Everyone on /co/ is whining about more or less suble political messages in cartoons, or that cartoons nowadays lack the balls to show darker content. Meanwhile this happens in a cartoon named Afred J. Kwak, which I grew up with:
>Alfred's parents and all of his siblings die in a hit and run by two corrupt businessmen who are distracted while driving, and afaik never caught in the whole series.
>One of Alfred's schoolmates is an obvious gypsy analogy Magpie who keeps stealing stuff, but everyone accepts his apologies (even the judge during a trial), because he's a Magpie, and stealing is what he does. He later looks like a gypsy stereotype.
>Alfred saves the whales by leading a protest with them.
>One of Alfred's friends has an inner conflict, because he has the chance to be the captain of a modern, huge ass fishing ship which is a well paid job, but that ship destroys the ecosystem, which shows that it's not a one-sided topic.
>Alfred hides illegal black duck immigrants at home and uses his influence to get them a visa.
>One of the illegal immigrants had to flee his country because he's a Malcolm X type of character, and in his 3rd world home country there's early 1900s American racism between geese and black ducks for some reason.
>Alfred falls in love with his daughter. She's a constantly jealous bitch.
>One of Alfred's former schoolmates is a white supremacist goose.
>The goose is openly racist against black ducks.
>Alfred's crow bully, named Dolf, tries to get rid of the immigrants by winning (another) election. He later breaks out of jail after an attempted mass murder and takes Alfred's GF hostage.
But the best part:
>Alfred's school bully Dolf the crow is scared to end up being mocked, because he's only a half-blood crow. He paints his beak black since it's yellow to hide it. As a kid, he swears everyone will fear him.
>Both characters have a strange Xavier/ Magneto rivalry.
>Dolf learns in history class about how "different" people were exiled from the village in medival times and loves it.
>Dolf grows up to look like Hitler, his two friends like stereotypical nazi thugs. They try to raise money, because Dolf wants to overthrow the monarchy.
>Dolf becomes the new leader because the king doesn't know anything about politics. He jails everyone who doesn't support him.
>Dolf's friends are actually nice guys, who aren't shown as evil, but they simply idolize Dolf and don't understand what they do wrong.
>Alfred manages to storm his castle with his friends, right at the moment when Dolf was about to start a mouse holocaust, because a mouse failed an "assassination" against him (which revealed his yellow beak).
>in the end, Alfred loses his shit and scares Dolf away with a gun.
In total though, it's actually a great because the characters grow up, get jobs, it gets weirdly political, its kinda deep (Dolf only went to power to impress Alfred in the end). Some conflicts are presented in a way too naive way. Like when he lets the immigrants live in his home and there are neither issues, nor does anyone complain (implying nothing could go wrong).
