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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."
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. Amelia, Relena, Naru and Ayeka: Tell us about it!
Sometimes, a character is hated because he's annoying. Or because he came in after the show Jumped The Shark. Or because she's a raging Mary Sue and gets too much attention. The list goes on. More often, though, when Shipping comes into play, the character is hated for existing at all.
Hate shrines. Death Fics. Fics where the 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 Jerk With A Heart Of Gold, or the Stalker With A Crush, her cousin, or even 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's for a 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 Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends. Paradoxically, this character is as likely to actually be part of an Official Couple as not. Beware if you're a girl and people ship your male best friends as Yaoi Guys, or conversely, if you're a boy and you hang around girls while yuri fanboys are watching. Not all yaoi fangirls/yuri fanboys 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 Bait And Switch Lesbians.
All of the main characters in Unwanted Harem series run the risk of suffering this in order to rationalize an author's 'ship. The Unlucky Everydude will take the brunt of the hatred, with fans preferring alternatives like a Bad Ass Marty Stu or another member of the harem. The Cheryl Blossom is especially prone to eliciting Die For Our Ship responses from shippers, as shippers on both sides of a Love Triangle will often put aside their differences and unite against him or her.
The Clingy Jealous Girl is an odd example, as she usually loses but is given the same amount of hate from the fandom. Yamato Nadeshiko aren't free of bashing either, which increases a thousandfold if her love rival is deemed "cooler" or "less girly, therefore stronger" by female fans. Tsundere are vulnerable either way: if she's too tsuntsun she'll be called " Jerkass , 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 Chaste Hero, whose simple non-information makes figuring things out mostly guesswork. Any bishonen, especially tough guys and the Ensemble Darkhorse, will also incite Ship To Ship Combat over whom he should be with, whether it be a Betty And Veronica in-series or a Mary Sue in a Self Insert Fic.
It isn't even restricted to fictional characters either: real-life celebrities' love interests have become targets of hate too!
This trope is the opposite of Draco In Leather Pants; here, a character's faults are exaggerated or created from whole cloth, while their virtues are either ignored or rationalized away. Revenge Fic is very common in this mindset.
A subtrope of both Shipping and Alternate Character Interpretation, with a heaping helping of Fan Dumb thrown into the mix.
Beware before you proceed, as the examples are sure to contain spoilers for whoever wins, or the examples are Wallbanger material.
Examples
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- Pictured above: Aoyama Masaya, Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo's canon love interest. Fans that prefer Ichigo with the Jerk With A Heart Of Gold or Stalker With A Crush often portray him as either 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.
- Mamoru Chiba of Sailor Moon, 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 Fan Wank 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 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 Character Derailment 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 squicky subtrope of this that purports that Mamoru is in love with his own future daughter. Anime Usagi is shown to have an irrational 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 Chekhovs Gun when Usagi is 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 refers to her father as her boyfriend.
- This can also happen in reverse, as some Mamoru/Usagi fans don't take kindly to people splitting up the "Ultimate OTP" of the fandom. Seiya Kou aka Sailor Starfighter in particular gets a lot of hatefics as if she actually 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 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 Gender Bender from the anime and the Wholesome Crossdresser 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 Mary Sue 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 Ranma Saotome, Farfarello or Heero Yuy. Or the Usagi/Rei yuri fics that sound very similar to the Seiya/Usagi ones that make Mamoru a Jerk Ass...
- All you have to do to split up Usagi and Mamoru is make Mamoru a Jerk Ass. 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 giving up Usagi and still getting to walk home with an ever-loving Michiru.
- Rei Hino was demonized quite a bit by rabid Usagi/Mamoru fans for her crush on Mamoru. Which to be fair was Character Derailment 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 she immediately stepped out of the way once she realized Usagi and Mamoru were meant to be, that she's the one who's the most protective of Usagi herself among the Senshi, that Usagi trusted her the most out of anyone in the Senshi, that she was slowly paired up with Yuuichiro, and that Rei was the most affected in the Stars anime when she learned that Usagi lost contact with Mamoru and hid that from them. "Why must Usagi suffer so much? It... it's unfair!", anyone?.
- It was once quite popular during the English dub's heyday to portray Haruka as a Psycho Lesbian that either perverted or abused Michiru, all to ensure that a 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.
- Some of the less mature fans like to make Guido from Samurai Pizza Cats 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 Grand Finale, 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 boys shipped together and standing in the way of the major Fan Preferred Couple. 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 Clingy Jealous Girl in regards to Sasuke only made her situation worse, because fans deliberately ignore her subsequent Character Development which started in the same first half where she was a Clingy Jealous Girl. It doesn't matter that Sakura's will to stop being The Load gave her quite the motivation, or that she came to truly care for Sasuke as the damaged person he was instead of just mooning for "Sasuke-kun", or that she did toughen up to become an true Action Girl: she's still "The Pink Roach" for the fanbutts.
- The fury of the Naru Hina fans was increased when Sakura hugged Naruto, which is ironic since Hinata herself doesn't seem too bothered by the hug.
- There's also a fair amount regarding the Ino/Shikamaru/Temari triangle. Shika/Tema fans often turn Ino into a shallow and shrill bimbo that only thinks of her looks and that is 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 Shiho has taken a romantic interest in Shikamaru, becoming the triang's Cheryl Blossom... and Both Shikamaru x Temari and Shikamaru x Ino fans want her to die in a fire.
- Don't forget Karin bashing from both SasuNaru *and* SasuSaku fans. Fans often make her into an oversexed nympho with constantly opened legs 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.
- To be fair Karin's infatuation with Sasuke being obsessive and unhealthy is completely true: when Sasuke was injured and their group was staying at a village she planned to drug her other teammates so she could take advantage of a weak Sasuke and rape him. In fact, she's basically an exaggerated and evil version of Sakura in Part I (basically her canon personality is Sakura in a OOC fanfic).
- Or Hinata Hyuga, who's also bashed a lot for liking Naruto, or (seemingly) her cousin Neji. There are several fics where Hinata finds out that Naruto has the Kyuubi trapped inside him, and proceeds to hate him, be afraid or other, only to be slapped into shape by Sakura. There's also the hate she receives for her characterization as a Shrinking Violet and a developing Yamato Nadeshiko, with such fans saying that "she's too weak 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).
- Some of the Fan Dumb claims that Hinata was/would be scared to find out that Naruto was hosting the Kyuubi within him... despite the part in Chapter 355 where she doesn't react to Kakashi mentioning that Naruto is a Jinchuuriki with anything other than the usual shyness. In Chapter 356, when Kabuto talks about the fox while she is with Naruto and Yamato, her reactions are not shown, and she only gets "scared" when Kabuto reveals that he's absorbed Orochimaru's remains, something that disturbs even Yamato. Anti-Naruto x Hinata shippers most often portray her as a stalker, or if they pair her with someone else, commonly include a scene early on in which she confesses her feelings to Naruto, but Naruto does not have feelings for her. Chapter 437 renders the speculation about the circumstances of her confession a moot point, but Naruto's response has yet to be seen.
- Chapter 437 intensified the debate, as 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, she's still alive, and Sakura healing her in Chapter 442 seems to put the lie to fan claims that they are bitter rivals in love.
- Naru/Saku shippers seem to prefer to attack 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.
- Shino is badly treated in the few fics about 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 Heel Face Turn.
- 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.
- Amagi Michal, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, a Clingy Jealous Girl and Ill Girl who is very smitten with Kaito. Take out the clingy jealous part, and she's a lot like Tomoe Hotaru of Sailor Moon fame, but none of the latter's fans seem to realize this.
- Li Xiao-lang (Li Syaoran), Cardcaptor Sakura, a male canon love interest in a series with a very large Girls Love 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 "evil heterosexual conspiracy forged by CLAMP and destined to screw up with the yuri" (Yes, CLAMP. Really!) or having rabid yuri fans twist him into an horrible abuser to pair up a whiny, wussified, victimized Sakura who suddenly forgets she can whip Syaoran's ass with the Sakura cards if he mistreats her, with an ultra saintly and perfect Tomoyo who's been transformed into a huge Possession Sue.
- 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 very supportive of Touya's new relationship. There's also a Hot For Student aspect to her relationship with Eriol that squicks people, though in truth, Eriol is not actually a kid.
- Not all Touya/Yukito fans hate her. In fact a vast majority don't hate her, probably because if she hadn't broken up with Touya, he'd have never gotten to Yuki, and while she was around, she was the one most actively prodding him to tell Yukito how he felt.
- That, and Kaho was their first fangirl.
- To be fair, a lot of people find Kaho & Eriol's relationship squicky because Kaho's above mentioned affair with Touya happened when he was fourteen and she was his eighth grade teacher, which suggests that Kaho is into underage men in general, Eriol's true age aside.
- Student teacher, meaning she was younger than the standard, and not even his teacher anymore by the time they hooked up. And aside of some very chaste snuggling, I don't remember them doing much else, so I always figured out Touya saw Kaho as a Replacement Goldfish of sorts for the mother he lost, Nadeshiko. And ultimately, Kaho broke up with Touya and told him to let her go since he'd soon have someone else to love (re: Yukito). The relationship was not a mere black and white thing, so only looking at the age aspect isn't the best option. And with Eriol, a conversation near the end makes it clear that Kaho does not see him as a child, but as an adult and a parent. (It also doesn't help that lots of Kaho bashers ship Eriol with Tomoyo, where the age difference is MUCH bigger, and there's no real acknowledment of that age and maturity difference.)
- Even after Clingy Jealous Girl Meiling broke off her engagement to her Unlucky Childhood Friend Syaoran willingly and came to care for Sakura as well (which she tells to Tomoyo right after she gives up said Childhood Marriage Promise), she's still demonized by rabid Sakura/Syaoran shippers, which is rather silly because Sakura and Syaoran are by and large an Official Couple and Meiling comes to support it.
- And there's also the bashing of Nakuru Akizuki from rabid Touya/Yukito fans... and they're also an Official Couple.
- Nakuru and Touya were never an official couple, and as stated in the manga, Nakuru (who is actually genderless) was mostly after Touya's power in order to get rid of Yue and weaken Sakura's offensive entourage, and once Touya and Yukito had their Relationship Upgrade, she went for being Just Friends (or Vitriolic Best Buds, from Touya's POV) to both of them. Most Nakuru haters dislike the character's overbearing personality or the threat to Yue's existance.
- Notable exception: Oddly enough, Futari Wa Pretty Cure, poster child of non-canon yuri shipping, doesn't have legions of people out to get Kiriya or Fujipi.
- Kouji and Natsu from Yes! Precure 5, however... The fact that they turn into Talking Animal sidekicks Coco and Nuts spurred the hatred by providing Squick as a ready excuse. They eventually found fandom support, however.
- In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 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 Chaste Hero status and a boatload of Ship Tease for either side leaves enough wiggleroom for fans to chew on.
- Relena Darlian/Peacecraft, in the fangirl-popular Gundam series Gundam Wing, who is often Flanderized as a Rich Bitch, a Yandere or sometimes even a Card Carrying Villain by fans who prefer the Heero/Duo pairing, despite the fact that said pairing is virtually non-existent throughout the series (All the Ho Yay apparently went to Trowa and Quatre, huh).
- 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 Hilde, Treize's right-hand Lady Une and Quatre's rival/counterpart Dorothy, who also receives a good deal of hate for opposing and hurting The Woobie during a fight late in the show. Catherine Bloom is surprisingly scot free, though maybe that comes from her and Trowa acting more like siblings. It is hinted in the Episode Zero manga that they may be blood siblings.
- Gundam Wing's director Masashi Ikeda once admitted that he 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. 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.
- Not to mention, wouldn't such an admission also mean he can't write Ho Yay tinted romance? By that logic, then Heero and Duo wouldn't necessarily be a more real couple...
- Interestingly, Relena's not even involved in the two positively confirmed heterosexual relationships in the series. (That would be her older brother, Zechs/Milliardo's relationship with Lucrezia Noin, and Treize's relationship with Lady Une.)
- Though to be fair, she is canonically in love with Heero; the lyrics to her Image Song "Always a Secret" pretty much go like this: "There's a guy I love, but I can't tell him because it might ruin the relationship we already have. Even if I can't be with him, being near him is more than enough for me."
- This is common in Tenchi Muyo, if for no other reason than the characters are usually already doing it themselves:
- Nachi from Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara Dream Saga has a bit of this; she's also transsexual, and therefore has more fuel for jokes at her expense.
- Expanded Universe example: Mana Kirishima, of the Neon Genesis Evangelion game Girlfriend of Steel 1. "Girlfriend" as in "Shinji's girlfriend", which pisses off those who ship him with Asuka, Rei, Misato, or Kaworu who LOVE to accuse her of being a Relationship Sue.
- Several Shinji/Rei 'shippers have managed to Flanderize Asuka as not just being Tsundere but outright psychotic. And then there's the Shinji/Asuka fic where Rei is either a soulless zombie or else 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.
- In School Rumble, a large slice of the fanbase wants to see Tenma drop dead. Apart from the Tenma fans, which want 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 Pokemon (by Pokeshippers and Misty/Kasumi fans in general), to the point where some of them stopped watching after Misty 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.
- The remaining Misty fans have an alarming tendency to kill her sisters off via house fire in fanfiction - literal Die For Our Ship, as this 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 Serious Business), 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 Hurt Comfort Fic (to which Sturgeons Law still applied) while the others make token references at best. Of course, Ayame/Violet bears more than a passing resemblance to the oft-killed Hyatt...
- Misty herself has been bashed for "being in the way" of the (apparent) Ho Yay 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 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 Drew as a lecherous young man who only wants one thing from May. Aside from the sheer absurdity of portraying 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 clearly the only thing getting in the way of James' chances for a happy homosexual relationship is that filthy walking vagina he
is friends with 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 The Woobie 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 Takeru-Hikari-Daisuke and Taichi-Sora-Yamato, one a very frequent Ship Tease and the other involving an Official Couple. 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 yaoi options.
- Don't forget how Miyako took the brunt of the bashing in the Miyako-Ken-Daisuke pairings, because she got Ken in the Distant Finale.
- And not even the foreign Digidestined that appeared in maybe two or three episodes are safe from bashing. Catherine, the French blonde girl who helped Takeru and Taichi, is often seen as an horrible threat to Taichi/Sora and/or Takeru/Hikari. In a similar vein Wallace, who got a kiss from Hikari, has got both Takeru/Hikari and Daisuke/Hikari fans out for his blood. Same goes to Rosa, the Mexican little girl infatuated with Ken, who's very much maligned by Daisuke/Ken fans.
- After the Grand Finale, lots of 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 Ms Fanservice in a show filled past the brink with Ho Yay, 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 Canon Sue Johan/Jesse. With the series over now, it seems they took the best way out and had no ships resolved.
- Anzu Mazaki of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yugi's childhood friend and sometimes the voice of reason, not only has the misfortune of being one of the very few girls in the series, but is also involved in a Love Triangle with two of the main male characters (In the same body, but still...). As a result, enraged yaoi shippers depict her as a complete idiot or a homophobic harpy who wants the bishies all to herself. She's usually killed off horribly at the end of the fic.
- In Bleach, ever since The Medic and Cloud Cuckoo Lander Orihime Inoue started to take a bigger role in the storyline and was revealed to actually be both in love with Ichigo and more powerful than anybody would think, militant and enraged Ichigo/Rukia fangirls twist her into a Rukia-hating, Ichigo-obsessed stalker to make Rukia look like a better match for him. Never mind that Orihime is the depressed 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 as she talks about it), and that Rukia herself adores Orihime and 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.
- Many Ichigo/Orihime fans also do this, painting poor Rukia in a horrible light by twisting her into an evil, possessive and bitchy Yandere who wants Orihime dead and away from her boytoy and completely hates her old friend Renji Abarai for having some feelings for her, despite all evidence pointing against it.
- Some fans go as far as to twist the very sweet (and femslashy, for some) scene between them where Rukia vehemently tells Orihime that she's a great person, pulling her from the Heroic BSOD state she's been for a while into a "Cat Fight" where Rukia curses and bitches at Orihime for laying her eyes on Ichigo, or Orihime is portrayed as a yandere who is obsessed with Ichigo and hates Rukia.
- Speaking of Renji, some twist both him and Byakuya into wife-beaters, rapists, etc. to favor the Ichigo/Rukia coupling. Granted, it happens less than Orihime bashing, but still...
- Poor 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 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 Stay In The Kitchen 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.
- Some of the most rabid Momo Hinamori haters are Hitsugaya/Matsumoto shippers who have somehow convinced themselves that Hitsugaya isn't allowed to 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 his broken adoptive sister. Or maybe that's because those fans also happen to 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? Soi Fong is frequently twisted into a mixture of Psycho Lesbian and rabid misandrist by the most militant Urahara/Yoruichi shippers.
- What is especially ironic is that Urahara himself would likely be overjoyed at the prospect of Soi Fong/Yoruichi.
- Also happened to Souma Oogami of Kannazuki No Miko, with fans likening him to an idiot or an overbearing bastard (of course, as nice as he could be, he is choosing the wrong series to love his girl). This decreased considerably (but still doesn't stop completely) when the series ended with Souma voluntarily stepping back after Himeko and Chikane confessed their love to each other.
- The tiny Hell Teacher Nube fandom really loathes the local Christmas Cake, Ritsuko Takahashi. At first, she's bashed and called "shallow" and a "bitch" for rejecting Nuubee's advances (which were in the Dogged Nice Guy 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/Yukime ship.
- Princess Amelia of The Slayers is widely hated, especially by fangirls who are Zelgadis/Lina, Zelgadis/Xellos, or Zelgadis/Mary Sue shippers.
- Don't forget the bashing that poor Staff Chick Sylphiel gets for "getting in between" Lina and Gourry. And sometimes even Gourry gets bashed by Lina/Zelgadis fans - when he isn't paired off with Sylphiel, he tends to be either foolish, or a sexist monster that can only be defeated by Zel.
- Essentially every character in Ranma 1/2 has experienced both this trope and Draco In Leather Pants 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 *literal* psychosis. 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 Love Martyr.
- Three Words: The. Bitter. End.
- 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.
- Likewise, Ryoga's eternal grudge and posing as P-Chan, while not exactly admirable, often result in his being flanderized into a Complete Monster to pave the way for Ranma/Akane. This is despite the fact that in canon he's saved Ranma's life and eventually begins to get over Akane.
- In contrast, Ranma's own arrogance and personality flaws are frequently overlooked because of his harsh childhood and the many demands honor has placed upon him. This leads other fans to remind the readers of the times that he's streched honor to his advantage, performed petty con artistry on much of the cast, and otherwise holds responsibility for his troubles.
- Ukyo is also made a Love Martyr, 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 Ukyo 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 This Troper 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 every character in the cast is a grade-A Jerk Ass at one point or another. Pick two characters, any two characters. Somewhere in the manga, there's a scene where one of them is a jackass to the other.
- In The Prince Of Tennis fandom, Sakuno and Tomoka are very often bashed by yaoi fans since they both have crushes on Ryoma Echizen, the male lead who is very slashable in fandom despite being just 12-to-13 years old. And if Tomoka and Sakuno are maligned for being females, then the girls from the dating sims are... well, let's not get into it.
- 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 and 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 of the Rikkaidai team as a whole) is a "proof" of his cruelty. 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 faking his concern for Inui.
- Inui/Kaidoh fans have also been known to bash Momoshiro, who (it is implied) later became Kaidoh's vice-captain after Inui graduated.
- We also have the bad treatment 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 Possession Sue 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 Fujicest fans demonize and bash Yuuta's scheming and flamboyant manager, Hajime Mizuki. Granted, Mizuki wasn't introduced as the most likeable person, but not only he *did* pay the price for it, he's not as heartless as rabid Fujicest fans claim he is.
- Or the portrayals of Tezuka and Saeki in fics and doujinshii depicting a Tezuka/Fuji/Saeki love triangle, depending on who the fan writer or doujinshii author likes with Fuji the best. Saeki often takes the brunt of it, sadly; This Troper remembers a doujinshii that had Saeki as a Stalker With A Crush who managed to use Fuji's insecurities about his and Tez's relationship to try stealing him from Tezuka as he was in rehab, up and including manipulating Fuji into having sex with him.
- In Shakugan No Shana, the desire to see Yoshida Kazumi's soul eaten by a Tomogara in a painful way for getting between Shana and Sakai Yuuji is extremely spread among the fandom. That Kazumi is presented as a fairly Flat Character 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 post no threat whatsoever to Shana. Seriously, everyone knew by the end of the first episode that it's a 99% chance that its Shana and Yuuji.
- Hikaru Hiyama in Kimagure Orange Road. It's true that The Movie made her really fixated on Kyousuke, but it's not like she was the only one to blame for the whole fuck-up either. Kyousuke and Madoka were as guilty as Hikaru, but she's the only one who gets bitchslapped by fandom.
- Susanna Marlowe from Candy Candy gets this so bad that women in their thirties and forties behave like whiny teenyboppers whenever reminded of how Susanna got Terry instead of Candy, after Candy decides to give him up willingly, since Susanna almost got killed for him and ended up crippled.
- In the InuYasha fandom, there are rabid Kikyou/Inuyasha fans accusing Kagome of being a Tsundere Sue or a Clingy Jealous Girl, and Kagome/Inuyasha fans react by calling Kikyou an evil whore who still wants to drag Inuyasha into Hell with her. Add the Kouga/Kagome shippers who bash Ayame and the Sango/Miroku fans who bash Kuranosuke Takeda too.
- In Dragon Ball Z... Yamcha often gets twisted into a wife-beater by fans of the Bulma/Vegeta pairing. As long as we're on the subject, why shippers think that a wife-beater would be worse then an Omnicidal Maniac is anyone's guess.
- Many Dragonball 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 Heel Face Turn by the time the Frieza saga was over, though he was still something of an arrogant Jerk Ass. 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/Marron (Kuririn and #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 Natsuki Kuga exclusively with Shizuru Fujino (a dyed-in-the-wool Schoolgirl/School Supervisor Lesbian with an obvious crush on her) or Nao Yuuki (who teases her 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 Draco In Leather Pants).
- Speaking of Mai-Otome, many shippers of the 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 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 Tomoe Marguerite, and make up a large section of her anti-fandom. It doesn't help Tomoe's case that she actually does attempt to hurt/kill people (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 the kiss was likely the straw that broke the nanomachine-powered camel's back.
- The tagline to the harem anime SHUFFLE is "Which girl would you choose?" Better pick fast, because the Instant Fanclubs depicted in the show have carried over into the fandom, and they're just as crazy as on TV. Kitto Kitto Kaede (pro Kaede Fuyou) and Ai Ai Asa (pro Asa Shigure) in particular have deep, deep vendettas against each other's characters.
- In Romeo X Juliet, Mad Dictator's Handsome Son Romeo Candorebanto Montague has a fiancée named Hermione di Borromeo. She's sweet, with an odd hairtstyle, starts as a Yamato Nadeshiko 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 Action Girl for plot reasons. Of course, no matter how sympathetic she is in canon (which is somewhat 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 Gundam SEED and its sequel: The ire of Athrun/Cagalli fans, after canon went against them in Gundam SEED Destiny, brought lots of bashing of Meyrin Hawke, Lunamaria "Luna" Hawke and Meer Campbell... to the point that some people have either: a) sworn off SEED as a whole; 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 Fllay and must call her "whore" and "rapist". If you prefer Kira/Fllay, you're expected to call Lacus a plain and unrealistic Canon Sue. And if you're an Athrun/Kira fan... well, tough luck.
- What is ironic is that no such feelings have arisen due to the Stellar/Shinn/Lunamaria love triangle. The Gundam SEED Destiny Live Journal fanbase seems to have chosen largely to ignore Stellar and pair Shinn with Lunamaria. Stellar's utterly flat personality probably had something to do with it.
- Don't forget that Stellar, a Tykebomb as well as Brainwashed, seems to have the mindset of an 8-year-old girl, which is a Squick for some. And also, she is dead.
- On fanfiction.net. Luna usually isn't a victim of Die for Our Ship (although it does happen) but to say that the fandom in general has chosen Shinn x Luna (pretty much the embodiment of Strangled By The Red String) over Shinn x Stellar is oh-so-slightly inaccurate...
- If you're a more or less sane Code Geass 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). 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. Interestingly enough, compare the above to Mao's little Hannibal Lecture he gives to Shirley in Episode 14 of the first season.
- Also, a good part of the hatred that sprung for Rolo comes from people being convinced that he killed Shirley solely out of psychotic love jealousy. Forget that poor Shirley said the wrong thing at the worst moment, Rolo killed Lulu's ONE TWU WUB solely to steal Lulu's heart for himself.
- It was [1] since in the first season Euphie died (although not for anybody's ship).
- And now? Kallen is getting LOTS of hate. Because she kissed Lelouch in episode 22 of R2. When that happened, cue to lots of fans (and not only Lulu/C.C or Suza/Lulu shippers) screaming "Bitch!" "Whore!" "Slut!" "Skank!" "Kallen is not cool anymore, OH NOES!"]]
- This is probably just a symptom of the fact that Code Geass seems to have spawned one of the most bitter and divisive 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.
- In regards to Kaleido Star, Kenneth "Ken" Robbins has a crush on Sora Naegino, the very femslashable female lead, but has so far escaped from the yuri fans' rage. But those who ship Sora with the second season's White Haired Pretty Boy Leon Oswald have huge hate-ons for Leon's partner, the arrogant and child-like Chinese Girl May Wong.
- School Days shippers can often behave just as idiotic as the characters they're shipping. Aside from the obvious Makoto-bashing (though it's not like he doesn't deserve it), Sekai fans call Kotonoha a "stupid, psycho, anti-feminist whore" for being Makoto-obsessed to the point of 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 at least has the small excuse that she's genuinely crazy when murderous or suicidal (seen by her Mind Control Eyes), but at least in two PS2 game endings Sekai seems creepily sane when she does the same.
- Shippers in the Death Note 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 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.
- The idea of shipping any of the Death Note cast is pretty absurd given that being alive is the best you could say about any of the characters who survived past the finale
- No matter what your opinion of the 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, Princess Tutu fandom. No matter how human she is, how much she hurts for being abused by her evil father and her love interest when he turns evil and how she actually learns from her mistakes, Rue/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. Nevermind that later Ahiru bonds more with Mytho's companion Fakir, and how Mytho ultimately chooses Rue as his Princess freely, after she rejects her evil father and pulls a heart-wretching Heroic Sacrifice.
- Not to mention a datebook that explicitly states Ahiru's feelings for Mytho are actually those of admiration, and that she's totally fallen for Fakir by the very end of the series.
- The Marmalade Boy fandom, surprisingly, doesn't bash the people involved in the ridiculously huge Love Dodecahedron that much (outside of hating Jinny Golding for pulling something so stupid that even she 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 Meiko Akizuki. Yes, this is one of the cases where a Hot For Student situation is developed sympathetically, but the fans who ship Meiko with Satoshi Miwa just will not stop calling Namura-sensei "pedophile" or "asshole who makes Meiko suffer for nothing". Even after Satoshi sees he cannot sway Meiko away from Namura and pulls an I Want My Beloved To Be Happy along with Namura's Unlucky Childhood Friend, Ryouko-sensei.
- In a Ranka vs. Sheryl debate on a Macross Frontier forum thread, Ranka gets criticized for being a "barely legal loli moeblob", while Sheryl gets flak for her overly flirty attitude and her somewhat selfish, overbearing personality, even if onscreen, when both are not being rivals to each other about Alto, they have somewhat of a Sempai Kohai relationship, and care for each other a lot.
- Cowboy Bebop fans love to pair off Spike and Faye. Julia can go die in a fire. 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.
- Fushigi Yuugi 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 Mary Sue here] can not only hook up, they'll have a little family when they do.
- Even the Girls Love romantic comedy Strawberry Panic 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 Stuffed In The Fridge.
- 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 Sorcerer Hunters sidestory novels introduced a character named Enzeru Fish, who fell in love with Tira at first sight. At least one rabid Carrot/Tira fan 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 Elfen Lied, Lucy/Kouta fans hate Yuuka with a fiery passion. Even when, well, she's not exactly the biggest threat to their relationship... 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 Van Fanel and Hitomi Kanzaki is... not Merle the Cat Girl. Though fans *do* complain about Merle, the one who's hated the most is actually 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" because he got to kiss Hitomi in front of Van... when the three were in a sort-of weird More Than Mind Control situation enacted by Folken and the twin catgirls and 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. .
- Have you guys forgotten the infamous "Kaoru is soooo emotional and sweet and that makes her better for Kenshin than the ice cold Mary Sue Tomoe" v/s "Kaoru is a stupid, clingy little bitch and Tomoe was a perfect goddess who made Kenshin truly happy" wars in Rurouni Kenshin?
- And if we go to Sanosuke / Megumi fans... Argh. Their treatment of Sayo is horrible. Makes even less sense since not only she's an anime-only chara, but she dies.
- In the Suzumiya Haruhi franchise, some Kyon/Yuki and Kyon/Mikuru fans just won't stop overexaggerating Haruhi's childish, borderline sociopathic and impulsive behavior to downright evil and/or psychotic degrees and denying all the Character Development she got, while turning the "rival" into a flawless and victim-like Purity Sue 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 (read: he doesn't want her to re-write reality without knowing it, but would ditch her immediately if he could). Nevermind that 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 Haruhi's reduced role in the series, and instead paint Mikuru as an evil, Manipulative Bitch who is activly attempting to steal Kyon away from Haruhi.
- HarukixKyonko vs ItsukoxKyonko.
- To a lesser degree then the others,Haruhi x Mikuru and Kyon x Haruhi.
- And Kyon gets bashed by 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 Discredited Trope), the Itsuki/Kyon shippers are just bitter about it all. Pages and pages of Itsuki angst, at times turning him into a complete psycho concerning his inability to be with Kyon, especially because of God-Haruhi, though not 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 Zero No Tsukaima complete with rabid fannish gibbering for her death. As of the second season, Saito is married to his "master", Louise , making them a semi-official pairing.
- Boys Love version. In Yami No Matsuei, some Muraki x Tsuzuki fans don't see Miraki's repulsive acts of villainy as *the* obstacle to get Muraki into Tsuzuki's pants. The "evil pest" is actually Tsuzuki's partner and Muraki's victim, Hisoka Kurosaki, therefore they bash the crap out of Hisoka and gleefully forget how Muraki is not your average Officer And A Gentleman, but a cruel and sadistic mass murderer 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 Ill Girl Tsubaki Kakyouin as well.
- While Ayaka and Noriko from Gravitation have received their share of bashing, despite Ayaka willingly conceding Yuki to Shuichi and Noriko having a much older husband and child in the manga, the majority of fanfics simply don't bring them up at all. The guys don't get off as easily: either Yuki is an abusive, heartless bastard and Shuichi deserves much better than him (usually Hiro), or Tohma is a 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 Team Mom 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 usually fought back... by bashing the most obvious "competition", Princess Ixquic and Carl Eckermann alias Sphinx. Heck, This Troper 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 Fullmetal Alchemist 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 gay with Roy. They mostly ignore her completly if they ship the brothers together (or with their own alchemist Mary Sue). 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 The Movie played up the Ho Yay even more and had both Ed and Roy ignoring their canon love interests, then sent the Elrics off to an Alternate Universe without sparing a thought for Winry. This Het Is Ew outlook only helps to fuel the civil war in the fandom, since among fans of the manga the various canon het pairings are by far the most popular.
- Another case that's more or less forgotten but was horrible in its time is the war between Domon/Allenby and Domon/Rain shippers in the G Gundam fandom. This Troper 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 Tyke Bomb, and being reminded of how Rain was called "fanservice on legs", "whiny slut" or "Clingy Jealous Girl" by Domon/Ally fanits and the rumors that the author of the G Gundam manga had a bias against Rain don't help either.
- Exception: despite the sheer popularity of the Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy x Tieria Erde yaoi pairing in the Gundam 00 fandom, its fangirls never seem to bash Feldt 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 Lyle Dylandy (Neil's Backup Twin) fans bash Anew Returner HARD and call her a Canon Sue for threatening their OTP. Which is ironic and utterly stupid, since before Anew ever was in the picture, Lyle actually preferred to put on a Jerkass Facade in front of Feldt and push her away, rather than encourage her to pursue his affections. Needless to say, the fact that 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: 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 Mileina at gunpoint. It should be noted, however, that there's a good chance that the supposedly "traitorous" Anew is actually a Manchurian Agent who's right now under Mind Control, courtesy of the captured Revive. Strange how Anew is hated for seemingly turning evil, and yet her "twin" continues to be cuddled by fangirls regardless of the fact he's most likely responsible for it...
- And now, as of episode 20, this trope has been invoked with Anew Returner's 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 Setsuna, there are those who ship him with Marina or with Nena. The odds are most likely in Marina's favor now since Nena was killed by Louise. However, the two aforementioned ladies are.. not well liked. As a result, some fans paired Setsuna with other characters such as his Gundams, his fellow Meisters, Saji, Graham or Feldt. The last one mentioned already made her move, and unlike the two ladies, she's popular.
- As far as Saji-Louise shippers go, now they have every right to bash Louise's partner Andrei Smirnov for trying to win Louise's heart, as he has certainly became The Scrappy for crossing the Moral Event Horizon by killing his father, Colonel Sergei Smirnov. And again by interrupting Saji and Louise during an important conversation during Episode 19. And again in episode 24 when he directly assults Saji claiming his presence causes pressure and confusion towards Louise. Fortunately, Setsuna is there to prevent it.
- Saji wins, or more specifically, Saji wins Louise back. Take That Andrei!
- In a show full of Ho Yay-fueled Moe Anthropomorphisms, Axis Powers Hetalia offers a very refreshing exception. Erzsébet aka Hungary is the only prominent girl and she's canonly in love with Roderich aka Austria (they used to be married and still get along very well), but she's also a Ninja Maid *and* a Yaoi Fangirl so fangirls have her as their Otaku Surrogate and not as a threat to the Ho Yay. (And in fact, Austria/Hungary is a pretty popular 'ship on its own right.)
- Another possible target would be the Yandere Natalia aka Belarus, with the bonus that she's in love with her older *brother*, Ivan aka Russia... but so far, her ability to scare the most feared character in the story makes fandom laugh and not scream.
- In general, the fact that there are few female characters in the series makes each of them an Ensemble Darkhorse.
- On the slashy side of things there's some passive-aggressive bitching between Poland/Lithuania and Russia/Lithuania shippers, yet it hasn't reached Ship To Ship Combat level. We hope.
- It seems the trope has finally come down on England, of all characters - there has been a number of Russia/America fanfics that portray him as a sick, twisted yandere who tortures America.
- The writers of these fics probably thought that a good way to make Russia out to be a viable romantic partner (since his relationships in canon aren't exactly healthy ones) was to make another character even more of a Yandere than him, and chose England for that position because he's shown in canon to never really have gotten over America leaving him in the Revolutionary War. But yeah, England's nothing like that in canon; if he really was a Yandere, he would have shot America during the Revolution.
- A somewhat more subdued example is the portrayal of Austria in some Prussia/Hungary fanwork. Since the Austria/Hungary union can be easily seen as an Arranged Marriage due to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, some P/H fans make Austria neglectful of Hungary's needs to the point of emotional abuse so she can seek comfort in Prussia's arms and cheat on her husband with him. They don't go so far as to make Austria beat the Hell out of Hungary, but still...
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a refreshingly calm and wank-free fandom, but that hasn't stopped some authors from making Ken into an asshole as a set-up for the Jun x Ryu pairings, or one particular Ken x Joe writer from demonizing Jun into a Clingy Jealous Girl of the worst kind.
- Some FAKE fans bash 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 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, and some extreme cases of Hurt Comfort Fic have the fangirl creating an evil Mary Sue to rape Ryo just so Dee can come in and rescue him.
- This happens quite often to Keiko Yukimura in "Yu Yu Hakusho," 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 Original Character. The same thing also happens to Mukuro, Hiei's 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 the two share a sweet, if somewhat disturbing relationship, especially in the manga.
- We can't forget the hate Kuwabara gets for not being a bishie and turning into putty when he's next to 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 Weiss Kreuz character who's shown some kind of romantic interest in any of the eight main characters. Ouka Sakaki probably comes off worst: despite the fact that she is both Omi's cousin and dead, fanficcers are still capable of transforming her into an arrogant, shallow bitch who Omi only dated because he was too polite to tell her where to go. In fact, though none of the four Hitman With A Heart 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 Ho Yay or a Mary Sue, with Youji's ex-girlfriend 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 Mary Sue to serve as his childhood sweetheart in her place.
- This trope often gets applied to Ken for no reason other than his 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 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 four protagonists, as terminal Doom Magnets who are almost guaranteed to get a bridge dropped on anyone who gets too close to them.
- Should Amu end up with Ikuto or Tadase? Would you even mention Kukai into the fray? So far, the fandom is largely peaceful...
- Don't forget Violinist Of Hameln. There's a shocking large group of fan pairings for this series, many of with little to no basis. Many fans feel that in the deadpan serious anime version that Hamel and his childhood friend Raiel are destined for a yaoi fangirl's dream due to the seriousness of Raiel's devotion to Hamel. In the manga, however, their relationship is literally a friendship, though they are rather close (to a point of people accusing them of being gay for comedic value), and at the end of the series, Raiel marries Hamel's twin sister Sizer, whom he lusts for the entire series, manga and anime. They have twins. Hamel, on the other hand, marries Flute. They have nine children. In ten years! Hey Hamel there are these things called condoms!
- Also notable are fans of Vocal x Insert Male, despite the fact that Vocal's been shown molesting Sizer, as well as downright brainwashing her and dressing her up in S&M gear as his slave who does whatever he wishes.
- And then there's Clarinet x Flute fans, when Clarinet is known more or less from the beginning to be in love with Flute's brother, Lute. At the end of the manga he even admits it, though very subtly.
- Naru Narusegawa of Love Hina is demonized by fans of Keitaro/Mutsumi, Keitaro/Shinobu, etc.
- The egregious Character Exaggeration that she goes through in the anime, where her Tsundere behavior is amped up to the point of making her abusive towards Keitaro, doesn't help Naru's case at all.
- Some Keitaro/Motoko fans get quite hypocritical about this: they hate Naru for beating up Keitaro, but they throw laurels on Motoko, who behaves the exact same way. They miss the point that any and all slapstick that goes on in the series is being played for laugh.
- In Fruits Basket, the bashing/Canon Sue accusations of Tohru Honda by rabid and/or "feminist" fangirls is a given, but This Troper has also seen Kyo dubbed as "abusive wife-beater" (by Tohru/Yuki fans, who also refer to Machi Kuragi as "Relationship Sue"), Yuki as "male Rich Bitch" (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 Tohru for daring to choose "abusive asshole" Kyo over "nice perfect gorgeous" Yuki
- Haven't read the manga have they? Yuki is actually a complete Jerkass and Manipulative Bastard all in one. Particually to a handfull of Zodiacs.
- And with all the jerkassery, Yuki still had more or less sympathetic moments (specially from from his backstory) and wasn't a Complete Monster. But you'd think that he's worse than Akito and Ren, if you go only by the comments of his bashers. Kyo isn't perfect, either: but seeing his bashers portray him as the local Jerk Ass by erasing his nice moments... I know some people are tired of the All Girls Want Bad Boys phenomenon, but this is ridiculous.
- The Konami (Konata/Kagami) fanboys can be so rabid, they have been known in the past to bash Miyuki just for the act of being on screen for a few moments. If these fans were the majority, then chances are Miyuki would really die for their ship.
- It's perhaps a telling sign of the temptations of shipping and Fan Dumbness that an anime satirizing anime tropes and conventions should itself suffer from shipwars.
- An alternate-universe OVA series for Da Capo, in which the fan-preferred Kotori wins, was released several years after the original series. In this series, Die For Our Ship 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 sizable chunk of the readership is into xxxHOLiC for the Ho Yay between Watanuki and Domeki, it's a wonder most people don't outright hate Himawari, Watanuki's canon Love Interest. They just tend to pretend she doesn't exist at all. It helps that she's into said Ho Yay, too.
- Also, certain shippers actually like the idea of Doumeki's Ho Yay with Watanuki being 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.
- Lupin III fandom is small enough - and the Estrogen Brigade 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, take look at the others' track records); and the Zenigata fangirls (yep, they exist) just think she's a vapid bimbo (who is capable of building an explosive device powerful enough to destroy a solid oak door 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 their Mole. Or the number of times she's freaked out at the thought of Lupin being in peril).
- Captain Tsubasa fandom, PLEASE stop bashing Kumi Sugimoto for daring to have a crush on Tsubasa Ohzora and not being shy about it. She actually never ever hated Sanae Nakazawa for liking him as well, and in the manga she went as far as to confront Sanae on their common love for him, take Tsubasa's rejection and his love for Sanae with incredible grace, and push him towards his soon-to-be Victorious Childhood Friend without any ulterior thoughts. So why does This Troper see Kumi written in fanfiction as a bitchy, idiotic Yandere who'd rather kill Tsubasa and/or Sanae than wish them happiness? Bitch, please.
- Full Metal Panic. The shipping for Gauron/Sousuke. Especially noticeable after the Character Derailment of Kaname in the later novels, where quite a few fans Abandoned Ship and actually came to the conclusion that Sousuke would have been better off continuing on with being the emotionless, Assassin Saint Kashim and ending up with Gauron. In fact, there are actually numerous fans of the pairing that feel that Gauron loved Sousuke and understood him more than Kaname. Therefore, they "matched together better." This is, of course, ignoring all the incredibly creepy and disturbing things that Gauron did, such as being a pedophile molester that desired and obsessed over Sousuke since the latter was twelve, killed (or attempted to) all of Sousuke's friends / love interests, laid waste to an entire city just so he could get off on seeing Sousuke's depressed face one last time, and fantasizing about raping Sousuke's corpse.
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Oh lord, what happens with any female that's paired with Tsuna. Let's face it - a lot of shippers feel that Het Is Ew. Quite a few fanfics / theories that 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 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.
- Any guesses as to why Nagisa Furukawa is nicknamed "Miss Cockroach"? A part of it comes from her Hair Antennae. The rest... well, ask more than one Tomoya/(read: Tomoyo, Kyou, Ryou, Kotomi) shipper.
Comic Books
- Jean Grey/ Cyclops/ Wolverine from X-Men has long been a complicated storm of controversy. Many fans have shipped for 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 Character Derailment with regards to Cyclops (first abandoning his wife Madelyne Pryor and newborn son Nathan Summers, something not even Jean approved of and later, dealing with his post-traumatic astral possession stress by sleeping with reformed villainess Emma Frost (also derailed into a sort of Tsundere Sue), who agreed to the sort of kinky sex/role-playing because Jean refused to engage in - while portraying Jean Grey as a forgiving/enabling saint who ultimately gave her blessing to Scott and Emma on her deathbed). Meanwhile, perhaps spurned by those who dislike the often misogynistic views upon marriage that Marvel takes (IE it's always the woman's fault if a marriage fails in a Marvel Comic), Marvel in recent years have portrayed Wolverine as 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 Bad Ass is "always right" and his love rival is "always wrong". Duh.
- Any female that "gets in the way of" Batman family Ho Yay 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 Ho Yay.
- 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 Ho Yay 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, Catwoman is pretty popular.
- 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 Dogged Nice Guy with whom Katchoo (and sometimes Francine) forms a loving, reasonably stable relationship with. But 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 "" 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 senselessly killing Vision off in Avengers Disassembled, 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 Wonder Woman 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 Grandfather Clause (though he's not really an option post-Crisis On Infinite Earths), Superman (although the presence of Lois means that's pritty much limited to Elseworlds) and Batman.
- Die For Our Ship CANONLY 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 donesince he was resurrected. And it's just gotten worse since he and Dinah tied the knot.
- Belive it or not Joker gets this alot by the Ivy/Harley shippers.Justified in that Ivy does treat Harley better.
- Will Turner from Pirates Of The Caribbean is experiencing this right now. 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 Canon Sue 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. 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.
- And both Éowyn and Arwen catch heat from the Mary Sue creators who ship their unholy spawn with Aragorn or Faramir. They get even more from the Yaoi Fangirl 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 Sweeney Todd movie fandom, Lucy Barker gets some serious hate from Sweeney/Mrs. Lovett shippers. Yes, there are shippers for Sweeney Todd; There are shippers for everything...especially for everything played by Johnny Depp.
- Ron and Ginny Weasley, of Harry Potter fame, are loathed by many militant Harry/Hermione shippers, after the author confirmed Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione as canon in Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince. 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 Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. 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 Draco Malfoy. While this happens, the sensible Harry/Hermione shippers would rather not have anything to do with them.
- 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 slashers who have a conspiracy theory that she was written into the story at the last minute to prove that Lupin wasn't gay.
- 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 Stalker With A Crush.
- In general Ron falls to this the most. He is often portrayed as either having the mental capacities of a three year old, or outright cheating on Hermione with no explanation on why. This is all so Hermione can get a new look and a new attitude and go shack up with Draco/Harry/Snape/somebody else.
- To be fair, Ron IS the least intelligent of the Power Trio in the books, but he's NOT stupid. He's shown to be a tactical genius and the final book suggests that when Harry goes off into the doldrums, his genuine intelligence and leadership qualities arise. Part of it might be that Rupert Grint really does portray him as a bumbling moron, which is not altogether fair.
- 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 wallow in how alone he is in the world until his new love interest can be there for him, and show him kindness, understanding, and love.
- Amy March from Little Women 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 fandom who still prefers her with Laurie is as strong today as it was over a hundred years ago when the writer revolted.
- Les Miserables fandom (yes, there is one) has a contingent out to get Cosette. Granted, it's not easy when your rival is The Woobie. 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 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 'Ponine is a metaphor for the restrictive social class system of Imperial France and who cuts their wrists to "On My Own."
- The musical may be to blame here: the main problem seem 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 Stalker With A Crush 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.
- The Dresden Files: Harry/Murphy, Harry/Susan and Harry/Elaine shippers do not like Luccio.
- Granted, the relationship is going to be... problematic, given that the 11th book begins with 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.
- However, there is a difference between predicting that their relationship might get thorny down the line (which is a valid prediction) and declaring her to secretly be the Big Bad.
- By the end of the 11th book, the whole Die For Our Ship 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.
Live Action TV
- Anastasia Dualla from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica 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 Billy, so 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.
- 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 adulturer 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 Double Standard.
- Sam has also been 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, its 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 Kara and Sam Anders ended the series Together In Death 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 Cylon, has a soul. To quote, "Real boys go to Heaven, Toasters need not apply." To which the standard rebuttal is, "It's canon, bitches!"
- Hina of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, even though she let Mamoru go very willingly.
- Martha Jones, a Doctor Who 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 Canon Sue label slapped on her to make Martha look better.
- That's not the main reason. Non-shippers think that Rose is a Canon Sue as well.
- Donna Noble initially got this from fans of both Rose and Martha, despite it being clearly stated in canon that Donna has no romantic interest in the Doctor. This is probably less because of Die For Our Ship 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 changed their opinions of her.
- The latest victim of this is River Song from Steven Moffat's series 4 episodes, who was 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.
- LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMS.
- On the Daytime Soap Opera General Hospital, Liz Webber and Sam McCall have been reviled by each other's fans ever since they became involved in a Love Triangle 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 (inevitably) hooked up, this led to many Sam/Jason fans becoming Ship Mates with Liz/Lucky fans and Liz/Jason fans becoming Ship Mates 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 incredibly hated by the fandom, making a female version of him 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 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.
- 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 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.
- Star Trek Voyager's Seven of Nine took a lot of heat from Janeway/Chakotay shippers when, 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 Narmically hilarious Picard's Illumination, in which the character taken out with this is the story's Relationship Sue, 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.
- Law And Order Special Victims Unit: Curiously, the Jonas Quinn Dani Beck came under the most merciless fire and outrage from Elliot/Olivia shippers during her short stint while Mariska Hargitay was pregnant; Elliot's wife, Kathy, not so much, outside of Television Without Pity (but they hate everything) or Fanfiction.net. And then there were the Alex/Olivia shippers...
- Wait, wait wait...there are people who ship characters from Law And Order shows?!?
- It appears there is a Rule 34 for ships, as well: If there is a show, there is a ship.
- 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 Ugly Betty, 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 Buffy The Vampire Slayer was notoriously treated by fans this way; it was made yet worse by him not being a 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.
- Olive Snook in Pushing Daisies is an odd, inverted meta-instance of the trope. She considers Ned and herself the One True Pairing, 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, 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.
- The 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 Bro Yay.
- To be fair the writers of the show have pretty much been ignoring Heidi and their two sons since season one ended, so it's not surprising fandom would as well.
- 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 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 - 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 Hiro/Ando and Hiro/Kensei shippers, and some fans believe she's an historically inaccurate Mary Sue...
- Heroes in general is an odd case, in that canon tends to treat love interests just as 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 all dead, heavily sidelined, or Put On A Bus. Maya even had the distinction of being killed, resurrected, and then put on the bus anyway. Additionally, when Simone was killed off, Tawney Cypress said the writers themselves had admitted it was because they didn't really know what else to do with the character.
- People appear to hate Stacy Warner purely because she "came between" 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 Ho Yay, he's coming between House/Cameron or House/Cuddy. Stacy (his canon love interest) and Wilson 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. Particularly egregious examples have been known to actually kill off the women - and this in a Medical Drama, 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.
- After the actress who played Kimberly, the first Pink Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, left the show, she was replaced by the recently Heel Face Turned 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 Power Rangers Dino Thunder the Flash Forward in question may no longer be Canon, 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 Power Rangers SPD and its Super Sentai counterpart Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger will shoot down Kat/Swan (and, for SPD, wife Aisynia) for disrupting the delicate balance that is Doggie Kruger's Ho Yay sex life.
- Back to Dino Thunder... Trent. Oh, the horrors done to Trent. You like Cute Bruiser Kira with someone else? Fine, no problem. But derailing Trent, whom she had some feelings for (and later was Brainwashed And Crazy, before he joined the Power Rangers for real), just to make your pairing of choice work? No Just No.
- 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 cannon to Tess, when she wound up 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 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 Wesley.
- 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 Stargate Atlantis series.
- 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 the gender ratio of that particular forum). The hate is particularly passionate considering that the mods have had to the 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 Die For Our Ship 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 Simon/River have been known to axe Kaylee, as have the truly preposterous Simon/Jayne contingent.
- Really, just about the only people who don't get any non-canon action are Wash, Zoe, and Book.
- In the recent BBC 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 Canon Sue and a traitor for her relationship with Guy of Gisborne.
- 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.
- The American version of The Office had this with Karen in the third season, which led to incidents like this.
- The Supernatural fandom is notorious for its negative reaction to recurring young female characters for interfering with the 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 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 a demon. The same cannot be said for Bela who 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 (gone) 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.
- Houston, we have Anna hate in this fandom. Yet Dean/Castiel seems a kind of popular idea, except among some Samfen. See also Yaoi Fangirl.
- 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, Dis Continuity set in.
- Sam is hated by the more rabid Jack/Daniel fans, as being 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.
- Riley of The Sarah Connor Chronicles 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 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.
- Seventh Heaven 's Kevin Kinkirk is bashed in a similar vein to For Better Or For Worse 's Anthony. Fanfiction portrayed him as 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 General Hospital "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 on 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 pyscho 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 Butt Monkey, as this is almost always done via his POV for maximum emotional pain. "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.
- The Kate hate Omigawd, the Kate Hate. Usually from Jack/Sawyer shippers but more recently from the Sawyer/Juliet shippers.
Video Games
- Kairi of Kingdom Hearts is rabidly hated by many Sora/Riku shippers, despite being a very kind-hearted princess type of a trio of friends without much overt romantic interest.
- 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 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 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 Love Interest (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 enabler. Following the pattern, in the upcoming games, one shudders to think what fate awaits Aqua in the Fan Dumb...getting in the way of Terra/Ven anyone?
- Xion is doomed to this fate. Yep, she's doomed.
- Looks like only Riku can save her now...
- Poor Xion has been overly abused by the 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... especially since dear Xion is actually a transgendered, incomplete clone of Sora. Who ends up looking exactly like Sora near her final moments.
- An especially ironic example would be Princess Zelda, who is frequently bashed and vilified in slashfics wherein Link is paired up with her male-looking ninja alter ego (who is promptly retconned to actually be male), Sheik. But then again, the disconnect between the perpetually Distressed Damsel that Zelda is in game after game and the actually cool Future Badass that Sheik was may have something to do with it.
- 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 Childhood Marriage Promise, is the most loathed girl by the shippers, with almost every fic she's in blowing her somewhat spoiled attitude entirely out of proportion and making her a Stalker With A Crush - if they don't turn her into Ralph Wiggum entirely.
- To be fair, he appears to be the only attractive male character in the game.
- Ironically, the only Zelda games that actually makes 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.
- Probably because of the whole 'SSB' isn't canon thing.
- 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... pretty much all of the other Links. But nothing Wind Waker intern.
- The shipping wars over the Cloud/Aerith/Tifa/Zack love quadrangle in the Final Fantasy VII fandom frequently get very, very ugly, and each new entry in the
Complication Compilation sees the games' creators gleefully heaving fuel on the fire. Perhaps wisely, however, they still haven't tied the romantic loose ends up completely, leaving room and "evidence" for each ship's opinion. 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 majority gender amongst writers of ship fic...
- Then, there's Yuffie. If fandom didn't already hate her as The Scrappy, 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.
- Interestingly, in Kingdom Hearts II, Tifa is Cloud's only love interest, (unless you count Sephiroth, which I'm sure some people do) and it's implied that he's agreed to be with her once he can get rid of a certain problem. Aerith, meanwhile, is hanging out with Leon/Squall (although no actual screen evidence implies there's any romance there, but when has that stopped anybody?). This has caused hardly any waves in the community, probably because most shippers decide it doesn't count or are too distracted with other issues (see Kingdom Hearts above).
- The Final Fantasy VIII 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 Quistis or Seifer, but other shipping ranges from the odd (Selphie, Fujin) to the even more Ho Yay (Irvine, Zell) to the bizarre (....Cerberus/Squall? MY EYES).
- Amy Rose in Sonic The Hedgehog (and to some extent, Sally Acorn in the Archie Sonic comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Tails 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 others' chosen character for making the series Jump The Shark 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.
- 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 obsessive by the Rouge x Shadow shippers.
- This is also the case with the Shadamy shippers, who usually portray Sonic as 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... Mecha Sonic.
- As much as she's beloved by fans, Krystal in Star Fox still gets flack for impeding Fox's presumed relationships with Falco and/or Wolf, or maybe because she's blatant Fetish Fuel that wasn't even meant to be part of the Star Fox series.
- 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.
- Wait, Krystal? Fetish Fuel? This is the stuff for the Furries, ANYONE is fetish fuel. Fan Dumb beyond max.
- Tales Of Symphonia 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 Distressed Damsel, a situation that is highly agitated by the fact that, statwise and storywise, she's actually an incredibly capable Glass Cannon. And she's still a Distressed Damsel. This already bad situation is completely destroyed by the presence of Sheena, a female with obvious interest in the male lead who has a tragic past, giving her aspects of the Woobie, and whose Character Development is much more interesting than Colette's, and to top it off is portrayed as a fully-capable Action Girl (But statistically, she's proven to be The Scrappy). And this is despite the fact that, in real life, most people would probably love Colette. Including, in-universe, almost all of her romantic rivals.
- Zelos is loathed by some Lloyd/Sheena fans, who take the worst of his Handsome Lech persona and turn him into a straight up Jerk Ass.
- At least he can be perceived as a threat, unlike many other examples on this page, due to his 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 set Lloyd up with Colette, So Yeah.
- Curiously enough, Zelos/Sheena shippers seem to be much less vocal than the other groups.
- Tales Of Legendia 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 wish Shirley to burn in the fiery depths of hell anyway.
- This is made slightly ridiculous by Senel being a Chaste Hero, 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 Shipping Bed Death 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 Chaste Hero Senel isn't a good idea at all...
- Fire Emblem 7 has this in spades. In generally, thanks to the support system, which gives characters both nifty Character Development 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 better couple. Some examples are... :
- Ninian the Dancer is the biggest victim of this from from rabid Lyn/Eliwood, Eliwood/Hector, and Eliwood/Mary Sue fans who bash her for being angsty (for reasons which aren't necessarily related to Eliwood) as well as for standing in between their pairing of choice.
- Similarly, quiet and melancholy Staff Chick Priscilla is bashed six ways from Sunday for having a crush on her brother and being jealous of his best friend/love interest, being a possible love interest to three guys who arguably have homoerotic subtext with other guys, and occasionally for supposedly being an obstacle to 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 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, 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 selfish Erk-obsessed shrew of a woman (there is a fic where she was 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.
- Which is odd, because Leila canonically dies, which should if anything provide a good basis for a Hurt/Comfort Fic, having Guy help Matthew get over his grief, etc. Fans can be so stupid sometimes.
- 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 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 Katua or Paola regardless of canon interaction on the latter's part. Naturally, they bash the hell out of Sheeda/Caeda.
- 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. The tenth game implies she ends up with Geoffrey. And you can make Ike and Soren's Ho Yay 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 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, main character Micaiah occasionally gets bashed for her romance with Sothe and standing in the way of Ho Yay, on top of getting bashed for being a Canon Sue.
- In Fire Emblem 8, some Joshua/Artur fans quite vocally bash Natasha and the Joshua/Natasha couple.
- This Troper also remembers seeing Colm bashed as well by people who preferred to pair up 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 Avatars to hump Kyo instead of this unfortunate Naive Everygirl who gets caught in the crossfight 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.
- In Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, there isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against Iris, 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 Canon Sue 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 Cheryl Blossom. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.
- Omitsu from the Ganbare Goemon series is seen as The Obstructive Love Interest, 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 Action Girl Yae, Sasuke, or even his own future descendant, Shishi Jurokubei. To make things worse for her, Omitsu is portrayed as a Clingy Jealous Girl in the TV anime (until she gets some Character Development 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.
- 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.
- 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. Word Of God even confirmed the latter as Canon, at least on Ocelot's part.
- The fourth game 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 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.
- 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 narmalicious quotes, people really took Accentuate The Negative 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 Vamp and more monsterous than Volgin. She did become more likeable for some when Guns of the Patriots rolled around though.
- Even 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 Soul Series fanfics where the non-playable character Rothion gets killed off (thankfully, without any bastardization) so they can pair his wife Sophitia off with someone else, usually Siegfried or Taki.
- Even Megaman Battle Network suffers from this. Meiru, in particular, gets all the hatred of the yaoi fans (not to mention an humiliating Fan Nickname) for daring to stand in the way of Netto/Enzan... never mind that Netto/Meiru is the Official Couple, 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: 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, G/L shippers say Sonia and Geo are Like Brother And Sister.
- 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 also 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...
- Pity Anomen Delryn of 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 Xan, Edwin, or Kelsey. On the other side of the gender equation, the naive and idealistic Aerie tends to be revealed to be secretly evil, a Clingy Jealous Girl, 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 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 Rich Bitch or The Libby, 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...
- Spyro The Dragon, yes, this has some nasty eruptions.
- Probably worse 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.
- Then there's those who will fight about Flame/Ember and Spyro/Ember.
- Then there are those who think Spyro is better off without a love interest and still remains a Sonic the Hedgehog spoof.
- Final Fantasy Tactics saw a little bit of an uproar over a scene added into the Updated Rerelease that suddenly seemed to pair Mustadio and Agrias after a build up which lead to nowhere between Ramza and Agrias. fans weren't exactly thrilled.
- 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 The Paolo to the Stalker With A Crush.
- It also doesn't help that the characters are obsessed with racing cars along steep cliffs.
- Dominic Deegan + Ho Yay = Internet Backdraft.
- 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 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.
- "Boy Meets Boy" 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.
- Hopefully, there aren't going to be any The Wotch Die for our ships, after all, the fandom is fairly tame.
Western Animation
- Lizzie Devine, Numbuh One's girlfriend during most of Codename Kids Next Door 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.
- Though, it is hinted in The Grand Finale 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, 34 shippers (the name is often used intentionally) are constantly at war with the Ho Yay-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 Numbuh 86 (including me, '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 Teen Titans, was absolutely loathed by Beast Boy/Raven shippers after appearing in season two. After her 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.
- Starfire, as part of the Official Couple, 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 exactly like 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 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 Fan Art wars.
- To be fair, there are a lot of fans that disliked Mai from her very first appearance. Her status as Zuko's girlfriend just added fuel to the fire.
- Disliked? Fandom hated Mai from the very moment it was insinuated that she and Zuko were going to be an item. Trust me, if she wasn't Zuko's girlfriend, there wouldn't be anywhere near so much fandumb about her.
- 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) apparwntly 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 Kid Hero, many Zutara shippers make Aang so childish that he makes Honey-sempai look like a man of deep gravitas. Often, they'll use a High School AU to get him out of the way in middle school.
- Others assume Avatars were Celibate Heroes or else rapidly became villainous. Until Word Of God 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 ancillary material, fiercely contested by 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 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 ugly.
- Katara: Extreme Maiko fans bash Katara as a Canon Sue 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 Love Triangle for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." A few Sokka/Azula shippers have recently come out of the woodwork to bash Suki as well.
- Sokka/Azula? Really? But she actually is psycho!
- In a rare pro-fem example, Sprx from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! 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 Kim Possible 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 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 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 wallbanging fic had her 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 redeming 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 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.
- Danny Phantom 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 Valerie Gray goes through not only Character Development but a Gondor Calls For Aid episode where she and Danny become friends, and eventually turning into Dating Catwoman situation. Since then, Valerie has become despised by a large part of the fandom (even though they broke up because 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.
- Of course, there is sufficient onscreen evidence that even some people without a preferred 'ship think of Sam this way.
- Fairly Odd Parents - Timmy/Trixie shippers end up bashing Tootie, and Timmy/Tootie shippers bash Trixie. And there are Timmy/Veronica, 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 with the writers too.
- In Batman Beyond, the Terry x Maxine fans really hated Terry's canon girlfriend, Dana.
- Gargoyles fans have never entirely forgiven Angela for picking Broadway over Brooklyn.
- To be fair though it may have to do with the writers giving Brooklyn a potential love interest and then just having her fall for another guy.
- In X Men Evolution, though the hate against the Tsundere Jean Grey was a given because her "love rival" for Scott's affection was a Goth and wangsty Rogue, there was a genderflipped surprise. Lance aka Avalanche, a Troubled But Cute Jerk With A Heart Of Gold who would generally be widely loved, was subjected to quite the degree of bashing by lots of fans of the Fan Preferred Couple Kurt x Kitty, who derailed him as a rapist and girlfriend beater in their fanwork to favor Kurt. However, when Kurt got Fan Of Underdog 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 Ben/Gwen pairing have, more than once, bashed Kevin for getting together with Gwen in Ben 10 Alien Force.
- The Spectacular Spider Man: Liz Allen is certainly going to get this treatment later in the show, if the season 2 episode summaries are accurate.
- A great number of fans of the movie Felidae are huge fans of the Francis/Felicity pairing despite the fact that Felicity is brutally decapitated only minutes after she's introduced in the film and that 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 Ill Girl shortly before she dies. By contrast, Nhozemptekh—exotically pretty as she may be—is unfortunately given little character development beyond being basically a Nubile Savage in kitty form.
- Many shippers of the Jake/Rose relationship in American Dragon Jake Long 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 who was not Rose. In fact, she was even speculated be the "Siren" of a later episode and even working for the 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 The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, gets this a lot from people who prefer Esmeralda to be with either Quasimodo or 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 too much credit). Quasi/Esme shippers, especially, seem to think that having Esme end up with Phoebus is a betrayal of the film's "Looks don't matter" message, Completely Missing The Point 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 Total Drama Island is often bashed by people who would rather see Gwen and Cody together. Gwen/Cody fanfics usually portray Trent as a shallow, abusive jerk who almost always dumps Gwen for 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 Gwen and Trent broke up in the fifth episode of Total Drama Action. Courtney also gets a lot of crap from those who want Gwen/Duncan to happen.
- Cody fans seem to be disappointed with Total Drama Action, because Cody is portrayed as a pervert who just wanted Gwen's bra. Gwen/Duncan fans on the other hand are eating up the interactions between Gwen and Duncan, and hope they become more than friends.
- South Park 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 Power Puff Girls 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 Evil Twins and that Buttercup had more sexual - I mean, tension towards Ace than towards Butch aside, and that's just for starters.
- In all fairness, that may arise from looking at the rest of the cast.
- The owner of the 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 Jimmy Neutron do not approve of the existence of Betty, or in some cases April.
Real Life
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