History TriumphantExample / JToL

* LoveItOrHateIt
** ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. Admittedly, there are some middlegrounders, but when you have people making death threats over how much this series sucks/kicks butt, they don't really matter does it? ~@/{{Yarrunmace}}
*** Agreed. Has there ever been a work that was so lucrative and yet so despised? ~ ManWithoutABody
*** Thirded. ~ @/InsanityPrelude
** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. Like the above, some middlegrounders exist, but overall, people either worship the ground Cross walks upon, or burn it. The only point of agreement? The music is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic WONDERFUL]]''.
** Creator/DavidLynch -ZiggyZag
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' and [[BaseBreakingCharacter its characters]]~ @/Nirao01
** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' ~ @/{{Carla}}
*** Seconded. You want proof? Just look at the reviews on Website/ThisVeryWiki. Bonus points for having a BrokenBase. ~mrbits
** ImageBoards and Encyclopedia Dramatica, ''especially'' the latter. ~ @/KingClark
** [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty and Stocking]] ~ @/KentuckyTroper1990 <-- firmly in the hate section.
*** Seconded. ~ @/{{Carls493}} <-- Firmly in the love section. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle How appropriate]].
** Creator/MNightShyamalan movies, this troper saw ''Film/{{Signs}}'', ''Film/LadyInTheWater'', and ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' in theaters and all three of them were followed by rounds of applause. ~ @/TheMusicHearer
** ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' ~ @/DevilsAdvocate
** ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' ~ thenameisbean.
** Marmite. They built their whole marketing campaign around this trope! -- Astfgl
** ProfessionalWrestling. It's either fun and entertaining or fake, gay bullshit for {{Basement Dwell|er}}ing {{Man Child}}ren. Both sides spew all kinds of hatred at each other, up to and including death threats. ~ @/{{thecarolinabull01}}.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' ~ Tropers/DecafGrub47393

* LoveToHate:
** [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Metal Face]]. ~ @/ArgonianLorekeeper
** [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Porky]] [[VideoGame/MOTHER3 Minch]]. ~ Five-seveN-25
** [[Manga/MobilePolicePatlabor Richard Wong]] ~ @/MiinU

This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, '''''the''''') best example of any trope (an objective trope, not subjective, since this already is subjective). The "Crowning Example" if you will.

* JerkassWoobie
** [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]]. You will never find a {{woobie}} who you want to beat senseless quite this much.~ [=PhoenixFire=], @/{{Carla}}
*** Agreed. She's such a good example that she's simultaneously one of my favorite characters and one of my most hated characters. [[MindScrew Somehow.]] ~mrbits
** ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''. ~ @/{{Monolaf317}}
** [[Series/VeronicaMars Logan Echolls]]. I beg to differ. ~ @/VoodooChild
** Or there's always [[Series/{{Glee}} Rachel Berry]] ~ @/ManWithoutABody does not feel demasculinized by his love of ''Series/{{Glee}}''
** [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Porky]] [[VideoGame/{{Mother3}} Minch]]. - @/TheAlbinoPrimid
** Hansel and Gretel from Manga/BlackLagoon. Seriously ... those two [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]] are sociopaths you get kicks out of murder, and yet they have the most ''heartbreaking'' FreudianExcuse - yes, even ''more'' than [[WesternAnimation/AvatartheLastAirbender Azula]]. Just watch the series ... you'll see what I mean. ~ CaellachTigerEye
** What, no [[Literature/HarryPotter Snape?]] ~ pika09
** [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Uchiha Sasuke's]] entire family was killed by his brother, and now he is going to kill yours.
*** Seconded. ~ [=SirFlyer=]
*** Thirded. ~ @/DoctorRayman
** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]. - excaruso
** Lucius Vorenus from Series/{{Rome}}. ~ [=CounterBlitzkrieg=]
** As of ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Dance With Dragons]]'': [[spoiler: Theon Greyjoy]]. ~ @/{{Oberyn}}, @/ArgoTheBlank
*** Seconded. He arguably has the crowns for both the biggest {{Jerkass}} ''and'' the biggest {{Woobie}} in an enormous series overflowing with {{Broken Bird}}s. Even more impressively, the woobie-ism came later, so it's not a FreudianExcuse - he's just simply an ass. - @/{{Psychobabble6}}
** [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Eddy]]. Yes, he regularly scams people out of their money (Or at least tries to), but the stuff he handled at the hands of his brother... ~ @/{{Gumbal1}}
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Precia]], at least in the movie. You can't get much more jerkass than a woman who ''whips'' her daughter, but it's also hard not to sympathize with her after seeing her backstory.~ spacemonkey37
** [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlue Leonard Church]]. [[spoiler:All three of him, in fact, to various degrees of jerkassness and woobieness.]] - foxmccloud4387
** [[Series/TheOfficeUS Michael Scott]], because "''Idiot Woobie''" wasn't an option. ~ @/SkyJumpinMime
** [[Series/RedDwarf Arnold Rimmer]], or in this case, Smeghead Woobie. - TheUnknownUploader
** [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga Pataki]], she's a mean-spirited, sarcastic bully, but has a FreudianExcuse good enough to make most of the audience, myself included, pity her. ~ @/{{thecarolinabull01}}
** Sigma from ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' is a cunning, {{manipulative|Bastard}} SixthRangerTraitor who despises the NiceGirl Eva for her incompetence, but it's not hard to feel sorry for him -- especially once it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's a grieving son seeking justice for his father against their {{omnicidal|Maniac}} despot.]] - @/IukaSylvie
** [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi]] ~ Five-seveN-25

** [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel Pines]] who never receives any punishment for selling out Dipper to Bill and directly caused Weirdmageddon in the process while other characters suffer for her actions. ~ Loekman3

* KillerApp
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' for the Xbox consoles, ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' for the UsefulNotes/{{SNES}}, and ''VideoGame/{{Soulcalibur}} for the UsefulNotes/{{Dreamcast}}''. ~ [=TimeLordVictorious=]
** ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', for singlehandedly saving ''video games''. ~@/SlvstrChung, @/ZettaToad
** ''VideoGame/WiiSports''. ~ @/DoctorRayman

* LauncherOfAThousandShips
** [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome's]] fans clearly believe that all of womankind exists solely for him [[ThePornomancer to bang]]. Name almost ''any'' female character, regardless which series they're from (including live-action TV) and, odds are, he's already sealed the deal. ~ @/MiinU
** [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]], Launcher of Five Hundred Ships. ~Murgatroyd314, @/DoctorRayman
** [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lincoln Loud]] ~ Tropers/DecafGrub47393

* LesYay
** ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' in its entirety ~prescience
*** Seconded. Sei doesn't count, though. ~ @/WillyFourEyes
** [[Manga/LuckyStar Konota + Kagami.]] ~@/BlankMage, @/{{Carls493}}
** Series/XenaWarriorPrincess ~Seraphem
** ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart''. All of it. ~ 1993xxx
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha NanoFate]]. ~Bubblebath
*** [[MemeticMutation Rainbows are straighter than Subaru]]. ~ spacemonkey37
** [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi KonoSetsu]]. It's as if it hasn't been made blatantly obvious already... - @/{{CelPrevXXVI}}
** The relationship between [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Marceline and Princess Bubblegum]], in a kids cartoon by the way. ~ Loekman3
** Franchise/BlazBlue ~ Five-seveN-25
** ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' in its entirety, including two of its main characters ([[spoiler: Faith and Tiffany]]) and several support characters. ~ @/MiinU

* LGBTFanbase
** ''Literature/LandOfOz'' (any and all depictions): One of the first positive transgender characters ''ever,'' buckets of HoYay and LesYay, Creator/JudyGarland as the iconic lead actress in TheFilmOfTheBook, the lead character's name incorporated into a slang term for "gay," and the ''pride flag itself'' may have been inspired by it.

* LostInMediasRes
** The first book of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' -- ''Literature/GardensOfTheMoon'' -- is for the first half one of the most confusing reads in the whole fantasy genre. ~{{Perzyn}}

** Louise from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''. -@/PhysicalStamina

** [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} Taiga Aisaka]] ~ Hey everybody! TheBully of this high school happens to donate presents to families and orphaned children every Christmas :)

** [[LightNovel/DateALive Kurumi Tokisaki and Sir Issac Wescott]]. The former for showing how deadly and brutal Spirits can be if they were willing to kill or endanger ordinary civilians, and the latter for being the first unambiguously evil antagonist and making the story more than just a race to seal the Spirits. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller

** [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Nagato Yuki]], so very much. ~ spacemonkey37

** [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Ryougi Shiki]] ~ spacemonkey37

** [[spoiler:[[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Saito Hiraga vs. an army of 70,000 men]]]] ~ [=NotGonnaDoALot4=]

** ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' in its entirety ~prescience

** [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Firo, Isaac and Mira]]. ~ @/EmbracingShadows

** LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya ~ScudEast

** [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Aqua]]. So [[TheDitz very]], [[TheLoad very]] [[BornUnlucky much]]. ~ iPhoenix26

** The Kizu Random arc of ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'' ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller

** [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD Issei Hyoudou]] ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller

** [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Xellos]] ~ExplodingFrogs, @/{{Carla}}, MetalShadowX

** [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Saito]]. It takes a lot of guts ([[TooDumbToLive not "brains"]]) to stick around when your master/girlfriend [[WhipItGood whips]] and otherwise [[BlackComedyRape "punishes"]] you on a recurring basis. ~ WillyFourEyes

** [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Space Colony ARK]] ~ @/CyberTiger88

*** Seconded. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog For]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM all]] [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics of]] [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic the]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground good]] [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 doctor's]] [[Anime/SonicX various]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom incarnations]]. ~Bowbowis

** [[Manga/{{Patlabor}} Richard Wong]] ~ @/MiinU

* KickTheSonOfABitch
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': "Return of the Headmaster", for anyone who wants to experience a good dose of schadenfreude out of Sentinel Prime's misery. Even Optimus approves. ~ Fireside

** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Admittedly, there are some middlegrounders, but when you have people making death threats over how much this series sucks/kicks butt, they don't really matter does it? ~@/{{Yarrunmace}}

* LoveYouAndEverybody
** [[Anime/MyHime Mikoto Minagi]]... though it's pretty sure she kept at least two of those ribbons handy for Mai. ~ @/WillyFourEyes
** ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' ~ @/{{Carla}}
** [[Film/LoveActually "All I want for Christmas is... YOU! ...and you! and you, and you...."]] -Max1099
** No love for [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Gentaro Kisaragi?]] When asked if he had anyone he liked, he goes: "Everyone's I've befriended, everyone who I'm friends with now and everyone I'm going to befriend!" -Azada
** [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]] towards Hinata Hyuga [[spoiler: until ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'']]. ~ @/DoctorRayman

** "Behold, Xandar, your Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy! What fruit have they wrought?" "Ooh child, things are gonna get easier...Dance-off, bro, me and you!"

** Dr. Claw from ''Film/InspectorGadget''. After ''Inspector Gadget 2'', [[{{Sequelitis}} due to the poor quality of the sequel]], no more sequels were made and Dr. Claw became one of the biggest [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdinis]] out there. ~ elswordfan1990

** The DorkAge of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has too many instances to count. ~ @/MetalAiAi

** [[Anime/PhantomQuestCorp. Bosco]], a reformed vampire who's trying to kick the habit because of Makiko, a human college student he fell in love with. ~ @/MiinU

** Franchise/LuppinIII, whenever he's written by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki. ~ @/MiinU

** [[Franchise/LuppinIII]], whenever he's written by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki. ~ @/MiinU

** [[Anime/PhantomQuestCorp. Bosco]], a reformed vampire who's trying to kick the habit because of Makiko, a human college student he fell in love with. ~ @/MiinU

** [[Manga/{{Patlabor}} Richard Wong]] ~ @/MiinU

* [[Manga/MakenKi Kodama Himegami]] ~ @/MiinU

** [[Manga/Reborn2004 Bianchi. So much that its her [[ImprobableWeaponUser weapon]] [[WeaponOfChoice of choice.]] ~ [=PinkHanabi=]

** [[LetsPlay/TheKingOfHate DarksydePhil]]. ~ Five-seveN-25

** [[LetsPlay/TheKingOfHate DarksydePhil]]. ~ Five-seveN-25

** [[LetsPlay/TheKingOfHate DarksydePhil]]. ~ Five-seveN-25