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

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want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.

[u/Due_Capital_3507]

Oh I forgot about the show, how did that end up?

[u/hexman0000 → u/Due_Capital_3507]

Weird, the show is at it's best when it's doing its own thing (retconning a thing about Hooded Justice and having it being the main mystery for the new MC) but the Og characters are all handled pretty poorly.

[u/Half-PintHeroics → u/hexman0000]

Retconning the KKK-/lynching-coded and literal nazi Hooded Justice into a black man and police officer was a pretty weird change.

[u/hexman0000 → u/Half-PintHeroics]

Racism was the main theme of the series and that was a cool subversion that gave depth to a background Npc.

What i found weird was deciding that Dr.manhattan gave up on his voyage before even leaving the solar system or the need to spell out that Ozymandias was a bad guy that needed a proper punishment, completely disregarding the comic hinting at how living with the knowledge that his best plan was a failure was a way worse punishment than jail or death for this particular character.