Never Live It Down/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** Snow himself is [[The Scrappy|hated]] for...[[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|wanting to save his girlfriend from]] an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. He gets far more CD than that (during chapter 7 it's revealed he has a bit of a guilt complex because he knows he ''can't'' save everyone) but according to some fan forums, all Snow can say is "Serah" "Hero" "Protect" and "[[Memetic Mutation|STEELGUARD]]". Doubly weird since he actually let's Serah do her own thing in [[Final Fantasy XIII-2|the sequel]] and repeatedly gets himself beaten in order to protect his crystalized friends...but nobody seems to care about ''that''.

* [[The Chick|Kairi]] only gets properly kidnapped twice in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series (both in ''II'', and in the first instance she actually escapes on her own; the first game had her lifeless body held captive by Riku but her heart/essence safe with Sora), yet most of the fandom apparently will forever deem her a [[Damsel Scrappy]] who "always gets kidnapped" regardless.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'', Erk makes a few small comments to Priscilla about the stress of being Serra's escort. Somehow, this equals him bashing Serra to everyone who will listen every time he opens his mouth.

** Then again, Erk's very first appearance has him complaining about Serra to himself after she leaves, so it's not too far off.

** The Exile was also responsible for the destruction of Malachor V in the backstory: some characters seem to extrapolate this and Peragus and come to the conclusion that blowing up planets is some kind of regular habit for her.

* [[Neverwinter Nights]] has an example in the fan-made continuation of the main campaign Aribeth's Redemption: everyone (even Aribeth) seems to forget about her years of invaluable contribution to the city of Neverwinter and the fact that she barely damaged the city's surrounding territories at all during the Luskan war, all because she was mind-controlled into leading an enemy army to attack the city. Then again, this might be justified.

** Ever since Knuckles was fooled into thinking Sonic was the bad guy in ''Sonic 3'' he has earned a reputation as a gullible idiot who will believe anything Eggman tells him. This has happened, to a far lesser degree in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', itself over 10 years old, and again in ''[[Sonic Advance]] 2''.

** ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' forever cursed Shadow with a reputation as an amnesiac constantly [[Wangst]]ing about being uncertain of his true identity, even though he almost immediately got [[Shadow the Hedgehog|his own game]] which resolved all that.

** This probably doesn't qualify as a [[Never Live It Down]] example anymore, since Contra 4's was pretty well received and Wayforward managed to build up its reputation with good games such as the Wii remake of [[A Boy and His Blob]], LIT and Shantae: Risky's Revenge, among their usual licensed work.

* ''[[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 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 [[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.

** EVERY new Nintendo console game is a Mario game.

* Speaking of Nintendo, their official magazine in Spain, ''[[Nintendo Accion]]'' will ''always'' be considered to be extremely biased towards Pokémon. During the height of the Pokémon craze they had Pokécovers nearly every month, but that's more [[Wolverine Publicity]] than actual bias. Same for having an extra mini-magazine focused on Pokémon. Nowadays they don't cover them much more they cover Mario or Zelda games. In fact, if anything they have a ''Zelda'' bias, with all Zelda games getting huge scores without exception (and ''[[The Wind Waker]]'' getting the only perfect score so far), talking about the sagas as if it was super-popular everywhere (even on Japan, where, while not unpopular, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|is not THAT big compared to its Western fandom]]) and claim Link is the best character on all three ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' games (in the first and third, he's currently at the lowest tier of the [[Tier List]]. On ''Melee'' he's mid-tier), yet nobody accuses them of favoring the Zelda series.

* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is always going to be known as: "That game that gave us [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Bridget]]." Bridget was only one unique character out of many, and he wasn't introduced until the second sequel, but he's easily the most well known.

** Also, [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]s involving Bridget aren't nearly as common in canon as people think. Sure it did happen during Johnny's ending, giving the page image for that trope, but that's really the only notable example. The series itself doesn't try to hide the fact that Bridget is a guy at all, in fact it's the first thing mentioned in most of his bios and in canon Bridget is usually surprised when people actually mistake him for a girl.

** [[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 [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] of the brother-complex variety who only had his sights of Ragna. As the story progresses, we learned his relationship with Tsubaki Yayoi and he tremendously cared about her. In fact, post-CS, he made it his mission to save Tsubaki, making him look heroic. Fandom reaction? He's still and always will be the brother-crazed psycho [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]].