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* [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Chatoyance]] wrote ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau The Reasonably Adamant Down With Celestia Newfoal Society]]'' to insult people who didn't like the messages in her stories. Namely by portraying the Newfoals who disliked their conversion as complete losers.

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* [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Chatoyance]] wrote ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheChatoverse The Reasonably Adamant Down With Celestia Newfoal Society]]'' to insult people those who didn't like criticized the messages in her stories. Namely by portraying The story depicts the Newfoals who disliked main characters (who are pretty blatant stand-ins for critics of her setting) as incompetent whiners for daring to be unhappy about their conversion as complete losers.ForcedTransformation and they're only portrayed more sympathetically when they realize that they are wrong.
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* "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" is an influential ComicBook/{{Superman}} story written during [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks a time]] when the character began declining in popularity among fans and critics amidst the rising popularity of [[NinetiesAntiHero edgy, remorselessly violent anti-heroes in 90's media]], with many questioning whether Supes' [[TheCape idealistic, humanist nature]] had become [[GoodIsOldFashioned old-fashioned]] or not. The enemy he faces, The Elite, are a direct parody of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', which writer Joe Kelly uses as synecdoche [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype to describe just how unscrupulous and morally bankrupt these character archetypes were]], with the story taking great lengths to portray Superman and his fettered, moral approach as superior.

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* "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" is an influential ComicBook/{{Superman}} story written during [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks a time]] when the character began declining in popularity among fans and critics amidst the rising popularity of [[NinetiesAntiHero edgy, remorselessly violent anti-heroes in 90's media]], with many questioning whether Supes' [[TheCape idealistic, humanist nature]] had become [[GoodIsOldFashioned old-fashioned]] or not. The enemy he faces, The Elite, are a direct parody of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', which writer Joe Kelly uses as synecdoche [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype to describe just how unscrupulous and morally bankrupt these character archetypes were]], with the story taking great lengths to portray Superman and his fettered, moral approach as superior.
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Compare TakeThatAudience, when it's the viewers who are targets of in-show satire. See also DearNegativeReader, when the creator directly addresses the critics [[TheRant without the vehicle of the show]], and InsultBackfire, when the critics' own words are used against them.

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Subtrope of WriteWhoYouHate. Compare TakeThatAudience, when it's the viewers who are targets of in-show satire. See also DearNegativeReader, when the creator directly addresses the critics [[TheRant without the vehicle of the show]], and InsultBackfire, when the critics' own words are used against them.

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