History MisaimedFandom / WesternAnimation

** And while she does have a point, this is also clearly meant to be a characterizing moment for Angelica's mother as well, usually being portrayed as a ruthless HighPoweredCareerWoman (so much so that she is the page image for that trope, with the aforementioned line as the page quote). It is often implied that her mother's influence is part of the reason for Angelica's treatment of the other kids. Ambition and self-esteem are great, but clearly the message is that too much of them without empathy or humility they can be a recipe for creating a bully.

** And while she does have a point, this is also clearly meant to be a characterizing moment for Angelica's mother as well, usually being portrayed as a ruthless HighPoweredCareerWoman (so much so that she is the page image for that trope, with the aforementioned line as the page quote). It is often implied that her mother's influence is part of the reason for Angelica's treatment of the other kids.

** And while she does have a point, this is also clearly meant to be a characterizing moment for Angelica's mother as well, usually being portrayed as a ruthless HighPoweredCareerWoman (so much so that she is the page image for that trope, with this line as the page quote).

*** While some of the people behind "The Simpsons" are religious the show's creator, Creator/MattGroening, is agnostic, even calling himself "basically a pagan" other times. He has poked fun at religion several times in his comic strip ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell'' too. In a BBC documentary he once said: "If "The Simpsons" has any message at all, it is that your teachers, politicians and religious leaders don't always have the best things in mind for you.".

** The New Lunar Republic - especially the subdivision of it who wanted ''[[FallenAngel Nightmare Moon]]'' to win and bring about eternal night even though it would have killed all life in Equestria. Those who want Luna to overthrow her sister are almost equally difficult to comprehend, given that the two have made peace after Nightmare Moon's defeat and are reigning over the land together in natural balance.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'': The episode "Stuck in the Wringer" ends with [=SpongeBob=] looking at the camera and saying, "I guess crying does solve your problems after all!" [[SpoofAesop This message was obviously a sarcastic one]], but many fans completely missed the joke. As such, it's one of the most hated lines in the series.

** Reportedly, Wheeler was created by Ted Turner to show children just how ignorant Americans are compared to everyone else in the world (in most episodes, Wheeler is the one who asks questions or learns an [[AnAesop Aesop]] about the subject at hand). Naturally, Wheeler is one of the, if not the most, popular characters among the cast because most like the humor he brings to the show. To make things worse, the other Planeteers, the characters who are supposedly the sensible people, are often perceived as "flat" and "preachy" by the fanbase, as opposed to Wheeler, who at least had genuine personality flaws to struggle with. It also helps that his complaints or observations over valid things got dismissed or ignored because TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': As said by WordOfGod, there's not supposed to be a "right" and "wrong" side in the late season 2 conflict between [[spoiler:Louie and Della]]; they're simply two stubborn, flawed people who need each other to help work through said flaws. Naturally, a significant portion of the fandom missed the point entirely and chose to paint one side as entirely right and one as entirely wrong, largely based on who they like more.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "Stuck in the Wringer" ends with [=SpongeBob=] looking at the camera and saying, "I guess crying does solve your problems after all!" [[SpoofAesop This message was obviously a sarcastic one]], but many fans completely missed the joke. As such, it's one of the most hated lines in the series.

* Regarding ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', the fans latched onto the idea that [[spoiler: Pidge Gunderson/Katie Holt]] is a trans boy, even though the character explicitly self-identifies as female after the reveal, and WordOfGod confirms she is [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/06/23/how-netflix-brought-new-life-to-voltron-the-beloved-80s-cartoon/ meant to]] [[https://twitter.com/Voltron/status/756597252953673728 be seen]] as such, and that her male identity [[SweetPollyOliver was a temporary disguise to avoid getting caught by the authorities]] [[spoiler: so [[IWillFindYou she could search for her missing father and older brother]].]] Likewise, others interpreted the reveal scene as her literally coming out as transgender for the first time, even though flashbacks show she was fine presenting as female in public beforehand and would have continued to do so if she wasn't caught. While [[spoiler: Katie[=/=]Pidge could certainly be read in fanon as a post-transition trans ''girl'',]] reading them as male is an almost bullheaded misreading of the text. All of these ideas ignore the ''extemely'' transphobic (at worst) and sexist/gender essencialist (at best) implications behind them: "if a woman isn't feminine enough then she must be a man", "{{tomboy}}s and [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak girly girls with tomboy sides]] aren't real women", etc.

** The finale reveals that Discord posed as Grogar and united the three villains to have them attack Equestria in order to boost Twilight's confidence in being the ruler of Equestria by having her defeat them. This is portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist misguided but well-intentioned]], with Discord's guilt and redemption arc meant to be sympathetic, while the villains' crimes in the finale are meant to show that they're beyond redemption at this point. However, this did not come across to many fans, who found the villains sympathetic in this situation due to Discord being the one who made them a threat in the first place, and having used threats and intimidation to make them go along with his plans. It doesn't help that prior episodes had given the villains PetTheDog moments and suggested they might be redeemable. By contrast, Discord was viewed ''less'' sympathetically by fans who felt his actions made him just as bad as the villains, and found his motive of boosting Twilight's confidence either unconvincing or underwhelming to justify the lengths that he went too. A common sentiment is that this would have worked better if Discord had been trying to reform the villains by teaching them friendship, the same way he was reformed.

** Edd. Okay, he's smart, sane and problably the most sympathetic character in the show but the fangirls tend to crank his positive qualities up to eleven, totally forgetting about his flaws (SuperOCD, physical weakness, judgmental nature, [[DramaQueen nagging]] and [[SeriousBusiness overreacting]] tendencies, [[ExtremeDoormat lack of spine]] etc.). Also many fans act like Edd is completely innocent when it comes to scams and act like it's just Ed and Eddy's fault. Yes, Eddy does sometimes boss Edd into participating in his scams, but Edd made his own decision to help Eddy out. Doing something you know is wrong out of peer pressure does not make you blameless. Not to mention that most of the time, he partakes against his better judgment.

** It's an interesting case all around really. Fans initially sympathized with the Decepticons long before the had any redeeming qualities (and for the most part the majority still doesn't have any). However, when the writers noticed the fan reaction they took a rather interesting approach. Instead of giving the Decepticons ALighterShadeOfGrey, they seemed to lower the morals of the originally bright Autobots. So now the fandom have real reasons to refuse seeing the Decepticons in a dark light (as was most likely intended). RealLifeWritesThePlot!

** The finale reveals that Discord posed as Grogar and united the three villains to have them attack Equestria in order to boost Twilight's confidence as ruler of Equestria by having her defeat them. This is portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist misguided but well-intentioned]], with Discord's guilt and redemption arc meant to be sympathetic, while the villains' crimes in the finale are meant to show that they're beyond redemption at this point. However, this did not come across to many fans, who found the villains sympathetic in this situation due to Discord being the one who made them a threat in the first place, and having used threats and intimidation to make them go along with his plans. It doesn't help that prior episodes had given the villains PetTheDog moments and suggested they might be redeemable. By contrast, Discord was viewed ''less'' sympathetically by fans who felt his actions made him just as bad as the villains, and found his motive of boosting Twilight's confidence either unconvincing or underwhelming to justify the lengths that he went too. A common sentiment is that this would have worked better if Discord had been trying to reform the villains by teaching them friendship, the same way he was reformed.

** The finale reveals that Discord posed as Grogar and united the three villains to have them attack Equestria in order to boost Twilight's confidence by having her defeat them. This is portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist misguided but well-intentioned]], with Discord's guilt and redemption arc meant to be sympathetic, while the villains' crimes in the finale are meant to show that they're beyond redemption at this point. However, this did not come across to many fans, who found the villains sympathetic in this situation due to Discord being the one who made them a threat in the first place, and having used threats and intimidation to make them go along with his plans. It doesn't help that prior episodes had given the villains PetTheDog moments and suggested they might be redeemable. By contrast, Discord was viewed ''less'' sympathetically by fans who felt his actions made him just as bad as the villains, and found his motive of boosting Twilight's confidence to be unconvincing. A common sentiment is that this would have worked better if Discord had been trying to reform the villains by teaching them friendship, the same way he was reformed.

** "Things Change", the final episode of the show was about how [[TitleDrop things change]] and you don't always get the resolution that you wanted, doing so by having Beast Boy deal with a seemingly revived Terra who is cagey about her past and wants nothing to do with him, while the other Titans deal with a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere that we never learn the fate of. Naturally, fans took issue with being LeftHanging on these deliberate cliffhangers and have called for a sixth season to resolve them ever since, something that Cyborg's voice actor has called out on at least one occasion.

* Terra on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' was meant to be a BrokenBird AntiVillain of the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds variety. However, many fans simply cannot seem to accept the gray-shaded nature of her character and treat as either [[DracoInLeatherPants a perfect saint who had no fault in the matter]] or [[RonTheDeathEater a totally evil bitch]]. Both are untrue, though the latter is (ironically) exactly what the less complicated Terra from [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the original comic series]] was.

** BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus was created to be the most hated character on the show, but he ended up being one of ''the'' most popular. Just type Uncle Ruckus on Website/YouTube and see the many clips with over one-hundred thousand views, highlighting different scenes during the series.

** Bill Cipher is the show's true BigBad and an eldritch figure inspired by personifying the Eye of Providence. As the series goes on it's made increasingly clear that he does not care about human life unless it's being used as stepping stones to his plan, which is to essentially ''rip apart reality for fun''. He's evil, manipulative, and all-around unpleasant. Fans took this character, gave him a habit of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting taking humanoid form]], and turned him into something of a MrFanservice often shipped with Dipper, which got to the point where a few fans were surprised when "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" ended with [[spoiler:him using a dimensional rift to start an apocalypse]]. This was because it swiftly confirmed that he wasn't a sort of "quirky romantic," even though nothing in the show really implied he would be like that in the first place. On a related note, in "Sock Opera," he takes over Dipper's body -- a moment meant to be extremely [[UncannyValley creepy and unnerving]].[[note]]Especially when it's revealed in the {{Defictionalization}} of ''[[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]]'' that he planned to have Dipper commit suicide.[[/note]] But a portion of fans ended up ''liking'' the Bill-possessed Dipper (calling him "Bipper" after a comment Mabel made) to the point of calling him hot, which is very creepy when you realize Bipper is a ''demon-possessed twelve-year-old''. A demon possessed twelve-year-old, mind, that regularly harmed himself because he likes the sensation of pain [[spoiler:and planned on ''killing himself'' just to spite his host body's sister.]]

** The villains were portrayed in as much of a {{Anvilicious}} way as possible with their JerkAss and CartoonishSupervillainy role turned UpToEleven, by design, so as not to confuse children into thinking everyone who the show speaks out against are this way. However some activists seemingly use this as a guide or template to say that every average joe who is just trying to provide for their family in using environmental resources is the same.

** Edd. Okay, he's smart, sane and problably the most sympathetic character in the show but the fangirls tend to crank his positive qualities UpToEleven, totally forgetting about his flaws (SuperOCD, physical weakness, judgmental nature, [[DramaQueen nagging]] and [[SeriousBusiness overreacting]] tendencies, [[ExtremeDoormat lack of spine]] etc.). Also many fans act like Edd is completely innocent when it comes to scams and act like it's just Ed and Eddy's fault. Yes, Eddy does sometimes boss Edd into participating in his scams, but Edd made his own decision to help Eddy out. Doing something you know is wrong out of peer pressure does not make you blameless. Not to mention that most of the time, he partakes against his better judgment.

-->'''Bart:''' Are there pirates in Hell?
-->'''Ms. Allbright:''' Yes. Thousands of them.
-->'''Bart:''' Oh baby!

** Bart's Sunday school teacher tries to make hell sound like a horrible and scary place, but only convinces him that it's the most awesome place ever.
-->'''Bart:''' Are there pirates in hell?

** Riley Freeman. His character is meant to be a TakeThat towards the worst aspects of American black culture and how it affects impressionable youth. He's obsessed with being seen as a "real nigga" and goes through great lengths to maintain that image. He's violent, ignorant, and obnoxious.. and yet is somehow one of the most popular characters on the show, with many viewing him as the "most gangsta' or "realest" character. Many refer to the show as the "realest show on television" for its hostile take on systemic racism in government and the justice system, American politics, and more. These people tend to ignore that some of that snark is also used to hold up a mirror to American black culture, analyzing the good and the bad, rather than blindly celebrating all its aspects. The series regularly pokes fun at modern gangsta rap and its surrounding culture, and as well as modern buffoonery. Case in point, Music/LilWayne was perfectly willing to guest voice on the show when he's emblematic of the type of rappers the cartoon usually criticized. And do we even have to mention the episodes mocking Creator/{{BET}} and [[StopBeingStereotypical its programming]]? The same goes for Uncle Ruckus. He was created to be the most hated character on the show, however, he ended up possibly being the most popular. Just type Uncle Ruckus on Website/YouTube and see the many clips with over one-hundred thousand views, highlighting different scenes during the series. The show itself gave us an InUniverse example in on of its earliest episodes, "The Trial of Robert Kelly". The eponymous Music/RKelly is facing legal matters for giving a 14-year-old girl a golden shower. His fans proudly defend him at the trial, going so far as to have shirts reading "Pee on Me". Ultimately, Huey tries to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tell everyone off]] for blindly defending him just because he's a famous black man, but they all refuse to listen and R. Kelly [[KarmaHoudini gets off scot-free]], much to Huey and Tom's disappointment.

** "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" was meant to criticize the DoubleStandard regarding how female teachers having sexual relations with young male students are brushed under the rug because the teachers are attractive. Despite this, many male fans agree with the cops whose only response to a pretty teacher essentially raping a toddler is "Nice."

* Followers of UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi infamously protested ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' for portraying Gandhi as a ditzy party animal. Never mind that not only are the teenage clones not the ''actual'' historical figures, just beings with the same DNA, clone Gandhi's rambunctious attitude is ''because'' he couldn't live up to the real Gandhi's legacy.