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| 4 | Many television programs have romance subplots, ShipTease, and {{UST}}. It isn't surprising that some of their fans want some characters to [[DieForOurShip get out of the way of their]] FanPreferredCouple. |
| 5 | !!Series with their own pages |
| 6 | [[index]] |
| 7 | * ''DieForOurShip/DoctorWho'' |
| 8 | * ''DieForOurShip/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' |
| 9 | * ''DieForOurShip/{{Supernatural}}'' |
| 10 | [[/index]] |
| 11 | !!Other series |
| 12 | * ''Series/The100'': |
| 13 | ** Fans of the books were livid when it was revealed that Clarke's love interest was going to be a CanonForeigner, Finn, instead of Bellamy like in the books. Once the show aired, Bellamy/Clarke shippers were already demonizing Finn as a {{Jerkass}}, despite him being presented as a NiceGuy, and even wrote fanfics that killed him off in extremely vicious ways. Things only got worse when season two had him kill a village of grounders and introduced Lexa (Clarke's new and far more popular love interest), which led to many Clarke/Lexa shippers also demonizing Finn, notably portraying him as homophobic despite little to no evidence of this. |
| 14 | ** Costia gets demonized by Clarke/Lexa shippers for having been in a relationship with Lexa in the past. There are several [=AUs=] that portray her as alive and turn her into an abusive girlfriend. This is despite, from all that we hear about her, her seemingly having been a lovely person who brought out a softer side of Lexa and already being long dead by the time we meet Lexa. |
| 15 | * ''Series/AbbottElementary'': Barbara's husband Gerald Howard gets a lot of hate from Melissa/Barbara shippers despite his limited screen time, just because he's in the way of the FanPreferredCouple. A lot of fanfics will portray him as an uncaring husband at best and abusive at worse, despite the fact that he seems to be a kind and loving husband from what we see of him. He also seems to be good friends with Melissa in canon but a lot of fans portray the two as hating each other, with many claiming that he is not good enough for Barbara. In fact, all of the fics tagged Barbara/Gerald on [=AO3=] are actually Melissa/Barbara fics which often either show him in a negative light or have Barbara leave him for Melissa. |
| 16 | * ''Series/{{Alias}}''. Sweet mercy, ''Alias''. One faction of obsessive shippers wanted the protagonist, Sydney Bristow, to pair up with villain Julian Sark. Fic after fic was written either trying to show Sark as being not so bad as that, even though he clearly ''was'' in canon, and occasionally letting Sydney be a villain with him. They equally set out to turn Michael Vaughn into a murderous loon or worse, again in defiance of logic and common sense. The villainous Irina Derevko was supposed to be Jack Bristow's true love, even though she had basically ''wrecked his life'' earlier on, and she was morphed in fanfic into a loving, protective character totally out of synch with canon reality. To match Jack Bristow (the protagonist's father) back up with her again, fanfic writers tried all sorts of bizarre expedients, including recasting Jack as a villain. It got further and further out into the ozone as time went on. |
| 17 | ** Sarkney (Sark/Sydney) as well as Sydney/Michael shippers all started killing Lauren off once she was introduced. Her name in fandom was the COW (contrived odious wife) and there were deadification contests held in her honor. |
| 18 | * In ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', there is little hostility between supporters of Dylan being paired up with Rommie, Trance or Beka, but the one outside girl who has appeared in more that one episode, Molly Noguchi, has a certain tendency for either turning out to be an enemy agent or dying. |
| 19 | * On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Kate got a lot of hate, just for being a ''possible'' romantic interest for Angel. It never became actual. Also, there was hate on all sides of the Fred/Gunn vs Fred/Wes pairings, hate for Cordelia from the Angel/Buffy shippers, and hate for Buffy from the Angel/Cordelia shippers. |
| 20 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': |
| 21 | ** The Oliver/Felicity fans have became ''infamous'' for this, as well as other bad habits (such as harassing Stephen Amell and other members of the cast and crew on their Facebook pages to demand Oliver hooks up with Felicity), primarily against Laurel and Sara. While it should be noted that not ''all'' Felicity/Oliver fans [[VocalMinority act this way]], [[FanPreferredCouple there's a comparatively large number of bad ones thanks to how popular the ship is]]. |
| 22 | ** Felicity gets a lot of hate in the later seasons from those who ship Oliver with anyone else. A lot of shippers want Felicity to be KilledOffForReal, writing fanfics where she dies unloved as Oliver moves on with Laurel or Sara. These shippers like to take any slightly selfish action that Felicity performs, even if it comes as a result of Oliver being selfish as well, and treat it like her turning pure evil. A lot of these fans write fanfics where Felicity is a supervillain who is only pretending to be nice and manipulating or brainwashing Oliver, who needs to be saved from by one of his far better love interests. These shippers also like to portray her as a ClingyJealousGirl who attacks anyone who gets close to Oliver, despite this rarely actually happening on the show. While a BaseBreakingCharacter in the fandom, the extent many fans go to rip her apart for her actions can be extreme |
| 23 | * ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' has Luke/Noah shippers [[ShiptoShipCombat vs.]] Luke/Reid shippers. Mention the Nuke's borderline DestructiveRomance or Reid's DrJerk[=/=]DefrostingIceKing persona and you'll be brutally attacked. [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse It doesn't end well for Reid.]] |
| 24 | * ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': |
| 25 | ** Anastasia Dualla took serious heat from the fans after she was suddenly married to Lee Adama, one half of the fandom's FanPreferredCouple. [[StrangledByTheRedString The sloppy handling of the storyline didn't help]]. Then, just as suddenly as Lee/Dee came, it went. By the power of one scene, they broke up for good, and by the final season, she dies. |
| 26 | ** Strangely, Sam Anders, who was married to Kara Thrace, the ''other'' half of the FanPreferredCouple, hasn't garnered as much reaction at all. This may be because he's MrFanservice, or it might be because the fanbase figures that being married to Kara is punishment enough. Or that Kara/Anders was handled much better and has a strong fanbase of its own; Lee/Dee fans are a minority. He isn't ''totally'' free from this treatment though - Sam has been [[RonTheDeathEater made]] into an adulterer (in spite of fact that he's the faithful one while ''Starbuck'' is the cheater in {{canon}}), tamper with birth control, rape Kara, and physically abuse Kara in fanfiction. In canon, Sam has never laid a hand on Kara (though the reverse isn't true). |
| 27 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Many Sheldon/Penny fans are notorious for their hatred of Leonard. Amy, Sheldon's canon love interest, got it hard when they became official. |
| 28 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has fans yelling "Kill Cam". (Though, to be fair, Booth/Brennan seems to be where the writers are going anyway.) That did come to an end when Booth and Brennan went canon and Cam got her own love interest, Arastoo. |
| 29 | ** Also Sully, an early love interest of Brennan's. He's been totally out of the picture for a couple seasons now and people are STILL writing "kill Sully" fic. Possibly because he was written as some kind of superman, good at absolutely every skill you'd care to name, but, even so, enough is enough. Happily, it died down and Sully even got on some fans’ good side when he comforted Brennan after her dad died, but respected her marriage and didn’t make any moves. |
| 30 | ** And now Hannah, Booth's new girlfriend, has reviewers claiming that the only good ''Bones'' episodes are ones with no Hannah and people praying that Hannah dies a sudden and violent death, like, 2 episodes ago. Really? |
| 31 | ** Jessica/Aubrey shippers and Karen after the seeming breakup in the series finale and Karen buying Aubrey chicken. Since the show has a history of couples breaking up, dating others and then reuniting, it’s thought Aubrey and Jess could have eventually reunited. Fans have found ways to turn Karen into a jealous ex who can’t accept that Aubrey saw her as a mistake and who causes problems trying to win him back. |
| 32 | ** Daisy has been targeted by this sometimes due to being annoying to some fans. It’s not unheard of for fics to kill her or get rid of her in favor of an original character for Sweets. |
| 33 | * Riley in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was notoriously treated this way by fans, partly for being the ReplacementScrappy after Angel's departure, and partly because his actor had ''zero'' chemistry with Creator/SarahMichelleGellar. It was made worse by him not being a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]], and being right smack in the middle between Buffy's other two fan-preferred LoveInterests. Though really, ''every single character'' in the series has received flak from part of the fandom for getting in the way of their preferred ship. Yes, even ''Oz'', who was hated by ''many'' Xander/Willow shippers. |
| 34 | ** A mix of this and ReplacementScrappy can be traced as the source for a good deal of hate for Kennedy, Willow's last-season love interest following the death of Tara. Granted, the character seemed to be a less successful attempt to recreate a morally neutral "Faith" type (who was also a lesbian), but mostly there were cries of "Too soon!". Kennedy's level of SatelliteLoveInterest was almost lampshaded by Willow asking why Kennedy liked her - Kennedy isn't able to come up with any real reasons besides Willow's cuteness and gender preferences. Yet, by the next episode, they're in a committed relationship. On top of everything else the characters simply had no chemistry together. A lot of fans point out that Fred/Willow had more sparks flying in one episode than Kennedy/Willow did in the whole of season seven. |
| 35 | ** Oddly enough, it seems that [[LesYay Fuffy]] shippers seem to not really hate on any of Buffy's canon love interests (except for the occasional Riley hate and even that's rare). Then again, a fairly large number seem to take place in Seasons 3, 4 or 6. |
| 36 | ** Xander is sometimes the butt of hatred by Bangel and Spuffy shippers, not for "getting in the way" so much as for his consistent vocal dislike for both Angel and Spike, regardless of their [[spoiler: soul-situation]]. It certainly doesn't help that his hatred for vampires isn't deeply examined by the show and is undercut by him dating an ex-demon whose past is easily just as shady, thereby making it come across as petty jealousy to many fans. |
| 37 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' introduced a [[RomanticFalseLead rival for Castle in the form of Robbery Detective Demmings]]. As of "Overkill", Demming has now been told this by the fans (99.99% of them shipping Castle/Beckett) because he kisses Kate at the end of the episode. However, ultimately this was short-lived as Demming was only around for a couple of episodes at most and the producers had a tendency to cheerfully lampshade that Demming was a too-perfect-to-be-true RomanticFalseLead at every opportunity, meaning that he ended up being fairly hard to hate. |
| 38 | ** Beckett's later boyfriend, hunky surgeon Josh Davidson, came in for a lot of this, however. To the point where a popular meme throughout the series was to blame Josh for every single bad thing that ever happened ever. |
| 39 | ** {{Invoked}} when the first suspect in the murder of a network director sent said director a crate of axes because "she was being swayed by the Can-Fonsos". |
| 40 | * On ''Series/{{CSI}}'', Sara got some of this. Two big examples were the Grillows (Catherine/Grissom) and Snickers (Sara/Nick) crowds, but others got into it too, complaining GSR was taking up too much screentime, that the age difference was too big, etc. |
| 41 | * Fans of the Mac/Stella pairing on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' dislike Peyton for getting in the way of their ship during the third season. She is almost always portrayed as either a cold, heartless bitch or whiny and self-centered. |
| 42 | ** They also have a dislike for Brandon Walsh, the fireman who ''appeared'' to be dating Stella for a couple episodes in season 5. |
| 43 | ** Lindsay and Angell get (or got, in Angell's case) plenty of heat from the Danny/Flack shippers, most likely because Danny/Lindsay and Flack/Angell are canon. Haters of the characters call them flat characters who get between the twu wuv of Danny and Flack. |
| 44 | ** Jo Danville, Stella's replacement, is seen being very friendly and practically an equal with Mac and is very often paired up with him in fandom. She is utterly hated. When an [[WordOfGod interview with the showrunners]] revealed that one idea they'd considered was for the season finale to end with Mac marrying Jo, the anti-fans descended on Jo ''en masse''. |
| 45 | ** Christine is getting it to a point, but not nearly as much as Peyton. |
| 46 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Bryce, Cole, Jill, and Lou have millions of Chuck/Sarah shippers hating their guts. |
| 47 | ** There are small but ''extremely'' devoted groups who ship Chuck with Casey, Morgan, Bryce and ''Ellie'' despite Sarah. The first two are plausible, if extremely far-fetched. The latter two... |
| 48 | * There is a large amount of fandom hatred for Hayley Hotchner of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', with fanfic often portraying her as a whiny, demanding bitch. A rather ambiguous moment in season 3 didn't help matters by suggesting that she was cheating on Hotch prior to their divorce, although stories in which she gets her "just desserts" have waned slightly since season 5, when [[spoiler:the show's writers took the first part of this trope somewhat literally]]. |
| 49 | ** Will, the father of JJ's baby, is also on the receiving end of this due to so many fans being disappointed that when Creator/AJCook's pregnancy was written in, the writers brought him back to be the father instead of making [[MrFanservice Reid]] the father as they would have liked. He also gets hate for ruining the chances of JJ getting together with Emily as [[FanPreferredCouple many fans would have preferred]]. |
| 50 | ** Kevin, too. Poor guy gets ''so'' much flack for dating Garcia yet not being [[MrFanservice Morgan]]. Then again, there are enough [[HoYay Reid/Morgan shippers]] out there that, had the aforementioned preferred pairings ''actually'' happened, JJ and Garcia themselves would be on the receiving end of this. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/{{Darna}}'': Brian from the 2022 version gets a lot of hate from Narda/Regina shippers, often simply for being the love interest of both. It's fairly common to see shippers bash him for any little thing on sites like Twitter. He is often accused of only being copaganda and kill crazy when it comes to Extras. It doesn't help that many feel that he often pushes his way into Narda's life when not needed and steals focus from the actual main character. He is also often accused of being controlling towards Narda and gets hate for flirting with her alter ego Darna, despite that being a common trope in superhero media. He has also gotten hate for ''Narda and Regina'' going to him for help instead of each other, something he has absolutely no control over. |
| 52 | * ''[[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Degrassi]]'', dear God, ''Degrassi''. Just about every single Craig/Manny fanfic sets out to portray Ashley as a selfish bitch who hates Manny for no reason other than sheer jealousy that Manny's the one Craig really loves... even though it was really Manny who was behaving badly in the storyline; at one point she declared "If Craig really cared about Ashley, why would he keep coming back to me?" |
| 53 | ** [[OlderThanTheyThink This was a problem]] going back to old school [[Series/DegrassiHigh Degrassi]]. Fans hated anything that got in the way of Degrassi's first SuperCouple Joey Jeremiah and Caitlin. When Caitlin broke up with Joey and started dating a creepy guy named [[RomanticFalseLead Claude]], fans wanted him to go away and die. [[spoiler:And he actually did]]. |
| 54 | * ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': Topher/Whiskey shippers were ''very unhappy'' when [[DatingCatwoman Bennett]] showed up. Then, [[spoiler:in one of a few literal examples, Joss had Whiskey put a bullet in Bennett's brainpan]]. The fandom was ecstatic (except for the legions of Topher/Bennett fans, of course). These same Topher/Whiskey shippers weren't all that fond of Adelle, either. |
| 55 | * Fan reaction towards Lavinia Swire and Sir Richard Carlisle was mixed in the second series of ''Series/DowntonAbbey''. Despite Carlisle being the one of more questionable morals, Lavinia is the one that received the most dislike and in the end had to [[spoiler: die from [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish Flu]]]] for the good of the Mary/Matthew ship. What made it most unbearable for non-shippers who liked Lavinia was the Christmas special when she sends a message from [[spoiler: beyond the grave through a Ouija board]] that she wants them to be happy. |
| 56 | ** The 2012 Christmas special introduced Edna Braithwaite, a new maid with designs on Branson. Fans instantly, violently hated her: not just for her genuinely manipulative actions (and possibly [[spoiler: [[SlippingAMickey getting Branson drunk in order to sexually assault him]]]]) but because she wasn't [[spoiler: Branson's late wife Lady Sybil]] and they were adamant that NO other woman would ever be good enough for him. When he subsequently gained a new love interest named Sarah Bunting, a number of fans instantly disliked her - [[spoiler: at least partly because the relationship appears to be set up as a parallel to the early days of his romance with Sybil.]] |
| 57 | ** Edith has had two main love interests, Sir Anthony Strallan and Michael Gregson. Strallan is many years Edith's senior, physically disabled, and [[spoiler: [[RunawayBride jilted her at the altar]]]] in series three. Gregson is already married to a woman he can't legally divorce and decides to become a German citizen and move to Germany (considered scandalous after the First World War) where he'll be free to marry Edith. He then [[spoiler:vanishes completely, leaving Edith pregnant.]] Both characters get plenty of hate for these reasons, both from fans of the rival ship, and supporters of [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Evelyn Napier/Edith]] (which, so far, has no canon basis.) |
| 58 | ** After [[spoiler:Matthew's death in the 2012 Christmas special]], series four introduced Lord Anthony Gillingham as a new love interest for Mary. Because of this trope, Mary/Matthew shippers instantly hated him, made worse when [[spoiler: his valet violently beats and rapes Mary's lady's maid Anna, although Gillingham knows nothing of this.]] |
| 59 | * The Ray Wars in ''Series/DueSouth'' fandom count as this to an extent. The arguments between Fraser/Ray V shippers and Fraser/Ray K shippers were brutal. And God forbid somebody said they liked them ''both''... |
| 60 | ** The Ray Wars are still not over, as long as poor Ray V is still being written in F/K fanfics as homophobic, hateful to Fraser and wanting to break up Fraser and Kowalski, and as long as fanfics with homophobic!Ray V are still being recommended by F/K shippers. Fraser and Kowalski never receive the hate that poor Ray V does. |
| 61 | ** One way to restart the Ray Wars is to claim that Fraser/Ray K shippers "won" the war, based on the ending of the show, which is open for different interpretations than "Fraser chose Ray K over Ray V". Far better to say that no one "won" the Ray Wars, and that they had a "truce". |
| 62 | * ''Series/{{Ezel}}'': Poor, poor Bade Uysal could not escape the wrath of the most rabid Eyşan/Ezel shippers, who were already peeved by the couple's reduced screentime in season two. It didn't matter that Eyşan's intentions were more malicious for much of the the second season, or that Bade developed a rapport with Ezel, becoming his trusted confidant: she was getting in the way of the one true pairing, and had death wished upon her as a result. |
| 63 | * The prime reason why Liam Booker is the most hated character on ''Series/FakingIt'' is because he stops the LGBTFanbase-preferred pairing of Karma and Amy. (And with this show, that fanbase is ''not'' a PeripheryDemographic.) |
| 64 | * On a weird note, ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' suffered from this trope in regards of Gilina Renaez (PK Tech Girl) breaking between John and Aeryn, any peacekeeper hitting on Aeryn, and even Crichton himself [[spoiler:when he was split and and Aeryn had a relationship with the one on Talyn]]. |
| 65 | * In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', it's Kaylee's canon beau Simon who gets the guns because he gets in the way of Kaylee/Jayne, or occasionally Kaylee/Mal. |
| 66 | ** Inara gets the DieForOurShip treatment quite handily from Mal/River fans...and sometimes from Mal/Jayne or Mal/Simon. |
| 67 | ** Those who prefer [[BrotherSisterIncest Simon/River]] have been known to axe Kaylee, as have the truly preposterous Simon/Jayne contingent. |
| 68 | ** For some reason, one favorite plot point of River/Jayne fans is to have Simon just "give up" on caring for River and just resort to keeping her drugged so he won't be bothered anymore, later making Jayne chew him out for it. Yup, the guy who gives up his rich and comfy life to save River, has risked everything for her, and is willing to die for her just gives up and has to be lectured by the self-serving merc. |
| 69 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Most [[AmicablyDivorced Frasier/Lilith]] and [[BetterAsFriends Frasier/Roz]] shippers think [[LastMinuteHookup Frasier/Charlotte]] was a terrible pairing. On the other hand, they don't hate each other much at all. And then there's a group of fans, who have a small overlap with both the Frasier/Lilith crowd and the Frasier/Roz crowd, who commit themselves to despising every single GirlOfTheWeek Frasier has. Then there's those who think both the Frasier/Lilithers and the Frasier/Rozers are deluding themselves and take the potential of Frasier's [[ForegoneConclusion obviously doomed]] girls of the week too seriously, (especially Claire). It's nigh impossible to get any sort of lock on what the majority of the viewers is gunning for. Then again, Frasier was never part of the show's OfficialCouple anyway... |
| 70 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 71 | ** Many love interests of Ross and Rachel suffer this, most obviously [[DerailingLoveInterests Paolo and Emily]]. Interestingly Julie, Ross's first RomanticFalseLead, avoids the hate simply because she was so adorably sweet. The writers admit they couldn't even write a break-up scene between her and Ross, and she gets her own happy ending with Ross's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute. |
| 72 | ** Richard, despite being a NiceGuy in canon, gets this from some Monica/Chandler fans (though only the extremists, most Monica/Chandler fans - who are pretty much the entire fanbase - are reasonable and don't stoop to this level). To be fair, Richard declaring his love for Monica when Chandler was trying to propose and [[InsecureLoveInterest Chandler's]] in-universe jealousy of him doesn't help. Many fans admit that they liked Richard and his early relationship with Monica but disliked him after the hugely popular Chandler/Monica ship set sail. |
| 73 | * The official couple of ''Series/{{Garo}}'' is Kouga/Kaoru, which leads to dislike of both for different reasons. On one side, Kouga gets some hate from those who would rather pair Kaoru with Leo or Rei, on account of [[spoiler:his initially using her as bait for Horrors, not telling her that she was going to die, and then in the second series not telling her that ''he'' was going to die.]] On the other, Kaoru gets bashing for being weak/inadequate/supposedly not good enough to be the hero's love interest, especially since Jabi had feelings for him as well. |
| 74 | * On the Daytime SoapOpera ''Series/GeneralHospital'', Liz Webber and Sam [=McCall=] have been reviled by each other's fans ever since they became involved in a LoveTriangle over Jason Morgan. Fans of the Sam/Jason will often bring up that Liz is a married woman who is lying to her husband Lucky about the paternity of Jake. Also, that Liz kept Danny's maternity a secret so Sam would believe he was dead and wouldn't go back to Jason. As well as her lying about Jason's identity to everyone when he had amnesia in order to keep him from Sam. Fans of the Liz/Jason pairing counter by bringing up Sam's con-woman past and that Sam slept with her stepfather (a one-night stand which Jason found out about, which led to Jason sleeping with Liz and getting her pregnant). Then again, the couple of Liz and Lucky has a strong fanbase too, leading to much Jason hate. Since Sam and Lucky [[PairTheSpares (inevitably)]] hooked up, this led to many Sam/Jason fans becoming ShipMates with Liz/Lucky fans and Liz/Jason fans becoming ShipMates with Sam/Lucky fans. This had the effect of calming the respective hatreds towards the characters involved for a while. |
| 75 | ** Spinelli was already a divisive character, with a vocal segment of the fandom hating on him for his relationship with Maxie, so it probably wasn't a smart move for the show producers to [[TheScrappy create a female version of him]] in the form of Winnifred, who's even more loathed for breaking up Spinelli and Maxie. |
| 76 | ** Many years ago, Lily Rivera was so universally reviled for coming between Sonny Corinthos and Brenda Barrett that the writers responded by blowing Lily (and her unborn child) up in a car bomb planted by ''her own father''. But, before Sonny and Brenda fans could rejoice, Brenda married Jasper "Jax" Jacks, who quickly became as popular as Sonny and Brenda. Cue one of the earliest [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]] on the Internet. |
| 77 | ** Many "fans" celebrated the death of minor character Leyla Mir. Her crime? Getting in the way of Scrubs (Patrick/Robin). The kicker? That storyline happened ''in a spinoff''. |
| 78 | * The ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fandom is rife with this: |
| 79 | ** Anyone who is or feasibly could be shipped with [[TheWoobie Kurt]]. His canon boyfriend [[NiceGuy Blaine]] gets [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into an emotionally and physically abusive jerk. His StalkerWithACrush Karofsky gets turned from an aggressive, sexually confused bully into a psychopathic rapist. Hell, his [[WhatCouldHaveBeen once-intended boyfriend]], Sam gets this as well. Each faction engages all others in all out ShipToShipCombat for the right of Kurt's affections. The Kurt/Blaine shippers are the most plentiful, though the Kurt/Karofsky and Kurt/someone whose name ends in "um" shippers make up for their lack of numbers with [[VocalMinority sheer volume]]. All three have their fair share of batshittery, but Kurt/Blaine fans are decidedly the more prone to psychotic insanity, including creating tumblrs just to insult Kurtofsky shippers and telling them they should die and fabricating false news about Creator/MaxAdler, the actor who plays Karofsky, just to spite his fans. Max seems to also be one of their primary targets, since in an interview for Billboard about his character's attempted suicide in ''[[WhamEpisode On My Way]]'', he commented about having received tweets from people saying they hoped Karofsky could end up succeeding in his attempt and dying so Kurt and Blaine should be together. |
| 80 | ** New character [[SmugSnake Sebastian]] is getting this big time from Kurt/Blaine shippers due to his pursuit of Blaine, going from an aggressive flirter to an outright stalker and rapist who needs to be shot. This despite the fact that his behavior has been relatively mild and not even close to the actual ''canon'' stalking of Karofsky last season. His actor, Grant Gustin, has stated in interviews that he has received ''actual death threats'' from rabid shippers. |
| 81 | ** Hardcore Brittany/Santana shippers launched a full scale war against Brittany/Artie and the ravenous Bartie fandom that [[WindmillCrusader doesn't exist.]] Creator/KevinMcHale once commented on the angry tweets he received from hardcore Brittany/Santana shippers, emphasizing that [[IAmNotSpock he isn't his character]]. |
| 82 | ** Finn gets this treatment from rabid Jesse/Rachel fans who distort him into an Evil Abusive Boyfriend holding Rachel back from achieving her dreams and being with the much more sensitive and talented Jesse. Jesse, in turn, got similar treatment from rabid Finn/Rachel fans. |
| 83 | ** Mike has been portrayed in abusive ways by the Tina/Artie fandom. |
| 84 | ** Like with any major ship, Finchel has its vocal minority that can be extremely rude to Fuinn shippers, especially. They tend to exaggerate the terrible things Quinn does while completely excusing Rachel from her similar actions. |
| 85 | ** The hate against Mercedes coming from rabid Sam shippers who don't like the Sam/Mercedes ship is so strong that [[KickTheDog kicked the proverbial pup]] [[http://fabraycohenchang.tumblr.com/post/13669278071/this-just-broke-my-heart-and-you-know-what via leaving nasty messages on Amber Riley's twitter account.]] |
| 86 | -->'''Tumblr reblogger'': "She’s right. Does it really bother you that much that Sam might be with Mercedes instead of Quinn or Kurt? If it does bother you to the point that you have to send someone horrible tweets - then you need help. Amber doesn’t write the storylines. She can’t really say “No, the assholes on tumblr/twitter want Sam to be with someone else, I refuse to do this storyline!”. Even if she could - you expect her to turn down screentime just to make a bunch of shippers happy?" |
| 87 | ** Finn gets a lot of hate from Rachel/Quinn shippers from both sides due to having dated both of them. These fans like to play up Finn's more negative traits, making him out to be a self-centered man-child and sometimes outright abusive towards Rachel, while ignoring his more positive traits like his legit love for Rachel (to the point of letting her go to New York without him so she can follow her dreams). A lot of Quinn/Rachel fanfics will also play up his two-timing ways, despite this never being done out of malice. They also have a habit of vilifying Jesse (who Rachel ends up married to) due to him "stealing" Rachel from Quinn. |
| 88 | * A pretty extreme case is the character Elle on ''Literature/GossipGirl''. She only appeared in two episodes, yet she's passionately hated by the Chuck/Blair fans (which is roughly 95% of the viewers) for being a love interest for Chuck. |
| 89 | ** Eva gets nearly as much hate, since she's viewed as a possessive girl who hit all the tropes from HookerWithAHeartOfGold to FlorenceNightingaleEffect and still failed to be half as awesome as Blair. |
| 90 | ** There are ''many'' Dan/Blair shippers who openly claim to ship Chuck/death (some of whom refer to Chuck's two near-death experiences as "ShipTeasing"). It's also common among the Dair fandom to claim that Chuck abuses Blair and tried to rape her. The abuse claim comes from one episode where he was drunk and depressed and ran his fist into a glass wall. Blair was about three feet away (as evident by the shot where she gets up to leave) and gets a tiny cut on her cheek. As for the attempted rape claim, Chuck kissed Blair forcefully, she told him to stop, he did. There are also Dair fans who claim Chuck raped Blair in the limo (''she'' came on to him, ''he'' asked if she was sure) but that seems to be a desperate few rather than a larger part of the shipper group. |
| 91 | * ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': Upon the break-up of Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd, the character of Rose appeared to meddle. Fans' reactions were particularly vicious; Rose soon became known as 'The Plant' on the fan boards, and several fan fictions set out to murder her or turn her into a stalker. Rose's canon reaction to Derek breaking up with her seemed to cater to these fans; she [[spoiler: transformed into a petty bitch who stabs Derek with a scalpel, albeit accidentally.]] They even [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade on this]] by saying that she was known as the girl in the hospital, which was justification for her being PutOnABus. |
| 92 | ** Any woman paired with Alex, since most fans still want former OfficialCouple Alex and Izzie to be together despite the fact that her actress left the show and wasn't allowed to come back. |
| 93 | ** More recently, there's Jackson/Maggie for the Jackson/April fans. The fact the couple made it official the same day that it was announced that Sarah Drew (April) was fired from the show did not help matters and fans speculate that Drew, who had no intentions to leave, was cut to allow Jackson and Maggie to thrive. |
| 94 | * The ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' fandom tends to have a negative reaction towards canonical love interests, particularly when it comes to Peter Petrelli. His season-one love interest, Simone, was widely seen as being a high-and-mighty bitch; when she died - partly because of Peter - you could practically hear the cheering. Caitlin, his second-season girlfriend, is less hated and does carry a small but loyal contingent of shippers; but most people didn't complain much when she was conveniently pushed out of the way. |
| 95 | ** Nathan's wife Heidi isn't really ''hated'', but fanfic writers tend to marginalize her since her existence interferes with the One True [[BrotherSisterIncest Bro]] [[HoYay Yay]]. |
| 96 | ** Oddly enough, Noah's wife Sandra is generally well-liked even though she logically gets in the way of any pairings featuring her husband. Matt's wife Janice, however, is hated by everyone, even though she didn't interfere with any major ships while she was around. Then again, she ''canonically'' messed him up romantically, so there's some justification. |
| 97 | ** Claire's second-season boyfriend West is just as loathed, but this may be because he was horribly written, especially compared to Zach, her friend in the previous season (who was originally written as gay, but since his actor thought he was in love with her...). Too bad Zach's actor went to another series. |
| 98 | ** Hiro's second-season love interest, Yaeko, is also disliked [[spoiler: partly because Hiro's supposed to be walking The Hero's Path and above things like lusting after your best friend's girl and partly because of how poignant and sweet the Hiro/Charlie romance was. It seemed that he forgot her too quickly: she was his first love in more ways than one, canonically, and yet Hiro seemed to have no memory of her during the feudal Japan arc.]] Yaeko has been also bashed by [[SlashFic Hiro/Ando and Hiro/Kensei shippers]]. |
| 99 | * In ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Angelo Rosetta practically seems to be a magnet for this, having broken up or come between several popular ships one way or another. Most of it came from Aden/Belle shippers during the period when he was simultaneously dating Belle and arresting Aden, with several theories being put about that he was actually a plant spying on Belle, some fictions portraying him as a controlling would-be rapist and even the nicer ones portraying him as an annoying clingy manchild who needed to take a hint. He ultimately got this from Charlie/Brax shippers as well, with one fiction claiming he'd cheated on Charlie while they were together and then killing him off. (Him accidentally killing Jack, whose relationship with Martha rivalled Aden/Belle for popularity, didn't win him many fans either!) |
| 100 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': People appear to hate Stacy Warner purely because she "came between" House and Cameron. Never mind that that particular Ship had been sunk in the episode before Stacy showed up. |
| 101 | ** Other people have a hate-on for Cameron because she gets in the way of House/Cuddy. |
| 102 | ** There's all the hate leveled at anyone who dares ship House/Wilson. Never mind that it's HoYay -- he's coming between House/Cameron or House/Cuddy. Stacy (his canon love interest) and Wilson (and Cameron, but that was only a trick) are the only people Greg House has said "I love you" to, all intonation/intent discussions aside. |
| 103 | ** And to round out the set, there are the folks who make Stacy and Cuddy shrilling harridans and Cameron a weepy infant so House and Wilson can get it on - they ''are'' the most popular pairing by a slim but definite margin. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3582047/1/The_Rampant_Disease Particularly egregious examples]] have been known to ''kill off'' the women - and this in a MedicalDrama, with normally no violence. |
| 104 | ** Anyone who wants to ship either Chase or Cameron with someone else between season 3's "FriendsWithBenefits" arc and early season 6 has to get around Chase's trying to ship Chase/Cameron. Methods of derailing Cameron have been noted above; to facilitate pairing Chase with someone else, she may also be turned into a single-target harridan. Methods of derailing Chase to get Cameron together with House or Thirteen include making him more clueless than in canon, turning his {{Yandere}} streak up to eleven -- there are several House/Cameron fics where Chase attempts to MurderTheHypotenuse after Cameron's broken up with him, and Cameron isn't always safe either -- going alcoholic a few seasons early, denigrating his manhood (yes, even in Cameron/Thirteen fics), or showing him to have nothing in common with Cameron (when they had been friends in the first half of season 1). |
| 105 | ** House had sex with a woman named Lydia, played by Franka Potente. [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1220274.html#cutid1 The House/Cuddy fans RAGE.]] |
| 106 | ** Some fans started to hate Lucas only after his relationship with Cuddy interfered with House/Cuddy. And that started ''before'' Lucas vandalized Wilson's apartment. |
| 107 | * ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Joy got hit with his hard during the second season, being the opposition to the FanPreferredCouple of Fabian and Nina. It didn't help that she had plenty of JerkAss tendencies during this time as well, but thankfully by the third season she got over Fabian and dropped many of her meaner qualities, [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeeming her in the eyes of many fans.]] Oddly enough most other rivals of Fabina and Nina's pairing did not suffer this, probably because the fans were too busy shipping them in their own pairings to care, and the other rival pairing were not large enough- or Canon enough- to matter. |
| 108 | ** Mara had also gotten this for being on the wrong end of two pairings: Joy and Jerome, and Nina and Fabian. In the first case, she let her desire for revenge turn her into a JerkAss who was seen as bullying both Joy and Jerome--Jerome by continuously trying to humiliate him in progressively worse ways, Joy by forcing her to pretend to like Jerome, only to break his heart later, and turning against her for developing actual feelings for Jerome. On the Fabian and Nina side, it's simply because, despite Nina's absence during the third season, Fabian and Nina were still one of the most popular pairings, and the way Mara and Fabian got together was seen by a classic example of StrangledByTheRedString. |
| 109 | ** Fans of Patricia and Eddie's pairing really didn't like KT when she was introduced. The two of them had already broken up (off-screen) by the time season 3 began, but this didn't stop people from thinking KT was going to go after Eddie. However, it died down once it was revealed that KT was willing to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments put her crush on Eddie aside and help Patricia get back with Eddie.]] |
| 110 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Barney/Robin shippers automatically hated Don when he became Robin's new love interest after she and Barney broke up (though admittedly, it wasn't just ''them'' who wanted [[TheScrappy Don]] to die). Then in the season finale, Robin broke up with Don, leading to much cheering from the fandom. |
| 111 | ** As of seasons 6 and 7, Barney has a new girlfriend, Nora. While there are some fans out there that like her and want her to be Barney's future bride, lots of Barney/Robin shippers hate her, especially now that Robin is in love with Barney again. |
| 112 | ** Opinions towards Kevin, Robin's new love interest, are split down the middle: half the people hate him, half the people love him. However, ''no one'', not even people who don't ship Barney/Robin, want him and Robin to be together, because their relationship is intentionally flimsy and lacking in chemistry, considering Robin's still in love with Barney, but simply can't bring herself to take the risk. People still like Kevin because he's actually funny and cute, unlike Don (he ''is'' played by Creator/KalPenn, after all). |
| 113 | * ''Series/ICarly'': All 3 members of the PowerTrio have been subject to this as well as a handful of other characters: |
| 114 | ** Carly is by far the biggest "target", as she stands in the way of the non-canon Sam/Freddie ship. |
| 115 | ** Spencer is generally immune as his major ship in the fandom is with Sam. With Freddie liking Carly, there's no need to have Freddie even care that much, and with Carly, it's simple to just have her be straight and not romantically interested in Sam. |
| 116 | ** Freddie can be written like this in [[LesYay Carly/Sam]] stories. But it's rare because it's simple to write him as accepting the girls as lesbians. However, when he ''does'' get the treatment, it's usually a very dramatic change in his character brought on by Carly rejecting him, and Sam "stealing" Carly away from him. |
| 117 | ** Sam gets cast in a DieForOurShip role in a few Carly/Freddie stories which are HurtComfortFic, which use Sam as an abusive girlfriend. |
| 118 | ** Sam's mom Pam gets put into this role quite often. As a deadbeat parent, she's often shown throwing Sam out of her house (or Sam moving out). Reasons vary, but can include: Sam comes out of the closet as Lesbian or Bisexual and in love with Carly, she got pregnant by Freddie, or Sam's mom dies and Spencer/Carly/Freddie take her in to live with them. |
| 119 | ** Parodied in the episode "[[FandomNod iStart A Fan War]]"--when Carly points out the guy she currently has a crush on, the in-universe Carly/Freddie shippers scream that he's the one who "stole Carly from Freddie!" and attack him. |
| 120 | * Commander Brumby on ''Series/{{JAG}}''. He's universally hated by Mac/Harm shippers and any Mac shipper in general. Hell, he's [[TheScrappy hated by most of the fandom]] in general. The subsequent revelations about the actor who played him being English and not Australian and his death of an overdose of drugs that was possibly suicide as he was going through a divorce have softened reactions in the years since the show ended. |
| 121 | * ''Series/Jericho2006'' has Jake/Heather fans harming Emily Sullivan left and right because she got the guy in Canon. Emily also tends to get [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into a complete bitch while Heather becomes a 26 year old virgin and a paragon of midwestern values. |
| 122 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 123 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'''s OfficialCouple is [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Terui]] / [[{{Kawaiiko}} Akiko]], the problem being that Terui is one of the most popular secondary Riders in recent years while Akiko is widely disliked. As a result, there's a number of fans who'd like to see Terui with ''any'' woman but Akiko, and frequently wish violent death on her for daring to fall in love with him. Made worse by the fact that two guest characters who showed interest in Terui were played by actresses already popular with fanboys after previous roles in ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. |
| 124 | ** In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', Gentaro's movie-only love interest Nadeshiko Misaki [[spoiler:or, rather, the clone of her from a meteorite]] is '''extremely''' popular with the fandom, so when he acquired StalkerWithACrush Yukina for two episodes, she was instantly hated. There was never any suggestion that she would get together with him, and there are other reasons she is disliked (including bullying Yuki), but her popularity was not at all helped by her having a crush on Gentaro while not being Nadeshiko. |
| 125 | *** Made even worse in the second episode of her arc: She ''knew'' all about Gentaro's secret life as Fourze and her reason on being a bitch? ''"I just want you to be a normal High School Student!"'' Wanna know how she plans to do that? ''Snatch the Fourze Driver and run off with it then refuse to give it back when Libra Zodiarts starts to approach her"''. Thankfully (for most fans), she decides to let her feelings for Gentaro go and only asks for a picture with the two. |
| 126 | ** The Aries arc introduced Ryusei's classmate Mei Shirakawa, who had a crush on him and seemed to believe he would eventually fall in love with her. This divided fans between those who wanted to see him end up with her and those who preferred his most constant love interest, Tomoko; leading to bashing of both girls. Later, the ''Everyone, Space Is Here!'' movie introduced Inga Blink, a sexy female agent with possible romantic interest in Ryusei and added another party to the conflict. |
| 127 | ** Shippers of Ren/Yui in ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' tend to dislike Ren's canon girlfriend Eri and dismiss her as boring and useless despite the fact that ''she spends the entire series in a coma'', we see her awake in only one brief scene that doesn't indicate anything about what she is like as a person, and the entire reason Ren joined the Rider War was to save her. Even Creator/ToshikiInoue, a long-term writer for the franchise (although he was not ''Ryuki'''s head writer) got in on it when he wrote an AU tie-in novel where Ren and Yui have an affair behind Eri's back. |
| 128 | ** When ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'''s ''Cross-Z'' spin-off tried to introduce a love interest named Yui for Ryuga, she was met with a negative fan response: the fanbase being split between those who preferred him with Kasumi (his girlfriend in his original timeline - who is now with an alternate version of him) or Sento, and those who just didn't like Yui being set up to take over Sento's role as his "[[ArcWords best match]]". This is likely the reason why she is no longer in the picture by the subsequent ''Kamen Rider Grease'' movie |
| 129 | * Some fans of the original ''Series/LawAndOrder'' exemplify a less common variation of this trope that does not involve killing off an alternate love interest. Many, many fanfictions kill Connie Rubirosa's mother, so she will no longer have a reason to stay in Los Angeles and can move back to New York to live happily ever after with Mike Cutter. |
| 130 | ** Carly, Judge Reynolds' clerk and potential love interest for Mike, is also often a victim of this. However, fans' hatred of her [[BitchInSheepsClothing does not stem entirely from the fact that she is seen as getting between Mike and Connie]]. |
| 131 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Curiously, the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Dani Beck came under the most merciless fire and outrage from Elliot/Olivia shippers during her short stint while [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Mariska Hargitay was pregnant]]. Elliot's ''wife'', Kathy, does not get that so much outside of Website/TelevisionWithoutPity (but [[AccentuateTheNegative they hate everything]]) or Fanfiction.net -- though Fanfiction.net is a large enough base for unfair attacks. |
| 132 | ** And then there were the Alex/Olivia shippers. A common plot involves killing off Elliot for the sake of the ensuing hurt/comfort (which smacks of careless research, considering how [[BrokenBird edgy]] Olivia is about her feelings), effectively removing the only other large ship. Another popular scenario kills off Casey Novak in a ''spectacular'' fashion for having the effrontery to ''do Alex's job once she's dead''. [[spoiler: Dead-ish]]. They're just as loopy as the Elliot/Olivia shippers. |
| 133 | * ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': |
| 134 | ** Finch, Josie's love interest in season 3, has gotten a lot of hate from Josie/Hope shippers. A lot of shippers try to paint her as an unlikeable jerk, ignoring all of her more positive qualities and the fact that Hope is far from the nicest person to Josie in the same season. This has also sadly led some shippers to harass Finch's actress online. A lot of this extends to all of Josie's love interests, except for Penelope, but Finch has got it worse than the others due to being yet another character in the way of the FanPreferredCouple. |
| 135 | ** Landon is often the target of hatred from those who ship Hope with anyone else, mainly from Hope/Josie shippers. There are entire fanfics dedicated to turning Landon into an abusive man-child who Hope needs saving from. A lot of shippers also like to claim he is too immature for Hope in comparison to Josie. Some even try to claim he's a sex offender for kissing Hope to wake her up in the season 3 premiere, and that despite him saying otherwise, he's constantly giving up on Hope when she needs him. |
| 136 | ** Josie Saltzman gets a lot of flak from Hope/Lizzie shippers for "getting in the way of their ship" and is often portrayed as a BitchInSheepsClothing by them. The main factor they like to use is her telling Lizzie that Hope had spread rumors about Lizzie, which prevented the two from actually bonding, which they use to paint her as an abusive sister who doesn't deserve Hope as Lizzie does. This ignores the fact that, by all accounts, Lizzie disliked Hope before this and Josie being a kid at the time while expressing guilt in the present. |
| 137 | ** Ryan Clarke gets a lot of hate from those who ship Hope with either Josie, Landon, or Lizzie due to his hinted crush on her in the second, third and fourth seasons. They like to portray him as a {{Jerkass}} while ignoring his more nuanced moments, claim that he doesn't deserve Hope due to his villainous ways despite his efforts to redeem himself, and try to make him a creepy stalker who won't take no for an answer. When Hope, with no humanity, forces him to tag along with her, shippers somehow found a way to turn this into his fault by painting it as him forcing his way in, despite her basically kidnapping him, all because of his crush that is only hinted at existing. |
| 138 | * The cross-canon DieForOurShip is ''ridiculous'' in the ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' fandom. Either you ship Gene Hunt with Sam Tyler, hold [=LOM=] as the superior series, and bash Alex for being a "whiny, bitchy slut who can't keep her knickers on"; or you ship Gene Hunt and Alex Drake, most likely haven't even ''seen'' [=LOM=] and are sick of Sam being mentioned in [=A2A=] so much. Meanwhile, the Chris/Shaz, Alex/anyone else, and Sam/Annie fans are trying to stay clear of the fray and the multishippers are all going "well, that's silly, why ''choose''?" |
| 139 | * In the ''Series/LifeWithDerek'' fandom, there's a handful of [[NotBloodSiblings Dasey]] shippers who demonize Emily, turning her into a jealous StalkerWithACrush who would [[{{Yandere}} do anything to get Casey out of the way]]. And let's not even get started on Sally... |
| 140 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The Kate hate. Omigawd, the Kate Hate. Usually from Jack/Sawyer shippers, but more recently from the Sawyer/Juliet shippers. And let's not forget the Jack hate coming from the Sawyer/Kate fans, either. |
| 141 | * The ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' fandom contains the extremely popular [[HoYay Merlin/Arthur]] pairing, which leads to bashing of any character linked romantically with either man: leading ladies Morgana and Gwen are the most common targets, but there's also Freya, Sophia, Lady Vivian, and others. |
| 142 | ** Gwen's an interesting case of a character who is generally liked for herself, just not as a LoveInterest--there probably isn't a fan alive who doesn't think that her best-friends relationship with Merlin isn't the most adorable thing ever. As she's Arthur's future (now current) wife, there's very little the shippers can do to get rid of her. Yet even though there are some who don't like her specific ''role'', the ''character'' is so genuinely sweet that very few writers can bring themselves to [[RonTheDeathEater derail her]] or otherwise do anything horrid to her. As such, she's usually just ignored in fics that pair Arthur with Merlin, or [[LesYay paired with Morgana]] or [[RomanticRunnerUp Lancelot instead]]. |
| 143 | *** But Gwen also gets it in the neck from Morgana/Arthur shippers, often with a side of RealWomenNeverWearDresses, since Morgana tends to fill the ActionGirl role more often. This died down somewhat with the third-season revelations that [[spoiler:Arthur and Morgana are half-siblings]] and that [[spoiler:Morgana has gone evil]]. |
| 144 | ** An interesting case is that of Princess Mithian, brought in as a last hurdle to the OfficialCouple of Arthur/Guinevere, and who exemplifies the tangled (and practically nonsensical) rationale of fandom shipping. Because her role as a temporary RomanticFalseLead was obvious, Arwen shippers were fairly nonplussed, but Merthur shippers ended up ''embracing'' Mithian, firstly because they knew she posed no permanent threat to their FanPreferredCouple, secondly because singing her praises was an easy way of scoring points against Guinevere, and thirdly because of a scene in which she approaches Merlin and tells him that Arthur values his opinion above all others. Having dubbed her an honorary Merthur shipper, they went on to claim that they a) wished that she'd been cast as Guinevere, b) would have happily shipped het if Arthur/Mithian had been the main pairing, and c) that she was the only good part of the episode (which not only involved Merlin as a very passionate ShipperOnDeck for Arthur/Guinevere, but also had him display ''InUniverse'' DieForOurShip toward Mithian)[[note]]In fact, it's tempting to say that his attitude deliberately lampshaded the fandom's propensity for this trope[[/note]]. Of course, one can't help but suspect that this adoration of Mithian would have instantly dissolved into seething hatred had she actually stuck around and become Arthur's wife. |
| 145 | *** In the lead-up to Mithian's return in series 5, [[http://oi50.tinypic.com/2cxwxsn.jpg this picture]] was released of her and Merlin in each other's arms, followed by some mild ShipTease between the two of them throughout the episode. And whaddayaknow! [[SarcasmMode For some mysterious reason]], the Merthur fans suddenly found that Mithian wasn't quite so appealing anymore. She left again by the end of the episode, but let’s just say that the slashers aren't as vocally enthusiastic about the possibility of her return as they were the first time around. |
| 146 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Apparently, 90% of all Gibbs/Tony shippers want Jenny Shepard dead, evil, or both. Though that could actually be more accurately phrased as "[[TheScrappy 90% of all people who watch the show]]". And they [[spoiler:did get one of these done to her in-series]]. |
| 147 | * ''Series/NUMB3RS'': Amita (Charlie's love interest) gets a huge amount of hate from practically all variety of slashers in the fandom. When she's not this trope, she's often getting the RonTheDeathEater treatment. |
| 148 | * ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': |
| 149 | ** The Jim/Pam shippers ''hated'' Karen, Jim's girlfriend from the third season. While Karen was obviously a RomanticFalseLead, she was actually a likable character who worked well off Jim, which earned her some fans. Nevertheless, the Jim/Pam shippers didn't really shed a tear when she was ultimately PutOnABus. |
| 150 | ** This happened again when a Season 7 deleted scene indicated that the new executive assistant and regular cast member Jordan was a little flirtatious with Jim. The fandom came down very hard on her. Before she even had ten spoken lines. |
| 151 | ** Jordan's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Cathy is just as despised, though her much more blatant attempts at trying to seduce Jim during their business trip didn't help her case. |
| 152 | ** Pete gets this from a large number of Andy/Erin shippers. It ''really'' didn't help that the Pete/Erin pairing was set up in a way that was an obvious attempt by the writers to recreate the Jim/Pam romance, nor that it essentially required putting Andy through the DerailingLoveInterests treatment after a long arc of WillTheyOrWontThey, RelationshipRevolvingDoor, and UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo that the Pete/Erin pair-off rendered into a ShaggyDogStory. Now it's possible that some of Andy's derailment was a result of the writers attempting to make [[CreatorsPet Nellie]] appear more sympathetic, and it was just a coincidence that they tried to hook up Pete and Erin at the same time, but that only makes the backlash even more intense. |
| 153 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' ''was'' mostly able to avoid this because most fairytale pairings have a "True Love" status that is still well supported by the fandom. Unfortunately, this didn't last very long. When season 2 added more characters more ships were formed, [[FanDumb and shippers of the older ships didn't approve]]. |
| 154 | ** The earliest case was the revelation of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] as Rumpelstiltskin's love interest provoking some hate from more zealous Golden Swan (Rumple/Emma) shippers. |
| 155 | ** Plenty of Rumple/Belle were very upset when "The Crocodile" revealed that Rumple was married to Milah. Not that there was anything to be upset about, since [[AndShowItToYou Rumple killed Milah 300 years ago]]. |
| 156 | ** Milah/Hook shippers were distraught to learn that Hook moved on from Milah, and moved onto Emma. Never mind the fact that its been ''300 years''. |
| 157 | ** Fans can get pretty nasty towards each other when the topic of who they believe [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Emma Swan]] should end up with. The rather vocal [[FoeYayShipping Swan Queen]] (Emma/Regina) fandom avoided this for the first season. Probably because Regina killed Emma's actual love interest, not that this seems to bother most of the shippers. In fact some of them hate Graham for sleeping with Regina, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale despite the fact that Regina forced him into being her]] SexSlave. |
| 158 | ** Hook gets a lot of hate from Emma/Regina shippers, especially after he becomes Emma's main love interest. These shippers like to claim that he doesn't deserve Emma due to his past, while completely ignoring Regina's far worse crimes, claim that he hasn't really changed despite the show going out of it's way to show him feeling guilt for his actions, and claim him to be abusive due to his actions in season 5A, even though he was under the influence of dark magic at the time. Some claim that he doesn't care about Henry and is a terrible father figure, completely ignoring that he genuinely connects with and comes to see him as a son. |
| 159 | ** Robin Hood almost instantly got hate from Emma/Regina shippers the moment he was revealed to be Regina's True Love. This only got worse when he got back together with Marian (later revealed to be Zelena), with many shippers trying to use this as proof that he doesn't deserve Regina while ignoring the fact that Emma is the one who brought Marian back from the past. Things only got worse when he slept with Regina despite still being married. It got to the point that Robin's actor, Creator/SeanMaguire, admitted that he almost left Twitter due to their shippers constantly harassing him. However, when he did die, even the most hard-core Emma/Regina shipper admitted that it was a bad write-off. |
| 160 | ** The Season 2 revelation of [[spoiler: Neal/Baelfire as Henry's father]] has led to a particularly nasty ShipToShipCombat involving, you guessed it, Emma. Those who believe Emma should end up with [[spoiler: Neal]] tend to write Hook as a psychopathic villain who only wants her for her looks, while the [[BelligerentSexualTension Captain Swan]] contingent love to paint [[FirstLove Neal]] [[RonTheDeathEater as a creepy statutory-rapist that never listens to Emma.]] Ironically both sides love turning the other into someone who can't take 'no' for an answer despite the fact they have both pulled an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy in relation to Emma. The Season 3 revelation of [[spoiler: Hook declaring his love for Emma, and Emma kissing Hook]] has led to even nastier combat for all ships concerned: [[BelligerentSexualTension Captain Swan]], [[FirstLove Swanfire]], and [[FoeYayShipping Swan Queen]]. |
| 161 | ** Poor [[spoiler: Marian]] gets this treatment from Outlaw Queen (Robin/Regina) shippers. Most reduce her a ClingyJealousGirl [[AxeCrazy or]] [[IfICantHaveYou worse]]. |
| 162 | ** Sleeping Warrior (Aurora/Mulan) averts this. Almost all of the shippers are entirely indifferent towards Aurora's husband, Philip, and some even [[OneTrueThreesome include him]] in their ship. |
| 163 | * ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Many Cophine shippers were infuriated by the news that Cosima would be getting a new girlfriend (Shay, played by Ksenia Solo) in Season 3, to the extent that they actually bombarded Solo with hate messages on social media. |
| 164 | * ''Series/OurMissBrooks'' has a unique example from its final television season. Marriage to Mr. Boynton has always been her series goal. ExecutiveMeddling saw Miss Brooks take a new job teaching at a private school when Madison High was torn down for a new freeway (somehow Madison High had ended up in Los Angeles after always previously been in a small city named [[EverytownAmerica Madison]]). Miss Brooks found herself chased by the school's gym teacher. The new format was unpopular among show fans, and even Eve Arden herself. Mr. Boynton was brought back toward the end of the season in response to popular demand, and the last few episodes saw Miss Brooks pursue him as of old. |
| 165 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 166 | ** After the actress who played Kimberly, the first Pink Ranger on ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', left the show, she was [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replaced]] by the recently {{Heel Face Turn}}ed Katherine, alias "Kat", who later was shown to have married series lead Tommy in the future. The fans bashed her like rabid wolves, with fics written about Tommy beating Kat to death with a baseball bat and theories about how Kat faked 'the letter' and everyone around them just went along with it. Never mind that, in canon, Kimberly and Kat became friends, and Kimberly picked Kat to be her successor. |
| 167 | ** Similarly, fans of ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' and its Franchise/SuperSentai counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' will shoot down Kat/Swan (and, for ''SPD'', wife Aisynia) for disrupting the delicate balance that is Doggie Kruger's HoYay sex life. |
| 168 | ** And in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''... Trent. Oh, the ''horrors'' done to Trent. You like CuteBruiser Kira with someone else? Fine, no problem. But derailing Trent, whom she had a crush on ([[spoiler:and later was BrainwashedAndCrazy, before he joined the Power Rangers for real]]), just to make your pairing of choice work? Um, no. |
| 169 | ** Speaking of ''Dino Thunder'', Conner gets flanderized into a jerk (more than he usually is) quite frequently by Kira/Trent shippers as well. |
| 170 | * Hina of ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', even though she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Mamoru go]] willingly. |
| 171 | * [[StalkerWithACrush Olive Snook]] in ''Series/PushingDaisies'' is an odd, inverted meta-instance of the trope. She considers Ned and herself the OneTruePairing and plots and connives against Chuck, whose arrival (and whose place in Ned's heart) intrudes on her romantic fantasy of ending up happy with Ned. However, early on, she comes to realise that her conniving would cause pain to others and drops her plans. She then becomes a good friend to Chuck while still having feelings for Ned; everyone knows about this, and the three of them act in a mature and rational way throughout the series, which is an uncommon occurrence... not that it stops the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Nolive]] shippers who seem to be somewhat upset that Lee Pace isn't having hot, steamy sex with [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Galinda]]. |
| 172 | * ''{{Series/Revenge}}'': [[DracoInLeatherPants Daniel]] and Emily shippers are quite vocal about their hate for Jack, Emily's childhood flame, to the point where they [[FanDumb frequently beg for him to be killed off and complain about the show about when he isn't]]. A notable example was during Season 2 when there was hinted to be a death involving a main character on a sinking boat. Daniel/Emily shippers latched onto this as a possibility and were outraged [[spoiler:when the body was revealed to be Amanda instead]]. This may be the reason why the ship was sunk in the series in such a particularly brutal fashion, with Daniel [[spoiler:shooting Emily and destroying her womb]], then bragging that this was "my gift to the universe." |
| 173 | * In the BBC ''Series/RobinHood'' series, there appeared to be plenty of subtext for Robin/Much--until Much had a female love interest (Eve) in a series one episode. Cue the bashing. Djaq and Allan are also prone to this treatment, depending on which one you ship with Will Scarlett. Marian is generally liked, but sometimes takes a hammering from slash fans, who paint her as a traitor for her relationship with Guy of Gisborne. |
| 174 | ** There are also a large contingent of fans who hate Robin for "interfering with" Guy/Marian, despite the fact that Guy is basically a StalkerWithACrush and ended up killing Marian for rejecting him at the end of Season Two. Instead of killing the ship, fans just started railing against ''Marian'' for "breaking Guy's heart". Really, guys? |
| 175 | ** There is a large group of fans (okay, okay, there's five of us) who would have been quite happy for Will to head back to Scarborough so that Allan and Djaq could work out the raging {{UST}} between them. |
| 176 | ** Series three introduced new female character Kate. ''Before a single episode featuring her had even aired'', she was facing uproar from the fandom because publicity material showed her standing with Robin in photos and kissing him in the series trailer. When she did arrive, it became clear that both Much and Allan had crushes on her, leading to bashing from fans of other ships. |
| 177 | *** As far as shipping Kate went, the most popular choice (that is to say, less hated than any other ships) was Allan/Kate, despite the facts that they really only had one major scene together and it soon became clear that Allan thought of her as a little sister. Ironically, Kate ended up with Robin, the one pairing that absolutely NOBODY wanted, and when [[spoiler:Allan died]], Kate seemed the ''least'' affected by it, reacting with nothing more than a blank stare and then being the first to walk away from [[spoiler:his funeral pyre]]. |
| 178 | ** Gisborne's sister, Isabella, also got this treatment before she had appeared on screen, as an episode trailer had romantic music playing after Robin rescued her from bandits. When the episode actually aired, Robin/Isabella went on to become ''tolerated'', if not entirely accepted by the majority of the fandom, thanks to the actors' undeniable chemistry. And then the relationship only lasted three episodes anyway. |
| 179 | * In the first season of ''Series/{{Roswell}}'', fans hated Kyle for going out with Liz (and keeping her from Max) even though she was the one who treated him badly and even though she could have broken up with him as soon as she realized she had feelings for someone else. Tess was even more hated in Season Two because she came between Max and Liz as well, even before [[DerailingLoveInterests canon basically carried this trope out]] with her when she wound up [[spoiler: killing another series regular, having been working with the enemy all along, possibly (mind?)raping the hero, and then running off with his baby and their only spaceship.]] |
| 180 | * ''Series/TheSecretCircle'': Adam gets hate from two sets of shippers for having dated both Cassie and Diana. Adam gets hate from Jake/Cassie shippers, who often make Adam into a horrible boyfriend, which continued even after Adam and Cassie broke up. The Faye/Diana shippers turn Adam into a creepy and possessive ex-boyfriend who hates the fact that Diana has moved on and even occasionally turn Adam into a homophobe in regard to a potential relationship between Faye and Diana, even though there is zero evidence of this in canon. |
| 181 | * Kevin Kinkirk from ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' is bashed in a similar vein to Anthony from ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse''. Fanfiction portrayed him as [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek an abusive manipulative bastard who raped and beat Lucy on a daily basis]] for daring to get in the way of Lucy/anyone else. Or Lucy/happy single woman realizing she didn't need true love. Or they didn't care about Lucy and simply wanted Kevin to die. |
| 182 | * Generally, the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' fandom is pretty good about letting people ship what they ship and getting along. But that doesn't mean bashing doesn't exist, especially when it comes to the Sherlock/John HoYay... |
| 183 | ** [[TheVamp Irene]] [[BrainsAndBondage Adler]] getting this was a bit of a forgone conclusion, as she was the closest thing to an actual love interest for Sherlock in the novels [[note]]sort of: "It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind."[[/note]]. Though really, ''any'' hate Irene gets from Sherlock/John shippers is utterly absurd, since in this series [[ShipperOnDeck she herself ships them together]] (albeit, somewhat jokingly). |
| 184 | ** Averted for the most part with [[AscendedExtra Molly]] [[CanonForeigner Hooper]]. Her unrequited crush on Sherlock (as well as her moments as the series' ButtMonkey) made her more sympathetic than disliked for the slashers. |
| 185 | ** Mary Morstan got this ''preemptively'' from the grouchier corners of the slash fandom, even before she was confirmed to be in the series. Even worse, her actress, Amanda Abbington (who is also Creator/MartinFreeman's real life partner) had actually [[SeriousBusiness gotten death threats]] for coming between John and Sherlock and being the impetus for John to move out of 221B, despite this happening in the original novels. On the other hand, Mary does have her fans due to being [[NiceGirl kind]], [[ActionGirl quite a badass]], and getting along very well with Sherlock, to the point that some people have started to come liking the OneTrueThreesome of Sherlock/John/Mary. [[spoiler: And then she dies, leaving the way clear once more]]. |
| 186 | * Most of the ''Series/SilentWitness'' fandom wanted Nikki and Harry to end up together. Some of their short-lived love interests received a bit of hate, but on the whole were tolerated because of the expectation that Harry/Nikki would be endgame. However, Harry's actor quit and the character was replaced by Jack Hodgson; who, like Harry, is a charmer and loves to flirt with Nikki. A lot of fans were ''not'' impressed and made their loathing for Jack very clear. |
| 187 | * ''Series/{{Skins}}'', the UK version, has this with Michelle, for getting in the way of everyone's {{OTP}}, Sid/Cassie. Even when it was clear from the start that Michelle was Sid's RomanticFalseLead. It got particularly bad in Season 2 when [[spoiler: Sid and Michelle actually were together for a short while, though with it still clear that their true loves were Cassie and Tony, respectively]]. People started accusing Michelle of being a "slut," even when Cassie was ''actually'' engaging in some extremely promiscuous behavior. In Season 3, JJ also got some hate from the Naomily shippers when he slept with Emily, though it was minimal - probably helped by the fact that ''Skins'' writers had learned their lesson and made it even more abundantly clear that Emily/JJ wasn't going anywhere. (Emily comes out to him as gay at the beginning of the episode, and right before they sleep together, she tells him it's a "one-time-only charity event.") |
| 188 | ** Played with in some of the other cases, where the person getting DieForOurShip was still someone that the rest of the fandom hated or at least felt "Meh" about for other reasons. This was most obvious in the case of Matty in the third generation; yeah, he was the obstacle to Mini/Franky and Liv/Nick, but he was also cliche and underdeveloped in general, and the relationship he ''did'' have with Franky came across as ShipsThatPassInTheNight. To a lesser extent, this was also true with Freddie in the second generation. He got a ridiculous amount of hate from Cook/Effy fans, but even non-shippers found him [[TheScrappy kinda boring]]. |
| 189 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has the infamous "Chlois" theory. It's based around the desire of ardent supporters of Chloe (Lois Lane's cousin, Clark's high school best friend, and an original character) to somehow become the Lois Lane from the comics, usually by having Lois die and having Chloe assume her cousin's identity and then hooking up with Clark. How Lois ends up dying varies from person to person, but the Chlois fic writers generally vilified her to an absurd degree. Also, the obvious squick and creepiness of somebody taking the name of their deceased cousin and living her life is something that the Chlois Theorists never bothered or cared to address. |
| 190 | ** There are also the Clark/Lana shippers (yes, they do exist) who portray Lois and Chloe as {{Smug Snake}}s trying to move in on Lana's man and portray Clark as hopelessly in love with Lana and completely apathetic to them. |
| 191 | ** Then there's the faction eagerly waiting for Lana to disappear in order to clear the way for Clark's destined relationship with ComicBook/{{Lois|Lane}}. Having him cling to Lana past high school or waste time being {{Ship Tease}}d with Chloe felt like an unacceptable violation of canon. They ''finally'' got their wish...in Season [[spoiler:8, though many thought it should have happened way earlier]]. |
| 192 | ** The "Chlollie" ship (Chloe/Oliver) does have its DieForOurShip-ers, though they're not nearly as numerous as the other ones mentioned above. There are Chlark fans who want both Ollie and Lois to die for the Chlark ship, but also Chimmy (Chloe/Jimmy) fans. They are especially bitter about a letter Chloe left Oliver when she was PutOnABus for much of Season 10, telling him she had never loved anyone as much as him. To hear the Chimmy shippers tell it, you'd think Chloe and Oliver spend their dates tap-dancing on Jimmy's grave. |
| 193 | ** [[TemporaryLoveInterest Alicia Baker]], who in-universe tried to get Lana to [[DieForOurShip die for the Clark/Alicia ship]], but ended up [[spoiler:dying herself instead]]. And she wasn't the only one. Almost every [[MonsterOfTheWeek LanaStalker]], most notably [[PsychoLesbian Tina]], tried to kill Clark. |
| 194 | * Kylen Celina sometimes gets this from the ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' fandom. Granted, there is a legitimate reason why her relationship with Nathan West may not be tenable [[spoiler:following her rescue in the series finale]] (namely, the fact that the Marine pilot is no longer the naive would-be colonist he started the series as). However, fanfiction frequently has her act on this in the pettiest fashion possible. Predictably, this leaves the door open for a heartbroken West to be comforted by his One True Love (usually Vansen, Hawkes, or Col. [=McQueen=]). |
| 195 | * Christine Chapel from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' got some of this for her infatuation with Spock. Though more often, she just got written into fanfics where she helped facilitate Kirk/Spock after realizing her love was doomed. In the ''very earliest'' fanfics, fans were more often than not sympathetic to Christine and many stories brought her and Spock together or at least showed them as friends. There still is a fan page that [[http://www.trektales.com/SACindex.html archives Spock/Christine tales]]. Other early stories dismissed her as awkward and lacking depth, as in "The Vigil" by Dorothy Jones Heydt; or simply as not having the right temperament and her gifts leading elsewhere, as in Sharon Emily's ''Kraith'' soap opera "[[http://www.simegen.com/fandom/startrek/kraith/kc006/kc06_02.html#DECISION Christine's Decision]]", which sets the stage for Chris getting her M.D. |
| 196 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s Seven of Nine took a lot of heat from Janeway/Chakotay shippers when, [[LastMinuteHookup out of nowhere, she was set up with Chakotay in the last season]]. Chakotay took similar degrees of heat from the Seven/Kim and Seven/Doctor shippers over this, while the Seven/Torres diehards, ''well''... The Seven/Janeway fans were left going, "Well. That's rather arbitrary and lame." |
| 197 | ** J/C shippers went the furthest, with one webring running a "Die Seven Die" contest in which the ex-Borg (and sometimes Chakotay too) were killed off in various graphic, disgusting, and humiliating ways. |
| 198 | ** Thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, Kes' canon relationship with Tom Paris was killed off before it truly began. |
| 199 | * Dr. Jennifer Keller in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. Replacing the highly popular Dr. Carson Beckett, she's become a rather controversial character in the fandom, inspiring love and hate in about a 45/55 portion if the Gateworld threads are anything to go by (although that sounds most like [[MrFanservice the gender ratio]] of that particular forum). The hate is particularly passionate considering that the mods have had to limit the anti-thread to misgivings and complaints only. The [=McKeller=] ship (Rodney and her), now canon, seems to have plenty of supporters though, but a few opponents as well, mostly Ronon/Keller shippers. |
| 200 | ** Now the part of the fandom hates Rodney for choosing Keller and not John Sheppard, his traditional fanon love interest. Amount of fic where [=McKay=] is portrayed as an evil bastard who left Sheppard for a girl/having sex with him while dating Keller at the same time and being total jerk about it is getting bigger and bigger. |
| 201 | * Pete from ''Series/StargateSG1'' was universally reviled by Samantha Carter/Jack O'Neill shippers everywhere for having a relationship with and getting engaged to Sam. Once she broke it off, FanonDiscontinuity set in. |
| 202 | ** Sam is hated by the more rabid Jack/Daniel fans as a possible threat to their love. And Daniel is hated by the crazier Jack/Sam fans, for the same. Curiously, Jack seldom ends up with the sticky side of the love triangle. |
| 203 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 204 | ** ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'' has Takeru/Iyal as the OfficialCouple from the outset, but many fans wanted to see Takeru get together with Momoko (even though [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight they hardly interact or get any screen time together]]) and dislike Iyal intensely. The [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers ending of the show]] is taken as the definite sign that Takeru will eventually hook up with Momoko, even though there is still no evidence of him having feelings for ''any'' woman other than Iyal. This is also applicable to [[{{Ninja}} Haruka]] (who at least has more interaction with Takeru). |
| 205 | ** ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' has plenty of ShipToShipCombat between the opposing ShipMates of Takeru/Mako and Chiaki/Kotoha vs Takeru/Kotoha and Ryuunosuke/Mako, leading to aggressive character-bashing all around. |
| 206 | ** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is beginning to repeat the pattern with Marvelous/Ahim and Joe/Luka vs Marvelous/Luka and Joe/Ahim (and let's not even get started on [[ButtMonkey Don]].) |
| 207 | * ''Series/Supergirl2015'': |
| 208 | ** With Kara/Lena as the pairing [[FanPreferredCouple overwhelmingly preferred by the fanbase]], any male who gets romantically attached to either of them comes under heavy fire from fans. Mon-El gets battered the hardest by this, with fans massively exaggerating his faults and making him out to be a fascist and wife-beater, although this died down somewhat after he got PutOnABus and later came back married to another woman. |
| 209 | ** James Olsen didn't get this treatment too much when the first season seemed to be setting him up to be Kara's main love interest (though any possible romantic developments between them were pretty much abandoned after that season), but when he seemed to be getting some ShipTease with Lena in later seasons, the Kara/Lena fans came down ''hard'' on him with nasty insults thrown at him and the derogatory [[PortmanteauCoupleName portmanteau nickname]] of "Lames" used to refer to his possible pairing with Lena. |
| 210 | * ''Series/TeenWolf'': The girls who have been teased romantically with either Stiles or Derek have received resentment from the more vocal Sterek (Stiles/Derek) shippers. These include Lydia (Stiles' intense crush), Jennifer (who slept with Derek), and Heather and Caitlin (who kissed Stiles). The latest on this list are Malia, who was very unpopular with both Sterek and Stydia (Stiles/Lydia) shippers after she made out/possibly slept with (it's ambiguous) Stiles and became his girlfriend, and Braeden, who entered into a relationship with Derek. After Derek left at the end of Season 4, hatred for Braeden largely cooled down, but the ShipToShipCombat between Stydia and Stalia (Stiles/Malia) fans continues unabated. |
| 211 | ** The lone man singled out for DieForOurShip treatment is Deputy Parrish, who has a supernatural connection with Lydia, and is her first serious potential love interest since Season 3. Stydia shippers regularly turn him into RonTheDeathEater, which is especially hilarious given that Parrish is quite literally the equivalent of a BigFriendlyDog. |
| 212 | * Riley of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' got an inordinate amount of hate from the fandom even when she had only been around for a few episodes. Her crime? Being a ''possible'' future love interest for John who ''may'' get in the way of the popular Cameron/John ship. Though, to be fair, she turned out to be[[spoiler:an agent of a faction of the human resistance that believes Cameron is corrupting John, and is on a mission to break the two up. And then she really did Die For The Ship]]. Not to mention that [[spoiler:her having been manipulated in the first place seems to made her into a more sympathetic character in some people's opinions...]]. |
| 213 | * Gwen from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' [[RonTheDeathEater is hated by fans]] for what they see as [[DieForOurShip getting in the way]] of Ianto and Jack, despite the fact that Gwen wound up marrying someone else and Jack wound up with Ianto. [[BrokenBase Some fans]] insist that it has something to do with the fact that the UST between Jack and Gwen got more screen time than Jack's actual relationship with Ianto ever did. |
| 214 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'': Most Eric/Sookie fans hate Bill Compton, accusing him of being a violent, lying, manipulative rapist... even though ''Eric'' is guilty of all these things. |
| 215 | * On ''Series/UglyBetty'', Henry's girlfriend Charlie came under fire for getting in the way of Henry/Betty. The show decided to follow through, gradually changing Charlie's personality from "basically nice person" to "evil, deceitful bitch". |
| 216 | * ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' : |
| 217 | ** A lot of [[FanPreferredCouple Jade/Tori]] shippers love to bash Beck for not being good enough for Jade. There are dozens of fanfics on Website/FanfictionDotNet and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn that turn Beck into a horrific domestic abuser or have him as a serial adulterer who cheats on her repeatedly for fun. Some fics which take place after Jade gets together with Tori, will also turn Beck into a CrazyJealousGuy or make him flat-out homophobic towards both Jade and Tori. |
| 218 | ** The first season surprisingly saw the protagonist Tori get a lot of fandom hate from the get go as the canon Beck/Jade proved very popular early on, despite some initially thinking the ShipTease between Beck and Tori were signifying they would soon be the Official Couple, perhaps leading that possible ship to being (mostly) abandoned by the end of season 1. |
| 219 | * In the ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' fandom, the OT3 of Ragnar/Lagertha/Athelstan is extremely popular (all the more so since it nearly became canon, the former two inviting the latter to a threesome at one point). This means that Princess Aslaug is vilified as a home-wrecker when she became pregnant with Ragnar's child, leading to Lagertha's departure from Ragnar's home. Come season three, Athelstan is displaying romantic interest in Lady Judith... and you can almost hear the pitchforks being sharpened. |
| 220 | * ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': Before the show even aired, Wednesday/Enid shippers hated Tyler and Xavier for the sheer potential of them getting in the way of their ship. This hasn't stopped with the release of the show, despite [[spoiler: Wednesday not ending up with anyone and Tyler being revealed as the monster]]. When the show aired and it was revealed that Enid and [[spoiler:Ajax]] are interested in each other, many Wednesday/Enid shippers were also quick to wish he would be killed in Season 2. |
| 221 | * ''Series/WhiteCollar'': Let's just say that certain fans didn't exactly mind much when Kate's [[spoiler: plane exploded]] in the season one finale. |
| 222 | * Due to the fact that ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'''s most popular couple is [[BrotherSisterIncest Justin/Alex]], every possible LoveInterest for any of the two gets immediately bashed and hated within the fandom. Harper, Alex's best friend, was a case of this at the beginning of the series, since she was the StalkerWithACrush on Justin, but she became much more liked when she stopped being that, and [[BetaCouple fell in love with Justin's best friend, Zeke]]. The same could be applied for Mason, Alex's most recent boyfriend, whom many view as a jerkass lunatic, especially since he is...a werewolf. |
| 223 | ** Mason is also despised by Alex/Stevie shippers (even though the two never existed at the same time) and Alex/Juliet shippers...well, fans of Juliet in general. |
| 224 | ** Strangely, Juliet is rarely bashed by Jalex shippers, probably due to the fact that she was PutOnABus [[spoiler:until the series finale]]. |
| 225 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': Where to even start? |
| 226 | ** There was hate for anyone who even might have gotten in the way of Mulder/Scully (notably Diana Fowley and Agent Doggett). |
| 227 | ** There was a huge amount of hating on the Mulder/Scully pairing itself. Usually Scully was the target of most of the anger because she interfered with Mulder/Krycek, Mulder/Skinner, or just about any other pairing imaginable. |
| 228 | ** Mulder/Krycek shippers that didn't want to ''hate'' on Scully often paired her with Skinner, which got her out of the way in a nicer way. Scully/Skinner and Scully/Krycek shippers, though, could turn Mulder into RonTheDeathEater in order to justify estrangement from Scully. Diana Fowley was a common scapegoat for that. |
| 229 | ** Agent Reyes was pretty much loathed by everyone for interfering with Mulder/Scully or Doggett/Scully. (Though to be fair, she was just [[TheScrappy loathed in general]]). |
| 230 | ** Marita Covarrubias got some of this too, though to a lesser extent. Some of the scenes suggested romance with Mulder, though not very convincingly. |
| 231 | * Though ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' existed during the early days of the Internet, that didn't stop one of the first and bloodiest full-scale [[ShipToShipCombat ship wars]] between Xena/Gabrielle shippers (aka [[SubText 'Subbers']]) and Xena/Ares shippers (simply known as Shippers throughout the fandom -- those were much simpler days). |
| 232 | ** Actually, the most striking example of "Die for Our Ship" in the Xena fandom was the attitude toward Perdicus, Gabrielle's principal male love interest in Season 1 and 2. In the first episode, Perdicus was the dull villager to whom Gabrielle was unwillingly betrothed and from whom she ran away from to travel with Xena. He returned near the end of Season 1 (played by a different actor); he was now a soldier, and his prior relationship with Gabrielle was retconned as one of childhood sweethearts. Then, in Season 2, he [[spoiler:came back again to propose to Gabrielle -- ]] and, to the disgust and dismay of Xena/Gabrielle fans, [[spoiler:she accepted]]. Perdicus actually did [[spoiler:die the morning after his and Gabrielle's wedding night (he was killed by Xena's nemesis Callisto),]] an event that caused [[spoiler:immense heartbreak to Gabrielle but]] immense rejoicing in the fandom. Some "subbers" went so far as to claim that Xena (who arrived on the scene to [[spoiler:stop Callisto from killing both Gabrielle and her husband) deliberately held back and allowed Callisto to kill Perdicus; some even read the twitch of Xena's lips as she watches Callisto run away while Gabrielle wails over her dying husband as a silently mouthed "Thank you."]] There was a heap of Perdicus-bashing fanfics in which Perdicus [[spoiler:survived and]] became a drunk and/or a batterer (despite the fact that he was depicted as a sweet and gentle man on the show) and Xena had to save Gabrielle from his abuse. Some fics also made Perdicus impotent [[spoiler:on his wedding night so that Gabrielle's first sexual experience could be saved for Xena]]. The Perdicus hatred has not abated more than a decade after the show went off the air: the 2012 Xena convention featured a fan-made movie ''Wicked: A Xena Musical'' (a comical retelling of the Xena and Gabrielle story featuring songs from ''Wicked'') in which Xena was blithely singing while [[spoiler:Callisto was murdering Perdicus]]. |
| 233 | ** Joxer got a lot of hate for "getting between Xena and Gabrielle," especially after he officially became a would-be love interest for Gabrielle at the end of Season 2 when it was revealed that he was pining for her. Joxer-bashing (and Joxer/Gabrielle bashing) was extremely pervasive in the fandom. As early as the third season, some fans held a contest for fan fiction stories in which Joxer was killed off. |
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