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* Sakura Haruno gets it the worst, having the dual misfortune of being a girl that hangs around [[Slash Fic|boys shipped together]] (Naruto/Sasuke) ''and'' standing in the way of the major [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] (Naruto/Hinata). It didn't help that for the first half of Naruto, she was a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] to Sasuke, which makes fans ''[[Accentuate the Negative|deliberately]]'' ignore her subsequent [[Character Development]] -- ''which started while she was still a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]''. It doesn't matter to the fanbutts that [[Plucky Girl|Sakura's]] [[Sorry I Fell on Your Fist|will to stop being]] [[The Load]] gave her [[Heroic Resolve|motivation]], or that she came to care for Sasuke as the utterly damaged person he is/was instead of just [[Loving a Shadow|mooning for "Sasuke-kun"]], or that [[Took a Level in Badass|she]] ''[[Took a Level in Badass|did]]'' [[Took a Level in Badass|toughen up]] to become an true [[Action Girl]], or that she shows ''realistic'' reactions to all the shit that befalls her and Naruto: she's ''still'' "The Pink Roach" to them. And even if she ''was'' designed to (initially) invoke [[This Loser Is You]], she still does ''not'' deserve the shit that fangirls give her. Unfortunately, the bashing has spread to ''this very wiki'', particularly in the light of Chapter 469, which is apparently a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Sakura-bashers and "fandom feminists" who enjoy bashing '''every''' [[Naruto]] female except for Temari or Kushina.
* An even more extreme case is [[Dark Chick|Karin]], Sasuke's team mate, who gets bashed from both SasuSaku ''and'' [[Slash Fic|SasuNaru]] fans, although the former are more virulent about it. Fans often make Karin into an [[VillageReally BicycleGets Around|oversexed nympho with constantly opened legs]] (when she's [[Single-Target Sexuality|almost the exact opposite]]) who tries so hard to ''"steal Sasuke from his rightful lover Sakura and/or Naruto"'', especially if the fic's setting is [[High School AU|High School.]] True, Karin's infatuation with Sasuke ''was'' [[Stalker with a Crush|unhealthy and obsessive]] -- she did plan to drug his teammates and rape him. But the shippers' attitude towards her still carries a whiff of this trope, since they ignore that most of her antics are [[Played for Laughs]] and as more of a character flaw than a marker of being "a bad person", that Sasuke ''knew'' about all this when he recruited her for his team, and that beyond this she does ''genuinely'' care for him.
** All of which is ultimately rendered moot by later events in canon, like {{spoiler|Sasuke crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by trying to kill Karin and Karin being saved only by Sakura's intervention - which is followed by Sasuke stabbing her [[In the Back]]}}. There's probably something to be learned from all this.
*** Yes, 'that Kishimoto can never be trusted'. Because after all that Sasuke has done to her, ''Karin still goes back to loving him'' less than 100 chapters later. *rolleyes*
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