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A show with a wide cast of characters that openly courted [[Ship Tease]] throughout its history? Naw, that couldn't
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* Mai: Good Lord, her treatment by most of the A:TLA [[Fan Dumb]] defines this trope. At first, most Zuko/Katara shippers were apathetic to little!Mai. Even when she came back, all grown up, in season 2 to help Azula pursue the Gaang, most Zutarians viewed her as just a slightly annoying side-character... until season 3 episode 1, when the audience first saw her make out with Zuko. Then Mai became the target of the great Zutarian [[Fan Dumb]]. As Mai and Zuko's canon [[Victorious Childhood Friend|relationship]] blossomed, the Zutarian bashing only intensified. Katara was the character these fangirls identified with, and Zuko was the character these fangirls wanted to tap. When Mai moved in on the boy they wanted, the Zutarians hit her with everything they had, as if this had happened in real life.
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*** The whole "accusation of being a homewrecker" thing wrote itself in episode five with the arguably obnoxious way she described this love triangle, stating that the other woman was "wrong" for Tenzin, and throwing that into her advice for Korra to follow her heart -- which Korra took to mean "take what you want", creating a Makorra moment where Korra essentially pushed Mako into [[Your Cheating Heart|cheating on Asami]]. This was all ''before'' the confirmation that the other woman was Lin (during which Korra even called Tenzin a "heartbreaker" in an almost congratulatory tone), let alone Lin's subsequent moments of awesome in battle which don't seem to be set to stop anytime soon. Knowing how familiar Bryke are with the rabid shippers now, it's almost like they set her up for this trope on purpose.
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