My “favorite” is the infantilization of Pyro. It’s popular with newer people to the fandom nowadays but it’s always “Pyro’s not aware of anything! He’s got the mind of a child so you can’t ship him with anyone since he won’t be aware of it too!!!” When we have direct examples from the comics that they are clearly aware of what’s going on and they enjoy killing just like everyone else. Just because he enjoys seemingly “childish” things does not mean he’s a child or unaware. For fuck’s sake, Heavy treated him the same way and Pyro basically said “fuck you” by crushing his lighter
Literally so true n like with Pyro it's a whole different bag. Infantilization of Scout and sometimes even Sniper is just based in like this weird fandom idea that once there's a gap bigger than ten years in a fictional cartoon relationship it's Problematic, but w Pyro it's completely based in ableism and the infantilization of people with delusions/schizophrenia and also the association of speech with intelligence or even personhood. They are an adult and they kill people and they communicate with the people around them and clearly make conscious choices and are a person, not a dog











