History RuinedForever / Literature

** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has a vocal minority of people who believe that the revelation that [[spoiler: Nico di Angelo is gay and has feelings for Percy for most of their acquaintance]] ruined the series, saying it had no other relevance than to be part of the author's liberal agenda and is inappropriate subject matter for the target audience.

* The ink was barely dry on the first Kevin J. Anderson - Brian Herbert collaboration before it was declared ''{{Dune}}'' had forever been ruined.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' got this reaction by fans when the spinoff series "''HeroesofOlympus''" was announced. It turned out to be a pretty decent series.
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has a vocal minority of people who believe that the revelation that Nico di Angelo is gay and has feelings for Percy for most of their acquaintance ruined the series, saying it had no other relevance than to be part of the author's liberal agenda and is inappropriate subject matter for the target audience.

* ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' got this reaction by fans when the spinoff series "''HeroesofOlympus''" was announced. It turned out to be a pretty decent series.
** ''HeroesOfOlympus'' has a vocal minority of people who believe that the revelation that Nico di Angelo is gay and has feelings for Percy for most of their acquaintance ruined the series, saying it had no other relevance than to be part of the author's liberal agenda and is inappropriate subject matter for the target audience.

** ''Heroes of Olympus'' has a vocal minority of people who believe that the revelation that Nico di Angelo is gay and has feelings for Percy for most of their acquaintance ruined the series, saying it had no other relevance than to be part of the author's liberal agenda and is inappropriate subject matter for the target audience.

* ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' got this reaction by fans when the spinsoff seres "Heroes of olympus" was anounced. It turned out to be a pretty decent series.

** This wasn't entirely unfounded. KJA had been consistently proved to be a horrid writer in every universe he'd attempted before, to the extent that other ''Star Wars'' writers retconned his work. Since his ''Dune'' novels were published, all opinions were proved true when the books he wrote blatantly contradicted a plot point established in the first book, on the first page, the first paragraph, the first ''sentence''. You can't ruin a franchise any worse than that.

* Academics tend to whine that whatever books are selling more than the books they want to have people read will ruin literature FOREVER. Usually it's the fault of academia in the first place, when they write and print books only for the wealthy and privileged then complain about the unwashed masses not reading the "TrueArt" books. Some good examples, look at the reviews of TrueArt academic literary critics for Creator/WilkieCollins' ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', often considered now to be a great example of nineteenth century literature, and ''TheLordOfTheRings'', whose reviews by the literati were not only absolutely disparaging but in many cases were by people who plainly hadn't read the book.
* HarryPotter got together with [[spoiler: [[HeroesWantRedheads Ginny]] instead of [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Hermione]]]]? Instead of [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Luna]]? Instead of [[FoeYay Draco]]? Instead of [[PerverseSexualLust me]]? Ruined FOREVER!

* There were people who were not happy about there being [[H2G2/AndAnotherThing a sixth]] ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book by [[EoinColfer a new author]] and declared {{FanonDiscontinuity}} before it had even come out.

* ''[[Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series were solved that were introduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ''Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents'' is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series were solved that were introduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ''Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents'' is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ''Literature/ASeries ofUnfortunateEvents'' is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ''Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents'' is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* LiteratureASeriesofUnfortunateEvents is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ASeriesOfUnfortuniteEvents is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* ASeriesofUnfortuniteEvents is Ruined Forever at the end of the thirteenth and final book know as ''The End'' when not all the mysteries of the series of the series were solved that were intraduced at the end of book five ''The Austere Academy'' this includes the fates of the characters.

* It's a specialty ''du jour'' in ''TheHungerGames'' fandom. ''Mockingjay'' disappointed, soandso died, [[spoiler: Gale got the boot]], Jennifer Lawrence looks like a blonde cow. It never ends. And ''then'' there are those who [[FanDumb complained about the casting of Rue, Thresh and Cinna]] (who, by the way, were all [[UnfortunateImplications African-American]]).

* ''TheElderScrollsNovels'' ruined ''TheElderScrolls'' FOREVER! On one level the novels were announced the same day Bethesda said that the next game in the series was a long way away, so it could be Pavlovian, however people complain about things in the book, claiming they ruin the series FOREVER, even though those things were major parts of the games, especially ''Morrowind.''

* It's a specialty ''du jour'' in ''TheHungerGames'' fandom. ''Mockingjay'' disappointed, soandso died, [[spoiler: Gale got the boot]], Jennifer Lawrence looks like a blonde cow. It never ends. And ''then'' there are those who [[FanDumb complained about the casting of Rue, Thresh and Cinna]].

** Note that ''exactly'' the same complaints were lodged when Anne Rice's vampire literature became popular as well. Apparently stories based on mythology that's OlderThanPrint can crumble when a ''single'' person writes a book about them.
*** Mightn't it be that Anne Rice Ruined vampires Forever, and Twilight is the proof?

** Vampire mythology is [[NewerThanTheyThink newer than you think]], actually.

*** Or, Rice pioneered 'caring about vampires as sympathetic protagonists', and this is the only thing that ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' Ruined FOREVER!

*** Well, current vampire mythology (burning in sunlight, drinking blood from the throat, etc) is anyways. Vampires predate written language though, so...

* Academics tend to whine that whatever books are selling more than the books they want to have people read will ruin literature FOREVER. Usually it's the fault of academia in the first place, when they write and print books only for the wealthy and privileged then complain about the unwashed masses not reading the "TrueArt" books. Some good examples, look at the reviews of TrueArt academic literary critics for WilkieCollins' ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', often considered now to be a great example of nineteenth century literature, and ''TheLordOfTheRings'', whose reviews by the literati were not only absolutely disparaging but in many cases were by people who plainly hadn't read the book.

* It's a specialty ''du jour'' in ''TheHungerGames'' fandom. Mockingjay sucked, soandso died, Gale got the boot, Jennifer Lawrence looks like a blonde cow. It never ends.

* Every time ''anything'' happens in the ''WarriorCats'' series (which is all the time), at least a quarter of the fanbase is going to scream this.