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* Jhonen Vasquez seems to have an accidental habit of making these: His first creation, Johnny C from ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]],'' has an '''insane''' amount of fangirls (usually among the [[Goth|Gothic]], Hot Topic-loving crowd) who claim that he's [[The Woobie|just misunderstood and lonely]]. They seem to overlook that Johnny is schizophrenic, psychotic, sociopathic, and [[Ax Crazy]]; that he killed an entire restaurant full of people because [[Rant-Inducing Slight|someone said he "looked wacky"]]; he has entire torture chambers in his [[Torture Cellar]] that contain who-knows-how-many people; he tried to ''murder the one girl who really liked him'' and drove her to become a recluse and hide in her apartment almost 24/7 out of paranoia; and he has killed numerous people for various insane reasons. Interestingly enough, Jhonen does portray Johnny as a sympathetic character a few times in the comics; and Johnny '''does''' live in a [[Crapsack World]].

** To get into even weirder territory, one-shot character [[Loony Fan|Jimmy]] has a surprising number of fans who adore him (and some [[Ho Yay|pair him up with Nny]]). They ignore that Jimmy killed people to [[In Love with Your Carnage|imitate Johnny's "murderous style"]] and to get his attention. Not only that, but he was the person who brutally raped and killed a cheerleader, which crime Johnny was accused of in an earlier issue. And there's also Johnny's distaste for Jimmy and [[Even Evil Has Standards|what he's done]]:

** It doesn't help that Nny's target audience consists predominantly of Goths and similar "outcasts" marginalized by mainstream culture; and that most (though certainly not all) of those who Johnny kills are the [[Crapsack World|crapsack people]] known for bullying, ostracising, and otherwise tormenting the "freaks" who make up the majority of Vasquez's pre-''[[Invader Zim]]'' fans. Nny lampshades this in one killing spree by announcing the various "sins" of his victims as he's killing them; this spree was triggered by a [[Jerkass]] bystander offhandedly referring to him as a "fag". Nny has no qualms about killing innocent bystanders, but [[Misaimed Fandom|many fans seem to miss that detail]]. The only person who seems safe from the Nny's murderous psychosis is Squee, who is himself portrayed as an embryonic Johnny, due to his crapsack parents and crapsack life. The ''Squee'' spinoff series strongly supports this interpretation.

** As noted below, Vasquez's work (including ''[[Invader Zim]]'') seems to inspire it, and he always seems mystified and disdainful of it, even sneering at how fans like stupid, violent, or just plain loser characters. He ignores that it's really no one's fault but his own as everything he does is set in a [[Crapsack World]] that couldn't possibly be taken seriously anyway, the people the fans like are a [[Villain Protagonist]] often with their name on the cover (are we supposed to pick up each new issue/watch each new episode just to assure ourselves that no, we still don't like them?), their personalities are strange and quirky in a way that only works in fiction, and their most visible victims are always [[Asshole Victim|extremely unsympathetic]]. Jhonen is either [[Idiot Ball|alarmingly unaware of what he himself is writing]], or he's [[Hypocrite|trying to have his moral high horse-shaped cake and eat it too]].