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1->''I adore Kairi from ''Kingdom Hearts'' but she's bashed by Riku/Sora shippers simply for living! Cut the girl some slack, it's not her fault that the main guy is in love with her.''\
2-- [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/BeautifulBetrayal A very wise crunchyroll user]]
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4Yes, DieForOurShip even happens here and not just in the {{Dating Sim}}s.
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6!!Video games with their own pages
7[[index]]
8* ''DieForOurShip/AceAttorney''
9* ''DieForOurShip/FinalFantasy''
10* ''DieForOurShip/FireEmblem''
11* ''DieForOurShip/{{Pokemon}}''
12* ''DieForOurShip/TalesSeries''
13[[/index]]
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15!!Other video games
16* In ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}}'' fandom, the Dameon hate is extremely strong due to fans preferring [[FanPreferredCouple Rhen/Lars]] to [[OfficialCouple Rhen/Dameon]].
17* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'': There is at least one Gunvolt/Elise fanfiction which portrays [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Joule]] as a [[SmittenTeenageGirl horny]] [[PrecociousCrush 8 year old]] who threatens to [[{{Yandere}} kill Gunvolt in her sleep]]. Her [[AstralProjection alternate]] [[LiteralSplitPersonality self]] Lumen is also reduced to a one note character who will do nothing but [[NeverLiveItDown tease Gunvolt about not wearing a shirt]]. Her character is actually meant to be a social commentary on the J-POP industry, with Joule being the objectified 13-year old and Lumen the pseudo-VirtualCelebrity, so portraying her as blatantly sexual instead of just trying to live up to an ideal she can't fulfill is completely missing the point.
18* [[EldritchAbomination Arakune]] from ''Franchise/BlazBlue''; it's not easy to find a Bang Shishigami fan who doesn't want the critter dead for good. Bang's [[MisaimedFandom fandom]] logic for this is quite simple: the manliest man has to hook up with the woman he has his eyes set on, and it doesn't matter if she likes him or not at first; for them, Bang's passion '''will''' be corresponded no matter what. One can understand wanting Litchi to stop going through BreakTheCutie deals for Arakune's sake, but these fans often act as if [[EntitledToHaveYou Bang had ownership and right to Litchi's whole persona]] because of his badassery, [[UnfortunateImplications which reflects a pretty... selfish and entitled view of romance as a whole.]] (And considering that Bang is a ChivalrousPervert, a [[GentleGiant rather decent guy]] and comes to ''actually care'' for Litchi's safety and well-being aside of liking her giant chest, if he "knew" about such stuff, he would most likely be ''mortified''. See his reaction to [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel Tsubaki]] trying to stage a ShotgunWedding for his sake in one of his joke endings!)
19** And sometimes, it's even more, with these fans, they would shove away how Arakune used to be human and might deserve a second chance, to these fans, the fact that he's an amorphous blob that ate Kaka clans for his dietary means that he really should be killed ForGreatJustice for all, and that Litchi insists that he can be saved means that she's a fool, and is constantly being blamed for trying to dissuade her own grief like someone who was never a good person to begin with ([[spoiler:goining NOL and aiding Relius in his would-be genocidal plan, despite unwilling, [[FanDumb will do such thing for this fandom]]]]), people would rather pity Bang for not getting the girl and would think that she no longer deserves Bang (so now she's pegged to "die" because of refusing the ship! [[FlatWhat What]]). Never mind that [[HumansAreFlawed Bang himself]] [[WrongGenreSavvy also has a very flawed view on Litchi]], thinking of her like a perfectionist who can do no wrong and [[BreakTheCutie being shocked when she turns out to be a person with deep issues]], but apparently for these fans, Bang's manliness overrode all.
20** And believe it or not, ''the reverse of this could hold true too''. Bang being some sort of BaseBreakingCharacter (either seen as an annoying IdiotHero or an EnsembleDarkHorse) means that some people would have him die so he'd stop pursuing Litchi already and leave her to her quest to save Arakune, because Bang could get annoying in some people's eyes. There's a reason why the Bang/Litchi pairing is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff pretty much nonexistant in the Japanese fandom]], as they understood the values of tragic romance story, although they do not mind friendshipping between the two.
21** Noel Vermillion is quite hated, especially amongst [[HoYay Ragna/Jin]] shippers. There are also those who wishes Noel would fulfill her destiny of being killed to save the world, just so she doesn't get in the way of [[OfficialCouple Jin/Tsubaki]]. [[spoiler:Which is canonically Tsubaki's big problem, after Hazama [[MindRape takes a hold of her]]... and yet she ''still'' cannot bing herself to MurderTheHypotenuse ''when she has Noel at her complete mercy''.]] Of course, many of the rabid Jin x Tsubaki fans fail to realize that ''Noel herself'' is a ShipperOnDeck in favor of those two, that [[spoiler:Noel's feelings for ''Ragna'' may be stronger than anything she'd feel for Jin (on account of being a clone of their little sister Saya, who harbors some pretty strong feelings for Ragna herself if the words and behavior of ''the goddess of death'' her body is being used as a vessel for are any indication)]], and took her job under Jin solely to aid her ailing family [[spoiler:courtesy of Hazama's machinations]]. If it weren't for that, she'd have held out for Tsubaki to have that role.
22** This is something more of the other side of GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, but... in Japan, Tsubaki has a rather notorious reputation and being hated by the majority of fans with them so much as refusing to talk about her, or even say that her only saving grace is that she's voiced by fan favorite seiyuu Creator/AsamiImai. Why? Because how ''dare'' she be considered the canon, straight pair of Jin, instead of having Jin end up with [[HoYay Ragna]]! It didn't help that Tsubaki canonically hates Ragna for some reason, fueling on how the Ragna shippers would like Tsubaki getting offed...
23* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' saw a rather one-sided attack on Nina by fans of the Ryu/Katt pairing. And, yes, in fanfiction, her personality generally takes one on the noggin.
24** Although they're less guilty of it, fans of Ryu/Nina aren't completely innocent of this sort of thing, either, as they tend to completely {{Flanderiz|ation}}e Katt into a brainless, unrefined, and violent idiot. The game's BlindIdiotTranslation doesn't help much in either case, giving very little canon insight into their personalities to begin with.
25* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Most Mao/Almaz shippers tend to use the Almaz ending for fanfictions, because Almaz's love interest, Sapphire, ends up [[spoiler:''wanting to kill him'', thinking he is going to kidnap her if she doesn't strike back]], automatically getting her out of the way, and making her a pretty nice target. Never mind that [[spoiler:''Mao also wants to kill him for his title'']] in this ending.
26* ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'':
27** Vocal Valvatorez/Fenrich shippers aren't exactly thrilled with Artina since she possesses a rather sharp tongue. On the flip side, some of the people who ship Val/Artina are not exactly fond of Fenrich's traits.
28** Then there's the, thankfully very small, minority of Val/Fuka shippers who hate both of the other ships. This is in spite of the fact that FUKA ships both of them herself and even chooses to '' sink her own shi]'' in her epilogue because she doesn't want to get in the way of Artina and Fenrich!
29* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
30** The [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins first game]] had a zig-zagged exaemple of this with the ''Darkspawn Chronicles'' DLC, in which [[PairTheSpares Alistair/Leliana]] was mentioned as being a rumor. (The conceit of the DLC is that the Warden didn't survive the Joining.) While there was a ''massive'' backlash, Leliana doesn't seem to have received much hate (or it didn't last).
31** Before the [[spoiler: Garrus/Tali]] pairing in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a significant number of Fenris fangirls similarly lost their minds over [[PairTheSpares Fenris and Isabela hooking up]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', despite the fact that, similar to the ''Mass Effect'' example, it only happens if neither party is romanced by the player. Isabela is frequently trashed as being slutty and amoral (being canonically promiscuous doesn't help) and not good enough for Fenris. Some go as far as to take the option to give her up to the qunari at the end of Act 2. As an interesting contrast, fans who don't bash the pairing have a tendency to TakeAThirdOption and ship Hawke/Fenris/Isabela instead.
32** Fans are so used to this, some of them were preemptively worried for ''Inquisition'' newcomer Josephine after rumours emerged that she and Cullen might hook up. Nothing actually came of it; in fact, all of the non-player romances ([[spoiler:Iron Bull/Dorian, Sera/Dagna, and implied Josephine/Blackwall]]) seem to have avoided it this go around. If anything, [[spoiler: Iron Bull/Dorian]] is notable for how frequently [[OneTrueThreesome it goes in the opposite direction]].
33*** Bianca Davri suffered on her introduction due to her still having an amicable relationship with her old boyfriend Varric. Depending on your interpretation of their dialogue, she can be seen as stringing him along despite being married to someone else, and some fans - whether they ship Varric with someone else or not - resent her for it. (The fact that she makes an overt threat to the player character as her final line of dialogue does not help.)
34* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' fandom falls into this habit as well, with both [[OfficialCouple Nowe/Manah]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Nowe/Eris]] fans blasting the third side of the LoveTriangle for getting in the way on their OTP. Usually, it is Manah who gets the brunt of the hatred (which probably has something to do with the fact that she was the BigBad in the first game), but there are quite a few Eris-haters out there, too.
35* In ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' fandom, Omitsu is the favored punching bag for bitter shippers, as she is the sole love interest of the main series - a matter exacerbated by her lack of screen time outside of [[DamselInDistress kidnapping plots]], leading her to be denounced as a useless cuckoldress or simply ignored as a result. To rub more salt into the wound, Konami has been making Goemon and Omitsu's romance more overt in recent times, and even threw in a couple of moments to [[ShipSinking sink]] the more popular [=GoeYae=] couple. (The fans of the aforementioned couple have the manga and ''Bouken Jidai Katsugeki'' to go on, but they're AlternateContinuity, so they "don't count.")
36* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has had a very strong shipping base since the first game, but it was the third game when people really got violent about it. When it was made cannon that Isaac and Jenna got married, and were the main protagonists parents, the hate fics began to flow like water. Many fans had been a fan of shipping Isaac and Mia, as well as Garet and Jenna. The takes of these fics have been from Isaac being detached and a jerk, Jenna cheating on him with someone else (freeing him up), or simply stating that one half of the couple is dead already.
37** The second game caused an odd inversion of this. [[HeroicMime Felix]] is often paired, not with the [[DeadpanSnarker girl he jumped off of a tower for]], but the [[WellIntentionedExtremist antagonist]] that he actually killed in the late game. Sheba doesn't tend to get killed off, just paired with [[BrattyHalfPint Ivan]], but the reasons for reviving Karst jump around.
38* While not ''as'' vicious as other fandoms, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has its share of charabashing based on pairings, and ''specially'' after some rounds of ShipSinking. The main victim is [[ChefOfIron Kuradoberi Jam]] who is perceived as a shrill bitch who wants to keep Sol and Ky away due to her flirting with Ky in canon). Moreover, a scene in ''AC+'' where she tried to ''poison'' Ky become another reason to increase the hate. Curiously, Dizzy gets much ''less'' hate than expected after [[spoiler:becoming the Maiden of the Grove, ''marrying'' Ky and being the mother of his child, Sin.]] On the other hand, a small number of [[BrokenBase TestamentxDizzy fans are sour]] with [[TheCharmer Ky Kiske]]. They think that Ky stole Dizzy, the only person left in Testament's world.
39* Regarding ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', there were rather... bloody wars regarding which of the Raimon managers would become Mamoru Endou's girlfriend/wife. The anime and the ''Go LIGHT'' games went for [[spoiler: Natsumi Raimon]], whereas the ''Go DARK'' games favoured [[spoiler: Fuyuka Kudou]]; this did NOT sit well with the fans who supported [[spoiler: Aki Kino]] instead...
40* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'':
41** Shizune Hakamichi is in the worst set up for this. First, her route is very much an acquired taste, relying more on intellectual nuance, {{Foreshadowing}} and subtext than the "[[CatharsisFactor feels]]" that are common in other routes. Meaning that [[RewatchBonus you need to play it a few times in order to truly get it]], and it mostly consists of SliceOfLife events. Second, she is a SpiritedCompetitor to a degree that one either finds charming or obnoxious; she can also can be rather blunt (in part because she is deaf-mute). Thirdly she is TheRival to Lilly who is one of the most adored characters in the game, with a smoother and more straightforward story. Lastly, her best friend Misha is an EnsembleDarkHorse who doesn't have a route of her own [[spoiler:and is, in fact, in unrequited love with Shizune herself -- which is what lies behind the drama in her story]].
42** Interestingly enough, in Lilly's route, Shizune [[spoiler:reconciles with Lilly, on her own initiative]]. And instead of competing with Lilly over Hisao, Shizune, along with Misha, is a ShipperOnDeck.
43** Lilly herself gets some flak from fans of the other route, who resent her for being the most popular girl. Her lack of obvious flaws make her look like an idealised girlfriend among the more relatable cast.
44* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'':
45** We have Kyo's girlfriend, Yuki. Sweet, outspoken, straight-A student... and absolutely hated by Kyo/Iori slashers, Kyo/Shingo shippers, Kyo/Athena fans of the self-projecting kind, ''and'' authors who want their {{Author Avatar}}s to hump Kyo instead of this unfortunate NaiveEverygirl who gets caught in the crossfire between Kyo and the Orochi clan [[spoiler: who want to sacrifice her to bring Orochi back into this world, since she's the last descendant of the legendary Kushinada sacrificial maid.]]
46** To a lesser extent, this is also true of Athena; where Kyo is concerned, some fics portray Athena as either a StalkerWithACrush or a [[AllTakeAndNoGive manipulator]] who selfishly toys with Kyo (and/or Kensou's) feelings [[ItsAllAboutMe for her own gratification]]. Also, others seem to think that Kensou is ''entitled'' to Athena's body and feelings for being her DoggedNiceGuy, and thus bash her and call her "slut" and "ungrateful" since [[JustFriends she doesn't like him in that way]] -- never mind that both Athena ''and'' Kensou have other sides to their personalities.
47** [[McNinja Andy Bogard]], in both ''The King of Fighters'' and its sister series ''VideoGame/FatalFury''. Andy took quite a beating from rabid fanboys who preferred [[MsFanservice Mai]] with their {{Author Avatar}}s, other male characters (like Terry, Joe, [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Eiji Kisaragi]], Iori, or even someone from a completely different, unrelated series), and/or other female characters (from ''Fatal Fury'', ''The King of Fighters'', and otherwise).
48** [[ActionGirl Blue Mary]], [[BoisterousBruiser Terry Bogard]]'s later love interest. Too many authors resent her for being an obstacle for their {{Author Avatar}}s. Though the fact that many of them have only seen [[TheAnimeoftheGame the anime adaptations]] thus barely know she exists (also not knowing that the anime is the only place Terry has [[CartwrightCurse a "dying girlfriend curse"]]) may be a factor there.
49* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
50** As quoted above, Kairi is rabidly hated by many [[HoYay Sora/Riku]] shippers despite being a kind-hearted princess type of [[TwoGuysAndAGirl a trio of friends]] without much overt romantic interest. Generally, she's portrayed by the shippers as a selfish homophobic bitch who hates Riku (usually due to one scene in which she expressed distrust toward him, which [[RivalTurnedEvil was eventually justified]]) and wants Sora for herself, and usually ends up dying in some over-the-top fashion. This is despite the fact that the significance of the interest in Kairi has absolutely nothing to do with who ends up with whom. The importance of both boys crushing on Kairi is that it binds the three friends to a child-like atmosphere in their otherwise dark experiences, and it's ultimately Kairi who reunites Sora and Riku after a long period of them being seperated from one another.
51*** Riku himself has been receiving hate from Sora/Kairi shippers in the buildup to the release of ''Kingdom Hearts III'', but it increased significantly after ''Melody of Memory'', with multiple Sora/Kairi shippers insisting that Riku should be KilledOffForReal so that his journey to [[spoiler: find Sora in Quadratum]] can be given to Kairi instead (ignoring the fact that Riku would already be [[spoiler: in Quadratum]] by that point anyway.)
52** There also exists a cult following for Sora/Namine that are positively vicious toward Kairi, making her out to be [[RonTheDeathEater dumb, selfish, and evil]] while insisting that Naminé is [[CreatorsPet perfectly wonderful in every way,]] so she deserves to be with Sora. On the flip side, whenever Sora/Kairi shippers actually turn up, half of them seem to demonize Naminé, saying that she messed with Sora's memories and tried to steal him away from Kairi, which she actually did do... under the orders of her [[AbusiveParents evil, abusive guardians]], and once they were defeated, she set things right with Sora. The big kicker to all of this? Kairi and Naminé [[spoiler:[[LiteralSplitPersonality are the SAME BEING anyway]]!]] Honestly, thinking about it too long is enough to give one a brain tumor.
53** Naminé even gets hate from rabid Roxas/Xion shippers, especially after the 2.8 HD collection implied Roxas/Naminé as an OfficialCouple in the special credits.
54** Speaking of Xion, nearly every Axel/Roxas shipper hated her before the game was even released, and at least 75% of them ''still'' hate her now for getting in the way of their pairing.
55** The Sora/Riku shippers are just as bonkers where Xion is concerned. The moment screenshots appeared of Xion and Riku sharing the same breathing space, the shippers went nuts and started vilifying her for getting in the way of the ship. The best part? Xion [[spoiler:is Sora's OppositeSexClone]].
56** The members of Organization XIII (or the "ORGY-nization" if you see all the pairings) are all either hated or loved for various reasons in terms of fandom, but Larxene is often depicted as more of an evil, violent, and sadistic bitch than necessary or just forgotten altogether in order to advance any of the [[HoYay yaoi pairings]]. Note that most of the ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' half of the Organization hasn't even really canonically interacted with the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' half on screen. This only ''encourages'' it by leading to [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight shipping at near-random]] and therefore, bashing of [[ShipToShipCombat rival ships]]. When you have people loathing Zexion for getting in the way of Xigbar/Demyx, both of whom have never interacted onscreen you know something is seriously wrong...
57** Lexeaus to any ship. Save for [[PairTheSpares pairing him up with Zexion]], [[LauncherOfAThousandShips which is unlikely]], he might as well not exist as far as shipping is concerned.
58** Subject X being Isa and Lea's friend they joined the Organization to search for made her receive hate from Isa/Lea shippers before we even knew for sure who she was.
59* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (yes, there are shippers in]] ''[[NoHuggingNoKissing the Kirby fandom)]]'' suffers from this quite a bit, usually towards the main character's female companions and Meta Knight.
60** [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Chuchu]] and [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Ribbon]] are at each other's throats 24/7, with the author's personal preference winning out and the other girl getting depicted as being a ClingyJealousGirl and [[DerailingLoveInterests an idiot.]] [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse Elline]] and Adeleine, despite being rarer shipmates, are treated just about the same. Mercifully, many fics have them [[PairTheSpares paired up with someone else]] if Kirby doesn't choose them. But worst of all, [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Tiff]] is usually made into a hyper-controlling and emotionally abusive bitch to Kirby, or [[FantasticRacism a racist]] towards Meta Knight. [[CanonForeigner And she isn't even in the games!]]
61*** In a similar vein, the small Adeleine/Ribbon ship is trashed by Kirby/Ribbon shippers for [[EntitledToHaveYou trying to "steal" Ribbon away from Kirby.]]
62** Dark Meta Knight and Marx are often depicted as {{Yandere}} [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]] in Meta/Kirby and Meta/Galacta fic. In fact, pretty much all [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Meta Knight shipping fics]] follow the same premise: Meta Knight falls in love with someone, someone else gets jealous of their love and tries to ruin it, Meta Knight saves them and defeats the villain, roll credits!
63* Poor Bastila in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' gets a lot of undeserved hate from the Carth/female Revan shippers.
64* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has shipping wars between Ellis/Zoey shippers and Ellis/Nick shippers. The game sometimes has a teasing between Ellis and Zoey but nothing ever comes out of it. On the other side of the spectrum, Nick constantly makes fun of Ellis and gives him grief while Ellis takes it in stride and sometimes mildly quips back. Due to the linear and fast paced nature of the game, there's little to no character development, but that hasn't stopped shippers from trying to add more to the survivors.
65* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', Alisa Reinford usually gets this from fans who would rather pair [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Rean]] with [[BirdsOfAFeather Laura]], [[LikeBrotherAndSister Fie]], or [[BadassTeacher Sara]]. It's mostly thanks to a NeverLiveItDown [[ThanksForTheMammary incident]] where it ends with Alisa overreacting towards Rean, slapping him despite him trying to save her from a trapdoor and not apologizing to him for three weeks despite clearly knowing it was an accident. Being pushed by Creator/{{Falcom}} as the official love interest wasn't exactly helping things.
66* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
67** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', which arguably added multiple love interests, depending on who you ask. Saria, Malon, Zelda, and Ruto all suffer. The older Nabooru, who has the most overt interest in him but also the least dialogue, gets much less negative attention, mostly because fans interpret her as being just a flirt with no romantic interest. Princess Ruto, who finagled a ChildhoodMarriagePromise on the other hand, is ''the'' most loathed girl by the shippers. [[EscortMission Lord Jabu-Jabu's Belly doesn't help.]] The hatred of Ruto doesn't even make a whole lot of sense, considering that Link clearly isn't interested and the ending makes it impossible for them to be together even if he were.
68*** While she doesn't get NEARLY as much hate as Princess Ruto, if you ship Link with Zelda or Saria, you must bash Malon. Malon-bashing increased much more when they revealed the series timeline in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Hyrule Historia]]'', which soft-confirmed that Link/Malon as the OfficialCouple for this game.[[note]]The Link of ''Twilight Princess'' is confirmed to be a descendant of the ''Ocarina of Time'' Link ([[IKnewIt who appears in-game as the Hero's Spirit/Shade]]), is a farmer, starts with a horse, and knows "Epona's Song" (a song taught to Malon by her mother), and obviously isn't a prince nor part-Zora/Kokiri/Gerudo.[[/note]] [[ShipToShipCombat Of course, the other shippers hated that.]]
69*** Oddly, original FairyCompanion Navi is mostly left out of ''[=OoT=]'' shipping wars despite WordOfGod stating that she was in love with Link and was jealous of Zelda (though she didn't ''hate'' her by any means). Might have something to do with her [[TheScrappy scrappy status]] and being only three inches tall.
70*** An especially ironic example is Princess Zelda, who is frequently [[InsaneTrollLogic bashed and vilified in]] {{Slash Fic}}s wherein Link is paired up with Sheik... who canonically happens to be [[{{Bifauxnen}} her male-looking ninja alter ego]]. Said fics tend to [[CanonDefilement retcon him into being a separate character]] in order to make this work.
71** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' had only three significant female characters: Tetra/[[ReallyRoyaltyReveal Princess Zelda]], Medli ([[ImpliedLoveInterest who Prince Komali appears to have a crush on]]), and Link's younger sister Aryll. (There's also a fairy queen who has a crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her.) As such, it only really came down to Tetra and Medli, and the number of fanfictions involving Link escaping Tetra's fan-overblown controlling bitch personality and heading off to be with Medli are astronomical. (They, however, almost never kill off Komali. They rather either [[FanonDiscontinuity write him out of the story as if he never existed]] or have him just be fine with it.) Also, the only ones the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s pair Toon Link up with are... [[ScrewYourself pretty much all of the other Links]].
72** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' had a fair amount of this:
73*** Link/Midna fics occasionally had its own share of Zelda bashing, though most Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans get along (or even [[OneTrueThreesome outright ship all three characters together]]). Depending on the fic, this may simply involve Zelda turning out to be a controlling shrew who feels like she's entitled to Link because of ReincarnationRomance, escalate to Zelda being the first victim of whatever violent conflict arises from the reopening of the portal, or have her be banished to live in the Twilight Realm while Midna gets to reside in Hyrule. The last of which is an odd punishment considering that Midna views Zelda as a friend, and even if she didn't, favorably sees the Twilight Realm as her home and resents the idea of it continuing to be used as a prison for Hyrule's worst.
74*** On the other side of the equation, some Link/Zelda fans tended to be threatened by the fact that Midna spends most of the game with Link and is possibly implied to have feelings for him, while Zelda is a prisoner for most of the game. As such, they like to pretend Midna never underwent any character development, painting her as a manipulative, ungrateful brat who treats Link as a pet.
75*** Poor, poor Ilia absolutely gets the worst of it though, being far less popular than Midna and Zelda. Since she's the game's main ImpliedLoveInterest, she gets bashed to hell and back by ''both'' Zelda/Link and Midna/Link shippers, [[NeverLiveItDown usually focusing on her]] scolding Link for accidentally hurting Epona's leg (even though she apologizes later and Link had clearly shrugged the moment off anyway).
76** With ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', you now have three pairings that involve having to get rid of Zelda: the Item Check Girl, Peatrice (who's feelings can be reciprocated at the end of her sidequest, to which Fi suggests to ''never'' tell Zelda); your new companion, Fi (i.e., the spirit of the Master Sword), who canonically does became emotionally attached to Link; and, of course, [[FoeYayShipping Ghirahim]], whose lines in the game practically ooze with desire on what he [[SexIsViolence wants to do to Link]].
77** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' resulted in Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans joining forces against the game's villainess, who [[VillainessesWantHeroes has a thing for Link]]. The [[VocalMinority immature sections]] of these groups hated her upon announcement, though this ebbed after the game released and we learned her backstory and final fate at the end of the game. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the villainess in question, Cia, was once the Guardian of Time tasked with protecting the Triforce whose interest in the Hero of Legend slowly turned into an obsessive love that was capitalized on by Ganondorf, corrupting her into the character she is today. She ends up ''actually dying'' when all's said and done, having a brief heart-to-heart on her deathbed with [[LiteralSplitPersonality her good half]] and [[EnemyWithout discarded light]], Lana, where they come to accept the fact that Link doesn't choose either of them over Zelda, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy something that Lana can live with]] [[LoveHurts despite her heartbreak]]. The sad nature of this scene, Cia's tragic StartOfDarkness, and Lana's farewell to Link and Zelda in the ending managed to quell most of the shipping debates, and the 3DS port/expansion, ''Hyrule Warriors Legends'', features a post-game campaign where Cia is brought BackFromTheDead to live a happier life with Lana as they resume their original role as the Guardian of Time.]]
78** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' makes it explictly clear that multiple female characters are romantically interested in Link, and with this comes the usual ShipToShipCombat. Paya is mostly left alone, as she is probably the least ship-teased pairing with Link and her crush is largely treated as one-sided by the game's story. However, Mipha and Zelda are canonically ''both'' strongly in love with Link and their affections for him are an important facet of both characters. This often leads to both of them getting hate from each other's fanbases and their LoveTriangle being treated as a far more bitter affair than it actually was--canonically, Zelda and Mipha were nothing but polite and cordial to each other, with it not even being clear if they knew they were in love with the same guy in the first place. The non-canon spin-off game ''Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity'' only really added more flames to the fire, as it only further developed the LoveTriangle between the three.
79*** Miphalink shippers tend to hyperfocus on Zelda's inital coldness towards Link, accusing her of being abusive to him and villainizing her to an almost comical degree... despite the fact that she only really yelled at him in a single cutscene [[note]]and even then, she only yelled at him for following her when she wanted to be alone. She never said anything mean or cutting to him personally or bullied him the way Revali did.[[/note]], which she later felt terrible about and apologized to him for, and the two canonically patched things up and became close friends later. On top of that, some fans of the Sidon/Link pairing sometimes hate on Zelda similarly, as she's the most heavily ship-teased LoveInterest in the canon story who might possibly stand in the way of their pairing.
80*** Mipha doesn't get ''as'' much hate, as Sidon is her brother who canonically adores her, and her [[spoiler: death]] kind of pulls her out of the shipping roster in terms of being an end-game LoveInterest--making her far less threatening to defensive shippers. However, her ClingyJealousGirl traits tend to be overemphasized in Zelink fanfics, and she sometimes gets called "boring" or "demure" due to her quiet nature.
81** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' introduces Yona, a childhood friend to Sidon who hails from another Zora kingdom. The moment people learned that Yona and Sidon were an OfficialCouple, Link/Sidon shippers lost their minds over it. What doesn't help is the game revealing a statue of Link riding on Sidon's back to immortalize the time the two worked together in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' to stop a Divine Beast. Sidon also still fawns over Link as a hero to admire (something Yona herself lampshades) and a best friend, which also didn't help matters.
82--->'''[[WebVideo/BornLosersGaming Ian and Casey]]:''' ''(reading)'' I'm your best friend's-- ''(angry)'' '''fiancee?!'''
83*** Zelda herself gets quite a bit of hate for "being in the way" of the Sidlink ship, as while not she's not ''quite'' an offical LoveInterest to Link in this game, they are ''heavily'' ship-teased--quite possibly moreso than they've ever been before, with the game implying that the two lived together and possibly shared a bed in Hateno Village, and Link's main questline simply being to get her back.
84* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Warren Graham and Rachel Amber are both frequent targets of the nigh militant [[FanPreferredPairing PriceField fandom.]]
85** Despite the game itself going out of its way to show Warren as well-meaning and a supportive friend of Max, the Chloe fandom goes out of their way to ''[[RonTheDeathEater villainize him]]''. They make him out to be a stalker who's only ''pretending'' to be Max's friend in order to get into her panties. So in the final episode, they [[MurderTheHypotenuse literally sacrifice him]], along with the rest of Arcadia Bay, for the sole purpose of their girl-girl ship.
86** Rachel doesn't fare any better. While the game clearly shows her to be manipulative at times and [[spoiler: a serial cheater]], it also shows she had redeeming qualities as well. But the latter aspect of Rachel's character gets disregarded altogether by [=PriceField=] shippers, who mis-characterize Rachel solely as a manipulative bitch for daring to be [[spoiler: Chloe's girlfriend]] during ''Before the Storm''. But they can't kill her off since she's [[DeadAllAlong already dead]] by the time of the original game, so they bash and hate on her instead
87* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
88** Feron is slowly becoming a target amongst the hardcore fans of Any!Shepard/Liara (particularly Female Shepard), especially after WordOfGod suggested that Liara ''may'' have had feelings for the drell during the prequel comic tie-in to ''Mass Effect 2'' (regardless of her relationship status with Shepard). Because it's totally [[SarcasmMode healthy to not move on even a little after your S/O supposedly died right before your eyes]], right? It ''is'' worth noting that Liara never acts upon those supposed feelings: if you continue the romance, Liara says she only saw Feron as a good, platonic friend and nothing more. It doesn't stop the more hardcore fans from invoking this trope on him.
89** If asked about how she feels in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', Liara says that Feron is too emotionally damaged after his torture for a relationship, and if Shepard romanced her, she will say she pointed out that she was "taken." Interestingly enough, it is possible to indirectly kill him by not completing ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
90** Despite there being no overt references or hints of romance between Kal'Reegar and Tali in game, Kal'Reegar fares no better with the hardcore Tali/Male Shepard fans. While [[spoiler:he can die in-game, most just kill him off on Haestrom anyways]], this doesn't mean this trope plus RonTheDeathEater doesn't seep in from time to time, too. The hate has gone down somewhat, seeing as how [[spoiler:the poor guy gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off-screen]] if he ''did'' survive the second game]]. Somewhat.
91** Some people don't like that [[spoiler:Tali and Garrus]] can hook up, this is completely ignoring that [[spoiler:it only happens if neither party is romanced or dead]]. Then again, this is the reason why [[spoiler:you cannot start a romantic relationship with either in ''3'']]. It's worth noting that virtually no one who hates this pairing bashes [[spoiler:Garrus]] over this, even Male!Shepard fans (the ostensible "competition"). [[spoiler:Tali]] seems to fare much worse among Female!Shepard fans who hate the pairing.
92** Lately, fans have been using [[spoiler:Tali and Garrus]] pairing to justify their own ships, whether it is to emphasize Liara as canon or as lashback by Kaidan/Shepard fans
93** Can also be invoked in the first game; Want to romance Ashley as Male!Shep, or Kaidan as Fem!Shep? [[spoiler:Well, then the SadisticChoice on Virmire just got significantly easier... but don't tell the [[KilledOffForReal one you're not dating]].]]
94** Then there's Kaidan who gets blasted by Fem!Shep/Garrus (or Shakarian) shippers for either being an abusive asshole who emotionally manipulates Shepard into staying with him and very viciously blasts Garrus for siding with Cerberus alongside Shepard or the complete reverse, being generally just a bland and boring guy. Some shippers have even gone so far as to write fanfiction wherein the entire Normandy crew emotionally or physically abuse Kaidan simply for being there and daring to show interest in Fem!Shep.
95** Garrus has been repeatedly called a yes-man by Fem!Shep/Kaidan (or Shenko) shippers for being able to join Shepard's crew throughout Mass Effect 2, citing Kaidan's refusal to join as "maturity".
96** Liara is hit with this from people who ship Shepard with pretty much anyone else, largely due to perceived creator favoritism, treating her as a StalkerWithACrush and a {{Yandere}}. It didn't help that Liara, among other things, pulls Shepard's armor from his body and enshrines it in her apartment. Liara faces particular ire from fans of Kaidan or Ashley who blame Liara for all of their distrust of Shepard. While that was a [[PoorCommunicationKills severe communications failure]] on Liara's part (a communications failure [[NeverMyFault she blames on the Virmire Survivor despite being the only person who could have actually told the truth.]]), some have interpreted it as Liara deliberately keeping them in the dark so that she could have Shepard all to herself. The fact that Liara canonically kept quiet about Tali's feelings for Shepard to improve her own chances with him isn't exactly a point in her favor.
97* Even ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' suffers from this. [[TheHeart Mayl]], in particular, gets all the hatred of the yaoi fans (not to mention a humiliating FanNickname) for daring to stand in the way of Lan/Chaud... never mind that [[spoiler:Lan/Mayl is the OfficialCouple, as the sixth game shows in the ending]]. And the ever-shrinking Lan/Mayl fandom tends to demean Dex, who has a huge crush on the pink-haired girl... Then there's the feud between Chaud/Yai and Chaud/Anetta fans.
98* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'':
99** Two het pairings (Geo/Sonia and Geo/Luna) are all but canon and the first game has some heavy HoYay between Geo and Pat. Throw in any other oddball pairings implied from the anime or whatever and you start to see the problem. It's mostly contained to the two big het pairings, though -- G/S shippers say Luna's too much of a ClingyJealousGirl and G/L shippers say Sonia and Geo are LikeBrotherAndSister.
100** The third game even seems to acknowledge the ShipToShipCombat by giving Geo (during [[BeachEpisode the trip to Alohaha]]) the chance to recover a valuable keepsake of one (and ''only'' one) of his three close friends: [[BettyAndVeronica Sonia, Luna]], or Bud. While all three options result in rather tender moments, picking one of the girls has the other fuming, whereas picking Bud has Zack remark (much to Sonia and Luna's mutual ire) that Geo was essentially picking the lesser of three evils.
101* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' fans who prefer Otacon over Meryl can actually kill her off ''in game'' [[MultipleEndings if they so choose]]. No, it's not canon, but it's better than nothing. They appear to have noticed this and provided ample evidence for both [=Snake/EVA=] and Snake/Ocelot, letting you choose which one you like better.
102** ''Guns of the Patriots'' sets up a romance between [[spoiler: Naomi and Otacon, over which Snake shows visible signs of annoyance. Later on in the story, she commits suicide by deactivating the nanomachines that are keeping her alive]]. Since [[spoiler: Naomi]] has a list of KickTheDog moments as long as one's arm, it's probably for the best that she ''did'' die. Heaven knows what her standing with the fandom would be if she [[spoiler: had survived to get in the way of Snake/Otacon.]]
103** The horrible treatment Rosemary gets from people who ship Raiden with the other characters, especially from the slashers. While admittedly annoying in ''Sons of Liberty'' with plenty of [[{{Narm}} narmalicious quotes]], people really took AccentuateTheNegative to extremes with her character. The sheer amount of vitriol sent her way would almost make the non-''MGS'' fan think she was the true villain of the series and more depraved than [[DepravedBisexual Vamp]] and more monstrous than Volgin. She ''did'' become [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap more likeable for some]] when ''Guns of the Patriots'' rolled around, though.
104** Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki has recently received this treatment as well. In ''Guns of the Patriots'', he gets to [[spoiler: marry Meryl; since then, some pretty rabid Snake/Meryl shippers have ''brutally'' bashed his brains out too. As if [[ButtMonkey he didn't have enough troubles already]]...]]
105* Not even ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is free of this. ActionGirl Sareena gets ShipTease with Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot... Guess what happens to her.
106* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' makes this actually possible, since under certain circumstances, the main character may have to kill [[DesignatedLoveInterest Elanee]], [[FanPreferredCouple Neeshka]], or [[EnsembleDarkhorse Bishop]].
107** It helps that the companions' personalities change depending on the player's choices, so a dead Neeshka is quite likely to have joined the enemy of her own volition, while a surviving Neeshka is a steadfast and loyal companion who can beat BloodMagic with the PowerOfFriendship. It's also worth noting that Neeshka and Bishop were originally ''supposed'' to be romanceable, but the subplots got DummiedOut. Naturally the modding community has seen fit to repair this.
108* The ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fandom has entered this trope when it was revealed that not only is Tracer a lesbian, but she has a canonical girlfriend named Emily. The fans who [[FoeYayShipping ship Tracer with Widowmaker]] have easily taken the initiative with this trope, depicting her as a selfish bitch who only likes Tracer because she's a member of Overwatch and feels [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to her,]] culminating in treating Widowmaker like crap [[ContrivedCoincidence conveniently where Tracer can see]] the ''real'' her.
109** Gency fans had a nuclear meltdown when a Genji/Mercy interaction was pulled from the Valentines patch and viciously blamed any other Genji shipper ([=McCree=]/Genji, Genji/Zenyattta) for "forcing their ship down the writer's throats" despite a few other interactions, shippy or not, have also been pulled for various reasons.
110*** The above was actually rather tame compared to what happened when those lines were still teased for White Day in January 2017. As one of the most popular ships in the fandom is Phara/Mercy, Pharamercy fans started aping on Genji and Overwatch writer Michael Chu on Tumblr and Twitter. Plenty of TakeThat pictures to Genji started appearing from Pharamercy fans on Tumblr, Reddit and other relevant sites. Ditto for when the lines were released on White Day.
111** With the inclusion of Soldier: 76's ex-boyfriend, Vincent, shippers have been thinking of all sorts of ways to either kill him off or write him out of 76's life, despite the fact that they've been exes for 30 years and that Vincent is HappilyMarried to someone else now.
112* There's not too much spite surrounding ships for the ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' games (the original, ''FES'', and the PSP version), surprisingly. The ships that get smacked around the most are arguably the MC/[[RobotGirl Aigis]] and MC/[[DefrostingIceQueen Yukari]], which are the closest two "canon" pairings that the game offers. The latter is usually the most bashed pairing by fans, even those who don't really ship, due to Yukari's [[DefrostingIceQueen initial]] [[{{Tsundere}} behavior]] in the game. More often than not, in both shipping ''and'' normal fics, expect Yukari to be warped into a high-tier AlphaBitch and a ClingyJealousGirl (the latter being something she can become when the MC romances her during her Social Link, but only to a degree, and there are arguably worse love interests in that regard that get far less flak for it).
113** There's surprisingly not much venom for the PSP version's female protagonist either. However, many fans were weirded out by the idea of [=FeMC=]/Ken, since Ken is eleven years old and a rather contentious character within the fandom. There is also a small contingency of those who ship the [=FeMC=] with Akihiko that go against Mitsuru/Akihiko; the latter is a popular ship, despite the fact that those two have been explicitly stated to be strictly PlatonicLifePartners. However, many fans are content to either ignore ships that they don't like altogether or pair [=FeMC=] with Shinjiro and then switch to another option after [[spoiler: Shinjiro is killed or put into a coma.]]
114* ''VideoGame/Persona5''
115** Goro Akechi is outright despised by fans who pair Joker with either Makoto or Futaba in part to his fondness for Joker, Joker/Akechi being a very popular pairing among the fanbase [[spoiler:and Akechi being responsible for the mental shutdown and psychotic breakdown incidents, as well as killing Joker in the game's bad ending,]] resulting in those fans warping Akechi into an idiot or AxCrazy psychopath who outright despises Joker and/or his partner.
116** This is surprisingly [[ShipMates averted]] for Joker/Yoshizawa shippers, who tend to get along with Joker/Akechi fans. There's one character Joker/Yoshizawa shippers tend to hate though, and it's not one of Joker's other love interests, it's ''Maruki''. This is due to his actions in Yoshizawa's backstory [[spoiler: brainwashing Sumire into believing she is her deceased sister Kasumi]] being considered unforgivable and abusive to them, while in-game this act is implied to be a case of ObliviouslyEvil at worst that did stave off her depression for a time.
117* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'':
118** There isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against Iris, for ''daring'' to be [[spoiler: the twin sister of the CuteAndPsycho Dahlia Hawthorne ''and'' Phoenix's ex-girlfriend who dated him to save him from her evil sister]]. To some extreme Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, this means Iris is "an evil, hypocritical, stupid whore who keeps Phoenix and Miles away from each other." To make things worse, the case that introduced Iris also gave fuel for both Phoenix/Maya and Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, making her something of a ThirdOptionLoveInterest. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.
119** Leona Clyde from the Takarazuka musical gets a ''lot'' of hate for taking the place of several canon characters in Phoenix's life and being his love interest to boot. Of course, much of the shipper hate is mitigated by the wonderful HoYay number with Phoenix dancing with/being assaulted by Edgeworth's backup dancer clones.
120** In-universe example: Pearl Fey. Having seen many members of her family (including her mother) deal with broken marriages due to the matriarchal nature of Kurain, she's desperate for her beloved cousin "Mystic Maya" to have a happy and secure marriage with Phoenix Wright. This leads to her flipping out and slapping Nick on occasion if he so much as stands next to other women (including Iris, Pearl's own sister), despite the pair's constant recital of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend.
121* Flora gets treated this way by some members of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' fandom, because she's seen as an obstacle to hooking up Layton with his apprentice Luke. This is a particularly odd example, because 1) Layton's only known canonical romance was with a woman, 2) Flora is Layton's adopted daughter (though there are Layton/Flora shippers too), and 3) Luke is ''[[NoYay thirteen]]'' to Layton's [[{{Squick}} 37]].
122* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has multiple examples:
123** Ada Wong often gets this treatment from more mlitant "Cleon" fans. This is in stark contrast to how Raymond Vester is treated. To wit, they both save people who showed them kindness, both [[spoiler:steal viruses and sell them off in some extremely morally questionable dealings]], and possibly [[spoiler: work for the same organization]]. This may be due to how Ada has a kiss with Leon in ''2'' and their interactions throughout ''4'', which could then interfere with Claire/Leon as a pairing, whereas the one Raymond is shipped with on a regular basis is Parker, who himself isn't paired off with other characters in the game by the fans.
124*** Then again, it doesn't exactly help the fact that in Leon's second scenario in ''2'', his romance with Ada is shoehorned in with no warning.
125*** The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake RE2 remake]] adds gasoline to the fire as scenes between Leon and Claire are played genuinely, while the aforementioned kiss between Leon and Ada is changed to be more [[ShutUpKiss manipulative]] than romantic.
126** Steve Burnside is often vilified and treated as a rapist or wife-beater so Leon can rescue Claire from the relationship.
127** But the inverse happens with Cleve fans in fanfiction, where Leon ends up a rapist or wife-beater, so Steve can rescue Claire.
128** Jessica Sherawat is hated for many reasons, one of which being how she flirts with Chris so much. Some of the more rabid Valenfield (Chris/Jill) fans hate her for that reason alone. Because, clearly, [[spoiler:being a traitor, trying to kill a guy twice, hitting another guy who got in the way and leaving him to die, destroying major pieces of evidence, etc.]] is somehow forgivable if the character doesn't in the way of your ship.
129** Curiously, Parker gets harsh treatment from Valenfield shippers as well. This requires ignoring some HoYay some fans see he has with Raymond and how Parker [[ShipperOnDeck implies that Chris and Jill are together and tries to get Jessica to stop bothering Chris]].
130* In ''VideoGame/ShiningForce 2'' Princess Elis gets bashed a lot for taking Bowie (the main character) away from the healer Sarah who spends the whole game crushing on him. Bowie chooses Elis at the end of the game despite her having about two minutes of screentime, if that. [[FanPreferredCouple There's a large consensus on the hatred of Elis, however.]]
131* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
132** Amy Rose (and to a lesser extent, Sally Acorn in the [[Creator/ArchieComics Archie]] ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]]'' comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Shadow slash shippers, a prospect made easier due to her StalkerWithACrush status. The Sally and Amy fans also hate each other's characters, each blaming the other's chosen character for making the series JumpTheShark and {{Flanderization}} destroying theirs.
133** Elise, Sonic's love interest in ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]''. She's widely hated by Sonamy fans. But then again, [[TheScrappy she's pretty much hated by everyone]].
134** Depending on what is supported, Shadow, Knuckles, and Rouge are subjected to this treatment, with Rouge being portrayed as an evil seductress trying to lure Knuckles and Shadow away from each other by the Shadow/Knuckles shippers, Shadow being portrayed as a gun-toting manic by the Knuckles/Rouge shippers, and Knuckles being portrayed as abusive and [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive]] by the Rouge/Shadow shippers. (And for the latter, this is if Knuckles isn't portrayed as wanting Rouge ''dead'' so that she won't be able to try to steal the Master Emerald anymore.)
135** This is also the case with the Shadamy shippers, who usually portray Sonic as a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't want Amy until she's off with someone else. The default in fanfics is for Sonic to spurn Amy one too many times, resulting in her seeing the much nicer Shadow in a better light and falling for him.
136** Many fanfics kill Sonic off in order to pair Amy up with... [[EvilKnockoff Metal Sonic]]. The real irony is that the first time Metal and Amy met, Metal kidnapped her.
137** In the case of ''Anime/SonicX'', there is mutual hatred between fans of Cosmo/Tails and Cream/Tails. [[spoiler: Cosmo dies in the final episode anyways.]]
138** Also in ''Anime/SonicX'', Molly is bashed for trying to steal Shadow away from Maria. The ironic thing is that Maria is already long dead by the time Molly is introduced.
139** Within the [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Fleetway]] fandom there's a joke that Tekno and Amy are more then best friends. Cybernik is already TheScrappy due to his annoying behavior, but WordOfGod saying there's a romantic connection between Tekno and Cybernik just dug his grave even more.
140** The ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' iteration of Amy has her Sonic {{stalker|WithACrush}} tendencies strongly dialed down. Of course, this doesn't stop her from spending a stage with Sonic (and another with Tails and a third with Knuckles), nor does it stop her from befriending [[WildChild Sticks]]. We could be dealing with a new cold war, folks.
141* There are countless ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series fanfics where the non-playable character [[TheBlacksmith Rothion]] gets killed off so they can pair his wife [[ActionMom Sophitia]] off with someone else, usually [[TheAtoner Siegfried]] or [[{{Ninja}} Taki]]. In [[http://darth.wikia.com/wiki/Sophitia_Alexandra one case,]] she's been paired up with ''[[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] [[GuestFighter Vader]]''.
142** The degree of negative treatment Rothion gets is just ridiculous. In one fiction, he was killed, sent to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hades]], locked up in a bone cage, [[FateWorseThanDeath tortured for eternity]], and given regular, vicious {{Hannibal Lecture}}s by the gods. Why? [[LogicBomb Because he helped the injured Sophitia when Taki brought her home]], thus seducing her into marrying him and disrupting what was apparently THE GODS' OneTruePairing. Sophitia then admitted [[WhatTheHellHero she never truly loved him anyways]] and goes off to have a three-way with Taki and Cassandra. That isn't even the WORST of the fic... This encompasses ALL aspects of fic-hood, from Western written ones to Eastern {{doujinshi}}. Why is this? Well, the answer's quite simple: Sophitia is widely considered one of the most attractive women in a series full of attractive women, and her husband's some guy you don't see much, and who, therefore, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html according to the worst parts of human nature,]] is less of a person. ShowDontTell may be in effect.
143** [[AloofBigBrother Hwang]]/[[ActionGirl Mi-na]] and [[CanonForeigner Link]]/Talim shippers who bash the hell out of [[HotBlooded Hong Yun-seong]], either, though part of that is in reaction to the [[TheScrappy character's many other faults]].
144* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon''. Yes, even this fandom has some nasty eruptions:
145** Probably the worst flak is given to Spyro/Cynder, although [[WordOfGod Sierra]] themselves pretty much showed that they were the one true pairing. Many claims hold Cynder as a cliched character with a generic dark past, leading to ridiculous flame wars with fans and non-fans. For added insanity, keep in mind that Cynder ''doesn't even exist in the same continuity'' as pretty much ''all'' of other dragons/beings Spyro gets paired with by fans.
146** Then there are those who will fight about Flame/Ember and Spyro/Ember. (Despite the fact that, at the end of the final game in the classic series, Ember hooks up with [[InterspeciesRomance an armadilo named Bandit.]] Who, oddly enough, ''doesn't'' follow victim to this trope... Provided people even remember he ''exists''.)
147** The ones who prefer [[InterspeciesRomance Spyro/Elora]] or that Spyro not be paired with anyone, period.
148** Spyro/Cynder fans take Ember's crush on Spyro and crank it up to obsessed stalker levels so that Spyro can run to Cynder.
149* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':
150** ''Star Fox'', with its predominantly male cast, naturally gets this, especially in the form of [[MsFanservice Krystal]] the blue vixen, who is both Fox's [[SatelliteLoveInterest love interest]] and the BaseBreakingCharacter of the series as a whole. A portion of fans shunt her aside in favor of [[HoYay Fox/Falco]] and [[FoeYayShipping Fox/Wolf]]; there's also [[FauxActionGirl Fara Phoenix]] from the 1993 Nintendo Power comics based off of the SNES game as a replacement, even though she and Fox have little chemistry between them. [[{{Irony}} More precisely: As much as Fox and Krystal do.]]
151** On the flip side, just about no one will even ''dare'' ship [[LatinLover Panther]] with Krystal: lo and behold, rabid fans burst like crazy.
152** Fara's and Krystal's fans are constantly at each others' throats.
153** And even the HoYay shippers as mentioned can go crazy on one another, especially with [[AntiHero Wolf]], who is often a victim of ShipToShipCombat with [[AxCrazy Leon,]] or even ''James.''
154* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' gets a lot of this between Claude, Rena and Dias; Rena/Dias shippers tend to turn Claude from a good-hearted but very lost teenager into a [[JerkAss weak, whiny jerk]] whose only purpose is to drive Rena into the arms of Dias, who is suddenly smooth, tender and [[ThePornomancer incredibly good in bed]]. In canon, Dias is [[IneffectualLoner very aloof]] and awkward with emotions, and he and Rena spend most of the game thinking of each other as surrogate big brother/little sister despite not being related. But most of the shippers never acknowledge that and go straight for the romance.
155** The fan attitude towards Claude isn't helped by the fact that Dias only joins the party if you play as Rena, and the impression when playing as Claude is that Dias doesn't join due to Claude being a jerkass to him.
156** Or else they make Rena into the whiny [[StalkerWithACrush jealous borderline-stalker,]] so that [[HoYay Claude can run off with Dias...]] or Ashton, in some cases, which usually involves bashing Precis the same way.
157** The worst part of the ship wars in this fandom? [[MultipleEndings You can choose who ends up with who in this game!]] There is absolutely no reason for anyone to die for anyone's ship! Just pair them with someone else in the party, or have them end up alone if you prefer, and it's just as canon as everyone else's ship!
158** The game's shipping wars died down over the years, to the point that there was little reaction when the fifth game all but canonized Claude and Rena's relationship by featuring one of their descendants.
159* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' fandom is completely dedicated to shipping; the games are more-or-less {{Dating Sim}}s with farm elements to most fans. Of course there's going to be shipping wars, usually related to TheRival of certain characters.
160** In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature More Friends of Mineral Town]]'' fanfics related to Claire/Kai, Popuri's already flanderized in-canon ([[VideoGame/HarvestMoon64 compare her in 64 to BTN]]) personality gets flanderized into having no redeeming factors and just being a ClingyJealousGirl to Kai. Also Mary, for being the rival of the most popular bachelor, Gray.
161** Sabrina from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonIslandOfHappiness''[=/=]''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSunshineIslands'' seems to get the worst of this from her massive Hatedom, especially when it comes to the Vaughn/Chelsea pairing.
162** In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTreeOfTranquility''/''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'', the three most popular guys to marry are [[{{Tsundere}} Gill]], [[DeadpanSnarker Chase]], and [[TheFool Luke]] (and the fourth would be Wizard but he has no love rival). Their love interests [[TokenMiniMoe Luna]], [[BigEater Maya]], and [[AttentionWhore Selena]] ARE NOT liked at all. Special mention to Luna and Selena though as in ''Animal Parade'', if you tell them you like Gill or Luke, their worse personalty comes out and to be fair, Luna and Gill ''aren't really a good match''... and neither are [[FourthDateMarriage Luke and Selena]]. At worse, Luna is seen as a stupid brat that doesn't understand Gill's feelings at all even during their rival scenes and Selena is seen as a whore who basically seduced Luke in the first place. Maya gets the least amount of flak out of the three but she's bashed for getting a hot guy like Chase.
163** And in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', hardly any shipper likes Muffy. Fanfics that pair up [[PlayerCharacter Jack]] with one of the other bachelorettes (usually Celia) often derail [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Muffy]] into being a [[SlutShaming slut]] just because she is flirty towards the protagonist and wears less conservative clothes than the others. And then you have people who dismiss Celia as being [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "a boring housewife."]]
164*** Another example in the ''Wonderful Life'' fandom is Marlin. In canon, he has a tendency of being a little overprotective of the people he cares about. However, in just about every Jack/Celia fic, Marlin's protectiveness gets Flanderized to StalkerWithACrush levels.
165** In the spin-off game ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'', The main heroines of the franchise receive a lot of heat for the way that the game favors them and tries to nudge you in their direction. Mist is much more regularly involved in the plot, images of Kyle and Mana hanging out hog the mass majority of Rune Factory 2's first OP, the second OP of ''Rune Factory 3'' shows Micah running up to Shara in her wedding dress and twirling around with her while holding hands regardless of who you actually married, they get flirty dialogue very early, etc.
166* Even the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' fandom suffers from this:
167** Mario himself has been bashed and demonized in fanfiction for the sake of pairing Peach with Bowser or Luigi. Bowser/Peach fans in particular like to write off him as a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't like Peach, only the thrill of the chase that comes with saving her from Bowser. The opposite happens with Mario/Peach fans, and while more of a JustifiedTrope [[BigBad in that case]], it still ignores his JerkWithAHeartOfGold side.
168** If Mario gets paired with anyone who's ''not'' Peach, and PairTheSpares is not in effect, expect Peach's [[TheDitz ditzy]] traits to be [[{{Flanderization}} played up a lot]].
169** Tomboyish Princess Daisy is bashed by people who want to pair Luigi with Peach or Rosalina and [[YaoiFangirl those hung up on Luigi being gay]].
170** In the anime film ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', Prince Haru from the Flower Kingdom comes under fire from this due to him being Peach's fiancé. In other words, messing up the [=MarioxPeach=] ending. Thankfully for them, Hal is a CanonForeigner who will never show up in the games.
171** Rosalina is a huge BaseBreakingCharacter already, never mind shipping. Many Mario/Peach fans and Luigi/Daisy fans are very wary of her because she has no love interest, the assumed ShipTease between her and the Bros., and the fact that that Mario/Rosalina and Luigi/Rosalina are fairly popular.
172** Pauline quite possibly gets the worst of this of all. She gets bashed horribly by Mario/Peach fans. She's his ''ex''-girlfriend and they're just friends now but shippers act like she's constantly trying to seduce Mario. There's also a great deal of SlutShaming due to Pauline's attire and makeup in comparison to Peach's PrincessClassic style.
173** It's not unknown for fans of Captain Syrup and Wario together to be hostile towards Mona of ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' for having a PrecociousCrush on Wario.
174** ''Odyssey'' caused Pauline to get a huge amount of fans, which caused a flip on the Peach vs Pauline war. Peach has been demonized for [[spoiler:turning down Mario when he tried to force a proposal on her]] and for having no RelationshipUpgrade with Mario despite him constantly saving her. Pauline, on the other hand, gets praised for throwing a festival and singing a song dedicated to Mario.
175* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' combines multiple Nintendo franchises so you get this behavior towards ships from the games proper and {{Crossover Ship}}s.
176** Let's just say a lot of the fighters' [[OfficialCouple canon]] (or [[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]]) {{Love Interest}}s from their own games get the shaft.
177** Peach gets it bad from Samus/Zelda shippers. Samus and Zelda often get shipped because they're seen as both being mature, [[TheStoic quiet]], and badass. Peach is in sharp contrast being bubbly and cutesy, though no less badass in the games themselves. In fanworks Peach gets mocked [[RealWomenDontWearDresses for being stereotypically feminine]], gets called stupid and a "bimbo" a lot, and is often assigned an exaggeratedly flirty personality. Peach isn't even competition in many of these works; they just enjoy taking shots at her for not being a LadyOfWar. Peach also tends to be portrayed as homophobic, frequently erupting into tantrums and violence should Gay/Les characters so much as ''look'' at each other.
178** Snake and Captain Falcon are often in competition for Samus. Expect one to be a no-nonsense, honorable warrior with the other being a lech who only wants her body. Sometime's they'll ''both'' be leches if the author wants to pair Samus up with someone different, usually in Samus/Zelda fics to demonstrate how Samus "shouldn't be with a man".
179** Ness/Lucas shippers really don't like Paula since she's [[HetIsEw Ness's de-facto love interest]] in [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 his home game]]. Ness/Lucas fics usually [[RonTheDeathEater portray her]] as a [[ControlFreak controlling]] and sometimes [[DomesticAbuse straight-up abusive]] ClingyJealousGirl towards Ness, who ends up dumping her in favor of the much kinder Lucas.
180* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2:''
181** The Medic's wife gets this from slash ficcers, despite the fact ''she's only mentioned in one line'' (where an enemy Demoman claims that [[IBangedYourMom he is sleeping with her]]).
182** Then there's the case of the BLU Scout's Mother/RED Spy (and possibly RED Scout's Mother/BLU Spy) pairing, which at best gets ignored or at worse turned into a pretense so Spy can have his way with one of the other classes (usually Sniper).
183** Heavy's sister Zhanna is getting some hate for hooking up with Soldier (who is usually paired with Demoman, Medic, or Engineer).
184* Lili from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is often portrayed as a full-blown RichBitch or AlphaBitch, in order to accommodate relationships with people ''she's not even closely related with'' (e.g: Steve and Christie). And here, she's just being a normal {{Ojou}} who happens to like fighting... However, the idea of Lili/Asuka seems to be almost universally unopposed, if only because the hints are laid on so thick by canon (especially from [[AmbiguouslyBi Lili's]] side) it's rather hard to go against it.
185** Xiaoyu, [[DoggedNiceGuy Dogged Nice Girl]] to Jin and one of his only friends from his otherwise pitiable life, hasn't been unfortunate enough to actually be killed off in fandom works, but she does tend to be {{derail|ingLoveInterests}}ed from "supportive, [[TheDitz ditzy]], {{genki|Girl}} gal pal of Jin who wants to save his soul from evil" to something worse to make way for [[FoeYayShipping his rival Hwoarang]], [[KissingCousins his cousin Asuka]], his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Nina, or even [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight characters with no ties to Jin in-canon]] such as Julia. This is in spite of [[WordOfGod Harada]] stating that Jin is [[CelibateHero as celibate as they come]] [[CantHaveSexEver since he has cursed blood]] and doesn't want ''anyone'' else (Xiao included) to suffer what he's had to live through.
186* In the ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' Japanese fandom, there was back in the time of the Classic Kirameki Saga's boom in 1996 quite a backlash concerning [[BromanticFoil Yoshio Saotome]]'s pairing in the wake of the ''Motto! Tokimeki Memorial'' Radio Drama series, which is one of the pillars of the Classic Kirameki Saga's mythos: near the end of this Radio Drama series, a whole chapter (Chapter 9) was dedicated on how Yoshio and [[spoiler: [[{{Meganekko}} Mio]] [[DelicateAndSickly Kisaragi]]]] hook up. Since in the original game, aside from his best friend of a main protagonist [[CanonName Naoto]], and his little sister [[{{Kawaiiko}} Yumi]], the person Yoshio had the most interaction with was his friend [[spoiler: since Junior High [[GenkiGirl Yuko Asahina]]]], a good number of people took that pairing as granted ([[spoiler: despite the fact Yuko considers Yoshio as a ''kusare-sen'' friend, aka a person she doesn't really want to have as a friend but is inevitably a friend anyways]]) and were ''not amused'' at this shipping course change. The whole thing, of course, evolved as well into ShipToShipCombat with those who liked the new course. The mess has fortunately died down nowadays.
187* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom has a lot of choices to work with, what with the main characters being virtual [[LauncherOfAThousandShips launchers of a thousand ships]] and no OfficialCouple in sight, so there tends not to be much in the way of hard feelings towards the other non-shipped characters... except [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]]. The [[CuteWitch Marisa]]/Alice ship being one of the [[FanPreferredCouple most popular]], some [[{{Miko}} Reimu]]/Marisa shippers have the tendency to portray Alice in the most negative light possible to drive Marisa away from her. For example, the "Touhou Seasons" quartet of {{doujinshi}} has Reimu and Alice both fawning over Marisa; while Reimu can be a little annoying, Alice is portrayed as barely being tolerated, with massive and bothersome {{nosebleed}}ing whenever she interacts in the slightest with Marisa.[[note]]If there's any doubt that the circle is Reimu/Marisa, compare their doujins "Touhou Kotatsu Gakari" and "Touhou [=AliMari=] Medical": "Kotatsu" has no Alice, and Reimu and Marisa being gently romantic; whereas "Medical" centers around Marisa trying to stop Alice's nosebleeds (because, again, it's annoying) and then fending her off when it goes wrong, with Reimu only showing up at the end to misunderstand the situation. The artist claims to like both pairings, but [[CopycatZero this troper]] doesn't buy it.[[/note]] Another doujin has, as its entire plot, Alice soiling and then embarrassing herself in front of Reimu and Marisa. And then there's the AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Alice as a creepy {{yandere}} doll {{otaku}}... It doesn't help that the series is pretty much devoid of men, which allows the yuri fanboys and fangirls to go '''wild'''.

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