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** Treating [[Dragon Ball GT|GT]] as canon is another good way to get people to flame you.
*** Treating the movies or filler as canon is another mistake. Some circles go so far as to discourage discussion of the anime at all, as the only ''true'' canon is the manga.
* Referring to Anthy Himemiya (of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'') as "Anshii" has been known to instill homicidal rages in fans of the show, due to "Anshii" being nothing more than a [[Engrish|Japanese pronunciation]] of the actual Greek name (seeing as Japanese does not have a "th" sound so it has to approximate it with a "shii").
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'':
** Referring to the original characters using the dubbed names. Many fans will ignore you or worse. (Some will wish/inflict physical harm upon you.) However, this has been mediated these days, with decades of rage slowly giving way to admitted nostalgia.
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*** What happens if you say that they are [[Kissing Cousins]]?
**** [[Hilarity Ensues]], at least among the ones who will make fun of [[Dub Text]]-induced incest. It helps a ''lot'' that the dub did everything it ''could'' to support the [[Kissing Cousins]] interpreration, right down to keeping a ''literal'' case of it—on the lips.
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* Do '''NOT''' call Roronoa Zoro "Zolo". Ever. Unless you ''want'' everyone at the ''[[One Piece]]'' forum you visit (with the obvious exception of [[4Kids! Entertainment|4KidsTV's]]) to hate you. Also, never ''ever'' call Luffy simply "Monkey". Other dub spellings provoke similar reactions.
** What if you know his name is [[wikipedia:François l'Olonnais|l'Olonnois]] Zorro (it has two Rs, [[Word of God]] says it's ''that'' [[Zorro]])?
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* Old guys like to remind you that the New York Giants are actually the New York ''Football'' Giants.
** Which '''is''' actually the team's full name, and appears on the wall behind the endzones during home games at their new stadium.
* Pick a stadium in the US that's
** One of the most insane examples: The park formerly known as Comiskey. Charles Comiskey is heralded as one of the worst sports owners; he intentionally made sure his Chicago White Sox players got less meal money than the league average and often skimped on ''washing their uniforms.'' All that led to Sox players conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series in one of sports' worst scandals. The White Sox never returned to the World Series in the next 40 years of Comiskey family ownership. And yet Chicago natives still insist on calling their park Comiskey that the US Cellular name it currently bears.
*** We still call it the '''Sears''' Tower, too!
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** Questioning whether the events of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' really happened is also good [[Flame Bait]] despite the ending hinting at the characters possibly remembering the events of the game as well as part of ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' taking place during the supposedly erased events of said game.
** [[Viewer Gender Confusion|Tails is not a girl]], and never has been. People will gladly tell you this repeatedly.
** Calling Amy "Amy the Hedgehog" will give you some flak, though you can get into a debate that her full-name is "Amy Rose the Hedgehog". Likewise, calling Tekno from the Fleetway comics "Techno" is a bad idea.
** Debating whether Ivo's real name is "Robotnik" or "Eggman" is another classic flame war kickstarter. Sega settled the issue ([[Take a Third Option|both names are official]]) but even this works as well as [[Shigeru Miyamoto]]'s word on [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Sheik's gender]].
** Oh and do ''not'' spell Rouge the Bat's name as [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Rogue.]]
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* In the [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[M. Night Shyamalan]] changed the pronounciations of some of the characters' names, most notably the main character, from their Americanised pronounciations in the cartoon [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|to their more "correct" pronounciations based on their spelling and Eastern origins]]. Predictably, this caused considerable backlash among fans of the show ranging from purist "Trukk Not Munky"-esque [[Fan Dumb]] to more casual viewers who simply found it strange listening to the epynonymous Last Airbender being referred to as "Ah-ng" the whole movie insead of "Eh-ng."
* Any hardcore Disney fan will pointedly tell you, [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'s dress ''is not blue''! This can be blamed on the [[Disney Princess]] marketing, in which a lot of the merchandise shows Cinderella in a blue dress, despite the fact that she never wore that color in the original movies.
** You'll get just as much flak for saying that her hair is blonde, which is understandable as the merchandise and
* ''Never'' refer to ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' as "The Powderpuff Girls", or someone is going to get mad. In fact, that happened to the Girls themselves, intentionally, in a [[Cartoon Network]] promotional cartoon where they break into The Legion of Doom's headquarters (as in, the villains from the old ''[[Super Friends]]'' cartoon) to rescue [[Aquaman]] and [[Wonder Woman]]. Lex Luthor makes the mistake of calling them "the Powderpuff Girls". Needless to say, they're not amused.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' fans hate it when someone spells it "Looney TOONS". Unfortunately for them, people at Warner Bros. actually use that spelling too.
* In-universe example for ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'': When [[Superman]] mispronounces the name of Mr. Mxyzptlk (Mix-Yes-Spit-Lick) as Mr. Miz-Ill-Plick, said [[Reality Warper]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJuEbNB0u8 promptly corrects him on it]. This was done as a [[Take That]] to how his name was mispronounced in the original [[Superfriends]] cartoon.
* The aftermath of asking most fans what Robin's real name is in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' [[Internet Backdraft|will definitely not be pretty.]]
* Confusing ''[[My Little Pony]]'' characters for each other.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' fans hate it when people and the media call it ''The Family Guy''.
* There was a small incident in the ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' fandom, right after episode 21 aired, when someone perpetuated a rumor via Wikipedia that episode 22 would be named something along the lines of "one bot, two bots, red bots, blue bots" or some such thing like that, and somehow several people fell for it. It was even uploaded onto YouTube with that name, but ended up being [[Jossed|completely wrong.]]
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