going off my vague and admittedly rusty memory, there were at least three major examples of this that I personally encountered:
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- The Marvel Civil War story arc in the comics
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- The Twilight Saga Edward Vs Jacob marketing for the movies (which admittedly was handled somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I seem to recall a fast food commercial taking it to what I hope was an intentionally absurd degree)
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- The MCU retread of Civil War from the comics, adapted to the silver screen
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*** 4) Edit: Injustice: gods among us (thanks to u/Kinglion for pointing that one out)***
Whether this was intentional or not is beyond the scope of this screed, but it is interesting to note how many real-world examples of this phenomenon occurred during and after these campaigns, gamergate, the ghostbusters fiasco, the trump/anti trump movements, etc.
maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's something. I honestly have no idea, but the timing is certainly interesting at the very least.
It could be a sign to further integrate the culture of division within Western society knowing how ideologically possessed all of them were/are in media.
You only need to look at some films adapted from books to see that. Like I recently saw playing on the background at a friend's place Runaway Jury and on a whim looked it up to see that though the film focuses on the gun industry, the original focuses on the tobacco industry so they've been doing this for at least a century.
God that movie still pisses me off. Grisham is a hack, and Hollywood still cut the legs off of the only point he made in the book just to turn it into a political jab. Guns don't work at all as a replacement.
could be. I'm not discounting the possibility of intent, I just don't know one way or another.