They like doing the Naruto thing where they turn the main character into the rival instead of actually writing the rival as the main character of the story

"Yeah, my Naruto/Ash dresses in black, is a BAMF, and gets all the ladies!"

"Why don't you just use Sasuke/Paul?"

"Ew, they're the bad guys though."

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