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Legendary Shipping Meltdowns (SPOILERS)

Fj0823

Member
My guess is that since Jack was celibate in the original series, I guess some people (incorrectly) interpreted that to mean that he was gay? He doesn't really have a lot of choices either way. The Scotsman? Ew.

He wasn't really celibate, he was shown to be attracted to girls but very shy.

This trait was played a lot in the recent episodes in question, even with a girl he's known for a while.

Also their early relationship was hilarious
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aly

Member
My guess is that since Jack was celibate in the original series, I guess some people (incorrectly) interpreted that to mean that he was gay? He doesn't really have a lot of choices either way. The Scotsman? Ew.

Which is still strange cause he was shown to be attracted to women like the lady on the train and uh girl Aku.
 

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
naruto and korra had some pretty toxic breakdowns.

Sasuke/Sakura is the dumbest pairing in all of anime history.

because sasuke doesnt give a shit about anything. why would he be with anyone? dude is fucked in the head
 
I hate when people do this, because it's a cheap tactic to shut down criticism, because if you tell them they're over reacting they'll just call you homophobic and sic their followers on you.

Using the LGBTA cause for their selfish means just cause a cartoon made them angry.
It's also weird because having recently re watched a bunch of the earlier season episodes, jack was always clearly straight. Like did they miss the episode where Jack crushed on Aku pretending to be an attractive women before the reveal that it was indeed Aku for instance?
 

Voror

Member
It's been a good long while, but I feel like Code Geass could get pretty intense at times.

That was one I was actually a part of and honestly it made me realize I don't care for them having multiple love interests in a show where romance isn't the focus and would much prefer them pick one and just develop it.

Granted, there was never really a winner so I guess there weren't the same kind of meltdowns you would expect. I'm sort of dreading them bringing it back up in this new sequel.
 

HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I'll never forget Stephen Spielberg after he didn't let Tom Hanks and Wilson have a happy ending together.
 

cdyhybrid

Member
Didn't really upset me (more of a "...really?" reaction), but Rukia ending up with Bleach's Yamcha was odd.

Although Bleach had died, been resurrected into undeath as a mindless zombie, and incinerated by that point. Kubo probably drew a few storylines out of a hat for the last few chapters and just chose those to wrap up.
 
The Steven Universe fandom is mostly fine, but there's a section of it that is just one constant fucking shipping meltdown.

I can't find the tweet, but I remember one tweet that summed it up well. "I wish fans of shows all about love and acceptance would stop telling other people to go kill themselves."
 
Aside from the fans, the worst part of shipping are the stupid portmanteau names.

uhh, jody, becky, jodys partner, the two scooby girls, rowena and kevins mom. and im sure im missing more. hell, they have more female allies than male ones
Too old, too young, too old, too young, too old, dead (and too old).
 

megachao24

Unconfirmed Member
I'm surprised no one mentioned Athrun/Cagali yet. Probably one of the saltiest pack of shippers in Gundam history.
 
The Steven Universe fandom is mostly fine, but there's a section of it that is just one constant fucking shipping meltdown.

I can't find the tweet, but I remember one tweet that summed it up well. "I wish fans of shows all about love and acceptance would stop telling other people to go kill themselves."

Didnt they also tell someone to kill themselves because they drew stevens mom and she "wasnt thick enough"? Fuck i need to catch up on that amazing show

Is there an Adventure Time shipping war?

Not that ive noticed. People want pb and finn but i like the idea of pb being someone who only sees him as a friend and he has stronger feelings that he needs to get over, because thats a very real thing that will happen to everyone and not a bad thing to teach to some of the young kids who watch that show. PFinn and flame princess, and pb and marcy is the correct pairing.
 
Didn't really upset me (more of a "...really?" reaction), but Rukia ending up with Bleach's Yamcha was odd.

Although Bleach had died, been resurrected into undeath as a mindless zombie, and incinerated by that point. Kubo probably drew a few storylines out of a hat for the last few chapters and just chose those to wrap up.

I mean, I could see it, but at the same time, it didn't really feel like it was built up to go that way.

And Bleach's Yamcha was Chad, down to him being a useless human.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There were plenty of people salty in The World That God Only Knows because Keima actually hooked up with one of the girls. The interesting thing is that most of the dislike of it was because most people believed it was out of character for Keima to choose a real-life girl at all and preferred it end either ambiguously or with him rejecting all of the girls.

I personally thought it was fine because he ended up picking
Chihiro - the "plain" girl that turned out to have a crush on Keima the entire time, so they actually averted a ton of negative tropes - Chihiro is supposed to be a plain, normal person so it really didn't dig into any wish fulfillment bullshit - it was just a girl that happened to like him prior to any of the plot related stuff happening.
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mollipen

Member
I remember browsing gaf's Overwatch fanart thread and apparently the lesbian couple of Mercy and.. Pharah (I think?) is a popular "ship", but when Blizzard put out a comic hinting of a Mercy and Genji well.. much salt.

Nothing of the sort ever happened. Why would you even hint at such a thing? Mercy and Genji? Hahaha, that's funny.
 

wandering

Banned
I remember browsing gaf's Overwatch fanart thread and apparently the lesbian couple of Mercy and.. Pharah (I think?) is a popular "ship", but when Blizzard put out a comic hinting of a Mercy and Genji well.. much salt.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/01/overwatch-shippers-clash-over-new-mercy-genji-voice-lines/

The salt is particularly funny because they try to make it out that the doctor-patient relationship would preclude Mercy and Genji from being together when the entire Pharmercy ship is based on Mercy taking care of Pharah.
 

Voror

Member
I'm surprised no one mentioned Athrun/Cagali yet. Probably one of the saltiest pack of shippers in Gundam history.

I think there was another ship that got sunk with Destiny. I think the guy's name was Dearka and I'm afraid I can't recall what the others name was.
 

Einchy

semen stains the mountaintops

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Aside from the fans, the worst part of shipping are the stupid portmanteau names.


Too old, too young, too old, too young, too old, dead (and too old).

youre gonna have to make new qualifications then, because people are always bitching about the lack of women, when there are tons. and unless i missed something, kevins mom is still alive
 
Clearly the naruto one is the best because we still got people salty about it in this thread right now. What really annoys me about the whole affair is that instead of giving the story/characters some real closure and finality Kishi decided a better ending would be to focus on who paired off romantically.
 

aly

Member
I remember browsing gaf's Overwatch fanart thread and apparently the lesbian couple of Mercy and.. Pharah (I think?) is a popular "ship", but when Blizzard put out a comic hinting of a Mercy and Genji well.. much salt.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/01/overwatch-shippers-clash-over-new-mercy-genji-voice-lines/

The best part is bringing up the doctor/patient complaints, which is dumb because it was used for Pharmercy as well. Also an example of shipping people based on nothing. Even TracerWidow had more going for it.
 

wandering

Banned
Don't forget the comic showing Mercy and Genji writing letters to each other also showed Pharah having a candlelit dinner with a man, and everyone was screaming "That's gotta be her dad or something, she's not on a date, SHE'S NOT!"
 

Fj0823

Member
Sakura got what she wanted no matter how pathetic she had to become.

At the very least the downfall of Sakura into a needy idiot unable to move on gave us one of the best female characters in the franchise.

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Looking forward to see how they ruin her!
 
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