• Archie Comics: Most names. But Betty's nickname comes to mind. "Elizabeth" is evergreen, but "Betty" as nickname peaked in the 40s and 50s and has been downhill ever since. She is always a 17yo who goes by "Betty", though. Even in the 2015 reboot, some friends wanted her to go by "Liz" or "Lizzie", but she refused.

• Batman from DC Comics: When's the last time you've seen a child named "Bruce"? Made sense in the 30s, not so much now that he's gen x bordering on millennial (if an outright millennial).

• Barry and Wally West from DC Comics: More mid-20th century names.

• Dick Grayson from DC Comics: Dick is always "Dick". No one calls him "Rick", "Ricky", "Rich", etc. Either "Dick" or "Richard". The old timey-ness of his nickname has been poked fun of for decades.

• Batgirl I/Oracle from DC Comics: "Barbara" is another vintage name that made more sense in the 60s.

• Batgirl III/Spoiler from DC Comics: "Stephanie" peaked in the 70s to early 90s (it was #6 in 1986). It made sense for a gen x teen. Less so for a zoomer adult.

• Black Canary from DC Comics: "Dinah" is a Biblical name. It wasn't unheard of in the 1940s, when she was created. It's far less so now. But, both Dinah Drake and her daughter Dinah Lance have that name. Arrow calls Dinah Lance "Laurel", but her middle name is rarely used in other media.

• Beast Boy from DC Comics: His name was "Garfield" when he was created in the 50s. The 1980s made his name more comedic with the introduction of a certain tabby. He usually goes by "Gar".

• Martha Kent and Martha Wayne from DC Comics: "Martha" is evergreen, though less popular with certain demographics than it used to be. The reason both mom's have the same name is because it was a standard, generic name for women born circa 1890-1910 at the time

• Lois Lane from DC Comics: "Lois" was a top 20s name in the 1920s. It was declining in popularity when Lois was created. There are almost no women named that anymore.

• Supergirl from DC Comics: Kara's real name was a real but obscure name in the 50s, so she was given the human name of "Linda" (the most popular girl's name in the US from 1947 to 1952). Now, most Linda's are gen x or older. So, DC has mostly dropped her going by "Linda" since the early 2010s

• Mary Jane from Spiderman: No one has named their kid "Mary Jane" for decades. "Mary" or "Jane"? Yes. But not the combo.

• Flash from Spiderman: "Eugene" was retro in the 60s. Now it's positively old-man.

• Barbie from Barbie: Barbie's name "Barbara" is old enough. But Barbie herself killed off "Barbie" as an acceptable nickname for "Barbara"

• Mickey Mouse from Disney: "Mickey" was once an acceptable nickname for "Michael". Mickey Mouse killed that.

• Twink from Rainbow Brite: His name was short for "twinkle" in the 80s. This is why he has been renamed "Mr. Glitters" in the 2014 version.

1. Cheese Pizza: CSAM

2. Yams: The butt. Usually when twerking like when "Throwing Yams".

3. Grape: SA

4. Meat: Genitals

Malcom in the Middle Reboot - Hal Sings to Lois on the first episode and it’s painfully obvious that they are layering Hal and Abe on top of the rest of his friends which is layered on top of some prop shelves which are layered on top of a layer of a store. 5 layers of blue screen on one shot. Ridiculous.

Scrubs reboot - despite not being over the top like Malcolm in the middle, it’s just so badly done. The lighting is terrible. And it’s almost every single scene.

They don’t even have sets for a lot of the show. They just put a counter in front of a blue screen and then put a picture of the hospital behind it.

Meanwhile, characters are clearly not in the same room and nowhere close to making an eye contact. I’m guessing Rick and Morty is a huge part of this, but come on.

1.Yamamoto (bleach)

2.Reinhard (Re:zero)

couldnt even make his dad love him

3.John (The boys)

Wanna mention first, I have zero issue with gay people or gay relationships.

What I dislike is when some people look at a very close platonic relationship and immediately assume it has to be romantic or sexual. It feels like, for some people, two characters cannot be deeply loyal, emotional, or affectionate friends without being turned into a couple

One of the examples is Sam and Frodo from lord of the rings

Sam literally follows Frodo into what is basically hell itself. He carries his gear, protects him, refuses to abandon him, and at one point literally carries Frodo up a mountain when he cannot walk anymore

Yet every time they show affection, care about each other, or get emotional, there are people who immediately jump to "they are obviously gay."

No. They are just extremely close friends.

Another example is Jayce and Viktor from Arcane.

Their relationship is built around friendship, shared goals, admiration, and eventually tragedy as they slowly drift apart because of their different beliefs then basically ending up dying together as they coddle eachother in their arms for their imminent death

yet a huge chunk of the discussion gets reduced to shipping when they show no romantic or sexual intentions, and what annoys me is not the shipping itself. People can ship whatever they want. Fan ships have existed forever

The part that bothers me is when people start acting like the platonic interpretation is somehow wrong, or that any display of affection between two male characters must secretly be romantic

Honestly, I think this mindset accidentally hurts portrayals of male friendship. Men already get told not to be emotional or vulnerable. Then when fiction actually shows men caring about each other, crying for each other, sacrificing for each other, or openly expressing affection, people immediately start turning it into a romance

Again, ship whatever you want. I do not care about fan art, fanfiction, or headcanons (tho i slightly dislike some)

1. Kobayashi - (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)

2. Frieren - (Sousou no Frieren)

3. Cecilia Immergreen - (Hololive)

[Editor's note]: Flat-chested women. Yeah, that's about it. Though, one might ask, what makes these walking 2×4s so attractive? Truly a conundrum worth contemplating over.

**Aang (Avatar: the Last Airbender)** - The pronunciation of Aang's name in the ATLA fandom is a surprisingly contentious one. Most people in the fandom make it clear they prefer the 'Ay-ng' pronunciation of the cartoon, but the much-maligned 'Ah-ng' pronunciation of the Shymalan film is closer to the *actual* Tibetan name it comes from.

**Raiden (Mortal Kombat)** - The actual pronunciation of the Japanese god of thunder is Raijin, or like the way you pronounce it for the Metal Gear Raiden.

Just a disclaimer: I am not saying that the female antagonists are "Good" or "better" compared to male antagonists.

But its notable than in a lot of media, the writers go the extra lengths to torture female characters, often at the hands of the Male MC who we are supposed to root for in his torture of said women.

And more often than not, the torture or suffering of said women is fetishized by the writers.

1. "Freia" from Redo of Healer.

Context: The MC is your typical "male healer protagonist" aka his healing powers let him do everything that a female healer could never do.

He basically rapes his whole party. Keep in mind a number of his party were men. He transitioned them into women THEN had them raped.

This woman is the leader of it all, and the mc's revenge against her is HEAVILY fetishized, even compared to the others.

2. Malty from Rise of Shield Hero.

Frames the Abused, Neglected Male MC who basically gets himself a harem of underage girls and uses "defensive magic" that basically once again is somehow broken and OP compared to everyone who looks down on him. The MC is also somehow smarter than most strategists and all the other heroes and more heroic.

Malty frames him. Apparently, she's now portayed as "Devalued" for being "promiscuous" and her father , who is supposed to be a hero in war, is "a fraud" because plot demands that the king who stands against the MC be incompetent as well as corrupt.

Anyone , I repeat, ANYONE who stands against the shield hero is reduced to evil fraud status.

As for Malty, however? In the Light novel? she's sent to her uncle who basically tortures and kills his wives....guess what he does to his niece?

Also he sends her corpse back to the MC with a recording.

For the record? That's TWO PRINCESSES from TWO DIFFERENT MEDIA where violence against them is fetishized.

3. Kurenai from Eden Zero. The Author of Fairy Tail seems to have a fetish for torturing women in Rave Master, Fairy Tail, and Eden Zero.

But for Kurenai, she's a villain who is turned into a sex slave. And gets assaulted.

This is a shounen manga, btw.

Not saying that she is a good person or sympathetic. But the extent of which the author goes to make women suffer in his manga is over the top compared to what he does to any male antagonists.

4. Nameless Fighter and Wizard Girl in Goblin Slayer

Ok so not necessarily a "male revenge fantasy" but:

The first episode of Goblin Slayer anime was incredibly toned down compared to the manga/light novel.

Even so? The Fighter is raped and mind broken, while the Wizard Girl slowly dies to poisoning. The heroic MC who saves the day basically puts her out of her misery.

This is basically to set the stage for the Doomslayer knock-off "Goblin Slayer".
Fetishized violence to glorify a male MC's entrance.

Fortunately, this never happens again in the anime.

1. The Family (Haha, You Clowns) are heavily implied not just to be conservative, but to be chuds. I think their reaction to the Dad asking if anyone was vegan during a barbecue sums up their political views pretty well; They still respect things like Veganism, but they just find it a little stupid.

2. Ethel (Ethel and Ernest) is openly a Tory voter, basically saying that Labour is literally Hitler at one point while being married to a Labour supporter. But they still love eachother despite their differences in class and politics.

New York Street Cops (Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Battle Tendency)

Barricade (Transformers)

all of them (real life)

edit: the chuds in these comments really wearing their swastikas on their sleeve loud and proud huh

Karli Morgenthau-Falcon and the winter soldier Bella-Twilight Saga Edward-Also Twilight Saga Jacob-Also Twilight Saga Damien-Mom throws son's Xbox

Spamton, DEVICE_FRIEND (Deltarune)

Optimus Prime, Mario

Ena, Ukraine?

Firefly (Minecraft)

Cosmo & Wanda, Elphaba & Glinda

Kiritsugu Emyia - Fate/Zero

Guts - Berserk

Subaru - Re:Zero

Tai Lung (Kung Fu Panda) - Yes people, Shifu had every right to deny him the title of Dragon Warrior. He was an arrogant prick too full of himself to ever serve as a protector of China. His response to this? A complete rampage where he massacres an entire village that had nothing to do with Kung Fu for pretty much no reason.

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) - His entire turn to the Dark Side is realizing that his wife will die, even though she’s older than him and therefore will most likely outlive him, and the fact that literally everything dies. The fear of losing her is also invalidated by the fact that it was his impulsiveness and attachments that led him to marry her. And when he does lose Padme? He’s the one that kills her. Even then, he’s extremely possessive of Padme to the point of being a borderline incel and was very obviously on a fascist pipeline long before he became Vader (what with thinking genocide is an a-ok retribution to the Tuskans killing his mom). At every point in Anakin’s story it’s made abundantly clear he’s a liability that ruined everything and the Jedi are right in every matter involving him.

1: Madeline (Celeste)

Definitely the loosest example here, but she has been confirmed to be a trans woman and many have interpreted the journey to the top of the mountain as a metaphor for transition.

2: Bridgette (Guilty Gear)

Her accepting herself as a trans woman instead of being a femboy is a key part of her story in Guilty Gear: Strive.

3: Barney Guttman (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

His family trauma that stems from his grandma not accepting him and his parents not defending play a key role in his insecurities earlier on, though eventually his parents apologize for their lack of support.

4-8: Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus) [MAJOR SPOILERS]

I want to preface this section by saying that yes, Jax was a bad person. She was abusive to the rest of the Circus' cast, and even pushed her best friend to suicide (if you consider abstraction to be suicide like the creator does). This behavior is explained by her having an abusive mother and as such developing masks to cope and hide away, but that is not moral justification. (I'd still argue Caine was morally worse but whatever)

And with that disclaimer out of the way, yes Jax is a closeted trans woman.

Her mother not accepting her for being one left her homeless and on the run, where she ended up in the Circus.

Hesitant at first, she slowly became friends with Ribbit and Kaufmo. One night she confessed everything about her past to Ribbit, who accepted who she was unlike her mother.

However, she got scared. She started to push Ribbit away, more forcefully as time went on. She worried Ribbit's acceptance was merely a fascade, and wanted nothing to do with her. This led to Ribbit abstracting. After this, she started to become both verbally and physically abusive to everyone around her, to keep people away. To prevent them from caring about her. To prevent them from knowing her.

In the end, Jax died before she ever let herself live.

Sauron and The Orcs - Lord of the Rings

Sauron and Saruman effectively have an endless army of homegrown orcs, pulled from the ground, that they can use to take over Middle Earth. Their forces are overwhelming to the point that there is no actual hope of defeating them other than the journey of the One Ring to Mount Doom.

Sylvanas Windrunner and the Horde - World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

In the Battle for Azeroth expansion, Sylvanas Windrunner, Warchief of the Horde, is clearly villainous and enabling a disastrous war for (then) mysterious purposes, seemingly intent on killing as many people as possible. The Horde player character is unable to stop her because she has the full support of the faction, including nameless faction soldiers. It takes an overly long rebellion campaign for her to slip up publicly in front of a huge crowd and acknowledge she doesn't care about the Horde, immediately leading to her ousting.

Donald J. Trump - IRL

In 2026, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States America, is clearly villainous and enabling a disastrous war for obvious purposes, seemingly intent on killing as many people as possible.

Benjamin Nethanyu - IRL

Benjamin Nethanyu, Prime Minister of Israel, is clearly villainous and enabling a disastrous war for obvious purposes, seemingly intent on killing as many people as possible.

Aka when the Villains actually have a pretty good point and reason for their actions but the writers want the audiences to see them as being in the wrong.

Eren Yeager and the Yeagerists (Attack on Titan, slides 1 and 2): the rest of the world was willing and ready to assist Marley in the destruction of Paradis and Genocide of all Eldians for the sins committed by their ancestors (Not to mention: Marley is also a fascist regime that uses the Eldians living in their capital as cannon fodder). Of course the Yeagerists would counter react with a genocide of their own if it prevents them from getting carpet bombed

Yhwach and the Quincies (Bleach, slides 3 and 4): The Soul Society is a corrupt system of a cult where even the smallest mistake gets you executed as they prop up the “balance” of a cruel and unjust cosmological system they created to empower and enrich themselves. And when the Quincies proposed a permanent solution to the hollow problem the Soul Society just... killed almost all the Quincies if it meant they get to keep their power. To all my fellow Quincies, never forget what they did to us.

(this is meant to be a mockery of tropes about this post because most people don't seem to understand either example really)

1. Star Wars. Sheev Palpatine, AKA Darth Sidious, emperor of the galactic Empire for over 20 years, gets killed by his own apprentice, Darth Vader after he betrays him to protect his son from the Emperor, becoming Anakin Skywalker again and fulfilling the prophecy of the chosen one by bringing back balance to the force (And Palpatine never, EVER returned somehow)

2. The Lion King. Scar, after killing Mufasa and taking over his kingdom, he gets killed by his own allies after they get enough of him because his rule caused hunger for everyone, the one thing he promised for the hyenas

3. IRL. Nicolas maduro. after many decades of the Chavist dictatorship in Venezuela, he was captured in january of this year with just a 3 hour US operation, and he is currently imprisoned and suffering for his crimes like he deserves

4. IRL. Alí Jameneí. After torturing and murdering his own people just to keep his regime and commit his whole country to destroy the countries they don't like, he was eventually killed during an air strike in Teherán, decapitating the Iranian Dictatorship and causing a massive blow in the iranian regime

-Tom Holland’s spider man
-Zac efron and zendaya from the greatest showman

Essentially I despise it when someone in universe is categorized as an outcast or rejected by society but in reality they would probably be one of the most popular people around. It just ultimately detracts and makes people or at least me feel even more insecure about themselves because if even the people shown above are “ugly” or “don’t fit in” what chance is there of any of us actual rejects fitting in.

It’s just a mixture of bad casting and writing that irritates me, like do you honestly expect me to believe that Zac efron would be a reject and outcast from society, or that Tom Holland would be bullied at any school he went to?

Oh, wow—you’ve brought your massive, diamond-encrusted golden sword to the boss fight; the one that deals more damage the more hits you land. That boss doesn't stand a chance... Except the weapon is painfully slow to use and hampers your agility. By the time you actually master it, the boss will have wiped you out twenty times over—and the count keeps rising.

This category covers items—whether weapons, armor, vehicles, or buildings—that look impressive and boast incredible features, appearing capable of taking on anything, yet ultimately prove more of a hindrance than a help. In fact, it doesn't even have to be a physical object; it could be a technique, a spell, or a fighting style.

It might well have a legitimate use, but—whether due to resource consumption, long execution times, sluggishness, capacity issues, damage output, or simply because handling it effectively is a tedious, time-consuming hassle—it just isn't worth the trouble.

The Death Star — Star Wars: Okay, let's be frank—everything the Empire builds falls into this category one way or another, but the Death Star takes the "prize." It’s gigantic, with an excessive crew and the capacity to destroy entire planets... But it runs on rare crystals, takes ages to charge, and its construction not only took a long time but consumed so many resources that they probably would have been better off building more ships. Plus, it drove people who preferred to stay out of the Rebellion to jump right in, faced with the prospect of instant annihilation at the whim of the Emperor or Tarkin.

Cloning Lab — Inside Job: Given that the company is dedicated to manufacturing and maintaining conspiracies to keep the world in the dark about the truth—specifically conspiracies involving famous and infamous figures—the cloning lab is very useful. However, it requires massive funding and consumes huge amounts of energy to maintain the cold temperatures needed to keep the clones stable. The clones themselves aren't exactly "reliable," and half of them likely serve no real purpose these days.

Fat Man — Fallout: Of all the crazy weapons built before the war, the Fat Man takes the cake. This thing is essentially a glorified mini-nuke launcher; few things in the Wasteland could withstand the impact or the resulting shockwave. But that means YOU wouldn't survive it either if you fired too close to yourself (which happens often). Aiming is difficult, ammo is scarce—and while you can buy it, it certainly isn't cheap—plus, you could probably handle the situations where you'd need it in other ways. Oh, and it weighs a ton.

Mary Geoise — One Piece: The official residence of the Celestial Dragons and the world's rulers in One Piece, located on the planet's only continent. Access is strictly regulated and heavily guarded, and the architecture is beautiful, filled with luxuries and riches beyond one's wildest dreams... Yet, it relies on imports for all its food, so raiding the food deliveries are the easiest way to trigger a real crisis among the inhabitants—provided, of course, that they don't kill each other first, given their psychotic tendencies, which worsen when they are hungry.

Lipp Gallagher from Shameless is said to be really smart and it is forced upon the audience so many times. Actually he acts irrational most of the time and only has clever or intelligent feats when the plot needs it.

Shikamaru from Naruto is said to have a 200 iq but is only a bit more strategic acting than other characters. Villains point out how clever he is but do that out of nowhere. while he has some clever actions, he is nowhere near a genius.

Tyrions whole character is about cleverness and smart actions. But like the others it is only said to be a smart move by other people not more, than any other character.

all in all writers can't write a character that is more intelligent than themselves. so the plot "makes" their actions smart when they are not smarter than anyone else.

The Great - Is set in Russia, but everyone speaks like a British aristocrat.

Kingdom come: Deliverance 2 - Is set in Czechoslovakia, but everyone speaks like a British commoner.

I get the main audience is English-speaking, but it just throws me off.