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[[File:PinkyElmyraBrain_7897.jpg|link=Pinky, Elmyra and& Thethe Brain|rightframe|Don't worry Brain, the fans shared the same sentiment.]]
 
{{quote|''"You watched it. You can't unwatch it!"''
 
{{quote|''"You watched it. You can't unwatch it!"''|''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''}}
 
[[Brain Bleach|Or can you?]]
 
Western cartoons, like other [[Animated Shows]], have their share of things people would just rather forget.
 
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* A number of fans of ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]'' refuse to acknowledge the spin-off ''[[Pinky, Elmyra and& Thethe Brain]]'' (pictured), due to, basically, hatred of that annoying little brat [[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Elmyra]].
** Fans of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' would also prefer to forget it because it contradicted so much of ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' (i.e. [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Rudy Mookich and Mr. Pussy-Wussy]]) and most of them hate [[The Scrappy|Elmyra]].
* The Direct-to-Video Disney Sequels (and spin-off series) are unaccepted by many due to poor storylines, poor villains and the [[Character Derailment|resetting]] any [[Character Development]]. The greatest offender would have to be ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] III: A Twist in Time'', which has Cinderella's [[Wicked Stepmother]] and stepsisters [[Retcon]] the original movie's ending with the [[Fairy Godmother]]'s wand so that Anastasia gets the prince.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' [[Ship Tease|deliberately set this up]] in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)/The Cave of Two Lovers/Recap|The Cave of Two Lovers]]", with the cut-away from Aang's and Katara's [[First Kiss]]/[[Almost Kiss]]. If you think it was too soon or too predictable, you can decide they didn't kiss. If not, they did kiss.
** [[The Nostalgia Chick]] made a list of the Top 10 Worst Disney Sequels, and especially hates the ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' midquels. She made a Top 5 Least Awful list shortly after that has more tolerable sequels to movies such as ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and ''[[Brother Bear]]''. {{spoiler|Ironically, ''Cinderella III'' is on the latter list, and it's not even at #5 or an honorable mention.}}
** "The Great Divide"--the writers themselves [[Discontinuity Nod|even joke about this]] in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender the Ember Island Players/Recap|The Ember Island Players]]".
* A good portion of ''[[American Dad]]'' fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of [[The Scrappy|Reginald the Koala]].
** "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)/Avatar Day/Recap|Avatar Day]]" as well, but it usually gets a pass because it provides some interesting back story for Avatar Kiyoshi that even gets referenced in the series finale at one point.
* Fans of ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' tend to ignore the fact that the series is a [[Show Within a Show|video game in series]].
** Some diehard Zuko/Katara shippers (or fans of other ships) declare the last few episodes (or at least the parts regarding Aang and Katara) to be discontinuity as well. How exactly this all has to work out is complicated, but basically, Mai either doesn't turn good or turns good but doesn't end back up with Zuko, leaving him free for Katara.
* ''Vuk the Little Fox'' is the adaptation of one of the best and most successful Hungarian children books. It is a [[Gushing About Shows You Like|beautiful and emotional experience]], which quite deserves its place in the IMDB top 10 animation. ''Little Vuk'' (aka ''A Fox's Tale'') is its sequel, made in 2008, 20 years later from the book of the original author's son with a really dumb and unoriginal plot. The cartoon features worse animation than the gameplay of most contemporary videogames with characters in the middle of [[Uncanny Valley]]. Most people pretend it does not exist, and the rest have voted it into its quite deserved place in the IMDB bottom 10 animation.
* Some ignore the ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' [[Grand Finale]], "Ben 10 vs. The Negative 10", and position "Goodbye and Good Riddance" as the ''real'' finale, which is helped by [[Cartoon Network]] airing it as such and the other as a short movie later on. Others disregard "Goodbye And Good Riddance" because of the comic book thing, last used in the [[Alternate Universe]] ep "Gwen 10". That, and [[Word of God]] [[Canon Dis Continuity|does not consider it canon]] either.
* Fans are now claiming that ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' doesn't exist, particularly after Gwen's magic was [[retcon]]ned into "[[Half-Human Hybrid|alien grandma]]", but also because of Kevin's [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Easily Forgiven|how quickly the Tennysons accept him]]. [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Gwevin]] [[Shipping|shippers]], however...
** Never mind that it's been confirmed that ''[[The Movie|Secret of the Omnitrix]]'' was the true series finale.
* For quite a few fans, the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' episodes directed by Gene Deitch never happened.
** Fans are now claiming that ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' doesn't exist, particularly after Gwen's magic was [[Retcon|retconned]] into "[[Half Human Hybrid|alien grandma]]", but also because of Kevin's [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Easily Forgiven|how quickly the Tennysons accept him]]. [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Gwevin]] [[Shipping|shippers]], however...
** Simply put: If it didn't come from Hollywood USA, it's not a ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon.
* Good luck finding a ''[[Bionicle]]'' fan who pays attention to the [[Retcon|Retcons]] about how Matoran and every other living thing in the "Matoran Universe" are supposed to be mindless automatons and how being individuals with personality was just a glitch in their AI. Similarly, paying attention to the retcon inducing universal [[Asexuality]] and [[No Hugging No Kissing]] is a rarity, all the more so since the Mata Nui Online Game and the [[Adobe Flash]] animations, the early material establishing the Matoran's capability to love, is widely considered some of the fandom's favourite parts of the story.
** Also, most fans deny the existence of the 1993 theatrically-released ''Tom and Jerry'' movie, due to the fact that Tom and Jerry [[Suddenly Voiced|talk]], sing, become best friends and, instead of doing slapstick, help some boring little girl find her missing father. Saying that's [[In Name Only]] is like saying Charles Manson was ''slightly'' unstable.
* ''[[Codename Kids Next Door]]'': The revelation that Heinrich is {{spoiler|a girl}} is considered untrue by a number of fans, mainly due [[Shocking Swerve|to the utter lack of build-up to this twist]] just for the sake of wrapping up Heinrich's plotline before the series ended.
*** Not to mention the frankly terrifying scene of {{spoiler|Tom and Jerry standing on the chimney of a burning building watching helplessly as their only apparent means of survival is unable to rescue them. And then the building collapses.}}
** Actually, there were quite a few things fans of the show considered non-canon, from Chad's {{spoiler|being a double agent all along during his time with the Teen Ninjas}} [[Shocking Swerve|for reasons similar to Heinrich's twist]], to the very final episode where {{spoiler|Nigel Uno ends up having to leave Earth to help the Galactic KND}}.
* Most "true fans" of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' consider ''Total Drama Action'' to never have existed at all, mainly due to its massive [[Character Derailment]] (the biggest reason: see [[Love Makes You Crazy|Trent]], [[Took a Level in Jerkass|Geoff]], [[Jerk Sue|Courtney]] ...), destroying many of the couples, and generally being worse quality than ''Island''. Thankfully, things shaped up for ''World Tour''....for about 13 episodes! Afterward, many fans reject the Gwen/Duncan/Courtney love triangle plot, as well as the unpleasant ending of the season as a whole. (The US ending is also more accepted than the Canadian one.)
** Some 1x5 shippers want to ignore the fact that {{spoiler|Numbuhs 2 and 5 get married in the future}}, depsite the fact that it had some foreshadowing.
* ''[[Transformers]]'': Hoo boy. Some fans ignore everything after The Movie (the animated one) or Season 2, ''[[Beast Wars]]'' fans often ignore ''[[Beast Machines]]'' and/or the ''Beast Wars''-specific comic stories, and others ignore ''Beast Wars'' itself. And fans sometimes reject that the comics [[retcon]]ned the origins of Unicron and Primus in ''every'' continuity. Many fans also deny ''The Rebirth'' as canon, mainly because of it's poor writing, animation, and characters. Ignoring this is made easier by the fact that the anime series [[Transformers Headmasters]] takes place after Season Three, but ignores ''The Rebirth''. The [http://tfwiki.net/ Transformers Wiki] has a good article on "[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personal_canon Personal Canon]".
* Numerous fans of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' wish the series ended after Season 4, after which a number of characters including Edward, Henry, Duck and Toby suffered from [[Character Derailment]] (no pun intended) or were [[Demoted to Extra]], unrealistic incidents (such as Thomas being shoved down a railway by a jet engine) happened, Thomas was shunted into nearly every episode (even when he didn't play any role whatsoever), and the Reverend Awdry's work was contradicted (such as Thomas pushing away snow ''without'' a snowplough). Some fans go further and wish Season 2 was where everything ended, as the writing quality arguably started to go downhill after then.
* ''[[The Critic]]'': Most fans of the TV series were disappointed with the webisodes that followed a few years after the show's cancellation. [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/2048/ This fan review] should provide further explanation.
* A majority of ''[[South Park]]'' fans wish to acknowledge that the episodes [[Wham! Episode|"You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers"]] NEVER happened.
* Anything after the "Channel Chasers" movie of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', {{spoiler|which wraps things up with a bittersweet flash forward to Timmy as an adult,}} or anything after Poof's birth, depending on whom is asked.
** Which is especially ironic considering the latter was in and of itself a [[Canon Discontinuity]] of the former.
** Some fans even claim discontinuity on post-"Abra-catastrophe" episodes.
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** Stendy fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of "Raisins", "Follow That Egg", and to a lesser extent, "The List".
*** The [[Live Action Adaptation]] is being dismissed by some fans. Not surprising Shipping plays a role in this.
** And then there's the unnecessary sex change of Mr. Garrison...
*** "Timmy's Secret Wish" is the most polarizing and nonsensical of the TV specials, due to the truth about Timmy {{spoiler|actually being a 60 year old man rather than a 10 year old boy}}. It is just as confusing as it sounds.
* Most fans of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' refuse to acknowledge the third ([[Screwed By the Network|and final]]) season of the show, [[Seasonal Rot|due to head writer Steve Marmel leaving the series]], [[Status Quo Is God|ignoring past character development]], [[Leave the Plot Threads Hanging|and plot threads left hanging]] (despite the creator knowing it would be the last season).
** Granted, [[Nickelodeon]] has a bit of a policy about letting on that a show's ending within the show itself; fans should probably count themselves lucky they got as much closure as they did.
** Even those who acknowledge the last season often ignore the finale episode, due to its {{spoiler|revealing Danny's secret to Valerie and his parents, and possibly the world}}. They prefer to play around with the plot ideas that were nullified by this episode.
* Most ''[[Daria]]'' fans hate the episode "Depth Takes a Holiday" so much to the point that fanfics have been written just to explain how it never happened and isn't canon. Granted, despite no [[All Just a Dream]] disclaimer at any point, the episode was probably never intended to be taken too seriously or intended to be canon.
** The same with "Daria!", the [[Musical Episode]]. In both cases it largely has to do with the [[A Day Atat the Bizarro]] themes interfering with the show's general realism.
* Many fans like to pretend Season 10 and onwards of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' don't exist for a few reasons. Luanne gets into a relationship with "Lucky", an ugly, middle-aged, stereotypical hillbilly and gets pregnant. This is jarring because Luanne beforehand had gone through a lot of [[Character Development]]: she realized that she had a lot of unused potential; she went to college; she had a vow to never have sex again until her wedding day; she never wanted to be a hillbilly ever again: and she had declared that she never wanted to marry a much older man. All of this was just ignored and wasted.
** Plus, the insult to the fans is that the [[Character Development]] went to the ''wrong'' character. Lucky, the show's [[The Scrappy|least popular character]], got good development and became a responsible husband, father, and homeowner, whereas Luanne—who has been on the show since Day 1—degenerated to [[The Ditz|an even bigger dummy than she was when the show first started]].
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** The fact that the whole "new mother" storyline became a massive [[Tear Jerker]]/[[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] with the death of [[Brittany Murphy]] also doesn't help.
** Some fans wish not to consider "What Makes Bobby Run" canon either. It's that to this show as "The Boys Of Bummer" is to ''[[The Simpsons]]".
* There are a number of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' fans who pretend that the {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]}} ending to ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' never happened at all.
* Quite a few fans of the [[DCAU|DC Animated Universe]] like to think of ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' (specifically, ''[[Batman Beyond Return of the Joker|Return of the Joker]]'')and its [[Spin Off]] ''[[The Zeta Project (Animation)|The Zeta Project]]'' as an alternate future rather than the canon one. This isn't because they don't like it (plenty think it was better than most of the series), but because nobody wants to live with the knowledge that Tim Drake will be {{spoiler|so [[Break the Cutie|brutally tortured]] and [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]]}} that it takes {{spoiler|him the next ''fifty years'' to fully recover}}, essentially making the entire history of the DCAU Bat-family {{spoiler|a case of [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]}}.
* Some fans of ''[[Postman Pat]]'' disavow the existence of the newer episodes made by Entertainment Rights. The reasons include political correctness that has seeped into the show and the loss of some classic characters in the recent series.
*** Considering [[Trauma Conga Line|what DC is doing to Tim in the comics]]? It almost makes anything [[The Joker]] does to him look ''tame''.
* Some fans pretend that Season 4 of ''[[ReBoot]]'' never happened due to Hexadecimal's {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
** There are also those of us who just don't want to think of Bruce Wayne as a withered-looking old man or anyone else running around in the batsuit.
** And some do count the first half of Season 4, but ignore everything {{spoiler|after Megabyte-Bob appears.}}
** Some fans of the DCAU do not consider ''[[Static Shock]]'', ''[[Gotham Girls]]'', and ''[[The Zeta Project (Animation)|The Zeta Project]]'' as canon, mainly because of their more "childish" nature, and not being created by [[Bruce Timm]] and [[Paul Dini]]. Same with the [[Lobo]] web show, except it is not childish.
* More than a few fans of ''[[Regular Show]]'' are treating the episode "The Best Burger in The World" as this, due to undoing Benson's recent [[Character Development]] and for having a ''huge'' [[Kick the Dog]] ending.
*** Note about Static: In addition to several DCAU crossover episodes, including a ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' crossover, Future!Static also appears in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Because of Static being mentioned meeting with [[Green Lantern]] in a JLU episode, which DID happen in SS, most fans use [[Broad Strokes]].
** "Do Me a Solid" gets this too, due to the fact that Rigby [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] for ''no reason at all'' and that the supernatural event was a total [[Ass Pull]] (even for a show which runs on out-of-nowhere weirdness).
* The [[Seasonal Rot|Genndy Tartakovsky-less seasons 3 and 4]] of ''[[Dexters Laboratory]]'' are often both reviled or/and ignored by fans. It helps that the last episode of the 2nd season makes a good [[Grand Finale]].
* Ask just about any ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' fan if they consider ''Adult Party Cartoon'' canon. 99.9% percent sure the answer will be "No".
** Season 5 and 6 of [[The Powerpuff Girls]], which were made without Craig McCracken, are just as reviled. Ironically, the most hated episode--"West In Pieces"--won an Emmy.
* A lot of fans of ''[[Rugrats]]'' tend to think that ''Preschool Daze'' and ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' are non-canon, or just try to forget their existence at all.
** There are several points during ''[[Rugrats]]''' run after which some fans don't consider canon. Some fans feel it ended with the birth of Dil, some fans think it ended with the introduction of Kimi, and some fans think it ended when it was [[Uncancelled]] in 1997.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fanfic writers generally ignore the Season 4 hookup between Junior Senior and [[Alpha Bitch|Bonnie]].
** Not to mention [[Word of God]] supported the last-minute hookup of Drakken and Shego. Unsurprisingly, [[Les Yay|Kim/Shego]] remains a more popular pairing for the green girl, although [[Your Mileage May Vary|that is subject to]] [[Flame War|intense]] [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|debate]] between those who [[Die for Our Ship|passionately defend]] [[Het Is Ew|their]] [[Shipping Goggles|favorite]] [[One True Pairing|pairing]] and those who find it [[Moral Guardians|wrong]] [[Crack Pairing|on so]] [[Official Couple|many]] [[Squick|levels]].
* Good luck finding a ''[[Bionicle]]'' fan who pays attention to the [[Retcon]]s about how Matoran and every other living thing in the "Matoran Universe" are supposed to be mindless automatons and how being individuals with personality was just a glitch in their AI. Similarly, paying attention to the retcon inducing universal [[Asexuality]] and [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] is a rarity, all the more so since the Mata Nui Online Game and the [[Adobe Flash]] animations, the early material establishing the Matoran's capability to love, is widely considered some of the fandom's favourite parts of the story.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': The revelation that Heinrich is {{spoiler|a girl}} is considered untrue by a number of fans, mainly due [[Shocking Swerve|to the utter lack of build-up to this twist]] just for the sake of wrapping up Heinrich's plotline before the series ended.
** Actually, there were quite a few things fans of the show considered non-canon, from Chad's {{spoiler|being a double agent all along during his time with the Teen Ninjas}} [[Shocking Swerve|for reasons similar to Heinrich's twist]], to the very final episode where {{spoiler|Nigel Uno ends up having to leave Earth to help the Galactic KND}}.
** Some 1x5 shippers want to ignore the fact that {{spoiler|Numbuhs 2 and 5 get married in the future}}, depsite the fact that it had some foreshadowing.
* Most fans of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' refuse to acknowledge the third ([[Screwed by the Network|and final]]) season of the show, [[Seasonal Rot|due to head writer Steve Marmel leaving the series]], [[Status Quo Is God|ignoring past character development]], [[Leave the Plot Threads Hanging|and plot threads left hanging]] (despite the creator knowing it would be the last season).
** Granted, [[Nickelodeon]] has a bit of a policy about letting on that a show's ending within the show itself; fans should probably count themselves lucky they got as much closure as they did.
** Even those who acknowledge the last season often ignore the finale episode, due to its {{spoiler|revealing Danny's secret to Valerie and his parents, and possibly the world}}. They prefer to play around with the plot ideas that were nullified by this episode.
* Many fans of [[Don Bluth]] films disregard the DTV sequels of his movies (which Bluth had nothing to do with). This is especially true of the series of sequels to ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' because any subtext is now gone and they are now musicals, when the original was not.
** ''[[The Secret of NIMH]] 2: Timmy To The Rescue'' is considered especially excremental because it turns the dark and gritty world of ''NIMH'' into a [[Lighter and Softer]] musical. It's also pretty clear that the filmmakers [[Did Not Do the Research|did not watch the same movie we did]]. Among other things, they failed to understand that the rats saved Timothy because of the debt they owed his father for helping them break out of NIMH. In the second film, the reason has suddenly changed to the rats believing that Timothy ''is PROPHESIED'' to save the rats! (That this prophecy turns out to be a [[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy|Self-fulfilling one]] doesn't help.)
* Most ''[[An American Tail]]'' fans will tell you there was only two movies, not four, just An American Tail and Fievel Goes West. Mostly because of Bridget being written out in the last two.
** There are other fans that believe that there were no sequels at all.
* Many fans prefer to mentally erase the second season finale of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion Of Super-Heroes]] due to Brainiac 5 {{spoiler|inexplicably becoming human, getting a different face design, and leaving the team. Plus there was a lot of Brainy/Superman [[Ho Yay]] that irritated Shrinking Violet/Brainy shippers}}. But mostly they keep to {{spoiler|Triplicate Girl's white-hued self returning from the future}} that also happened in the finale.
* ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'' has its own [[The Movie|movie]] generally being ignored quite a bit throughout the fandom. Not so much that the movie's bad (in fact fans say it's generally the best work of the entire show), but that the characters [[Character Derailment|changed quite a bit]] at the end of the movie. {{spoiler|Eddy is suddenly no longer a [[Jerkass]] and is now a compassionate and caring character. Edd has became far more of a courageous character rather than timid. The cul-de-sac kids (minus Jonny) no longer hate the Ed boys and are now heavily implied to be good friends with them now (that includes Sarah & Kevin). Even the Kanker sisters are shown to give the Ed boys some respect now and generally seem more mature about handling their crushes on them}}.
** Fans absolutely ''loathe'' "If It Smells Like An Ed" for being the biggest [[Kick the Dog]] moment to ever be inflicted on the Eds. They also can't accept that in "A Town Called Ed", {{spoiler|The Kanker family owns Peach Creek rather than Eddy's ancestors}}.
* If you want to keep fans of ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' happy do ''not'' mention the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven". This particular episode was so [[Anvilicious]] and aggressively stupid that it was apologized for in "Jerome Is the New Black".
** It was so bad, it drove a significant portion of fans away.
** Many people don't either consider anything from seasons 4-onwards canon, or anything after season 7 canon.
** There's also in [[In Universe]] example where apparently the Germans ignored World War II.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** Special mention should go to the episode where it's revealed that the Principal Skinner we've known throughout the show's long-running history is actually [[Dead Person Impersonation|a fraud named Armin Tamzarian]]. Many people insist that this never happened. The episode is an [[Negative Continuity|in-show example of discontinuity]], too, because the characters in-show [[Status Quo Is God|decide they prefer the fake Skinner, run the real one out of town, and a judge orders that they never speak of the incident again]].
*** It should be noted that this is played upon in a later episode. At some point in the later seasons, Snowball II dies. Lisa goes through a series of new cats to fill the void, each one also winding up dead through various means. Finally, a cat that looks exactly like Snowball II shows up and is the only cat to survive (albeit by causing a car wreck and subsequent explosion). Lisa joyfully adopts the new cat and says that she will name it Snowball II instead of III because she doesn't want to buy a new cat dish. Skinner, walking by, notes the discontinuity of the situation, to which Lisa responds:
{{quote| '''Lisa:''' I guess it is, Principal ''Tamzarian''. }}
** Perhaps the only episode more reviled for its blatant abuse of canon than "The Principal and the Pauper" is "That 90s Show" which depicts the lives of The Simpsons throughout the 90s, completely ignoring that the events of episodes which aired during the show's earlier seasons took place in the 90s, and completely rewriting canon as a result. This may have been upgraded to [[Canon Dis Continuity]] in later seasons, since they continue to depict Homer and Marge as having gotten together in the 70s.
** Another in-universe example: Comic Book Guy refuses to admit that Superman moved to Gotham City, even though someone wrote a comic about it; he says instead it was dreamed up by the author and never really happened.
** "The Boys Of Bummer" for containing one of the nastiest cases of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] in all of fiction. Many fans have called one of the worst (of not, '''the''' worst) ever made.
*** A similar mention goes to "Million Dollar Abie".
** "Saddlesore Galactica" and " Kill the Alligator and Run" get this treatment too. The former for its downright ''bizzare'' plot, the latter for being ''completely'' made out of "Florida sucks!" jokes.
** And "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" and "Bart-Mangled Banner" for the same reasons as "Saddlesore". The latter especially for being [[Anvilicious]] as all hell.
** Some fans treat "Lisa The Vegetarian" as this, not for being bad (it's considered genuinely funny), but the fact that they feel this episode started Lisa's eventual [[Flanderization]] into a [[Soapbox Sadie]] [[Canon Sue]].
** Fans usually ignore the presence of Sideshow Bob's Italian wife and son. Possibly [[Canon Dis Continuity]] as they're never seen or mentioned again after "Funeral for a Fiend".
** Maude either died a more honourable death (or never died in the first place) according to a few fans.
** And let me make on thing perfectly clear. Barney '''never''' went sober.
** The now [[Official Couple]] of Ned and Edna is getting this.
** "Homer The Heretic" for pretty much being a bizzaro version of "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven".
* While perhaps not as hated as most things in this category, there are many fans who prefer to forget the painfully average ''Beast With a Billion Backs'' movie from ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' history.
** And many others who prefer to think it ended after ''Bender's Big Score''.
*** More specifically, fans in this group prefer to think it ended before the last few minutes of ''Bender's Big Score'', as [[The Ending Changes Everything|those minutes were the first time that the series used the]] [[Timey Wimey Ball]].
*** And then there are those who ignore ''Bender's Big Score'' altogether, to say nothing of the other OVA's (the ''only'' thing in them that these fans might acknowledge is the [[Lighter and Softer]] [[Retcon]] of Season 4's infamous [[Tear Jerker]] episode).
*** ''Attack of the Killer App'' tends to be looked at this way. As the wiki put it: ''Due to it's more topical nature compared to other episodes and the arguable out-of-character moments of some of the characters, several fans have an extremely low opinion of the episode, with some ranking it among the worst in the history of the series.''
**** ''Yo Leela Leela'' gets this too, due to the fact that it barely feels like a Futurama episode. Nothing even ''remotely'' futuristic happens until the end.
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Galaxy Rangers]]'' fans tend to ignore Buzzwang, the Kiwi kids, and most of the episodes they even appeared in.
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' fans often do not count the DIC series as canon because of its inferior writing.
** And many fans tend to ignore everything that happened [[G.I. Joe the Movie|after Cobra's failed attempt to blow up the Statue of Liberty]]. Cobra-La? Never heard of it. The BET? Isn't that a [[BET|cable channel]]?
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fans who like Dib generally refuse to acknowledge the episode "Gaz: Taster of Pork". Not only does Dib, by far [[Only Sane Man|the most intelligent member of the cast,]] firmly latch onto the [[Idiot Ball]], but Gaz also inexplicably changes from someone who merely ignores and insults Dib to someone who regularly ''beats the living shit out of him''. [[Idiot Plot|And then there's the execrable plot]].
** Ironically, in that episode, Dib mentions helping Zim [[Continuity Nod|when they were turned into giant balonies]], and Zim declares, "[[Negative Continuity|YOU'RE MAKING IT UP!]]"
* Though liked as an episode of ''[[Jem]]'', "The Day The Music Died" is not counted when most ''Jem'' fans write fan-fiction.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fanfic writers generally ignore the Season 4 hookup between Junior Senior and [[Alpha Bitch|Bonnie]].
** Not to mention [[Word of God]] supported the last-minute hookup of Drakken and Shego. Unsurprisingly, [[Les Yay|Kim/Shego]] remains a more popular pairing for the green girl, although [[Your Mileage May Vary|that is subject to]] [[Flame War|intense]] [[Ship to Ship Combat|debate]] between those who [[Die for Our Ship|passionately defend]] [[Het Is Ew|their]] [[Shipping Goggles|favorite]] [[One True Pairing|pairing]] and those who find it [[Moral Guardians|wrong]] [[Crack Pairing|on so]] [[Official Couple|many]] [[Squick|levels]].
* Many fans prefer to mentally erase the second season finale of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV)|Legion Of Super-Heroes]] due to Brainiac 5 {{spoiler|inexplicably becoming human, getting a different face design, and leaving the team. Plus there was a lot of Brainy/Superman [[Ho Yay]] that irritated Shrinking Violet/Brainy shippers}}. But mostly they keep to {{spoiler|Triplicate Girl's white-hued self returning from the future}} that also happened in the finale.
** Some fans go as far as ignoring the second season for its darker tone, somewhat declining writing and [[Unpleasable Fanbase|characher redesigns]]. This troper remembers having read someone's journal post wherein they complained about Braniac 5 not being as cute in the second season and that Lightning Lad's goatee made him look like [[Scooby Doo|Shaggy]].
* Fans of the [[Lilo and Stitch]] franchise like to think of the anime as taking place in a [[What If]] [[Alternate Universe]] continuity or just ignore it altogether due to its replacing Lilo with another girl <ref> making "Ohana, means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten" into a [[Broken Aesop]],</ref> and [[Retcon|RetConning]] much of the original, including bringing back Gantu as a villain, despite his redemption at the end of [[Leroy and Stitch]].
** There are also fans of the original movie that [[Sequelitis|dislike the sequels and the TV series]], which have Nani being somewhat of a bitch at times (i.e. "Bonnie & Clyde", "Bugby", "Checkers", "Phantasmo").
* All sides of the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' fandom prefer to act like G3.5 never existed. Likewise, ''My Little Pony Tales'' is often discounted, though to other fans it's a [[Cult Classic]].
** G4 fans prefer to ignore anything and everything that came before ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
** Many G4 fans feel this way about [[Science Is Useless|Feelin' Pinkie Keen]] due to the clumsy handling of its Aesop that took the episode straight into [[Unfortunate Implications]] territory.
*** It was, at the time, also disliked for introducing Pinkie Sense, a strange ability to predict the future that was never seen again. As such, many fans preferred not to acknowledge the ability's existence. However, nineteen episodes later it resurfaced in the equally controversial episode listed below. It finally showed up a third time in ''It's About Time'', thus solidifying its place in the series.
** To say that the S2 episode ''The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well'' got this treatment would be a massive understatement. It got to the point where the show staff actively avoided fan discussions of the episode, and the fansite [http://www.equestriadaily.com/ Equestria Daily] had to put up a "keep your discussions civil" disclaimer the following week for the next episode.
** And then we have ''The Last Roundup'' where the fans simply avoid menctioning the existence of the infamous iTunes version. For the non-familiar with this cartoon, the fandom considers that episode as FIM's Holy Grial, because Derpy Hooves, a character created by the collective fandom, was officialy introduced and made canon as a massive fandom nod, but after some people complained (by calling the clumsy pegasus "offensive") the episode was hastly edited, replacing Derpy's silly voice with a generic one, and editing Rainbow Dash's lines so she wouldn't refer to Derpy her by her name. To put it simplesimply, the fandom ''raged like you wouldn't believe.''
*** After this Derpy spent many episodes absent, then reduced to a funny background sight gag for seasons more—until the season 5 episode "Slice of Life" brought her back as a voiced character, made her the framing device for the episode's plot, gave redid her voice and personality to almost exactly conform to the most popular fan portrayals and completely ignored everything shown or implied in the iTunes episode. So its pretty much [[Canon Discontinuity]] now.
* There are a number of ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' fans who pretend that the {{spoiler|[[Laser Guided Amnesia]]}} ending to ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie Across The Second Dimension]]'' never happened at all.
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' fans often do not count the DIC series as canon because of its inferior writing.
* Some fans of ''[[Postman Pat]]'' disavow the existence of the newer episodes made by Entertainment Rights. The reasons include political correctness that has seeped into the show and the loss of some classic characters in the recent series.
** And many fans tend to ignore everything that happened [[G.I. Joe: The Movie|after Cobra's failed attempt to blow up the Statue of Liberty]]. Cobra-La? Never heard of it. The BET? Isn't that a [[BET|cable channel]]?
* Disney's ''[[Quack Pack (Animation)|Quack Pack]]'', due to incompatibility with ''[[Duck Tales]]''. ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'' uses the nephews in their younger forms as if nothing happened. Some take this further, and only acknowledge the Donald and Scrooge McDuck comics by [[Carl Barks]] (and his spiritual successor, [[Don Rosa]]). Of course, ''[[Duck Tales]]'' had several episodes involving reality warps and time travel, so everybody wins.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fans who like Dib generally refuse to acknowledge the episode "Gaz: Taster of Pork". Not only does Dib, by far [[Only Sane Man|the most intelligent member of the cast,]] firmly latch onto the [[Idiot Ball]], but Gaz also inexplicably changes from someone who merely ignores and insults Dib to someone who regularly ''beats the living shit out of him''. [[Idiot Plot|And then there's the execrable plot]].
** Poor Ludwig Von Drake got the shaft from [[Carl Barks]] and some of his fans for first appearing on a television show a couple of decades after the Donald comics hit it big (and after Gyro Gearloose was established as the [[Bungling Inventor|resident genius]]). [[Don Rosa]] proposed the (shot down) theory that [http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/creators/rosa-on-himself.html#familytree Ludwig von Drake married Scrooge's sister Matilda] to explain why he is sometimes called Donald's uncle.
** Ironically, in that episode, Dib mentions helping Zim [[Continuity Nod|when they were turned into giant balonies]], and Zim declares, "[[Negative Continuity|YOU'RE MAKING IT UP!]]"
** And on the subject of [[Don Rosa]], in his Duck universe, [http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/creators/rosa-on-himself.html#AR103 Mickey Mouse is just a fictional comic character]. The Ducks are the only ones who are "real".
* Though liked as an episode of ''[[Jem]]'', "The Day The Music Died" is not counted when most ''Jem'' fans write fan-fiction.
** The entire canon with the [[Classic Disney Shorts|classic characters]] is usually put together differently depending on who you talk to, especially when you factor in the comics, the fact that the characters pop up in different time periods, and the preschool shows.
* Quite a few fans of the [[DCAU|DC Animated Universe]] like to think of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' (specifically, ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker|Return of the Joker]]'')and its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[The Zeta Project]]'' as an alternate future rather than the canon one. This isn't because they don't like it (plenty think it was better than most of the series), but because nobody wants to live with the knowledge that Tim Drake will be {{spoiler|so [[Break the Cutie|brutally tortured]] and [[Mind Rape]]d}} that it takes {{spoiler|him the next ''fifty years'' to fully recover}}, essentially making the entire history of the DCAU Bat-family {{spoiler|a case of [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]}}.
*** Sometimes they're treated as [[Animated Actors]], which helps explain a lot.
*** Considering [[Trauma Conga Line|what DC is doing to Tim in the comics]]? It almost makes anything [[The Joker]] does to him look ''tame''.
* Some fans pretend that Season 4 of ''[[Re Boot]]'' never happened due to Hexadecimal's {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
** There are also those of us who just don't want to think of Bruce Wayne as a withered-looking old man or anyone else running around in the batsuit.
** And some do count the first half of Season 4, but ignore everything {{spoiler|after Megabyte-Bob appears.}}
** Some fans of the DCAU do not consider ''[[Static Shock]]'', ''[[Gotham Girls]]'', and ''[[The Zeta Project]]'' as canon, mainly because of their more "childish" nature, and not being created by [[Bruce Timm]] and [[Paul Dini]]. Same with the [[Lobo]] web show, except it is not childish.
* More than a few fans of ''[[Regular Show]]'' are treating the episode "The Best Burger in The World" as this, due to undoing Benson's recent [[Character Development]] and for having a ''huge'' [[Kick the Dog]] ending.
*** Note about Static: In addition to several DCAU crossover episodes, including a ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' crossover, Future!Static also appears in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Because of Static being mentioned meeting with [[Green Lantern]] in a JLU episode, which DID happen in SS, most fans use [[Broad Strokes]].
** "Do Me a Solid" gets this too, due to the fact that Rigby [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] for ''no reason at all'' and that the supernatural event was a total [[Ass Pull]] (even for a show which runs on out-of-nowhere weirdness).
* The [[Seasonal Rot|Genndy Tartakovsky-less seasons 3 and 4]] of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' are often both reviled or/and ignored by fans. It helps that the last episode of the 2nd season makes a good [[Grand Finale]].
* Ask just about any ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' fan if they consider ''Adult Party Cartoon'' canon. 99.9% percent sure the answer will be "No".
** Season 5 and 6 of [[The Powerpuff Girls]], which were made without Craig McCracken, are just as reviled. Ironically, the most hated episode--"West In Pieces"—won an Emmy.
* A lot of fans of ''[[Rugrats (Animation)|Rugrats]]'' tend to think that ''Preschool Daze'' and ''[[All Grown Up]]'' are non-canon, or just try to forget their existence at all.
* If you want to keep fans of ''[[Family Guy]]'' happy do ''not'' mention the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven". This particular episode was so [[Anvilicious]] and aggressively stupid that it was apologized for in "Jerome Is the New Black".
** There are several points during ''[[Rugrats (Animation)|Rugrats]]''' run after which some fans don't consider canon. Some fans feel it ended with the birth of Dil, some fans think it ended with the introduction of Kimi, and some fans think it ended when it was [[Un Cancelled]] in 1997.
** It was so bad, it drove a significant portion of fans away.
* ''[[Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get A Clue]]'', one giant misstep for [[Warner Bros]]. By cutting out half the original cast and [[Character Derailment|derailing the two star characters]], one is left with a cartoon that barely counts as a ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' entry.
** Many people don't either consider anything from seasons 4-onwards canon, or anything after season 7 canon.
** This goes for any ''[[Scooby Doo (Animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' series that doesn't star all the original characters. Without the [[Five Man Band|cast dynamics]], the series just doesn't work that well. Where would scaredy-cat Scooby and Shaggy be without brave Fred and smart Velma to lead the way?
** There's also in [[In-Universe]] example where apparently the Germans ignored World War II.
*** Opening [[Schmuck Bait|an inviting-looking chest]], [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo|releasing a bunch of ghosts]], and having to travel around the world with an [[Ethnic Scrappy]].
* While perhaps not as hated as most things in this category, there are many fans who prefer to forget the painfully average ''Beast With a Billion Backs'' movie from ''[[Futurama]]'' history.
** And many others who prefer to think it ended after ''Bender's Big Score''.
*** More specifically, fans in this group prefer to think it ended before the last few minutes of ''Bender's Big Score'', as [[The Ending Changes Everything|those minutes were the first time that the series used the]] [[Timey-Wimey Ball]].
*** And then there are those who ignore ''Bender's Big Score'' altogether, to say nothing of the other OVA's (the ''only'' thing in them that these fans might acknowledge is the [[Lighter and Softer]] [[Retcon]] of Season 4's infamous [[Tear Jerker]] episode).
*** ''Attack of the Killer App'' tends to be looked at this way. As the wiki put it: ''Due to it's more topical nature compared to other episodes and the arguable out-of-character moments of some of the characters, several fans have an extremely low opinion of the episode, with some ranking it among the worst in the history of the series.''
**** ''Yo Leela Leela'' gets this too, due to the fact that it barely feels like a Futurama episode. Nothing even ''remotely'' futuristic happens until the end.
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' fans tend to ignore Buzzwang, the Kiwi kids, and most of the episodes they even appeared in.
* Anything after the "Channel Chasers" movie of ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', {{spoiler|which wraps things up with a bittersweet flash forward to Timmy as an adult,}} or anything after Poof's birth, depending on whom is asked.
** Some fans even claim discontinuity on post-"Abra-catastrophe" episodes.
** When asking fans when the series ended, they'll likely list one of the movies or TV specials. But again, it depends on whom is asked.
*** The [[Live Action Adaptation]] is being dismissed by some fans. Not surprising Shipping plays a role in this.
*** "Timmy's Secret Wish" is the most polarizing and nonsensical of the TV specials, due to the truth about Timmy {{spoiler|actually being a 60 year old man rather than a 10 year old boy}}. It is just as confusing as it sounds.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' has its own [[The Movie|movie]] generally being ignored quite a bit throughout the fandom. Not so much that the movie's bad (in fact fans say it's generally the best work of the entire show), but that the characters [[Character Derailment|changed quite a bit]] at the end of the movie. {{spoiler|Eddy is suddenly no longer a [[Jerkass]] and is now a compassionate and caring character. Edd has became far more of a courageous character rather than timid. The cul-de-sac kids (minus Jonny) no longer hate the Ed boys and are now heavily implied to be good friends with them now (that includes Sarah & Kevin). Even the Kanker sisters are shown to give the Ed boys some respect now and generally seem more mature about handling their crushes on them}}.
** Fans absolutely ''loathe'' "If It Smells Like An Ed" for being the biggest [[Kick the Dog]] moment to ever be inflicted on the Eds. They also can't accept that in "A Town Called Ed", {{spoiler|The Kanker family owns Peach Creek rather than Eddy's ancestors}}.
* Some ignore the ''[[Ben 10]]'' [[Grand Finale]], "Ben 10 vs. The Negative 10", and position "Goodbye and Good Riddance" as the ''real'' finale, which is helped by [[Cartoon Network]] airing it as such and the other as a short movie later on. Others disregard "Goodbye And Good Riddance" because of the comic book thing, last used in the [[Alternate Universe]] ep "Gwen 10". That, and [[Word of God]] [[Canon Discontinuity|does not consider it canon]] either.
** Never mind that it's been confirmed that ''[[The Movie|Secret of the Omnitrix]]'' was the true series finale.
* The fifth season of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' introduced a host of new characters, spent several episodes focusing on them entirely, and concluded with a [[Downer Ending]] finale. This incensed some, and made them clamor for a sixth season (so far unsuccessfully). This is less universal than some examples; the Downer Ending, especially, is [[Flame War|praised as often as it is railed against]]. At least they were nice enough to give us ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' afterwards, which alleviated some people's frustrations, even if it didn't have an impact on the series as a whole.
** Most of this hostility is because Starfire never got a season arc like the other Titans. (One could say that Beast Boy unfairly got two of them: The Terra Plot in Season 2 and [[Doom Patrol]] in Season 5.)
** ''Teen Titans'' also inverts this trope as you will find people insisting it's part of the DCAU, [[Continuity Snarl]]s be damned.
* ''[[Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!]]'', one giant misstep for [[Warner Bros]]. By cutting out half the original cast and [[Character Derailment|derailing the two star characters]], one is left with a cartoon that barely counts as a ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' entry.
** This goes for any ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' series that doesn't star all the original characters. Without the [[Five-Man Band|cast dynamics]], the series just doesn't work that well. Where would scaredy-cat Scooby and Shaggy be without brave Fred and smart Velma to lead the way?
*** Opening [[Schmuck Bait|an inviting-looking chest]], [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo|releasing a bunch of ghosts]], and having to travel around the world with an [[Ethnic Scrappy]].
** Some people desperately pray for the day when they can finally convince themselves that [[The Scrappy|Scrappy-Doo]] doesn't exist. The visceral hatred is just too great to ignore.
*** Heck, even Warner Home Video is making an attempt at this. The DVD cover art for ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby -Doo]]: The Complete Series'' makes mention of just about every main character except for Scrappy.
* In the minds of some, Season 4 (or mid-Season 3) and above of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' tend to be dismissed as this, with [[The Movie]] taking place directly after the third season and serving as the [[Grand Finale]] to the series. [[Flanderization]] and [[Idiot Plot]]s are abound (not so bad in the fourth season, but [[Seasonal Rot|after that...]])
* A majority of ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' fans wish to acknowledge that the episodes [[Wham Episode|"You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers"]] NEVER happened.
** However, [[Word of God]] says that the feature film ''is'' in fact the finale, but it takes place after all the other episodes—even the ones that ''[[Anachronic Order|hadn't been made/aired yet]]''.
** Which is especially ironic considering the latter was in and of itself a [[Canon Dis Continuity]] of the former.
** Some fans believe that the show ended with season 4, due to the following season 5 having Kenny killed off for an entire season.
** Stendy fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of "Raisins", "Follow That Egg", and to a lesser extent, "The List".
** And then there's the unnecessary sex change of Mr. Garrison...
* In the minds of some, Season 4 (or mid-Season 3) and above of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' tend to be dismissed as this, with [[The Movie]] taking place directly after the third season and serving as the [[Grand Finale]] to the series. [[Flanderization]] and [[Idiot Plot|Idiot Plots]] are abound (not so bad in the fourth season, but [[Seasonal Rot|after that...]])
** However, [[Word of God]] says that the feature film ''is'' in fact the finale, but it takes place after all the other episodes--even the ones that ''[[Anachronic Order|hadn't been made/aired yet]]''.
*** Alternatively, some may see Season 4 and above as being an [[Alternate Continuity]] where the events of the movie never happened. This isn't a very difficult position to take, since {{spoiler|Plankton is still trying to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula (and not in jail), despite already having done so in the movie, and there is no Krusty Krab 2.}}
**** Strangely enough, one new episode starts out with Plankton escaping from jail; having been there for "trying to steal the Krabby Patty formula". Since no other incident in which he has attempted this ever landed him in jail, it can be assumed that this takes place after the movie. And yet there isn't a Krusty Krab 2 and...GAAH! It's so confusing...
***** {{spoiler|Plankton actually ''does'' steal the formula in the movie and makes his own Krabby Patties, and then takes over all of Bikini Bottom. His success doesn't last for long though, since he's defeated and locked away at the end (presumably forever, since it ''is'' the finale). The new episode in question cannot possibly take place after this, and it's not unlikely that Plankton hasn't been in jail several times before for his theft attempts. He was probably put away at the end of the movie mainly for what he did to the town and King Neptune (enslaving them, and stealing the latter's crown).}}
** [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Humanized]] versions of the characters always has Spongebob with blond hair and Patrick with pink hair. Whenever the two are shown with hair Spongebob is a brunette and Patrick has black hair.
* ''[[Thundercats]]'' 2019, aka "CalArt version". The fans' opinion is, to paraphrase a Roman saying, "You have appealed to Tumblr; to Tumblr you will go!" Objections to that, curiously, use several variations of "[[Gamergate|gamers don't have to be your audience]]".
* The fifth season of ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' introduced a host of new characters, spent several episodes focusing on them entirely, and concluded with a [[Downer Ending]] finale. This incensed some, and made them clamor for a sixth season (so far unsuccessfully). This is less universal than some examples; the Downer Ending, especially, is [[Flame War|praised as often as it is railed against]]. At least they were nice enough to give us ''[[Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo]]'' afterwards, which alleviated some people's frustrations, even if it didn't have an impact on the series as a whole.
{{quote|@ThunderCatGuide: [//twitter.com/ThunderCatGuide/status/998246517185110016 We are opting out of covering the 2019 series.]}}
** Most of this hostility is because Starfire never got a season arc like the other Titans. (One could say that Beast Boy unfairly got two of them: The Terra Plot in Season 2 and [[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]] in Season 5.)
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' - [[Fanon Discontinuity]] examples:
** ''Teen Titans'' also inverts this trope as you will find people insisting it's part of the DCAU, [[Continuity Snarl|Continuity Snarls]] be damned.
** Perhaps the only episode more reviled for its blatant abuse of canon than "The Principal and the Pauper" is "That 90s Show" which depicts the lives of The Simpsons throughout the 90s, completely ignoring that the events of episodes which aired during the show's earlier seasons took place in the 90s, and completely rewriting canon as a result. This may have been upgraded to [[Canon Discontinuity]] in later seasons, since they continue to depict Homer and Marge as having gotten together in the 70s.
* Numerous fans of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' wish the series ended after Season 4, after which a number of characters including Edward, Henry, Duck and Toby suffered from [[Character Derailment]] (no pun intended) or were [[Demoted to Extra]], unrealistic incidents (such as Thomas being shoved down a railway by a jet engine) happened, Thomas was shunted into nearly every episode (even when he didn't play any role whatsoever), and the Reverend Awdry's work was contradicted (such as Thomas pushing away snow ''without'' a snowplough). Some fans go further and wish Season 2 was where everything ended, as the writing quality arguably started to go downhill after then.
** Another in-universe example: Comic Book Guy refuses to admit that Superman moved to Gotham City, even though someone wrote a comic about it; he says instead it was dreamed up by the author and never really happened.
* For quite a few fans, the ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' episodes directed by Gene Deitch never happened.
** "The Boys Of Bummer" for containing one of the nastiest cases of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] in all of fiction. Many fans have called one of the worst (of not, '''the''' worst) ever made.
** Simply put: If it didn't come from Hollywood USA, it's not a ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon.
*** A similar mention goes to "Million Dollar Abie".
** Also, most fans deny the existence of the 1993 theatrically-released ''Tom and Jerry'' movie, due to the fact that Tom and Jerry [[Suddenly Voiced|talk]], sing, become best friends and, instead of doing slapstick, help some boring little girl find her missing father. Saying that's [[In Name Only]] is like saying Charles Manson was ''slightly'' unstable.
** "Saddlesore Galactica" and " Kill the Alligator and Run" get this treatment too. The former for its downright ''bizzare'' plot, the latter for being ''completely'' made out of "Florida sucks!" jokes.
*** Not to mention the frankly terrifying scene of {{spoiler|Tom and Jerry standing on the chimney of a burning building watching helplessly as their only apparent means of survival is unable to rescue them. And then the building collapses.}}
** And "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" and "Bart-Mangled Banner" for the same reasons as "Saddlesore". The latter especially for being [[Anvilicious]] as all hell.
* Most "true fans" of ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'' consider ''Total Drama Action'' to never have existed at all, mainly due to its massive [[Character Derailment]] (the biggest reason: see [[Love Makes You Crazy|Trent]], [[Took a Level In Jerkass|Geoff]], [[Jerk Sue|Courtney]] ...), destroying many of the couples, and generally being worse quality than ''Island''. Thankfully, things shaped up for ''World Tour''.
** Some fans treat "Lisa The Vegetarian" as this, not for being bad (it's considered genuinely funny), but the fact that they feel this episode started Lisa's eventual [[Flanderization]] into a [[Soapbox Sadie]] [[Canon Sue]].
* ''[[Transformers]]'': Hoo boy. Some fans ignore everything after The Movie (the animated one) or Season 2, ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' fans often ignore ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]'' and/or the ''Beast Wars''-specific comic stories, and others ignore ''Beast Wars'' itself. And fans sometimes reject that the comics [[Retcon|retconned]] the origins of Unicron and Primus in ''every'' continuity. Many fans also deny ''The Rebirth'' as canon, mainly because of it's poor writing, animation, and characters. Ignoring this is made easier by the fact that the anime series [[Transformers Headmasters]] takes place after Season Three, but ignores ''The Rebirth''. The [http://tfwiki.net/ Transformers Wiki] has a good article on "[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personal_canon Personal Canon]".
** Fans usually ignore the presence of Sideshow Bob's Italian wife and son. Possibly [[Canon Discontinuity]] as they're never seen or mentioned again after "Funeral for a Fiend".
* ''Vuk the Little Fox'' is the adaptation of one of the best and most successful Hungarian children books. It is a [[Gushing About Shows You Like|beautiful and emotional experience]], which quite deserves its place in the IMDB top 10 animation. ''Little Vuk'' (aka ''A Fox's Tale'') is its sequel, made in 2008, 20 years later from the book of the original author's son with a really dumb and unoriginal plot. The cartoon features worse animation than the gameplay of most contemporary videogames with characters in the middle of [[Uncanny Valley]]. Most people pretend it does not exist, and the rest have voted it into its quite deserved place in the IMDB bottom 10 animation.
** Maude either died a more honourable death (or never died in the first place) according to a few fans.
* Fans of ''[[Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego]]'' tend to ignore the fact that the series is a [[Show Within a Show|video game in series]].
** And let me make on thing perfectly clear. Barney '''never''' went sober.
* The Direct-to-Video Disney Sequels (and spin-off series) are unaccepted by many due to poor storylines, poor villains and the [[Character Derailment|resetting]] any [[Character Development]]. The greatest offender would have to be ''[[Cinderella (Disney)|Cinderella]] III: A Twist in Time'', which has Cinderella's [[Wicked Stepmother]] and stepsisters [[Retcon]] the original movie's ending with the [[Fairy Godmother]]'s wand so that Anastasia gets the prince.
** The now [[Official Couple]] of Ned and Edna is getting this.
** [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] made a list of the Top 10 Worst Disney Sequels, and especially hates the ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' midquels. She made a Top 5 Least Awful list shortly after that has more tolerable sequels to movies such as ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'' and ''[[Brother Bear]]''. {{spoiler|Ironically, ''Cinderella III'' is on the latter list, and it's not even at #5 or an honorable mention.}}
** "Homer The Heretic" for pretty much being a bizzaro version of "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"
* A good portion of ''[[American Dad]]'' fans refuse to acknowledge the existence of [[The Scrappy|Reginald the Koala]].
 
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