Times when a story is an Author Tract in fan works.
Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Israel's workout
and The Two Americas really exist so the author can push her hyper conservative and racist views onto the audience. They both depict, the Original Character, Israel complaining about the entire Palestinian race and Liberals. The first story depicts the Anthropomorphic Personification of Palestine, another OC, as Ax-Crazy Card-Carrying Villain and ends with the protagonit ranting about the how Palestinian race is evil. The Second fanfic depicts a caricature of Barack Obama as an Evil Twin of the regular America from Hetalia Axis Powers, whom is, of course, conservative.
- New Tamaran: The author will occasionally take time to preach his social-political views.
- In Chapter 37, Control Freak randomly starts spouting off SJW talking points, and is promptly ridiculed for it.
- Steve Trevor serves as a mouthpiece for pro-military views, explaining why war is sometimes a necessary evil.
- Wonder Girl's origin has Abner Smith, a stand-in for Chelsea Manning, release documents that aid terrorists in hunting down their targets, much like how Manning's leaks did. While Manning is considered by many to be a hero on the account of bringing shadiness relating to US foreign policy into light, Smith is clearly a smug self-righteous coward.
- Speedy's origin has brief commentary on Native American reservations, and crooked cops who plant drugs (and the war on drugs itself).
- Cheshire's origin has her radicalized by Kobra after a US drone strike kills her family, much like real-world ISIS recruitment.
- Bumblebee's origin is a thorough condemnation of riots and looting done in the name of Black Lives Matter.
- Kid Flash's origin reprimands extremists on both sides of the gun debate.
- Finally, there's the recurring promotion of sex-positivity, and how each individual should discover the type of intimate relationship that is best for them.
- A.A. Pessimal makes no secret of leaning to the political Leftnote . Even so Word of God says that he realised his Discworld collection of loosely-linked stories, The Civilian Assistant teetered on the verge of being an Author Tract rather than an attempt to present an amusing and entertaining tale, so he took note of critiques and throttled back on the ideology. The series reverted to being funny Discworld tales featuring the Watch and law enforcement, after some radical opening chapters. Elsewhere, digs at Donald Trump and one remark about current affairs in Israel - in the footnotes - drew reader criticism. The author will not go there again but is not going to withdraw or edit what he considers "fair comment".
- Rachel Stevens revisits Da Bungalow was basically an excuse by the author to write about Rachel Stevens Covered in Gunge after leaving the show before the episode featuring her ended. The fanfic promptly insults "Stroppy Stevens" for her Rage Quit, blames her for the series' downfall, and is assaulted by the duo on the first episode of the Adults-only revival. Dick and Dom are never punished for this. As Tellygunge mentioned in the comments:Rachel is nice in many ways, but running away from Dick and Dom was selfish and pathetic. She disappointed a lot of people – not just those of us who like to see good-looking women getting messy, but more importantly, she spoiled the fun of all the kids who were watching.You’re right that she shouldn’t have gone on the show in the first place. But she chose to go on there to promote her single to her target audience (and let’s face it, her musical career was in its twilight at this point), and then refused to take part in the mildly humiliating but harmless activity that guests were required to do – unfair and lame!
- This hatred for Stevens stems into other fics even when she's not the main focus - In the Reid vs Raworth gunge vote, she hosts the show-biz segment, implying she'll get messy, she gets a Pie in the Face courtesy of Noel in the second update of the Dannii Minouge vs Cheyl Cole vote, and finally, in the first part of the Bond girls Skyfall gunge vote, the fic starts with her as the antagonist in the parody intro, making her into, again, a Designated Villain. And before you ask, no. Davina never lets her out of the custard tank.
- This hatred for Stevens stems into other fics even when she's not the main focus - In the Reid vs Raworth gunge vote,
- The Crack Fic Becoming Female is, at least superficially, a tract against sexism, with all the villains, especially Ron, being absurdly over-the-top Straw Misogynists. However, the feminist characters are so unlikable that some suspect that this whole thing is actually a disguised anti-feminist tract. Either way, this trope is in effect.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is, in part, its author's attempt to teach lessons in rational thinking through the medium of Harry Potter fanfiction. Others hold that it's the author's attempt to lecture the world on his preferred ideology and 'prove' how much better it is than a) canon, b) the alternatives.
- "Harry Potter Turns to the Lord" is a fanfiction about someone teaching Harry Potter that witchcraft is evil.
- Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles in which Harry is raised by the Straw Atheist Dursleys and later becomes a Christian and goes to the eponymous school, may be this, but could be a parody of this, too.
- In The Loud House: Revamped perhaps many of the author's reactions are usually this, such as dishing out on Communism or targeting topics he didn't seem to be fond of.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Chatoyance's stories set in the The Conversion Bureau universe have been extremely heavy handed attempts to preach the author's views regarding religion, human nature, environmental issues, and sexuality. In particular, "New Universe Three: The Friendship Virus" is an outstanding example. It is 2,548 words pontificating on how testosterone turns men into Always Chaotic Evil savages. And how much better the world would be if the men were "feminized".
- Every chapter of My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic when it was first posted started or ended with a rant by the author of how much better this story is compared to the original show. It has since been reposted a second time without the author's notes, however. One of the Aesops the fic preaches is "Friendship is useless, what you need is belief." And then every sticky spot the protagonist gets in, he's saved by his friends, except when he calls upon the Uniforce.
- Happens in-universe in Sharing the Night, when Twilight Sparkle tries to research alicorns.These books—this entire pile of books—was a collection of political and theological detritus littering the history of Equestria. Their authors were each just using the subject as a medium to push some unrelated ideological agenda.
- The entire concept is discussed in All I've Ever Learned From Love.
- Henry has based his entire view of the fairy tale world on the book and has become convinced from it that Regina was always the Evil Queen. He is then shocked to learn of her own tragic past, and that she really was a good person once. He asks her why this wasn't included in the book when every other villainous character was portrayed at least slightly sympathetically.Regina: The thing you have to realize, Henry, is that every author has an agenda. And most of the time, they want their point of view to be... obvious. They want the reader to agree with them, to see their heroes as heroes and their villains as villains.
Henry: But that only makes sense if the author is writing fiction and can just make up the story. These stories are histories. They're true. And, I mean... you are... a... a...
Regina: Villain? I'm not trying to justify everything I've done in the past. I know that some of the choices I made were wrong. But Henry... a good historian might not lie, per se, but the stories they choose to include still show their agenda. Maybe it is a subconscious decision, maybe they don't even realize they are doing it. But they are still only going to record events that they deem important -– and what they think is important is going to be a reflection of their own beliefs and prejudices. - 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.
- Henry has based his entire view of the fairy tale world on the book and has become convinced from it that Regina was always the Evil Queen. He is then shocked to learn of her own tragic past, and that she really was a good person once. He asks her why this wasn't included in the book when every other villainous character was portrayed at least slightly sympathetically.
- Northstar Pokeshipper makes it clear in his stories (as well as his name) how much of a great couple Ash and Misty are. Perhaps the most blatant one is Chapter 10 of his 151 Pokeshipping Stories, where he has Ash and Misty themselves saying the reasons why they should be together.
- And on the flip side, his (now deleted due to backlash) Chapter 29 of the same story was devoted to showing how toxic the AmourShipping sector of the fandom is. The story depicted a riot that breaks out in Pallet Town that results in Tracey Sketchit's death (apparently because he tried to defend PokéShipping). Yeah, it was as weird as it sounds...
- The Pokémon Squad usually avoids this, but Episode 228 is a major offender. It starts out with a quest to retrieve an ancient artifact from Japan, but by Chapter 9, it devolves into little more than a continuous string of Take Thats against Junichi Masuda and his direction of Pokémon from Pokémon X and Y onward.
- Early chapters of RWBY: Destiny of Remnant have the author ranting within each author's note about Pyrrha's death and the handling of several other characters' story arcs. It already bleeds into the story so much that it dissuades a lot of readers.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos is pretty much an anti-religious, anti-right wing tract wrapped in a Darker and Edgier Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic story.
- Maybe Sprout Wings is a fanfic that is a long, well-written anti-slavery, anti-human trafficking tract, with Dean's experience in Hell transferred to an AU where he sells himself into slavery in order to save Sam.
- The concept is parodied in the Troll Fic Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God by portraying the purported author as an unsympathetic and bigoted Straw Character.
- Similar to and inspired by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Luminosity is designed to explain luminosity—i.e., self-awareness.
