# Protagonists that would be in a lot of Legal Trouble **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [January 15, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280 "2023-01-15T21:01:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/101 "2023-01-17T21:56:55Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > He also dropped a guy off a cliff after promising to kill him last. Isn’t that the one where he’s holding the guy suspended off the bridge by the ankle to make him talk, and there’s the classic exchange afterwards: Arnie’s friend: “What did you do with him?” Arnie: “I let him go.” ETA: here it is [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zB6pvQt0I8s/maxresdefault.jpg "Commando (3/5) Movie CLIP - I Let Him Go (1985) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB6pvQt0I8s) Definitely part of the Arnie legend that inspired the Rainier Wolfcastle - McBain story. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/102 "2023-01-17T22:02:28Z")
You think at some point the Miami PD would have caught up with Michael Westen and crew consistently turning Miami into a war zone. And while on the subject of spies, should Harry Tasker be using government resources to follow his wife around to see if she is cheating on him? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/103 "2023-01-17T22:16:56Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Right, but Burns is an antagonist in that show, so he’s expected to be naughty. Right. Somehow my brain failed to register the word “protagonist” in the title. But sticking with _The Simpsons_, Bart is at the very least getting charged with vandalism, if the Springfield P.D. ever figures out who that mysterious “El Barto” tag belongs to. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/104 "2023-01-17T22:36:18Z")
Bart’s prank calls to Moe might now be so egregious that they violate some statute. Homer’s autodialler certainly did, but I seem to recall that the illegality of that was part of the storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/105 "2023-01-17T22:37:09Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > But sticking with _The Simpsons_, Bart is at the very least getting charged with vandalism, if the Springfield P.D. ever figures out who that mysterious “El Barto” tag belongs to. Pretty sure Steve Sax is still serving time for that. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/106 "2023-01-18T00:30:07Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Yes, and that was a big part of my objection to the series. I have the same problem with shoot-em-up video games where you can easily recover from mortal wounds. I do wonder sometimes if that is what is influencing some of the people who decide to take a gun and shoot random people, or like that six-year-old who shot his teacher. That’s been an on-going issue ever since TV came around. My grandmother mentioned a news story back in the '50s where a boy shot somebody, and expected everything to be alright, because he knew that the people on TV didn’t actually die when shot. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280/107 "2023-01-18T00:44:08Z")
Marge Simpson. Illegal drug abuse, rape. There’s a really dark episode _The Strong Arms Of The Ma_. Marge is mugged and traumatized - seriously, not just as a brief joke, she’s afraid to go outside. This prompts her to start lifting weights. This restores her self confidence, but she ends up abusing steroids and is shown physically coercing Homer into a “snuggle” when he clearly says no - more than once. It’s hard to see this as anything other than a portrayal of marital rape. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/O0lRhcLwHVA/hqdefault.jpg "marge rapes homer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lRhcLwHVA) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protagonists-that-would-be-in-a-lot-of-legal-trouble/978280.md?page=5)