A straw character is a caricature of a person, a character the author has set up in order to ridicule a particular viewpoint. A strawman can have ...

The Straw Feminist trope as used in popular culture. A character whose "feminism" is drawn only for the purposes of either proving them wrong or providing …

The Straw Nihilist (also known as the Straw Pessimist) is an extreme version of The Cynic and a specific type of The Philosopher who delivers Despair … Best Quotes for Straw Nihilist · The Anti-Nihilist · The Killing Joke (Comic Book)

Straw Affiliation: In the same vein as Category Traitor, people who are a part of a certain group are portrayed as not being allowed to endorse things that are ...

A character drawn as having hateful views of women so that he can be proven wrong and/or to show how bad he is for having these views.

A Straw Fan is a character or plot meant as a not-so-thinly veiled attack on the fans for their complaints about the work. It can be either perfectly …

The Straw Vegetarian is a thinly-veiled Strawman who is desperate for a bacon sandwich or would really like meat "if they just tried it".

A Straw Vulcan is a straw man that is used to show that emotion is better than logic. It starts by having characters who think "logically" try to solve a …

Any character in fiction who is described as a well-known or influential critic, an editor, or as an English professor, is likely to be a Straw Critic as well ...

A character whose main purpose in the plot is to not be "with it", thereby making it all the more obvious just how cool the main character is.