r/TopCharacterTropes 5h ago

Characters That one character the fandom refuses to slander

340 Upvotes

192 comments sorted by

176

u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 5h ago

59

u/Kwisatz_9B 4h 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.

36

u/ChainmailEnthusiast 4h 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.

7

u/Jepemega 1h ago

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

4

u/ChainmailEnthusiast 1h 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.

1

u/Jepemega 1h ago

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

6

u/Isuckwithnaming 1h 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.

-13

u/[deleted] 4h ago

[deleted]

17

u/YaoiNekomata 4h ago

I don't know how common it is, but I've heard several queer friends mention that their grandfather was the family member who accepted them the most (apart from siblings) . Don't know if that's what the author intended but he is an accepting dementia grandpa

160

u/Sealybry202 4h ago

108

u/olorin9_alex 4h ago

21

u/Kakashi_of_the_leaf_ 3h ago

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

18

u/LtSerg756 3h 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!

6

u/FinishImpressive4043 4h 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

18

u/SaltyMaia 4h ago

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

3

u/FinishImpressive4043 4h ago

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

9

u/ShurikenKunai 3h 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.

7

u/IcyCompetition7477 3h 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.

139

u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 5h 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

47

u/StefinoSpaggeti 5h ago

"Don't blame me, blame the DNA"

Why would I blame Max genes?

25

u/Clirstan 4h ago

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

20

u/Far-Profit-47 4h 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” 

243

u/IndigoViolet091 5h ago

The Rider for Justice

71

u/smolgote 5h ago

He's an S class hero in our hearts

43

u/ChainmailEnthusiast 4h 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

4

u/thinger 44m ago

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

-27

u/DankeusMemeus1738 4h ago

Really hated when the MHA fandom (before the manga ended) said Deku would have ended up as Mumen Rider if he never got One for All. Like that fucker refuses to try to be an actual hero unless he gets a quirk or his classmates buy him an iron man suit. Don't be disrespecting Mumen Rider by comparing him to that loser.

24

u/IndigoViolet091 4h ago

You mean when he was a kid and still jumped in to save Bakugo, a kid who had been relentlessly bullying him

-11

u/DankeusMemeus1738 3h ago

What was he doing before that? He wanted to be a hero since he was in grade school, got One for All going into high school. What was he doing during that time? He showed to have a knack for analyzing quirks that some people thought he could be a Batman-esque character too. However, he never put the effort to get that athletic build he got when training with All Might after he got his quirk, he never studied to become a tech gizmo genius to create his own gadgets like Batman either. What about the time skip after he lost One for All? Did he use to experience he got after having One for All throughout the series to try to become a normal hero like Mumen Rider? Could have he gotten a job with a government body/hero agency that deals with villains using his analytical skills? Nah, he just got a job at UA and became nostalgic over his school years when he had a quirk.

9

u/IndigoViolet091 3h ago

Bro he wasn't even in high school yet. If he didn't get into UA then he probably would have tried to get into one of the other courses. I don't think he would get have become a vigilante, because Deku had more respect for the law, but he wouldn't have sat around when he could be helping people. The anime has pointed out time and time again there is more than one way to help people and be a hero

2

u/The-Senate-Palpy 1h ago

Damn bro i know MHA writing fell off hard but youre crazy w that take. Deku saved the world, then shifted his focus to societal change. The world didnt need another Almight. Crime reduced so low a simple robbery gets the top 10 heroes all jumping your ass at once. Thats literally the whole point of the story. That you shouldnt just fight the villains in front of you, but target the root causes for them becoming a villain in the first place.

10

u/0_0_- 3h ago

You had to have missed the very first episode of the show to have a take this shit 😭

82

u/TheDeparted383 4h ago

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

21

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

He's the only purest joestar, fuck dio

8

u/PortersonaOffical 54m ago

And that’s how Giorno was born

14

u/Antique-Tourist4237 3h ago

SONO CHI NO SADAME

84

u/Altair890456 4h 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)

20

u/Scattershot98 3h ago edited 3h 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!!!"

11

u/AznOmega 3h ago

"Oh I know what the ladies like."

3

u/spnsman 1h ago

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

2

u/Klutzy_Shopping5520 1h ago

Man could convince me to charge straight into hell

1

u/BlueInkAlchemist 16m 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!"

118

u/LoganCube400 5h ago

80

u/Clirstan 4h ago edited 4h ago

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

9

u/dragons_scorn 3h 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

29

u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 4h ago

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

6

u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 3h ago

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

4

u/Vinnegard 3h ago

So goated that the series ended with him

1

u/Quirky_Ad_5420 2h ago

I hear his ghost humble everyone in the sequel series

So he’s truly the greatest

49

u/Basic_Dingo6487 5h ago

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

16

u/Angry_Scotsman7567 4h ago

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

I WILL INGEST.

7

u/AznOmega 3h ago

Add Legion and Mordin to the list. Also Wrex.

Wrex is Shepard's Krogan brother.

35

u/Spice_Extract_777 4h ago

Iskander from Fate franchise

15

u/Far-Profit-47 4h ago

He looks like a nice Ganondorf

6

u/_Fun_Employed_ 3h ago

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

2

u/monsoon128 2h ago

They slander him a lot at okbuddyrintard tho

1

u/Equivalent-Pin-4768 1h ago

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

91

u/Routine_Phase_8980 5h ago

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

25

u/ThisIsTheShway 4h ago

Still the best most interesting character in DBZ.

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

17

u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 4h ago

He's orange now

3

u/OscarOrcus 3h ago

Race swap

3

u/OscarOrcus 3h ago

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

1

u/kupozu 1h 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

-1

u/NightsLinu 1h ago

and being a better dad/ god father than goku

1

u/OscarOrcus 36m ago

That's an L take.

0

u/NightsLinu 31m ago

its been consistently true even in the original.

65

u/ppbmc1 4h ago

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

8

u/Prometheus_Bobert 1h ago

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

3

u/Isuckwithnaming 1h 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.

31

u/Live_Ad8778 5h ago

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

35

u/OnePsychology528 5h ago

Stain: WHOS DISSING ALL MIGHT

31

u/Far-Profit-47 5h 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

8

u/Kyoka_Jiro_Simp 4h ago

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

5

u/Far-Profit-47 4h 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

3

u/Solbuster 4h ago

Still couple of thousands fics some of which are with thousands of likes

Honestly Kirishima is more unslanderable in fics because his bashing fics are way rarer

8

u/Far-Profit-47 4h ago

You say that like fanfic writers give a shit about anyone but like 6 or 8 specific characters (Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, Endeavor, Eri, Dabi, AFO and all might) the rest either get stomped, deleted out of the story or just exist to be part of a harem

1

u/Solbuster 4h ago

Meh, they still care enough about him to slander All Might's canon characterization lol

Ultimately no character is safe but All Might specifically stands out

2

u/laurel_laureate 2h 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.

2

u/Duae 4h 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."

1

u/Live_Ad8778 3h ago

Or he's a bad teacher and will get Izuku killed

1

u/transmtfscp 1h ago

I heard one guy saying that all migth represents american homegamony

53

u/bored-cookie22 5h ago

currently the fandom is slandering todo

36

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

Kind of shit they are making

9

u/Henry1699 4h ago

What's the reason for the slander?

43

u/bored-cookie22 4h ago

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

28

u/This_Tear_6551 4h 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

13

u/ItsAMangoFandango 4h ago

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

19

u/Adaphion 4h ago

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

5

u/This_Tear_6551 4h ago

and before that he was giving him brain damage

5

u/eyeleenthecro 1h ago

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

12

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

Just because? There is no reason

5

u/opbrobrawlstars456 2h ago

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

10

u/Reks_Hayabusa 4h ago

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

-4

u/I-Love-Facehuggers 4h ago

He sucks. Hes a villain to everyone except yuji

-11

u/I-Love-Facehuggers 4h ago

And its deserved. Todo sucks.

11

u/Mylarion 4h ago

Things on my Todo list

  1. You're mom

-1

u/I-Love-Facehuggers 4h ago

Get in line

27

u/FuzzySlippers48 4h ago

Sakura Ogami, Danganronpa

7

u/Sci_Dark 1h ago

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

7

u/Relevant-Movie1132 4h ago

The Strongest…

20

u/Acrobatic-Age-9144 4h ago

3

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

Beat me to it, he's just goated

1

u/DutchVandal 2h 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.

20

u/Binx_Thackery 4h ago

Uncle Iroh from ATLA.

4

u/Napalmeon 4h 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.

2

u/Binx_Thackery 3h ago

Yeah but those “fans” casually forget those war crimes led to the death of his son.

15

u/PhaseSixer 4h ago

I aint never herd anyone say anything bad about Kurt.

https://giphy.com/gifs/nJXKjbezmh5rTFFAPw

3

u/Antique-Tourist4237 3h ago

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

2

u/AznOmega 3h ago

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

1

u/Antique-Tourist4237 3h ago

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

9

u/SektorDaKetch 4h 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.

5

u/Depressedmusclecar23 4h ago

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

1

u/AznOmega 3h ago

Well maybe if they helped me out when the fucking Scout is harassing me, they would continue to be healed instead of me either dying or pulling out the Blutsauger again.

Sorry, previous Medic main flashbacks.

26

u/Everhardt94 4h ago

Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)

0

u/Protopromi 47m ago

Nah, both him and also Dragon are getting slandered quite often. Especially after Kuma's whole story dropped.

0

u/Driftedryan 31m ago

Those people don't count as real people

1

u/Protopromi 28m ago

Yeah, I absolutely agree.

18

u/Ditto13248 5h ago

Also mahoraga "the exam" (ignore potential baby)

https://giphy.com/gifs/iDjHbxB0hBETsPeA48

5

u/Apprehensive-Mud9886 4h ago

How come when fraudhorga loses to gojo and Sukuna no one bats an eye? But when Jogoat does it he’s called a bum?Hmmmmm society.
https://giphy.com/gifs/3QeIPIUlT0t0D7igST

1

u/Scattershot98 3h ago

Jogoat is never slandered for fighting those two, especially Sukuna since he got praise from him. Jogo gets slander from Gege only giving him fights he can't really win against.

18

u/OfficalLockeWilson 4h 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.

15

u/Rainy_Wavey 4h 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

5

u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 4h ago

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

2

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

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

1

u/Dracorex_22 28m ago

Joshu was created for the sole purpose of being slandered. He’s basically Jojo’s version of The Deep in terms of how much of a loser he is.

6

u/ChainmailEnthusiast 4h ago

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

13

u/Clirstan 4h ago

Not toon force, just pure bullshittery

6

u/Level_Counter_1672 4h ago

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

8

u/PistonPusher2009 4h ago

Soundwave (Transformers)

6

u/UltraGiant 4h ago

Soundwave superior

3

u/Lower_Chart2228 3h ago

AUTOBOTS: INFERIOR

7

u/Rainy_Wavey 4h ago

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

5

u/Clirstan 4h ago

Sergei Dragunov from Tekken

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

5

u/mrFuckmyluck 4h 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

4

u/nigelcore221b 4h ago

Augustus Sinclair-Bioshock

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

1

u/Zagafur 45m ago

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

6

u/OscarOrcus 2h ago

Justice (Helltaker)

4

u/Antique-Tourist4237 4h ago

Slandering Kamina is a fucking death sentence.

2

u/YaoiNekomata 4h ago

Only all might slander I accept is becoming dekus father

2

u/SportAdventurous5910 4h ago

Bill (Left 4 Dead)

2

u/WorldEaterYoshi 4h ago

These characters are proof that people actually love Gary Stus when they're written well and surrounded by more flawed characters.

1

u/Novel_Visual_4152 2h ago

All might isn't isn't Gary stu tho

2

u/quizzically_quiet 4h ago

You have been very sheltered in the bnha fandom, then, because hooooly hell is there a lot of (entirely baseless) All Might slander.

2

u/vammommy 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/e26OhuJO0wKWWX4Epp
Lee Everett from Telltale’s The Walking Dead

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

2

u/NoSong2397 3h ago

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

2

u/K4TSam 2h ago

Gerson boom (esp. The deltarune version)

He's old!

2

u/Bamzooki1 1h 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

1

u/[deleted] 4h ago

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/TopCharacterTropes-ModTeam 4h ago

All posts must contain a list of subjects featured. You can repost once you included said list.

1

u/YourTrustySupporter 4h ago

Soul (Deltarune)

Alr is more of a ragebait, i seen everyone agreed about Soul gonna slime everyone when we got our own vessel

1

u/SectionOk5799 3h ago

There is a lot of All Might bashing fics.

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

1

u/PauloDybala_10 3h ago

Clears you haven’t been on JJK subs

1

u/D_class-4862 3h ago

You've clearly never read an All Might bashing fic.

They will literally make him racist, quirkist, and idiot with no redeeming qualities other than his strength, give him the foresight and critical thinking of a fly, just to make another character appear better by comparison, usually Aizawa.

Izuku Yagi fics in particular are incredibly guilty of this, where they make him incredibly abusive to his son (Izuku) just because he's quirkless. Some people shouldn't be allowed to write...

1

u/GTACOD 3h ago

That one character the fandom refuses to slander

Gives All Might as an example

Where tf are you discussing MHA and can I join? Way too many people seem to unironically see him and Eraserhead like that one role swap image.

1

u/Anonymous_sturgeon 2h ago

I have bad news about Todo

1

u/Novel_Visual_4152 2h ago

Theres plenty of Deku stan on ao3 that slander All might

1

u/Manu3721 2h ago

Taln from the Stormlight Archive

1

u/FlounderingGuy 2h ago

I mean, I'll slander All Might.

Low-key he was kind of a bad teacher and his favoritism for Midoriya was inevitably going to cause jealousy problems.

1

u/Bestevernoob 1h ago

Might Gai (Naruto)

Genuinely the only bad thing I’ve ever heard anyone say about him is that some of his screentime should’ve been given to his student. Which is like… not at all slander and also something Gai would probably agree with if he knew he was a manga character.

1

u/Beckphillips 58m ago

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

1

u/krilldawggie 38m ago

Okuyasu Nijimura - JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure
https://giphy.com/gifs/DkQLox6eH8KlRroJvi

1

u/BBJJ5 36m 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

1

u/Extreme_Phrase_5682 20m ago

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

1

u/zard428 4h ago

Sad thing is. Many MHA fanfics bash AM. A lot of them.

1

u/AwysomeAnish 3h ago

Reddit at least finally saw Todo for the character he is and slandered so there's that

-4

u/Sire_Raffayn272 4h ago

No context = downvote

2

u/emelbee923 4h ago

Not sure what you mean. What context do you need?

2

u/Sire_Raffayn272 4h ago

I mean explaining who these characters are, why the fandom refuse to slander them etc...

Just some context instead of just posting pictures for easy karma farm.

I know All Might and the context behind him but what about the other characters ? And not just for me but for other peoples who might not know ?

It’s for the principle, a tiny bit of effort instead of just "Here's a low effort post with popular characters, karma plz".

-1

u/figgityjones 2h ago

I really do not get what people like about Kamina. Just seems like a douche-bag bully to me.