CHARACTERIZATION PET PEEVES

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 Because if I see another X acting like Superman or that uke from Okane Ga Nai, I gotta kill someone.

Just post here the characterization tropes that make you see red in the fandom, OK? I only ask you to not link to badfic here; and naming names only allowed if the thing is creepy / bigoted as fuck. Also, this time you don't need to be restricted to X series only 8D

Not commenting with mine here because tiredness and because I wanna see your stuff first :)

Comments

[mieldyne]

Also I'm not really sure, but wasn't Zero reacting to Iris because he felt really shitty about not being able to help her and having to retire her and such? He might have seen her as a comrade, since they were hunters together at one point, and it's kinda like "I failed to help my comrade now I feel (temporarily) awful about this." and then goes to "I'll be sure to prevent something like this from happening!" and being determined about it?

Also speaking of the angst, I don't like it when people make Blues / Protoman nothing but an emo little shit. (The comic and Powered Up! don't make it any better) I always saw him as the cool one who might have had some grudges but he still helps out, and sometimes seems a little more mature from my point of view. Like maybe he was angsty a lot and maybe still is, but still really wants to help regardless? But I keep seeing people doing this as with him like with Zero, making it the sole point of their character.

Also, I greatly dislike it when people think that just because the MMX characters live in a crapsack world doesn't mean that they can't have moments on down time where they're not SRS BZN. What I mean to say is that I am tired of people thinking that Zero has only one face and one state of mind: that he is 100% just "the cool guy" and srs bzn ALL THE TIME. And that he never had moments in which he smiles or thinks of others other than himself or has bumbling moments, or scenes where he loses his cool? He's a robot but he's not that flat of a character.

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I generally don't mind philosophical shithead ProtoMan. I feel that in the comic at least, he's obviously using it as a distancing method to cover his own actions and insecurities, such as when he projects like an Imax onto Tempo. But I agree that he really does need more moments of levity to reflect that side of his character, such as "Try using the fire weapon in the woods, Mega Man." Yeah just do it. burn down the forest, try it. it'll be a larf.

There s a flip side to this though. Mostly inspired by Ruby Spears, TOTAL MEME PROTO is also very popular nowadays. I can't call that wrong, especially not for an RS portrayal, but I think Classic Blues should be a blend of philosophy and meme.