#problematic characters

Welcome! This is a tournament intended to find Tumblr's Favourite Problematic Guy (/gender neutral).

Characters with all levels of "problematic" are allowed, but the general baseline is they have to... well, not be a great person. Maybe they're an asshole. Maybe they committed a genocide or two. As long as they've done something that would make people slap the word Problematic on them, send them on in!

Obviously, bad characters who did bad things are going to appear here, and they'll likely have some level of fondness expressed for them in the notes. If you're someone who thinks someone's taste in fictional characters reflects their real-life morals, this probably isn't the blog for you. Other than that, everything will be tagged with the names of characters and fandoms, so easy to avoid anything you have a specific issue with!

A similar tournament for problematic ships is something I'm likely to do once this concludes (unless people have other ideas that drum up more interest first), but that's a topic for later!

Please submit characters via the Google Form and not the askbox!

Note that it's required to specify why a character is problematic and why you like them/why they're a compelling character - just throwing in the name and nothing else would make it very hard for me to figure out who counts and why, plus it gives people unfamiliar with the characters something to go on when it comes to voting :)

You can call me Blue and despite the topics appearing here I'm very friendly I promise! Feel free to ask questions or send in feedback about anything at all and I'll do my best to help <3

I can ignore whatever I want about the character bc my fanfic/fanart is basically an unrecognizable fanon frankenstein of the original character. That's the very nature of fanfic/au/headcanon. Someone else may have created the character but they're my barbie dolls when I engage in fanworks and I can make anything true or untrue that I want 😭😭😭

Reminder to all who enjoy morally grey, villain, or just problematic characters.

If you like these types of characters great! But you have to acknowledge that they aren’t good people/characters. They are problematic morally grey or villains for a reason.

Totally fine to love them (I do to) but we have to admit their faults

And to those who berate people who enjoy these types of characters and say “oh you shouldn’t like them”

Kindly.

With problematic favorites, I feel like you can narrow it down to

Sure, their a bad person but they’re still a good deep down (mortally grey)

yeah, there a bad person but they have redeeming qualities/good writing

guilty pleasure

“favorite” as in “my favorite torture victim to go through the horrors”

I know there problematic but I like their characterization

I think they were robbed by the story/I feel like they were written badly in the original media

people will immediately side-eye you if you mention that they are your favorite (good or bad, it could go both ways)

me, so turned on i can't read straight: "can yuo put that out on me"