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* From hearing the so-called "Fans" talk, you'd think all ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'''s Shinji Ikari ever does is sit around {{wangst}}ing ineffectively and endlessly about his daddy and how he doesn't want to be an Evangelion pilot, only ever ceasing to do so to [[DudeShesLikeInAComa masturbate over comatose girls]]. Actually, he spends most of the series being a kind and helpful, [[DeterminedDefeatist if not very confident]] young man who risks his life to save the world in battles against reality defying {{Eldritch Abomination}}s despite the fact that he's understandably terrified of them. He is also quite efficient in battle, so much that Asuka is jealous of him. You gotta forgive him for ending up as a mental wreck after [[spoiler: his relationship with his father (which was never all that good to begin with) was utterly shattered, his best friend (Toji) was maimed (killed in the manga adaptation), his mentor/father figure (Kaji) was murdered which caused his mother figure/guardian (Misato) to fall into depression, one of his love interests (Asuka) was brutally {{Mind Rape}}d, became suicidal, and was placed in a coma as a result, shortly while other love interest (Rei) pulled a HeroicSacrifice to save him, all that while Shinji was forced to watch helplessly by circumstances he had no control over. Rei was then replaced by a clone that looked the same, [[CameBackWrong but did not exactly act the same.]] [[HopeSpot Then, Shinji met a nice boy (Kaworu) that thought he was really awesome and wanted to be his friend]] ([[HomoeroticSubtext and possibly more...]]) -- turns out he is actually the MonsterOfTheWeek and Shinji has to kill the only person who ever said "I love you" to his face.]] Did we mention that he still saves the world after this? [[spoiler:After ending it, that is.]]

** What makes this most noticeable from other yaoi series is that Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi actively tries to avoid using rape to lead to love (making this series more realistic than some others) and so far, the three other pairings have successfully avoided it. This is the only pairing that has rape leading to a relationship, but it falls under RapeAsDrama and StockholmSyndrome. Add to the fact that Chiaki doesn't handle the situation realistically [[spoiler:telling Hatori not to leave him instead of distancing himself like a normal person would and also not pitying Hatori during the rape scene]] also does not help Hatori ''or'' Chiaki's case.

** Chibiusa brainwashing her own father into kissing her as Black Lady (a deeply uncomfortable scene people who hadn't read the manga were not prepared for) did absolutely nothing to help her reputation of her having an [[OedipusComplex Electra Complex]] and wanting ParentalIncest.

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* If ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'' fanfiction were to be believed, one would think Bit and Leena were ''constantly'' stealing each other's snacks, but it's only happened maybe once or twice on the actual show.

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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Despite receiving a lot of CharacterDevelopment since then, Bakugou's introduction left a lasting impression on the fandom. In the very first episode/chapter of the series, he suicide-baits the protagonist Midoriya, claiming he can only achieve his dream of becoming a Hero if he kills himself and gets reincarnated with a Quirk. While he doesn't say anything ''that'' terrible for the rest of the series, and the creator admitted Bakugou wasn't meant to be as bad as he initially seems, it still struck a nerve. Bakugou has since become a divisive topic in the fandom, leading to a BrokenBase. He is a fan favorite, but he also has many detractors. While some have expressed openness to accepting his development if he apologizes to Midoriya, others see his words as too heinous to ever forgive.[[spoiler:It's gotten a little better as Bakugou ''does'' eventually apologize to Midoriya for all the things he said and did.]]
** On that note, the fandom also tends to make jokes about Midoriya himself, on his tendency to break his bones whenever he used his acquired Quirk, One for All. Along with all of his corresponding hospital/infirmary visits. Regardless of the fact that his control over his Quirk's overwhelming power has improved massively to a point that the aforementioned visits have certainly diminished ever since season 3. Various versus communities tease him to no end, immediately assuming he loses most if not all fights including him. They correctly predicted his loss to [[Manga/BlackClover Asta]] in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''.
** Mineta, TheScrappy of the manga, will never live down the time he said to Eri, a little girl, survivor of a physically abusive father, that [[TheJailBaitWait he can't wait to see her in ten years, making a pass at her]]. The readers were so disgusted by this, they declared [[ThisIsUnforgivable no amount of good deeds, character development, or sympathetic moments could ever redeem him in their eyes from this]].

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* ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'': Olba Frost has a great deal of hatedom due to ''one'' episode where he became furious at the heroes for hurting his brother. Never mind his big brother got injured [[TakingTheBullet taking an attack for him]]. Never mind [[DarkAndTroubledPast they've gone through so much hell]] that they only have each other for emotional support. Never mind for the ''rest of the series'' he's a perfectly calm and composed person. Never mind [[WellDoneSonGuy he wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his brother]] and stand on his own two feet. Nope, he's a sniveling male {{Yandere}}, through and through. Even Olba's own [[Creator/NozomuSasaki voice actor]] dislikes the guy because of all this. Which is a shame, as there are other, far more legitimate reasons to dislike him and Shagia.

* Bright Noa, the only character to be a main character in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' is best known not for being a main character in so many series, but for [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan hitting his crew members]]. Fandom loves to cite how much Bright slaps people for not being awesome enough. Interestingly, [[MemeticMutation Brightslaps]] are ''well'' received by the fandom, who tend to credit him for turning [[{{Wangst}} whiners]] into MEN OF DESTINY.
** Even ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' gets in on the joke, where he regularly knocks some badassery into such pilots as ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]]''.
** Dozle Zabi only says "Once the Big Zam is mass produced..." ''once''. And it's one of the most memorable lines in the series. Same applies to Ramba Ral's "This is no Zaku, boy! No Zaku!!!"
** Char. One fleeting romance with Lalah, who was about 5 years younger, and an implied relationship with the slightly younger Haman and you're forever labelled a paedophile.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': If you listen to the internet, Lunamaria Hawke couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if she was standing inside it because she missed a shot on a civilian shuttle moving on a relatively predictable course. On the one hand, episode 7 establishes her as a lousy shot in person when she couldn't get a bullseye at the shooting range. On the other, her ZAKU's weapon is a long-range beam cannon...
** Also, she wasn't the only person to have missed the shuttle in other Gundam shows; in an episode of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', Char tried to shoot down a fleeing shuttle (carrying Jamitov), but he missed as well. Also, in the ''Destiny'' manga adaptation, Shinn, Kira, and Athrun tried to shoot down a shuttle and missed as badly.
** Even Kira Yamato isn't immune. Fans seem to have clung to the idea that he's actually a poor pilot that relies on Freedom's BeamSpam abilities and only sits in the corner letting his computer do all the work. This was only true in his first battle with Freedom, in which he does indeed use full burst mode for almost the entire fight, but that's understandable because he's getting the hang of it, and the show wanted to hammer "THIS IS FREEDOM'S GIMMICK! IT HAS MANY GUNS!" into the audience. But after that he mostly sticks to sabers and his one rifle (which doesn't use the targeting computer) and in fact moves around in battle quite a bit. He never uses his BeamSpam more than once or twice per battle after that, yet the fandom seems only remember him sitting in one spot and letting his computer do all the work for the rest of Seed and all of Destiny. Of course, this probably wasn't aided by the copious use of Freedom's Full Burst attack via StockFootage.
*** This is also in part because in the first part of the series, Kira pulled some tricks with the Strike Gundam that even detractors will call clever. After he gets the Freedom, this pretty much disappears in favor of the aforementioned "beat viewers over the head with the fact that Freedom has lots of guns".
** Athrun has also gained a measure of infamy because he self-destructed both his suits in Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED. You'd think he blew himself up more times than he did enemy mobile suits.
* [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Nena Trinity]] crossed the MoralEventHorizon of the wedding shooting. Then afterwards, things got rather worse for her and she's forced to lay low, be less psychotic, helping Wang Liu Mei and when she mistreats her, Nena starts with leaking information that Liu Mei withheld to the Celestial Being, saving many lives, and when Liu Mei got even worse, Nena snapped again and killed her. While she's definitely a nutcase and generally not caring about other people's life, she's able to do both good and evil, and [[FridgeHorror she's got a really tragic existence too]] which, while not absolving her of ANY crime, does mean she is perfectly able to be pitied. Fans ''only'' remembered that one wedding incident and think that's ''all'' Nena ever did, thereby she's an unforgivable evil little bitch.
* Probably a ''worse'' case than Nena is Flay Allster from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'', whom Nena [[{{Expy}} physically resembles even]]. Like Nena, Flay was a crazy, evil bitch who did terrible things, but like Nena, she also ended up doing good things as the show went on. ''Unlike'' Nena, Flay actually redeemed herself [[HeelFaceTurn the whole way]], and worked very hard to make amends before [[RedemptionEqualsDeath she is killed by the]] BigBad. Fandom's reaction to all this? [[TheScrappy "Who cares what Flay did to redeem herself; all her ealier bitchery makes it null and void!"]]
* Every member of the primary cast of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' has at least one minor trait or (in)famous moment that ended up being their standard fanfic portrayal. Sadly, this blatantly ignores the CharacterDevelopment that sees the characters grow out of those attitudes, which in turn results in people savaging the series for having shallow, one-dimensional characters.
** At the start of the series Heero is full of self-loathing and tries to [[TheAtoner atone]] by [[DeathSeeker putting his life on the line constantly]] - so much so that an off-hand line of dialog ("Life comes cheap, especially mine") has become a tertiary CatchPhrase. He also attempts to kill himself twice early on[[note]]in Episode 1 he tries to activate a self-destruct device in his spacesuit but it misfires, and in Episode 3 he jumps out of a tall building and doesn't pull his parachute cord, but Relena shouting his name somehow convinced him to pull it close to the ground[[/note]] and in one of the show's more memorable moments, he self-destructs the Wing Gundam (to keep it out of OZ's hands) and nearly dies in the process. Shortly after this he undergoes CharacterDevelopment and starts getting over his self-loathing, to the point where at the climax of the series he defiantly shouts "I WILL NOT DIE!"...but this all tends to get ignored by both fans and detractors, who portray him as suicidal from start to finish.
*** Because self-destructing comes up prominently several times throughout the show (the five Wing boys and Zechs all attempted it at least once, with varying degrees of success, and [[spoiler:TheMovie ends with them getting rid of the Gundams once and for all]]), it's essentially seen as ''Wing''[='s=] gimmick, with video games like ''Super Robot Wars'' and ''Gundam Breaker'' giving the Wing Gundams the ability to self-destruct on command regardless of how useful this actually is in context.
** Relena only yelled Heero's name out loud ''thrice'' in the series (plus once more in the dub), yet people bash her as if she finished ''every'' episode with a SayMyName scream. She's also treated as a {{Yandere}} or a StalkerWithACrush despite the fact that she went to visit Heero all of once and remarked about it a few scenes later[[note]]"I've come all the way here just to chase after a guy. Are you surprised, Father? But I couldn't help myself; I wanted to see him so badly. Can you understand how I feel, Father? Heero's the support I need to have around until I can get over my sadness over you. But he keeps running away from me..."[[/note]]. (She did track him down a second time, but that was because she was afraid he would try to kill himself and had something she thought would convince him otherwise.)
*** There are also people who claim that she's constantly being kidnapped and in need of rescue, rather like [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Orihime]] later on. Relena was kidnapped all of once in the anime (''Endless Waltz''), but people also tend to label her imprisonment by Romefeller as a kidnapping, ignoring that it was [[TakeMeInstead intentional]] and [[ReassignmentBackfire had a positive outcome]]. And late in the series, she's held hostage on the space fortress Libra, but that was a snap decision by the person responsible and done while ignoring the chain of command, rather than orders by White Fang's leader to detain her.
*** Relena might as well get an award for this, since even the first thing she ever says gets this. In the first episode she asks her father to "leave yourself a little bit of free time" on his business trips, causing some to call her an AttentionWhore who demands that he ignore his very important work to spend time with her. This ignores quite a few things, like her father's obvious displeasure with the situation (he isn't happy when the Alliance comes to sweep him off to do ''more'' work shortly after they land back on Earth), and the fact that just four episodes later they're on another business trip and Relena handles Minister Darlian's being tied up with work much better.
** Wu Fei is possibly the biggest victim of this in all of ''Wing'' (yes, even moreso than Relena). In an early episode he denigrates a female opponent, leading people to assume he's a [[HeManWomanHater psychopathic misogynist]]. Late in the series, he takes up the ideal of justice and becomes something of a {{Jerkass}}. It's typically ignored that there are reasons for his attitudes (FreudianExcuse, MyGreatestFailure, and ValuesDissonance from a strict, traditionalist Chinese upbringing), or once again that he gets over it.
*** Another often-cited complaint with Wu Fei is his hypocrisy, as some say his repeated statements about honor and fair fights conflict with his terroristic actions (like blowing up a dormitory full of sleeping soldiers in his debut episode). However, the show actually presents Wu Fei's internal conflict over his actions, particularly in the episode where TeamMom Sally helps pull him out of his HeroicBSOD.
*** The big problem with Wu Fei is that a lot of his characterization is centered around the death of his wife and how that affected his worldview. Some of you reading this just went "Wait, what? He had a wife!?" The anime never even mentions Meiran Chang, nor how her death weighs on his mind. This is only revealed in the ''Episode Zero'' manga, which goes into the pilots' backstories (it was planned to be in the anime, but got replaced by a RecapEpisode due to production issues). With her taken into account, a lot of Wu Fei's more controversial actions take on a new, much more sympathetic light.
** ''Wing'' even has a non-human example: The Leo mobile suit used early in the series has a reputation all over the internet (even on this Wiki) as being a shoddy piece of crap that falls apart if it's so much as breathed upon. Granted, it '''is''' a MookMobile that's 15 years old when the show starts, but Leos tend to do quite when not facing a SuperPrototype, and going purely by the numbers they're are actually superior to some better-liked ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' staples like the Zaku II. The main problem is that unlike the Zaku, the Leo never really got the chance to shine and didn't have a dedicated pilot like Char Aznable to show what they could do; the show's CharClone Zechs Merquise only gets a couple of battles in his Leo (managing to simply stalemate the Wing Gundam in free-fall) before he pulls the Leos' SuperPrototype, the Tallgeese, [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece out of the museum]]. Not helping is one infamous scene early in the series where a Buster Rifle shot that ''misses'' a Leo still causes it to explode...which was almost certainly an animation error.
** Quatre ''did'' go berserk that one time with the ZERO System, but to hear the FanDumb, you'd think that's normal behavior for him. [[RonTheDeathEater He is often portrayed as mean and evil]] in fanfiction, even though he is neither. Worth noting, too, is that ''all'' the pilots use the ZERO System, and all of them have...issues with it. All, too, overcome them, with the exception of Duo, who lacked both the opportunity and the desire to give ZERO another try. Quatre just went ''more'' berserk (blowing up 1/3 of the L2 Colonies) because [[spoiler:his father was killed, and worse, [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye they'd had a major argument beforehand and Quatre didn't get to patch things up]]]].
** ''Gundam Wing'' '''itself''' is an example of this, much like ''Anime/FushigiYuugi'' above. Because the show features {{Bishonen}} characters prominently[[note]]The fact that all seven of the male leads have female counterparts, most of whom are their {{Love Interest}}s, is conveniently ignored[[/note]], many anime fans automatically assumed that it was nothing but {{Yaoi}}-bait and wrote it off as trash. This impression wasn't aided by the fact that the show attracted a massive [[YaoiFangirl Fujoshi]] fanbase, who tend to produce fanworks that ignore of the "giant robots" and "war between Earth and space" aspects in favor of having the boys fall in love and make out, while the girls either cease to exist or (as is usually the case with poor Relena) [[RonTheDeathEater go crazy]] and/or [[DieForOurShip die horribly]].
* ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' produced a humorous example: In Episode 23, Ricardo Fellini's Gundam gets a LuminescentBlush when his girlfriend Kirara's Gerbera Tetra [[TheGlomp grapples it]] during an exhibition battle. After the episode aired, animation director Masashi Obari jokingly tweeted "Now I have to live with being the man who made a Gundam blush for the rest of my life..."

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' lives with this trope, and cracks it into [[FountainOfMemes multiple memetic levels]], [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools which only boosts its reputation]].
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'':
*** Kakyoin Noriaki is a loyal companion with a sufficient CharacterDevelopment, but he's mostly known for [[LikesOlderWomen hunting for hot moms]] and licking a cherry in an extremely weird way, the former coming from him admiring Jotaro's mom ''once'', and the latter of which is done by someone impersonating him (though he does end up performing it as a BrickJoke at the end of the arc).
*** Many fans like to joke about how the TV broadcast of the anime constantly censored any instance of the 17-year old Jotaro smoking, yet were completely fine with showing nudity involving the much younger Anne and Mannish Boy.
*** While the series isn't a stranger to violence against animals (usually dogs), [[spoiler:[[TeamPet Iggy]] being [[KickTheDog repeatedly kicked to death]] by [[TheDragon Vanilla Ice]]]] is often seen as the pinnacle of this, and is the one that stands out in many fans' minds.
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'':
*** In part because of [[FountainOfMemes how many memes]] it produced, it's unlikely that the fandom is going to be forgetting of the [[BlindIdiotTranslation "Duwang" translation]].
*** Perhaps because of the series' rule that AnyoneCanDie, the fact that this Part has about half of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]] being [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended by the heroes]] is one of the most remembered things about it, whether it be for good or bad.
*** Killer Queen's OffModel debut in the anime is often remembered by detractors of the anime, despite the fact that cases of characters being OffModel like that are rather rare.
*** Despite the fact that the event wasn't actually his fault, fans still like to make jokes about Josuke burning down Rohan's house.
*** Yoshikage Kira, a terrifying SerialKiller, is mostly known by fans for getting an erection as a child after seeing Art/TheMonaLisa (or more specifically, her hands) for the first time (with the line "I HAD A BONER" from [[BlindIdiotTranslation the infamous "Duwang Scans"]] becoming a meme), and [[spoiler:[[DeathByAmbulance dying from being run over by an ambulance]]]], to the point that [[spoiler:the ambulance]] has even become a MemeticBadass of sorts.
*** Jotaro's outfit includes a pin shaped like two dolphins making a HeartSymbol, representing him becoming a marine biologist. Even though he ends up studying starfish rather than dolphins, fans often portray Jotaro as being obsessed with dolphins [[BestialityIsDepraved to the point of lust]].
*** Fans still joke about Jotaro nearly dying during the "Let's go Hunting!" arc - someone with Star Platinum: [[TimeStandsStill The World]], explicitly said to be the most powerful Stand ability, being defeated by ''a rat'', of all things. They tend to forget that said rat had [[UpliftedAnimal significantly improved intelligence]] like other Stand-using animals, so it outsmarting Jotaro shouldn't be that unusual, and its Stand could fire long-range projectiles, giving it a massive advantage over Star Platinum, which has massive strength but pitiful range.
** ''Manga/GoldenWind'':
*** Abbacchio's constant {{Jerkass}} attitude [[DislikesTheNewGuy towards Giorno]] seems to be the most remembered thing about his character, to the point that many fan works turn it into his ''sole'' defining character trait, even though [[TookALevelInKindness he showed small signs of warming up to Giorno]] [[spoiler: before he ends up getting killed.]]
*** Despite later translations of the manga as well as the anime doing a better job at explaining King Crimson's ability, fans seem to mostly remember it for how confusing the ability's explanation in early translations is.
** ''Manga/StoneOcean'':
*** While Jotaro's parenting skills aren't anything to praise, many fans like to exaggerate him into being actively neglectful of Jolyne. Alternatively, fans who view their relationship in a more positive light tend to exaggerate him into being violently protective of her.
*** While Pucci is only ''[[AmbiguouslyGay implied]]'' to have an attraction to DIO, fans tend to exaggerate said attraction into being his defining character trait.

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* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The early dub for the anime involved a large amount of "believe it"s to cover for Naruto's peculiar speech pattern (appending "dattebayo" to his sentences). While this was reduced later on as the anime gained American popularity and eventually scrapped all together, many believe he says "believe it" every five words.
** Naruto is usually seen as a BigEater who regularly polishes off a dozen, if not dozens, of ramen bowls in one sitting. The incident that spawned this was when Naruto slugged back a dozen or so bowls while receiving a lecture from Ebisu, who was paying. While never stated, it's likely Naruto was just eating that much to screw with Ebisu.
** Sasuke Uchiha's detractors who claim he was always an impossibly huge {{Jerkass}}, instead of just aloof and somewhat rude - mostly in response to Naruto and Sakura ''genuinely irritating him'' (he [[SanitySlippage gets worse]] later, but this is about how he acted at the start). For example, many are quick to cite all the times that he's put down Naruto, but forget that Naruto is the same way towards him and much louder about it. People also tend to exaggerate how many times he's told Sakura she was annoying. He said it twice. Once when she actually was being annoying, and when he barely knew her, and the other time was him joking/being sarcastic [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn when he was about to leave Konoha and goes to Orochimaru]]]].
*** People who hate the Sasuke/Sakura pairing also tend to claim that he constantly tried to kill her, ignoring the fact that that only happened twice, they were enemies at the time and he didn't treat her differently from any other opponent, and that both times she either attacked first or was planning to.
** Sai asked Naruto a few times when they first met if Naruto had male genitalia, as an insult no less. But from the way fans talk you'd think every other word out of Sai's mouth is penis, even as he runs around brandishing a measuring tape.
** Neji was a total {{Jerkass}} to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Hinata]] prior to his CharacterDevelopment. Even after the development transpires and Neji starts very clearly treating Hinata with care, fandom still doesn't let go of his past misdeeds.
*** Particularly notable is the insistence that he's a "woman beater". When he fought Hinata, it was in a Chunin Exams match-up, officially moderated by jonins from the village, and she was fighting him just as hard as he was fighting her. It wasn't until she actively provoked him by pointing out the logical flaw in his beliefs (he claims destiny is inescapable, but refuses to accept his lot in life) that he tried to seriously injure her, and he was stopped by the Jonin that were watching before he could.
** The fandom also tends to exaggerate Hinata's fainting spells despite the fact that she only fainted twice in the manga, (once while going into the hospital and seeing Naruto injured, and once while he unexpectedly walks up on her when she hasn't seen him in almost three years). It doesn't help that she is [[CharacterExaggeration more prone to fainting in the anime]].
** Hiashi gets this treatment. While he was negative and apathetic towards Hinata for years he learns to respect her by ''Shippuden''. Fans will constantly portray him as an evil {{abusive|Parents}}, sometimes sexually abusive, father who wants Hinata dead or considers her completely useless.
** And as for Naruto himself...y'know that "Sexy No Jutsu", an actual, honest-to-goodness ninja attack that involves turning into an alluring female (and is a ''regular super'' in the fighting games)? In the manga, he does this a couple of times in volume 1, and it's a long, long, LONG time before we see ''anything'' like it again. (Mainly because it's not a serious ninja technique, it's just a bit of goofing around, an extremely rare luxury in the world of Naruto.)
** Tsunade's [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale hitting Naruto and Jiraiya]] is very much [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated.]] The fandom seems to think she would hit Naruto for calling her Granny Tsunade (when it's actually an AffectionateNickname) or when Jiraiya is acting overly perverted (which she doesn't do either). In the manga she never hits them except a few times such as the time she fought Naruto and [[DisproportionateRetribution that beating she gave Jiraiya]] when they were younger for peeping on her.
*** She seems to be more temperamental in the anime, as in the manga, the angriest she gets with Naruto after the Search for Tsunade Arc is raising her voice at Naruto for not showing respect to Fukasaku. Sakura suffers from the same problem. Not helped by CharacterExaggeration in the anime, where one of the more forms of {{Padding}} is "Sakura beats up Naruto for no clearly defined reason."
** Kakashi very often suffers from this. He invariably teaches Sasuke the Chidori and all of a sudden he plays favourites and all he wants is to train Sasuke, while hating Naruto, ignoring that teaching Sasuke this was for Sasuke's own good ''beyond'' mere strength as a ninja,[[note]]Not to mention, Sasuke was up against [[TheDreaded Gaara]] in the next round of the Chunin Exam, and thus would ''probably die'' if he didn't get stronger quickly.[[/note]] and generally Kakashi plays favorites the ''least'' out of the various sensei (like Gai with Lee, Asuma with Shikamaru, or Kurenai with Hinata.)
** The AccidentalKiss between Naruto and Sasuke back in episode 3 still gets talked about a lot.
** What about Orochimaru? Bite one boy on the neck and you're labeled a molester for life. It tends to be forgotten that biting on the neck is Orochimaru's method of giving the Cursed Seal to a recipient, and that Sasuke isn't the only one he's done it to.
*** Orochimaru's case isn't helped by the fact that fans often exaggerate his obsession with getting Sasuke's body for himself into a case of him wanting to rape Sasuke or groom him for sex, especially pre-''Shippuden'' when Sasuke would have clearly been underage; typing in certain key-words in Google will give you a variety of results that show "proof" that the Snake Sannin is a pedophile. What isn't pointed out, however, is that Orochimaru's obsession with Sasuke's body is primarily so he can transfer his own consciousness into it in order to get the Sharingan so he can learn more jutsu more quickly, which has always been a main objective for him. In addition, he was particularly concerned with getting Sasuke during the Retrieve Sasuke Arc because his then-current body was giving out on him and he needed to do the transferal quickly (Kimimaro, an earlier candidate for the procedure, was rejected due to having a terminal illness, and in the end Orochimaru had to transfer into one of his random prisoners because Sasuke didn't reach him in time). Plus, Orochimaru had previously ''tried'' to do the same with Itachi back when the Snake Sannin was with Akatsuki, but got [[MindRape schooled]] by Itachi for his efforts.
** There's plenty of things in Naruto to snark about, and a not insignificant number of them have to do with the ultimate Uchiha ninjutsu, Amaterasu. When Sasuke used it to try to capture the Eight Tails for [[spoiler:Tobi]], while it was writhing in [[spoiler:fake]] agony, it accidentally hit Karin, and her coat caught fire. Sasuke's got high level reaction speeds and has complete control over his Amaterasu so he was able to extinguish it before Karin was burned, but nevertheless, it's become a meme that "Amaterasu doesn't work on people wearing black" (Team Hawk was wearing Akatsuki cloaks at the time).
*** It's come to the point where Amaterasu is considered to be the most ''useless'' ability given to the Mangekyo Sharingan. Detractors point out that it has never killed anyone, it burns slow enough to be removed, Killer Bee was literally ''faking it'' when he was hit by it, and its nothing more than a ''nuisance'' ([[spoiler:Madara even calls it a jutsu beneath his notice]]) by high level ninja. The hype it got in the databook was so big it would have been impossible to live up to though (Amaterasu burning hotter than the sun after all).
** [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Kaguya]]]], who was supposed to be the all-powerful EldritchAbomination supreme BigBad of the entire Naruto universe, will never in a million years be able to live down [[DistractedByTheSexy falling victim to]] Naruto's Sexy Reverse Harem Technique and then [[AntiClimax going down like a bitch.]]
** In ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'', an adult Naruto is busy working, and sends a clone to attend his daughter Himawari's birthday party instead of going himself. Cue a huge portion of the fandom labeling him a neglectful father who doesn't care about his family despite the fact that Naruto trying to balance his role as a dad with his [[spoiler:duties as Hokage]] is a major conflict in his adult life, while the fact that he loves his kids and wants to be there for them is constantly emphasized in [[SpinOffspring next generation]] materials.
** Boruto himself has fallen prey to this trope. Yes, he started out as a BrattyHalfPint with simmering resentment over his father not being there in person for important events (such as the aforementioned incident of Naruto sending a Shadow Clone to celebrate Himawari's birthday party) and over Naruto just generally being busy with work instead of spending time with him. The thing is, though, Boruto eventually does get CharacterDevelopment as he comes to better appreciate the importance of his father's work [[spoiler:as the Hokage]] and becomes less selfish overall. However, certain sections of the fanbase will ALWAYS see Boruto as an AttentionWhore ''par excellence'' (something not helped by the fact that Naruto, who was also that way at that age, [[StepfordSmiler at least had an excuse for it]], in contrast to Boruto who grew up more privileged) and will NEVER forgive him for his initial dismissive-to-the-point-of-disrespectful reaction to [[ParentalAbandonment Naruto's]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer past]] (to the point of flinging Naruto's old jacket out a window). On a related note, there are some fans who will immediately point to Boruto's admiration of Sasuke despite the man being a (mostly) DisappearedDad as a terminal case of SelectiveObliviousness. It also doesn't help that even after mastering Shadow Clones himself (thus knowing from personal experience that there's no actual difference between the clones and the ninja using them), Boruto still acts as if Naruto isn't really showing up when he sends a Shadow Clone.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has a case that's odd in that it's based on an event that hasn't even been ''shown'' in canon. As the series' characters are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of nations, their characterization in fanworks are often based to some extent on real-life historical events that their representative nations, which is pretty much inevitable as it's impossible for canon alone to delve completely into the nations' histories. But sometimes certain writers may dwell on these events too much to strain the relations between characters who get along fine in canon, or worse, even if the event in question no longer affects the real life nations in question. Though canon Hetalia has been known to do similar things (e.g. England and the Revolutionary War), it gets especially noticeable and even somewhat jarring when neither the canon characters nor the real life citizens of the countries care anymore.
** APH fanon in general tends to be ''inundated'' with this. Especially in the Japanese fandom. As many fans got into the series through the anime and may not keep up with the comics, or merely read only the early strips, they often tend to use outdated characterizations, despite the fact that CharacterizationMarchesOn may have phased them out.
** [[ChivalrousPervert France]] being a [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Quagmire-esque]] rapist/pedophile. He is indeed shown doing... unsavory things towards younger characters in older strips and borderline to actually sexually assaulting many others (in the Hetalia Gakuen game, he even ''drags poor Seychelles away [[BlackComedyRape with the game heavily implying he’s going to force himself on her]]''), [[OldShame but this has largely been phased out]], in favor of him being a somewhat melancholy romantic who likes to flirt a lot and values consent deeply in his sexual conquests. The fandom has also largely moved on from it... well, the western fandom at least. A lot of the Japanese fandom meanwhile tends to still cast him as a creep or even as a straight-up stock Hentai protagonist.
** [[NiceGuy Spain]] also gets this too. {{Fanon}} likes to think he's a {{yandere}} or a CuteAndPsycho because of unpleasant elements of Spanish history and the fact that Creator/HidekazHimaruya said in his notes that he was originally going to be a two faced character like [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]] that was only kind toward [[{{Tsundere}} Romano]]. Himaruya mostly discarded that idea many years ago, but decided to play upon it on the 2011 Fool's Bath where Spain ''seems'' to snap at France when he revealed who the culprit was [[spoiler: (which was indeed Spain, who sent the threatening letters to everyone and if they didn't come to this location at a certain time, he would reveal their most embarrassing picture of them).]] However when Spain appears to take his anger out on America and England, he switches back to his cheery self and explains that he just wanted to hang out with everyone and France twisted the words of what he really wanted. It was obvious that his [[CantHoldhisLiquor anger was because he was drunk]], but the fans now declare that he is officially {{yandere}} / CuteAndPsycho despite it being {{played for laughs}}.
*** Another popular perception was that Spain is a pedophile due to the fact that in older strips he acted rather... oddly towards Child!Italy/Chibitalia (and common perception was he acted like this towards Romano as well due to the popularity of the Spamano ship), in one comic strip even ''anally penetrating the poor kid with his finger'', though it’s implied that he didn’t fully know what he was doing. The comic has been deleted, and Spain doesn’t show this questionable behavior anymore, but it still lives on in Fanon, even if to a lesser extent than it used to.
** Poland; he crossdressed all of three times in the entre webcomic, none of which were recent and one of which was deleted from the site due to OldShame, but fandom seems to love putting him in skirts near-constantly.
** A couple older strips and the anime had jokes involving Canada being unnoticeable, with only one of them making him explicitly invisible. He does not bring this up that much. In his vast majority of appearances, everyone sees him just fine, even if they occasionally think he is America (and even that only seems to really bother him when he gets beat up because of it). Recent strips, in fact, show him as being popular even; in [[Manga/Hetaween2011 the 2011 Halloween event]] all the other nations saw and recognized him just fine and ''cheered'' for him. Yet fandom ''still'' portrays Canada as the poor little nation nobody ever sees or even remembers the existence of, he is always whining and angsting about that (often to [[{{Wangst}} super-emo extents]]), and it's sometimes mixed with different degrees of [[RonTheDeathEater America bashing]].
** Taiwan is a {{Plucky|Girl}} GenkiGirl who gets along with almost everyone but China and even then she helps China when needed (though her methods are... unorthodox.) People only seem to remember that she once told China "leave Japan ALONE!" '''in a single-panel sketch''', however, and thus they tend to believe that either she's a ClingyJealousGirl to Japan (when she has ''never'' clung to him in the canon strips) or that she truly loathes China (when their relationship is actually much, ''much'' friendlier than it would be if Hetalia was super close to history).
** Ukraine and Belarus's song ''Carrots and Sticks'' plays the {{Yandere}} archetype for laughs and makes some throw-away allusions to Ukraine ''possibly'' also loving Russia in a way similar to Bela's, [[PassiveAggressiveKombat only more passive-aggressively]]. Now some people seem to think that Ukraine is '''totally'' a super obsessive {{yandere}}, despite how this supposed "darker side" of her never really arises in the strips/series.
** Because of being an obscure character, Bulgaria will always be remembered as that guy who smacked Italy with a stick in his anime debut, purely because he [[ItAmusedMe he felt like it]].