Basic Trope: A (usually female) character who tends to soapbox on usually left-leaning issues.
- Straight: Alice constantly preaches about environmentalism, animal rights, women rights, LGBT rights, and more.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is a borderline terrorist in the name of her causes.
- Alice's life, 24/7, is directed to constantly lecturing and complaining to everybody who will (or won't, or can't) listen about whatever issues ail her, which are whatever is the hot-topic issue of the moment.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is a Granola Girl who only lectures people when the subjects in questions come up.
- Alice only rallies after major events, such as the election of a Republican President, mass shootings or hate crimes, or on specific occasions like World Peace Day, Earth Day or Pride Month.
- Justified:
- Alice has been raised from an early age towards these causes by her Hippie Parents.
- Alice herself is a hippie or some other subculture that have such views.
- Alice makes a living for herself through fundraising for her causes and getting paid by advertisers.
- Alice is a Congresswoman who frequently holds rallies to fire up her supporters, who love her authenticity and charisma.
- Inverted:
- Alice is a conservative and preaches about how the world is too politically correct nowadays.
- Alice is The Fundamentalist and preaches about how the world needs to stop rejecting God.
- Alice does not share her political views and gets uncomfortable when asked about how she feels on any controversial subject.
- The world has become some level of Hell that Dante could not envision in his worst nightmares and Alice cries for the stupid decisions mankind made that turned the world into this.
- Subverted: Alice acts like she's gonna soapbox about her issues, but instead she lets her friends come to their own conclusions.
- Double Subverted: ...Turns out she doesn't act so balanced online, however.
- Parodied:
- Alice often stands on a literal soapbox droning for several uninterrupted hours.
- Alice speaks through a megaphone all the time and phrases everything like a protest.
I have been ignored and pushed aside for far too long! I! Demand! Two beef hot dogs! With coleslaw!- Alice’s signs have a funny, unrelated message on them as a Running Gag, such as “Down with this sort of thing!”, “This sign is heavy!”, “Steve owes me $5!” or “Who’s up for poker at my place tonight?”
- Alice, a body-abled white cisgender woman, lectures about how oppression of herself toward Betty, a wheelchair-bounded Afro-Asian trans woman.
- Averted: Alice doesn't lecture anyone.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants a Strawman Political to make fun of these kinds of people.
- The writer is actually FOR these viewpoints, and wants a mouthpiece.
- "The next big controversial issue has come up, and we need our viewers to know we're with them all the way. Write some scene where Alice devotes her time to explaining her side on the matter - that is, our side."
- Lampshaded: "Okay seriously, can she go five seconds without lecturing about how everything we do is terrible?"
- Defied:
- Alice doesn't lecture people about her views as to not look like a biased Jerkass.
- Alice is given a Big "SHUT UP!" when it looks like she's going to go on a tirade (additional threats of violence optional). Alice decides caution is the better part of valor, at least for now.
- "Every second you spend whining is a second you could have spent actually doing something about it, you know that, right?"
- Deconstructed: Alice becomes The Friend Nobody Likes, even among people that agree with her and begins to question her values.
- Alternatively, while Alice is genuine about her concerns, she is rather naïve and innocent. These traits make her easy to be manipulated by people with ulterior motives, and she continually defends her values despite what she's wrought.
- For all that Alice may be genuinely well-meaning and sincere about her desire to help those less fortunate than herself, it's undercut by the fact that she has a major Hair-Trigger Temper and is extremely self-righteous to the point it goes straight into It's All About Me territory. Anytime she's called out on that, including by members of the marginalized group(s) she claims to be advocating for, she doesn't take it well at all.
- Reconstructed She gets over it and decides to try her best to convince them even more.
- Played For Laughs: Alice supports every liberal cause known to man (even the ones who are contrary to each other) and tries her damnedest to force it onto her friends.
- Played For Drama:
- Someone shot Alice dead because they got fed up of her constant lecturing.
- Alice has destroyed many innocent lives with the collateral damage of her thoughtlessly rushed changes and constant finger-pointing. She absolutely doesn't care, thinking that being in the right is worth "making some crybabies that were asking for it whimper".
- Alice is manipulated into supporting militant sections of activist groups who don't respect her or common decency in the slightest. Once she's served her purpose, they handily dispose of her.
- Played For Horror: Alice is a Theme Serial Killer and her theme is "people who litter must die".
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