History Main / FandomBerserkButton

* Saying that ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' glorifies Nazism simply based on the fact that is has UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich as it's over-the-top [[LargeHam hammy]] [[BigBad main villain]] tend to often be enough to seriously irritate the fanbase. That despite the fact that the story portrays him and those who are morally aligned with him as nothing short of monsters and failures of human beings.

** Most who read the SCP wiki in-depth are forgiving if someone assumes the SCP Foundation is primarily horror, given how many iconic [=SCPs=] are horror based [[note]]mostly due to AdaptationDisplacement from [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 the SCP-087 game]] and ''[[Videogame/SCPContainmentBreach Containment Breach]]''[[/note]], and will offer a simple correction. However, claiming that the site was always meant to be horror and complaining about certain [=SCPs=] not being scary will get a much more negative response.

* Mocking or disrespecting UnacceptableTargets (you'll be hated and reviled for it, but it doesn't count as a Fandom Berserk Button).

** Anna is not a ginger. She has strawberry blonde hair. Alternatively, many fans reject the official books calling her a strawberry blonde and insist that she's a redhead.

* Mocking or disrespecting UnacceptableTargets (you'll be hated and reviled for it, but it doesn't count as a Fandom Berserk Button}.

* You'll be sure to rile up ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' fans if you call it a Creator/TimBurton movie. To be fair, however, it can be argued that the misconception isn't the fault of those who believe it. The problem was that the advertising proclaimed it to be "From the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''"...but the director of both, and the man referred to in the advertising, was Henry Selick. [[DirectorDisplacement Many people think Burton directed ''Nightmare'', but he actually only produced it and worked on its story]]. It may have been intentional wording, however, to deliberately make people think of the more well-known Burton while still being accurate.

* Mocking or disrespecting UnacceptableTargets.

** Anna is not a ginger. She has strawberry blonde hair.

** Most who read the SCP wiki in-depth are forgiving if someone assumes the SCP Foundation is primarily horror, given how many iconic [=SCPs=] are horror based [[labelnote]]mostly due to AdaptationDisplacement from [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 the SCP-087 game]] and ''[[Videogame/SCPContainmentBreach Containment Breach]]''[[/labelnote]], and will offer a simple correction. However, claiming that the site was always meant to be horror and complaining about certain [=SCPs=] not being scary will get a much more negative response.

* Mistaking the work's creator for another one due to similar styles.

** They're not the trademark-friendly "Astra Militarum", they are the fan-favourite ''Imperial Guard''. Likewise, they're not "Aeldari", "Drukhari" and "T'au", they are the ''Eldar'', ''Dark Eldar'' and ''Tau''.

* Claiming that a work or character is a rip-off of another due to superficial resemblances. Bonus points if [[OlderThanTheyThink the work or character supposedly being ripped off actually debuted years after the so-called "rip-off"]].

* Claiming that a work or character is a rip-off of another due to superficial resemblances. Bonus points if [[OlderThanTheyThink the work or character supposedly being ripped off actually debuted years after the so-called "original"]].

* Anything from the list of things that do qualify, if it's not common or severe enough to significantly bother fans of the work every time it comes up.

** ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' fans get pretty annoyed when people call the game the "video game version of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''", which is a rather bad berserk button to have when this is pretty much what every professional reviewer who reviewed the game said. Hardcore fans however will point out that "''999'' is much more original than ''Saw''" and that "if you actually pay attention to the game's entire plot, it's actually nothing like ''Saw''". In actual fact, the game was heavily inspired, not by ''Saw'', but by Eastern horror movies, in which the theme is less about sadistic people inducing violence, and more about sadisticly inducing fear. The theme of the game, going through a game involving puzzle-filled rooms, has been compared to ''Saw'', but as fans are quick to point out, the actual puzzles and entire set up for why they exist in the first place is nothing like it. The same goes for its sequel ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''.

** For really entertaining discussions, just try to say how SCP-173 [[OlderThanTheyThink is a rip-off]] of the [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]].

* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Preferring one spelling of a character's name over another]] [[note]]Mispelling the name of a character that has only one spelling can be a valid example, though[[/note]].

* Drawing or admitting to having looked at RuleThirtyFour or otherwise sexualized artwork. Not even if said artwork depicts illegal or controversial situations, or if the source material is for kids and fans are worried [[HarmfulToMinors said kids might accidentally stumble upon said artwork]].

* Fans of Creator/DanteAlighieri (and literature lovers in general) tend to get annoyed at people who refer to his most famous work as ''Dante's Inferno''. For the record: the work in question is called ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', and "Inferno" is the first part of it (followed by "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso"). Referring to ''The Divine Comedy'' as ''The Inferno'' is a bit like referring to ''Franchise/StarWars'' as ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.

* Mentioning certain unpopular {{fanon}} theories[[note]]''Mistaking'' said theories for official canon can be a valid example, though[[/note]].

* Drawing fanart that makes cerain changes to the characters. Even if the changes are potentially controversial or offensive, such as altering a character's [[RaceLift ethnicity]] or body type. ''Especially'' not if the fanart is a "humanized" version of a non-human character.

See Also: CowboyBebopAtHisComputer (when media gets the facts wrong), DiscreditedMeme, FandomHeresy, IAmNotShazam, InternetBackdraft, RefrainFromAssuming (when a song title is different from its lyrics), SeriousBusiness, FlameBait, and BrokenBase.

* Domesticated ferrets are not rodents, are not omnivorous, and are not wild animals. Don't confuse them with Black-footed Ferrets. One former NYC mayor infamously bugged a lot of ferret owners when he mocked them for protesting against ferret laws, calling them rodents and other negative things, which causes him to be FlameBait even twenty years later.

** There is a reason why ''BIONICLE'' is not under the LEGO section in this folder. Do not refer to ''BIONICLE'' as "that LEGO story" or otherwise try and imply that it is [[FlameBait "just a story used to sell toys"]].

** Don't tell Key fans that the art style looks unnatural or that the eyes are freakishly big.

* Dumbing down ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' by describing it as the "killer lolis" series is a thorn in the side of many fans. Talking about how you only like the {{gorn}} and horror aspects, [[MisaimedFandom ignoring the tragedy behind it all]], is even worse.

** Do yourself a favor and peruse the site (which, admittedly, is [[ArchivePanic very large]]) for a while before putting up new SCP entries; while certain community standards are arguably too high or too picky, anything that's flagrantly awful just as a piece of "creative writing", never mind the tone of the site, will typically get long, line-by-line breakdowns of everything you did wrong. Repeat offenses (or shotgunning multiple horrid entries at once) may or may not get you kicked off the site, depending on your personal attitude. For really entertaining discussions, however, just try to say how SCP-173 [[OlderThanTheyThink is a rip-off]] of the [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]], or why your impossibly amazing self-insert humanoid SCP/Researcher deserves to be all over the site, or how this new thing would really actually easily be able to kill [[NighInvulnerable SCP-682]]. Enjoy your time as a [[CannonFodder D-class]].

** Referring to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' as a trilogy.

* Don't make the mistake of referring to ''Catching Fire'' and ''Mockingjay'' as ''Literature/HungerGames 2'' and ''Hunger Games 3'', or calling Peeta Mellark ''Peter''!

** Don't insist there's a good versus evil dichotomy between the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Outer Gods and Elder Gods]]; while there are some authors (most notably, August Derleth) who use this idea, Lovecraft never intended for the Mythos to be reduced to humanly comprehensible morality, and doing so [[CosmicHorror kind of defeats the purpose.]] .

* Just go on any board where anyone is talking about ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' and refer to it as a Creator/TimBurton movie. To be fair, however, it can be argued that this is not their fault, considering that all of the advertising proclaimed "From Henry Selick, the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''." [[DirectorDisplacement Many people think Burton directed that film, but he actually only produced it and worked on its story]].