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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Since 80-90% of material related to the series is fan-created, this happens quite a bit. We have a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12914835130A21108100 forum thread] dedicated to collecting them.

* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Parsee's entire existence revolves around her being miserable. This is played for laughs, [[Tsundere|especially]] [[Butt Monkey|by the]] [[Chew Toy|fandom]].

* [[Angst What Angst]]: There are a fair number of characters with grim or even tragic histories, and hints that a few others have their troubled sides, but very little angst occurs onscreen (with a few exceptions, mostly involving [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Mokou]]), and the tone of the series [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|tends towards carefree]].

* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: There are a fair number of characters with grim or even tragic histories, and hints that a few others have their troubled sides, but very little angst occurs onscreen (with a few exceptions, mostly involving [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Mokou]]), and the tone of the series [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|tends towards carefree]].

* [[Broken Base]]: The fandom will never stop arguing as to what's canon, whether Touhou is canonically grimdark or not, or over popular interpretations.

* [[Canon Sue]]: Watatsuki no Yorihime and her sister Toyohime to some extent. Feats include [[The Ace|besting four of the primary characters in combat]], being able to summon the power of gods [[Always Someone Better|more properly than]] Reimu, and [[No Sell|blocking a Master Spark with her sword]]. [[Lampshaded]] in ''Symposium of Post-Mysticism''.

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* [[Hype Backlash]]:

** A majority of shoot-em-up fans, who feel that ''Touhou'' has driven attention away from other shmups, particularly those with more mechanical visual styles.

** Non-shmup fans, who are utterly baffled by the popularity of a simple shmup series and really don't dig [[Moe]], [[Animesque]] fanart, or the [[Improbably Female Cast]].

** Non-shmup fans, who are utterly baffled by the popularity of a simple shmup series and really don't dig [[Moe]], [[Animesque]] fanart, or the [[Improbably-Female Cast]].

** People who discover ''Touhou'' through the fandom and then [[It's Hard, So It Sucks|get frustrated to the point of ragequit]] by the [[Bullet Hell]] genre.

** People who get frustrated, disgusted, or scared away by the enormous [[Fan Dumb]].

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** A number of fans don't really play the games so much as read doujinshi or indulge in character fanart.

** Some part of the audience is here for [[Touhou (Video Game)/Awesome Music|its soundtrack]].

* [[Fan Preferred Couple]]: Quite a few. See under "Video Games" in that article.

* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Quite a few. See under "Video Games" in that article.

* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Yukari is a slight heroic example. She led a youkai invasion to the Moon and let them get routed... just to teach them that greed and expansionism is bad. And then we have ''Silent Sinner In Blue''. {{spoiler|Turns out the whole invasion this time was a distraction so that Yuyuko could steal lunar treasures. Yuyuko found the treasures boring and brought back sake instead, but that still pissed off the Lunarians who were supposed to be protecting that stuff}}.

* [[Memetic Badass]]:

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*** Wriggle is often paired up with ''[[Axe Crazy|Yuuka]]'', of all people.

*** Mokou and Mystia, in spite of Mokou claiming to run a [[Carnivore Confusion|yakitori stand]]. Though Mystia is a sparrow, not a chicken.

** [[Everyone Is Gay]]/[[Les Yay Shipping]]: The inevitable consequence of an [[Improbably Female Cast]]. There's even fanart of the girls trying to hit on an obviously uninterested Rinnosuke.

** [[Everyone Is Gay]]/[[Les Yay Shipping]]: The inevitable consequence of an [[Improbably-Female Cast]]. There's even fanart of the girls trying to hit on an obviously uninterested Rinnosuke.

** [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Marisa gets paired with Reimu, Mima, Alice, Patchouli, Flandre, Nitori, and [[Memetic Sex God|many, ''many more'']].

** [[Ship Mates]]: Reimu x Marisa shippers will pair up Alice and Patchouli for this reason (or Reimu/Alice).