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* Goldilocks, from the Vertigo comic ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'', seems to be this at first, with every negative stereotype about liberal feminists you can think of, spouting Communist rhetoric, exclaiming "Oh my Goddess!" at every turn; however, it turns out it's all an act to cynically manipulate her followers. Also, she's insane.
* In an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'', Jesse was listening to a late-night debate between a Straw Feminist and a Straw Conservative which was so stupid he got pissed off, called the radio station, and used his CompellingVoice to make them confess what each really wanted. They ''both'' said they want cock.
* The CorruptCorporateExecutive version of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] occasionally edged into Strawman Conservative territory, though when the character actually ran for president the writers were careful not to describe his political leanings at all. Though it's worth noting that at one point, Comicbook/GreenArrow decries something President Luthor has done with "This would never happen with a Democrat in the White House!" (Green Arrow's own leftist strawman status is debatable; make your own decision on whether his statement there was meant as a strawman's or dead serious). ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' avoids this by making Luthor a third-party independent. Luthor was a third party candidate in the comic books as well. [[DependingOnTheWriter If some writers forgot that in order to turn him into a Strawman,]] that can't be helped, but the main writers of the story showed him as competing with the "two major party candidates."
* Franchise/TheDCU super-duo, ComicBook/HawkAndDove, were ''created'' to exemplify this trope. In the original stories, penned by Objectivist Creator/SteveDitko, Dove, the pacifist, is portrayed as weak-willed, vacillating, and ineffectual, while his aggressive brother Hawk is the only one who manages to accomplish anything. Almost every writer ''since'' Ditko has portrayed Hawk as a thoughtlessly belligerent borderline berserker, with the rational, thoughtful Dove providing the only rational check on his action. Only rarely do we see a story where both viewpoints are treated with anything approaching equal regard, or a writer who admits the possibility that the different approaches might be appropriate in different situations. Ironically, this mainly came to the fore when Ditko was working with Steve Skeates, the more liberal co-creator of the duo. Characterization veered from side to side depending on who was doing the main plotting, until Skeates finally left the book over how Dove was being made into a wimp. When Hawk and Dove were later revived, the whole "conservative vs. liberal" thing was quietly dropped in the dustbin, and the two were recast as agents of Order (Dove) and Chaos (Hawk) meant to find a balance in tumultuous situations. Bonus Points: their father was a judge and always told them that they needed to see and understand each other's side. Later taken to extremes when Hawk [[{{Flanderization}} murdered Dove and became a brutal militaristic dictator.]] And then taken to an even greater extreme during ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'', where Dove I is apparently the only dead person in the entire universe who is at peace. This all becomes rather strange when you consider that the peaceful, pacifist, Dove constantly telling Hawk that not all problems are solved by running around in spandex and punching people in the face is portrayed as unfailingly right by most writers, when the setting revolves around people running around in spandex and punching people in the face. It's also important to remember that [[ValuesDissonance throughout most of the 1960s, before the antiwar mindset, truly entered the liberal mainstream]], it was possible to be a liberal ''and'' a hawk (as long as war advanced a liberal agenda). In fact, at many times in the past the ''conservatives'' were the ones who were antiwar. In the [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague JLU]] episode "Hawk and Dove", they were portrayed once again as Straw Conservative and Liberal respectively, and while Hawk was once again portrayed as an over-aggressive brute vs Dove's pacifist outlook, his behavior was tempered by his stated need to protect his brother, whom he saw as "weak".
* In an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'', Jesse was listening to a late-night debate between a Straw Feminist and a Straw Conservative which was so stupid he got pissed off, called the radio station, and used his CompellingVoice to make them confess what each really wanted. They ''both'' said they want cock.
* The CorruptCorporateExecutive version of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] occasionally edged into Strawman Conservative territory, though when the character actually ran for president the writers were careful not to describe his political leanings at all. Though it's worth noting that at one point, Comicbook/GreenArrow decries something President Luthor has done with "This would never happen with a Democrat in the White House!" (Green Arrow's own leftist strawman status is debatable; make your own decision on whether his statement there was meant as a strawman's or dead serious). ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' avoids this by making Luthor a third-party independent. Luthor was a third party candidate in the comic books as well. [[DependingOnTheWriter If some writers forgot that in order to turn him into a Strawman,]] that can't be helped, but the main writers of the story showed him as competing with the "two major party candidates."
* Franchise/TheDCU super-duo, ComicBook/HawkAndDove, were ''created'' to exemplify this trope. In the original stories, penned by Objectivist Creator/SteveDitko, Dove, the pacifist, is portrayed as weak-willed, vacillating, and ineffectual, while his aggressive brother Hawk is the only one who manages to accomplish anything. Almost every writer ''since'' Ditko has portrayed Hawk as a thoughtlessly belligerent borderline berserker, with the rational, thoughtful Dove providing the only rational check on his action. Only rarely do we see a story where both viewpoints are treated with anything approaching equal regard, or a writer who admits the possibility that the different approaches might be appropriate in different situations. Ironically, this mainly came to the fore when Ditko was working with Steve Skeates, the more liberal co-creator of the duo. Characterization veered from side to side depending on who was doing the main plotting, until Skeates finally left the book over how Dove was being made into a wimp. When Hawk and Dove were later revived, the whole "conservative vs. liberal" thing was quietly dropped in the dustbin, and the two were recast as agents of Order (Dove) and Chaos (Hawk) meant to find a balance in tumultuous situations. Bonus Points: their father was a judge and always told them that they needed to see and understand each other's side. Later taken to extremes when Hawk [[{{Flanderization}} murdered Dove and became a brutal militaristic dictator.]] And then taken to an even greater extreme during ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'', where Dove I is apparently the only dead person in the entire universe who is at peace. This all becomes rather strange when you consider that the peaceful, pacifist, Dove constantly telling Hawk that not all problems are solved by running around in spandex and punching people in the face is portrayed as unfailingly right by most writers, when the setting revolves around people running around in spandex and punching people in the face. It's also important to remember that [[ValuesDissonance throughout most of the 1960s, before the antiwar mindset, truly entered the liberal mainstream]], it was possible to be a liberal ''and'' a hawk (as long as war advanced a liberal agenda). In fact, at many times in the past the ''conservatives'' were the ones who were antiwar. In the [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague JLU]] episode "Hawk and Dove", they were portrayed once again as Straw Conservative and Liberal respectively, and while Hawk was once again portrayed as an over-aggressive brute vs Dove's pacifist outlook, his behavior was tempered by his stated need to protect his brother, whom he saw as "weak".
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* Goldilocks, from the Vertigo comic ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', seems to be this at first, with every negative stereotype about liberal feminists you can think of, spouting Communist rhetoric, exclaiming "Oh my Goddess!" at every turn; however, it turns out it's all an act to cynically manipulate her followers. Also, she's insane.
* In an issue of''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', Jesse was listening to a late-night debate between a Straw Feminist and a Straw Conservative which was so stupid he got pissed off, called the radio station, and used his CompellingVoice to make them confess what each really wanted. They ''both'' said they want cock.
* The CorruptCorporateExecutive version of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] occasionally edged into Strawman Conservative territory, though when the character actually ran for president the writers were careful not to describe his political leanings at all. Though it's worth noting that at one point,Comicbook/GreenArrow ComicBook/GreenArrow decries something President Luthor has done with "This would never happen with a Democrat in the White House!" (Green Arrow's own leftist strawman status is debatable; make your own decision on whether his statement there was meant as a strawman's or dead serious). ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' avoids this by making Luthor a third-party independent. Luthor was a third party candidate in the comic books as well. [[DependingOnTheWriter If some writers forgot that in order to turn him into a Strawman,]] that can't be helped, but the main writers of the story showed him as competing with the "two major party candidates."
* Franchise/TheDCU super-duo, ComicBook/HawkAndDove, were ''created'' to exemplify this trope. In the original stories, penned by Objectivist Creator/SteveDitko, Dove, the pacifist, is portrayed as weak-willed, vacillating, and ineffectual, while his aggressive brother Hawk is the only one who manages to accomplish anything. Almost every writer ''since'' Ditko has portrayed Hawk as a thoughtlessly belligerent borderline berserker, with the rational, thoughtful Dove providing the only rational check on his action. Only rarely do we see a story where both viewpoints are treated with anything approaching equal regard, or a writer who admits the possibility that the different approaches might be appropriate in different situations. Ironically, this mainly came to the fore when Ditko was working with Steve Skeates, the more liberal co-creator of the duo. Characterization veered from side to side depending on who was doing the main plotting, until Skeates finally left the book over how Dove was being made into a wimp. When Hawk and Dove were later revived, the whole "conservative vs. liberal" thing was quietly dropped in the dustbin, and the two were recast as agents of Order (Dove) and Chaos (Hawk) meant to find a balance in tumultuous situations. Bonus Points: their father was a judge and always told them that they needed to see and understand each other's side. Later taken to extremes when Hawk [[{{Flanderization}} murdered Dove and became a brutal militaristic dictator.]] And then taken to an even greater extreme during''Comicbook/BlackestNight'', ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', where Dove I is apparently the only dead person in the entire universe who is at peace. This all becomes rather strange when you consider that the peaceful, pacifist, Dove constantly telling Hawk that not all problems are solved by running around in spandex and punching people in the face is portrayed as unfailingly right by most writers, when the setting revolves around people running around in spandex and punching people in the face. It's also important to remember that [[ValuesDissonance throughout most of the 1960s, before the antiwar mindset, truly entered the liberal mainstream]], it was possible to be a liberal ''and'' a hawk (as long as war advanced a liberal agenda). In fact, at many times in the past the ''conservatives'' were the ones who were antiwar. In the [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague JLU]] episode "Hawk and Dove", they were portrayed once again as Straw Conservative and Liberal respectively, and while Hawk was once again portrayed as an over-aggressive brute vs Dove's pacifist outlook, his behavior was tempered by his stated need to protect his brother, whom he saw as "weak".
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* The CorruptCorporateExecutive version of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] occasionally edged into Strawman Conservative territory, though when the character actually ran for president the writers were careful not to describe his political leanings at all. Though it's worth noting that at one point,
* Franchise/TheDCU super-duo, ComicBook/HawkAndDove, were ''created'' to exemplify this trope. In the original stories, penned by Objectivist Creator/SteveDitko, Dove, the pacifist, is portrayed as weak-willed, vacillating, and ineffectual, while his aggressive brother Hawk is the only one who manages to accomplish anything. Almost every writer ''since'' Ditko has portrayed Hawk as a thoughtlessly belligerent borderline berserker, with the rational, thoughtful Dove providing the only rational check on his action. Only rarely do we see a story where both viewpoints are treated with anything approaching equal regard, or a writer who admits the possibility that the different approaches might be appropriate in different situations. Ironically, this mainly came to the fore when Ditko was working with Steve Skeates, the more liberal co-creator of the duo. Characterization veered from side to side depending on who was doing the main plotting, until Skeates finally left the book over how Dove was being made into a wimp. When Hawk and Dove were later revived, the whole "conservative vs. liberal" thing was quietly dropped in the dustbin, and the two were recast as agents of Order (Dove) and Chaos (Hawk) meant to find a balance in tumultuous situations. Bonus Points: their father was a judge and always told them that they needed to see and understand each other's side. Later taken to extremes when Hawk [[{{Flanderization}} murdered Dove and became a brutal militaristic dictator.]] And then taken to an even greater extreme during
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* ''Comicbook/{{Normalman}}'' has both a Strawman Liberal ''and'' a Strawman Conservative, and they're technically the same character. That is the malevolent, overzealous reactionary nut-job Ultra-Conservative, and his alternate personality, the radical, chaotic anarchist Liberalator. Ultra-Conservative eventually suppresses the transformation by thinking about "commie agitators", "pinko cupcakes", and the "death penalty" while shouting that he "will not '''''change!'''''"
* The various ''ComicBook/XMen'' and spinoff series semi-regularly feature intolerant, hate-preaching [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purifiers_(Marvel_Comics) fundamentalist groups]] obviously based off televangelists and Westboro Baptists with some Ku Klux Klan thrown in for good measure as villains. Several major arcs featured a Reverend Stryker becoming a major threat to the X-Men. Less common, but still present on rare occasions, are religious folk shown opposing the extremist fringe. (Anti-mutant discrimination is often played to echo historic discrimination against Blacks in America. That the actual emancipation movement first took root in religious circles is not similarly reflected.) They also, especially in the last few years, represent gays, so religious persecution makes perfect sense. That's the X-Men - they stand in for every minority group ever. Any political view can be justified with the right interpretation of a religion. The first arc of the Comicbook/MarvelNOW ''Comicbook/{{Cable}} and Comicbook/XForce'' relaunch has the team taking on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's equivalent of Chick-fil-A. The only difference is they swapped out the restaurant chain's alleged homophobic leanings for a hatred of mutants.
* The various ''ComicBook/XMen'' and spinoff series semi-regularly feature intolerant, hate-preaching [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purifiers_(Marvel_Comics) fundamentalist groups]] obviously based off televangelists and Westboro Baptists with some Ku Klux Klan thrown in for good measure as villains. Several major arcs featured a Reverend Stryker becoming a major threat to the X-Men. Less common, but still present on rare occasions, are religious folk shown opposing the extremist fringe. (Anti-mutant discrimination is often played to echo historic discrimination against Blacks in America. That the actual emancipation movement first took root in religious circles is not similarly reflected.) They also, especially in the last few years, represent gays, so religious persecution makes perfect sense. That's the X-Men - they stand in for every minority group ever. Any political view can be justified with the right interpretation of a religion. The first arc of the Comicbook/MarvelNOW ''Comicbook/{{Cable}} and Comicbook/XForce'' relaunch has the team taking on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's equivalent of Chick-fil-A. The only difference is they swapped out the restaurant chain's alleged homophobic leanings for a hatred of mutants.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Normalman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}'' has both a Strawman Liberal ''and'' a Strawman Conservative, and they're technically the same character. That is the malevolent, overzealous reactionary nut-job Ultra-Conservative, and his alternate personality, the radical, chaotic anarchist Liberalator. Ultra-Conservative eventually suppresses the transformation by thinking about "commie agitators", "pinko cupcakes", and the "death penalty" while shouting that he "will not '''''change!'''''"
* The various ''ComicBook/XMen'' and spinoff series semi-regularly feature intolerant, hate-preaching [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purifiers_(Marvel_Comics) fundamentalist groups]] obviously based off televangelists and Westboro Baptists with some Ku Klux Klan thrown in for good measure as villains. Several major arcs featured a Reverend Stryker becoming a major threat to the X-Men. Less common, but still present on rare occasions, are religious folk shown opposing the extremist fringe. (Anti-mutant discrimination is often played to echo historic discrimination against Blacks in America. That the actual emancipation movement first took root in religious circles is not similarly reflected.) They also, especially in the last few years, represent gays, so religious persecution makes perfect sense. That's the X-Men - they stand in for every minority group ever. Any political view can be justified with the right interpretation of a religion. The first arc of theComicbook/MarvelNOW ''Comicbook/{{Cable}} ComicBook/MarvelNOW ''[[ComicBook/XForce2013 Cable and Comicbook/XForce'' X-Force]]'' relaunch has the team taking on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's equivalent of Chick-fil-A. The only difference is they swapped out the restaurant chain's alleged homophobic leanings for a hatred of mutants.
* The various ''ComicBook/XMen'' and spinoff series semi-regularly feature intolerant, hate-preaching [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purifiers_(Marvel_Comics) fundamentalist groups]] obviously based off televangelists and Westboro Baptists with some Ku Klux Klan thrown in for good measure as villains. Several major arcs featured a Reverend Stryker becoming a major threat to the X-Men. Less common, but still present on rare occasions, are religious folk shown opposing the extremist fringe. (Anti-mutant discrimination is often played to echo historic discrimination against Blacks in America. That the actual emancipation movement first took root in religious circles is not similarly reflected.) They also, especially in the last few years, represent gays, so religious persecution makes perfect sense. That's the X-Men - they stand in for every minority group ever. Any political view can be justified with the right interpretation of a religion. The first arc of the
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* Most of the early ComicBook/GreenArrow stories depicted Oliver Queen as a hero dedicated to helping the common people - a man of left-wing values who often spoke of rich conservatives as fat cats. Occasionally though, in more recent stories writers will let Queen's negative qualities such as his self-righteousness or his contempt for such "fat cats" get the better of him, and he comes off, intentionally or not, as something of a Straw Liberal. This is taken to extremes (and possibly played for laughs) in ''Comicbook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''. Miller went overboard rather strongly in DK 2, but Queen had taken to cynically gaming the system in ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', which might explain his later histrionics as a means to keep a smokescreen up lest his cohorts turn on him like Superman had when [[spoiler:he burned off Queen's arm with heat vision in the backstory]]. Like Ollie said, "You have to make the bastards work for you."
* Hal Jordan was portrayed as a straw conservative in the famed ''Franchise/GreenLantern[=/=]Comicbook/GreenArrow'' series from the '70s. Most stories involved Hal acting like a JerkAss and spouting off conservative talking points, [[AnAesop only to be taught a lesson about racism, sexism or classism by the end of the issue]]. Perhaps most notable would be John Stewart's debut issue. Hal is basically called a racist by one of the Guardians of the Universe after he bashes Stewart for standing up to a bigoted police officer.
* Hal Jordan was portrayed as a straw conservative in the famed ''Franchise/GreenLantern[=/=]Comicbook/GreenArrow'' series from the '70s. Most stories involved Hal acting like a JerkAss and spouting off conservative talking points, [[AnAesop only to be taught a lesson about racism, sexism or classism by the end of the issue]]. Perhaps most notable would be John Stewart's debut issue. Hal is basically called a racist by one of the Guardians of the Universe after he bashes Stewart for standing up to a bigoted police officer.
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* Most of the early ComicBook/GreenArrow stories depicted Oliver Queen as a hero dedicated to helping the common people - a man of left-wing values who often spoke of rich conservatives as fat cats. Occasionally though, in more recent stories writers will let Queen's negative qualities such as his self-righteousness or his contempt for such "fat cats" get the better of him, and he comes off, intentionally or not, as something of a Straw Liberal. This is taken to extremes (and possibly played for laughs) in ''Comicbook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''. ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''. Miller went overboard rather strongly in DK 2, but Queen had taken to cynically gaming the system in ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', which might explain his later histrionics as a means to keep a smokescreen up lest his cohorts turn on him like Superman had when [[spoiler:he burned off Queen's arm with heat vision in the backstory]]. Like Ollie said, "You have to make the bastards work for you."
* Hal Jordan was portrayed as a straw conservative in the famed''Franchise/GreenLantern[=/=]Comicbook/GreenArrow'' ''Franchise/GreenLantern[=/=]ComicBook/GreenArrow'' series from the '70s. Most stories involved Hal acting like a JerkAss and spouting off conservative talking points, [[AnAesop only to be taught a lesson about racism, sexism or classism by the end of the issue]]. Perhaps most notable would be John Stewart's debut issue. Hal is basically called a racist by one of the Guardians of the Universe after he bashes Stewart for standing up to a bigoted police officer.
* Hal Jordan was portrayed as a straw conservative in the famed
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* This was averted with the similar ''Comicbook/CaptainAmerica and [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]]'' series. The Falcon was usually used to explore issues like classism and racism, but Captain America rarely came off as badly as Hal Jordan did. At worst, he just came across as a naive white guy who didn't ''grasp'' racial issues in modern America. Any [[NobleBigot accidental racism, sexism, etc.]] on Cap's part could be forgiven to an extent because of the time period that Cap grew up in and was [[FishOutOfTemporalWater thrown out of in - to him - an instant]].
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* This was averted with the similar ''Comicbook/CaptainAmerica ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]]'' series. The Falcon was usually used to explore issues like classism and racism, but Captain America rarely came off as badly as Hal Jordan did. At worst, he just came across as a naive white guy who didn't ''grasp'' racial issues in modern America. Any [[NobleBigot accidental racism, sexism, etc.]] on Cap's part could be forgiven to an extent because of the time period that Cap grew up in and was [[FishOutOfTemporalWater thrown out of in - to him - an instant]].
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* ''Comicbook/{{Concrete}}'' almost always portrays conservatives in a bad light, often as ignorant, old, bald men or raving racists who only care about money. It doesn't stop there. Characters who should be neutral or have a variety of opinions almost always agree with the author/protagonists on controversial or highly varied issues, even when Concrete is visiting an area of the world where such an opinion is virtually non-existent or would be nonsensical to hold.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Concrete}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'' almost always portrays conservatives in a bad light, often as ignorant, old, bald men or raving racists who only care about money. It doesn't stop there. Characters who should be neutral or have a variety of opinions almost always agree with the author/protagonists on controversial or highly varied issues, even when Concrete is visiting an area of the world where such an opinion is virtually non-existent or would be nonsensical to hold.
