Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28501958-20160704052843/@comment-28501958-20160706041317

Fedora Lord Para 348 wrote:People aren't generally irked due to a character being more sympathetic than the other, but because of how they liked a character more. Very true, but there are certainly exceptions. For example... while I really liked Toph Beifong vs. Terra and consider it a well-written fight with a solid analysis and a pretty funny wrap-up, Toph comes off as an insufferably smug jerk, and this is from a hard-core ATLA fan who has always really liked Toph. I actually found myself rooting against one of my favorite characters because of what a jerk they were in the DB.

This isn't the only fight that had this effect. I've also read a couple of battles where characters I really like were given lousy reasons for fighting (such as avenging a friend that their target hadn't even killed), and found it pretty hard to root for them, even though they were characters I liked more than their opponents.

I might just be a weirdo, but I'd still be a little surprised if I was seriously the only person on this wiki who had had a similar experience.