of the characters have any connection to the US or China.
* Ray Bradbury uses his story "The Toynbee Convector" (title story of his mid-80s collection) to rail against his society's defeatism and negativism at the time. It is out of character for Bradbury, but works if you view the big lie of the story as representing the writer's art. In that view, Bradbury is just saying how he hopes his writing will influence the "real world" (or bragging that it has had that effect).

* John Twelve Hawks wrote ''Literature/TheFourthRealm'' to alert his readers to invasion of their privacy.
* Thriller author and former US Navy Captain Creator/PTDeutermann uses his political/military thrillers to air his opinions about military bureaucracy, politicking by senior military leadership (especially the Navy), social engineering and other military related issues. Especially evident in Literature/ScorpionInTheSea (HeadInTheSandManagement by senior naval officials), Literature/TheEdgeOfHonor (the draft, lowering of standards), Literature/OfficialPrivilege (race issues in the military, too much power in the hands of admiral executive assistants), Literature/{{Darkside}} (social engineering, lowered standards and hypocritical senior leadership at the Naval Academy), Literature/ColdFrame (morality of drone warfare against terrorists).

* Every episode of Series/AdamRuinsEverything centers around the titular Adam attempting to disprove a popular notion about his topic, whether the episode be about the romanticism of proposals or the effectiveness of a border wall. Each time, Adam is portrayed as correct, even if he's obnoxious about it.

* ''Series/HarrysLaw'' seems to be another David E. Kelley example, utilizing the characters of Harry and Thomas Jefferson as soap box preachers in court room scenes.

* Creator/JossWhedon touches on his existentialist(-ish) views in the the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Objects In Space", through Jubal Early. Joss goes into much deeper detail in the episode commentary.

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' pretty much turned into a show protesting societal wrongs after a couple seasons. The most glaring was probably the one that opened with a warning about a graphic portrayal of a de-horned rhinoceros, then spent about half its running time explaining the poaching in Africa and ended with Richard Dean Anderson as himself narrating about what can be done about it. VerySpecialEpisode, indeed.

* Is it coincidence that the soapboxing quotient on ''Series/QuincyME'' increased as Jack Klugman got more script control? Er... no.

* Gene Roddenberry, the creator of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', has a history of putting his atheistic ideals in his work. It becomes most overt in "Who Watches the Watchers?" where the re-emergence of religion among a Vulcan-like race on one planet (due to [[GodGuise Enterprise crew members being seen beaming down and being mistaken for gods]]) is treated as a ''terrible'' thing, with much sermonizing on the evils of superstition in a long PatrickStewartSpeech before they successfully prove they ''aren't'' gods to the natives.

* ''Series/TheWire'' can be seen as one five-season-long Author Tract on how selfishness, ambition and stupidity are keeping American institutions in a vicious cycle of incompetence.

** The 2018 revival has the real-life Roseanne's right-wing values (having since gone to the other side of the political spectrum) leak into the show, to the point of outright contradicting older seasons. Though thankfully it's yet to also show Roseanne's opinion on real life political issue like LGBT rights or the current government, which [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment are too volatile to talk about here.]]

* Taken collectively, the soundtrack to the 1994 fantasy-action film ''Film/TheCrow'' is a combination of this and AuthorAppeal by proxy. The line-up is primarily a showcase for the kinds of bands that ''James O'Barr,'' the creator of the comic on which the movie is based, enjoyed growing up (especially Music/TheCure, who contribute the movie's unofficial theme song: "Burn"). But there are also a few songs that get preachy, sometimes excessively so, reflecting some of the more extreme left-wing positions of the 1990's. "Golgotha Tenement Blues" (by ''Machines of Loving Grace'') is a more subtle example, since it comments on the urban corruption ("Down on the boulevard, children are sold, to pave the way for your streets of gold") that is one of the major undertones of ''The Crow.'' But Music/{{Pantera}} contribute the anti-cop "The Badge," which outright refers to policemen as "badge wearing fascist villains" (while the police lieutenant in the film is sympathetic). And on "Darkness," Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's Zack de la Rocha raps: "My people were left with no choice but to decide, to conform to a system responsible for genocide!" ''The Crow'' is, at its heart, about one man's private anguish and contains no explicit political themes (except, perhaps, for [[CaptainObviousAesop "slumlords are evil"]]).

* Not the ''Discovery'' album specifically, but the music video ''Anime/{{Interstella 5555}}'' is basically a gigantic middle finger to the celebrity system and the corporate world's exploitation of artists, which fits Music/DaftPunk's core philosophies quite well.

** "All I Can Do Is Write About It" talks about destruction of the Southern enviroment.

* Music/MarilynManson's "Triptych" albums, ''Antichrist Superstar'', ''Mechanical Animals'' and ''Holy Wood (In The Shadow of The Valley of Death)'' are three separate ones that, at times, overlap. The first is about individuality, a tract against Christianity and also an adaptation of the Book of Revelation (though it took the fandom a while to figure this out, because Manson says little about the plots and embedded a lot of obscure imagery from both the Bible and occult and historical sources) from the viewpoint of the Antichrist, who is also a musician. The second is a tract against the rock star life, based on Manson's own experiences, told from the viewpoint of two [[ShoutOut alien rock stars]] [[Music/DavidBowie and the "Mechanical Animals" are their band]]. The aliens, Alpha and Omēga, are enslaved to their label, addicted to drugs and in love with a woman named Coma White, who might not even be real (though, ''Holy Wood'' shows she is). Finally, ''Holy Wood (In The Shadow of The Valley of Death)'' was written in 1999 and 2000, hot off the heels of the Columbine Massicare and Manson's [[MisBlamed misblaming]], and is another tract against Christianity, as well as America's gun culture, sports culture and government worship, centered around a protaganist named Adam Kadmon, [[RuleOfThree a musican]] and reveloutionary.His name comes from the Kabbalah and meanss "original man". Much of this era was also explained in various public apperances and even a few speeches, and there was to be a ''Holy Wood'' book, but it was never released (although Manson still wants to, 15 years after the album). Oh, all three are connected, as stated before. [[MindScrew In the opposite order.]]

* Music/OingoBoingo danced around this trope. They drifted into politics occasionally throughout the 1980s... but since Creator/DannyElfman's sociopolitical views are (or were) all over the map, he comes off more as an extremely disgruntled anarchist ranting about how he hates everything. He even admitted that the entire point of Oingo Boingo's existence was to "piss everybody off."

* PorcupineTree delivers a bitter and blistering TakeThat against music industry in "The Sound of Muzak", accusing it of robbing music of any creativity, emotion and sincerity.

* Many thrash metal bands moved in this direction during classic metal's {{Gotterdammerung}} between 1988 and 1991, trading sex and violence for left-wing politics and anti-war messages, and beer-fueled fury for punkish societal indignation. Some bands, like Sacred Reich and Toxik (whose second album is a ConceptAlbum about how television is bad for you) made their entire careers doing this sort of music.

** Her album ''Couture Cosmetique'' subtitled, ''Transgendered electroacoustique symptomatic of the need for a cultural makeover (Or... What's behind all that foundation?)'', is a discussion on the dominance of male heterosexual producers in electronic music, the influence that their gender has over all producers, and what a queer piece of electronic music would really sound like.

** ''Soullessness'' meditates on the decontextualization and repackaging of cultural and subcultural mores to fit into and satiate "the mainstream norm", and where transsexuality, wage labor and spirituality belong in that conversation.
** ''Deproduction'' takes an uncomfortable and unflinching look at how every sector of the LGBT+ community conspires to live and act like heterosexual people, down to marriage, children and military service, and offering commentary on why this isn't the correct path. The first half of the text/visuals that accompany the album depict explicit and disturbing scenarios of teen pregnancy, forced child support, pregnancy denial, and cultural sex taboos from around the globe, in an effort to highlight things swept under the rug that are much, ''much'' worse than LGBT+ couples being allowed to live as they are (as in, not as a married, co-habitating, one-person-is-the-bride-and-the-other-is-the-groom kind of way.)
** Her entire body of work as DJ Sprinkles is about the re-appropriation and homogenization of black and latinx queer culture for heterosexual masses. The song "Sloppy 42nds" was about and dedicated to all the transsexual people and bars that were thrown out of Times Square when it was revitalized into the tourist trap it is today. Her critically adored album ''Midtown 120 Blues'' posits, "The House Nation likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering, but suffering is in here with us;" and that house music, while promoted as a universal shared experience, is actually hyper-specific and means different things to each person you talk to. The 21-minute, two part "Grand Central" ends with an ambient re-imagining of her traumatic one-way move from Missouri to New York City at age 18 by train, taken to escape the near-constant physical and emotional abuse from all sides for being queer, to illustrate that last point.
* Music/ToddRundgren's 1975 album ''Initiation'' was a retort to his fans who wanted him to ditch the synthesizers and Buddhist symbolism that had crept into his crunchy rock/AOR pop sound on previous albums ''A Wizard, a True Star'' and ''Todd''. Instead, he went on for 68 full minutes about it, telling his fans that he was a "Real Man" "Born to Synthesize", and taunting them to follow him or lose him forever. Then came the 32 minute synth freakout that closed the album, containing movements named after the seven chakras.

* The ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series, at least the ones based in Strangereal, tends to lay the WarIsHell themes on rather heavily. Most if not all the supporting protagonists are [[TechnicalPacifist Technical Pacifists]] who constantly lament the state of he war and war in general, often launching into monologues on how the enemy faction are NotSoDifferent from them, or ranting at someone about the state of the war and how violence only begets violence....[[GamePlayAndStorySegregation often while]] [[{{Hypocrite}} blasting enemy planes and vehicles]] into oblivion.

* ''VideoGame/TheLastResurrection'' portrays Jesus (the game's final boss) as being personally responsible for crusades, inquisitions, witch-burnings and even Nazism; during the ending sequence the heroes conclude that world peace will not be achieved until all religions are abolished. [[SarcasmMode It's a long-shot, but there's a small chance that the designer might not be too keen on organised religion]].
* SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/ScelusPath'' adds a strange bit of eco-feminism to the mix, with female nature spirits proclaiming things like "The humans have spreaded lies of a male, God, and are using this left-brained thinking which invokes sexism and specism." There are many more statements like that, [[RougeAnglesOfSatin with similar spelling]].

* In the first ''Literature/LeftBehind'', most every unit on your side is assigned a name and history complete with conversion story about how finding Jesus fixed their life. Neutral (and borderline hostile) units can be recruited by evangelizing at them, while the evil recruiters are (white) rap artists (because secular media are evil and will take you away from God). Every mission is even followed by an explicit tract on some right-wing evangelical Christian bugaboo that has nothing to do with the game, like why evolution is evil and wrong, or how archaeology is proving the Bible 100% accurate.

** Kojima isn't just anti nuke, but anti war in general. Everything from the story down to the gameplay (such as the fact that from [=MGS2=] onward, you weren't required to kill anybody) reflects a certain reverence for human life not typically found in video games.
*** Kojima also really hates people drafting children into war. Additionally, his dislike of {{PMC}}s is also quite evident. In general, he hates people profiting off of death. Also, a more subtle one, the idea of VR Troopers being an idiotic idea is likely a TakeThat at the idea of video games making people hardend killers.
* The ''VideoGame/OddWorld'' games have shades of this. The save the environment aesop being essentially the point of the entire series.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' starts off with a cliche Protagonist Thieves versus Antagonist Corrupt Adults, using the seven sins as a central theme. But the end reveals that the real tract is Tokyo's populace, who are effectively too apathetic / cynic to even think that any rebellion could change things for the better, which reaches an ugly head when Tokyo is turned into a hellish landscape filled with broken spines and raining blood, and almost everyone pretends nothing happened, walking calmly even as the rain of blood disintegrates pedestrians at random, while the Phantom Thieves are busy drowning to death in the middle of the street. It takes a few headshots at the guys regulating the masses and a big public speech to get them to move, which kind of makes things more depressing as it implies Tokyo needs to be led by people to get anything done.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' wants to make sure you know that the PowerOfFriendship conquers all and that LonersAreFreaks. The game mixes this in by making the central conflict a friendship vs loner dilemma while mixing it with BlackAndWhiteMorality, putting friendship as white and loner as black. This goes further than the central conflict however, with characters completely unrelated to it commenting on friendships power, and any character that make loner-like statements are either evil, smug or horribly misguided. All of which are either killed or made to realize the error of their ways.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' it is common to encounter short speeches from the characters' mouths about BDSM informing the reader of such things as the importance of considering safety, the responsibility of the Dom and the importance of trust and honesty in the relationship. The reasoning given is that this comic partially exists to educate and dispel BDSM myths.
* ''Webcomic/TinyDickAdventures'', a side webcomic by one of the creators of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' does this very often, almost too often. At first the strip started off rather lighthearted and charming, much like the original series, but then gradually turned into a soapbox for the authors views on subjects like religion, government, presidential elections, transgenderism, homosexuality, LinkedIn, and so on. As one could probably guess, some of these episodes [[FlameBait didn't sit well]] with the audience.

* The creator of the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' carried around a burning hate for the New England Patriots football team, to the point that he had the entire team wiped out and their stadium burned to the ground by a supervillain team. The NFL then decides to not reconstruct the team out of "respect" for the fallen players]

* For ''Literature/{{Pyrrhic}}'' the author went on a fairly lengthy one in the ending author's notes of the seventeenth chapter in regards to the UnfortunateImplications behind DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and how it's just as bad as the opposite. He also decried the use of RapeAsBackstory, saying that it disgusted him. However, in story, he justified the scene where [[spoiler:Xenia rapes Tom]] in order to have a healthy discussion on why these dark subjects need to be stopped and to help people understand why mocking these tropes is a good way to demean those who have been affected by them. He then said [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he'd get off of his soapbox]]. However, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* While ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' is usually good at avoiding these, the episode about standardized tests went a wee bit overboard. One of the recurring dialogues of the episode is that standardized tests are not only ineffective, but are damaging and counterproductive for more creative children (Ingrid noted a boy who was terrified of the test was also an amazing inventor "but that doesn't show up on the S.A.T.T.Y.9") and for others who do not test well. Although the points about "bad test-takers" are actually pretty valid, the constant reiteration of the observation reaches Author Tract levels when pretty much every child who takes the test either gripes about how pointless it is, or the children who actually want to take the test are depicted as rather neurotic overachievers.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' often devotes episodes to be heavy handed over the top Author Tract, with StrawmanPolitical.

* Hideo Kojima's ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series has a tendency to pause the action for ''long'' cutscenes proclaiming the danger of nukes. [[http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index.php/Site/ThumbnailMetalGearSolid1-01 Metal Gear Solid Thumbnail Theatre]] mocks this by occasionally substituting the name of the nuclear expert with that of Kojima:
-->'''Hideo Kojima''': NUKES ARE VEDDY, VEDDY BAD. GRRR NUKES.

* ''Webcomic/ScenesFromAMultiverse'': Internet {{troll}}s and [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] end up on the receiving end of the author's pen, but it’s usually done so cleverly you won’t mind. After all, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** The 2018 revival has the real-life Roseanne's right-wing values (having since gone to the other side of the political spectrum) leak into the show, to the point of outright contradicting older seasons. Though thankfully it's yet to also show Roseanne's opinion on real life political issue like LGBT rights or the current government, which [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement are too volatile to talk about here.]]

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* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' is very much this, a story set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture where the US dissolves into one far-right and a number of straw liberal states.

** He wrote ''Literature/{{Ghost}}'' as this deliberately. He never intended to publish it, but it got published due to pressure from the fans, much to his chagrin. To give you an idea, the main character pursues kidnapper terrorists to the Middle East, where he kills them all, coaches a group of naked coeds through a siege (while renaming them, because he can't be bothered to learn their names), kills UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden and mails his head to the President in a bucket, buys a yacht with the reward money, has kinky bondage sex with some of the coeds and converts them to Republicanism. Later volumes in the ''Paladin of Shadows'' series, which tone down some of the more extreme elements of the first book, take aim at extremist Muslims, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat bureaucrats]], and assorted other issues that bother him.

* Judging from the way that questions are phrased on ''Series/FamilyFeud'', the show's writers are {{Heteronormative Crusader}}s. It wouldn't even be that big of a deal, except that while the conversation on LGBT rights has progressed rapidly since Steve Harvey came on as host of ''Family Feud'' in 2010, the syntax on the show pertaining to husbands and wives hasn't.

* Music/ToddRundgren's 1975 album ''Initiation'' was a retort to his fans who wanted him to ditch the synthesizers and Buddhist symbolism that had crept into his crunchy rock sound. Instead, he went on for 68 full minutes about it, telling his fans that he was a "Real Man" "Born to Synthesize", and taunting them to follow him or lose him forever. Then came the 32 minute synth freakout that closed the album, containing movements named after the seven chakras.

* Terre Thaemlitz has a habit of releasing albums full of tracts – which contain extensive essays in their liner notes.
** Since she couldn't include liner notes in early albums, she protested mindless ambient music sonically on ''Tranquilizer'', which includes an entire ambient piece designed to sound like a jerk-off session; another song grows progressively darker and sinister in tone until the true nature of the piece is revealed in a dialog sample about murder. ''Soil'' followed suit, with commentary on AIDS and abuse. Both album titles were double entendres meant as additional commentary.
** Her album ''Couture Cosmetique'' was subtitled, ''Transgendered electroacoustique symptomatic of the need for a cultural makeover (Or... What's behind all that foundation?)''
** ''Love for Sale: Taking Stock in Our Pride'', released in 1998, was ahead of its time in criticizing the media and retail worlds' attempts in repackaging and selling queer culture back to LGBT people. The album also criticized LGBT peoples' decision to exchange their fight for basic human rights for the ability to ''get married''.

** ''Deproduction'' takes an uncomfortable and unflinching look at how every sector of the LGBT+ community conspires to live and act like heterosexual people, down to marriage, children and military service, and offering commentary on why this isn't the correct path. The first half of the text/visuals that accompany the album depict a variety of struggles and grievances between hetero people that the current system assists in propagating (but would denounce with extreme prejudice if it ever happened between LGBT+ couples), such as teen pregnancy, forced child support, pregnancy denial, and cultural sex taboos from around the globe.
** Her entire body of work as DJ Sprinkles is about the re-appropriation and homogenization of black and latinx queer culture for heterosexual masses. The song "Sloppy 42nds" was about and dedicated to all the transsexual people and bars that were thrown out of Times Square when it was revitalized into the tourist trap it is today. Her album ''Midtown 120 Blues'' begins with a three-minute filibuster on how house music's origins in physically suffering, poverty-stricken black and latinx LGBT circles have been swept under the rug in favor of a white hetero experience encompassing dancing and drinking all night long; later on, she rails against {{Music/Madonna}} for repackaging baller culture in her song "Vogue" for her own financial gain, without giving back to or even acknowledging the community it came from. And finally, the 21-minute, two part "Grand Central" sonically details her personal trauma (as "house so much isn't a sound but a situation") of her one-way move from Missouri to New York City at age 18 by train, taken to escape the near-constant abuse for being "queer-fag-pussy-AIDS bait". But don't let any of this deter you - the album contains some of the absolute best deep house of the 2000s and was in the top of several critics' end-of-year lists.

* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' (also the animated TV show version). Often expresses the feelings of Aaron [=McGruder=] on race, entertainment, religion, and politics. Be warned however, that some of that is also just Huey being Huey. This is subverted, however, by Huey being the character that often voices [=McGruder's=] beliefs, making it difficult to distinguish what the character thinks, and what the author thinks. Michael Caesar's role provides a bit of realism or LampshadeHanging to make the tract less Anvilicious or provide a more temperate view.

* One of the reasons [[BunnyEarsLawyer William Moulton Marston]] created Franchise/WonderWoman was to convince everyone to come under "submission to loving authority" and how a "loving matriarchy" would be a superior, peaceful world government. Oh, and [[AuthorAppeal bondage is highly enjoyable]].

* Every episode of WebVideo/AdamRuinsEverything centers around the titular Adam attempting to disprove a popular notion about his topic, whether the episode be about the romanticism of proposals or the effectiveness of a border wall. Each time, Adam is portrayed as correct, even if he's obnoxious about it.

* ''Webcomic/BetterDays'' started out as an author tract largely for conservatism and mild misogyny, but has gradually grown into an author tract for Objectivism as Jay Naylor discovered that particular philosophy and became a huge Creator/AynRand fan. One chapter of the comic is basically a long rant against abstract art or any art that '[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible doesn't look like something]]', culminating with the 'good' artist whose paintings "look like what they're of" being given validation first in the form of a big check from a businessman, and then discarding her own search for fulfillment to move in with the male main character, whom she expects nothing of (not even fidelity). And guns are good.
** While he's tried avoiding this with its sequel comic, ''Webcomic/OriginalLife'', the operative word here is "Tried" - [[ArcFatigue The Muffin Arc]] in particular showcases his views regarding the free market.

* Ken Penders' run on ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' had tones of this. Penders had a very active fixation on gun control laws and gun safety which he brought into the comic aggressively (which made little sense given the vast majority of the characters never used them in the first place) going so far as to turn accidental gun use as the whole reason for the plot-driving war to start. And then it was all [[RetGone retconned away]] because of his own lawsuit.

* Creator/GarthEnnis is fond of these -- particularly concerning religion, the Irish and other authors he doesn't like. Above all else, however, he enjoys voicing his dislike of superheroes, beginning early with ''ComicBook/ThePunisherKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', continuing on in his run on ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' proper and culminating in his series ''ComicBook/TheBoys''.
** The "Emerald Isle" arc in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''ComicBook/TheAuthority: Kev'' and the "Kitchen Irish" arc in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' are his way of delivering his opinion of the IRA (hint: he doesn't like them).
* James Robinson's works often contain his views on current things going on at DC.
** His ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' run featured a scene where Solomon Grundy referred to Alan Scott as "Franchise/GreenLantern" despite the fact that he was going by the name "Sentinel" at the time (as [[ExecutiveMeddling editorial decreed Kyle Rayner was the only hero allowed to use the GL name]]). Upon being corrected, Grundy shrugs and says he'll always consider Alan to be Green Lantern no matter what anyone else says.
** His ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' run is rife with his views on other characters, such as ComicBook/{{Vixen}} being referred to as a pathetic knock-off of ComicBook/AnimalMan. This culminates in the final issue before the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot where he has various League members tear into some of the stuff mentioned about the reboot, including Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing again and the no-show of Donna Troy.

** The [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 film]] plays with this a bit, making it so that these things are absolutely symptoms of larger behavioral issues, probably in part because [[OnceAcceptableTargets some of these flaws were barely noteworthy behavior by the time the film came out]]. Augustus' character is more or less the same, but Violet's chronic gum-chewing has been mutated into an extreme all-around competitive streak, and Mike Teevee's television addiction becomes a general technology addiction that is not always ethical (he hacked the system to find the Golden Ticket) and he also has a need to show everyone he's the best. Even Veruca's brattiness is taken UpToEleven from where she was in the books and the [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory earlier film]].

* ''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'' by Samuel Richardson was a very popular didactic novel to teach young women the importance of feminine virtues, including piety, domesticity, and most importantly chastity. The main character is basically a MarySue of the feminine ideal who repeatedly asserts her virtue against the advances of a rakish suitor.
** Even at the time the book was published, some were disgusted by the classification of "virtue" as "virginity". One author wrote a parody, ''Shamela'', that ridiculed the concept by having long conversations over the heroine's "vartue", pointing out just how meaningless the word "virtue" is when used in the original.
** That author was Henry Fielding, who also wrote ''Joseph Andrews'', revolving around Pamela's brother and casting him in the role of the young innocent whose virtue is continually besieged. Fielding ''really'' hated ''Pamela,'' it seems.

* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' makes it abundantly clear what Creator/DavidWeber thinks about any number of issues. At the start of the series, Haven is the antagonist, and explicitly a welfare system taken to absurd extremes. The need to provide for masses on the dole makes them turn conquistador. One character later internally ponders at length how Haven's education system turns out poorly trained soldiers because it focuses on "validating" the students rather than really teaching them. The evils of socialism and flat taxes are also discussed. Nearly all star nations have capital punishment, the bad guys included, and it's always done by hanging. Abortion is also considered unethical, though it's obsolete now as babies can be [[UterineReplicator "tubed"]]. Both Conservatives and Liberals are initially not portrayed well (some good examples come about later), with the protagonists being centrist. This makes sense as the series also pushes what are usually more left-wing views, like sexual liberation and women's rights.

* ''Literature/{{Pamela}}, or Virtue Rewarded'' by Samuel Richardson, was a very popular didactic novel for young ladies in the 18th century. Its heroine is seduced by the willful gentleman "Mr B," but Pamela holds true to her principles and tames Mr B. He proposes marriage to her and they live happily ever after as good Christians.

* After its creator's conversion to born-again Christianity, ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' became notorious for its pro-Christian sermonizing, including one infamous Easter strip showing a menorah transforming into a cross (WordOfGod was that this was merely his way of expressing a new religion coming into its own). Which may seem weird given the apparent caveman setting, but there was a strip ("Hey, I found this paper from 2004...") that implies ''B.C.'' actually takes place AfterTheEnd, not prehistoric but rather post-Rapture. With Hart's grandson, Mason Mastroianni, in the writer's seat, the preachiness has been dropped and the strip has returned to gag-a-day format.

** Griffith's next movie ''Intolerance'' definitely ''was'' an author tract — not against racism, as is widely assumed by people who haven't seen the movie, but actually against class-based prejudice, religious discrimination, and sexism. Unlike ''Birth of a Nation'' it was a box-office flop.
** His next film after that, ''Broken Blossoms'', may also qualify, with its sympathetic portrayal of a love story between a Chinese man and a white girl.

* Creator/StevenSeagal's ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'' caps off its green-friendly agenda with Seagal ''literally'' lecturing the audience on environmental problems and getting a round of applause.

** He was also critical of the Japanese feudal system, as shown in ''Film/SevenSamurai'' when samurai wannabe Kikuchiyo vents out his rage to the samurai about why the farmers are so deceptive and mean.
* Jonathan Demme was reluctant to direct ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' because he didn't want to glorify the FBI, who he regarded unfavorably because of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wiretapping Martin Luther King. Never mind that Hoover had been dead for nearly 20 years. You can see his anti-FBI stance in his previous movie ''Film/MarriedToTheMob'' where Michelle Pfeiffer's character is secretly bugged by the FBI and they are viewed as just as big villains as the mob. Pfeiffer even has a line after she's forced to be a witness or go to prison, to the "You and the mob, you're just the same!" In ''Silence of the Lambs'' they mention Clarice asked her boss about Hoover's illegal wiretapping when she was a student and he was lecturing at her university.

* Uwe Boll's ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' films are a particularly weird breed of an Author Tract. Its EvilGenius VillainProtagonist Bill Williamson is a deranged psychopath slash domestic terrorist who, while GoingPostal, murders innocent people by the dozens for nothing but his own self-serving reasons. However, at least once per film he'll go on a minutes-long rant explaining that his violent actions are supposed to wake up humanity, giving a very thought-out analysis about political and economic corruption. Considering it's coming from the mouth of a ''mass murderer'', the message is pretty much [[StrawmanHasAPoint shooting itself in the foot]].

* The ''Franchise/AceCombat'' series, at least the ones based in Strangereal, tends to lay the WarIsHell themes on rather heavily. Most if not all the supporting protagonists are [[TechnicalPacifist Technical Pacifists]] who constantly lament the state of he war and war in general, often launching into monologues on how the enemy faction are NotSoDifferent from them, or ranting at someone about the state of the war and how violence only begets violence....[[GamePlayAndStorySegregation often while]] [[{{Hypocrite}} blasting enemy planes and vehicles]] into oblivion.

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