[[TokyoMewMew http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/die_for_our_ship.jpg]]
[[caption-width:320:And then the fanwriters hit him with a semi. Just wait till they ''kiss''.]]
->''Shipping leads people to be very mean at totally awesome characters.''\\
-- [[http://melengro.livejournal.com/31089.html I Don't Like Your Girlfriend]]

->'''Akito:''' Uh, what's wrong with Yurika?\\
'''Megumi:''' Oh, it's nothing big, she's just been dumbed down into a vegetable barely capable of breathing on her own to facilitate us hooking up. Pretty standard fanfiction procedure, actually.\\
'''[[TheSlayers Amelia]], [[GundamWing Relena]], [[LoveHina Naru]] & [[TenchiMuyo Ayeka]]:''' Tell us about it!\\
-- [[http://amethyst-angel.com/nadesico/nadesicofanfic.html Nagare Akatsuki's Guided Tour of Nadesico Fanfiction]]

Sometimes, a character is hated because he's [[TheScrappy annoying]]. Or because he [[CousinOliver came in]] after the show JumpedTheShark. Or because she's a raging MarySue and gets [[TheWesley too much attention]]. The list goes on. More often, though, when {{Shipping}} comes into play, the character is hated for existing at all.

[[{{Hatedom}} Hate shrines]]. {{Death Fic}}s. Fics where the [[CharacterDerailment formerly sweet and loyal character]] cheats on the heroine with her two best friends and proceeds to murder her teammates, just so she can be with the JerkWithAHeartOfGold, or the StalkerWithACrush, [[KissingCousins her cousin]], or even [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]], or whomever else the fan prefers. They're all over the place. People who know nothing about the show or even the genre have heard just how much of the fandom ''hates'' the rival love interest.

The writer often claims some other justification for treating the character this way, but it all boils down to one very clear reason: ''He or she dared to get in the way of their {{OTP}}.''

Can we get a little {{MST3K Mantra}} here, please?

This is especially virulent when the 'ship the fans want is on the wrong side of CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds. Paradoxically, this character is as likely to actually ''be'' part of an OfficialCouple as not. Beware if you're a girl and people ship your [[TwoGuysAndAGirl male best friends]] as YaoiGuys, or conversely, if you're a boy and you [[UnwantedHarem hang around]] girls while {{yuri fanboy}}s are watching. Not ''all'' {{yaoi fangirl}}s''/''{{yuri fanboy}}s do this, but it's quite common; fans of heterosexual pairings, for whatever reason, only seem to strike when characters actually fall in love. Perhaps they get sick of BaitAndSwitchLesbians.

All of the main characters in UnwantedHarem series run the risk of suffering this in order to rationalize an author's 'ship. The UnluckyEverydude will take the brunt of the hatred, with fans preferring alternatives like a BadAss MartyStu or [[GirlsLove another member of the harem]]. The CherylBlossom is especially prone to eliciting DieForOurShip responses from shippers, as shippers on ''both'' sides of a LoveTriangle will often [[EnemyMine put aside their differences and unite]] against him or her.

The ClingyJealousGirl is an odd example, as she usually ''loses'' but is given the same amount of hate from the fandom. YamatoNadeshiko aren't free of bashing either, which increases a thousandfold if her love rival is deemed "cooler" or [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "less girly, therefore stronger"]] by female fans. {{Tsundere}} are vulnerable either way: if she's too tsuntsun she'll be called "{{Jerkass}}, [[DoesNotLikeMen man hater]], wife/husband beater", and if she's too deredere she'll be seen as a victim of {{Chickification}} regardless of it ''truly'' happening or not.

One of the most unusual victim ''magnets'' is the ChasteHero, whose simple non-information makes figuring things out mostly guesswork. Any {{bishonen}}, especially [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys tough guys]] and the EnsembleDarkhorse, will also incite ShipToShipCombat over whom he should be with, whether it be a BettyAndVeronica in-series or a MarySue in a SelfInsertFic.

It isn't even restricted to fictional characters either: [[YokoOhNo real-life celebrities' love interests have become targets of hate too!]]

This trope is the opposite of DracoInLeatherPants; here, a character's ''faults'' are exaggerated or created from whole cloth, while their ''virtues'' are either ignored or rationalized away. RevengeFic is very common in this mindset. RonTheDeathEater is often a result of this. This isn't limited to the fanbase either; when the writer wants to get rid of a threat to the OfficialCouple in a similar way, they're DerailingLoveInterests.

A subtrope of both {{Shipping}} and AlternateCharacterInterpretation, with a heaping helping of FanDumb thrown into the mix. Note: although many fans actually believe these types of theories, other fanfic writers may simply use this trope dispassionately [[ForWantOfANail as a plot device]] to enable an alternate pairing in a story.

Beware before you proceed, as the examples are sure to contain spoilers for whoever [[OfficialCouple wins]], or be prime {{Wallbanger}} material.

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* Pictured above: Aoyama Masaya, ''TokyoMewMew'', Ichigo's canon love interest. Fans that prefer Ichigo with the JerkWithAHeartOfGold or StalkerWithACrush often portray him as either [[RalphWiggum an unimportant idiot]] who is quickly discarded or an evil mastermind cheating on her with Miwa, Moe or even Minto. Either interpretation completely ignores his kind, intelligent and loyal canon personality, and he usually ends up run over by a semi.
** This gets to the point where fanfic writers change the continuity so that [[spoiler:Ichigo's MysteriousProtector, the Blue Knight, aka Ao no Kishi, actually turns out to be Ryou instead of Aoyama]], despite this making very litte sense for certain reasons; although apparently [=4Kids=] belongs to this category as well...
* Mamoru Chiba of ''SailorMoon'', who is consistently portrayed throughout every single part of the Sailor Moon franchise as Usagi's love interest. Because the final series, ''Sailor Stars'', introduced Seiya Kou as a surrogate love interest while Mamoru was absent, many fans took it upon themselves to FanWank this into a real relationship. This is despite the fact that both the anime and manga (where Seiya appears) make the one-sided nature of Seiya's attraction to Usagi a major plot point, as well as disregarding five years of Mamoru being Usagi's true love in both the present and in their past lives.
** A good chunk of this ire actually stems from a plot arc in the anime where Mamoru [[ItsNotYouItsMe broke up with Usagi over prophetic dreams that their relationship would cause her death]], but also in ignorance of the fact that the two got back together again and saved the world and their future daughter because of the strength of their love for each other. It also didn't help that the writing of the arc ''did'' come off as contrived and melodramatic and Mamoru's character seemed to move into CharacterDerailment the longer he kept up the charade regardless of his good intentions. Either way, after that arc was over, it was never referenced again and the series showed Mamoru again as a serious but very devoted and loyal boyfriend... and the fanfic writers ''still'' bent over backwards to portray him as a heartless SOB that in reality ''hated'' Usagi.
*** There's a super [[{{Squick}} squicky]] subtrope of this that purports that Mamoru is in love with [[ParentalIncest his own future daughter]]. Anime Usagi is shown to have a really childish jealousy of attention paid by Mamoru to Chibi-Usa, to the point where she even asks him in the ''Super S'' movie which one he loves more. Mamoru is understandably flabbergasted and gives no response (setting up a ChekhovsGun when Usagi is [[LotusEaterMachine later trapped in an illusion with a fake Mamoru]]. Some of his detractors will use this as evidence that he actually loves his daughter more than his girlfriend/future wife. It does not help that Chibi-Usa is quite clingy to him as well, and even refers to her father as [[DaddysGirl her boyfriend]].
** This can also happen in reverse, as some Mamoru/Usagi fans don't take kindly to people splitting up the "Ultimate [[OneTruePairing OTP]]" of the fandom. Seiya Kou aka Sailor Starfighter in particular gets a lot of hatefics as if she actually [[PsychoLesbian deliberately tried to ruin Usagi's relationship to steal her from Mamoru]], despite how respectful she was to Usagi's prior commitments and the nature of the anime plotline giving Seiya the impression that Mamoru had actually dumped Usagi without telling her [[spoiler: since Mamoru's death wasn't revealed until the end of the anime's plot.]] Even ''Mamoru'' trusted her and Usagi and was in friendly terms with Seiya when they finally met. ''Both'' versions of Seiya (the GenderBender from the anime and the WholesomeCrossdresser from the manga) took heat from the rabidshippers; the first more than the latter, yeah, but still.
** And we haven't even gotten to the MarySue fics that bashed Usagi to have Mamoru get it on with the Sue. Or the crossovers that bash not only Mamoru, but ''all'' of the Senshi (specially Rei, who briefly dated Mamoru in the anime but gave him up willingly) so she ditches the team and gets together with [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]], [[WeissKreuz Farfarello]] or [[GundamWing Heero Yuy]]. Or the Usagi/Rei {{yuri}} fics that sound ''very'' similar to the Seiya/Usagi ones that make Mamoru a JerkAss...
***Don't forget Trunks from DragonballZ!
*** All you have to do to split up Usagi and Mamoru is make Mamoru a JerkAss. One Usagi/Haruka fic, without irony, condemned Mamoru for being a possessive, unloving jerk who was torturing Usagi's emotions and driving her into Haruka's virtuous arms. Meanwhile, it actually seemed approving of Haruka to romance Usagi while ignoring her ''live-in'' lover, Michiru, who suffers extreme {{Chickification}} and is okay with Haruka cheating on her. The story ended with Usagi and Mamoru together after Mamoru was harshly scolded for his evil ways and Haruka nobly [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy giving up Usagi]] and still getting to walk home with an ever-loving Michiru.
** [[TheOjou Rei]] [[{{Miko}} Hino]] was demonized quite a bit by rabid Usagi/Mamoru fans for her crush on Mamoru. Which to be fair was CharacterDerailment compared to the original manga, but fans of the Eternal Couple could be absolutely ''brutal'' in their fics, painting her as a screaming, frothing homewrecker who wanted to kill Usagi and steal Mamoru all for herself. Nevermind that even ''then'', Rei [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy immediately stepped out of the way once she realized Usagi and Mamoru were meant to be]], that she was the one the most protective of Usagi among the Senshi and Usagi trusted her ''the most'' out of anyone in the Senshi, that she was somewhat paired up with [[ButtMonkey Yuuichiro]], ''and'' that Rei was the most affected in the ''Stars'' anime when she learned that [[spoiler: Usagi lost contact with Mamoru and hid that from them. "Why must Usagi suffer so ''much''? It... it's so unfair!", anyone?]].
** It was once quite popular during the English dub's heyday to portray Haruka as a PsychoLesbian that either perverted or abused Michiru, all to ensure that a [[RelationshipSue Relationship Gary Stu]] could enter the picture and rescue her from the sin of homosexuality. A subversion occurred on a once-infamous website that posited the reverse - that Haruka was actually a shy, gentle heterosexual woman and Michiru forced her to be a manly lesbian.
***What's even worse about that guy is that he, in all seriousness, said Takeuchi had no clue what she was doing and his THESIS on the lovers PROVED how Haruka was a shrinking violet turned to sin by the evil lesbian Michiru.
* Some of the less mature fans like to make Guido from ''SamuraiPizzaCats'' an abusive jerk, as they see him as a threat to the Speedy/Polly pairing. Which is ridiculous because Guido never shows any interest in Polly. For that matter, up until the GrandFinale, neither does Speedy - they only fought over the affections of Lucille up until Speedy fell for Polly at the 11th hour. When Polly and Speedy do hook up, Guido is happy for them. The crazy shippers seem to hate Guido for just being there, despite the fact his lack of interest means he's not an obstacle.
* Sakura Haruno, from ''{{Naruto}}'', has the dual misfortune of being a girl that hung around [[SlashFic boys shipped together]] ''and'' standing in the way of the major FanPreferredCouple. Honestly, depending on your preference in which members of Team 7 should be together, this trope hits either Naruto, Sasuke, or Sakura. The fact that for a good first half of Naruto she was a ClingyJealousGirl in regards to Sasuke only made her situation worse, because fans ''[[AccentuateTheNegative deliberately]]'' ignore her subsequent CharacterDevelopment ''which started in the same first half where she was a'' ''ClingyJealousGirl''. It doesn't matter that [[PluckyGirl Sakura's]] [[SorryIFellOnYourFist will to stop being]] TheLoad gave her quite the [[HeroicResolve motivation]], or that she came to ''truly'' care for Sasuke as the utterly damaged person he is/was instead of just [[LovingAShadow mooning for "Sasuke-kun"]], or that [[TookALevelInBadass she]] ''[[TookALevelInBadass did]]'' [[TookALevelInBadass toughen up]] to become an true ActionGirl: she's ''still'' "The Pink Roach" for the fanbutts.
** There's also a fair amount regarding the Ino/Shikamaru/Temari triangle. Shika/Tema fans often turn Ino into a [[TheLibby shallow and shrill bimbo]] that only thinks of her looks and that is [[BrainlessBeauty way too stupid for Shikamaru]]. Shika/Ino fans often bash Temari by making her a domineering and cruel {{Yandere}}-bitch that stops at nothing to make Shikamaru hers. Now, a new girl named [[NerdGlasses Shiho]] has taken a romantic interest in Shikamaru, becoming the triang's CherylBlossom... and Both Shikamaru x Temari and Shikamaru x Ino fans want her to die in a fire.
** Don't forget [[DarkChick Karin]] bashing from both [[SlashFic SasuNaru]] *and* [=SasuSaku=] fans. Fans often make her into an [[VillageBicycle oversexed nympho with constantly opened legs]] (when she's really [[SingleTargetSexuality almost the exact opposite]]) and that tries so hard to ''"steal Sasuke from his rightful lovers, Sakura and/or Naruto"'', especially if the fic's setting is High School. True, Karin's infatuation with Sasuke ''was'' [[StalkerWithACrush unhealthy and obsessive]], considering that she planned to drug his teammates and rape him, but the shippers' attitude towards her still carries more than a whiff of this trope, especially since they ignore that most of her antics are PlayedForLaughs and as more of a character flaw than a marker of being "a bad person", that Sasuke ''knew'' what he was in for when he recruited her for his team, and that beyond this she does ''genuinely'' care for him.
** Or [[FanOfUnderdog Hinata Hyuga]], who's also bashed a lot for liking Naruto, or (seemingly) [[KissingCousins her cousin Neji]]. There are several fics where Hinata finds out that Naruto has the Kyuubi trapped inside him, and proceeds to hate or fear him, only to be slapped into shape by Sakura (which was disproved in Ch. 355-356). There's also the hate she receives for her characterization as a ShrinkingViolet and a developing YamatoNadeshiko, with such fans saying that "[[RealWomenNeverWearDresses she's too weak and shy and doesn't deserve Naruto]]". Naruto/Hinata and Naruto/Sakura pairing wars get very ugly, and it's always assumed that Naruto x Hinata fans bash Sakura (while a majority of them don't), and Naru/Saku fans bash Hinata (again, while a good majority of them don't).
*** Chapter 437 intensified the debate, as [[spoiler:Hinata confessed her love to Naruto, and then was stabbed by Pain, causing the fandom to be divided over whether she survived Pain's attack and whether she ''should'']]. Despite this, [[spoiler:she's still alive]], Sakura [[spoiler:healed her in Chapter 442]], ''and'' she was smiling happily when [[spoiler: Sakura hugged Naruto after he defeated Pain]] - this seems to put the lie to fan claims that they are bitter rivals in love.
***Chapter 469 probably pissed a lot of shippers off, as [[spoiler:Sakura follows Naruto to the Land of Iron, telling him she loves him and to give up trying to get Sasuke back, and that she doesn't love Sasuke. Naruto does not believe her one bit.]]
*** Naru/Saku shippers seem to prefer to attack [[OCStandIn Sakura's mother!]] She's had about two lines in the anime and has made no appearance in the manga, but Naru/Saku shippers unleash the fury of Hell upon her.
** [[TheSpock Shino]] is badly treated in the few fics about [[HotBlooded Kiba]] x Hinata. Which is odd, as Shino seems to have no romantic designs on her at all.
** Neji is sometimes treated poorly in fanfics that pair Hinata with someone else (more often with one of her teammates than with Naruto), and is sometimes portrayed as still hating Hinata even ''after'' his HeelFaceTurn.
** In fact, there are very few people in ''{{Naruto}}'' that ''don't'' get bashed for one reason or another in terms of shipping.
*** It's typically side characters that play a very, very small part. One of the most relevant examples is probably [[SatelliteCharacter Matsuri]] who appeared as one of two Gaara fangirls in the manga. In a {{Filler}} arc she had the misfortune of being introduced as the only one willing to accept Gaara as her teacher during a training session. Raging fangirls hate her guts because of the possible HotForStudent-like ShipTease moments she had with Gaara, something NO other girl on the show ever had. [[http://hatematsurifc.deviantart.com This page]] shows just how far FanDumb can go...
** Don't forget Sai. Who not only gets criticism from Shika/Ino shippers but probably gets lots of flak [[spoiler:from Naru/Hina shippers for telling Sakura how much Naruto loves her.]]
* Amagi Michal, ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', a ClingyJealousGirl ''and'' IllGirl who is very smitten with Kaito. Take out the clingy jealous part, and she's a lot like Tomoe Hotaru of ''SailorMoon'' fame, but none of the latter's fans seem to realize this.
* Li Xiao-lang (Li Syaoran), ''CardcaptorSakura'', a male canon love interest in a series with a very large GirlsLove fandom. Despite the intense possibilities, he's not a particularly ornery guy and has a positive following as much as a negative one... though that ''still'' doesn't save the boy from being called "gaki" ("brat", Kero's nickname for him) by his haters, having his and Sakura's hook-up described as [[HetIsEw "evil heterosexual conspiracy forged by]] {{CLAMP}} [[EpilepticTrees and destined to screw up with the yuri"]] (Yes, [[YaoiFangirl CLAMP]]. [[YuriFan Really]]!) or having rabid yuri fans twist him into [[DomesticAbuse an horrible abuser]] to pair up a [[{{Chickification}} whiny, wussified, victimized Sakura]] who suddenly forgets [[MagicWarrior she can whip Syaoran's ass with the Sakura cards]] if he mistreats her, with an ultra saintly and perfect Tomoyo who's been twisted into a huge PossessionSue.
** Kaho Mizuki, Eriol's canon love interest, is hated by two groups of shippers: Eriol/Tomoyo fans and a smaller group of Touya/Yukito fans, even though her and Touya's former romantic history occurs well before the story, and in the story, Kaho is [[YaoiFangirl very supportive]] [[ShipperOnDeck of Touya's new relationship]]. There's also a HotForStudent aspect to her relationship with Eriol that squicks people, though in truth, Eriol is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld not actually a kid]].
*** YourMilageMayVary on this. Most Touya/Yuki fans don't have a problem with Kaho, especially given the reason she broke it off with Touya was so he could get together with Yuki. It's a mite unfair to lob all the yaoi fans together on Kaho-hate. Aside from TRC, the CLAMP fandom is relativly sane campared to others.
** Even after ClingyJealousGirl Meiling broke off her engagement to her UnluckyChildhoodFriend Syaoran willingly and came to care for Sakura as well (which she tells to Tomoyo right after she gives up said ChildhoodMarriagePromise), she's still demonized by rabid Sakura/Syaoran shippers, which is rather silly because Sakura and Syaoran are by and large an OfficialCouple [[ShipperOnDeck and Meiling comes to support it]].
*** Do remember that Meiling was an anime only character, and designed to be an antagonist to their relationship, so it's some what justified.
**** Do remember that FanDumb flanderized what you said to death and often portrayed Meiling as a borrderline CompleteMonster of sorts rather than the bratty but good-hearted rival she truly was, even saying that she would ''deliberately'' attack and hurt Sakura out of romantic jealousy (the Meiling who ''as much'' kicked her and Tomoyo outta Shaoran's apartment and was an UnknownRival for a while, but still showed genuine care for her when needed?). SoYeah.
** And there's also the bashing of [[GenkiGirl Nakuru]] [[ManipulativeBastard Akizuki]] from rabid [[YaoiGuys Touya/Yukito]] fans... and they're ''also'' an OfficialCouple. Nakuru did start out mostly after Touya's power in order to get rid of Yue and weaken Sakura's offensive entourage, giving Touya/Yukito fans a legitimate reason to dislike her, but became JustFriends (or VitriolicBestBuds, from Touya's POV) to both of them after Touya and Yukito's RelationshipUpgrade.
* Notable exception: Oddly enough, ''FutariWaPrettyCure'', poster child of non-canon yuri shipping, doesn't have legions of people out to get Kiriya or Fujipi.
** Kouji and Natsu from ''[[YesPrecure5 Yes! Precure 5]]'', however... The fact that they turn into TalkingAnimal sidekicks Coco and Nuts spurred the hatred by providing {{Squick}} as a ready excuse. They eventually found fandom support, however.
* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' fandom, it seems the Nanoha/Fate fans and Nanoha/Yuuno fans reserve more disdain for each other than the actual characters, though some obnoxious people threaten the competition to tick rival shippers off. This seemed to die down as Yuuno was slowly edged out of screentime and Fate was elevated to co-star, until his reintroduction in the years-after sequel ''[=StrikerS=]''. Nanoha's ChasteHero status and a boatload of ShipTease for ''either'' side leaves enough wiggleroom for fans to chew on.
** Frequenters of the [=AnimeSuki=] forum would've known the infamous [[MemeticMutation 300 against Legion]] FlameWar. And no, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint we're not talking about some]] [[ThreeHundred smelly old men]]
* [[RebelliousPrincess Relena Darlian/Peacecraft]], in the [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls fangirl-popular]] {{Gundam}} series ''GundamWing'' is maybe the most famous victim of DieForOurShip ''ever'' in the anime field. She is often [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as a RichBitch, a {{Yandere}} or sometimes even a CardCarryingVillain by [[YaoiFangirl fans who prefer the]] [[YaoiGuys Heero/Duo pairing]], despite the fact that said pairing is virtually non-existent throughout the series (All the HoYay went to Trowa and Quatre, huh) and the lyrics to her ImageSong "Always a Secret" depicting her as [[YamatoNadeshiko a sweet girl]] who'd be [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy very willing to let go of Heero]] if he fell in love with someone else.
** Technically, this happens to most of the show's female cast in varying degrees, since there's a 1-to-1 ratio of men to women among the primary cast, even if they don't express any overt signs of romantic love for their counterparts. Relena gets it the worst because of a bad first impression. Other common victims are Duo's potential girlfriend [[GenkiGirl Hilde]], [[TheDragon Treize's right-hand]] Lady Une and Quatre's rival/counterpart [[RichBitch Dorothy]], who also receives a good deal of hate for opposing and hurting TheWoobie during a fight late in the show. [[CoolBigSis Catherine Bloom]] is surprisingly scot free, though maybe that comes from her and Trowa acting more like siblings than potential lovers. [[spoiler: It ''is'' hinted in the [[AllThereInTheManual Episode Zero manga]] that they may be blood siblings]].
*** ''GundamWing'''s director Masashi Ikeda once admitted that he [[RelationshipWritingFumble can't write romances]], and that he was more concerned with politics. This is sometimes taken as evidence Relena and Heero aren't a "real" couple; this may be technically true, but is usually invoked with a ridiculously acidic portrayal of Relena in fanfics by people who prefer Heero with other (male) characters, and can also be taken to mean that he can't write HoYay tinted romance either. Oddly enough, the other girls who are, shall we say, "assigned" to each of the other male leads don't catch nearly the same amount of heat.
* This is common in ''TenchiMuyo!'', if for no other reason than the ''characters'' are usually already doing it themselves:
** Princess Ayeka is hated by the pro-Ryoko''/''pro-Tenchi x Ryoko fans. The reverse is also true, particularly those familar with the AlternateContinuity ''Tenchi Universe'' TV series and movie ''Tenchi Forever'', which [[SpotlightStealingSquad show a slant in Ryoko's direction]]. Still, the hatred against Ayeka was practically there pretty much from the start, since some Ryoko fans deemed Ryoko [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses as stronger and more worthy because she was less tradtionally feminine]] than the more proper and sometimes comically prissy Ayeka.
** Sakuya Kumashiro from ''Tenchi in Tokyo'' was added in as a third love interest, and [[CherylBlossom was actually picked over both Ryoko and Ayeka]], leading ''both'' fan segments to hate her, which leaves her with very few fans. [[spoiler:She didn't make it to the end of the series, though.]]
** Noike from the newest ''[[TenchiMuyo Tenchi]]'' {{OVA}} series is also hated for this, as well as for being both a borderline CanonSue and a JonasQuinn for the popular AlternateContinuity character Kiyone Makibi.
** And all of this is incredibly ironic since the WordOfGod has stated that [[spoiler: Tenchi eventually just [[TenchiSolution marries them all]].]] Of course, some people just ignore ''that'' as well. FanDumb indeed.
* Nachi from ''Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara Dream Saga'' has a bit of this; she's also {{transsexual}}, and therefore has [[AcceptableLifestyleTargets more fuel]] for jokes at her expense.
* ExpandedUniverse example: Mana Kirishima, of the ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' game ''Girlfriend of Steel 1''. "[[RoleCalled Girlfriend]]" as in "[[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionCentralCast Shinji]]'s girlfriend", which pisses off those who ship him with Asuka, Rei, Misato, or Kaworu and ''love'' to accuse her of being a RelationshipSue.
** Several Shinji/Rei 'shippers have managed to [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderize]] Asuka as not just being {{Tsundere}} but outright [[AxCrazy psychotic]]. And then there's the Shinji/Asuka fic where Rei is either a soulless zombie or creepier than Kaworu. Heavens above, there is a fanfic somewhere where ''Maya'' was turned into a secretly evil and psychotic member of the SEELE council who had implanted Adam's embryo onto ''her'' hand just to facilitate Ritsuko/Gendo of all things.
*** To be completely fair, though, Asuka ''does'' have deep-seated psychological issues, [[ThereAreNoTherapists just like everyone else in the series]]. And Rei was actually intended to be creepy.
* In ''SchoolRumble'', a large slice of the fanbase wants to see [[TheDitz Tenma]] drop dead. Apart from the Tenma fans, which want [[TheOjou Eri]] to drop dead. The two groups are mutually exclusive and add up to exactly 99% of the show's audience. The remaining 1% is almost wholly composed of Yakumo/Harima shippers who earnestly believe their ship is the closest one to canon and the former two groups delude themselves.
* May/Haruka from ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' (by Pokeshippers and Misty/Kasumi fans in general), to the point where some of them stopped watching after Misty [[PutOnABus left the series]]. This emigration meant that things pretty much cooled down within the online fandom after a couple of years, and the return of negativity for Dawn/Hikari's introduction was much more short-lived, only persisting with the rabid May/Haruka fans.
** To put it in a bigger perspective, every female lead that came after Misty was subject to the ReplacementScrappy treatment.
** The remaining Misty fans have an alarming tendency to kill her sisters off via house fire in fanfiction -- literal DieForOurShip, as this [[PutOnABus takes Misty off the bus]] and puts her back into position to be a (romantic) factor. It's confusing in that, despite their relative incompetence at head-to-head fights (which are SeriousBusiness), we're talking about people who can summon living fire extinguishers basically at will. (Besides, their presence was the whole reason that Misty could even ''go'' on the journey instead of stay in the gym!) The better uses of this device turn into HurtComfortFic (to which SturgeonsLaw still applied) while the others make token references at best. Of course, Ayame/Violet bears more than a passing resemblance to the oft-killed [[ExcelSaga Hyatt]]...
** Misty herself has been bashed for "being in the way" of the (apparent) HoYay between Ash and Gary or Brock.
** Another startling fanfiction trend relates to Contestshipping (May/Drew) fics. As of late, some writers seem to have developed a fixation with plucking Brendan (the male playable character from the R/S/E games) out of nowhere to act as a generic villain who [[StalkerWithACrush underhandedly plots to steal May away from Drew]]. This is a particularly strident example, in that Brendan technically ''does not even exist in the same continuity as the anime series''. Worse yet, he has no established personality in any fiction, people that ship him with May are relatively few (nowadays, anyway), and Contestshipping was already practically canon to begin with (or as close as Pokemon pairings can get without actually being canon). It's as if they simply decided to find a random patsy to help them drive their point home even further.
** On a similar note, Advanceshippers (Ash/May) tend to portray [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Drew]] as a lecherous young man who [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean only wants one thing from May]]. Aside from the sheer absurdity of portraying [[WorthyOpponent a friendly rival]] that way, does anyone think a children's television show like Pokemon would explore issues like this?
**And let's not forget Rocketshippers, shall we? Though in contrast to the above examples, characters like Ash, Butch and Cassidy are bashed for simply being in opposition to Jessie and James, not because one might have romantic interest in either party. Some of the more rabid shippers think the very existence of these three is a threat or a personal affront to Jessie and James's possible love.
** But let's not forget that anti-Rocketshippers, who very often believe James is gay, will demonize Jessie beyond belief just so James will come running over to Brock/Butch/whoever. Or they'll kill her off in some way, because [[UnfortunateImplications clearly the only thing getting in the way of James' chances for a happy homosexual relationship is that filthy walking vagina he]] [[strike:[[UnfortunateImplications is friends with]]]] [[UnfortunateImplications is forced to work with every single day]]. A few anti-Rocketshippers do believe James is straight but will still do the same thing to Jessie so that James will be with a "nicer" girl. And it never happens the other way around. Granted, James is TheWoobie and Jessie is kinda... bitchy. But for crying out loud, she doesn't deserve this. If she did, do you think she and James would have been friends for this long?
* Back in the days of the ''{{Digimon}}'' fandom, just about ''every single character'' had a squad of people out to get them for getting in the way of this or that pairing, most of which would never even happen, and even if it did, many of these victims would have no interest in breaking it up. The main triangles, though, were [[DigimonAdventure02 Takeru-Hikari-Daisuke]] and [[DigimonAdventure Taichi-Sora-Yamato]], one a very frequent ShipTease and the other involving an OfficialCouple. And before you ask, no, there was no specific popular combination of happy couple and evil rival; the combinations in each triangle were pretty much of equal frequency. Yes, counting the ''[[EveryoneIsGay yaoi]]'' [[GayOption options]].
** Made infinitely more frustrating that, in the end, the victor of the Taichi-Sora-Yamato triangle is [[spoiler:[[AssPull Sora/Yamato]],]] which had relatively no build-up compared to the fan-favorites [[spoiler:Taichi/Sora and Taichi/Yamato]]. Takeru-Hikari-Daisuke ends worse--[[spoiler:a tie. ''None'' of the ships--Takeru/Hikari, Hikari/Daisuke, or Daisuke/Takeru--become canon. The three characters end up with nameless, faceless characters.]] Evidently, the writers for Digimon felt that it was better not to please anyone than to please half the fanbase at the cost of the other half.
** Don't forget how Miyako took the brunt of the bashing in the [[DigimonAdventure02 Miyako-Ken-Daisuke]] pairings, [[spoiler:because she got Ken in the DistantFinale]].
** And not even the foreign Digidestined that appeared in maybe two or three episodes are safe from bashing. [[TheOjou Catherine]], the French blonde girl who helped Takeru and Taichi and got kisses from them in return, is often seen as an horrible threat to Taichi/Sora and/or Takeru/Hikari. In a similar vein [[TheWoobie Wallace]], who got a kiss from Hikari, has got both Takeru/Hikari and Daisuke/Hikari fans out for his blood. Same goes to [[BrattyHalfPint Rosa]], the Mexican little girl infatuated with Ken, who's very much maligned by Daisuke/Ken fans: many after-GrandFinale rants took pot shots at lots of charas, and poor Rosa was the one-shot female who took the hardest ones (bratty, bitchy, whiny, Ken-obsessed, Wormmon didn't like her so she ''had'' to be a little bitch).
* Asuka Tenjouin/Alexis Rhodes of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' is not only hated and called all manner of bad names for being the token female love interest and MsFanservice in a show filled past the brink with HoYay, but for vehemently refusing to get ''into'' a relationship with Manjyome/Chazz.
** There's at least one fan that will vilify ''anyone'' who so much dares to speak of Judai hooking up with anyone ''but'' Asuka, especially if said hook-up is with CanonSue Johan/Jesse. With the series over now, it seems they took the best way out and [[spoiler: had ''no'' ships resolved.]]
* [[{{Shorttank}} Anzu Mazaki]] of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'', Yugi's childhood friend, not only has the misfortune of being one of the very few girls in the series and being the crusader of [[ThePowerOfFriendship The Power of Friendship]], but is also involved in a LoveTriangle with two of the main male characters (in the same body, but still...). As a result, enraged yaoi shippers depict her as a [[RalphWiggum complete idiot]] or a [[StalkerWithACrush homophobic harpy who wants the bishies all to herself]]. She's usually [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed off horribly]] at the end of the fic.
**Mai is also sometimes depicted as a [[ChristmasCake sad]] [[MrsRobinson old slut]], usually when the pairing in question is Joey/Kaiba. Or Joey/anybody, really.
** Tristan/Hiroto, [[TheLoad one of the cheerleaders]], is usually the Token Homophobe, especially in Joey/Kaiba and Yugi/Anybody. How vocal he is about it tends to depend on the level of [[BadAss Badass]] of the people involved.
***Unless he's being paired with Duke/Ryuuji, as a way of tying up loose ends.
** In some Kaiba/Shizuka(Serenity) fics, Joey quickly turns [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight's Templar Big Brother]] when he finds out about their relationship and then cranks it UpToEleven. This can happen on both sides if Serenity is paired up with Kaiba's little brother, Mokuba, sometimes resulting in [[StarCrossedLovers Star Crossed Lovers]].
***The opposite also happens sometimes in Joey/Kaiba, with Serenity being painted as the bitchy, ungrateful little sister who wants to steal her brother's one true love. This all makes this troper's brain fall out.
* Divine of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}''. Go to a horde of Yusei/Aki-fangirls, throw in this name and watch what will happen. It's definitely not fun. Despite him dying even TWO times, which is also persumably killing off his chances for a future developement of his romance with Aki in the show, the fans just can't stop bashing him, depict him raping, beating and insulting the living crap out of her, usually dying a terrible death at the end of every single one of their fanfictions, when in the show, even if he used her for her powers and if only towards her, he was in fact pretty caring and protective.
* In ''{{Bleach}}'', ever since BarrierWarrior and CloudCuckooLander Orihime Inoue started to [[CharacterDevelopment take a bigger role in the storyline]] ''and'' was revealed to ''actually'' be in love with Ichigo [[spoiler: as well as [[ScrewDestiny MUCH more powerful]] than anybody would think]], militant and enraged Ichigo/Rukia fangirls twist her into a [[StalkerWithACrush Rukia-hating]], [[{{Yandere}} Ichigo-obsessed stalker]] to make Rukia look like a better match for him. Never mind that Orihime is the ''[[HeroicSelfDeprecation depressed]]'' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation and passive kind of jealous]], that she ''adores'' Rukia (to the point of actively ''rejecting'' the idea of hating her, as well as praising Rukia's kindness and strength), and that ''Rukia herself'' adores Orihime and [[NotSoDifferent sees her own issues reflected in her]]. This has become so bad that ''everyone'' in the Ichigo/Rukia corner has been stereotyped as Orihime bashers, including sane ones who ''like'' or at least respect Orihime and hate the idea of being lumped with the crazies.
** Some fans go as far as to twist the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming very sweet]] ([[LesYay and femslashy]], for some) scene between them where [[spoiler: Rukia vehemently tells Orihime that she's a great person, pulling her from the HeroicBSOD state she's been for a while]] into a "CatFight" where Rukia curses and bitches at Orihime for laying her eyes on Ichigo. Way to ruin a great scene, dumbasses.
** Ichigo/Orihime fans also do this, painting poor Rukia in a horrible light by twisting her into an evil, [[RonTheDeathEater possessive and bitchy]] {{Yandere}} who [[MurderTheHypotenuse wants Orihime dead]] and away from her boytoy and completely hates her old friend [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Renji Abarai]] for having some feelings for her, despite all evidence pointing towards how she deeply ''loves'' both of them.
*** This runs contrary to the fact that bashing Rukia (and the Ichigo/Rukia pairing by extension) is forbidden in some Ichigo/Orihime circles because the majority actually ''likes'' Rukia, not to mention the general assumption that [[ShipperOnDeck Rukia also ships it.]]
** Speaking of Renji, some twist both him ''and'' [[AloofBigBrother Byakuya]] into [[DomesticAbuse wife-beaters, rapists, etc.]] to favor the Ichigo/Rukia coupling. Granted, it happens less than Orihime bashing, but ''still''...
***For many reasons, some Renji/Ichigo fans can get batshit crazy. This Troper (Who happens to be a Renji/Ichigo fan himself, thank you very much) has seen fanfics where BOTH Orihime and Rukia are turned into awful human beings and pushing the two into each others arms. These are extremely rare as most Renji/Ichigo fans are nice NORMAL slashers who have respect for both Rukia and Orihime, but still...
** Poor Uryuu Ishida gets it from rabid fans from both sides. The Ichigo/Rukia section blames him for failing to seduce Orihime and make her forget about Ichigo (no matter how out of character that would be), and more recently, for assisting her in an endeavour where ''she'' ended up saving Ichigo's life (instead of Rukia) and Ichigo [[spoiler:went berserk to protect her]]. Those in the other camp insist he is a) not good enough for their darling, pure and perfect goddess and/or b) a douchebag that doesn't let Orihime fight for herself, never mind that ''everybody,'' including Ichigo, wants her to keep out of fights. Both sides are convinced that he's a limp-wristed flamer.
*** To be fair, when Uryu keeps Orihime out of fights, he has more of a StayInTheKitchen mindset than Ichigo does, as he expresses the belief that Orihime is not suited for fighting (although Chad and Rukia are the only ones to openly express faith in Orihime's abilities and potential), which makes it easier for fans to bash him for treating Orihime as helpless and gloss over other characters doing the same.
***It wasn't a StayInTheKitchen thing, it was a -She's a kind hearted person who is a pacifist that hates hurting people and only wants to be out in the field to fufil the only thing she perceives as strength, thing. Orihime's inability to physically harm people, not matter her powers, is a valid point in not having her fight people directly. She can help and be strong, she just doesn't have to do so that causes her mental distress but she insists on doing it anyway. Ishida felt that was a problem, not a "God woman, just make me a sandwich" mindset.
** Some of the most rabid [[TheWoobie Momo Hinamori]] haters are [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Hitsugaya]]/[[MsFanservice Matsumoto]] shippers who have somehow convinced themselves that Hitsugaya isn't allowed to [[TenchiSolution care for two girls at the same time]] (even if it's in different ways) and ''must'' choose between his sexy and self-assured lieutenant and [[BreakTheCutie his broken]] [[NotBloodSiblings adoptive sister]]. Or maybe that's because those fans also happen to [[TheScrappy hate Hinamori]], even if she's not paired with Hitsugaya at all. And finally, she's not safe from het-pairing lovers only: Momo is also often bashed for the sake of some yaoi pairs, like Aizen/Gin.
** And finally? [[BodyguardCrush Soi]] [[BrokenBird Fong]] is frequently twisted into a mixture of PsychoLesbian and [[DoesNotLikeMen rabid]] [[StrawFeminist misandrist]] by the most militant [[MadScientist Urahara]]/[[ActionGirl Yoruichi]] shippers. ''Even on this very wiki''. What is especially ironic is that ''[[LovableSexManiac Urahara]]'' himself would likely be ''[[YuriFanboy overjoyed]]'' at the prospect of Soi Fong/Yoruichi.
***The most recent chapter actually seems to support the hate for the character. [[spoiler: She hates people just because they were saved by Urahara 100 years ago and actually refuses to kill an enemy of the Gotei 13 until Hacchi agrees to lock Urahara in a barrier for a MONTH.]]
**** Correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC she doesn't know the ''real'' story behind [[spoiler: the vizards]] and Urahara's exiles. She might simply regard Urahara as a traitor and CompleteMonster who [[spoiler: experimented on shinigami]].
*** Did it say that her grudge comes from directly their relationships with Yoruichi? Besides, lots of the FanDumb bashing IS tied to fandom homophobia: a troper listed Soi Fong in the PsychoLesbian trope while referring to her as a "mere peon" (when their backstory leaves clear that Yoruichi DOES care for the lady, whether romantically or not) and then calling Urahara "Yoruichi's dear friend" (which he ''is'', but they're NOT an OfficialCouple -- they've just been given quite the ShipTease). [[UnfortunateImplications Ew.]]
**** [[spoiler:Vizard]] business aside, Soi Fong realizes that Yoruichi abandoned soul society, and abandoned her, for 100 years, to hang out with Urahara. It could matter less what the reasons were, or whether or not Yoruichi is actually interested in him, Soi Fong would still hate Urahara's guts. That and his personality is exactly the kind of thing that would drive her to murder anyways.
* Also happened to Souma Oogami of ''KannazukiNoMiko'', with fans likening him to an idiot or an overbearing bastard (of course, as nice as he could be, he is choosing [[GirlsLove the wrong series]] to love his girl). This decreased considerably (but still doesn't stop completely) when the series ended [[spoiler:with Souma [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy voluntarily stepping back]] after [[SchoolgirlLesbians Himeko and Chikane]] confessed their love to each other]].
* The tiny ''HellTeacherNube'' fandom ''really'' loathes the local ChristmasCake, Ritsuko Takahashi. At first, she's bashed and called "shallow" and a "bitch" for rejecting Nuubee's advances (which were in the DoggedNiceGuy league, so ''of course'' Ritsuko would've been weirded out) in a regular basis. And when she ''does'' fall for Nuubee after finally seeing his good side, she's bashed and called "third wheel bitch" for threatening the Nuubee/[[ClingyJealousGirl Yukime]] ship.
* Princess Amelia of ''TheSlayers'' is widely hated, especially by fangirls who are Zelgadis/Lina, Zelgadis/Xellos, or Zelgadis''/''MarySue shippers.
** Don't forget the bashing that poor StaffChick [[TheWoobie Sylphiel]] gets for "getting in between" Lina and Gourry. And often even ''Gourry'' gets bashed by Lina/Zelgadis fans -- when [[BetaCouple he isn't]] [[ShipMates paired off]] [[PairTheSpares with Sylphiel]], he tends to be either foolish, or a sexist monster that can only be defeated by Zel.
* Essentially '''every''' character in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' has experienced both this trope and DracoInLeatherPants at one point or another, often with one portrayal arising as a backlash to another.
** For instance, Akane's {{Tsundere}} tendencies are frequently flanderized to the point of '''[[AxCrazy literal]]''' [[AxCrazy psychosis]] (''The Bitter End'', anyone?). Even after the end of the manga, many fics would suddenly have her relationship with Ranma inexplicably taking a sudden turn for the worse. This has led fans of her character to emphasize her compassionate side, sometimes overcorrecting to the point of "Saint Akane" who is an absolute LoveMartyr.
** On the other hand, Shampoo is often written by fans as being heartless, psychotic, downright evil, and willing to kill Akane ''and'' Mousse in cold blood and VERY violently in front of Ranma to get her "Airen"'s love.
*** In Shampoo's case she's actually been explicitly depicted as an upbeat casual killer within the [[WordOfGod source material]], heck "obstacle is for killing" is her ''personal motto'', but usually as crafty and manipulative. She has been more than willing to butcher people in public as well though.
** Likewise, Ryōga's [[TheRival eternal grudge]] and [[AllMenArePerverts posing as P-Chan]], while not exactly admirable, often result in his being flanderized into a CompleteMonster to pave the way for Ranma/Akane. This is despite the fact that in canon he's [[IWasJustPassingThrough saved Ranma's life]], helped him up when Ranma ''truly'' needed it (and Ranma also gave him a helping hand) and eventually begins to [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer get over Akane]], hooking up with [[YamatoNadeshiko Akari]] instead. In fact, it's especially strange when you consider that out of all of Ranma and Akane's long-term suitors, Ryōga is one of the very few (if not the only one) who willingly steps aside.
** In contrast, Ranma's own arrogance and personality flaws are frequently overlooked because of his [[TheWoobie harsh childhood]] and [[PillarsOfMoralCharacter the many demands honor has placed upon him]]. This leads other fans to remind the readers of the times that he's stretched honor to his advantage, performed petty con artistry on much of the cast, and otherwise holds responsibility for his troubles.
** Ukyō is also made a LoveMartyr, much at the expense of Akane (two words: Mike Rhea). And at others, she's as bashed as Shampoo by "Saint Akane" fans. And don't forget the fic where Ukyō was turned into a dog.
** And Heaven help them if it's a crossover pairing: all of the above and ''then some''. It's what ThisTroper calls the "Poor Little Ranma" fic: make the rest of the cast as worse as you can, and let your preferred person "rescue" him from his terrible life.
** The problem is that [[ComedicSociopathy EVERY character in the cast is a grade-A JerkAss at one point or another]]. Pick two characters, any two characters. Somewhere in the anime or the manga, there's a scene where one of them is a jackass to the other.
* In ''{{The Prince of Tennis}}'' fandom, [[ShrinkingViolet Sakuno]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Tomoka]] are ''very'' often bashed by [[YaoiFangirl yaoi fans]] since they both have crushes on [[TroubledButCute Ryoma Echizen]], the male lead who is [[YaoiGuys very slashable]] in fandom despite [[CuteShotaroBoy being just 12-to-13 years old]]. And if Tomoka and Sakuno are maligned [[HetIsEw for being females]], then the girls from the {{Dating Sim}}s are... well, let's not get into it.
** [[GeniusBruiser Yanagi Renji]] has been bashed by Inui/Kaidoh fans ever since his and Inui's backstory was brought up, because he used to be Inui's best friend and partner before Inui met Kaidoh [[spoiler: and [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye left him without saying anything]] when his family moved]]. That's seen as Renji being an horrible and heartless person who hates Inui and wants him to suffer, so his ruthless in-courts behavior (which is a trademark [[KnightTemplar of the Rikkaidai team]] ''[[KnightTemplar as a whole]]'') is a "proof" of his cruelty. [[spoiler: Even when, in the OAV, Renji ''begs'' Inui to forfeit the match when he gets injured by Kirihara during their doubles match in the finals, thus proving his bashers wrong. The fact that he's acting emotional ''in front of Yukimura himself'' should clue these fans in, but some still insist Renji is ''[[ManipulativeBastard faking]]'' his concern for Inui.]]
** Inui/Kaidoh fans have also been known to bash Momoshiro, who (it is implied) later [[spoiler: became Kaidoh's vice-captain after Inui graduated]], by flanderizing his BigEater ''and'' FunPersonified character traits to make him an absolute idiot who stuffs his mouth, causes trouble for Kaidoh, and barely does anything else.
** We also have the bad treatment [[IllBoy Seiichi Yukimura]] receives from rabid Atobe/Sanada fans due to Sanada's obsessive (and very slashy) devotion to Yukimura, which they see as an obstacle for their ultra-prettified PossessionSue version of Atobe. And some particularly rabid Sanada/Yukimura fans retaliate by bashing ''Atobe'' for daring to get in the way of their super-perfect and super-beautiful OTP.
** Or how some [[IncestIsRelative Fujicest]] fans demonize and bash Yuuta's [[SmugSnake scheming]] and [[AlwaysCamp flamboyant]] [[TheStrategist manager]], Hajime Mizuki. Granted, Mizuki [[KickTheDog wasn't introduced as the most likeable person]], but not only [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin *did* he pay the price for it]], he's not as heartless as rabid Fujicest fans claim he is.
** Or the portrayals of [[BigBrotherMentor Tezuka]] and [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend Saeki]] in fics and doujinshii depicting a Tezuka/Fuji/Saeki love triangle, depending on who the [[YaoiFangirl fan writer or doujinshi author]] likes with Fuji the best. Saeki often takes the brunt of it, sadly; ThisTroper remembers a ''doujinshi'' that, aside of horribly derailing Fuji and Tezuka's characters, portrayed Saeki as a StalkerWithACrush who used Fuji's insecurities to try stealing him from Tezuka [[PutOnaBus as he was in rehab]], manipulating the [[{{Uke}} emotionally fragile Fuji]] into having sex with him during that time -- [[KickTheDog and making sure Tezuka would *know* about it]]. Even after Saeki ''did'' get a bit better and apologized to Tezuka and Fuji in the end, some dialogue quotes suggested that he would ''still'' not give up on pursuing Fuji. Talk about a borderline male {{Yandere}}.
* In ''ShakuganNoShana'', the desire to see [[YamatoNadeshiko Yoshida Kazumi]]'s soul eaten by a Tomogara in a painful way for getting between [[{{Tsundere}} Shana]] and [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Sakai Yuuji]] is extremely spread among the fandom. That Kazumi is presented as a fairly FlatCharacter at first didn't help her case any.
** Kazumi received a hougu from Pheles in season 2, allowing her to summon Pheles at the cost of her own life. Certain fans think that such a summoning would be a ''very'' good idea... Not to mention the reaction by viewers of the second season to her ''seemingly'' using that Hougu and fading away...only for the scene to be revealed as one that never actually happened a heartbeat later.
** Which is completely retarded, like many other fanfic of this kind, since she poses no threat whatsoever to Shana. Seriously, everyone knows by the end of the first episode that it's a 99% chance that it'll be Shana and Yuuji at the end.
* Hikaru Hiyama in ''KimagureOrangeRoad''. It's true that TheMovie made her [[ClingyJealousGirl really fixated on Kyôsuke]], but it's not like she was the ''only'' one to blame for the whole fuck-up either: Kyōsuke and Madoka were as guilty as Hikaru, and [[TearJerker the]] ''[[TearJerker three]]'' [[TearJerker suffered horribly]] because of it... but Hikaru is the ''only'' one who gets bitchslapped by fandom.
* Susanna Marlowe from ''CandyCandy'' gets this so bad that women in their ''thirties'' and ''forties'' behave like whiny teenyboppers whenever reminded [[spoiler:of how Susanna got Terry instead of Candy, after [[HonorBeforeReason Candy decides]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy to give him up willingly]], since Susanna [[HeroicSacrifice almost got killed for him]] and ended up crippled and with her acting career in tatters.]]
* In the ''InuYasha'' fandom, there are rabid Kikyou/Inu-Yasha fans accusing [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kagome]] of being a TsundereSue or a ClingyJealousGirl, and Kagome/Inu-Yasha fans react by calling [[TragicHero Kikyou]] an evil whore who ''still'' wants to drag [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Inu-Yasha]] into Hell with her. Add the [[TheRival Kouga]]/Kagome shippers who bash [[SheIsAllGrownUp Ayame]] and the Sango/Miroku fans who bash [[ThePaolo Kuranosuke Takeda]] too.
** Don't forget the Sango/Inu-Yasha shippers who regularly declare war on Miroku and Kagome for the purpose of facilitating a pairing teased once by a line meant to demonstrate solidarity, not lust!
** Speaking of Kouga/Kagome, that pairing gets a ''lot'' of heat from Inu-Yasha/Kagome shippers. Poor Kouga is an [[{{CompleteMonster}} EBUL]] misogynist who will never [[{{SarcasmMode}} appreciate Kagome the way Inu-Yasha does]], despite the fact that he brings her flowers and gives up his whole human-eating lifestyle to please her... and keeps with it, even after he realizes [[spoiler:he'll never get the girl]].
** Sesshomaru/[[MoralityPet Rin]] and Sesshomaru/Kagome shippers regularly bash [[DarkActionGirl Kagura]] for daring to be canonly in love with Sesshomaru even though [[spoiler:she ''died'' in the manga]]. Sesshomaru/Kagura shippers don't bash Rin and Kagome as often because it speaks well of Kagura if she likes her love interest's MoralityPet and his brother's girlfriend, though it still happens from time to time.
*** Also the fact that Sesshomaru has been shown to return her feelings, and the fact that Rin herself supports a romance between the two (an obvious signal that she does not see Sesshomaru as a love interest) tends to really grate their cheese because it adds to their feeling of being threatened. Sessh/Kagura writers might sometimes bash Kagome if they dislike her, but never Rin, since she isn't a threat. They do, however, tend to bash Sara, an anime-only filler character.
* In ''DragonBallZ''... [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]] often gets twisted into a wife-beater by fans of the [[GadgeteerGenius Bulma]]/[[TheRival Vegeta]] pairing. As long as we're on the subject, why shippers think that a wife-beater would be worse than an OmnicidalManiac is anyone's guess.
** Many ''Dragon Ball Z'' fanfics have had Yamcha cheating on Bulma with another woman as the impetus for Bulma to break it off with him and get together with Vegeta, who had pulled a HeelFaceTurn by the time the Frieza saga was over, though he was still something of an arrogant JerkAss. Most of the fic in question was of the year or so before the arrival of the Androids which resulted in the birth of Bulma and Vegeta's son, Trunks. In the canon, Bulma and Yamcha (who before meeting Bulma was absolutely ''petrified'' of women) broke up because it just wasn't working out between the two of them.
** There's also the Trunks''/''[[FlatCharacter Marron]] ([[OvershadowedByAwesome Kuririn]] and [[DarkActionGirl #18]]'s daughter) who bash Pan, and the Trunks/Pan fans who bash Marron, neither of whom have done anything to suggest a romantic rivalry. In fact, poor Marron doesn't do anything ''at all''.
* There appears to be quite a bit of animosity in the ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' shipping camp between those deciding whether to pair [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Natsuki Kuga]] exclusively with Shizuru Fujino (Natsuki's most important person in HiME and her schoolgirl crush in Otome, a dyed-in-the-wool [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl/School Supervisor Lesbian]] with an obvious crush on her) or Nao Yuuki (who [[FoeYay teases her]] [[LesYay like crazy]] in ''{{Mai-Otome}}''), with fans of one pairing painting the designated "third wheel" as an evil harpy deserving of death (despite ''both'' Shizuru and Nao being examples of DracoInLeatherPants).
** Ignoring the non-shippers who [[TheScrappy dislike]] male lead character Yuuichi Tate for being [[NonActionGuy largely useless]] (and [[SpotlightStealingSquad stealing the spotlight in the manga]], to the point that some fans have [[Discontinuity/{{Anime}} sworn off the manga adaptation entirely]] simply because he's in it), those who write him in fanfic at all keep [[TheHero Mai Tokiha]] the hell away from him [[FanPreferredCouple in favor of hooking her up with]] [[CuteBruiser Mikoto Minagi]]. This is complicated even further because of the constant LesYay Mai and Mikoto share on-screen, and because [[spoiler:even though Mai feels like she'd be better as Mikoto's CoolBigSis, she actually tells ''Mikoto'' "I love you" ''before'' saying the same about Tate, even in the final episode's {{omake}}.]]
** Rabid Shizuru/Natsuki fans have also bashed [[TallDarkAndSnarky Reito Kanzaki]], vice president of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Shizuru leads. Oddly enough, he shows no interest in Shizuru [[TheStraightWillAndGrace aside of friendship]] and has a crush ''on Mai'' in canon, but the Mai/Mikoto fans are ''not'' out for his blood. [[spoiler:The fact that Reito is Mikoto's older brother as well as [[DemonicPossession the vessel]] for the BigBad doesn't seem to bother them that much.]]
* Speaking of ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', many shippers of the [[BetaCouple Akane/Kazuya pairing]] (yes, they exist) would like nothing better than Mahya falling down the stairs and breaking a leg or something, for the annoying "crime" of [[MomentKiller interrupting any romantic moment between the two]] and generally acting like Garderobe's "romance police". Mahya is not a romantic rival, to be sure, but she still ''does'' get in the way of the pairing.
** Shizuru/Natsuki fans who follow ''Otome'' also don't like [[PsychoLesbian Tomoe Marguerite]], and make up a large section of her [[TheScrappy anti-fandom]]. It doesn't help Tomoe's case that she actually ''does'' attempt to hurt/kill people [[spoiler:(even going as far as to willingly join the bad guys)]] so that she can be the only one to get Shizuru's eye/pants... though [[spoiler:[[IHaveYouNowMyPretty the kiss]]]] was likely the straw that broke the [[{{Nanomachines}} nanomachine-powered]] camel's back.
* The tagline to the harem anime ''{{SHUFFLE}}'' is ''"Which girl would you choose?"'' Better pick FAST, because the {{Instant Fanclub}}s depicted in the show have carried over into the fandom, and they're just as crazy as on TV. ''Kitto Kitto Kaede'' (pro [[{{Yandere}} Kaede Fuyou]]) and ''Ai Ai Asa'' (pro [[{{Bokukko}} Asa Shigure]]) in particular have deep, ''deep'' vendettas against each other's characters.
* In ''RomeoXJuliet'', [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Dictator's Handsome Son]] Romeo Candorebanto Montague has a [[ThePaolo fiancée]] named Hermione di Borromeo. She's sweet, has an odd hairstyle, starts as a YamatoNadeshiko but has an episode that features her as a momentary {{Yandere}}, and is in between Romeo's destined love with a Juliet portrayed as a mix of {{Bifauxnen}} and ActionGirl for plot reasons. Of ''course'', no matter how [[TheWoobie sympathetic]] [[RomanticRunnerUp she is]] in canon (which is rare for a Paolo), a good part of the fandom sees Hermione as an evil, stupid slut who must die so the Strong and Cool Juliet can have her Romeo, kthxbai.
* In ''GundamSEED'' and its sequel: The ire of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Athrun]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Cagalli]] fans, after [[ShipSinking canon went against them]] in ''GundamSEEDDestiny'', brought ''lots'' of bashing of [[NaiveEverygirl Meyrin Hawke]], [[{{Shorttank}} Lunamaria "Luna" Hawke]] and [[{{Stripperiffic}} Meer Campbell]]... to the point that some people have either: a) sworn off ''SEED'' as a whole SOLELY for the ShipSinking; b) sworn off the Athrun/Cagalli pairing, or c) ''bashed [=AsuCaga=] back'' for the evil it inflicted on their girls or ships - especially poor Cagalli.
** And it's not only about the infamous [=AsuCaga=] shipwar. If you like Kira/Lacus, you can't like [[FallenPrincess Fllay]] and must call her "whore" and "rapist". If you prefer Kira/Fllay, you're expected to call [[YamatoNadeshiko Lacus]] a plain and unrealistic PuritySue. ThisTroper was once invited to join a a Kira/Fllay LJ comm whose mod wrote a ''petition'' for the writers to [[RetGone write out]] [[http://community.livejournal.com/fllayxkira_now/profile the whole Kira/Lacus relationship and bring Kira back to Fllay]]. In their own words about Lacus:
--> '''Mod''': "(...) The nice, calm, and friendly Lacus Clyne; a symbol of peace and love. Practiced smile, monotonous voice, and uncompromising pacifism be damned! She is annoyingly perfect, unrealistic, boring, and seemingly unaffected by the harsh events surrounding her; the very opposite of the passionate, albeit unstable, and fiery tempered Fllay."
* If you're a more or less sane ''CodeGeass'' fan, do ''not'' mention the name Shirley Fenette in front of rabid Lelouch/C.C. or Lelouch/Kallen fans (and even then, it's probably best to isolate Lulu/C.C. and Lulu/Kallen fans from each other for a while). [[spoiler:Even after Shirley actually ''died'' for the ship.]]
** There's one message board where one poster insists that Shirley is an evil, heartless, manipulative bitch for using her father's death as an "excuse" to get closer to Lelouch, ignoring that she admitted it was selfish and apologized to Lelouch for it, and Lulu actually reciprocates her feelings to some extent. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, compare the above to Mao's little HannibalLecture he gives to Shirley in Episode 14 of the first season.]]
** Also, a good part of the hatred that sprung for [[spoiler: Rolo]] comes from [[spoiler: people being convinced that he killed Shirley ''solely'' out of [[{{Yandere}} psychotic love jealousy]].]] Forget that [[spoiler: Shirley had the bad luck of [[HeKnowsTooMuch saying the wrong thing at the worst moment]], Rolo killed Lulu's ONE TWU WUB solely to steal Lulu's heart for himself.]]
** And now? Kallen is getting LOTS of hate. [[spoiler: Because she kissed Lelouch in episode 22 of R2]]. When ''that'' happened, cue to lots of fans (and ''not'' only Lelouch/C.C or Suzaku/Lelouch shippers)screaming "Bitch!" "Whore!" "Slut!" "Skank!" "Kallen is [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses not cool anymore because she's acting like a chick]], OH NOES!"
** This is probably just a symptom of the fact that ''Code Geass'' seems to have spawned one of the [[BrokenBase most bitter]] [[UnpleasableFanbase and divisive]] [[FanDumb fandoms]] in recent memory. Absolutely anything seems a good reason for Geass fans to entrench themselves and blame the other side for all the fandom's problems (and for their own bad behavior). So it's probably not very surprising that the shipping is this way too.
*** Which is all incredibly amusing/distressing when you realise that [[spoiler: until Lelouch got, er, "unmasked"]], not only was the harem ending supported by Divine Right Of Rulership and genetics (Emperor Chuck and his 108 wives, anyone?), but by ''two'' prospective haremettes, [[spoiler:the not-entirely-in-the-closet Milly and the unappreciated Kaguya.]]
* In regards to ''KaleidoStar'', [[NonActionGuy Kenneth "Ken" Robbins]] has a crush on [[GenkiGirl Sora Naegino]], the ''very'' femslashable female lead, but has so far escaped from the [[GirlsLove yuri fans]]' rage. But those who ship Sora with the second season's WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Leon Oswald have ''huge'' hate-ons for Leon's partner, the arrogant and child-like ChineseGirl May Wong.
* ''SchoolDays'' shippers can often behave just as idiotically as [[IdiotPlot the characters they're shipping]], if not more. Aside from the obvious Makoto-bashing ([[TheScrappy though it's not like he doesn't deserve it]]), Sekai fans call Kotonoha a "stupid, psycho, [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses anti-feminist]] whore" for being Makoto-obsessed to the point of [[{{Yandere}} mental illness]], and in return Kotonoha fans just won't stop referring to Sekai as "prostitute", "traitor", "backstabber" and "hypocrite". It doesn't help that in the manga and some of the "bad" game endings, Sekai ''is'' seen as selfish and manipulative, instead of an impulsive and confused teen; what makes it ''even worse'' is that Kotonoha is ''genuinely'' crazy when murderous or suicidal (seen by her MindControlEyes), but in at least two [=PS2=] game endings Sekai seems creepily ''sane'' when she does the same.
* Shippers in the ''DeathNote'' fandom have been known to come to blows over whether Mello should be with Matt or Near, despite the fact that Matt featured in all of ten panels in the manga, and his appearance in the anime was even briefer.
** Much loathing is also directed at [[PoisonousFriend Misa Amane]] for "standing in the way" of Light/L, even though Light sees ''both'' of them as obstacles on his path to world domination.
** And then there's Halle Lidner. Sweet Lord, poor Halle...
* No matter what your opinion of the ''[[IchigoOneHundredPercent Ichigo 100%]]'' ending is, you will be despised by an opposing shipping group, despite the fact that it's universally agreed that the lead, Junpei, is a loser. I guess that entire theory about harem leads being losers so the audience can relate to them is true, as much as the fans hate them.
* Oh, ''PrincessTutu'' fandom. No matter how human she is, how much she hurts for being abused by her evil father [[spoiler: and her love interest when he turns evil]] and how she actually learns from her mistakes, [[{{Ojou}} Rue]]/[[DarkMagicalGirl Princess Kraehe]] keeps getting crap from rabid Mytho/Ahiru fans for stealing Mytho from the Sue-fied version of Ahiru they have in their minds. [[spoiler: Nevermind that later Ahiru bonds more with Mytho's [[TheLancer companion Fakir]], and how Mytho ultimately ''chooses'' Rue as his Princess ''freely'', after she [[CallingTheOldManOut rejects her evil father]] and pulls a [[TearJerker heart-wretching]] HeroicSacrifice.]]
** Not to mention a datebook that explicitly states Ahiru's feelings for Mytho are actually those of admiration, and that [[spoiler: she's totally fallen for Fakir by the very end of the series.]]
* The ''MarmaladeBoy'' fandom, surprisingly, doesn't bash the people involved in the ridiculously huge LoveDodecahedron ''that'' much (outside of hating [[TheBrainlessBeauty Jinny Golding]] for pulling [[WhatAnIdiot something so stupid]] that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone even]] ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she]]'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets it later]]... but the hardest, cruelest bashing actually piles up on handsome teacher Shinichi "Nat-chan" Namura, who's the love interest of Miki's best friend [[{{Ojou}} Meiko Akizuki]]. Yes, this is one of the cases where a HotForStudent situation is developed ''sympathetically'', but the fans who ship Meiko with [[WhitePrince Satoshi Miwa]] just will ''not'' stop calling Namura-sensei "pedophile" or "asshole who makes Meiko suffer for nothing". [[spoiler: Even after Satoshi sees he cannot sway Meiko away from Namura and pulls an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy along with Namura's UnluckyChildhoodFriend, Ryouko-sensei.]]
* In a Ranka vs. Sheryl debate on a ''MacrossFrontier'' forum thread, Ranka gets criticized for being a "[[LoliCon barely legal loli]] [[MoeMoe moeblob]]", while Sheryl gets flak for her overly flirty attitude and [[RichBitch her somewhat selfish, overbearing personality]], even if onscreen, when both are not being rivals to each other about Alto, they have somewhat of a SempaiKohai relationship, and care for each other a lot.
** The series producer (or director/creator, can't remember), said that "Being with only one girl isn't the only way to go", which could be a massive TakeThat to FirstGirlWins and/or LastGirlWins; definitely an ''endorsement'' of TenchiSolution.
** The FanDumb got to the point where a well respected member of a non-English speaking forum actually made up supposed facts to make the impression that one of the creators supported one ship over the other and this was generally seen as fact until members of a different forum got suspicious and tracked down the supposed magazine where the information came from and found out that it was all a lie. (A FAQ with a summary of the events can be found [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=2585414#post2585414 here]].)
* ''CowboyBebop'' fans love to pair off Spike and Faye. Poor Julia can go die in a fire, according to them. [[spoiler:Or better said, she can get shot on a roof top. Well, that was canon, but it certainly didn't help Faye's cause if there ''was'' one.]]
* ''FushigiYuugi'' fans who would have rather seen Miaka Yuuki hook up with Hotohori or Tasuki often bash Tamahome or kill him off in their fics to make either of the former pairings possible. (Oddly enough, fans of the Miaka/Yui pairing have yet to resort to this.)
** Alternately, some fics have Miaka conveniently die in childbirth so that Tamahome and [insert male character and/or MarySue here] can not only hook up, they'll have a little family when they do.
** And Tetsuya, Yui's eventual canon love interest, is sometimes portrayed as abusive or unfaithful so that Yui and Suboshi can get together somehow, although one would think the fact that [[spoiler:Suboshi is ''dead'' by the time Tetsuya asks Yui out in the end]] would be the biggest obstacle there. Similar to the Vegeta/Bulma/Yamcha situation, it's unclear why a MoralEventHorizon-crosser is somehow an upgrade...
* Even the GirlsLove romantic comedy ''StrawberryPanic'' isn't immune to this. The Shizuma/Nagisa shippers and the Tamao/Nagisa shippers can get quite violent when provoked. There is also a very large body of fans were angry that Yaya didn't get Hikari, and would rather see Amane get StuffedInTheFridge.
** And they were that close from killing Amane off after she fell off her horse...she gets better to the distain of every Yaya fan out there. Amane just made a lot of enemies in one fell swoop.
* The ''SorcererHunters'' sidestory novels introduced a character named Enzeru Fish, who fell in love with Tira at first sight. At least one rabid Carrot/Tira fan [[http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/mypuppycarrot/KillEnzer.jpeg was not too happy about that]]. Another fan bashed Chocolat for having a crush on Carrot as well.
** On the yaoi side of things, Carrot is often demonized into a homophobic {{Jerkass}} who would disown Marron for being in love with Gateau. Conversely, Gateau is made into a raping bastard for the sake of Carrot/Marron or Marron/Tira.
* In ''ElfenLied'', Lucy/Kouta fans hate TeamMom [[ClingyJealousGirl Yuuka]] with a fiery passion. Even when, well, she's not exactly the biggest threat to their relationship... [[spoiler: but the fact that Lucy murdered Kouta's father and sister ''is''.]]
* A somewhat surprising exception can be found in the ''{{Vision of Escaflowne}}'' fandom. The one who gets the hardest and cruelest bashing from fangirls for getting in between [[HotBlooded Van Fanel]] and [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Hitomi Kanzaki]] is... ''not'' [[ClingyJealousGirl Merle]] the CatGirl. Though fans ''do'' complain about Merle, the one hated the most is actually [[OfficerAndAGentleman Allen Schezar]], the blond-haired bishonen with a convoluted love life prior to meeting Hitomi (don't ask), who is seen as "sexist", "control freak" and "traitor" [[spoiler: because he got to [[FirstKiss kiss]] Hitomi in front of Van... when the three were in a sort-of weird MoreThanMindControl situation enacted by Folken and the twin catgirls and [[XanatosGambit staged by Dornkirk]]. That was ''not'' Allen's fault (and neither Hitomi's, nor Van's), but people still use that scene to woobify Van and bash Allen.]]
* ''RurouniKenshin'' fandom has the infamous "[[{{Tsundere}} Kaoru]] is soooo emotional and sweet and that makes her better for Kenshin than the ice cold MarySue [[EmotionlessGirl Tomoe]]" v/s "Kaoru is a stupid, [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy little bitch]] and Tomoe was a [[PuritySue perfect goddess]] who made Kenshin truly happy" wars. Never mind that [[spoiler:Tomoe was dead long before Kaoru came into the picture, which means that neither of them poses any threat to the opposing ship. It's as if the fans refuse to believe that Kenshin can fall in love more than once in his life.]]
** And if we go to [[HotBlooded Sanosuke]] / [[TeamMom Megumi]] fans... Argh. Their treatment of [[IllGirl Sayo]] is ''horrible''. Makes even less sense since [[spoiler: not only she's an anime-only character, but she ''dies''.]]
* In the ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' franchise, some Kyon/Yuki and Kyon/Mikuru fans just won't stop [[CharacterExaggeration overexaggerating]] Haruhi's childish, sociopathic and impulsive behavior to [[CompleteMonster downright evil and/or psychotic]] degrees and ''denying'' all the CharacterDevelopment she got, while turning the "rival" into a victimised PuritySue to "prove" how more "deserving" she is of Kyon's love than Haruhi. To them, Kyon doesn't care for Haruhi ''at all'' and ''ONLY'' puts up with her because he's forced to as a member of the SOS Brigade [[spoiler: (read: he doesn't want her to [[RealityWarper re-write reality]] without knowing it, but would ditch her ''immediately'' if he could).]] Nevermind that [[spoiler: Kyon ''does'' gently but clearly tell Yuki in the novels that he ''likes'' all the craziness Haruhi brings to his life. Not to mention that, without her, Yuki and Mikuru wouldn't even ''be'' there, so it's thanks to "the evil Haruhi" that they even have chances to approach Kyon.]]
** Though, to be fair, Kyon/Haruhi fans aren't entirely innocent of this either. A number of the more diehard fans seem unable to accept [[OutOfFocus Haruhi's reduced role in the series]], and instead paint Mikuru as an evil, ManipulativeBitch who is activly attempting to steal Kyon away from Haruhi.
** [[GenderFlip HarukixKyonko]] vs [[AmbiguouslyGay Itsuko]]x[[{{Kuudere}} Kyonko]].
** To a lesser degree than the others, [[DepravedBisexual Haruhi]] x [[{{Moe Moe}} Mikuru]] and Kyon x Haruhi.
*** And Kyon gets bashed by [[LesYay Haruhi/Mikuru]] shippers for being a threat to ''both'' sides of their ship.
** And funnily (for the Ship Wars going on around the fandom, not because I'm a ghost of a DiscreditedTrope), the Itsuki/Kyon shippers are just bitter about it all. Pages and pages of Itsuki [[TrueArtIsAngsty angst]], at times turning him into a [[{{Wangst}} complete]] [[DepravedHomosexual psycho]] concerning his inability to be with Kyon, especially because of God-Haruhi, though not [[BuryYourGays limited]] to it (albeit usually inside his head)... Though given his charade...
* The fanbase on at least one anime website is bitterly, bitterly divided on their opinion of {{Meido}} Siesta's overtures towards Saito in the anime ''ZeroNoTsukaima'' complete with rabid fannish gibbering for her death. As of the second season, [[spoiler: Saito is married to his "master", Louise]] , making them a semi-official pairing.
* BoysLove version. In ''YamiNoMatsuei'', some [[DracoInLeatherPants Muraki]] x [[AlmightyJanitor Tsuzuki]] fans don't see Miraki's [[CompleteMonster repulsive acts of villainy]] as the main obstacle to get Muraki into Tsuzuki's pants. The "evil pest" is actually Tsuzuki's partner [[spoiler: and Muraki's victim]], [[TheEmpath Hisoka Kurosaki]], therefore they bash the crap out of Hisoka and gleefully forget how Muraki is ''not'' your average OfficerAndAGentleman, but a cruel and sadistic mass murderer [[spoiler: who wants Tsuzuki not only because he's pretty, but to use his body to revive his evil half-brother Saki... and kill him as revenge for ruining his life.]]
** And if you go read some Tsuzuki x Hisoka fics, you might find hate towards IllGirl Tsubaki Kakyouin as well.
* While Ayaka and Noriko from ''{{Gravitation}}'' have received their share of bashing, despite Ayaka [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy willingly conceding Yuki to Shuichi]] and Noriko being HappilyMarried to a [[MayDecemberRomance much older man]] in the manga, the majority of fanfics simply don't bring them up at all. The ''guys'' don't get off as easily: either [[TallDarkAndSnarky Yuki]] is an abusive, heartless bastard and [[{{Keet}} Shuichi]] deserves ''much'' better than him (usually [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Hiro]]), or [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Tohma]] is a [[StalkerWithACrush psycho stalker]] who gets in the way of Shuichi and Yuki's love. Granted, Yuki isn't the nicest person and Tohma ''did'' try to keep Shuichi and Yuki apart at one point, but neither of them is as evil as many fans would like to believe.
* Once upon a time, the ''{{Cyborg 009}}'' fandom had a buttload of this. Poor TeamMom Francoise/003 was not only seen as "weak" because she didn't always fight, but if you liked your yaoi (even if it didn't involve her being a "threat") it was a sort-of pre-requisite to hate her. And those who shipped her with Joe/009 fought back... by bashing the most obvious "competition", Princess Ixquic and [[OedipusRex Carl Eckermann]] [[spoiler: alias Sphinx.]] Heck, ThisTroper remembers a fic that not only reduced them to romance novel stereotype, but bashed Joe's childhood friend Mary Onodera just to make the "plot" more believable.
* While the Ship Wars have calmed down considerably, the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' fandom spent some time being a major headache. The loudest were the Roy/Riza fans, who hated Ed, Havoc, Al, or anyone else who had even the remotest potential to break up their OTP, but every one of the Major Pairings had its rage-filled fans. And God forbid you were one of those who shipped multiple pairings that traded off characters, threesomes, or didn't like shipping at all.
** Winry can count herself lucky, since most of the fandom doesn't bother to kill her in fanfic, just pairs her off with Al so Ed can go be [[{{Shotacon}} gay with Roy]]. They mostly ignore her completely if they ship the brothers together (or with their own alchemist MarySue). Surprisingly, Riza takes very little heat from Roy/Ed shippers, probably because in the anime it's easy to dismiss her feelings as one-sided. Naturally, it didn't help matters when TheMovie played up the HoYay even more and had both Ed and Roy ignoring Winry and Riza, respectively, then sent the Elrics off to an AlternateUniverse. This HetIsEw outlook only helps to fuel the [[BrokenBase civil war]] in the fandom, since among fans of the manga the various het pairings are by far the most popular.
* Another case that's more or less forgotten but was horrible in its time was the war between Domon/Allenby and Domon/Rain shippers in the ''GGundam'' fandom. ThisTroper still shudders as she remembers how Allenby was called "mannish idiot", "ugly bitch" or "stupid whore" by Domon/Rain fans for crushing on the first person who saw her as a person and not a TykeBomb, and being reminded of how Rain was called "fanservice on legs", "whiny slut" or "ClingyJealousGirl" by Domon/Ally fanits ''and'' the rumors that the author of the GGundam manga [[WriterOnBoard had a bias against Rain]] don't help either.
** ''Domon'' himself isn't free of this. Those who preferred Rain with Chibodee or George often took his [[JerkAss already pronunciated]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold bad traits]], [[CharacterExaggeration ran away with them]] and [[TheUnfairSex derailed him]] into a [[RapeAsDrama rapist]] or [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek a wife beater]] so she could ditch him for any other of her possible beaus. Sometimes, Rain's ''canon'' ex love interest Saette also was badmouthed by Domon/Rain fans, despite having [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye more or less valid reasons]] to wonder about Rain and Domon.
* Exception: despite the sheer popularity of the [[BigBrotherMentor Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy]] x [[DefrostingIceQueen Tieria Erde]] yaoi pairing in the ''{{Gundam 00}}'' fandom, its fangirls never seem to bash [[BridgeBunnies Feldt]] [[EmotionlessGirl Grace]] for having a sweet crush on Lockon. In fact, many of them actually ''like'' her.
** Sadly, it has started... in Feldt's "defense". More than a few Feldt x [[spoiler: Lyle Dylandy (Neil's BackupTwin)]] fans bash [[YamatoNadeshiko Anew Returner]] HARD and call her a CanonSue for threatening their OTP. Which is ironic and utterly ''stupid'', since before Anew ''ever'' was in the picture, [[spoiler: Lyle actually preferred to put on a JerkassFacade in front of Feldt and [[ItsNotYouItsMe push her away]], rather than encourage her to pursue his affections.]] Needless to say, the fact that [[spoiler:Lyle and Anew have now hooked up in canon]] hasn't helped matters at all. Poor Anew.
*** And now episode 19 has made things ''worse still'' for Anew, and not just for shipping reasons either: [[spoiler:she has been revealed her Innovator identity to the Ptolemy crew and has turned on them, both probably shooting Lasse ''and'', in the preview, holding [[GenkiGirl Mileina]] at gunpoint]]. It should be noted, however, that [[spoiler:there's a good chance that the supposedly "traitorous" Anew is actually a ''ManchurianAgent'' who's right now under MindControl, courtesy of the captured Revive AND Ribbons. Strange how Anew is hated for seemingly turning evil, and yet her "twin" and her "boss" continue to be [[DracoInLeatherPants cuddled by fangirls]] regardless of the fact they're ''responsible'' for it...]]
*** And now, as of episode 20, this trope has been invoked with [[spoiler: Anew Returner's tragic death. The negative perception fangirls had of her isn't helped at all by the fact that Anew herself wasn't convinced that her time/feelings for Lyle were true until it was ''way'' too late]].
** As for 00's main star [[ChildSoldiers Setsuna]], there are those who ship him with [[RebelliousPrincess Marina]] or with [[{{Yangire}} Nena]]. The odds are most likely in Marina's favor now since [[spoiler: Nena was killed by Louise]]. However, the two aforementioned ladies are.. [[TheScrappy not well liked]]. As a result, some fans [[LittleBlackDress paired Setsuna with other characters]] such as [[CargoShip his Gundams]], [[HoYay his fellow Meisters, Saji]], [[FoeYay Graham]], [[CrackPairing Louise]] or [[FanPreferredCouple Feldt]]. [[spoiler: The last one mentioned [[ShipTease already made her move]], and unlike the two ladies, [[EnsembleDarkhorse she's likeable]].]]
** As far as [[TagAlongKid Saji]]-[[BrokenBird Louise]] shippers go, they now have every right to bash Louise's partner [[OedipusRex Andrei Smirnov]] for trying to win Louise's heart, as he has certainly became TheScrappy for crossing the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler:killing his father, [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Sergei]] [[CoolOldGuy Smirnov]]]]. And again by [[spoiler: [[MomentKiller interrupting Saji and Louise during an important conversation during Episode 19]].]] And ''again'' in episode 24 when [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse he directly assults Saji]] [[FreudianExcuse blaming him for Louise's deteriorating mental condition]]. Fortunately, Setsuna is there to prevent it, and then Andrei is swayed away from them by his interaction with Marie.]]
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'', despite being a show full of HoYay-fueled {{Moe Anthropomorphism}}s, has a fandom that's largely free of ShippingWars, probably because almost any pairing can be justified as ([[RealitySubtext historical]]) canon and the female characters are generally liked. But even it isn't ''completely'' free from this trope:
** While the majority of Russia/America fans don't hate [[{{Tsundere}} England]] for possibly having a crush on America, there are still a few of them who exaggerate his 'tsun' behavior towards America to {{Jerkass}} or even psychotic levels to make Russia into a more viable romantic option for America. The worst cases have England as a {{Yandere}} torturing an America who's apparently lost all ability to [[SuperStrength single-handedly fling him across the room]] and needs to be rescued from England's abuse or find solace in Russia's arms. This even appears in a couple of ''ostensibly'' America/England fics just to show how horrible and unhealthy America/England would be, [[SarcasmMode because it's not as if England ever acts 'dere' around America or America ever *likes* snarking at and insulting him back on equal ground]].
*** Interestingly, America isn't hit by this as often or as hard as England is, despite there being a slightly better case for him being a jerk to England (and him being the main source of England's heartbreak, even if he wasn't happy about having to do it). Even when his stupidity and tactlessness are played up to emphasize just how unsuitable a partner he would be for England, he's almost always portrayed as genuinely well-meaning and simply unaware of England's crush on him and/or how much his words can hurt England. A bit condescending, yes, but a far cry from CharacterDerailment of the {{Jerkass}} or {{Yandere}} kind.
** There's also the portrayal of [[TheWhitePrince Austria]] in some [[HotBlooded Prussia]]/[[NinjaMaid Hungary]] fanwork. Since the Austria/Hungary OfficialCouple can be ''very'' easily seen as an ArrangedMarriage due to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Compromise_of_1867 Austro-Hungarian Compromise]], some P/H fans basically twist Austria into a sort-of KichikuMegane, portraying him as [[TheUnfairSex cold, snobbish and neglectful of Hungary's emotional needs to the point of emotional abuse]] so she can be justified into seeking out comfort in the "more fun, passionate" [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Prussia]]'s arms and [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on her husband with him]]. They don't go so far as to make Austria [[DomesticAbuse beat the hell out of Hungary]] (who's still [[HotAmazon physically]] [[NinjaMaid stronger]] [[NonActionGuy than he is]], anyway), but they "forget" that they get along pretty well even ''after'' their "divorce"...
** Even Hungary, normally embraced by fans for being a HotAmazon and YaoiFangirl, isn't 100% free of this. There are at least two Germany/Austria fics where she's portrayed as a ClingyJealousGirl who breaks the Austro-Hungarian compromise ''solely'' because Austria pays less attention to her than she wants to. Seems somebody hasn't read the Anschluss and/or Valentines strips, huh?
*** A more subdued version is having Hungary ''only'' as the local YaoiFangirl who loves watching others hit on Austria, but neglecting to have them interact in a more personal/romantic way. That brings out quite a bit of UnfortunateImplications: having a woman hang out with the slashable guys is okay as long as she doesn't ''dare'' to set her eyes on the guy she's ''canonly'' interested on, because her only acceptable "role" is to serve as the OtakuSurrogate and possible PossessionSue on whom the fangirls can project their own personalities. Way to flatten the character, FanDumb.
** The ShipToShipCombat between Russia/Lithuania and Poland/Lithuania shippers has fallen more than once into this. The most rabid Poland/Lithuania shippers portray Russia as a CompleteMonster who beats and rapes Lithuania ForTheEvulz (Russia ''is'' a canon PsychopathicManchild and {{Yandere}}, but many Poland/Liet fans ignore [[DespairEventHorizon his sympathetic backstory]] and [[NeverLiveItDown iron out all nuances in his character]] to make him into the stock evil antagonist), and the most vocal Russia/Lithuania fans take Poland's initial selfishness and DumbBlonde quirks (played for laughs in-series) to CharacterExaggeration extremes, denying his CharacterDevelopment.
** Belarus, as the {{Yandere}} [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]] of Russia, who not only is the [[LittleBlackDress fandom bicycle]] but also her ''[[BrotherSisterIncest brother]]'', doesn't get ''nearly'' as much hate as you'd expect and many fans actually enjoy her PlayedForLaughs role as the stalker of the stalker. However, more serious fics that pair Russia up with someone other than Belarus often turn her into a CompleteMonster without a drop of sympathy or depth. True, Belarus canonly resents anyone Russia shows interest in and she doesn't get a FreudianExcuse or HiddenDepths regarding her behavior like her brother does, but the worst thing she did in canon was breaking Lithuania's fingers - and that was solely done for humor on a date that Lithuania himself asked Belarus for. Having her go out of her way to tie up and ''rape'' Lithuania is probably taking it too far.
** A very... "special" Russia/Liet fanworker in Deviantart [[http://uberchicken.deviantart.com/art/RussLiet-OTP-meme-135902513 has a fanart]] where she not only bashes the China/Russia pairing to shreds, but draws Russia killing China and burning his corpse in a fire. And the less said about ''her'' romanticized view of Russia/Liet (as opposed to a MindGameShip), the better.
* ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is a refreshingly calm and wank-free fandom, but that hasn't stopped some authors from making [[CelibateHero Ken]] into an asshole as a set-up for the [[{{Tsundere}} Jun]] x [[DumbMuscle Ryu]] pairings, or one particular [[SlashFic Ken x Joe]] writer from demonizing Jun into a ClingyJealousGirl of the worst kind.
* Some ''{{FAKE}}'' fans bash [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Guy]] J.J. for his obsessive crush on Dee, which to be fair ''is'' over the top but they also forget J.J. is a pretty good cop otherwise [[spoiler: and that he later gives up on Dee - getting together with ''Drake'' instead (sorta)]]. Others accuse Berkley Rose of being a rapist due to his attraction to Ryo (the most he ever did to Ryo was a ForcefulKiss, and Ryo punched him in the face for even trying that), and some extreme cases of HurtComfortFic have the fangirl ''creating an evil MarySue to rape Ryo [[RescueRomance just so Dee can come in and rescue him]].''
* This happens quite often to Keiko Yukimura in ''YuYuHakusho'', as fans either love her and think she's a great match with Yusuke or hate her and usually make her out to be a jealous bitch (or kill her) so that they can pair him with Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, or an OriginalCharacter. The same thing also happens to [[spoiler: Mukuro]], Hiei's [[spoiler: boss and potential love interest,]] who is made out to look like a man and be a power-hungry maniac, if she's mentioned at all, in order to facilitate his hooking up with Kurama. Which is a shame, as [[spoiler: the two share [[TheMasochismTango a sweet, if somewhat disturbing relationship]], especially in the manga.]]
** We can't forget the hate [[TheLancer Kuwabara]] gets for not being a bishie and turning into putty when he's next to [[AnIcePerson Yukina]], can we? Yeah, a good part of the hate isn't pairing based, but some Kurama/Yukina fans DO have huge hate-ons for Kuwabara, so...
* This happens to just about every female ''WeissKreuz'' character who's shown some kind of romantic interest in any of the [[EveryoneIsGay eight main characters]]. [[TheOjou Ouka Sakaki]] probably comes off worst: despite the fact that she is both [[spoiler: Omi's cousin]] and [[spoiler: dead]], fanficcers are still capable of transforming her into an arrogant, shallow RichBitch who Omi only dated because he was too polite to tell her where to go. In fact, though none of the four HitmanWithAHeart regulars' love affairs last more than a few episodes and Aya's feelings for Sakura were no more than platonic, their would-be love interests are far too frequently bashed for getting in the way of the HoYay or a MarySue, with [[FailureKnight Youji's]] ex-girlfriend [[TheGwenStacy Asuka]], who was dead before the series even ''began'', being about the only exception.
** Even in Asuka's case some shippers have suggested Youji only hung around with her in the first place in an attempt to prove he wasn't gay, or they sub in a MarySue to serve as his childhood sweetheart in her place.
*** If they don't make her a PossessionSue, yeah.
** This trope often gets applied to ''Ken'' for no reason other than his [[HeterosexualLIfePartners close friendship]] with Youji would make Youji's new love look less important. When he's not being ignored completely as a result he's written as a clueless moron, the [[IdiotOfTheWeek token misogynist homophobe]], or both.
*** All of this is made especially silly by the fact that canon depicts all of the main characters, especially the [[FourIsDeath four protagonists]], as terminal {{Doom Magnet}}s who are almost guaranteed to get [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a bridge dropped]] on anyone who gets too close to them.
* Should [[ShugoChara Amu]] end up with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Ikuto]] or [[WhitePrince Tadase]]? Would you even mention [[BigBrotherMentor Kukai]] into the fray? So far, the fandom is largely [[TemptingFate peaceful]], though it seems to be leaning toward Amu/Tadase.
**Actually, the fandom is definitely not peaceful, with about 90 percent of the fandom basically touting Ikuto/Amu as the deepest, greatest love story ever told and calling Tadase too girly (at best) and potentially evil (at worst). They even lambaste him for ruining Ikuto/Amu moments that actually started off as Tadase/Amu moments until Ikuto showed up uninvited.
**In the anime, they're most likely just trying to balance the two couple's moments out. In the manga version, however, it's definitely leaning towards Amu/Ikuto.
* Naru Narusegawa of ''LoveHina'' is demonized by fans of Keitaro/Mutsumi, Keitaro/Shinobu, etc. On the other hand, some Keitarou/Naru fans bash Motoko and demonize ''her'' behavior towards Keitarou, while failing to aknowledge that Naru can be just as bad when at her worst. In fact, the whole ''Love Hina'' example that used to be here actually fell victim to ShipToShipCombat mentality and had to go, making it a ''great'' proof of the trope.
* In ''FruitsBasket'', the bashing/CanonSue accusations of [[YamatoNadeshiko Tohru]] [[TheMessiah Honda]] by rabid [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "feminist"]] fangirls is a given, but ThisTroper has also seen [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kyo]] dubbed as "abusive wife-beater" (by Tohru/Yuki fans, who also refer to [[ShrinkingViolet Machi Kuragi]] as "RelationshipSue"), Yuki as "male RichBitch JerkAss" (by Kyo/Tohru fans) and Rin as "{{emo}} whore" (by Yuki/Haru fans). And let's not even talk of how disgruntled Tohru/Yuki fans treat poor Tohru [[spoiler: for daring to choose "abusive asshole" Kyo over "nice perfect gorgeous" Yuki]].
** Kudos to [[StalkerWithACrush Kagura Honda]] for doing it to herself.
* The [[LuckyStar Konami]] ([[GenkiGirl Konata]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Kagami]]) fanboys can be so rabid, they have been known in the past to bash [[{{Meganekko}} Miyuki]] just for the act of being on screen for a few moments. If these fans were the majority, chances are that Miyuki would really die for their ship. It's perhaps a telling sign of the temptations of shipping and {{Fan Dumb}}ness that an anime ''satirizing'' anime tropes and conventions should itself suffer from shipwars.
* An alternate-universe OVA series for ''DaCapo'', in which the [[FanPreferredCouple fan-preferred]] Kotori wins, was released several years after the original series. In this series, [[spoiler:DieForOurShip is ''actually'' invoked: Nemu is shown to have died some time before the story begins.]] A number of fans were... quite happy about this.
* Probably the current #1 cause of dislike for Kaaya from ''{{Tower of Druaga}}''...
* Since a [[YaoiFangirl sizable chunk]] of the readership is into [[XxxHolic xxxHOLiC]] for the HoYay between Watanuki and Domeki, it's a wonder most people don't outright hate Himawari, Watanuki's ''canon'' LoveInterest. They just tend to pretend she doesn't exist at all. It helps that ''she's'' into said HoYay, too.
** Also, certain shippers actually ''like'' the idea of Doumeki's HoYay with Watanuki being [[OneSidedShipping one-sided]]. It's not so much that they ''like'' Watanuki/Himawari as that, in that way, Watanuki is completely clueless to Doumeki's feelings for him.
* ''LupinIII'' fandom is small enough -- and the EstrogenBrigade portion of it especially so -- that people don't actively flame one another, for the most part. The Lupin/Jigen, Jigen/Goemon, Lupin/Goemon and Lupin/Zenigata shippers can often hold quite civil and mature conversations with one another. What they ''will not'' tolerate is Lupin/Fujiko. Or ''Anyone''/Fujiko, for that matter. Granted, she's devious as a cat and twice as manipulative, but you'd be hard pressed to find any named character on the show who ''isn't''. The Lupin fangirls hate her because she's "mean" to their cute little thief (who harasses every attractive woman he meets, including her); the Goemon fangirls don't care for her 'cause she seduced then dumped their man in the first season (the only really justified complaint on this list); the Jigen fangirls agree with their adorably scruffy gunman, that she's "trouble" (again, [[WeirdnessMagnet take look at the]] [[CartwrightCurse others' track records]]); and the Zenigata fangirls (yep, they exist) just think she's a [[MostCommonSuperPower vapid]] [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses bimbo]] ([[ActionGirl who is capable of building an explosive device powerful enough to destroy a solid oak door]] [[TheSmartGuy but small enough to fit inside a high heel.]] This isn't even taking into account the number of times she's saved her male compatriots' necks by charming her way into serving as TheMole when needed. Or the number of times she's [[IWasJustPassingThrough freaked out at the thought of Lupin being in peril)]].
* ''CaptainTsubasa'' fandom, PLEASE stop bashing [[NaiveEverygirl Kumi Sugimoto]] for daring to have a crush on [[TheHero Tsubasa Ohzora]] and not being shy about it. She ''never ever'' hated [[{{Shorttank}} Sanae Nakazawa]] for liking him as well, and in the manga she went as far as to [[spoiler: confront Sanae on their common love for him (in a very apologetic and sweet way, gotta add)]], then [[spoiler: take Tsubasa's rejection ''and'' his love for Sanae with [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy incredible grace]], and [[ShipperOnDeck push him towards his soon-to-be]] VictoriousChildhoodFriend without any ulterior thoughts.]] So why does ThisTroper see Kumi written in fanfiction as a bitchy, idiotic {{Yandere}} who'd rather kill Tsubasa and/or Sanae than wish them happiness? Bitch, ''please''.
* ''FullMetalPanic''. The shipping for Gauron/Sōsuke. Especially noticeable after the CharacterDerailment of poor Kaname in the later novels, where quite a few fans [[AbandonShip Abandoned Ship]] and actually came to the conclusion that Sōsuke would have been better off continuing on with being the [[TheStoic emotionless]], Assassin Saint Kashim and ending up with Gauron. In fact, there are actually numerous fans of the pairing that feel that Gauron ''loved Sōsuke and understood him more than Kaname''. Therefore, they "matched together better." This is, of course, ignoring all the [[StalkerWithACrush incredibly creepy]] and disturbing things that [[{{Yandere}} Gauron]] did, such as being a [[MemeticMolester pedophile molester]] that desired and obsessed over Sōsuke since the latter was ''[[{{Shotacon}} twelve]]'', killed (or attempted to) [[MurderTheHypotenuse all of Sôsuke's friends / love interests]], laid waste to an entire city just so he could get off on seeing Sōsuke's [[HeroicBSOD depressed face]] one last time, and fantasizing about raping Sōsuke's corpse.
* ''KatekyoHitmanReborn''. Oh lord, what happens with ''any'' female that's paired with [[LittleBlackDress Tsuna]]. Let's face it -- a ''lot'' of shippers feel that HetIsEw. Quite a few fanfics / theories that [[YaoiFangirl fangirls]] come up with to kill the pairing of Tsuna and Kyoko is that: 1. She's actually secretly his twin sister; 2. He eventually realizes that she's a bitch that's [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys in love with Gokudera]] (which prompts him to go off with Gokudera himself); 3. She rejects him and he goes off with one of his male guardians.
**this troper has found that they majority of the ''{{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}'' fandom is open to pretty much any pairing, granted Kyoko and Haru are generally disliked, other females (because there are more than those two) are often paired with the same males we find in malexmale pairings, I've also found while one may have an ''{{OTP}}'' for the series, they generally don't mind the characters being paired with others
* Any guesses as to why [[{{CLANNAD}} Nagisa Furukawa]] is [[FanNickname nicknamed]] [[DetractorNickname "Miss Cockroach"]]? A part of it comes from her HairAntennae. The rest... well, ask more than one Tomoya/(read: Tomoyo, Kyou, Ryou, Kotomi) shipper.
* Kaorin from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is often portrayed as an evil, scheming {{Yandere}} bitch who will try to steal poor sweet Sakaki away from the prefered partner.
*Crazy as it might sound, a fair number of [[OnePiece Zoro/Robin]] fans seem bitter towards Franky and tend to dismiss or bash him as immature and weird ([[CompletelyMissingThePoint WHAT MANGA HAVE THEY BEEN READING?!]]), which probably stems from how he's had a lot more meaningful interaction/character development with Robin than Zoro despite being on the same side for a shorter period of time. That's all. Seriously.
**And some Zoro/Nami fans have taken to bashing Tashigi due to being threatened by her ''possibly'' showing ''small'' hints that she ''might'' like Zoro and says she should inexplicably end up with Smoker instead. Painfully brainless when you consider it was never Tashigi's goal to be anyone's woman, and that she doesn't even NEED to end up with anyone at all (which leads to some UnfortunateImplications about what these fans seem to think the role of female characters ''as a whole'' should be.)
**Let's take special note of the enmity growing between the Luffy/Boa and Luffy/Nami fans. Dear shippers: Luffy values people period. He'd probably think you were a loser if you hated on either Boa or Nami. Please reread the damn story to appreciate the fact it's mostly about camaderie and these things aren't worth dwelling upon seriously. Thank you.
***Some [[BoysLove BL]] fans deride Nami for being an "abusive control freak" (AKA, typical type A {{Tsundere}}) and Luffy/Nami fans sometimes claim Hancock has no right to behave the way she does because ''[[TooDumbToLive there's no way a 12 year old slave girl could ever be seriously abused sexually or otherwise''.]]
* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'': Elizabeth. ''Poor, poor little Elizabeth''.
* And ''AfterSchoolNightmare'''s Kureha Fujishiro. Yeah, she's a ClingyJealousGirl who finds solace in Mashiro's company because she DoesNotLikeMen, but still... ''Poor, poor'' [[spoiler: horribly sexually abused]] ''Kureha''. It's made worse by the DracoInLeatherPants status granted to [[{{Casanova}} Sou Mizuhashi]], Mashiro's other love interest...
* The cast of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' have all fallen victim to this. Because you can [[YourMileageMayVary rationalise pretty much any pairing with Haruhi]], fanfic writers will portray any characters percieved as being in the way as evil, controlling, abusive, and the like, particularly Hikaru in Kaoru/Haruhi and vice-versa, or Mori in Honi/Haruhi, and often Tamaki in anything. Because [[HoYay ho yay]] can also be seen in any way you want, there's always at least one victim, usually Haruhi or that character's [[HeterosexualLifePartners heterosexual life partner]].
** And if you follow the anime and ship Tamaki/Haruhi, you're expected to hate [[CherylBlossom Eclaire Tonerre]]. Sure, she wasn't a saint. but I don't think she deserves the utter hatred she sometimes gets...
* Wait, where is [[VampireKnight Vampire Knight]]? Some of the fans (this troper included) desire so much Kaname's death that they stopped reading the manga.
** Yuuki isn't exactly liked either, as far as ThisTroper knows.
* TengenToppaGurrenLagann actually managed (intentionally or unintentionally) to [[TakeThat show a middle finger]] to that kind of behavior. [[PrimoVictoria This troper]] don't even what to think what flame war between [[spoiler: Kamina/Yoko and Simon/Yoko]] fans would be spawned after [[spoiler: Kamina and Yoko's kiss]] if not that [[spoiler: Kaimna, possibly the most beloved character in TTGL fandom ever, '''DIED''' in the same episode]]. And nobody [[spoiler: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Including people that were screaming trope name at him five minutes ago]]]] was happy about it.
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* [[HeroesWantRedheads Jean Grey]]/ [[TheStoic Cyclops]]/ [[AntiSue Wolverine]] from ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' has long been a complicated storm of controversy. Many fans have shipped Wolverine/Jean Grey since the day Wolverine joined the X-Men, but Marvel has long refused to give into fan demands, so fans engage in Scott ''and'' Jean bashing. Of course, they've also engaged in massive amounts of CharacterDerailment with regards to Cyclops (first [[spoiler: abandoning his wife Madelyne Pryor and newborn son Nathan Summers, something not even ''Jean'' approved of]] and later, [[spoiler: dealing with his post-traumatic astral possession stress by sleeping with reformed villainess Emma Frost (also derailed into a sort of TsundereSue), who agreed to the sort of kinky sex/role-playing because Jean refused to engage in -- while portraying Jean Grey as a [[PuritySue forgiving/enabling saint]] who ultimately gave her blessing to Scott and Emma on her deathbed)]]. Meanwhile, perhaps spurned by those who dislike the often [[DoubleStandard misogynistic views upon marriage]] that Marvel takes (i.e. it's always the woman's fault if a marriage fails in a Marvel Comic), Marvel in recent years have portrayed Wolverine as [[spoiler: refusing to consider a relationship with Jean out of respect for Scott, even going so far as to reject a desperate Jean's advances when she confided to Wolverine that Scott was refusing to touch her sexually]]. So, the BadAss is "always right" and his love rival is "always wrong". Duh.
** In typical Mark Millar fashion, ''[[UltimateMarvel Ultimate X-Men]]'' had the "cool guy" Wolverine not only take Jean Grey's virginity, but also [[MurderTheHypotenuse STAB the nerdy, put-upon "loser" Ultimate Cyclops and leave him to die]], in order to ensure Jean would be his and his alone. And the FanDumb ''rejoiced''!
** Also in the ''{{X-Men}}'' camp, mentioning the Rogue/Gambit relationship in general is [[InternetBackdraft a nice way to start a barbecue.]] Mostly because [[HoYay Wolverine/Gambit]] is ''extremely'' popular among [[SlashFic slash]] [[YaoiGuys writers]] as well as the movie-centric Rogue/Iceman or Rogue/Wolverine pairing and old school comic Rogue/Magneto/Joseph pairings.
*** This troper is a veteran of the Pete vs. Piotr flame wars. When WarrenEllis first hooked up Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde in Excalibur, Colussus' initial reaction was to beat the dogsnot out of Wisdom. This despite the fact that in his most recent previous appearance, Colossus came across as very level-headed and wasn't even thinking of Kitty. [[WordOfGod Ellis]] himself admitted that he wrote Colossus as out of character. Alas, the damage was done, and Colossus is still reviled by a vocal sub-group of X-fans for one OOC moment. Many Pryde/Wisdom fanfics thus treat Colossus as mentally retarded at best and a rapist at worst.
** Another X-Men example: When Havok broke his engagement with Polaris to hook up with Nurse Annie (a character Chuck Austen openly acknowledged as being based upon his wife), both fandom ''and'' Polaris herself had this reaction.
* Any female that "gets in the way of" Batman family HoYay is almost guaranteed a vilifying in fandom. Similarly, Lois is often conveniently simply not brought up as if she didn't exist to get in the way of Batman/Superman HoYay.
** The exception to this rule is Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin IV), formerly Tim Drake's (Robin III) canonical love interest, who generally suffered fanbase vilification only when her existence was getting in the way of hooking Tim up with another ''girl''. Apparently HoYay is less desirable when it's between a teenaged boy and any of the rest of the adults in the Bat-family.
*** Amusingly, during the period of time between Spoiler's canon death and DC editorial retconning her as having only been a ''faked'' death, the generally dominant fan reaction was to be upset that she died, not to celebrate new 'ship possibilities.
** Well, [[DatingCatwoman Catwoman]] is pretty popular.
*** GrandfatherClause, I guess. And her being a DarkActionGirl, too. If not...
* A canon example (is that even possible?) could be David in ''{{Strangers in Paradise}}''. He loves Katchoo, and eventually we realise that Katchoo loves him (or else has loved him all along, or maybe...). Typical DoggedNiceGuy with whom Katchoo (and sometimes Francine) forms a loving, reasonably stable relationship with. But [[spoiler: he has to die of a brain tumor at the end so Katchoo and Francine can be together without him]]. Granted, Katchoo and Francine were the obvious couple from the start, but still.
* Scarlet Witch/Vision/Wonder Man is another one, with the nasty result of writers routinely doing horrible things to Vision (erasing his mind, killing off his and Wanda's children, vivisecting him) in order to make Wonder Man and Scarlet Witch a couple. When writer Kurt Busiek FINALLY had Vision confront Wonder Man for his assholery, Busiek pulled a WTF move by having Wonder Man tell Vision that ''he'' should feel sorry for Wonder Man under the logic that Simon being a jealous, homewrecking asshole towards Vision was acceptable and that Vision should shut the fuck up and be happy that Simon got the girl, at the expense of ruining Vision's life. Of course, Busiek "reset" things at the end of his run, via having Wonder Man ''dump'' Wanda while being held in a concentration camp by Kang the Conquerer, because he didn't want to settle down and have kids with Wanda, like she wanted...
** Of course, this is all irrelevent these days, what with Brian Michael Bendis [[spoiler: senselessly killing Vision off]] in ''Avengers Disassembled'', [[spoiler: having Wonder Man utterly forget Wanda even existed as far as not giving a damn about her, sending poor Wanda into the cornfield, and having Hawkeye once again obsessing over Wanda and his crush on her, even though he has long outgrown his crush on Wanda and settled on just being friends with her.]]
* Some ''WonderWoman'' fans hate ''any'' guy that she looks like developing a relationship with, apparently feeling that ''nobody'' is worthy of her, which makes it more a case of "Die for her celibacy".
** Exceptions: Steve Trevor due to GrandfatherClause (though he's not really an option post-''{{Crisis on Infinite Earths}}''), Superman (although the presence of Lois means that's pretty much limited to Elseworlds) and Batman.
** Note that, while nobody tends to actually kill them in fic, shipping Diana with Clark or Bruce is still a huge BrokenBase issue and a great way to start a [[InternetBackdraft flame war]] at just about any comics forum. Rama and Io, on the other hand, Diana's two most obscure suitors (one simply in a storyarc nobody read, the other a female love interest [[HideYourLesbians too subtle for most fans to pick up on]]), are generally liked by anyone who's actually heard of them, and are probably protected from this mostly by the fact that most fans aren't aware of them.
* DieForOurShip ''canonically'' happened with the death of Gwen Stacy in ''{{Spider-Man}}'', as writer Gerry Conway has stated that a big reason for killing her off was that he felt Peter and Mary Jane deserved to be together.
* Green Arrow is often vilified by Dinah/Babs shippers due to his and Dinah's relationship. They even bashed him when he was dead but nowhere near the extent they've done since he was resurrected. And it's just gotten worse since he and Dinah tied the knot.
** Of course, [[CharacterDerailment Ollie's writers like to help them with that.]]
** Which may be why the other male in the picture, Dick Grayson of Robin fame, gets almost no abuse.
* Believe it or not, Joker gets this a lot from the Ivy/Harley shippers. Justified in that Ivy does treat Harley better... somewhat.
** PleaseElaborate. This troper fails to see how they could actually make Joker ''worse''. He tries to kill Harley on a regular basis, and I definitely wouldn't put him past beatings/rape.
*** ... Wait, what? This troper [[{{Flanderization}} only remembers *one* attempt to kill Harley]], and it was rather clearly written as '''not''' being the Joker's usual treatment of her. PleaseElaborate on when "once" became "a regular basis". Should it be necessary to observe that beatings would be much more kiddie-friendly than some of the things he does to her in BatmanTheAnimatedSeries?
* Another canon (or DisContinuity, depending on your opinion of it) example: The Polaris/Havok/Nurse Annie triangle during {{Chuck Austen}}'s run on Uncanny X-Men. While Lorna has never been the most stable of people, Austen [[CharacterExaggeration blew her mental issues]] into [[{{Yandere}} full-blown bitchy psychosis]] in order to justify getting Havok together with the nurse he telepathically dated while in a coma (caused by her telepath son, who wanted a daddy and wasn't above committing mind rape in order to force Havok to be said daddy). This ended with [[RunawayBride Havok dumping Polaris at the altar for Annie]], and Polaris flipping her shit and attempting to kill them both before Juggernaut knocked her out. She was put into psychic therapy; they ran off to Paris together, seemingly supported by ''all'' of the other X-Men. The fact that Austen wasn't at all shy about telling people that [[AuthorAvatar Annie was directly modeled off his own wife, and he envisioned himself as Havok]], did absolutely nothing to help fans accept the pairing, especially since after that Annie was throwing herself at Iceman while still being with Havok. It's no wonder Austen, upon leaving the book, put Annie on a bus out of town with her son to protect his much reviled character from future reprisals. Though Austen did have her last scene feature a nebulous scene where it's implied that Annie's mind-raping son has hooked up with Elias Bogan, a CompleteMonster of a disembodied telepath who liked to trick kids into selling their parents to him to use as slaves to rape and torture for his own sick amusement.
* Captain America/Iron Man shippers are often accused of doing this to Sharon Carter. Strangely enough the only time a bashing fic did appear on the main livejournal community for the pairing, the author was quickly told off and everyone agreed that just wasn't on.
** Or the community does a more quiet version of DFOS, ThisTroper has read multiple fanfics that pair her with [[PairTheSpares WINTER SOLDIER]] or just mention her in passing as "it never really worked out between them." They treat her more as a casual-ex-turned-friend if she's lucky, or a "it never would have worked out anyways" to justify Cap jumping Tony's [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean pistons.]]
*** Given that Cap and Sharon broke up and got back together multiple times in the canon, I'm not sure it's a case of DFOS, especially if she's not treated hatefully.
** Justified with Tony Stark's ex-girls many of which have whipped him, shot him, sold him out, and slept with his best friend. It's no wonder the fans think he might be better off dating guys.
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* One could say that this trope is inverted for ''CorpseBride'' -- the one the Victor/Emily shippers want to die is ''Victor,'' given that the other half of the couple also happens to be a corpse. That said, there has been a fair amount of vilifying of Victoria in post-film Victor/Emily fanfics, portraying her as a gold digger or just plain mean to Victor. (And it can probably be argued that leaving Victoria at Barkis's tender mercies in other AUs is AFateWorseThanDeath.)
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* Will Turner from ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}''. Ever since he married Elizabeth Swann, many of those who wanted Elizabeth with Jack Sparrow are making him out to be a rapist, an abuser, or both.
** Either that, or Elizabeth is called a CanonSue and bashed repeatedly for driving a wedge between the Jack/Will relationship.
* Ever since ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' books were made into movies, Arwen has been loathed by Éowyn teenyboppers who see her as the obstacle for Éowyn to get Aragorn's love, or as [[RealWomenNeverWeardresses a "bad bad girly girl"]]. The Aragorn/Legolas slashers also have it against her.
** Faramir also gets some flack from rabid Aragorn/Éowyn fans, who see him as being less worthy of her than Aragorn. Nevermind that Aragorn himself [[ShipSinking sunk that ship]] by pointing out how unhappy Éowyn would've been [[LovingAShadow if she married him]], and later was ''very'' happy when she and Faramir became the BetaCouple...
** And ''both'' Éowyn and Arwen catch heat from the MarySue creators who ship their unholy spawn with Aragorn or Faramir. They get even more from the YaoiFangirl contingent who must have Aragorn sidling up to, say, Legolas? (Or even Boromir, despite being ''dead''.) In one fic, Arwen was turned into such a shrill harpy that in a post-series tale set in the present day, she actually sold the mummies of her and Aragorn's children to a museum just to hurt him. (Srsly.) Éowyn is more likely to just get written off as "that butch chick".
* In the ''SweeneyTodd'' movie fandom, Lucy Barker gets some serious hate from Sweeney/Mrs. Lovett shippers. Yes, there are shippers for Sweeney Todd; [[RuleThirtyFour There are shippers for]] ''[[RuleThirtyFour everything]]''...''especially'' for everything played by JohnnyDepp.
* Due to Bollywood marketing being dependent on which combo of actors and actresses is the screen couple (referred as a "jodi" by Indians and the Industry), fans of a particular screen couple (who often do several movies together if successful) will fight fans of another couple. ShahRukhKhan/Kajol is the quintessential example these days.
* A certain portion of [[StarTrek Kirk/Spock]] fans have had quite a bit trouble dealing with the fact that in the [[Film/StarTrek 2009 reboot movie]] Spock/Uhura is canon, and some rather nasty stuff has been said about Uhura as a result.
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* Ron and Ginny Weasley, of ''HarryPotter'' fame, are loathed by many militant Harry/Hermione shippers, after the author confirmed Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione as {{canon}} in ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. Ginny was hated even before then, perhaps in response to the Harry/Ginny shippers who were correctly predicting the couple's canonization, but probably more directly related to her increased prominence in ''HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''. There is a (much) smaller subset of shippers who bash Harry for being "stupid" enough to choose Ginny over Hermione, or because they would have preferred to see Ginny get together with Harry's rival [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco Malfoy]]. While this happens, the sensible Harry/Hermione shippers would rather not have anything to do with them.
** There is a subset of Ginny bashers who seriously believe that Harry's 'chest monster' is due to the ''canonical'' use of love potion on Harry, and [[http://www.dracoandginny.com/viewstory.php?sid=3300&chapter=1 have written extensive theses trying to prove this]].
*** Note that that page begins with the author's theory that in fact the entire point of the Harry Potter books, intended by JK Rowling ''herself'', is to lie to the reader and get them to figure out the truth themselves. What. The. '''Hell?!'''
** As noted on the RonTheDeathEater page, the Weasleys in general tend to get this from rabid shippers. This Troper has seen Ron and Ginny killed off in rather graphic fashion in fic, often ''before the story even starts''. And worst of all, no one seems to care that they're dead.
*** The pointlessness of the Weasley-bashing is emphasized even further by extremely well-written Harry/Hermione fics (written by the more peaceful fans of the pairing) who cheerfully pair Ron off with Luna and Ginny off with Neville and proceed as scheduled. It's also fairly popular to pair Ron with Susan Bones or another Hufflepuff, and Ginny off with Dean Thomas... the point being, the Weasleys can be perfectly happy (and remain close to Harry) while getting together with other people. The [[FanDumb Hatedom]] seems to forget this.
** Poor Cho Chang gets it from basically everyone who ships Harry with someone else. This started even before Book Five, when all we knew about her was that she was a pretty and popular athlete, who (gently) turned Harry down on his first attempt to ask her out. This extended into real life, when actress Katie Leung was picked to play Cho in the films. She got criticism of her looks, her racial background, even ''death threats''.
** Also in ''Harry Potter'', although Nymphadora Tonks is well-liked by the majority of the fandom, there are a small but outspoken group of [[SlashFic slashers]] who have a [[EpilepticTrees conspiracy theory]] that she was written into the story at the last minute to prove that Remus Lupin wasn't gay with either Sirius Black or Severus Snape, the most common ships.
*** The idea that she was written in to disprove Lupin's gayness is silly, but she does suffer from being little more than a love interest. Tonks basically doesn't have anything to do that's important to the plot aside from being Lupin's love interest, and it's a pretty messed up romance at that. For all that she's both liked and hated, she's just a marginal character who is an [[FauxActionGirl accomplished Order member]] that dies so that the new generation can have a war orphan.
*** In the books themselves, Rowling seems to have made a common subversion of the practice: Cedric Diggory's death conveniently enabled the Cho Chang/Harry relationship briefly hinted at in ''Goblet of Fire''... which then canonically fell apart in the next book. (She ''did'' warn the readers in ''Goblet of Fire'' promotional interviews, but suspiciously the forewarned fatality would grease the wheels of plot.)
** Rowling has stated in interviews that some characters married people who were never seen in the books. This news did ''not'' go down well with fans of alternative ships.
** Many Snape/Lily shippers mercilessly bash James for bullying Snape at school, conveniently forgetting that Snape spent his ''adult'' career bullying children ''and'' can be easily seen as Lily's StalkerWithACrush.
*** Most rabid shippers are likely to defend their characters such as James or Snape [[DracoInLeatherPants saying they're not jerks, they're just misunderstood]]. The same can be said for rabid Ginny and Hermione fans. And of course, [[FanDumb screaming about how much you love your ship and how blind everyone else is to not see the chemistry written in the books before hand, when all the sane people want to do is read their books in peace, is a sure way to get them on your side]].
**** You guys should see the intense hate Ron gets from the Snape/Hermione shippers. It's actually a really, really popular ship, and Ron gets an amazing amount of vitriol hurled at him for not being good enough for Hermione, while Snape is her intellectual equal in need of some tender love and care because he is [[DracoInLeatherPants misunderstood and has been wronged all his life.]]
***** The two ''kindest'' Snape/Hermione fics this troper has read (both by the same author) respectively had Ron die a heroic death in the war against Voldemort and Hermione only start to hook up with Snape after a suitable mourning period, and one where Ron & Hermione had no attraction to each other beyond the hormonal and eventually agreed that they should date other people. Yes, stuffed in the fridge and/or reduced to the emotional depth of a teaspoon, that's when the Snape/Hermione fic is being ''nice'' to Ron. ThisTroper does not want to know what the nasty is like.
***** The kindest this troper has read usually have Ron/Hermione either just very good friends with some chemistry who don't quite click, or in one case the story was set after the Epilogue. Ron died after falling off his broom, and Hermione was devastated, but eventually met Snape who had been, um, hiding. Fortunately, most Snape/Hermione this troper reads involves Ron and Hermione dating, but then deciding their interests are too different. This troper used to be prone to Ron-bashing herself, a little, but Deathly Hallows put paid to that.
----> It was Narcissa who finally broke the stalemate. “Take these prisoners down to the cellar, Greyback,”* she commanded in her thin, cold voice.\\
“Wait!” interpolated Bellatrix. “All except . . . except for the Mudblood.”\\
“No!” cried Ron. “You can have me, keep me!”
** In general Ron falls victim to this the most. He is often portrayed as either having the mental capacities of a three-year-old (while not as intelligent as Hermione or Harry in the books, he's certainly not stupid), or outright cheating on Hermione with no explanation on why. This is all so Hermione can get a [[{{Chickification}} new look]] and a [[PossessionSue new attitude]] and go shack up with Draco/Harry/Snape/somebody else.
** Ron ''and'' Hermione are often targeted even if people are pairing Harry up with somebody completely different, normally Draco, although Snape and Blaise Zabini are common too. Their friendship is portrayed as shallow, sometimes even revealing that they were paid to be his friends, or else them being so emotionally apathetic that Harry rejects them. This is ultimately so Harry can [[{{Wangst}} wallow in how alone he is in the world]] until his new love interest can be there for him, and show him [[DracoInLeatherPants kindness, understanding, and love]].
* Amy March from ''LittleWomen'' is universally hated for stealing Laurie from Jo; this hatred can even easily be seen in films, in which writers cannot change the ending for Jo/Laurie, but they still show Amy in a bad light. This is especially funny, given that Jo herself rejected Laurie twice, did ''everything'' to stop him from proposing, including leaving home, and even wanted him to marry one of her sisters - Meg in the first volume, Beth in the second. Jo chose another guy and had a happy marriage, but the [[FanPreferredCouple fandom who still prefers her with Laurie]] is as strong today as it was over a hundred years ago when [[WriterRevolt the writer revolted]].
* ''LesMiserables'' fandom (yes, there is one) has a contingent out to get Cosette. Granted, it's not easy when your rival is TheWoobie. Marius also gets bashed for choosing Cosette over Eponine, because ''obviously'' he can't ''choose'' who he falls in love with. This is why we can't have nice things.
** This fandom is surprisingly violent, and all the crazier since the "choice" is between [[spoiler: a girl who survives until curtain and a girl who dies!]] Also, the book portrays the fan favorite Eponine as a crazed stalker, and the Marius/Cosette relationship is way more supported, which illuminates just how insane the Marius/Eponine shippers are sometimes.
*** Although Marius/Eponine shippers can be mindbogglingly stupid, the rival ship, Marius/Cosette, is if anything, more venomous, with their arguments often degenerating into personal attacks. Thus the stereotype of the Marius/Eponine shipper as a basement-dwelling social nobody who is completely ignorant that [[FanNickname 'Ponine]] is a metaphor for the restrictive social class system of Imperial France and who [[EmoTeen cuts their wrists]] to "On My Own."
*** The musical may be to blame here: the main problem seems to be that Marius knows that Cosette is his True Love (with a capital T) within seconds of glimpsing her in the street. So there's yet another contingent: Marius/nobody, because one girl is a crazed stalker and the other he's only known for ten minutes. The musical also fails to give Cosette anything in the way of character development, so perhaps some people go with Eponine because at least she has a little more to her than pretty soprano ingenue.
* Approximately half of ''{{The Phantom of the Opera}}'' fanfics in existence rewrite Raoul as abusive, alcoholic, womanizing, and/or an indifferent lover in an attempt to justify matching Christine up with the title character -- never mind the fact the latter is an emotionally unstable StalkerWithACrush and a known murderer.
** Not to mention that both Raoul and Christine are canonically in late teens-early 20's during the story, while the Phantom is a 50+ man. Whose face resembles a rotting skull. Who has a history of sadism, misanthropy and madness.
* ''TheDresdenFiles'': [[TheStraightWillAndGrace Harry/Murphy]], [[StuffedInTheFridge Harry/Susan]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Harry/Elaine]] shippers do not like Luccio.
** Granted, the relationship is going to be... problematic, given that the 11th book begins with [[spoiler:Morgan, Luccio's former second in command and close comrade in arms, being accused of being the traitor, and Dresden hiding him, with a pretty high probability that Luccio will be leading the hunt for him]].
** By the end of the 11th book, [[spoiler: the whole DieForOurShip thing becomes moot, because it turns out Luccio has been mind-whammied into her relationship with Harry so the mole can keep an eye on him]]. Ouch.
* Even the ''WarriorCats'' fandom has this. Ashfur is generally hated for getting in the way of Brambleclaw/Squirrelflight. Either Spottedleaf or Sandstorm are bashed for loving Firestar.
** And on the flipside, Brambleclaw is bashed for getting in the way of Ashfur/Squirrelflight, and Squirrelflight is bashed for the whole LoveTriangle thing happening in the first place.
** In the case of Spottedleaf, even ''the author'' bashes her for loving Firestar, even though she's already killed the shipping as much as she possibly can without making either of them go out of character.
** And also Nightcloud. Which is funny, because she's just a minor character who has only shown up four times and has only had about five lines of dialogue, and clearly poses no threat to Leafpool and Crowfeather. Crowfeather doesn't even make ''eye contact'' with her until ''Sunrise''. Pretty much the only reason the rivalry exists is because Crowfeather [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean patrolled her borders]] to prove his loyalty.
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* Anastasia Dualla from the rebooted ''BattlestarGalactica'' took some serious heat from the fans after being rather suddenly married off to half of the fandom's {{OTP}}; the sloppy handling of the storyline didn't help, of course. Strangely enough, Sam Anders, who was married to the ''other'' half of fandom's OTP, hasn't garnered too much reaction at all. This may be because he's male and very pretty. Or it might be because the fanbase figures that being married to Starbuck is punishment enough. Or the fact that Kara/Anders was handled much better and has a strong fanbase of its own. Lee/Dee fans are a minority.
** Hell, the show is guilty of this, killing off [[spoiler: Billy]] so that Dualla and her husband could get together mostly hassle-free. Not counting the fans who revile Dee for "cheating on Billy, dumping him, and hopping straight into bed with Lee" (their words) as a hassle.
***[[spoiler:Billy Keikeya]] wasn't killed off to forward the Dualla/Lee relationship, he was killed off because [[spoiler:Paul Campbell wouldn't commit to a long-term contract.]]
** Just as suddenly as Lee/Dee came, it went. By the power of one scene, they broke up for good.
** Anders has been turned into an adulterer in {{Fanfic}} before. The fact that he's the faithful one while ''Starbuck'' is the cheater in the actual show just makes it hilarious that people don't notice the DoubleStandard.
** Sam has also been [[RonTheDeathEater made]] to tamper with birth control, rape and physically abuse Kara. The last is particularly ironic since Lee Adama beats her to a bloody pulp in canon, but Starpollo fans maintain when Lee does it, it's an expression of the pair's equality. In canon, Sam has never laid a hand to Kara (though the reverse isn't true).
** There's been a bit of blacklash from Kara/Lee fans at the fact that [[spoiler:Kara and Sam Anders ended the series TogetherInDeath and that in Ron Moore's own words, Kara and Lee never got past that moment where they nearly cheated on Zak (her fiance, his brother). Some of them even take umbrage at the suggestion that Sam, who is a [[ArtificialHuman Cylon]], has a [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]]. To quote, "Real boys go to Heaven, Toasters need not apply." To which the standard rebuttal is, "It's canon, bitches!"]]
* Hina of ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', even though she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Mamoru go]] very willingly.
* Martha Jones, a ''DoctorWho'' companion, has come in for something rather similar (before she even appeared in a single episode!) in the aftermath of her hugely popular predecessor's departure, despite once saving the planet three times in the same episode (''The Family of Blood''). This might also be an explanation for the disturbing joy of some sections of fandom at Romana's possible violent death.
** Reinette (a.k.a "The Girl in the Fireplace", from the episode of the same name) has suffered just as badly, if not worse, from certain sections of the fanbase. The bias is pretty obvious when you compare the hysterically angry rants about how much that episode sucks to the number of awards the episode has won. And she wasn't even ''fictional''.
*** There were also complaints that the episode was only written because David Tennant wanted to get his then-girlfriend Sophia Myles (who played Reinette) on the show, despite the fact that they actually met on the set.
** Rose Tyler also gets the CanonSue label slapped on her to make Martha look better.
** Donna Noble initially got this from fans of both Rose ''and'' Martha, [[ShipSinking despite it being clearly stated in canon that Donna has no romantic interest in the Doctor]]. This is probably less because of DieForOurShip and more to do with Catherine Tate being a figure of hate in her own right (from people who hated ''The Catherine Tate Show''). Happily, as the series went on, most Donna-haters [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap changed their opinions of her]].
** The latest victim of this is River Song from StevenMoffat's series 4 episodes, who was [[spoiler: implied to be a future love interest to the Doctor, and according to some reports his wife.]].
** A significant section of Doctor Who fandom hate all of the above, arguing that the Doctor's life should be wholly unromantic.
* On the Daytime SoapOpera ''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 pairing hate Liz for having given birth to Jason's first born child, and will often bring up the fact that Liz is a married woman who is lying to her husband Lucky about the paternity of the child, while fans of the Liz/Jason pairing counter by bringing up Sam's con-woman past and the fact that Sam slept with her stepfather (a one night stand which Jason found out about and led to Jason sleeping with Liz and getting her pregnant). Then again, the couple of Liz and Lucky has a very strong fanbase too, leading to much rabid 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.
** And it appears Winnifred will soon be joining them by breaking up Maxie and Spinelli. But then again, Spinelli ''himself'' is hated for taking Maxie away from...well, let's just say anyone else.
*** But considering that Spixie (Spinelli/Maxie) has been dragged out for almost two years now, you would think Winifred would be forgiven. It seems like no matter how many times and episode Maxie says Spinelli is her best FRIEND, Spixies would rather see it otherwise considering they had sex (which was just Maxie manipulating Spin anyway)
**** It also may be the character of Winnie herself. Considering that Spinelli is either loved or [[MartyStu incredibly]] [[TheWesley hated]] by the fandom, making a female version of him [[TheScrappy wasn't exactly a smart move]].
** Many years ago Lily Rivera was so universally reviled for coming in 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 had married Jasper 'Jax" Jacks, who quickly became as popular as Sonny and Brenda. Cue one of the earliest [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]] over the internet.
* ''Grey's Anatomy'': Upon the break-up of Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd, the character of Rose appeared to meddle. Fans' reactions were particularly vicious, and Rose soon became known as 'The Plant' on the fan boards, and several fan fictions set out to murder her, or turn her into some stalker.
** [[spoiler: Rose's canon reaction to Derek breaking up with her seemed to cater to these fans. She transformed into a petty bitch had actually stabs Derek with a scalpel albeit accidentally. They even [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade on this]] by saying she's known as the fatal attraction girl in the hospital which is justification for her being {{Put on a Bus}}. The Rose haters must have loved this.]]
** Curiously, the ''first'' time another woman was brought onto the show to stand between Derek and Meredith, she got so hugely popular that she got her own spinoff, and while there's the usual character-bashing of both women, a large portion of the fandom responded to the triangle by [[YuriFan shipping them]] instead.
* ''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 finale]]. Chakotay took similar degrees of heat from the Seven/Kim and Seven/Doctor shippers over the same thing, while the Seven/Torres diehards, ''well''...whereas the Seven/Janeway fans were just sort of left going "Well. That's rather arbitrary and lame."
** There is an absolutely ludicrous example of this in the {{Narm}}ically [[SoBadItsGood hilarious]] ''[[http://www.geocities.com/loreleimackenzie/tng/PicardsIllumination.html Picard's Illumination]]'', in which the character taken out with this is [[spoiler: ''the story's RelationshipSue'', named after the author]].
** Refreshingly, a lot of Paris/Kim and Kim/Torres shippers have tended to incorporate canon developments into the Paris/Kim/Torres {{OT3}}.
* ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Curiously, the JonasQuinn 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, not so much, outside of TelevisionWithoutPity (but [[AccentuateTheNegative they hate everything]]) or Fanfiction.net. And then there were the Alex/Olivia shippers...
* An example of the ''opposite'' of this occurring is discussed on a documentary on the ''{{Spaced}}'' DVD boxset, in which the actress who portrayed Sophie - a character who becomes Tim's girlfriend, thus getting in the way of a potential Tim/Daisy relationship - discusses how the shipper reaction to the character seemed torn, because they ''wanted'' to hate the character, but because she was well-written and acted very likeable and suited to Tim, they ended up liking her.
* On ''UglyBetty'', Henry's girlfriend Charlie, for getting in the way of [=Henry/Betty=]. The actual show followed through, gradually changing Charlie's personality from "basically nice person" to "evil, deceitful bitch".
* Riley in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was notoriously treated by fans this way; it was made yet worse by him not being a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]].
** EVERY character and EVERY ship fell into this at one point or another.
*** And in all fairness, Riley was deliberately written to be a bit of a Boy Scout and someone who wasn't remotely in Buffy's league in combat, the better to contrast with previous boyfriend Angel. Unfortunately, the writing went too far, and once the Initiative crumbled, Riley didn't have any story development that wasn't all about Buffy, so even Ben comes off well in comparison.
** How about all the hate for Oz? A lot of people wanted to see Xander overcome all odds with Willow, and he was viewed as an interloper. Particularly vicious authors of this pairing have been known to label wolfboy as an evil pustule on the side of humanity who was so bad he turned his girlfriend off the entire gender.
* On ''{{Angel}}'', Kate got a lot of hate, just for being a possible (never followed up on) romantic interest for Angel.
** Nina. Just... Nina.
** Also there was hate on all sides of the Fred/Gunn vs Fred/Wes pairings.
** And don't forget the hate for Cordelia from the Buffy/Angel OTP shippers.
** Or for Buffy from the Cordelia/Angel OTP shippers.
* [[StalkerWithACrush Olive Snook]] in ''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 is confirmed by Emerson) intrudes on her romantic fantasy of ending up happy with Ned.
** However, [[spoiler: pretty early on, Olive 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 and everyone knows about this, and the three of them act in a very mature and rational way throughout the series, which is somewhat an uncommon occurrence.]]
** Not that it stops the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Nolive]] shippers. Some people seem to be somewhat upset at the fact that Lee Pace isn't having hot, steamy sex with [[{{Wicked}} Galinda]].
* The ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' fandom tends to have a very 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, no less - 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 too much when she was conveniently pushed out of the way (at least for now).
** Nathan's wife Heidi is not generally hated to the point of frothing madness, but fanfic writers tend to marginalize her, since her existence interferes with the One True [[BrotherSisterIncest Bro]] [[HoYay Yay]].
** Oddly enough, Noah's wife Sandra is generally well-liked, though she logically gets in the way of any pairings featuring her husband. Matt's wife Janice, however, is simply hated by everyone, even though she didn't interfere with any major ships while she was around. (This may be because [[spoiler:she ''canonically'' messed him up romantically]].)
** Claire's second-season boyfriend West is just as loathed, but this may be due to the fact that he was horribly, horribly written, considering Zach, her friend in the previous season (who was originally written as gay, but envisioned as in love with her by his actor). Too bad the actor went to another series...
** 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, but also because of how poignant and sweet the Hiro/Charlie romance was. It seemed he forgot her too quickly: she was his first love in more ways than one, canonically, 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]], [[spoiler: and some fans believe she's an [[DidNotDoTheResearch historically inaccurate]] MarySue...]]
** ''Heroes'' in general is an odd case, in that canon tends to treat love interests just as [[DisposableWoman disposably]] as the most stereotypically rabid shippers. Most of the main characters have had love interests go away: Charlie, Yaeko, Simone, Caitlin, Janice, Audrey, Daphne, Heidi, Niki, Mira, Eden, Maya, Elle, DL, and West were all killed, heavily sidelined, or PutOnABus at various points in the series. Maya even had the distinction of being killed, resurrected, and then put on the bus anyway. It can be hard to tell whether a fic writer is bashing/killing off a character as a furious defense of their OTP, or whether they're simply taking their cues from the source material.
* People appear to hate Stacy Warner purely because she "came between" [[HouseMD House]] and Cameron. Never mind that that particular Ship had sailed in the episode before Stacy showed up.
** Other people have a hate-on for Cameron, since she gets in the way of House/Cuddy.
** There's all the hate leveled at anyone who dares ship House/Wilson. Never mind the fact 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.
** 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 - 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 actually ''kill off'' the women - and this in a MedicalDrama, with normally no violence.
*** Oddly, members of the small House/Chase fandom (and the microscopic House/Foreman fandom) don't seem to do this; perhaps it's because those pairings are so unlikely anyway.
** 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.]]
* After the actress who played Kimberly, the first Pink Ranger on ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', left the show, she was [[JonasQuinn 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. It's even odder because Kimberly herself wasn't all that popular before the replacement. What's more, canonically Kimberly and Kat became friends and Kat was hand-picked by Kimberly to be her successor.
** It's not just the hatred for the character, but the way the hatred seemingly ''warps'' all other characters around it, from demented fics in which Tommy beats Kat to death with a baseball bat, to theories about how Kat faked 'the letter' and everyone around them just went along with it.
** As of ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' the FlashForward in question may no longer be {{Canon}}, [[spoiler: since there are no mentions of Katherine in the whole series and Tommy, now Dr. Oliver, appears to be single. There's also the matter of him having a very loyal and quite attractive female assistant, Hayley...]]
** Similarly, fans of ''PowerRangersSPD'' and its SuperSentai counterpart ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' will shoot down Kat/Swan (and, for ''SPD'', wife Aisynia) for disrupting the delicate balance that is Doggie Kruger's HoYay sex life.
** Back to ''Dino Thunder''... 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? NoJustNo.
* In the first season of ''{{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 she could have broken up with him as soon as she realized she had feelings for someone else. Likewise, Tess was even more hated in Season Two because she came between Max and Liz as well.
** And then they basically did it in canon to Tess, when she wound up [[spoiler: killing another series regular, working with the enemy all along, possibly (mind?)raping the hero and then running off with his baby and their only spaceship.]]
* Gwen from ''{{Torchwood}}'' isn't overly liked by many Jack/Ianto fans. That being said [[spoiler:this isn't entirely unfounded; Jack does seem to have feelings for Gwen despite the fact he's dating Ianto]]. This isn't the only reason she's disliked, mind you; even non Jack/Ianto shippers have admitted to disliking Gwen a lot, for some people Gwen is the show's [[TheWesley Wesley]].
** Made even worse by Gwen [[spoiler: surviving the events of ''Children of Earth'', while Ianto died]].
** Quite a few of the Gwen-bashers also dislike Rose Tyler on ''Doctor Who'', and draw parallels between Gwen and Rose to "prove" that Gwen is a Mary Sue. The difference being, of course, that Rose's boyfriend didn't walk around the house naked.
* The fandom shipping wars between the John/Elizabeth and John/Teyla shippers since the early days of the ''StargateAtlantis'' series. This on a minor scale was followed by the wars between J/E and Shep/Mckay fans
** Dr. Jennifer Keller in ''Stargate Atlantis''. 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 [[EstrogenBrigade 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.
* Speaking of Jewel Staite, in ''{{Firefly}}'', it's Kaylee's {{canon}} beau Simon that gets the guns, because he gets in the way of Kaylee/Jayne, or occasionally Kaylee/Mal.
** Inara gets the DieForOurShip treatment quite handily from Mal/River fans...and sometimes from Mal/Jayne or Mal/Simon.
-->'''Mal''': What? No, I ain't sly.
** Those who prefer [[BrotherSisterIncest Simon/River]] have been known to axe Kaylee, as have the truly preposterous Simon/Jayne contingent.
* In the recent BBC ''Series/{{Robin Hood}}'' 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 Scarlet. Marian is generally liked, but sometimes takes a hammering from slash fans who paint her as a CanonSue and a traitor for her relationship with Guy of Gisborne.
** There's 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".
***Not breaking Guy's heart so much as pushing the [[AxCrazy Crazy Man]] With A Sword's BerserkButton. Just sayin
**There is a small but strong 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.
** Series three introduced new female character Kate. Before a single episode featuring her had even aired, she was facing cries of Mary Sue 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. 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.
* ''{{Bones}}'' has fans yelling "Kill Cam". (Though to be fair, Booth/Brennan seems to be where the writers are going anyway.)
** 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.
* The American version of ''{{The Office}}'' had this with Karen in the third season, which led to incidents like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3m6Mghzgh0 this]].
* The ''{{Supernatural}}'' fandom is notorious for its negative reaction to recurring young female characters for interfering with the [[HoYay Bro Yay]]. In Season 2, the introduction of Jo caused an uproar among the fans. The fans got their way and her character went through [[NearRapeExperience an humiliating experience]] before getting dropped in ''Born Under A Bad Sign''. But this was not the end of the slashers' woes. Before Season 3 even began, fandom was already wanking about the introduction of two new female characters, Bela and Ruby. However, things calmed down for the character of Ruby, maybe because it isn't likely that demon hunters arent likely to fall for [[spoiler:a demon]]. The same cannot be said for Bela who [[spoiler:was killed off in the season finale]].
** Although Sam/Jess (his now flamed ex-girlfriend), Sam/Sarah (the {{girl of the week}} in ''Provenance'') and Dean/Ellen (Jo's mother) appear to be pretty popular, even among the slash fans.
*** Jess (dead), Sarah (not seen for ages) and Ellen (old) all have one thing in common – they have zero chance of hooking up with the boys. If any of them were actually possible ‘ship material, fans would turn on them like rabid dogs. The thing that kills me about this is that it completely destroys any hope of shipping at all. Sam and Dean are not going to hook up. They can't! I love Sam/Dean as much as any corrupt slasher, but the CW ain't going there, people. I’m glad that Sam and Ruby have finally got a little something. Sam 'dating' a demon is a great twist.
**** Demonstrated true, as people started complaining when they heard that [[spoiler:Jess will make another appearance.]]
*** Houston, we have [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Anna]] hate in this fandom. Yet Dean/Castiel seems a kind of popular idea, except among some Samfen who think Castiel is going to push out the brothers' relationship. See also YaoiFangirl.
**** This Troper heard from their flist that some Dean/Castielfen wish Sam had stayed dead. Honestly, BrokenBase UpToEleven.
* Pete from ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' 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, DisContinuity set in.
** 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.
* On the same line of hated-ness as pete(sg1) is Commander Brumby who appeared in a few seasons of ''JAG''. He's universally hated (Possibly partly for the crap accent though he's an Aussie) by Mac/Harm shippers and any Mac shipper in general, hell he's hated by most of the fandom in general.
* On weird notes, ''Farscape'' suffered from this trope in regards of Gilina Renaez (PK Tech Girl) breaking between John and Aeryn, any peacekeeper hitting on Aeryn, even Crichton himself [[spoiler: when he was split and and Aeryn has a relationship with the one on Talyn]].
* Riley of ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' catches an inordinate amount of hate from the fandom, and she's only been around for a few episodes. Her crime? Being a ''possible'' future love interest for John that ''may'' get in the way of the popular Cameron/John ship.
** Though, to be fair, Riley is actually [[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 does Die For The Ship.]]
*** [[spoiler: And the fact that she was being manipulated in the first place seems to have made her into a more sympathetic character in some peoples' opinions...]].
* Kevin Kinkirk from ''SeventhHeaven'' is bashed in a similar vein to Anthony from ''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.
* Many ''GeneralHospital'' "fans" celebrated the recent death of minor character Leyla Mir. Her crime? Getting in the way of Scrubs (Patrick/Robin). The kicker? That storyline happened ''in a spinoff''.
* ''{{iCarly}}'': In many "Cam" (Carly/Sam femslash) fics, if Freddie shows up at all (often not in short fics), he is usually turned into a psycho stalker that Sam needs to protect Carly from. Often killed, emotionally speaking in non Carly/Freddie fics by getting constantly rejected, given a metaphorical dagger blow to the chest when he realises Carly really isn't going to love him, and is lost to him forever. Ouch. Overlaps with ButtMonkey, as this is almost always done via his POV for maximum emotional pain. [[TheSimpsons "You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half.."]]
* ''{{NCIS}}'': Apparently, 90% of all Gibbs/Tony shippers want Jenny Shepard dead, evil, or both.
** That's actually 90% of people who actually watch the show, not just shippers.
*** [[spoiler: They got one of those.]]
* [[{{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.
* You get some of this for Christine Chapel from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' 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.
* ''TheXFiles''. Where to even start?
** There was hate for anyone who even might have gotten in the way of Mulder/Scully (notably Diana Fowley and Agent Doggett).
** But at the same time, 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.
** Agent Reyes was pretty much loathed by everyone for interfering with Mulder/Scully or Doggett/Scully. (Though to be fair, she was just loathed in general).
** Marita Covarrubias got some of this too, though to a lesser extent.
* ''{{NUMB3RS}}'' Amita comes in for a huge amount of hate from practically all variety of slashers in the fandom, being characterised as a homophobic, jealous, possessive, shrewish slut. Which is wrong as she is almost as awesome as Megan. (Which is to say a lot.)
* ''{{True Blood}}'': 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.
* ''{{Smallville}}'' has the infamous "Chlois" theory. It basically states that Chloe (Lois Lane's cousin, Clark's [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend high school best friend]], and original character with no comic book counterpart) is really the iconic Lois Lane, who takes Lois' name after she dies to honor her memory, then hooks up with Clark. How the "fake" Lois ends up dying varies from person to person, but she's generally portrayed as a dumb bimbo who couldn't possibly live up to the real Lois' reputation.
** There is also, of course, the [[TheWesley L]][[CanonSue a]][[PuritySue n]][[GodModeSue a]]/Clark shippers, who portray Lois as a SmugSnake trying to move in on Lana's man and Clark as hopelessly in love with Lana and completely apathetic to Lois.
*** Which is just what the show ended up doing for a few episodes.
* [[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...[[CompletelyMissingThePoint 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?"]]
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* Kairi of ''KingdomHearts'' is rabidly hated by many [[HoYay Sora/Riku]] shippers, despite being a very 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 where she expressed distrust toward him, which [[RivalTurnedEvil wasn't]] all that invalid) and wants Sora for herself, and usually ends up [[WallBanger dying in some over-the-top fashion.]]
** 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 Namine is [[PossessionSue 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 Namine, 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 Namine [[spoiler: are the SAME BEING anyway!]] Honestly, it's enough to give one a brain tumor...
** The Organization (or, the "ORGY-nization" if you see all the pairings) XIII 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 half of the Organization hasn't even canonically met (or at least on screen). This only ''encourages'' it by leading to 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, who doesn't even appear in the same game as either of them, you know something is seriously wrong...
** Namine, as Roxas' implied LoveInterest (as well as having a... complicated relation to the Sora/Kairi relationship), gets this treatment only about as often as she gets written as an [[YaoiFangirl enabler]]. According to what this troper has observed, she's liked among fangirls for the sole reason that they generally don't see her as any threat to any ship. Dare to suggest otherwise and that favorable view on her fades fast. Poor Namine...
*** Poor Xion has been overly abused by the [[{{YaoiFangirl}} Sora/Riku fangirls]] due to a couple of released cutscenes showing her and Riku at the same time. You'd really think they'd shut up now, though... [[spoiler: especially since dear Xion is actually a transgendered, incomplete clone of Sora. Who ends up looking exactly like Sora near her final moments]].
**** And let's not go into the Axel/Roxas fangirls' reaction to her....
* An especially ironic example would be Princess {{Zelda}}, who is frequently [[FanDumb bashed and vilified in slashfics wherein Link is paired up with]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} her male-looking]] [[YouFailLogicForever ninja alter ego]] (who is promptly [[CanonDefilement retconned to actually ''be'' male]]), Sheik. But then again, the disconnect between the perpetually DistressedDamsel that Zelda is in game after game and the actually cool FutureBadass that Sheik was may have something to do with it (even though she's gotten much better post "Ocarina of Time", extending to "Wind Waker" and "Twilight Princess."
** This tendency toward Zelda bashing has continued with the release of ''Twilight Princess'', where the Link/Midna shippers keep creating ways to reopen access to the Twilight Realm, chuck Zelda through it, and bring Midna back - if not outright have the princess of Hyrule be the first victim of the next conflict. And let's not talk about Ilia...
** Don't forget ''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 both has the most overt interest in him and has the least dialogue, gets rather less negative attention. Princess Ruto, who finagled a ChildhoodMarriagePromise, is the ''most'' loathed girl by the shippers, with almost every fic she's in [[CharacterExaggeration blowing her somewhat spoiled attitude]] entirely out of proportion and making her a StalkerWithACrush - if they don't turn her into a RalphWiggum entirely.
** Ironically, the only Zelda games that actually make any implicit romantic connection between a Zelda and a Link are the second game when an ancient Zelda is implied to kiss Link behind a curtain and a linked ''Oracle of Ages'' and ''Oracle of Seasons'' ending shows Zelda kissing Link's cheek, who swoons as hearts float above his head, rather than either of the above. YourMileageMayVary, though.
**All of the above is probably the reason why ''Wind Waker'' had only three significant female characters: One was princess Zelda, the next showed obvious attraction to another boy and the last was... Link's sister. Then there's this weird fairy queen with the crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her. This pretty much the best Nintendo could do to avoid rapid shipping wars. Also, making Tetra an actual girl, instead of a girl pretending to be a boy was probably a wise choise as well... At least, there are little to no ''Wind Waker'' shipping wars out there and the only ones the Yaoi Fangirls pair Toon Link up with are... [[ScrewYourself pretty much all of the other Links]]. But nothing ''Wind Waker'' intern.
* The shipping wars over ''FinalFantasyVII'' are pretty brutal. Since Square heavily leans towards Cloud and Tifa, but still hasn't shown them, say, kissing, married, or engaged in explicit carnal relations, several people who wanted him hooked up with Aerith instead have often grasped at straws, claiming that Square has not proven anything or is even engaging in ShipTease with the Compilation. The matter of Aerith is somewhat harder to resolve since she and Zack are both ''dead'', but Aerith still exists within the Lifestream so she's able to still play an active role in the plot. One piece of the Compilation deals with her trying to sort out whether she loved Cloud, Zack, or the person Cloud became when he essentially took over for Zack. All this has actually caused another side - a group of people so tired of the ship wars that they refuse to believe Square has settled ''anything'' rather than hear one more long drawn out argument. So to recap, the sides are Cloud/Tifa, Cloud/Aerith, Zack/Aerith, and [=Cloud=]/HeterosexualLifePartners. Interestingly, the fandom almost always portrays the male characters sympathetically, but the brutal character assassinations of Aerith/Tifa from the opposite sides of the 'LTD' - "Love Triangle Debate" - largely ignore the fact that the two characters were canonically friends. This may be indication of the [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls majority gender]] amongst writers of ship fic...
** Then, there's Yuffie. If fandom didn't already hate her as TheScrappy, the very small complication she adds to any arm of the Cloud/Tifa/Aerith triangle you're going after is enough to make her absolutely detested. Throw in the het fandom's tendency to pair her with Vincent (optional characters go well together, one supposes?), and the yaoi fandom is ready to gut her.
*** Square also contributed with a little ShipTease in the game itself, since the players could have Cloud go on a date with Aerith, Tifa, Yuffie...or ''[[GayOption Barret]]''. Sadly, there is nobody willing to go to battle over a [[HoYay Cloud/Barret pairing]].
** [[OpMegs This troper]] played through the game and got the distinct impression that there was some GettingCrapPastTheRadar involved in the final scene where Tifa and Cloud [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean sleep together]] the night before they enter the Northern Crater to face Sephiroth in the final battle. Mentioning this in other FFVII fan circles [[InternetBackdraft left a few singes.]]
* The ''FinalFantasyVIII'' fandom is rife with shipping fans united only by their hatred of Rinoa for getting Squall, and a raging desire to see him hooked up with anyone else. The majority of this is focused on [[CoolBigSis Quistis]] or [[HoYay Seifer]], but other shipping ranges from the odd (Selphie, Fujin) to the even more HoYay (Irvine, Zell) to the [[CrackPairing bizarre]] (....''Cerberus''/Squall? ''[[{{Squick}} MY EYES]]'').
* Amy Rose in ''{{Sonic the Hedgehog}}'' (and to some extent, Sally Acorn in the [[ArchieComics Archie]] ''[[Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Tails 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 others' chosen character for making the series JumpTheShark and {{Flanderization}} destroying theirs.
** Don't forget Elise, Sonic's awkward love interest in Sonic 06. She's hated by Sonamy fans and even just fans who hate her for her personality.
**[[YourMileageMayVary 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 x Knuckles shippers, Shadow being portrayed as a gun-toting manic by the Knuckles x Rouge shippers, and Knuckles being portrayed as abusive and [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive]] by the Rouge x Shadow shippers.
** 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.
** Many fanfics kill Sonic off in order to pair Amy up with... [[EvilTwin Mecha Sonic]].
** In the case of SonicX, there is mutual hatred between fans of CosmoxTails and CreamxTails, though as far as the series goes Cosmo is the only girl Tails actually shows romantic interest in.
* As much as she's beloved by fans, Krystal in ''StarFox'' still gets flack for impeding Fox's presumed relationships with Falco and/or Wolf.
** There are also those who would have preferred that Fox hook up with Fara, a character who appeared in a Nintendo Power comic bur not in any of the games.
* ''TalesOfSymphonia'' has this for Colette, the female lead who interferes with alternate pairings (both het and yaoi) for the male lead. She's detested by much of the fandom, mostly for being a DistressedDamsel, a situation that is highly agitated by the fact that, statwise and storywise, she's actually an incredibly capable GlassCannon. And she's ''still'' a DistressedDamsel. This already bad situation is completely destroyed by the presence of Sheena, a female with obvious interest in the male lead who [[spoiler:has a tragic past, giving her aspects of the {{Woobie}}, and whose CharacterDevelopment is much more interesting than Colette's]], and to top it off is portrayed as a fully-capable ActionGirl ([[FauxActionGirl But statistically, she's proven to be]] TheScrappy). And this is despite the fact that, in real life, most people would probably love [[LoveFreak Colette]]. Including, in-universe, almost all of her romantic rivals.
** Zelos is loathed by some Lloyd/Sheena fans, who take the worst of his HandsomeLech persona and turn him into a straight up JerkAss.
*** At least he can be perceived as a threat, unlike many other examples on this page, due to his [[SlapSlapKiss canonical interest]] in Sheena.
*** Fortunately, while it ''is'' possible to both kill off Zelos ''and'' pair Lloyd up with Sheena in the game, you cannot do both at the same time.
**** And if you DO kill off Zelos, you've not only thrown off the canon altogther, you've throughly [[OfficialCouple set Lloyd up with Colette]], SoYeah.
*** Curiously enough, Zelos/Sheena shippers seem to be much less vocal than the other groups.
* ''TalesOfLegendia'' also has this for Shirley, who, like Colette in ''Symphonia'', is the game's female lead. She interferes with alternate pairings for Senel (Senel/Chloe apparently being the overwhelming favourite), especially since she and Senel apparently become "engaged" at the end of the Main Quest. But even so, it would seem that the vast majority of the ''Legendia'' fandom just generally [[TheScrappy wish Shirley to burn in the fiery depths of hell]] anyway.
** This is made slightly ridiculous by Senel being a ChasteHero, who shows no interest in anyone bar his dead ex-girlfriend. Indeed, the two girls actually bond in one scene over the fact that he doesn't seem to have anything but friendship for either of them! (Despite Shirley being ''engaged'' to him, bizarrely enough.)
*** Even more absurd is that both Senel/Shirley AND Senel/Chloe were already suffering from ShippingBedDeath by the point a love triangle emerged. Neither got together with him in the end, but their pining for him prior to that wore thin VERY fast. It makes one consider the possibility that perhaps any pairing with ChasteHero Senel isn't a good idea at all...
* ''FireEmblem 7'' has this in ''spades''. In generally, thanks to [[ThePowerofFriendship the support system]], which gives characters both nifty CharacterDevelopment and stat bonuses, Fire Emblem tends to be a breeding ground for shipwars. It doesn't help that several fans view certain ships as a [[FanPreferredCouple better couple]]. Some examples are... :
** [[MysteriousWaif Ninian the Dancer]] is the biggest victim of this from from rabid [[ActionGirl Lyn]]/[[TheHero Eliwood]], Eliwood/[[GeniusBruiser Hector]], and Eliwood/MarySue fans who bash her for being angsty (for reasons which [[MysteriousPast aren't necessarily related to Eliwood]]) as well as for standing in between their pairing of choice.
** Similarly, quiet and melancholy StaffChick [[TheOjou Priscilla]] is bashed six ways from Sunday for [[BrotherSisterIncest having a crush on her brother]] and being jealous of his [[YaoiGuys best friend/love interest]], being a possible love interest to three [[HoYay guys who arguably have homoerotic subtext with other guys]], and occasionally for supposedly being an obstacle to [[SlapSlapKiss another guy's love-hate relationship with another girl]].
** Angst-ridden Pheraen knight Harken is often forgotten or shoved aside so that his canon fiance Isadora can hook up with dashing thief Legault.
** Sain already gets a lot of crap for being a [[ChivalrousPervert flirt]] as it is, but throw pairings like Kent/Fiora and Wil/Rebecca into the mix and it gets ''worse''.
*** Some Wil/Rebecca fans not only hate Sain, but also detest Rebecca's ''other'' possible love interest, [[BigEater Lowen]].
** People who pair Erk with other people often bash Serra in the process - ''especially'' in fanfiction, where Erk seems to become a mouthpiece for the author's hate of Serra. Serra herself is portrayed as a [[ClingyJealousGirl selfish Erk-obsessed shrew of a woman]] (there is a fic where she was ''[[MurderTheHypotenuse willing to let one of the other girls die from an injury so she could have Erk to herself]]'') and is "properly" rebuffed in the end. Similarly, Erk is bashed by people who pair Serra with Oswin or Matthew, who portray him as if he ''truly'' loathed Serra instead of caring for her yet not being able to say it.
** Leila and Matthew's canon love for her are shoved to the side to make room for the more popular Matthew/Guy(even despite the obvious denial over the LACK of evidence to support this pairing).
*** [[spoiler:Which is odd, because Leila ''canonically dies'', which should if anything provide a good basis for a HurtComfortFic, having Guy help Matthew get over his grief, etc. [[FanDumb Fans can be so stupid sometimes.]]]]
**** Hey, if Serra can help Matthew get over Leila, why can't Guy? [[CrackPairing Oh, wait..]]
** And let's not forget the fighting that goes on over which pairings create the children of certain characters in ''Fuuin no Tsurugi''.
* ''Fire Emblem 4'' suffers from a bit of this as well:
** Beowulf [[TheScrappy suffers a lot of hate in the fandom as it is]], but Finn/Lachesis gives the haters even more fuel for their fire. In turn, Beowulf fans scorn the Finn/Lachesis pairing, blaming its very existence for the fact that their favorite character isn't liked.
** Levin/Fury fans turn up their noses at Sylvia. Levin/Sylvia fans turn up their noses at Fury. Levin/Tiltyu fans turn up their noses at both.
*In ''Fire Emblem 3'', some fans decided Marth goes better with either Kachua(Catria). However they're generally pretty civil with Sheeda(Caeda)/Marth fans. Its mostly the Marth/Mary Sue shippers([[DidNotDoTheResearch who generally never even played the game]]) who do the bashing.
* ''Fire Emblem 9'' has Ike/Soren shippers who bash Elincia to no end. This, despite the fact that Ike shows no interest in her romantically. It's mostly stopped now that the sequel shows Elincia really coming into her own. [[spoiler:The tenth game implies she ends up with Geoffrey. And you can make Ike and Soren's HoYay more or less ''canon'', if you get their supports.]]
** Not to mention the very, very ugly war between Tibarn/Reyson shippers and Naesala/Reyson shippers.
*** Another one where the tenth game comes to the rescue, as it sets up a canonical relationship between Naesala and [[spoiler:Reyson's sister, Leanne. Looking back on it, there were definitely hints of that relationship back in the ninth game, where Leanne was just an NPC.]]
* In ''Fire Emblem 10'', [[MyCountryRightOrWrong main character Micaiah]] occasionally gets bashed for her romance with [[BodyguardCrush Sothe]] and standing in the way of HoYay, on top of getting bashed for being a CanonSue.
* In ''FireEmblem 8'', some Joshua/Artur fans quite vocally bash Natasha and the Joshua/Natasha couple.
** ThisTroper also remembers seeing [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Colm]] bashed as well by people who preferred to pair up [[StraightArrow Neimi]] with someone else.
* For the ''{{King of Fighters}}'' fandom, we have Kyo's girlfriend Yuki. Sweet, outspoken, straight A student... and absolutely hated by Kyo/Iori slashers, Kyo/Shingo shippers ''and'' authors who want their {{Author Avatar}}s to hump Kyo instead of this unfortunate NaiveEverygirl who gets caught in the crossfight 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]].
* In ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', there isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against [[YamatoNadeshiko Iris]], [[spoiler: for ''daring'' to be the twin sister of the {{Yandere}} Dahlia Hawthorne ''and'' Phoenix's ex-girlfriend who actually dated him to save him from her evil sister. To several Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, this means Iris is "an evil, hypocritical, stupid CanonSue 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 CherylBlossom. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.
* Omitsu from the ''GanbareGoemon'' series is seen as TheObstructiveLoveInterest, getting bashed by the shippers when her existence isn't being completely ignored by them. Her {{canon}} love interest Goemon is instead often paired up with the more popular ActionGirl Yae, [[RobotBuddy Sasuke]], or even his own future descendant, Shishi Jurokubei. To make things worse for her, Omitsu is portrayed as a ClingyJealousGirl in the TV anime (until she gets some CharacterDevelopment in that area later on, but her detractors conveniently ignore this), and the creator of the most long-running and successful manga adaptation has a heavy bias towards Yae. She just can't win.
* ''[[MetalGear Metal Gear Solid]]'' 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.
** No such luck with EVA in [=MGS3=], though, which is a shame, since she arguably deserves it (much more so than Meryl, at any rate).
** They appear to have noticed this and provided ample evidence for both this and Snake/Ocelot, letting you chose which one you like better. WordOfGod even confirmed the latter as {{Canon}}, at least on Ocelot's part.
*** The fourth game [[spoiler:provides some subtle mockery if you're looking for it, where Ocelot and Eva are secretly both on the same side. Ocelot decides to maintain the masquerade by shooting her with a turret gun and setting her on fire. That will teach her for going near his man...]]
** [=MGS4=] 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. [[spoiler:Heaven knows what her standing with the fandom would be if she had survived to get in the way of Snake/Otacon.]]
** And then there's the horrible treatment Rosemary gets from people who ship Raiden with the other characters, especially from the slash shippers. While admittedly annoying in ''Sons of Liberty'' with plenty of [[{{Narm}} narmalicious quotes]], people really took AccentuateTheNegative to the 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 monsterous than [[CompleteMonster Volgin]]. She ''did'' become [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap more likeable for some]] when ''Guns of the Patriots'' rolled around though.
** Johnny Sasaki has recently received this treatment as well. [[spoiler: In the forth game, he gets to marry Meryl, since then, some pretty rabid Snake/Meryl shippers have ''brutally'' bashed his brains out.]]
*Even the ''{{Mario}}'' fandom suffers from this. Mario himself has been bashed and demonized in fanfiction for the sake of pairing Peach with Bowser or Luigi, and tomboyish Princess Daisy is bashed by people who want to pair Luigi with Peach.
*There are countless ''SoulSeries'' fanfics where the non-playable character [[NonActionGuy Rothion]] gets killed off (thankfully, without any bastardization) so they can pair his wife [[ActionMom Sophitia]] off with someone else, usually [[TheAtoner Siegfried]] or [[BoobsOfSteel Taki]].
** You can't forget the [[AloofBigBrother Hwang]] x [[ActionGirl Mina]] and [[CanonForeigner Link]] x [[{{Lolicon}} Talim]] shippers who bash the fuck out of [[HotBlooded Hong Yungsung]], either.
* Even ''MegamanBattleNetwork'' suffers from this. [[TheChick Meiru]], in particular, gets all the hatred of the yaoi fans (not to mention an humiliating FanNickname) for daring to stand in the way of Netto/Enzan... never mind that [[spoiler:Netto/Meiru is the OfficialCouple, as the sixth game shows in the ending.]] And the ever-shrinking Netto/Meiru fandom tends to demean Dekao, who has a huge crush of the pink-haired girl... And let's not even speak of the feud between Enzan/Yaito and Enzan/Anetta fans!
** On a related note: ''MegaManStarForce.'' 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, G/L shippers say Sonia and Geo are LikeBrotherAndSister.
* ''{{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 also 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...
* Pity Anomen Delryn of ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'', a noble would-be paladin who is deeply flawed with pride and, to a degree, selfishness, despite his essentially honorable and kind nature. He arguably caused the npc modding community, and tends to suffer badly at the hands of the fanfic community, usually in favor of [[TheWoobie Xan]], [[SmugSnake Edwin]], or [[SympatheticSue Kelsey]]. On the other side of the gender equation, the naive and idealistic Aerie tends to be revealed to be secretly evil, a ClingyJealousGirl, or worse. Oddly enough, it's the ''female'' portion of the fanbase that seems to hate Aerie the most...
** The last part is likely due to the fact that canonically she hooks up with Haer'dalis, who for some bizarre reason has a potent following despite being himself a complete ass. This may be due to his [[DracoInLeatherPants immense pair of leather pants]].
** Though Aerie later breaks up with Haer'Dalis for a realistic reason: Haer'Dalis is a joyfully nihilistic person who revels in everything proceeding towards destruction, collapse, and failure-including Aerie. She finally realizes this in Throne of Bhaal and leaves him.
* Lili from ''{{Tekken}}'' on the early parts are often portrayed as a full blown RichBitch or TheLibby, in order to accomodate 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...
* ''SpyroTheDragon''. Yes, even this fandom has some nasty eruptions:
** 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 [[MarySue a cliched character with a generic dark past]], leading to ridiculous flame wars with fans and non-fans.
*** Generic Dark Past? Judging by ''A New Beginning'', it wouldn't be too surprising if [[MagnificentBastard Malefor]] [[FreudWasRight used her]] [[FetishFuel as a sex slave]].
** Then there are those who will fight about Flame/Ember and Spyro/Ember.
** Don't forget the ones who prefer [[InterspeciesRomance Spyro/Elora]].
** Then there are those who think Spyro is better off without a love interest.
* ''FinalFantasyTactics'' saw a little bit of an uproar over a scene added into the UpdatedRerelease that suddenly seemed to pair Mustadio and Agrias after a build up which led to nowhere between Ramza and Agrias. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/37833/3683487/1/ fans weren't]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/6133/66585/4/ exactly thrilled.]]
** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/game/Final_Fantasy_Tactics/3/0/1/1/0/17581/17580/0/0/1/ It's not like it gets much love]] anyway.
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* Missi from ''{{Misfile}}'' is hated for getting between Ash and Emily. Current sentiment on its forums is that Missi should die in a car accident, preferably one involving a steep cliff. It doesn't help that Missi has moved from ThePaolo to the StalkerWithACrush. It also doesn't help that the characters are obsessed with racing cars along steep cliffs...
* ''DominicDeegan'' + HoYay = InternetBackdraft.
* The ship in ''{{Penny and Aggie}}'' with the most vehement followers is...none. Specifically, the lack of a ship between Penny and Aggie, with adherents calling any hints of them being attracted to each other (outside of [[TransparentCloset Sara's head]]) "fanfic."
** It doesn't help that the comic is clearly aware of the shipping and loves to toy with the concept without actually confirming anything. The end of 20 2020 Pennies had people at it for weeks.
* ''BoyMeetsBoy'' Cy/Skids shippers were definitely furious at Ronnie's existence. The character appeared at the height of the Cy/Skids tension, after it was revealed that Cy did indeed have feelings for Skids. The relationship between them is never resolved and Ronnie, an anime fangirl who wears a Duo Maxwell braid and pulls the interest of both boys seems to be an intentional play on this trope.
* Within the ''{{Megatokyo}}'' fandom, the Piro/Kimiko shippers tend to do this to Miho. Simmilarly, the Miho/Ping shippers give this treatment to Piro.
** Amusingly enough, Miho/Piro shippers tend to do this to... Piro again, who's they consider an insensitive {{Jerkass}} who constant rags on a completely innocent girl, but should get with her anyway.
* Nearly all of Davan's girlfriends suffer this at the hands of the die-hard [[SomethingPositive Davan/Pee-Jee]] shippers. This may be justified in the case of Eva (who is revealed to have cheated on Davan with no less than four people during their relationship), but is completely uncalled for in the cases of Branwen and Vannessa. Not so much in the case of Lynn, but that's probably because she barely received any characterization at all, and was explicitly only in it for the sex.
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* Lizzie Devine, Numbuh One's girlfriend during most of ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is often bashed. Numbuh Two is also often bashed for getting in the way of 1/5, despite the fact he's not even ''in'' a relationship with Numbuh Five.
** [[spoiler: Though it is hinted in The GrandFinale that Numbuh Two may have married Numbuh Five when they grew up (despite his canon crush on 5's sister Cree). Not to mention, in the series Lizzie breaks up with Nigel willingly.]]
** Also, [[RuleThirtyFour 34]] shippers (the name is often [[{{Lolicon}} used intentionally]]) are constantly at war with the HoYay-obsessed 14 shippers.
** The idea of Numbuh Two being bashed by 1/5 shippers is rather exaggerated; most 1/5 shippers I know prefer to just pair Numbuh 2 with [[TheLibby Numbuh 86]] (including me, [[ToyShip 'cause it's cute]]) or an OC.
*** It was prevalent when this example was written, in 2005 or so. It may have become less so since then.
* Terra, from ''TeenTitans'', was absolutely ''loathed'' by Beast Boy/Raven shippers after appearing in season two. After her [[TheMole revelation as Slade's apprentice]], the hate magnified even more, and many fics were written featuring Terra as a maniacal sociopath... which ironically fits the *original* comic version of her. The show's version is quite [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds different.]]
** Starfire, as part of the OfficialCouple, tends to get a LOT of hatred from Robin/Raven fans.
* Some ''{{Daria}}'' fans are still upset that Daria got over her crush on the cool slacker Trent and ended up with the charming preppie Tom, even though Tom is ''[[DeadpanSnarker exactly]]'' like [[TheDaria Daria]], except male and well-adjusted, while it's made clear in the series that she would have been ''really'' unhappy with Trent. Perhaps some of this antipathy stems from that fact that initially it seemed like Daria "stole" Tom from Jane, although the characters all eventually got past it and agreed it was unintentional and probably inevitable. The really weird part is that Tom and Daria broke up at the end of the series anyway, so they're free to ship her with anyone else... and they still try to kill him.
* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]''... hold on... this may take a while:
** Mai: Both Mai and Jin were well-received and tolerated even by [[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]] (Zuko/Katara) shippers, if only because they served as fangirl surrogates, until a Season 3 clip aired featuring Mai kissing Zuko, leading to escalating hatred, petty name-calling, further {{canon}} denial, and FanArt wars.
*** Umm, I don't know what corner of the fandom the above troper was in, but from my experience most of fandom and especially the zutarians hated Mai and Jin from the get go. Katara was already their fangirl surrogate, and they didn't like the newcomers.
** Jin: Actually, Jin had quite a bit of attacks on her from a verbal section of the Zutara fans and even some of the early Maiko fans. Most of it calling her a slut or a gold digger (despite not knowing he was a prince) apparently due to the fact that she is more endowed than most of the girls. Rage against her was relatively short lived, as it became quickly clear that she would not be a recurring character.
** Aang: Since they can't kill off the KidHero, many [[PortmanteauCoupleName Zutara]] shippers make Aang so childish that he makes [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Honey-sempai]] look like a man of deep ''gravitas''. Often, they'll use a HighSchoolAU to get him [[PutOnABus out of the way]] in [[JuniorHigh middle school]].
*** Others assume Avatars were {{Celibate Hero}}es or else rapidly [[LoveMakesYouEvil became villainous]]. Until WordOfGod and a ''canon'' episode discredited this idea implicitly, it was (for a time) among the primary means of pushing Aang to the side and, due to [[AllThereInTheManual ancillary material]], fiercely contested by [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kataang]] shippers during the long drought of new TV eps of 2007.
*** To be fair, most shippers simply discounted Aang on the grounds that he was 12 years old. They also usually assigned a big sister/little brother type relationship to Aang and Katara, villainizing neither.
*** Some Zutara shippers ''are'' quite vicious towards Aang. While most of their complaints are related to the finale and his [[TakeAThirdOption way of dealing with the Fire Lord]], many also accuse him of being a Gary Stu and Kataang of being unoriginal and boring compared to the "oh so realistic and darker" Zutara.
*** A few Toph/Katara shippers are pretty nasty to Aang in their fanfics, twisting him into a jealous asshole who just wants to hurt Toph for "stealing" Katara from him.
** Zuko: A section of the Katara/Aang fandom have become openly hostile to Zuko due to the popularity of the non-canon Zuko/Katara ship, often abusing him as emo and [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute ugly]].
** Katara: Extreme Maiko fans bash Katara as a CanonSue who became far too good at water bending, far too quickly.
** Suki: You'd be surprised at the number of Toph/Sokka shippers who were saddened and angered to discover Suki was still alive. Now they're the poster LoveTriangle for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." A few Sokka/Azula shippers have recently come out of the woodwork to bash Suki as well.
* In a rare pro-fem example, Sprx from ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo!'' has been through this. Oftentimes is a variant, where there's ''no'' other love interest for Nova, but Sprx is made to seem like a horrible boyfriend, acting more perverted than he usually does.
* Josh Mankey from ''KimPossible'' is usually vilified for standing in the way of Kim/Ron. He is usually depicted as womanizing, manipulative, and/or abusive. This is even though he was shown as caring and understanding the few times he dated Kim, and Kim and Ron hadn't shown any kind of romantic interest in each other until the third season.
** Ron's ex-love interest [[YamatoNadeshiko Yori]] is amazingly immune from this despite a mutual crush being canon for awhile, she receives very little hate in fanfiction and generally remains as likable as she is in the show. This can probably be attributed to her graceful acceptance of Kim and Ron's relationship in the season four episode "Big Bother". She also remains the favored character for [[LesYay Kigo]] shippers to pair off Ron with.
** Kim also suffers from this in "Rongo" stories that pair him with Shego. Some are well done, but often Kim is transformed into a demanding, jealous bitch who treats Ron like dirt. One [[WallBanger wallbanging]] fic had her [[EmoTeen slash her wrists]] after the pair were married.
** A small faction of Kigo writers also portray Ron as a completely incompetent and useless tag-along who doesn't have any redeeming qualities. Thus, someone who doesn't "deserve" Kim. These more extreme Shippers portray his friendship with Kim as little more than "generosity" (i.e., pity) on Kim's part. He usually isn't killed off by such writers, but usually has his role reduced to little more than an annoying [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] everyone else puts up with.
** Kigo writers have a habit of taking Drakken to two extremes to get him out of the picture: one has him as a bigoted {{Jerkass}} that can't stand to see Shego with anyone else (especially not a woman, though that bias is never indicated in the show at all) and the other has him as a worthless loser that couldn't tie his shoes without Shego and is holding her back from being successful.
** There's also the "Ron was just a rebound" plot device which could go two ways. One one hand, it could be used against Ron so Kim can dump him for someone else the shipper prefers her with. On the other, it could be used to make Kim look like a bitch so that Ron runs into the arms of another for comfort.
* ''DannyPhantom'' had Samantha "Sam" Manson (the one Danny ended up with) early in the fandom who was hated, despised, and bashed in fanfiction written by Danny fangirls where Danny always ended up with the writer's original character; to this day the worst of those stories are still archived in Quizilla. However, the hate for Sam toned down when [[WellIntentionedExtremist Valerie]] [[FallenPrincess Gray]] goes through not only CharacterDevelopment but a GondorCallsForAid episode where she and Danny become friends, and eventually turning into DatingCatwoman situation. Since then, Valerie has become despised by a large part of the fandom (even though they broke up because [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies Valerie didn't want to put Danny in danger]]) because they've secretly maintained romantic feelings for each other). It's not surprising to find a fanfic in which Sam is depressed over Danny and Valerie's relationship and it turns out Danny is only dating Valerie because he thinks Sam will never love him and never loved Valerie in the first place.
** Of course, Danny/Valerie shippers frequently claim Sam is some kind of manipulative shrew that thinks of Danny as a tool for her own agendas.
*''TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy/Trixie shippers end up bashing Tootie, and Timmy/Tootie shippers bash Trixie. And there are Timmy/Veronica, [[FoeYay Timmy/Vicky]], Timmy/Cindy, Timmy/Cosmo and Timmy/Molly. But it is mostly Trixie and Tootie though that do the bashing. The others don't raise as much argument. In one fanfic, Tootie even went to the evil side (something she would never do on the show). It is even said to happen [[ArmedWithCanon with the writers too]].
* In ''BatmanBeyond'', the [[FanPreferredCouple Terry x Maxine]] fans ''really'' hated Terry's canon girlfriend, Dana.
* ''{{Gargoyles}}'' fans have never entirely forgiven [[ActionGirl Angela]] for picking [[BigGuy Broadway]] over [[EnsembleDarkhorse Brooklyn]].
* In ''XMenEvolution'', though the hate against the {{Tsundere}} Jean Grey was a given because her "love rival" for Scott's affection was the {{Goth}} and {{wangst}}y Rogue, there was a genderflipped surprise. Lance aka Avalanche, a TroubledButCute JerkWithAHeartOfGold who would generally be widely loved, was subjected to quite the degree of bashing by lots of fans of the FanPreferredCouple [[TheStraightWillAndGrace Kurt x Kitty]], who derailed him as a rapist and girlfriend beater in their fanwork to favor Kurt. However, when Kurt got FanOfUnderdog Amanda Sefton as his girlfriend, she was generally respected and liked by fandom.
** Now if the episode where Kitty found Dani Moonstar in the cave had been Rahne finds Dani Moonstar in the cave...
* ''{{Ben 10}}'': shippers of the [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] pairing have, more than once, bashed [[PsychoForHire Kevin]] for getting together with Gwen in ''Ben10AlienForce''.
** As for Ben, Kai is often portrayed in fanfiction as a snobby RichBitch-esque character.
** And, of course, nobody likes Ben's [[CherylBlossom canon love interest Julie]], whose existence sometimes makes Ben/Kevin HoYay shippers and Cousinshippers ShipMates.
*** Kevin/Gwen fans now perceive Charmcaster as getting in the way of their ship due to her seducing Kevin in her Alien Force debut episode. This ignores that Charmcaster was just being a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]] and had no feelings toward Kevin whatsoever, and that ''Kevin's'' behavior in the episode, before and after the seduction, is what hurt Gwen.
* ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': [[spoiler:Liz Allen]] is certainly going to get this treatment later in the show, if the [[http://marvel.toonzone.net/news.php?action=fullnews&id=155 season 2 episode summaries]] are accurate.
** Shock and horror! '''''A subversion!''''' When Liz came onto the scene, many viewers hated her for getting in the way of Peter/Gwen. However, once it became clear that Peter really loved Gwen and Liz was just a HopelessSuitor, hatred was replaced with pity and Liz became one of the most sympethetic characters in the series. It really helps that [[spoiler: her inevitable breakup with Peter]] was a real TearJerker.
* A great number of fans of the movie ''{{Felidae}}'' are huge fans of the Francis/Felicity pairing despite the fact that [[spoiler:Felicity is [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath brutally decapitated]] only minutes after she's introduced in the film]] and that [[spoiler:the cat Francis had sex with in the film is the one who becomes his mate.]] It probably has something to do with the fact that Felicity is set up as a sweet, naïve IllGirl [[spoiler:shortly before she dies]]. By contrast, [[spoiler:Nhozemptekh]]—exotically pretty as she may be—is unfortunately given little character development beyond being basically a NubileSavage in kitty form.
** Justified, in that the film ''is'' about cats, who are more interested in plain ol' sex rather than anything romantic. [[FanDumb Too bad the fans don't realize this...]]
* Many shippers of the Jake/Rose relationship in ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' became irate when Jake flirted with a certain pink-hat wearing girl for the simple fact that she was a girl that Jake was attracted to [[OneTruePairing who was not Rose]]. In fact, she was even speculated be the "Siren" of a later episode and even working for the [[BigBad Dark Dragon]]. As the show played out, however, said girl proved to be nothing more than an extra with a few lines.
* Phoebus, from the Disney version of ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame,'' gets this a lot from people who prefer Esmeralda to be with either [[TheGrotesque Quasimodo]] or [[LoveMakesYouEvil Frollo]]. Instead of being the wry, sensible man he is, Phoebus is portrayed as an abusive {{Jerkass}} (Which is completely accurate in the novel, where Phoebus is pretty much the only main character without a single redeeming quality, but assuming the people who bash him have read the novel is giving them [[FanDumb too much credit]]). Quasi/Esme shippers, especially, seem to think that having Esme end up with Phoebus is [[WarpedAesop a betrayal]] of the film's "Looks don't matter" message, CompletelyMissingThePoint that "Looks don't matter" ''also'' means you shouldn't hate attractive people.
* Suzy Johnson of ''{{Phineas and Ferb}}'' is a subversion of this because she is Jeremy's little sister. The fact that she doesn't want her brother to have a girlfriend like Candace, though, makes her one of the least popular characters.
* Trent of ''TotalDramaIsland'' is often bashed by people who would rather see Gwen and Cody together. Gwen/Cody fanfics usually portray Trent as a [[JerkAss shallow, abusive jerk]] who almost always dumps Gwen for [[MostCommonSuperPower Lindsay]] (most of the time, though, they just kill him off in a literal Die For Our Ship). You can just imagine the delight of many when [[spoiler: Gwen and Trent broke up in the fifth episode of Total Drama Action---though ironically, for the ''opposite'' reason: he was too clingy]].
** Another major [[ShipToShipCombat Shipping War]] lately: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Dun]][[LittleBlackDress can]]/[[WellExcuseMePrincess Cour]][[{{Tsundere}} tney]] vs. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Dun]][[LittleBlackDress can]]/[[PerkyGoth Gw]][[{{Tsundere}} en]]. Though the latter are only close friends so far, both the characters on the show and many fans suspect they will wind up together, leading to both Courtney- and Gwen-bashing among the fandom.
* ''SouthPark'' isn't safe either. Kelly and Tammy are very often hated by fangirls who have a crush on Kenny. Wendy, Bebe and a few others are disliked for the same reasons.
* The ''PowerPuffGirls'' fandom. Powerpuff/Rowdyruff shippers are surprisingly vicious towards anyone who even touches pairings but the Girls and their color counterparts, fact that the Boys are their [[EvilTwin Evil Twins]] and that Buttercup had more sexual -- I mean, tension towards Ace than towards Butch aside, and that's just for starters.
* The owner of the [[MuchaLucha Rikochet/Buena Girl]] Yahoo! group once ran a poll asking "Do you hate Penny Plutonium because her crush on Rikochet interferes with his relationship with Buena Girl?" Immediately following, he got responses voting for "Yes! Death to Penny Plutonium!"
* Jimmy/Cindy shippers in ''JimmyNeutron'' do not approve of the existence of Betty, or in some cases April.
** For what it's worth, ''Cindy'' sure as heck doesn't approve of Betty either...
* ''CodeLyoko'''s Ulrich/Yumi shippers tend to take the flawed character aspects of alternate love interests Sissi (who is definitely shallow, bratty, and annoying, but does show JerkWithAHeartOfGold tendencies) and William (a definite StalkerWithACrush, but more dark than evil) and exaggerate them beyond recognition until there's ''no'' way they could threaten their beloved ship. Or save themselves the trouble and kill them off. Or pair them with each other.
** Which is really completely unnecessary, considering both are canonically {{Hopeless Suitor}}s from the beginning. Ulrich and Yumi's ship is in much more danger from [[UnresolvedSexualTension Ulrich and Yumi themselves]] than outside forces.
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* See YokoOhNo.
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