Bad Slash

Bad Slash is defined as "improbable or poorly-written romantic encounters between characters of the same sex." Bad slash is a separate category because many of its badfic traits are less likely to afflict non-slashers. These traits include constant pronoun confusion (e.g., when two characters of the same sex sleep together and the readers don't know which "he" the author means), character neutering (wherein a character who is canonically masculine suddenly acquires the personality of a Harlequin romance novel heroine), and mpreg (e.g., Faramir finds out that he is pregnant with Frodo's baby). These problems stem mostly from the fact that the majority of Bad Slashers write relations between two homosexual adult males but are themselves heterosexual adolescent females who don't feel like doing a lot of research.

Since there is not always a Mary Sue in Bad Slash, the slash demons are exorcised from the canon characters by way of banging the characters on the head with a copy of canon.

See also the Department of Bad Slash.