History Headscratchers / WitchGirlsAdventures

***** Two words: Princess Lucinda. Princess Lucinda is an example character and ''bloody everywhere'' and several adventure hooks involve catering to her whims. And she's never not-turning-someone-into-something-else, which brings up the "fetish overtones" bit, and she has a ~tragic past~ and... so on and so forth. She's TheWesley at least, and toes the water of BlackHoleSue. It's not a bad game, it's pretty fun actually, but she basically sums up all the squicky bits in one convenient and highly common package.
**** Princess Lucinda is a character who's being pushed heavily because she's the focus of her own upcoming miniseries and was considered for a movie at one point. She may be being pushed too heavily, but she's not as overpowered as claimed (She's the big magic girl for the girls introduced in the new run of Witch Girls Tales, but is not overwhelmingly more powerful than, say, the original Coventry girls -- many of the examples of "proof" that she's so tremendously powerful are out-of-continuity gags about her defeating Superman or Hellboy or such), nor does the game/comic universe actually revolve around her -- she's one character of many, and others also matter. Also, outright lies don't help your case. ''None'' of the plot hooks suggested in the book involve Princess Lucinda unless the Director wants to insert her. She has no role in the in-book adventure, and only a bit part in "Pirates of Bucaneer Hill" as a character in an optional scene. In all but two of the comics outside her miniseries or promos for it in the second run, she's been a minor character or part of an ensemble cast -- and she didn't even exist during the first run. In those two stories, one focuses on her, and the other has her as the guide to a new student. She may be The Wesley, but she's far from a Black Hole Sue -- she's pushed a lot, having a facebook page, a prominent role in much of the series art, and her own miniseries, but the plot does not even come close to revolving around her or bending to her will.

** Because the game is not generally that well-known, and one of the places where it ''is'' best-known is /tg/, who as we know, tend to like RootingForTheEmpire, enjoy {{Deconstruction}} so long as they can use it to make things more GrimDark, and adore [[Warhammer40K fascist]] [[{{Rifts}} xenophobic]] [[Film/{{Avatar}} defenders of humanity]]. The Malleus Maleficarum fit right in with their ideal heroes.

** There's a comic from the original run focusing on this. One of Janette's friends ends up temporarily turned into a witch while she's brought to Coventry. She's initially thrilled, but ultimately dcides to Just Be Herself.

***** Probably because the plots and setting of Sabrina don't feel like they're catering toward transformation fetishists and people who enjoy watching witches do horrible things to people.

* It also always bugged me that, despite a lot of focus on Muggle fear and anger, there was no mention of IJustWantToBeSpecial situations.

*** The annoying canon sues inspire a certain degree of disdain, too, as do the uncomfortable fetish overtones.

** Well, it's not like the source material itself doesn't cater to it. A lot of the art in the books is of characters doing horrible things to regular humans and even in canon, a lot of characters have a lax attitude towards others who treat humans as little more than playthings. Plus, middle school girls can just be down right ''mean'' and vindictive even without magic. That's not to say that ''everyone'' in it does these things. But those characters are the ones that stand out the most to the casual onlooker and anyone not familiar with the comics. (Also, not every board on 4chan is /b/. /tg/ actually does churn out some good stuff when they put in the effort.)