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When a particular controversy, scandal, or show of extremely poor taste is the only thing most people know about a certain figure or work. Notice the word "overshadowed". The controversial element must receive attention disproportionate to its role in the work. For example, a controversial ending goes under its sub-trope Audience-Alienating Ending, since most people would be talking about the ending no matter what it was. A nude scene featuring ten-year-old children in the opening credits? The lead actor or actress getting into legal trouble while on set? A horribly Troubled Production that escalates into creators and/or publishers wrestling for control of the work? That goes here. "Controversial" is not necessarily the same as "bad": some controversial works have been praised by critics and audiences, and not every creator or work here is considered laughably bad or straight-up abominable. Plot events are also generally not what puts a work on the list, even when they are subjective — when a plot beat does qualify, it is usually a major twist that dramatically changes the story and greatly polarizes or alienates the fanbase. |
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While Puerto Rico is an influential eurogame, it has become hard to talk about it at length without getting into its colonialist premise and whether it's still okay to play the game in the light of that: the players represent the colonial governors of Puerto Rico, and while building plantations is a significant part of the game, it makes no attempt to bring up the exploitation of African slaves in such plantations, nor does it frame the colonial governors negatively. It doesn't help that the "colonist" tokens are dark brown colour and building additional plantations directly increase the size of the next shipment of said colonists - something that's been brought up right from the game's release in 2002. | |
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Kevin Kulek, the founder of boutique manufacturer Skit-B Pinball, is more known for allegations of defrauding customers with a Predator game that was never licensed by 20th Century Fox (who shut down the project). | |
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Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism are today mostly overshadowed by the controversies of creator Nina Paley who became infamous for her hostility towards the transgender community and followers of the Jewish and Christian religions. | |
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Thanks to multiple online reviewers covering the topic, the film Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is best known for the fact that the film's producers scammed hundreds of people into investing their life savings into the film while downplaying the risks, which ultimately led to said investors filing a lawsuit against the producers in 2019. It really doesn't help that one of the film's antagonists is also a scam artist. | |
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Coonskin, Ralph Bakshi's satirical Blaxploitation re-imagining of the Uncle Remus tales. Al Sharpton famously criticized the film without even seeing it, saying, "I don't got to see shit; I can smell shit!" This gave the film some very bad publicity. Since then, professional critics and black audiences have praised it for being the complete opposite of being racist. Even Spike Lee is a fan. | |
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The first-generation Chevrolet Corvair was one of GM's most popular models during the 1960s, but it is better known today for its handling issues, a problem that was further compounded when it was revealed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader in his book Unsafe at Any Speed that GM executives had declined to include suspension upgrades that would have made the car safer after calculating that paying off lawsuits was cheaper than re-engineering the car. | |
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For many years, For Better or for Worse was among the most respected of comic strips, notable for its characters aging in real time and its willingness to do risky things (such as introduce an openly gay character well before such things were mainstream). Then, as it neared its end, it introduced a storyline where main character Elizabeth left behind her life teaching in a First Nations village to move back to her hometown and enter a relationship with the extremely unpopular character of Anthony (after he had broken up his marriage because his wife wanted to go back to work after having a child and expected him to live up to a promise he made). Not helping was the "going-after" sequence, where Anthony saves Elizabeth from an Attempted Rape only to immediately beg her to get together with him (leading to the memetic "I HAVE NO HOME!" moment). This decision destroyed the comic's reputation, to the point that almost all discussion of it nowadays centers on that storyline. | |
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While Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) was well-received upon release, it's hard to talk about the movie's advertising without bringing up Sonic's original model◊. Needless to say, people didn't particularly like it when it was first shown off in the trailers. The backlash was so big that the movie got delayed by three months just to redesign Sonic's model to be more on-brand◊. | |
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Super Mario 64 machinimist Starman3 was formerly revered for his influence on the early SM64 machinima community, most famously for founding The YouTube Rangers. However, his reputation started derailing in 2012 when accusations of pedophilia, control freak tendencies and victim blaming started coming forth from both random online users and his fellow SM64 machinimists which led to, among other things, his character being removed from fellow machinimist SMG4's Mario series. While he did eventually fess up and express a desire to change, he ultimately continued this behavior through the decade, with accusations flaring back up every year starting in 2017, carrying evidence from over 100 of his victims. This culminated in July 2020 when, at the height of the Smash community allegations, veteran SM64 machinimist MATTHEWGU4 posted a video further exposing his behavior. Most talk about him now centers on his bad behavior and absolute refusal to genuinely take responsibility and change, overshadowing any former influence and merit he and his channel had on the early SM64 machinima community. | |
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While Dilbert creator Scott Adams had certainly been no stranger to controversy over the yearsnote Mainly over his outspoken support of former US President Donald Trump, as well as a blog post where he claimed that rape was a "natural instinct" for men and that men who committed rape were just victims of a society that criminalized their natural desires, it wasn't until February 22, 2023 that his reputation as a newspaper cartoonist was permanently tarnished when he went on a racist rant in an episode of his podcast that culminated in him telling his viewers to "get the hell away" from black people (whom he also claimed were a "hate group"). Afterwards, numerous newspaper publishers proceeded to gradually remove the comic strip from syndication. His distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, also cut ties with him, cancelling any plans to distribute any of his future books. | |
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The web animation series The Red Ape Family is best known for being a promotional tool for the "Bored Ape Yacht Club" line of NFTs, making it nearly impossible to discuss the show without getting into the highly controversial politics of the NFT market. It doesn't help that the show openly advertises its connection to NFTs, with its story containing blatant pro-NFT messages—making the connection nearly impossible to ignore, even if you watch the show without knowing its background. | |
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Batman: The Killing Joke: The original Killing Joke comic has the Joker paralyzing Barbara Gordon as its inciting incident, with little statement of who she actually is in the story itself. The Animated Adaptation attempts to correct this by expanding Barbara's role in the story, but it's done in a way that comes off as more problematic than the comic: namely, it does so by introducing sexual tension between Batgirl and Batmannote as well as implying that Barbara became Batgirl largely because she had a crush on Batman. This culminates in the two having sex, which creeped out a good portion of the audience, especially those who see Batman as more of a paternal mentor to Batgirl in other media. And that's not even getting into the debates on whether the first half of the movie, which set Barbara up as a character, should've even been made in a movie called "The Killing Joke". | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is remembered for two controversial scenes: the Bonk vs. the Joker scene in which the latter kills the former with the "Bang!" Flag Gun, and the entire flashback scene, with the very noteworthy part near the end in which Robin does the same thing to the Joker. Even before the film was released to video and DVD in 2000, movie companies were coming under heavy criticism for violence in films during the fallout of the Columbine shootings that had happened over a year ago, and WB felt pressured and afraid that Moral Guardians and Media Watchdogs would object that the movie would be a repeat of Columbine. As a result, the original release date (Halloween 2000) was postponed, and the film heavily edited and toned down for release on December 12. But even then, the Bowdlerised version (especially with the Joker's death scene changed to death by electrocution) didn't help matters, but only caused unrest among many Batman fans that lasted for over a year. That unrest was thankfully quelled when the film developers retained the original version and eventually released it on DVD as "the original, uncut version" under the PG-13 rating on April 23, 2002 (just three days after the third anniversary of the Columbine tragedy) following an online petition to have it released. The same uncut version would be digitally remastered and released on Blu-Ray nine years later. | |
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Uber counts, not only due to the Automated Automobiles, but also being a way to steal taxi driver's jobs, as the many Uber protests show. The controversies surrounding its former CEO Travis Kalanick haven't helped matters. | |
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Lightyear is primarily remembered for a brief scene in which a female character has a same-sex kiss with her partner. While this would ordinarily not be enough to land the film on this page, the fact that the film came out at a time when several conservative states in the US were passing anti-LGBT legislation, chief among them forbidding discussion of gender and sexuality to children, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dissolving the Reedy Creek Improvement District (the governing body of the area around Disney World) and Disney's subsequent lawsuit against DeSantis, as well as the film being banned in multiple countries where homosexuality is illegal, has resulted in any discussion of the film being dominated by the aforementioned kiss as well as discussion of whether or not children should be exposed to media with LGBT characters. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who cast actor James Dreyfus as an early incarnation of The Master, making his debut in The Destination Wars. However, between this and his second story, The Home Guard, it came to light that Dreyfus had made some transphobic comments, and Big Finish would put out a statement of equality and diversity. Big Finish played down Dreyfus's involvement in subsequent stories, and after releasing the final audio record that featured Dreyfus's Master, The Psychic Circus, the company has not cast him in any future Master stories. | |
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The creators of The Rodfellows, Dan, Alex and Darren, were exposed for pedophilia and grooming in the early 2020's, as they noticeably hire minors to work on projects that feature questionable scenes, fetishes and sexual content. Although some of the evidence were all fabricated by Jason Animates as well as the Sparky Furryton account and supposed suicide "incident" being all lies, their questionable pedophilia and grooming behaviour are the first things people know about when mentioning The Rodfellows or its creators. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade was scheduled for a much-hyped relaunch into the world of Tabletop Role-Playing Games during their Renaissance during the late New Tens. Things were looking up for the owners at White Wolf, with a launch that could rival Dungeons and Dragons in popularity. Then people discovered some unfortunate ties to alt-right ideology in the test material and Quickstart guide. White Wolf was slow to address the storm of anger brewing on the internet, and the article's writer claimed to have been contacted by White Wolf's attorneys with a threat of lawsuits if the article wasn't taken down. This went as well as could be expected. Soon the TTRPG community associated Fifth Edition with alt-right ideology, and White Wolf rushed out an apology, claimed the whole thing was a coincidence, and included a denunciation of the alt-right in the main rulebook. If White Wolf mortally wounded their brand with the Vampire Quickstart guide, they would kill it when they dropped the Camarilla Sourcebook, which treated the still-ongoing terror campaign against homosexuals in Chechnya as a plot point for vampire shenanigans. The Chechen Government threatened to sue White Wolf, claiming the concentration camps where journalists have documented the torture and murders are still taking place are actually completely normal prisons and there couldn't be a gay pogrom because "there are no gay people in Chechnya!" This was the final straw for White Wolf and ultimately resulted in it being folded into their parent company, Paradox Interactive. | |
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Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues is still a very popular play, but the vignette "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" is best known for its highly controversial depiction of an underaged girl's sexual encounter with an adult woman. The segment has become rather infamous for driving many theatre groups to rework it to avoid alienating the audience; some productions change the narrator's age from 13 to 16, others have omitted the controversial line "If it was rape, it was a good rape", and still others have elected to cut the entire segment. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie attracted a lot of criticism back in the day for its surprisingly high body-count for what was essentially a feature-length toy commerical for kids. In order to promote the new line of Transformers toys, Hasbro mandated that the writers kill off a good chunk of the show's cast, which included Optimus Prime, solely because their toys weren't selling anymore. The graphic deaths in the film reportedly led to audiences of children crying, and a letter-writing campaign led to the writers bringing Optimus Back from the Dead at the end of the cartoon's third season. While it's considered a Cult Classic today, the film still tops lists for most traumatizing children's movies because of its corporate-mandated body-count. | |
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The 2019 Spanish animated feature Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World, based on the voyage of the Iberian explorers of the same name (of which one of the most famous episodes was the Battle of Mactan), prompted major backlash in the Philippines, largely due to the poster showing Lapulapu (a native chief who participated in the battle and is widely revered as an anticolonialist hero in the Philippines) in a decidedly villainous light. The backlash was to the point that many Filipinos petitioned to ban the movie in the country. The studio in charge seemed to have gotten the hint, as they released a redesigned version of the poster where Lapulapu is replaced with a fictional Portuguese spy named Yago. As it turns out, the original poster was rather inaccurate, as the main antagonist of the movie is �lvaro da Costa, a Portuguese official, and Lapulapu is little more than a glorified background character. | |
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Discussions of the marketing for The Emoji Movie will almost inevitably gravitate towards an infamous promotional tweet that parodied The Handmaid's Tale, a TV show about sexual slavery. Needless to say, referencing something like that while trying to advertise a movie for children provoked significant ire. | |
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If you don't know Danish fan animator Kelzad from either his REALM series or contributing the head sprites of Scrapeface for the 'An Experiment' episode of the main series, you either know him from being accused by fellow fan animator Kryy of concept theft from the non-canon Incidents side-series, or his immature Discord outburst over Green Pepper Studios, and by extension, himself, being denied an administrative role on the MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 Discord server over the moderators of the game's Steam community page, with the community being quick to label him as an outright manchild and his creator page on the MC Tributes Wiki having more information on his controversies than his past as an animator. | |
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In March 2020, Marvel released a trailer for a reboot of the New Warriors series as part of Outlawed. The trailer quickly became infamous for two of the superheroes depicted, the non-binary Snowflake and their twin brother Safespace, whose namesakes and powers were based on terms often used to insult the LGBT community. The criticism was enough for Marvel to silently cancel the series, as the series wasn't out by its October release date. | |
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Regarding the flash series Madness Combat created by Matt 'Krinkels' Jolly: It's hard to discuss Cethic, creator and collaborator of both multiple fan projects and her involvement as an artist in the main series, without talking about her being accused of, and later confessing to, being a chronic emotional and sexual abuser and zoophile. The majority of discussion about her revolves around her actions, and it's hard to find any resource talking about her without also mentioning her allegations, although this may have something to do with her being kicked from the main series (along with Fleetwire) and all fan projects, most notably Green Pepper Studios, and seemingly retiring from Madness-related works indefinitely. Fleetwire (real name Corey McKenna), is best known both for the song 'Eidolon Step' from DedmosRebuilt.fla, and for being exposed as a groomer and a zoophile by the aforementioned Cethic, and subsequently being kicked from his musician role on the series and deleting all social media. If you don't know Danish fan animator Kelzad from either his REALM series or contributing the head sprites of Scrapeface for the 'An Experiment' episode of the main series, you either know him from being accused by fellow fan animator Kryy of concept theft from the non-canon Incidents side-series, or his immature Discord outburst over Green Pepper Studios, and by extension, himself, being denied an administrative role on the MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 Discord server over the moderators of the game's Steam community page, with the community being quick to label him as an outright manchild and his creator page on the MC Tributes Wiki having more information on his controversies than his past as an animator. It's also hard to have a discussion on the wider Madness Combat fandom without bringing up its reputation as being one of the more extreme examples of The Law of Fan Jackassery on the internet, with a plethora of animators in the community engaging in egotistical behavior, petty rivalries between other creators, stealing of concepts, and prevalent gatekeeper mentality and hostility to 'outsiders' and a large Vocal Minority of purists who frown upon newer, more unconventional animators who do things differently from the established style. Not helping matters is that Krinkels himself admits he avoids addressing the drama out of concern it'll only cause more problems, and prefers to instead focus on putting out content. |
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While CartoonMania was fairly divisive due to its stiff animation and hit-and-miss writing, the series still garnered a cult following due to its interesting premise of a cartoonist living with his own creations, in addition to the show's usage of slapstick humor and homages to popular cartoons such as Animaniacs and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The series' fanbase dissipated in the summer of 2020 when screencaps and other evidence of creator Matthew Littlemore drawing suggestive artwork of some of the series' underage characters (as well as acting perverted in general on Discord, even after others made it clear that they were uncomfortable) were revealed, on top of people coming forward with stories of emotional abuse at his hands. This led to many involved in the then-upcoming reboot to publicly cut ties with him, and Matthew himself deleted several of his social media accounts and labeled his YouTube channel as "inactive" (though Matthew would eventually return in February 2022), seemingly putting the show on permanent hiatus. | |
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The one thing most people remember about Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, aside from the music by Mastodon, is the Viral Marketing campaign involving LED signs displaying the Mooninites Flipping the Bird. One of the signs was mistaken for an IED, which resulted in the Boston Bomb Scare. This incident (unrelated to an actual bombing during the Boston Marathon six years later) led to Jim Samples stepping down as the head of Cartoon Network and being replaced with Stuart Snyder. | |
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Tesla Motors has courted controversy not just for its working conditions and reports of vehicles it produces catching fire, but also for the erratic behaviour of its CEO Elon Musk, particularly after his buyout of Twitter / X. Recently, it added more controversies for its faulty self-driving systems that led to fatal accidents. And moreover, there are findings that Tesla lied about its batteries' performance, which is well below its advertised range. Tesla made considerable efforts to shoot down any complaints from customers. | |
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The Hitman: Absolution trailer "Attack of the Saints" quickly became known for the eponymous Saints, an all-female enemy faction dressed as Naughty Nuns, being killed by Agent 47. The trailer swiftly earned IO Interactive accusations of sexism, not helped by the fact the trailer was released in the wake of the Depression Quest controversy, which prompted heavy debate about misogyny in video game culture. | |
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Sky Dancers were popular dolls at the time, but now they're more well-known for causing injuries when used improperly, which resulted in the toys being recalled 5 years after their release. When Play Along re-released the toys four years later, safety instructions were printed on the box to prevent any similar incidents from occurring. | |
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While Carousel has several individual songs that have become classics, such as "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone", if you haven't seen it yourself, most likely the only thing you know about the actual plot is its extreme level of Values Dissonance: the main character is a sympathetically-portrayed wife-beater, and the play includes a scene where his wife defends his actions. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the Squats (Dwarves IN SPACE) were dropped early on in the game due to a variety of factors.note A combination of the models not selling as well as they had hoped along with the general shift in tone made the Squats a creative dead end. It didn't help that a lot of their rules overlapped with other armies at the time, so they were seen as dead weight when third edition rolled around. However, the way GW handled their discontinuation has been infamous in the fandom; after much heckling from people who still liked them and hated the "squatting" of the squats, GW started banning anyone who made mention of the Squats on their personal forums and absolute refusal to even discuss the matter at public events. While the rest of the line was spared from this, "squat" ended up evolving into a term meaning "to be discontinued and erased from canon" within the fandom. It's only during the Kevin Rountree era that GW finally started acknowledging the Squats, likely wanting to turn this around and finally put an end to all the memes surrounding it. It was subsequently followed by the Squats being restored to canon, under a new name and branding as the Leagues of Votann. | |
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Empire of the Petal Throne was retroactively tainted by the discovery in 2022 that creator M. A. R. Barker was the author of Serpent's Walk, a neo-Nazi novel written under a pseudonym and published in 1991. Barker was also found to have been on the editorial advisory committee of a Holocaust denial publication by the name of the Journal for Historical Review, which was put out by the Institute for Historical Review, a group that claims to seek "truth and accuracy in history", but whose real aim is to promote Holocaust denial and defend Nazism. | |
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Abominable was a modest success on release, but nowadays is mostly remembered for a scene which had a map with the nine-dash-line on it, which resulted in the movie being banned in countries in Southeast Asia; the protests in Hong Kong that happened to coincide with the movie's release didn't help matters either. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler is mostly well known for its decades-long stint in Development Hell, director Richard Williams being removed from his own pet project by the completion bond company brought on to complete it, being finished in a vastly different form in Australia and South Africa under the title The Princess and the Cobbler, and receiving an edited and partially re-dubbed North American release by Miramax Films under the title Arabian Knight. | |
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It's difficult not to talk about Argentine comic strip Gaturro without mentioning the infamous vandalization of his statue at the Paseo de la Historieta in Buenos Aires, which although it was installed in 2013, it was not until 2021 that it began to be vandalized. It got to such a degree that it became a meme online, and the statue was removed in 2022. A second statue was installed in its place in 2023, and it didn't take long for it to be vandalized as well. Gaturro's author Nik is highly infamous in the graphic humor community due to his many accusations of plagiarism, largely from Argentinian artists, with many of them having expressed disdain against him, including Mafalda's author Quino (and that's before mentioning that Gaturro's appearence resembles Garfield). Many of the alleged plagiarism cases were collected in a PDF file dubbed the "black book" of Nik. |
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In the English-speaking world, it is impossible to find coverage of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf without finding news on that one time two kids in China tried to imitate something they saw on the show by having a third one tie them to a tree and start a fire at the base, seriously injuring themselves as a result. Even worse, it even seriously affected the popularity of the series, and led to increased censorship in the Chinese industry, which resulted in the series needing to be bowdlerised on digital streaming services. However, it eventually won back the crowd since Mighty Little Defenders aired in 2019. | |
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Eddsworld: Three characters suffer from this, Tord, Helucard, and Patryck. Tord for his real life counterpart/first voice actor being harassed off the internet by stalkers and toxic fans upset with his and the character's departure from the show, or for his second voice actor being fired after it came out that he groomed and sexually abused a then underaged Kiki Palmer. Although he remains a fan-favorite, the former reason makes fans skeptical of a comeback of the character. On a similar note, Helucard was based on and voiced by Dominic Сharbonneau who himself was accused of grooming underaged girls. Patryck because his real life counterpart/voice actor, Patryk Dudlewicz made an angry Tumblr post where he ranted about how that character he played was frequently shipped with another character named Paul, (also based on a real person) and shippers used their real names, much to his discomfort. Fans usually keep this mind when referring to the character, often changing his name to simply Pat or keeping the extra c that isn't in Patryk's actual name. | |
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Gaturro's author Nik is highly infamous in the graphic humor community due to his many accusations of plagiarism, largely from Argentinian artists, with many of them having expressed disdain against him, including Mafalda's author Quino (and that's before mentioning that Gaturro's appearence resembles Garfield). Many of the alleged plagiarism cases were collected in a PDF file dubbed the "black book" of Nik. | |
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Bayern 3 is a public radio station owned and operated by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), the public broadcaster in the German state of Bavaria. Outside of Germany (Bavaria in particular), it is infamous for Matthias Matuschik, a host, making hateful "jokes" about how BTS is similar to a virus, suggesting that BTS should go on a 20-year "vacation" to North Korea, and calling them "fuckwits" for covering "Fix You" by Coldplay. All this while being on-air and during a time when racism against Asians had become a hot topic due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. | |
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Annie Get Your Gun is another one now known almost entirely for its Values Dissonance. It was created at the end of World War II specifically to encourage women who'd joined the workforce while their husbands were fighting the Axis to go back and Stay in the Kitchen, and thus reworks the true story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley to have her future husband Frank Butler refuse to be with a woman who's a better shot than him, so she ends up throwing a contest between them and retiring, when in real life it was actually Butler who gave up his sharpshooting career to support hers. It also features some horrific portrayals of Native Americans, with the reveal that they're not just mindless savages intended to be played for surprise laughs, and the song "I'm an Indian, Too" which brutally mocks their naming style. A 1999 revival heavily revised it to fit contemporary attitudes, cutting the insulting Native material and having Butler catch on to what Annie's doing and throw his own shots to end the contest with a tie. | |
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Chess: Former World Champion Bobby Fischer became known in later years for disavowing his Jewish heritage and becoming an anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist (notably blaming 9/11 on the Jewish people), which put a damper on his legacy. A lot of people mostly remember Armenian grandmaster Tigran L. Petrosiannote Not to be confused with former World Champion Tigran Petrosian for his reaction to Wesley So accusing him of cheating in the 2020 PRO Chess League: he posted an angry, poorly-spelled rant including memorable phrases like "You are a biggest looser I ever seen in my life! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when I was beating players much more stronger then you!". It didn't help that Chess.com eventually found him guilty. While Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is a popular streamer, it's hard to talk about him without getting into the allegations of poor sportsmanship and how the community reacted to it. Sergey Karjakin's support of Putin had always been a turn-off to potential fans, but it really started overshadowing his chess achievements after Russia invaded Ukraine. While many Russian top players condemned the move or at least remained silent, Karjakin eagerly supported it (going as far as calling Ukraine "stupid"), and repeatedly doubled down after being criticized for it. This earned him several bans, most notably a six-month ban from FIDE events. Now he tends to be more remembered for supporting Putin than for his chess. While some people feel that his ban set a problematic precedent, few people will defend his actual views. |
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In its heyday, Li'l Abner was one of the most famous and influential comics strips in America. Moreover, strip creator Al Capp was a well-known and recognizable public figure in his own right. But in the 1960s, Capp drifted into a right-wing crank who sneered at folk singers and political activists (memorably berating a bemused John Lennon and Yoko Ono on camera during their 1969 "bed-in" in Montreal), and this started bleeding into the comic itself. Before long, his politics became a cloud that hung over his work. Then he was arrested on sex-related charges in 1971 and papers began to drop his strip in droves, contributing to the comic strip ending in 1977 (Capp was also in ill health by the end of The '70s, and died in 1979). Now, it's hard to talk about the strip without discussing its creator's prickly personality, ideological hang-ups, and the allegations that he committed sexual misconduct. | |
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In Coco, this happens In-Universe to the Big Bad: a year after Ernesto de la Cruz is exposed as both a plagiarist and a murderer, his mausoleum is in ruins, his "Remember Me" statue has been vandalized with a sign saying "FORGET YOU", and Word of God confesses that he won't be able to experience being forgotten because he is Hated by All. | |
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While The Rite of Spring is cherished for its avant-garde music and choreography, its premiere night in 1913 sparked a near-riot inside the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris when the audience turned against each other on whether it was groundbreaking or sheer crap, with the latter throwing stuff at the orchestra and the dancers. It didn't help that inside the curtain, the composer and lead choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky had cooperation issues during the production. You might say that the premiere night had been a near-literal Broken Base. | |
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Olaf's Frozen Adventure became known soon after its release less because of anything related to the film itself and more because of the circumstances behind said release: It was originally meant for a television special before being put as the opener for the Pixar film Coco, and the fact that its length was meant for television and not as an opener for a Pixar film upset many of the moviegoers who went just to see Coco. It went to the point that most Mexican movie theaters outright removed the short from their showings of Coco (as Coco prominently features Mexican culture as its backdrop) before Disney officially pulled it from all future screenings of Coco beginning on December 8, 2017. While Disney has not given an official reason why Toy Story 4 was the first Pixar film since Toy Story to not have a short subject attached to its theatrical release, the scuttlebutt is that Olaf's Frozen Adventure had a lot to do with it. | |
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Much of the talk about Ivo Van Hove's 2019 revival of West Side Story revolved around the casting of a sex offender, Amar Ramasar as Bernardo, not even a year after being (temporarily) fired from City Ballet for his offenses. The changes to the story and staging were also controversial, but most reviews also mention Bernardo's casting (especially regarding a graphic Rape as Drama scene) since it attracted numerous protests during the show's short run. The revival did not reopen after the COVID-19 Pandemic, likely due in part to all the bad press. Ramasar himself announced retirement in 2021 due to how the controversy overshadowed his career. | |
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