Round 1, Match 20 — Apple/Darling (Ever After High) vs. Dani/Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor)

ROUND 2 — Match 137 of 138

Tybalt (Romeo & Juliet)

Problematic because: "kills Mercutio (<-fan favorite character)"
Propaganda: "HEAR ME OUT Tyblat is actually so much more reasonable and level-headed than anyone gives him credit for. I hate that he's boiled down to 'guy with anger issues' when he distinctly DOESN'T have anger issues. he's raised in a family dynamic where if you're a man from either Capulet or Montague and you come across another man from either family, you just fight them on the spot. that's the norm for him. that's what he grew up in. and then everyone around him is giving him mixed signals about what the acceptable things to do are. he sees romeo at the party and goes 'right so my job is to fight him!' and his uncle pulls him aside and goes 'no actually we don't fight romeo because he's kinda pathetic. he's not an actual threat. he's too busy obsessing over girls who don't like him back.' so tybalt goes 'oh. ok.' and recalibrates. and then later on when he once again believes that his proper role and job would be to fight romeo, mercutio steps in and goes 'nah man, you're not fighting romeo. fight me instead!!' and tybalt REPEATEDLY REFUSES. mercutio provokes him over and over again and tybalt is able to keep his goal in mind. me personally, if mercutio were talking to ME like that, I'd have fought him. mercutio's 100% the instigator. idk man I just. tybalt's significantly more reasonable that the guys in the opening of the play. he's significantly more reasonable than mercutio. he's trying to do whatever his family would consider right and proper. I just feel bad for him. he's really out here with the reputation of a guy who can't control his temper when he's got a lot more control than most of these other guys."

vs. Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Problematic because: "Basically a corporate dictator with a hero complex. He takes over Hyperion, declares himself the saviour of Pandora, and then uses that as an excuse to bomb settlements, kill employees, wipe out anyone he labels a “bandit,” and generally treat an entire planet like his personal cleanup project. He’s also holding his daughter Angel in a control core and using her powers to charge a Vault Key, which is the big magical/sci-fi key he needs to wake up an ancient monster called the Warrior and use it to take over Pandora properly. So he’s using his own daughter, running a violent corporate regime, and trying to justify mass murder because he thinks he’s the good guy. He also kills Roland, captures Lilith so he can use her powers after Angel dies, betrays Claptrap after getting what he needs from him, kills Mordecais pet bird, and has a whole casino later revealed to be a rigged trap that leaves people stuck there losing everything. A lot of the appeal is that he’s funny, but the actual list is like... dictatorship, child imprisonment/exploitation, murder, corporate violence, mass surveillance, revenge killings, and an insane amount of propaganda"
Propaganda: 1. "Handsome Jack is awful, but he’s one of the best awful characters in games. He’s funny enough that you understand why people remember every other line he says, but the game also keeps making it worse until the jokes stop covering how terrifying he actually is. He genuinely thinks he’s the hero, and that makes him so much more interesting than if he were just doing evil things for no reason. He’s petty, cruel, charismatic, pathetic, and dangerous, usually all in the same conversation. Vote Jack because sometimes the villain is iconic for a reason."
2. "THE problematic fave for me. like yes he’s a dictator, yes he uses his daughter as a battery, yes he keeps calling everyone bandits so he can feel better about killing them, but unfortunately he is also really really funny. every time he calls you just to say something insane i’m like okay i hate you but keep talking. he’s horrible in a way that actually matters to the story, and he’s entertaining enough that you get why borderlands kept dragging his ghost back into things. terrible man. excellent villain. awful father. 10/10"
3. "this man has committed every crime available in the sci-fi capitalism starter pack and still finds time to make jokes about pretzels. he’s a dictator, a terrible boss, a terrible dad, a worse boyfriend, and somehow still the funniest person on the echo. would i trust him with literally anything? no. would i listen to him monologue for twenty minutes while everything exploded behind him? unfortunately yes"
4. "There's a reason he's in most of the games in the series. Like he's undoubtedly a bad guy but he's very entertaining to watch. He'll call you up and play violin badly and then tell you you're a bitch, canonically. The series wouldn't have got this far without him."
5. "Annoyingly charming and funny. Good yaoi ship(s)."

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ROUND 2 — Match 12 of 138

Enji Todoroki/Endeavor (My Hero Academia)

Problematic because: "Familial abuse, human trafficking(he bought his wife), implied marital rape, child neglect, child grooming"
Propaganda: "He and his family are such an accurate representation of some people in that situation. Enji hurts his family, grooms two of his four children into being pro heroes(because he hates his own weakness and wants those two kids to be the strongest), drives one of his kids to what is basically a suicide attempt just to get his attention back, abuses and isolates his youngest child until he's 15/16, and neglects his two middle children because they don't have his fire quirk. After the whole war against the villains thing, he realizes that he fucks up and he tries his damn best to atone. He doesn't ask for redemption or forgiveness, but just atonement. And his family is all mixed up about it. His wife helps take care of him(he's in a wheelchair after the war), his daughter helps as well, his youngest WANTS to see him become better, his second youngest left because he can't stand seeing him changing(fair enough), and his oldest is in the hospital after trying to kill himself for the second time, and he is still glad because Enji comes and visits him in the hospital. Basically, I really really love their story, and Enji doesn't deserve all the hate he gets in the MHA Fandom because he genuinely did change, but he still did fucked up things for 24/25 years and he acknowledged that."

vs. Ketheric Thorm (Baldur's Gate 3)

Problematic because: "He helped Gortash and Dark Urge create the Absolute Plot to conquer Faerun with Illithid Tadpoles. He unleashed a curse on his village that turned the whole region into a shadowed wasteland. And he did all this just because he couldn’t cope with the loss of his wife and daughter."
Propaganda: "He is arguably, either one of the most sympathetic or one of the easiest to hate of the three main villains, due to his tragic backstory and the disproportionate response he has to anything that goes wrong in his life. Also, the voice acting for all his scenes is so good."

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ROUND 1 — Match 274 of 276

Michael Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Problematic because: "eats people"
Propaganda: "he's supposed to be the embodiment of lies and yet! he's surprisingly honest"

vs. Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Problematic because: "Basically a corporate dictator with a hero complex. He takes over Hyperion, declares himself the saviour of Pandora, and then uses that as an excuse to bomb settlements, kill employees, wipe out anyone he labels a “bandit,” and generally treat an entire planet like his personal cleanup project. He’s also holding his daughter Angel in a control core and using her powers to charge a Vault Key, which is the big magical/sci-fi key he needs to wake up an ancient monster called the Warrior and use it to take over Pandora properly. So he’s using his own daughter, running a violent corporate regime, and trying to justify mass murder because he thinks he’s the good guy. He also kills Roland, captures Lilith so he can use her powers after Angel dies, betrays Claptrap after getting what he needs from him, kills Mordecais pet bird, and has a whole casino later revealed to be a rigged trap that leaves people stuck there losing everything. A lot of the appeal is that he’s funny, but the actual list is like... dictatorship, child imprisonment/exploitation, murder, corporate violence, mass surveillance, revenge killings, and an insane amount of propaganda"
Propaganda: 1. "Handsome Jack is awful, but he’s one of the best awful characters in games. He’s funny enough that you understand why people remember every other line he says, but the game also keeps making it worse until the jokes stop covering how terrifying he actually is. He genuinely thinks he’s the hero, and that makes him so much more interesting than if he were just doing evil things for no reason. He’s petty, cruel, charismatic, pathetic, and dangerous, usually all in the same conversation. Vote Jack because sometimes the villain is iconic for a reason."
2. "THE problematic fave for me. like yes he’s a dictator, yes he uses his daughter as a battery, yes he keeps calling everyone bandits so he can feel better about killing them, but unfortunately he is also really really funny. every time he calls you just to say something insane i’m like okay i hate you but keep talking. he’s horrible in a way that actually matters to the story, and he’s entertaining enough that you get why borderlands kept dragging his ghost back into things. terrible man. excellent villain. awful father. 10/10"
3. "this man has committed every crime available in the sci-fi capitalism starter pack and still finds time to make jokes about pretzels. he’s a dictator, a terrible boss, a terrible dad, a worse boyfriend, and somehow still the funniest person on the echo. would i trust him with literally anything? no. would i listen to him monologue for twenty minutes while everything exploded behind him? unfortunately yes"
4. "There's a reason he's in most of the games in the series. Like he's undoubtedly a bad guy but he's very entertaining to watch. He'll call you up and play violin badly and then tell you you're a bitch, canonically. The series wouldn't have got this far without him."
5. "Annoyingly charming and funny. Good yaoi ship(s)."

(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)

That fictional character is really cute, I hope they abuse me mentally, physically, and sexually.