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{{quote|''I adore Kairi from ''Kingdom Hearts'' but she's bashed by Riku/Sora shippers simply for living! Cut the girl some slack, it's not her fault that the main guy is in love with her.''|[http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/BeautifulBetrayal A very wise crunchyroll user]}}▼
▲{{quote|''I adore Kairi from ''Kingdom Hearts'' but she's bashed by Riku/Sora shippers simply for living! Cut the girl some slack, it's not her fault that the main guy is in love with her.''|[http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/BeautifulBetrayal A very wise crunchyroll user]}}
Yes, [[Die for Our Ship]] even happens here. And not just in the [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]].▼
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* As quoted above, Kairi of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is rabidly hated by many [[Ho Yay|Sora/Riku]] shippers despite being a kind-hearted princess type of [[Two Guys and a Girl|a trio of friends]] without much overt romantic interest. Generally, she's portrayed by the shippers as a selfish homophobic bitch who hates Riku (usually due to one scene in which she expressed distrust toward him, which [[Rival Turned Evil|was eventually justified]]) and wants Sora for herself, and usually ends up dying in some over-the-top fashion.
** There also exists a cult following for Sora/Namine that are positively vicious toward Kairi, making her out to be [[Ron the Death Eater|dumb, selfish, and evil]] while insisting that Namine is [[Purity Sue|perfectly wonderful in every way,]] so she deserves to be with Sora. On the flip side, whenever Sora/Kairi shippers actually turn up, half of them seem to demonize Namine, saying that she messed with Sora's memories and tried to steal him away from Kairi, which she actually did do... under the orders of her [[Abusive Parents|evil, abusive guardians]], and once they were defeated, she set things right with Sora. The big kicker to all of this? Kairi and Namine {{spoiler|are the SAME BEING anyway!}} Honestly, thinking about it too long is enough to give one a brain tumor [[Family Guy|("I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor...")]] [[Kindergarten Cop|("It's not a tumor!")]]
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** The Organization (or, the "ORGY-nization" if you see all the pairings) XIII are all either hated or loved for various reasons in terms of fandom, but Larxene is often depicted as more of an evil, violent and sadistic bitch than necessary or just forgotten altogether in order to advance any of the [[Ho Yay|yaoi pairings]]. Note that half of the Organization hasn't even canonically met (or at least on screen). This only ''encourages'' it by leading to [[Ships That Pass in the Night|shipping at near-random]] and therefore, bashing of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|rival ships]]. When you have people loathing Zexion for getting in the way of Xigbar/Demyx, who doesn't even appear in the same game as either of them, you know something is seriously wrong...
*** Except for, maybe, Lexeaus to any ship. He might as well not exist as far as shipping is concerned.
* An especially ironic example would be [[The Legend of Zelda|Princess Zelda]], who is frequently [[Fan Dumb|bashed and vilified in]] [[Slash Fic
** This tendency toward Zelda-bashing has continued with the release of ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', where the Link/Midna shippers keep creating ways to reopen access to the Twilight Realm, chuck Zelda through it, and bring Midna back (particularly absurd since Midna and Zelda are very close by game's end and that outcome would ''not'' be disirable to Midna at all)--if not outright have the sovereign Princess of Hyrule be the first victim of the next conflict. And let's not talk about Ilia, who gets it ''much'' worse....
** Don't forget ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'', which arguably added multiple love interests, depending on who you ask. Saria, Malon, Zelda, and Ruto all suffer. The older Nabooru, who has the most overt interest in him but also the least dialogue, gets much less negative attention, mostly because fans interpret her as being just a flirt with no romantic interest. Princess Ruto, who finagled a [[Childhood Marriage Promise]], is ''the'' most loathed girl by the shippers. The hatred of Ruto doesn't even make a whole lot of sense, considering that Link clearly isn't interested and the ending makes it impossible for them to be together even if he were.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' had only three significant female characters: One was Princess Zelda, the next (Medli) showed obvious attraction to another boy, and the third was... Link's sister. (There's also this weird fairy queen with the crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her.) Also, making Tetra an actual girl, instead of a girl pretending to be a boy, was probably a wise choice as well... At least, there are little to no ''Wind Waker'' [[Flame War|Shipping Wars]] out there, but even without them, the number of fanfictions involving Link escaping Tetra's fan-overblown controlling bitch personality and heading off to be with Medli are astronomical. (They, however, almost never kill of Komali, who is hinted to be Medli's love interest. They rather pretend that he [[Fanon Discontinuity|never existed]].) Also, the only ones the Yaoi Fangirls pair Toon Link up with are... [[Screw Yourself|pretty much all of the other Links]].
** Oddly, original [[Fairy Companion]] Navi is mostly left out of shipping wars despite [[Word of God]] stating that she was in love with Link and was jealous of Zelda (though she didn't ''hate'' her by any means), and even despite her [[The Scrappy|scrappy status]]. Might have something to do with her being only three inches tall.
* [[Eldritch Abomination|Arakune]] from ''[[
** There is another huge reason for this which doesn't go into [[Fan Dumb]] or [[Hate Dumb]]. Litchi x Arakune triggered a [[Face Heel Turn]] for Litchi, as the only cure for him that she sought lies within NOL, so she joined a league of [[Complete Monster
** And believe it or not, ''the reverse of this could hold true too''. Bang being some sort of [[Base Breaker]] (either seen as an annoying [[Idiot Hero]] or an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]) means that some people would have him die so he'd stop pursuing Litchi already and leave her to her quest to save Arakune, because Bang could get annoying in some people's eyes.
** Noel is quite hated, especially amongst [[Ho Yay|Ragna/Jin]] shippers. There are also those who wishes Noel would fulfill her destiny of being killed to save the world, just so she doesn't get in the way of [[Official Couple|Jin/Tsubaki]]. Which is canonically Tsubaki's big problem. Of course, many of the rabid Jin x Tsubaki fans fail to realize that ''Noel herself'' is a [[Shipper on Deck]] in favor of those two, and took her job under Jin to aid her ailing family. If it weren't for that, she'd have held out for Tsubaki to have that role.
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** In the case of ''[[Sonic X]]'', there is mutual hatred between fans of Cosmo/Tails and Cream/Tails. {{spoiler|Cosmo dies in the final episode anyways.}}
*** Also in ''Sonic X'', Molly is bashed for trying to steal Maria away from Shadow. The ironic thing is that Maria is already dead by the time Molly is introduced.
** Don't forget how often Amy is written off merely for ''existing''.
** Within the Fleetway fandom there's a joke that Tekno and Amy are more
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
** On the flip side, just about no one will even ''dare'' ship [[Latin Lover|Panther]] with Krystal: lo and behold, rabid fans burst like crazy.
*** Not to mention Fara's and Krystal's fans, constantly at each others' throats. [[Continuity Reboot|"Big-eared has-been"]] and [[Canon Immigrant|"boyfriend-stealing skank"]], anyone?
*** And even the [[Ho Yay]] shippers as mentioned can go crazy on one another, especially with [[Anti-Hero|Wolf]], who is often a victim of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] with [[Ax Crazy|Leon,]] or even ''[[Hot Dad|James.]]''
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' has this for Colette, the female lead who interferes with alternate pairings (both het and yaoi) for the male lead. She's detested by much of the fandom, mostly for being a [[
** Zelos is loathed by some Lloyd/Sheena fans for his [[Slap Slap Kiss|canonical interest]] in Sheena, who take the worst of his [[Handsome Lech]] persona and turn him into a straight up [[Jerkass]]. While it ''is'' possible to both kill off Zelos ''and'' pair Lloyd up with Sheena in the game, you cannot do both at the same time, and if you ''do'' kill off Zelos, you've not only thrown off the canon altogether, but thoroughly [[Official Couple|set Lloyd up with Colette]].
** At the shipwars' height, to people who shipped Kratos/Anna, Raine was a bitch and a slut stalking Kratos and trying to force him to forget the only true love he could ever have. To Kratos/Raine shippers, Anna was a blank NPC who Kratos didn't really love, but only felt sorry for. This was despite the fact that Kratos and Raine had fairly minimal subtext, that Kratos and Anna canonically had a child together, and that Anna has been dead for so long in the first game that she and Raine would never have needed to be in competition.
*** Anna also gets the same treatment from some [[Ho Yay|Kratos/Yuan]] fans, although they usually leave Raine out of it entirely. In this case, it also seems partly driven by [[Het Is Ew]].
* ''[[Tales of Legendia]]'' also has this for Shirley, who, like Colette in ''Symphonia'', is the game's female lead. She interferes with alternate pairings for Senel (Senel/Chloe apparently being the [[Fan-Preferred Couple|overwhelming favourite]]), especially since she and Senel apparently become "engaged" at the end of the Main Quest. But even so, it would seem that the vast majority of the ''Legendia'' fandom just generally [[The Scrappy|wish Shirley to burn in the fiery depths of hell]] anyway.
** This is made slightly ridiculous by Senel being a [[Chaste Hero]], who shows no interest in anyone bar his dead ex-girlfriend
*** Even more absurd is that both Senel/Shirley AND Senel/Chloe were already suffering by the point a love triangle emerged. Neither got together with him in the end, but their pining for him prior to that wore thin VERY fast. It makes one consider the possibility that perhaps any pairing with [[Chaste Hero]] Senel isn't a good idea at all...
* Cheria from ''[[Tales of Graces]]'' is strongly disliked by fans of Asbel x Sophie and Asbel x Richard.
* For the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' fandom, we have Kyo's girlfriend, Yuki. Sweet, outspoken, straight-A student... and absolutely hated by Kyo/Iori slashers, Kyo/Shingo shippers, ''and'' authors who want their [[Author Avatar
** To a lesser extent, this is also true of Athena; Where Kyo is concerned, some fics portray Athena as either a [[Stalker with a Crush]] or a [[All Take and No Give|manipulator]] who selfishly toys with Kyo (and/or Kensou's) feelings.
** Let's not forget [[McNinja|Andy Bogard]], in both ''[[King of Fighters]]'' and its sister series ''[[Fatal Fury]]''. Andy took quite a beating from rabid fanboys who preferred [[Ms. Fanservice|Mai]] with their [[Author Avatar
** Not to mention [[Action Girl|Blue Mary]], [[Boisterous Bruiser|Terry Bogard]]'s later love interest. Too many authors resent her for being an obstacle for their [[Author Avatar
* In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', there isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Iris]], for ''daring'' to be {{spoiler|the twin sister of the [[Cute and Psycho]] Dahlia Hawthorne ''and'' Phoenix's ex-girlfriend who actually dated him to save him from her evil sister}}. To some extreme Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, this means Iris is "an evil, hypocritical, stupid [[Canon Sue]] whore who keeps Phoenix and Miles away from each other". To make things worse, the case that introduced Iris also gave fuel for both Phoenix/Maya and Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, making her something of a [[Third Option Love Interest]]. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.
** At least Iris didn't actually hook up with Phoenix. Leona Clyde from the Takarazuka musical gets a ''lot'' of hate for taking the place of several canon characters in Phoenix's life and being his love interest to boot. Of course, much of the shipper hate is mitigated by the wonderful [[Ho Yay]] number with Phoenix dancing with/being assaulted by Edgeworth's backup dancer clones.
** In-universe example: Pearl Fey. Having seen many members of her family (including her mother) deal with broken marriages due to the matriarchal nature of Kurain, she's desperate for her beloved cousin "Mystic Maya" to have a happy and secure marriage with Phoenix Wright. This leads to her flipping out and slapping Nick on occasion if he so much as stands next to other women (including Iris, Pearl's own sister), despite the pair's constant recital of [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]].
* Omitsu is the favored punching bag for bitter shippers in the ''[[Ganbare Goemon]]'' fandom, as she is the sole love interest of the main series - a matter exacerbated by her lack of screen time outside of [[
* ''[[Metal Gear|Metal Gear Solid]]'' fans who prefer Otacon over Meryl can actually kill her off ''in game'' [[Multiple Endings|if they so choose]]. No, it's not canon, but it's better than nothing.
** They appear to have noticed this and provided ample evidence for both Snake/EVA and Snake/Ocelot, letting you choose which one you like better.
** ''Guns of the Patriots'' sets up a romance between {{spoiler|Naomi and Otacon, over which Snake shows visible signs of annoyance. Later on in the story, she commits suicide by deactivating the nanomachines that are keeping her alive}}. Since {{spoiler|Naomi}} has a list of [[Kick the Dog]] moments as long as one's arm, it's probably for the best that she ''did'' die. Heaven knows what her standing with the fandom would be if she {{spoiler|had survived to get in the way of Snake/Otacon.}}
** And then there's the horrible treatment Rosemary gets from people who ship Raiden with the other characters, especially from the slashers. While admittedly annoying in ''Sons of Liberty'' with plenty of [[Narm|narmalicious quotes]], people really took [[Accentuate the Negative]] to extremes with her character. The sheer amount of vitriol sent her way would almost make the non-MGS fan think she was the true villain of the series and more depraved than [[Depraved Bisexual|Vamp]] and more monstrous than [[Complete Monster|Volgin]]. She ''did'' become [[Rescued
** Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki has recently received this treatment as well. In ''Guns of the Patriots'', he gets to {{spoiler|marry Meryl; since then, some pretty rabid Snake/Meryl shippers have ''brutally'' bashed his brains out too. As if [[Butt Monkey|he didn't have enough troubles already]]...}}
*** [[Your Mileage May Vary]], but you have to admit, Akiba {{spoiler|marrying Meryl after all she and Snake had been through in the first game (not to mention hints that Snake still carried a torch in the second)}} was outright depressing for veteran fans of the series. As if the [[Downer Ending|ending]] wasn't like that already.
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** Daisy is also bashed by [[Yaoi Fangirl|those hung up on Luigi being gay]]
** In the anime film ''Super Mario Bros: The Great Plan to Rescue Princess Peach'', Prince Hal from the Flower Kingdom comes under fire from this due to him being Peach's fiance. In other words, messing up the MarioxPeach ending. Thankfully for them, Hal is a [[Canon Foreigner]] who will never show up in the games.
* There are countless ''[[Soul Series]]'' fanfics where the non-playable character [[The Blacksmith|Rothion]] gets killed off so they can pair his wife [[Action Mom|Sophitia]] off with someone else, usually [[The Atoner|Siegfried]] or [[Ninja|Taki]]. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620140745/http://darth.wikia.com/wiki/Sophitia_Alexandra one case], she's been paired up with ''[[Star Wars|Darth]] [[Guest Fighter|Vader]]''.
** The degree of negative treatment Rothion gets is just ridiculous. In one fiction, he was killed, sent to [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|Hades]], locked up in a bone cage, [[Fate Worse Than Death|tortured for eternity]], and given regular, vicious [[Hannibal Lecture
*** This encompasses ALL aspects of fic-hood, from Western written ones to Eastern Doujinshi. Why is this? Well, the answer's quite simple: [[Hot Mom|Sophitia]] is widely considered one of the most attractive women in a series full of attractive women, and her husband's some guy you don't see much, and who, therefore, [http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html according to the worst parts of human nature], is less of a person. [[Show, Don't Tell]] may be in effect.
** You can't forget the [[Aloof Big Brother|Hwang]]/[[Action Girl|Mina]] and [[Canon Foreigner|Link]]/Talim shippers who bash the hell out of [[Hot-Blooded|Hong Yungsung]], either, though part of that is in reaction to the [[The Scrappy|character's many other faults]].
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* Pity Anomen Delryn of ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', a noble would-be paladin who is deeply flawed with pride and, to a degree, selfishness, despite his essentially honorable and kind nature. He arguably caused the npc modding community, and tends to suffer badly at the hands of the fanfic community, usually in favor of [[The Woobie|Xan]], [[Smug Snake|Edwin]], or [[Sympathetic Sue|Kelsey]]. On the other side of the gender equation, the naive and idealistic Aerie tends to be revealed to be a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], secretly evil, or worse.
** Aerie as a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] is pretty much canon. Secretly evil, not so much.
** Anomen's real problem is less [[Die for Our Ship]] than "die for ''any ship at all''". He is the one and only romanceable NPC if you're playing a female PC in an unmodded game, and struck a lot of people as whiny, grating, stupid, or all three. The presence of otherworldly bishounen Haer'Daelis as a ''very'' visible intended [[Love Interest]] (he tries to seduce away ''your'' love interest, if you're a male PC) cut late in development just adds insult to injury for those who disliked Anomen already. Long story short: [[Revenge Fic]] poured in from a wide range of interests, and with a large modding community to support it, got more than a little out of hand...
* Lili from ''[[Tekken]]'' is often portrayed as a full-blown [[Rich Bitch]] or [[Alpha Bitch]], in order to accomodate relationships with people ''she's not even closely related with'' (e.g: Steve and Christie). And here, she's just being a normal [[Ojou]] who happens to like fighting...
* ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]''. Yes, even this fandom has some nasty eruptions:
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** It helps that the companions' personalities change depending on the player's choices, so a dead Neeshka is quite likely to have joined the enemy of her own volition, while a surviving Neeshka is a steadfast and loyal companion who can beat [[Blood Magic]] with the [[Power of Friendship]].
** It's also worth noting that Neeshka and Bishop were originally ''supposed'' to be romanceable, but the subplots got [[Dummied Out]]. Naturally the modding community has seen fit to repair this.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' fandom has a lot of choices to work with, what with the main characters being virtual [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|launchers of a thousand ships]] and no [[Official Couple]] in sight, so there tends not to be much in the way of hard feelings towards the other non-shipped characters... except [[Tsundere|Alice]]. The [[Cute Witch|Marisa]]/Alice ship being one of the [[Fan-Preferred Couple|most popular]], some [[Miko|Reimu]]/Marisa shippers have the tendency to portray Alice in the most negative light possible to drive Marisa away from her. For example, the "Touhou Seasons" quartet of [[Doujinshi]] has Reimu and Alice both fawning over Marisa; while Reimu can be a little annoying, Alice is portrayed as barely being tolerated, with massive and bothersome [[
** It doesn't help that the series is pretty much devoid of men, which allows the yuri fanboys and fangirls to go '''wild'''.
* In the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' Japanese fandom, there was back in the time of the Classic Kirameki Saga's boom in 1996 quite a backlash concerning [[Bromantic Foil|Yoshio Saotome]]'s pairing in the wake of the ''Motto! Tokimeki Memorial'' Radio Drama series, which is one of the pillars of the Classic Kirameki Saga's mythos: near the end of this Radio Drama series, a whole chapter (Chapter 9) was dedicated on how Yoshio and {{spoiler|[[Meganekko|Mio]] [[Ill Girl|Kisaragi]]}} hook up. Since in the original game, aside from his best friend of a main protagonist [[Canon Name|Naoto]], and his little sister [[Kawaiiko|Yumi]], the person Yoshio had the most interaction with was his friend {{spoiler|since Junior High [[Genki Girl|Yuko Asahina]]}}, a good number of people took that pairing as granted ( {{spoiler|despite the fact Yuko considers Yoshio as a ''kusare-sen'' friend, aka a person she doesn't really want to have as a friend but is inevitably a friend anyways}}) and were ''not amused'' at this shipping course change. The whole thing, of course, evolved as well into [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] with those who liked the new course. The mess has fortunately died down nowadays.
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** Wait, there's incestuous necrophiliac ''MK'' fanfic out there? Did ''not'' need to know that.
** No, it's usually not with Noob, [[Squick|thank]] [[Brain Bleach|God]]. Sub-Zero usually tends to be paired with [[Foe Yay|Scorpion]], [[Lady of War|Kitana]], and [[Dark Action Girl|Mileena]]. And of course, a het ship involving the [[Mr. Fanservice]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] tends to come under ''[[Het Is Ew|heavy]]'' fire from [[Yaoi Fangirl|yaoi fangirls]].
* [[Your Mileage May Vary]], but most [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]] Mao/Almaz shippers tend to use the Almaz ending for fanfictions, because Almaz's love interest, Sapphire, ends up {{spoiler|''wanting to kill him'', thinking he is going to kidnap her if she doesn't stike back}}, automatically getting her out of the way, and making her a pretty nice target. Nevermind that {{spoiler|''Mao also wants to kill him for his title''}} in this ending.
** Vocal [[Disgaea 4:
* Flora gets treated this way by some members of the ''[[Professor Layton]]'' fandom, because she's seen as an obstacle to hooking up Layton with his apprentice Luke. This is a particularly ''odd'' example, because 1) Layton's only known canonical romance was with a woman, 2) Flora is Layton's adopted daughter (though there are Layton/Flora shippers too), and 3) Luke is approximately ''[[Shotacon|thirteen]]'' to Layton's approximate [[Squick|36]].
* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' gets a lot of this between Claude, Rena and Dias; Rena/Dias shippers tend to turn Claude from a good-hearted but very lost teenager into a [[Jerkass|weak, whiny jerk]] whose only purpose is to drive Rena into the arms of Dias, who is suddenly smooth, tender and [[The Pornomancer|incredibly good in bed.]] In canon, Dias is [[Ineffectual Loner|very aloof]] and awkward with emotions, and he and Rena spend most of the game thinking of each other as surrogate big brother/little sister despite not being related. But most of the shippers never acknowledge that and go straight for the romance.
** Or else they make Rena into the whiny [[Stalker with a Crush|jealous borderline-stalker,]] so that [[Ho Yay|Claude can run off with Dias...]] or Ashton, in some cases, which usually involves bashing Precis the same way.
** The worst part of the ship wars in this fandom? [[Multiple Endings|You can choose who ends up with who in this game!]] There is absolutely no reason for anyone to die for anyone's ship! Just pair them with someone else in the party, or have them end up alone if you prefer, and it's just as canon as everyone else's ship!
* While not ''as'' vicious as other fandoms, ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has its share of charabashing based on pairings, and ''specially'' after some rounds of [[Ship Sinking]]. The main victim is [[Chef of Iron|Kuradoberi Jam]] (perceived as a shrill bitch who wants to keep Sol and Ky away due to her flirting with Ky in canon). Moreover, a scene in AC+ where she tried to ''poison'' Ky become another reason to increase the hate.
** (Curiously, Dizzy gets much ''less'' hate than expected after, you know, {{spoiler|becoming the Maiden of the Grove, ''marrying'' Ky and being the mother of his child, Sin.}})
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** Aside of this, the fact that the FeMC can be paired with {{spoiler|the [[Shotacon|10-year-old]] Ken Amada}} is rather... polemic on its own.
** And we're not considering all the hate that Yukari gets from all other MC/anyone else shippers.
* [[Persona 4]] fans aren't innocent of this behavior either. Specially after the release of [[The Anime of the Game]], which has pinned the MC/Yukiko, MC/Chie and MC/Rise shippers against each other into quite the bloody fights. Yukiko is called "boring" and "antifeminist", Chie gets ignored, Rise gets slutshamed, and God know what will happen when {{spoiler|Naoto}} joins in...
* Feron of [[Mass Effect]] fame is slowly becoming a target amongst the hardcore fans of Any!Shepard/Liara (particularly Female Shepard), especially after [[Word of God]] suggested that Liara ''may'' have had feelings for the drell during the prequel comic tie-in to ''Mass Effect 2'' (regardless of her relationship status with Shepard). Because it's totally [[Sarcasm Mode|healthy to not move on even a little after your S/O supposedly died right before your eyes]], right? It ''is'' worth noting that Liara never acts upon those supposed feelings: if you continue the romance, Liara says she only saw Feron as a good, platonic friend and nothing more. It doesn't stop the more hardcore fans from invoking this trope on him.
** Despite there being no overt references or hints of romance between Kal'Reegar and Tali ([[Shipping Goggles|not that it's ever stopped anyone]]) in game, Kal'Reegar fares no better with the hardcore Tali/Male Shepard fans. While {{spoiler|he can die in game, most just kill him off on Haestrom anyways}}, this doesn't mean this trope plus [[Ron the Death Eater]] doesn't seep in from time to time too.
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* The ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' fandom is completely dedicated to shipping; the games are more-or-less [[Dating Sim]]'s with farm elements to most fans. Of course there's going to be shipping wars, usually related to [[The Rival]] of certain characters. IE; in ''More Friends of Mineral Town'' related fanfics related to Claire/Kai, Popuri's already flanderized in [[Harvest Moon 64|canon]] personality gets flanderized into having no redeeming factors and just being a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] to Kai.
** Sabrina seems to get the worst of this from her massive Hatedom, especially when it comes to the Vaughn/Chelsea pairing.
** In Tree of Tranquility/Animal Parade, the three most popular guys to marry are [[Tsundere|Gill]], [[Deadpan Snarker|Chase]] and [[The Fool|Luke]] (and the fourth would be Wizard but he has no love rival). Their love interests [[Token
** And in ''A Wonderful Life'', hardly anyone likes Muffy. Fanfics that pair up [[Player Character|Jack]] with one of the other bachelorettes (usually [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Celia]]) often derail [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places|Muffy]] into being a slut. And then you have people who dismiss Celia as being [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|"a boring housewife."]]
** Another example in the ''Wonderful Life'' fandom is Marlin. In canon, he has a tendency of being a little overprotective of the people he cares about. However, in just about every Jack/Celia fic, Marlin's protectiveness gets Flanderized to [[Stalker with a Crush]] levels.
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* [[Golden Sun]] has had a very strong shipping base since the first game, but it was the third game when people really got violent about it. When it was made cannon that Isaac and Jenna got married, and were the main protagonists parents, the hate fics began to flow like water. Many fans had been a fan of shipping Isaac and Mia, as well as Garet and Jenna. The takes of these fics have been from Isaac being detached and a jerk, Jenna cheating on him with someone else (freeing him up) or simply stating that one half of the couple is dead already.
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