User blog comment:Nerdyanimegirl225/Best Villain, Worst Hero./@comment-24895561-20140608202507/@comment-7418318-20140609094713

It's not only haters that dislike Natsu.

The way he almost always pops into other people's fights and takes them over, how he gets so many convenient mid-fight power-ups and how he hogs the spotlight more than any other character does tend to annoy or even antagonize many people.

The beginning of the Tartaros arc is a very good exmaple for it. Laxus and Wendy went up against a single Demon Gate and even though they won, they ended up incapacitated. Natsu on the other hand beat Jackal pretty much solo, did almost all the work in beating Franmalth, had additional run-ins with Kyouka, Silver and Franmalth and beat Crawford unconscious. Sure he is one of the main characters, but for many people including myself this is a bit too much.

But the biggest problem I have with him is that his presence far too often reduces Lucy to cheerleader who just comments from the side-lines instead of being allowed to fight side-by-side with him as she does with her Spirits. Jackal vs. Natsu and the fight against Franmalth (pre-Hades transformation) are primes examples for this.