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I adore Kairi from Kingdom Hearts but she's bashed by Riku/Sora shippers simply for living! Cut the girl some slack, it's not her fault that the main guy is in love with her.
— A very wise crunchyroll user

Yes, Die for Our Ship even happens here and not just in the Dating Sims.

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Other video games

  • In Aveyond fandom, the Dameon hate is extremely strong due to fans preferring Rhen/Lars to Rhen/Dameon.
  • Azure Striker Gunvolt: There is at least one Gunvolt/Elise fanfiction which portrays Joule as a horny 8 year old who threatens to kill Gunvolt in her sleep. Her alternate self Lumen is also reduced to a one note character who will do nothing but tease Gunvolt about not wearing a shirt. Her character is actually meant to be a social commentary on the J-POP industry, with Joule being the objectified 13-year old and Lumen the pseudo-Virtual Celebrity, so portraying her as blatantly sexual instead of just trying to live up to an ideal she can't fulfill is completely missing the point.
  • Arakune from BlazBlue; it's not easy to find a Bang Shishigami fan who doesn't want the critter dead for good. Bang's fandom logic for this is quite simple: the manliest man has to hook up with the woman he has his eyes set on, and it doesn't matter if she likes him or not at first; for them, Bang's passion will be corresponded no matter what. One can understand wanting Litchi to stop going through Break the Cutie deals for Arakune's sake, but these fans often act as if Bang had ownership and right to Litchi's whole persona because of his badassery, which reflects a pretty... selfish and entitled view of romance as a whole. (And considering that Bang is a Chivalrous Pervert, a rather decent guy and comes to actually care for Litchi's safety and well-being aside of liking her giant chest, if he "knew" about such stuff, he would most likely be mortified. See his reaction to Tsubaki trying to stage a Shotgun Wedding for his sake in one of his joke endings!)
    • And sometimes, it's even more, with these fans, they would shove away how Arakune used to be human and might deserve a second chance, to these fans, the fact that he's an amorphous blob that ate Kaka clans for his dietary means that he really should be killed For Great Justice for all, and that Litchi insists that he can be saved means that she's a fool, and is constantly being blamed for trying to dissuade her own grief like someone who was never a good person to begin with (goining NOL and aiding Relius in his would-be genocidal plan, despite unwilling, will do such thing for this fandom), people would rather pity Bang for not getting the girl and would think that she no longer deserves Bang (so now she's pegged to "die" because of refusing the ship! What). Never mind that Bang himself also has a very flawed view on Litchi, thinking of her like a perfectionist who can do no wrong and being shocked when she turns out to be a person with deep issues, but apparently for these fans, Bang's manliness overrode all.
    • And believe it or not, the reverse of this could hold true too. Bang being some sort of Base-Breaking Character (either seen as an annoying Idiot Hero or an Ensemble Dark Horse) means that some people would have him die so he'd stop pursuing Litchi already and leave her to her quest to save Arakune, because Bang could get annoying in some people's eyes. There's a reason why the Bang/Litchi pairing is pretty much nonexistant in the Japanese fandom, as they understood the values of tragic romance story, although they do not mind friendshipping between the two.
    • Noel Vermillion is quite hated, especially amongst Ragna/Jin shippers. There are also those who wishes Noel would fulfill her destiny of being killed to save the world, just so she doesn't get in the way of Jin/Tsubaki. Which is canonically Tsubaki's big problem, after Hazama takes a hold of her... and yet she still cannot bing herself to Murder the Hypotenuse when she has Noel at her complete mercy. Of course, many of the rabid Jin x Tsubaki fans fail to realize that Noel herself is a Shipper on Deck in favor of those two, that Noel's feelings for Ragna may be stronger than anything she'd feel for Jin (on account of being a clone of their little sister Saya, who harbors some pretty strong feelings for Ragna herself if the words and behavior of the goddess of death her body is being used as a vessel for are any indication), and took her job under Jin solely to aid her ailing family courtesy of Hazama's machinations. If it weren't for that, she'd have held out for Tsubaki to have that role.
    • This is something more of the other side of Germans Love David Hasselhoff, but... in Japan, Tsubaki has a rather notorious reputation and being hated by the majority of fans with them so much as refusing to talk about her, or even say that her only saving grace is that she's voiced by fan favorite seiyuu Asami Imai. Why? Because how dare she be considered the canon, straight pair of Jin, instead of having Jin end up with Ragna! It didn't help that Tsubaki canonically hates Ragna for some reason, fueling on how the Ragna shippers would like Tsubaki getting offed...
  • Breath of Fire II saw a rather one-sided attack on Nina by fans of the Ryu/Katt pairing. And, yes, in fanfiction, her personality generally takes one on the noggin.
    • Although they're less guilty of it, fans of Ryu/Nina aren't completely innocent of this sort of thing, either, as they tend to completely Flanderize Katt into a brainless, unrefined, and violent idiot. The game's "Blind Idiot" Translation doesn't help much in either case, giving very little canon insight into their personalities to begin with.
  • Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: Most Mao/Almaz shippers tend to use the Almaz ending for fanfictions, because Almaz's love interest, Sapphire, ends up wanting to kill him, thinking he is going to kidnap her if she doesn't strike back, automatically getting her out of the way, and making her a pretty nice target. Never mind that Mao also wants to kill him for his title in this ending.
  • Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten:
    • Vocal Valvatorez/Fenrich shippers aren't exactly thrilled with Artina since she possesses a rather sharp tongue. On the flip side, some of the people who ship Val/Artina are not exactly fond of Fenrich's traits.
    • Then there's the, thankfully very small, minority of Val/Fuka shippers who hate both of the other ships. This is in spite of the fact that FUKA ships both of them herself and even chooses to sink her own shi] in her epilogue because she doesn't want to get in the way of Artina and Fenrich!
  • Dragon Age:
    • The first game had a zig-zagged exaemple of this with the Darkspawn Chronicles DLC, in which Alistair/Leliana was mentioned as being a rumor. (The conceit of the DLC is that the Warden didn't survive the Joining.) While there was a massive backlash, Leliana doesn't seem to have received much hate (or it didn't last).
    • Before the Garrus/Tali pairing in Mass Effect 3, a significant number of Fenris fangirls similarly lost their minds over Fenris and Isabela hooking up in Dragon Age II, despite the fact that, similar to the Mass Effect example, it only happens if neither party is romanced by the player. Isabela is frequently trashed as being slutty and amoral (being canonically promiscuous doesn't help) and not good enough for Fenris. Some go as far as to take the option to give her up to the qunari at the end of Act 2. As an interesting contrast, fans who don't bash the pairing have a tendency to Take a Third Option and ship Hawke/Fenris/Isabela instead.
    • Fans are so used to this, some of them were preemptively worried for Inquisition newcomer Josephine after rumours emerged that she and Cullen might hook up. Nothing actually came of it; in fact, all of the non-player romances (Iron Bull/Dorian, Sera/Dagna, and implied Josephine/Blackwall) seem to have avoided it this go around. If anything, Iron Bull/Dorian is notable for how frequently it goes in the opposite direction.
      • Bianca Davri suffered on her introduction due to her still having an amicable relationship with her old boyfriend Varric. Depending on your interpretation of their dialogue, she can be seen as stringing him along despite being married to someone else, and some fans - whether they ship Varric with someone else or not - resent her for it. (The fact that she makes an overt threat to the player character as her final line of dialogue does not help.)
  • Drakengard fandom falls into this habit as well, with both Nowe/Manah and Nowe/Eris fans blasting the third side of the Love Triangle for getting in the way on their OTP. Usually, it is Manah who gets the brunt of the hatred (which probably has something to do with the fact that she was the Big Bad in the first game), but there are quite a few Eris-haters out there, too.
  • In Ganbare Goemon fandom, Omitsu is the favored punching bag for bitter shippers, as she is the sole love interest of the main series - a matter exacerbated by her lack of screen time outside of kidnapping plots, leading her to be denounced as a useless cuckoldress or simply ignored as a result. To rub more salt into the wound, Konami has been making Goemon and Omitsu's romance more overt in recent times, and even threw in a couple of moments to sink the more popular GoeYae couple. (The fans of the aforementioned couple have the manga and Bouken Jidai Katsugeki to go on, but they're Alternate Continuity, so they "don't count.")
  • Golden Sun has had a very strong shipping base since the first game, but it was the third game when people really got violent about it. When it was made cannon that Isaac and Jenna got married, and were the main protagonists parents, the hate fics began to flow like water. Many fans had been a fan of shipping Isaac and Mia, as well as Garet and Jenna. The takes of these fics have been from Isaac being detached and a jerk, Jenna cheating on him with someone else (freeing him up), or simply stating that one half of the couple is dead already.
    • The second game caused an odd inversion of this. Felix is often paired, not with the girl he jumped off of a tower for, but the antagonist that he actually killed in the late game. Sheba doesn't tend to get killed off, just paired with Ivan, but the reasons for reviving Karst jump around.
  • While not as vicious as other fandoms, Guilty Gear has its share of charabashing based on pairings, and specially after some rounds of Ship Sinking. The main victim is Kuradoberi Jam who is perceived as a shrill bitch who wants to keep Sol and Ky away due to her flirting with Ky in canon). Moreover, a scene in AC+ where she tried to poison Ky become another reason to increase the hate. Curiously, Dizzy gets much less hate than expected after becoming the Maiden of the Grove, marrying Ky and being the mother of his child, Sin. On the other hand, a small number of TestamentxDizzy fans are sour with Ky Kiske. They think that Ky stole Dizzy, the only person left in Testament's world.
  • Regarding Inazuma Eleven, there were rather... bloody wars regarding which of the Raimon managers would become Mamoru Endou's girlfriend/wife. The anime and the Go LIGHT games went for Natsumi Raimon, whereas the Go DARK games favoured Fuyuka Kudou; this did NOT sit well with the fans who supported Aki Kino instead...
  • Katawa Shoujo:
    • Shizune Hakamichi is in the worst set up for this. First, her route is very much an acquired taste, relying more on intellectual nuance, Foreshadowing and subtext than the "feels" that are common in other routes. Meaning that you need to play it a few times in order to truly get it, and it mostly consists of Slice of Life events. Second, she is a Spirited Competitor to a degree that one either finds charming or obnoxious; she can also can be rather blunt (in part because she is deaf-mute). Thirdly she is The Rival to Lilly who is one of the most adored characters in the game, with a smoother and more straightforward story. Lastly, her best friend Misha is an Ensemble Dark Horse who doesn't have a route of her own and is, in fact, in unrequited love with Shizune herself — which is what lies behind the drama in her story.
    • Interestingly enough, in Lilly's route, Shizune reconciles with Lilly, on her own initiative. And instead of competing with Lilly over Hisao, Shizune, along with Misha, is a Shipper on Deck.
    • Lilly herself gets some flak from fans of the other route, who resent her for being the most popular girl. Her lack of obvious flaws make her look like an idealised girlfriend among the more relatable cast.
  • The King of Fighters:
    • We have Kyo's girlfriend, Yuki. Sweet, outspoken, straight-A student... and absolutely hated by Kyo/Iori slashers, Kyo/Shingo shippers, Kyo/Athena fans of the self-projecting kind, and authors who want their Author Avatars to hump Kyo instead of this unfortunate Naïve Everygirl who gets caught in the crossfire between Kyo and the Orochi clan who want to sacrifice her to bring Orochi back into this world, since she's the last descendant of the legendary Kushinada sacrificial maid.
    • To a lesser extent, this is also true of Athena; where Kyo is concerned, some fics portray Athena as either a Stalker with a Crush or a manipulator who selfishly toys with Kyo (and/or Kensou's) feelings for her own gratification. Also, others seem to think that Kensou is entitled to Athena's body and feelings for being her Dogged Nice Guy, and thus bash her and call her "slut" and "ungrateful" since she doesn't like him in that way — never mind that both Athena and Kensou have other sides to their personalities.
    • Andy Bogard, in both The King of Fighters and its sister series Fatal Fury. Andy took quite a beating from rabid fanboys who preferred Mai with their Author Avatars, other male characters (like Terry, Joe, Eiji Kisaragi, Iori, or even someone from a completely different, unrelated series), and/or other female characters (from Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, and otherwise).
    • Blue Mary, Terry Bogard's later love interest. Too many authors resent her for being an obstacle for their Author Avatars. Though the fact that many of them have only seen the anime adaptations thus barely know she exists (also not knowing that the anime is the only place Terry has a "dying girlfriend curse") may be a factor there.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
    • As quoted above, Kairi is rabidly hated by many Sora/Riku shippers despite being a kind-hearted princess type of a trio of friends without much overt romantic interest. Generally, she's portrayed by the shippers as a selfish homophobic bitch who hates Riku (usually due to one scene in which she expressed distrust toward him, which was eventually justified) and wants Sora for herself, and usually ends up dying in some over-the-top fashion. This is despite the fact that the significance of the interest in Kairi has absolutely nothing to do with who ends up with whom. The importance of both boys crushing on Kairi is that it binds the three friends to a child-like atmosphere in their otherwise dark experiences, and it's ultimately Kairi who reunites Sora and Riku after a long period of them being seperated from one another.
      • Riku himself has been receiving hate from Sora/Kairi shippers in the buildup to the release of Kingdom Hearts III, but it increased significantly after Melody of Memory, with multiple Sora/Kairi shippers insisting that Riku should be Killed Off for Real so that his journey to find Sora in Quadratum can be given to Kairi instead (ignoring the fact that Riku would already be in Quadratum by that point anyway.)
    • There also exists a cult following for Sora/Namine that are positively vicious toward Kairi, making her out to be dumb, selfish, and evil while insisting that Naminé is perfectly wonderful in every way, so she deserves to be with Sora. On the flip side, whenever Sora/Kairi shippers actually turn up, half of them seem to demonize Naminé, saying that she messed with Sora's memories and tried to steal him away from Kairi, which she actually did do... under the orders of her evil, abusive guardians, and once they were defeated, she set things right with Sora. The big kicker to all of this? Kairi and Naminé are the SAME BEING anyway! Honestly, thinking about it too long is enough to give one a brain tumor.
    • Naminé even gets hate from rabid Roxas/Xion shippers, especially after the 2.8 HD collection implied Roxas/Naminé as an Official Couple in the special credits.
    • Speaking of Xion, nearly every Axel/Roxas shipper hated her before the game was even released, and at least 75% of them still hate her now for getting in the way of their pairing.
    • The Sora/Riku shippers are just as bonkers where Xion is concerned. The moment screenshots appeared of Xion and Riku sharing the same breathing space, the shippers went nuts and started vilifying her for getting in the way of the ship. The best part? Xion is Sora's Opposite-Sex Clone.
    • The members of Organization XIII (or the "ORGY-nization" if you see all the pairings) are all either hated or loved for various reasons in terms of fandom, but Larxene is often depicted as more of an evil, violent, and sadistic bitch than necessary or just forgotten altogether in order to advance any of the yaoi pairings. Note that most of the Chain of Memories half of the Organization hasn't even really canonically interacted with the Kingdom Hearts II half on screen. This only encourages it by leading to shipping at near-random and therefore, bashing of rival ships. When you have people loathing Zexion for getting in the way of Xigbar/Demyx, both of whom have never interacted onscreen you know something is seriously wrong...
    • Lexeaus to any ship. Save for pairing him up with Zexion, which is unlikely, he might as well not exist as far as shipping is concerned.
    • Subject X being Isa and Lea's friend they joined the Organization to search for made her receive hate from Isa/Lea shippers before we even knew for sure who she was.
  • Kirby (yes, there are shippers in the Kirby fandom) suffers from this quite a bit, usually towards the main character's female companions and Meta Knight.
    • Chuchu and Ribbon are at each other's throats 24/7, with the author's personal preference winning out and the other girl getting depicted as being a Clingy Jealous Girl and an idiot. Elline and Adeleine, despite being rarer shipmates, are treated just about the same. Mercifully, many fics have them paired up with someone else if Kirby doesn't choose them. But worst of all, Tiff is usually made into a hyper-controlling and emotionally abusive bitch to Kirby, or a racist towards Meta Knight. And she isn't even in the games!
    • Dark Meta Knight and Marx are often depicted as Yandere rapists in Meta/Kirby and Meta/Galacta fic. In fact, pretty much all Meta Knight shipping fics follow the same premise: Meta Knight falls in love with someone, someone else gets jealous of their love and tries to ruin it, Meta Knight saves them and defeats the villain, roll credits!
  • Poor Bastila in Knights of the Old Republic gets a lot of undeserved hate from the Carth/female Revan shippers.
  • Left 4 Dead 2 has shipping wars between Ellis/Zoey shippers and Ellis/Nick shippers. The game sometimes has a teasing between Ellis and Zoey but nothing ever comes out of it. On the other side of the spectrum, Nick constantly makes fun of Ellis and gives him grief while Ellis takes it in stride and sometimes mildly quips back. Due to the linear and fast paced nature of the game, there's little to no character development, but that hasn't stopped shippers from trying to add more to the survivors.
  • In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Alisa Reinford usually gets this from fans who would rather pair Rean with Laura, Fie, or Sara. It's mostly thanks to a Never Live It Down incident where it ends with Alisa overreacting towards Rean, slapping him despite him trying to save her from a trapdoor and not apologizing to him for three weeks despite clearly knowing it was an accident. Being pushed by Falcom as the official love interest wasn't exactly helping things.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
    • Ocarina of Time, which arguably added multiple love interests, depending on who you ask. Saria, Malon, Zelda, and Ruto all suffer. The older Nabooru, who has the most overt interest in him but also the least dialogue, gets much less negative attention, mostly because fans interpret her as being just a flirt with no romantic interest. Princess Ruto, who finagled a Childhood Marriage Promise on the other hand, is the most loathed girl by the shippers. Lord Jabu-Jabu's Belly doesn't help. The hatred of Ruto doesn't even make a whole lot of sense, considering that Link clearly isn't interested and the ending makes it impossible for them to be together even if he were.
    • Wind Waker had only three significant female characters: Tetra/Princess Zelda, Medli (who Prince Komali appears to have a crush on), and Link's younger sister Aryll. (There's also a fairy queen who has a crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her.) As such, it only really came down to Tetra and Medli, and the number of fanfictions involving Link escaping Tetra's fan-overblown controlling bitch personality and heading off to be with Medli are astronomical. (They, however, almost never kill off Komali. They rather either write him out of the story as if he never existed or have him just be fine with it.) Also, the only ones the Yaoi Fangirls pair Toon Link up with are... pretty much all of the other Links.
    • Twilight Princess had a fair amount of this:
      • Link/Midna fics occasionally had its own share of Zelda bashing, though most Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans get along (or even outright ship all three characters together). Depending on the fic, this may simply involve Zelda turning out to be a controlling shrew who feels like she's entitled to Link because of Reincarnation Romance, escalate to Zelda being the first victim of whatever violent conflict arises from the reopening of the portal, or have her be banished to live in the Twilight Realm while Midna gets to reside in Hyrule. The last of which is an odd punishment considering that Midna views Zelda as a friend, and even if she didn't, favorably sees the Twilight Realm as her home and resents the idea of it continuing to be used as a prison for Hyrule's worst.
      • On the other side of the equation, some Link/Zelda fans tended to be threatened by the fact that Midna spends most of the game with Link and is possibly implied to have feelings for him, while Zelda is a prisoner for most of the game. As such, they like to pretend Midna never underwent any character development, painting her as a manipulative, ungrateful brat who treats Link as a pet.
      • Poor, poor Ilia absolutely gets the worst of it though, being far less popular than Midna and Zelda. Since she's the game's main Implied Love Interest, she gets bashed to hell and back by both Zelda/Link and Midna/Link shippers, usually focusing on her scolding Link for accidentally hurting Epona's leg (even though she apologizes later and Link had clearly shrugged the moment off anyway).
    • With Skyward Sword, you now have three pairings that involve having to get rid of Zelda: the Item Check Girl, Peatrice (who's feelings can be reciprocated at the end of her sidequest, to which Fi suggests to never tell Zelda); your new companion, Fi (i.e., the spirit of the Master Sword), who canonically does became emotionally attached to Link; and, of course, Ghirahim, whose lines in the game practically ooze with desire on what he wants to do to Link.
    • Hyrule Warriors resulted in Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans joining forces against the game's villainess, who has a thing for Link. The immature sections of these groups hated her upon announcement, though this ebbed after the game released and we learned her backstory and final fate at the end of the game. As it turns out, the villainess in question, Cia, was once the Guardian of Time tasked with protecting the Triforce whose interest in the Hero of Legend slowly turned into an obsessive love that was capitalized on by Ganondorf, corrupting her into the character she is today. She ends up actually dying when all's said and done, having a brief heart-to-heart on her deathbed with her good half and discarded light, Lana, where they come to accept the fact that Link doesn't choose either of them over Zelda, something that Lana can live with despite her heartbreak. The sad nature of this scene, Cia's tragic Start of Darkness, and Lana's farewell to Link and Zelda in the ending managed to quell most of the shipping debates, and the 3DS port/expansion, Hyrule Warriors Legends, features a post-game campaign where Cia is brought Back from the Dead to live a happier life with Lana as they resume their original role as the Guardian of Time.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild makes it explictly clear that multiple female characters are romantically interested in Link, and with this comes the usual Ship-to-Ship Combat. Paya is mostly left alone, as she is probably the least ship-teased pairing with Link and her crush is largely treated as one-sided by the game's story. However, Mipha and Zelda are canonically both strongly in love with Link and their affections for him are an important facet of both characters. This often leads to both of them getting hate from each other's fanbases and their Love Triangle being treated as a far more bitter affair than it actually was—canonically, Zelda and Mipha were nothing but polite and cordial to each other, with it not even being clear if they knew they were in love with the same guy in the first place. The non-canon spin-off game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity only really added more flames to the fire, as it only further developed the Love Triangle between the three.
      • Miphalink shippers tend to hyperfocus on Zelda's inital coldness towards Link, accusing her of being abusive to him and villainizing her to an almost comical degree... despite the fact that she only really yelled at him in a single cutscene note , which she later felt terrible about and apologized to him for, and the two canonically patched things up and became close friends later. On top of that, some fans of the Sidon/Link pairing sometimes hate on Zelda similarly, as she's the most heavily ship-teased Love Interest in the canon story who might possibly stand in the way of their pairing.
      • Mipha doesn't get as much hate, as Sidon is her brother who canonically adores her, and her death kind of pulls her out of the shipping roster in terms of being an end-game Love Interest—making her far less threatening to defensive shippers. However, her Clingy Jealous Girl traits tend to be overemphasized in Zelink fanfics, and she sometimes gets called "boring" or "demure" due to her quiet nature.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom introduces Yona, a childhood friend to Sidon who hails from another Zora kingdom. The moment people learned that Yona and Sidon were an Official Couple, Link/Sidon shippers lost their minds over it. What doesn't help is the game revealing a statue of Link riding on Sidon's back to immortalize the time the two worked together in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to stop a Divine Beast. Sidon also still fawns over Link as a hero to admire (something Yona herself lampshades) and a best friend, which also didn't help matters.
      Ian and Casey: (reading) I'm your best friend's— (angry) fiancee?!
      • Zelda herself gets quite a bit of hate for "being in the way" of the Sidlink ship, as while not she's not quite an offical Love Interest to Link in this game, they are heavily ship-teased—quite possibly moreso than they've ever been before, with the game implying that the two lived together and possibly shared a bed in Hateno Village, and Link's main questline simply being to get her back.
  • Life Is Strange: Warren Graham and Rachel Amber are both frequent targets of the nigh militant PriceField fandom.
    • Despite the game itself going out of its way to show Warren as well-meaning and a supportive friend of Max, the Chloe fandom goes out of their way to villainize him. They make him out to be a stalker who's only pretending to be Max's friend in order to get into her panties. So in the final episode, they literally sacrifice him, along with the rest of Arcadia Bay, for the sole purpose of their girl-girl ship.
    • Rachel doesn't fare any better. While the game clearly shows her to be manipulative at times and a serial cheater, it also shows she had redeeming qualities as well. But the latter aspect of Rachel's character gets disregarded altogether by PriceField shippers, who mis-characterize Rachel solely as a manipulative bitch for daring to be Chloe's girlfriend during Before the Storm. But they can't kill her off since she's already dead by the time of the original game, so they bash and hate on her instead
  • Mass Effect:
    • Feron is slowly becoming a target amongst the hardcore fans of Any!Shepard/Liara (particularly Female Shepard), especially after Word of God suggested that Liara may have had feelings for the drell during the prequel comic tie-in to Mass Effect 2 (regardless of her relationship status with Shepard). Because it's totally healthy to not move on even a little after your S/O supposedly died right before your eyes, right? It is worth noting that Liara never acts upon those supposed feelings: if you continue the romance, Liara says she only saw Feron as a good, platonic friend and nothing more. It doesn't stop the more hardcore fans from invoking this trope on him.
    • If asked about how she feels in Lair of the Shadow Broker, Liara says that Feron is too emotionally damaged after his torture for a relationship, and if Shepard romanced her, she will say she pointed out that she was "taken." Interestingly enough, it is possible to indirectly kill him by not completing Lair of the Shadow Broker.
    • Despite there being no overt references or hints of romance between Kal'Reegar and Tali in game, Kal'Reegar fares no better with the hardcore Tali/Male Shepard fans. While he can die in-game, most just kill him off on Haestrom anyways, this doesn't mean this trope plus Ron the Death Eater doesn't seep in from time to time, too. The hate has gone down somewhat, seeing as how the poor guy gets killed off-screen if he did survive the second game. Somewhat.
    • Some people don't like that Tali and Garrus can hook up, this is completely ignoring that it only happens if neither party is romanced or dead. Then again, this is the reason why you cannot start a romantic relationship with either in 3. It's worth noting that virtually no one who hates this pairing bashes Garrus over this, even Male!Shepard fans (the ostensible "competition"). Tali seems to fare much worse among Female!Shepard fans who hate the pairing.
    • Lately, fans have been using Tali and Garrus pairing to justify their own ships, whether it is to emphasize Liara as canon or as lashback by Kaidan/Shepard fans
    • Can also be invoked in the first game; Want to romance Ashley as Male!Shep, or Kaidan as Fem!Shep? Well, then the Sadistic Choice on Virmire just got significantly easier... but don't tell the one you're not dating.
    • Then there's Kaidan who gets blasted by Fem!Shep/Garrus (or Shakarian) shippers for either being an abusive asshole who emotionally manipulates Shepard into staying with him and very viciously blasts Garrus for siding with Cerberus alongside Shepard or the complete reverse, being generally just a bland and boring guy. Some shippers have even gone so far as to write fanfiction wherein the entire Normandy crew emotionally or physically abuse Kaidan simply for being there and daring to show interest in Fem!Shep.
    • Garrus has been repeatedly called a yes-man by Fem!Shep/Kaidan (or Shenko) shippers for being able to join Shepard's crew throughout Mass Effect 2, citing Kaidan's refusal to join as "maturity".
    • Liara is hit with this from people who ship Shepard with pretty much anyone else, largely due to perceived creator favoritism, treating her as a Stalker with a Crush and a Yandere. It didn't help that Liara, among other things, pulls Shepard's armor from his body and enshrines it in her apartment. Liara faces particular ire from fans of Kaidan or Ashley who blame Liara for all of their distrust of Shepard. While that was a severe communications failure on Liara's part (a communications failure she blames on the Virmire Survivor despite being the only person who could have actually told the truth.), some have interpreted it as Liara deliberately keeping them in the dark so that she could have Shepard all to herself. The fact that Liara canonically kept quiet about Tali's feelings for Shepard to improve her own chances with him isn't exactly a point in her favor.
  • Even Mega Man Battle Network suffers from this. Mayl, in particular, gets all the hatred of the yaoi fans (not to mention a humiliating Fan Nickname) for daring to stand in the way of Lan/Chaud... never mind that Lan/Mayl is the Official Couple, as the sixth game shows in the ending. And the ever-shrinking Lan/Mayl fandom tends to demean Dex, who has a huge crush on the pink-haired girl... Then there's the feud between Chaud/Yai and Chaud/Anetta fans.
  • Mega Man Star Force:
    • Two het pairings (Geo/Sonia and Geo/Luna) are all but canon and the first game has some heavy Ho Yay 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 Clingy Jealous Girl and G/L shippers say Sonia and Geo are Like Brother and Sister.
    • The third game even seems to acknowledge the Ship-to-Ship Combat by giving Geo (during the trip to Alohaha) the chance to recover a valuable keepsake of one (and only one) of his three close friends: Sonia, Luna, or Bud. While all three options result in rather tender moments, picking one of the girls has the other fuming, whereas picking Bud has Zack remark (much to Sonia and Luna's mutual ire) that Geo was essentially picking the lesser of three evils.
  • Metal Gear Solid fans who prefer Otacon over Meryl can actually kill her off in game if they so choose. No, it's not canon, but it's better than nothing. They appear to have noticed this and provided ample evidence for both Snake/EVA and Snake/Ocelot, letting you choose which one you like better.
    • Guns of the Patriots sets up a romance between 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 Naomi has a list of Kick the Dog moments as long as one's arm, it's probably for the best that she did die. Heaven knows what her standing with the fandom would be if she had survived to get in the way of Snake/Otacon.
    • The horrible treatment Rosemary gets from people who ship Raiden with the other characters, especially from the slashers. While admittedly annoying in Sons of Liberty with plenty of narmalicious quotes, people really took Accentuate the Negative to extremes with her character. The sheer amount of vitriol sent her way would almost make the non-MGS fan think she was the true villain of the series and more depraved than Vamp and more monstrous than Volgin. She did become more likeable for some when Guns of the Patriots rolled around, though.
    • Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki has recently received this treatment as well. In Guns of the Patriots, he gets to marry Meryl; since then, some pretty rabid Snake/Meryl shippers have brutally bashed his brains out too. As if he didn't have enough troubles already...
  • Not even Mortal Kombat is free of this. Action Girl Sareena gets Ship Tease with Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot... Guess what happens to her.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2 makes this actually possible, since under certain circumstances, the main character may have to kill Elanee, Neeshka, or Bishop.
    • It helps that the companions' personalities change depending on the player's choices, so a dead Neeshka is quite likely to have joined the enemy of her own volition, while a surviving Neeshka is a steadfast and loyal companion who can beat Blood Magic with the Power of Friendship. It's also worth noting that Neeshka and Bishop were originally supposed to be romanceable, but the subplots got Dummied Out. Naturally the modding community has seen fit to repair this.
  • The Overwatch fandom has entered this trope when it was revealed that not only is Tracer a lesbian, but she has a canonical girlfriend named Emily. The fans who ship Tracer with Widowmaker have easily taken the initiative with this trope, depicting her as a selfish bitch who only likes Tracer because she's a member of Overwatch and feels entitled to her, culminating in treating Widowmaker like crap conveniently where Tracer can see the real her.
    • Gency fans had a nuclear meltdown when a Genji/Mercy interaction was pulled from the Valentines patch and viciously blamed any other Genji shipper (McCree/Genji, Genji/Zenyattta) for "forcing their ship down the writer's throats" despite a few other interactions, shippy or not, have also been pulled for various reasons.
      • The above was actually rather tame compared to what happened when those lines were still teased for White Day in January 2017. As one of the most popular ships in the fandom is Phara/Mercy, Pharamercy fans started aping on Genji and Overwatch writer Michael Chu on Tumblr and Twitter. Plenty of Take That! pictures to Genji started appearing from Pharamercy fans on Tumblr, Reddit and other relevant sites. Ditto for when the lines were released on White Day.
    • With the inclusion of Soldier: 76's ex-boyfriend, Vincent, shippers have been thinking of all sorts of ways to either kill him off or write him out of 76's life, despite the fact that they've been exes for 30 years and that Vincent is Happily Married to someone else now.
  • There's not too much spite surrounding ships for the Persona 3 games (the original, FES, and the PSP version), surprisingly. The ships that get smacked around the most are arguably the MC/Aigis and MC/Yukari, which are the closest two "canon" pairings that the game offers. The latter is usually the most bashed pairing by fans, even those who don't really ship, due to Yukari's initial behavior in the game. More often than not, in both shipping and normal fics, expect Yukari to be warped into a high-tier Alpha Bitch and a Clingy Jealous Girl (the latter being something she can become when the MC romances her during her Social Link, but only to a degree, and there are arguably worse love interests in that regard that get far less flak for it).
    • There's surprisingly not much venom for the PSP version's female protagonist either. However, many fans were weirded out by the idea of FeMC/Ken, since Ken is eleven years old and a rather contentious character within the fandom. There is also a small contingency of those who ship the FeMC with Akihiko that go against Mitsuru/Akihiko; the latter is a popular ship, despite the fact that those two have been explicitly stated to be strictly Platonic Life-Partners. However, many fans are content to either ignore ships that they don't like altogether or pair FeMC with Shinjiro and then switch to another option after Shinjiro is killed or put into a coma.
  • Persona 5
    • Goro Akechi is outright despised by fans who pair Joker with either Makoto or Futaba in part to his fondness for Joker, Joker/Akechi being a very popular pairing among the fanbase and Akechi being responsible for the mental shutdown and psychotic breakdown incidents, as well as killing Joker in the game's bad ending, resulting in those fans warping Akechi into an idiot or Ax-Crazy psychopath who outright despises Joker and/or his partner.
    • This is surprisingly averted for Joker/Yoshizawa shippers, who tend to get along with Joker/Akechi fans. There's one character Joker/Yoshizawa shippers tend to hate though, and it's not one of Joker's other love interests, it's Maruki. This is due to his actions in Yoshizawa's backstory brainwashing Sumire into believing she is her deceased sister Kasumi being considered unforgivable and abusive to them, while in-game this act is implied to be a case of Obliviously Evil at worst that did stave off her depression for a time.
  • Flora gets treated this way by some members of the Professor Layton fandom, because she's seen as an obstacle to hooking up Layton with his apprentice Luke. This is a particularly odd example, because 1) Layton's only known canonical romance was with a woman, 2) Flora is Layton's adopted daughter (though there are Layton/Flora shippers too), and 3) Luke is thirteen to Layton's 37.
  • Resident Evil has multiple examples:
    • Ada Wong often gets this treatment from more mlitant "Cleon" fans. This is in stark contrast to how Raymond Vester is treated. To wit, they both save people who showed them kindness, both steal viruses and sell them off in some extremely morally questionable dealings, and possibly work for the same organization. This may be due to how Ada has a kiss with Leon in 2 and their interactions throughout 4, which could then interfere with Claire/Leon as a pairing, whereas the one Raymond is shipped with on a regular basis is Parker, who himself isn't paired off with other characters in the game by the fans.
      • Then again, it doesn't exactly help the fact that in Leon's second scenario in 2, his romance with Ada is shoehorned in with no warning.
      • The RE2 remake adds gasoline to the fire as scenes between Leon and Claire are played genuinely, while the aforementioned kiss between Leon and Ada is changed to be more manipulative than romantic.
    • Steve Burnside is often vilified and treated as a rapist or wife-beater so Leon can rescue Claire from the relationship.
    • But the inverse happens with Cleve fans in fanfiction, where Leon ends up a rapist or wife-beater, so Steve can rescue Claire.
    • Jessica Sherawat is hated for many reasons, one of which being how she flirts with Chris so much. Some of the more rabid Valenfield (Chris/Jill) fans hate her for that reason alone. Because, clearly, being a traitor, trying to kill a guy twice, hitting another guy who got in the way and leaving him to die, destroying major pieces of evidence, etc. is somehow forgivable if the character doesn't in the way of your ship.
    • Curiously, Parker gets harsh treatment from Valenfield shippers as well. This requires ignoring some Ho Yay some fans see he has with Raymond and how Parker implies that Chris and Jill are together and tries to get Jessica to stop bothering Chris.
  • In Shining Force 2 Princess Elis gets bashed a lot for taking Bowie (the main character) away from the healer Sarah who spends the whole game crushing on him. Bowie chooses Elis at the end of the game despite her having about two minutes of screentime, if that. There's a large consensus on the hatred of Elis, however.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Amy Rose (and to a lesser extent, Sally Acorn in the Archie Sonic comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Shadow slash shippers, a prospect made easier due to her Stalker with a Crush status. The Sally and Amy fans also hate each other's characters, each blaming the other's chosen character for making the series Jump the Shark and Flanderization destroying theirs.
    • Elise, Sonic's love interest in Sonic '06. She's widely hated by Sonamy fans. But then again, she's pretty much hated by everyone.
    • Depending on what is supported, Shadow, Knuckles, and Rouge are subjected to this treatment, with Rouge being portrayed as an evil seductress trying to lure Knuckles and Shadow away from each other by the Shadow/Knuckles shippers, Shadow being portrayed as a gun-toting manic by the Knuckles/Rouge shippers, and Knuckles being portrayed as abusive and obsessive by the Rouge/Shadow shippers. (And for the latter, this is if Knuckles isn't portrayed as wanting Rouge dead so that she won't be able to try to steal the Master Emerald anymore.)
    • This is also the case with the Shadamy shippers, who usually portray Sonic as a Jerkass who doesn't want Amy until she's off with someone else. The default in fanfics is for Sonic to spurn Amy one too many times, resulting in her seeing the much nicer Shadow in a better light and falling for him.
    • Many fanfics kill Sonic off in order to pair Amy up with... Metal Sonic. The real irony is that the first time Metal and Amy met, Metal kidnapped her.
    • In the case of Sonic X, there is mutual hatred between fans of Cosmo/Tails and Cream/Tails. Cosmo dies in the final episode anyways.
    • Also in Sonic X, Molly is bashed for trying to steal Shadow away from Maria. The ironic thing is that Maria is already long dead by the time Molly is introduced.
    • Within the Fleetway fandom there's a joke that Tekno and Amy are more then best friends. Cybernik is already The Scrappy due to his annoying behavior, but Word of God saying there's a romantic connection between Tekno and Cybernik just dug his grave even more.
  • There are countless Soul series fanfics where the non-playable character Rothion gets killed off so they can pair his wife Sophitia off with someone else, usually Siegfried or Taki. In one case, she's been paired up with Darth Vader.
  • Spyro the Dragon. Yes, even this fandom has some nasty eruptions:
    • Probably the worst flak is given to Spyro/Cynder, although Sierra themselves pretty much showed that they were the one true pairing. Many claims hold Cynder as a cliched character with a generic dark past, leading to ridiculous flame wars with fans and non-fans. For added insanity, keep in mind that Cynder doesn't even exist in the same continuity as pretty much all of other dragons/beings Spyro gets paired with by fans.
    • Then there are those who will fight about Flame/Ember and Spyro/Ember. (Despite the fact that, at the end of the final game in the classic series, Ember hooks up with an armadilo named Bandit. Who, oddly enough, doesn't follow victim to this trope... Provided people even remember he exists.)
    • The ones who prefer Spyro/Elora or that Spyro not be paired with anyone, period.
    • Spyro/Cynder fans take Ember's crush on Spyro and crank it up to obsessed stalker levels so that Spyro can run to Cynder.
  • Star Fox:
    • Star Fox, with its predominantly male cast, naturally gets this, especially in the form of Krystal the blue vixen, who is both Fox's love interest and the Base-Breaking Character of the series as a whole. A portion of fans shunt her aside in favor of Fox/Falco and Fox/Wolf; there's also Fara Phoenix from the 1993 Nintendo Power comics based off of the SNES game as a replacement, even though she and Fox have little chemistry between them. More precisely: As much as Fox and Krystal do.
    • On the flip side, just about no one will even dare ship Panther with Krystal: lo and behold, rabid fans burst like crazy.
    • Fara's and Krystal's fans are constantly at each others' throats.
    • And even the Ho Yay shippers as mentioned can go crazy on one another, especially with Wolf, who is often a victim of Ship-to-Ship Combat with Leon, or even James.
  • Star Ocean: The Second Story gets a lot of this between Claude, Rena and Dias; Rena/Dias shippers tend to turn Claude from a good-hearted but very lost teenager into a weak, whiny jerk whose only purpose is to drive Rena into the arms of Dias, who is suddenly smooth, tender and incredibly good in bed. In canon, Dias is very aloof and awkward with emotions, and he and Rena spend most of the game thinking of each other as surrogate big brother/little sister despite not being related. But most of the shippers never acknowledge that and go straight for the romance.
    • The fan attitude towards Claude isn't helped by the fact that Dias only joins the party if you play as Rena, and the impression when playing as Claude is that Dias doesn't join due to Claude being a jerkass to him.
    • Or else they make Rena into the whiny jealous borderline-stalker, so that Claude can run off with Dias... or Ashton, in some cases, which usually involves bashing Precis the same way.
    • The worst part of the ship wars in this fandom? You can choose who ends up with who in this game! There is absolutely no reason for anyone to die for anyone's ship! Just pair them with someone else in the party, or have them end up alone if you prefer, and it's just as canon as everyone else's ship!
    • The game's shipping wars died down over the years, to the point that there was little reaction when the fifth game all but canonized Claude and Rena's relationship by featuring one of their descendants.
  • The Story of Seasons fandom is completely dedicated to shipping; the games are more-or-less Dating Sims with farm elements to most fans. Of course there's going to be shipping wars, usually related to The Rival of certain characters.
    • In More Friends of Mineral Town fanfics related to Claire/Kai, Popuri's already flanderized in-canon (compare her in 64 to BTN) personality gets flanderized into having no redeeming factors and just being a Clingy Jealous Girl to Kai. Also Mary, for being the rival of the most popular bachelor, Gray.
    • Sabrina from Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness/Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands seems to get the worst of this from her massive Hatedom, especially when it comes to the Vaughn/Chelsea pairing.
    • In Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility/Harvest Moon: Animal Parade, the three most popular guys to marry are Gill, Chase, and Luke (and the fourth would be Wizard but he has no love rival). Their love interests Luna, Maya, and Selena ARE NOT liked at all. Special mention to Luna and Selena though as in Animal Parade, if you tell them you like Gill or Luke, their worse personalty comes out and to be fair, Luna and Gill aren't really a good match... and neither are Luke and Selena. At worse, Luna is seen as a stupid brat that doesn't understand Gill's feelings at all even during their rival scenes and Selena is seen as a whore who basically seduced Luke in the first place. Maya gets the least amount of flak out of the three but she's bashed for getting a hot guy like Chase.
    • And in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, hardly any shipper likes Muffy. Fanfics that pair up Jack with one of the other bachelorettes (usually Celia) often derail Muffy into being a slut just because she is flirty towards the protagonist and wears less conservative clothes than the others. And then you have people who dismiss Celia as being "a boring housewife."
      • Another example in the Wonderful Life fandom is Marlin. In canon, he has a tendency of being a little overprotective of the people he cares about. However, in just about every Jack/Celia fic, Marlin's protectiveness gets Flanderized to Stalker with a Crush levels.
    • In the spin-off game Rune Factory, The main heroines of the franchise receive a lot of heat for the way that the game favors them and tries to nudge you in their direction. Mist is much more regularly involved in the plot, images of Kyle and Mana hanging out hog the mass majority of Rune Factory 2's first OP, the second OP of Rune Factory 3 shows Micah running up to Shara in her wedding dress and twirling around with her while holding hands regardless of who you actually married, they get flirty dialogue very early, etc.
  • Even the Super Mario Bros. fandom suffers from this:
    • Mario himself has been bashed and demonized in fanfiction for the sake of pairing Peach with Bowser or Luigi. Bowser/Peach fans in particular like to write off him as a Jerkass who doesn't like Peach, only the thrill of the chase that comes with saving her from Bowser. The opposite happens with Mario/Peach fans, and while more of a Justified Trope in that case, it still ignores his Jerk with a Heart of Gold side.
    • If Mario gets paired with anyone who's not Peach, and Pair the Spares is not in effect, expect Peach's ditzy traits to be played up a lot.
    • Tomboyish Princess Daisy is bashed by people who want to pair Luigi with Peach or Rosalina and those hung up on Luigi being gay.
    • In the anime film The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, Prince Haru from the Flower Kingdom comes under fire from this due to him being Peach's fiancé. In other words, messing up the MarioxPeach ending. Thankfully for them, Hal is a Canon Foreigner who will never show up in the games.
    • Rosalina is a huge Base-Breaking Character already, never mind shipping. Many Mario/Peach fans and Luigi/Daisy fans are very wary of her because she has no love interest, the assumed Ship Tease between her and the Bros., and the fact that that Mario/Rosalina and Luigi/Rosalina are fairly popular.
    • Pauline quite possibly gets the worst of this of all. She gets bashed horribly by Mario/Peach fans. She's his ex-girlfriend and they're just friends now but shippers act like she's constantly trying to seduce Mario. There's also a great deal of Slut-Shaming due to Pauline's attire and makeup in comparison to Peach's Princess Classic style.
    • It's not unknown for fans of Captain Syrup and Wario together to be hostile towards Mona of WarioWare for having a Precocious Crush on Wario.
    • Odyssey caused Pauline to get a huge amount of fans, which caused a flip on the Peach vs Pauline war. Peach has been demonized for turning down Mario when he tried to force a proposal on her and for having no Relationship Upgrade with Mario despite him constantly saving her. Pauline, on the other hand, gets praised for throwing a festival and singing a song dedicated to Mario.
  • Super Smash Bros. combines multiple Nintendo franchises so you get this behavior towards ships from the games proper and Crossover Ships.
    • Let's just say a lot of the fighters' canon (or implied) Love Interests from their own games get the shaft.
    • Peach gets it bad from Samus/Zelda shippers. Samus and Zelda often get shipped because they're seen as both being mature, quiet, and badass. Peach is in sharp contrast being bubbly and cutesy, though no less badass in the games themselves. In fanworks Peach gets mocked for being stereotypically feminine, gets called stupid and a "bimbo" a lot, and is often assigned an exaggeratedly flirty personality. Peach isn't even competition in many of these works; they just enjoy taking shots at her for not being a Lady of War. Peach also tends to be portrayed as homophobic, frequently erupting into tantrums and violence should Gay/Les characters so much as look at each other.
    • Snake and Captain Falcon are often in competition for Samus. Expect one to be a no-nonsense, honorable warrior with the other being a lech who only wants her body. Sometime's they'll both be leches if the author wants to pair Samus up with someone different, usually in Samus/Zelda fics to demonstrate how Samus "shouldn't be with a man".
    • Ness/Lucas shippers really don't like Paula since she's Ness's de-facto love interest in his home game. Ness/Lucas fics usually portray her as a controlling and sometimes straight-up abusive Clingy Jealous Girl towards Ness, who ends up dumping her in favor of the much kinder Lucas.
  • Team Fortress 2:
    • The Medic's wife gets this from slash ficcers, despite the fact she's only mentioned in one line (where an enemy Demoman claims that he is sleeping with her).
    • Then there's the case of the BLU Scout's Mother/RED Spy (and possibly RED Scout's Mother/BLU Spy) pairing, which at best gets ignored or at worse turned into a pretense so Spy can have his way with one of the other classes (usually Sniper).
    • Heavy's sister Zhanna is getting some hate for hooking up with Soldier (who is usually paired with Demoman, Medic, or Engineer).
  • Lili from Tekken is often portrayed as a full-blown Rich Bitch or Alpha Bitch, in order to accommodate relationships with people she's not even closely related with (e.g: Steve and Christie). And here, she's just being a normal Ojou who happens to like fighting... However, the idea of Lili/Asuka seems to be almost universally unopposed, if only because the hints are laid on so thick by canon (especially from Lili's side) it's rather hard to go against it.
  • In the Tokimeki Memorial Japanese fandom, there was back in the time of the Classic Kirameki Saga's boom in 1996 quite a backlash concerning Yoshio Saotome's pairing in the wake of the Motto! Tokimeki Memorial Radio Drama series, which is one of the pillars of the Classic Kirameki Saga's mythos: near the end of this Radio Drama series, a whole chapter (Chapter 9) was dedicated on how Yoshio and Mio Kisaragi hook up. Since in the original game, aside from his best friend of a main protagonist Naoto, and his little sister Yumi, the person Yoshio had the most interaction with was his friend since Junior High Yuko Asahina, a good number of people took that pairing as granted ( despite the fact Yuko considers Yoshio as a kusare-sen friend, aka a person she doesn't really want to have as a friend but is inevitably a friend anyways) and were not amused at this shipping course change. The whole thing, of course, evolved as well into Ship-to-Ship Combat with those who liked the new course. The mess has fortunately died down nowadays.
  • Touhou Project fandom has a lot of choices to work with, what with the main characters being virtual launchers of a thousand ships and no Official Couple in sight, so there tends not to be much in the way of hard feelings towards the other non-shipped characters... except Alice. The Marisa/Alice ship being one of the most popular, some Reimu/Marisa shippers have the tendency to portray Alice in the most negative light possible to drive Marisa away from her. For example, the "Touhou Seasons" quartet of doujinshi has Reimu and Alice both fawning over Marisa; while Reimu can be a little annoying, Alice is portrayed as barely being tolerated, with massive and bothersome nosebleeding whenever she interacts in the slightest with Marisa.note  Another doujin has, as its entire plot, Alice soiling and then embarrassing herself in front of Reimu and Marisa. And then there's the Alternate Character Interpretation of Alice as a creepy yandere doll otaku... It doesn't help that the series is pretty much devoid of men, which allows the yuri fanboys and fangirls to go wild.
  • The Undertale fandom and shippers of Sans/Toriel in particular love bashing Toriel's ex husband Asgore, due to the in-universe fallout from Asgore's actions that he still hasn't been forgiven for, plus simply for being Toriel's ex husband.

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