Eric The Red

ROUND 1 — Match 249 of 276

Lila Rossi/Cerise/Chrysalis (Miraculous Ladybug)

Problematic because: "Went from a girl who lied for attention to an actual supervillain. Has multiple identities, manipulates others, stalks the heroine, and infects people with magic evil butterflies on the regular." Propaganda: "I appreciate her intelligence, it's refreshing to see from an antagonist on this show. Her pettiness and hints of familial trauma bring me much joy. I love my emotionally disturbed child."

vs. Arthur Pym (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Problematic because: "He's the longtime lawyer and hatchet man for the titular Usher family. Directly responsible for the death and misery und uncountable people, sometimes in a very hands-on way." Propaganda: "People find him so intimidating, his nickname is the Pym Reaper. In his youth he stood upon the edge of the world. He (very earnestly) turns down a deal with the devil and chooses to go down for his crimes, rather than pay whatever price is asked."

ROUND 1 — Match 235 of 276

Monokuma (Danganronpa)

Problematic because: "his job is to trap teenagers in a school, give them reasons to kill each other, then execute whoever gets caught. he runs the class trials, mocks people while they’re grieving, keeps changing the situation to make everyone more desperate, and treats the whole thing like a game show he’s hosting for fun. in the first game he’s being controlled by junko, but as a character/mascot he’s still the face of basically every awful thing happening - the rules, the motives, the punishments, the cameras, the “upupupu” while everyone is having the worst day of their lives. and across the series, monokuma keeps coming back as the mascot/host figure for more killing games, more executions, and more “let’s turn human suffering into entertainment” nonsense." Propaganda: 1. "monokuma is terrible but he is unfortunately also very funny. like yes he is forcing teenagers to solve murders and then watching them get executed, but he does it with the energy of a game show host who has never once been told to shut up. every time he appears you’re like “oh god what now” and then he says the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard. i hate him. i love him. i want to punt him down a hallway. this is exactly how a mascot villain should make me feel." 2. "imagine getting trapped in a murder school and your warden is a build-a-bear with legal authority. disgusting little bear. put him in the bracket."

vs. Tati Englejes (En Abime)

Problematic because: "she lowk kinda nominated her ex and his twin sister to be experimented on but like. her ex deserved it" Propaganda: "she is a beautiful femme lesbian and your friend lover idol god and she used to use wattpad"

ROUND 1 — Match 231 of 276

Scrooge McDuck (Disney)

Problematic because: "Self-made rich guy who only got rich by being a miser who now intends to stay rich by living a miserable life & exploiting the people who work for him, especially his nephew. Also, burnt down an African village once, which is referred to as "the only dishonest deed in his life" as if he isn't consistently an asshole to everyone he interacts with." Propaganda: "i mean come on he's just an old man… he's literally just a duck… he's Family… you can't hate him… have you no heart? (also, he's very entertaining to read about)"

vs. Machine Connor (Detroit: Become Human)

Problematic because: "he stays loyal to the cyberlife corporation and keeps treating androids who want freedom like defective machines that need to be found, stopped, or destroyed. he can locate jericho, which is the hidden safe place for deviant androids, and lead the authorities straight there, triggering a violent raid on people who were already hiding for their lives. later, if markus or north is leading the android revolution, he can try to assassinate them during their final stand/speech, which is basically him helping crush the android freedom movement right when it might succeed. depending on the route, he can also fight hank, his human partner, and their relationship can end very badly (as in hank KILLS HIMSELF) because connor chooses the mission over any personal loyalty or empathy." Propaganda: "he said “empathy? sorry, not in this software update” and went right back to being cyberlife’s most polite little nightmare. he can betray the android revolution, try to take out its leader, ruin his relationship with hank, and still deliver every line like he’s answering a customer service survey. awful path. excellent drama. somebody please unplug him and try again."

ROUND 1 — Match 230 of 276

Lux (Date Everything!)

Problematic because: "They’re obsessed with followers, image, engagement, and being adored. Their bio says they have 2.5M Instaglam followers and absolutely did buy some bot followers, which is already very funny, but the real issue is that they’re shallow, self-centred, and “honest” in the way people say they’re honest when they mostly mean rude. You can win them over very quickly by just shamelessly complimenting them, which tells you basically everything. Problematic in a petty modern way, not a murder way." Propaganda: 1. "Their problems are so low-stakes but so instantly recognisable. They’re vain, shallow, rude, and clearly way too invested in their own brand, but that’s also what makes them funny. I love a character who is literally made of light and still somehow manages to have brainrot." 2. "sometimes the problematic fave is not a war criminal it’s just someone who definitely has a notes app apology drafted for when their follower-buying scandal breaks. they are bright, pretty, fake deep, obsessed with engagement, and probably impossible to have a normal conversation with unless you’re praising them. would i mute their stories? yes. would i still check them occasionally because the drama is funny? also yes."

vs. Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia)

Problematic because: "Murder, terrorism, cannibalism(?)" Propaganda: "She is literally a villain trying to destroy society, but she is doing so to make society accept people like her; people discriminated against for their quirks. She murders and maims people, and drinks the blood of those she loves so she can literally become them(her quirk let's her transform into them if she drinks their blood). She is literally just a lonely girl who broke under the expectation for her to be "normal". She promised herself to never hide her true self again, and I love her for that. Even if her true self hurts people."

ROUND 1 — Match 229 of 276

Edward Nygma (Gotham)

Problematic because: "He’s obsessive about Kristen, inserts himself into her life, murders her abusive boyfriend Tom Dougherty, hides the body, then later tells her the truth while they’re dating. When she panics and rejects him, he kills her too - accidentally, technically, but it still happens because he’s physically trying to stop her from leaving/calling for help. After that, he spirals into the Riddler persona, frames Jim Gordon for murder when Jim starts getting too close, and keeps turning every insecurity into some elaborate little “actually I’m a genius” crime project. He helps Penguin’s mayor campaign, becomes his chief of staff, seems genuinely close to him, then falls for Isabella, who looks exactly like Kristen because Gotham has never met a normal coincidence in its life. After Oswald has Isabella killed out of jealousy because of being in love with Ed, Ed joins Barbara’s side, dismantles Oswald’s life, shoots him, and pushes him into the river. He later fully embraces being the Riddler, does the whole puzzle-murder genius routine, clashes with Lucius, gets frozen by Fries, ends up with Lee in the Narrows, and by Season 5 is involved in the Haven bombing while under Nyssa’s mind-control chip." Propaganda: 1. "The Kristen storyline is horrible, and it should be. He wants to be loved so badly that he turns affection into possession, then turns rejection into a crisis he can’t survive without hurting someone. After that, every version of him is trying to prove something to Jim, to Oswald, to Gotham, to Lucius, to himself. I like him because he’s clever, funny, needy, pathetic, scary, and ridiculous in a way that feels very specific to Gotham. He can be genuinely touching with Oswald one episode and then doing the most theatrical murder-puzzle nonsense imaginable the next." 2. "ed is terrible and i love him. creepy office crush guy to murderer to mayoral chief of staff to riddler to frozen brain damage era to narrows situationship to arkham final boss nonsense"

vs. Jecht (Final Fantasy X)

Problematic because: "Tidus grows up in the shadow of this famous Blitzball player father who drinks too much, humiliates him, calls him a crybaby, mocks his attempts to play, and is generally emotionally useless at best. The game makes it pretty clear Tidus doesn’t hate him for no reason - Jecht was verbally cruel, absent even when he was physically there, and so bad at showing affection that his son mostly remembers feeling small around him." Propaganda: 1. "He was a bad father. Tidus’ anger is justified, and the story would be much weaker if it tried to smooth that over into “he only teased him because he cared.” But Jecht is also not just some one-note abusive dad the game wants you to hate forever. Once he’s away from Zanarkand, you see him through Braska and Auron, through the spheres he leaves behind, through the person he was trying and often failing to become. He’s loud, arrogant, mean, embarrassing, and emotionally constipated, but he’s also brave when it counts and eventually self-aware enough to know he messed things up with Tidus. His redemption doesn’t erase the damage, and the damage doesn’t erase the fact that he loved his son. He’s messy in exactly the way FFX needs him to be." 2. "yes, he was awful to tidus. yes, he drank too much and mocked his own child and made him feel like nothing he did was good enough. i am not letting him off for that. but then you see him with braska and auron, and he’s still a disaster, but he’s also funny and loyal and trying in this very clumsy way. he’s not secretly perfect. he’s just a man who was better at dying heroically than apologising normally, which is honestly the most final fantasy dad thing imaginable."

ROUND 1 — Match 228 of 276

Reaver (Fable)

Problematic because: "He made a deal with the Shadow Court for eternal youth, and the price ended up being his entire hometown. Even giving him the “he didn’t know it would kill the whole town” benefit of the doubt, he still keeps the deal going afterward by sending people to the Shadow Court so their youth gets drained instead of his. In Fable 2, he sends the Hero there with the Dark Seal and is fully intending to use them as his next sacrifice, or let an innocent woman take the hit instead. Then by Fable III he’s somehow worse because now he’s not just a smug immortal libertine, he’s an INDUSTRIALIST. </3 Reaver Industries is built on child labour, slavery, terrible working conditions, and pay so bad he cut wages by 100%. He shoots a striking worker, turns trapped people into arena entertainment with the Wheel of Misfortune, and keeps advising the monarch to make every “money now, suffering later” choice possible. He’s funny, yes. He is also the absolute worst person to ever discover capitalism." Propaganda: 1. "The game doesn’t even try to pretend there’s a secret noble heart under all that fur trim. He’s vain, selfish, cruel, cowardly when it suits him, brave when showing off sounds more entertaining, and somehow still impossible to look away from. I love that he can be a Hero of Skill and a complete moral vacuum at the same time. Fable has always had that ridiculous fairytale morality system, and then Reaver walks in like, “What if the most charismatic person in the room has never felt guilt once in his life?”" 2. "he’s been alive for centuries and has used that time to become a pirate, a businessman, a menace to labour rights, and possibly the only person in albion who could make “sacrificing villagers to stay young” feel like just one bullet point on a very bad resume. i would not trust him with my drink, my town, my wages, or my lifespan, but i do want him to keep causing problems."

vs. The Creature (Frankenstein)

Problematic because: "Murdered people to terrorize and manipulate his creator, planted evidence to frame an innocent woman as a murderer, as a bonus tried to force his creator to make him a female mate (also problematic if you think about it)." Propaganda: "Poor little meow meow who just wanted to be loved. Loneliness and human cruelty made him this way."

ROUND 1 — Match 227 of 276

Jason Dean (Heathers)

Problematic because: "he breaks into veronica’s bedroom, helps her get revenge on heather chandler, then swaps the fake hangover cure for drain cleaner and kills heather. afterward, he pushes veronica into forging a suicide note. he lies to veronica about using fake bullets on kurt and ram, kills them, stages their deaths as a joint suicide, blackmails heather duke into getting students to sign what they don’t realise is meant to be a mass suicide note, and eventually tries to blow up the entire school pep rally." Propaganda: "jd is awful boyfriend hall of fame"

vs. Alucard (Hellsing)

Problematic because: "Literally and figuratively a monster. He takes pleasure in cruelty to his enemies, not content to merely kill them. The lives he has taken cannot be counted." Propaganda: "He's just a complex and fascinating character. Vicious and seemingly heartless, but capable of genuine affection. Egotistical, but with great admiration for those he sees as his equals or betters. You can't not root for him no matter how monstrous he becomes."

ROUND 1 — Match 225 of 276

Kylo Ren (Star Wars)

Problematic because: "He betrays Luke’s Jedi school and becomes one of the leading figures of the First Order, a fascist military force trying to take control of the galaxy. In The Force Awakens, he kills Lor San Tekka, helps lead the attack on the village on Jakku, interrogates Poe through Force-based torture, invades Rey’s mind against her will, and stays loyal to the First Order even after they destroy entire planets with Starkiller Base. He also murders his own father, Han Solo, because he thinks killing the part of himself that still wants to go home will make him stronger. Even after killing Snoke, he doesn’t use the opportunity to leave or dismantle the First Order. He takes power for himself and asks Rey to rule with him, while still refusing to stop the war. He tries to pull her toward him by isolating her, telling her her parents were nothing, and framing himself as the only person who truly understands her." Propaganda: "Hes needy, angry, violent, dramatic, insecure, obsessive, and constantly trying to turn pain into power because he doesn’t know what else to do with it. He has this whole myth built in his head about destiny and legacy and finishing what Vader started, but so much of it feels like a scared person trying to make his worst choices seem inevitable. Adam Driver really sells how unstable he is. Kylo can be genuinely frightening one minute, then visibly wounded the next because Han said his real name. I love that he’s so powerful and still so emotionally messy. He’s killed people, tortured people, helped lead the First Order, and made awful choice after awful choice, but he’s also written like someone who keeps almost reaching for the way out and then choosing wrong again."

vs. Lotor (Voltron: Legendary Defenders)

Problematic because: "He's manipulative and killed thousands of people who trusted him in order to harvest quintessence to try and keep his empire running, which he considered to be a necessary evil" Propaganda: 1. "He genuinely wants to do good, but almost always chooses the most destructive path possible because he thinks it's what he has to do, manipulates everyone around him because he doesn't know how else to interact with them, and has no real friends because he's just using everyone around him, yet he still sees himself as the good guy and wants peace" 2. "Lotor deserved a redemption arc, not what happened to him. He truly believed he could save the Altean race, and he did truly love Allura."

ROUND 1 — Match 224 of 276

Hector Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Problematic because: "his first major act in the series is betraying jack, leading a mutiny, stealing the black pearl, and marooning him on the same island he later dumps jack and elizabeth on. then his crew steals the cursed aztec gold, and when bootstrap bill turner objects to what they did and sends one coin away to his son, barbossa has him strapped to a cannon and thrown into the sea. unfortunately for barbossa, they later need turner blood to lift the curse, so he raids port royal, kidnaps elizabeth after she claims the turner name, and tries to use her blood in the ritual. he’s also just a deeply self-serving operator across the series. he helps when it benefits him, betrays when it benefits him, steals the pearl back from jack again after at world’s end, becomes a privateer under king george while secretly pursuing revenge against blackbeard, and later rules a pirate fleet as a wealthy pirate lord. he does get more heroic moments later, especially with carina, but “eventually sacrifices himself for his daughter” doesn’t erase the years of mutiny, kidnapping, murder, betrayal, and general pirate bastard behaviour before that." Propaganda: "barbossa is awful and i love him. mutineer, kidnapper, cursed skeleton captain, professional jack sparrow irritant, apple enthusiast, betrayal enjoyer. somehow both a complete bastard and one of the most satisfying redemption-ish arcs in the franchise."

vs. Lacie Pound (Black Mirror)

Problematic because: "she's super fake, as per the entire thesis of the episode" Propaganda: "I think she should have destroyed naomi's wedding even harder actually. once you're burning bridges you ought to burn them all the way down and go completely scorched earth. every time naomi fat-shames her I think violent thoughts. I love her with all my heart."

ROUND 1 — Match 223 of 276

Hubert von Vestra (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Problematic because: "He's Edelgard’s retainer, spymaster, tactician, and general problem-remover. He threatens Byleth pretty early on, basically telling them that if they become a threat to Edelgard, he’ll dispose of them, because he’s her servant before he’s anyone’s classmate. He later follows Byleth around and casually starts talking about assassination methods, including poison, which is very funny in-game and also, you know, not normal school behaviour. Hubert knows Edelgard is the Flame Emperor, helps hide what’s going on, helps prepare her rise to power, and is involved in disposing of corrupt imperial nobles, including his own father. He also knows about the Empire’s temporary alliance with TWSITD, the underground murder-science cult responsible for a lot of the worst things in Fodlan, and he goes along with using them until Edelgard can turn on them later." Propaganda: "I like him because the game doesn’t really pretend he’s soft underneath it all. He has softer moments, sure, and he clearly has his own feelings, pride, humour, and weird little social habits, but he is still dangerous on purpose. He knows what he is there to do. He knows other people find him unsettling. Half the time, he’s actively leaning into it because being feared is useful. There’s something very satisfying about a character who isn’t trying to win you over morally, but still ends up being interesting because his devotion is so extreme that it turns into its own problem."

vs. Viren (The Dragon Prince)

Problematic because: "Viren is a dark mage, which means that 9 times out of 10 he has to kill magical creatures to be able to use magic. He is stubborn, ruthless, and cruel. He has slaughtered innocent people in the name of his agenda to further/better the human race. He's manipulative and conniving, and believed that his way was the only right way to do something. He was quick to anger. He sent his own son to kill the children of the previous king because he thought they would be too weak to rule. He always showed favoritism to his daughter and was child to his son up until shortly before his death. He goes against the king's (who was also his friend) wishes and swaps his soul with a bird's. He partners with an evil elf to try and take down the kingdom of Zadia. I'm probably forgetting something tbh. Overall, he kinda reminds me of Macbeth. He wasn't a great dude until after some serious self reflection." Propaganda: "His character arc is really interesting to watch, as he often justifies his actions as being what's best for the kingdom of Katolis. He has a strong atonement arc towards the end of the series, and he's a great antagonist for the series. He has good qualities so he's not just a one off type of antag. He has good depth to him that makes him feel like more than just a bad guy."

ROUND 1 — Match 220 of 276

Armand (Interview with the Vampire)

Problematic because: "Brainwashed his boyfriend into believing that he didn't orchestrate the death of said boyfriend's daughter. Also tortured a man for, I believe, 3 days" "He's a vampire with no qualms about murdering people for food." "Mr falsehoods and lies himself. Armanipulator. Takes away people’s memories and betrays everyone if it means at least one side keeps him." "he tried to have two of the main characters killed, succeeded with one of them, then lied about it to the one who survived and pretended he saved him" Propaganda: 1. "GORGEOUS LOOKING MAN also he's got a sad backstory and I think that's reason enough to forgive all of his crimes" 2. "His backstory is horrible and sympathetic and does a lot to explain why he is the way he is; he is often 'kind' about his killings in that he makes an effort to lull his victims into a state wanting death (where most other vamps in-universe thrive on the victims' terror); he is genuinely just a fucked-up little dude who desperately wants to be loved for who he is but barely knows how to be himself in pursuit of that goal, spends most of his (very long) life playing into roles that others demand of him and shaping himself to their wants." 3. "Hes so complicated and you can see the gears turning in his head to make sure he’s never left alone since he doesn’t believe he can exist without making his entire world a person or group of people. His desperation to not be alone is so interesting and seeing how far he goes to make this not happen is so good." 4. "he's a level of crazy u rly need in a series like iwtv. like they're all crazy but he's such a specific kind of crazy desperate lonely control freak with inhuman strength and mind-control powers. he did all that shit and i know he'd do it again in a heartbeat i can always rely on him to make the situation Worse🧡"

vs. Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Problematic because: "Tries to destroy the world because she's mad at her ex-friend. Is constantly trying to hurt/kill people. Is in a fascist army." Propaganda: "She's a silly traumatized cat person. She's irrational and obsessive and selfish and just wants to be loved"

ROUND 1 — Match 218 of 276

Melone (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Problematic because: "Mafia pervert whose Stand ability evokes sexual assault (creates homunculi using forcibly drawn blood from women following invasive questioning to determine if they're viable "mothers")" Propaganda: "He's a latex-clad freak who's a surprisingly dedicated father to his weird little homunculi, taking time in the middle of an attempted assassination to teach them their letters and numbers"

vs. Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa)

Problematic because: "In the first game, she traps her classmates inside Hope’s Peak Academy, runs the whole murder-game through Monokuma, gives them motives to kill each other, holds trials after each death, and executes anyone who gets caught. She also has her own sister Mukuro pretend to be her, then kills her in front of everyone to sell the lie. She helps kick off essentially a global apocalypse, pushes people into mass despair, manipulates others into spreading it for her, and is tied to the student council mass killing at Hope’s Peak too. Even after she dies, her AI version is still causing problems in Danganronpa 2, because apparently being dead wasn’t enough to stop her from ruining everyone’s lives." Propaganda: 1. "There is no pretending she’s morally grey. She is terrible on purpose, and the fun is that she knows exactly what kind of story she’s in. I like her because she’s funny, theatrical, unpredictable, and genuinely scary when the game stops playing around with her. She can switch from silly to cruel in half a second, and that makes her feel less like a normal mastermind and more like the whole game’s tone crammed into one person. She is exhausting in the exact way she should be." 2. "junko is such a nightmare but she’s also THE danganronpa villain. like yes she trapped her classmates in a murder school and yes she made despair her whole personality in the worst possible way, but she’s so entertaining that you can’t really imagine the series without her. she’s annoying, funny, scary, overdramatic, smug, weirdly charismatic, and somehow every version of her is doing too much on purpose."

ROUND 1 — Match 212 of 276

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)

Problematic because: "keeps trying to steal another man's wife" Propaganda: "to be fair the other man is abusive and gatsby's just a silly little guy 🥺👉👈"

vs. Beatrice (Umineko: When They Cry)

Problematic because: "Thousand year old witch kills a group of people over and over again" Propaganda: "Beyond the fact that it is awesome that she is an evil woman, she is really really cute. and [the spoilers]"

ROUND 1 — Match 205 of 276

Erika Furudo (Umineko: When They Cry)

Problematic because: "Erika describes herself as "an intellectual rapist," by which she means that she's someone who enjoys revealing people's secrets in order to humiliate them and make them feel vulnerable. Despite her priding herself on being a detective who reveals the truth, by the end of the arc she's introduced in, it becomes apparent that she cares more about humiliating people than finding the truth—she accuses a woman of sleeping with her father-in-law by saying that he's been hiding in her bed, despite the fact that Erika knows for sure that's not the case. Beyond this, she's explained a magic trick to a 9-year-old to prove magic isn't real, confirmed the deaths of people she (correctly) thought might be pretending to be dead by cutting off their heads, and has one agonizing scene where she is symbolically raping another character through putting a painful mind-control ring on him and says that she plans to literally rape him afterward." Propaganda: "In the context of the story, Erika represents someone who reads a work of fiction in bad faith with the intent of tearing it apart to prove how smart she is. And she plays the role perfectly, disrespecting the story she's a character in. To this end, she acts utterly bizarre and off putting and it's extremely entertaining. Doing shit like the aforementioned cutting off people's heads to confirm their deaths, as well as climbing up the side of a building in a storm to put breakable seals on windows (in order to prove whether they were opened), and stays up all night listening to someone in an adjacent room breathe. Delightfully unhinged. Erika isn't just a one-note villain, though. She's originally created as a self-insert character by Bernkastel, who threatens Erika with eternal punishment if she fails to achieve Bernkastel's goals within the story. Erika is someone Bernkastel can shift blame and consequences onto when Bernkastel's plan for shaping the story don't turn out the way she wants them to. It's easy to read Erika as a victim of abuse by Bernkastel who perpetuates the violence she's been taught. Another core part of her character is that she refuses to believe anything that can't be definitively proven. She doesn't believe in love because it's not something you can objectively prove someone has for another person. This is another reason why she can't engage in her own story with good faith. The good will of an author and the themes they want you to engage with in a story aren't concretely provable things to her, in the same way where a character is and if they're alive or dead are. And because she can't prove a single, definitive, correct version of themes that means she's solved the work the same way one might solve a mystery, she doesn't consider them worth engaging with. She's a really unique character who fits well into what Umineko is doing thematically as well as being entertaining."

vs. Nero tol Scaeva (Final Fantasy XIV)

Problematic because: "He's a war criminal from a colonizing empire, he's murdered people on screen, and he's tried to kill the main character (and their friends) on numerous occasions." Propaganda: "I'm enchanted by his swagless demeanor. He's lived most his life in the shadow of his childhood rival and has done so much to prove he's the smarter of the two. Even when said rival defected from the empire, people would bring him up constantly. He made a name for himself both as an inventor and in the military campaign against Eorzea and thought he'd finally left the shadow until the main antagonist (his boss) tries to recruit his rival back to their side. After trying and failing to kill the main character to prove himself, Nero also defects. Did he join the good guys? Absolutely not. He never seeks redemption either he just slowly gets integrated into helping every so often (after causing some of the problems himself). I could go on but just know he is unironically my babygirl and I love him."

ROUND 1 — Match 201 of 276

Gabriel Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

Problematic because: "He's the main villain and treats his son terribly. Every time that he learns that his son is Cat Noir he tries to use that to his advantage." Propaganda: "Gabriel just wanted his wife bad so bad he made it everyone's problem. He genuinely is so far into his delusions that he doesn't see terrorizing all of Paris and literally rewriting time as a problem."

vs. Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece)

Problematic because: "They asked a 12yo girl to be their woman." Propaganda: "TO BE FAIR! He didn't know she was 12, she has a special power where she can change her physical age and she was in grown up body at the time and her age was a huge secret that even we didn't know for the longest time."

ROUND 1 — Match 197 of 276

Kronya (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Problematic because: "She’s part of TWSITD, the secret Agarthan group doing most of the murder-science and manipulation behind the scenes, and she infiltrates Garreg Mach by pretending to be Monica, a real Black Eagles student who had gone missing. In Three Houses, Seteth even says the real Monica was probably killed and replaced, though the game doesn’t fully confirm exactly what happened to her there. Then she spends months just walking around the monastery in someone else’s face, acting like a student while helping the Agarthans from the inside. After a fight with experimental Demonic Beasts, she pretends to be Monica again, waits until Jeralt (the protagonists father)s guard is down, and stabs him. Byleth rewinds time to stop it, but Thales blocks them and Kronya still kills him anyway. And honestly, she’s also just very enthusiastically awful. She enjoys being cruel, talks down to everyone as vermin, and then gets sacrificed by Solon because even her own evil organisation sees her as disposable. She’s a murderer and an infiltrator, but also kind of pathetic in the end, because she spends all that time acting untouchable and then gets used as ritual fuel by her boss." Propaganda: 1. "She has barely any time in the game and still manages to permanently ruin Byleth’s life. She isn’t a deep political operator like Edelgard or a huge lore bomb like Rhea. She’s just this nasty little assassin who steals Monica’s identity, hangs around the academy being suspiciously chipper, and then kills one of the few people Byleth actually has. I do think there’s something interesting about how disposable she is, though. She’s smug, cruel, and absolutely enjoying herself until the second Solon turns on her, and then suddenly she’s just another Agarthan tool being thrown away. It doesn’t make her innocent, but it does make her feel less like “random evil girl” and more like someone who bought into her own importance way more than her side ever did. Also, sometimes a villain only needs one really memorable crime and a horrible laugh to earn a spot in my heart." 2. "kronya is awful but i do think people underrate how effective she is for the amount of screentime she gets" 3. "she really committed to the worst exchange student arc in history. showed up wearing another girl’s face, acted weird for three months, stabbed dad, ran away, and then got sacrificed by her own coworker before she could even enjoy being the main problem. she’s not my poor little meow meow exactly. she is more like my horrible little raccoon in the walls. she has no chill, no long-term plan that we personally see, and no survival instincts once solon starts monologuing. but she’s memorable. everyone remembers the jeralt scene. everyone remembers wanting to chase her down immediately afterward. sometimes that is enough"

vs. Lee Edwards (Haunted House Flippers)

Problematic because: "They're evil and dodgy as hell" Propaganda: "They are a delight and have a sharp, sarcastic sense of humor and wore orange socks with bats on them one time"

ROUND 1 — Match 195 of 276

Miyo Takano (Higurashi When They Cry)

Problematic because: "Massacres an entire village." Propaganda: "She's traumatized by the humiliation that her grandfather underwent. She dedicates her whole life to the continuation of his work: the study of Hinamizawa syndrome. Using her connection with a nationalistic group, she sets up a laboratory in Hinamizawa. When the project is canceled, she's in a distress. A woman called Nomura uses this to suggest her to end it with a radical action (Nomura wants to take advantage of the ensuing chaos). Also she's cute, funny and unsettling."

vs. Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Problematic because: "Well. Mass murder, cannibalism, manipulation, murder of course, and other crimes I don't have in mind" Propaganda: "He have this villain charisma, even if to me he's mostly pathetic (in a good way) for his cluelessness about his real emotional needs and even who matter to him (Uraume). Also Junichi Suwabe play him so well"