I don't know what kind of mindset leads people to start a series where the premise is "a nice kid gets involved in something not usually amenable to nice kids" and then whine every time about how the protag being a nice kid makes them an awful main character and the series terrible and why don't they just die horribly and let an edgelord be the new protag

this happened a lot in onyx equinox

I assume they were hoping to see said nice kid turn into an asshole to validate their worldview

it's like, surely there has to be a point where you figure out what kind of show you're watching/manga you're reading/etc., right?

you'd think so

but a lot of people went into the Steven Universe movie thinking "so this is gonna be the one where the villain is so evil that Steven just murders them right"

this plurk comes with an unexpected consolation prize which is confirmation that this also happens to male protags

I ran a months-long discussion-heavy Undertale LP and when we got to the true pacifist endboss someone was like

"finally, here's the culprit! let's kill him!"

?????????????????????

come to think of it even madoka got this treatment for a while back when the internet hadn't fully settled on how to be hyper annoying about it yet

I think this happens to every nice kid protagonist, there's just proportionally fewer male nice kid protagonists because we live in a hell society

Why this, agreed.

Apparently Cartoon Network really wanted Steven to murder Spinel for some reason

cartoon network craves blood

they love to kill

it's why they keep putting transformers in such shitty timeslots

It's such a bad mindset

people (Americans especially) struggle with compassion as a story feature