Editing Isekai (section)

===Gripes about the protagonists===
[[File:Stock-isekai-protagonist.jpg|400px|right|thumb|No author has yet managed to even notice the main male character customization menu for their Isekais, so they have to stick to changing hair and eye color.]]
* Isekai protagonists tend to be [[Neckbeard|big fucking nerds]] who immediately recognize what's all about and exploit it, often aided by [[Plot armor|unreasonably high stats relative to their abilities in real life.]] The unstated implication is that the overweight slimeball watching/reading the isekai story would be just as successful as the protagonist because of his [[Trivial Pursuit|valuable and hard-earned RPG knowledge]], as opposed to not even being able to understand the language spoken by anyone there (or them understanding you- I hope one of your skills is charades) and dying of cholera a week later. 
* The protagonist frequently is overpowered in a way that puts him way ahead of his peers, despite lacking any useful combat, intellectual, or even social skills from his homeworld. Rarely does the protagonist have to put that much effort in overcoming his obstacles and is often deemed "The Chosen One" or "Special Blooded" by what amounts to GM fiat. Just like a unique snowflake.
* Even more offensive protagonists will be actively unlikable or even outright repulsive, despite not suffering any consequences for it.
* And on top of that, 99.9% of the time, the protagonist has an all-female <s>harem</s> party who hang on his every word. [[Mary Sue|Is this starting to sound familiar?]] (Note, in particular, that usually these female party members exist purely to provide fanservice and be [[waifu]]ed. On top of this, they're fairly likely to be noticeably underdeveloped and/or cliched.) While this is not necessarily a bad thing, there are countless examples of lazy writers going way too far with it and turning the characters into caricatures or pulling the rug out from under the readers and going from harem to vanilla romance. It's at the point where the openly pornographic isekais are actually an improvement because they don't pretend that said harem is anything ''but'' a collection of sex objects.  
** To further expand on the female character issue: look, we in 1d4chan ''hate'' Mary Sues with a passion. But you know what is just as bad as a female Mary Sue? A soulless, living pair of tits. Since nearly none of the female characters in this sort of situation have any agency, they are literally just there for an unfunny boob joke or sexual harassment 'joke'. The end result is that your 'waifus' are boring and replaceable as fuck who are just as painfully blank as the protagonist ''and'' antagonist. In the end of the day, we like characters who are interesting, tits or not, and parading around these characters like trophy wives when the protag most ''definitely'' did not do anything to ''earn'' their love and affection is insulting to our collective intelligence.
** This gets doubly, egregiously worse if said harem contains blatant [[Loli|lolibait]] and that the author tries ([[Fail|and always fails]]) to justify it by giving us tired-ass lame excuses like she is either a [[Bullshit|thousand years old,]] [[Derp|it is somehow considered legal in the setting,]] or worse of all, protag-kun is an actual [[Lorgar|pedo or child molester]] but is somehow considered A-okay because he is now in the body of a [[Shota|little boy.]] This in itself is already considered atrocious, regardless of how unnecessary it is and that depicting such acts without even the strongest condemnation of it ''in-universe'', should raise the mother of all red flags on what the story is trying to tell us. But the stupid gets worse when certain zealous fans do the mother of all mental gymnastics to [[EPIC FAIL|defend this shit.]] No bitch, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is probably a ''fucking duck''.
***Jobless Reincarnation deserves to be called out here. Doesn't matter if it has good animation, okay world building and praise as the "Father of Modern Isekai". If the whole ethos of the plot is that it is a 'redemption story' like many of its fans like to promote, than it better seriously deal with the MC's blatant history of pedophilia, child grooming, child molestation and the creation of child pornographic material (in his past life at least). Look, you can write stories detailing such serious topics, but it must be handle with as much care as Schindler's List. Jobless Reincarnation however? Nearly every case of the MC attempting to sexually assault a young pre-teen, the show [[Rage|treats as a joke with circus music.]] Does the MC becomes repentant, does he gets severely punished, does he suffer any consequences from this? No. He does not. [[RAGE|In fact, he ends up marrying into a harem of the three girls he fucking groomed from the get go.]] His only 'karma' is that he became impotent, but that itself is a joke of a punishment, given his predator relationship is orders of magnitude worse. The show ''tries'' to sympathize with the MC by giving him a 'tragic' backstory (Read: its bullying, fucking tiresome), but having a tragic backstory does not excuse his monstrous behaviour. Jobless Reincarnation is still a power fantasy, the ''WORST'' type of power fantasy, as it <s>gives</s> rewards a convicted pedophilic piece of shit with a loving middle-upper class family inside the body of a little boy, filled with little girls of which he can prey on with little to no consequences, whilst becoming powerful and praised as a hero at that. As a 'redemption story' it [[fail]]s to comment on the MC's biggest flaw and worse, treat his actions as a joke and even rewards his grooming in the end. At best, it makes the series callous, at worse, ''dishonest''. This shit can make or break readers and watchers. You want to watch/read a ''good'' redemption story where the MC actually faces his past crimes and tries to make amends? Read Vinland Saga.
* Almost all the protagonists in isekai stories have either a tragic or "NEET" background. Again, not necessarily bad but definitely overused. This gets worse when they are all generic manga cliches. But some tragic backgrounds are so specific it's as if the author inserted their own past there.
* As if the above wasn't enough, too many isekai MC are [[edgy|edgelords]]. For most of them, their reason for being edgy is how they were abused, betrayed, NTR'ed or disowned by either the MC's school classmates, other isekai'ed people, or society as a whole. Some really awful isekai have their MC doing really edgy shit like mass murder, owning/buying slaves, and rape but still be portrayed as morally in the right, like, y'know doing it anyway but at least accepting you've become a monster yourself, which sounds like special pleading.