Why are CN readers so bloodthirsty?

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I can't keep track of the amount of times i've gone into the reviews of a novel and seen people that are angry that the MC hasn't exterminated all his enemies and their families. 
 
  • #3
I think that it's just a matter of familiarity.  Chinese books use themes and value systems that are pretty different from what you'd see in Western stories so something that is less different can feel more comfortable.  One big one can be as simple as names that are easier to parse in English.  I find that pinyin names look like goobledygook, and I have a hard time deciphering them even though I read Chinese books in the original.  I can only imagine how hard it is for people reading translations to have a good grasp of all of the characters. 
 
  • #4
I am complaining about that all the time, but a lot of people like such MCs. Personally have no idea why...Maybe I am too old for that. 
 
  • #5
Being emotionally invested in a story is a double edge sword. More so for readers. I get that some do invest but the most irritating are the preachers. 
 
  • #6
I read a novel whose main genre was comedy. The MC docent like to needlessly kill cause they came from wold were humans were dying. Halfway throughout the novel the genres suddenly shift and there whole family exterminations(even servants) and chopping of newborn babies heads. It was a good novel but that really made me put it down for a few months 
 
  • #7
Another instance is when the mc slaughters bandits because they are lawless yet he protects and assists another bandit group simply because the leader is a woman, or the usual mc that kills people for looking at him wrong but protects an assassin that tried to kill her because its a female. 
 
  • #9
Actually it's just damm stupid the authors are just toying with our intelligence just imagine in one novel I read the mc was lucky to join a sect after he nearly dead as a result of a scheme by his step-man she framed him (rape) then her boy friends sent a snake demon to kill him. He was saved by a sword cultivator so he joined his sect. The number one job of all cultivators in the sect is to slay demons . the mc ignored some pampered bitch , so she snatched the technique he wanted after he got it back she became angry since the law says no fighting in the  scripture pavilion she couldn't act then her admirer walked in to spite her he lied that she kissed him. When rumours started flying he choose to apologize to her and explain what happed in front of a crowd but she felt so ashamed she sneak attacked him even though she has a higher cultivation level than him. During a trail she plotted with 2 senoirs to kill the mc and she nearly succeeded she broke his two arms and forced him to kneel down in front of her. The mc vowed to kill her but when he got the chance he merely kissed her .  she threatened to kill him next time and planned to but a demon captured them and other students participating in the trail . Among all the students captured she was no the most beautiful neither was she the most powerful but he choose to escape with her , they were trapped in a cave then the mc started thinking she's not a bad person that's just the way she is . after the whole event she started batting eyelashes at the mc and the MCs like she's so beautiful. Then a fox demon killed his senior apprentice brother another fox demon kidnapped the mc (same fox demon allied with 2 other sects to attack his sect) this very demon wants to charm him then absorb his cultivation by having sex with him. They finally have sex but she died because his gold finger saved him(before she died she told him a sob story about how her sister was used as a cultivation furnace by a human cultivator and asked the mc to avenge her sister he accepted and buried her calling her his wife and added his name to her grave side)... Please I need comments what happened to demons and humans been enemies how about how she reared him just so she can kill him to absorb his cultivation what happened to how she actually did absorb his cultivation (if not for his goldfinger he would be dead) what happened to how she joined others to attack his sect and is responsible for the deaths of countless people . I just don't get it so now he will kill a man because he used a demon to cultivate but the same mc will call himself a righteous do gooder and a saint 
 
  • #10
Like someone else said, the bloodthirsty readers don't do this just for CNs, but also any novel. I've even seen this in reviews/comments of some original fiction on royalroad. The amount of commenters calling for blood was overwhelming. Even though it didn't fit the world setting or the MC's personality at all. And at least one author listened and changed the story because of it. That was a few years ago, and one of the bigger reasons I stopped reading there. I didn't want to see more stories get changed and twisted just to cater to the loud cries for murder, torture, and blood.

I think the one who said that 'reading CN's subconsciously effects people and how they approach problems' is right. 
 
  • #12
Well, @Nightow1, it's impossible for others to understand your psyche enough to give proper explanation to your mood swings, except shrinks and yourself maybe.
And that whole running gags between Batman and Joker was indeed very grating. I got annoyed by both of them anyway. But I'm kinda skeptical about the slippery slope of killing for self-defense, like playing judge, jury, executioner and god by oneself. So if disabling attackers was possible, avoiding killing was better option for me, for who am I to judge others? and I have no right to take away others' lives.
What I talked about was my own observations on only Chinese literature tradition and its pervasive, long-lasting influences on local norms. Just like fantasy theme stories were popping up one after an other after the success of Harry Potter series.
I didnot claim to make a 3000 pages dissertation on which degrees any locals within any possible cultures were influenced by any possible combinations of different types of cultural inheritances. 
 
  • #13
As someone who stopped reading "those kind of novels", what I remember (and read from a few reviews as well) is, that chinese MC's in those settings are whimsical a**holes who fly into a rage whenever the author wants them to.

The problem is that they tend to lack consistency in their decisions. You want to be a bloody avenger, that's fine. Either I like it, or I'll stop reading. You want to be a f*cking beta who forgives everyone despite them not showing any remorse and it always coming back to bite you?Yeah, not gonna read that one, seriously why do people still trust you to protect them when all you do is saying "bad rapist, don't do let me catch you again" before leaving him in your daughters bedroom WITH YOUR DAUGHTER?
You want to go the middle ground, killing if you have to, but sparing those who show that they can change? Now we're talking.

chinese MC's tend to just roll a die to see how they should react. Sometimes it's logical, sometimes it's just freaking stupid, and sometimes they react forgiving, because the offender is a (new) waifu they want to bang.

The problem is not, that they are "too bloody" or "not violent enough", it's that they simply lack the
 
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