Anti Role Model TV Tropes. Hes made of metal he cant help being a hardass. Im Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt. I like to have a good time, and I dont care who gets hurt. Im Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me. Ill live to be a hundred, and go down in infamyA type of bad character generally geared towards children and what the executives view as moronic viewers. It is used to dissuade children from smoking, get them to eat a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables while avoiding foods containing fat, cholesterol, sugar, and caffeine, or to convince them not to use drugs. Other Aesops may also be delivered through this method. How it works is that the character who partakes in the undesirable behavior is portrayed as being rude, crude, possibly ugly, bullying, obnoxious, antisocial, stupid, foolish, misguided, shallow, arrogant, or any combination of these traits. For example, teens who use drugs might be portrayed as juvenile delinquents with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 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Get rid of Sportacus also failed. UzYycWuRpNnNlUWs.jpg' alt='Sportacus Games Lazy Town' title='Sportacus Games Lazy Town' />Notice that this is somewhat of an overcorrection from some of the Smoking Is Cool advertising that presumably got the kids to think so in the first place. So youve got a fight between the people who smoke are the epitome of cool and the people who smoke are the epitome of lame sides. Obviously holds true for any negative cause that had a P. Lazy Town online game. Games for Kids free of violence. Ziggy Lazy Town Challenge Ziggy invites you to play with. Waiting Here addictive board game. R. campaign before the Media Watchdogs got up in arms about the issue. When your own government is presenting you with this character, its almost always as a part of a Public Service Announcement. May overlap with Scare em Straight when the rule breaking rebels are scary. When Moral Guardians cant wrap their minds around even this Anvilicious method of delivery, you get But Not Too Evil. Making the Anti Role Model too charismatic can have some problems though, such as Do Not Do This Cool Thing, Evil Is Cool, Evil Is Sexy, and even Draco in Leather Pants. Compare with Hitler Ate Sugar. Contrast The Paragon. Compare and contrast What Would X Do Anti Role Model would do and then go do the opposite of that. Advertising  Anti smoking groups love this trope. In one ad, a teenage girl runs around her neighborhood, licking trash can lids, car tires, and everything else she can find around her, ending with the insinuation that given the chemicals in cigarettes, this is what smokers might as well be doing all the time. Then there was another campaign that would take images of teen smokers and digitally morph the images into monsters, including one where a young male smoker turns into a person with a fish head. PSAs by anti marijuana groups love to portray pot smokers as slovenly losers and borderline criminals who only want to sit on the couch all day and cant string together a coherent thought unless it involves sucking on a bong. Modo License Crack there. One has to wonder how effective Scare em Straight tactics are when the movies of Judd Apatow and Cheech and Chong do the same thing. Plus, theres the whole not as bad as those guys attitude. Anime Manga  Yoshiko, the title character of Aho Girl is an idiot to her very core, and the neighborhood children are quick to pick up on the fact that her all play, no work attitude is absolutely not something to emulate. Art     Comic Books  In an Archie Comics story from The 8. Principal Weatherbee announces a ban on smoking in the school. The only characters whom this affects are a half dozen one shot characters three boys and three girls, all of whom are outcast losers whom Archie and the gang hold in contempt. The three boy smokers are a particularly blatant example, as theyre all ugly and faux punkish in appearance one of them got straight Fs on his last report card. Jack Thomas Chicks evangelical Chick Tracts typically depict the Christian protagonists as handsome and intelligent, while the antagonists are portrayed as ugly, depraved, and intellectually dishonest. Fan Works Evangelion 3. Invoked and played for laughs. When the female pilots throw a bachelorette party which includes a trip to a strip club, their commanding officer Misato goes with her subordinates. As Misato hoots, drinks heavily and goes wild, Asuka aks what kind of example is she setting there. Film Animated  In The Lion King, Timon and Puumba. While theyre sympathetic characters, the philosophy of Hakuna Matata runs counter to the films moral of self growth, taking responsibility and facing your own errors. Literature Greyfriars has this in spades. Skinner, Snoop, and Stott happily smoke, gamble, visit pubs, lie, cheat, etc. Oddly enough, theyre also poor fighters, terrible at sports, unfetchingly described, and disliked by most of the form. To make it even more shameless, while Vernon Smith was much the same in his early appearances, his redemption came in hand with an increase in wit, strength, and sporting prowess. Plutarch wrote Parallel Lives, a series of biographies about famous ancient leaders arranged in tandem to educate his readers about morality. When he wrote about Demetrius and Mark Antony, he explained I think, we also shall be more eager to observe and imitate the better lives if we are not left without narratives of the blameworthy and the bad. One Geronimo Stilton book has two treasure hunters who are introduced singing a song about how horrible they are, We lie, we cheat, we steal, and we dont do what were told, and then, just in case you didnt get that theyre bad guys, they talk about how quickly theyd kill anybody who was overhearing them sing this. The Left Behind series depicts non Christians as unattractive, shallow, or stupid as well as not believing in the right God. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has the four bratty kids, who are portrayed as completely obnoxious in contrast to virtuous Charlie Bucket. Each brat is primarily defined by a certain vice gluttony Augustus Gloop, greed Veruca Salt, gum chewing Violet Beauregarde, and excessive television watching Mike Teavee and each winds up suffering a blackly comic karmic fate. Because gum chewing is no longer the vice that it was back in 1. Violets repulsiveness stems from her excessive pride and competitiveness in some of the more recent adaptations. Live Action TV  Cookie Monster from Sesame Street used to be a mild case of this mild enough to still be endearing in his own way, but they decided that cookies were a sometimes food. Despite what you might think though, he was less often one for poor diet as he was for being gluttonous. He probably wouldnt be a good one for diet, because that would require him to actually become less healthy, otherwise the lesson would be lost. Theres a chapter from Family Guy, though, where this trope is mixed with I Cant Believe Its Not Heroin One scene shows the Cookie Monster hiding in a bathroom stall, heating cookie dough in a spoon as if it were heroin.