#fandom entitlement

Wander Over Yonder (apparently two seasons and 80 episodes were just enough)

Hailey's On It (quietly cancelled and practically erased after a single season that ended on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved)

Motorcity (never got its chance on Disney XD)

Tron Uprising (same as Motorcity, and also ended on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved)

Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go (fifth season was planned, but it didn't get high enough ratings to warrant one)

Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar had to put her career at risk to get Ruby and Sapphire married. Cartoon Network compromised by greenlighting the movie and Future)

ReBoot (ended on a cliffhanger and was later revived as a generic Code Lyoko/Power Rangers ripoff that was basically ReBoot in name only)

The Venture Bros (cancelled after Season 7 despite having an eighth season announced, was luckily able to bounce back with Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart)

Transformers Animated (victim to constant struggles against Hasbro to capitalize on the success of the live action movies, which led to Transformers Prime)

The Spectacular Spider-Man (cancelled because Disney and Sony couldn't share custody of Spider-Man's film rights in peace)

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (cancelled because Marvel Studios tried too hard to make EMH synergize with the MCU, which is how we got Avengers Assemble)

Wolverine and The X-Men (one of the companies producing the show shut down and it ended on a cliffhanger before they could find a substitute. Plus, even if they did, the show aired on Nicktoons Network, so it was doomed to die regardless)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (put on "pause" before the movie came out, but let's be real, that's a fancy way of saying it's dead and everyone has moved on)

Final Space (no explanation needed)

Green Lantern the Animated Series (victim of the early signs of Cartoon Network's Teen Titans Go obsession, not helped by how the failure of the Green Lantern movie was apparently that traumatizing to DC)

Beware the Batman (same as above, had its remaining episodes burned off on Toonami)

Young Justice (original run) (too many teens and adults and not enough kids watching the show, and it was up against Teen Titans Go. This is why the Young Justice revival was geared purely towards those teens and adults, with mixed results depending on who you ask.)

My Life as a Teenage Robot (the whole third season was held off for years before being unceremoniously dropped on Nicktoons to make room for more Spongebob and other more successful shows)

Invader Zim (although Nickelodeon let Jhonen Vasquez do practically whatever he wanted, parent groups combined with budget issues and being up against Spongebob sealed Zim's fate. It was able to be revived via the comics and Enter the Florpus, however)

Glitch Techs (production has been "frozen" with multiple episodes left unfinished, but let's be real, it's dead and never coming back, even if Paramount+ exists)

Megas XLR (written off for tax purposes before it became trendy and there have been multiple failed attempts to revive it ever since)

Thundercats 2011 (wasn't selling enough toys)

Infinity Train (straight up cancelled and erased after Season 4 despite numerous attempts by fans and the creator to keep it going)

OK KO Let's Be Heroes (originally planned to be one of HBO Max's big flagship shows, only for the Donald Trump administration's lawsuit against AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner to get in the way and KO was shipped off to Cartoon Network instead, and the rest is history)

Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart (Season 2 is still out there somewhere)

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (still managed to get an ending despite being cancelled after two seasons out of a planned three, but The Gatekeeper speaks for itself)

But sure, The Owl House and its crew got it SOOOOOOOOO bad and was unfairly cancelled because Disney is homophobic and abusive and Dana hates them with every fiber of her being, so she made Knights of Guinevere with Glitch to expose them for the monsters they are, and Disney retaliated by plagiarizing their own show for an upcoming movie!

Cry me a fucking river, it's time for us to let The Owl House rest in peace and touch some grass. Don't get me wrong, I love the show and was frustrated that it got cancelled for stupid reasons, but I moved on the moment I found other shows to watch, and you should too. At least The Owl House got an actual conclusive ending of some kind, which is more than I can say for some of these shows listed here.

I am going to have so many people kill me for this, but I've been wanting to crash out about this ever since Hexed was announced and people cried about it being an Owl House ripoff even though both are made by Disney.

Don't believe me? Take a look at this lovely thumbnail!

I finally poked my head back into a well known Berserk forum, and while I always knew the Mori continuation of Berserk would be controversial, the tone of a lot of the discussion still managed to irritate me.

There’s a lot of “speaking for the dead” going on. A lot of “Miura wouldn’t have done this.” And not in the sense of close textual critique, but in the sense of fans confidently asserting moral authority over a creator they never knew, based largely on their own preferences and interpretations.

Here’s the thing that keeps getting lost.

Kouji Mori wasn’t some random editor or corporate stand-in. He was Miura’s closest friend for decades. They trained together. They competed. They talked constantly about manga, about craft, about Berserk. Miura explicitly told him the story. Mori has been very clear that he is only depicting what he remembers Miura telling him, and that he is deliberately not inventing material beyond that. That restraint alone should count for something.

Meanwhile, you have American forum users—many reading translations of translations—declaring with absolute confidence what Miura “would” or “wouldn’t” have done, as if their headcanon carries more weight than the man Miura actually confided in.

What really soured me was seeing Japanese fans ridiculed for largely supporting the continuation. Disagree with them if you want, but dismissing them outright is ugly. They’re closer to the language, the publication culture, and the creator himself. Pretending Western fandom somehow has purer insight here feels less like reverence and more like entitlement.

Is the continuation perfect? Of course not. It can’t be. Anyone expecting Berserk without Miura’s hand to feel identical is setting themselves up for disappointment. Critiquing pacing, execution, or presentation is fair game. But acting as though Mori has less understanding of Miura’s intentions than a forum consensus is absurd.

If someone wants to stop reading where Miura left off, I respect that completely. That’s a valid and emotionally honest choice. What I don’t respect is the pretense that rejecting the continuation is somehow the “ethical” position, or that continuing the story as Miura described it is a betrayal.

Incest is when you’re shipping those who are Actually Related. You know? Wincest, Pinecest, Vijinx, etc. etc. oh my. (Also, Gross)

Not when we’re having different viewpoints on “characters who are close but aren’t related” (also Zoey’s va likes and supports Polytrix so wtf are you even talking about?)

Also if you’re Going to be straight up rude and disrespectful to me you’re getting blocked. Usually I try to play nice but a good chunk of the Rujinu shippers are Extremely disrespectful.

Because Very similar to Timebomb now, the Rujinu shippers themselves are starting to give their ship a Bad name.

Yea, overall, we can coexist while disagreeing on a ship but Some of you have Got to Lose your Damn Attitude 🙄

How come they are fully able to read 2k or more fics but suddenly they cannot read what? 3 words? "I accept requests" and they turn blind. Honestly.

I'm so sorry if I seem too angry but the amount of times I had to remind people to NOT send me requests or that I will write what I like is insane. They all turn suddenly blind when it's time to respect writers boundaries

Yeah, it’s annoying as hell.

At this point I’m pretty convinced that people who copy-paste the same request to multiple writers aren’t actually reading anything we write. They just see “this blog writes for this fandom I like,” skip everything else on the page, and start firing off chain asks like they’re submitting tickets to customer support. The goal isn’t to engage with the writer or the blog. It’s just hoping someone somewhere will produce their fantasy for free.

And half the time they won’t even say thank you if someone does write it.

What makes it even more absurd is exactly what you said anon. These same people can read thousands of words of fanfiction without blinking, but the moment it’s time to read three words like “requests closed,” suddenly the eyesight disappears. Miraculous.

But the funniest part, honestly, is when they get told no and immediately switch into wounded victim mode. That’s when it goes from annoying to genuinely ridiculous.

That part. Which also links back to my post saying there is no such thing as a monopoly on indie. The animation industry is a monopoly and Paramount and Disney are really hoping to get married here eventually. Glitch is the only thing that has actually broken the monopoly on animation and I think people need to appreciate that more before they have nothing but Disney/Paramount propaganda, Amazon AI movies, and YouTube Poops filled with reaction content and tiktok compilations.

You'll get nothing if you don't learn to walk the tightrope real fast. Make sure artists are paid well and allowed to make their stories without being told what the audience likes. Be more open to untraditional storytelling.