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List of Disallowed Pages
Individual Characters
- Alastor (Hazbin Hotel): He is too sadistic and bloodthirsty to qualify by Shonen Hero standards.
- Albert James Moriarty: Compared to other characters such as his brother Liam and Sherlock Holmes, his personality resembles that of a Seinen Hero.
- Anakin Skywalker: While he eventually redeems himself before his death, it was not enough for him to qualify as he committed too many heinous deeds as a villain after falling from grace. He also never had time to regain his Shonen Hero traits due to dying shortly after his redemption.
- Annoying Orange: While Orange has the personality and heroics of a Shonen Hero, he commits too many heinous crimes as he is a mass murderer and is implied to commit exploitation.
- Beavis and Butt-Head: Despite filling much of the criteria, their heinousness overshadows their admirability too much, up to the point of being considered Fake Tragic.
- Boruto Uzumaki: While he started out as a Stock Shonen Hero, he eventually subverted his Shonen Hero traits by the beginning of Two Blue Vortex and becomes much more cynical and ruthless to the point of being too dark of a character to qualify.
- Eren Yeager: By the time of the second timeskip, he subverted his heroic qualities and becomes the final antagonist, something a Shonen Hero would never become.
- Francis (Angel Hare): Unlike Gabby, he is unable to scrape together the amount of traits to fit.
- Goku (Dragonball Evolution): He doesn't have enough traits to qualify, let alone capture the essence of his anime/manga counterpart.
- Greg Heffley: While he has some Shonen traits, he doesn't do anything heroic as most of his good deeds are chalked up as kindness and/or pragmatism.
- Jonah Whitman: Despite being Pure Good, his personality doesn't align with the archetype enough for him to be approved as a Shonen Hero.
- Light Yagami: Despite being the protagonist of Death Note, as well as his rival L being approved as a Shonen Rival, he is a Pure Evil villain.
- While his anime version isn't PE, it doesn't make much of a difference, especially given he is still as evil as the original with only 1 mitigating factor.
- Muriel Bagge: She doesn't do much enough in terms of heroism to qualify.
- Obito Uchiha: He lost his Shonen Hero qualifications the moment he became Madara's apprentice and is now one of the most prominent Shonen Villains.
- Oggy: He is just a housecat doing chores at his home.
- Orel Puppington: He is WAY too heinous and amoral to fit, as in just the second episode of his series, he impregnated a whole town and commits other heinous crimes due to his lack of moral agency.
- Ren & Stimpy (Adult Party Cartoon): They lose all of the traits of their original versions.
- Sherlock Holmes (original novels): He is too much of a Seinen Hero to count.
- Shinji Ikari: While his teammate Asuka fills the Shonen Rival archetype, Shinji himself doesn't fulfill the archetypal traits much enough to be classified as a Shonen Hero.
- Sun Wukong (Journey to the West): While considered the grandfather of the Stock Shonen Hero trope due to being Goku's inspiration, and many of his other versions and offshoots meeting the criteria, the original Wukong fails to meet the standards due to the inconsistent nature of his work and his overall moral grayness.
Disallowed Genres
- Analog Horror (except for Angel Hare): Only 1 character from this entire sub-genre fits, as most characters are grey-zoned people who don't meet enough of the criteria and the few who aren't grey zoned don't have personalities that align with the archetype.
- Non-Fiction Books: Given that the characters are based on real-life people, their personalities are much too complex to fit the Shonen Hero archetype neatly.
- Pornographic/shock value works: Every character is a morally bankrupt neutral-to-villainous character with no one standing out as Shonen Heroes.
- Pure Innocence Works: The nature of these works goes against the idea of having a Shonen Hero for a few reasons.
- All Shonen Heroes face villains as well as saving lives whereas characters from PI works try to be as kind to each other as possible.
- Shonen Heroes have overarching goals and face obstacles to achieve them. Meanwhile, pure innocence works center around characters living day-to-day lives with little to no conflict involved.
- Given the definition of Shonen, Shonen Heroes mainly appeal to at least preteens and teenagers. Works of pure innocence only targets at younger children.
- Reality TV game shows: No matter what the contestants’ personalities are, they cannot qualify due to being real people.
Disallowed Series
- 13 Reasons Why: Everybody is generally morally bankrupt and the series has a lot of controversial moments.
- The 100: The closest candidates do not display enough of the basic traits and commit too many heinous deeds to qualify.
- American Dad: All heroes are too heinous to count, and the admirable standard is virtually universal.
- Among Us: Character action is 100% up to the player, meaning they cannot be considered Shonen Heroes due to their lack of a consistent personality.
- Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul: The most noble characters either fall too much into the Fallen and/or On & Off categories and mostly don't meet the criteria.
- Cannibal Holocaust: While the movie has a moral unlike your average exploitation film, the only hero is anything but a Shonen Hero while everyone else are villains even if their reasons were understandable.
- Family Guy: See American Dad.
- Game of Thrones: All heroes do not meet enough of the criteria and/or commit too many heinous deeds to count.
- Power Universe: All of the closest candidates are too morally bankrupt and commit too many heinous deeds to qualify.
- Rockstar Games (except for Bully): Almost all heroes are grey-zoned characters who commit plenty of crimes.
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms: All heroes do not meet enough of the criteria and/or commit too many heinous deeds to count.
- Succession: No character comes close to this archetype as all of them are morally bad people.
- The Water Margin: Almost all heroes are gray-zoned characters who commit plenty of crimes.
- Velma: The closest candidates are either too heinous or lacking in traits.
Undetermined Candidates
- Bulma (Dragon Ball)
- Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)