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Examples of [[Misaimed Fandom]] for characters in [[Web Comics]] and [[Web Original]] works. includes:
 
* From ''[[Cracked.com]]'':
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** This trope is the subject of Cracked.com's article "[http://www.cracked.com/article_18568_the-5-greatest-books-with-psychotic-fan-bases.html The 5 Greatest Books With Psychotic Fanbases]."▼
 
** [http://www.cracked.com/article_19183_6-tricks-movies-use-to-make-sure-you-root-right-guy.html 6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy] lists tools used to [[Averted Trope|prevent]] this reaction.
== Webcomics ==
* Though most of the games reviewed by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] are just as bad as he says they are, there are a large number of viewers that didn't realize his first review of ''[[Castlevania]] II: Simon's Quest'' was deliberate [[Accentuate the Negative]], and thought the guy who played him genuinely hated that much (James Rolfe stated that the first review was done as a joke and he didn't really think the game was that bad). It doesn't help that he '''frequently''' brings up ''Castlevania II'' when discussing other games' flaws, notably long passwords. His ''[[Metal Gear]]'' review does a better job of what he was aiming for with ''Castlevania II''.▼
* According to the [[Word of God]] of ''[[Drow Tales]]'' Syphile is "not meant to have much redeeming features, she lost them all over time. I wouldn't portray her as anything else." Guess who's treated as [[The Woobie]] by a good portion of the fandom? Given the [[Grey and Gray Morality]] of the world it's understandable to a point, but now that {{spoiler|Syphile's dead}} it'll probably get worse.
* Misaimed fandom is the point of [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02082008.shtml this] ''[[Something Positive]]'' comic. For those who don't get the joke, the author had previously used "[[Catgirl|cat girls]]" to represent [[Straw Fan|annoying teenage anime fangirls]] who spout [[Gratuitous Japanese]].
* A rare ''positive'' example of this occurred during the fake "ending" in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/12/11/episode-1070-what-were-you-expecting/ this strip] of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''. As he claimed in the blog post for the following strip, Brian Clevinger made the strip to piss people off and was later astounded to receive several e-mails of people saying how it was a perfect way to end the strip and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|thanking him for a job well done (even the ones who hated the "ending")]].
* Someone once posted [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html this] ''[[Minus]]'' strip on a board, without any context nor any link to the comic. Immediately people saw it as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], an innocent child's dream of saving the world because nobody told her it was impossible (probably.), that no one should ever lose hope when faced with a [[The End of the World As We Know It]], etc. Of course, anybody who has read the comic knows that:
## It's [[Reality Warper|minus]], so there is nothing "impossible" here. She ''will'' make a home-run with the meteor.
## Knowing her, she probably summoned it in the first place.
* Richard, the undead [[Heroic Sociopath|warlock]] of ''[[Looking for Group]]'', does nothing so much as [[Crosses the Line Twice|play jump rope with the line]]. He has [[Refuge in Audacity|an entire summer home in audacity]]. About the only time we ever see him is when he's [[Omnicidal Maniac|killing stuff for the hell of it]] or [[Deadpan Snarker|making kinda Vincenty Price-y jokes]]. And "stuff" in this context means, well, you name it. Women, children, innocent bystanders, orphanages, whatever. It was well into the story before there was even a hint that he had ''any'' purpose or role other than as super-dark comic relief, or any redeeming qualities at all. Go on and guess which character seems to be by far the fandom favorite. Saying things like "I don't like to see evil characters get away with the things Richard gets away with" on the forums isn't ''quite'' going to get anyone flamed, but expect plenty of people to leap to defense of their favorite comic mass murderer. There are both [[Foe Yay]] and heroics in the strip revolving around Richard, especially in the more recent installments of the comic, so it's unclear if the character has a genuinely misguided fandom, or if he is being evolved in the comic progression, or if one has led to the other or vice-versa.
* It's pretty much impossible to claim [[Misaimed Fandom]] in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' without getting hit with massive amounts of [[Internet Backdraft]], though the contradictory positions means that someone must have the wrong end of the ten-foot pole. But [[Word of God]] eventually stepped in to confirm the "Belkar is [[Chaotic Good]]" claim as nonsense. He's [[Chaotic Evil]], and not exactly [[Obviously Evil|subtle about it]] either.
** And just confirmed {{spoiler|Yes, killing off a quarter of an entire race is evil, even if most of them are also evil. Not that it's stopped people arguing about it}}.
** There's also the case of [[Knight Templar|Miko Miyazaki]] who was a parody of a badly roleplayed Paladin (in contrast to more balanced characters like Hinjo, O-Chul and Lien) yet developed a rather bizarre following despite her overwhelmingly unlikeable nature. Time seems to have faded most of it away, though there are still occasional outbreaks on the official forums.
** Girard Draketooth, who ''somehow'' gained a reputation as a [[Properly Paranoid]] [[Magnificent Bastard]] by his cunning plan of hurling inaccurate accusations of treachery at a dead man and ineffectively trying to blow up a group of people who showed up to help him. Put it down to [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority]].
** This was both Lampshaded and Discussed in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html this] strip, when favorite fanbase villain {{spoiler|Thog shows up as a gladiator, and we are told that "No matter how many people he kills, the audience thinks he's lovable.}}
* ''[http://www.newrem.com NewRem Comics]'' entire fanbase is misaimed. According to [[Word of God]], the main character is intended to be a deconstruction of an RPG Heroine's life after there's nothing left to save, not a cutesy nerd rage comic.
** It would probably help if the author gave any hint of this at all in the strip.
* [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027273/page-27-that-tingling-sensation-youre-experiencing-is-culture-shock/ Gright the Suicide Doll] in ''[[Far Out There]]'' was supposed to be offensive, unsettling, and an attack on the sort of people who would buy such things. Much to the author's horror, readers have demanded actual Gright merchandise ever since.
* [[Collar 6]]: Recently, some fans have suggested that Buttefly may simply be an "antagonist" and not a "villain." This comes with the claim that her torturing Trina for information on Sixx was consensual BDSM.
* Trollface. The meme originated from a [http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/73/Trollface.png comic] lampooning Internet trolls, but the face was so awesome that the very same trolls had no problem making it the most recognizable icon of "the lulz" this side of [http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/1/13/Awesome.png Awesome itself].
* One of the major themes in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' is that [[You Can't Fight Fate|everything is predestined, and that going against what's meant to happen will only result in disaster.]] It's been established in the comic that the kids the story follows are the only ones who will play Sburb and survive - any of the other kids who got the game will be doomed to failure when the meteors come because they aren't the ones who are supposed to play. And yet, fanfics and roleplay that take place in a Sburb session with entirely new human or troll kids are ''hugely'' popular. At least some of them make up a new species for the players to be first, but the vast majority of them don't.
** Zig Zagged in canon; {{spoiler|Hussie has left open the idea that other human sessions escaped, but all of them are also doomed for failure, even showing a brief snippet of a session with a friend of Dad's. No other troll session exists though}}.
** Also, many fans take whatever Andrew Hussie says outside of the comic, such as on the forums or his Formspring page, as [[Word of God]] [[All There in the Manual|that is unarguably canon]]. Problem is, Andrew is a [[Teasing Creator]] and many of the things he writes about his comic outside of the actual comic are intended as jokes.
** Troll Romance was supposed to be comically exaggerated. It and the related characters ended up breaking the comic out into mainstream awareness. Similarly, Andrew chose to make the main characters 13-year-olds so that romance wouldn't come into play. Guess what comic has one of the largest shipping fanbases on the Internet?
* In ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', {{spoiler|Axel proposing to Aerith}} at the end of season 4 was meant to purely be a [[Take That]] towards how most shows tend to end a season with a major [[Shocking Swerve]], but many readers consider it to be a genuine [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* The [[Memetic Mutation|famous]] ''[[Hark a Vagrant]]'' strip about Mr Darcy was originally intended to parody how ridiculously fangirlish women still get about Mr Darcy, because [[Values Dissonance|most of the tropes that made him sexy to the audience of that day no longer apply in modern society]] and because no-one could possibly live up to the [[Memetic Sex God]] Mr Darcy has become in the popular imagination over the years. However, people all over the internet just edit the comic with their fandom's [[Memetic Sex God]], totally unironically.
* [[Misfile]] is a deconstruction on [[Gender Bender]] stories, the nightmare of waking up as a girl being played straight, along with the issues that transgender people go through. However, in the forums there are always people who can't understand why Ash doesn't just conform to the [[Second Law of Gender Bending]].
 
 
== Web Original ==
▲* This trope is the subject of Cracked.com's article "[http://www.cracked.com/article_18568_the-5-greatest-books-with-psychotic-fan-bases.html The 5 Greatest Books With Psychotic Fanbases]."
▲* Though most of the games reviewed by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] are just as bad as he says they are, there are a large number of viewers that didn't realize his first review of ''[[Castlevania]] II: Simon's Quest'' was deliberate [[Accentuate the Negative]], and thought the guy who played him genuinely hated that much (James Rolfe stated that the first review was done as a joke and he didn't really think the game was that bad). It doesn't help that he '''frequently''' brings up ''Castlevania II'' when discussing other games' flaws, notably long passwords. His ''[[Metal Gear]]'' review does a better job of what he was aiming for with ''Castlevania II''.
** Mm? In the Metal Gear review, he specifically says that he isn't trying to find flaws, and everything he says is what he felt when he played the game.
*** And that's actually what he wanted to do with ''Castlevania II''.
*** But Castlevania II was deliberate [[Accentuate the Negative]], where Metal Gear, by his own admission, wasn't.
* ''[[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'' also attracts a lot of this. Despite the fact that a fair number of the episodes conclude with him admitting the film's strong points, any [[YouTube]] re-post will inevitably have loads of comments claiming "he was so right!" and bashing the film in question (sometimes without even having seen the movie themselves). The happens to most of the site's other reviews as well.
** [[The Spoony One]] is ''deliberately'' trying to accentuate the negative on ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' and the other ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' titles; however, his [[Fan Dumb]] tends to overlap with the massive [[Hate Dumb]] and [[Hatedom]] for the franchise, as comments even pointing out how subjective he could be or flat out fallacious were downrated and flamed into oblivion. Even saying that he was [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|complaining about a game he hadn't played and ADMITTED he never played.]] (''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'')
*** Bear in mind, Spoony himself has said that ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'' is probably a very good game, but he simply can't get past the art style and admits that his judging the book by its cover is "massively unfair".
** The Critic also gets a lot of teenage fans who think he's a [[Badass]], manly role model, when Doug has said time and time again that he's supposed to a weak, pathetic waste of space jerk who's always getting the short end of the stick.
** Somewhat related, Lindsay has expressed annoyance that many fanboys seem to think [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] is a "[[Closer to Earth|good person]]" when she's really a fucked up bitch with an [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]].
* Game reviews by [http://www.youtube.com/user/IGSRJ IGSRJ], which serve as dual Irate Gamer parodies/[[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|AVGN]] tributes (though [http://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks Third Rate Gamer] does a better job at the parody part), not only include horrible games, but also games generally believed to be ''the best of all time'', including ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' and ''[[Duke Nukem|Duke Nukem 3D]]''. He does a well enough job at [[Accentuate the Negative|Accentuating The Negative]] that reading the comments reveals that many viewers consistently either bitch about how wrong IGSRJ is, or more stupidly, ''agree'' with his arguments.
* Similar to the above examples, many people actually assume that because they find Yahtzee so funny, he is actually the Word of God and that the games he reviews are genuinely crappy. Never mind the fact that there is a ''huge'' [[Bias Steamroller]] on there, and how he is deliberately trying to [[Accentuate the Negative]]. Many of his reviews are just fixating on one thing that bugged him or attacking the fans. This is especially true with [[JRPG|JRPGs]] and Fighter games, where Yahtzee deliberately insists that he really doesn't know that much ''about'' them and didn't care about fighting games, yet played 'em anyways, acted like he knew everything, said ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' was an okay game, and most of his ''Brawl'' review was pretty much insulting [[Fan Dumb]]. Unfortunately, if you go to the Escapist Forum, you'll find all sorts of people who claim that they were glad they didn't get a game Yahtzee just savaged despite that he said plenty of positive things bout it (Especially ''[[BioBioShock Shock(series)]]''), insist that all fighters and [[RPG|RPGs]] are "Crap" despite proudly admitting [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|having never played one in their lives]].▼
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▲* Similar to the above examples, many people actually assume that because they find Yahtzee so funny, he is actually the Word of God and that the games he reviews are genuinely crappy. Never mind the fact that there is a ''huge'' [[Bias Steamroller]] on there, and how he is deliberately trying to [[Accentuate the Negative]]. Many of his reviews are just fixating on one thing that bugged him or attacking the fans. This is especially true with [[JRPG|JRPGs]] and Fighter games, where Yahtzee deliberately insists that he really doesn't know that much ''about'' them and didn't care about fighting games, yet played 'em anyways, acted like he knew everything, said ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' was an okay game, and most of his ''Brawl'' review was pretty much insulting [[Fan Dumb]]. Unfortunately, if you go to the Escapist Forum, you'll find all sorts of people who claim that they were glad they didn't get a game Yahtzee just savaged despite that he said plenty of positive things bout it (Especially ''[[Bio Shock]]''), insist that all fighters and [[RPG|RPGs]] are "Crap" despite proudly admitting [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|having never played one in their lives]].
** Yahtzee himself has said that he exaggerates the flaws for comedic value, and that he 'praises by exception'. Anything he doesn't mention is fine or at least average, while if he takes the time to mention something's good in the review, he thought it was really good. He's also admitted his prejudices and that what he likes or hates may be the opposite for other people. Above all he just wants people to think for themselves and demand better than 'average' from developers.
** It was also particularly bad about ''Brawl'', in which, before he reviewed it, a lot of people actually liked it. Then, mysteriously, after he said he hated it because it was a fighting game, the Escapist was full of people saying it was the worst game and they were glad they never bothered with it, despite that several weeks before, their posts said they liked it. Suffice to say, if Yahtzee basically said he thought sex was overrated, you can pretty much bet that the Escapist Forums will be full of people who have proudly declared themselves to be celibates or that they were ''always'' Asexual.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' is actually mostly an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', with most of [[Little Kuriboh]]'s hatred being directed at 4Kids. In case it's not obvious, Little Kuriboh is actually a ''fan'' of ''Yu-Gi-Oh''. Unfortunately, this has lead to a lot of people admitting that ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' hatred is "cool" or calling it a "children's card game" for serious, and assuming that LK actually hated the franchise. [[Fridge Logic|Despite that his username is LittleKuriboh]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA This video] is a parody of incredibly impatient gamers. Then people started believing the kid was one, which led him to stop making videos for about a year.
* [[YouTube|The Greatest Freakout Ever]], which has become ridiculously popular among teens and young adults as a humorous video. Any responsible adult who views it can only be horrified at the dysfunction it represents - in both brothers and in their parents.
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*** Wafflepwn, the kid who posts the videos, said that his older brother thought that he (the younger brother) deleted ALL of the videos that he posted and not just the one. (Again, ignoring the question of why Steven had apparently forced his brother to remake one of the videos...and in the supposed remake, Steven's acting a ''lot'' more irrational than in the "actual" video)
** There is also a video in which the kids' ''mother'' is apparently in on this. What kind of mother would ''approve'' of Wafflepwn filming his brother's anger outbursts and ''posting them on the internet''? Especially when there's an interview crew coming in to talk with them both? Really now...Social Services would have enough proof to take away Steven considering there are at least 9 videos of him up as of June 2010. (The neighbours would obviously have found something wrong given how much stuff he destroys ''in plain sight''.)
*** And not to mention, the fact that as of October 2011, there are ''seventeen'' videos up...and in several, they tell Wafflepwn to stop filming. Any responsible adult would have taken that camera away months ago because they're showing videos of them showing their worst side.
* [[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]: some people, as highlighted in [http://karjack.livejournal.com/656327.html?format=light this essay], are arguing that a large part of the audience seems to have missed the point especially in the way it tackled the idea of {{spoiler|[[Women in Refrigerators]] and of Billy as a [[Dogged Nice Guy|Nice Guy]]. Billy's complete transformation into the Dr. Horrible persona is clearly and unambiguously portrayed as a tragedy; not only because of the loss of Penny, but because it costs him the very humanity that his friend associates with. Some people are still going to prefer the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Dr. Horrible over the nebbish [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] Billy.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw These guys] are '''''satirizing''''' the Christian Side Hug. However, more Christian groups have become aware of the Christian Side Hug thanks to the video and have adopted it because they believe front-hugging is a public display of affection and that it can cause accidental sexual contact.
* [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] created Doctor Insano as a satire of the idea that in fiction [[President Evil|obviously evil people can be elected into positions of power.]] However several of his fans said that they would vote for him. Why? [[Villains Never Lie|Because he is honest.]]
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* Christian Lander started [http://www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com Stuff White People Like] as an affectionate satire of his fellow liberal [[Hipster]] types. But peruse through the comments section on any of the site's pages and you'll find that SWPL tends to attract a large number of racists, many of them [[Poe's Law|presumably]] non-ironic.
* [[Urban Dictionary]] is created as a site where people can make their own slang words with their definitions, and also for other people to find out what (a) certain slang word(s) mean. However, a lot of people simply use it as a vehicle for their (biased) opinions. A lot of people noticed it to the point that the most popular definition for "Urban Dictionary" at the very site covers this, it's at the very top of this website's TV Tropes page.
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/01/morning-shows_n_888631.html?#s301817&title=Teens_Facebook_Complaints Australian teen Madelene Zammit vents her frustrations against Facebook in an internet song] with clear statements like "Na, I don't want to be judgmental towards people that I don't know. I'm sure you're nice, but your statuses must go," along with slamming people who post scandalous photos and creepy stalkers. [[Irony|Even after all that, she can't be too pleased after discovering her song was "liked" over 10,000 times by Facebook posters]].
* The Germaine character in the ''[[Neurotically Yours]]'' series is portrayed as the stereotypical goth female teenager that hates men, doesn't take orders from the man (aka refusing to get a job because she hates being told what to do), and acts like her poetry writing is amazing and shows how she knows the world for what it really is. As the series progressed, Germaine is shown to be dressing more and more slutty and performing sexual acts on random men while also revealing her fetishes and what she would do to the people and celebrities she has a crush on, yet Germaine still tries to stay true to her views on men and sex. Viewers of the series kept demanding to see Germaine naked, which pissed off the author every single time and as a response to the requests, he decides to have Germaine grow very fat and shave her hair off to make her ugly. However, not only did this cause people in-universe to find her even more attractive, it caused the viewers to whine at the author to change Germaine back. In response to that, the author made a video where he explains for over 10 minutes on how the Germaine character is supposed to be a satire on girls that claim to be above anything sexual and yet go against their values behind closed doors.
* [[Proton Jon]] has encountered this a few times in his [[Let's Play]] videos. He hates [[Platform Hell|Super Mario World ROM hacks that abuse the use of invisible coin blocks]] and in response to the hacks that kept doing that, he made his own level that had [[Turned Up to Eleven|over 200 invisible coin blocks]] in a platform like maze with a switch at the very top that reveals the level exit. He sent the level to some of his friends and one of them thought the level was just brilliant, causing Proton Jon to exclaim "No, you idiot! You're missing the point!"
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** You'd be surprised at how much Slenderman is idolized despite the fact that he's an eldritch abomination that stalks people, drives them insane, and then disappears them (it's heavily implied in some media that he eats them). Hell, the guy's original appearence as an image macro implies he kidnaps and/or eats children, which I think all sane people can agree is a bad thing.
 
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