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Examples of Misaimed Fandom for characters in Western Blitheness.

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• Adventure Time:
  • Ash was created equally a Have That! to Bounder Boyfriends. Guess what? A lot of the lady fans love him.
  • One of Finn's lessons, particularly in flavour five, is learning he's not entitled to a human relationship, and treated Flame Princess badly. Cue a lot of young male fans angry that FP "friendzoned Finn", or detest Bubblegum for non being interested in someone she's always made clear sees equally a younger brother.
• The Astonishing World of Gumball: 1 particularly memetic clip from the episode "The Best", as seen here, shows Gumball squaring off confronting the passive-aggressive Carmen by deliberately invoking Political Overcorrectness to attack her for everything she suggests (for instance, when she remarks that white staff of life has empty calories that can pb to weight proceeds, Gumball claims she's being fatphobic by assuming that "big people can't be proud of who they are"). Some people unironically mail service the segment as a sign of how stupid and overly sensitive "social justice warriors" are...which completely ignores the actual bespeak of the clip, wherein Carmen realizes what Gumball is doing and calls him out for using the struggles of other people to score points and win picayune arguments. Furthermore, information technology's clear that Gumball is looking for a fight and trying to brand Carmen feel bad. Regardless of the clear argument of difference between genuinely helping others through activism and simply being a reactionary Troll, though, actual Trolls use the segment to justify mocking more left-fly activists.
• Mike Approximate'south well-nigh successful shows, Beavis and Barrel-Caput and King of the Hill, are animated satires of sure subcultures. Beavis and Butt-Head mocked dimwitted early 90s metalhead teenagers who committed dangerous pranks and bashed Hair Metal and pop music artists just because they existed, while Rex of the Colina mocked suburban Texans. The latter, nevertheless, is a more than Affectionate Parody; those paying attending might notice that smug jerks who look down their noses on Flyover Country suburbanites are the ones to get lampooned the almost on that show.
• BoJack Horseman:
  • The titular graphic symbol is a self-loathing, self-destructive alcoholic who ofttimes mistreats his friends and screws up any opportunity that comes his way. And while he occasionally ends up being the Voice of Reason in some of the show's more than bizarre situations, he has an alarming number of fans who identify with him and utilise those instances as prove that he'southward the Only Sane Man.
  • This mindset is deconstructed in-universe in Flavor five, when BoJack stars in the cop drama Philbert. Diane starts writing on the show and uses her experience with BoJack to give the pb character - a sexist, edgy jerk of a detective - more depth. Withal, when BoJack publicly interprets Philbert as a show that says it's okay to be awful, Diane realizes how damaging an impact the show tin can have if more people interpret information technology that way.

    Diane: I made him more vulnerable, and that made him more likable, which makes for a amend TV show. But if Philbert is just a way to help impaired assholes rationalize their ain awful behavior, well, I'thou lamentable, but we can't put this out there.

  • As of the finale, the fandom has split in two: Some feel that BoJack's deportment are completely irredeemable, that he is completely unsympathetic, and considering of this, he should take died in the series' penultimate episode. BoJack is unsympathetic, not unrelatable, and certainly not irredeemable. The series finale even makes several points nearly how important it is to keep moving towards self-comeback even when yous screw upward, and that no matter how terrible life is, it's still worth living through it. The common belief that BoJack, or whatever grapheme, should have resolved their arc through suicide is completely antithetical to that message.
• The Town:
  • Riley Freeman. His character is meant to exist a Accept That! towards the worst aspects of American black civilisation and how it affects impressionable youth. He'southward obsessed with being seen every bit a "existent nigga" and goes through corking lengths to maintain that image. He's violent, ignorant, and obnoxious.. and even so is somehow one of the most popular characters on the show, with many viewing him every bit the "most gangsta' or "realest" grapheme. Many refer to the bear witness as the "realest show on telly" for its hostile take on systemic racism in regime and the justice system, American politics, and more than. These people tend to ignore that some of that snark is also used to concord up a mirror to American blackness culture, analyzing the good and the bad, rather than blindly celebrating all its aspects. The series regularly pokes fun at modernistic gangsta rap and its surrounding civilisation, and equally well as modern buffoonery. Case in point, Lil Wayne was perfectly willing to guest phonation on the testify when he's emblematic of the type of rappers the cartoon usually criticized. And do nosotros fifty-fifty take to mention the episodes mocking BET and its programming? The same goes for Uncle Ruckus. He was created to be the most hated character on the show, however, he ended up mayhap being the most popular. Just blazon Uncle Ruckus on YouTube and encounter the many clips with over 1-hundred g views, highlighting different scenes during the serial. The show itself gave usa an In-Universe example in on of its earliest episodes, "The Trial of Robert Kelly". The eponymous R. Kelly is facing legal matters for giving a 14-yr-one-time girl a aureate shower. His fans proudly defend him at the trial, going and then far as to have shirts reading "Pee on Me". Ultimately, Huey tries to tell anybody off for blindly defending him merely because he's a famous black homo, but they all refuse to listen and R. Kelly gets off scot-free, much to Huey and Tom'due south thwarting.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers:
  • Reportedly, Wheeler was created by Ted Turner to show children but how ignorant Americans are compared to everyone else in the world (in most episodes, Wheeler is the ane who asks questions or learns an Aesop about the subject at hand). Naturally, Wheeler is i of the, if not the most, popular characters among the bandage because most like the humor he brings to the prove. To make things worse, the other Planeteers, the characters who are supposedly the sensible people, are oft perceived as "flat" and "preachy" by the fanbase, equally opposed to Wheeler, who at to the lowest degree had 18-carat personality flaws to struggle with. It also helps that his complaints or observations over valid things got dismissed or ignored because The Complainer Is Always Incorrect.
  • The villains were portrayed in as much of a Anvilicious way as possible with their Jerkass and Cartoonish Supervillainy role turned Up to Eleven, by blueprint, so as non to confuse children into thinking anybody who the testify speaks out against are this fashion. However some activists seemingly use this every bit a guide or template to say that every average joe who is only trying to provide for their family in using environmental resources is the same.
• There's a religious cult in Russian federation that worships Gadget from Chip 'due north Dale: Rescue Rangers. Particularly odd is that this is the same series that had an episode about how dangerous cults tin exist!
• Followers of Mahatma Gandhi infamously protested Clone High for portraying Gandhi as a ditzy political party animal. Never heed that non only are the teenage clones non the bodily historical figures, just beings with the same Deoxyribonucleic acid, clone Gandhi's rambunctious attitude is considering he couldn't live up to the real Gandhi's legacy.
• A considerable number of Courage the Cowardly Dog fans have shipped Courage with Katz even though the latter is a remorseless psychopath who has attempted to kill Courage and/or the Bagges in all of his appearances.
• Danny Phantom:
  • Fanfics are sharply divided betwixt the silliness of the later episodes and very serious fan fiction that could rightly belong in novel form.
  • Also, many fangirls see Ax-Crazy Dark Danny as sympathetic, in spite of having the honor of beingness a sadistic sociopath who killed his human self along with probably millions of others, and tried to go back into the past to impale his own family unit to ensure his existence!
• Daria:
  • Parodied on an episode of Daria where Daria appears at a java house's opening reading an obviously satirical brusque story almost a spy on an anti-communist operation. The reading stirs up a anarchism of anti-communist frenzy and forces the closure of the buffet. This was very clearly her intent, as she was coerced into the reading by her English language instructor.
  • Daria herself is ofttimes seen equally a role model snarky heroine, which ignores the fact that her cold beliefs does accept consequences. Peers and adults alike are often frustrated by her attitude. Her female parent even points out that while she's good at making quips, she often doesn't know how to express what she actually wants. There's even a whole episode ("Boxing Daria") defended to show Daria's problems with people and herself, but the fans keep holding her upward as a perfect graphic symbol. In fact, during the show's run, it was not uncommon to hear some fans say "I'1000 merely like Daria" or "I wish Daria was my all-time friend". These people completely miss the betoken of the character. Daria has one friend BY CHOICE, and if you asked her to make the affair she hates virtually, she'd say 1 word: people.
• The Dragon Prince:
  • Despite Runaan existence portrayed every bit outright villainous, many fans non only sympathize him, just portray him as outright heroic in fanon. This is despite the fact that he kills the father of two of the protagonists, tries to kill Callum despite knowing the latter is not a target nor means him any impairment, and tries to carry out his assassination against Ezran despite knowing the dragon egg is alive. Runaan embodies the cycle of violence and prejudice that the chief characters are trying to stop.
  • Viren has quite a number of defenders who insist he'south a morally complicated villain (or even the hero of the story!), and that his evil deportment in season three came out of nowhere and were an attempt by writers to brand him a less sympathetic villain. Except...Viren has washed unquestionably terrible things before, almost notably when he imprisoned Gren to continue him from leading a rescue mission for the princes, and instead tried to accept his son murder them. While information technology was certainly more obvious that he was a villain in later episodes, information technology was always clear that he was someone you shouldn't be rooting for.
• Duckman. In some very strange parts of the internet, Duckman gets hailed every bit "the greatest philosophical listen of this generation." Really? While his rants are sometimes justified and can have 18-carat points to them at the best of times, he'south generally a spiteful, selfish, arrogant prick.
• Ducktales 2017: Every bit said by Word of God, there'due south not supposed to exist a "right" and "incorrect" side in the belatedly season 2 conflict between Louie and Della; they're simply two stubborn, flawed people who need each other to help work through said flaws. Naturally, a significant portion of the fandom missed the betoken entirely and chose to paint 1 side as entirely correct and one equally entirely wrong, largely based on who they like more.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Edd. Okay, he's smart, sane and problably the most sympathetic character in the prove but the fangirls tend to creepo his positive qualities Upwardly to Eleven, totally forgetting about his flaws (Super OCD, physical weakness, judgmental nature, nagging and overreacting tendencies, lack of spine etc.). Also many fans act like Edd is completely innocent when it comes to scams and act like it'due south only Ed and Eddy'south error. Yes, Eddy does sometimes boss Edd into participating in his scams, only Edd fabricated his own decision to help Boil out. Doing something you know is wrong out of peer pressure does not make you blameless. Not to mention that most of the time, he partakes against his better judgment.
  • Eddy's Draco in Leather Pants condition tin count. While it's understandable how some fans would find him tolerable due to his tragic backstory and him getting karmic retribution for his jerkass behavior, some fans tend to make Eddy come off as completely innocent, while blaming his jerkass behavior on his brother. Also, the same fans even endeavor to make him seem like the victim suffering punishment they think he didn't deserve and blaming whoever took vengeance on him even in episodes where he was clearly in the incorrect ("Cry Ed", "Brother, Can Y'all Spare an Ed?", " Hither's Mud in Your Ed", "Option an Ed," & "If It Smells Like An Ed.").
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy's Large Moving-picture show Show: Some of the viewers actually enjoyed seeing Eddy existence beaten by his sociopathic blood brother because of him tricking Edd into believing he drowned in quicksand, which ignores that Edd already royally chewed him out for information technology and caused Boil to finally break down sobbing in remorse and admitting that he'south a wiggle whose brought all his misery upon himself.
• Family Guy:
  • In the episode "viii Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", there is a scene where Brian, Chris, Peter and Stewie accept an ipecac drinking contest. This is shown to exist a terrible, terrible thought. And yet, the scene is credited with inspiring a recent upsurge in Ipecac-utilize amid teenage bulimics.
  • Many fans call back that One thousand thousand deserves her Butt-Monkey condition and the abuse she gets from her parents because she was a Bratty Teenage Daughter in earlier seasons. Regardless of how you feel about Meg, this is very clearly non a mindset that ethical people should genuinely believe, and they particularly shouldn't utilise it to any of their real-life relationships.
• Demona of Gargoyles gets this a lot. Being arguably the about popular character in the series, and a very attractive female, a big and vocal number of her fans tend non only to absolve her of whatsoever responsibleness for her mistakes, but to pin the arraign on other characters. These fans completely miss the signal, as series creator, Greg Weisman has said over and over again that Demona is her own worst enemy, and that her entire life is a rationalization. Her most iconic quote, later on witnessing the massacre of her association (made possible by her betrayal) was "what have I... what have THEY washed to you?!" That's pretty much what the "Demona Revisionists" practice. Like character like fandom. Hilariously, Demona actually gets into a fight with a previous version of herself. Plain, even her earlier self despises her for what she's done. Become figure. Explained (or perhaps made even worse) by the fact that while Demona is a sympathetic villain, she'due south sympathetic in a "nosotros experience sorry for her considering she's so messed up" way, non a "we think she'southward bully and want her to win" fashion.
• In-universe example on Futurama: Dwight and Cubert begin emulating Bough when he gets a role Every bit Himself on "All My Circuits".
• Pete on Goof Troop is a Hate Sink Jerkass Chew Toy and most of the fanbase either hates him or loves him as a villain because they think he's funny or both. However, there is a grouping of fans who whitewash his deportment by bravado his rare moments of clarity out of proportion and downplaying or ignoring his routine mistreatment of other characters. Some claim that Pete isn't calumniating, but they never even acknowledge any of the episodes where he unambiguously is, or would be in any context—though they're more happy to requite Pete credit for his extremely rare remorse most it. Others say Peg is unreasonable for getting mad at him and so oftentimes, despite what he'due south doing being morally incorrect. Others even so even get so far as to blame Goofy for Pete'southward Chew Toy condition despite the fact that most of the time, Pete brings him forth willingly.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Bill Cipher is the show's true Big Bad and an eldritch figure inspired by personifying the Centre of Providence. Equally the series goes on information technology'southward made increasingly clear that he does not intendance about homo life unless it's existence used equally stepping stones to his plan, which is to essentially rip autonomously reality for fun. He'due south evil, manipulative, and all-effectually unpleasant. Fans took this character, gave him a habit of taking humanoid course, and turned him into something of a Mr. Fanservice ofttimes shipped with Dipper, which got to the point where a few fans were surprised when "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Hereafter" ended with him using a dimensional rift to start an apocalypse. This was considering it swiftly confirmed that he wasn't a sort of "quirky romantic," fifty-fifty though nothing in the show really implied he would exist similar that in the kickoff place. On a related note, in "Sock Opera," he takes over Dipper'southward body — a moment meant to be extremely creepy and unnerving. ^annotation Peculiarly when it'southward revealed in the Defictionalization of Journal 3 that he planned to have Dipper commit suicide. But a portion of fans concluded upwardly liking the Pecker-possessed Dipper (calling him "Bipper" after a comment Mabel fabricated) to the bespeak of calling him hot, which is very creepy when you realize Bipper is a demon-possessed twelve-year-onetime. A demon possessed twelve-year-erstwhile, mind, that regularly harmed himself because he likes the sensation of pain and planned on killing himself but to spite his host body's sister.
  • .GIFfany is more-or-less a less-popular female Pecker when it comes to fandom treatment. She was intended to be an uncanny, robotic one-shot villain that served every bit a criticism of dating simulators and living a very close-in life, likewise as a decision-making and possessive yandere that eventually threatened to kill/"delete" Soos if he didn't upload his brain into her game. Thanks to a combination of her animesque blueprint, unique abilities, and having slightly more backstory than nearly of the show's other one-shot villains (which isn't proverb a lot), fans ended up loving her or even finding her cute/sexy. This includes her crazier side. Although Alex Hirsch seemed to also like her well enough, given that he wrote in Journal three that she survived and gave her a semi-redemption and happy catastrophe: she'due south notwithstanding a yandere, just her new target is also a video game character who can and does give every bit good every bit he gets.
  • Despite family being a major theme of the prove, there is a small set of fans that practically wanted twins Dipper and Mabel to carve up autonomously. Usually, those fans tend to demonize one of them while completely washing abroad any flaws of the other. Towards the end of the series, at that place was a theory of sorts going on that Mabel was the but true protagonist while Dipper would plough out to be the concluding Big Bad for whatever reason. On the other hand, Mabel is viewed by others as someone overly clingy and weighing Dipper's life downward, and anything she does that "gets in the fashion" of what Dipper wants is completely villified. It is truthful that Mabel suffers from a flake of Aesop Amnesia, only she'southward far from completely terrible (and Dipper isn't really a saint himself) and neither twin is supposed to simply be thought of as the "practiced twin" or "bad twin." Both have their high points and their flaws, and the show is virtually them overcoming the latter every bit they grow and eventually become town heroes, not some sort of blackness-and-white plot almost one of them discovering that they're better than the other. There'south also the fact that both of them are nevertheless kids, and a lot of their flaws can be attributed to normal babyhood immaturity, yet fans tend to judge them as if they're emotionally manipulative adults.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • An episode of Billy And Mandy invitee starring Betty White, in 1 of Mandy's more than sympathetic-leaning episodes, espouses the value of feminism, implying that some of Mandy's misthanropy comes from being underestimated constantly. Feminists and anti-feminists akin hated this implication, every bit Mandy is a would be dictator.
  • Mandy fans normally detest Mindy for her Jerkass condition, fifty-fifty if Mandy herself is portrayed as a sociopathic Enfant Terrible with very few redeeming qualities. Just they still idolize Mandy because she is "the only smart grapheme on the show". It as well helps that when Mindy was beginning introduced to Mandy, the former was all too willing to make friends with Mandy. Due to Mindy'southward Motor Mouth, however, Mandy acts rude to Mindy by telling her to close up, thus intentionally starting a rivalry with Mindy.
  • There'south a few people who liked Bun-Bun from the Underfist special, mostly because he's cute. But he'due south also one of the nigh evil antagonists to appear on the serial, having peradventure the least amount of comedic moments compared to other villains and having fabricated quite a few characters miserable For the Evulz.
• Many Invader ZIM fans seem perfectly willing to ignore ZIM's ridiculous egotism and admitted evil, making him out to be a hero rather than a Villain Protagonist. These same fans frequently volition hate and vilify Dib for, wait for information technology..."trying to stop ZIM" from enslaving or destroying humanity. Granted, the Dib apologists aren't free of this either. In the prove, both the Earth and its inhabitants are by and large presented in a less-than idealistic manner. And while Dib is a Hero Adversary, he can be kind of a jerk whose motives aren't totally altruistic, with his motives being less "saving the Globe" and more "existence seen equally a hero for saving the Earth."). Creator Jhonen Vasquez joked about this trope and Death of the Author during a fan convention, explaining how weird information technology is to see people give heartfelt cries of emotion while watching what is clearly a Black Comedy.
• In the serial The Maxx, Mr. Gone is frequently quoted for proverb "Of grade I've got a problem with women. Everyone has a problem with women. Because women taunt and tease. Because they are bonny, and they punish yous for beingness attracted," which some fans find to be insightful and accurate. In fact, Mr. Gone is a rapist, and this attitude was intended as a representation of how a rapist thinks.
• Some people believe that Moral Orel is a conventional Take That! against religion/Christianity. Information technology's like shooting fish in a barrel to brand that supposition watching but a few of the episodes but the show is actually criticizing hypocrisy and how most of the residents of Moralton don't do what they preach and are pretty terrible people themselves. The fact that the show is not anti-organized religion is notable since Orel doesn't give up on his faith and still keeps it as an developed.
• My Niggling Pony: Friendship is Magic has a few examples:
  • A subset of the fandom believes that Rainbow Nuance is a lesbian, based on her Tomboy demeanor and rainbow mane, since a rainbow is oftentimes used as a symbol of homosexuality. Even though this is exactly the thinking that Lauren Faust (the creator of the prove) criticizes as stereotyped and offensive. She later went on to say that people were gratis to translate the character however they wished when someone brought upwards that some fans just wanted a strong positive lesbian office model in non-British television, though she claimed that it wasn't her personal interpretation of the character, and that sexuality really had no place on the show. "The Last Problem", the evidence's Afar Finale, implies that Rainbow Dash might be in a relationship with Applejack, merely information technology's deliberately left vague and could exist interpreted otherwise.
  • The New Lunar Democracy - specially the subdivision of it who wanted Nightmare Moon to win and bring nigh eternal night even though information technology would have killed all life in Equestria. Those who desire Luna to overthrow her sister are almost every bit difficult to cover, given that the two have made peace after Nightmare Moon'southward defeat and are reigning over the state together in natural rest.
  • Trixie and Discord. Both are unsympathetically portrayed and disliked by the Mane Six, and yet they each have massive fan bases. Granted, both of them eventually got Character Development in later episodes, but their fanbases were already large by the time each character finally got their second appearences.
    • In the case of Trixie, a lot of older viewers saw her as innocent because while she was being a showoff, overselling your abilities is legitimately a part of being a stage entertainer, the testify giving little indication that this was her off-stage persona besides at the fourth dimension, that Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash started the disharmonize by heckling and booing her act, and that Trixie suffered all the consequences for an incident that was actually the fault of Snips and Snails. As a effect, many of her fans run into the Mane Six as in the wrong for disrupting her show and, as the Season 3 episode "Magic Duel" shows, ruining her performing career, making her go on to be one of the about popular characters in the series rather than the one-annotation antagonist she was intended to be while Snips and Snails were, and still are past many, utterly despised. The afterwards seasons had an in-universe example where Twilight Sparkle is called out past the Mane Six for giving Starlight Glimmer a pass, while still holding on to a cruel dislike for Trixie, despite the former doing far worse things like running a cult and nearly breaking reality. Also helping Trixie's example is Forgotten Friendship, where Trixie's human counterpart ^note (previously portrayed every bit a minor antagonist in Rainbow Rocks, though she did accept the excuse of beingness afflicted by a Hate Plague) gets a massive Pet the Domestic dog moment a Dusk Shimmer's lone man ally when Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-Guided Amnesia makes the rest of the school recall of her as a bully, showing some serious Hidden Depths.
    • And in the case of Discord, his defenders accept pointed out that Fluttershy regarded nothing of any of the genuinely bad things Discord had done except for the temper tantrum at their first coming together. Information technology's very prophylactic to presume Fluttershy since learned of all the bad things (which in her defense may very well accept been what kept her from arguing), but at that signal Fluttershy nonchalantly accustomed her flaws but because Discord idea he was existence offended by insolence and lost his temper, making it piece of cake to defend Discord as The Woobie and label Fluttershy as a real Troll for no real reason.
  • Fans often compare Starlight Glimmer's cultish town to social justice movements, noting the apparently irony of My Trivial Pony social media posts promoting "equality" (such equally during LGBT Pride Calendar month). The problem is, the episode wasn't against equality in the context of equal rights; it was against the suppression of unique talents in order to proceed people indistinguishable. Starlight was explicitly against diverseness in her boondocks.
  • Cozy Glow was an Enfant Terrible whose advent as a Deliberately Cute Kid was a facade and willfully committed the same evildoing as the other series villains. For many fans, this did not work and they instead found her genuinely beautiful even after her villainous reveal. It doesn't help that she gets many comedic moments throughout Season nine and never got whatsoever backstory leaving many to assume she must have had some Freudian Excuse for existence this way such her penalization was seen as excessive.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • An episode called "The Metropolis of Clipsville" had ane segment which was a Take That! to PPG fanfiction cliches Craig McCracken hated, including Powerpuff Girls/Rowdyruff Boys shipper fics. The fake Flashback showed the characters as impaired featherbrained teenagers. Fandom embraced that scene and even fabricated fanart of it.
  • The Rowdyruff Boys in general were originally intended to exist some of the most hated villains the prove, but instead ended up existence the most loved.
  • The episode "Equal Fights" is frequently misinterpreted as an anti-feminist episode for seemingly portraying feminists as homo-hating hypocrites who want equal rights without taking on equal responsibleness; lead villain Femme Fatale crusaded for a society where women were superior to men. Of course, the ending of the episode makes it clear that people like Femme Fatale are not real feminists but rather a misogynist's thought of what a feminist is. Instead, it'due south a alert for women and girls to not conduct like Femme Fatale when advocating for feminism and for men and boys to not think every feminist is like her, and that doing otherwise would actually precipitate an anti-feminist backlash.
• John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, did an entire episode with a deliberately ludicrous and stupid plotline Played for Drama, just to show how easy it was to use "cheap" filmic tricks to make the audition weep. Naturally, they did.
• Rick and Morty: A large criticism of the fandom is that some fans consider Rick to exist a hero despite his abusive nature. We are meant to see Rick as a compelling individual (i.e. an interesting character who has his points, and is funny) but in no way are we meant to ignore the negative impact he has on his family unit and friends. He uses his intelligence, skill, and Straw Nihilist tendencies to justify gaslighting Morty and Beth in club to affirm his perceived superiority. Morty starts taking on some of Rick's negative traits, and is frequently horrified past how much he has been corrupted by his grandfather. Rick'due south refusal to emotionally open up up to his loved ones damages Rick himself even more. The third season acknowledges this fact past deconstructing Rick'southward abusive influence on the family. Morty states in the season premiere that Rick shouldn't be seen equally a hero and, by the time the third season ends, even Summer and Beth have grown tired of Rick's toxic behavior.
• There is a scene in Rugrats where Drew expresses concern to his wife that Angelica is interim like she believes she's a existent princess, to which Charlotte replies with "That'southward keen! The only style for a girl to succed in a male-dominated earth is by living, eating and breathing cocky-esteem!". People accept been using this quote in pro of girls being empowered, which is a good message for the majority of girls... simply nosotros're talking about Angelica hither, a Spoiled Deviling who always tries to get her fashion on everything and who enjoys nothing more than bullying babies who are younger than her.
• The Simpsons: While the evidence spoofs, satirizes and lampoons the American family unit, organized religion, politics and society, certain people see it equally a commemoration of these things instead of criticism.
  • The Itchy & Scratchy Bear witness is a parody of cartoon violence, yet there are many people who feel that the characters should exist a existent drawing evidence. The prove'due south creators in one case made a montage of several Itchy & Scratchy cartoons to respond to audiences' requests to make a total half-hour bear witness with these characters. Invariably, the audience's enthusiasm fades away after a few minutes of watching these violent scenes.
  • A lot of mainstream viewers think Ned Flanders is a hilarious parody of a fundamentalist Christian, and are sort of surprised when they learn that many of that latter group actually like Ned and consider themselves fans of his. Whenever they become messages from the rare Christian viewers who think they did create Ned to mock them, the creators ask in response, "Who would yous rather have as your neighbour— Homer or Ned?" Originally, he was just an extreme version of a goody-two-shoes who happens to exist a devout Christian. The Christian Fundamentalist thing was...uh...Flanderization...
  • When "The Simpsons" offset debuted, many religious groups protested against the show because they felt information technology was blasphemous and heretical. Every bit time went by, quite a few religious people accept expressed a liking towards the show. Some considering they simply ignore the countless jokes that poke fun at faith and organized religion and try to whitewash it as a "Christian" show because the family is often seen in church and/or praying and because God frequently appears in some episodes (fifty-fifty though leprechauns, Dracula, aliens, comic book characters from other franchises,... have as well made appearances). Others because they rightly feel that the serial provides some agreeable, nonetheless thought-provoking commentary about ethics and organized religion. The show likewise demonstrates clearly that someone like Flanders, who is a nice and caring person, is much more than of an inspirational Christian than a Straw Hypocrite like Reverend Lovejoy. Lisa, often the merely skeptic Vocalism of Reason when the town goes into a fit of mass hysteria, favors science above anything else. And even she still expresses her organized religion in something higher. Today, some of the bear witness'south more spiritual episodes are actually shown during Lord's day school and religious classes, even though even those episodes are full of jokes that poke fun at organized religion.
    • While some of the people behind "The Simpsons" are religious the show's creator, Matt Groening, is agnostic, fifty-fifty calling himself "basically a infidel" other times. He has poked fun at faith several times in his comic strip Life in Hell too. In a BBC documentary he once said: "If "The Simpsons" has whatsoever message at all, it is that your teachers, politicians and religious leaders don't always accept the best things in mind for you.".
  • Conspiracy Theorists (of various political alignments, religious faiths and marijuana usage) often see some episodes of The Simpsons equally prophetic, and claim that they predicted various events, either a alert from or a part of a conspiracy that is accused of causing the event. This has started with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United states, that the Simpsons predicted years before in "Bart to the Future" (The Conspiracy Theorists may have various stances on Trump himself, and it isn't his mistake). Other examples include the nine/xi attacks (in "Homer vs the Metropolis of New York", the motorbus trip costs ix$xi and the World Trade Center is featured) or the 2019/20 SARS-Covid pandemic (various episodes about fictional diseases such as the Osaka Influenza from eastward Asia, the cat flu that was caused by the media (Conspiracy Theorists dearest that) and a Ship stuck at bounding main in fear of the Pandora Strain). Amusingly, many of the conspiracy theories blame the Freemasons (which they believe to be behind the Simpsons), who there parodied in Homer the Slap-up. Most of these "prophecies" can be explained by the large number of plots and episodes, which guarantees at least some of them are spring to resemble future events, and that history repeats itself and the Simpsons was actually making fun of older events (Trump wanted to become president in the 90s). If yous search long plenty on Youtube yous will find the craziest conspiracy theories based on the Simpsons.
  • In-Universe, in "Homer The Heretic" Reverend Lovejoy is giving out a sermon about how all sinners will be bandage in the fiery depths of Hell for eternity... while the town is under a snowstorm, the church's furnace isn't working, and everyone is freezing. So Bart is looking frontward to exist at that place.
• South Park is very prone to this. It'due south primarily due to the show'southward Periphery Demographic of uncomplicated and middle school kids, equally the satirical nature of the serial can go over their heads at times:
  • Reportedly, Cartman was designed under the idea that you couldn't have an Archie Bunker-type grapheme (read: someone who was openly racist, sexist, and overall politically wrong) on TV now... unless he was a ludicrous little kid drawing character. Naturally, there's dispute over why Cartman is one of the near popular kids. Just to make matters worse, Stan and Kyle, the characters based on series creators Parker and Stone and supposedly the simply normal sensible people in all of South Park, are often perceived equally "whiny little bitches" by a fanbase that prefers racist anti-Semitic sexist Cartman. This must take more to practice with Cartman being the one that is the "funny homo" to Stan and Kyle's "directly men", and because he ends up in more outlandish scenarios, rather than because they really like Cartman's racism, anti-Semitism, and sexism, although a handful of them actually practice.
    • Many teachers accept grown to despise Cartman - every bit throughout The '90s and even to the present twenty-four hour period, a lot of students have viewed Cartman as a sort of role model. Sometimes, they recite lines from the show that are very rude in nature then simply add the "Just Joking" Justification - as "It's intended to exist satire" is a very common defence against critics.
  • The Goth Kids. They're meant to be a parody of teen and pre-teen Wangsting, but instead become used past fangirls as outlets for their own misery. Too, the two older guys are apparently gay for each other, though the show gives no indication of that. Trey and Matt seem to be aware of this, and so naturally they exploited it for merchandising. (Plainly, Hot Topic has a sense of sense of humor about itself.)
  • The two-part episode "Go God Go" gets misaimed Fandom in 2 directions, 1 being Atheist and the other being Creationists. To say nothing of "Cartoon Wars"....
  • Towelie was created as a ii-part Take That! confronting the Vocal Minority of the fandom demanding more drug sense of humor and at Merchandise-Driven characters (which is literally Towelie's origin in-universe, he's a towel designed to extoll the virtues of towels in social club to sell towels). They out and out say information technology in his showtime appearance:

    Stan: Y'all're the worst character ever, Towelie.
    Towelie: I know.

    • Just then Towelie speedily became pop, and his "wanna go high?" catchphrase went memetic.
  • The episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken". While it does make some points in favor of legalization of marijuana, it also satirizes people's obsession with the drug. Randy and the other dads literally requite themselves testicular cancer so they tin legally smoke marijuana. One point people oft miss is that while anybody talks nigh how awesome getting high is, the viewer never gets any indication that information technology really is every bit bang-up as information technology said to exist, and KFC is shown to be more addictive and euphoric. It still didn't stop some stoners from maxim that they were happy that they got another drug episode.
  • There are people out there who actually agree with Cartman that gingers take no so souls. And deed on it. At that place are even schools out in that location that gloat Kick-a-Ginger Day (obviously non officially, only still...).
  • From The Movie, Mr. Garrison's argument that he "doesn't trust anything that bleeds for v days and doesn't die" was supposed to be a jab at sexist views on periods. People have been known to quote it unironically. The "joke" did exist before the testify, yet.
  • "Miss Teacher Bangs a Male child" was meant to criticize the Double Standard regarding how female teachers having sexual relations with young male students are brushed under the rug considering the teachers are attractive. Despite this, many male fans agree with the cops whose only response to a pretty instructor essentially raping a toddler is "Nice."
  • The B-plot of "The Mainland china Probrem" has the kids campaigning to arrest Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for the perceived terribleness of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, likening it to watching a rape and literally showing Spielberg and Lucas raping Indiana Jones. Information technology is meant to be a Take That! to people who claim a bad movie raped their childhoods, merely many fans thought it was meant to be taken seriously. Granted, Trey and Matt weren't shy about pointing out Kingdom of the Crystal Skull flaws.
  • Despite Southward Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid potraying NFTs as a ridiculous pyramid scheme that leads people to fiscal ruin - with Futurity!Butters being essentially treated as a unsafe human weapon throughout due to a nearly-supernatural power to sell them to people - many NFT enthusiasts still praised the testify for featuring them on the show, due to either a severe case of missing the joke or the belief that there's No Such Affair as Bad Publicity.
• Superjail! garners a few cases of this, as the characters all pretty much fall under the Jerkass category (even Jared, who'south Non So Higher up It All). The Warden is the largest example, as while he is a Magnificent Bounder blazon of character (although played substantially goofier and less competent in later seasons), there are enough of fans willing to excuse anything and everything he does every bit him existence in the correct, including his abuse of Jared.
  • While Lord Stingray was painted equally an unlikeable command freak of a boyfriend in "Stingstress", in that location were quite the groups of fans that actually cheered on his berating and mistreating of the Mistress, owing to the latter existence hated by the one-time'due south fans and a example of Die for Our Ship in play from those who felt the Mistress would be in the style of pairing Stingray with the Warden.
    • "Stingstress" itself gained a number of fans that were outraged nearly the Warden and the Mistress not getting together, and that used Jared and Charise'south fantasy equally proof it could work- ignoring the fact that Jared and Charise simply wanted their bosses together in hopes of THEM getting together, without taking into consideration their bosses' actual feelings (and that the Mistress and the Warden in the fantasy were purposely out-of-character to illustrate Charise's idealized viewpoint). There was besides the fact that the Mistress simply considered the idea of sleeping with the Warden because she was fed up with Lord Stingray, and wound up instantly turned off when he couldn't please her. Of course, mileage varies on how well the overall story of the episode was handled, only the catastrophe twist is also hated past a specific set up of shippers, who considered it to be Christy Karacas mercilessly mocking Warden/Mistress by having Alice "steal" the Mistress' love by sleeping with her, giving the Mistress the idea that she didn't need whatever men and could instead exist an independent woman. Rather than it beingness a reset button employed to get the Mistress back to being a guest character and to go dorsum to the status quo (for the most office), it's taken as Alice standing in the way of a couple from ever happening.
  • Alice either has fans that hate her for "leading the Warden on" and rebuffing his advances towards her, using it as reason to demonize her, or alternatively, she has fans that overlook or wave off any of her negative qualities to pigment her as a saintly Woobie figure who tin can do no wrong (even though the point is that despite her unfortunate backstory, she's also a sadist).
  • The Mistress tin garner fans that claim she'south even more evil and wicked than the Warden, citing her lack of tragic backstory for her beingness a snob and for her being mean to the primary character (and for taking his jail as revenge for him humiliating her on their first run across), while ignoring the Warden'south worse behavior, including the fact that he had potential to commit genocide and enslavement on the human race. On the flip side, there is also a contingent of fans insistent that the Mistress is an amazing woman and would never abuse anyone every bit the Warden would to Jared, while they ignore or attempt to explain away the moments where she'southward shown to exist abusive or equally maniacal.
  • The Twins tin can take fans that simply think of them as poor innocent little boys, or care for them every bit if they're classy, unflappable omnipotent demigods. While the "unflappable" part may have mostly been true for season ane, later seasons seem to put increased accent on the two being nerdy, awkward, and basically disregarded or outright hated by anybody else effectually them (to the indicate where inmates offset a violent riot at seeing the Twins' testify replacing their favorite "Jailpup" program), and beingness fabricated The Chew Toy by their brothers and father. Likewise, the Triplets take gained fans that think of them as amazing characters and better than the Twins, despite the fact that the three were only depicted every bit bloodthirsty and haughty bullies.
• Terra on Teen Titans was meant to be a Cleaved Bird Anti-Villain of the Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds diversity. However, many fans simply cannot seem to accept the gray-shaded nature of her grapheme and treat as either a perfect saint who had no fault in the matter or a totally evil bitch. Both are untrue, though the latter is (ironically) exactly what the less complicated Terra from the original comic serial was.
• The Decepticons might also be called "Transformers: Robots In Leather Pants". Information technology's not quite clear how ane can perceive the Autobots equally evil and the Decepticons equally noble warriors when they're chosen "the evil Decepticons" in the theme song, only at that place'southward a small merely song fan group that supports this theory. One fan by the name of Raksha even became moderately famous inside the fandom for it.
  • To offer some perspective, i of the cardinal elements in Raksha's believes is the episode "Enter the Nightbird". In it, a man-built robot of unclear sentience/sapience is stolen by the Decepticons to get their latest weapon/a new soldier. Megatron and Bombshell are peculiarly "concerned" near her, and only one seems unhappy about her addition to the ranks. In contrast, the Autobots want her dorsum in her creator's possession, where she can do no harm to either them or anyone else the Decepticons might target. But while their goal on itself is okay, they practice become about it a petty off. For instance, Optimus has pretty much heard from Nightbird'due south creator himself he plans to dismantle her when he gets her dorsum, just nevertheless tries to lure Nightbird in with promises that he doesn't mean her impairment. Information technology's arguably one of the more greyness moments in Transformers history, but while not the simply one, information technology certainly is one of the rare ones. That said, the cartoon and Marvel comics did throw in little suggestions that the Decepticons are, amid lots of less noble things, fighting an oppressive system, which in later canon has only become more than prominent. People tend to cling onto that wee chip of woobieness more on all the imagery of evilness.
  • This view eventually was made semi-canon by the time Beast Wars came around, with the writers showing off that the Autobots weren't exactly spotless in their morals, backside the scenes. And, arguably, the ultimate Fandom Nod came in the class of Transformers: Shattered Drinking glass, a Mirror Universe parody series involving Heroic Decepticons and Evil Autobots.
  • It'south an interesting case all around really. Fans initially sympathized with the Decepticons long before the had whatever redeeming qualities (and for the almost function the majority nonetheless doesn't have whatsoever). Nevertheless, when the writers noticed the fan reaction they took a rather interesting approach. Instead of giving the Decepticons A Lighter Shade of Grey, they seemed to lower the morals of the originally bright Autobots. So now the fandom have real reasons to pass up seeing the Decepticons in a nighttime light (as was most likely intended). Existent Life Writes the Plot!
  • What fans miss is that even with the darkest interpretation of the Autobots, the Decepticons are even so ready to destroy entire worlds to get what they want, and whatsoever started the state of war, the present state of things ("nowadays" being "almost the last four million years") is "Decepticons want to destroy the Autobots and conquer Cybertron and don't care how much death and destruction they cause on other worlds forth the way, Autobots would really prefer they didn't do that." The Autobots are not innocent; for the Decepticons we'd have to invent new math to tally up the trunk count. Notwithstanding, as the Draco in Leather Pants folio for Transformers: Blithe puts it, "fans tend to miss this part because Megatron is awesome, Blitzwing is funny, and Starscream is, well, Starscream."
  • Starscream, incidentally, takes this to a higher level than all of Decepticon-dom. Transformers Armada is the exception to the dominion for incarnations of Starscream: People empathise with him because Megatron is so horribly abusive to him and he can often end upward in Butt-Monkey territory. However, Megatron is like that to him because Starscream is always trying to seize Megs' throne. Likewise, while Megatron at least thinks he's doing what's correct and believes he fights for what he says he does even if he'southward dead wrong, Starscream is out for himself only. Basically, everything that happens to Starscream is his fault and if he were in charge of the Decepticons, Earth would be just as atomized if the Autobots ever took the week off. Endeavour telling that to his fangirls.
• Regarding Voltron: Legendary Defender, the fans latched onto the thought that Pidge Gunderson/Katie Holt is a trans male child, fifty-fifty though the character explicitly self-identifies every bit female after the reveal, and Word of God confirms she is meant to be seen as such, and that her male identity was a temporary disguise to avoid getting caught by the authorities so she could search for her missing father and older blood brother. Likewise, others interpreted the reveal scene every bit her literally coming out as transgender for the start time, even though flashbacks show she was fine presenting as female in public beforehand and would have continued to practise so if she wasn't defenseless. While Katie/Pidge could certainly be read in fanon every bit a mail-transition trans daughter, reading them as male person is an well-nigh bullheaded misreading of the text. All of these ideas ignore the extemely transphobic (at worst) and sexist/gender essencialist (at best) implications backside them: "if a woman isn't feminine enough so she must exist a man", "tomboys and girly girls with tomboy sides aren't real women", etc.
• Chuck Jones created Wile East. Coyote and the Road Runner as a parody of popular "hunt cartoons" like Tom and Jerry, by picking 2 unlikely animals in a baroque setting, making the Coyote his own worst enemy, and making the whole thing as over-the-summit every bit possible. He was surprised when audiences took the outset Road Runner short, Fast And Furryous at face value, rather than as a parody, and loved it. Even though it didn't work out as he'd intended, Jones was happy to have a hit and connected using the ii characters for years. Ironically, Jones went to work on the Tom and Jerry series at MGM subsequently WB folded their animation section, and admitted he didn't quite become the characters. Tom was played equally a feline version of Wile Eastward. Coyote, down to the thick eyebrows and quirky facial expressions. One short even ends with a slightly modified version of his famous catapult trap gag from "To Beep or Not to Beep" (1963).

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