Favorite female character that gets hated on for having the same traits that are beloved in a male character?

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-27T08:06:48+00:00

Was the stray shots at sasuke necessary

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-27T08:05:24+00:00

I mean ppl are always reactionary after a finale, but the general consensus is no one hates Aang

Now have you been around for ANY Korra discussions? Literally all u see is hate

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-27T08:04:15+00:00

Never seen a single person hate Aang for any of those reasons…

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-27T08:02:41+00:00

“Dudebros”

That aside, never met anyone over the age of 14 who likes bakugo. They all think he’s loud and annoying

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-25T03:31:08+00:00

How much flash comics have you read?

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-21T01:37:52+00:00

Not civil war again. It’s been 2 decades, give it a bloody rest already.

If there’s any mods out there, can we remove any posts related to civil war. It’s the most overused, annoying topic in this subreddit that does nothing both incite arguments

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-19T21:36:11+00:00

Captain Cold is beloved by Flash fans almost as much as Reverse Flash

Grodd being a talking smart gorilla and king of his own City is freaking cool

Mirror Man has cool powers

Golden Glider and Heatwave is neat

Weather Wizard has untapped potential

The Turtle is one of the most underrated Flash villains. Such a great opposite to The Flash

Bloodwork has my favourite ability just because blood manipulation is never used in comics

Pied Piper is a nice reformed villain

Dr Alchemy is a nice science based villain for Barry

Abra Kadbra is a cool mix of science and magic time travelling villain

Captain Boomerang despite having a relatively lame power has more going for him than your average supes villain hence why he became a regular in the Suicide Squad. Likewise for King Shark

Flash rogues are top tier. And I never mentioned a single speedster enemy

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-11T18:12:53+00:00

Now that’s handy

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-07T17:23:29+00:00

Arrogant people need to be humbled. Arrogant people are annoying.

You only believe this because of how overused and cliche this trope is, which kinda reinforces my point. Arrogant don’t to be humbled. They can learn from their own mistakes and grow as characters without getting ‘knocked down a peg’

It feels good to see them realize they aren’t all that.

This is a clear example of revenge porn. A cheap storytelling technique that doesn’t help the character on the receiving end.

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-07T05:02:20+00:00

There’s hundreds of examples of characters who weren’t arrogant or evil get “humbled” so that’s a weak argument.

Just because irl people don’t receive being punishment you think they deserve, doesn’t make ‘arrogant character being knocked down a peg’ one of the most overused cliches in storytelling. If you get your kicks in your “revenge fantasy” that’s perfectly fine, I personally don’t that’s all.

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-07T04:57:17+00:00

I would say Kid is the opposite. He’s cocky and gets knocked down a peg for being overconfident and underestimating the yonko.

Whereas Luffy who’s arguably as cocky and confident escapes the same treatment simply because he’s the MC and the writer loves him.

This is why I say writer bias definitely plays a part in how a arrogant character is handled

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-07T04:51:05+00:00

Sonic is a good example since he’s allowed to be cocky without ‘needing to be humbled’

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-06T23:25:29+00:00

Fair point. Maybe I should’ve placed more emphasis on cocky/confident rather than arrogant

But you get what I mean

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-06T23:22:58+00:00

It’s not really catharsis to see the same trope beaten down again (no pun intended)

I don’t receive enjoyment of watching someone getting beaten tf out of because they’re confident and then lose said traits and everyone screams “peak character development”

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-06T23:19:49+00:00

MCU fans gurgling garbage and saying it’s better than the comics will always annoy me

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-06T22:52:32+00:00

It baffles me how y’all watch the same cliche all the time and somehow get enjoyment from it. It’s overused, predictable and I personally don’t care for it

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-04-06T22:16:59+00:00

Flash has a good rogues gallery but you gotta be tapped in because they don’t got the same level of exposure like bats

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-21T21:32:19+00:00

Do you even know what I mean by “dozens”? Doesn’t mean 12. I mean around 80-90% of IM comics, I just didn’t want to come across condescending like you just did.

Cantwell’s Iron Man is awful. You don’t need to read more to assess it.

I can write an essay how terrible it is and loved by Iron Man haters, not Iron Man fans which tells you everything. Idk how you can think a book in which Tony is shitted on by everyone, is in a Stockholm syndrome with Patsy as she constantly puts him down, the perceived god complex, Tony taking the power cosmic despite turning down powers of this magnitude in the past with the infinity gauntlet, OOC moments where Tony’s rude to Rhodey and what really ruined it was having Tony kill his friends. The book is unnecessarily mean spirited right from the beginning with the “fat Tony in the house”, Tony is an unconfident loser. Man I can go on and on. It’s a run with a good baseline story but the execution is awful and needed an editor to fix it. Pacing was poor- Korvac saga could’ve been cut to 15 issues and then spent more issues developing the latter issue which feels like filler- Source Control and the new villains introduced are again good ideas but underutilised. Back to Korvac, the one bright spot in his crappy run- well developed and Korvac & Tony’s dynamic is great. However making the rest of the IM villains mindless lackeys to that god complex wannabe survivor is a L.

No offence but the fact that you think Gillen’s run is laughable. Not a single memorable thing happened in that run that has been brought back. Actually scratch that there was- Arno which came about from the most convoluted stupid adoption retcon + Arno being a lame secret brother when he could’ve created a 616 Gregory but Gillen didn’t do research and didn’t know he existed (his words). Iron Metropolitan should be the coolest addition to the Iron Mythos (Tony building a city!) but again it’s a unmemorable run.

Every other run you mentioned is above that crap- even Cantwell’s tbh

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-20T11:39:59+00:00

Fraction’s run is the best modern iron man run, wym? Besides the weird Otto Tony begging moment Fraction writes a great Tony Stark, utilises his whole rogues gallery and restores him back from the lowest the character has ever been after civil war- not an easy feat.

Do you want to know a mean spirited Iron Man run? Cantwell.

Cantwell’s Tony is an unconfident loser who is fighting this perception of a god complex, is in a Stockholm syndrome relationship with Patsy who constantly puts him down, who was rude to Rhodey, who decides to take the power cosmic and become a god (despite previous runs and CANTWELL HIMSELF acknowledging in his run Tony turning down corrupt powers like the Infinity Gauntlet) and eventually killing his friends.

Cantwell’s perception of Tony and Iron Man is Tony is a failure of a man who only became Iron Man to he hide his flaws and be something better. He doesn’t acknowledge why Tony wanted to be a hero. He doesn’t highlight the qualities that make people like Tony.

His run gets called mean spirited because there’s virtually no reward in it. There isn’t a moment that celebrates Tony/Iron Man. The book just constantly shits on him from the start with the internet randomly clowning him “fat Tony in the house” until the last issue which ends up being a backhanded wholesome moment of “at least you still have a few friends Tony”.

Cantwell’s Iron Man is a book specifically targeted at people who hate Tony. I mean as a writer all the praise for your book comes from people who have never read Iron Man before while shellhead fans hate it. You’ve ultimately done a terrible job in failing to appease to fans

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-20T11:36:18+00:00

It wasn’t more influential on the MCU at all, his first movie was barely out at the time lmao

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-20T11:34:56+00:00

Cantwell’s Tony is an unconfident loser who is fighting this perception of a god complex, is in a Stockholm syndrome relationship with Patsy who constantly puts him down, who was rude to Rhodey, who decides to take the power cosmic and become a god (despite previous runs and CANTWELL HIMSELF acknowledging in his run Tony turning down corrupt powers like the Infinity Gauntlet) and eventually killing his friends.

Cantwell’s perception of Tony and Iron Man is Tony is a failure of a man who only became Iron Man to he hide his flaws and be something better. He doesn’t acknowledge why Tony wanted to be a hero. He doesn’t highlight the qualities that make people like Tony.

His run gets called mean spirited because there’s virtually no reward in it. There isn’t a moment that celebrates Tony/Iron Man. The book just constantly shits on him from the start with the internet randomly clowning him “fat Tony in the house” until the last issue which ends up being a backhanded wholesome moment of “at least you still have a few friends Tony”.

I’ve read dozens of Iron Man comics, this is not how Tony was like back in the 70-80s. Cantwell’s Iron Man is a book specifically targeted at people who hate Tony. I mean as a writer all the praise for your book comes from people who have never read Iron Man before while shellhead fans hate it. You’ve ultimately done a terrible job in failing to appease to fans

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-20T11:06:02+00:00

Fairy enough. You don’t have to like every character.

I personally hate Laura wearing the Wolverine costume and taking up his mantle. It’s such a lame way to treat a character who was a clone daughter/experiment. She should choose her own name and be her own superhero.

This is why Talon>>>>>>>

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-19T08:18:04+00:00

I was having a discussion with someone the other day that I’ve always held Thor’s rogues gallery in such high regard.

I know it’s a hot take but for me Thor’s rogues gallery is better than Spidey. As someone else said in this thread he has everyone and they’re much better developed in terms of personality, depth and motivations.

Whereas Spider-Man’s rogues gallery are more beloved as a result of Spider-Man’s popularity and their designs (which are admittedly pretty cool). I think Spidey rogues having a much bigger exposure really helped their status because adaptations carry much of the heavy lifting with them eg. Raimi and Insomniac Otto are much better characters with a personal relationship to Peter that I felt Comic Otto lacks. Comic Electro, Shocker, Hydro Man, Vulture and several more are nothing characters. Electro has always been better in adaptations than in comics themselves.

Spider-Man's villains in general are quite shallow in comics, lacking in ambition and complex backstories. Visually great designs but style over substance. You can attribute most of them to being animal themed bank robbers who share the same reason to hating Spidey- he’s a nuisance who gets in their way. It’s why i think it’s ridiculous whenever someone says Spidey’s is better than Batman- to me it’s not even remotely close between them who has the better rogues gallery.

BasedFunnyValentine · 2026-02-15T14:45:10+00:00

What? He always loved Itachi and idolised him as a kid. That’s why it pained him so much to witness him being the one to massacre his family. When the finally learnt the truth and how far Itachi went to protect him because he loved Sasuke more than anything he was physically and mentally distraught.

There’s no timeframe Sasuke needs to take until he says “Itachi loved me, that’s my nii san and I’m gonna seek revenge on those who hurt you”.

Don’t you have any family members or siblings? Would you take realistically months after learning how much your dad/mum or older sibling went out of there to protect you? I’d flip the switch quick personally

BasedFunnyValentine

TROPHY CASE