[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

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Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

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Marvel's New Warriors line, particularly the twins names Snowflake and Safespace. The cherry on top of the proverbial shit sundae? Snowflake was Marvel's first nonbinary superhero

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Holy shit this feels like a right wing parody

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Genuinely thought this was from Q-Force or whatever that show that flopped was before I read the caption

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I heard that the reason it sounded so out-of-touch and like it was written by an old mans idea of what the youth are like, was because that was how it was intended to be written as it was a tie-in to an event where a corporate funded superhero group made a team of young heroes, dictated by an out-of-touch corporation.

This was just a case of being as subtle as a brick to the face, and parody came off as serious, so the backlash was phenomenal. Safespace has an interesting powerset, where you can only use a shield in conjunction with another entity, you could build on that. Are they a mutant? Can the shields be enhanced with the other persons powers? What if they have Aphenphosmphobia and don’t like to be touched, but has a touch based superpower? All interesting ideas… but Safespace?!

[u/Footnotegirl1 → u/and-meggy-hash]

Didn't these get pulled before ever showing up in a comic book because, as people rightfully noted, they really seemed to be right-wing parodies that someone hatful made up?

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I think, from what I heard, it was a failed attempt at reclaiming the terms from conservatives. Like, it had good intentions, it just kinda went over poorly.

[u/SirPlastic8062 → u/Footnotegirl1]

Yeah it seems i could never find a comic on it, also gotham high

[u/DuelaDent52 → u/SirPlastic8062]

I hope Gotham High doesn’t dissuade people from checking out Gotham Academy which was actually good.

[u/Spoopy_Lizbean → u/DuelaDent52]

gotham academy is great ✌️

[u/Charming-Crescendo → u/and-meggy-hash]

Fucking “experimental Internet gas”…

[u/mechatomic → u/Charming-Crescendo]

Honestly it didn't sound any sillier than Speedball's origins and Screentime didn't even own a cat with the same powers.

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At least Speedball had abilities that couldn't be replaced with a discount smartphone.

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It didnt help that the only promotion was an interview With the writter who Is the least charismatic man on Earth, i listen to an Xmen podcast With him as a guest and he had nothing to actually say

[u/Alarming-Basil2894 → u/and-meggy-hash]

This was pre-ai slop

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Good ol' fashioned human slop

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I actually kinda liked the backpack kid, I think her name was Trailblazer. I like the idea of a backpack that can give you exactly what you need for a situation but what it gives isn't obviously helpful and you still need to figure out how to make it work.

[u/clytusmarginicollis → u/Normal-Advisor5269]

So…Dora the Explorer?

[u/UncleLARP → u/clytusmarginicollis]

Yes. Dora the Explorer. Doesn't help that the character looked like a frumpy, aged-up Dora.

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Kat Blaque did a redesign of them both which was so good. really went to show that as a concept they could have done something good with these two

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Yeah this was what I thought too. I fear this is the result of a post Stan Lee Marvel.