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Character Bashing

Character bashing is the act of shaming, flaming and saying defamatory things about a fictional character. This is done to vent one's hatred for a character by relentlessly criticizing the character -whether it be just or unjust- or taking the characters negative traits and blowing it out of proportions which would leave behind only a hollow one dimensional husk.

Character bashings are most common with in Fanfictions and online forums. Any character may be on the receiving end of bashing, even the main character.

There are multiple reasons why this phenomenon exists such as Ship wars, Spotlight hogging Main character, etc.
Person 1: Ugh I hate Sakura so muuuch! Why does she have to such a useless character?
Person 2: Yet she done more than other characters. You're unjust Character bashing is pointless. Use your time better than something so meaningless.
by Beware The Hashi April 1, 2020
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Character Assassination

1. To deliberately destroy someone’s good reputation by exaggerating their flaws, spreading negative falsehoods, and/or manipulating facts.

2. (In fiction) When a normally sympathetic and/or intelligent character is derailed with bad writing by an author and/or creator erasing previously established positive development exaggerating their worst flaws (flanderdization), and/or by making them behave in out of character (OOC) ways that make them come across as unsympathetic and stupid out of nowhere for the sake of creating cheap shock value, forcing a character into the villain role with no organic lead up, retreading previously established character development by undoing it of nowhere to do it all over again, and/or in order for the creator/author to prop up another character and/or ship they unfairly favor as “good” and/or “redeemed” without having to actually put in any sort of effort to develop their favorites in to people who are actually behaving in ways that make them worthy of redemption by attempting to emotionally manipulate the audience to forget about the bad ways in which their favorites have behaved and/or the bad things their favorite character has done by deliberately pulling a character assassination on other characters and/or ships to make them seem just as bad, if not worse, in comparison to their favorites.
1. Who wrote these lies about me in this article? I’m not the horrible person they are making me out to be here! This is character assassination!

2. Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time was such a badass, intelligent, kindhearted, and selfless young woman. Then, she got set up with Hook, and became a mean-spirited, violent, and selfish sidekick to him on her own show. What horrible character assassination!
by AliceKettle January 31, 2021
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purple character

the “purple” character is stereotypically rich, vibrant, powerful, artistic, and/or mysterious! examples would be the following: effy stonem, jade west, rue (euphoria), joker, emily prentiss!
by julesbabey March 22, 2021
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Defecation of character

Defecation of character is what happens when someone shits on your name in a public forum.
You: "Oh, man! Brittany just called me a ho on Facebook because I said I liked her crush."

Your friend: "Wow, that's defecation of character."
by gingermom September 29, 2009
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Main character

Someone who you can make a movie about and have it be interesting they are quirky and not basic
You guys are the main characters“
by .meagansmith May 19, 2020
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Noob Caravan

A noob caravan is a natural occurence in almost all multiplayer video games. It is when a group of noobs, tired of being ownd on their own, decide to form a pack.

Even though they are together they still stand no chance of survival. they will often blindly shoot at anything that startles them. If freindly fire is on, they are even more dangerous to themselves than to others.

Often, one of the noobs will rise up and be the leader of the caravan, even though he is slightly better than the rest, he is nothing but a trained noob.

Here are 3 easy steps to find out if you have joined a noob caravan!!

1. Are you and others blindly firing right at the ground with full sensitivity on?
2. Does each member have at least 4 numbers in their name?
3. Do you try to use your group strength to dodge enemy bullets?

Well if any of those apply, you have found yourself a noob caravan!!!
potat0salad392053: (talking to noob caravan followers) FINNALLY!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!1!!one!!!!!!!!! WE CAN NOW NOT GET OWNED, WE CAN USE OUR COMBINED STRENGTH TO DO SUPER HUMAN ABILITIES!

The_Yellow_Dart: i sense a noob caravan!
by Mayah Beeeeeee August 21, 2009
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Comfort character

A comfort character is when a character, which can be from a TV show, game, book etc makes you feel safe and happy when upset, sad, down etc.
“When I feel sad, I think about Anakin . He is my comfort character and makes me feel happy.”
by celi.ts February 6, 2021
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