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[[File:Tingle_Ruins_EverythingTingle Ruins Everything.jpg|link=Super Smash Bros.|frame|[[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|Warning]]: Side effects of Tingle may include a sudden rash, vomiting and the desire to commit violence.]]

{{quote|''"I guess annoyance doesn't cross cultural boundaries."''|'''Edd''', ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', "Shoo Ed"}}

{{See Also: [[also|Cross Cultural Kerfluffle]].}}

** Popular enough in Japan and part of Europe to get his own games, and loathed enough in America and the rest of Europe to have only four other roles in main games following his first appearance in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'': ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Gamesof (VideoSeasons Game)and Oracle of Ages|Oracle of Ages]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Wind Waker]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures]]'', and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Minish Cap (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap]]''. Note that still gives him way more appearances than nearly anyone not named Link, Zelda or Ganon. The game in which he is the main character, ''[[Freshly -Picked: TinglesTingle's Rosy Rupee LandRupeeland]]'', [[No Export for You|never reached North America]].

** Tingle's role in the main series has been largely reduced; He doesn't appear in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' (Purlo's appearance was based on him, but they have vastly different personalities) and gets only non-speaking cameos in [[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|Phantom Hourglass]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|Spirit Tracks]], and [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|Skyward Sword]] (on a wanted poster, a statue/portrait, and a doll respectively).

** He is at his weirdest in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Wind Waker]]'', wherein he refers to Link, a twelve-year-old child, as "Mr. Fairy", and forces his brothers--andbrothers—and one random guy--toguy—to dress exactly like him and perform slave labor. He also forces the player to pay him ridiculous sums of money in exchange for information on where to find eight [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]]s. With all of his annoying traits, it's no wonder that fans joke about him being a [[Memetic Molester|sex offender]] when they're breaking him out of prison for the crime of petty theft as part of the plot of the game.

* The hate of Tingle has also carried over into the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' games:

* On a related note, Cold, logical, by [[Lawful Good|the book characters]] tend to fairfare much better in Japan thenthan they do in America, Toshiro Hitsuguya of [[Bleach]] being a great example.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]], [[Genki Girl|Genki Girls]]s and other "traditional" [[Moe]] character types are the [[Distaff Counterpart]] version of this, being liked on Japan (but still not as much as [[Tsundere|tsunderestsundere]]s) but not so much on the West.

* The intense [[Die for Our Ship|ship-related]] hate toward Masaya of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' for which western fans are infamous doesn't seem to exist at all among Japanese girls; [[Nakayoshi]], in fact, ran a character poll, and he ranked far above Ryou and Kish.

* Shizuru Fujino of ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|MaiMy-HiME]]'' seems to be [[Draco in Leather Pants|very]] [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|popular]] in most fandom circles, except in Italy. While they were largely supportive of her [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|feelings]] for Natsuki, the instant she {{spoiler|[[Kick the Dog|Kicked the Dog]] by attacking Yukino and killing off Haruka, Yukino's Most Important Person}}, her popularity crashed and burned.

** [[Genki Girl|Princess Amelia]] is well-loved in Japan, enough to make her a [[Breakout Character]] alongside the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|even more beloved]] chimera [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|Zelgadiss.]] [[In the Name of Thethe Moon|Her quixotic love of justice]], inexperience in fighting, and a poor choice of voice actress made her hated in the west for a while; eventually, subtle [[Character Development]] and a new actress ([[Veronica Taylor]]) [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap|made most of the dislike dissipate and she's now rather popular in the US as well.]]

** Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SeedSEED]]'' and its successor ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SeedSEED Destiny]]'' continues to rank high in the top 10 character polls in Japan (including Newtype) long after ''Destiny'' ended and Kira himself beat Char and Amuro for the number one spot in the ''[[Gundam]]'' 30th Anniversary favorite character poll, but they have a rather large hatedom among the western ''Gundam'' fandom. This largely comes from the fact that the pair used their [[Omniscient Morality License]] to shove their beliefs down the rest of the Cosmic Era world's throats at gunpoint, all based off evidence which Lacus herself admitted might have been faulty.<br /><br />In fact, ''Destiny'' gets this treatment in the west. Not a specific character, but ''the whole series''. The most basic complaint is that Kira Yamato (and many other characters from the [[Mobile Suit Gundam Seed|previous show]]) went from simply cameoing in the series to outright assuming the position of the main characters, and with this also became the "right side" in the conflict. For a good example, ''Destiny'' has a '''huge''' [[Hatedom]] in North America; many consider the series to be the '''worst''' Gundam series ever conceived, but in its native Japan, it was the most popular anime for ''2 years''. Two years after the show ended production, it was still ''extremely'' popular. Only after the slightly more popular [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|(in North America at least)]] ''[[Code Geass]]'' aired. [[Broken Base|Even then, this trope still applies]], especially in R2.

** Similarly to Flay ([[Expy|in several regards]]), Nena Trinity of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is considered one of the more popular female characters in Japan (and was ''the'' most popular until dropping [[Out of Focus]] and being replaced by [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Feldt Grace) but is [[The Scrappy|widely loathed]] in America. It's been suggested that Nena appeals to Japanese fans because her [[Genki Girl|carefree personality]] and [[Fille Fatale|lack of inhibitions]] are considered exotic [[Values Dissonance|in a country where most people, especially women, are expected to be excessively polite and reserved]]. On the other hand, her being loathed in America seems to have less to do with her personality and more with her [[Moral Event Horizon]] crossing early on which, just like with Flay's actions, the Japanese are apparently more forgiving of (one wonders what it'd take for a character to ''get'' on their bad side....)

* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'': While non-American fans are more or less accepting of Misa Amane, she's ''loathed'' in the USA, with her voice actresses performance being perceived as irritating by most fans, and her character seen as shallow, annoying, and stupid.

* Given that the characters of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' are [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Anthropomorphic Personifications]]s of countries, this trope is inevitable.

** Koreans [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2009-01-13/korean-protests-call-for-hetalia-anime-cancellation weren't too pleased] with Hetalia's Korea, either. The American fandom adopted him as an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] after the shitstorm passed, though.

* Divine of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'', whose [[Complete Monster]] methods are far less popular among English fans than Japanese ones.

* Hikari/Dawn's Piplup in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''.

** For Japan, it was a cute, loveable penguin that became one of their mascots. In America, however, Piplup is [[Creator's Pet|wildly hated]] (if not by all, then at least by a [[Vocal Minority|very LOUD contingent]] of American fans). [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Not all Piplup, mind you]], [[Bratty Half-Pint|just this one in particular]].

* This can generally apply to the ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo|Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'' series in general. For those who ''do'' like the series in the west, there's Beauty, the heroine, who is well-liked in Japan, but mostly hated in the west for being the resident [[Damsel Scrappy]] throughout. For the sequel manga, ''Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', there's [[Anti-Hero|Namero Yononaka]], {{spoiler|who eventually becomes the new emperor for [[The Empire]] of the series}}; he's the most popular of the three new protagonists of the manga (making 9th place in the last Japan popularity contest; the other two came in 11th and 20th respectively) but his nihilism, narcissism, and lack of humor make him despised among the sequel's small western fanbase.

* Burger King was a major flop in Japan (you probably have a better chance finding them in US Army and Air Force bases), and probably other countries as well, which might explain how most non-Americans' perceptions of the Burger is the kind you get at [[McDonald's]].

** It should be noted that stores and shopping centres ban people from wearing their hoods ''up''; you can still wear hoodies as long as the hood is down. This rule also applies to hats, the reason being that it will conceal your face on CCTV.

* Anyone driving a Hummer outside of the US is likely to be made fun of, and/or have people throw things at them due to [[Hummer Dinger|their large size and poor gas milage]]. Though they're a popular target for derision in the US as well,<ref>In fact, there's at least a few American-based websites dedicated to Hummer hate (one is made entirely of user-submitted pictures of people flipping hummers off).</ref>, they were actually selling when people had the money to buy cars (and when oil prices weren't inflated).

** Considering that they made a four-door sedan for the first Focus for the US, it was more an issue of the second-generation Focus being too expensive for American markets, which see small cars as cheap cars--thecars—the second-generation European Focus was very well-appointed and very expensive by American small-car standards. This turned out badly for Ford, as later refreshes of the US Focus, formerly a class leader, were surpassed by foreign competitors, were panned by the American auto press, and experienced rapidly falling sales. The upcoming next model of Focus will be sold in both the US and Europe as part as Ford's new strategy of consolidating its worldwide product lines.

* Roberto Benigni's 2002 [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (Literature)|The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' was lambasted by American audiences and was the recipient of six Golden Raspberry Awards, including one for "Worst Picture", both because they saw it as a vanity project for Benigni (who wrote, directed and starred in the film...''as Pinocchio''), and were somewhat disturbed that the title role, traditionally fit for a little kid, was being played by a man in his forties. It also was a closer adaptation of the book than the [[Disney Animated Canon]] version, reinstating Pinocchio's obnoxious personality and such incidents as the hero being ''hung by a noose'' at one point, and not surprisingly American viewers didn't find this charming; ''[[It Got Worse|and not only that]]'', the film was initially released by Miramax only in a roundly condemned [[All-Star Cast]] English dub (Breckin Meyer voiced Pinocchio, for one thing). The film performed much more favorably in Benigni's home country, where it was nominated for a handful of awards by Italian film critics.

* ''[[Three Hundred300]]'' was condemned as "Western Propaganda" in Iran due to [[Unfortunate Implications|the way Persians were portrayed]] in that film.

* Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]]'' was well-received by critics and audiences alike, and ''hated'' by the Greeks; who apparently did not like the film's portrayal of their culture and history. Considering how Disney's take on an [[Pocahontas (Disney)|American legend]] is generally considered [[Snark Bait]] by American Disney fans, it's surprising this hasn't happened with their other non-European fairy tale/story adaptations. ''[[Mulan (Disney)|Mulan]]'' even became a [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|massive hit in China]].

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' has an in-universe example: the book ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages (Literature)|Quidditch Through the Ages]]'' has a section dealing with the status of Quidditch around the world. Americans apparently prefer the game Quodpot, a sort of hot-potato game involving a Quaffle that has been tampered with and explodes - probably a joke on [[Eagle Land|Americans]] who prefer American football to soccer and are obsessed with [[Stuff Blowing Up]] (though, recently, most of the world has fallen in love with explosions). In Asia, however, Quidditch is only slowly gaining appeal because Asian wizards have traditionally preferred flying carpets to flying broomsticks. The exception to this rule is Japan.

** The general rule is that ''Super Sentai'' works best while being silly, and ''Power Rangers'' works best when being serious. This is the reason why ''[[Chouriki Sentai Ohranger]]'' flopped in Japan, but ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]'' saved the series from cancellation. The inverse being that ''[[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]]'' is fondly remembered, but ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' almost got the show cancelled.

** Villains also get different treatment. ''[[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]]'' had villainess Denus, who is well-regarded in Sentai fandom. When it was adapted into ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', her equivalent, Vypra, was hated by fans, thanks in no small part to the [[X -Pac Heat]] leveled against Jennifer Yen. It got to the point where Linkara, in his review for his [[History of Power Rangers]] series, all but cheered when Vypra was absorbed into Queen Bansheera later in the season.

* The [[Sex Pistols]] recorded a UK #1 album with ''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'', which never cracked the top 100 in sales in the US. Both instances are due to the immense cultural relevance of the bands in their native countries, which the other country never really understood. It did not help matters that the Pistols' sole US tour during their original run was a publicity stunt concocted by Malcolm McLaren that saw the Pistols touring the Bible Belt (one oft-shown image has a theater marquee somewhere in the South showing the Sex Pistols headlining that week, with the next week's show featuring Merle Haggard!) to generate lots of "rednecks v. punks" news. One of the only shows in punk-friendly territory was the very last in San Francisco -- andFrancisco—and that one ended with Johnny Rotten leaving the stage, and the band, abruptly.

* Similar to how grunge was largely ridiculed outside North America, American indie music in the 90s was largely ignored in the UK, with [[Blur (Musicband)|Blur]] being the only famous British band to draw any influence from bands like [[Pavement]]. These bands weren't immensely popular in America, either, but they were even less popular there. This ended when [[The Strokes]] released ''Is This It'', which had an immediate impact in the UK that was unmatched in America.

* Even [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] were victims of this, in a few different places, in 1966. The most famous one involved [[John Lennon]]'s infamous "we're more popular than Jesus" comment, which was more or less dismissed as harmless in the Beatles' native Britain, especially after Lennon clarified it... but this was not the case in America. There, a few radio stations in the South held burnings of Beatles records, and the whole ordeal turned into a media ruckus. The anti-Beatles sentiment wasn't actually very widespread, but there was enough of it in some areas that the Beatles had to cancel a few tour dates due to threats. Far worse was the reception they received that year in The Philippines, when they were essentially chased out of the country for refusing to play for Imelda Marcos, and to a lesser extent, the controversy in Japan from their appearance at the Budokan (which is now a popular concert venue, but at the time was reserved for martial arts, and many saw the Beatles' appearance there as disrespectful). All of these incidents, along with the increasingly complexity of their music, made 1966 their last tour.

** [[New York City]], for example, does not have ''any'' country stations on the FM dial (though, the area around the capital of New York, Albany, does, as does the vast majority of the state of New York), despite it being the largest radio market in America and country being, by some measures, the most popular genre of music in America. In the Northeast, being a fan of country music carries [[Deep South|many of the same connotations]] as being a fan of [[NASCAR]] -- unless—unless it's a hip alternative country band, a crossover pop artist, or a legend with universal appeal (like [[Johnny Cash]], [[Willie Nelson]], or [[Patsy Cline]]), admitting to being a country fan will most likely get you called a redneck, a hillbilly, or some variation thereof. Outside America, the only places that can be said to have significant country fandoms are Ireland (whose own tradition of folk music fed into Appalachian folk, which is an ancestor of modern country), Africa (possibly due to the popularity of the banjo), Brazil (a mishmash of American and local subculture, including rodeo acts), Canada and Australia (both of which have frontier histories and large rural areas not unlike those found in America).

* Hulk Hogan was one of, if not the, biggest WWF star of all time... but when he brought the flexing, [[NoWon't SellWork On Me|no-selling]], [[All-American Face|All-American character]] to WCW, the fans were lukewarm at best ''at first'', and progressed to booing him and throwing his merchandise back into the ring. He got over with them as the villainous Hollywood Hogan, but when he returned to Hulk Hogan, the fans still weren't impressed. This was largely because most WCW fans were fans of the old NWA and hated the WWF's campy, story driven style compared to the NWA's hard action (which was why wrestling ratings on TBS tanked for the brief time that the WWF was on there). Ironically, the WWF/E tried to bring Hogan back as Hollywood in 2002 but had to revert back to Hulk Hogan because their fans refused to boo him, even after he ''plowed a truck into an ambulance that had The Rock inside it''.

* In the United States, speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno is thought of as a national hero, the USA most decorated winter Olympian ever, and one hell of a dancer. However, in South Korea the Japanese-American champion is one of, if not the, most hated individuals in the nation and nicknamed "The King of Fouls". It started after the 2002 Salt Lake City games when he won a gold medal after Korean skater Kim Dong-Sung was disqualified for blocking him, and he happily celebrated afterward. There were massive protests against the United States after he won (even though US servicemen accidentally killing a couple of Korean schoolgirls probably also had something to do with that) and the United States embassy had to be closed the next day because of threats against them. The first verse of Yoon Min-Suk's hit song "Fucking USA" was all about Ohno -- theOhno—the rest was about Bush threatening North Korea. They thought what Apolo did was worse than a potential war. They even sold toilet paper with the multi-time medalist's picture on it. They apparently also released a game where you could shoot [[Expy|Expys]]s of Ohno. It got so bad that a year after he won not only Apolo but the entire US speed skating team did not enter the nation due to death threats -- andthreats—and after that he only entered the country while surrounded by armed guards. In South Korea, Ohnolike has even entered the lexicon as meaning "dirty trick". The hatred against the [[Dancing With the Stars]] champion swelled up again during the 2010 Vancouver games after 2 Korean skaters took each other out and Ohno won Silver, however by the end of the games it was the Australian embassy that was being shut down because of death threats because of a controversial decision to disqualify the women's relay team made by Aussie referee Jim Hewish, who just happens to be the same judge that disqualified Dong-Sung in 2002 giving Apolo his first Gold. During the 2002 World Cup, the South Korean team scored on the U.S. team and re-enacted Ohno's "bump" as a part of their celebration. South Korea erupted in laughter. America essentially said "lolwut?"

** Then there's Korea's close tracking of figure skater Kim Yuna and the manufactured rivalry with Asada Mao, a Japanese competitor who she beat on the way to winning the 2009 Grand Prix. When she set a new record, Korean media just had to mention that Asada's score was pretty unimpressive.

* In Sri Lanka, Muttiah Muralitheran is the greatest spin bowler in the history of [[Cricket]]. In Australia, he's a cheating chucker who stole Shane Warne's Test wicket record. The rest of the world just doesn't care.

* Ah, Duffy the Disney Bear. Apparently a huge hit when he was introduced in [[Disney Theme Parks|Tokyo Disneyland]], he was brought to America in 2011 to many delighted cries of "[[The Scrappy|Who the hell is that?]]" and "[[Creator's Pet|Why is he]] ''[[Creator's Pet|everywhere]]?'']]" It appears as though America does not get the appeal of this new character, who is Mickey Mouse's little plushy friend who he sleeps with on lonely nights.

** There was an earlier version of Duffy who was [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]], as he was introduced in the US first. Debuting at Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney in 2004 as the [[Sarcasm Mode|creatively titled]] Disney Bear, he was Disney's attempt at [[Follow the Leader|breaking into]] the Build-a-Bear market. This was despite the fact that Disney did not make it possible to build him yourself, which, if you are at all paying attention, is kind of the one main selling point of Build-A-Bear. Naturally, the reception was lukewarm at best. Plans for his introduction at Disneyland (who by that time had an actual Build-a-Bear store in their own Downtown Disney) were cancelled, and he was pulled from Disney World (who now has a Build-A-Bear spinoff store in their Downtown Disney) just three years later.

* Germany seems to be the only place that develops and buys simulation games, locally known as "Aufbauspiele", like The Settlers significantly.

* Aside from ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' and ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'', or the brief surge of western popularity generated by ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|FFVII]]'', [[JRPG|JRPGs]]s have generally sold poorly outside of Japan. One of the reasons may be the prevalence of both androgynous males and tween prepubescent characters that appear to not translate well with a Western audience.

** As well as how it's become popular to ''hate'' them, complete with [[Vocal Minority]].

** A very notable example is ''[[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|Dragon Quest]]''. It is said to be the most popular game franchise in Japan (every release of a ''Dragon Quest'' is probably akin to a Japanese holiday), and it is both critically and commercially successful there. Everywhere else, the series still earns critical acclaim, but the series merely has a small cult following, probably due to the "kids' stuff" issue, since the games generally have a colorful art style. [[Nintendo]] is aiming to turn this around, though, as they published ''[[Dragon Quest IX (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IX]]'' under their name and heavily marketed the title to make it one of the best-selling games of July 2010 in the US.

* [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Cait Sith]] was never the most popular character in ''FFVII'', in no small part due to his [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]]ery in the beginning of the game, and the fact that his [[Limit Break]] [[Scrappy Mechanic|relies on]] [[Random Number God|pure dumb luck]]. And ''then'' he started speaking in ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Anime)|Advent Children]]'', itself a [[Base Breaker]] movie, with a [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|very poor Scottish accent]]. Many fans from Scotland, and Britain in general (ironically, since the voice actor was British himself), were not amused. In a Famitsu poll for best video game characters held in 2010, the characters from ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' that made the cut were Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Sephiroth, Zack...and ''Yuffie'', who, while [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap|not nearly as disliked as she used to be]], is still a semi-[[Base Breaker]] in the US.

* Sprite-based games are appreciated in Japan about as much as high-quality 3D-graphic games, and Hand-drawn sprites are common. However, they are generally seen as "Primitive" or [[Did Not Do the Research|"SNES sprites"]] outside of Japan, unless that is, they were an Indie game, or handheld game.

* Mexicans really hate T. Hawk in ''[[Street Fighter]]'', perhaps because he's apparently supposed to be Mexican but obviously isn't. El Fuerte has become some sort of inverse [[Replacement Scrappy]]. The Jamaican kickboxer Dee Jay, who was added to the ''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]'' roster under the suggestion of American playtester James Goddard, is beloved by the North American fanbase (and also in his home country). In Japan, he rarely appears, and when he does, he doesn't do much of anything. Humourously enough, Dee Jay and T. Hawk both happen to be the only new characters from ''Super Street Fighter II'' left out from the console versions of ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]'' (which included [[Ms. Fanservice|Cammy]] and [[Bruce Lee Clone|Fei-Long]]); however, both ended up returning in ''[[Mission Pack Sequel|Super Street Fighter IV]]''.

* Speaking of ''Street Fighter''... ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''! 2D, check. [[Visual Novel]] story mode, check. Anime graphics, check. Released in the same year as ''Street Fighter IV'', check. It's a new series compared to ''Street Fighter'', check. 12 characters that control like 12 different fighting games combined into one, check. While Japaneses love it, Americans, mainly ''Street Fighter'' fans hate it because it looks like anime, [[Animation Age Ghetto|something mainstream American audiences hate]], or maybe just because it ''dares'' to [[Dueling Games|compete]] with ''Street Fighter''! Don't even mention ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'' veterans, it doesn't help.

* Raiden wasn't as hated in Japan as much as he was in America and Europe when ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' first came out. Most of the complaints players had in Japan wasn't with Raiden himself per se, but from [[Replacement Scrappy|not being able to play as Solid Snake]]. This is probably because being [[Bishounen]], as Raiden is, isn't as big of a deal to Japanese gamers, whereas it tends to put off American gamers (this is evident by the amount of homophobic insults that were thrown at his character). It helps that [[Kenyuu Horiuchi]], Raiden's Japanese VA, actually made him sound like a real adult (giving him a voice almost as deep as [[Akio Ohtsuka]]'s performance as Solid Snake) instead of the approach that [[Quinton Flynn]] went with.

* Mighty Kongman/Bruiser Khang is very popular among Japanese ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'' fans, especially after his personality got expanded in the game's remake, where he becomes something of a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]. But since many of these ''Tales'' remakes and spinoffs [[No Export for You|never leave Japan]], North American audiences, meanwhile, get stuck with the [[Jerkass]] Khang seen in the [[Play StationPlayStation]] version, and don't understand why he's appeared in so many spinoffs.

* Emil Castagnier of ''[[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' also has a case of this. In the 5th Tales of Character Popularity Poll (in Japan), Emil came in 12th (out of every character in every Tales game). The majority of overseas fans hate him for being whiny, cowardly, effeminate and annoying. It certainly doesn't help that up until a certain point, in every fight he has to rely on his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] to fight for him. These flaws are ironically also present in Luke fon Fabre of ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'' who is well recieved by American fans, although he doesn't suffer the same hate due to being a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] whose annoying factors are overcome sooner... ''That said'', there are some American fans who want to give Emil a hug.

* Similarly, Reala does not have many western fans. As well as her [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|ridiculously girly appearance]] (which is so unrealistically thin that it reaches [[Uncanny Valley]] levels), there's the fact that her story makes many western fans cry [[Mary Sue]]: She's a one-woman [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] {{spoiler|who also happens to be the daughter of a goddess}}, on a mission to find a "[[The Chosen One|hero]]", {{spoiler|who is doomed to be erased from time if she kills her mother, but comes [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] anyway just so she can be with [[The Hero|Kyle]]}}. Japan is far more tolerant of her.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'':

** Similarly, Kairi of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' (and her counterparts Namine and Xion, though the latter {{spoiler|isn't entirely played straight in this regard...}}) is more popular in Japan as well than in the US (to the point where Nomura worried that Aqua wouldn't become as well-received as she is because she was different from Kairi, Namine, and Xion; a notion that's laughable in the West) but that's most likely because the [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]]s in Japan are much less [[Vocal Minority|vocal]] [[Die for Our Ship|about their feelings]].

** Likewise, Tidus from ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' is very popular in Japan, but in the west he's a [[Base Breaker|divisive figure]], mostly because he looks exactly like actress Meg Ryan. And because he spends most of the game whining, which is only made worse by James Arnold Taylor's over-the-top delivery.

** ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'''s Vaan is widely hated in the west, and Square-Enix's [[Executive Meddling]] to make him the protagonist is criticised. In Japan, he has enough of a fanbase to get him big roles in two spin-offs ''and'' added into ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy (Video Game)|Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy]]''.

* ''[[The Tower of Druaga]]'' is very popular in Japan, spawning numerous sequels, spin-offs, [[The Tower of Druaga (Animeanime)|an anime]], and even its own amusement park attraction. Westerners who have played this game view it as a sluggish, [[Guide Dang It|obtuse]] [[Nintendo Hard|exercise in frustration]].

* The ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]'' series, despite being one of the most popular gaming franchises of all time in Japan, has only established a small, dedicated following in North America. Many Western gamers dislike the games' emphasis on [[Item Crafting]] and [[Level Grinding]].

* Slippy Toad of ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star FoxFOX]]'' is actually pretty popular in Japan. It's the North American fans that despise him, mostly for being a cross between a [[Stop Helping Me!]] and [[The Load]]. His whiny, irritating voice doesn't exactly help. "[[Most Annoying Sound|Fox, get this guy off me! Thanks, Fox!... Fox, get this guy off me!]]"

* Jigglypuff in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' is disliked because some fans felt it should have been dropped from the roster of ''Brawl'' instead of their personal favourite ''Melee'' characters (like Roy and Mewtwo). This despite the fact that Jigglypuff is popular in Japan, is the [[Lethal Joke Character]] (or [[Nerf|used to be]]) and that ''[[Grandfather Clause|it was a main character since the first game]].''

* ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'':

* ''Hydlide'' and its sequels are well-loved in Japan, but in America it's seen as a piece of crap. The fact that the NES port [[Porting Disaster|screwed up the menu system]], not to mention [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|being released in North America after better games of the genre (Zelda) were out]] didn't help. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] in his [https://web.archive.org/web/20110902040232/http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Hydlide review] of the game.

* In the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' universe, the Japanese fans certainly love [[Dark Is Not Evil|Oichi]] and she is pretty much ''the'' [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of a series seemingly tailored for [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]]s. In America? She's considered a useless whiny emo girl, made even worse by the fact that the only 'English' SB franchise that features her and can be reached by western audiences is the anime (fansubbed), which downplays her powers severely.

{{quote| '''Oichi''': [[Apologises a Lot|This is Ichi's fault...]]<br />

* The [[X BoxXbox]] and [[Xbox 360]] have dismal sales figures in Japan, although Microsoft is hell-bent on turning this around by obtaining exclusive titles that appeal to Japanese audiences. ''[[The Game Overthinker]]'' points out that this is because the systems are considered (on both sides of the Pacific) to be delivery platforms for [[FPS]] games, which leads into...

* [[First-Person Shooter|First person shooters]] are, in general, a niche genre in Japan. While they are gaining a cult following there (perhaps comparable to [[JRPG|JRPGs]]s in the West), nobody is under any impression that the next ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' game will outsell ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' or ''[[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|Dragon Quest]]''. Also to a lesser extent in Europe.

** On that note, [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|the 4th entry in the series]] is widely considered one of the best, if not THE best, game in the series by western fans. In Japan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130709150107/http://www.serenesforest.net/fe12/info.html it recieved the lowest Famitsu score of any game in the series.] Oh, and Sword of Seals, tied for higest score, is not all that well liked in the west either. In fact, if you want the general western opinion on the series, put those scores in order from highest to lowest, then [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad|reverse the list.]]

** One of the reasons of this is [[No Export for You|the series was mostly unknown outside of some emulators until the 21st century]], and the games set in Marth's world are often given [[Nostalgia Filter]] treatment or "I liked this world the best". Most non Japanese players started out with the adventures of Eliwood, Lyn, and Hector though (some with Celice or Roy's via Emulation, and Ike or the Twins for late joiners) and when they saw the old games, [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|they had been a little spoiled]], for ''various'' reasons.

** The series in general has a bit of this to the West, though less "hate" and more "ignorance". A combination of [[No Export for You]] for over a decade, an anime styled RPG (which are less popular in the West) and a Strategy RPG as that (which makes players afraid to try since "[[It's Hard, So It Sucks|it sounds too complicated]]". [[Nintendo Hard|They aren't completely wrong, though]],) as well as the fact that [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|later and more advanced series were ported before most of Fire Emblem was]], make this series mostly an unknown to the West, except from big RPG and Strategy fans. Japan? It's not ''[[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|Dragon Quest]]'', but it's up there and is the second Nintendo series with most fanart on Pixiv. Note the first is ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'', the only series to outdo ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' on [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]. Now you know why 99% of ''[[Fire Emblem]]''-based jokes focus on Marth, Roy and Ike's ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' appearances.

* ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' characters Ash Crimson and Benimaru Nikaido are off-putting to some western audiences, both due to their mannerisms (Benimaru evokes imagery of [[Camp Straight|stereotypical gay men]] and Ash has some very effeminate quirks). Likely this is caused by the opinion that a fighting game character should look like they could actually hold their own in a fight, of which both characters do not exude.

* There was an episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' called "Shoo Ed" that lampshaded this, where the Eds train Johnny to be the most annoying person in the world so they can charge the kids to get rid of him. However Rolf, the immigrant kid practically falls in love with him. Even taking his belching in stride: "You are full of pickles and beets today, my friend." Double D's response to this is the page quote.

* This has happened to the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' in Japan. While the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|1987 Turtles]] were very popular back then, the Japanese audiences were expecting the newer Turtles to be like the 1987 Turtles and got [[Darker and Edgier]] Turtles instead. The newer cartoon didn't catch on and 52 episodes were dubbed before it got canceled.

* In the United States, [[Nickelodeon]] goes toe-to-toe with [[Disney Channel]] as the top performing kids channel, but it many countries, [[Disney Channel]] and sometimes, even [[Cartoon Network]] is far more popular. This is especially true in Denmark and Poland, where [[Nickelodeon]] is in dead-last place. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in Turkey and Japan, where the channel was outright ''shut down.'' (Though shows like ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'', ''[[Chalk ZoneChalkZone]]'', and ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'' are quite popular in the latter, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|to the point of being the opposite to this trope.]])