Luffy and Robin would be like Luffy hooking up with his aunt.
I've always been a fan of Sanji x Robin myself.
You Zoro x Robin shippers out there are trash!
Luffy and Robin would be like Luffy hooking up with his aunt.
Do not remind me of that awful, awful story. To speak its name is to give it power.
I was there for that. Basically there were those who could not fathom a gag series without some sort of 'reasoning' behind it. They then equated Akane's slapstick for honest rage and turned her into a rage monster with a hair trigger temper.
This really started in 2000-2001 as prior most stories weren't that bad until the darkfic The Bitter End came about. And then there was a large wholesale change.
Because the guy shipped Ranma with Ukyo and was dared to write a Ranma/Akane fanfic.After reading PataHikari's post I was sitting here trying to remember the name of that awful fanfic where Ranma's mom gives Ranma and Akane a sword as a wedding gift and symbolically dooms them all. Even as someone who was a huge Ukyo fan I couldn't wrap my head around why someone would write that story.
Ranma as a property made people kind of weird though. I remember a fair amount of backlash just around the idea that the end of the series didn't really solve much beyond implying that Ranma and Akane would eventually get married. Like the entire point of it was to goof around and have fun but because some of the comedy involved people liking each other the internet went crazy and demanded closure on their terms.
You're trash. Zorobin 4 life. Fight meI've always been a fan of Sanji x Robin myself.
You Zoro x Robin shippers out there are trash!
Yeah that's it. He's literally massacring people who haven't done shit to him so he can kill the leaders of every village. Again, they're not Hitlers here; they're pretty standard leaders and he wants to murder them all because he's mad about shit.
The guy is a psycho.
You're trash. Zorobin 4 life. Fight me
Voltron is doing a much better western version/reboot and that show seems to be popular enough, it keeps getting new seasons
Poor Akane (Who's my favorite character) got the brunt of this hate because as the girl int he middle of the ship war that's what usually happens. (Seriously, ever noticed that? Kind of creepy). So people started doing all these insane stories portraying her as some awful abusive monster who beats Ranma for no reason, while every other possible character is portrayed as some saint that will do no wrong. (This in a comedy where every character would be considered mildly psychopathic at least if they were in the real world)
I read so much KH fanfic back during the period when 1 and 2 were released and oooohhhh boy Kairi got this treatment for daring to exist when clearly Sora and Riku were meant for each other. I liked RikuxSora as much as the next 13 year old girl on ff.net but it was nuts the lengths some people would go to to write Kairi as some ungrateful, abusive (sometimes homophobic) bitch just to get her out of the way, despite her being portrayed as a sweet girl in canon. Thankfully I see this less (although with different fandoms and I don't read nearly as much fanfic as I used to), but I pretty much blacklist authors that can't write their ships without distorting characters into OOC monsters.
It's onMe. You. Soccer field at 4!
naruto and korra had some pretty toxic breakdowns.
Sasuke/Sakura is the dumbest pairing in all of anime history.
It certainly had a build up. Sasuke had so many chapters to show he was turning into a psycho with time it wasn't endurable. One of the worst parts on the manga since Sasuke is a pretty bad character.This was during Sasuke's dramatic I'm suddenly evil phase, that had no build up to it.
Yeah that's it. He's literally massacring people who haven't done shit to him so he can kill the leaders of every village. Again, they're not Hitlers here; they're pretty standard leaders and he wants to murder them all because he's mad about shit.
The guy is a psycho.
Shipping is all fun and games until you force your beliefs onto other people and send death threats to other fans or to the creators for not appealing to your fantasies.
They were good together goddamnit.That reminds me.
Superboy and Robin.
The Connor and Timothy Drake versions.
People seriously seriously SERIOUSLY wanted that as a thing once.
Upfront I don't entirely enderstand the shipping thing, but what I do know from watching Arrow are the factions around Felicity. One who hate Felicity and want her to die. One who only accept her with Ollie and want rival love interests to die.
A color page basically confirmed:
Nastu X Lucy (Shit)
Gray X Juvia
Elfman X Evergreen (irrelevant)
Mirajane X Laxus
Erza X Sasuke wannabe.
I shipped TakatoxRika for no good reason while watching Tamers. I'll always be a little salty.
It certainly had a build up. Sasuke had so many chapters to show he was turning into a psycho with time it wasn't endurable. One of the worst parts on the manga since Sasuke is a pretty bad character.
No they were confirmed long ago so I didn't bother to mention them.Wait what
When was that pairing ever a thing
Also I am legit shocked that Gajeel and Levy aren't on that page. A whole lotta people have got to be disappointed about that
Also I am legit shocked that Gajeel and Levy aren't on that page. A whole lotta people have got to be disappointed about that
While I agree, if one were to jump straight into the Boruto stuff without having read Naruto, they actually work just fine.
Never even watched Thundercats and that Lion-o post makes me feel for the guy.....
I am definitely one of those people. At the very least an unrequited crush from Tim's perspective.That reminds me.
Superboy and Robin.
The Connor and Timothy Drake versions.
People seriously seriously SERIOUSLY wanted that as a thing once.
Emmanuelle Chriqui is small screen poison. She lowkey killed Tron: Uprising too.So it's been brought up a few times in this thread, but I wanna spell it out for the people who haven't seen it. Generally people being angry about shipping is misplaced, but I'm pretty certain the writers of Thundercats 2011 purposely bred a shipping war.
Lion-O in the 2011 reboot of Thundercats got the rawest fucking deal. Lion-O starts out the series being berated by his Dad, and treated like shit by his brother Tygra. (Mainly for not being a huge racist by the way.) Putting aside how Lion-O is nearly killed by his brother twice, does get killed once, and ends up in despair in the finale of the show, Lion-O loses in the game of love twice. The first time to his brother, almost immediately after his brother tried to kill him. (Said brother never experiences any consequences for this.)
This needless to say, made shippers pretty mad. Tygra was never likable, and the writers pulled the filmiest excuse out their asses to have Cheetara fall in love with him. There was no buildup to it, and Lion-O literally stumbles upon them in the act of making out. This is after an entire season of Lion-O and Cheetara flirting. (Coincidentally, after this Cheetara basically became a background character.) Needless to say, people were angry.
But then they introduced Pumyra in season 2.
And shippers were happy. Pumyra was cool, and bounced off Lion-O well. Then in the finale of the show, Pumyra betrays Lion-O. Not for a mysterious third party. Not for her own gain. To help Mumm-ra, the person literally responsible for killing her way back at the beginning of the show. The fact that Mumm-ra says Pumyra was literally his, body and soul, is also super weird. So Lion-O loses the second love of his life to an undead mummy.
Here, Pumyra is kissing Mumm-ra's "power gauntlet."
But wait, it gets worse for Lion-O! The show was cancelled after this due to poor toy sales, but apparently if the show had continued, Mumm-ra would have transformed Pumyra into a winged insect monster. She would later be killed by the Thundercats.
The Thundercat that would kill her?
Tygra.
Now why would they be upse-
Right...
To be fair, that was canon right from the start, but it was never brought up during the games.For a reverse example where most everyone was on the same page and the media itself threw a curveball before bouncing back, remember the bizarre romantic undertones between Cortana and Chief in Halo 4? That were somehow supposed to resonate in spite of, y'know, Cortana steadily going insane over the course of the plot due to mechanical failure?
Ah gotcha.Robin calls Jinbei handsome in a panel in Fishmen island.
Wow. I can't even reach that far when I'm stretching. He really thought this through.If you click on the link in the OP and scroll down a bit you see this piece from Googleplex.
It's quite amazing really.
This....this feels me with....rage. Thundercats was/is ruined for me this day.So it's been brought up a few times in this thread, but I wanna spell it out for the people who haven't seen it. Generally people being angry about shipping is misplaced, but I'm pretty certain the writers of Thundercats 2011 purposely bred a shipping war.
Lion-O in the 2011 reboot of Thundercats got the rawest fucking deal. Lion-O starts out the series being berated by his Dad, and treated like shit by his brother Tygra. (Mainly for not being a huge racist by the way.) Putting aside how Lion-O is nearly killed by his brother twice, does get killed once, and ends up in despair in the finale of the show, Lion-O loses in the game of love twice. The first time to his brother, almost immediately after his brother tried to kill him. (Said brother never experiences any consequences for this.)
This needless to say, made shippers pretty mad. Tygra was never likable, and the writers pulled the filmiest excuse out their asses to have Cheetara fall in love with him. There was no buildup to it, and Lion-O literally stumbles upon them in the act of making out. This is after an entire season of Lion-O and Cheetara flirting. (Coincidentally, after this Cheetara basically became a background character.) Needless to say, people were angry.
But then they introduced Pumyra in season 2.
And shippers were happy. Pumyra was cool, and bounced off Lion-O well. Then in the finale of the show, Pumyra betrays Lion-O. Not for a mysterious third party. Not for her own gain. To help Mumm-ra, the person literally responsible for killing her way back at the beginning of the show. The fact that Mumm-ra says Pumyra was literally his, body and soul, is also super weird. So Lion-O loses the second love of his life to an undead mummy.
Here, Pumyra is kissing Mumm-ra's "power gauntlet."
But wait, it gets worse for Lion-O! The show was cancelled after this due to poor toy sales, but apparently if the show had continued, Mumm-ra would have transformed Pumyra into a winged insect monster. She would later be killed by the Thundercats.
The Thundercat that would kill her?
Tygra.
Yeah. The anime and the live action movie basically ignore the second and last arc. Which is great! But then people stumble upon the original ending.You talking about the manga right? I've heard it goes in a very weird direction.. the anime's ending is pretty fluffy and comfortable iirc.
Everything about that ending is a dumpster fire.Ah gotcha.
Wow. I can't even reach that far when I'm stretching. He really thought this through.
This....this feels me with....rage. Thundercats was/is ruined for me this day.
Yeah. The anime and the live action movie basically ignore the second and last arc. Which is great! But then people stumble upon the original ending.
Here I'll just use these. SPOILERS!
After reading PataHikari's post I was sitting here trying to remember the name of that awful fanfic where Ranma's mom gives Ranma and Akane a sword as a wedding gift and symbolically dooms them all. Even as someone who was a huge Ukyo fan I couldn't wrap my head around why someone would write that story.
Ranma as a property made people kind of weird though. I remember a fair amount of backlash just around the idea that the end of the series didn't really solve much beyond implying that Ranma and Akane would eventually get married. Like the entire point of it was to goof around and have fun but because some of the comedy involved people liking each other the internet went crazy and demanded closure on their terms.
Oh it got rebooted for much bigger reasons than shipping. Lawsuits got that ball rolling
Everything about that ending is a dumpster fire.
It's shocking a creator can absolutely RUIN a series in such a fashion.
How about the fact that Cortana is based off Dr. Halsey's brainscans. Dr. Halsey, aka Master Chief's mother figure?
Hello, Oedpial issues~
So it's been brought up a few times in this thread, but I wanna spell it out for the people who haven't seen it. Generally people being angry about shipping is misplaced, but I'm pretty certain the writers of Thundercats 2011 purposely bred a shipping war.
Lion-O in the 2011 reboot of Thundercats got the rawest fucking deal. Lion-O starts out the series being berated by his Dad, and treated like shit by his brother Tygra. (Mainly for not being a huge racist by the way.) Putting aside how Lion-O is nearly killed by his brother twice, does get killed once, and ends up in despair in the finale of the show, Lion-O loses in the game of love twice. The first time to his brother, almost immediately after his brother tried to kill him. (Said brother never experiences any consequences for this.)
This needless to say, made shippers pretty mad. Tygra was never likable, and the writers pulled the filmiest excuse out their asses to have Cheetara fall in love with him. There was no buildup to it, and Lion-O literally stumbles upon them in the act of making out. This is after an entire season of Lion-O and Cheetara flirting. (Coincidentally, after this Cheetara basically became a background character.) Needless to say, people were angry.
But then they introduced Pumyra in season 2.
And shippers were happy. Pumyra was cool, and bounced off Lion-O well. Then in the finale of the show, Pumyra betrays Lion-O. Not for a mysterious third party. Not for her own gain. To help Mumm-ra, the person literally responsible for killing her way back at the beginning of the show. The fact that Mumm-ra says Pumyra was literally his, body and soul, is also super weird. So Lion-O loses the second love of his life to an undead mummy.
Here, Pumyra is kissing Mumm-ra's "power gauntlet."
But wait, it gets worse for Lion-O! The show was cancelled after this due to poor toy sales, but apparently if the show had continued, Mumm-ra would have transformed Pumyra into a winged insect monster. She would later be killed by the Thundercats.
The Thundercat that would kill her?
Tygra.
I see a lot of people mentioning RWBY
I never saw any meltdowns
Is it because of what happened to Pyrrha?