>>38726910Seriously, what is up with you and how delirious you get with Ash in XY when no one said anything about XY? Are you so desperate to prove that he had no character even though he did because you can't stand him? Or are you confusing "character" with "attitude", which aren't the same thing?
Stereotypes become standards because everyone does it after an amount of time. And for the record tsunderes get slapped into anime most of the time, regardless if they're a heroine or not.