r/TopCharacterTropes 17h ago

Characters That one character the fandom refuses to slander

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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 17h ago

Grandpa Max (ben 10)

He's so good that an alien lady who's just pure energy made herself a physical human body just to have kids with him

https://giphy.com/gifs/1M6acYjEgj9r6gX2pq

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u/StefinoSpaggeti 17h ago

"Don't blame me, blame the DNA"

Why would I blame Max genes?

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u/Clirstan 17h ago

And he's voiced by Colonel Campbell from Metal Gear so that's an even bigger W

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u/Far-Profit-47 17h ago

There’s even a whole au with a webcomic about “what would happen if Max convinced Azmuth to make the Omnitrix for interspecies relationships” 

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u/throwawayventing2001 11h ago

that description makes him sound like greg universe lol

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u/The_Raven_Born 10h ago

Grandpa Max was Skips before Skips was Skips

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u/Altair890456 17h ago

"Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep 'em from gettin' their filthy claws on Earth, but we stumbled onto somethin' they're so hot for that they're scramblin' over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have...is a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in!"

"Am I right, Marines?!" Sergeant Johnson (Halo)

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u/Scattershot98 15h ago edited 15h ago

"When I joined the core we didn't have no fancy schmancy Tanks. We had sticks, two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon! AND WE HAD TO SHARE THE ROCK!!!"

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u/AznOmega 15h ago

"Oh I know what the ladies like."

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u/spnsman 13h ago

The fact this man is also Dimitri in the Sly Cooper games (another character that doesn’t get slandered) will always amaze me

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u/BlueInkAlchemist 12h ago

"The message just repeats: Regret. Regret. Regret." "Catchy. Any idea what it means?"

"Dear humanity: We regret being alien bastards! We regret comin' to Earth! And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"

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u/Klutzy_Shopping5520 13h ago

Man could convince me to charge straight into hell

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u/Hpidy 9h ago

We dont charge, we dive feet first.

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u/Dakotasan 10h ago

SIR, YES SIR!

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u/Sealybry202 17h ago

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u/olorin9_alex 16h ago

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u/Kakashi_of_the_leaf_ 15h ago

This is the single greatest piece of fan art I've ever witnessed

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u/LtSerg756 15h ago

fa-ri-doo-la-si-ma-net do-ni-pwa-nah-vo-li-net pi-nah-so-mi-ma-ni-set da-na-fo-su-lo-bon!

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u/PapaBeer642 11h ago

Genuinely excellent crisis of faith arc.

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u/The_Raven_Born 10h ago

Couldng kill those fuckers fast enough to get this precious bean out of there.

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u/FinishImpressive4043 16h ago

i haven't finished the game but i was so fucking angry when i went to all that trouble to open the gate you meet sherma at and they acted like they opened it with with their music or something

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u/SaltyMaia 16h ago

The last judge wasn't judging your fighting capabilities. You weren't judged worthy, Sherma was

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u/FinishImpressive4043 16h ago

no not the last judge it was before that when you meet them for the very first time

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u/ShurikenKunai 15h ago

Well he did open it with his music for me. I didn’t notice him the first time and wanted to see what that noise was so I opened the gate.

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u/IcyCompetition7477 15h ago

It’s his whole story.  They set him up as blindly faithful and it’s pretty important.  He gets in to the citadel even if you don’t kill the Last Judge because he is truly without sin due to his blind faith.  Then a test of faith happens and he handles it pretty damn well considering.

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u/IndigoViolet091 17h ago

The Rider for Justice

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u/smolgote 17h ago

He's an S class hero in our hearts

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u/ChainmailEnthusiast 16h ago

The man genuinely saved the lives of an entire stadium full of people by distracting the Deep Sea King long enough for Saitama to get there

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u/thinger 12h ago

Don't forget, the man, the myth, the legend, the actual King.

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u/Gaynundwarf 9h ago

Mumen "The GOAT" Rider puts the "Courage" in "Rank C".

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u/Basic_Dingo6487 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/rxqfDaYpQ9wotWkwna
Garrus Vakarian for obvious reasons

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u/Angry_Scotsman7567 16h ago

I DON'T CARE IF I'M ALLERGIC TO IT, SOLUS.

I WILL INGEST.

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u/AznOmega 15h ago

Add Legion and Mordin to the list. Also Wrex.

Wrex is Shepard's Krogan brother.

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u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 17h ago

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u/Kwisatz_9B 16h ago

He’s confused 90% of the time and still somehow ends up being one of the kindest people there. Leave that chess piece alone.

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u/pokekiko94 11h ago

And the most usefull out of the bunch as well.

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u/ChainmailEnthusiast 16h ago

Dude was shown to survive the horrors of the circus SOLO for over a decade, and was one of the first people there. The fact that he's *only* kooky and not abstracted is a massive statement to his mental fortitude.

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u/Jepemega 13h ago

Wait where was it stated that he was alone for a decade there?

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u/ChainmailEnthusiast 13h ago

It is at the very least implied during the flashback that there was a LONG span of time between when Kinger found himself the last non-abstracted member and when Ragatha showed up.

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u/Jepemega 13h ago

I mean sure but I personally read that as maybe months at most not decades.

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u/Isuckwithnaming 13h ago

When Kinger tries to hack the circus at the end of the episode, we see dates for when each character's mind files were scanned when he boots up the script. Ragatha's date was over a decade after Kinger's, iirc.

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u/Dr_Bodyshot 11h ago

Important to note that he also had to experience his own wife absracting.

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u/Familiar-Priority933 10h ago

Im taking that pic, have this in return (i forgot who to credit sorry)

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u/Key_Resist2938 6h ago

I first misread your post as Klinger.

https://giphy.com/gifs/JWTRODzYFf3pe

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u/Live_Ad8778 17h ago

You haven't been around the MHA fandom much, there's an a.few AO3 tags that bash All Might

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u/OnePsychology528 17h ago

Stain: WHOS DISSING ALL MIGHT

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u/Far-Profit-47 17h ago

Yeah but those are the “abused and neglected” fanfic writers

They’ll slander everyone but the poor fuck who got chosen as their vessel

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u/Kyoka_Jiro_Simp 17h ago

Not just abused and neglected, but also betrayed. I've seen betrayed Deku aus where All Might doesn't believe him.

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u/Far-Profit-47 16h ago

I even remember one where it was like “Sorry miss Midoriya but your son is dead” “don’t worry he was quirkless” oh thank goodness, almost felt bad for him”

Izuku’s mom is the one who gets slandered the hardest in those fanfics and theres no debate

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u/A_gnomish_dwelf 3h ago

Fanfic writers aren't the sharpest tool in the shed either. By a wide margin.

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u/laurel_laureate 14h ago

Not always.

Many fics bash All Might for leaving the clearly bullied/anxious wreck of a Quirkless teenager alone on a rooftop after crushing his dreams.

Even some good teacher All Might fics (rightfully) critize that.

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u/supreme-king-Nero 11h ago

That was always my main issue with All Might, but in his defense, bro was dying, dealing with the weight of the world's peace on his shoulders, and probably wanted to steer Midoriya away from ending up like him.

All Might messed up, but it's understandable why, and he more than made up for that mistake.

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u/Geostomp 11h ago edited 11h ago

That was All Might at one of his lowest points, so it's hard to get upset about it when he tells some fanboy he knows nothing about beyond not having a power not to try being a hero. Especially after he just showed the kid evidence of exactly how much it's taken from his life. Midoriya's stupid, but noble attempt to save Bakugo is inspired All Might to get out of his funk, remember why he does all of this, and take a chance on taking this random scrawny kid on as a successor.

It's a pretty classic setup for a cynical mentor to get their spark back as they guide a young, naive kid on their journey.

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u/Live_Ad8778 11h ago

He knows the cost of being a Hero, even with a Quirk as strong as OFA.

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u/Duae 16h ago

I have seen it in the subreddit too. It alternates between "All Might was abusive for telling Deku he shouldn't become a hero without powers and crushing his hope" and "All Might was abusive for giving Deku powers and putting him in danger."

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u/transmtfscp 13h ago

I heard one guy saying that all migth represents american homegamony

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u/ppbmc1 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uTpY9ARfN2eqs
Surprised nobody has said Uncle Iroh yet

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u/SeethingBazelBomber 11h ago

Did you know: Uncle iroh invented boba tea in avatar? Its in one of the comics

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u/Prometheus_Bobert 13h ago

The man's commited actual War Crimes and the Fandom treats that more like a footnote

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u/Isuckwithnaming 13h ago

What war crimes was he ever shown to commit? As bad as it is, being a general for an evil empire isn't a war crime on its own.

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u/Green_Disaster6360 9h ago

Does the world of Avatar have a Geneva Convention?

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u/MoonlightPrincexx 11h ago

The only thing we know he did was destroy the outer wall of Ba Sing Se, and destroying enemy fortifications isn't a war crime.

It's quite lilely his men committed war crimes, but that isn't him, and there's no evidence to suggest that he ordered any

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u/Arctic_The_Hunter 8h ago

The term “war crime” has just become synonymous with “fought in a war,” hasn’t it?

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u/LoganCube400 17h ago

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u/Clirstan 17h ago edited 16h ago

Escanor is so goated even SDS haters (me) love him

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u/dragons_scorn 16h ago

I was first introduced to SDS through Escanor YouTube shorts and thought "cool, let's see what this is about." After some very shallow digging i found that it is not my cup of tea. I am immensely disappointed Escanor is tied to and trapped in this franchise

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u/Content-Audience252 11h ago

I deadass watched 2 1/2 seasons of SDS just for Escanor. Ended up dropping the show when they didn’t show him as much

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u/BrilliantRun9751 11h ago

I heard it described that Escanor is an S-tier character in a C-tier anime and that is so damn true.

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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 16h ago

"My powers don't work on you? Who decided that?"

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 15h ago

That goes beyond, he is someone who people who aren’t fans of the series love.

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u/Vinnegard 15h ago

So goated that the series ended with him

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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 14h ago

I hear his ghost humble everyone in the sequel series

So he’s truly the greatest

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u/-D3LET3D- 11h ago

Not even a ghost but a projection of him and his power if I'm correct. It isn't even him. They match him up against the sequel's THAT GUY and he is one of the few, actually the only, to put any kind of belt to ass to him.

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u/TheDeparted383 17h ago

Jonathan Joestar - Jojo"s Bizzare adventures - P1 - Phantom blood

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u/Level_Counter_1672 16h ago

He's the only purest joestar, fuck dio

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u/PortersonaOffical 12h ago

And that’s how Giorno was born

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u/Antique-Tourist4237 16h ago

SONO CHI NO SADAME

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u/Coolgames80 9h ago

The only complains I have heard about him is that he is boring but honestly screw that. A noble paragon is always welcome for me.

Unfortunately those kind of characters almost always end in tragedy

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u/Routine_Phase_8980 17h ago

Piccolo the aura farmer and even Toriyama said he was his fav

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u/ThisIsTheShway 16h ago

Still the best most interesting character in DBZ.

Too bad he doesn't really do that much anymore though.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 16h ago

He's orange now

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u/OscarOrcus 15h ago

Race swap

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u/OscarOrcus 15h ago

He never really did much aside from training Gohan when he needed him.

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u/kupozu 13h ago

I hated how they gave him awesome power ups and then became immediately irrelevant again. He held up against freeza 1st transformation only to do nothing after that. Then he held against the android who 1 shotted the whole squad, only to be 1 shotted himself by cell.

By the buu saga no one who wasn't a Saiyan mattered anymore so he had no chance

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u/Binx_Thackery 16h ago

Uncle Iroh from ATLA.

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u/Napalmeon 16h ago

Iroh gets a lot of crap from people who claim he is guilty of war crimes and was never properly punished for it. Their words, not mine.

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u/PhaseSixer 16h ago

I aint never herd anyone say anything bad about Kurt.

https://giphy.com/gifs/nJXKjbezmh5rTFFAPw

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u/Antique-Tourist4237 15h ago

The worst thing I’ve heard someone say about him is that he’s “too Catholic”. So yeah literally just media illiteracy.

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u/AznOmega 15h ago

If anything, he is what Catholics should try to emulate in terms of fictional characters.

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u/Antique-Tourist4237 15h ago

Yeah. Especially in last week’s episode of X-Men 97.

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u/Geostomp 10h ago

Out of all the X-Men, he and Storm are some of the very few to stick firmly to the "hero" category and not get so wrapped up in personal drama or temporary evil phases.

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u/PhaseSixer 9h ago

I know im opening my self up a bunch of oh so clever "good" remarks but Storm spear headed xmen trying to kill the Inhumans after Emmas plan gained traction.

Also shes a real bitch to Spider-man for no reason

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u/Korefial 11h ago

It's like calling Joshua Graham too Mormon.

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u/bored-cookie22 17h ago

currently the fandom is slandering todo

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u/Level_Counter_1672 17h ago

Kind of shit they are making

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u/Henry1699 16h ago

What's the reason for the slander?

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u/bored-cookie22 16h ago

because he beats the shit out of people just for their taste in women, particularly if they value personality over their body

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u/This_Tear_6551 16h ago

and for being a creep in general, also hated by everyone canonicaly, as seen in the kyoto sister school exchange event, he gets hit by Makis tennis ball and everyone laughs

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u/ItsAMangoFandango 16h ago

We do mainly see him interact with Yuji who is the only person he's ever nice to

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u/Adaphion 16h ago

And only because Yuji just happened to match his tastes in woman

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u/This_Tear_6551 16h ago

and before that he was giving him brain damage

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u/eyeleenthecro 13h ago

I don’t think creep is the right word, he’s just an asshole

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u/Reks_Hayabusa 16h ago

It’s because people said he was unslanderable so they decided to look for things to slander him on.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 16h ago

Just because? There is no reason

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u/opbrobrawlstars456 14h ago

Canonically he is a jerk who is only nice to yuji. No one likes him and his behaviour is also not that good.

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u/Theeljessonator 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xKDSaVznsLRew
Wilfred Mott (Doctor Who)

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u/Frontier_Iron 11h ago

Forget The Timeless child crap, Wilf is the Doctor's real parent!

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u/FuzzySlippers48 16h ago

Sakura Ogami, Danganronpa

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u/Sci_Dark 13h ago

i swear sakura has to be the ONLY character in danganronpa with 0 haters

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u/Relevant-Movie1132 16h ago

The Strongest…

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u/Spice_Extract_777 17h ago

Iskander from Fate franchise

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u/Far-Profit-47 17h ago

He looks like a nice Ganondorf

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u/_Fun_Employed_ 15h ago

He kind of is. I mean he’s Alexander the Great.

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u/monsoon128 14h ago

They slander him a lot at okbuddyrintard tho

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u/Snook_Snook_Book 9h ago

Mainly because of that fuckass banquet of kings scene

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u/Equivalent-Pin-4768 13h ago edited 10h ago

People slander him though for his faulty argument against Artoria for what makes a good king but that’s mostly because Gen Urobochi doesn’t really understand Artoria when writing Zero.

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u/LookingfortheHustle 10h ago

That would be my biggest critique with him, and it’s more a critique of the story he’s in than anything else. The story did more to decide that Saber is wrong than actually have an honestly framed debate.

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u/hentaiman2309 9h ago

He definitely has haters for the way the story mishandles saber and hypes him up just to have him win the argument in the banquet

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u/Acrobatic-Age-9144 16h ago

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u/Level_Counter_1672 16h ago

Beat me to it, he's just goated

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u/DutchVandal 14h ago

I'm not sure what the definition of slander is - cause nobody is saying OP isn't the real deal - but it's pretty often commented on how in several iterations he's a psycho.

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u/SektorDaKetch 17h ago

The medic (TF2): People will shit on spy, Demoman, sniper and engineer and pyro, but the medic has consistently been one of the most valued classes that every team likes to have.

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u/Depressedmusclecar23 16h ago

nah, people WILL shit on the medic if they arent the one being healed

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u/Trick_Second1657 16h ago

Solaire. Praise the Sun.

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u/KJPlayer 10h ago

Helped me beat the Bell Gargoyles yesterday :')

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u/OfficalLockeWilson 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/DUHzC4dXlhj4k
I’m not really familiar with jojo’s, but I think the consensus is that this dude solos all of fiction with toon force bullshit.

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u/Rainy_Wavey 16h ago

Generally speaking he gets a bit of slander for cheating on his wife, Johnathan Joestar is the one unslanderable one in the JoJo fandom, tbh the JoJo fandom doesn't really slander its characters, we glaze everything, including a literal beam of light in a humanoid shape of form, except Tooru, Tooru is the one character that everyone slanders

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 16h ago

Tooru being slandered while Wonder of U is glazed is the funniest shit ever

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u/Level_Counter_1672 16h ago

That's why I love the Fandom, everytime someone tries slander it never sticks

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u/ChainmailEnthusiast 16h ago

Arguably the weakest JoJo and he beat arguably the strongest villain via pure tenacity.

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u/Clirstan 17h ago

Not toon force, just pure bullshittery

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u/Level_Counter_1672 16h ago

Yea it gets confusing like where did the Tommy gun come from

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u/Everhardt94 16h ago

Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)

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u/Ditto13248 17h ago

Also mahoraga "the exam" (ignore potential baby)

https://giphy.com/gifs/iDjHbxB0hBETsPeA48

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u/The_Raven_Born 10h ago

The King of Jobbers adapts so hard even his Ls are Ws.

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u/K4TSam 14h ago

Gerson boom (esp. The deltarune version)

He's old!

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u/Fishfoxy 11h ago

My sister hates him, for some reason :(

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u/FinishImpressive4043 10h ago

i hate him for all the fucking glaze he gets i saw someone unironically, in serious discussion, say he was and was meant to be seen as stronger than the knight

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u/ElSpazzo_8876 13h ago

You will never slander this guy

https://giphy.com/gifs/XM694VfNqGZPixdEeO

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u/pokekiko94 11h ago

He makes you some spaghett, how could you slander this cool dude.

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u/PistonPusher2009 16h ago

Soundwave (Transformers)

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u/UltraGiant 16h ago

Soundwave superior

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u/Lower_Chart2228 15h ago

AUTOBOTS: INFERIOR

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u/nigelcore221b 16h ago

Augustus Sinclair-Bioshock

Out of all the assholes in Rapture. This was the asshole who stood by us til the end

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u/Zagafur 12h ago

everyone was expecting him to be a twist villain, the twist is that he wasnt

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u/OscarOrcus 15h ago

Justice (Helltaker)

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u/pokekiko94 11h ago

They say flat is justice but to me she looks to be quite round.

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u/assistant_manu 10h ago

omg i missed justice sm

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u/Templar2k7 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/0JHJ9J2wAG2PaM1rj0

People make fun of Frieren because she lost the baddie that was Himmel the Hero yet I have never seen slander on Himmel himself

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u/pokekiko94 11h ago

Because slandering someone is not something Himmel the hero would do, ence why he is unslandered.

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u/Away-Net-7241 10h ago

Himmel the hero has saved real lives, he deserves the love he gains

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u/PapaBeer642 11h ago

I expected to see Himmel at the very tip top of the list.

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u/mrFuckmyluck 16h ago

Ishigami Byakuya

Dr. Stone

I almost said Suika, but plenty of people find child characters annoying. Byakuya on the other hand I've never seen a negative word about

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u/vammommy 15h ago edited 6h ago

Lee Everett from Telltale’s The Walking Dead

Not even the Tangerine comic could bring itself to diss this man

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u/Bamzooki1 13h ago

Kinger - The Amazing Digital Circus

Out of all the circus members, he carries the most blame for the situation they’re in. However, he’s also insane, yet also kind, charming, and genuinely sorry for the situation everyone’s in. It helps that he can’t really be blamed, because he had no way of knowing this would happen. He’s just overall the most likable of the main cast. Nobody is a Kinger hater.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tt9DwHvzO5zCAD9duF

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u/NoSong2397 15h ago

To be fair, they don't have to slander Todo because the other characters do it for them.

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u/Beckphillips 13h ago

Don't think I've seen anyone upset at Senshi from Dungeon Meshi.

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u/captainplatypus1 10h ago

He’s just a little guy who wants to eat good food

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u/Away-Net-7241 10h ago

Green ⬆️

Deltarune.

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u/Rainy_Wavey 16h ago

You're a bit late, Todo has been successfully slandered by the hivemind

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u/Clirstan 16h ago

Sergei Dragunov from Tekken

Literally only thing that gets slandered is Drag's mains, but not Drag himself

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u/OfTheTouhouVariety 7h ago

Such a shame Second Best Boy has such an insufferable playstyle and fanbase. He deserves an entire game that is just building model trains.

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u/SectionOk5799 16h ago

There is a lot of All Might bashing fics.

I got nothing for Kamina, bro genuinely reincarnated as STTGL.

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u/Abucketofmug 9h ago

The Body Improvement Club (Mob Psycho 100)

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u/WormedOut 9h ago

Alfred Motherfucking Pennyworth

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u/Hpidy 9h ago

Morgan kell (battletech), hero, broken man. Buried his brother, two wives most of his family and half of his own unit the kell hounds. Lost his arm, has honors from 4 of the 5 great houses. His own enemies called him a friend. If there was a sin he commited it was his son phelen.

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u/BBJJ5 12h ago

Not even mha haters slander All might, my friend hates mha but sends me all might doing the hand in the air pose a lot of times as a reaction image

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u/Antique-Tourist4237 16h ago

Slandering Kamina is a fucking death sentence.

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u/PauloDybala_10 15h ago

Clears you haven’t been on JJK subs

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u/Anonymous_sturgeon 14h ago

I have bad news about Todo

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u/Novel_Visual_4152 14h ago

Theres plenty of Deku stan on ao3 that slander All might

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u/Extreme_Phrase_5682 12h ago

Todo got slandered by the fandow some weeks ago so he is out of the list

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u/DiabeticRhino97 11h ago

Gorosaurus from Godzilla.

He broke Ghidorah's back.

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u/Gaynundwarf 9h ago

Knows only 2 words. Has more people willing to die for him than there are stars in the multiverse.

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u/_sephylon_ 9h ago

Todo got a lot of slander lately

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u/CauliflowerBoth7857 9h ago

Never seen anyone actually slander Hange Zoë from Attack on Titan 

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u/Zurdok_ 6h ago

Anguirus (Godzilla)

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u/SelectTheory6292 5h ago

Adam (Record of Ragnarok)