What the heck is it with Danganronpa and creating actually really good characters but then just reducing them to one-note tropes and gimmicks? Like, Hifumi, Teruteru, Tenko, Mikan, Haiji, etc. All brilliant characters, but they're hated by so many people because the writers just totally mucked them over with just really over-the-top gimmicks that just never needed to be there at all. I mean, for Haiji, literally *one* line tarnished his entire legacy as a morally grey, but layered and interesting character. And as for the other, the gimmicks of Hifumi being just an absolute weirdo obsessed with anime, Teruteru and Mikan being just extra pervy (albeit for different reasons) overall takes the nuance away from them, and Tenko's over-the-top "degenerate male" like, shtick just made her unlikeable when she's actually established as a naive, gullible, but ultimately good-intentioned girl in her FTE's and it just damaged her image beyond repair for some when she actually is pretty cool but overshadowed by a trope.