Discussion Main / Revengefic

I think we should change the name to Bashing Fic instead of Revenge Fic because it gets easily confused with a fic whose main plot is revenge against something or someone.

I am removing these:

• Another example might be Ian Fleming getting sick of James Bond and killing him off at the end of the novel From Russia with Love; however, the book was so well written and so much interest generated in the character that this death didn't stick, either. It was never planned that way anyway. He'd already written Dr. No.
• Older Than Television: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle getting sick of Sherlock Holmes and throwing him off Reichenbach Falls probably counts, even though the death didn't stick.

They are not revenge fics, whatever the author's feelings. They do not try to humiliate or degrade the character, instead they seek to give him a fitting finale. Revenge fics must have the author's hate of the character coming through the story.

• A Deconstruction is provided in Weiss Reacts, where Weiss reads one of these fics with her as the subject. It results in a Tear Jerker as Weiss, despite her usual frostiness and sarcasm, is somewhat hurt to the point of tears by the fic. It then results in a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming when Cardin hunts down the perpetrator and gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for writing said fic. And Weiss gets hugged by everyone, including Ruby, who the fic said would betray her.

1. This is not a Deconstruction.

2. Beating the shit out of someone for writing a fic that drove your friend to tears makes you far worse than that person.

This example needs heavy editing.

• In the SCP Foundation, there were a series of SCPs that the authors decided they really, really didn't like. So they came up with heavily exaggerated stories detailing how the Foundation got rid of them, all involving very horrible ends for the SCPs, which became known as "decommissioned" SCPs. After this purge they decided not to ever do it again, lest writers create terrible SCPs purely in the hopes of getting awesome declassified stories.''

Corrected:

• In the SCP Foundation, there were a series of SCPs that the authors decided they really, really didn't like. So they came up with heavily exaggerated stories detailing how the Foundation got rid of them, all involving very horrible ends for the SCPs, which became known as "decommissioned" SCPs. After this purge they decided not to ever do it again, because the SCP Wiki isn't a place for arrogant manchildren to use as a springboard for their psychotic revenge fantasies.

What if the fanfic has an example of this trope (ie: The author blatantly admits there's one character who they really have it out for and wish to put through their own personal "revenge fantasies"), but it's not the main point of the story?

Silver2195: Is Viridian really an example? The only thing I've read by him is Team 8, but the only characters who come across as worse than in canon are Ino (a very minor character in that fic), Hinata's father (implied to have been turned evil by the true AU divergence point somehow), and Itachi (which was simply a case of declaring The Reveal to be Fanon Discontinuity).