I think I have another category of fics to add: Those where the protagonist is constantly blackmaled or otherwise coerced into doing what his antagonists want - I'm not saying he or she need to be in control all the time, because it's hard to have any conflict if so, but being the forcible puppet of another is just irritating.
Yes, this means I gave up on reading Saving Connor. The fact that a Snape who honestly wants to produce a Slytherin hero and show him off to the world makes me want to murder him in more protracted and painful ways than the the willing traitors of numerous other fics, that the Malfoy who is in the gradual process of becoming a more normal person without the total dependence on his father to make up his mind inpsires a greater desire to fling him into a pit of quicksand laced with contact-absorbed muscle relaxant more than the mean-spirited, swaggering ass of canon, and the title character, primary of the Boy-Who-Guards, makes me want nothing more than to put him in the Long Term Spell Damage ward beside the Longbottoms, does NOT a successful fanfic make. A pity, because it's nice and long, and might even have lasted me the weekend if it had been tolerable.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Yes, this means I gave up on reading Saving Connor. The fact that a Snape who honestly wants to produce a Slytherin hero and show him off to the world makes me want to murder him in more protracted and painful ways than the the willing traitors of numerous other fics, that the Malfoy who is in the gradual process of becoming a more normal person without the total dependence on his father to make up his mind inpsires a greater desire to fling him into a pit of quicksand laced with contact-absorbed muscle relaxant more than the mean-spirited, swaggering ass of canon, and the title character, primary of the Boy-Who-Guards, makes me want nothing more than to put him in the Long Term Spell Damage ward beside the Longbottoms, does NOT a successful fanfic make. A pity, because it's nice and long, and might even have lasted me the weekend if it had been tolerable.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows