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** Nue with Flandre. Despite their only similarities being the fact that they're both extra stage bosses with bizarre wings and vaguely similar themes, Nue is compared to Flandre, some fans even going as far to call her a rip-off.

** Koishi/Flandre is somewhat popular due to the fact they're both odd, hated sisters of a feared woman who own mansions, occasionally depicted as [[Ax Crazy]].

* [[Deconstruction Fic]]: The fandom contains plenty of this; the piles of [[Fridge Horror]] regarding the nature of many youkai and their relationship with humans, as well as most characters being selfish, belligerent, and very much insane, provide a lot of material. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Doyora A Bad End] is a [[Dead Baby Comedy]] take on this.

* [[Designated Hero]]: Canonically, Reimu tends to be more... cavalier than one might hope from the hero.

** Fans are divided on whether Rika and Rikako from ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'' are the same person or not. Both are more scientifically-minded than most Gensoukyou residents.

** Kurumi may be related to the Scarlet sisters. Her boss theme is called "Scarlet Symphony ~ Scarlet Phoneme".

** Reisen's ears have what look like buttons at their base, which led to speculation that she wears fake ears. However, in ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', the other rabbits in the Lunar Defense Corps have the same buttons too, except for Reisen II, their new recruit. Perhaps the buttons are [[Bling of War|rank insignia]] of some kind?

** A popular fan theory has Maribel and Yukari Yakumo being the same person. The basic idea is that when Maribel sleeps, she dreams she is Yukari. And when Yukari sleeps, she dreams she is Maribel. It doesn't help matters that they look very similar. Or that both have boundary-related powers. There may be some evidence suggesting she is Yukari's past time-displaced self. Although Maribel is from the future, Perfect Memento in Strict Sense mentions that a note she wrote was found in Gensokyo several centuries in the past. Another common association is with Marisa, again because they have similar appearances and in this case similar first names as well.

* [[Just Here for Godzilla|Just Here For The]] [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]]:

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

* [[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}}.

** Inverted with Remilia. In canon, she's a powerful vampire. In fanon, well, the fact that she has [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=923358 a specific pose for cowering] (the [[Fan Nickname|Charisma Guard]]) should tell you all you need to know. It's her [http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yos_piyo/20080709/1215614296 low blocking animation from the fighting games].

** Minamitsu Murasa. She's either CAPTAIN MINAMITSU MOTHERFUCKING MURASA, or she's [[Popeye]]'s [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/503850/ Daughter.]

** [[Fountain of Memes]]: Spawned an absolutely incredible amount of memes and in-jokes for a single series. [[IOSYS]] remixes in particular have a tendency to spawn more.

* [[Moe]]: Fan depictions of the girls have a natural tendency to play up either the girls' moe-ness or badass-ness. Bonus points if they can pull off [[Badass Adorable|both at the same time.]]

** Generally, ZUN tries not to give his characters stereotypical moe personalities, but the [[Fandom]] will do so in the absence of any canon stating otherwise, such as with Koakuma and Momiji shortly after they were introduced.

** [[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).

** [[Sibling Incest]]: Any pair of sisters will have fanart showing them in a relationship.

* [[Spoil At Your Own Risk]]: ZUN specifically requested that the endings to the games not be posted on the Internet to avoid spoilers; fan sites have managed to follow this request, but once in a blue moon, the content will pop up ''somewhere''.

** [[Brick Joke|Kogasa]].

* [[That One Boss]]: Enough examples for [[That One Boss/Touhou|their own page]].

** Fans often describe [[One Man Party|Alice solo]] as the worst playable character in ''Imperishable Night'' because of her narrow range of attack and terrible spell damage. [[Cannot Stand Them Cannot Live Without Them|Possible justification]] of the [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Malice]] Cannon, and maybe even the [[Shipping|pairing]].

** Utsuho in ''Hisoutensoku'' is a [[Skill Gate Character]] with extremely powerful (and surprisingly quick) melee attacks as well as immense and incredibly dense strong bullets. She's also one of the more popular characters, making her the bane of most players just starting out.