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 ...

Straw Civilian: In a military-focused work, any and all non-military characters are shown as being actively hostile towards soldiers. Straw Critic: ...

A Strawman is, by definition, an overly simplified position that is so flimsy it can be easily toppled. If everyone is partially correct, no side is a true ...

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 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 Killing Joke (Comic Book) · The Anti-Nihilist

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 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 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.

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 …

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 …