Die For Our Ship / Anime & Manga

Ship wars abound in anime and manga fandom. The presence of DFOS is almost guaranteed in any case where the protagonist has multiple love interests. Some shows have even gotten bad enough to warrant their own pages:

Series with their own pages

• Bleach
• Cardcaptor Sakura
• Gundam
• Hetalia: Axis Powers
• Inuyasha
• Love Live!
• Naruto
• Pokémon
• The Prince of Tennis
• Ranma ½
• Sailor Moon
• Yu-Gi-Oh!

Other series

• After School Nightmare's Kureha Fujishiro. Yeah, she's a Clingy Jealous Girl who finds solace in Mashiro's company because she Does Not Like Men, but still... Poor, poor childhood rape victim Kureha. It's only made even worse by the Draco in Leather Pants status granted to Sou Mizuhashi, Mashiro's other love interest, even when he's kind of a bastard...
• In Air Gear, asking who should be Ikki's love interest is like asking for a bloodbath. The sections that support Ringo, those that prefer Simca and the third ones supporting Kururu shall NOT meet each other, lest we'll have massive flame wars. And this doesn't count the Kazu and/or Ak/g/ito fans...
  • Akito's Clingy Jealous Girl Yayoi Nakayama seems to be the one attracting more hate, though. It got so bad at some point that rabid Akito fangirls actually put up online petitions to try pressuring Oh! Great into killing off Yayoi so Ak/gito would be "free" from her.
• In Akame ga Kill!, there are quite a few fans who would like Esdeath to Murder the Hypotenuse Mine (which, given the events and the Anyone Can Die nature of the story, might actually come to pass) and have Tatsumi all to herself. Keep in mind that, while certainly humanizing, Esdeath's love for Tatsumi is still extremely selfish, as she doesn't care about Tatsumi's opinions and want to impose her own feelings upon him. The fact that Mine's crimes amount to being a vigilante who kills despicable criminals, in contrast to the craploads of good people Esdeath mercilessly slaughtered, doesn't seem to hinder the Tatsumi/Esdeath shippers in any way.
• While Lemrina from Aldnoah.Zero season 2 is mostly treated as an Ensemble Dark Horse, she does get some pot shots coming from Slaine/Princess Asseylum fangirls for her apparent Bodyguard Crush on him. This is not helped by her actually kissing Slaine on the mouth at some point, nor by one of her strongest motivations being replacing her half-sister Asseylum in everyone's lives, probably as revenge for being a forgotten illegitimate child whereas Asseylum is everyone's beloved.
• Are you into Aquarion Evol? Please, never ask whether Amata should've chosen Mikono or Zessica. Many Zessica fans will immediately bash/slutshame Mikono for catching Amata's attention and call Amata an Ungrateful Bastard for rejecting Zessica's love declaration and choosing Mikono over her. In the meantime, Mikono fans will likely retaliate via slutshaming Zessica and calling her "weak" and "shallow" for being overly depressed over Amata's rejection and getting body-jacked by Mykage afterwards.
  • Don't forget how some Kagura fans are pissed at Amata for being the dude Mikono loves despite also being Kagura's Morality Pet, and thus they also call Amata a tool and an asshole who stole Mikono from Kagura. Because for these fans, the fact that Mikono is the Nice Girl whom Kagura is obsessed with means that Mikono automatically owes Kagura pussy and Amata is a cockblock who steals her away from him, huh?
• Parodied by this post from the Attack on Titan fandom, which sounds a LOT like stuff that bashers from all fandoms say completely seriously.
• Kaorin from Azumanga Daioh is often portrayed as an evil, scheming Yandere bitch who will try to steal Sakaki away from Chiyo-chan... or Tomo, or Osaka, or whoever the preferred partner is.
• Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts: Akihisa x Himeji and Akihisa x Minami shippers can get very violent at times. During the first season, Himeji fans had plenty of shit to throw at Minami due to her frequent Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, calling her a bitch who just likes to beat up Aki rather than the Nice Girl Himeji. However, when the second season rolled around, Minami got redeemed a bit with A Day in the Limelight while Himeji became just as bad as first season Minami and the AkiMina fans fired back, frequently painting Himeji as a psycho who is actively using her charms to trick Akihisa. And with the Flanderization the girls got in the second season, a third party entered the fray: Akihisa/Hideyoshi fans demonize both girls, pointing out that a boy is much nicer and less violent than either of them.
• Mira from Bakugan Battle Brawlers New Vestroia is hated by Dan/Runo shippers.
• Within the Berserk fandom, there is a radical minority of fans who never seem to give Casca, the female lead of the story, a break. They either hate her because they claim that she's less of an Action Girl after becoming Guts' official Love Interest, or because she's not with Griffith, OR because she's getting in the way of Guts being with Griffith. Pay close attention to her relationship with Griffith, as some fans are so steadfast at making them the One True Pairing to disturbing degrees, the highest degree which would involve downplaying the fact that Griffith sold out his friends to become a demon lord and as his very FIRST action upon becoming one, he rapes her with sadistic glee in front of Guts out of spite, which also takes away her of her personhood, her sanity, nearly three years of her life, and to top it off, her unborn child. It's taken up a notch when some fans argue that she enjoyed being raped. Still, some are confident that Casca will regain her senses - meaning that she will realize that she's in love with Griffith, not Guts. And if Casca can't be with Griffith upon getting cured of her insanity? Well, she's of no use then. And of course, concerning the GutsxGriffith shippers... Casca is definitely not in the picture here.
• Cute Sports Club Manager Chiyo gets a lot of hate from Big Windup! fans for having a crush on Abe. Mihashi/Abe is the most popular ship by far thanks to the strong amounts of Ho Yay between them but Abe is a Chaste Hero.
• Black Butler: Elizabeth suffers from this for being a Damsel in Distress for a while and engaged to her cousin Ciel, which puts her directly into the way of the Ho Yay between Ciel and Sebastian. Yep, she never had a chance with the Yaoi Fangirls. Though now that she has revealed herself as a Little Miss Badass in the manga, Elizabeth has gained some more fan support.
  • Mathilda Simmons is hated by Yaoi Fangirls because Sebastian had sex with her in episode 17. The same sort of thing happened when he had sex with Beast in the manga.
• The Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 fandom really likes their Linna x Priss Les Yay. It'd be better if they didn't bash the everloving crap of the closest that Priss has to a male love interest, Leon McNichol. He's not an idiot, he's not pure Dumb Muscle, and damn it Priss does develop a soft spot for him and all, so he cannot be as "horrible" and "stupid" as Yuri Fans paint him.
• Shizuku from Candy☆Boy is the Annoying Younger Sibling of Kanade and Yukino but gets a lot of hate for having implied feelings for one of her sisters. She gets in the way of the twincest between Kanade and Yukino.
• 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 and keep living her own life, since Susanna almost got killed for him and ended up crippled and with her acting career in tatters. Also, they conveniently forget that not only Candy's main goal in life is to become a self-made woman and not to just get a boyfriend... but that Terry willingly chose to marry Susanna, whom he had a soft-spot for even while loving Candy. But of course Susanna is a woman and a not very self-assured one, so she's always to blame for everything while a male like Terry is excused.
• Captain Tsubasa fandom loves to bash Kumi Sugimoto for daring to have a crush on Tsubasa Ohzora and not being shy about it. Kumi never 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 (in a very apologetic and sweet way, gotta add), then 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, and yet that does nothing to stop her from being portrayed as an idiotic, cruel, Tsubasa-obsessed Yandere in many fanworks.
• Ah, Case Closed fans:
  • Some Shinichi/Conan x Haibara fans seems to really have this mentality going on in regards to Ran Mouri, huh? Ironically, the Shinichi x Heiji fans aren't as hateful towards her.
  • The Case Closed yaoi fandom's peaceful in general, especially when compared to the het shippers. Try starting a poll on ANY Case Closed forum of ANY language debating which female character is their favorite, let alone choosing between Haibara and Ran. Within a couple of pages, it becomes a ballot-stuffing match between Shinichi/Conan x Ai and Shinichi/Conan x Ran shippers, arguing that Ran is a whiny, chickified Extreme Doormat that can't think for herself without Shinichi and is an insult to "strong female characters", or how Haibara is just wangsty with only a few interchangable emotions. The Shinichi/Conan x Ai and Shinichi/Conan x Ran shippers are (depending on the forum) either kept to their own separate threads or couple discussion is banned completely.
  • On the other hand, as a result, all female character polls would just not have Ai and Ran (In alphabetical order) in the options, calling them "minor female character polls."
  • Some particularly rabid Shinichi/Ran shippers seem to feel pretty threatened by Masumi and Ran's close friendship, enough to accuse Sera of trying to steal Shinichi's girlfriend from him, and/or of being a "offensive lesbian stereotype".
  • Lately, the Akai/Jodie and Akai/Akemi fans have been seen ducking it out. The rabid Akai/Jodie fans tend to see Akemi as a Relationship Sue who "stole" Akai's heart from poor Jodie even post mortem despite Jodie "deserving" his affection more in their view, while the rabid Akai/Akemi fans accuse all Akai/Jodie fans of being Akemi haters and insist that he only considered Akemi as his true love and still does after her murder.
  • The peaceful Heiji/Kazuha corner has been shaken up by the apparition of Momiji Ooka, a girl who is a potential Amateur Sleuth and wants to marry Heiji. (Plus, she's rumored to have a shared past with him). Some think she's a potentially fun addition to their dynamics, others believe her to be a bitch out to steal Heiji from Kazuha, and others fear that she'll just be used as a plot device to bring Heiji and Kazuha closer. In fact, the Momiji bashing coming from insecure Heiji/Kazuha fans has been spotted even on this very Wiki.
• The A Certain Magical Index fandom is certainly a clear example, the main Ship-to-Ship Combat is shown between Index and Misaka Mikoto, with the later fandom willing Index to die since Touma spends most of his time cohabitating with her, who lives in the same room on his bed and most of the Accidental Pervert moments are related to her with Touma.
• You know CLAMP School Detectives fans are way too invested in Ho Yay shipping (even for CLAMP fandom standards) when they pour hatred on a kindergarten girl like Nagisa because Suoh likes her romantically when he could be more invested in Nokoru. Her best friend Utako manages to mostly dodge hate, but mostly because she's paired up with Akira in canon and thus she takes him out of the picture.
• Any guesses as to why Nagisa Furukawa of CLANNAD 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.
• In Code Geass fandom, this is probably just a symptom of the fact that the anime seems to have spawned one of the most bitter and divisive of fandoms. 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 not surprising that the shipping is this way too. If you think about it, the shipping is incredibly amusing/distressing when you realise that until Lelouch got, er, "unmasked", not only was the harem ending supported by Divine Right Of Kings and genetics (Emperor Charles had 108 wives), but by two prospective haremettes, Milly and the unappreciated Kaguya.
  • If you're a more or less sane 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 reciprocates her feelings to some extent. Interestingly enough, compare the above to the Breaking Speech Mao 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 Shirley had the bad luck of saying the wrong thing at the worst moment, Rolo killed Lulu's ONE TWU WUB solely to steal Lulu's heart for himself. Since he was a male after Lulu's heart, there's more than a whiff of fandom homophobia implied. Yes, Rolo's own actions are far from blameless, but he's more a complex Jerkass Woobie than the monster some fans like making him out as to prove that Shirley is "more worthy" of Lelouch's love.
  • Kallen started getting LOTS of hate after she kissed Lelouch in episode 22 of R2. When that happened, cue to lots of fans (and not only Lelouch/C.C. or Suzaku/Lelouch shippers) screaming "Bitch!" "Whore!" "Slut!" "Skank!" "Kallen is not cool anymore because she's acting like a chick, OH NOES!" This is amusing because in canon, their shared feelings for Lelouch are the chief reason they get along, with clashes between them being purely due to their differences in personality.
  • Gino gets a bit of this from the Lelouch/Kallen shippers, partially because he doesn't get a real lot of development and while he seems to have a crush on Kallen, we don't really know how she feels about him at the end of series. The fact that Kallen/Gino is a popular Pair the Spares ship for Lelouch/C.C. and Suzaku/Lelouch shippers doesn't help.
• Cowboy Bebop fans love to pair off Spike and Faye. Julia can go die in a fire, according to them. 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. Otherwise, those that want to see Spike and Julia get together exaggerate Faye's negative traits so Spike can tell her off.
• Cross Ange: While there were masses of fanservice moments from the start as Arzenal was populated by girls with Salia, Momoka handling Ange's body parts, the main force against the official pairing are Hilda x Ange shippers who wish Tusk didn't survive the explosion or pray the next season or OVA has Tusk dying and having Hilda ending up with Ange. While Ange kisses Hilda for the first and only time after she had consensual sexual intercourse with Tusk, the final ending shows Ange, Tusk and others (no Hilda) outside Tusk's dream of opening "Cafe Ange".
• Once upon a time, the Cyborg 009 fandom had a buttload of this, as the 2001 anime became the most-seen of the adaptations internationally around the early 2000s. 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 fought back... by bashing the most obvious "competition", Princess Ixquic and Carl Eckermann alias Sphinx.
  • Thanks to the 1979 series including Mayumi, a girl Joe was close with in his downtime as a racer, and not to mention the fact that she manipulates and betrays him for her own benefit, 009/003 fans react with considerable hate towards her for having momentarily "distracted" Joe from his one true love. The Italian dub and English fansubs outright calling Mayumi his former girlfriend also don't help the matter (while the Japanese dialogue is ambiguous on if Mayumi and Joe were just friends or boyfriend and girlfriend). To compound things, the Italian dub was also infamous for altering dialogue to make Joe seem more amorous towards other girls in his spotlight episodes, which earned him the wrong reputation of being a ladies' man and cheater... thus getting HIM some "Die for Our Ship"-style reactions from those who felt Francoise deserved better.
  • The eventual light novel and manga adaptations of Conclusion: God's War added some fuel to the shipping fire for 009/003 fans in the case of both characters' spotlight stories. In 003's chapter, she has grown close to a young man named Alan who reminds her of 009. In the manga, the two stay in a platonic relationship and Alan's feelings for Francoise seem to not be requited. In contrast, the light novel adaptation (which came earlier in 2006) includes a scene that indicates that the two opted to sleep together, which garnered some outrage from some fans over Francoise being unfaithful. Even in the dialed-down story in the manga chapter, Alan still receives much hate for being an obstacle for the 009/003 dynamic.
    • In the case of the 009 spotlight chapter, Hisui Kagariya aka "Queen Himiko" got a lot of scorn due to Jo Onodera drastically rewriting her role from what his father had intended (although Onodera himself understandably took quite more heat for rewriting her). In Ishinomori's intent, Joe was to not view Hisui in anything beyond platonic terms, and was to rebuff Himiko's offer of love. In the Jo Onodera version... the light novel indicates that Joe and Hisui are in a sexual and romantic relationship, with Joe seeming to have forgotten all about Francoise. And then comes the Mind Rape scene involving Hisui/Himiko seemingly taking advantage of a weak and traumatized Joe in his sleep, which is played more consensually in the light novel and with more of a dubious consent in the manga artwork. The fact that Joe then tries to kill himself due to being coaxed by a vision of Hisui to "come to her" and outright ignoring a vision of Francoise did not help the fans' dissatisfaction and rage any more, along with Joe later trying to talk down Hisui/Himiko in the Tokyo battle by telling her that he loved her. Luckily in the end, she did die for the 009/003 ship, but this left the fans feeling sore over the fact that she had taken Joe's virginity.
  • One-shot character Cynthia got (and still can get) quite the hate out of the misconception that Joe had feelings for her that she pretty much spurned by declaring her hate of weapons, as well as for "distracting" him from 003.
• Since the D.Gray-Man fandom has a serious Het Is Ew mentality, the most prominent female character, Lenalee Lee, tends to get this a lot. This is exacerbated by her close friendship with resident Launcher of a Thousand Ships Allen, which, while it hasn't been definitively shown to go beyond platonic friends, has enough Ship Tease that the crazier Yaoi Fangirls, particularly those who don't like her for being too girly, are prone to abusing her. They also beautifully showcase the Double Standard by calling her a Faux Action Girl thanks to a period where she was Brought Down to Normal, while continuing to uphold the badassitude of Allen, who underwent the exact same thing.
  • More than one Arystar Krory / Miranda Lotto fan has expressed hate towards Krory's girlfriend Eliade. Even when, you know, she dies in Krory's introductory arc.
• 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.
• Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: A section of Nagito/Hajime fans bash Chiaki with every excuse under the sun, and even claim to have rejoiced at her Cruel and Unusual Death, since she was now "out of the way". All because she's the recipient of Hajime's affections instead of Nagito.
  • Chiaki gets off easy compared to Munakata, Chisa and Juzo. Whichever one isn't shipped with the other two will more often than not have every single flaw played up, to the point one would think Munakata is a selfish and power-hungry dictator instead of a Well-Intentioned Extremist, Chisa a harpy and a Yandere who exists solely for Munakata instead of The Heart or a Manipulative Bitch who's been stringing him along from the start thanks to her Despair brainwashing, and Juzo a bloodthirsty brute who only lusts after Chisa and/or Munakata instead of a hot-headed and gruff but loyal man. This is despite the three of them canonically being very close (to the point that some fans think of something else altogether), the three of them being caught in horrifyingly hard situations ( with fatal consequences for Chisa and Juzo), and Juzo putting Chisa and Munakata's shared happiness before his own.
• 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. Not to mention that by the end, at least two of them are dead anyway!
  • And then there's Halle Lidner. Having a Shower Scene in front of Mello and possibly flirting with him a few times? Apparently, canon proof that the lady is a complete tramp and absolutely unworthy of Mello's attention. Attention that Mello never *gave* her.
  • At least one infamous Mello/Near shipper along with a small faction of fans were notorious for insisting Near was Mello's one and only and that Matt deserved to be offed just for that. It was a very confusing and baffling debate that ensued.
• Descendants of Darkness:
  • Some Muraki / Tsuzuki fans don't see Muraki's repulsive acts of villainy as the main 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/Hisoka fics, you might find hate towards Delicate and Sickly Tsubaki Kakyouin as well.
  • Even Tsuzuki is not spared by this trope. In some Muraki/Hisoka fics, he's portrayed as a weak, whiny and self-loathing wangst machine who can't properly take care of Hisoka and thus has the latter running to his murderer/rapist.
  • Ukyou Sakuraiji gets hate too for being Muraki's Victorious Childhood Friend.
• Happens to Souma Oogami of Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, with fans likening him to an idiot or an overbearing bastard (of course, as nice as he is, he is choosing the wrong series to love his girl). This decreased considerably (but still didn't stop completely) when the series ended with Souma voluntarily stepping back after Himeko and Chikane confessed their love to each other.
• The Devilman fandom has always had one or another discussion about the nature of Akira's feelings for Ryo and Miki, but the newest adaptation DEVILMAN crybaby has brought them to the internet surface. Akira/Ryo shippers tend to sweep Miki's importance to Akira and his feelings for her under the carpet or treat her as little more than fridge stuffing to-be, whereas Akira/Miki fans reduce Ryo to a Depraved Homosexual when he's far more complex than that. There are some that Take a Third Option and give Miki a different pairing in her own best friend Miko, which both justifies Miko's feelings for her and doesn't demonize Ryo in the process.
• 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.
  • Sora and Yamato got together at the end of Digimon Adventure 02, which obviously pissed off Tai/Sora and Tai/Yamato fans. As for Daisuke, Takeru, and Hikari? None of them end up with each other but with nameless and faceless characters instead, pissing off Daisuke/Hikari, Takeru/Hikari, and Daisuke/Takeru fans alike. ** 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 and got kisses from them in return, is often seen as an horrible threat to Taichi/Sora and/or Takeru/Hikari. In a similar vein Wallace, who kissed 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: many after-Grand Finale rants took pot shots at lots of characters, and Rosa was the one-shot female who took the hardest ones (Wormmon didn't like her, so she had to be a little bitch).
  • The other seasons aren't safe, either. Digimon Tamers fics that pair Guilmon with Renamon often feature Impmon (who, by the end of the season, was not at all a villain anymore) and/or Cyberdramon (who never really cared much about anything other than battle) as the antagonists, making them just perverts towards Renamon at best, and outright villains at worst. And in Digimon Frontier fanfics, Junpei, who has a crush on Izumi, often gets made fun of in fics that pair her with anyone else, usually Takuya, Kouji, or Kouichi (Tomoki, the remaining team member, isn't so much bashed as he is ignored).
  • Digimon Adventure tri. restarted the ship wars as soon as it was released. The new addition to the Digidestined, Meiko Mochizuki, got bashed for getting along with Taichi, which immediately sent the Taichi/Yamato and Taichi/Sora fans into screaming fits. As for Davis/Kari/TK? Well, the writers simply cut the middleman and had Davis put in stasis for the whole season and made TK and Kari forget he existed until the end.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Yamcha often gets twisted into a wife-beater, or a cheater by fans of the Bulma/Vegeta pairing. Although there’s a one-off mention of Yamcha's adultery by Future Trunks, it's not something that's shown onscreen. It's also worth noting that, in canon, neither Bulma nor Vegeta are exactly ideal "significant other" material themselves by any stretch.
  • There's also the Trunks/Marron (Kuririn and #18's daughter) shippers who bash Pan, and the Trunks/Pan fans who bash Marron, neither of whom have done anything to suggest a romantic rivalry. In fact, Marron doesn't do anything at all. Not to mention Pan and Marron are never shown to be romantically interested in anyone at all, let alone Trunks.
  • Vegeta and Chi-Chi are often turned into spouse-beaters by Goku/Bulma shippers. While this interpretation of Chi-Chi isn't exactly unfounded considering her canon portrayal, it's still a case of Character Exaggeration.
  • Goku/Bulma fans insist and complain about Chi-Chi being a shallow love interest who "stole" Goku from Bulma. Never mind that Bulma seems to consider Goku more as a younger brother and only once commented on his good looks after not seeing him from years and being surprised that the cute little boy she knew was now Tall, Dark, and Handsome. Chi-Chi, however, had already shown romantic interest in Goku when they were both children.
    • Chi-Chi in particular tends to get demonized extremely often in slash. If Vegeta/Goku is the main pairing, there's usually a 50-75% chance that Bulma will be dead (especially common if Vegeta genuinely loved her) or Amicable Exes with Vegeta, but good luck finding a story where Chi-Chi isn't an Ax-Crazy Domestic Abuser with severe homophobia and control issues. Even when both ladies are turned into crazy harpies, chances are good that Chi-Chi will be the more evil of the two.
  • Goten/Bra vs. Goten/Marron vs. Goten Palace/Paris/Valese is another popular shipwar. Palace-bashers accuse her of being "retarded" for not knowing how to eat ice cream and make her out to be either a brain-dead valley girl or a conniving witch who wants to ruin Goten's life. Marron is also hated and accused of being a "skank" by her detractors. And Bra wearing a skimpy outfit and being a bit of a primadonna? Must mean she's that mean girl in high school that spread her legs for everyone, if you follow the shipwar logic.
  • Let's just say that Videl isn't exactly liked by Future!Trunks/Gohan shippers. Or Gohan/Current-Timeline!Trunks shippers. Or really, just expect some Videl-bashing from shippers who pair Gohan up with anyone who isn't Videl.
  • More recently Trunks (both the future and present timeline Trunks) got a semi official love interest in the form of a deaged Mai, this of course has caused the Goten/Trunks and Pan/Trunks shippers to be upset.
• Durarara!! is starting to get some of this, among Shizuo/Vorona and Shizuo/Izaya fangirls. Damn Ship-to-Ship Combat! Just from the few stories written about either pairing, Vorona is portrayed as a selfish slut that doesn't care for Shizuo and wants to lure him into false security so she can kill him. As for Izaya, while not bashed outright, he goes through Badass Decay and is defeated by Vorona in a one on one combat easily so she could end up with Shizuo. Fans are forgetting that Izaya is the only character besides Simon that can fight Shizuo one on one when Vorona clearly ran away the first time she came in contact with Shizuo.
  • The latter aspect is especially baffling seeing as they could always just portray Izaya as a creepy, psycho Yandere who wants Shizuo all to himself—which would actually be closer to canon, considering how insane and evil Izaya already is.
  • Kida's girlfriend Saki Miyajima has been getting the same treatment from Izaya/Kida (or anyone with Kida) fans. Most of the time, she's portrayed as a leech that is zapping the life out of Kida or a useless slut that can't do anything and clings to Kida to make her pain go away. Bonus points if this is the reason that the two break up in the story.
• The ef - a fairy tale of the two. fandom is very small, but there is quite the hate towards Kei Shindou for getting in between Hiro Hirono and Miyako Miyamura.
• In Elfen Lied, Lucy/Kouta fans hate Team Mom Yuuka with a fiery passion, not helped by the fact she's Kouta's cousin. 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.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Lisanna Strauss gets this a lot from militant Natsu/Lucy fans, especially after it was revealed that she actually isn't dead and is now back with the main cast, very often being portrayed as the epitome of Ron the Death Eater to justify everyone suddenly hating her and deciding she needs to die. This is completely ignoring her canon personality of being an absolute sweetheart, and the fact that she has actually instructed Lucy to stick close to Natsu as well, citing that Natsu gets stronger when the friends he trusts are near. This may be due in part to the anime, which greatly expanded on Natsu and Lisanna's relationship as children. In the manga, the only hint of romance between them came from Lisanna jokingly asking if she could become his wife when they grew up, though after her return, while it's rarely shown due to the show's focus on Natsu and Lucy as the main characters, she's just as close with Natsu as the anime would have you believe.
  • Lucy herself is never killed off by Lisanna fans. It's much more convenient for them to claim Lucy was just a replacement for Lisanna all this time and have Fairy Tail kick her to the curb or otherwise ignore her and drive her to leaving the guild once Lisanna returns. This is helped by an anime-only scene added to the anime that suggested Lucy was a lot like Lisanna and that Natsu, who in other anime scenes is shown to be really attached to Lisanna, may have been drawn to her because of that (whereas the manga only has Lisanna tease Natsu a bit when they're really young and Gildarts jabbing at him when he comes back from a job, and Lucy being amused that Natsu had a girl he liked, but no comparison between the two ever).
  • Juvia Loxar, while she's a generally popular character and doesn't get as much pairing-related heat as Lisanna, does get some flack for liking/being in love with Gray. Canonically, while she is a Clingy Jealous Girl around him and people (read: women and oddly, Lyon) close to him, all in all, she's a sweet and caring person. Also, most, if not all of her antics concerning him, are pure comic relief, and later on in the manga, she does tone down her obsessive behavior. But that doesn't matter to some non-Gray/Juvia shippers (mostly Gray/Lucy fans) along with the facts Juvia is actually friends with other women (including the ones she thinks are her "love rivals", such as Lucy) and does care for the guild and all its members. They just zero in on her obsessive part of her personality, and slam her for being a total creepy bitch who won't ask Gray out like a normal person (completely ignoring how she attempted to hang out him with a couple of times after she joined Fairy Tail and asked him out to lunch) and needs to die. Or get together with Lyon Bastia since Sherry is (conveniently and blessedly) out of the picture.
  • On the subject of Juvia, almost all Lyon/Juvia fics paint Gray as neglectful or abusive. There are plenty of other girls in the guild he has good relationships with (Lucy, Erza, and Cana stand out), and really, is it that hard to have Gray let poor Juvia down gently?
    • On the flip-side, some Gray/Juvia fans paint Lyon as an obsessive stalker who just wants to steal Juvia away from Gray. Granted, Lyon's personality did deteriorate quite a bit after he developed his crush on her, but he eventually pulls an I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and stops pursuing Juvia after he sees that she cares too much about Gray to ever leave him.
  • Natsu himself sometimes takes some hate from Gray/Lucy and Loke/Lucy fans. Natsu's canon Jerk with a Heart of Gold characterization is pushed to straight up Jerkass, and he's often made to be abusive on top of that.
  • Not quite as numerous any longer, but for a while it was fairly common for Gajeel/Levy shippers to bash Jet and Droy in their fics. Jet and Droy have monster crushes on Levy, who rejected both of them and sees them only as her two best friends and teammates. In fact, they do react badly to Gajeel joining Fairy Tail - but only because the first time they met him, he brutally beat the hell out of them and Levy. They become friendlier to him after he saves Levy's life, but apparently some fans missed this.
  • Jellal is something of a Base-Breaking Character to begin with, but he gets a lot of crap from some Natsu/Erza fans and Erza/Kagura fans, who like to ignore the tiny little detail that all the horrible stuff he did in the beginning was while he was under the influence of brainwashing and possession by an evil spirit AKA Ultear after being horrifically tortured and he still holds tremendous guilt for what he did. Considering his personality, its more likely he'd want Erza be with someone that made her happy.
  • Some rabid Erza/Jellal fans even go after poor Simon, whose only crimes were getting killed by Jellal and carrying an unrequited torch for Erza.
• 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 (the most he ever did to Ryo was a Forceful Kiss, and Ryo punched him in the face immediately afterwards for even trying that), and some extreme cases of Hurt/Comfort Fic have the fangirl creating an evil girl to rape Ryo just so Dee can come in and rescue him.
• The Familiar of Zero:
  • The fanbase on at least one anime website is bitterly, bitterly divided on their opinion of Meido Siesta's overtures towards Saito, complete with rabid fannish gibbering for her death. Even though, as of the second season, Saito is married to his "master", Louise, making them a semi-official pairing.
  • It goes both ways really; pretty much every fan that doesn't ship Louise with Saito will paint her as a complete Jerkass with zero redeeming qualities that sometimes just abandons him outright for little to no reason; never mind the fact that not only does she deep down really cares for him and actually shows it sometimes, but that she literally can't live without him (something made extremely clear in the novels).
• Free!:
  • When the anime was announced, there was early pre-emptive hate on tumblr against any theoretical female characters. However, there were others countering the hate and loving the girls (club manager Gou Matsuoka and club counselor Miho Amakata) from the first episode. Not to mention, right after Mikoshiba appeared and started crushing on Gou hard, the fans rushed to ship them - both because of the cute potential and to keep Gou safe and away from the other guys.
  • However, ever since episode 6 the fandom plays it straight... in regards to Go's brother Rin. After his less-than-graceful reaction to defeating Haruka in a race, the Makoto/Haruka shippers have been screaming for his death. The Rin/Haruka fans have retaliated by accusing Makoto of being boring (at best) or codependent/clingy (at worst) And in the second season, the appearance of Rin's close friend Sousuke Yamazaki made the deal even worse...
  • Gou's school friend Chigusa Hanamura has gotten occasional pot-shots from Makoto/other guys fans after Makoto praised her cute looks once. The fandom has reacted accordingly.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Not even being the protagonist saves Tohru Honda from this. Not only is she attacked by Fruits Basket fans for being too "weak" and "stupid" or "a Purity Sue", but she also comes under fire for getting in the way of Kyo/Yuki. And let's not forget the hate and Character Exaggeration Kyo gets from rabid Yuki/Tohru fans because Tohru chose Kyo and not Yuki. The manga tried to sink Tohru/Yuki by having Yuki say his interest in Tohru stemmed from him viewing her as a mother figure, but seeing that this happened after fourteen volumes of pining and a confession of love, many fans found it less than convincing, and many people regard it as only an excuse to get rid of Yuki so Tohru and Kyo can be together. Yuki's canon girlfriend in the manga, Machi Kuragi, isn't too popular with Tohru/Yuki fans either.
  • We cannot forget the terrible hate that Isuzu "Rin" Sohma got for being Hatsuharu's harsh yet well-intentioned girlfriend, thus meaning she was "cockblocking" Haru and Yuki. Even worse, they were sexually active. Fans were so bitchy towards "Rin the slut" that they cheered when she was tricked by Ren and then horribly mauled by Akito, since that "meant" she was getting "what she deserved"... Until Akito turned out to be a girl, too, thus the same fans who bashed Rin took pity on her - and then started bashing Akito, after cheerfully praising her terrible actions when they thought she was a boy.
• Full Metal Panic!: Gauron/Sōsuke shippers really don't like Kaname. Especially noticeable after the actions of Kaname in the later novels, where quite a few fans Abandoned Ship and actually came to the conclusion that Sōsuke would have been better off continuing 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 Sōsuke 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 Sōsuke since the latter was twelve, killed (or attempted to) all of Sosuke's friends / love interests, laid waste to an entire city just so he could get off on seeing Sōsuke's depressed face one last time, and fantasizing about raping Sōsuke's corpse.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: While the ship wars have calmed down considerably, the 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. The weird thing is, there really isn't any need to do Die for Our Ship with Roy/Riza because they make such good Ship Mates with Ed/Win and Al/Mei - and in fact, that's the route most of those shippers usually go. It's just that there's always that Vocal Minority...
  • Winry can count herself lucky, since most of the Roy/Ed fandom doesn't bother to kill her in fanfic but just pairs her off with Al so Ed can go be gay with Roy. They mostly ignore her completely if they ship the brothers together. Riza is also usually spared by Roy/Ed shippers because it's easy to interpret her feelings as one-sided, cast her and Roy as Platonic Life-Partners, and/or ship her with Havoc or another lady. That said, Winry- or Riza-hate is still unfortunately common in FMA slash fics involving Ed and/or Roy (who both mostly get shipped with dudes besides their "canon" female love interests).
  • Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) also had Ed/Winry vs Ed/Rose (and slight Ed/Noa), with Ed/Roy vs Ed/Envy vs Ed/Al in a side war. Ed/Win and Ed/Rose fans don't have much of a liking toward the rival character - and frequently bashed her or killed her off in their fanfiction - but both seem to dislike Noa (who is already The Scrappy).
  • Winry and Riza are likely spared because they are generally popular characters even for those who aren't into shipping them. Rose is a Base-Breaking Character to begin with - especially in the 2003 anime, the canon where she's important enough to be a "threat" to the other two main Ed ships - which is likely why she's the most popular candidate for Die for Our Ship. She's simply less mentioned now because she had such a smaller role in the manga and second anime continuity, but when the first anime was still the most well-known work, she was a frequent whipping girl in Roy/Ed and (especially) Ed/Win fics. Rose hate was really popular nevermind that the poor girl suffered enough in that series.
• 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 here] can not only hook up, they'll have a little family when they do.
  • And Tetsuya, Yui's eventual canon love interest, is sometimes portrayed as abusive or unfaithful so that Yui and Suboshi can get together somehow, although one would think the fact that Suboshi is dead by the time Tetsuya asks Yui out in the end would be the biggest obstacle there.
  • Three (four if you count Nuriko's confusing stance on his sexuality) of the seven warriors of Suzaku are all canonically in love with the female protagonist, who is hated enough as is, and supporters of all of them are at each other's throats. (The guys at least were savvy enough in canon to set petty love rivalries aside and focus on helping Miaka properly become the Suzaku no Miko.) There is also Yui, who is either more deserving of Tamahome (who winds up with Miaka in the end) or gravely hated for blaming Miaka for stealing away a man she only knew for several minutes.
  • There are also numerous fights between pairings among the Seiryuu Warriors. Never EVER mention Soi and Tomo's common feelings for Nakago if you value your own life.
• Future Diary:
  • Yuno Gasai loves Yukiteru "Yukki" Amano. Then, Akise Aru also falls for Yukiteru. Yukiteru's feelings are more directed to Yuno than Akise, who happens to be male like him, and Yuno is the most popular character of the series due to her strong feelings, her fighting skills and her physical beauty. Guess what, Akise is loathed by the fandom, and Yuno/Yukki fans even cheered when Yuno killed him.
  • It goes both ways, actually. The Akise/Yukki shippers hate Yuno for the reasons mentioned above and claim that Yukki being with Akise is a much healthier relationship than with Yuno. This is backed up by Akise getting killed and proving that Yuno plans on killing him just to start the whole game over. Fortunately, this Ship-to-Ship Combat only shows up in relatively few fandom circles.
  • Though rarely happens, in some fanfictions Yukki Amano got this treatment "in a literal sense", but not before giving a request for Akise Aru to "support Yuno Gasai". After several slow development, they eventually fell in love with each other, without antagonising Yukki.
  • Yuri Fan who prefer Yuno with other female character such as Minene Uryuu or Tsubaki Kasugano tend to antagonise Yukiteru, usually by potraying him either as a Dirty Coward or a two-timer so it would be justified to kill him off in the most gruesome manner. In this type of fic, it is safe to expect for Wakaba to be bashed as well.
• While Ayaka and Noriko from Gravitation have received their share of bashing, despite Ayaka willingly conceding Yuki to Shuichi and Noriko being Happily Married to a much older man 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 who sends Shuichi running off into the arms of someone else (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.
• Haikyuu!!: Poor, poor Yui Michimiya. Ever since she was revealed to have a crush on Daichi in Chapter 150, the more militant Daichi/Sugawara fans have started bashing her relentlessly. The sad part is, before Chapter 150, she was actually a fairly well-liked character, and if not well-liked, then at least the fans mostly left her alone. But, unfortunately, that seems to be a thing of the past now. All of this becomes even more ridiculous when you realize that Sugawara ships her and Daichi in canon.
• Hamtaro: There are some Hamtaro/Bijou shippers that tend to write fanfictions that portray Boss as the bad guy, and sometimes even make him act very out of character either in a Stalker with a Crush persona, or a Crazy Jealous Guy persona, or a combination of the two based on a kind of Love Makes You Evil way of thinking. While Boss in canon does tend to get jealous at times due to his crush, it's unlikely that it would lead to such a drastic Face–Heel Turn that would make him the unlikable and unsympathetic villain that he becomes in some of these fanfictions. In fact, in episode 193, "I'm Parting, Clubhouse", Boss' failed attempts to cheer up Bijou when they think Hamtaro is moving away actually makes Boss regret his actions to the point he leaves the series for a few episodes.
• Haruhi Suzumiya:
  • Some Kyon/Yuki and Kyon/Mikuru fans just won't stop overexaggerating Haruhi's childish, sociopathic and impulsive behavior to downright evil and/or psychotic degrees and denying all the Character Development she ultimately got, while turning the "rival" into a victimised Purity Sue to "prove" how more "deserving" she is of Kyon's love. 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, and 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.
  • 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 actively attempting to steal Kyon away from Haruhi. Never mind that she's apparently required to not get into relationships when outside her time frame, which would make her a Celibate Heroine.
  • To a lesser degree than the others, Haruhi / Mikuru and Kyon/Haruhi. Aside of the already mentioned incidents, Kyon gets bashed by Haruhi/Mikuru shippers for being a threat to both sides of their ship.
  • And funnily, 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...
• Hayate the Combat Butler: Ironically for a series where pretty much all the contenders in the respective Unwanted Harems of Hayate and Wataru are remarkably civil toward each other, the shippings fandom tends to be given to bashing the competition. Especially prevalent now with the introduction of the wildly popular first girlfriend of Hayate, Athena, coupled with the series cranking up the Ship Tease. The end of Chapter 265 really threw the Hayate/Athena fans into a frenzy when Athena pulls an I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and decides to leave Hayate with his happy life under Nagi, with some Ship Tease of Hayate/Nagi in the last page. Cue some fans threatening to stop reading the manga or that Nagi isn't good enough for Hayate. And this is forgetting that Athena and Nagi, despite not meeting each other, would probably get along well: Nagi gave up her entire inheritance to enable Hayate to rescue Athena without the baggage of a Sadistic Choice and she has shown that, while she may be jealous of other girls with interest in Hayate, she can consider them good friends — like she does with Nishizawa. On the other hand, Athena has expressed admiration for Nagi's sacrifice as well as approval of Nagi for giving Hayate a life where he could be happy.
  • On the flip side, hippers of all kinds (not only the Hayate/Nagi faction) pretty much started screaming the moment Athena entered into the picture, greatly increasing the Ship-to-Ship Combat since according to them, Athena had to be a stupid and evil Yandere who completely ruined Hayate's life. Yep, her Hidden Depths came after a while, but sheeesh.
• The tiny Hell Teacher Nube fandom really loathes the local Old Maid, 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.
• Hellsing fandom is guilty of this, too. The most glaring example is the hatred against Integra in Alucard/Seras stories. One has her killing herself out of a broken heart. Others have her Seras almost murdering her with a plastic bag. Another has Alucard telling Seras to kill her. Seras's canon love interest, Pip Bernadotte? Doesn't seem to exist in manga based fics.
  • Also, lots of rabid Integra/Alucard fans seem to think that Seras's initial insecurities about becoming a vampire and her fanservicy wardrobe make her immediately inferior to a more self-assured and Bifauxnen-like Lady of War like Integra.
• High School Of The Dead: Rei Miyamoto doesn't simply get slammed for being handed the Distress Ball all of three times in the entire series, to date^note which is 30 chapters as of this writing; meaning, hardly at all and for daring to grieve over her boyfriend, Hisashi's, death. No, her worst offense in the shippers' eyes, is being Saeko Busujima's competition for Takashi Komuro, because he reciprocates.
• In the Higurashi fandom it's best not to mention Keiichi/Rena or Keiichi/Mion outside of fanart, AMVs (obviously not in comments, though) and fanfiction. Any other pairing is surprisingly out of shipping wars though, even ones relating to Keiichi (probably because they're considered not canon). Considering the series, within fan-creations the opposing characters typically do die.
• Hunter × Hunter: Retz from the non-canon Movie Phantom Rouge gets this from hardcore Killugon shippers who see her as a threat to the pairing, ignoring that she was already dead.
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Hestia gets this from Bell/Aiz shippers. She's accused of "cockblocking" Bell thanks to exacerbating the lack of interaction between the two, as she actively keeps Bell away from Aiz.
• 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 Pretty Boy Leon Oswald have huge hate-ons for Leon's partner, the arrogant and child-like Anime Chinese Girl May Wong, and deny her Character Development to make her look like a bad, bad bitch.
• The Kyohei/Hibino shippers of Kamisama Dolls can be excruciatingly vile towards Mahiru. Don't believe it? Check out the comments for episode 11 from Crunchy Roll's stream, despite the fact that it is an From Bad to Worse Flash Back featuring Kyohei, Aki and Mahiru taking on a Powered by a Forsaken Child Kakashi that is seeking one of them to be its next battery, barely surviving the encounter and doing permanent damage to each of their psyche; the most common comments were about Mahiru interfering with their ship, calls for her head and a desire for her to "get a life".
• Yasuna from Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl is generally disliked by the fandom. She's the love interest of Hazumu for most of the series, and gets the most attention from her. She's a passive girl who Hazumu deeply cares about, but the most popular couple is Tomari and Hazumu. It helps that in the, more popular, anime she has different characterization and takes things the wrong way causing an Ass Pull.
• Kids on the Slope gets this a lot. Because how dare Ritsuko be a cute girl and catch Kaoru's romantic attentions when, according to some yaoi fangirls, there's only Ho Yay making out with Sentarou to be done!
• Hikaru Hiyama in Kimagure Orange Road. It's true that The Movie made her really fixated on Kyosuke, but it's not like she was the only one to blame for the whole fuck-up either: Kyōsuke and Madoka were as guilty as Hikaru, and the three suffered horribly because of it... but Hikaru is the only one who gets bitchslapped by fandom.
  • Revenge Road is one of the worst cases, as not only does Hikaru kill Madoka and horribly torture Kyosuke to death, she also tries obsessively trying to reach out to Kyosuke, and attempts to seize hold of a potential opportunity to break up him and Madoka, only to find out that she was with an impostor.
• In Kizuna fandom, there's some hate for Kai from Ranmaru/Kei fans.
• This happens to just about every female Knight Hunters 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 Rich 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, 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 perfectionist 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, jealously and obsessively in love with Aya who never so much as glances in his direction, or any combination of the above.
  • And then Youji gets amnesia after all the shit that happened to him in Gluhen, gets married to an Hospital Hottie named Asuka Itou and by all accounts lives happily ever after with the girl. You can probably imagine how well the shippers took this. About the only positive is that Asuka Itou usually gets ignored or railroaded into deciding (with ridiculous suddenness) that she wants her beloved to be happy rather than suffering the wholesale character assassination most of the other women face.
  • In the Schwarz side... just mention either Nanami aka Tot or Sally Schumars. You'll have hordes of Omi/Nagi and Schuldig/ Farfarello fangirls screaming for their blood.
• Being a middle schooler does NOT protect Fuuka Matsui of Kodocha from being bashed heavily by rabid Sana/Akito fangirls. Sana's Unlucky Childhood Friend Naozumi isn't exactly liked, either.
• Miraculously averted (by now) in Kuroko's Basketball's English fandom, where Momoi and Aida (who'd normally get hated and slutshamed to Hell and back) are mostly ignored but safe (and often paired up). It's actually the Japanese fandom that indulges into this: the most common victims are Kagami for the avid Aomine/Kuroko shippers, and Kuroko for the Kagami/Himuro shippers.
• Little Witch Academia (2017): Oh boy, to say that Andrew and Frank get this from the show's large Yuri Fan-base for being males in a show about cute witches is an understatement. Although the showrunners discarded Andrew's original purpose of ending up with Akko, he still has a mountain of Ship Tease with her and just a bit of teasing Snark-to-Snark Combat with Diana which doesn't do him favors with yuri fans since Akko/Diana is by far the most popular ship in the fandom. He evidently has his fangirls, but mention him at your own risk outside of Tumblr or booru pages dedicated to him and Akko. Frank meanwhile gets this for his teasing with Lotte, but it's apparently nowhere near as severe since Lotte isn't really featured in any other ship at all.
• Naru Narusegawa of Love Hina is demonized by fans of Keitaro/Mutsumi, Keitaro/Shinobu, etc. On the other hand, some Keitarou/Naru fans bash Motoko and demonize her behavior towards Keitarou, while failing to acknowledge that Naru can be just as bad when at her worst. In fact, the whole Love Hina example that used to be here actually fell victim to Ship-to-Ship Combat mentality and had to go, unintentionally making it a great example of this trope.
• Loveless: It's hard to determine who is hated more for "getting in between" Ritsuka and Soubi: Yuiko or Hitomi-sensei.
• Lucky Star: The Konami (Konata/Kagami) fans 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, chances are that 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.
• 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 The Mole when needed. Or the number of times she's freaked out at the thought of Lupin being in peril).
  • This is, thankfully, less the case since the release of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Making a Fujiko-focused series that's all about deconstructing her Femme Fatale role from a feminist perspective and specifically aimed at adult women (according to Word of God), did a lot to redeem her with the series' female fans. It also brought a lot of new and largely female blood into the fanbase specifically for her.
• There are two reasons why Lynn Minmay is hated in Macross. One is her being an Idol Singer. The other is this trope, because how dare she like Hikaru when Misa likes him too. The one thing that makes this iron-clad Fan Dumb is the fact that Hikaru DOES hook up with Misa at the end, when Minmay rather graciously gives up on Hikaru and decides to stay friends with them.
• 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 Senpai/Kohai relationship, and care for each other a lot (which has more than a Les Yay whiff, for some).
  • The Fan Dumb got to the point where a formerly well-respected member of a non-English speaking forum actually made up supposed facts and interviews to make the impression that one of the "creators" supported Alto/Sheryl over Alto/Ranka (and a "creator" that wasn't even involved in Frontier), taking all the chances to make Sheryl look good while bashing Ranka to Hell and back. This was generally seen as fact until members of a different forum (Macross World) got suspicious, tracked down the supposed magazine where the information came from and found out that it was all a lie. (A FAQ with a summary of the events can be found here, and here is the original thread at Macross World.)
• Magi: Labyrinth of Magic:
  • Ren Kougyoku, in addition to getting flack and hate for being girly and/or for not being (supposedly) as badass/strong as Morgiana or other girls, separating Ugo from Aladdin, and being a Type A Tsundere and a Yandere (temporarily for comic relief), is also bashed (usually by Sinbad x Jafar and Sinbad x Judal shippers) for having a crush on/falling in love with Sinbad and is seen as pathetic by the very same shippers for being obsessed with/in love with someone who isn't interested in her. This ignores the fact that she knows and admits that Sinbad doesn't return her feelings and she likely doesn't have a chance with him and how she has severe and genuine issues as well. Not to mention this can be seen as a Double Standard as Kougyoku is despised for, supposedly, being obsessed with Sinbad, meanwhile Judal, the Bishounen male villain, who is actually, psychotically, and completely obsessed with the handsome king not only is adored for his fixation (in spite of it being canonically murderous), he's frequently shipped with him.
  • The fandom exploded after chapter 314, which showed Alibaba and Morgiana becoming a couple. Some claimed the first is "possessed," "mistaken" and "wrong" for choosing the latter over his other love interest, Kougyoku (ironically), and others insisted that Hakuryuu would have been better off with Morgiana.
• A minor example in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha fandom: Frequenters of the AnimeSuki forum would've known the infamous 300 YU-NANO AGAINST LEGION OF FEI-NANO Flame War. And no, we're not talking about some smelly old men. This Flame War was mostly fueled by irritation that Yuuno was used as a plot device and not a character — an 'out' for the writers in case they got too scared of Nanoha/Fate. The Theme Park Version of this irritation is Yuuno Hate (at least from the Legion). But Poe's Law and G.I.F.T means there are people who will take it seriously or claim total seriousness.
  • Even though Erio has managed to escape the brunt of bashing due to being overtly shipped with Caro, preventing him from being a threat to the main pairings (and even pairing him with a major character tends to get a positive response), he still gets "Erio must die" vitriol every now and then from Het Is Ew fans who think his mere presence among the main cast ruins the perfect yuri dynamic of the Improbably Female Cast.
• Touko gets a lot of this from Maria Watches Over Us fans. After seasons of portraying Yumi and Sachiko as all but the Official Couple, Yumi finally needs a petite soeur of herself. This is where Sachiko's relative, Touko, comes in. The problem is her tsundere and mean attitude isn't considered appealing and she takes the spotlight from Yumi's and Sachiko's friendship.
• 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 Teacher/Student Romance 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.
• Amagi Michal of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, a Delicate and Sickly Clingy Jealous Girl who is smitten with Kaito, gets this. 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.
• Nachi from Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara Dream Saga has a bit of this; she's also transgender, and therefore has more fuel for jokes at her expense.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Izuku Midoriya/Deku is not immune to this. While one of the most popular het ships is him with Uraraka and yaoi is him and Todoroki, a number of Uraraka/Bakugou and Todoroki/Bakugou shippers give him this treatment to make their ship work. Although it can take the form of Bakugou feeling guilty as a result of Izuku's death and him seeking redemption with Uraraka or Todoroki. Bakugou, on the other hand, gets this way more than Izuku largely since Todoroki/Deku and Deku/Uraraka shippers see him as the biggest threat to their ships, and often play up Bakugou's more villainous traits. And then we have the fans who give this treatment to Uraraka so Deku can be shipped with practically every other character since Deku is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships while his relationship with Uraraka is the only one close to canon.
    • A darker example has Toga kill off Uraraka while she converts Deku to the evil side. Otherwise, she will have her Yandere ass hit hard by whoever is Deku's heroic love interest in the fic.
  • A minor example has Deku's biological dad killed off or reframed as a divorced deadbeat so Inko Midoriya can end up with All Might as part of the greater "Dad Might" meme.
• There appears to be quite a bit of animosity in the My-HiME shipping camp between those deciding whether to pair Natsuki Kuga exclusively with Shizuru Fujino (Natsuki's most important person in HiME and her schoolgirl crush in Otome, a dyed-in-the-wool Schoolgirl/School Supervisor Lesbian with an obvious crush on her) or Nao Yuuki (who teases her like crazy in My-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).
  • Ignoring the non-shippers who dislike male lead character Yuuichi Tate for being largely useless (and stealing the spotlight in the manga, to the point that some fans have sworn off the manga adaptation entirely simply because he's in it), those who write him in fanfic at all keep Mai Tokiha the hell away from him in favor of hooking her up with Mikoto Minagi. This is complicated even further because of the constant Les Yay Mai and Mikoto share on-screen, and because even though Mai feels like she'd be better as Mikoto's Cool Big Sis, she actually tells Mikoto "I love you" before saying the same about Tate, even in the final episode's omake.
    • There's also some Yuuichi bashing by Shizuru/Natsuki shippers, since in the manga, Natsuki's pursuing him, and he's her Key instead of Shizuru (Then again, Yuuichi also gets together with Mai in the manga.
  • Rabid Shizuru/Natsuki fans have also bashed Reito Kanzaki, vice president of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council Shizuru leads. Oddly enough, he shows no interest in Shizuru aside of friendship and has a crush on Mai in canon, but the Mai/Mikoto fans are not out for his blood. The fact that Reito is Mikoto's older brother as well as the vessel for the Big Bad doesn't seem to bother them that much.
• Speaking of My-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. In Mahya's defense, Akane retaining her virginity and therefore her Otome powers is what's keeping her from charges of desertion, but Mahya didn't have to take so much glee in cockblocking.
  • 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.
• In the Nabari no Ou fandom some Yoite/Miharu shippers call Thobari a pedophile, construing his loyalty and affection for Miharu as him just wanting to get into Miharu's pants.
• Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea has Tsumugu, who is utterly loathed for "getting in the way" of Chisaki and Hikari. This got even worse after he and Chisaki become a more or less Official Couple.
• In NANA, while it is true that Sachiko did get in between Hachi and her boyfriend, it still sucks that she's the one who gets almost all the shit. Same can be said for Reira and Yuri in later chapters.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • The series is rife with Ship Tease, but when the popular Negi/Asuna ship hit an iceberg, people started coming up with any excuse possible.
  • Anna Yurievna "Anya" Cocolova was already seen as a bratty and bitchy Tsundere by Negi/Other Girls fans before the Negi/Asuna ship was damaged. Yes, she's a Bratty Half-Pint, but she's not the Little Bitch From Hell!
  • Of course, one probable reason for so little of this is the fact that most shippers' attention is focused on Setsuna/Konoka, and everybody hates the major person trying to get in the way of that.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Mana Kirishima, of the game Girlfriend of Steel 1. "Girlfriend" as in "Shinji's girlfriend", which pisses off those who ship him with Asuka, Rei, Misato, or Kaworu, and love to accuse her of being a Relationship Sue. In fact, Evangelion has a long history with this, including no less than four other original characters in the games and spin-off manga. Granted, the characters are also greatly altered in these spin-offs to far more... palatable versions of themselves.
  • Several Shinji/Rei shippers love to flanderize Asuka from a Tsundere with deep-seated psychological issues to an outright psycho, while in some Shinji/Asuka fics, Rei is either a soulless zombie, creepier than Kaworu, or just too crazy awesome.
  • There is no excuse whatsoever for turning Maya, of all people, into a secretly evil and psychotic member of the SEELE council who implanted Adam's embryo into her hand, just to facilitate Gendo/Ritsuko. Ignoring the fact that this twists Maya beyond all recognition, Gendo/Ritsuko is the one pairing Maya would break up if she were evil.
  • There are fans, primarily Western ones, who maintain that Kaworu is an evil Manipulative Bastard who deliberately got close to Shinji simply to break him further with his eventual death. Kaworu is the only person in the entire series to openly tell Shinji that he likes him (though the Japanese "suki" is ambigous). However one may interpret this statement, it seems clear enough that Kaworu is at worst Innocently Insensitive for failing to realize the effect his words would have on a Shinji who was already a hair's breadth from shutting down completely.
    • On the other side of the fence, there are those who thanks Rebuild era's increased focus on their relationship in the third film, treat Kaworu as the only viable pairing for Shinji, combining traits of both Rei bashing and Asuka bashing to show why neither would be as viable for him. Rei (or at least one of them) becomes too emotionally stunted to connect with him, and Asuka becomes too unstable to keep a relationship up for long. This can even extend to claiming that Kaworu was the only person to have ever been nice to Shinji. On the other hand, some also suggest that his behaviour in 3.0 is the most manipulative he has ever been, not at least because it is simply way too convenient after everything that has happened.
  • Finally, there is more than a hint of Misaimed Fandom in treating this legendary Dysfunction Junction series as a straightforward Harem Anime in the first place. Shinji himself had the choice to turn the show into a harem series in the final episode - and he rejected it as a lie. This suggests that, in the show's own estimate, people who treat it as though it were all about the shipping are even more determined to run away from reality than Shinji himself. Hideaki Anno: even when he's giving his audience exactly what it wants, he's still giving it the middle finger.
• Riho Yamazaki of Night Walker is assaulted on all sides by Shido/Cain and Shido/Yayoi shippers.
• In the No. 6 fandom, Safu is rather hated for supposedly getting in the way of Shion/Nezumi — despite the fact that Shion/Nezumi is the Official Couple and Safu's romantic feelings are unrequited.
• From No Bra:
  • Mizuki, that skank. Also, some people would like nothing more than to see Masato pushed out of the picture so that Yuki and Kaoru can hook up after reading about some certain revelations about the true identity of "Maa-kun" in canon.
  • And there are fans who hate anyone who could possibly endanger the Masato/Yuki ship.
• Hiyori Iki of Noragami launches a lot of ships, including Yato/Hiyori, Yukine/Hiyori, Kazuma/Hiyori, and Kofuku/Hiyori, but they're all fairly civil with each other. So when Hiyori's Sacred First Kiss was taken, you'd think the losing ships would gracefully concede, right? Wrong. Out of all the candidates, the one who took it was Ordinary High-School Student Kouta Fujisaki. As soon as the chapter in which it happened was published, nearly all other Hiyori ships started calling for his head. Fujisaki being revealed to be Yato's Father and doing it all to mess with Yato hasn't helped one bit; if anything, it's made him even more hated.
• A rare inversion occurs in Nuko Duke Yuuya used to have a girlfriend whom he still loves very much, but she's been dead long before the series start (although her ghost sometimes appear to interact with his pets). A lot of readers actually wants the manga to somehow bring her back to life so that they can be together again.
• Ojamajo Doremi: Shiori and Fujio are sometimes this for Hazuki × Yada fans and there is some decent-sized Ship-to-Ship Combat between Kotake/Doremi, Akatsuki/Doremi fans, and Doremi-yuri-pairing fans. Imagine how the fans reacted when Aiko was given a Love Interest in Naisho where she neither admitted nor denied attraction to him, causing an uproar from fans who paired Aiko up with Nobuko/Momoko/Onpu/Leon.
• One Piece:
  • Zoro:
    • Crazy as it might sound, a fair number of Zoro/Robin fans seem bitter towards Franky and tend to dismiss or bash him as immature and weird, which probably stems from how he's had a lot more meaningful interaction/character development with Robin than Zoro despite being on the same side for a shorter period of time. That's all. Seriously.
    • And some Zoro/Nami fans have taken to bashing Tashigi due to being threatened by her possibly showing small hints that she might like Zoro and says she should inexplicably end up with Smoker instead. Painfully brainless when you consider it was never Tashigi's goal to be anyone's woman, and that she doesn't even NEED to end up with anyone at all (which leads to some Unfortunate Implications about what these fans seem to think the role of female characters as a whole should be.)
  • Luffy:
    • Let's take special note of the enmity growing between the Luffy/Hancock and Luffy/Nami fans. Dear shippers: Luffy values people period. He'd probably think you were a loser if you hated on either Hancock or Nami. Please reread the damn story to appreciate the fact it's mostly about camaraderie and these things aren't worth dwelling upon seriously. Thank you.
    • Some BL fans deride Nami for being an "abusive control freak" (AKA, typical type A Tsundere) and Luffy/Nami fans sometimes claim Hancock has no right to behave the way she does because they think there's no way a 12 year old slave girl could ever be seriously abused sexually or otherwise.
  • Sanji:
    • If you thought Luffy/Boa vs Luffy/Nami shippers got intense, then the vitriol Luffy/Nami and Zoro/Nami shippers have towards Sanji/Nami shippers is even worse. A lot of the time the former shippers tend to paint Sanji’s Handsome Lech behaviour as genuinely sexually assaulting Nami (even though she beats him up frequently in canon) and they will flat out ignore/disregard any evidence of Ship Tease moments between Sanji and Nami in arcs e.g Thriller Bark, Zou and Whole Cake Island. Of course, Toei adding Sanji/Nami scenes that weren’t in the manga to the Whole Cake Island and Wano anime only fanned the flames of anger, especially from the Luffy/Nami camp.
    • On the flip side, Sanji/Nami shippers despise Pudding with a passion not only for being his bride in a Arranged Marriage and later genuine Love Interest but for cruelly mocking him in his lowest moment and for trying to kill him. Sanji/Nami fans tend to play up Pudding’s psychotic behaviour as well and her Green-Eyed Monster moment and ignore her Broken Bird-ness and tragic backstory.
  • Let's state the bottom line that any example of this trope in OP fandom is uniquely insane for what should be obvious reasons - even confirmed by Word of God.
• The cast of Ouran High School Host Club have all fallen victim to this. Because you can rationalise pretty much any pairing with Haruhi, fanfic writers will portray any characters percieved as being in the way as evil, controlling, abusive, and the like, particularly Hikaru in Kaoru/Haruhi and vice-versa, or Mori in Hunny/Haruhi, and often Tamaki in anything. Because Ho Yay can also be seen in any way you want, there's always at least one victim, usually Haruhi or that character's Heterosexual Life Partner.
  • The biggest victims are Tamaki's arranged fiancèe Eclaire from the anime and Reiko the Perky Goth from the manga, loathed by Tamaki/Haruhi and Hunny/Mori shippers respectively. In Eclaire's case not even her ultimate I Want My Beloved to Be Happy saved her from the fangirl loathing, and in the second it's made worse by Hunny marrying Reiko in the end, sending the Hunny/Mori fans in utter hategasms.
  • Haruhi's popularity among all facets of the fandom, along with the Reverse Harem status of the show making her a Launcher of a Thousand Ships, means she actually escapes a lot of this in Ouran slash fanfiction. For example, people who prefer Tamaki with Kyoya tend to pair Haruhi with Mori or one of the twins. Hitachiincest and Hunny/Mori fans are happy to go with her and Tamaki as the Official Couple, and so on.
• The Penguindrum fandom is showing baby symptoms of this, as a side-effect of the Ship-to-Ship Combat among Himari/Kanba and Shouma/Himari fans. Shouma is the one that is starting to take the worst, specially after episodes 19 and 20 reveal him as Himari's soulmate - which has sent a good part of the Himari/Kanba fringe into huge hategasms, as they think he's "a pansy" and "less worthy" of Himari than Kanba.
• Delicate and Sickly Takaaki in Powerpuff Girls Z took quite the heat from Bubbles/Boomer shippers, not to mention the general Powerpuffs/Rowdyruffs shippers who migrated to the series in hopes that the girls would hook up with their evil counterparts. Any other male that the Powerpuffs showed interest in also got skewered hard, as they weren't as "edgy or interesting" as the Rowdyruff Boys. That is, the same Rowdyruff boys who were barely major villains to begin with and only appeared in two episodes of this adaptation.
• Pretty Cure fandom is usually rather light on this trope, as most shows in the series have no canon pairings to begin with. However, when there are canon pairings, this trope can crop up. For example:
  • Kouji and Natsu from Yes! Pretty Cure 5. 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.
  • Joe Okada from Doki Doki! PreCure was already unpopular with certain fans due to being both uncomfortably creepy around the teenage protagonists and a male who could be shipped with the girls. And then episode 17 revealed that he was Princess Marie-Ange's fiance, making him a canon obstacle to a rather popular yuri pairing (Ange/Makoto). The fans who already disliked Joe really didn't like him after that.
  • Still from Doki Doki: ever since it was revealed that the movie is about Mana's marriage, Yuri Fans began to hate every single potential Love Interest of Mana. Nikaidou, one of Mana's classmates, got it especially hard ever since one of movie trailers showing him being all flustered when Mana gets close at him. And let's not get started on how he's treated in the last two episodes.
  • Oh no. Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~ proved to be a disaster in this department. In episode 4, it was revealed that Saki and Mai are in relationships with other men, effectively sinking the franchise's iconic Les Yay pairing, making matters worse is that they're The Ghost, not being seen or even mentioned. Episode 6 further stoked this trope's flames by fully bringing back Coco and Natts, which brought back the anger from above, with some fans going so far as to accuse Coco of being a groomer. This really picked up with the final episode when Nozomi and Coco end up getting married, wishing Nozomi would wake up and run off with Rin instead.
• 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 version of Ahiru they have in their minds. Nevermind that later Ahiru bonds much 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.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • After episode 7, Hitomi Shizuki started to get LOTS of hate for confronting Sayaka on her feelings for Kamijou, and confessing to him a little later. Which, unbeknownst to Kamijou and Hitomi, kickstarts an already VERY unstable and traumatized Sayaka's fall into despair that ultimately led her to become a witch. She had no idea that such actions would bring that horrible mess, never finds out what's going on and is said to fall into depression when Sayaka's lifeless body is found, but since a part of the fandom seems to believe that Sayaka's healing of Kamijou's arm apparently means she's "his owner" and that he is required to become her prize-boyfriend, the girl is "a traitor bitch who is completely to blame for our Woobie's suffering for stealing her man away". Which brings MASSIVE Unfortunate Implications since it invokes the idea that a woman's worth as a whole person is bound to acting selflessly to the point of ´Love Martyrdom in regards to a Love Triangle; since Hitomi defies these harmful ideas and refuses to give up on her own happiness when Sayaka doesn't take her chance to ask Kamijou out, she is to be hated and slutshamed and blamed for everything that went wrong, completely erasing the others' own responsibilities.
  • Interestingly, they seem to hate Kamijou too, with most preferring to see Sayaka hook up with Kyoko Sakura, who only Takes A Level In Kindness while Sayaka is obviously going crazy... which happens after Kamijou doesn't notice her feelings. Not to mention the fact that Mami specifically warned Sayaka against healing Kamijou's arm to make him "owe" her.
  • Yuri fans aren't much better, since in some circles, Mami takes lots of heat from Homura / Madoka fans. While this has been around almost from the beginning, it has been specially hard after Episode 10's revelation about the Mami from the third timeline crossing the Despair Event Horizon and trying to kill everyone to spare them from becoming witches, which apparently means she's a "psychotic" and "weak" bitch and "inferior" to Homura. Never mind that Homura was able to stay alive long enough to become Magical Girl herself thanks to Mami saving Madoka from Gertrud in the first timeline, as both Mami and Madoka would ended up rescuing Homura from Izabel's witch barrier.
  • It's also extremely annoying to see Homura/Madoka fans compare Sayaka unfavorably to Homura and say that because Sayaka fell into despair for, among many other things, a male like Kamijou whereas Homura became a hardened shell of her old self almost exclusively for a female like Madoka, the first is "shallow", "offensive" and "slutty" while the second is "a beautiful and feminist woman in love". What the HELL?! (Then again, even they are having a hard time excusing Homura becoming the devil to 'keep Madoka safe'.)
    • Madoka / Sayaka fans used to be fairly peaceful and neutral as usually it is Homura / Madoka fans who dislike them. The hostility become mutual after the Rebellion movie ending. The ensuing moment resulted in Madoka / Homura lost about half of its big supporters who jumped ship and prefered to ship Madoka with Sayaka.
  • Some of the Kyouko/Mami shippers are rather disgruntled towards Sayaka to the point of bashing her for being a "whiny, overly emotional trainwreck who doesn't deserve Kyouko's kindness." The results aren't pretty.
  • Despite many Homura fans dislike Sayaka and vise versa, (Glasses)Homura / Sayaka fans seldom participate in this matter, and this pairing is fairly popular in AU/Semi AU fics community.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Itsuki catches quite a bit more hate from the fandom than she deserves. Most of that hate comes from fans of the other sisters who resent her for being the first quintuplet to meet Fuutarou (she's the first of the quintuplets introduced in the story, viewing it as Foregone Conclusion that she'll end up being Fuutarou's bride. Particularly notable is the main translation team of /a/nonymous, who make sure to slip in a joke about her Big Eater habits (usually poking fun at her weight) in the credits of almost every single chapter. This died off after the series concluded and it turned out that Itsuki was not the bride.
• Mainly averted with Reborn! (2004). While Tsuna is in love with Kyoko, she is a bit of a Satellite Love Interest and most fans just ignore her existence or Tsuna's crush on her. Then again, there are more guys with big parts than the girls in this series.
• Revolutionary Girl Utena:
  • Although it's a fairly logical Alternative Character Interpretation to see Anthy as a completely disenchanted and bitter girl until the end of the series, it tends to come from Utena/Touga shippers an awful lot.
  • Additionally, many Utena/Anthy shippers hiss at Touga for being a slutty Smug Snake of a Manipulative Bastard, and at Saionji too for being an abusive Jerkass. They are actually abusive jerks in the show, true, but for complex reasons tied into the show's themes about the problems with gender roles and patriarchy. Turning them into one-dimensional villains showed that a lot of these fans didn't get it.
  • And while Shiori is one of the most hated characters in the show to begin with, it's no coincidence that a good part of the bashing she gets comes from Ruka/Juri fans. Yes, Shiori is a very flawed person, but the fact that those shippers make her out to be the scum of the universe while completely ignoring Ruka's flaws (and Juri's, for that matter) is still rather much.
  • The pairing of Juri/Miki has come under mass fire simply for being heterosexual. Many Juri fans on Tumblr have cried "queer erasure" despite Word of God never having stated that Juri is entirely lesbian, and many fans considering her along with the rest of the cast bisexual.
• In Romeo × Juliet, Mad Dictator's Handsome Son Romeo Candorebanto Montague has a fiancee named Hermione. She's sweet, has an odd hairstyle, starts as a Proper Lady but has an episode that features her as a momentary Yandere, and is in between Romeo's 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 rare for a Romantic False Lead), 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. (Interestingly, the exact same position is held by her Shakesperian counterpart Paris, though he can be played sympathetically in more modern interpretations.)
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • The fandom has the infamous "Kaoru is soooo emotional and sweet and that makes her better for Kenshin than the ice cold Tomoe" vs. "Kaoru is a stupid, clingy little bitch and Tomoe was a perfect goddess who made Kenshin truly happy" wars. However, said fans forget that Tomoe was dead long before Kaoru came into the picture, which means that neither of them poses any threat to the opposing ship. It's as if the fans refuse to believe that Kenshin can fall in love more than once in his life.
  • 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 character, but she dies.
  • Note that FanFiction.Net have made attempts to avert this trope (pitifully, to little success) by separating the main character Kenshin Himura into three different entries: Shinta (the child orphan), Battousai (the manslayer), and Kenshin (the wandering swordsman).
• Saint Seiya: Saori Kido's detractors often prefer to pair Seiya with either Shaina or Miho. They would often point out how "useless" Saori is due to always being captured and/or needing to be rescued somehow despite her great power, and the most extreme ones also point out how abusive she was as a child, like whipping Seiya to play horse with her. Never mind that in the present time she clearly regrets how she treated him and the others.
• Saiyuki: With the series having a lot of Ho Yay fodder, this treatment is usually typical for any of the ladies. Especially Yaone, who on top of being a girly, assertive female, also gets in the way between Hakkai/any of the Sanzou group, or Goku/Kougaiji.
• Some of the less mature fans like to make Guido from Samurai Pizza Cats an abusive jerk because they see him as a threat to the Speedy/Polly pairing.
• School Days shippers can often behave just as idiotically as the characters they're shipping, if not more. 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 for her is that Kotonoha is genuinely crazy whenever she goes murderous or suicidal (seen by her Dull Eyes of Unhappiness), but in at least two PS2 game endings Sekai looks and acts creepily sane (or at least somewhat more in control) when she does the same.
• For School Rumble, there's ongoing Ship-to-Ship Combat between Harima/Eri and Harima/Tenma fans. Eri fans are adamant that Tenma is a tease who was only playing with Harima's heart the entire series, when in reality, Tenma honestly did not know about Harima's feelings until the very end of the series; she never loved anyone other than Karasuma, and actively SUPPORTED Harima trying to win his love over (despite her not knowing that she is said love) and is good friends with Eri to boot. Tenma fans, on the other hand, insist that Eri is a Spoiled Brat Rich Bitch who doesn't really love Harima, while in fact she really does love Harima but is very proud. Most of the war here comes from delusion and overreaction, unfortunately, especially since Karasuma/Tenma and Harima/Eri have been all but canon throughout most of the series.
  • And then you have the fans who just dearly want the whole Oblivious to Love and Cannot Spit It Out thing to resolve in canon, and hence will kill off an entire pair just so that their preferred canon pairing can get together faster. That or they just shove their preferred canon pairing into a room and dwell on what happens afterward.
• 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 / Ryu pairings, or one particular Ken/Joe writer from demonizing Jun into a Clingy Jealous Girl of the worst kind.
  • In some cases, Ken may be bashed in favor of pairing Jun off with Joe. The second series even had episodes that had Jun seem closer to Joe than Ken, which gave ship tease for the Joe/Jun faction. It became magnified in the Eagle Riders dub, where viewers bashed "Hunter" for being too whiny and emo as a leader and felt there was more evidence for Joe being a love interest for "Kelly". It didn't help that the ship tease and Hunter's whininess were Flanderization of the original points.
• Being a harem series, Sekirei is not immune to this even with strong themes of True Companions and the stated desire of the Marry Them All solution. Musubi gets this for being the primary heroine, an Idiot Hero, and supposedly in the way of whichever member of Minato's harem is preferred. It isn't unusual to find fanfiction where she is killed off, written out of the harem, or completely ignored. The other primary target is Mikogami Hayato, because he is a very real stumbling block to the Fan-Preferred Couple of Minato and Akitsu. Discussion of his impending death and Akitsu running off to join Minato's harem occurs literally every single time a new chapter is released.
• In Sensual Phrase, the lead female of the manga and Akuya's canonical girlfriend Aine suffered a SEVERE case of Demoted to Extra in the anime. In the meantime, Sakuya was seen accepting dates from an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl named Missa, who often snarked at him. When Aine was brought into the anime plot, she was loathed by those who still shipped Sakuya and Missa.
• Seraph of the End:
  • There are rather passionate "wars" between those who ship Yuichiro "Yu" Hyakuya with Shinoa Hiragi and those who's rather see him with his childhood friend Mikaela "Mika" Hyakuya.
  • As a corollary, it's not uncommon to see fans complain that some Mikaela/Yuichiro fans are only in the story for the Ho Yay and don't care about anything else but fetishizing guys to creepy degrees. They'll bash Shinoa for the most dumb, ridiculous and petty reasons, and other ships in the fandom as well. Even normal fans of the pairing would like to stop being lumped in the same boat as them.
  • While not as bad as the rabid Yu/Mika fans, a very small minority of Yu/Shinoa shippers will make Mika out to be an abuser or criticize Yuu's relationship with him for being unhealthy, despite canon proving otherwise over and over again.
• Sgt. Frog: What with all the All Love Is Unrequited going on, the more militant shippers take out their frustrations on any character they see as getting the the way of their favored ship. It happens the most often in Natsumi/anyone fanfic.
• 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.
• Shaman King gets loads of Ship-to-Ship Combat, and to list all of them would take up several pages of text (and it did). Many Yoh/Tamao and Yoh/any guy shippers bash Yoh's childhood fiancee Anna, and a couple of Yoh/Anna shippers bash Tamao because of her one-sided crush on Yoh. Additionally, rabid RenHoro shippers hate Kokoro for apparently sinking their ship when it was revealed that she's actually the spirit of Horohoro's first love and Jeanne for ending up as Ren's wife or girlfriend, or at very least as the mother of his child.
• 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.
• Shugo Chara!: Should Amu end up with Ikuto or Tadase? Dare you even mention Kukai? It appears that Ikuto/Amu is the runaway winner, with 90% of the fandom touting it as the deepest, greatest love story ever told and calling Tadase a homosexual (at best) and potentially evil (at worst).
• Slam Dunk:
  • Sakuragi/Rukawa shippers are incredibly guilty of bashing Haruko Akagi, sometimes even for misogynistic reasons.
  • To a smaller degree, Akira Sendoh also gets bashed by Sakuragi/Rukawa fans. They tend more to pair him up with Deadpan Snarker Koshino, though.
• Slayers:
  • Princess Amelia is widely hated, especially by fangirls who are Zelgadis/Lina, Zelgadis/Xellos, or Zelgadis/Mary Sue shippers. Generally, the mopey, callous, and bull-headed but still good-hearted Zelgadis would be glorified whereas the naive yet kind-hearted and just Amelia would be turned into an immature, selfish princess with the intelligence of a fish and no fighting skills (she acknowledges her faults in the anime, even!). Zelgadis and Amelia would go up against Zelgadis and Lina (who is an Official Couple with Gourry). Those who do like Gourry/Lina severely tear down Gourry/Sylphiel (the latter having an unrequited crush on the former) and vice versa, citing Lina's sociopathic behavior and extreme selfishness.
  • Don't forget the bashing that White Magician Girl Sylphiel gets for "getting in between" Lina and Gourry. And often 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.
  • Naga The Serpent can get this treatment if the fans see her as a threat to Gourry/Lina. Or Gourry gets axed to make Lina x Naga work or there are those who troll the system by having Gourry abandon Lina for Naga.
• 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.
• While the Soul Eater fandom isn't as loud with this as most other series, it still has its share. There are few cases that whenever a shipper pairs Maka up with other characters-Kid, Chrona, or even Asura- it seems that they find the need to give Soul hell. Some fans have Soul being an abusive boyfriend, a cheater, or just the Jerkass that they see him as- even though it is clearer than anything else that Soul is more devoted to Maka than most other characters could ever be and that the last thing he would ever do to her is leave her.
• Sound! Euphonium:
  • Shuuichi gets this for being Kumiko's (very vaguely) Implied Love Interest. The fandom pretty much ignores or dislikes him for 'getting in the way' of all the Unresolved Sexual Tension around Kumiko and Reina. Fans in particular dislike him because him and Kumiko are the Official Couple of the books. Much of Shuuichi's romance with Kumiko was downplayed in the anime adaptation, but the third movie had him and Kumiko start dating which garnered the predicted explosive reaction from Kumiko/Reina shippers.
  • Taki-sensei was controversial in his own right for being the attractive but strict teacher of the band. It got worse when it was revealed Reina was crushing on him. To make it worse this is pretty much ignored in the books afterwards so fans are stumped why it is even a thing, instead of her just admiring him. Some even think it's just there to make her seem less gay.
• In Spider Riders, while Aqune is officially paired with no one, Hunter/Aqune shippers are not nice to Buguese, whom she's also given Ship Tease with. He's often portrayed as violently abusive towards her, sometimes wanting to outright murder her, and with Aqune hating him just as much in return.
• No matter what your opinion of the Strawberry 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. Possible proof that the entire theory about harem leads being losers so the audience can relate to them is true, as much as the fans hate them.
• Even the Yuri Genre romantic comedy Strawberry Panic! isn't immune to this. The Shizuma/Nagisa shippers and the Tamao/Nagisa shippers can get quite violent when provoked, and 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.
• This is common in Tenchi Muyo!, if for no other reason than the characters are usually already doing it themselves:
  • Princess Ayeka is hated by the pro-Ryoko/pro-Tenchi x Ryoko fans. The reverse is also true, particularly those familiar with the Alternate Continuity Tenchi Universe TV series and movie Tenchi Forever, which show a slant in Ryoko's direction. Still, the hatred against Ayeka was practically there pretty much from the start, since some Ryoko fans deemed Ryoko as stronger and more worthy because she was less traditionally feminine than the more proper, moody and comically prissy Ayeka.
  • Sakuya Kumashiro from Tenchi in Tokyo was added in as a third love interest, and was actually picked over both Ryoko and Ayeka, leading both fan segments to hate her, which leaves her with very few fans. She didn't make it to the end of the series, though.
  • Noike from another Tenchi OVA series is also hated for this, as well as for being both a Canon Sue and a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the more popular Alternate Continuity character Kiyone Makibi.
  • And all of this is incredibly ironic since the Word of God has stated that Tenchi eventually just marries them all. Some people just ignore that as well, or don't realize it exists due to the supplemental material that states this not being available in North America.
• The fandom of To Love Ru has long had a simmering hatred for Haruna, the girl that Rito was set up to end with from the start. It doesn't help that she was ostensibly based on the illustrator's wife at the time, and when he found she was cheating and they went through a very acrimonious divorce, Haruna ended up being out of Out of Focus and readers had little reason to care for her. After the end of To Love-Ru Darkness, with Haruna and Rito making their mutual feelings open, the fandom exploded and a lot of hate was directed at Haruna, rather unfairly since Rito had already rejected the other girls and she was only rescuing him. Then again, it's difficult to disentangle the dislike for Haruna from disappointment with the ending generally (and how Momo's harem plan, teased for 70 chapters, came to nothing).
• Tokyo Ghoul:
  • Kaneki gets the worst treatment. Of course, first of all there is Kaneki/Touka (Touken), then there's Kaneki/Hinami. Needlessly to say that both groups would gladly tear each other appart. BUT these are only the biggest groups: There, of course, is also Kaneki/Ayato, Kaneki/Uta, Kaneki/Eto, Kaneki/Nishiki, Kaneki/Amon, Kaneki/Juuzou, Kaneki/Yamori, Kaneki/Arima, Kaneki/Hide, Kaneki/Rize... and most importantly: Kaneki/Tsukiyama. While some of these ships were created just for fun, most of them are Serious Business.
  • It gets ridiculous, now that Sasaki appeared. Almost every above-mentioned ship works if you replace Kaneki with him, and they all have their own big shipdom. It is ridiculous simply because Sasaki is Kaneki, for the love of god.
  • As already mentioned, these are only the ones concerning Kaneki. We have things such as Ayato/Hinami, Amon/Akira, Akira/Seidou, Amon/Misato, Arima/Minami, Ginshi/Akira, Ginshi/Hairu, Urie/Tooru, Saiko/Ginshi, Ginshi/Nutcracker, Torso/Tooru... The list goes on.
  • As a sign of how bad the shipping wars have been, the Tokyo Ghoul Wiki (http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ghoul_Wiki) had to set down guidelines simply to stop them disrupting the editing.
  • The aftermath of Chapter 125 making Kaneki and Touka an Official Couple was a full-blown Flame War, which escalated with a pregnancy and subsequent Shotgun Wedding. Fans of Kaneki/Hide in particular characterized her as a Domestic Abuser, with some going so far as to accuse her of rape or hoping that she miscarries. One infamous case escalated to publicly posting graphic fanart of Touka miscarrying and hoping it would become canon.
• Aoyama Masaya of Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo's canon love interest. Fans who prefer Ichigo with the Jerk with a Heart of Gold or the Stalker with a Crush often portray him as either an unimportant idiot who is quickly discarded or an evil mastermind who is cheating on her with Miwa or Moe or both. (Or Minto in a double pairing derailment, if the shippers happen to come from the section of the fanbase that believes Yuri Is Ew.) Either interpretation completely ignores his kind, intelligent, loyal canon personality. He usually ends up run over by a semi.
  • It gets so bad that fanfic writers change the continuity so that Ichigo's Mysterious Protector, the Blue Knight, a.k.a. Ao no Kishi, turns out to be Ryou instead of Masaya, despite this completely destroying the continuity. Then again, that's how 4Kids did it, too.
  • Worse, Ryou/Ichigo shippers often call Masaya "boring" and Ryou "interesting" because of the latter's angsty past that Ichigo could "cure"... completely ignoring that Masaya is secretly just as angsty as Ryou and twice as bitter — he's just very good at keeping those secret — and that his relationship with Ichigo is what gets him to realize that not everyone in the world is selfish and deserves to die. Did these shippers read the last two volumes of the manga?
  • While it's not as bad as all the Masaya hate, some Ichigo/Ryou fans bash Retasu for having a crush on Ryou, as seen in some YouTube comments. Nevermind that Ryou doesn't seem to be aware of her crush and that she is way too shy to tell him anyway.
• Toward the Terra is largely too free of any potentially interfering female characters for this trope to prevail. But Artella takes a hit from it for demonstrating clear romantic interest in Tony (and actually being in a relationship with him in the manga) when fans prefer to pair him with Jomy.
• Probably the current #1 cause of dislike for Kaaya from The Tower of Druaga, with many fans believing that Jil had more chemistry with Fatina than he ever had with Kaaya.
• Shannon in Umineko: When They Cry, for getting in the way of Battler and Beatrice's true love. Nevermind that Shannon IS Beatrice in the first place. Sort of. It's very complicated.
• Valvrave the Liberator: Shoko gets a lot of death wishes from Saki x Haruto shippers. Haruto lied to Shoko about the Kamitsuki and unknowingly killed her father causing Shoko to hand him over to the enemy (after being persuaded by vengeful classmate Iori, who blames the Valvrave pilots for her own father's death), all while Haruto loses his first heartwarming memories with Shoko. And with Saki, Haruto raped her because he was hungry for runes and proposed to her after regaining consciousness because he felt guilty about it, but they never mention it again once the second season starts.
• A sizeable number of Vampire Knight fans utterly hate Kaname for his attitude toward Yuuki. There are also Zero/Kaname shippers who deride Yuuki as a Canon Sue who doesn't deserve the attention of either boy.
• Yoshiki from Venus Versus Virus gets a hand full of this; he's the boyfriend of the protagonist, Sumire. Being a male love interest a Yuri series is always difficult. It helps that he turns out to be a villain in the manga and anime, especially the manga.
• Eleanor Campbell from Emma: A Victorian Romance. Is it her fault that William Jones and Emma are in love, or that her Jerkass father the Viscount is pressuring her into marrying William to save their wealth? Nope. She's not as hated as other people here, but she still gets pot shots from time to time.
• A somewhat surprising exception can be found in the 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 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.
• A few Lotor/Allura shippers in the Voltron fandom demonize heroic Keith into a boorish bastard who just wants Allura for sex, or a crazed Stalker with a Crush who would sooner kill her than let her be with anyone else.
• While The World God Only Knows had a healthy Ship-to-Ship Combat among the fans of the nine One True Pairings introduced in the series (refer to the YMMV page), by the time FLAG 267 (the penultimate chapter) came rolling in, almost every shipper of the Goddess Hosts (particularly most Keima/Tenri fans) wanted Chihiro out of the picture, notwithstanding the Maybe Ever After ending the chapter after.
• ×××HOLiC:
  • Since a sizable chunk of the readership is into the series for the Ho Yay between Watanuki and Domeki, Himawari, Watanuki's canon Love Interest, has certainly gotten her share of hate. Remarkably not everyone hates her, but if it's not hate, they tend to pretend she doesn't exist at all, or that she doesn't count as a true love interest despite the fact she and Watanuki have actually said they love each other (most try to argue that 'it's just platonic'). It helps that she's seemingly into the said Ho Yay, too.
  • Worth noting though, 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.
  • Things got weird in this fandom when Watanuki took over and confined himself to the wish shop. The result was Watanuki and Himawari (not very willingly, mind you) grew apart, but rather than him turning to Doumeki like many fans wanted, Watanuki instead started pining after Yuuko after her sudden passing away. By this point, Yuuko was already so well-loved that no one could really turn their hate towards her not to mention her being dead meant a) people didn't really consider her a threat and b) she had no control over Watanuki's actions, and some instead started letting their frustrations out on Watanuki himself for being "such a moron" and basically not allowing their ship to come to fulfillment. To make things worse, the Ship Teasing with Doumeki didn't really stop either, which only made the Doumeki/Watanuki fangirls VERY bitter when, ultimately, their relationship remained one-sided to the very end.
• YuYu Hakusho:
  • This happens quite often to Keiko Yukimura, 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 at the same time 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...
  • Hiei/Kurama fangirls who were more into the manga than the anime also tende to bash Maya Kitajima, Kurama's underclassman with a crush on him who got roped into his adventures once. Nevermind that he erased her memories of him so she wouldn't be in danger again, the fact that Maya got a tiny bit of Ship Tease with Kurama made her an horrid bitch to Hiei/Kurama rabid fans.
• While the girls of Yuri!!! on Ice are generally well-liked (and the attempts to bash Sara went nowhere in the end), some Ho Yay fans can be very, VERY touchy in regards to their m/m. Yuri Plisetsky is already polarizing on his own, but his relationship with both Yuri and Viktor aka the Official Couple of the series can make some fans scream for his blood at times.
  • While Otabek doesn't necessarily get in between any ships, the fact that his most popular ship is with Yurio has made people bully the fans and accuse them of shipping "pedo shit", solely because Otabek is 18 while Yuri is 15. Which isn't even close to what pedophilia is, age of consent issues aside.
• Go to the Zatch Bell! fandom and ask whether Suzume or Megumi would be better for Kiyomaro. You'll find yourself trapped between Megumi/Kiyomaro fans who scream that Suzume is too brainless and helpless for him and Suzume/Kiyomaro fans who yell back that Megumi is too perfect and self-centered to deserve Kiyomaro's love.
• Zoids: New Century: Harry Champ is often portrayed as an evil villain in Bit/Leena fanfiction, where he will resort to anything to get her, to the point of even becoming a rapist.

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