Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-25555436-20150105014030

Flashfire212 wrote: Everything you said. If a well-made OC is as worthwhile as a cliché canon character....then it isn't worth much. The OC bashing is more than justified. Why? Because OCs don't just suffer from, they breathe, 3 particular things:

-Sturgeons Law.

-Mary Sue/Marty Stu.

-Cliché and often Stereotyped, like if being a cliché Marty Stu wasn't enough.

I wouldn't bash OCs as much, if they were actually good enough to be worthy of respect. However, the number of OCs that are actually good enough to be respected, I can count them in 1 hand, and I still have enough fingers left to grab 2 cups of coffee with that same hand.

So sorry kid, but like it or not, the OC Bashing is completely justified, and it will keep going until this fandom someday, somehow, gets a spear of Originality and a dozen blades of Creativity piercing their heads followed with a hammer of Quality-Standards.