User blog comment:Shadowshroom/Character:Mike/@comment-5221692-20151228012534/@comment-4393544-20151228024313

What the heck, it's the end of the year

"Without his personalities he's as bland as stale bread"

You mean like pretty much every other character without their gimmicks?

"He reduces Zoey's character to a needy, whiny, codependant sue when she could possibly be a really good character, but can't since Mike exists."

You mean like what Sky does to Dave?

"No, being a cartoon does not excuse any of this."

Fun Fact: It does

"He was a pathetic attempt to keep the "Cody fan" train going by being another bland guy with a gap tooth."

I don't see it (But then again, I say the same thing about Gwen and Zoey)

"All characters are dumbed down whenever they interact with him."

You mean like with every other villain (except Max)

"He's never protrayed as doing anything wrong and any character in the show that tries to tell him otherwise is instantly painted as a "bad person" and is brutally punished for doing so."

You mean like with Sky?

"He just started liking Zoey for absolutely no reason whatsoever and as far as I can tell, he still has no legitimate reason."

Other Total Drama couples didn't exactly have a high standard when it comes to this

"Zoke exists to fill the hetero quota."

THOSE BIGOTED MONSTERS!

"There is nothing special about their relationship, literally every other relationship in TD has at least had SOME common ground between the two characters"

I understand what you're saying, but hey, teens can fall in love easily (plus love at first sight exists in the Total Drama universe)

"Mike spends 90% of his time thinking about, talking about, existing about Zoey. Same vice versa."

Just like Trent, Bridgette, Jasmine and Sky

"Mal only got to the finale because he godplayed."

A villain in a reality show parody godplaying? STOP THE PRESSES!

"The writers dumbed down the ENTIRE cast of All Stars just so Mal could stupidly waltz to the finale with absolutely no tactics or solid gameplay whatsoever."

The villains of Total Drama's past did this too (though not as much)

"He's also incredibly ugly"

You're not gay (last time I checked) and you're not a heterosexual female, your opinion on this issue is invalid

When it comes to being offended, Stephen Fry sums it up best "Well, So Fudging what?"

And while you're ripping my head off, I find Mike boring too and anybody attracted to Mal or people who ship Mal with anybody else puts up a red flag to me (And to clarify things, I'd still find Scal shippers stupid even if Scarlave wasn't my OTP)