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* ''[[The Three Musketeers (
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** Not exactly. In the first part of the novel, [[Don Quixote]] characterization is [[Lord Error-Prone]]. [[Misaimed Fandom]] insisted to see him as the [[Mad Dreamer]]. So Cervantes explore [[Unbuilt Trope|all the ramifications of the trope showing how everyone wants to be with the]] [[Mad Dreamer]]… [[Humans Are Bastards|to mock him mercilessly]]. At his death, Don Quixote becomes [[Bored
** In the first part of the novel, Sancho Panza has several scenes enjoying food and drink to show his easygoing nature. When Avellaneda [[Fan Fiction|published his own second part of the novel]], he accused Sancho of being a [[Big Eater]]. In Cervante’s second part of the novel, Don Quixote’s niece acuses Sancho of this ([[Malicious Slander|she hates him]]) and later, [[Oh Crap There Are Fanfics of Us|when they know about Avellaneda’s second part]], Sancho defends himself against this accusation:
{{quote| "No, senor, that's not true," said Sancho, "for I am more cleanly than greedy, and my master Don Quixote here knows well that we two are used to live for a week on a handful of acorns or nuts. To be sure, if it so happens that they offer me a heifer, I run with a halter; I mean, I eat what I'm given, and make use of opportunities as I find them; but whoever says that I'm an out-of-the-way eater or not cleanly, let me tell him that he is wrong; and I'd put it in a different way if I did not respect the honourable beards that are at the table."}}
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*** This is arguably a case of [[Adaptation Decay|adaptation decay - due to the movies]] cutting out most of Ron's good scenes, giving his best lines to Hermione and turning him into a bit of [[Flanderisation|a comic relief caricature of himself]].
** James Potter won't live down {{spoiler|being a jerk to Snape}}. People who've suffered bullying in the past would see James as a spoiled brat that got everything handed to him while Snape had to suffer his whole life.
*** Mind you, Severus was ''hardly'' any better. He purposely invented a spell whose sole purpose is to slash a person "as if with a sword" and was getting friendly with the the [[A Nazi
* Alanna from the [[Tortall Universe|Tortall]] books suffers from a similar reputation, despite having had relationships with a grand total of three guys in her life, each of them long-term and serious, one of which became a marriage. Yet that's still more than any of [[Tamora Pierce]]'s other protagonists (except [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|Briar]] in the ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' universe), so she gets stuck with a Slutty McSluttington image in some readers' minds.
** The books were banned from a few school libraries as a result of her supposed sexual promiscuity, which probably didn't help.
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* In-Universe example in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': Jaime Lannister is forever known as the Kingslayer for murdering the man he was [[Bodyguard Betrayal|supposed to protect]]. What is forgotten is that the king in question was a [[Complete Monster]] {{spoiler|who was killed to prevent him from roasting an entire city full of people alive}}. The reason this became his defining moment was because only a few people knew that, and most of them were killed in the uprising going on that same night, or deliberately chose not to mention it.
** Also in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Catelyn Stark, despite being a kind and caring mother and a woman with a strong sense of honor and duty, is often remembered for being a stone-cold, callous bitch for her poor treatment of her husband's bastard son, Jon Snow: {{spoiler|her son lies unconscious, forever a cripple, and in a moment of mad grief she tells the bastard, "it should have been you" before breaking down in tears}}. She never lives that one down, it seems. It's a big [[Kick the Dog]] moment, but let's be perfectly honest: who ''doesn't'' get one of those in this series?
* ''[[Twilight (
** ''Baseball-playing'' sparkly vampires.
** The sparkly vampires were already infamous (at least among [[Fan Hater|Fan Haters]]) before the movie, but the movie definitely compounded it.
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