Hate Fic

Of course, a lot of the people who wrote those fics figured "Deconstruct" meant "have your Marty Stu come in and shoot everybody while insulting them."

—Binaroid: from Revenge Fic Discussion on the TV Tropes forums

Simply put, Hate Fic is Revenge Fic on a series-wide scale. The author sets out to deliberately attack an entire show, either through simply mocking it and its characters or by the techniques of Deconstruction.

When done poorly, this often takes the form of a badly-done Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, which attempts to discredit a show based on unfavorable comparison with another rather than by any serious examination of the target series's actual flaws.

Invariably, this leads to cries of "If you hate the show so much, why bother writing about it?" and other similar questions begged by the premise.

Note: It is a Hate Fic only if it covers an entire series. Examples that focus on a single character belong under Revenge Fic.

Examples of Hate Fic include:
  • One of the most famous examples is the EPU fanfic Neon Exodus Evangelion, written in response to Gryphon's disgust for what he felt was the pointless nihilism of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The man receives enough hatemail from enraged fanboys that if it were all paper, the rain forests would be screaming. He considers the fanfic a success.
    • These days, it's generally met with either admiration or derisive laughter.
    • There are even a few fanfics written that are hate fics against hate fics. An example includes Kyrie Eleison, which from the first paragraph states it was written to deconstruct fics like Neon Exodus Evangelion.
  • Chunin Exam Day and Partially Kissed Hero by Perfect LionHeart (aka Jared "Skysaber" Ornstead) are both this in their core (for Naruto and Harry Potter respectively)... at least when they are not spewing his morality and sense of "justice" and revenge. They tend to abound with Complete Monsters (including the protagonists), Straw Losers, massive powerups, plotholes, long lectures of what sucks from the Canon and why, torturing/mutating the characters into copies of how they "should be" and loads and loads of cynicism. Fans are divided between those who believe the guy is a genius level writer (both fics have over 10,000 reviews) and the rest who believe he is pure evil and a deranged psychopath with very few touches of the actual canon.
    • Some fans split the difference and consider him simultaneously one of the most talented worldbuilders and one of the single worst writers that they have ever seen. Seriously, if you want a clear example of the distinction between intelligently extrapolating and exploring the logical consequences of a fictional setting (yes), crafting a coherent and interesting plot (not only no, but hell no), or creating consistent and engaging characters (ia, ia, Cthulhu fhtagn!) read an Ornstead fic.
  • A fanfiction of the video game Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within had all the characters slaughtered by the characters from Clock Tower 1. The Struggle Within is probably the least popular of the Clock Tower games.
  • In the aftermath of DC Comics' Crisis Crossover, Final Crisis, the internet saw a great torrent of hate fics for it, not to mention the run on Batman that Grant Morrison wrote. The most common criticisms for this is "I do not understand it, therefore I hate and mock it" which is actually a minor theme in the story. People don't seem to realize that this wasn't done by Grant "Justice League and New X-Men" Morrison, but rather was written by Grant "Animal Man and Doom Patrol (or read this multiple times to fully appreciate/understand it), telling a chapter in an epic story that acknowledges all that was written before" Morrison.
  • Twilight gets this treatment a lot, to the point where around half of the fics listed in the recs page are these. And most of the crossovers (a lot of which can be summarized as "Dracula punches the sparkly-boy").
  • The Inheritance Cycle, with The Storm Dragons among the most well-known examples.
  • The ones for Sailor Moon are the stuff of legend, especially Nav's work. Highlights include one where the Senshi have taken over the world with mind control and are all (about 5 dozen of them) killed by Samus Aran, most without even being mentioned by name, and repeated recurrences of Tuxedo Mask being the only one to put up a fight or the Sailors just giving up before the battle even starts because he's not there—despite these almost universally being based on the anime, where he doesn't even get any attacks, and can just throw roses and give speeches.
  • The Doorstop is one directed at another fanfic, The Open Door, which, if you've heard of it, likely know it's a bit...divisive for readers. Iolaus, the author, read it, and decided he could tell the story better - so he did so, flipping the perspective away from New Chaos and to the more heroic factions, as well as numerous other changes. The result is a bit more even-handed than other examples on this page, although some reviews would claim otherwise.
  • Anything written by Sidneylovesdaleks.
  • The Federation from Star Trek, especially after Star Trek: The Next Generation, is frequently portrayed as a semi-communist dystopia, only averting the worst horrors of the stereotype due to their Applied Phlebotinum. The website StarDestroyer.net is famous for advocating and supporting this view, as seen in this essay.
    • This fanfic(?) shows how the Federation could go from the TOS to TNG in a disturbingly realistic way.
    • Also "starred" in Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger.
    • It's already a collectivist utopia ("needs of many..."), so even those who like it have little wriggling room before they either need to build a wall of handwavium and write "Move Along, Nothing to See Here" on it or add something that beats the parodies and Troll Fics. And all those hilariously well-fitting details are ingrained too deeply: the use of transporters (which says something about their views or values, however you spin it), the Running Gag of malfunctions ("Soviet means Outstanding!"), personal weapons of the "H.Sapiens Club" clearly not designed for human anatomy (coughTupolevcough), etc. The maniacally-depressive Space Elves are not noteworthy on their own, at least, by now, but still add bonus Flame Bait. Star Trek provides enough of material that it's not mocked more mainly because it's like shooting fish in the barrel of circular swimming, and it's not mocked less mainly because its fandom makes too a target tempting for flaming.
  • One day, an angry Voltes V fanboy decided to take Voltron and its characters, replace their canon heroic personalities with countless straw attributes, mostly the Demonization kind; get Voltes V and countless other Super Robots plus Space Sheriff Shaider to always hand the Voltron Team's asses to them; repeat the same formula for the next 84 chapters; and the internet got Voltes V Versus Voltron: The Godaikin Wars.
  • Right Behind for Left Behind.
  • A truly bizarre case with My Little Unicorn: Magic is Believing, a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic-that-isn't-a-fanfic written by an author who makes no secret of his loathing for the show and its themes. That the guy went to write sequels and an expanded universe of that fic only makes it even more baffling.
    • The same author went to write another hate fic for MLP:FiM titled Friendship is Failure, dedicated to "prove" that the "friendship Aesop" from the series is utterly unrealistic. That's a dedication on hate there.
  • Some person disappointed about Invader Zim‍'‍s cancellation decided that it was somehow all The Fairly OddParents‍'‍ fault and as a result, created this (dead) fic right here. The real reason[1] was pointed out, but seemed to have been ignored.
  • Evidently the Imperium of Man attracts this from those who know little about it (especially the part where it's such a vile mockery of what the Emperor tried to do, it conclusively proves that in its universe dead guys cannot spin), but raise to related Flame Bait memes like "Furry Exterminatus".
  1. ↑ it was low ratings, Nightmare Fuel, and Executive Meddling that killed Zim, not Timmy Turner, not to mention the fact that Fairly Oddparents debuted at almost the same time as the show, and the preemption could have for any other show
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