Not to pour too much seriousness into a question in jest, so much as I am just saying the horse is just a fetid carcass at this point. It is beyond the point of being beaten. It's dead. It's over.
That's true, really. It just feels kinda like Smash Bros has solidifed certain "roles" to characters it features, and usually those getting short end of the stick will just be remembered for that only, no matter how favorite they are to people. Guess what happens to fans who don't like it?
Trying to tolerate something like that as more modest fan that isn't into "poking fun all the time as a routine" gets quite quickly to nerves because it tells me there's not much else to the character worthy looking than being everyone's favorite chew toy, especially if it's a human being that either is dim-witted or has it coming for him due somethin' about himself that makes it okay, kinda like a friendly thing. I was looking for that here and got delivered nothing of a sign on that. One could say I have little sense of humor when it comes to poking fun at others in the expense of what they lack or how they stack. Also I've never been a fan of sociopathic humor
(like "played around" pseudo-prejudice to "losers", if they generally well-mannered people and misfortune comes from others rather than them).
On the other hand, I'm just speaking here as a minority of Chrom-fans not liking how he's now being portrayed most of the time, compared to majority of them who is fine with it and fuel it further. As of late now though, it's going to be impossible to avoid it and ATM it has made me almost lose interest to the character because apparently investing on him will only make me feel more annoyed and bitter that he's nowadays Smash's (and thus Fire Emblem Awakening's) buttmonkey of an "Unfortunate NPC". Also the fact that he's now a whiny manchild of a husbando to a lot fangirls and popular artists.
Of course, that'd be saying I have then little tolerance and maybe reasons to like the character, but I just feel like it's like living in what were dysfunctional fandoms as that only "regular" fan who tries to dig into the character instead joining around in fads- (Sonic's furry fandom, Bronies, etc.)
Of course, OOC:ing has been done to Marth and other FE-characters but at least they aren't portrayed constantly in the light where it's always "hilariously tragic" on their end and are shown fluff more than comedic sociopathy. Which is why currently I'm just annoyed with the current "label" Chrom is now having, as now I'm gonna only see him portrayed as a Luigified loser character instead of what he truly is rather, much like the above (but worse).
Well, Robin AND Lucina are in Smash. So for the outsiders looking in, that ship is going to be the first thing that comes to their minds, especially since Robin played the heroic knight to save the damsel in distress in his confirmation video.
I don't personally mind the pair, and at times it has those special things that makes it feel unique from rest (rather different confession image with MU!/Robin + Lucina, the Hot Springs-conversation, the OST-image with Lucina having the very same flowers she got from MU!/Robin). But indeed, this can go in way of other pairings in the future if pushed around.
The difference is that Palutena, well...
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She was practically asking for creepy remarks. Lucina, though, what is she doing wrong?
Palutena is bit of a mixed bag to me as of late when coming to character. Apparently her wittiness and snark now correspond to her being secretly mean to Pit and also huge egoism that can override feelings of others (basically Viridi's nicer version) and she also now possesses more sexual innuendo than Uprising could ever give to her, which I don't really enjoy.