Has anyone put together a list of (often stupid) reasons why people hate your fave characters? Here's one I put together for Steelbeak, from Disney's Darkwing Duck
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Stupid reasons I have heard people use to justify their Tonks-hate:
- She's a "Mary Sue" (a canon character? I don't think so)
- She's "perky"
- She's "too cheerful and outgoing"
- "I can't STAND the Tonks/Remus Ship and how people always pair Tonks with Lupin and it's all Tonks' fault" (not the fans', mind you)
- She's "clumsy" (this is canon, but "clumsiness" doesn't seem like a particularly loathsome characteristic)
- The rest of the canon characters actually [i]like[/i] her instead of hating her on sight
- She was newly introduced in OOtP (thus violating the unspoken law that says no new characters can be introduced late in a series! /eyeroll)
I remember hearing all this yammer about how the HP series had too few women and especially young adult women (I agreed with this, by the way - to me it is actually one of the biggest weaknesses of the series) but then the same people whined and complained when Tonks was introduced and Ginny's character fully fleshed out. Le sigh.
OMG! Another Darkwing Duck fan! I can't believe anyone hates Steelbeak; I always loved him. I was old enough when the series came out to understand, in part, where Disney was getting their inspirations for some of the characters, and I thought it made some of the characters -- like Steelbeak -- even more fun. That was one series that was most definitely geared as much towards adults as it was kids. I really wish they'd put it out on DVD. *sigh*
-"Miaka is sooooo stupid! She eats like a pig and can't do anything except cry and get in trouble, and she's a big fat skanky ho-bitch for being naked! She's soooo ugly! And AAAAALLLL the boys fall in love with her and she turned Nuriko STRAIGHT! He was a pretty femboy in love with only one man, then he developed as a character and realized his love went beyond just Hotohori! That's BAD
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That's right; even though the writers had to wrestle with the toy company over plot points, and even though the most controversial plot points (ie, Cobra-La) happened well after his introduction, and even though the show changed writers and animators shortly after, the downfall of the original GI Joe series was really brought about solely by Serpentor's existence. He's a great conqueror after all. XD
More nice things I've heard about the Other Cobra Leader:
"His outfit is dumb!" (No arguments there, but is that really a legitimate reason to discount him completely?)
"He's mean to Cobra Commander!" (Y'know, when you start taking score, he's actually less mean to Cobra Commander than a lot of other characters
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- She's a "Mary Sue" (a canon character? I don't think so)
- She's "perky"
- She's "too cheerful and outgoing"
- "I can't STAND the Tonks/Remus Ship and how people always pair Tonks with Lupin and it's all Tonks' fault" (not the fans', mind you)
- She's "clumsy" (this is canon, but "clumsiness" doesn't seem like a particularly loathsome characteristic)
- The rest of the canon characters actually [i]like[/i] her instead of hating her on sight
- She was newly introduced in OOtP (thus violating the unspoken law that says no new characters can be introduced late in a series! /eyeroll)
I remember hearing all this yammer about how the HP series had too few women and especially young adult women (I agreed with this, by the way - to me it is actually one of the biggest weaknesses of the series) but then the same people whined and complained when Tonks was introduced and Ginny's character fully fleshed out. Le sigh.
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"Serpentor ruined GI Joe!"
That's right; even though the writers had to wrestle with the toy company over plot points, and even though the most controversial plot points (ie, Cobra-La) happened well after his introduction, and even though the show changed writers and animators shortly after, the downfall of the original GI Joe series was really brought about solely by Serpentor's existence. He's a great conqueror after all. XD
More nice things I've heard about the Other Cobra Leader:
"His outfit is dumb!" (No arguments there, but is that really a legitimate reason to discount him completely?)
"He's mean to Cobra Commander!" (Y'know, when you start taking score, he's actually less mean to Cobra Commander than a lot of other characters ( ... )
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