Subject: Oh Gog, so true.
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Posted on: 2012-07-25 17:10:00 UTC

On the point of England, there's also his punk and pirate years. People also seem to handwave those in the favour of "teh sexeh yaoi ukez".

My pet peeves are also Hetalia.
My first is the already mentioned England, but my other two are about France and Russia.

France

Lot's of fans don't like France, because they see him as nothing more than a pervert. Some people even think he's as bad as being a paedophile and a rapist, although I can't think of anything in canon that would support this.
There are a lot of parts in Hetalia that show how he's more than a pervert, such as the Jeanne D'Arc strips, but lots of fans ignore this all in favour of having him sexual harrass their characters.

Russia

Russia is another character who has most of his traits ignored. Lots of fans see him as a violent psychopath, when in actuality, he's not really. He doesn't do nothing but try to torture and kill people. He is yandere, but people seem to forget the 'dere' part of that.


The main problem with things like this is that many fans will write the characters as how they're shown in fanon, instead of how they actually act. Sometimes fanon is needed if there is no canon, like with the 2P!characters, but ignoring actual characterisation in favour of fanon just... agh!

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TL;DR: France doesn't do nothing but molest people. Russia has a childlike innocence as well as being kind of sadistic.

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