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Post by Paws on Feb 12, 2012 0:35:28 GMT -5
I remember Nemo suggesting this in the "Love the Characters, Hate the Series" thread. It seemed interesting enough to do, so why not? :3
I'll start-
Sonic the Hedgehog- I remember being more active in the fandom a few years back during my Fuzz Academy days. Looking back on it now, a majority of the fandom is crazy. Like, batshit crazy. It's rare to find a few diamonds in the rough who actually care about the series and try to avoid pairing wars and the like, and try to make well-developed characters and plots that aren't sue-ish. Kitexa and Mo, I'm lookin' straight at you.
My Little Pony- It's hard to find anything good in this fandom nowadays. I've been a fan even before it was popular to be a "brony" or a "pegasister"- I remember re-kindling my love for the colored horses back in the summer of '09 after discovering My Little Pony Tales for the first time, and my love built from there. Friendship is Magic is okay in it's own right, but the fandom, the goddamn FANDOM! "Bronies don't like the old series and disregard it as canon at all, we abide by Celestia and fight for anything that promotes love and tolerance!" NO. Just no. It's a children's TV show, the old generations, sappy as they were, were darker and much more developed than this, and love and tolerance? Yeeeah no. No offense to Avenger, either, but bronies and the general fandom are something that gets under my skin so bad.
The Lion King- While they're not as bad as some other fandoms I can think of -coughSonicandKingdomHeartscoughcough-, they're still pretty bad. Hardcore battles over lion backstories, figuring out who's related to who, regarding Kiara as a weakling and a mary-sue, and of course fighting over WHAT COLOR EYES NALA HAS... there are a few stupid ones hiding somewhere in that fandom. I consider myself lucky in the respect that I haven't met a total whackadoodle yet. xD
Super Mario- It feels really, really odd bringing this one up for some reason, but it happens all the same. This one really concerns the Koopalings though; y'know, Bowser's kids? People decide it's a good idea to make their own, and the fandom for this is really pretty awful. They pop out mary-sues and gary-stus like there's no tomorrow. There are trolls, there are the victims who decide to white-knight... the fandom is pretty unbearable and almost kind of painful to look at. There are even blogs dedicated to Koopaling mary-sues and gary-stus! It's a messy fandom, a reeeeally messy fandom...
101 Dalmatians- You guys aren't bad. There's simply a bad side of the fandom. I'm hoping we all know what I'm talking about. And those are my last words on the matter.
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Post by Patchy on Feb 12, 2012 0:38:13 GMT -5
Naruto-Gotta say it. I really am not a big fan of the fanbase anymore. There are just some characters that make me want to scream and no longer look back. It's like people in naruto don't even try. I mean i did once but now i have learned. but now that the naruto fanbase is just getting way out of hand
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Post by Mo on Feb 12, 2012 0:59:02 GMT -5
Sonic the Hedgehog- I remember being more active in the fandom a few years back during my Fuzz Academy days. Looking back on it now, a majority of the fandom is crazy. Like, batshit crazy. It's rare to find a few diamonds in the rough who actually care about the series and try to avoid pairing wars and the like, and try to make well-developed characters and plots that aren't sue-ish. Kitexa and Mo, I'm lookin' straight at you. My Little Pony- It's hard to find anything good in this fandom nowadays. I've been a fan even before it was popular to be a "brony" or a "pegasister"- I remember re-kindling my love for the colored horses back in the summer of '09 after discovering My Little Pony Tales for the first time, and my love built from there. Friendship is Magic is okay in it's own right, but the fandom, the goddamn FANDOM! "Bronies don't like the old series and disregard it as canon at all, we abide by Celestia and fight for anything that promotes love and tolerance!" NO. Just no. It's a children's TV show, the old generations, sappy as they were, were darker and much more developed than this, and love and tolerance? Yeeeah no. No offense to Avenger, either, but bronies and the general fandom are something that gets under my skin so bad. 101 Dalmatians- You guys aren't bad. There's simply a bad side of the fandom. I'm hoping we all know what I'm talking about. And those are my last words on the matter. Fucking PREACH IT. I'm not part of the Sonic fandom anymore though, I just play the games l-lol And trust me, my Sonic fancharacters were Mary-Sues. All of them. XD;; My Little Pony has become so damn retarded. I barely look at pony things anymore. I don't even watch the show. Love and tolerance my ass, you stupid assmonkeys don't even practice what you preach. |:1 Also, I will also add quite honestly: Big Bang Theory. While I do have some problems with the show I do love it, but the fans make me sad. The female fans are Sheldon fetishists and worhsip Shenny. Ew. Jim Parsons is good looking, but don't OBSESS over it! Seriously, most thinsg I go to with Sheldon in it have at leats one commentor saying how cute Sheldon is and gushing over him. And then Shenny... you all know how I feel about that by now. XD" Kingdom Hearts. Just KH. That alone is enough to make me shiver. Actually I don't even like the games very much anymore, but the FANS OH GODDD. Warriors as well. I'm really starting to dislike this series now, because I think it is supremely shallow and flat (the first arc is still pretty good but anything after that goes WAY downhill form there). The fans are a bunch of twelve year old anime tards who create groups for their stupid fan clans and make the most horrible Mary-Sues out there, right up with the Sonic sues. |8I
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Post by Paws on Feb 12, 2012 1:13:25 GMT -5
Oh God, the Warriors fandom. I hate to admit it but I was a part of it for a while there :< I still have my shoddy underdeveloped and sue-ish role-play characters from the numerous fan-Clans I was part of, and I think the fanbrats drove me away and taught me to hate the book. That was in 7th grade, maybe. It wasn't until this year I found a sane fan (a girl who's a year ahead of me and one of my best friends <3) and got re-introduced. I joined the official forum, I lurk there sometimes, but the fanbrats... the goddamn fanbrats!
Oh, and let's not forget that My Little Pony is just slowly turning into an Internet meme. How could I forget to mention that...
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Post by Mo on Feb 12, 2012 1:17:13 GMT -5
THE HORROR. THE HORROR. Seriosuly, I want to give my non-first-series books away. Maybe I should read them again to see if they're QUITE as baldn as I made them out to be, but still. Not drawing warrior cats again.
SLOWLY?! It IS an internet meme!!! XDDDD
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Post by Paws on Feb 12, 2012 11:21:37 GMT -5
Pokemon- Something I was more active in in my early DeviantART days. While the fandom for this isn't... as bad as some, it's still pretty bad. Sparklemonz, sparklemonz left and right is the only way I can actually describe it, and yes, I too was subject to this. I'm glad I've left the other part of the fandom behind and have moved on to making stable non-sueish teams and trainers and such. But there are some crazies in most regards to anime ships and such, and unfortunately, I've met a hardcore shipper who couldn't step out of his box and had a fucking PREGNANCY FETISH. ... ...yeah, I'm done.
Kirby- Once again, this fandom isn't as bad as others. I'm glad the fans are actually pretty controlled. But it can get out of control at times and some characters are subject to being bad. And I've had one of those too. xD
Keroro Gunso- Here's another sort of crazy fandom. I've seen heated, heated, heated pairing wars around there and terrible characters. Pairing wars are always the worst though because people like to do OC/Canon, and not many can make it work in the right way. And don't even get me started on people thinking that Tamama is gay...
Glee- OH GOD GLEE. SO MANY FRIGGIN' PAIRING WARS IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. The fans are psychotic and have to argue over who goes with who all the time. It's exactly why I've distanced myself from that fandom and just watch the show.
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Post by Phantom on Feb 12, 2012 11:35:11 GMT -5
How to Train Your Dragon - I absolutely adore the series, both the books and movie (soon to be movies in a couple of years plus a TV series sometime this year, I'm pretty sure), but I cannot stand the way the fandom acts sometimes. Most people I've seen on deviantart are nice enough. It's the hardcore book fans, the people that randomly ship Hiccup with Toothless (or with pretty much anything that moves), the people that treat Camicazi like a freaking goddess or something, and the people that hate Astrid with a fiery passion that I cannot stand. Oh, and the people that hate the movie despite the fact that the author of the books actually approved of the changes that were made to the plot and such.
Dammit... I love the movie and books, I really do, but some people just drive me insane in this fandom. >_< It would be so much easier if we could just get along without there being a risk of arguments like 'OMG, ASTRID REPLACED CAMICAZI111!11!!!!1!' and the like.
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Post by Fang on Feb 12, 2012 12:27:41 GMT -5
Spyro - Oh god...so many things I dislike about the fandom. I cannot stand how childish and aggressive they can be, if you dont like certain pairing they bash you or if you dont have the same theory as them they bash you >> the SpyCyn fans are so inmature while the EmbeRo are brats and they believe they can be bitchy and others because they couple is a "minority". And the fanchildren...THEY ARE ALL SUES, thanks to certain comic in the fandom. I bet you can find a like 30 children who will have a dark form, a "light" form, be purple and breaking the laws of the canon they will have AT LEAST 5 powers, they only care about how powerful they characters are, not anymore to search for something new.
Ginga - aaawww...my dear ginga, the fandom is less aggressive and more mature than Spyro´s fandom (because they dont use as a base a shitty fancomic >< )but yet they share the same problem, they are repetitive and dont think outside the bubble, as long the character have a nice desing, a villian of a different species AND a cool attack. I have found some good characters and stories but..oh well XD;;
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Post by assassinvulpy on Feb 12, 2012 16:27:40 GMT -5
Fang:Ugh. Tell me about it. I joined a Spyro forum. They hated The Legend Of Spyro series, which is fair enough, but they also hated the fans of it, and treated them like dirt, including me. (I'm a big fan of the TLOS games.) There was always flame wars and drama, and most of the members there are trolls, unfortanutely. All they did was whine about TLOS and Cynder all the time, which got old. Very old. And now, they're whining about Skylanders as well, and Spyro's appearence. /end of rant. One fandom I try to keep away from is the Bakugan fandom. To cut a long story short: So many pairing wars, so many trolls, so many stus/sues. I barely make Bakugan art anymore, but I might make some more soon. I don't want the fandom to kill my love for Bakugan. :/
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Post by Nemo on Feb 12, 2012 21:51:37 GMT -5
You remember that? I don't (bad memory lol XDDD). But yes, this topic.. THANK YOU. My Little Pony - You pretty much summed it up, Paws. Especially the so called "bronies" I can't stand. They keep sprouting off to "LOVE AND TOLERATE EVERYONE" but what do they do? The exact opposite. I've heard horror stories from some of my friends how they've been treated by these "bronies." Let me throw out an example.. one of my friends was basically disowned/ditched by one of his friends because he didn't get into the fandom Zatch Bell - Well... it's mostly the retarded fans who for some reason make their oc's either related to or paired up with the canon chars (or recolored versions of them, eugh). As you guys know I don't mind ocxcanon pairings.. as long as it MAKES SENSE. None of those pairings in this fandom make sense. As for the related part.. they make a mamodo oc who is... Zatch's twin. Um, hello, you must have either NEVER read the manga or watched the anime, cause he already has a twin.. Zeno, who is one of the main villains in the series. This is my top favorite series so that's pretty much why I'm more passionate about this one.
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Post by cadpig82 on Feb 18, 2012 20:39:35 GMT -5
I think you're being a bit unfair to Bronies but we're all entitled to our own opinions so I guess I am a "Ass Monkey" I don't even know what a "Ass Monkey" even is but apparently I am one. Unless you mean like the Extreme Bronies. I mean I'd say I'd like the show but I'm not what some people would call a "Real Brony"
Let's see now Series I love but hate the fan base
101 Dalmatians: I don't know why but everyone knows I love this series. But, with all the pairing that goes on and people hating other people's couples I am kinda hating the fan base never the series itself though.
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Post by Paws on Feb 18, 2012 20:47:25 GMT -5
We do mean the extreme bronies, don't worry Cadpig xD
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Post by cadpig82 on Feb 18, 2012 20:58:55 GMT -5
Okay, Phew! XD Got a little bit mixed up there sorry. I admit even I am a little weirded out by the Extreme Bronies. Some times I read one of those fanfics and it makes me kinda sick. It took me a long time not to add this. There are 2 types of Bronies.
ones who just like the show and maybe wear T-shirts or do drawings once in a while: I think I would fall into that category.
And then there's the other kinds of Bronies who make me sick.
But, with almost all shows you're gonna have a group of people who go above and beyond till it comes to a point where it's down right creepy.
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Post by Rave Blitz (Avenger) on Feb 18, 2012 21:50:17 GMT -5
Say what you want about the Brony Community, I for one love being a part of it! I mean, sure we Bronies can get out of hand with the whole "U MAD?" and "Love and Tolerance" issue once in a while, but COME ON! Our Community isn't THAT bad! Even though some Bronies create weird stuff I'll admit ((APPLE.MOV is one example)), and not to mention THE GOD DAMN CLOP FICTIONS! We are a peaceful, loving and nice community.
Here's an example of a video of Bronies reacting to Teens on My Little Pony:
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Post by cadpig82 on Feb 18, 2012 22:26:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean it's not like we have the worst fan base. You wanna know who has the worst fucking fan base in the world? Twilight fans! I am sorry if there are any fans of the books or movies. But you gotta admit most of the extreme ones at least are like bat shit crazy.
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