And that is one of the things that piss me off most in this franchise. Sakura is useless, she never did anything useful, but if you put that same context or standard to any other character they would be rabidly defended as to why they shouldn't be judged for it. PERFECT EXAMPLE!!!! *points at Hinata* Hinata only worries about Naruto to the exclusion of everyone else and devotes her enitre being to NAruto and she is praised as THE SINGLE BEST THING TO EVER HAVE BEEN CREATED for the franchise. She goes N-N-Naruto-kun, and her fans swoon over her and call her a pure innocent angel that must be smothered with affection from her one true love. Sakura does it to Sasuke? Eeeeeww, what an obsessive, obnoxious, worthless fan girl. Or with Naruto, That means nothing/ being sisterly to her "brother". Hinata has only ever one a fight with a Juubi clone, and nowhere else and yes I'm counting the anime fillers that I can recall, but she is praised as some strong, amazing "amazon", or at least must be sung praises for trying. Sakura Defeated Sasori with Help from his grandmother, takes out Pain's Centipede summon to rescue a little girl, Beats down dozens of Juubi clones with Raw strength and speed, and even gives the final Punch to Kaguya before she is sealed? Still a useless Biatch she is called. Sakura heals Naruto dozens of times with Medical ninjutsu and none of these haters bat an eye or calls it worthless, but Hinata resetting his shoulder joint in place is the most wonderful display of medical expertise ever and shows how she loves him more than anything and can stand as his equal on the battlefield. Hell, even Ino wasn't called useless for just healing Naruto after the battle with Kakuzu. The list can go on, but you get the idea. And note THIS IS JUST FROM HINATA. You can find this EFFING double standard with any other character that is not Sakura.
And for anyone that missed this, a while back James recounts someone saying that there was this comment stating how Sakura is useless and weak because she is using hand-me down techniques that Tsunade taught her, but Hinata's jutsus are UNIQUE or she at least worked hard to create them or something along those lines. Anyone want to take a crack at demolishing this piece of kitten argument? I sure have stuff to say about it.
Tell me about it. I stopped going to the Fire Emblem subreddit recently because of the Edelgard fans who want to whitewash her character. While the Crimson Flower route may appear to be a heroic choice at first glance, there's a bunch of implications these guys ignore about it that says otherwise. Then they'll just complain about how the translation misrepresented her, while the original Japanese lines make her out to be manipulative and hypocritical. It's like impossible to actually discuss the story there.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
Yeah I wouldn't bother with that debacle. Fire Emblem's fandom has long since become an insane cesspool of WAIFU WARS and obsessive freaks that won't shut up about how their waifu is perfect and can do no wrong or how their waifu is better than someone else's. My Brother stopped checking in on such discussions because he was getting beyond sick of it
Edited by Phantom_999, 11 January 2020 - 05:33 AM.