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** Pedophile!England perving on young America is not a rare phenomenon in stories that feature America with someone else and feel the need to justify the pairing by showing how horrible England/America would be... even though canon has zero evidence that would back this up; in fact, America seems to think back on their days together with nostalgia. Plus, if England has more-than-brotherly feelings for America, they seem to have been kickstarted when America was a teenager at the very least.

* As for America, there are some fics that play up his stupidity and tactlessness to emphasize just how unsuitable a partner he would be for England. It ''is'' canon that America can be a jerk to England at times and is the main source of his heartbreak, but some rabid England/someone-other-than-America shippers would have you believe that America enjoys making England suffer and couldn't possibly ''ever'' be nice or flirtatious toward him without having some secret agenda to crush his heart again (while conveniently overlooking that America is ''canonly'' friends with England). This mentality crops up the most often in England/Canada fics, where it goes hand-in-hand with some Canada fans' bad habit of [[Ron the Death Eater|putting down]] America to make Canada look better too.

* There's also the portrayal of [[The White Prince|Austria]] in some [[Hot-Blooded|Prussia]]/[[Ninja Maid|Hungary]] fanworks. While they rarely go so far as to make Austria [[Domestic Abuse|beat the hell out of Hungary]] (who's still [[Hot Amazon|physically]] [[Ninja Maid|stronger]] [[Non-Action Guy|than he is]], anyway), they still sometimes portray him as a [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] [[The Unfair Sex|cold, snobbish and neglectful of Hungary to the point of emotional abuse]] to not only discredit their canon marriage as a loveless [[Arranged Marriage]] (even though they show romantic affection for each other even ''after'' their "divorce") but to have Hungary [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|seek out comfort]] in the [[Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor|"not as well-off but more fun and passionate"]] [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Prussia]]'s arms [[Your Cheating Heart|behind Austria's back]]. More than once it's coupled with [[Chickification]], since Hungary goes from a [[Tomboy]] [[Girliness Upgrade|who became more girly without losing]] [[Plucky Girl|her backbone]] [[Badass Adorable|and fighting skills]] to a weepy and wangsty mess who whines and cries about her "loveless married life" with abusive-asshole!Austria and pines endlessly for badass-romantic-hero!Prussia rescuing her from such torment - without even ''attempting'' to do anything for her own sake.

** For Poland/Hungary fics, you can replace "Gilbert" with "Feliks" and it's the same. Apparently the Polish and Hungarian traditional friendship, their parts in the 1848 revolutions and the Austro-Hungarian Compromise that came in later equal to "Austria is a cold and cruel [[Complete Monster]] who rapes Hungary every night and keeps her locked up while pretending they're [[Happily Married]] in public, so she whines and cries herself to sleep and needs to be rescued from her torture by a super manly [[Jerk Stu]] who only resembles Poland in name!"

** While some Prussia/Hungary fans see Romania as a "serious obstacle" like they do to Austria, others treat the "rivalry" more as a [[Running Gag]] and make Prussia a prospect [[Butt Monkey]] whom Hungary is still [[Tsundere]] for, rather than a super Stu-fied romance hero who must "recover" his love interest from Romania's "dirty" paws and vampire teeth. And two/three others seem to favor an [[OT3]] in which Hungary gets it on with ''both'' Prussia and Romania.

* ''Hungary'' herself, while normally embraced by fans for being a [[Hot Amazon]] and [[Yaoi Fangirl]], isn't free of this. Some Germany/Austria fics portray her as a whiny, self-centered [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] or a [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|brainless, weak, "girly"]] [[Het Is Ew|female]] who breaks the Austro-Hungarian compromise ''solely'' because Austria pays less attention to her than she wants to. Seems somebody hasn't read the Anschluss, New Year and/or Valentine strips, huh?

** Don't forget the "feminists" who also apply the "girls are Relationship Sues" trap to her. Double when they also whine about how [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|Hungary is a horrible role model for girls]] and a slutty [[Shallow Love Interest]] because of her [[Girliness Upgrade]] and her love of Austria.

** This troper once found a Belgium/Austria fic. Okay, that's good. But then she found out that it had ''heavy'' Hungary bashing. Eeeep, hitting the "back" button.

** Russia in general has been used as a stock antagonist in many other shipping fics, not so much because the fanwriters hate him but more because he's the closest thing the series has to an "evil" character and they find it all too easy to [[Ron the Death Eater|crank up]] his "become one with me, da...?" line to a "you WILL become one with me, whether or not you like it, and only your true love can save you from my clutches, DA!" ultimatum. Suffice it to say that while he's no saint in canon, he's still far from the kidnapping, torturing, raping <s>plot device</s> villain these kind of fics make him into.

* While it hasn't translated into outright [[Ron the Death Eater]] in fanworks yet (if only because most Turkey/Greece works simply leave Japan out entirely), the [[Vocal Minority]] of Turkey/Greece shippers can become very wanky toward Japan and the Greece/Japan ship when provoked, especially after the "provocation" of the anime faithfully adapting some of Japan's strips with Greece and Turkey that had been on the Web for ''years'' beforehand, with them deriding Japan as a [[Flat Character]] who only got the attention of Greece and Turkey because of him being a "gigantic [[Canon Sue]] who has half of the cast as his harem" and claiming that Greece [[Shallow Love Interest|loses all personality and historical depth]] when paired with him over his "far more interesting and historically important" rival Turkey.

** To elaborate on that final point, some fans think that being with Japan makes Greece a "weak [[Shallow Love Interest]]" because he acts calm, gentle and laidback with him whereas being with Turkey makes him a "strong, interesting character" because he acts short-tempered, violent and angry with him. Apparently, Greece being [[The Philosopher]] with Japan gives him no additional depth because it's "[[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|not physical]]" or something like that. Can lead to [[Unfortunate Implications]] if you think too hard about the "he's a [[Shallow Love Interest]] if he [[Real Men Hate Affection|acts sweet to his boyfriend instead of fighting with him all the time]]!" or "he can be interesting ''only'' if he's paired up with the one that [[A Real Man Is a Killer|constantly makes him angry and violent]]!" implications.

* While still rare ([[Tempting Fate|we hope]]), some rabid Prussia/Canada fans are really ''horrible'' not only to France, but to ''[[Big Fun|Cuba]]'' too. Because not being a [[Bishonen]] and mistaking Canada for America apparently makes Cuba a horrible bully whom Prussia must defeat to release poor uke Canada from his abuse, obviously missing how Cuba is ''very'' apologetic whenever that happens and how they get along extremely well otherwise.

* Though extremely rare, '''[[Gentle Giant|Sweden]]''' gets this treatment from time to time in Estonia/Finland fics; usually becoming an abusive "husband" keeping Finland from Estonia, or something of a [[Stalker with a Crush]] that poor little Finland is too weak to push away.

* '''''All''''' of the female characters in Hetalia have been falsely accused of being [[Relationship Sue]]s for the guys. While it ''is'' true that some shippers in both W-Fen and J-Fen are fond of [[Possession Sue|disregarding the girls's canon personalities in their fanwork]] (with America/Belarus, America/Vietnam, England/Seychelles, Prussia/Hungary and Japan/Taiwan shippers as the main culprits), that is hardly the ''girls's'' own fault as they are not necessarily there just to have the guys stick their cocks inside of any of them. (Also, let's consider how many ''male'' characters [[Wimpification|fall in the same trap]] [[Double Standard|but this seems to be tolerated much more]] by the ''same'' fangirls who whine about the girls being Sues...)

** ...with the exception of Japan who was getting just as bad [[Relationship Sue]] accusations from the [[Vocal Minority]] of [[Americans Hate Tingle|W-fen]] long before the above cases came to light, with them making his [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|LOATS]] status in J-fen out to be a ''horrible'' [[Misplaced Nationalism]] crime worthy of bashing him for alone. Some of them even used this to discredit the England/Japan pairing (many England/Japan fics do suffer from OOCness and [[Relationship Sue]]dom for Japan, but that doesn't mean that the ''pairing itself'' has zero credibility!). And when they found out about the Greece/Japan/Turkey triangle, their accusations got truly ridiculous. All while the majority either ignored them, [[squee]]d over the episodes, or went "...What, you're just learning about Japan's relations with Greece ''now''? Boy, you ''really'' need to read the webcomic in full."

** The biggest female victim is Seychelles, the local [[Nubile Savage]] and [[Plucky Girl]]. She was a minor character with a mere cameo in the comics... then she became an [[Ascended Extra]] in [[High School AU|Gakuen Hetalia]] (both the original script and the PSP game), and then the poor girl started getting shit from ''everyone'' coming from ''everywhere''. The [[Het Is Ew]] camp called her a [[Relationship Sue]], and the USUK and FRUK rabidshippers accused her of standing in between their beaus because she had some degree of [[Ship Tease]] with both England and France. (Nevermind that France is after [[Anything That Moves]], that Gakuen Hetalia isn't that centered in romance but more in [[The Power of Friendship]], and that in the PSP game itself {{spoiler|Sey actually ''helps'' America to gain England's attention after a fight, which can easily be interpreted as her [[Playing Cyrano]] for them.}})

** Even Liechtenstein, who's a [[Proper Lady]] in canon, is once in a while treated as being an evil [[Mary Sue]] who stole Switzerland from Austria. (Nevermind that she and Austria are very polite and civil to each other in canon). Luckily it's not that common, but there are some [[Unfortunate Implications]] in how the hate stopped ''only'' in the [[Hetalia Bloodbath 2011]] when she seemed to [[Shipper on Deck|approve of Swiss and Austria's somewhat improved relationship.]]

** Poor Ukraine actually gets this from a certain corner of the fandom who bash her for a barely hinted at [[Brother-Sister Incest]] affection for Russia in her character song. A lot of the bashing comes from the fact that she dares to have [[Gag Boobs|a large chest]] and is a [[Nice Girl]] and relatively well-liked [[Team Mom]], which makes the [[Het Is Ew]] camps treat her as an annoying crybaby [[Mary Sue]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|who is a terrible female character]]. Never mind that she canonically has hints of being a [[Lady of War]] and is a huge [[Chew Toy]].

** Even Vietnam, who has had barely any screentime at all gets this from people who dislike how some members of the fandom pair her up with America, Russia, France, and/or China and refer to her as a [[Relationship Sue]] because of [[Fanon]] portrayals. Despite the fact that, in canon, she has not had any reaction with anyone other than Taiwan and Thailand so far, she has gotten some accusations of being a [[Flat Character]] who only exists to ruin other pairings. Thankfully, this portion of the fanbase is very small in comparison with hate that the other females have gotten, as it's very easy to ignore her character entirely.