A good way to determine the quality of the race and whether or not they're Straw Characters is the following questions Are the Scary Dogmatic Aliens redeemable? Do any of them change their ways?Īll but the best writers end up giving in to this to some extent. Ironically, this often leads to people in-universe, among the audience and even the writer themselves, being racist against the Scary Dogmatic Aliens. While Scary Dogmatic Aliens being racist tends to get associated with the example of "Aliens as Nazis" below, the truth is that all four types are racist, as this trope relies heavily on an "Us vs Them" dynamic not to mention how racism isn't limited to, for example, the Nazis or even the right-wing. Sometimes a writer enters The War on Straw due to problems with themselves or society. Whether or not the target ideology actually deserves the criticism, or is actually bad, can, and often does, vary from viewer to viewer. Basically, this is a Planet of Hats where the "hat" is some feared human ideology. Same with their ideology: they're just a thinly veiled stand-in for whomever the public is politically afraid of at the moment, or whomever in Earth history the writers want to anvilize the viewers about. It should not be surprising if they are so different that we can't comprehend them at all.įortunately, though, it turns out that aliens are really just humans with some bits glued on. Their entire culture, history, and even biology could be radically different from that of us Puny Earthlings.
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