Fighteer

Fighteer (aka John Aldrich) is a senior moderator of TV Tropes. He's also autistic, whiny, a veritable fountain of butthurt.txt, and a ranting bully that is part of the reason TV Tropes' moderation are considered to be massive assholes.

To quote Something Awful's fourth TV Tropes mock thread on the man:

	“	Fighteer: Fast Eddie’s war dog......Fighteer sees every user as a potential enemy. Is convinced the widespread criticism of their site is a single, unified conspiracy and will accuse all users who raise issues with the site’s management of being goons.	„

The part in bold is important, and we'll get to that later on in this article. Anyway, even if weren't also unbelievably paranoid, he'd still be an asshole who often violates the very rules he shits on other people for violating, and this article should let you know more about why this guy is a walking font of drama.

The origins of his moderation career

He was made a moderator of the wiki August 2010, and ever since then is pretty much the face of the moderation, especially, since Fast Eddie gets so incredibly butthurt over criticism that he usually lets Fighteer do most of the spitting and snarling at heathens against Der Fuhrer. He can typically be found wherever there is a dispute, where he usually acts like an internet tough guy and reminds the peons he would never let his 7 year old son get away with being as immature as them.

Some self troping

Like most tropers, his troper page has some self aggrandizing bullshit on it that is particularly lulzy: (original in bold, comments in italics)

I am 37, male, a computer programmer, a sci-fi/fantasy geek, and live in Pennsylvania, USA. There's not much else to say, unless you care about my guild's World of Warcraft exploits. Or my 7-year old son. (He's very cute.)

Incidentally, my online handle, "Fighteer", comes from a character I created in elementary school when I was entranced by Voltron. It's a giant yellow robot that later became a Transforming Mecha when Transformers came out and tended to act as a God-Mode Sue.

So he sperged over a shitty cartoon as a kid and named himself after his childhood wank fantasy. Big fucking surprise.

I hang out the most on the forums, so please take it there if you want to chat, or send me a PM.'

As of August, 2010, I am a wiki moderator.

Tropes that describe me:

• Badass Bookworm: I studied Tae Kwon Do for many years in order to be this. Now that I've got a kid, I've let it slide.

Internet Tough Guy.txt

• Big Ol' Unibrow: I shave it frequently but it keeps growing back.

• Character Alignment: Lawful Good.

You're not supposed to use alignment terms to describe characters, and even though there is no rule against it on troper pages, it's rather ironic that this man was the guy who established Character Alignment to describe people was a bad idea does it to himself. Also, if he wanted to be honest, his alignment would be Lawful Asshole

• Geek: Promoted from Nerd, which is what I was in school.

Not much of an improvement

• The Glasses Gotta Go: Said by my then-girlfriend, now wife. I used to be Blind Without 'Em until I got LASIK.

• Good with Numbers

• Happily Married

• I Know Karate: Second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

More Internet Tough Guy.txt

• Nerd Glasses: Used to have 'em before getting laser eye surgery.

• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: I was nicknamed Mr. Spock as a kid for my habit of being pedantically precise in my speaking habits.

At least he admits his autism

• The Smart Guy

In Troper speak, this is very much an Informed Ability

• Took a Level in Badass: I studied Tae Kwon Do to compensate for getting bullied in school. Ironically, since I started training, I've never gotten in a fight.

Even More Internet Tough Guy.txt

Some choice quotes from Fighteer

	“	Bear in mind this guy bitches about people doing stupid shit with guns on Youtube	„

External Links

• A thread on a TV Tropes spinoff bitching about this asshole
• Some tartlets bitching about this asshole
• His Troper Page
• Yahoo! Profile
• His crappy Wordpress blog
• fighteer
•  His Twitter
• His Jewtube