This Troper is currently writing a HarryPotter FanFic featuring Bellatrix Lestrange. It was intended to be a dark, highly disturbing, somewhat squicky look at pureblooded society, descent into madness, the origins of sadism, MadLove, and the Fanon interpretation of Slytherin House as misunderstood. Supporting characters include a violent brute with Yandere tendencies and a complete inability to understand rejection, a depressed, cynical ill boy who manipulates everyone around him for fun, and an innocent Woobie who loves everything and everyone and exists for the universe to torment, and eventually dies horrifically and pointlessly but never gives up her belief in humanity's ultimate goodness. Guess who the reviewers are rooting for. (What makes it even more ironic is that This Troper was trying to deconstruct the DracoInLeatherPants phenomenon. Nope...)

Was it the Woobie?

I bet $10 on Cynboy!

40k on bellatrix

Can you please give us a link? I think I'd quite like to read that.

On an RP site, this troper ended up with a character of a {{Mon}}s species she didn't care for. Rather than get rid of her, however, she decided to turn her into a rampant, vicious ParodySue who took pot shots not only at CommonMarySueTraits, but overused plot devices on the forum itself. Very few people seemed to "get" this, however, and they genuinely liked her for what she ''claimed'' to be able to do and what she ''claimed'' to look like, instead of her actual self. I had to break out the anvils before it seemed like people "understood" her.

Funnily enough, she may be going in the opposite direction. Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she's now gone from being an insufferable, obnoxious Sue-wannabe to an obnoxious Sue-wannabe in the middle of an enormous mental and emotional breakdown. The reasons for this including, but not limited to: Others calling her out on her behaviors, others ''not'' calling her out on her behaviors and instead being perfect gentlemen/women and inciting her guilt, the {{mon}} she might be in love with being AWOL... Cue Woobiefication, ''including from her creator.'' Even ''I'' feel bad for her.

This Troper has a L-Fangirl neighbor...Of course, the aforementioned neighbor is a open (how do you think i found the following out?) Yaoi fangirl too.

...and? Where exactly is the misaimed fandom in this?

This troper has a friend who is a big musical theatre nerd. One day he came back from work to tell a "hilarious story" to me and another friend. The story turned out to be how much he hated a group of five black men who came to his workplace and proceeded to be loud. Cue him miming them in blackface fashion. At first we thought he was just finding Refuge in Audacity, but realized with horror that he was being perfectly serious as he continued to, essentially, tell us how much he hated black people. When we didn't laugh and stated the obvious (that it was racist) he quoted {{Avenue Q}} to us. He even started singing the song to us. It was then that we realized that he took the song at face value and thought it promoted racism as a good thing.

I wrote this story...With a cynical, jerkass character; There were some love themes, but the point was the cultural shock and the cynism of his life, but anyway: This romantic short story, was more succesfull than all my comedy and sci-fi works I have ever done, damn it!, there was even a girl who wanted to see a sequel, but...not gonna happen...

When she first got into the fandom, This Troper wrote a humorous ''{{Supernatural}}'' oneshot in which Dean randomly compares his and Sam's life to ''StarWars'' because Dean seems to like ''StarWars'' in general. At the end, it says that a few hours after he imparts his revelation to Sam, Dean blurts out, "Dude, have you ever realized that our life mirrors ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''?" Then Sam shouts, "DEAN!" to shut him up. It was meant to be left hanging for humor's sake, but guess what all the enthusiastic reviewers wanted the (nonexistent) next chapter to be about?

You ''do'' mean this story, right?

Yes, it may not be great because I had just gotten into Season 2 and hadn't seen Season 1 yet.

This troper's favorite character from Kamen Rider Faiz is Masato Kusaka. Yes, that Kusaka-the obsessive {{jerkass}} with creepy mommy issues, who we were obviously intended to not like. Which would have been fine if he hadn't been the only halfway interesting character in an ENTIRE CAST OF SCRAPPIES. The only other character I liked was Yuka, but then the writers forgot she existed for like thirty episodes, then brought her back as a fawning love slave to Kaido.

This troper appears to have done this to ''herself'', with her original story. Apparently my villains' stories are more interesting than my heroes'...

Ditto. It doesn't help that though I can ''think'' of genuinely good characters-- and extremely adorable couples-- but the ones that keep coming back as fascinating are the CompleteMonster types.

This troper tends to sympathize with Sylvester instead of Tweety in some LooneyTunes shorts. After all, Sylvester's obsession comes from Tweety being a GRatedDrug to him and he gets a heck of a lot of heck as a ButtMonkey, while some of the stuff Tweety does just seems, well, evil.

This is more of a result of the animators CompletelyMissingThePoint than you. If you watch the original Bob Clampett shorts it's clear that Tweety was a typical Clampett ScrewySquirrel JerkAss, but he was cute so he got progressively more "heroic" roles. By the time Friz Freleng took over, the formula was in place. Tweety's role in WhoFramedRogerRabbit was a return to form, but no one seemed to pay attention to that. As for ''The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'' ... I found them too boring to sit through to find out.

This troper has a lot of original characters that he draws and writes for, on various art sites. All of them get a good deal of time put into them and he's proud of it. Most of his characters are... not good people, but (in his opinion) not that bad, and at least a bit interesting. He also has a handful of absolutely batshit insane, murderous, sadistic remorseless psychopaths. You get ''one'' guess which group of characters everyone loves. It's gotten to a point where two of his characters, created to be a collective {{Expy}} of Black Lagoon's Hansel and Gretel have gotten a downright ''amazing'' fan reaction, and he wouldn't be surprised if a fanclub shows up soon. At least he's spreading word of Black Lagoon... Of course, it probably doesn't help that the troper is feeding it by giving more art of the psychopaths...

Does anyone read TropesAreNotBad? I actually had a discussion where someone used the claim that a trope was supposed to be bad as an argument against me.

This Troper was forced to read shoujo manga because of the lack of sex a man gets in shounen...

This Troper is in the middle of working on a series of novels known as 'Nightmare Fuel', and one of hir characters is Julia Makai, a Bolo Panthress, think Bolo Tank meets CatGirl, and even though she's a complete sociopath, sex-crazed bisexual and follows her orders like a good little weapon of mass destruction....At least twice people have presumed that she's means as a symbol of Female Empowerment...even though she blew up NEW YORK CITY....* headdesks, repeatedly*

Jonn is currently reading a fanfic where TheJoker visits the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans. One of the first things Joker did was kill off the Hive Four for no real reason. The author admitted he hated Gizmo (which, arguably, is the point of his characterization). After a bomb threat, his next major move was killing Control Freak in a brutal and nonspecific fashion, involving a razor blade, for no real reason. The authour note for that chapter explains that the Teen Titans are good heroes with bad villains. Considering that their definition of "bad villain" seems to mean "not a sociopath", this troper feels like going "IT! IS! A ''KIDS SHOW''!"

This troper is currently writing an And Then There Were None fanfiction that is not based on the book itself, but on the Russian movie adaptation of the book. More specifically, it is based on a rather, shall I say, controversial scene that was not in the book yet somehow managed to work. In the fanfic, I show the 'incident' from both the victim and attacker's perspective, the purpose being to create a black-and-gray morality story. I have tried to portray both in a sympathetic light (or in the attacker's case, semi-sympathetic as I personally feel their so-called 'excuse' is a rather pathetic one). However, I am beginning to think I made the attacker ''too'' sympathetic. I only have three reviews thus far, two of which seem to side up with the attacker. One right out called the victim 'crazy'; the other was a bit more sympathetic towards the victim, but still wanted them to go easy on the attacker. They themselves said they didn't know if it was because they thought the attacker was right or because it was their favourite character. So in a sense, the latter reviewer ''did'' get the message I was trying to get across; they just took a...different...approach to it. In just a few chapters, though, the attacker will cross a major moral boundary even bigger than the one they already crossed in the first place. And ''that'' was planned ''long'' before the reviews came. Part of me wonders if the attacker will ''still'' be the reviewer's favourite character after such an event. Then again, that's the whole point...

I work with horses, as a result I found myself reading Revelation not for Christ's "theif in the night aka no one will know when he's coming" coming so many people are telling me to prepare for but for the badass motherfucking horses that are going to ride the Earth. End Times, get here sooner! Since I live in the South, no one understands my views.

You do know they're not real horses, right? They're metaphors for worldwide suffering.

Or possibly motorbikes

Once, this troper was frustrated with people not liking one of his favorite artists, Bruce Springsteen, so he asked one of his friends why she didn't like him. She replied that Bruce Springsteen represented 1950's Americana and the completely patriotic side of life, which she hated (she was kind of a hippie). I asked her what song represented that, as I had no clue. She replied "Born in the U.S.A.". Born in the U.S.A. is the most anti-American anthem you could get. It's about a Vietnam vet coming home and not being able to find a job, and getting P.T.S.D. Not exactly the most patriotic song to sing.

Are you sure that this is Misaimed Fandom or more Completely Missing the Point?

This troper ''cannot'' be the only one who has always felt sorry for the Trix Rabbit. I mean, come on, all the guy wants is a bowl of cereal; it's really not that much to ask. We know Trix are for kids, but can't you just bend the rules a little? After a while, the kids just started seeming like nasty little Jerkasses for hording all the cereal.

After a kid wrote in and said that he/she disliked the commercial for that reason, Zillions (a Consumer Reports for Kids magazine) wrote a brief comic strip in which the rabbit tells the kids they can have their cereal, and that he doesn't want something as unhealthy as it anyway.

This troper also wrote a comic where the Trix Rabbit snaps and violently assaults the kids for the cereal. He takes a bite and then says in a sad, low voice: "It's soggy..."

CrowningMomentOfFunny

I think the problem might be that the worlds in which breakfast cereal commercials always takes place is one where boxes of cereal are either hidden treasures or some naturally occurring phenomenon. Characters like the Trix rabbit are always finding cereal in hidden caves or at the end of a rainbow or something, in which case the kids are essentially just stealing the treasure that he's found. The rabbit is like Indiana Jones, doing all the hard work to get the treasure, and the kids are like Belloq, swiping his prize at the last minute. If the Trix rabbit had just walked into a store and bought a box of Trix, the kids would have less authority to swipe his cereal from him.

Either that, or he just needs to grow a backbone. Seriously, what grown adult is going to let a bunch of 8-year-olds take something from them?

This is the reason that this troper tends to not talk about ElfQuest with people anymore. For some reason, everyone I've ever met who likes the series has completely missed the point of the whole general outlook on life presented by the entire series. Which, by the way, is an outlook I happen to agree with. But no, the fans I know seem more preoccupied with trivial things inside that plot that actually don't even matter to most of the characters. Maybe when I get out of high school I'll meet some people who don't seem bent upon inserting middle-school type drama into a perfectly good series. Maybe the people I've met who have read it are too young to get it, but I read the whole series when I was 9 years old and I got it just fine. No, it's not for kids. No, I don't particularly care.

This troper's brother, while responding to a few links from this site that he sent, noted that they were interesting and true, and suggested that they were particularly true for mediocre movies, which seemed to imply that he didn't quite get that TropesAreNotBad.

This troper probably isn't watching ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' the right way. He got into it because he has a thing for AxCrazy and {{Yandere}} girls, and instead of being creeped out by the first story arc, he was ''really'' enjoying it, {{if you know what I mean}}. Right until Keiichi killed Rena and Mion. To him, it was a bitch-slap to his face.]]

Actually, I do believe you're doing it right. The look on Keiichi's face when he realizes what's happened is a Grade-A TearJerker even ''before'' we learn what had really happened.

This Troper does this a LOT. He has a tendency to begin to - honestly - root for the bad guys and generally feel SympathyForTheDevil. He is a staunch supporter of, among others: the Lannisters, the Separatists, Brittania, Tai Lung and the Blood Elves. He tries to not do this in RealLife but can not help cheering for ImperialGermany and feels at least SOME sympathy for the Germans and Japanese of WorldWarII. They are not evil, just misguided Unwitting Pawns. In Attack of the Clones, when Count Dooku tries to get Obi-Wan and Anakin to join him, everything he says is absolutely true - the Senate ''really is'' under the control of a Sith Lord! (He just forgot to mention that he, too, was also a Sith Lord.)

This Troper has difficulties writing solid, idealistic good characters. They tend to spin wildly out of control and turn into icky MarySue and MartyStu archetypes. His villains? They are fun to write and make this troper giggle evilly as he writes every cruel and disgusting act. It's frustrating because this troper loves well-written heroes and, while The Joker is an amazing character, he'd be sickened by a real-life Joker just like anyone else. This troper has sworn off villains and tried to work on writing heroic characters, but they seem awfully prone to HeroicBSODs and have major flaws due to their attempts at holding on to their sense of justice. They often come off as less-brutal Rorschach or Batman archetypes, despite this troper's attempts at writing a ''paladin''.

The above troper would like to note that he had fun writing a story where one of the always-good and usually kind druids of {{World of Warcraft}} was corrupted by The Lich King, turned into a Death Knight, and then became a gleeful mass-murderer and cannibal. Eventually his MoreThanMindControl is broken and he regains his old way of viewing things, with a side of angsty and cynicism. A HeroicBSOD soon followed. Poor, poor druid cow...

This same troper speculates he has disturbing memories that he has suppressed and is now expressing them through writing. He's only half-serious.

This troper has several friends who liked, admired and even ''agreed'' with Light Yagami of Death Note. One was even a full-blown Light fangirl and Kira ''worshipper''. She shot an unbelievably dirty look at me when I called Light a "sociopathic asshole who kills people not for the good of others, but for his own gain."

This Troper can't help but feel shonen manga tend to have tons of misaimed fans. I mean, whoa, THE FOCUS IS ON ADVENTURE AND FRIENDSHIP RATHER THAN ROMANCE! OPTIMISM, LOVE, AND PEACE TEND TO BE IDEALS! WOW! SO COMPLEX AND UNEXPECTED!

This Troper knows exactly how you feel, dude. Haven't you noticed that most of the fanfic for shonen manga tend to ignore the ideals the series sets up in favor of wangst? And that the characters tend to be more messed up and less likely to try to improve themselves and their situations? And apparently NO ONE can get over tragic things happening and have happy, kickass lives? (and ESPECIALLY without healing makeoutz or sexxors?) And totally omit the kickass battle cries like "I MUST GET STRONGER AND NOT RUN AWAY FROM ANYTHING" which are actually really important to the characterizations? Apparently, developing inner strength and not being a coward, which are critical to any shonen period, mean NOTHING to fan fic writers.

This troper thinks Meyer Wolfsheim is one of the most likable characters in ''TheGreatGatsby'', even though authoral intent was likely to make him a nasty ethnic stereotype. In a book filled with indecisive and hypocritical characters, there's something charming about someone who is really open about being up-to-no-good and speaks in ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish. Also, how can you not respect a guy who wears one of his enemies teeth as cufflinks.

This troper most likely wasn't reading or watching FullmetalAlchemist (and Brotherhood) the way HiromuArakawa intended: he ''enjoyed'' Envy's death and found it to be a satisfying role reversal. Up until that point, Envy was a ChaoticEvil JerkAss and a CompleteMonster with no redeeming qualities who kills just because he enjoys it... and in his final chapter, Arakawa just randomly decided to make him slightly sympathetic in the most mindbogglingly inane way possible. I understand the other characters not wanting Roy to kill him because he was just doing it for revenge and because he was basically going insane, but the "AWWW HE'S JEALOUS OF HUMANS" made me sick, and somehow made me hate Envy even ''more''.

This Troper has shown the uncut (legit) DVD's of TheBoondocks to coworkers who fall into most of the sterotypes that the show takes the piss out of: wannabe gangstas, thugs who can't be bothered to read, white women who fetishize black men, wiggas, women who complain about men and then get into relationships with men who are clearly scum. '''ALL of them LOVE''' the show, and constantly ask if they can borrow my DVD's again and again. And I bet [=MacGruder=] would be surprised at who can't get enough of the show on Adult Swim. What the hell, I guess if you can't laugh at yourself...

This troper had a webcomic running that featured humanoid monsters that view humans as food. Kind of a boogeyman, dig? Well, when it came time to have the main character nearly killed and eaten by the monster in what I thought was a terrifying fashion...all I got were comments on "MONSTY IS SO HAWT" and "MONSTY RAPE HIM NAO PLZ?" Which was like getting excited for a human to rape a turkey, or a cat to a mouse, in my mind. Horror story + [=YaoiRape!=]fans = Unhappy creator.

I've managed to get DracoInLeatherPants for a character I not only explicitly described as unattractive, but also gave all the evil traits I could think of. His MOST morally positive trait was being a ManipulativeBastard. And yet he still got a female fanbase wanting to have sex with him. Even the fact that he FUCKING RAPED THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST OF THE STORY didn't deter them.

Um, wow... Is there some kind of link you could give us? This one sounds especially difficult to fathom...

I think I can explain this one: as you said, he's a ManipulativeBastard. That shows that he's clever and has power over people, and physical ugliness or not, that's sexy. Plus, it's a print story, so the readers could easily have ignored your description (or maybe they somehow didn't catch it) and imagine him as a hottie anyways.

I can relate, except for the unattractive part. I am currently writing a story where one of the main villians is a demon (the hero's a demon too just to make it clear) who can shapeshift and is basically a horrible person. He hits on anything with a pulse (he's not bisexual, as his...interests extend beyond humans), tries to seduce the poor hero, kills dozens of people in rather gruesome ways (don't ask, I don't have any brain bleach for you to use afterwards), and is just a complete jackass who gets off by raping and killing people. He even tries to rape the female lead who is implied to be related to him in some way(and he knows!). So after I tell this to one of my female friends I describe him and what is her response? "He sounds very attractive." Cue epic world shattering facepalm!

This troper is somehow part of a misaimed fandom for HIS OWN STORIES. I keep making them so goddamn dark! WHY IS A KIRBY FANFICTION ABOUT HIM FINDING A PLANET OF FRIENDLY KIRBYS SO GODDAMN DARK! *sobs*

This troper was explaining a story concept to some friends, and was quite annoyed to find that they found it hilarious. The story concept they found hilarious? The concept of a being that is so horribly disturbing with a completely impossible biology, that when it wakes up IT DESTROYS REALITY ITSELF. BY WAKING UP. AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.

Maybe it reminded them of the ugly barnacle?

This Troper is a Heathen -- a Norse pagan (though I do pray to a few Celtic gods). Unfortunately, much Aesir symbology has been adopted by the skinheads, which makes it kinda tiresome to have to explain over and over again that while I may ''look'' like the Aryan poster boy (tall, pale, blonde, blue eyes), I '''do not''' share any of the beliefs of Adolf Hitler, David Duke, or Fred Phelps.

This troper was rooting for Quaritch throughout Film/{{Avatar}}, mainly because of the Na'vi being annoying.

This troper remembers reading a reveiw of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' which (apart from apparently being played by someone who hadn't bothered to try any of the sidequests and complained at the lack of upgrades for the backpack/inventry or the ability to increase your partner's rank more than once that were present as rewards for them) complained none of the characters had any emotional depth apart from the ones with utterly miserable backstories (TheWoobie and a Widower). By comparisson the other characters (who all had full backstories) apprently weren't good enough or had enough of a personality on their own.

One of my characters has a pretty well deserved spot on the TroperTales for CompleteMonster. And in every single RP I've entered him in, there's usually about six or seven Sues who think that they can change him, 'make him see the light' etc. I blame Twilight for making vampires into tortured souls who do nothing but angst about all the people they've killed, etc. STOP TRYING TO SEDUCE HIM. HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU. HE LIKES THE WAY YOUR BLOOD FLOWS OVER HIS HANDS AND THE SENSATION OF SWALLOWING YOUR STILL BEATING HEART WHOLE. He ended up lampshading this at one point; Twilight made it so much easier for him to find lonely impressionable girls to omnomnom on. I guess it's because he's pretty... But most of his looks are artificial - dyed hair, contacts etc. These traits are stated in his bio, so it's not like you wouldn't know about it. How can I drive them off? Not be rude but his looks are pretty vital to his hunting technique... Tch. Maybe I should just let him enjoy his free meals, and deal with the whining about how 'it's not right for a vampire to want to kill a girl, especially one as pretty as my character!' - I swear to all that is holy, I was actually told this by some brat.

This editor doesn't know who did it, but at my school, my advisory class had an assignment where the students had to make and illustrate a slogan representing patriotism. One of these had the uplifting slogan of "Patriotism is a flying flag. Never let it fall"...accompanied by a picture of an Enclave soldier from ''{{Fallout}} 3'' standing in front of the Washington Monument. Yes, ''Nazi By Any Other Name}} The Enclave''. Representing ''patriotism''. Brr.

They seem like the perfect example to me. But, then again, I'm not especially fond of patriotism...

Yeah, but would you ''agree'' with them? (Don't answer that.)

On IMDB, one of the reader reviews of ''FunnyGames'' mentions writer/director Michael Haneke's quote that the people who would really understand the movie are the sort of people who'd never watch it to begin with (the film is a TakeThat / StealthParody toward "torture porn" movies like ''Saw'' and ''Hostel''). Since the reviewer himself is a fan of those movies, and he liked ''FunnyGames'' for the same reason he likes the rest of the genre, he completely misses the point and "corrects" Haneke's quote about the movie to say "the people who most need to see this movie are the sort who'd never watch it to begin with" ...in other words, the exact opposite of what the creator said about ''his own movie!'' Wow, just wow...

This troper's cousin told her that her favorite book was ''AClockworkOrange, but when she stopped reading it halfway through and this troper asked why, she was told by her cousin that she "only likes the parts where he's bad". Fail.

This troper seriously wishes he had one of the floating beds from WALLE.

I once wrote an InuYasha / ShugoChara crossover because I thought all the previous ones sucked and that I could do better. I mentioned early on ''very clearly'' that the story was going to be short, there wasn't going to be ''that'' much interaction between the characters (so forming new relationships, normal friendship or romance, would be unlikely), that the focus was supposed to be on Kagome coming in terms with herself, and that I goddamn ''hated'' it whenever Kagome got turned into a GodModeSue / PossessionSue, especially in regard to crossovers. So what's 90% of my reviews? '''OMGKAGOMEBETTERHOOKUPWITHIKUTOITSMEANTTOBE!''' I genuinely want to strangle some of my reviewers, and that's probably why the fic's on hiatus/discontinued.

This troper wrote an over-the-top dystopia where people died for any crime whatsoever, and to be unhappy was considered a crime. It was supposed to be so over the top that nobody could ever take it seriously, but most people saw it as ''MAJOR'' HighOctaneNightmareFuel. I decided to run with it anyway, and it works better as a genuinely terrifying place.

Writing a Naruto fic where I'm trying to write my OC as a rather unlikable, paranoid, and selfish person. Naturally, my readers are telling me how they want to hug her and "be there for her". Sigh. Ah well. Must try harder to portray this unlikability.

This Troper put a cartoon on DeviantArt that poked fun at hentai. Guess what kind of people favorited it?

Okay, I'm the same one who brought up the Enclave patriotism one above, but I may be guilty of this too. Is it {{Completely Missing The Point}} to consider violent-path {{Iji}}'s {{Crowning Moment Of Awesome}} to be yelling "SHUT UP!" to Tor's beaten body when questioned about all the deaths she caused? Or, in general, treating the game as a {{Crazy Awesome}} {{Beyond The Impossible}} run-and-gun that goes over the top with {{More Dakka}}, {{BFG}}s, and {{Stuff Blowing Up}}?

By all that is holy yes.

So...then would the fact that I took a killer run and ''joked about it'' as an ongoing forum adventure on the {{MS Paint Adventures}} forums be my {{Moral Event Horizon}}? And I didn't actually realise that Of The Colossus}} Wander was supposed to be a {{Villain Protagonist}} until this wiki...my god, I'm a {{Complete Monster}}. And as long as I'm coming clean, while it's more of {{Rooting For The Empire}} since I ''know'' he's supposed to a irredemable bastard, on my latest playthrough of ''{{Cave Story}}'', ''part of me was rooting for the Doctor''. And I wish I lived on Alternia from time to time, despite the fact it's intended to be a dystopia. I even think that Feferi's reforms would make it lose all its charm. There's something seriously wrong with me.

I don't think I'm the only person who sympathize with Crazy}} Travis Bickle from the {{Taxi Driver}}....well, except for that part where he tried to kill a political figure..that is

While she'd never want to meet him in real life, this troper admits to feeling a great deal of sympathy for Rorschach. She thinks that a great deal of his choices are wrong and even evil, but she cannot help but feel admiration for him in the end ''("never compromise")'' and loads of pity for a clearly unbalanced person who will never have a truly close relationship with anyone, ever.

Is it wrong that one of this troper's favourite character's in Mass Effect is Saren? Before you ask, yes I have read the prequel novel. Sure I get it, he's a Knight Templar who is damn close to being a Complete Monster, but his voice acting is some of the best in the first game and he looks twice as badass as Shepard ever will.

This troper didn't enjoy the story of the second game simply because the Collectors didn't have anyone trying to communicate directly with you the way Saren did. Although, I only like him as a character. As a person he's one of the lowest on the list, but as a character he's right up there.

Yeah, you get a better feel for him as a character than any of the other enemies you face. He's given more of a personality and has a great voice actor which allows you to connect with him better than most others in the game.

This Troper went to school with someone who was incredibly racist and always sang "Choclate rain" really badly. Though I'm Not sure if he was a {{troll}} or not.

This Troper's favorite short story is ''In a Good Cause-'' by Isaac Asimov, because he loved the main character's method of thinking and acting. Only later did he find out that Asimov had set out to write a story with a protagonist he disagreed with, and that this was the story.

This troper had a story about someone working in Retail Hell at a place called "Super World". It was basically a "This is what ''not'' to do as a customer because these guys really ''really'' hate it and don't deserve to have to do this!"-type story. Yeah, they were laughing when I wanted 'em to, except that half of the fanbase was laughing at it because they wanted to try doing that in real life. Cue dozens of idiots walking up to people in a Target, Wal-Mart, Costco, Sams Club, (of which "Super World" was an expy of) and asking if they worked there, if they were open yet, leaving messes on the ground, trying to climb inside donut display cases...I was like, "That's what you ''SHOULDN'T'' do in the stores!"

This troper has been, and shall always be a big fan of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. However, my appreciation of the duo came to a very misinformed head when in 8th grade, I started writing the name of their band on my knuckles every day. The band's name? DVDA. Yeah, I didn't get it until someone pointed it out to me.

This troper recently went to a free concert at her local park. It was a jazz band from N'awlins- nice, but nothing special. At one point, they played a very slow, sad song about Hurricane Katrina. Some of the lyrics were downright disturbing, going into detail about water rising into peoples' attics (the implication being of course, people ''in'' the attic about to drown). An alarming number of the people gathered in the audience got up and ''slow danced'' to the song. Doubles as CompletelyMissingThePoint.

This troper's supermarket plays Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which, in addition to what it says on the Main Page, features the main character working a dead-end job as a checkout girl. Then again, the store's also played other songs satirizing suburbia/consumerism/dead-end-minimum-wage jobs, so it's equally possible that whoever's chosing the music is just a ''{{Deadpan Snarker}}''/''{{Bored on Board}}''.

This troper, instead of seeing him as a complete monster, found the Coachman to be the best character in the whole film, even finding his torturing of small boys and turning them into donkey slaves, completely justified by them being generally horrible and despicable children. Not to mention that this troper has a crush on the Coachman.

This troper has a friend who's a rabbi, and he tells me that some sections of the bible may have been meant as satire, for example the famous quote "the lion will lay down with the lamb, and the child will stick his hand in a viper nest and know no fear" may have been meant sarcastically, saying something along the lines of "pigs will fly and hell will freeze over."

This troper's ex-wife insisted that The Borg from ''StarTrek'' were misunderstood heroes who were in the process of creating a socialist paradise and were the victim of Federation propaganda.

This troper's little sister, without any sense of irony, put a sign on her door declaring it a "Totally Clueless Zone." She had not one clue that it was demeaning to her.

This Troper is convinced that the above is a large reason why Maddox has stopped updating. I was at a book signing for The Alphabet of Manliness where said author was trying to make a joke about accidentally walking in on a book-signing for some piece of feminist literature, and being glad he wasn't recognized, when a member of the audience, who looked very much like a stereotypical fratboy, shouted "Fucking dykes!", then laughed and ribbed his girlfriend, who was understandably not laughing. There was at least a three second pause with Maddox just sitting there with a quiet look of horror.

This troper's grade six class had to put on short skits about problems that can arise in a friendship (it was one of those life lessons classes called TAP-forgot what it stands for). Me and the girl I was partnered with created a skit about a friend who was too loyal-or, more to the point, clingy. She (the character) wanted to spend every minute of the day that was possible with my character and got upset when my character felt like staying inside to watch TV rather than going out to play and wanted to do her homework later. Granted, this may not have been the best age group to teach that lesson to...

[DokEnkephalin I] had written a propagandist history for a fantasy MUD, in order to make my culture look more attractive allies to a CompleteMonster organization. Everyone seemed to read it as providing us a FreudianExcuse and re-interpret us as ChaoticGood. My character, a TechnicalPacifist ambassador, was held up as an example even among those who knew I was performing covert abduction/torture/murders. But the prize for misaimed fandom goes to a woman I got into a RL relationship with, later confessed she hoped I would ''really kill'' her....FlatWhat?

This troper ''really'' wishes people wouldn't just go by CommonMarySueTraits and decide that a sue is them alone. This means that deconstructions of those (ie, it doesn't turn out to be good) wind up like Xion and develop a misaimd hatedom.

This troper made several videos about ''DeathNote'' characters. One of these videos uses "You're Gonna Go Far Kid," by TheOffspring, to discuss the character of Light, and most of the people who post comments on the page agree with Light's plans instead of seeing him as a bad guy (she also made a video set to another Offspring song, "Hammerhead", that she likes better but that goes virtually ignored).

Regarding the essay "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". Believe it or not, the titular Chinese mother sends both her daughters to This Troper's high school, and the older one runs track with this troper. According to her, the essay has been grossly misinterpreted. It's actually not a parenting manual at all; rather, it's just a tongue-in-cheek story about a woman who tries to use traditional Chinese parenting methods and fails miserably. Whoops...

In media that revolves around a conflict between humans and aliens/dinosaurs/monsters/whatever, I tend to root for the humans. In works where HumansAreBastards, such as Avatar, Starship Troopers, Battle for Terra, etc, this leads to Misaimed Fandom on my part. An exception to this is in media where humans and aliens have allied against other humans and/or aliens,such as StarWars, in which case I will generally pull for whoever is the good guy.

This troper swam for his high school's swim team, and at every meet he could probably get a million dollars if he got a nickel for every CheGuevara '''SPEEDO''' that was worn by the rival teams.

This troper has an online friend who unconsciously creates Gary Stus for the Dragon Age fandom, and s/he always has them commit despicable acts that any sane person would oppose. The friend's reaction when confronted with this is to have their pet character try to do something even more terrible; this troper's friend is also obsessed with the Old Gods and darkspawn in the game, claiming that the Old Gods are innocent Woobies who did no wrong even after they became Archdemons. The friend also despises the Chantry all in the name of claiming racism against mages and completely breaking canon in his/her fanfics all so that the conflict can automatically be won by their Sues and Stus. This troper is not amused by this, since she prefers fan on to stay fan on and to write about small alterations to canon events or the events themselves rather than full-blown AU revolving around a Gary Stu and his friends. Said friend also has a tendency to side with the Sith in Star Wars, despite the fact that they are intended to be the bad guys, and this troper cannot say she has ever thought evil characters were "antiheroes" and worthy of praise--come to think of it, she hates antiheroes, and that's the kind of character her friend makes.

This troper has a friend at school who is obsessed with Harry Potter, she aligns herself with Slytherin, but in reality she's more of a Rave claw. And she is also obsessed with the Death Eaters to the point its disturbing, she draws the dark mark on her arm, and went as a Death Eater for Halloween twice. This troper finds it disturbing because the Death Eaters are kind of like the Nazi, both want the world to be inhabited by a pure breed, so she finds her friend's wish to be a Death Eater like wish to be a part of a Neo-Nazi movement.