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Main Characters who are confident, capable, and female are all Mary Sues doncha know?

tari_silmarwen wrote in hated_character Mar 09, 2012 15:30

Over on Tumblr this kerfluffle went down, wherein someone calls Avatar Korra (among other leading ladies) a Mary Sue.

( Some highlights (or rather lowlights) and my rebuttals. )

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In Defense of the YJ Ladies

tari_silmarwen wrote in hated_character Feb 18, 2012 19:48

Ohhhh animated Young Justice fandom, I have SUCH a bone to pick with you.

( Cut for length and spoilers for various plot points from episode 9 on. )

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Shannon? Really? (Contains SPOILERS)

beata_malfoy wrote in hated_character Jun 26, 2011 11:07

Ah, an Umineko posting...sadly, Die For Our Ship is not exclusive to this fandom, either. It's a vocal minority in some areas, nowhere near as bad as in the Harry Potter fandom or the Avatar fandom, but it's still bad as it is when it does show up.

So anyway...Shannon's not my favourite character, not because she's a bad character, but because I'm ( Read more... )

“crying character I don’t like = bitch”, umineko no naku koro ni, “good traits what good traits”, die for our ship, post contains spoilers

Finally addressing one of the main reasons I joined this comm in the first place!

android_raptor wrote in hated_character Jan 23, 2011 23:58

I've been meaning to do a post like this for a while, because Ghinius is both my favorite fictional character of all time and by far the most despised character from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. Hell, I'd say he's one of the top 15 most loathed names in the Universal Century, period. Needless to say, I don't quite agree with some of the ( Read more... )

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