History DesignatedHero / FanWorks

** It is extremely hard to root for Rebora as a heroine. For starters, she is a sword OC who violates ''every'' rules of ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' canon regarding swords, and yet is constantly touted as the Citadel's true savior, the only one able to ultimately end the conflict between them and the Revisionists, essentially rendering the canon swords useless and dependent on her. She also effectively makes the entire [=TouRabu=] universe revolve around her, to the point where it's even implied that [[spoiler:the whole reason the Revisionists ''exist'' is a desire to have her.]] That's not even getting to the boatloads of [[UnfortunateImplications racist]] [[MightyWhitey implications]] surrounding her characterization.

** In canon, Katara is a [[NiceGirl kindly]] TeamMom and ActionGirl who does what she can to help her friends despite having [[{{Tsundere}} quite the temper]]. In the webcomic, however, she is presented as vain ("I'm sure that Kuzon will come out quite charming, with me as his mom."), [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] ("[Kuzon] died years ago, ''a day before my birthday...''"and the emphasis is ''not'' added by the troper), and downright murderous ([[spoiler:bloodbending Mai to death]]). Yet she's always right and no one ever questions her stupid, selfish or downright evil actions.

* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Both Lynn and Lincoln behaved badly, but only the former is framed as bad. Lincoln [[WouldHitAGirl beat her up]] ''extremely'' badly, twice, the second time knocking her unconscious, just because she broke his ''stuffed toy''. However, his behaviour was portrayed as either "standing up" to Lynn or an "accident".

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* ''Fanfic/After'': Both the books and the movies try their damndest to make us root for the [[HolierThanThou smug, sanctimonious]], [[TheDitherer dithering]] adulterer that is Tessa, and the lying, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] that is Hardin. For a lot of audiences, it doesn't work, and they both come off as supremely selfish and dysfunctional people who cause most of their own problems.

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* ''Fanfic/Kage'': InUniverse, Jade comes to have this opinion about the Guardians and the former rebels, due to their GoodIsNotNice attitude.

!! ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''

* ''Fanfic/LoyaltyAmongWorlds'': Despite his last name being "[[MeaningfulName Loyaliat]]", Darrel isn't that loyal as he dances with, confesses his love to, and kisses Anne ''while still being in a relationship with Sasha''. [[note]][[SympatheticAdulterer Admittedly, Sasha doesn't treat Darrel very well]] while they're together, but it still goes against his namesake.[[/note]] He also has moments of being selfish and hypocritical towards the Calamity Trio whenever their mistakes are exposed. One infamous example is when he unsympathetically calls out Marcy's selfishness while he himself cheats on Sasha. In the same infamous moment, Darrel also yells at Marcy for hiding the fact that her family was planning on moving away while he himself wasn't honest with the girls about his mother's terminal illness long before they ended up in Amphibia.

!! ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

* Katara and Zuko in ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'':
** In canon, Katara is a [[NiceGirl kindly]] TeamMom and ActionGirl who does what she can to help her friends despite having [[{{Tsundere}} quite the temper]]. In the webcomic, however, she is presented as vain ("I'm sure that Kuzon will come out quite charming, with me as his mom."), [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] ("[Kuzon] died years ago, ''a day before my birthday...''"and the emphasis is ''not'' added by the troper), and downright murderous ([[spoiler:bloodbending Mai to death]]). Yet she's always right and no one ever questions her stupid, selfish or downright evil actions.
** In the series, Zuko is an AntiHero with a lot of [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] [[FreudianExcuse stemming]] [[AbusiveParents from]] [[MissingMom his]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]], but [[AdoptTheDog genuinely aspires to do good]] (even though he [[HeroWithAnFInGood initially has a bit of trouble at that]]). In the comic, however, he cheats on his wife behind her back ''and'' fathers an illegitimate child with the designated heroine mentioned above, [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abuses Mai]] when she confronts him and [[JerkassHasAPoint appropriately]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint points out]] the huge political and social fallout his philandering will bring, leaves ''his struggling and almost destroyed kingdom'' without any second thoughts to get together with his woman-on-the-side -- and yet ''he's'' supposed to be the sympathetic one.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7306303/1/Outcast Outcast]]'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fic where Yue has a sister named Kya (no relation to Katara's mother). She acts woe-is-me when Yue tells her about her romance problems, looks down on the Water Tribe because she's different from them, and flat-out abandons her home once she finds out that she's half-Fire Nation (in the middle of a siege, no less). Once she meets Zuko, she latches onto him and pretty much devotes her life to revolving around him, even using Yue's death to force Sokka into helping Zuko when Sokka gets wary.

!! ''Anime/CodeGeass''

* Awesome de Britannia in ''Fanfic/CodeGeassAwesomeOfTheRebellion'', whom the narrator repeatedly assures us is a [[InformedAttribute kind, noble and heroic leader]] and yet he constantly murders any enemies who try to surrender to him, has the biggest ego ever, (at one point his subjects chant that "Awesome is the greatest" to which he "modestly" replies "Thank you, thank you. I know I am.") and by chapter 10, he's just blowing people up for ''no reason at all''.

!! Crossovers

** Raven gets [[SmallNameBigEgo increasingly arrogant]] as the series goes on the reason she didn’t tell the X-Com characters what the Titan’s were doing in Azarath because she believed that X-Com felt they were too important to let leave. Despite the fact that they were risking their lives to do just that and as mentioned by WordOfGod the titan’s contributions were minimal at best especially since they weren’t in the departments they would provide the most help. This just makes her come across as arrogant and ungreatful. There is also her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to X-Ryoga which was basically telling him that all his suffering and therefore the suffering of the XComverse as a whole didn’t matter [[ItsAllAboutMe because it didn’t directly benefit her like T-Ryoga’s suffering did]].
** T-Ryoga repeatedly come across as a hypocritical jerkass despite this he is constantly presented as in the right eventhough many of his actions are entirely self serving. X-Ukyo put it best.
---> '''Ukyo''': You're a hundred times worse than I could ever be, a sick, indecisive piece of shit who strings his friends along. A pervert who abused the trust of someone he claimed to love. A moron who doesn't even know when he isn't wanted. An arrogant prick who butts in where he doesn't belong. Don't you try and lecture me, Hibiki. Don't you dare.

!! ''Franchise/Danganronpa''

!! ''Manga/DeathNote''

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/569423 Beginnings]]'', it's openly stated that L relishes the idea of putting [[DesignatedVillain Misa]] in restraints in case she loses her temper (compare this to his canon counterpart who treats tying up Misa as a necessary evil and shows no evidence of explicitly enjoying doing it) when Light tells her that he loves L and is leaving her. The fact that Light was the one that’d been leading her on up until this point is hardly if at all addressed and the story treats it as excusable because at the time Light was Kira and therefore "not himself" and besides [[SarcasmMode who cares what Misa thinks anyway? She's crazy and as dumb as a post.]] When she threatens to commit suicide ("to give him a shock to snap him out of it"), L looks for a window to open so that he may [[SuicideAsComedy “accommodate her”]] (again, compare to his canon counterpart who appears visibly shaken about the deaths of Ukita and the FBI agents and has Watari stop Misa from killing herself in confinement by gagging her so she can't bite her tongue). Later when Misa leaves, Light tells L that he knows that he "didn't mean it," but L admits that "the thought was enjoyable, anyway." The author seems to want the reader to side with L and Light and somehow this attempt at a “TakeThatScrappy” is supposed to be cute and funny.

!! ''Franchise/FireEmblem''

!! ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''

!! ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''

!! ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''

!! ''Franchise/HarryPotter''

!! ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''

!! ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''

!! ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''

!! ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''

!! ''Franchise/MassEffect''

!! ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

!! ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''

!! ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

!! ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

* ''Fanfic/Pokedex:

!! ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

!! ''Anime/PrettyCure''

!! ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''

!! RealPersonFic

* Tony Stevens in the RealPersonFic ''[[http://gungemaleceleb.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/story-global-gunger-part-1.html The Global Gunger]]''. We’re supposed to laugh at the [[ShowDontTell so-called]] [[InformedFlaw 'cocky]] [[DesignatedVillain celebrities']] while Tony humiliates them, gives them their [[DisproportionateRetribution 'Just Deserts’]], and wrecks their holiday, [[DisproportionateRetribution all because he’s jealous of them and they can afford it.]] And throughout all this, Tony’s regret for his actions are non-existent, bar a part of the story where he considers what he might be doing is wrong… [[spoiler: [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk until he sees one of the celebrities ordering expensive wine, then he just goes ahead anyway]]]]. He also gets away with [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon stranding a celebrity out to sea after gunging him, leaving him to be deserted, and at best, humiliated, and at worst, killed from starvation/dehydration.]] Even then, he doesn't give a crap that he is destroying a man's social life.]] And, despite his actions, where he could be arrested in real life for harassment, which so far, he hasn't, the audience is supposed to cheer on him humiliating the celebrities, when they really hope that the celebrities give him their ‘just deserts’ for sabotaging their holiday.

!! ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''

!! ''Franchise/SailorMoon''

!! ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

!! ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers''

!! ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''

!! ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

!! ''Franchise/TouhouProject''

!! ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu''

!! ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

* In the hilariously terrible crossover fic ''Fanfic/BloodRainingNight'', Reicheru Ketsuneko-Oni is treated like she's the "hero" of the story despite being a terrible person. To recount, she works for the ''Yakuza'', she cheated on her boyfriend Denmark and then got pregnant with Inuyasha's baby (and Denmark is treated as if he's in the wrong for not "accepting" this), she ripped off Lucy's horns [[DisproportionateRetribution because Lucy called her a whore]], kills Luka Megurine and drinks her blood, does absolutely nothing to rescue Kagome from Sesshomaru and when Zombie!Kagome comes to call her out on it, Reicheru tries to run her over and she decides to ruin her father's wedding because her father hates her for killing her mother as a child. Don't expect the narrative to ever treat her like any of this is wrong. To be fair, the author took note of a lot of reviewers commenting on this and attempted to have Reicheru atone for her sins to win her daughter back by having her go through some hilariously over-the-top TorturePorn (losing her eyes and arms) and she does act somewhat less dickish after that, but she does then get given state-of-the-art robotic arms from Winry Rockbell for no particular reason and a random little boy shows up to be her servant out of nowhere.

%%* ''Fanfic/PartiallyKissedHero'' is an infamous example, and the description of the aforementioned ''Faery Heroes'' also applies to this fic. The fact that the Designated Heroes are the exact same trio and they have fairy magic doesn't help. %%ZCE: Needs more context

* The main Guardian cast of ''Fanfic/SuperSmashBrothersGuardiansArise''. To be specific, you have: Psyche, who's an [[UngratefulBastard ungrateful jerkass]] to Pit, the person who saved her life merely because he's a Smasher (not that [[AdaptationalJerkass he's any better]]) but this is a bit downplayed due to her care for Heather; Golfer, who, after offering food to Pikana, refuses to help her fight Primids as ''she's nearly dying to them'' because she's involved with Traca who abandoned him on a critical mission; Cameron, who, after his introduction, eviscerates a mangled laguz and justifies killing millions of brainwashed laguz just to survive; and the aforementioned Traca who easily falls prey to a betrayal scheme from Clark Wolfon, justifies her selfish behaviour by saying that she wanted to know who she was, and consistently holds the ConflictBall alongside Golfer by which all of the Guardians' arguments boil to. Though there are heroic examples, these people get the most attention from the story and make it hard for the readers to root for them. The Hyrule cast (Rinku, Cimar, Picho, and Pichn) are the only ones doing anything ''remotely'' heroic by taking down the Usurper King Sorius and they have the bigger backstory compared to the above people.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4780695/15/A-Collection-of-Harmonious-OneShots A Collection Of Harmonious OneShots]]'' is a fic that, in its final chapter, has Harry and Hermione ([[FanPreferredCouple who are married in the fic, for some reason]]) start out with good intentions -- [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to prevent a war between]] [[BrokenMasquerade wizards and Muggles]] that is even worse than anything caused by Voldemort -- but they [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] as soon as they arrive in the past, as they make a deal with the dementors, set fire to their enemies' houses, and {{blackmail}} the Gringotts goblins ([[FantasticRacism and treat both the goblins as inferiors and approve of house-elf slavery]]) into executing Dumbledore and Snape, who have received RonTheDeathEater treatment, but [[VillainHasAPoint actually come off as better in comparison]], as Dumbledore at least implores Harry not to go around killing all who have angered him. Harry ignores him, and this is supposed to be seen as heroic behavior. In fact, there are many PeggySue {{Fix Fic}}s which have the main character, usually Harry, act in a way more befitting of Voldemort than the Boy Who Lived.

* Uzumaki Naruto and his mother [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Red Death]] Uzumaki Kushina are this in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3922556/1/ A Mother's Love]]''. Kushina gets away with ''literal murder'' for anyone who even tries entering Namikaze grounds, including those who are lost or just drunk. The Third Hokage lets her get away with it since its "Clan grounds and out of his jurisdiction"...yet the Hyuga, Akimichi, Aburame, Uchiha, even the Senju Clan don't get that preferential treatment. Not only that, she teaches Naruto to be an arrogant dickwad with a entitlement complex and gives him LostTechnology that would benefit all of Konoha-yet doesn't share since they aren't Uzumaki's. Naruto himself becomes a practical tyrant when he becomes Hokage who ''conquers the entire continent through military force'' to usher in a Pax Konoha. In any other story, Naruto would be the villain and his rival (who he kills in the first half) [[RonTheDeathEater Sasuke]] would be the hero.

* Fanfic author Hung Nguyen is known for combining RonTheDeathEater with {{Flanderization}} to stress and heighten all the negative aspects of the ''Ranma'' characters. However this just made them come across as huge jerkasses in The Great Crossover Crisis due to the fact they openly resented the original Ranma for not having the same privileges as them when it should have been the other way around making him come across as far more sensible the writer obviously wanted him to be. In fact the only one of the five main characters who can’t be considered this is D-Ranma.