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** In fanfics that are villainizing both Ron and Ginny, you can expect this to be extended to their mother, Molly Weasley. She will be portrayed as a manipulative SocialClimber who instigated all of Ron and Ginny's wrongdoing, arranging for Harry to befriend Ron and teaching Ginny how to brew love potions so that she can use them on Harry. Sometimes, it will be revealed that Molly herself used love potions to get Arthur and still uses them to keep him in her thrall. Almost inevitably, Molly will be doing all this in the service of an evil Dumbledore, who will be the real mastermind behind it all.

** For a non-villain example there's also Jim Kirk's mother Winona Kirk, who despite barely appearing in canon is overwhelmingly portrayed as neglectful and abusive to Jim and responsible for all kinds of angst and trauma in his past.

** Ginny Weasley is a BaseBreakingCharacter, with her being especially reviled by [[DieForOurShip people who think Harry should have ended up with someone else]]. In anti-Ginny fanfics, she tends to be characterized as a manipulative SocialClimber who only wants Harry for his wealth and fame. A particularly common trope is to portray her secretly drugging Harry with love potion, an idea that originated in Harry/Hermione circles as a half-serious explanation for Harry's sudden attraction to Ginny in the sixth book.

** Ovid also had a marked tendency to let his beef with various Roman authority figures color his writings, especially about the gods. While all the Graeco-Roman pantheon had their moments, Ovid's stories tend to crank it UpToEleven to portray humanity as the long-suffering victims of JerkassGods. For example, Medusa before Ovid was just another monster (daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, and also had two gorgon sisters) who needed killing, but Ovid couldn't resist the opportunity to write gods torturing a hapless mortal and made up a backstory for her where she was raped by Poseidon and then victim-blamed by Athena. Ovid is also the one ancient author who consistently wrote Zeus as an explicit rapist instead of just [[ReallyGetsAround really getting around]].

* Janet Drake (mother of Tim Drake, the third {{Robin}}) only made a handful of appearances before being killed off – while [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] in leaving Tim home alone for months at a time, she was also consistently shown as warm and kind to him whenever she happened to be home. Fan fiction, however, near-universally portrays her as a ruthless social-climbing IceQueen who ''never'' shows Tim affection.

** Dumbledore is often portrayed as manipulative towards Harry, deliberately plotting to get him killed. Dumbledore's also often shown as being ruthlessly power-hungry, despite shunning any position of power greater than headmaster of a school. And that's not even getting into stories that show him teaming up with Voldemort

Contrast DracoInLeatherPants, where an evil or mean character is interpreted by fans as being a better person than they are in canon; the two can be combined with a PerspectiveFlip. Darker and often more serious counterpart to the MemeticPsychopath, who is '''always''' PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': With some characters, it gets up to a MemeticMutation, as shown on Memes.TouhouProject. [[DracoInLeatherPants The opposite]] is rarer, due to WhiteAndGreyMorality in canon.

This trend may lead to the production of FanWorks that have other characters who are canonically friends of the victim act as though he or she has always been an object of justified loathing, rather than going the "shocked at betrayal" approach. Or, even if these characters end up siding with the DracoInLeatherPants, they are subject to some character defamation themselves by way of "I was stupid to love him and not you".

** Dumbledore is often portrayed as manipulative towards Harry, deliberately plotting to get him killed. Dubledore's also often shown as being ruthlessly power-hungry, despite shunning any position of power greater than headmaster of a school. And that's not even getting into stories that show him teaming up with Voldemort

** Many works where Team RWBY ''isn't'' part of the primary focus has them cast in a much more disparaging light, seeing them punished for civilian casualties that didn't exist in canon or giving them InUniverse ProtagonistCenteredMorality. This goes double for anything that deals with the events of Volumes 7 and 8 as many fans tend to side with Ironwood in dealing with Atlas, painting Team RWBY as a team who ran in with absolutely no plan whatsoever, making Ironwood's plan harder and harder to implement.

* Music/{{Lit}}, Music/{{Miserable}}: You'll find a lot of people who genuinely think the members of Lit ''deserved'' [[spoiler;to get EatenAlive at the end of the video]], with people calling them perverts who were objectifying and degrading Val/Pam by walking all over the more titillating parts of her body. This conveniently ignores the fact that the GiantWoman clearly seems to be ''letting'' the guys explore her body, and the fact that a closer examination of the video shows that she was in control the whole time. Conversely, they idolize Val/Pam, saying that she is rightfully punishing the guys and taking control back by [[spoiler:eating them.]]

** ''RonTheDeathEater/HetaliaAxisPowers''

* RonTheDeathEater/{{Literature}}

** Many works where Team RWBY ''isn't'' part of the primary focus has them cast in a much more disparaging light, seeing them punished for civilian casualties that didn't exist in canon or giving them InUniverse ProtagonistCenteredMorality.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Helluva Boss}}''

* In the Non/Disney {{fanvid}} fandom, and to a lesser extent the fanfic fandom, this is commonplace with characters like Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Elsa from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'', and Esmeralda from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. However, this is more-so because their designs and scenes make it easy to manipulate them into villains (with WordOfGod being that Esmeralda's design is outright based on prior Disney villains) than an actual dislike for the characters. For example, Jim from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is the designated "bad boy" in the Disney crossover fandom. He's a common [[GentleManOrTheScoundrel 'Scoundrel' to most other male leads' 'Gentleman']].

* In the Non/Disney {{fanvid}} fandom, and to a lesser extent the fanfic fandom, this is commonplace with characters like Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Elsa from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'', and Esmeralda from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. However, this is more-so because their designs and scenes make it easy to manipulate them into villains (with WordOfGod being that Esmeralda's design is outright based on prior Disney villains) than an actual dislike for the characters. For example, Jim from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is the designated "bad boy" in the Disney crossover fandom. He's a common [[BettyAndVeronica 'Veronica' to most other male leads' 'Betty']].

* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}''. In the game you can cast UsefulNotes/{{Mii}}s as various characters in the story, including the main villain the Dark Lord. Sometimes this leads to this trope such as Dark Lord [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Morshu]] or Dark Lord WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}}.

** Aubrey's mother in canon probably wouldn't be winning any awards for good parenting, but her issue are being neglegent and there are hints that her neglect are the result of psyciatric issues. Some fanfics make her even worse than in canon:

Compare DieForOurShip or DerailingLoveInterests (fans' or the creators' dissatisfaction with who the main character gets to be with romantically is the major cause of this trope), DesignatedHero (the hero of a work coming off as not-so-heroic is the other major cause), TheScapegoat (when a character is blamed for an event they're not responsible for), HistoricalVillainUpgrade (when a work depicts a historical figure as worse than they were in real life), DarkFic (a fan work that's deliberately DarkerAndEdgier than the original work and may involve characters being subjected to this trope), RootingForTheEmpire (when the audience actually wants the bad guy(s) to win), AdaptationalJerkass (when an adaptation makes a character more of an asshole than they were in the original work), AdaptationalVillainy (when an adaptation makes a character more evil than they were in the original work) and FaceHeelTurn (when the original source material itself turns a once good character evil). See also AccentuateTheNegative, which this trope essentially does to fictional characters.

Contrast DracoInLeatherPants, where an evil or mean character is interpreted by fans as being a better person than they are in canon. Darker and often more serious counterpart to the MemeticPsychopath, who is '''always''' PlayedForLaughs.

** ''RonTheDeathEater/DeathNote''

** ''RonTheDeathEater/HarryPotter''