In works relying on this much rarer reasoning, the character in question is turned into a Jerkass (or worse), but the other characters' relationships with them aren't changed much. Unlike Draco in Leather Pants, this can also be intentionally done for comedy, usually of the black variety.

Or, even if these characters end up siding with the Draco in Leather Pants, they are subject to some character defamation themselves by way of 'I was stupid to love him and not you'.

This trend may lead to the production of Fan Works that have other characters who are canonically friends of the victim act as though he or she has always been an object of justified loathing, rather than going the 'shocked at betrayal' approach. In any case, Ron the Death Eater is likely to be a Card-Carrying Villain who does things For the Evulz than to have any plausible reason for switching sides. This is often the result of also having a Draco in Leather Pants, but it doesn't have to be - some characters inspire this sort of portrayal on their own, either through their canonical blunders, having some flaw that makes them Unintentionally Unsympathetic, or being an obstacle to the author's One True Pairing, especially if said character is a member of the Official Couple set. A measure of ruthlessness becomes complete and utter sociopathy, a tendency towards holding grudges becomes an obsessive hatred of anything they dislike, slight denseness becomes raging stupidity, etc. This demonization of a character can be seen as a kind of deliberate Flanderization - often, in creating Ron the Death Eater, the fandom spins the character's canonical non-evil actions into evil acts, uses canonical evil actions as a justification as to why they are irredeemably evil even if the canon says otherwise, and has every possible negative trait of the character exaggerated. (The term usually used for this in fanfiction is 'character bashing'). The fandom's tendency to shoehorn a good canon character into being a villain or make a villain significantly more evil than in canon is Ron the Death Eater, the inverse of Draco in Leather Pants. The mission statement for the website, Say NO to Grandpa Joe: Exposing the truth

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