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[[Western Animation]] has a surprising amount of [[Shipping]], both in [[Canon]] and out of it. So the [[Die for Our Ship]] mentality can pop up here, too...
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== Other Examples ==
* Lizzie Devine, Numbuh One's girlfriend during most of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]],'' is often bashed. Numbuh Two is also often bashed for getting in the way of 1/5 even though he's not even ''in'' a relationship with Numbuh Five. (The latter case ''is'' no longer as common as it used to be.)
** It is hinted in The [[Grand Finale]] that {{spoiler|Numbuh Two may have married Numbuh Five when they grew up (despite his canon crush on 5's sister Cree).}} So, Two ''is'' as valid a target as anyone... Also, in the series, {{spoiler|Lizzie breaks up with Nigel willingly.}}
** Also, [[Rule
* Terra, from ''[[Teen Titans (
** Starfire, as part of the [[Official Couple]], tends to get a LOT of hatred from Robin/Raven fans.
** Robin and Beast Boy occasionally get hatred from Beast Boy/Raven shippers and Robin/Raven shippers respectively. Robin will also sometimes get this from Raven/Starfire shippers.
* Some ''[[Daria]]'' fans are still upset that Daria got over her crush on the cool slacker Trent and ended up with the charming preppie Tom, even though Tom is ''[[Deadpan Snarker|exactly]]'' like [[Snark Knight|Daria]], only male and well-adjusted and it's also made clear in the series that she would have been ''really'' unhappy with Trent. Perhaps some of this antipathy stems from the fact that, initially, it seemed like Daria "stole" Tom from Jane; in canon, the characters all eventually got past it and agreed it was unintentional and probably inevitable. The weird part is that Tom and Daria broke up at the end of the series anyway, so they're free to ship her with anyone else... and yet they still try to kill him.
** There's also a group of fans that believe Daria ''must'' remain single for eternity in order to [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|maintain her status as a strong female character]]. Therefore, any scene that depicted Daria being attracted to men, displaying a wish of having a fulfilling heterosexual relationship, or actually dating, is bashed for trying to "ruin" Daria's independence.
** Then there are the bitter [[Les Yay]] shippers who are still convinced Tom was invented for the sole purpose of ruining their fantasies. This despite both Daria and Jane (''especially'' Jane) constantly showing interest in and pursuing men.
** Trent's on-and-off girlfriend Monique is also portrayed as an evil bitch in several Daria/Trent fics, despite her canon self being sweet and friendly.
** It should be noted that after a decade, however, the whole [[Ship
* In a rare pro-fem example, Sprx from ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]!'' has been through this. Though often it's just [[Ron the Death Eater]] here.
* Josh Mankey from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is usually vilified for standing in the way of Kim/Ron. He is usually depicted as womanizing, manipulative, or abusive. This, even though he was shown as caring and understanding the few times he dated Kim. (Kim and Ron had shown no romantic interest in each other until the third season.)
** Kim suffers from this in [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Rongo]] stories that pair him with Shego. Often, Kim is transformed into a demanding, jealous bitch who treats Ron like dirt. One wallbanging fic had her [[Emo Teen|slash her wrists]] after the pair were married.
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** There's also the "Ron was just a rebound" plot device, which can go two ways. One one hand, it can be used against Ron so Kim can dump him for someone else the shipper prefers her with. On the other, it could be used to make Kim look like a bitch so Ron can run into the arms of another (who presumably ''isn't'' a rebound) for comfort. To the point that one infamous fanfic had that "another" be ''Kim's own mother.''
** Then there's Yori, Ron's [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and [[Action Girlfriend]] who very clearly was in love with him. Despite Kim's jealousness fans see her as no threat to their relationship, as Yori is perfectly fine with Kim and Ron as a couple.
*** That is, until certain fans decided that she was ''lying'' about being fine with Kim and Ron as the [[Official Couple]] and is ''secretly'' and ''sneakily'' (she is a ninja after all) trying to win Ron over from Kim.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' had Samantha "Sam" Manson (the one Danny ended up with) as this early in the fandom; she was hated, despised, and bashed in fanfiction written by Danny fangirls who paired Danny with the writer's [[Original Character]]. To this day, the worst of those stories are still archived in Quizilla. However, the hate for Sam toned down when [[Well
** Danny/Valerie shippers frequently claim Sam is some kind of manipulative shrew who thinks of Danny as a tool for her own agendas. It got even worse after [[Victorious Childhood Friend|the finale.]]
* ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', the [[Fan
** It's a bit of a two-way street, as the small faction of Terry/Dana shippers don't look too kindly on Max, either, for the most part. (Although they're usually more mature about it, or at least can't afford to alienate the majority audience.)
** Canonically, of course, the two get along fine: Dana is much more annoyed by Terry constantly missing dates than his friendship with Max.
* ''[[
** There's an in-show example too, as Demona ships herself with Goliath even in the 1990s. Thus, she particularly hates Elisa more than she hates the rest of humanity.
* In ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', the hate against the [[Tsundere]] Jean Grey was a given because her "love rival" for Scott's affection was the very popular and [[Wangst|wangsty]] [[Goth]] Rogue. Amazingly, Gambit is never usually bashed, and his fans don't tend to bash Scott either, both proffering to pretend the other doesn't exist. Lance, ''aka'' Avalanche, who thanks to [[Characterization Marches On]] became a [[Troubled but Cute]] [[Jerk
** Some Lance/Kitty fans are getting just as rabid as Kurtty fans. Yeah, overall they're not as bad, but some are ''really'' [[He Who Fights Monsters|getting vicious towards Kurtty fans, and even Kurt in general.]] Usually they tend to just stick him with Amanda or even Wanda, but now, well, he's just as likely to get bashed. Although some do it to defend Lancitty from attack, some do take it too far, and accuse anyone who doesn't ship Lancitty, no matter the reason, of just being narrow-minded Kurtty fans. All this fighting over little [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Kitty]]! Someone needs to drop her and write the much hotter Lance/Kurt.
* ''[[
** As for Ben, Kai is often portrayed in fanfiction as a snobby [[Rich Bitch]]-esque character.
** And nobody likes Ben's [[Third Option Love Interest|canon love interest Julie]], whose existence sometimes make Ben/Kevin [[Ho Yay]] shippers and Cousinshippers [[Ship Mates]].
** Kevin/Gwen fans now perceive Charmcaster as getting in the way of their ship due to her seducing Kevin in her Alien Force debut episode. Michael Morningstar/Darkstar gets a similar reaction due to his constant flirtations toward "lovely Gwen". Sometimes there is no [[Die for Our Ship]], though, and Charmcaster and Darkstar wind up [[Pair the Spares|paired with each other instead.]]
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider
** A reversed situation happened with Harry/Gwen. When Gwen starts dating Harry, it's clear that she's doing so just because she feels sorry for [[The Woobie|him.]] Shippers agreed with her decision [[Break the Cutie|(Harry went through some Grade-A Shit last season)]] and they waited patiently for them to break-up so we could get to the Peter/Gwen. Just when the build-up to the fabled ship arrived, Harry found out Gwen's true feelings and became jealous. Then another woobie moment happens, and Harry decides to [[Kick the Dog]] by manipulating Gwen into staying with him to "ease the pain," though it's evident he's just jealous of Peter. Shippers promptly went to war.
*** In conclusion: ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' shippers are some of the sanest out there. And therefore the most horrifying. * shudder*
* A great number of fans of the movie ''[[Felidae]]'' are huge fans of the Francis/Felicity pairing even though {{spoiler|Felicity is [[Family
** Justified in that the film ''is'' about cats, who are more interested in plain ol' sex rather than anything romantic. Too bad the fans don't realize this...
* Many shippers of the Jake/Rose relationship in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' became irate when Jake flirted with a certain pink-hat wearing girl because she was a girl who Jake was attracted to and [[One True Pairing|who was not Rose]]. She was even speculated be the "Siren" of a later episode and working for the [[Big Bad|Dark Dragon]]. As the show played out, however, the girl proved to be nothing more than an extra with a few lines.
* Phoebus, from the Disney version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]],'' gets this a lot from people who prefer Esmeralda to be with either [[The Grotesque|Quasimodo]] or [[Love Makes You Evil|Frollo]]. Instead of being the wry, sensible man he is, Phoebus is portrayed as an abusive [[Jerkass]] (completely accurate in the novel, where Phoebus is the only main character without a single redeeming quality, but not in the [[Disney]] film). Quasi/Esme shippers especially seem to think that having Esme end up with Phoebus is [[Broken Aesop|a betrayal]] of the film's "Looks don't matter" message.
* Suzy Johnson of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is an odd example of this because she is Jeremy's little sister. However, she's violently opposed to him dating Candace and tortures her at every opportunity, making her highly unpopular with C/J shippers.
** Johnny occasionally got this from some [[Precocious Crush|Ferb/Vanessa]] shippers, though it largely subsided when it seemed he would just be a [[Girl of the Week|Boy of the Week]]. More than a season later he's back as Vanessa's [[Official Couple|official boyfriend]] ([[Hooked Up Afterwards|in series]] of the Latin American version at least), and it's started up again.
*** In "Minor Monogram", they break up because Johnny is more interested in a video game than her.
** Vanessa isn't too liked by a small number of [[Ships That Pass in
** Nor is [[Pandaing to
** Isabella gets this from time to time for her crush on [[Cheerful Child|Phineas]], especially from [[Not Blood Siblings|Phineas/Ferb]] shippers.
* Trent of ''[[
** Another major [[Ship
** Sierra gets crucified for her massive crush on Cody (Though there are [[Stalker
** Alejandro (the new male contestant) gets quite a lot of hate from Harold/Leshawna, Geoff/Bridgette and Tyler/Lindsay shippers, and anybody who ships Heather with anybody else. Of course, this is sort of a [[Justified Trope]] with [[Official Couple|everyone but Heather]]---he never had any interest in those other girls, he was just toying with them for his own villainous purposes.
** Owen's growing dislike-dom largely overlaps with those who pair Izzy with anyone else. It ''really'' doesn't help that he once had a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment when he pushed her in front of a serial killer to save his own life. This has died down after they broke up in the actual series... only instead of keeping him and Izzy together, fan works use this as a way to quickly pair up Izzy with someone else.
** Geoff is sort of an unusual example - TDA turned him into a massive [[Jerkass]] and came ''very close'' to breaking him and Bridgette up, but he pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] by the end of the season and won her back. Still, those who want to pair Bridgette with somebody else sometimes just use that as an excuse, creating an AU where he stayed a jerk.
** There are many reasons for Total Drama fans to hate Heather. One of them is being seen as a threat to Harold/Leshawna shippers.
** Tyler is the butt of many Trent/Lindsay jokes.
* ''[[South Park]]'' isn't safe, either. Kelly and Tammy are often hated by fangirls who have a crush on Kenny or prefer slash pairings. Wendy, Bebe, and a few others are disliked for the same reasons.
** Fans who ARE fans of Kenny/Tammy bashes Kelly for being a "whiny wuss who picks her nose and can't get Kenny's name right", and the Kenny/Kelly fans bashes Tammy for being a 'Jonas brothers loving slut who killed Kenny".
** NOT every fan 'hates' Wendy and/or Bebe,(otherwise those two wouldn't have alot of fanworks)even if they don't pair them with the boys. Sometimes they're just there for crap's sake or they're paired with each other instead.
** Wendy is ''especially'' hated for being with Stan by adamant Stan/Kyle shippers and Stan/OC shippers alike. First they hated her for being with him, then hated her for breaking up with him, then for getting back with him. And she's either too bitchy and [[Straw Feminist]] or too "[[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|girly and useless]]" in the fans' eyes.
** Rebecca Cotswolds, a minor one-shot character in the vein of Kelly, is absolutely demonized by Kyle/Bebe shippers and Stan/Kyle shippers as well. Sure, she became promiscuous towards the end of the episode, but those fans will often ignore her naive and sheltered personality and turn her into a violent, manipulative bitch and skank who wants nothing more than to make Kyle's life hell.
** More recently, [[Foe Yay|Kyle/Cartman]] writers have taken to writing what are essentially anti-[[Heterosexual Life Partners|Stan/Kyle]] fics that either a) have Stan die and Cartman swoop in to woo Kyle, or b) change Stan's character beyond the point of recognition, making Kyle turn to Cartman for friendship/romance.
*** Funny, {{spoiler|this is now canon, at least friendship-wise. The Season 15 finals shows Kyle would rather hang out with Cartman over Stan after Stan becomes nothing more than a cynical asshole. After Stan moves away from South Park, it shows the once enemies playing video games and smiling at one another.}} Suffice to say, the [[Ship
*** Not so fast! The following episode, "Ass Burgers", ends with {{spoiler|[[Status Quo Is God|Kyle and Stan becoming friends again and Kyle and Cartman going back to hating each other]]}}!
** Stan seems to be in the Dangerzone with the Cartman/Wendy fans for being passionless and neglectful with Wendy. In fanworks he ditches/dumps a sad/brokenhearted Wendy for Kyle which then she gets conforted by Cartman.
** A long long time ago when The South Park movie was new, Gregory used to get this from Stan/Wendy fans. That's all ancient history now.
** Out of all the female characters from [[South Park]], Estella gets the worst of them from the Damien/Pip fans for "being a snooty bitch to Pip", even though it's not like Damiem ever treated Pip any different or better.
* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' fandom, Powerpuff/Rowdyruff shippers are surprisingly vicious towards anyone who even touches pairings but the Girls and their color counterparts, even though the Boys are their [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] and Buttercup had more sexual -- um, tension towards Ace than towards Butch -- and that's just for starters.
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3839904/1/Uncomfortable here]. {{spoiler|[[Die for Our Ship]] meets [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]}}. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* The owner of the [[Mucha Lucha|Rikochet/Buena Girl]] Yahoo! group once ran a poll asking "Do you hate Penny Plutonium because her crush on Rikochet interferes with his relationship with Buena Girl?" Immediately following, he got responses voting for "Yes! Death to Penny Plutonium!"
* Jimmy/Cindy shippers in ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' do not approve of the existence of Betty, or in some cases April. Though, for what it's worth, ''Cindy'' doesn't exactly approve of Betty either. Made weirder because Betty made it clear she ''didn't'' have any romantic interest in Jimmy and basically told Cindy that she could have him. Some fans just can't accept that Cindy is in the wrong with her behavior here.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'''s Ulrich/Yumi shippers tend to take the flawed character aspects of alternate love interests Sissi (who is canonically outwardly annoying, but does show [[Jerk
* There is an obnoxious tendency on the part of [[Balto
* Many [[Hey Arnold!|Helga/Arnold]] shippers hate and despise Lila for Arnold's former crush on her throughout the last part of the series. Which is odd, because Lila did nothing but gently and repeatedly ''turn Arnold down'', and even ''helped'' Helga kiss him after getting her to admit her crush. Granted, it ''has'' been said by [[Word of God]] that Lila is really [[Playing Hard to Get|subconsciously stringing Arnold along]] due to a repressed sexual side, but that still doesn't make her [[Ron the Death Eater|the Evil Bitch from Hell!]]
** Ruth and Summer also don't get spared from this, despite the fact that Ruth was insignificant to Arnold after season 2 and Summer was just a one-shot character who was just using Arnold to begin with and already had a boyfriend.
* Dawn from ''[[
* One-shot character Kitka the Falcon from ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' occasionally gets hate from Skilene shippers. Said shippers also don't like seeing Marlene paired with Julien or Fred the Squirrel, either.
* Bo Peep from the ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' franchise is constantly bashed on, sometimes for getting in the way of the [[Relationship Writing Fumble|Woody/Jessie]] pairing. In ''Toy Story 3'', Bo is mentioned to have been [[Put
** Jessie can get this a bit from Woody/Buzz shippers, and is often called a female version of Woody who was just paired with Buzz because it was more socially accepted.
** The Woody/Dolly pairing has also become quite popular with some fanfic authors. There are at least a couple of AU human fics that have turned Bo into an [[Alpha Bitch]] so that Woody could break up with her and pair with Dolly, his artistic childhood friend.
* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' Janine Melnitz often becomes the target because of her [[Ship Tease|love interest Egon Spengler.]] Usually vilified as either an over controlling harpy or a heartless slut. If the pairing is OC/Egon than this can get especially bad. Doesn't help that Ramis isn't too fond of Janine/Egon either in the original movies.
* From ''[[
** And both Marceline/Finn and Finn/Bubblegum shippers [[Ship
** Many fans had this opinion about Lemongrab after Too Young. Never mind the fact that he's an obnoxious, unempathetic, mean jerk- the fact that he (unintentionally) prevented Finn from being with Princess Bubblegum was what got Fubblegum shippers to hate him!
* {{spoiler|Lo}} from ''[[Stoked]]'' is public enemy #1 for Reef/Fin shippers.
* Leela from ''[[Futurama]]'' often gets shafted in Fry/Bender fics as a cruel, snobbish, manipulative, ungrateful bitch. Stories like this often culminate in Bender protecting Fry from Leela, leading Fry to realize that Bender is his true love, and [[Love Martyr|his (Fry's) longing for Leela is unhealthy]] because she, unlike Bender, doesn't give a damn about how much Fry loves her and/or is extremely abusive towards him. This despite the fact that Bender is canonically ''far, far'' more physically and emotionally abusive towards Fry than Leela is, not to mention ''canonically'' [[Living Emotional Crutch|manipulative and needy]] [[Yandere|and near-psychotically possessive]]. Since [[Dysfunction Junction|everyone in Futurama is royally screwed up]], having Leela being mildly abusive (but far less abusive than Bender) towards Fry would be acceptably in-character — it's only when Leela manages to top Bender in abusiveness that signals that this trope has come into play.
* ''[[Transformers]]'' fans are often the ''embodiment'' of this trope, with Prowl/Jazz frequently serving as the poster child.
* Surprisingly, there's little to none of this immature behavior in [[Justice League]] fandom, despite the [[Love Triangle]] between [[Fiery Redhead|Shayera/Hawkgirl]], [[Hot Amazon|Mari/Vixen]] and [[Green Lantern
* [[Regular Show|Margaret and Eileen]] are hated by the Mordecai/Rigby [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]]
** Actually Margaret's the one that gets all the bashing and hatred while Eileen just gets ignored.
* In the ''Sidekick'' fandom, Kitty and Vana are despised by the Trevor/Eric [[Yaoi Fangirl|fangirls]] for obvious reasons.
* Oh God, [[Wild Kratts]]. It was BAD. Youtube was the real warzone for a while, until one user put their foot down and put a stop to the bashing. It then moved to Fanfiction, up until yet another user put their foot down. The [[Vocal Minority]] were basically terrorists, [[Fan Dumb|claiming]] that the show has evidence (which was parodied in another Youtube video, which has just as much "evidence" as [[One True Pairing|Martin/Aviva]]). And poor Chris. Poor, poor Chris, who did nothing wrong, was [[Dropped a Bridge
** Confirmed. The [[Vocal Minority]] count is set to 4 total- that person created approximately 20 sockpuppets. [[Brain Bleach|Woe upon us all...]]
* Even the [[No Hugging, No Kissing|romance free]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** There's some of this between people who ship Rainbow Dash with Applejack and people who ship her with Pinkie Pie.
*** [[The Long List|And people who ship her with Twilight and people who ship her with Fluttershy and people who ship her with Spitfire and people who ship her with Gilda.]]
* [[Young Justice (
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