History Main / FandomBerserkButton

* It's [[Series/DowntonAbbey Down]]''[[Series/DowntonAbbey ton]]'' Abbey, not Down''town'' Abbey. Only one "w". [[http://xkcd.com/1009/ Noted by]] ''{{xkcd}}''.

* MarilynManson is a band, and the lead singer's stage name (not even his parents still call him Brian Hugh Warner, and he does not answer to it, so you don't get to call him that). They are not "devil worshipers", they are not evil demons sent from hell [[ThinkOfTheChildren to corrupt your kids]], Marilyn Manson (the man) did not have any ribs removed, was not on TheWonderYears, is not dead and does not ever kill animals on stage. The one time someone suggested he hurt a cat in an interview, he shot them down and told them that he likes cats, and in fact, he has a pet cat (formerly two, but his ex-wife took one in the divorce) named Lily White. Oh, and all of the band is male. Even if Twiggy Ramirez doesn't always look it. Although, the fandom generally doesn't mind if you think that Twiggy and Manson are together, because a fair portion of them agree. Also, their second LP is "Antichrist Superstar". Not "Anti-Christ Superstar" or "Anti Christ Superstar" or "Anti Christ Super Star". Also, liking more than one era of Manson is apparently a crime. Blaming either the man or the band for Columbine is a surefire way to be flamed to oblivion. The Columbine killers hated his music (ironically, they were fans of a band Manson is friends with, the later mentioned here {{Rammstein}}, which is pretty damn stupid, seeing as Rammstein and Marilyn Manson respect and like each other to the point where Manson played using them when his band wasn't available for an award show in Germany).

* While not likely to get you flamed, referring to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series as Game of Thrones (the title of the HBO show based on the series which takes its name from the first book) is a good indicator of what kind of fan you are.

* To the fanbase of the "Underworld" series of movies, particularly every single person who knows anything about mythology, It is Lycan''thrope''. The term "Lycan" is a clear shortening of the scientific name for the disease/curse (or rather the real-world symptoms that mimic it), designed to be a slang insult to the species (at least until the prequel, at which point they tossed out their own sense).

* Granted, fans of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' tend to be a bit more tolerant than most, because they know that it's not exactly faithful to the [[AlanMoore source material]]. However, there are some no-nos even here, chiefly in character name spelling. It's Dorian Gray, not Darien Grey or any other permutation. It's Jekyll, not Jekall or Jekil or (heaven forbid) Jekkie.

** An aversion is just how to the hell you're supposed to spell Fay's name. It's pronounced Fai (rhymes with "eye") but officially written in as Fay in English, but the English translation had already used Fai for volumes and when they realized the mistake and basically responded "{{Whatever}}", and the fandom reaction was to spell it however they wanted. And don't even get us started on his last name.

* It's quite easy to hit the FandomBerserkButton from ''TheColbertReport'' fandom (the fact that [[BanOnPolitics politics is frequently involved]] probably doesn't help), but the quickest way to do it is to [[BerserkButton spell]] StephenColbert's [[BerserkButton name wrong]]. There is no such person as "''Steven'' Colbert". Pronouncing the T in "Colbert" will cause similar levels of rage.
* Confusing ''StarWars'' with ''Franchise/StarTrek'' in the presence of either fandom is [[FandomRivalry one of the most brutal suicide methods known to man.]] A {{troll}} jokingly asked in a Website/YouTube comment if [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] was "the one with the ewoks". Insta-FlameWar.

* Calling any version of [[StargateVerse Stargate]] "[=StarGate=]" or "Star Gate" will cause every fan of the series in the world to tell you just how wrong you are, and how it's nothing like Franchise/StarTrek or StarWars.

** On that note, the Doctor's REAL NAME is not "The Doctor"; "The Doctor" is a "title" or a fake name that he uses for himself, with the presumed reason by fans being that it's too complicated for any other species but Time Lords to pronounce. Fans of the show will be very quick to point this out to you if you ask a question such as "why did his parents name him after a medical profession?".

* VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII faces a triple-dose of this problem. Getting any of the following wrong is bait for serious backlash:

* Go ahead and say that Apollo is better then Phoenix on a AceAttorney forum. Or the other way around for that matter. You'll get a front seat to a flamewar between Phoenix and Apollo fans.

* When someone looks at some piece of VideoGame/{{Touhou}} fanart and asks "What anime is this?" flames are to be expected.
** The same can be said of {{Vocaloid}} too.

* A rare case of {{canon}} [[FandomBerserkButton Gannon Banning]] ''itself:'' The band name 'Music/LedZeppelin' is in fact Gannon preemptively Banning itself from Americans pronouncing 'Lead' 'Leed'.

** Music/LedZeppelin's fourth album does not have a title. Call it "the fourth album" or "the untitled album", and you should be fine. In some circles, calling it "Led Zeppelin IV" will give you away as only a casual fan. Call it "the Hermit Album," "the one with 'Stairway to Heaven'" or "Zoso" and you will be held beneath contempt.
''Four Symbols'' or ''The Fourth Album''.

* The one time you'll get a pass for calling park by a corporate name is if it's never had a non-corporate one, or if the non-corporate name is unknown by most fans. If the corporate sponsor changes, generally use the most well-known name, which is usually the first one.
** At least one exception to this is Ashburton Grove, the stadium of Arsenal F.C., which is almost exclusively referred to by its sponsored name of "The Emirates" or "Emirates Stadium", even by fans. Conversely, in the same league, the City of Manchester Stadium, home to Manchester City (natch), is generally only referred to as "Etihad Stadium" by sports commentators, who are somewhat obliged to refer to stadiums and competitions by their sponsored names.
*** Although quite a few Arsenal fans, such as those on The Gooner loathe the idea of having their stadium named after a corporation and either refer to it as "Ashburton Grove" or simply "The Grove" at times. If deciding to use the corporate name they simply call it "The E******s" like a swear word.
** The Houston Astros offer an interesting inversion: their park was once known as Enron Field. After the Enron scandal, the team went to court to be released from the naming rights agreement, arguing that scandal around Enron diminished the Houston Astros brand. The court agreed. Subsequently, the park was rechristened Minute Maid Park, and [[OldShame nobody in their right mind speaks of Enron Field anymore]].
** And then there's Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs -- the Wrigley it's named after was the chewing-gum magnate who also owned the Cubs at the time, so ''technically''...

** The company that makes them used to specifically make the point on the packaging that they should be called "LEGO bricks or toys" and not "[=LEGOs=]". They were worried about their trademark becoming genericized, as happened to, say, aspirin, escalator, and linoleum.

* In any incarnation of the X-Men, misspelling 'Rogue' as '[[RougeAnglesOfSatyn Rouge]]'

*** [[ShesAManInJapan He is in Mexico.]]

* A rare case of {{canon}} {{Gannon Bann|ed}}ing ''itself:'' The band name 'Music/LedZeppelin' is in fact Gannon preemptively Banning itself from Americans pronouncing 'Lead' 'Leed'.

*** ''MyImmortal'' deserves mention just for the sheer fact that it manages to break pretty much every GannonBanned rule in a spectacular CrossesTheLineTwice fashion.

* It's quite easy to get GannonBanned from ''TheColbertReport'' fandom (the fact that [[BanOnPolitics politics is frequently involved]] probably doesn't help), but the quickest way to do it is to [[BerserkButton spell]] StephenColbert's [[BerserkButton name wrong]]. There is no such person as "''Steven'' Colbert". Pronouncing the T in "Colbert" will cause similar levels of rage.

** Many fan translations are militant in their use of Japanese equivalents of a word whenever possible, and occasionally reverse-translate portions of a manga (EX, changing Lordgenome into Genome-sama for Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann, when it was one word, and changing perverted to {{ecchi}} in other manga when it damages a normal readers ability to understand the text.)

* A similar reaction happens among Death the Kid fangirls from the Manga/SoulEater fandom. It's a tossup, but there is still an ongoing debate about the spelling. It's either "Kid" or "Kidd", but still...
* Happens in the ''DragonBall'' fandom. People who use certain names over other tend to get looked at as filthy dub fans. It's not Master Roshi, it's Kame-sennin! Hercule? You moron, it's Mr. Satan! And so on, and so forth.

* CLAMP and ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' fans often get pissed off when someone calls the series ''Tsubasa Chronicle.'' See, the anime is called ''Tsubasa Chronicle'' and it was beyond awful. It was so bad CLAMP themselves disowned it; in the fandom's mind, calling it Tsubasa Chronicle most likely means you have only seen the anime.

* ''InuYasha'': The name of Inuyasha's sword is the Tessaiga, not Tetsusaiga. It's spelled with a ''small'' "tsu" character, which is not read as "tsu", but doubles the following consonant.

* According to the fans, it's spelled [[ChronoCrusade "Chrno" and not "Chrono"]]. However, WordOfGod has admitted that "Chrno" was a mistake on Daisuke Moriyama's part, and by the time he noticed it was too late to change it. Recent reprintings of the manga in Japan call it ''"Chrono Crusade"''.\\

* Pronouncing the word "Eureka" as anything but ee-oou-reck-ah will cause [[EurekaSeven certain fans]] to cringe. Even when you're talking about [[{{Eureka}} another series entirely]].

* For a ''RanmaOneHalf'' fan, the use of 'Nermia' is akin to a boot to the head.

* Due to the nature of [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha's]] [[EmpathicWeapon intelligent device's]] [[BoomStick usage]] and partly due to some subtitling errors and pronunciation difficulties, some fans assert that the said device's name is RAGING Heart.

* It's [[{{Berserk}} Guts]] not Gatsu, ok?
* Calling ''PokemonSpecial'' "the Pokemon manga" is guaranteed to get you berated in many circles.

* There are many {{Music/Queen}} fans who do ''not'' like Freddie Mercury's first name being spelled with a Y at the end. [[hottip:note:His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara, so to some people it doesn't matter.]] The reactions will range from a gentle "*Freddie, please" to flaming you from heaven to earth.

* Some physicists and mathematicians [[BerserkButton HATE]] when you mispronounce "Euler", and saying it as "you-ler"[[hottip:*: It's OY-ler.]] will earn you the ire from anyone who generally knows who he was.

* In a similar vein, fans of Stanford University's sports teams will not hesitate to loudly and frequently remind you that their team is the Stanford ''Cardinal'', not the Cardinal'''s'''. That is, they are Cardinal, the shade of red, not Cardinals, the birds (or Catholic leaders). Gods help you if you suggest that their mascot is a cardinal. [[hottip:*:It's a tree, which is incidentally not Cardinal-colored.]]

The trope name comes from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' [[http://www.gannon-banned.com/ forum]] that lays out ground rules about obvious false rumors (like that a [[http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00022/ cover song]] [[MisattributedSong was produced by a different band than the one that actually did it]], that Link's name is Zelda, etc.) and shuns people that continue to spread them. Also, as shown by the picture above, in one version of one game, the BigBad Ganon's name was misspelled as Gannon; so referring to him as Gannon (instead of Ganon) is also something likely to get you banned. Of course, the list does have things like calling VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames "epic", so there's a strong hint of StealthParody present.

See Also: CowboyBebopAtHisComputer, FandomHeresy, IAmNotShazam, InternetBackdraft, and RefrainFromAssuming. An in-media equivalent would be InsistentTerminology. For cannons that are banned, see FantasyGunControl. If Canon is banned, it's CanonDisContinuity.

Not to be confused with [[JustForPun Banning Ganon]], who clearly deserves to be [[OverlyLongGag Ganon]] [[SealedEvilInACan Canned]] [[note]]or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_bomb Gannon Bombed]][[/note]].

Doesn't seem to be related to [[BrandX Gannon Car Rentals]]. Or Gannon University, for that matter. Or Officer Bill Gannon from ''{{Dragnet}}''. Or Arcade Gannon from ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

* At [[TFWikiDotNet TFWiki.net]] the quickest and easiest way to prevent anyone from caring about your opinion is to object to the use of humorous image captions.

Linked to NerdRage, which is usually what happens when someone invokes Gannon Banned by accident ([[{{Troll}} or on purpose]]).

!!When adding examples, please keep in mind that this trope covers audience and fandom reactions. It is '''not''' intended to be a catalog of misspellings, misconceptions, and common errors.