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* Many people blame [[TheScrappy Scrappy-Doo]] for ruining ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' (specifically, dumping half the original cast, switching to a TwoShorts format, and the franchise's first clumsy attempts to lose the ScoobyDooHoax) due to the timing of his introduction, despite the fact that the conventional mystery format and half the cast were dumped over a year ''after'' his debut. Ironically, despite even later showrunners and writers treating the character with disdain, Scrappy is what probably saved the show from cancellation way back in 1979. And the success of that new incarnation of Scooby Doo is likely what has kept the franchise going on to this day.
* Fans of the original ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' comic book attacked the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' cartoon for excluding ComicBook/WonderGirl while including most of the other Justice League sidekicks. In reality, Wonder Girl was legally barred from appearing in the first season of the show due to rights issues. These same issues had earlier kept the character from appearing on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', and Wonder Woman from appearing in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. She eventually appeared in the second season.
** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' have since gone on to blame ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' for the cancellations of their beloved cartoons. Never mind that the creative teams behind the new shows had ''nothing'' to do with cancelling the older WesternAnimation/DCNation cartoons. And ''Beware The Batman'' got cancelled and written off soon after.
** Many fans blamed Creator/DanDiDio for Wally West's death in the ''Young Justice'' season 2 finale (as the character was declared "toxic" in the ComicBook/New52 and was in ComicBookLimbo until ComicBook/DCRebirth), despite the fact that [=DiDio=] has ''nothing'' to do with DC Animation. Creator/GregWeisman has stated he planned on killing off Wally as far back as Season 1.
* Creator/MarvelAnimation fans love to blame everything wrong with any Marvel cartoon on Creator/JephLoeb. Notably, he was blamed for cancelling ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' to replace it with ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''. In reality, ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' was not doing well with the network's target demographic and wasn't doing great in merchandise either. Creator/DisneyXD commissioned ''Assemble'' in order to have a show more similar to [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the mega-hit live-action film]] that could better gear itself to younger audiences.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the episode introducing Dwight Conrad was originally scheduled for season 3, but was held back to season 5, despite the fact that the character appears in a number of episodes in between this. Many fans assumed that this was due to the Fox Network's seemingly random scheduling (which resulted in similar continuity errors regarding a few minor characters) but in fact some dialogue needed to be re-recorded and the actor playing Dwight wasn't available at the time. The decision to delay airing was made by the show's producers.
* Nickelodeon took a lot of heat for the second half of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' taking so long to air that two episode [[ShortRunInPeru premiered in Canada]] and another two [[ConclusionInAnotherMedium on DVD]]. However, this was because production on the finale had been delayed, and Nickelodeon didn't want to air less than half of a season only to have another hiatus right before the end of the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** There was lots of rage surrounding the new [[TheMovie film spinoff]] of the TV series, mostly about how it was Creator/GeorgeLucas's "worst movie yet!" In fact, Lucas's input was more or less limited to suggesting that the show's feature-length pilot episode be distributed theatrically instead of airing on television.
** Many blame Disney for canceling the series after it bought the ''Star Wars'' franchise in favor of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''. But the rights to ''The Clone Wars'' at the time were owned by Creator/CartoonNetwork, which made for [[ScrewedByTheLawyers an awkward legal situation]]. ''Rebels'' was actually in the works ''before'' the Disney buyout, due to the ratings of ''The Clone Wars'' declining (meaning that the show was slowly becoming unprofitable) and the Lucasfilm crew still wanting to do a ''Star Wars'' animated show that branched off of ''The Clone Wars''.
** Due to the turbulent status of the franchise in early 2018, it became increasingly common for many to state that Disney only UnCanceled ''The Clone Wars'' in order to bring an end to the controversies. However, given that most of those controversies were just a few months old, animation (especially as visually appealing as ''The Clone Wars'') takes a ''[[ProductionLeadTime long]]'' time to make, and the teaser clearly had fully animated segments, it had to have been in the works well before that.
* ''Warner Bros.' WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' has received some undeserved bashing because the people in question think it got ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' cancelled. ''Animaniacs'' and ''Freakazoid!'' (the latter of which was canned a year ''before'' ''Histeria!'' even began production) were actually cancelled because the shows were seen as underperforming with Kids' WB!'s target demographic. Series creator Tom Rugger himself placed the blame for ''Animaniacs''' cancellation on the success of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', for convincing executives that dubbing children's anime would be more profitable than creating their own programming.
** ''Freakazoid''[='=]s cancellation is also sometimes blamed on ComicBook/{{Madman}} creator Mike Allred, on the grounds that he sued over Freakazoid's similarity to his creation. This is not true: Mike has openly stated that he was unhappy that he didn't receive a credit for his influence, but he never sued -- he didn't feel it was worth it.
* For whatever reason, when the 1999 unaired {{pilot}} of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' made its way online, many fans mistook it for an attempt to reboot the series. This caused people to cry racism because the "new" Miranda was shown as being a brown-haired Caucasian (as opposed to being black in the series). For the record, Miranda's race was changed for the final show to invoke ActorSharedBackground with her VA, Cree Summer.
* A very strong example of [=misblamed=] ignorance plus the NostalgiaFilter is the 2003 series of ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}''. It was complained by fans of the '80s version for being an "InNameOnly remake of the '80s version", with no Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, or ultra-silly themes as well as how it was less faithful to the comics. While it certainly doesn't share too much in common with the 80s cartoon, it was actually ''that'' incarnation of the franchise that was the InNameOnly adaptation. The 2003 series remains one of the more faithful adaptations of the source material.
** The ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' comic book series doesn't help matters, since it was based off of the animated series and was probably read more by said complainers. Of course, Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios didn't produce that book series--it was licensed out to Archie Comics.
* People who don't realize there are ''two'' English dubs of at least the first three seasons of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' like to slam [=4Kids=] for their horrible "redub" of the series. The "redub" in question was done by a Canadian company and is actually more faithful to the original version than the [=4Kids=] dub is.
** On a latter note, [=4Kids=] is sometimes blamed for plot holes they did not create. For example, Beta Academy is mentioned in the original Italian dub.
** Now that Nickelodeon owns the show, they're getting lots of criticism for their "changes" (new music, Layla's name to Aisha, etc.). Some of these people thought [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] created ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. The truth: Nickelodeon's undoing many of [=4Kids=]'s changes to make a more faithful English dub.
** Nickelodeon's treatment of the show is infamous, but there's a lot of ambiguity over what was going on behind the scenes. While sending the show to Nick Jr. wasn't unusual for Nick, Rainbow has said that they wanted to retool the show for younger children (due to experimenting with adult-themed spin-offs, like ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' and the live-action Netflix series). Rainbow ending their deal with Nickelodeon is often seen as them realizing too late the deal was a bad idea, but Rainbow has said that they had issues affording the California voice actors.
* Most of the hate for Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' stemmed from the disproven idea that it was the show that replaced ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. SBT was cancelled because it couldn't secure any merchandising deals, while ''Problem Solverz'' had already been in the works for years before said decision was made.
** Likewise, the network's former president Christina Miller is often blamed for the channel focusing on [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo more]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball comedic]] [[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 cartoons]] rather than airing more action-oriented stuff. Some viewers even accused her of being a {{Moral Guardian|s}} who [[ScrewedByTheNetwork actively sabotages shows]] that are even ''slightly'' action-based just because they aren't what she thinks the viewing audience wants. In reality, action-based shows were [[OlderThanTheyThink already in decline]] on the network well before Miller took the helm, with examples including ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'', ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', all of which were cancelled in the years prior to Miller's arrival. While Miller has certainly continued the network's trend towards comedy, she cannot be blamed for starting it.
*** Heck, several ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' fans blamed her for ending the shows, when in fact, the respective creators of both shows---Pendleton Ward and J.G. Quintel---decided to end their shows with Seasons 9 and 8, respectively.
** The following CN president, Tom Ascheim, is getting blamed for completely pulling the plug on the idea of any action or story-based series airing on the network because of his alleged belief that [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoons are only for kids and kids alone]], as well as his supposed opposition to any show that might draw in a PeripheryDemographic, with some even believing that his decision to create a [[{{Creator/Cartoonito}} new preschool block]] was done to ward off older viewers from the network. However, it must be noted that action cartoons had already been on the decline on the network for years, as has been mentioned above, and that if Ascheim was not there to pull the plug, someone else would have done the same. However, it is still up to debate on whether Ascheim is directly responsible for killing off story-based series on the network, as some were [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall still]] [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain being]] [[WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino greenlit]] during Miller's tenure.
* It's usually held that the mature content in ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' was the result of Creator/JohnKricfalusi's ProtectionFromEditors. Given John K's departure from the original series was partly over Nickelodeon's censorship policies, it's an easy assumption to make, but according to Kricfalusi himself, it was [[ExecutiveMeddling forced on him by higher-ups at Spike TV]]. However, it is hotly disputed whether or not this is the full story, considering his history of NeverMyFault.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'' is sometimes used as an example of the Disney/Marvel merger ruining Marvel forever, but it began production before Disney bought them.
* When ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'' was announced, fans were quick to blame Nickelodeon for deliberately waiting for Hillenburg's death to produce the spin-off. While his thoughts on the show are unknown, it is possible that Hillenburg was ''aware'' of the show being developed, as the development began shortly before he passed away. ''Kamp Koral'' developer Vincent Waller originally tweeted his belief that Hillenburg was aware of the show, but he later [[https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1357689641005056000 retracted the statement,]] saying that the stressful period "kinked up my chronological memories of events into a bit of a slippery jumble for that entire block of time."
* Creator/SethMacFarlane tends to get misblamed on a lot of things (possibly due to his {{hatedom}} claiming that he is everything that's wrong with animation). One notable one is the animation of Creator/ButchHartman. He is automatically blamed for those just because the two of them are friends despite the fact that [=MacFarlane=] has nothing to do with those projects. Instead, it's Hartman and Fred Seibert (the latter which never seems to get any sort of hate despite being the producer of those shows). And of course, there's the cash grabs and merchandising that the studio does and not him.
** Another notable misblaming is [=MacFarlane=] being somehow blamed for ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' being cancelled. The truth is that ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' was canceled one full year before ''Futurama'' was and [=MacFarlane=] wasn't even doing anything with Fox at the time. Also, [=MacFarlane=] and Creator/MattGroening happen to be friends in {{real life}} so [=MacFarlane=] probably would have wanted ''Futurama'' to continue. He also had a voice role in the fourth direct-to-DVD ''Futurama'' movie.
** [=MacFarlane=] is also blamed for the direction that ''Family Guy'' went through after the show was un-canceled. [=MacFarlane=] is barely involved with the show's scripts, with the actual writing coming from the story writers. That said, [=MacFarlane=] has veto power over what's in the scripts that do make it to air (in addition to [[ActingForTwo voicing three of]] [[DescendedCreator the main characters]]), so his hands aren't completely clean when it comes to [[DudeNotFunny poorly-received episodes and gags]].
* Similar to the ''Futurama'' example, many ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fans seem to think [=MacFarlane=] was responsible for that show's cancellation, as it was initially replaced by ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. Never mind that ''King'' was on the chopping block for 2-3 years prior due to sagging ratings and erratic scheduling, being renewed only due to fan outcry, the show enjoyed a ''[[LongRunners thirteen-year]]'' run that many shorter-lived animated shows would kill for, and several other shows have rotated in and out of its old timeslot.
** A lot of ''King of the Hill'' fans (even on this very wiki) blame [[TheScrappy Lucky]] for Luanne becoming more ditzy over the years. Luanne TookALevelInDumbass years before Lucky showed up.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** No, Creator/LaurenFaust was not responsible for everything, good or bad, that ever happened on the show. While she did create it and wrote a handful of episodes in the first two seasons, she was only the showrunner during the first season. After which she stepped back to become a consulting producer in Season 2, before leaving the production entirely. She had zero input on ''any'' facet of ''Friendship is Magic'' (much less [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4 Gen 4]] of the ''My Little Pony'' franchise as a whole) from Season 3 onwards.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" is one of the most [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] episodes in the show's history, and its detractors often blame writer M.A. Larson for it. According to him though, the final episode only loosely resembled his original script and many elements had to be hastily cut (without his knowledge) due to the show being unexpectedly renewed for another season, resulting in the final product. Larson being a TeasingCreator who [[https://trixiebooru.org/images/253115 utterly reveled]] in taking the blame for putting wings on Twilight Sparkle didn't help.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'' was largely blamed for the third season only having thirteen episodes, as it was thought the production was truncated so the movie could be made. In reality, the season was only thirteen episodes because Hasbro originally intended it to be a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon. In fact, ''Equestria Girls'' was only greenlit after the massive popularity of the show prompted them to order a fourth season.
** After Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's HeelFaceTurn, the writers were criticized for never doing anything more with the character just as [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter they became interesting and likable]]. However, the writers ''did'' [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2019/09/cut-ideas-and-general-my-little-pony.html want to do more with them]], but Hasbro executives shot all these ideas down due to feeling their story was "over".
** One of the criticisms of Starlight Glimmer's HeelFaceTurn was that it was being done to deliberately copy Sunset Shimmer's redemption and character arc. WordOfGod claims it wasn't, which is substantiated by ProductionLeadTime meaning it was likely written before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' aired[[labelnote:explanation]]The Season 4 premiere [[https://twitter.com/discoveryfamily/status/403973359106404352 had its script locked August 2012]] 15 months before it aired November 2013. Starlight's redemption aired November 2015 and the Season had a two-month hiatus causing ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'' to spoil the episode's happenings, thus it can be assumed to have had its script locked June 2014 three months before ''Rainbow Rocks'' released September 2014.[[/labelnote]] and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap made the previously contentious Sunset popular]] enough to want to copy.
** In response to criticisms of the franchise's villains being EasilyForgiven, ''Equestria Girls'' director Ishi Rudell [[https://mobile.twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/1017125609305042944 revealed]] that [[CreatorBacklash he is also sick of this trend and would be happy to do otherwise]], but it's not up to him, implying this approach was an executive mandate.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''
*** A common point of contention is how it ignores CharacterDevelopment and continuity (outside some cameos) past the end of Season 4, leading to questions about why they sought help from [[spoiler:the hippogriffs]] over all the other allied races they made since then and it not feeling like it fit the shows continuity. Many criticize this as an attempt for ''The Movie'' appeal to wider audiences at the expense of it appealing to existing fans. But work on ''The Movie'' started immediately after end of Season 4, thus ProductionLeadTime would make it impossible to incorporate said later development and continuity beyond cameos if they wanted to or not.
*** Once it came out ''Friendship is Magic'' would end in 2019, some blamed the movie's weak reception and earnings. However, Hasbro stated they wanted it to continue for five years in 2014 when the movie was first announced, wanted to wrap it up [[https://derpibooru.org/1997810 in the very early pitches for Season 7]] while the movie would be mid-production, and months after the movie released leaked early drafts for the next series which was too soon to have been designed in response to its reception. While [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/12/concept-art-from-cancelled-generation-4.html other]] [[https://twitter.com/Chevistian1/status/1096241924930002944 G4]] [[https://twitter.com/Chevistian1/status/1096924149614891009 movies]] may have been canned, the end of ''Friendship is Magic'', already a {{Long Runner|s}} by this point whose toy sales were slowing down before the movie released, was decided well before reception of ''The Movie'' could influence it.
* Due to Disney's history with Creator/GregWeisman related shows (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''), many fans blame Disney for cancelling ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. However, it was more a case of ScrewedByTheLawyers. Due to Disney's acquisition of Marvel, Sony gave away their TV rights to the franchise in order to keep making Spider-Man movies. Since Sony still owned ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', it would've forced Marvel to pay to continue the series.
* Many ''Westernanimation/{{Doug}}'' fans claim that "Disney ruined ''Doug''" when they bought the rights to the show and un-canceled it. In fact, buying ''Doug'' (and slapping their name on it) was the only thing they did to the show. Creator Jim Jinkens made all the changes himself.
* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' may be angry that the shows were cancelled because of ExecutiveMeddling, but it was really because the producers meant from the beginning to make 52 episodes of each series.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Voice actress April Stewart has been blamed by some sore fans for Mona Marshall not having as many roles, as well as the exit of Eliza Schneider. In actuality, Schneider quit on her own terms in 2003 due to a salary dispute and issues with her union [[note]]Around this time, the SAG was advising voice actresses to ''not'' accept roles for the show due to its non-union status, or they would risk being blacklisted or having their health coverage stripped. Along with fines, these are among the expected consequences for union actors who take on non-union work.[[/note]]. Stewart herself had to use an alias for her early work in the show until matters could be settled. It's also worth noting that Marshall always had voiced fewer female characters in comparison, as Schneider had handled the majority of the roles after Mary Kay Bergman's death.
** Due to old fansites like Beef-Cake and convention advertisements mistaking Mona Marshall as the second voice of Wendy, Schneider herself received some blame and misconception of "usurping" the role. In actuality, she'd always voiced the character and simply modified her take after a while. In comparison, April Stewart would later receive flack for making Wendy sound too old, until it was revealed that it was the creators' own decision to not speed up her voice as much (while Mary Kay Bergman could naturally perform the higher voice, Schneider and Stewart had to have their voices digitally modified).
** An in-universe Type 5 example is PlayedForLaughs in "Night of the Living Homeless", where Kyle tries to come up with an idea with what to do with the homeless, and Cartman's idea was to jump over them with his skateboard. The other boys either thank Kyle for the idea that was obviously Cartman's, or in Stan's case, get baffled by it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a serious case of Type 5: Fans who dislike the newer seasons generally say it's all the fault of the showrunner at the time: Mike Scully for Seasons 9-12, and Al Jean for Season 13 and onwards. While Scully and Jean aren't innocent, to be sure, they aren't 100% guilty either.
** The showrunner isn't personally involved with every aspect of the show: The writing staff comes up with plot ideas and first drafts of episodes, while the showrunner selects which episodes get made and leads script revisions. The showrunner also isn't all-powerful: the senior production staff can and do [[ExecutiveMeddling interfere with writing and plot ideas]].
** Scully inherited a show that was starting to go downhill in quality: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operated on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over [[note]]Fox wasn't threatening to cancel the show at the time, but 8 years is a long run for a show like ''The Simpsons'', regardless of quality, and senior staff, Groening included, were dropping hints about the show ending because they wanted the series to go out on a high note.[[/note]], leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality and lack of direction for the show.
*** The hardcore Scully {{Hatedom}} says he did so much damage that the show couldn't be salvaged when he stepped down as showrunner in mid-2001, but that ignores the changes Al Jean implemented on the show: of the disliked elements from Scully's time as showrunner, many were scrapped immediately while many more disappeared over time - very few of the complaints about episodes in Seasons 9-12 can be applied to seasons since then, and vice-versa.
*** Since he became showrunner in Season 9, Scully gets blamed for that season's "The Principal and the Pauper", widely seen to be one of the worst Simpsons episodes ever, if not ''the'' worst. However, Scully was never involved in it. It was a holdover from Season 8, when Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were showrunners, Steven Dean Moore was the director, and Ken Keeler was the writer.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers a few seasons into his time as showrunner, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking. For obvious reasons, Jean's detractors also ignore his time as showrunner in the third and fourth seasons, generally regarded as two of the series' best.
** The voice actors have also run out of steam with recent seasons: Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu) has voiced one-off characters since the show's beginning and admitted in an interview that while he would try to do something new for each of them back in the 1980s and 1990s, he ran out of ideas around Season 10 (August 1998 to May 1999) and can now pull this off only a few times a season, sometimes less.
** Creator/MattGroening gets next to none of the blame for the show's decline, but he probably deserves more: Some of the big complaints about the last 15 or so seasons are {{Flanderization}}, [[{{Anvilicious}} blunt]] political commentary, and the show increasingly resembling ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Incidentally, these are also some of the main complaints about the UnCanceled seasons of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which has little in common with modern-day ''Simpsons'' apart from having Groening at the helm.
* Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' received a case of type 5, with Jackson Publick (credited under his actual name, Chris [=McCulloch=] ) getting the accusation of "usurping" the show from Christy Karacas, as he was put in charge of being the story-editor and having the final call on scripts. If an episode fell flat, a plot twist was done that a fan didn't like, or if there was less violence, it had to be all on him. In actuality, the season 2 format change was something that Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick had wanted to do in hope of breaking away from being formulaic and getting to explore the characters' stories more.
** Type 2 and Type 3 also come into play, as while there was some degree of meddling in season 2 [[note]]mainly having to have the episode "Hot Chick" revised to remove an implication of rape, Mistress Kilda's death having to be toned down in "Lord Stingray Crash Party"[[/note]], some of the moments cited as being the network screwing the creators over (perceived {{Flanderization}}, revelations of the Twins and Alice's backstories) were actually things that the creators themselves had decided on (to obviously mixed reception).
** There is a lesser extent of type 5 with some of the new writers for season 2 (John J. Miller, Joe Croson, Adam Modiano), as none of them had written for the show before and were perceived as being amateurs or not "getting" it. In actuality, while the script is usually the writer's work, they evolve from boardroom pitches between all the writers and outlines by Karacas, the story editor revising the script over time, and there also being uncredited rewrites. In short, an episode that doesn't perform well doesn't always fall on one person. To contrast with the above situation, the writers and story editor in season 3 seemed to receive less blaming and outrage, perhaps as things had cooled down.
* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' often cite the popularity of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' as the reason that ''KP'' got the axe. ''KP'' ended a full year before ''P&F'' started airing regularly, and mainly because the show's creators wanted to move on, with that show's fourth season being an example of UnCanceled anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** As a result of the FandomRivalry, many fans blamed ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' for Disney Channel's bad treatment of ''Gravity Falls''. At the time, ''Phineas and Ferb'' was not only barely even airing on the network due to winding down production, but ''Gravity Falls'' had already established itself as being their newest hit. The odd scheduling was a quirk of the show's production necessitating that new episodes had to be stretched out to a greater extent than its peers; a quirk that would continue into its second season on Disney XD, where it served as the flagship show for that channel.
** Some fans blamed Disney XD for the show's end, but it was actually Hirsch's decision to end the show due to burn-out and wanting to avoid SeasonalRot, with him even wanting to have a far shorter second season (if not just end the show on season one's cliffhanger). Disney actually saw it as a CashCowFranchise due to its immense popularity and wanted to continue the show, forcing him to commit to a 20-episode season as opposed to the ten that he originally wanted once he agreed to do another season, and hoping that Hirsch would change his mind.
* After the infamous ''WesternAnimation/PickleAndPeanut'' was renewed for a second season, fans got angry at it because of the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder''. The truth is that ''P&P'' itself was all but ignored by the network during its run, being placed in a year-long hiatus after its first season, and like [[WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja several]] [[WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes other]] [[WesternAnimation/The7D Disney XD]] [[WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero cartoons]] (including ''Wander'' itself), ended after its second season (albeit on its own terms with a definite finale).
* Some ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' fans blamed co-creator Glen Murakami for doing ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. In fact, though he is credited as associate producer for said show, he has no major involvement in the show and that Aaron Horvath is the creative force behind the series.
* "''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' killed ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]''" is a common complaint of those who preferred the organic traditional animation to the more [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Movie]] accurate CGI of Prime. This isn't ''completely'' true. Hasbro gave Cartoon Network the option to continue using the license to produce ''Animated'', while they would go on to produce ''Prime'' for their new cable channel, [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]]. Cartoon Network decided to end the show independently, as there was no incentive to continuing it if Hasbro would be pulling all funding and ending the toyline.
* In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many people blamed ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' for the fact that ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' were cancelled, when in reality ''Ren and Stimpy'' was cancelled because of low ratings after the creator's firing and ''Rocko's Modern Life'' was cancelled because Nickelodeon thought that Creator/JoeMurray wanted to end his show.
* Man of Action, the creators of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' have been blamed for the [[BrokenBase fan-divided]] ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''. However, they left the franchise after ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien]]'' to work on ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', though they still receive a "created by" credit and in actual fact, art director Derrick Wyatt, executive producer Tramm Wigzell, supervising producer Matt Youngberg and now ex-Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami CEO Stuart Snyder are actually responsible for the stylistic change from the DarkerAndEdgier tone of ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]/Ultimate Alien'' to the DenserAndWackier tone of ''Omniverse''.
** Several ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' fans blamed the show's creator Jay Stephens for the crossover episode "TGIS". However, no one worked on ''The Secret Saturdays'' (much less Stephens himself) had any involvement in the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** No, the show was NOT removed from Nick's schedule and made online exclusive during Book 3 in favor of giving more airtime to Nickelodeon's more comedy-based shows. While it being [[OddballInTheSeries a complete tonal mismatch]] compared to their other programming ''was'' a factor (being a teen-oriented action/adventure series), it was the series seeing far better viewership numbers compared to its on-air ratings during Book 2 that resulted in the decision.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged with regards to the finale]]. Fans blamed Nickelodeon for the ambiguity of the final scene, which shows [[spoiler:Korra and Asami going on a private vacation in the Spirit World, all-but-explicitly a couple]]. Many blamed Nick for the ambiguity of it, and assumed that Bryke had to sneak it in without the studio's knowledge, but after Bryke confirmed the [[spoiler:Korrasami Ship]] online they mentioned that the Studio was supportive of the idea, though due to their Standards and Practices would only allow so much to be shown. So the studio is the reason for the ambiguity, but the scene was done with them fully knowing what was being expressed.
** The finale similarly had other fans accuse Bryke of [[spoiler:queerbaiting]] due to the slightly ambiguous ending. Most were a little more savvy and aware that Standards and Practices would only let them go so far, which Bryke confirmed online.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' got a lot of flack from angry ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fans claiming that the former got the latter canceled. Not only was ''[=ChalkZone=]'' delayed for two years (and thus was not meant to be a replacement show), but ''Zim'' was still running when the first season of ''[=ChalkZone=]'' premiered (''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' are also blamed for this). The real reason why ''Zim'' was canceled was due to the show's high production cost, low ratings, and just generally being ScrewedByTheNetwork. Not to mention that ''[=ChalkZone=]'' itself was also treated horribly by Nick.
** ''[=ChalkZone=]'' also got some flack from people who thought it was a rip-off of the 1970s cartoon ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings''. [[http://www.manic-expression.com/old-school-lanes-nickelodeon-tribute-interview-with-bill-burnett/ Co-creator Bill Burnett stated in this interview]] that he hadn't even seen it when ''[=ChalkZone=]'' was being made.
* In a glaring example of the ''Most Visible Target'' fallacy, many fans of ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' blamed the new kid on the block, ''WesternAnimation/WordParty'', as the reason the former was dropped from Creator/{{Netflix}}, as the former (along with a whole plethora of Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup shows) was dropped days before the latter premiered. The real reason is that [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/01/amazon-prime-pbs-kids-deal Amazon had just snatched the rights out of Netflix's hands by signing a multi-year exclusive deal]] to stream Creator/PBSKids shows.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is often blamed as the main reason for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s perceived decline in the late-2000s. While network executives did deem whether a show was worth keeping based on how much the ratings stacked up in comparison to ''[=SpongeBob=]'' (and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork quickly scrapped any animated series that wasn't in the same ballpark]]), that's about it. The creative staff has no control over how the channel treats their or their colleagues work, and that goes for the vast majority of popular programming.
* Many fans of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' blamed Dreamworks for the new designs introduced in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse''. It was actually Big Idea's decision to change the characters' designs in an attempt to update what they saw as archaic designs that were beholden to the limits of early 1990s 3D animation software.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'''s fundamental destruction of [[MadeInCountryX the reputation of Canadian television animation]] has made it a pretty big source of this, due to the numerous misconceptions its PeripheryHatedom spawned.
** The show's massive hatedom sometimes use it as proof that [[HitlerAteSugar all Canadian animation is horrible]]. What many people forget is that creator Scott Fellows, Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor (Johnny's voice actor), and most of the show's production crew, are Americans. In fact, Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation produced the early seasons while the later seasons were made in association with both Cartoon Network ''and'' Creator/{{Teletoon}}.
** [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content laws]] are often used by people to explain why ''Johnny Test'' ran for as long as it did despite being widely hated, claiming that because the laws require channels to air a certain amount of natively produced content every day it was basically immune to being taken off air. This gets rather silly when you consider the law has been around for a long time; the real reason for ''Johnny Test'''s longevity was simply that its low budget and solid ratings allowed the networks to make profit very easily and thus motivated them to air it as much as possible and continue ordering new seasons.
** People frequently use the show as proof that Creator/{{Teletoon}} uses the cheapest and laziest possible production values for all its original productions, despite the fact Teletoon isn't even an animation studio (and doesn't even have an in-house production company for that matter) and is in fact just a network that's involvement generally involves little more than ordering episodes of shows, lending them ''some'' funding (although they're not the sole donators to any show's budget), and giving executive notes to the production crew. In fact, '''''NONE''''' of Teletoon's original shows were actually made by them, but rather, they were the creations of numerous animation and television studios across Canada (in the case of ''Johnny Test'', the real creators of the show were Creator/CookieJarEntertainment); the only reason Teletoon's shows are called "original productions" is because they were ''originally'' created for/commissioned by the network.
* With ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', it's not uncommon to hear people accuse Creator/{{Teletoon}} as being responsible for all the ExecutiveMeddling that got the DarkerAndEdgier pilot remade into the DenserAndWackier final product. In reality, it was Creator/DisneyXD that mandated all the changes in order to make the series more kid-friendly and thus more marketable to American audiences; Teletoon ''approved'' the pilot concept without issue due to originally intending the series to be aimed more at teenagers, in line with their own programming (such as the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series, their most popular show at the time). This is more evident with the [[SeasonalRot second season]], which received the tonal {{retool}} it did at the request of Disney XD's executives rather than Teletoon's.
* Angry ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fans frequently see Creator/FreshTV and Creator/{{Teletoon}} as being entirely responsible for many of the unpopular or controversial story decisions made in the seasons following the first. However, Creator/CartoonNetwork purchased the majority of the rights to the franchise after the massive success of the first season, giving them greater ownership and [[ExecutiveMeddling far more influence]] over the show and its production than Teletoon, the franchise's channel of origin.
* During ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''[='=]s heyday, it got a lot of flack due to ExecutiveMeddling relating to it removing the use of ''Batman'' characters in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' outside of Bruce Wayne himself. However, both shows were victims of that as, barring a cameo of Nightwing in ''JLU'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' limited the use of Robin (resulting in ''The Batman''[='=]s Robin being a case of AdaptationalLateAppearance) and neither show could use Two-Face, the Scarecrow, or Ra's al Ghul due to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' (resulting in ''The Batman'' using its first Clayface in place of Two-Face, Hugo Strange in place of the Scarecrow, and Black Mask and -- in TheMovie -- [[WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula Count Dracula]] in place of Ra's al Ghul).
* In the Hebrew dub of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', the GratuitousSpanish is replaced with GratuitousEnglish. This caused some controversy - Spanish is the major minority language in the United States, so by that logic, GratuitousSpanish should have become [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Arabic]] instead - overlooking the fact all of Dora's other foreign dubs replaced Spanish with English as well.
* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=CFoZRbPsNuE This video]] blames ''WebAnimation/{{Cocomelon}}'' on the cancellations of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. The biggest problem with this statement is that ''Cocomelon'' is not only aimed at a far younger audience than these two shows, being made for preschoolers as opposed to older children ages 6-12, but they're produced by different companies, for different platforms, all with their their own programming strategies: ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power'' was planned for a 52 episode run from the moment it was greenlit, while ''The Owl House'' was a causality of a corporate leadership change and other factors.
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': The show has been heavily accused of queerbaiting during its seventh season, after publicizing the fact that Shiro was gay and that Adam, his ex-boyfriend, would return that season. In the series proper, Adam is already dead by the time Shiro returns and only appears in two scenes, both of which are flashbacks. While the creators may have, knowingly or not, stoked hype for this plot, fans also blame them for the posters on Netflix's service that heavily marketed that aspect of the seventh season; said posters, however, are not made by the creators, but by Netflix itself, and they have no input in it.
* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'':
** While the crew often gets blamed for creating the infamous initial announcement trailer, story editor Amalia Levari claimed this was out of their control; according to Levari, Crunchyroll had [[https://imgur.com/a/KukJAr4 asked the crew]] isolated behind-the-scenes questions, which they answered [[https://imgur.com/a/rqqLsQR not knowing that those questions would be repurposed into an announcement trailer]]. As [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-06-18/crunchyroll-originals-have-been-a-disaster/.173347 confirmed]] by Sofia Alexander, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'', the production staff don't have any input as to how their shows are marketed by Crunchyroll.
** The series' staff are also accused of diverting funds from subscribers' money into this series' creation. However, not only is this claim unfounded but what has been confirmed runs contrary to it. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-06-18/crunchyroll-originals-have-been-a-disaster/.173347 In 2015]], Crunchyroll had specifically received funding from companies like Sumitomo Corporation and [[https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/crunchyroll/ Otter Media]] to invest in co-productions and original programming, including the Crunchyroll Originals program in general.
* The hatedom of ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'' believes it was responsible for ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' getting ScrewedByTheNetwork, even though they have nothing to do with each other besides sharing [[Creator/PipelineStudios an animation studio]]. Although ''Elinor'' fans thought their show was canned, once season 2 was confirmed to be in production, their claims of ''Wombats'' "killing Elinor" became unfounded.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'':
** The show's staff received no end of flak for not including Scooby-Doo in the show due to feeling he is too "kiddy". While [[https://www.polygon.com/nycc/23392767/velma-nycc-trailer-scooby-doo-mindy-kaling showrunner Charlie Grandy]] certainly did admit that the writing staff thought Scooby-Doo was a generally childish element of the franchise that would have been hard to fit into the show's adult tone, he also revealed that they wouldn't have been able use the character even if they wanted to, as Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation told them that [[ExecutiveVeto the Great Dane was off-limits]].
** The show was also blamed for causing the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' due to how that show was taken off of HBO Max and that Velma came in to seemingly replace it while having Velma's and Fred's character designs look very close to that of Quinn Ergon and Gary Goodspeed respectively. However, ''Final Space'' was screwed over as a result of complications with the merger between WB and Discovery along with the failure of executives to recognize the popularity of the show and that they wrote it off for taxes.
** Many accuse Creator/MindyKaling of being the creator of the series; that honor would go to Charlie Grandy. She also is confused as a writer when she isn't credited as one. She is actually the executive producer.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': When discussing the reasons the show was canceled and Season 3 was shortened to three 44-minute specials, people are usually quick to point to the show's LGBTQ+ representation, particularly due to the former CEO. This ignores [[Series/HighSchoolMusicalTheMusicalTheSeries the]] [[Series/DiaryOfAFuturePresident other]] Disney series with LGBTQ+ representation that were allowed to continue despite it, and creator Dana Terrace [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/q1x1uh/ama_except_by_anything_i_mean_these_questions_only/ stated]] it was due to being serialized with an older audiences seen as not fitting the "Disney brand"--the Disney Channel brand which focused on episodic comedies for young audiences. While a later post Dana made after the 2022 Florida LGBTQ protests [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/t8yf4t/its_hard_not_to_assume_there_was_bad_faith/ suggested]] homophobia was a factor, there are others to consider.
** Due to the unfortunate timing of the episode "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E5ThroughTheLookingGlassRuins Through the Looking Glass Ruins]]", many assumed Amity kissing Luz was what caused Disney to cancel the show. However, due to ProductionLeadTime the decision was most likely made well before the episode was even scripted. Dana Terrace herself would even confirm that the kiss had no influence on cancellation of the show.
* It's commonly claimed, including on this very wiki, that ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' was cancelled on the direct orders of Ted Turner, who disliked the show's violent content and/or wanted to promote his own pet project ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers''. While Turner did disapprove of cartoon violence in general, his distaste was mostly aimed at AnimatedShockComedy shows like ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' rather than action/adventure shows. The actual decision to cancel the show was made well below his level, and seems to have largely happened because the executives in charge ''believed'' Turner disliked it.
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* Fans of the original ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' comic book attacked the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' cartoon for excluding ComicBook/WonderGirl while including most of the other Justice League sidekicks. In reality, Wonder Girl was legally barred from appearing in the first season of the show due to rights issues. These same issues had earlier kept the character from appearing on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', and Wonder Woman from appearing in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. She eventually appeared in the second season.
** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' have since gone on to blame ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' for the cancellations of their beloved cartoons. Never mind that the creative teams behind the new shows had ''nothing'' to do with cancelling the older WesternAnimation/DCNation cartoons. And ''Beware The Batman'' got cancelled and written off soon after.
** Many fans blamed Creator/DanDiDio for Wally West's death in the ''Young Justice'' season 2 finale (as the character was declared "toxic" in the ComicBook/New52 and was in ComicBookLimbo until ComicBook/DCRebirth), despite the fact that [=DiDio=] has ''nothing'' to do with DC Animation. Creator/GregWeisman has stated he planned on killing off Wally as far back as Season 1.
* Creator/MarvelAnimation fans love to blame everything wrong with any Marvel cartoon on Creator/JephLoeb. Notably, he was blamed for cancelling ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' to replace it with ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''. In reality, ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' was not doing well with the network's target demographic and wasn't doing great in merchandise either. Creator/DisneyXD commissioned ''Assemble'' in order to have a show more similar to [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the mega-hit live-action film]] that could better gear itself to younger audiences.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the episode introducing Dwight Conrad was originally scheduled for season 3, but was held back to season 5, despite the fact that the character appears in a number of episodes in between this. Many fans assumed that this was due to the Fox Network's seemingly random scheduling (which resulted in similar continuity errors regarding a few minor characters) but in fact some dialogue needed to be re-recorded and the actor playing Dwight wasn't available at the time. The decision to delay airing was made by the show's producers.
* Nickelodeon took a lot of heat for the second half of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' taking so long to air that two episode [[ShortRunInPeru premiered in Canada]] and another two [[ConclusionInAnotherMedium on DVD]]. However, this was because production on the finale had been delayed, and Nickelodeon didn't want to air less than half of a season only to have another hiatus right before the end of the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** There was lots of rage surrounding the new [[TheMovie film spinoff]] of the TV series, mostly about how it was Creator/GeorgeLucas's "worst movie yet!" In fact, Lucas's input was more or less limited to suggesting that the show's feature-length pilot episode be distributed theatrically instead of airing on television.
** Many blame Disney for canceling the series after it bought the ''Star Wars'' franchise in favor of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''. But the rights to ''The Clone Wars'' at the time were owned by Creator/CartoonNetwork, which made for [[ScrewedByTheLawyers an awkward legal situation]]. ''Rebels'' was actually in the works ''before'' the Disney buyout, due to the ratings of ''The Clone Wars'' declining (meaning that the show was slowly becoming unprofitable) and the Lucasfilm crew still wanting to do a ''Star Wars'' animated show that branched off of ''The Clone Wars''.
** Due to the turbulent status of the franchise in early 2018, it became increasingly common for many to state that Disney only UnCanceled ''The Clone Wars'' in order to bring an end to the controversies. However, given that most of those controversies were just a few months old, animation (especially as visually appealing as ''The Clone Wars'') takes a ''[[ProductionLeadTime long]]'' time to make, and the teaser clearly had fully animated segments, it had to have been in the works well before that.
* ''Warner Bros.' WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' has received some undeserved bashing because the people in question think it got ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' cancelled. ''Animaniacs'' and ''Freakazoid!'' (the latter of which was canned a year ''before'' ''Histeria!'' even began production) were actually cancelled because the shows were seen as underperforming with Kids' WB!'s target demographic. Series creator Tom Rugger himself placed the blame for ''Animaniacs''' cancellation on the success of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', for convincing executives that dubbing children's anime would be more profitable than creating their own programming.
** ''Freakazoid''[='=]s cancellation is also sometimes blamed on ComicBook/{{Madman}} creator Mike Allred, on the grounds that he sued over Freakazoid's similarity to his creation. This is not true: Mike has openly stated that he was unhappy that he didn't receive a credit for his influence, but he never sued -- he didn't feel it was worth it.
* For whatever reason, when the 1999 unaired {{pilot}} of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' made its way online, many fans mistook it for an attempt to reboot the series. This caused people to cry racism because the "new" Miranda was shown as being a brown-haired Caucasian (as opposed to being black in the series). For the record, Miranda's race was changed for the final show to invoke ActorSharedBackground with her VA, Cree Summer.
* A very strong example of [=misblamed=] ignorance plus the NostalgiaFilter is the 2003 series of ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}''. It was complained by fans of the '80s version for being an "InNameOnly remake of the '80s version", with no Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, or ultra-silly themes as well as how it was less faithful to the comics. While it certainly doesn't share too much in common with the 80s cartoon, it was actually ''that'' incarnation of the franchise that was the InNameOnly adaptation. The 2003 series remains one of the more faithful adaptations of the source material.
** The ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' comic book series doesn't help matters, since it was based off of the animated series and was probably read more by said complainers. Of course, Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios didn't produce that book series--it was licensed out to Archie Comics.
* People who don't realize there are ''two'' English dubs of at least the first three seasons of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' like to slam [=4Kids=] for their horrible "redub" of the series. The "redub" in question was done by a Canadian company and is actually more faithful to the original version than the [=4Kids=] dub is.
** On a latter note, [=4Kids=] is sometimes blamed for plot holes they did not create. For example, Beta Academy is mentioned in the original Italian dub.
** Now that Nickelodeon owns the show, they're getting lots of criticism for their "changes" (new music, Layla's name to Aisha, etc.). Some of these people thought [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] created ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. The truth: Nickelodeon's undoing many of [=4Kids=]'s changes to make a more faithful English dub.
** Nickelodeon's treatment of the show is infamous, but there's a lot of ambiguity over what was going on behind the scenes. While sending the show to Nick Jr. wasn't unusual for Nick, Rainbow has said that they wanted to retool the show for younger children (due to experimenting with adult-themed spin-offs, like ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' and the live-action Netflix series). Rainbow ending their deal with Nickelodeon is often seen as them realizing too late the deal was a bad idea, but Rainbow has said that they had issues affording the California voice actors.
* Most of the hate for Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' stemmed from the disproven idea that it was the show that replaced ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. SBT was cancelled because it couldn't secure any merchandising deals, while ''Problem Solverz'' had already been in the works for years before said decision was made.
** Likewise, the network's former president Christina Miller is often blamed for the channel focusing on [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo more]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball comedic]] [[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 cartoons]] rather than airing more action-oriented stuff. Some viewers even accused her of being a {{Moral Guardian|s}} who [[ScrewedByTheNetwork actively sabotages shows]] that are even ''slightly'' action-based just because they aren't what she thinks the viewing audience wants. In reality, action-based shows were [[OlderThanTheyThink already in decline]] on the network well before Miller took the helm, with examples including ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'', ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', all of which were cancelled in the years prior to Miller's arrival. While Miller has certainly continued the network's trend towards comedy, she cannot be blamed for starting it.
*** Heck, several ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' fans blamed her for ending the shows, when in fact, the respective creators of both shows---Pendleton Ward and J.G. Quintel---decided to end their shows with Seasons 9 and 8, respectively.
** The following CN president, Tom Ascheim, is getting blamed for completely pulling the plug on the idea of any action or story-based series airing on the network because of his alleged belief that [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoons are only for kids and kids alone]], as well as his supposed opposition to any show that might draw in a PeripheryDemographic, with some even believing that his decision to create a [[{{Creator/Cartoonito}} new preschool block]] was done to ward off older viewers from the network. However, it must be noted that action cartoons had already been on the decline on the network for years, as has been mentioned above, and that if Ascheim was not there to pull the plug, someone else would have done the same. However, it is still up to debate on whether Ascheim is directly responsible for killing off story-based series on the network, as some were [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall still]] [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain being]] [[WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino greenlit]] during Miller's tenure.
* It's usually held that the mature content in ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' was the result of Creator/JohnKricfalusi's ProtectionFromEditors. Given John K's departure from the original series was partly over Nickelodeon's censorship policies, it's an easy assumption to make, but according to Kricfalusi himself, it was [[ExecutiveMeddling forced on him by higher-ups at Spike TV]]. However, it is hotly disputed whether or not this is the full story, considering his history of NeverMyFault.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'' is sometimes used as an example of the Disney/Marvel merger ruining Marvel forever, but it began production before Disney bought them.
* When ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'' was announced, fans were quick to blame Nickelodeon for deliberately waiting for Hillenburg's death to produce the spin-off. While his thoughts on the show are unknown, it is possible that Hillenburg was ''aware'' of the show being developed, as the development began shortly before he passed away. ''Kamp Koral'' developer Vincent Waller originally tweeted his belief that Hillenburg was aware of the show, but he later [[https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1357689641005056000 retracted the statement,]] saying that the stressful period "kinked up my chronological memories of events into a bit of a slippery jumble for that entire block of time."
* Creator/SethMacFarlane tends to get misblamed on a lot of things (possibly due to his {{hatedom}} claiming that he is everything that's wrong with animation). One notable one is the animation of Creator/ButchHartman. He is automatically blamed for those just because the two of them are friends despite the fact that [=MacFarlane=] has nothing to do with those projects. Instead, it's Hartman and Fred Seibert (the latter which never seems to get any sort of hate despite being the producer of those shows). And of course, there's the cash grabs and merchandising that the studio does and not him.
** Another notable misblaming is [=MacFarlane=] being somehow blamed for ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' being cancelled. The truth is that ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' was canceled one full year before ''Futurama'' was and [=MacFarlane=] wasn't even doing anything with Fox at the time. Also, [=MacFarlane=] and Creator/MattGroening happen to be friends in {{real life}} so [=MacFarlane=] probably would have wanted ''Futurama'' to continue. He also had a voice role in the fourth direct-to-DVD ''Futurama'' movie.
** [=MacFarlane=] is also blamed for the direction that ''Family Guy'' went through after the show was un-canceled. [=MacFarlane=] is barely involved with the show's scripts, with the actual writing coming from the story writers. That said, [=MacFarlane=] has veto power over what's in the scripts that do make it to air (in addition to [[ActingForTwo voicing three of]] [[DescendedCreator the main characters]]), so his hands aren't completely clean when it comes to [[DudeNotFunny poorly-received episodes and gags]].
* Similar to the ''Futurama'' example, many ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' fans seem to think [=MacFarlane=] was responsible for that show's cancellation, as it was initially replaced by ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. Never mind that ''King'' was on the chopping block for 2-3 years prior due to sagging ratings and erratic scheduling, being renewed only due to fan outcry, the show enjoyed a ''[[LongRunners thirteen-year]]'' run that many shorter-lived animated shows would kill for, and several other shows have rotated in and out of its old timeslot.
** A lot of ''King of the Hill'' fans (even on this very wiki) blame [[TheScrappy Lucky]] for Luanne becoming more ditzy over the years. Luanne TookALevelInDumbass years before Lucky showed up.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** No, Creator/LaurenFaust was not responsible for everything, good or bad, that ever happened on the show. While she did create it and wrote a handful of episodes in the first two seasons, she was only the showrunner during the first season. After which she stepped back to become a consulting producer in Season 2, before leaving the production entirely. She had zero input on ''any'' facet of ''Friendship is Magic'' (much less [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4 Gen 4]] of the ''My Little Pony'' franchise as a whole) from Season 3 onwards.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" is one of the most [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] episodes in the show's history, and its detractors often blame writer M.A. Larson for it. According to him though, the final episode only loosely resembled his original script and many elements had to be hastily cut (without his knowledge) due to the show being unexpectedly renewed for another season, resulting in the final product. Larson being a TeasingCreator who [[https://trixiebooru.org/images/253115 utterly reveled]] in taking the blame for putting wings on Twilight Sparkle didn't help.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'' was largely blamed for the third season only having thirteen episodes, as it was thought the production was truncated so the movie could be made. In reality, the season was only thirteen episodes because Hasbro originally intended it to be a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon. In fact, ''Equestria Girls'' was only greenlit after the massive popularity of the show prompted them to order a fourth season.
** After Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's HeelFaceTurn, the writers were criticized for never doing anything more with the character just as [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter they became interesting and likable]]. However, the writers ''did'' [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2019/09/cut-ideas-and-general-my-little-pony.html want to do more with them]], but Hasbro executives shot all these ideas down due to feeling their story was "over".
** One of the criticisms of Starlight Glimmer's HeelFaceTurn was that it was being done to deliberately copy Sunset Shimmer's redemption and character arc. WordOfGod claims it wasn't, which is substantiated by ProductionLeadTime meaning it was likely written before ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' aired[[labelnote:explanation]]The Season 4 premiere [[https://twitter.com/discoveryfamily/status/403973359106404352 had its script locked August 2012]] 15 months before it aired November 2013. Starlight's redemption aired November 2015 and the Season had a two-month hiatus causing ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'' to spoil the episode's happenings, thus it can be assumed to have had its script locked June 2014 three months before ''Rainbow Rocks'' released September 2014.[[/labelnote]] and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap made the previously contentious Sunset popular]] enough to want to copy.
** In response to criticisms of the franchise's villains being EasilyForgiven, ''Equestria Girls'' director Ishi Rudell [[https://mobile.twitter.com/ishiH3Art/status/1017125609305042944 revealed]] that [[CreatorBacklash he is also sick of this trend and would be happy to do otherwise]], but it's not up to him, implying this approach was an executive mandate.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''
*** A common point of contention is how it ignores CharacterDevelopment and continuity (outside some cameos) past the end of Season 4, leading to questions about why they sought help from [[spoiler:the hippogriffs]] over all the other allied races they made since then and it not feeling like it fit the shows continuity. Many criticize this as an attempt for ''The Movie'' appeal to wider audiences at the expense of it appealing to existing fans. But work on ''The Movie'' started immediately after end of Season 4, thus ProductionLeadTime would make it impossible to incorporate said later development and continuity beyond cameos if they wanted to or not.
*** Once it came out ''Friendship is Magic'' would end in 2019, some blamed the movie's weak reception and earnings. However, Hasbro stated they wanted it to continue for five years in 2014 when the movie was first announced, wanted to wrap it up [[https://derpibooru.org/1997810 in the very early pitches for Season 7]] while the movie would be mid-production, and months after the movie released leaked early drafts for the next series which was too soon to have been designed in response to its reception. While [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/12/concept-art-from-cancelled-generation-4.html other]] [[https://twitter.com/Chevistian1/status/1096241924930002944 G4]] [[https://twitter.com/Chevistian1/status/1096924149614891009 movies]] may have been canned, the end of ''Friendship is Magic'', already a {{Long Runner|s}} by this point whose toy sales were slowing down before the movie released, was decided well before reception of ''The Movie'' could influence it.
* Due to Disney's history with Creator/GregWeisman related shows (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''), many fans blame Disney for cancelling ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. However, it was more a case of ScrewedByTheLawyers. Due to Disney's acquisition of Marvel, Sony gave away their TV rights to the franchise in order to keep making Spider-Man movies. Since Sony still owned ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', it would've forced Marvel to pay to continue the series.
* Many ''Westernanimation/{{Doug}}'' fans claim that "Disney ruined ''Doug''" when they bought the rights to the show and un-canceled it. In fact, buying ''Doug'' (and slapping their name on it) was the only thing they did to the show. Creator Jim Jinkens made all the changes himself.
* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' may be angry that the shows were cancelled because of ExecutiveMeddling, but it was really because the producers meant from the beginning to make 52 episodes of each series.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Voice actress April Stewart has been blamed by some sore fans for Mona Marshall not having as many roles, as well as the exit of Eliza Schneider. In actuality, Schneider quit on her own terms in 2003 due to a salary dispute and issues with her union [[note]]Around this time, the SAG was advising voice actresses to ''not'' accept roles for the show due to its non-union status, or they would risk being blacklisted or having their health coverage stripped. Along with fines, these are among the expected consequences for union actors who take on non-union work.[[/note]]. Stewart herself had to use an alias for her early work in the show until matters could be settled. It's also worth noting that Marshall always had voiced fewer female characters in comparison, as Schneider had handled the majority of the roles after Mary Kay Bergman's death.
** Due to old fansites like Beef-Cake and convention advertisements mistaking Mona Marshall as the second voice of Wendy, Schneider herself received some blame and misconception of "usurping" the role. In actuality, she'd always voiced the character and simply modified her take after a while. In comparison, April Stewart would later receive flack for making Wendy sound too old, until it was revealed that it was the creators' own decision to not speed up her voice as much (while Mary Kay Bergman could naturally perform the higher voice, Schneider and Stewart had to have their voices digitally modified).
** An in-universe Type 5 example is PlayedForLaughs in "Night of the Living Homeless", where Kyle tries to come up with an idea with what to do with the homeless, and Cartman's idea was to jump over them with his skateboard. The other boys either thank Kyle for the idea that was obviously Cartman's, or in Stan's case, get baffled by it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a serious case of Type 5: Fans who dislike the newer seasons generally say it's all the fault of the showrunner at the time: Mike Scully for Seasons 9-12, and Al Jean for Season 13 and onwards. While Scully and Jean aren't innocent, to be sure, they aren't 100% guilty either.
** The showrunner isn't personally involved with every aspect of the show: The writing staff comes up with plot ideas and first drafts of episodes, while the showrunner selects which episodes get made and leads script revisions. The showrunner also isn't all-powerful: the senior production staff can and do [[ExecutiveMeddling interfere with writing and plot ideas]].
** Scully inherited a show that was starting to go downhill in quality: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operated on the assumption that ''The Simpsons'' would soon be over [[note]]Fox wasn't threatening to cancel the show at the time, but 8 years is a long run for a show like ''The Simpsons'', regardless of quality, and senior staff, Groening included, were dropping hints about the show ending because they wanted the series to go out on a high note.[[/note]], leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality and lack of direction for the show.
*** The hardcore Scully {{Hatedom}} says he did so much damage that the show couldn't be salvaged when he stepped down as showrunner in mid-2001, but that ignores the changes Al Jean implemented on the show: of the disliked elements from Scully's time as showrunner, many were scrapped immediately while many more disappeared over time - very few of the complaints about episodes in Seasons 9-12 can be applied to seasons since then, and vice-versa.
*** Since he became showrunner in Season 9, Scully gets blamed for that season's "The Principal and the Pauper", widely seen to be one of the worst Simpsons episodes ever, if not ''the'' worst. However, Scully was never involved in it. It was a holdover from Season 8, when Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were showrunners, Steven Dean Moore was the director, and Ken Keeler was the writer.
** Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers a few seasons into his time as showrunner, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the DenserAndWackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking. For obvious reasons, Jean's detractors also ignore his time as showrunner in the third and fourth seasons, generally regarded as two of the series' best.
** The voice actors have also run out of steam with recent seasons: Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu) has voiced one-off characters since the show's beginning and admitted in an interview that while he would try to do something new for each of them back in the 1980s and 1990s, he ran out of ideas around Season 10 (August 1998 to May 1999) and can now pull this off only a few times a season, sometimes less.
** Creator/MattGroening gets next to none of the blame for the show's decline, but he probably deserves more: Some of the big complaints about the last 15 or so seasons are {{Flanderization}}, [[{{Anvilicious}} blunt]] political commentary, and the show increasingly resembling ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Incidentally, these are also some of the main complaints about the UnCanceled seasons of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which has little in common with modern-day ''Simpsons'' apart from having Groening at the helm.
* Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' received a case of type 5, with Jackson Publick (credited under his actual name, Chris [=McCulloch=] ) getting the accusation of "usurping" the show from Christy Karacas, as he was put in charge of being the story-editor and having the final call on scripts. If an episode fell flat, a plot twist was done that a fan didn't like, or if there was less violence, it had to be all on him. In actuality, the season 2 format change was something that Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick had wanted to do in hope of breaking away from being formulaic and getting to explore the characters' stories more.
** Type 2 and Type 3 also come into play, as while there was some degree of meddling in season 2 [[note]]mainly having to have the episode "Hot Chick" revised to remove an implication of rape, Mistress Kilda's death having to be toned down in "Lord Stingray Crash Party"[[/note]], some of the moments cited as being the network screwing the creators over (perceived {{Flanderization}}, revelations of the Twins and Alice's backstories) were actually things that the creators themselves had decided on (to obviously mixed reception).
** There is a lesser extent of type 5 with some of the new writers for season 2 (John J. Miller, Joe Croson, Adam Modiano), as none of them had written for the show before and were perceived as being amateurs or not "getting" it. In actuality, while the script is usually the writer's work, they evolve from boardroom pitches between all the writers and outlines by Karacas, the story editor revising the script over time, and there also being uncredited rewrites. In short, an episode that doesn't perform well doesn't always fall on one person. To contrast with the above situation, the writers and story editor in season 3 seemed to receive less blaming and outrage, perhaps as things had cooled down.
* Fans of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' often cite the popularity of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' as the reason that ''KP'' got the axe. ''KP'' ended a full year before ''P&F'' started airing regularly, and mainly because the show's creators wanted to move on, with that show's fourth season being an example of UnCanceled anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** As a result of the FandomRivalry, many fans blamed ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' for Disney Channel's bad treatment of ''Gravity Falls''. At the time, ''Phineas and Ferb'' was not only barely even airing on the network due to winding down production, but ''Gravity Falls'' had already established itself as being their newest hit. The odd scheduling was a quirk of the show's production necessitating that new episodes had to be stretched out to a greater extent than its peers; a quirk that would continue into its second season on Disney XD, where it served as the flagship show for that channel.
** Some fans blamed Disney XD for the show's end, but it was actually Hirsch's decision to end the show due to burn-out and wanting to avoid SeasonalRot, with him even wanting to have a far shorter second season (if not just end the show on season one's cliffhanger). Disney actually saw it as a CashCowFranchise due to its immense popularity and wanted to continue the show, forcing him to commit to a 20-episode season as opposed to the ten that he originally wanted once he agreed to do another season, and hoping that Hirsch would change his mind.
* After the infamous ''WesternAnimation/PickleAndPeanut'' was renewed for a second season, fans got angry at it because of the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder''. The truth is that ''P&P'' itself was all but ignored by the network during its run, being placed in a year-long hiatus after its first season, and like [[WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja several]] [[WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes other]] [[WesternAnimation/The7D Disney XD]] [[WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero cartoons]] (including ''Wander'' itself), ended after its second season (albeit on its own terms with a definite finale).
* Some ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' fans blamed co-creator Glen Murakami for doing ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. In fact, though he is credited as associate producer for said show, he has no major involvement in the show and that Aaron Horvath is the creative force behind the series.
* "''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' killed ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]''" is a common complaint of those who preferred the organic traditional animation to the more [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Movie]] accurate CGI of Prime. This isn't ''completely'' true. Hasbro gave Cartoon Network the option to continue using the license to produce ''Animated'', while they would go on to produce ''Prime'' for their new cable channel, [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]]. Cartoon Network decided to end the show independently, as there was no incentive to continuing it if Hasbro would be pulling all funding and ending the toyline.
* In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many people blamed ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' for the fact that ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' were cancelled, when in reality ''Ren and Stimpy'' was cancelled because of low ratings after the creator's firing and ''Rocko's Modern Life'' was cancelled because Nickelodeon thought that Creator/JoeMurray wanted to end his show.
* Man of Action, the creators of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' have been blamed for the [[BrokenBase fan-divided]] ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''. However, they left the franchise after ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien]]'' to work on ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', though they still receive a "created by" credit and in actual fact, art director Derrick Wyatt, executive producer Tramm Wigzell, supervising producer Matt Youngberg and now ex-Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami CEO Stuart Snyder are actually responsible for the stylistic change from the DarkerAndEdgier tone of ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]/Ultimate Alien'' to the DenserAndWackier tone of ''Omniverse''.
** Several ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' fans blamed the show's creator Jay Stephens for the crossover episode "TGIS". However, no one worked on ''The Secret Saturdays'' (much less Stephens himself) had any involvement in the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** No, the show was NOT removed from Nick's schedule and made online exclusive during Book 3 in favor of giving more airtime to Nickelodeon's more comedy-based shows. While it being [[OddballInTheSeries a complete tonal mismatch]] compared to their other programming ''was'' a factor (being a teen-oriented action/adventure series), it was the series seeing far better viewership numbers compared to its on-air ratings during Book 2 that resulted in the decision.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged with regards to the finale]]. Fans blamed Nickelodeon for the ambiguity of the final scene, which shows [[spoiler:Korra and Asami going on a private vacation in the Spirit World, all-but-explicitly a couple]]. Many blamed Nick for the ambiguity of it, and assumed that Bryke had to sneak it in without the studio's knowledge, but after Bryke confirmed the [[spoiler:Korrasami Ship]] online they mentioned that the Studio was supportive of the idea, though due to their Standards and Practices would only allow so much to be shown. So the studio is the reason for the ambiguity, but the scene was done with them fully knowing what was being expressed.
** The finale similarly had other fans accuse Bryke of [[spoiler:queerbaiting]] due to the slightly ambiguous ending. Most were a little more savvy and aware that Standards and Practices would only let them go so far, which Bryke confirmed online.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' got a lot of flack from angry ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fans claiming that the former got the latter canceled. Not only was ''[=ChalkZone=]'' delayed for two years (and thus was not meant to be a replacement show), but ''Zim'' was still running when the first season of ''[=ChalkZone=]'' premiered (''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' are also blamed for this). The real reason why ''Zim'' was canceled was due to the show's high production cost, low ratings, and just generally being ScrewedByTheNetwork. Not to mention that ''[=ChalkZone=]'' itself was also treated horribly by Nick.
** ''[=ChalkZone=]'' also got some flack from people who thought it was a rip-off of the 1970s cartoon ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings''. [[http://www.manic-expression.com/old-school-lanes-nickelodeon-tribute-interview-with-bill-burnett/ Co-creator Bill Burnett stated in this interview]] that he hadn't even seen it when ''[=ChalkZone=]'' was being made.
* In a glaring example of the ''Most Visible Target'' fallacy, many fans of ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' blamed the new kid on the block, ''WesternAnimation/WordParty'', as the reason the former was dropped from Creator/{{Netflix}}, as the former (along with a whole plethora of Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup shows) was dropped days before the latter premiered. The real reason is that [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/01/amazon-prime-pbs-kids-deal Amazon had just snatched the rights out of Netflix's hands by signing a multi-year exclusive deal]] to stream Creator/PBSKids shows.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is often blamed as the main reason for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s perceived decline in the late-2000s. While network executives did deem whether a show was worth keeping based on how much the ratings stacked up in comparison to ''[=SpongeBob=]'' (and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork quickly scrapped any animated series that wasn't in the same ballpark]]), that's about it. The creative staff has no control over how the channel treats their or their colleagues work, and that goes for the vast majority of popular programming.
* Many fans of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' blamed Dreamworks for the new designs introduced in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse''. It was actually Big Idea's decision to change the characters' designs in an attempt to update what they saw as archaic designs that were beholden to the limits of early 1990s 3D animation software.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'''s fundamental destruction of [[MadeInCountryX the reputation of Canadian television animation]] has made it a pretty big source of this, due to the numerous misconceptions its PeripheryHatedom spawned.
** The show's massive hatedom sometimes use it as proof that [[HitlerAteSugar all Canadian animation is horrible]]. What many people forget is that creator Scott Fellows, Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor (Johnny's voice actor), and most of the show's production crew, are Americans. In fact, Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation produced the early seasons while the later seasons were made in association with both Cartoon Network ''and'' Creator/{{Teletoon}}.
** [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content laws]] are often used by people to explain why ''Johnny Test'' ran for as long as it did despite being widely hated, claiming that because the laws require channels to air a certain amount of natively produced content every day it was basically immune to being taken off air. This gets rather silly when you consider the law has been around for a long time; the real reason for ''Johnny Test'''s longevity was simply that its low budget and solid ratings allowed the networks to make profit very easily and thus motivated them to air it as much as possible and continue ordering new seasons.
** People frequently use the show as proof that Creator/{{Teletoon}} uses the cheapest and laziest possible production values for all its original productions, despite the fact Teletoon isn't even an animation studio (and doesn't even have an in-house production company for that matter) and is in fact just a network that's involvement generally involves little more than ordering episodes of shows, lending them ''some'' funding (although they're not the sole donators to any show's budget), and giving executive notes to the production crew. In fact, '''''NONE''''' of Teletoon's original shows were actually made by them, but rather, they were the creations of numerous animation and television studios across Canada (in the case of ''Johnny Test'', the real creators of the show were Creator/CookieJarEntertainment); the only reason Teletoon's shows are called "original productions" is because they were ''originally'' created for/commissioned by the network.
* With ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', it's not uncommon to hear people accuse Creator/{{Teletoon}} as being responsible for all the ExecutiveMeddling that got the DarkerAndEdgier pilot remade into the DenserAndWackier final product. In reality, it was Creator/DisneyXD that mandated all the changes in order to make the series more kid-friendly and thus more marketable to American audiences; Teletoon ''approved'' the pilot concept without issue due to originally intending the series to be aimed more at teenagers, in line with their own programming (such as the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series, their most popular show at the time). This is more evident with the [[SeasonalRot second season]], which received the tonal {{retool}} it did at the request of Disney XD's executives rather than Teletoon's.
* Angry ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fans frequently see Creator/FreshTV and Creator/{{Teletoon}} as being entirely responsible for many of the unpopular or controversial story decisions made in the seasons following the first. However, Creator/CartoonNetwork purchased the majority of the rights to the franchise after the massive success of the first season, giving them greater ownership and [[ExecutiveMeddling far more influence]] over the show and its production than Teletoon, the franchise's channel of origin.
* During ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''[='=]s heyday, it got a lot of flack due to ExecutiveMeddling relating to it removing the use of ''Batman'' characters in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' outside of Bruce Wayne himself. However, both shows were victims of that as, barring a cameo of Nightwing in ''JLU'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' limited the use of Robin (resulting in ''The Batman''[='=]s Robin being a case of AdaptationalLateAppearance) and neither show could use Two-Face, the Scarecrow, or Ra's al Ghul due to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' (resulting in ''The Batman'' using its first Clayface in place of Two-Face, Hugo Strange in place of the Scarecrow, and Black Mask and -- in TheMovie -- [[WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula Count Dracula]] in place of Ra's al Ghul).
* In the Hebrew dub of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', the GratuitousSpanish is replaced with GratuitousEnglish. This caused some controversy - Spanish is the major minority language in the United States, so by that logic, GratuitousSpanish should have become [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Arabic]] instead - overlooking the fact all of Dora's other foreign dubs replaced Spanish with English as well.
* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=CFoZRbPsNuE This video]] blames ''WebAnimation/{{Cocomelon}}'' on the cancellations of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. The biggest problem with this statement is that ''Cocomelon'' is not only aimed at a far younger audience than these two shows, being made for preschoolers as opposed to older children ages 6-12, but they're produced by different companies, for different platforms, all with their their own programming strategies: ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power'' was planned for a 52 episode run from the moment it was greenlit, while ''The Owl House'' was a causality of a corporate leadership change and other factors.
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': The show has been heavily accused of queerbaiting during its seventh season, after publicizing the fact that Shiro was gay and that Adam, his ex-boyfriend, would return that season. In the series proper, Adam is already dead by the time Shiro returns and only appears in two scenes, both of which are flashbacks. While the creators may have, knowingly or not, stoked hype for this plot, fans also blame them for the posters on Netflix's service that heavily marketed that aspect of the seventh season; said posters, however, are not made by the creators, but by Netflix itself, and they have no input in it.
* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'':
** While the crew often gets blamed for creating the infamous initial announcement trailer, story editor Amalia Levari claimed this was out of their control; according to Levari, Crunchyroll had [[https://imgur.com/a/KukJAr4 asked the crew]] isolated behind-the-scenes questions, which they answered [[https://imgur.com/a/rqqLsQR not knowing that those questions would be repurposed into an announcement trailer]]. As [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-06-18/crunchyroll-originals-have-been-a-disaster/.173347 confirmed]] by Sofia Alexander, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'', the production staff don't have any input as to how their shows are marketed by Crunchyroll.
** The series' staff are also accused of diverting funds from subscribers' money into this series' creation. However, not only is this claim unfounded but what has been confirmed runs contrary to it. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-06-18/crunchyroll-originals-have-been-a-disaster/.173347 In 2015]], Crunchyroll had specifically received funding from companies like Sumitomo Corporation and [[https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/crunchyroll/ Otter Media]] to invest in co-productions and original programming, including the Crunchyroll Originals program in general.
* The hatedom of ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'' believes it was responsible for ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' getting ScrewedByTheNetwork, even though they have nothing to do with each other besides sharing [[Creator/PipelineStudios an animation studio]]. Although ''Elinor'' fans thought their show was canned, once season 2 was confirmed to be in production, their claims of ''Wombats'' "killing Elinor" became unfounded.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'':
** The show's staff received no end of flak for not including Scooby-Doo in the show due to feeling he is too "kiddy". While [[https://www.polygon.com/nycc/23392767/velma-nycc-trailer-scooby-doo-mindy-kaling showrunner Charlie Grandy]] certainly did admit that the writing staff thought Scooby-Doo was a generally childish element of the franchise that would have been hard to fit into the show's adult tone, he also revealed that they wouldn't have been able use the character even if they wanted to, as Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation told them that [[ExecutiveVeto the Great Dane was off-limits]].
** The show was also blamed for causing the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' due to how that show was taken off of HBO Max and that Velma came in to seemingly replace it while having Velma's and Fred's character designs look very close to that of Quinn Ergon and Gary Goodspeed respectively. However, ''Final Space'' was screwed over as a result of complications with the merger between WB and Discovery along with the failure of executives to recognize the popularity of the show and that they wrote it off for taxes.
** Many accuse Creator/MindyKaling of being the creator of the series; that honor would go to Charlie Grandy. She also is confused as a writer when she isn't credited as one. She is actually the executive producer.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': When discussing the reasons the show was canceled and Season 3 was shortened to three 44-minute specials, people are usually quick to point to the show's LGBTQ+ representation, particularly due to the former CEO. This ignores [[Series/HighSchoolMusicalTheMusicalTheSeries the]] [[Series/DiaryOfAFuturePresident other]] Disney series with LGBTQ+ representation that were allowed to continue despite it, and creator Dana Terrace [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/q1x1uh/ama_except_by_anything_i_mean_these_questions_only/ stated]] it was due to being serialized with an older audiences seen as not fitting the "Disney brand"--the Disney Channel brand which focused on episodic comedies for young audiences. While a later post Dana made after the 2022 Florida LGBTQ protests [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/t8yf4t/its_hard_not_to_assume_there_was_bad_faith/ suggested]] homophobia was a factor, there are others to consider.
** Due to the unfortunate timing of the episode "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E5ThroughTheLookingGlassRuins Through the Looking Glass Ruins]]", many assumed Amity kissing Luz was what caused Disney to cancel the show. However, due to ProductionLeadTime the decision was most likely made well before the episode was even scripted. Dana Terrace herself would even confirm that the kiss had no influence on cancellation of the show.
* It's commonly claimed, including on this very wiki, that ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' was cancelled on the direct orders of Ted Turner, who disliked the show's violent content and/or wanted to promote his own pet project ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers''. While Turner did disapprove of cartoon violence in general, his distaste was mostly aimed at AnimatedShockComedy shows like ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' rather than action/adventure shows. The actual decision to cancel the show was made well below his level, and seems to have largely happened because the executives in charge ''believed'' Turner disliked it.
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