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IndirectActiveTransport Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Dec 25th 2017 at 6:31:11 AM

I apologize for bringing this here, as the subject isn't a trope page. If anyone knows the proper place, please direct me there. If not, this should be a quick fix anyway.

Editing Ron the Death Eater gets one a % message telling them sourced examples from fan works only. Editing its so called counterpart Draco in Leather Pants doesn't. It's pretty obvious why Draco In Leather Pants lacks the directive too. Not just because Fortune is one of the most obvious cases of the phenomenon in any media.

Mirroring the two characters Draco In Leather Pants and Ron The Death Eater were named after is the Act Yasukawa-Yoshiko debacle. Yasukawa's Oedo~tai stable had been openly evil, fan abusing malcontents using gaijin muscle in their efforts to ruin the World Wonder Ring STARDOM promotion since before Yasukawa was part of it. It started as Kimura Monster Gun centered around a brutish Ted Baxter like wrestler with a tendency for cheating and garbage who was making war on a company based on respect, glamour, chaining, acrobatics and quirky gimmicks. Opposed to Kimura Monster Gun were rookie Yasukawa, who on paper had everything needed to become the ideal STARDOM wrestler, Natsuki*Taiyo, a veteran who was the ideal STARDOM wrestler before there was a STARDOM and YOSHIKO, who didn't fit the STARDOM mold but was a trainee of Taiyo's and friends with one of the company owners.

YOSHIKO was the most promoted of the baby face trio, but fan reaction to that was mixed. When she assailed Kyoko Kimura herself and forced a banana down Kimura's throat, fans called YOSHIKO a violent gorilla, forgetting Kimura did worse when she slammed a door on the throat of Nanae Takahashi, the owner friends with YOSHIKO. They failed to see YOSHIKO's motivation or Kimura getting a taste of her own medicine. Meanwhile Yasukawa ended up violently betraying Taiyo and YOSHIKO, joining Kimura Monster Gun, usurping leadership from Kimura and dressing the group in garb from an isolationist period of Japan(hence the rename to Oedo~tai). Yasukawa never got booed despite any of this, so she started brutalizing her own subordinates. Fans still cheered for Yasukawa, so she started spitting rum on the fans. Fans then lined up for the honor of getting spat on, leaving Yasukawa confused.

The wrestler STARDOM wanted to push as a face goes up against the evil stable leader and is derided by the fans. The wrestler STARDOM wants to push as its top heel becomes the evil stable leader and can't get heel heat if she kicks a little girl. Clear draco in leather pants vs ron the death eater. But i doesn't end there. STARDOM actually built up to the two having a champion vs champion match with the two belts the promotion used to call back to Zenjo in the storied Korakuen Hall. The build up, which again saw YOSHIKO use the evil stable leader's tactics against her, only made Act more popular and the resulting match made YOSHIKO so unpopular Takahashi had to quit STARDOM and start a new promotion just to salvage YOSHIKO's reputation.

And, after two years, Takahashi succeeded but YOSHIKO is probably the most triumphant example of fans treating a hero as evil because they refuse to see the villain as evil in any media since Ron Weasley himself, and pro wrestling provides plenty of other examples, just like it already has many Draco In Leather Pants entries that aren't from fanworks. Why wouldn't it? It runs on audience reactions. Rush, La Mascara and La Sombra in CMLL didn't even have "popular" villains for the fans to turn on in favor of, but they're still all examples of fans treating heroes as evil. CMLL ended up leaving the tecnico designation on them while promoting them as the most hated men on its shows.

This may not have been a short read, but it is a short fix. All that's needed is the removal of the % message seen when editing Ron The Death Eater. While this isn't a trope page, three examples are all that's needed to prove a trope's existence on this site and I've limited this post to four names because it's long enough already.

edited 25th Dec '17 6:32:54 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

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#2: Jan 7th 2018 at 11:05:28 AM

Seems more like a make work project i.e it's not clear what this is supposed to fix, so declining.

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