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Katsuki Bakugou (My Hero Academia): Bakugou was just the worst early on. Between his ego, short temper, and habit of threatening people, he's the kind of kid who'd be on a watchlist in real life. However, one moment the audience absolutely refuses to let him live down is when he told Deku to quit life in chapter 1. While it's not out of character for Deku to not hold a grudge over that, many feel like Bakugou should have been called out for that.

Hayase Nagatoro (Don't Mess With Me, Miss Nagatoro): Early on, the series was almost literally torture porn, as a carryover from the original webcomic. The dynamic was that Nagatoro does everything in her power to torture Naoto until he breaks down. It turns out that while that premise might work for a hentai doujin, it's grueling to read in an actual mainstream manga with the lewdness toned down. It just made Nagatoro really unlikable early on and hard to care what happens to Naoto when he's constantly getting shat on. So, the manga was retooled so that Nagatoro is less of a sociopath, but most of her development just happens offscreen and we're just supposed to root for her to get with the guy she sadistically emotionally abused.

The Ghost In The Shell (2026): People who were only familiar with the Mamoru Oshii movie and SAC got one hell of a case of culture shock when the trailer for this remake was released. The art style is very '80s, the tone is a lot less bleak, and Major Kusanagi isn't this ultra serious marine. And people who never read the manga are screaming "BETRAYAL!" like Spoony at E3.

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: Roald Dahl notoriously despised the Gene Wilder movie, but that ended up being the version that stayed engrained in pop culture. Tim Burton's version was a little closer to the book, though not without his own liberties. Some people were just shocked that we actually see the kids alive. Clearly this remake took all the fun out of the original by not making Wonka a potential serial killer... Even though that's what happened in the book. And all the kids besides Veruca actually act bratty, justifying their karma. Oh, but the Tim Burton version turned Charlie into a goody two-shoes... Except the one naughty thing Charlie did in the original, taking some of the Fizzy Lifting Drink, wasn't even entirely his fault. Grandpa Joe coerced him into it, and Charlie was the only one who took any responsibility for it when Wonka crashed out on them.

Sailor Moon Crystal: Yeah, the animation in season 1 of Crystal learned the hard way that Takeuchi's art style doesn't translate into animation, but it got better eventually. Of course, if you ignore the animation, the pacing is also contentious for '90s purists. Fans of the '90s anime will say with their whole chests that the manga outlived its usefulness once the anime came along. The '90s anime did absolutely everything better than the manga... Except how it made Usagi dumber, aged Mamoru up to a college student while keeping Usagi 14, turned Rei into a Mean Girl, made Chibiusa insufferable, made Haruka and Michiko less likable, and had a lot of bad filler episodes, especially during Super S.

David Yost (Power Rangers): During Zeo, David Yost suddenly left the show. Billy got aged up to a senior citizen for a brief period, and when he was cured, he left Earth to get married to a woman from Aquitar. Years later, David Yost revealed in an interview that he regularly dealt with homophobia on the set and left because he was finally tired of it. So, Billy leaving to marry a woman felt extra spiteful.

Bill Cosby (It's True! It's True!): I think we all know that Bill Cosby is a rapist at this point. Even worse, he practically confessed to it in his stand-up act. You see, he did a bit where he talked about slipping Spanish Fly in a promiscuous girl's drink. In an album titled "It's True! It's True!"

Mary Kay Bergman (The Scooby Doo Project): On Halloween in 1999, Cartoon Network aired a parody of The Blair Witch Project using the Scooby gang. Like in the movie it was spoofing, the Gang's sanity starts to wane after being lost, especially Daphne. Her voice actress at the time, Mary Kay Bergman, really sold her hysterics. This becomes really hard to watch as on November 11th, less than two weeks after this aired, Mary Kay Bergman took her own life.

The Blind Side: The movie was about a rich, religious white family adopting a homeless black man and helping him play in the NFL. The story propped the Tuoys as white saviors, but the truth was that they tricked Michael Ohmer into agreeing to a conservatorship so that they could profit off of his life story and he wouldn't see a dime.

Super Size Me: Morgan Spurlock exposes the evils of the fast food industry. How? By eating literally nothing but McDonald's for a month, and to the shock of everybody who didn't finish third grade, eating fast food for every meal is actually bad for you. He even puked after barely getting started and was told that he had the liver of an alcoholic. However, Spurlock left a few details out. For one, he had been a vegan for a while, so the only reason he puked was because his body wasn't used to eating meat again. However, the worst thing he left out was that he was an alcoholic at the time of the experiment. So, McDonald's didn't fuck his liver up; booze did.

Subway: In the early '00s, a man named Jared Fogle told the world about how he shed 200 pounds eating nothing but Subway. For years, Subway used this as a selling point in a time when the fast food industry was being scrutinized for how unhealthy their food was. Now, let's ignore the *other* thing Jared got exposed of and look at the facts. The commercials make it look like Subway is the perfect thing to eat when on a diet. Sure, if you hold the meat, condiments, and bread, you'll have a nice lettuce sandwich with tomato slices for bread. The reason Jared lost so much weight is because he regularly walked several blocks to Subway from his job during his lunch break. In theory, he could have done that with any fast food restaurant. Right, Morgan Spurlock? Sure, the commercials put a little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen explaining this, but they don't expect you to actually read that. The ability to pause live TV was in its infancy at the time.

Butcher and Homelander (The Boys): Early in season 3, when Butcher is still mulling over whether or not he should take Temp-V, Homelander barges into his apartment for personal business. They soon start having tea together while conversing about their potential final confrontation.

Avalanche and the Turks (Final Fantasy VII): During the Wutai sidequest, the party runs into the Turks at the Turtle's Paradise. However, the latter doesn't do anything since they're on vacation, and the former is trying to find Yuffie after she swiped their Materia. This leads to them forming a truce to stop Don Corneo after he abducts Yuffie and Elena, and if you did this sidequest, you can bring up their previous truce to skip the final battle with the Turks at the end of disc 2.

Family Guy: The episode "Screams Of Silence: The Story Of Brenda Q" is about Quagmire trying to get his sister out of an abusive relationship, and for the most part, it's played seriously. On top of the poor handling of the subject, it's hard to take this seriously when Family Guy has regularly used domestic abuse for comedy.

The Boys: So remember when The Deep blackmailed Starlight into giving him a blow job and it was taken seriously? Well, it seems the writers forgot about that in season 4 when they had Hughie get tied up so Tek Knight can cut a new hole in him to fuck. Eric Kripke was just baffled that nobody thought Hughie nearly getting raped was funny. I'm surprised Hughie wasn't a prison bitch at the beginning of season 5.

Your Lie In April: Sit back down! I know people on this sub are tired of me dunking on this series, but it's one of the worst examples of this Trope. People like Jesu Otaku defend the slapstick and make the point that it's like getting mad at Wil E. Coyote's traps malfunctioning on him (for context, that was on the discussion thread for YLIA on Anime News Network way back when). Let me tell you why that's objectively wrong: 1. The Coyote's situation is self inflicted because he keeps trusting Acme products. 2. He's a bad guy trying to kill and eat a presumably sapient Roadrunner. 3. The creators said that his traps were supposed to humiliate him rather than seriously hurt him, a rule of slapstick that has been lost to time. And most important, 4. They didn't give the Coyote a dark backstory where he was a test animal for the Acme Corporation!