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Critical Backlash	comment	The opposite of Hype Backlash, critical backlash is what you get when something is over-criticized and condemned to the extent that it couldn't possibly be as terrible as everyone makes it out to be. Like hype backlash, it's yet more proof that the critics aren't always necessarily correct, and Quality by Popular Vote isn't always a reliable indicator of something's merits (or lack thereof). Critical backlash tends to occur when critical reaction towards the product is tainted by some outside factor; overhype, overexposure, and outside controversy may prompt the critics to focus on the noise surrounding the work rather than the merits of the work itself. Critics are often primed to dislike the product based on some preexisting prejudice and fail to look deeply enough for redeeming value, particularly if the work suffers from Public Medium Ignorance. Some critics may Follow the Leader and echo more popular and louder critics. Of course, some things also just press a critic's buttons the wrong way; critics usually have different expectations and approaches than the wider audience, and just because something doesn't tick the right boxes on their checklist doesn't mean the wider audience might not find something of merit in it. Alternately, it may be that the vehemence of the criticism has conditioned the audience to expect the show's flaws, lessening the blow, and thus making what good qualities it has stand out more. If the work develops a particularly devoted audience despite the critical drubbing, then it may experience hype and critical backlash from different quarters; the work may not be as bad as the critics say, but likewise not as good as its most ardent fans claim, falling instead somewhere in between. Cult Classics have often suffered from a critical backlash, only to be later rediscovered and Vindicated by History or (if they went from popular to hated first) subjected to a Popularity Polynomial. Adaptations and works that generally fall into a critic's Acceptable Targets radar (such as animation and genre fiction) often receive this kind of reaction. This phenomenon is deeply related to the Streisand Effect and No Such Thing as Bad Publicity. Please note that this page is not a personal blog to discuss your personal experiences of this; this page is all about the general properties which tend to receive this treatment. Also remember that this is YMMV; seeing something you hate here only means that other people may not hate it as much as you do, not that it doesn't have points worth of criticism, so try to resist the urge to make a Justifying Edit.
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Critical Backlash / int_11a510c	comment	This extended to John Cena's girlfriend Nikki Bella. She attracted an insane Hatedom around the time she won the Divas' Championship, and this only increased when it became clear she would surpass A.J. Lee for the longest title reign. Most of the criticisms stem from Narm-filled segments during her feud with her sister (which she herself viewed as an Old Shame). A section of fans still believe she's just as bad as when she first started to get pushed. Others however felt the criticisms were overblown and that Nikki visibly improved her mic skills and wrestling. Bleacher Report praised her match against her sister Brie, rating it higher than the other Divas' match featuring smark favourites Paige and AJ Lee the same night. Likewise Lethal WOW named her the Most Improved Diva of 2015 and hatred of her has calmed down a lot in 2016 following a sidelining injury taking her out of action and other women being pushed in her place. Outside her Hatedom, general opinion seems to be that she's not amazing but she's not as terrible as her detractors would make her out to be.
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Critical Backlash / int_1520dbc2	comment	Song of the South is notorious in large part for just how much Disney has gone out of their way to prevent you from seeing it due to concerns of it being racially insensitive and dated. This has resulted in much sensationalizing of what the film actually entails (many assuming it to just be "The Racist Disney Movie" with loads of grotesque, racist imagery and themes), but the common consensus among those who've actually managed to view it is that just about the only majorly questionable issue is the sanitized depiction of the post-Civil War South — otherwise, it's a standard, lighthearted live-action Disney flick that has some genuine highlights (namely the animated segments with Br'er Rabbit and James Baskett's beloved, Oscar-winning performance as Uncle Remus), and that at worst, it can be described as "forgettable". This in turn has led to decades of debate on whether or not Disney's treatment of the film is justified, with many feeling that the only reason there's an awkward controversy clouding over the film is because Disney themselves made it one.
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Critical Backlash / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica's Load and Reload albums. Upon release, the albums were heavily criticised for their alternative rock leanings and the band's questionable fashion choices. Over time, however, they've become more accepted by the metal community. The reasoning for this is twofold: First, while the Load twins alienated many of the band's longtime fans, they also gained the band many new ones. Most significantly, they brought Metallica's music (and metal in general) to a much younger audience. Since a good portion of the people that got onboard the Metallica bandwagon with the Loads eventually went on to discover less mainstream metal bands, it's only natural that the albums would be more accepted by the metal community now than they were during the mid-'90s. Secondly, in a weird way, the enormous backlash (not just with metal fans but also with the mainstream) with 2003's St. Anger got led many to go back and listen to the Load albums, realising that 'For bluesy hard rock (i.e. mostly non-metal) albums, these really aren't so bad.'
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Critical Backlash / int_19845c98	comment	The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild: There are some who can see past the film's flaws and budget constraints, and appreciate it for being a fun, silly romp with some surprisingly heartwarming moments. Even some who dislike it consider it a step up from Ice Age: Collision Course and breaking the curse of the movies doing progressively worse over the box office, if only slightly by having a critic score 3% more positive and an audience score 8% more positive on than the latter respectively on Rotten Tomatoes for whatever that's worth.
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Critical Backlash / int_1c1f2af9	comment	Morbius (2022) was instantly lambasted by reviewers and fans of the comics, with such a bad reputation it led to ironic memes exalting the movie while never having actually seen it. But some viewers who did watch the movie for real out of curiosity instead of Bile Fascination found Morbius a fun vampire action flick if nothing else, that in spite of The Stinger being terrible and downright nonsensical, has plenty to offer and doesn't deserve the amount of hate it gets.
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Critical Backlash / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: The first example was Alice in Wonderland. It was trashed by critics - many of whom vilified Disney for "Americanising a great work of British literature" - and bombed at the Box Office, Walt himself even disowning the final film. But it found popularity in the 1960s with stoners and steadily opinion softened towards it. By the 1990s, it was included in the Walt Disney Classics collection. The Black Cauldron is a major Old Shame for the studio. It nearly bankrupted them and was trashed by critics for being Darker and Edgier. There's very little merchandise for it, and it took over ten years to get released on video. But it has a strong cult fanbase to this day. And the original author didn't think it was that bad, either. There's also Home on the Range, which was heavily bashed by critics, and continues to be, even on This Very Wiki. But if you look on deviantART, YouTube, or IMDb, you'll notice that it has a decent fanbase who compare it to Disney's films from the '40s and '50s. Chicken Little caught a lot of flak upon release, with one of the main criticisms being that it felt too mean-spirited. While its reception still hasn't improved that much over the years, it does have its fans who consider it a decent and enjoyable film. At the time of its release, it was one of the Black Sheep of the Disney studio. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the only Disney film to ever be nominated for a Razzie Award, and critics bashed it for being too dark and mature for children (or, conversely, for sugarcoating a great work of adult literature). As far as the Disney Animated Canon goes, it has a massive following and it has far more fans than its critical response would suggest. Pocahontas got a lot of hate when it was released, and it's considered the turning point for when Disney started its slow decline. However, it does have plenty of fans for the characters, animation, and songs, and for those who think the Aesop is actually a good one. General consensus seems to agree that it's far from Disney's worst film, but by no means their best either.
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Critical Backlash / int_2594ce60	comment	Deus Ex: Invisible War is actually a really good FPS and received average critical scores of about 8/10. To hear the fans talk about it though, it's the worst heresy ever spawned from the pits of FPS hell- or at least little better than Daikatana and it is even considered Fanon Discontinuity by some. This is more because it simply can't live up to the original, largely because it's accused — with some justification — of being 'dumbed down' for the Xbox (but if Invisible War was dumbed down, you can't blame it on the Xbox — the original Deus Ex did just as well on PS2).
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Critical Backlash / int_25feb9b7	comment	Angela Anaconda was memetically trashed for a multitude of reasons. The show's animation is rather bizarre, The Mysterious Mr. Enter found an episode quite apalling, it was seen as somehow screwing KaBlam! from getting rereleased when it didn't, the show's entire stories were mundane, Angela Anaconda could come off as Unintentionally Unsympathetic, and most notably its inclusion in Digimon the Movie - which had nothing to do with the creators at all. (To the point in which a greentext blamed its inclusion in the Digimon movie for destroying an already failing marriage.) However, as more people watched the show and an interview with the show's creator, some found it to not be that bad at all. Billiam in particular mentioned the show was quite over-hated when he did a video on it being weird and was surprised at how much more he wanted to see.
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Critical Backlash / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The Mike Scully-era episodes are starting to get this. While almost nobody thinks they're as good as "Golden Age" Simpsons, a good portion of them are still pretty funny and watchable in their own right. Some fans even believe they contain some of the best Funny Moments in the entire series. "The Principal and the Pauper" spent well over a decade as the popular episode to point to when declaring "this is when the show stopped being good", which eventually caused protests against that idea for a range of reasons. This includes the fact that the most common criticism is aimed at the "Skinner is Tamzarian" reveal rather than anything to do with the actual episode's quality, and perhaps a bit of a frustration with the fact that declaring an early Season 9 episode as the cut off point turns potential fans away from plenty of good later episodes. "The Principal and the Pauper" even has its defenders who state that, while the Skinner twist perhaps isn't sustainable for a Status Quo Is God show, the way the reveal itself was handled in this specific episode was good.
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Critical Backlash / int_268f6fd1	comment	Transformers: Dark of the Moon, while getting slightly better but still negative reviews, grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.
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Critical Backlash / int_2797cd40	comment	The soundtrack of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is an easy target for criticism due to using a less-advanced sound chip on the Game Boy Advance rather than the one used for the other two Castlevania games on the same platform. Nonetheless there are many players who like the soundtrack, either despite or because of its "inferior" sound for adding to the game's surreal atmosphere even by series standards.
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Critical Backlash / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: The episode "Chameleon" is infamous for tearing the fandom apart with its contentdetailsThe episode has the main protagonists' friends (including the notably loyal Alya) siding with a manipulative Bitch in Sheep's Clothing without question after pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit during a class confrontation rather than siding with their long-time friend Marinette a.k.a Ladybug, leading to the rise of the "salt fic" genre and to people treating Lila Rossi (and in some extreme cases, the main characters' best friends) as an irredeemable sociopath who's even worse than the show's Big Bad. For non-fans and fans who aren't as emotionally invested, however, this is merely seen as an average and largely inoffensive episode that's already been done to death in other shows, and not really worth the fuss it caused.
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Critical Backlash / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Some Looney Tunes fans argue that the Daffy/Speedy series isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Many even argue that several of these cartoons are, by their own merits, actually pretty decent. Same with Loonatics Unleashed, despite critics and some fans not particularly liking the premise, the show does have a considerable enough fanbase.
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Critical Backlash / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Prequel trilogy films tend to get varied reactions from audiences, with many vocal Star Wars fans (especially those who saw the Original Trilogy first) utterly despising them. Out of all three prequels, The Phantom Menace is typically considered the worst of the trilogy and the worst Star Wars film ever (at least until the sequel trilogy came out). There's a contingent of fans who say that reputation has been blown out of proportion by people more angry with how the film wasn't what they expected from a Star Wars film than any actual legitimate criticism. While Menace and Attack of the Clones polarized both critics and fans, Revenge of the Sith was released to rather great acclaim. While the acting of the prequel trilogy is incredibly divisive, many fans feel that some actors get too much flak for their performances. In particular, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, and Hayden Christensen are often attacked by die-hard fans who are more forgiving towards beloved actors like Samuel L. Jackson and Liam Neeson, even though their performances were considered by many critics to be just as terrible. Some will excuse Lloyd's acting on account of him having been a child. As for Portman and Christensen, their defenders say that they weren't bad actors per se (especially since both have given performances outside of Star Wars where they received critical praise) and that their bad performances came more from George Lucas's directing and writing (Lucas himself has admitted that dialogue isn't his strong suit and many of the iconic lines in the Original Trilogy were ad-libbed by the actors). And continuing on that last point, some others also believe that Christensen played the character of Anakin Skywalker perfectly, and that the dislike is because Anakin is vastly different than what many Original Trilogy fans expected of a young Darth Vader (which Lucas has cited at least once). When Christensen returned to the role in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, his performance was unanimously praised. Jar Jar Binks is often considered one of the worst fictional characters ever created (not just in Star Wars, but in all media) and those who hate The Phantom Menace and/or the prequel trilogy as a whole will usually point to Jar Jar as one of the main reasons why. Yes, he can be annoying. Yes, he can distract from the plot at times, and yes, he could be seen as a racist characterization of Jamaicans, but he can also be useful sometimes (if it weren't for him, the Naboo government and the Gungan army wouldn't have joined forces and the Trade Federation would have won) even pulling off a few Big Damn Heroes moments in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Making matters worse is that Jar Jar's actor, Ahmed Best, admitting that he had contemplated suicide at one point due to the harassment he received by haters of the character. While still a pop culture punchline, Jar Jar has gained some defenders in recent years (mainly from younger fans who were children when the prequels came out) who find the character to be no where near as insufferable as he's made out to be. Tellingly, Mr. Plinkett's review spends over 90 minutes discussing The Phantom Menace's flaws and barely mentions Jar Jar at all, making the unspoken point that Jar Jar is hardly an asset, but it's unfair to blame him for singlehandedly ruining the film when there are plenty of other things wrong with the writing, acting, story, and direction.
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Critical Backlash / int_2ec27115	comment	Teen Titans Go!: The show has a massive hatedom who often decry it for its parodies and flanderizations of the characters from the original show, as well as being more mean-spirited than the original series and on the air almost constantly at the expense of other programming. Go into the comments section of any YouTube video and chances are there will be some kind of snarky comment deriding the show, even if the video has nothing to do with Teen Titans Go! or animation in general. Despite this, some critics have given it decent reviews, and it even has a large regular fanbase. Even several casual viewers have watched it, and while hardly considering it a masterpiece, don't consider it to be the worst thing ever made. Much of the derision seems to be because of its genre (comedy), but its frequent use of Black Comedy has its fans.
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Critical Backlash / int_2fb4d94	comment	House of Wax (2005) was trashed by critics, and nominated for several Razzie Awards. It's noted here that the large amount of panning stemmed from the widespread Hatedom for Paris Hilton - and that the bashing seemed to be the Catharsis Factor for most of them. Roger Ebert likewise noted that Paris Hilton merely played a typical slasher movie victim - and did it no better or worse than any number of actresses in other such films. To prove this point, Paris would later spark She Really Can Act moments with Repo! The Genetic Opera and a guest spot on Supernatural.
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Critical Backlash / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto having such a massive fanbase as well as a large, and vocal, Hatedom (a portion often holding it up to Double Standard for things they may let slide in other series) means that in addition being possible to suffer from Hype Backlash, hearing about the series from its haters means having Critical Backlash can be just as likely.
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Critical Backlash / int_332cb317	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has gained a reputation comparable in infamy to Atariâ€™s E.T. to the point that it won ScrewAttackâ€™s poll for worst game of the (2000s) decade over the objectively less finished Big Rigs. But, especially in the late 2010s, the game has seen an increasing number of people come to its defense, as while few will dispute the gameâ€™s a Blatantly unfinished and poorly optimized mess with an unintentionally off putting romance, itâ€™s gained more appreciation for what it did right (such as the stories that arenâ€™t Sonic) and recognition that its biggest problems are more related to behind the scenes development troubles and being obscenely rushed than inherent design flaws note Best exemplified by the praised Fan Remake Sonic P06 which shows what a properly finished version of the game could have looked like. A big factor fueling this backlash being that the overcorrections following its infamy would proceed to haunt the franchise in the following decade.
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Critical Backlash / int_370a322b	comment	Same with Loonatics Unleashed, despite critics and some fans not particularly liking the premise, the show does have a considerable enough fanbase.
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Critical Backlash / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the only Disney film to ever be nominated for a Razzie Award, and critics bashed it for being too dark and mature for children (or, conversely, for sugarcoating a great work of adult literature). As far as the Disney Animated Canon goes, it has a massive following and it has far more fans than its critical response would suggest.
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Critical Backlash / int_39b7671e	comment	Metroid: Other M. The game was met with intense disdain due to its story, characters, and gameplay upon release, to the point that saying anything positive was unthinkable. While the game would still be hailed as the worst entry in the series once the franchise was deemed to have regained its footing, there is a growing contingent of fans who think that the gameplay itself is perfectly enjoyable and should no longer be listed as one of its faults.
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Critical Backlash / int_3bb3f78f	comment	Itâ€™s now safe to say that Risk is a strong example of this. The main arguments from its defenders being that the album was a gutsy move for Megadeth after the fan backlash Metallica received a few years prior for their similar change of sound and image. And that, when judged as a late-90â€™s alt-rock album rather than a classic Megadeth album, it actually isnâ€™t too bad. Almost nobody will defend Super Collider, though.
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Critical Backlash / int_3cfa5020	comment	Tank Girl was a Box Office Bomb, wrecked by critics, and infamously thrashed by the creators of the original source material, who despised working on the film and felt that the Hollywood suits who made it simply didn't "get" the tone of their comic. Despite this, the film has a cult fandom who enjoys it for what it is — Lori Petty gets cited as a highlight for providing a faithfully wacky and rebellious take on the title character, with many finding that much of the overall dark yet irreverent humor works more than it's given credit for. By the 2020's, there's been some positive critical reevaluation towards the fact that the film is a surprisingly sincere Feminist Fantasy, and may have paved the way towards more feminist-skewing Hollywood action flicks of the modern age (the most obvious comparison being the critically-acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road).
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Critical Backlash / int_3d776ce3	comment	Alpha Protocol: Savaged by various reviewers who panned it for being unpolished and glitchy, scaring off the vast majority of first adopters, it has become a cult classic whose fans admit that it has flaws but enjoy the vast replayability it offers.
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Critical Backlash / int_3df10170	comment	If you ask a lot of AEW fans who the worst wrestler to set foot in an AEW ring was, a lot of them would answer Mel. Mel was brought in as part of the unpopular Nightmare Collective faction with Brandi Rhodes (often accused of using political stroke to give herself a bigger role than she deserved), Awesome Kong (who by this point was severely broken down and a shell of what she used to be in the ring) and Dr. Luther (who was presented as a big deal even though he was a manager and few fans knew who he was). Mel then had a stinker of a match with Hikaru Shida, and because of Shida's reputation as the best worker in the women's division, Mel took 100% of the blame for the bad match. The thing is that although Mel wasn't exactly setting the ring on fire, her matches were generally inoffensive at worst, and her only other "bad" match, against Red Velvet, just had one botch in it, which was Velvet's fault. Also, although Shida is still considered a stellar worker, there are a few women she just doesn't gel with and she's had a couple other bad matches over the years. Before AEW, Mel worked in SHIMMER as Melanie Cruise, and her work there was generally well received.
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Critical Backlash / int_3fd6b9d5	comment	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest's departure from the level-based structure of parts I and III is still complained about today, along with its rather obtuse puzzles and several flat-out misleading clues. Those who grew up with the title or tried it in spite of contemporary internet critics' snarking tend to be more charitable in their assessment, appreciating the game for its attempt at an open-world action/adventure style (which became the series bellwether once Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ironed out the kinks) and pointing out that plenty of other well-regarded games from the era had their fair share of Guide Dang It! moments.
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Critical Backlash / int_408937d5	comment	Many people feel this way about Waterworld. It arrived in theaters in 1995 with both the baggage of its gigantic budget and Troubled Production (the sets got hit by a hurricane and that still wasn't the biggest issue) and growing critical and audience weariness with Kevin Costner and its story is hackneyed, but its scope and scale are genuinely impressive.
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Critical Backlash / int_44b3af49	comment	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was fairly well thrashed by reviewers but made a decent amount of money from its fanbase. Today, it is generally regarded as a Guilty Pleasure, retaining all that is considered fun about Power Rangers while having a much bigger budget and completely original footage.
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Critical Backlash / int_48ed41c8	comment	Pocahontas got a lot of hate when it was released, and it's considered the turning point for when Disney started its slow decline. However, it does have plenty of fans for the characters, animation, and songs, and for those who think the Aesop is actually a good one. General consensus seems to agree that it's far from Disney's worst film, but by no means their best either.
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Critical Backlash / int_498a3929	comment	Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning was often considered one of the worst chapters of the franchise, with the Jason copycat killer being a particularly reviled aspect. But some viewers in recent years, particularly people new to the franchise, tend to be puzzled by the negative reception the film receives, appreciating the new inventive kills, the overall trashy, much more sleazy feel and noting the film only stops feeling like a Friday the 13th movie once the twist ending kicks on.
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Critical Backlash / int_499abd5e	comment	On lists of Worst Best Picture Winners, Ordinary People is often given a high rating. This is most likely due to it winning the Best Picture Oscar instead of Raging Bull. The film itself is a very subtle, quietly moving film that doesn't deserve the almighty kicking it gets.
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Critical Backlash / int_49a87cb3	comment	When the PC version of Final Fantasy VII was released on Steam in 2013, many who played it (including those who played for the first time ever) didn't think it was as bad as the hatedom says that it is.
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Critical Backlash / int_4a4dcdd8	comment	Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is becoming an example of this trope as well as its fanbase is starting to become a bit more vocal over the years. More people are willing to be okay with how simplistic the game is and find it to be a fun little title nevertheless (though its fairly renowned soundtrack probably helped).
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Critical Backlash / int_4ab17360	comment	The Inuyasha anime has been on both ends of this: when the series first began airing on [adult swim] during the early 2000s, the show was considerably renowned, but the English dub from Viz Media and The Ocean Group was openly reviled by fans (sure, even back then it had its supporters, but they seemed to be in the minority). However, over time, the fanbase for Viz's English dub became a lot more vocal and, while it may not be seen as one of The Ocean Group's finest works, it is still considered to be a good effort. Unfortunately, while this was happening, the show itself was starting to get a lot more backlash due to various things, such as Hype Backlash and the show becoming more episodic. It has even gotten to the point where plenty of viewers think that the English voice acting is the only good thing about the show nowadays (especially in the case of Naraku and Koga).
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Critical Backlash / int_4da11f30	comment	A look at Return of the Jedi's stats on Metacritic illustrates the considerable gulf between critical reaction (52%, meaning mixed reviews) and the audience reaction (8.3/10, meaning near-universal acclaim). The film still carries a reputation as a disappointing end to a great trilogy which made the bad guys into idiots, but the average Star Wars fan typically considers it to be a great film that simply happens to follow two even greater ones. And Revenge of the Sith (see below), regardless of one's opinion on the quality of that film, is agreed by many to have made Return of the Jedi an even more emotionally-charged film than it was before the prequel trilogy came out since it's not just about Luke redeeming his evil father, it's about Vader watching his son going down a similar path he did without giving in to the Dark Side, and rejecting it once and for all.
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Critical Backlash / int_4dd54482	comment	Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien certainly aren't flawless, but they are far from being as crappy and hated as the original series' fans usually describe them; they were both on air for quite a long time, and still have quite a fandom of their own, judging from the huge Broken Base Ben 10: Omniverse caused.
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Critical Backlash / int_5436b1a9	comment	Many critics of Senran Kagura are turned off by the high levels of sexualization present in the character designs. Some, however, argue that it's a pretty good brawler with a surprisingly engaging story.
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Critical Backlash / int_5561d1c3	comment	Mighty No. 9, a crowd-funded spiritual successor to Mega Man, one helmed by none other than Keiji Inafune and co-produced by Inti Creates of Mega Man Zero and Azure Striker Gunvolt fame, was widely seen as a failure of nuclear proportions at the time of release. On top of negative critical and general audience response, the fact that it was backed by so many audience members on Kickstarter, had a well-documented myriad of behind-the-scenes problems, multiple delays, poor decisions and mismanagement on Inafune's part, and featured a disastrous marketing campaign by Deep Silver, combined into a huge reputation as one of the worst games of the decade, tarnishing Inafune's good name and his career. However, if you go into the game today, you'll probably find that it's mostly an underdeveloped, but fairly middling Mega Man-inspired clone, and it's become more common in the years following release that its failure had been blown out of proportion by its surrounding controversies more than its actual content, some players not finding the game as bad as many are making it out to be. Inti Creates would later reintroduce Mighty No. 9 to their much-better-received spin-off/crossover series Mighty Gunvolt, which also restored some favor in the project as not being a total loss.
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Critical Backlash / int_5ed0217f	comment	Paper Mario: Color Splash as well. It has a vocal hatedom because it uses the same gameplay mechanics as Sticker Star, but many people who originally hated it on reveal were won over when it turned out to have fixed at least some of Sticker Star's flaws (namely the Guide Dang It! gameplay, lack of meaning to battles and the generic locations). There are also some who think its flaws are getting overblown and the Nostalgia Filter for the first two games is minimizing their flaws (though that's not to say the reverse for either side doesn't happen). However, because it still retains some of the problems of its predecessor (such as lack of character variety, very little story, Bowser still as the Big Bad, quality of the battle system, no partners...), the quality of this game is still rather contested, as opposed to the former which is already hit with Sequelitis.
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Critical Backlash / int_6108ba8d	comment	Reactions to The Last Jedi by Star Wars fans have been... mixed at best, splitting an already fickle fanbase into about a million pieces. The film's haters tend to claim that it's as bad as, or worse than, the prequel trilogy. The online backlash has been so bad there was an actual online petition in order to officially declare The Last Jedi non-canon and an attempted crowd-funded fan-remake of the film. Still, many feel that the film deserves nowhere near the amount of bile it receives in many internet circles, especially considering that it was a darling with critics in the first place. Part of this reaction may have to do with the fact that unlike the prequels (whose criticism was largely based of more obvious flaws like dialogue, special effects, and acting) The Last Jedi's criticism is mostly based off more abstract flaws like the discrepancies with tone and continuity from The Force Awakens and whether certain characters would behave in the way that they are shown in the movie (particularly Luke Skywalker).
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Critical Backlash / int_61b2927c	comment	As for individual songs, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" routinely finds its way onto "worst songs of all time" lists by critics, which is confusing to listeners who consider it to be a fun, bouncy little chunk of cheese and don't really get why it's so frequently singled out as being especially terrible, when other songs on The White Album (like "Wild Honey Pie" and "Revolution 9") are much more disliked by fans.
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Critical Backlash / int_6234eae7	comment	A character example is Katejina Loos from Victory Gundam. She long had a reputation as "The Queen of Evil" in Gundam, more despicable and hateable than anyone in a franchise full of very human but still horrendously evil villains. Many people watching Victory years after it aired find themselves noticing her good points, mainly in the first half of the series, if only because the hatred she is given makes her bad ones something expected. Contributing to this, everything Katejina has ever appeared in since (the novelizations, manga, video games) has her significantly more sympathetic and Yoshiyuki Tomino himself said she was meant to be a tragic villain who could yet be redeemed.
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Critical Backlash / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic's LP of The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare isn't good, but has some character moments in there and a lot of people think it isn't worth Doug constantly apologizing for it.
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Critical Backlash / int_62bf542	comment	The western Super Mario Bros. 2 is often derided for being a Dolled-Up Installment of Doki Doki Panic, odd mechanics and not being as much memorable than its predecessor and successor. This installment was also released in Japan under the title Super Mario USA and made it on Famitsu's Top 100 Famicom games at #45 all the while Doki Doki Panic was absent (What's more, Shigeru Miyamoto himself surprised many by revealing it to be among his favorites). It doesn't help that Doki Doki Panic itself was meant as a commercial for Fuji Television.
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Critical Backlash / int_65b44331	comment	Herzog Zwei had the unfortunate distinction of being among the first of its kind — a Real-Time Strategy game — coming from a developer renowned for classic overhead shooters, namely the Thunder Force franchise. Reviewers, therefore, treated Herzog as a classic shooter and were perplexed as a result, and their horrific scores followed that train of thought. Now that the RTS genre is firmly cemented in the gaming public's consciousness, fans are much kinder to the game.
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Critical Backlash / int_693cc63e	comment	Bombergirl gets utter hatred from series veterans, especially Westerners, for having gratuitous Fanservice and, due to being released in 2018, about three years after the infamous Konami scandals of 2015, it gets seen as more "proof" that Konami only ever does bad things now. Nonetheless it has a steady playerbase, both in Japan and out, who don't care for the hatred or the "Fuck Konami" mentality that fuels the backlash, and see it as a great MOBA-style take on the multiplayer Bomberman formula, despite the copious fanservice or even because of it.
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Critical Backlash / int_6b85085e	comment	Any Mortal Kombat game between MK3 and Deadly Alliance falls into this, most notably MK4. Ironically, the game was panned for the move to fully-3D graphics, the exact reason Street Fighter IV was acclaimed (albeit the latter is thought to have handled the transition to 3D much better than the former).
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Critical Backlash / int_6c1d09b3	comment	See also Fallout 3. Like The Elder Scrolls, the previous game, Fallout 2, receives its 'fair' share, as well. Apparently consoles ruined RPGs forever, as has been said of this game, Oblivion, and Morrowind.
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Critical Backlash / int_733ac336	comment	Unreal Tournament III was an Obvious Beta at launch. However, defenders of the game argue that its gameplay isn't as bad as the fans of previous installments make it seem, and, with the advent of the Black Edition, it was improved in every sense possible.
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Critical Backlash / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo series tends to get this a lot of this, especially from fans of Half-Life, System Shock and Call of Duty. Especially on The Escapist, thanks to Zero Punctuation (who has openly said he didn't really enjoy Halo, but said it was average), in which the series is frequently complained about ripping off stuff it actually created or popularized or was already done by Bungie's previous shooter Marathon, is criticized for its fanbase (despite the fact that they themselves are not so different), has extremely subjective opinions thrown at it, and stuff that's flat out contradicted by the games.
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Critical Backlash / int_78c969c4	comment	Foam Bath from 1979 or '80 (depending on the source) was an experimental foray into adult animation targeting a specific niche of Hungarian urban youth, described by its creators as the first work of a new genre. It was a tremendous flop, despised by viewers and dividing critics with its ostensibly confused messaging, overload of padding, boring plot, uneven tone and off-putting Deranged Animation. In the studio's self-published magazine, the film's animation director addressed the criticism, arguing audiences "weren't ready" for a movie that defied the mainstream's understanding of animation. The film got more popular after the turn of the millennium. While many still say it's trash, it's a minor international Cult Classic, with overall commendably high (albeit very few) ratings on most film databases.
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Critical Backlash / int_7a7a1a46	comment	AlienÂ³ was initially unloved when released in 1992, to the point that director David Fincher disowned it. The biggest factor for this was the sudden deaths of Newt and Hicks, who became beloved characters in the previous film; others also critiqued the dark, dreary, and depressing story and various problems with the story. However, in later years the film underwent a reevaluation thanks to the Assembly Cut of the movie on blu-ray, which restores many scenes of character development for most of the main cast as well as subtle development for the supporting prisoners, changes the Alien's host from a dog to an ox, puts greater emphasis on the themes of religion and redemption the film was going for, and reveals the fates of two important characters, Junior and Golic, who simply vanish in the theatrical cut. Thanks to this cut, the film is now seen by some Alien fans as an underrated entry in the franchise and a decent way to end the original trilogy and Ripley's story, and many feel that had it not been for the Executive Meddling which led constant recuts, and had something along the lines of the Assembly Cut ended up in theaters, the film's reputation wouldn't have been so sour. The version of the film's reevaluation was helped in light of the sub-par quality films that followed. While the film's reputation has improved significantly from what it once was, the newfound praise is by no means universal and David Fincher still refuses to have anything to do with it, though it has more to do with his horrible experience with the studio than the film itself. Today, the general consensus seems to be "not a very good sequel to Aliens, but pretty good as a standalone story."
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Critical Backlash / int_7a8e5c7e	comment	The original The Transformers: The Movie was not exactly well-received by critics on its debut, squeezing out a bare 58% on Rotten Tomatoes even to this day. However, it's also got an overall 88% fan approval rating, suggesting that despite its flaws, including a lore that was unwelcoming to those not already fans of the series, it is still a widely beloved and rewatchable movie. It isn't the cultural touchstone of the Transformers fandom for no reason—even the modern Transformer movies have yet to eclipse it. Notably, its sibling G.I. Joe: The Movie didn't do or age nearly so well with audiences.
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Critical Backlash / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Tom King's run of Batman is one of the most polarizing comic book runs of the 2010's, kicking off with high praise and excitement as an ambitious long-term character study, but eventually falling out of favor due to increasingly poor characterization and plot choices, and when combined with King's increasingly controversial reputation following the much-maligned Heroes in Crisis and backlash towards his infamously esoteric and deeply psychological style, fans largely turned on the series as an exhausting slog. However, years after its conclusion, and especially following James Tynion's continuation (which was mostly received as being So Okay, It's Average), the pendulum has started to swing back. It's become widely agreed that the run works much better for the trade, and some degree of the backlash towards its quality of writing has softened thanks to the benefit of hindsight (King apparently had to put up with some messy Executive Meddling, and some believe that Bruce Wayne's most unsympathetic actions were the result of other books, not necessarily King's). There's definitely still a lot of differing opinions on the run (it's really common to describe it as having both high highs and low lows, good luck agreeing on which stories are which), but you'll definitely find more praise than when it came out.
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Critical Backlash / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while a big box-office hit, got a distinctly mixed critical reaction for its slow pace and long effects sequences, which earned it the unflattering nickname "The Slow-Motion Picture" in many quarters. This soon developed into a backlash from fans who felt that the film had been unfairly dismissed by critics who were expecting another Star Wars, and had either overlooked or failed to appreciate that it was trying to be something more cerebral. This has only intensified in the decades since, as the following films, despite being more critically successful, generally tended to focus around the formula of stopping a villain who was out for galactic conquest.
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Critical Backlash / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar, even in This Very Wiki. When Avatar got extremely popular, the Hype Backlash was so bad, many critics began to dissect it and complain about even the slightest of its flaws, to the point where even that backlash and all its criticisms were considered overblown.
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Critical Backlash / int_7c50d3d9	comment	Super Mario Bros. (1993): it's the Ur-Example of Video Game Movies Suck, but some people who have looked at it from a different angle (not expecting a direct adaptation, not taking The Nostalgia Critic's word on something as infallible for once) actually don't find it to be that bad — some even think it's actually a pretty fun, trippy little movie if treated as a self-contained story divorced from the source material... which, admittedly, isn't that hard to do.
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Critical Backlash / int_7c6649d2	comment	The film adaptation of The Host (2008) has been well and truly savaged by critics, leaving it with a meager 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Opinions vary as to whether this was deserved, depending on your fondness for Stephenie Meyer's novel.
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Critical Backlash / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while a big box-office hit, got a distinctly mixed critical reaction for its slow pace and long effects sequences, which earned it the unflattering nickname "The Slow-Motion Picture" in many quarters. This soon developed into a backlash from fans who felt that the film had been unfairly dismissed by critics who were expecting another Star Wars, and had either overlooked or failed to appreciate that it was trying to be something more cerebral. This has only intensified in the decades since, as the following films, despite being more critically successful, generally tended to focus around the formula of stopping a villain who was out for galactic conquest. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier will never be considered a good film by any stretch of the imagination, but there are some fans who feel that its overwhelmingly negative reaction on its initial release (let alone its reputation as one of the worst films of all time, which in fairness did lessen considerably after about a decade) had more to do with its being seen as a vanity project for William Shatner (whose public image was at the time very contentious), and that it would otherwise have probably been seen as a flawed, but still watchable film. Star Trek: Nemesis ended up proving a serious Box Office Bomb, while getting worse reviews than any Trek film except for The Final Frontier. As with The Motion Picture however, an increasing number of fans feel that critics failed to give it a fair shake, with many of the reviews just complaining that It's the Same, Now It Sucks! rather than treating the film on its own merits, overlooking its Nature Versus Nurture themes, and failing to give Tom Hardy credit for his strong performance as the Big Bad.
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Critical Backlash / int_83abcf04	comment	Paper Mario: Sticker Star is the lowest critically-rated game in the Paper Mario series and also gained a large hatedom for its gameplay, lacking original characters or memorable characterizations as seen in the previous titles, instead going into a "New Super Mario Bros.-esque" formula, which many fans were already sick of by that point. Despite this, it still has a following (albeit a small one, or just very silent) for being a decent and quirky game by its own standards and not when compared to the past titles, although nowhere near the level of Super Paper Mario which has been Vindicated by History since its release. Paper Mario: Color Splash as well. It has a vocal hatedom because it uses the same gameplay mechanics as Sticker Star, but many people who originally hated it on reveal were won over when it turned out to have fixed at least some of Sticker Star's flaws (namely the Guide Dang It! gameplay, lack of meaning to battles and the generic locations). There are also some who think its flaws are getting overblown and the Nostalgia Filter for the first two games is minimizing their flaws (though that's not to say the reverse for either side doesn't happen). However, because it still retains some of the problems of its predecessor (such as lack of character variety, very little story, Bowser still as the Big Bad, quality of the battle system, no partners...), the quality of this game is still rather contested, as opposed to the former which is already hit with Sequelitis.
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Critical Backlash / int_83f8495b	comment	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the most divisive game in the series, due in no small part to the Genre Shift and difficulty. While there are a few issues, namely limited lives, instant deaths, and reset experience, the game still controls incredibly well for an early-to-mid NES game and predated many Metroidvania games with RPG elements (in the US at least). Still, the game gets hate for "not being Zelda enough" decades after the fact.
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Critical Backlash / int_88715b3e	comment	Jinder Mahal is infamous in the WWE for being an unremarkable jobber that no one really cared for that very suddenly and rapidly received a mega-push to the moon in 2017 following him defeating Randy Orton to become World Champion, a Title reign that was met with widespread criticism due to lacking any credibility, and was seen as a shallow attempt to pander to Indian audiences after the WWE launched in the country the same year, which ironically made him even less fans than when he was just a forgettable midcarder. Following the end of his reign that year, he's mostly returned to languishing in obscurity, cementing his reputation as a case study of how a bad push can completely tank a wrestler's ability to go over with fans. As time further passes and history has become more critical, however, a growing consensus is that this had very little to do with Jinder Mahal as a wrestler, as he was still a decent in-ring worker and performer, and that he deserved better not in terms of accolades, but from booking, with many feeling that he had good potential that was completely squandered by writers who didn't know what to do with him other than "Ethnic Scrappy Foreign Wrestling Heel". In early 2024, following a controversy surrounding AEW owner Tony Khan, where he mocked Mahal on Twitter for him being slated for a World Heavyweight title match against Seth Rollins — which Khan found nonsensical given Mahal's year-long losing streak — fans, co-workers, and other industry figures from Booker T to Eric Bischoff were quick to jump to Mahal's defense, highlighting him as someone who warrants respect and quality treatment, not continual burials.
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Critical Backlash / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The Superman Red/Superman Blue saga from 1998 (not to be confused with a similarly-titled one-shot from the Silver Age, which was the inspiration for this era) is considered one of the most infamous and pointlessly awkward eras for the character in his long history. A massive shakeup to the status quo, this arc saw Superman deprived of his usual powers and becoming an Energy Being that needed housing in a cyborg suit with a white/blue color scheme and new, electricity-based superpowers, who would then split into another energy being (this time white and red), which was widely panned at the time for being nonsensical and transparently gimmicky, with Supes being returned to his usual self by the following year. However, later critics find that this saga was more flawed in concept than in practice, with many finding that in a vacuum, the stories featuring Superman Blue/Red themselves were pretty decent (primarily when written by Grant Morrison in their JLA (1997) series), his new costume was well-designed, and as an experiment to radically reinvent the status quo of one of the biggest superheroes ever, it did far less damage to the character's legacy than expected; the key issue was simply that nobody wanted Superman's status quo to change to begin with. Despite the arc largely being written off as a failure, many writers in DC have tried their hand at reworking its ideas into other aspects of the Superman mythos, including the ally Strange Visitor, Lana Lang's appearance in Superwoman, and even Superman's son, Jon Kent, receiving electricity powers in his own right.
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Critical Backlash / int_904f975a	comment	Manos: The Hands of Fate got a reputation as "the worst movie of all time" after it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000, causing Dr. Forrester to apologize for showing it to Joel. It's probably easier to agree with it if you haven't already heard it. Any fan of MST3K will readily confirm that it's hardly the worst movie they had ever mocked.
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Critical Backlash / int_9219330a	comment	Whilst it is agreed that Metroid Prime: Federation Force could have been released at a better time, a lot of fans consider the gameâ€™s initial overwhelming negative reception to be unfair and outright ridiculous. Though just mentioning the game still garners knee-jerk hate and ridicule even years after its release from the fanbase, general consensus is that the game is actually So Okay, It's Average, with a lot of interesting concepts (such as giving a Day in the Limelight to the Federation and setting up Sylux as a potential main villain in the future), and that most of the anger directed towards the game was excessive at best.
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Critical Backlash / int_93ef56a7	comment	Pixels: If you take away Adam Sandler's character (responsible for most, if not all, of the film's negative publicity) and focus on the video games and the way they're brought into the real world, then it becomes a fun, enjoyable romp with shades of Wreck-It Ralph.
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Critical Backlash / int_980a4d78	comment	Bomberman: Bomberman Act:Zero was intended as a Darker and Edgier Continuity Reboot for the "next generation," but its Halo-reject characters, uninspired dingy levels and pointlessly hard single-player mode (99 sluggish, repetitive levels to play on one life with no continues or saves) won no awards. To further irritate fans of the series, few of the power-ups from previous installments were retained, and offline multiplayer, one of the series' biggest selling points, was not available. The game's only possible redeeming feature, its online multiplayer mode, was written off by most people for a long time; with copies of the game collecting dust in bargain bins, it was doubtful that people would actually be eager to actually play it. Then ProtonJon's livestream featured it on a dare, and a lively series of 8-player matches ensued. Bombergirl gets utter hatred from series veterans, especially Westerners, for having gratuitous Fanservice and, due to being released in 2018, about three years after the infamous Konami scandals of 2015, it gets seen as more "proof" that Konami only ever does bad things now. Nonetheless it has a steady playerbase, both in Japan and out, who don't care for the hatred or the "Fuck Konami" mentality that fuels the backlash, and see it as a great MOBA-style take on the multiplayer Bomberman formula, despite the copious fanservice or even because of it.
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Critical Backlash / int_9819631f	comment	Beast Machines originally had quite a bit of backlash after all the praise and love Beast Wars got. With the advent of fansubs of Japanese produced G1 material and the later dubbing of The Unicron Trilogy made many people realized their weaknesses made Beast Machines strengths stand out more (animation, story, characterizations, etc.).
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Critical Backlash / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series has this happen with seemingly each new installment. Fans of the series tend to judge each new game against whichever game they were introduced to the series with, sort of their own personal version of First Installment Wins. Given Bethesda's tendency to build each installment from the ground up with wholesale changes from its predecessor, this leads to serious Broken Base issues and claims of Contested Sequels.
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Critical Backlash / int_9f89a5f0	comment	This is common with many PokÃ©mon. Garbodor is one of the most prominent examples of this. In its debut, it was the symbol of what people hated about PokÃ©mon Black and White, as many players believed it was ugly and lazy of Game Freak to make a trash-based mon. However, the sheer vitriol led to Garbodor gaining many passionate defenders such as Bogleech, and it ended up gaining a cult fandom as a result. The most notable instance is Chuggaaconroy using a Garbodor for his main team, which proved to be an effective Stone Wall, especially with a Rocky Helmet equipped. Amusingly, PokÃ©mon media tends to portray Garbodor quite sympathetically, as if they were aware of how controversial it would be.
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Critical Backlash / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass has received so much exaggerated praise and exaggerated criticism due to its Broken Base status that long after the show originally aired different people regularly experience either Critical or Hype Backlash (depending on their expectations, degrees of suspension of disbelief, etc.) after they finally get to see it for themselves. It's not surprising to see newcomers arguing that the series doesn't deserve all the hate or all the hype.
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Critical Backlash / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross has generally always received a good response from critics, but when it was released it was loudly savaged by fans who were upset that it wasn't Chrono Trigger 2. It had brand new characters, a brand new world, brand new combat and magic systems (save for Trigger's trademark Combination Attack techs), and the only real references to its predecessor were oblique, unnecessary fanservice, entirely missable, or the Giant Space Flea from Nowhere final boss. Nothing that made Chrono Trigger a beloved classic was readily apparent in Cross' design, production, or play. In time, the fan stance softened and Cross is now regarded as one of the best RPGs of the PlayStation 1 era and an excellent game in its own right. Modern consensus tends to be that the "Chrono" name was more of a burden than a boon, and that Cross didn't need the pressure of living up to Trigger when it was never really making any strong attempt to connect itself to begin with (the developers have always been adamant that it was meant to be a loose sequel. Cross was its own game with small ties to its predecessor, and was never intended to be a continuation of Trigger's story, or require people to have played Trigger to understand the plot, or to feature a rehash of Trigger's best elements).
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Critical Backlash / int_a698aa86	comment	Ghostbusters: Ghostbusters II: While few fans would try to argue that it isn't a watered-down imitation of its beloved predecessor, several of them also have a hard time seeing it as the bottomlessly terrible and unfunny disaster it's often made out to be on the Internet. Ghostbusters (2016) received nuclear levels of controversy from its initial announcements, in large part due to being a reboot to one of the most beloved franchises of the 80's rather than the long-awaited, much-desired, but ultimately ill-fated sequel, with wide criticisms for it not being anywhere near as funny or clever as the original. Things got especially ugly due to the decision to have an all-female main cast, politicizing the movie to a near-irreparable extent that ultimately resulted in it bombing at the box office. In the years following the film's release (along with the more successful Un Reboot in Ghostbusters: Afterlife helping take the bad taste away), reactions towards the reboot have calmed down significantly, where beyond the intense periphery and biases from diehard fans, it's mostly seen as just a typically bad-to-average blockbuster, with writing that misses more than hits and a cast that fails to reach the lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry of the original film, but otherwise nothing that itself warrants the vitriol it received. In retrospect, its gravest flaw is being attached to Ghostbusters and not being what longtime fans wanted, though the film's genuine fanbase who enjoys the cast and story for what they are don't feel the need to mind as much.
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Critical Backlash / int_a993be1f	comment	In a minor example, the first real planet you visit in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Peragus, was frequently criticized for dragging on too long (taking somewhere around two or three hours to finish) and being incredibly boring, with little dialogue with other characters save listening to Apocalyptic Logs and a lot of slogging through hordes of the same three types of droids (mining droids that shoot you or bash you, red mining droids that shoot you or bash you but a little harder and with a little more health, and maintenance droids that heal the other two) before you eventually get to leave a couple hours later. So many were absolutely vehement in their hatred for that portion of the game that several players getting into the game later expected the worst thing ever, witnessed it, and came to the conclusion it's not all that bad. Some even appreciate it for, despite its reputation, still being quicker and more to-the-point than the opening planet of the first Knights of the Old Republic, as well as its attempt to make a Survival Horror-style level where you have no idea what's going on and nearly everyone you meet is already dead in a Star Wars game.
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Critical Backlash / int_ab67d84	comment	The webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del is widely derided, yet maintains such a significant base of regular readers that the author is able to live off the comic. In the world of webcomics, especially ones going as long as it has? This is very rare.
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Critical Backlash / int_ac64e9dc	comment	Fitting for its status as arguably the most controversial game in recent memory, The Last of Us Part II managed to be hit with both this trope and its inverse. For the latter, most casual fans didn't get the heaps of praise critics were piling onto it, and felt like it sweeping most major game awards (including several Game of the Year awards) was underserved while its story wasn't the Citizen Kane of gaming that journalists said it was. And yet the same Silent Majority felt the former in effect especially amidst the rage against the story and characters, as the gameplay at least meant it was enjoyable in a gameplay sense, while the story itself, while polarizing (to say the least) wasn't the absolute worst thing ever many were making it out to be and the more vitriolic reactions coming from those who held its predecessor in high regard while those who didn't care for the first game's story didn't have a strong opinion. Nowadays, as the controversy has died down to an extent, people are at least able to talk about its positives and negatives together, and come to an agreement that it's not for everyone but it's not completely crap.
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Critical Backlash / int_afb7052	comment	Batman & Robin. Despite it making a boatload of money at the box office, it was also nominated for a whopping eleven Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, though it only won for Worst Supporting Actress (Alicia Silverstone). It is a major target for hatred among Batfans and moviegoers alike. Its presence is all but guaranteed on a "Worst Super Hero Films Ever" list, and it has even made appearances on a few "Worst Films Ever" lists as well. It also didn't help that this film more or less killed the Batman movie franchise up until The Dark Knight Trilogy came out almost a decade later. While the film is still viewed unfavorably today, the consensus has changed from "the greatest insult to comic book fans" to "a hot mess that's worthy of a few chuckles" or, in more generous circles, "1990s Adam West". Then came other superhero films, such as Catwoman (2004) and Fantastic Four (2015), which are considered by most to be far worse than Batman & Robin. Then Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice gave us a Batman who kills criminals and established a bleak, depressing world. People's view of Batman & Robin softened considerably. Attitudes towards Batman v Superman itself also lightened up over the years due in large part to the Better on DVD Ultimate Edition (which included nearly 30 minutes of scenes cut out of the theatrical version that added much more depth and context to the story overall), more so after a trickle of news reports detailing the deeply Troubled Production of its follow-up film Justice League (2017), where a combination of Mood Whiplash (which was due to rewrites and reshoots as an Author's Saving Throw attempt to make the film more "hopeful and optimistic" than the last movie), a switch in directors (going from Zack Snyder to Joss Whedon), and Aborted Arcs, and the 2021 release of the director's cut of Justice League resulted in a rethinking of what Batman v Superman was going for (essentially a "darkest before the dawn" type situation; even Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio stated that BvS was supposed to be the darkest in the series before having the subsequent films become lighter in tone). While it's still contentious, it's nowhere near the level of how things were in 2016.
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Critical Backlash / int_b08200f3	comment	And then Transformers: Age of Extinction got even worse reviews than Revenge of the Fallen, and still recorded a ten-figure worldwide gross, albeit slightly smaller than Dark of the Moon. Fans also seemed to be lighter on this movie, for giving much more focus on the Transformers themselves and for having interesting and likable Autobots as leads, especially with Optimus' character arc.
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Critical Backlash / int_b23c5d78	comment	Drop Dead Fred was critically panned on release and remains quite polarizing, yet it's managed to cultivate a cult following decades later. Part of it is nostalgic fondness, as well as some prominent criticisms — most commonly its unbalanced tone and Rik Mayall's performance as the titular Imaginary Friend — being looked as rather appealing in hindsight (love or hate it, Mayall made a name in America through the role). Several modern critiques also like to argue that the jarring tone problems (swinging wildly between juvenile kiddie comedy and the questionably "adult" psychology of its protagonist) is itself the point, and that the film works more as an intentionally awkward Black Comedy with fantasy elements rather than a straight-faced one that earlier critics judged it to be.
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Critical Backlash / int_b242af51	comment	F-Zero: GP Legend had the misfortune of being released shortly after the critically-acclaimed F-Zero GX, and as a result suffered for it, being written off as a third-rate spinoff, not helped by being associated with the F-Zero: GP Legend anime which was not really well-liked. F-Zero Climax sold so poorly that it never left Japan and is regarded as the Franchise Killer. Nonetheless, both games have considerable playerbases, who see them as excellent refinements of the pseudo-3D formula established by F-Zero (1990) with a large variety of machines, the exclusion of bumper vehicles, and beautiful "Mode 7" takes on various locales, most notably Lightning (which was first featured in GX and has sleek-looking grille-based track textures and lightning flash effects). Climax in particular is seen as one of the most demanding, yet most satisfying games in the series due to the ludicrous speeds that players can reach on its 54 challenging courses.
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Critical Backlash / int_b2b405c2	comment	Bomberman Act:Zero was intended as a Darker and Edgier Continuity Reboot for the "next generation," but its Halo-reject characters, uninspired dingy levels and pointlessly hard single-player mode (99 sluggish, repetitive levels to play on one life with no continues or saves) won no awards. To further irritate fans of the series, few of the power-ups from previous installments were retained, and offline multiplayer, one of the series' biggest selling points, was not available. The game's only possible redeeming feature, its online multiplayer mode, was written off by most people for a long time; with copies of the game collecting dust in bargain bins, it was doubtful that people would actually be eager to actually play it. Then ProtonJon's livestream featured it on a dare, and a lively series of 8-player matches ensued.
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Critical Backlash / int_b30ae4db	comment	Season 8 of Game of Thrones, when it was first released, suffered an extremely negative backlash from many people. Since its airing, some fans upon rewatching it have come to defend the season, appreciating its dark plot twists and character development. They argue that, in an age of media that plays it safe and tries to maximize its appeal to be as broad as possible with endless sequels, reboots, and nostalgia bait, a show that built its final season around shocking and subversive twists that go against the fansâ€™ wishes deserves at least some credit, even if the execution wasnâ€™t perfect. There are also people who watched the whole show after it aired who, while they may not particularly like season 8, still enjoy the show overall and donâ€™t believe the final season completely taints the experience as many claimed.
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Critical Backlash / int_b31b332f	comment	Transformers Film Series Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: The sequel garnered many more reviews that were more negative overall, both from professionals and audiences, than Transformers (2007). Roger Ebert gave voice to a particularly strong condemnation, though it still grossed over $800 million, over $120 million more than its predecessor. That being said, Revenge of the Fallen is the turning point for the film series, after which fewer and fewer Americans saw them in theaters. Transformers: Dark of the Moon, while getting slightly better but still negative reviews, grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. And then Transformers: Age of Extinction got even worse reviews than Revenge of the Fallen, and still recorded a ten-figure worldwide gross, albeit slightly smaller than Dark of the Moon. Fans also seemed to be lighter on this movie, for giving much more focus on the Transformers themselves and for having interesting and likable Autobots as leads, especially with Optimus' character arc.
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Critical Backlash / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage and The Clone Saga are routinely used for target practice by seemingly everyone under the sun. While they are probably not examples of the best of Spidey's career, there are many people who genuinely feel that both stories don't warrant the sheer volume of backlash routinely given to them. One reason for The Clone Saga being less hated is how it was streamlined in the '90s cartoon (as was the Alien Costume/Venom origin). Another reason is that, due to its sheer length, many people had originally not been able to read the story in its entirety, often missing out on some really good comics (such as the miniseries The Lost Years). Now that the complete series has been collected in its entirety, this is no longer an issue, and many of the good stories have been rediscovered. Maximum Carnage didn't read very well originally when it was spread out over three months and four different titles. It read a lot better when it was finally collected in trade form.
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Critical Backlash / int_b823aa3	comment	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever has the unenviable prestige of "the statistically worst movie ever", not just being a part of Rotten Tomatoes' 0% club, but having the most aggregate reviews of such, all unanimously negative. With that level of notoriety brings curiosity from audiences, but an increasingly common sentiment among user reviews is "it's not as bad as they say." While actual positive reviews are fleeting, the general consensus is that Ballistic is a generic, mediocre action-thriller that fails at what it sets to be in a pretty unremarkable way. It's nowhere near So Bad, It's Good territory but also not excessively, offensively bad, leaving it in relative limbo of just "forgettable" bad, for better and for worse. It's telling that despite its pedigree, it wasn't nominated for a single Golden Raspberry Award.
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Critical Backlash / int_b9bfa46d	comment	Crash makes many "worst Best Picture winners" lists because it won the year Brokeback Mountain was nominated. Crash may have some clichÃ©s and contrived scenes, but it's not by any means a bad film.note Roger Ebert, in fact, argued at the time that it was actually better than Brokeback. Shakespeare in Love is agreed to be a fun, well-made movie. However, its reputation is tarnished for taking Best Picture from the ambitious and still very acclaimed Saving Private Ryan, not helped by Harvey Weinstein's aggressive and at times dirty lobbying to get his award.
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Critical Backlash / int_b9f400c8	comment	Gigli is an interesting case. A lot of its initial reviewers said they thought it was bad, but not terrible. Somehow it sank in popular perception from 'bad movie' to 'worst movie ever' thanks to its many mildly to moderately negative reviews, combined with the fact that it starred Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (who were the 'it' couple at the time). Roger Ebert actually took time out of a different review to point out that it wasn't that bad.note Ebert gave Gigli a rating of 2.5 stars out of four, which fell just short of his three-star minimum for a "thumbs up".
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Critical Backlash / int_bb849177	comment	Goldberg has a reputation among hardcore fans for being limited and a dangerous worker because he accidentally delivered a legit mule kick to Bret Hart, giving Hart a concussion which led to Hart retiring due to Post-Concussion Syndrome and Bret has never forgiven Goldberg for it, trashing Goldberg in shoot interviews every chance he gets. While Goldberg wasn't very technically sound and he was a bit sloppy, he at least tried to bust out new moves in his matches and while they weren't textbook perfect, they look effective enough. Let's be honest, the Spear and Jackhammer were all he needed, because fans loved him for it. The injury to Bret was due to a miscommunication.
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Critical Backlash / int_bd49e2cf	comment	Shakespeare in Love is agreed to be a fun, well-made movie. However, its reputation is tarnished for taking Best Picture from the ambitious and still very acclaimed Saving Private Ryan, not helped by Harvey Weinstein's aggressive and at times dirty lobbying to get his award.
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Critical Backlash / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Ghostbusters II: While few fans would try to argue that it isn't a watered-down imitation of its beloved predecessor, several of them also have a hard time seeing it as the bottomlessly terrible and unfunny disaster it's often made out to be on the Internet.
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Critical Backlash / int_c1bf1af4	comment	Many people have disparaged Two and a Half Men, Chuck Lorre's other major sitcom, as the Antichrist of sitcoms. The show itself mostly just has unlikable characters and trite jokes and plots. It also gets away with many more sex jokes than its time slot, and having a minor as a costar, would seem to allow. Besides all that, Charlie Sheen's real-life antics seem to color many people's perception of it even though he left the series in the eighth season. Yet, like The Big Bang Theory it always commanded a sizable audience.
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Critical Backlash / int_c2eb3ab5	comment	The 1970s musical genre of disco didn't inspire the former name of Condemned by History for no reason, but it's nowhere near as bad as many of its more virulent critics would make out. There's a lot of reasons it faced such backlash, but few of those reasons have stood the test of time and most people from the 90s onwards don't get what the fuss was all about. Disco has resultantly seen resurgence and acceptance, as well as becoming a huge influence on later popular music genres. It particularly doesn't help the "Disco Sucks" movement's case that some of disco's most vocal critics were reactionaries motivated less by the music's quality and more by straight-up bigotry and hatred of how disco broke through racial and sexual barriers â€” white and black racists alike targeted disco, as did homophobic and puritanical groups that affiliated disco with LGBT people and sex positivity. Predictably, this has only made the backlash against the backlash towards disco even more intense and caused many who consider themselves part of the aforementioned Disco Sucks movement to consider it an Old Shame that was used by bigots as weak justification for intolerance.
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Critical Backlash / int_c3210502	comment	Hulk Hogan was, and still is, criticized for his lack of actual wrestling ability and for being formulaic much like John Cena. Hogan was trained by legendary Japanese technician Hiro Matsuda, but American promoters thought that the American wrestling fans wouldn't buy a guy the size of Hogan wrestling that way and pushed him to wrestle like a generic big guy heel, with his offense consisting mostly of strikes, dirty moves and a few power moves. His ability became even more "limited" when he became the top face of the WWF in the mid-1980s since his matches always consisted of Hogan getting the crap kicked out of him, only for Hogan to get a Heroic Second Wind, perform the Five Moves of Doom and win. Hogan brought back some of his technical style when he became Hollywood Hogan in 1996, even putting on a decent technical match against Bret Hart in 1998 (though age and injuries had slowed him down considerably). Watching Hogan's Japanese matches compared to his American ones would almost make you think it was two different people. To put this in perspective, he once busted out an enzugiri in one of his Japanese matches against The Great Muta.
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Critical Backlash / int_c32a966f	comment	My Little Pony: Equestria Girls as soon as the movie's very existence was hinted at, involving a plot where the ponies become teenage humans in high school, a portion of fans pounced and rocked the very internet with drama. Even now people who haven't even seen it yet continue to hate it. However, most people who have seen it, while agreeing the story is a bit weak, admit that it is entertaining and definitely worth watching.
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Critical Backlash / int_c40207f9	comment	Duke Nukem Forever: Rescued from Development Hell after a decade and a half, it was the most popular playable title at PAX 2010 — yet it was almost universally hated by critics once it was released. Some reviewers even ventured into Fan Hater territory, slinging insults at anyone who actually enjoys DNF. Despite all that, the game still sold well enough to be profitable — a fact that actually annoyed its critics. Check out the Metacritic scores for the PC version, and note the difference in distribution of ratings between critics and users.
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Critical Backlash / int_c43df4d8	comment	Due to its extreme longevity, Doctor Who has entire eras that suffer from being critically maligned. This also applies to fan opinion, however; it is quite common for stories and eras previously negatively viewed to receive positive reappraisal thanks to the passage of time. The Sixth and Seventh Doctor eras are rife with examples, as is the Second Doctor era, the latter due to mostly more stories from Patrick Troughton's time being recovered.
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Critical Backlash / int_c832776	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny has such a vocal hatedom that anyone watching the show after its initial run is liable to experience a Critical Backlash. The show has its issues, certainly, but since nothing could ever hope to be as bad as the hatedom claims it is, it's not uncommon to find people for whom all the bile is hard to understand. It helps that recent entries such as AGE and Reconguista in G have also been severely criticized, with many arguing that the title of "Worst Gundam Show" that Destiny carried for so long should instead be given to either of those.
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Critical Backlash / int_c9125d76	comment	There's also Home on the Range, which was heavily bashed by critics, and continues to be, even on This Very Wiki. But if you look on deviantART, YouTube, or IMDb, you'll notice that it has a decent fanbase who compare it to Disney's films from the '40s and '50s.
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Critical Backlash / int_cd55fd0f	comment	High Guardian Spice: A lot of people who watched the show because they heard what a trainwreck it supposedly was have found that while it's not exactly good, it's not as terrible as some made it out to be; while it has a lot of flaws in terms of writing and animation, many viewers find it to be mediocre rather than flat-out awful and believe it has some good points and potential for improvement.
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Critical Backlash / int_cf69b21e	comment	Even Beast Wars itself was a victim of this when it debuted. Angry fans rejected the tiny cast of brand new characters, the handful of Legacy Character candidates such as Optimus and Megatron who were considered In Name Only knockoffs of iconic G1 characters, and especially the shift from vehicle and technology-based alternate modes to animal ones (with early Transformers discussion groups coining the meme "Trukk not Munky" to mock the backlash). Early plots were also often disliked for their simplicity or "lesson of the day" type formats. It took until the end of the first season and into the second before reactions softened and fans began to embrace the series' positives, to the point of it becoming perhaps the most praised incarnation of the franchise in terms of its characterization and story.
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Critical Backlash / int_d0a5a846	comment	Gradius ReBirth, upon its release, was widely panned for not living up to the lofty standards set by Gradius V, a game regarded by many as the best in the series due to Treasure's co-development of the game, the vastly improved graphics compared to previous games, a bombastic Hitoshi Sakimoto soundtrack, and the new Option types creating many new gameplay styles. In comparison, ReBirth is seen as a considerable downgrade that uses "weaker" 16/32-bit graphics, has a similarly "lower-quality" soundtrack, doesn't have as diverse of a selection of weapon loadouts or shields, and features only five stages that take about 15 minutes to complete versis the 30-60 minutes that many other shmups take (which only made mainstream review outlets give ReBirth even worse ratings, as many mainstream outlets since the 2000s pan shmups as a whole for what they perceive to be a lack of content). All of these factors turned ReBirth into, ironic to its name, a Franchise Killer. Nonetheless there's a fair number of players who think these criticisms are unreasonable and appreciate what ReBirth brings to the table, including arranges of many tracks from console and MSX Gradius games, the game being a Prequel to Nemesis 2 and Nemesis 3 (two games that are noticably more story-heavy than the mainline Gradius games), the higher loops having differences in level design and enemy formation that aren't just "enemies shoot more bullets", and difficulty levels having distinct changes, such as Easy mode allowing enemy bullets to be destroyed and the Hard and Very Hard modes starting the player on said higher loops. The game also has a lower difficulty curve than many other Gradius games, and coupled with the game's short length, it's seen as a solid title for less-skilled players and those who want to get a one-loop clear out of the way faster. In short, "it's not as lavish as Gradius V, but it doesn't have to be."
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Critical Backlash / int_d14c8c60	comment	Ghostbusters (2016) received nuclear levels of controversy from its initial announcements, in large part due to being a reboot to one of the most beloved franchises of the 80's rather than the long-awaited, much-desired, but ultimately ill-fated sequel, with wide criticisms for it not being anywhere near as funny or clever as the original. Things got especially ugly due to the decision to have an all-female main cast, politicizing the movie to a near-irreparable extent that ultimately resulted in it bombing at the box office. In the years following the film's release (along with the more successful Un Reboot in Ghostbusters: Afterlife helping take the bad taste away), reactions towards the reboot have calmed down significantly, where beyond the intense periphery and biases from diehard fans, it's mostly seen as just a typically bad-to-average blockbuster, with writing that misses more than hits and a cast that fails to reach the lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry of the original film, but otherwise nothing that itself warrants the vitriol it received. In retrospect, its gravest flaw is being attached to Ghostbusters and not being what longtime fans wanted, though the film's genuine fanbase who enjoys the cast and story for what they are don't feel the need to mind as much.
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Critical Backlash / int_d25ddfc	comment	The Black Cauldron is a major Old Shame for the studio. It nearly bankrupted them and was trashed by critics for being Darker and Edgier. There's very little merchandise for it, and it took over ten years to get released on video. But it has a strong cult fanbase to this day. And the original author didn't think it was that bad, either.
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Critical Backlash / int_d3836a29	comment	MD Geist got this on both ends: it was promoted heavily by Central Park Media as the pinnacle of action animation, everyone in the anime fandom of the time saw it and were usually disappointed, and it garnered a reputation for being the worst thing ever animated. But when it aired on Sci-Fi Channel, it gained something of a fanbase largely for the designs of the mech, its intense action, and soundtrack. Most assessments of it today acknowledge that for all its flaws, it is nowhere near the worst animation ever, or the worst of the eighties boom of OVAs.
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Critical Backlash / int_d578ee98	comment	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier will never be considered a good film by any stretch of the imagination, but there are some fans who feel that its overwhelmingly negative reaction on its initial release (let alone its reputation as one of the worst films of all time, which in fairness did lessen considerably after about a decade) had more to do with its being seen as a vanity project for William Shatner (whose public image was at the time very contentious), and that it would otherwise have probably been seen as a flawed, but still watchable film.
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Critical Backlash / int_d583dd44	comment	Exorcist II: The Heretic was released to scathing reception, being outright booed and laughed at by audiences during its premiere and being described by critics and publication as not only a failed follow-up to its beloved predecessor, but one of the worst movies of all time, a consensus that more modern critics and reviewers tend to find to be an overreaction. Nowadays, it's more commonly agreed that the movie is an otherwise a mediocre 70's horror flick, but nothing wretched — even taking historical context into account, many newcomers tend to be confused by the stories of walkouts within the first ten minutes considering that it's not unlike many horror films of the era, and its bizarre, nonsensical plot is usually seen as more amusing in an interesting way rather than foul.
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Critical Backlash / int_d5a9b9df	comment	Ronde is a relatively obscure Japan-only game that's mostly known for having absolutely horrendous graphics, which resulted in loads of pre-orders getting canceled and the game being labeled as the worst game in the Shin Megami Tensei series. Those who've actually played the game claim that if you can look past the graphics, the gameplay itself is fine.
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Critical Backlash / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Interesting example with the PokÃ©mon anime. The series is often criticized for its Strictly Formula nature, as well as refusing to age the characters with the passing years or letting them accomplish their goals. Yet, despite the decline in popularity it experienced in the Johto arc, it still maintains high ratings in both Japan and the U.S. and has a large and devoted fanbase.
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Critical Backlash / int_d7aab7c1	comment	The original dub of Sailor Moon. You'd think it was something that was universally panned with the number of negative comments on this very site, much less the rest of the Internet. However, many fans have nostalgic affection for it and a sizeable portion of fans actually prefer it to the new English dub produced by Viz Media.
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Critical Backlash / int_d96395da	comment	Freddy Got Fingered was released to a widespread critical thrashing for its bizarre, nonsensical, at-times incredibly Squicky "comedy", quickly earning a reputation as being one of the worst movies ever made (nominated for 8 Razzies, winning 5). While that reputation has generally still stuck around, there's been an increasing movement of fans who make the case that its sheer bad taste actually shoots the moon and makes for an interesting anti-comedy, some even making the case for it being a Stealth Parody of late-90's, early 2000's lowbrow "dude-bro" comedies, much like most of Tom Green's oeuvre. Even Roger Ebert, who gave the film a scathing zero-star review — subjecting it to his infamous "bottom of the barrel" monologue — gave it a modicum of credit during his review of Stealing Harvard:
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Critical Backlash / int_d96a827b	comment	Detractors (and some fans) of WCW often hate on its former lead commentator Tony Schiavone, who was voted "Worst Television Announcer" in 1999 and 2000 by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (which Sacred Cow Gorilla Monsoon "won" six years in a row) and is often credited as being the one to put WCW on its deathbed by spoiling Mick Foley's WWF Championship win on RAW the same night as the Fingerpoke Of Doom, sarcastically saying "That's gonna put some butts in the seats!" It also doesn't help that Tony's late former colleague Bobby Heenan (also a Sacred Cow in the wrestling community) spoke very negatively about Tony in his book. Regarding his commentary itself, he would occasionally mix up the names of moves, pay little attention to matches that didn't involve the nWo, and shill WCW to death by declaring everything to be "The greatest 'X' in the history of our sport!" Truth is, Tony's commentary was much better prior to the nWo era and many of the points people criticize him for are a case of misblamed (i.e. Eric Bischoff ordered Tony to bury Foley and the non-main event talents, towards the end of WCW everything was so out of control that not even Jim Ross or Gorilla Monsoon could have saved it, the issues between Heenan and Schiavone were misunderstandings brought on by higher-ups, etc.). While few will call him the best commentator out there, those who don't dislike Schiavone believe he was good enough on his own merits and did the best job he could as the voice of WCW in the '90s. Opinions of him seemed to improve starting in the second half of The New '10s, after his "What Happened When" podcast re-ignited his passion for the business and led to him returning to wrestling commentary, first for MLW, then for All Elite Wrestling.
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Critical Backlash / int_da9864b	comment	Clash of the Titans got savaged by a lot of fans and critics alike. Richard Corliss of TIME magazine noted that a lot of the bad reviews came from critics who had nostalgia for the original. Some feel that it's a decent popcorn action flick when it's not being compared to its original.
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Critical Backlash / int_ddc476b4	comment	Aaru's Awakening is considered by GameFAQs to be the worst game ever made. The sheer fact that it has an actual and consistent art style and storyline would however place it above many even worse games. On Metacritic you can see the hatred in full-swing. While critics were polarized by it, it's considered divisive, with most of them citing that it has a good art-style, but that there are issues with the controls and gameplay, yet Metacritic users still decided that it was worth spamming floods of negative reviews to.
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Critical Backlash / int_ddd4b174	comment	Monopoly is mostly reviled in board gaming circles, but when it's criticized, there'll usually be someone arguing that the game is fine if played as intended, with the players trading and without the notorious house rules that drag out games. (Of course, there are also people countering that while the game is less bad in this case, it's still bad.)
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Critical Backlash / int_de8f6b17	comment	The American 1998 Godzilla film often gets this; true, it does severely depart from its source material, but as a standalone monster film and as a 'realistic' take on the Godzilla franchise, it's not bad, and some of the diehard Japanese Godzilla fans admit to liking it (and especially its Animated Adaptation) better than some of the official Toho films (some of which have been known to be famously horrible).
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Critical Backlash / int_e144ba19	comment	Many reviewers chose to follow the crowd in bashing Dragon Age II, calling it a dumbed-down action game, when in fact it still features the tactical combat just like Dragon Age: Origins, only faster. The game did have its problems (recycled dungeons, unpredictable enemy spawns), simplified action commands, and removed isometric view for the PC version, but the writing and dialogue were very good. It probably doesn't help that BioWare was caught planting user reviews from its employees, was quoted out of context in wanting Call of Duty's audience, and that there was a ridiculous amount of pre-order DLC available. Despite a flood of harsh negative user reviews, many fans will agree that it's still a solid overall game.
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Critical Backlash / int_e38778a5	comment	Critics in 1969 hated Hello, Dolly! and it's credited with killing the big-budget Hollywood movie musical. If you overlook the most glaring problems (Barbra Streisand's Underage Casting and the at-times sluggish pacing) it's So Okay, It's Average at worst, though definitely not up to the standard the same studio had set with The Sound of Music.
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Critical Backlash / int_e54d6e9	comment	Heaven's Gate was annihilated in reviews and became one the most dramatic flops and Genre-Killers in Hollywood history, but some modern critics have suggested it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Part of the problem was that the film had received so much bad publicity during production due to delays, cost overruns, stories about Michael Cimino's hyper-perfectionist directing style, protests from animal rights groups, an ill-fated premiere which garnered negative reviews, including a very vicious one by The New York Times' Vincent Canby, and finally, Cimino getting the film pulled from distribution after said premiere and cutting â…“ of the film in a desperate attempt to salvage the movie's reputation. With all those factors in mind, critics were already expecting it to suck by the time they reviewed it. Although critics have softened their views, and the rerelease of the uncut version in 2012 was actually very well-received, the shorter version is still panned as the cut muddled up the storyline.
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Critical Backlash / int_e6695c62	comment	Hudson Hawk was raked over the coals by critics when it was released for being a mess of a self-indulgent Vanity Project, which it is. Part of the problem is that the theatrical trailer made the film look like a fairly straightforward action film. so moviegoers were caught off guard. However, it has always had a small following of fans who appreciate its over-the-top Large Ham performances and Refuge in Audacity plot.
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Critical Backlash / int_e755f69b	comment	Batman: Arkham Origins gets a lot of flak from the fanbase for, among other things, being too similar to Batman: Arkham City (some even calling it a rip-off), despite WBM having Rocksteady's full approval. Some also consider it to be non-canon for its supposed horribleness. Yet, it got only slightly lower scores than the original two games, and some players feel like it has the best story in the series as well as the most badass boss fights.
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Critical Backlash / int_e8c699a9	comment	The 1981 film adaptation of Mommie Dearest is widely remembered as the psychological drama that failed so spectacularly and became so unintentionally hilarious that its studio was forced to repackage it as a comedy flick. Over three decades of changing values have certainly had their effect on the film's reputation — the film was originally lambasted for burying the subjects of childhood abuse and Hollywood's shameful treatment of aging women under a mountain of over-the-top ham, but as public perception of those topics have become far more informed and nuanced, many — especially real-life survivors of abuse — have been more willing to speak out as such abuse being portrayed as surprisingly, if not uncomfortably, realistic (the film was Very Loosely Based on a True Story, after all), often criticizing the studio's decision to completely undermine that aspect for the sake of a laugh. In specific, Faye Dunaway's performance of Joan Crawford was laughed off for being loud and too ridiculous to take seriously — the "NO WIRE HANGERS!" meltdown in specific becoming the subject of mockery for decades — but more people have been willing to defend the performance for being a disturbingly accurate portrayal of an unhinged Abusive Parent, where if anything, Dunaway was under-acting. People have certainly shied away from calling the wire hanger scene "campy" or "cartoonish" considering that it immediately leads to a mother physically assaulting her daughter who's scared for her life.
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Critical Backlash / int_e9703bea	comment	Kirby: Squeak Squad is generally considered one of Kirby's worst outings. However, upon a closer inspection, even fans who don't like it tend to admit that it's a relatively average (some even calling it outright good) game and its only crimes are a fairly lackluster plot and final boss, and the overabundance of assets directly ported over from the GBA games.
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Critical Backlash / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda was absolutely trashed upon release as an unworthy follow-up to one of the greatest trilogies in gaming (whose finale was still a sore spot in most fans' minds) thanks to bugs, wonky facial features, lackluster characters, and EA's overall perception among gamers not being the best. It didn't help that around the time of its release came The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, and NieR: Automata, all of which are seen as modern classics thus making Andromeda even more forgotten in comparison. More recent looks away from the backlash and with patches however have seen it as an actually decent game, whose gameplay is pretty fun and whose characters, while not on the level of Garrus or Tali, are memorable in their own right. Many do agree that it was an unfortunate case of bad timing and hype putting the game under more cynical lenses, and if it were given more time or not even named a Mass Effect game, it could have had a chance.
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Critical Backlash / int_eb6719f6	comment	Despite Final Fantasy VIII being an easy target for criticism for its obtuse gameplay systems and even more obtuse plot, there's still a large fandom for the game, liking the more complicated character drama, the subtle nuances of the plot, and the card game.
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Critical Backlash / int_ebd9895f	comment	The first example was Alice in Wonderland. It was trashed by critics - many of whom vilified Disney for "Americanising a great work of British literature" - and bombed at the Box Office, Walt himself even disowning the final film. But it found popularity in the 1960s with stoners and steadily opinion softened towards it. By the 1990s, it was included in the Walt Disney Classics collection.
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Critical Backlash / int_ecd3889f	comment	John Cena, or more specifically, his wrestling ability. While Cena's move set is certainly limited and his matches can be formulaic, he's nowhere near as bad as a lot of his detractors will have you believe (at least in comparison with most other WWE main eventers with similar schedules). On the flip side, when he has a good opponent to work with, his psychology and understanding of story can lead to classics such as his Money in the Bank match against CM Punk; the same match that managed a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer, the premier writer of the The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the first one Meltzer had given the WWE in over fifteen years. For comparison, Shawn Michaels has only had two of his matches rated as five stars from Meltzer, and he's often regarded as the best in-ring performer of all time. The Undertaker, a similarly highly-regarded wrestler, has only ever managed one, and that was the first Hell in a Cell match against Michaels back in 1997, the last time WWE ever managed the five-star rating. Punk's second draw with Samoa Joe in their trilogy back in Ring of Honor was the first match in the United States to gain the rating in years. The fact that Cena managed to gain such acclaim for one of his matches indicates that he does have some amount of talent, no matter how much the other guy is carrying the match.
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Critical Backlash / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager had a lot of complaints aimed at it during its initial airing and for a decade or so after its finale, the chief ones being that it was too similar to Star Trek: The Next Generation, that it relied too much on Status Quo Is God, and that the stories and characters just seemed too light-hearted for what some viewers should have been a grim scenario of a crew struggling to survive in hostile space decades away from home. Starting in The New '10s and beyond, however, people started questioning exactly why it was such a bad thing that the show had patterned itself so closely after a widely beloved and commercially successful predecessor, pointing out that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was already there to cater for people who wanted a Star Trek show with Darker and Edgier and more arc-based storytelling, and finding many of the other common criticisms to be greatly overblown and/or to only really apply to the early seasons of the show.
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Critical Backlash / int_ef407eb4	comment	Speed Racer. Critics hated it and it flopped, but many of those who watched it consider it to be a fun if silly movie.
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Critical Backlash / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid: Other M. The game was met with intense disdain due to its story, characters, and gameplay upon release, to the point that saying anything positive was unthinkable. While the game would still be hailed as the worst entry in the series once the franchise was deemed to have regained its footing, there is a growing contingent of fans who think that the gameplay itself is perfectly enjoyable and should no longer be listed as one of its faults. Whilst it is agreed that Metroid Prime: Federation Force could have been released at a better time, a lot of fans consider the gameâ€™s initial overwhelming negative reception to be unfair and outright ridiculous. Though just mentioning the game still garners knee-jerk hate and ridicule even years after its release from the fanbase, general consensus is that the game is actually So Okay, It's Average, with a lot of interesting concepts (such as giving a Day in the Limelight to the Federation and setting up Sylux as a potential main villain in the future), and that most of the anger directed towards the game was excessive at best.
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Critical Backlash / int_f16adb7	comment	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. While it's doubtful the film will ever be considered the best of the franchise, and it does have a groan-worthy scene or two, it's by no means as bad as people make out. Most of the backlash aimed at this movie seems to be the result of Nostalgia Filter, as well as complaints about the film's MacGuffin being Science Fiction rather than a mystic/religious artifact. Which isn't true anyway, but that's beside the point.
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Critical Backlash / int_f3464a68	comment	Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: The sequel garnered many more reviews that were more negative overall, both from professionals and audiences, than Transformers (2007). Roger Ebert gave voice to a particularly strong condemnation, though it still grossed over $800 million, over $120 million more than its predecessor. That being said, Revenge of the Fallen is the turning point for the film series, after which fewer and fewer Americans saw them in theaters.
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Critical Backlash / int_f5dc7ca	comment	Fantastic Four (2005) got mixed to negative reviews at the time of its release for showing less action than expected. That and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer are seen as superior Fantastic Four films since Fantastic Four (2015) came out.
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Critical Backlash / int_f6e5bd7f	comment	Despite how much critics love to hate Repo! The Genetic Opera, the movie still has a huge fan following similar to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Critical Backlash / int_f78e69f	comment	Chicken Little caught a lot of flak upon release, with one of the main criticisms being that it felt too mean-spirited. While its reception still hasn't improved that much over the years, it does have its fans who consider it a decent and enjoyable film. At the time of its release, it was one of the Black Sheep of the Disney studio.
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Critical Backlash / int_fa274ce5	comment	Masters of the Universe: Revelation attracted a great deal of controversy from fans, who were heavily divided on how the series handled the source material, the Darker and Edgier tone, and it's perceived shafting of He-Man in favor of focusing on Teela. This Broken Base wound up being hijacked by political groups online, causing many to see nothing about it but obnoxious internet discourse. This has led to a growing number of viewers seeing the series and feeling it didn't deserve all the drama and harsh criticism it got, highlighting the positives and arguing that the squabbling blew it's flaws out of proportion. There's a bit of Vocal Minority to it, as well; despite the negativity around the show online, it was acclaimed by critics during release and did well enough that it was very quickly renewed for a second season.
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Critical Backlash / int_fa46743e	comment	Star Trek: Nemesis ended up proving a serious Box Office Bomb, while getting worse reviews than any Trek film except for The Final Frontier. As with The Motion Picture however, an increasing number of fans feel that critics failed to give it a fair shake, with many of the reviews just complaining that It's the Same, Now It Sucks! rather than treating the film on its own merits, overlooking its Nature Versus Nurture themes, and failing to give Tom Hardy credit for his strong performance as the Big Bad.
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Critical Backlash / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Beast Machines originally had quite a bit of backlash after all the praise and love Beast Wars got. With the advent of fansubs of Japanese produced G1 material and the later dubbing of The Unicron Trilogy made many people realized their weaknesses made Beast Machines strengths stand out more (animation, story, characterizations, etc.). Any given Transformers series after Beast Wars is starting to receive this treatment as even Transformers: Robots in Disguise and the Unicron Trilogy were starting to have a bit more vocal fanbases over the years. While Transformers: Animated is still fairly popular with the fanbase, by the time it came out the fanbase was starting to be a bit more forgiving to past Transformers shows. (One potential reason why is the popular notion of "The Original series was the only good Transformers show!" is becoming more and more widely frowned upon in the Transformers fanbase even by those who still like the original series.) Even Beast Wars itself was a victim of this when it debuted. Angry fans rejected the tiny cast of brand new characters, the handful of Legacy Character candidates such as Optimus and Megatron who were considered In Name Only knockoffs of iconic G1 characters, and especially the shift from vehicle and technology-based alternate modes to animal ones (with early Transformers discussion groups coining the meme "Trukk not Munky" to mock the backlash). Early plots were also often disliked for their simplicity or "lesson of the day" type formats. It took until the end of the first season and into the second before reactions softened and fans began to embrace the series' positives, to the point of it becoming perhaps the most praised incarnation of the franchise in terms of its characterization and story.
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Critical Backlash / int_fbcc15d6	comment	DmC: Devil May Cry was panned by Devil May Cry fans on release for its gameplay changes and grittier tone. As time went on, however, attitudes toward the game have softened, with many praising it for its fun gameplay and excellent environmental design.
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Critical Backlash / int_fc63cae8	comment	The Divergent films are usually on many critics' 'Worst of X Year' lists, and "still better than Divergent" is often used to describe other movies based off YA books. Some understandably don't find the movies to be that bad. This especially appears to be the reaction to The Divergent Series: Allegiant, which was near-universally panned by critics but has a So Okay, It's Average rating of 6.0 on IMDB.
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Critical Backlash / int_fd040008	comment	Breadwinners has received very negative reception from YouTube critics such as The Mysterious Mr. Enter as well as older Nickelodeon fans, many calling it the worst show to have ever existed. That said, professional critics gave it decent to average reviews, and it does have a small fan following who believe it's not that bad.
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Critical Backlash / int_fdbf3a81	comment	Maximum Carnage and The Clone Saga are routinely used for target practice by seemingly everyone under the sun. While they are probably not examples of the best of Spidey's career, there are many people who genuinely feel that both stories don't warrant the sheer volume of backlash routinely given to them.
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Critical Backlash / int_fdf46549	comment	Clayfighter 63â…“, the final game in the Clayfighter series, was savaged by critics and gamers upon release. It was quickly regarded as the worst N64 game up to that point, due to its janky animation and broken gameplay. Not to mention some offensive-even-for-1997 ethnic stereotyping with some of its characters. Over the years, however, the game has developed a bit of a cult following due to its refreshingly non-serious tone, as well as having some cool ideas that, with more polish and better execution, could've made the game great.
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Critical Backlash / int_fe6cdec	comment	Nickelback gets plenty of hate, often voted as the worst band ever to the point where many non-fans don't feel that it's deserved and rather consider their music as bland but not awful.
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