History DieForOurShip / AvatarTheLastAirBender

* Jin: Jin had quite a few attacks on her from a vocal section of the Zutara fans and even some early Maiko fans. Most of it called her a slut or a gold digger (even though she canonically didn't know Zuko was a prince), apparently because she is more endowed than most of the girls. Rage against her was relatively short lived -- it quickly became clear that she would not be a recurring character or have any lasting romantic interest in Zuko. The comics and viewing the series in retrospect has made many fans become more supportive of her because even if she isn't someone more popularly paired with Zuko such as [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Suki, Sokka, Katara, Aang, etc.]] she is still better than [[TheScrappy Mai]].

* Asami: This girl may never get a reprieve. Even after proving her loyalty to the Krew and her personal ideals by [[spoiler: going against her own beloved father]], some of the crazier sections of the Makorra fanbase complain about how "slutty" she is and even through the Book 1 finale kept insisting she would turn out to be an Equalist spy. Even though Asami has proven herself a good ally to Korra time and time again by fighting against her father and even though Asami stuck by her convictions despite Mako and Korra's ''aaaaaawkward'' treatment of her, there are still people who insist that Asami will "turn evil" in Book 2 because they're still upset that she anchored Makorra for a good portion of Book 1.

* Korra: And we're not even counting how ''Korra'' also took massive heat for daring to freely choose Mako instead of rejecting him in favor of other ships. Borra rabid fans who swear that "[[EntitledToHaveYou Bolin deserves Korra's affections because he's ~the nice one~]]" are specially bad in these regards.

* Zuko: A section of the Katara/Aang fandom have become openly hostile to Zuko due to the extreme popularity of the non-canon Zuko/Katara ship, calling him emo and [[HollywoodHomely ugly]]. The Sokka/Suki shippers seem to be readying their guns to do this too, as there have been [[ShipTease Ship Teases]] of a Zuko/Suki relationship in the Promise comics. The Jet/Katara shippers view him as a competition even though neither ship actually turned out canon in the end.

* Suki: You'd be surprised at the number of Toph/Sokka shippers who were saddened and angered to discover that Suki was still alive. Now they're the poster LoveTriangle for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." A few Sokka/Azula shippers have recently come out of the woodwork to bash Suki as well. Due to Suki's closeness to Zuko in the comics, many Mai/Zuko fans have started to bash her for being "shallow".

* Asami
** This girl may never get a reprieve. Even after proving her loyalty to the Krew and her personal ideals by [[spoiler: going against her own beloved father]], some of the crazier sections of the Makorra fanbase complain about how "slutty" she is and even through the Book 1 finale kept insisting she would turn out to be an Equalist spy. Even though Asami has proven herself a good ally to Korra time and time again by fighting against her father and even though Asami stuck by her convictions despite Mako and Korra's ''aaaaaawkward'' treatment of her, there are still people who insist that Asami will "turn evil" in Book 2 because they're still upset that she anchored Makorra for a good portion of Book 1.
** The Asami hate came back in full force for Book 2, when Mako and Asami got back together again. People calling her a slut and all sorts of terms claiming she got in the way of Makorra, despite the fact that she and Mako got back together AFTER he broke up with Korra. (Though it didn't help that Mako hooked up with Asami only a week after he broke up with Korra, something Bolin calls him out on.)

* And we're not even counting how ''Korra'' also took massive heat for daring to freely choose Mako instead of rejecting him in favor of other ships. Borra rabid fans who swear that "[[EntitledToHaveYou Bolin deserves Korra's affections because he's ~the nice one~]]" are specially bad in these regards.
* Surprisingly, there are actually a great many fans out there who despise Opal, considering her a bland RelationshipSue for Bolin or making a gargantuan deal about how slow she was to forgive Bolin (which was admittedly arguably unfair considering the shit he already went through to get back to her and help) to portray her as a vindictive bitch. Of course, one would ''have'' to exaggerate Opal's flaws to insane levels in order to justify one's preferred ship if that ship happens to be the nightmarishly abusive and UnfortunateImplications-ridden [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Boleska]].

* Mai: Good Lord, her treatment by most of the A:TLA FanDumb defines this trope. At first, most Zuko/Katara shippers were apathetic to little!Mai. Even when she came back, all grown up, in season 2 to help Azula pursue the Gaang, most Zutarians viewed her as just a slightly annoying side-character... until season 3 episode 1, when the audience first saw her make out with Zuko. Then Mai became the target of the great Zutarian FanDumb. As Mai and Zuko's canon [[ChildhoodFriendRomance relationship]] blossomed, the Zutarian bashing only intensified. Katara was the character these fangirls identified with, and Zuko was the character these fangirls wanted to tap. When Mai moved in on the boy they wanted, the Zutarians hit her with everything they had, as if this had happened in real life. There's even fanart that lampshades the FanDumb about Mai.
* Aang:
** Since they can't kill off the KidHero, many [[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]] shippers make Aang so childish that he makes [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Honey-sempai]] look like a man of deep ''gravitas''. The most rabid of these shippers go so far as to call him "Bryke's special little [[CanonSue Gary Stu]]" or "self-insert golden boy" for daring to get his happy ending with the girl he likes; deviantART and Livejournal are ''littered'' with angry rants and "intelligent" essays ''blasting'' the Aang/Katara pairing, taking AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to extremes by twisting Aang into a selfish little bastard who "only won Katara as a prize for being the Special Hero", accusing Kataang of being "creepy" or "sexist" and clinging to the rejected kiss scene in "The Ember Island Players" as "evidence" of this, ''completely'' discounting two and a half seasons of friendship and development.
** Others assume Avatars must either be {{Celibate Hero}}es or else rapidly [[LoveMakesYouEvil became villainous]]. Until WordOfGod and a ''canon'' episode discredited this idea implicitly, this was one of the primary means of pushing Aang to the side; due to [[AllThereInTheManual ancillary material]], it was fiercely contested by [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kataang]] shippers during the long drought of new TV eps of 2007. Of course, the "celibate" angle has now become HilariousInHindsight, as the live-action ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' film actually does portray the idea that Avatars can never have families as a plot-point (namely, it was why Aang fled his responsibility as the Avatar in the film, as opposed to being afraid his life would change for the worse, and that he would be taken away from his mentor/father figure, Gyatso). Certain fans have noted this, and have used it to try and support this angle (despite it being canon to the film, and ''only'' the film), but on the other hand, most fans would rather [[FanonDiscontinuity ignore the film entirely.]]
** Other shippers discounted Aang because he was 12 years old. They usually assigned a [[LikeBrotherAndSister big sister/little brother]] type relationship to Aang and Katara, villainizing neither and viewing their relationship as one that they would naturally grow out of as they got older, or claiming that a romance between them would be creepy {{Shotacon}} even though Katara was only ''two years older'' [[DoubleStandard (forgetting that Zuko is two years older than Katara)]] than Aang. There's also the camp that claims that because Katara has a maternal personality towards the team, Aang's attraction to her is "[[OedipusComplex Oedipal]]"...which makes no sense since Katara is not ''actually'' his mother (biologically or otherwise). Then the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra sequel series]] had WordOfGod identifying Tenzin as Aang and Katara's ''son'' before it aired, thus confirming that their relationship ''did'' last beyond the "teenage hormones" stage. Needless to say, this simple declaration set the Kataang vs. Zutara wars aflame again.
** A few Toph/Katara shippers are nasty to Aang in their fanfics, twisting him into a jealous asshole who just wants to hurt Toph for "stealing" Katara from him.
** If Aang isn't rendered childish, expect to see him sneered at for being a self-righteous prick who doesn't understand Katara's struggles with revenge and bloodlust in the episode "The Southern Raiders," even though Aang explicitly points out that he understands, and that he's advising Katara as any friend would against a path that is dangerous and immoral.
** Somewhat related to the forgiveness issue, Aang is sometimes portrayed as trying to force his Air Nomad traditions onto others, even when they disagree (primarily Katara). His decision [[spoiler:not to kill Ozai]] (which, admittedly, is controversial for other reasons) is portrayed as being solely motivated by those traditions, and an irresponsible act at that.
** Some Zutara shippers go to such ridiculous lengths with their accusations by saying Aang is a ''pedophile'' for crushing on Katara, since he's technically 100 years older than her, completely disregarding the solid fact that Aang was frozen in an iceberg ''unconsciously'' the whole time, thus unable to mentally mature (unlike a certain [[{{Literature/Twilight}} vampire]] we all know and hate). This is easily proven in the first episode where he's oblivious to this fact at first and acts very much like a kid, and although this childish behaviour gradually drops as the series goes on, it's still noticeable that he's mentally a 12-year old and nothing more or less.
* Jin: Jin had quite a few attacks on her from a vocal section of the Zutara fans and even some early Maiko fans. Most of it called her a slut or a gold digger (even though she canonically didn't know Zuko was a prince), apparently because she is more endowed than most of the girls. Rage against her was relatively short lived -- it quickly became clear that she would not be a recurring character or have any lasting romantic interest in Zuko.
* Zuko: A section of the Katara/Aang fandom have become openly hostile to Zuko due to the extreme popularity of the non-canon Zuko/Katara ship, calling him emo and [[HollywoodHomely ugly]]. The Sokka/Suki shippers seem to be readying their guns to do this too, as there have been [[ShipTease Ship Teases]] of a Zuko/Suki relationship in the Promise comics.
* Katara: Extreme Maiko and [[ToyShip Aang/Toph]] fans bash Katara as a CanonSue who became far too good at waterbending far too quickly.
* Suki: You'd be surprised at the number of Toph/Sokka shippers who were saddened and angered to discover that Suki was still alive. Now they're the poster LoveTriangle for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." A few Sokka/Azula shippers have recently come out of the woodwork to bash Suki as well.

*** This almost reaches the levels of FanDumb because Mako and Korra got together in a lot shorter amount of time after Asami and Mako's [[DidTheyOrDidntThey sorta break up.]]

* Mako: There are many perfectly legitimate reasons to dislike Mako or his portrayal in the series. Hating him ''just'' because Korra happens to like him (and wishing he would die in a fire) is not one of those reasons. But don’t let certain vocal sections of the Borra, Tahnorra, and Korrasami fanbases tell you that.
** Makorra shippers, now ArmedWithCanon, declared war on anyone that could be potentially seen as an obstacle to their ship ''even though they got what they wanted anyway''. And then Book 2's ending then rolled out some new canon for the opposition.
** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a jerk who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. (Coveniently [[DoubleStandard handwaving or excusing]] [[HumansAreFlawed Korra's own part in the hook-up]] because she's a girl.) He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra. [[spoiler: And now that the series has finished with Asami and Korra getting together and Mako as JustFriends with them, the rabid Korrasami fans have taken to insisting that they got together as a way to stick it to that horrible and heartless MAN known as Mako, bringing massive UnfortunateImplications of the "being hurt by the evil men is a pre-requisite for women to become sexually/romantically involved" or "lesbian/lesbian-leaning bi women are purer and inherently better than these gross men" type.]]

** Some Zutara shippers go to such ridiculous lengths with their accusations by saying Aang is a ''pedophile'' for crushing on Katara, since he's technically a 100 years older than her, completely disregarding the solid fact that Aang was frozen in an ice berg ''unconsciously'' the whole time, thus unable to mentally mature (unlike a certain [[{{Literature/Twilight}} vampire]] we all know and hate). This is easily proven in the first episode where he's oblivious to this fact at first and acts very much like a kid, and although this childish behaviour gradually drops as the series goes on, it's still noticeable that he's mentally a 12-year old and nothing more or less.

* Zuko: A section of the Katara/Aang fandom have become openly hostile to Zuko due to the extreme popularity of the non-canon Zuko/Katara ship, calling him emo and [[HollywoodHomely ugly]]. The Sokka/Suki shippers, seem to be readying their guns to do this too, as there have been [[ShipTease Ship Teases]] of a Zuko/Suki relationship in the Promise comics.
* Katara: Extreme Maiko and [[ToyShip Aang/Toph]] fans bash Katara as a CanonSue who became far too good at water bending far too quickly.

** Since they can't kill off the KidHero, many [[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]] shippers make Aang so childish that he makes [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Honey-sempai]] look like a man of deep ''gravitas''. The most rabid of these shippers go so far as to call him "Bryke's special little [[CanonSue Gary Stu]]" or "self-insert golden boy" for daring to get his happy ending with the girl he likes; deviantART and Livejournal are ''littered'' with angry rants and "intelligent" essays ''blasting'' the Aang/Katara pairing, taking AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to extremes by twisting Aang into a selfish little bastard who "only won Katara as a prize for being the Special Hero", accusing Kataang of being "creepy" or "sexist" and clinging to the rejected kiss scene in "The Ember Island Players" as "evidence" of this, ''completely'' discounting two and a half seasons of friendship and development.

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although for a change, it's not by getting back together with Mako. It's due to what happened in the GrandFinale: [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]''. With four whole seasons of loyalty behind Asami, most of the accusations are now of PanderingToTheBase and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.]]

** Some Zutara shippers go yo such ridiculous lengths with their accusations by saying Aang is a pedophile for crushing on Katara, since he's technically a 100 years older than her, completely disregarding the solid fact that Aang was frozen in an ice berg ''unconsciously'' the whole time, thus unable to mentally mature (unlike a certain [[{{Literature/Twilight}} vampire]] we all know and hate). This is easily proven in the first episode where he's oblivious to this fact at first and acts very much like a kid, and although this childish behaviour gradually drops as the series goes on, it's still noticeable that he's mentally a 12-year old and nothing more or less.

** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a jerk who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. (Coveniently [[DoubleStandard handwaving or excusing]] [[HumansAreFlawed Korra's own part in the hook-up]] because she's a girl) He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra. [[spoiler: And now that the series has finished with Asami and Korra getting together and Mako as JustFriends with them, the rabid Korrasami fans have taken to insisting that they got together as a way to stick it to that horrible and heartless MAN known as Mako, bringing massive UnfortunateImplications of the "being hurt by the evil men is a pre-requisite for women to become sexually/romantically involved" or "lesbian/lesbian-leaning bi women are purer and inherently better than these gross men" type.]]
** And we're not even counting how ''Korra'' also took massive heat for daring to freely choose Mako instead of rejecting him in favor of other ships. Borra rabid fans who swear that "[[EntitledToHaveYou Bolin deserves Korra's affections because he's ~the nice one~]]" are specially bad in these regards.

** Others assume Avatars must either be {{Celibate Hero}}es or else rapidly [[LoveMakesYouEvil became villainous]]. Until WordOfGod and a ''canon'' episode discredited this idea implicitly, this was one of the primary means of pushing Aang to the side; due to [[AllThereInTheManual ancillary material]], it was fiercely contested by [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kataang]] shippers during the long drought of new TV eps of 2007. Of course, the "celibate" angle has now become HilariousInHindsight, as the live-action ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' film actually does portray the idea that Avatars can never have families as a plot-point (namely, it was why Aang fled his responsibility as the Avatar in the film, as opposed to being afraid his life would change for the worse, and that he would be taken away from his mentor/father figure, Gyatso). Certain fans have noted this, and have used it to try and support this angle (despite it being canon to the film, and ''only'' the film), but on the other hand, most fans would rather [[FanonDiscontinuity ignore the film entirely]].

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although for a change, it's not by getting back together with Mako. It's due to what happened in the GrandFinale: [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]''. With four whole seasons of loyalty behind Asami, most of the accusations are now of PanderingToTheBase and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad]].

** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a jerk who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. (Coveniently [[DoubleStandard handwaving or excusing]] [[HumansAreFlawed Korra's own part in the hook-up]] because she's a girl) He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra. [[spoiler: And now that the series has finished with Asami and Korra getting together and Mako as JustFriends with them, the rabid Korrasami fans have taken to insisting that they got together as a way to stick it to that horrible ad heartless MAN knwon as Mako, bringing massive UnfortunateImplications of the "being hurt by the evil men is a pre-requisite for women to become sexually/romantically involved" or "lesbian/lesbian-leaning bi women are purer and inherently better than these gross men" type.]]

** Makorra shippers, now ArmedWithCanon, declared war on anyone that could be potentially seen as an obstacle to their ship ''even though they got what they wanted anyway''. And then *** Book 2's ending then rolled out some new canon for the opposition.
** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a jerk who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra. [[spoiler: And now that the series has finished with Asami and Korra getting together and Mako as JustFriends with her, the rabid Korrasami fans have taken to treat Korra as a "prize" for their PuritySue version of Asami and insisting that they got together to stick it to Mako, bringing massive UnfortunateImplications of the "being hurt by the evil men is a pre-requisite for women to become sexually/romantically involved" or "lesbian/lesbian-leaning bi women are purer and inherently better than these gross and evil men" type.]]

** This girl may never get a reprieve. Even after proving her loyalty to the Krew and her personal ideals by [[spoiler: going against her own beloved father]], some of the crazier sections of the Makorra fanbase complain about how "slutty" she is and even through the Book 1 finale kept insisting she would turn out to be an Equalist spy. Even though Asami has proven herself a good ally to Korra time and time again by fighting against her father and even though Asami stuck by her convictions despite Mako and Korra's generally bad treatment of her, there are still people who insist that Asami will "turn evil" in Book 2 because they're still upset that she anchored Makorra for a good portion of Book 1.

** Makorra shippers, now ArmedWithCanon, declared war on anyone that could be potentially seen as an obstacle to their ship ''even though they got what they wanted anyway''.
*** Book 2's ending then rolled out some new canon for the opposition.
** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a jerk who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra.

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although for a change, it's not by getting back together with Mako. It's due to what happened in the GrandFinale: [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]''. It was [[AntiShippingGoggles furiously denied]] by clinging to the barest scraps of [[MoralGuardians mandated]] [[MaybeEverAfter ambiguity]] (e.g. they ''technically'' didn't kiss) until WordOfGay made it utterly unambiguous, and still brings about accusations of PanderingToTheBase and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad]].

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although for a change, it's not by getting back together with Mako. It's due to what happened in the GrandFinale: [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]''. It was [[AntiShippingGoggles furiously denied]] until WordOfGay made it utterly unambiguous, and still brings about accusations of PanderingToTheBase and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad]].

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although now it's due to [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]''. It was [[AntiShippingGoggles furiously denied]] until WordOfGay made it utterly unambiguous, and still brings about accusations of PanderingToTheBase]].

** Asami's getting another dose of this at the end of the series. She's still getting in the way of Makorra, although now it's due to [[spoiler:her RelationshipUpgrade with ''[[BiTheWay Korra]]'', bringing about accusations of PanderingToTheBase]].

** If Aang isn't rendered childish, expect to see him sneered at for being a self-righteous prick who doesn't understand Katara's struggles with revenge and bloodlust in the episode "The Southern Raiders," even though Aang explicitly points out that he understands, and that he's advising Katara as any friend would against a path that is dangerous and immoral.

* Mako: There are many perfectly legitimate reasons to dislike Mako or his portrayal in the series. Hating him ''just'' because Korra happens to like him (and wishing he would die in a fire) is not one of those reasons. But don’t let certain vocal sections of the Borra, Tahnorra, and Korrasami fanbases tell you that. While some people do blame only Mako for the screwy stuff the went on in the love shape, lately there have been a lot of people who have been pointing out that Korra has a lot of responsibility for Asami getting screwed over too... which then derivates in misogyny-ladden "fights" about which girl is the best: either Korra is a whore who shamelessly wants to steal Mako from Asami, or Asami is a "super perfect MarySue".
* The Book 1 finale actually featured a hook-up at the end of the story. Cue ''shipping apocalypse''.

* Mako: There are many perfectly legitimate reasons to dislike Mako or his portrayal in the series. Hating him ''just'' because Korra happens to like him (and wishing he would die in a fire) is not one of those reasons. But don’t let certain vocal sections of the Borra, Tahnorra, and Korrasami fanbases tell you that. While some people do blame only Mako for the screwy stuff the went on in the love shape,lately there have been a lot of people who have been pointing out that Korra has a lot of responsibility for Asami getting screwed over too... which then derivates in misogyny-ladden "fights" about which girl is the best: either Korra is a whore who shamelessly wants to steal Mako from Asami, or Asami is a "super perfect MarySue".

** This girl may never get a reprieve. Even after proving her loyalty to the Krew and her personal ideals by [[spoiler: going against her own beloved father]], some of the crazier sections of the Makorra fanbase complain about how "slutty" she is and even through the Book 1 finale kept insisting she would turn out to be an Equalist spy.Even though Asami has proven herself a good ally to Korra time and time again by fighting against her father and even though Asami stuck by her convictions despite Mako and Korra's generally bad treatment of her, there are still people who insist that Asami will "turn evil" in Book 2 because they're still upset that she anchored Makorra for a good portion of Book 1.

** The Asami hate came back in full force for Book 2, when Mako and Asami got back together again. People calling her a slut and all sorts of terms claiming she got in the way of Makorra, despite the fact that she and Mako got back together AFTER he broke up with Korra. (Though it didn't help that Mako hooked up with Asami only after a week he broke up with Korra, something Bolin calls him out on.)

** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a monster who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that it can easily come off like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra.

* Mai: Good Lord, her treatment by most of the A:TLA FanDumb defines this trope. At first, most Zuko/Katara shippers were apathetic to little!Mai. Even when she came back, all grown up, in season 2 to help Azula pursue the Gaang, most Zutarians viewed her as just a slightly annoying side-character... until season 3 episode 1, when the audience first saw her make out with Zuko. Then Mai became the target of the great Zutarian FanDumb. As Mai and Zuko's canon [[ChildhoodFriendRomance relationship]] blossomed, the Zutarian bashing only intensified. Katara was the character these fangirls identified with, and Zuko was the character these fangirls wanted to tap. When Mai moved in on the boy they wanted, the Zutarians hit her with everything they had, as if this had happened in real life.
** There's even fanart that lampshades the FanDumb about Mai.
* Aang: Since they can't kill off the KidHero, many [[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]] shippers make Aang so childish that he makes [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Honey-sempai]] look like a man of deep ''gravitas''. The most rabid of these shippers go so far as to call him "Bryke's special little [[CanonSue Gary Stu]]" or "self-insert golden boy" for daring to get his happy ending with the girl he likes; deviantART and Livejournal are ''littered'' with angry rants and "intelligent" essays ''blasting'' the Aang/Katara pairing, taking AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to extremes by twisting Aang into a selfish little bastard who "only won Katara as a prize for being the Special Hero", accusing Kataang of being "creepy" or "sexist" and clinging to the rejected kiss scene in "The Ember Island Players" as "evidence" of this, ''completely'' discounting two and a half seasons of friendship and development.
** Others assume Avatars must either be {{Celibate Hero}}es or else rapidly [[LoveMakesYouEvil became villainous]]. Until WordOfGod and a ''canon'' episode discredited this idea implicitly, this was one of the primary means of pushing Aang to the side; due to [[AllThereInTheManual ancillary material]], it was fiercely contested by [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kataang]] shippers during the long drought of new TV eps of 2007. Of course, the "celibate" angle has now become HilariousInHindsight, as the live-action ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' film actually does portray the idea that Avatars can never have families as a plot-point (namely, it was why Aang fled his responsibility as the Avatar in the film, as opposed to being afraid his life would change for the worse, and that he would be taken away from his mentor/father figure, Gyatso). Certain fans have noted this, and have used it to try and support this angle (despite it being canon to the film, and ''only'' the film), but on the other hand, most fans would rather [[FanonDiscontinuity ignore the film entirely]].
*** Film? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial What film? There never was a film!]].

* Asami: This girl may never get a reprieve. Even after proving her loyalty to the Krew and her personal ideals by [[spoiler: going against her own beloved father]], some of the crazier sections of the Makorra fanbase complain about how "slutty" she is and even through the Book 1 finale kept insisting she would turn out to be an Equalist spy.
** Even though Asami has proven herself a good ally to Korra time and time again by fighting against her father and even though Asami stuck by her convictions despite Mako and Korra's generally bad treatment of her, there are still people who insist that Asami will "turn evil" in Book 2 because they're still upset that she anchored Makorra for a good portion of Book 1.

** Mako almost instantly elevated to RonTheDeathEater status over the hook-up, as he was accused of being a monster who two-times Asami and when taken to even further extremes, portrayed as an abusive monster. He's also been accused of being a MarySue or a CreatorsPet simply because...he hooked up with Korra ''after'' breaking up with Asami. Not shockingly, some of the most vocal of these were Borra and Korrasami shippers, though really, anyone that wasn't shipping Makorra went into shipping seizures. Not helping was that Mako and Asami's breakup was done in a very "blink and you'll miss it" fashion, meaning that to people paying less than perfect attention, it looks like Mako didn't bother to break up with her before making a move on Korra.