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* Just like the Jean Grey example itself, Zero from ''[[Mega Man X]]'' is known in the fandom for dying and resurrecting at the drop of a hat, which isn't exactly fair. He's only died canonically, what, <s>4/5</s> 3 times? <s>And he's not revived the last time.</s> Scratch that, he came back as a biometal. In the words of Sigma: "ZELLO! JUZDIE!" Perhaps this is because Zero is [[The Obi-Wan]] and the writers thought he was too [[Badass]] to keep dead.
** According to the creator, Zero was originally supposed to stay dead the first time. It didn't work out.
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*** Yuyuko herself would become known as a [[Big Eater]] because of this, as well as her comments about the game's events being a "wonderful midnight snack tour," with [[Flanderization]] taking her appetite to [[Extreme Omnivore]] levels.
**** Aki Eda turns Yuyuko's appetite into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when, at the end of the [[Batman Gambit]] within the [[Xanatos Gambit]] that is ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', Yuyuko prioritizes stealing a simple jug of Lunarian sake over advanced Lunarian technology and weaponry. It's too trivial for retaliatory action and can be consumed in a single sitting so it can never be recovered, but it perfectly broadcasts "We win."
** Youmu isn't a model of courage and maturity to begin with, but since she utterly failed a test of courage in ''Oriental Sacred Place'', it seems the fandom will never see her again as anything but a crybaby who shrieks like a little girl and cries in a corner at the sight of ghosts or anything that looks like one, despite her being half-ghost herself and being indifferent to real ghosts in canon.
** There's also Keine, the unfortunate were-hakutaku who will forever be known for all the [[Touhou/Memes|CAVED]] [[Memetic Molester|people left in her wake]].
** Since the day she lost the Jeweled Pagoda of Bishamonten and needed Nazrin's help to retrieve it, Shou Toramaru has been [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] in fanon into an insufferable and incompetent scatterbrain who loses or misplaces her belongings all the time, much to Nazrin's irritation.
* [[John Romero]]. ''[[Daikatana]]''. That is all.
** Only because we're all confused as to whether or not we were ever actually made his bitches.
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** [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Fi]]. Most fans [[The Scrappy|loathe her]] for effectively taking the [[Stop Helping Me!]] factor [[Up to Eleven]], even rivaling fellow [[Exposition Fairy]] Navi. While she can get rather annoying, by the way some people talk about her, [[Flanderization|she constantly interrupts gameplay every five seconds and always reports information shown right in front of your face,]] [[Ruined FOREVER|and made the game near unplayable.]] The fact that [[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Tatl]], [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|the King of Red Lions]], and [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Midna]] were [[Ensemble Darkhorse|fan-favorites]] didn't help, and Fi's comparatively [[The Spock|cold]] and sometimes [[Uncanny Valley|creepy]] disposition only made it worse.
* Veigue of ''[[Tales of Rebirth]]'' is only remembered by the fandom as "that guy who [[Say My Name|screams his girlfriend's name a lot]].
* [[Way Forward Technologies]] is better known for their oft-maligned launch period [[Nintendo DS]] messenger app release ''Ping Pals'' and [[The Problem with Licensed Games|mediocre cartoon tie-in]] than their more applauded work, notably the rare and [[Needs More Love|underappreciated]] [[Game Boy Color]] game ''[[Shantae]]'', and as such, has infuriatingly been referenced instead in features and reviews on their work in ''[[
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* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' was, unfortunately, hyped just a little too much on its release, leading to key figures in the gaming industry slamming it, to the effect that even now it seems to be remembered as little more than a poor Mario imitator. As anyone who grew up actually playing it at the time can attest, this is quite wrong - it was a beautifully designed, addictive platformer with one of the best soundtracks to grace any game of any time period. And its first sequel was even better in all regards.
** During the peak of
** Unfortunately, game music composer Grant Kirkhope has run into this with the infamous "DK Rap," which served as the [[Theme Tune Rap]] for ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. However, Kirkhope has [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926160412/http://grantkirkhope.com/donkeykong64.html stated that], contrary to [[Misblamed|popular belief]], the DK Rap was ''supposed'' to be cheesy and silly, and not a ''serious'' attempt at a rap song about cartoony talking apes.
▲** During the peak of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''{{'}}s popularity, [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] famously complained that "players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good." What he actually meant was that he was angry at his Nintendo bosses for [[Executive Meddling|interfering with his development of]] ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' [[Executive Meddling|by insisting that it mimic]] ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''{{'}}s [[Executive Meddling|visual style]]. Many took this to mean that Miyamoto believed the game itself was nothing more than eye-candy, and to this day you'll often hear people declare that Miyamoto hated [[Donkey Kong Country]].
* Nintendo will ALWAYS be considered the gaming patron saint of [[Bowdlerization]]. Never mind they have gotten past the [[Never Say "Die"]] point long ago, and how in fact they're the more LENIENT company nowadays, with games released on multiple systems having less censorship on Nintendo systems (or at least the same, but not MORE). Sure, they still censor some stuff every now and then, but no more than the others. Ironically, the most censor-happy company right now is ''Sony''. The same Sony who [[Informed Ability|supposedly]] is [[Darker and Edgier]] than Nintendo.
** Of note: Several of the entries for the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] [[Video Games]] page are on the Wii, including ''[[No More Heroes]]'', ''[[MadWorld]]'', and ''[[House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL'', which had a ''Guinness World Record'' for the number of F-bombs dropped during the game. One might think Nintendo is going out of its way to break their "Kid Friendly" image.
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* ''[[BlazBlue]]'' has some of the more colorful cast there is. However, some of them have been suffering cases of [[Never Live It Down]] which may fling into [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]
** [[The Hero]] Ragna The Bloodedge is squarely a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]. However, due to his past history of destroying several NOL bases and leaving no survivors, something he hasn't done as of late (or at least shown in the game), some people makes it clear and never let the fandom forget that he was a mass murderer... and always will be.
** Jin Kisaragi started out as a psychopath [[
*** This impression is reinforced by the characterization ''Continuum Shift'' gives him. While it's in non-canon gag storylines, it's in at least three gag storylines. Not to mention in Teach Me Miss Litchi, too. [[Implausible Deniability|So, not entirely the fans' faults]] Arc Systems are milking this [[Running Gag]] for all it's worth.
** Litchi Faye-Ling is quite probably the most egregious one. She is all nice and caring to everyone she comes across, provided they're not evil and she does try her best to save Arakune. But one moment she unwillingly joined NOL as [[I Did What I Had to Do|the situation practically forced her to if she wants a shot in saving Arakune]], fans practically considered 'obsession' to be her whole personality, forgetting all the good things she did before (and thought they were just to facilitate her obsession) and mere association with NOL dooms her to be a [[Heel]] in many fans' eyes.
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* Sony Online Entertainment will never live down the "New Game Enhancements" to ''[[Star Wars Galaxies]]'' in Nov. 2005, which caused the hemorrhaging of subscriptions and saw the beginning of the six-year slippery slope to the game's cancellation in late 2011.
** Simiarlly, the Playstation Network will never be looked at the same way again thanks to Sony not handling the hacking incidents on its networks more swiftly, which caused the PSN to be down for almost a month.
* [[Super Mario
* Bianca Whitaker from ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', DS remake, is remembered for having a habit of reminding you [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|how she and the hero went on a ghost hunting when they were kids]]. She only talks about ghost hunting a few time after she and her childhood friend reunion, and will only talk about it more along with other things when you're revisiting her places of memory in a party chat. Of course, some fans ignore this, resulting Bianca being a lot less dateable.
* If one were to mention the name [[CAVE]], the ONLY image that will pop into most gamers' minds is that of their infamous [[True Final Boss]]es, never mind the other 98% of the games they appear in.
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* As noted by YouTuber MattKC in his video about the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bv19Aub3sA rare Japanese version] of ''[[LEGO Island]]'', PC gaming in Japan has had a rather seedy reputation due to it being more associated with [[Eroge]] and those so-called "H-games" than on mainstream, non-pornographic games. It probably didn't help that strict censorship on console games in the country has led adult game developers to publishing their smut to home computers, owing to the relatively open nature of both the IBM PC and indigenous home micro platforms in Japan such as the [[MSX]], PC-88 and 98 among others.
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