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* Alfrid Lickspittle, when he first appeared in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', saw an initial reception that was lukewarm at best, being seen as a comic relief character and CanonForeigner in a film that already had a lot of them and who seemed to exist just to give Creator/StephenFry's Master of Laketown to talk to. However, the creators took a major shine to him, gushing over Ryan Gage's performance in the commentary, and proceeded to give him [[AscendedExtra a heavily beefed-up role]] in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. Not only did Alfrid survive when [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation his boss was killed off early on]], but he took part in a lot of added scenes, providing most of the comic relief for the titular battle. Even after filming a death scene for him, they cut it out of the theatrical version (the ''only'' scene of him that was cut, which eventually made it into the extended version), meaning that to most audiences, his last scene was him [[KarmaHoudini escaping the battle with a bodice full of gold]]. Fan and critical reaction to the character was universally negative, finding his scenes unfunny, unpleasant, frustrating due to his gag of AesopAmnesia, adding nothing to the film, and going on for far too long, while also taking away from existing characters who found themselves DemotedToExtra or had scenes of major character development cut to make room for him. There are apocryphal accounts of audiences ''cheering'' at his death scene during screenings of the extended cut.
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* Alfrid Lickspittle, when he first appeared in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', saw an initial reception that was lukewarm at best, being seen as a comic relief character and CanonForeigner in a film that already had a lot of them and who seemed to exist just to give Creator/StephenFry's Master of Laketown to talk to. However, the creators took a major shine to him, gushing over Ryan Gage's performance in the commentary, and proceeded to give him [[AscendedExtra a heavily beefed-up role]] in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. Not only did Alfrid survive when [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation his boss was killed off early on]], but he took part in a lot of added scenes, providing most of the comic relief for the titular battle. Even after filming a death scene for him, they cut it out of the theatrical version (the ''only'' scene of him that was cut, which eventually made it into the extended version), meaning that to most audiences, his last scene was him [[KarmaHoudini escaping the battle with a bodice full of gold]]. Fan and critical reaction to the character was universally negative, finding his scenes unfunny, unpleasant, frustrating due to his gag of AesopAmnesia, adding nothing to the film, and going on for far too long, while also taking away from existing characters who found themselves DemotedToExtra or had scenes of major character development cut to make room for him. There are apocryphal accounts of audiences ''cheering'' at his death scene during screenings of the extended cut.
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* Alfrid Lickspittle, when he first appeared in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', saw an initial reception that was lukewarm at best, being seen as a comic relief character and CanonForeigner in a film that already had a lot of them and who seemed to exist just to give Creator/StephenFry's Master of Laketown to talk to. However, the creators took a major shine to him, gushing over Ryan Gage's performance in the commentary, and proceeded to give him [[AscendedExtra a heavily beefed-up role]] in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. Not only did Alfrid survive when [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation his boss was killed off early on]], but he took part in a lot of added scenes, providing most of the comic relief for the titular battle. Even after filming a death scene for him, they cut it out of the theatrical version (the ''only'' scene of him that was cut, which eventually made it into the extended version), meaning that to most audiences, his last scene was him [[KarmaHoudini escaping the battle with a bodice full of gold]]. Fan and critical reaction to the character was universally negative, finding his scenes unfunny, unpleasant, frustrating due to his gag of AesopAmnesia, adding nothing to the film, and going on for far too long, while also taking away from existing characters who found themselves DemotedToExtra or had scenes of major character development cut to make room for him. There are apocryphal accounts of audiences ''cheering'' at his death scene during screenings of the extended cut.
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* Alfrid Lickspittle, when he first appeared in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', saw an initial reception that was lukewarm at best, being seen as a comic relief character and CanonForeigner in a film that already had a lot of them and who seemed to exist just to give Creator/StephenFry's Master of Laketown to talk to. However, the creators took a major shine to him, gushing over Ryan Gage's performance in the commentary, and proceeded to give him [[AscendedExtra a heavily beefed-up role]] in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. Not only did Alfrid survive when [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation his boss was killed off early on]], but he took part in a lot of added scenes, providing most of the comic relief for the titular battle. Even after filming a death scene for him, they cut it out of the theatrical version (the ''only'' scene of him that was cut, which eventually made it into the extended version), meaning that to most audiences, his last scene was him [[KarmaHoudini escaping the battle with a bodice full of gold]]. Fan and critical reaction to the character was universally negative, finding his scenes unfunny, unpleasant, frustrating due to his gag of AesopAmnesia, adding nothing to the film, and going on for far too long, while also taking away from existing characters who found themselves DemotedToExtra or had scenes of major character development cut to make room for him. There are apocryphal accounts of audiences ''cheering'' at his death scene during screenings of the extended cut.
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* Seamus in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''. At least to his actor Matt Lang, who made sure that Seamus would be featured in the sequels after he got cut from the first one. Despite being of no relevance to the plot, he still gets as much screen time and lines(if not, more) as the other students like Cho, Neville and Luna who have much more important roles to play. In fact, three long monologues that were written for Seamus were cut for time constraints. Whilst he’s not hated by fans, his inclusion definitely felt forced and limited the screen time of more beloved characters like Neville and Luna.
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* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', Snake and Firecracker come across as being Creator's Pets, most tellingly because [[DesignatedHero we're supposed to like them]] and their creator, Atton Rand, had little intention of letting them be anything other than {{Karma Houdini}}s in the end when everyone else wanted to see them locked up.
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* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', Snake and Firecracker come across as being Creator's Pets, most tellingly because [[DesignatedHero we're supposed to like them]] and their creator, Atton Rand, had little intention of letting them be anything other than {{Karma Houdini}}s in the end when everyone else wanted to see them locked up.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in ''Blossoming Trail'', and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a "canon" ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apologize to Parker and put in an asylum, and only took it down following immense backlash from pretty much everyone who saw said 'canon' ending.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in ''Blossoming Trail'', and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a "canon" ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apologize to Parker and put in an asylum.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in ''Blossoming Trail'', and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a "canon" ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apologize to Parker and put in an asylum.asylum, and only took it down following immense backlash from pretty much everyone who saw said 'canon' ending.
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing [[AmericansHateTingle the cultural differences]].
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created and owned by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing [[AmericansHateTingle the cultural differences]].
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* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'' contains both main protagonist Drew Luczynski ([[NamesTheSame named after one of the story's own two writers]]) and his planned love interest Cynthia Knight. When first introduced, both characters proved fairly acceptable enough to the readers, but not necessarily remarkable in comparison to several other planned prominent characters that they considered to be more interesting. Unfortunately, while former co-writer turned later main writer Nathanoraptor explicitly planned for the story to have an EnsembleCast style of character focus, Luczynski reportedly viewed all the human characters apart from Drew and Cynthia as 'just side characters' and wanted the story to have more of a 'main protagonist surrounded by side characters' style of focus. And it didn't help that he and Nathanoraptor [[CreativeDifferences also had equally divergent visions for how they wanted the story itself to unfold]]. And as a result, Luczynski did not appreciate how much the readers seemed to like all the 'side characters' more than the character who was supposed to be the main protagonist, and even created Cynthia partially as a deliberate attempt to counter what he perceived as Nathanoraptor trying to have Drew DemotedToExtra in favor of [[EnsembleDarkHorse ensemble dark horses]] Leon and Jack getting boosted to SpotlightStealingSquad levels of prominence. Unfortunately for Luczynski, his seeming reluctance to allow any characters not named Drew and Cynthia the chance to receive even the tiniest share of CharacterDevelopment, what he viewed as development for Cynthia and Drew being more accurately described as unwarranted CharacterShilling instead, and his seeming inability to properly understand how his own ideas didn't always work for specific characters as well as he thought they would only led to the readers (and even Nathanoraptor) liking Drew and Cynthia even less than before (with Cynthia in particular ending up TheScrappy) until Nathanoraptor and Luczynski eventually switched positions as main and co-writers and Nathanoraptor managed to largely fix things up so that the readers started enjoying the story better.
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* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'' contains both main protagonist ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'': With Luczynski's admittance to her and Drew Luczynski ([[NamesTheSame named after one of the story's being amongst his [[CreatorsFavorite favorite characters]], plus Nathanoraptor's [[CreatorsPest own two writers]]) and his planned love interest thoughts]] about her, Cynthia Knight. When first introduced, both characters proved fairly acceptable enough to the readers, but not necessarily remarkable in comparison to several other planned prominent characters initially came across as this. The fact that they considered to be more interesting. Unfortunately, while former co-writer turned later main writer Nathanoraptor explicitly planned for the story to have an EnsembleCast style of character focus, Luczynski reportedly viewed all the human characters apart from tried immensely hard to push her into being a secondary main character alongside Drew [[SpotlightStealingSquad at the potential expense of Jack and Cynthia as 'just side characters' and wanted the story to have more of a 'main protagonist surrounded by side characters' style of focus. And it Leon]] certainly didn't help her case. [[spoiler: However, thanks to several subsequent developments she's undergone, her and Drew becoming an official couple, not to mention the heavily hinted possibility that he she might be a mole working for the villains, and Nathanoraptor [[CreativeDifferences also had equally divergent visions for how they wanted the story itself to unfold]]. And later confirmation as a result, Luczynski did not appreciate how much mole...working for the heroes, she has successfully shaken off this initial impression.]] And even that wasn't enough to save her from still ranking fairly low in popularity amongst the readers seemed to like all or initially spending a couple years facing the 'side characters' more than the character who was supposed to be the main protagonist, and even created Cynthia partially as a deliberate attempt to counter what he perceived as Nathanoraptor trying to have Drew DemotedToExtra in favor possibility of [[EnsembleDarkHorse ensemble dark horses]] Leon and Jack getting boosted to SpotlightStealingSquad levels AdaptedOut of prominence. Unfortunately for Luczynski, his seeming reluctance to allow any characters not named Drew and Cynthia the chance to receive even the tiniest share of CharacterDevelopment, what he viewed as development for Cynthia and Drew being more accurately described as unwarranted CharacterShilling instead, and his seeming inability to properly understand how his own ideas didn't always work for specific characters as well as he thought they would only led to the readers (and even Nathanoraptor) liking Drew and Cynthia even less than before (with Cynthia in particular ending up TheScrappy) until Nathanoraptor and Luczynski eventually switched positions as main and co-writers and Nathanoraptor managed to largely fix things up so that the readers started enjoying the story better.subsequent reboot ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined''.
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** Lightning Dawn and Grand Ruler, being {{Author Avatar}}s and the main characters, naturally get a lot of attention and shilling; however, readers quickly noted that the characters themselves contribute very little and come off as much less sympathetic than the author intended.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to not only prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in Blossoming Trail, and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a 'canon' ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apology to Parker and put in an asylum.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to not only prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in Blossoming Trail, ''Blossoming Trail'', and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a 'canon' "canon" ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apology apologize to Parker and put in an asylum.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''.
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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Arc 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat). He is the one family member to never get calling outs, and the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'', he accomplishes several major events in Arc 1 that could have easily been done by older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Arc 2, many characters would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents), and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out people and make them feel responsible even after everything he did, and few characters if any enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he is still one of the worst people in this story. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''. Future works by Green continue to not only prominently use Parker, little changed from his characterization in Blossoming Trail, and when one of the co-writers attempted to give a Parker an ending where Ash and Goh got Parker to admit he was wrong, Green flipped out and wrote a 'canon' ending where Ash and Goh trying to do this gets them ''mentally violated'' and forced to apology to Parker and put in an asylum.
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing [[AmericansHateTingle the cultural differences]].
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing [[AmericansHateTingle the cultural differences]].
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* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving; the conference barely survived by bringing in two new schools, one of them West Virginia—more than ''700 miles'' from its nearest conference opponent (Iowa State). The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
** It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole, given how it alone has driven the massive [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences conference]] realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accomodate them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).
** It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole, given how it alone has driven the massive [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences conference]] realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accomodate them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).
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* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving; the conference barely survived by bringing in two new schools, one of them West Virginia—more than ''700 miles'' from its nearest conference opponent (Iowa State). The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
**worse. It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole, given how it alone has driven the massive [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences conference]] realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accomodate them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).
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* The legendarily-bad ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' Side Swipe mold. When it arrived in stores, it was reviled as a fusion of every negative stereotype about the Unicron Trilogy: boring vehicle mode and a badly proportioned, overly gimmicky, and poorly articulated robot mode, with even the Minicon getting some hate. Hasbro listened to fans and never used the mold again... is what would be written here, if the mold wasn't reused ''twice'' in the ''Universe'' line, ''[[http://static.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/32/runamuck106.jpg and]]'' given a heavy-but-unhelpful remold into Runabout. The last of these earned particular ire for an EnsembleDarkhorse receiving the mold (and for having the wrong name, and for [[ThoseTwoBadGuys his partner]] not getting a similar release). It took three years for the mold to disappear from shelves... until Botcon 2012 offered a new version of him at premium price. Fortunately, ''Shattered Glass'' Treadshot finally [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap broke the curse:]] he's the well-loved ''Reveal the Shield'' Jazz mold with the color scheme and head of Side Swipe.
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing the cultural differences.
** Specific to Disney World, following ''Film/LiloAndStitch'' [[http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/11/stitchs-great-escape-ten-years.html there was some Stitch overkill]] - as if [[Ride/StitchsGreatEscape his ride]], promoted even by toilet papering Cinderella's castle, wasn't enough, for a while the blue alien was even [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/954AAOSwWV5ck-y2/s-l1600.jpg included alongside Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in park merchandise]]. Some even claim this might've helped the franchise's popularity downfall.
** Specific to Disney World, following ''Film/LiloAndStitch'' [[http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/11/stitchs-great-escape-ten-years.html there was some Stitch overkill]] - as if [[Ride/StitchsGreatEscape his ride]], promoted even by toilet papering Cinderella's castle, wasn't enough, for a while the blue alien was even [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/954AAOSwWV5ck-y2/s-l1600.jpg included alongside Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in park merchandise]]. Some even claim this might've helped the franchise's popularity downfall.
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** Specific to Disney World, following''Film/LiloAndStitch'' ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' [[http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/11/stitchs-great-escape-ten-years.html there was some Stitch overkill]] - as if [[Ride/StitchsGreatEscape his ride]], promoted even by toilet papering Cinderella's castle, wasn't enough, for a while the blue alien was even [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/954AAOSwWV5ck-y2/s-l1600.jpg included alongside Mickey, Donald, and Goofy the Sensational Six in park merchandise]]. Some even claim this might've helped the franchise's popularity downfall.
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* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'' contains both main protagonist Drew Luczynski ([[NamesTheSame named after one of the story's own two writers) and his planned love interest Cynthia Knight. When first introduced, both characters proved fairly acceptable enough to the readers, but now necessarily remarkable in comparison to several other planned prominent characters that they considered to be more interesting. Unfortunately, while former co-writer turned later main writer Nathanoraptor explicitly planned for the story to have an EnsembleCast style of character focus, Luczynski reportedly viewed all the human characters apart from Drew and Cynthia as 'just side characters' and wanted the story to have more of a 'main protagonist surrounded by side characters' style of focus. And as a result, he did not appreciate how much the readers seemed to like all the 'side characters' more than the character who was supposed to be the main protagonist, and even created Cynthia partially as a deliberate attempt to counter what he perceived as Nathanoraptor trying to have Drew DemotedToExtra in favor of [[EnsembleDarkHorse ensemble dark horses]] Leon and Jack getting boosted to SpotlightStealingSquad levels of prominence. Unfortunately for Luczynski, his seeming reluctance to allow any characters not named Drew and Cynthia the chance to receive even the tiniest share of CharacterDevelopment (for fear of them displacing Drew and Cynthia from the spotlight if allowed as much), what he viewed as development for Cynthia and Drew being more accurately described as CharacterShilling instead, and his seeming inability to properly understand how his own ideas didn't always work for specific characters as well as he thought only led to the readers (and even Nathanoraptor) liking Drew and Cynthia even less than before (with Cynthia in particular ending up TheScrappy) until Nathanoraptor and Luczynski eventually switched positions as main and co-writers and Nathanoraptor managed to largely fix things up so that the readers started enjoying the story better.
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* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'':
** Rhymey, whose [[RhymesOnADime constant rhyming shtick]] has led many readers to declare him the most annoying character in the series, not helped by him getting disproportionately large amounts of dialogue that don't contribute anything to the plot. He even gets [[TakeThatScrappy chewed out]] for talking this way by UnintentionallySympathetic ex-Wonderbolt Ace Ray. Unusually, Rhymey's sour reception only led to the character receiving ''more'' creator favoritism, leading to the author ramping up his screentime [[TrollingCreator to piss people off]].
** Lightning Dawn and Grand Ruler, being {{Author Avatar}}s and the main characters, naturally get a lot of attention and shilling; however, readers quickly noted that the characters themselves contribute very little and come off as much less sympathetic than the author intended.
** The sequel adds Goldwin, an {{Expy}} of Jeff from ''Series/TodaysSpecial''. Several episodes in ''My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic II'' (which plagiarize entire episodes of ''Today's Special'') are made specifically to involve Goldwin, even when they add nothing to the overall plot whatsoever.
** Ironically, while the author is willing to shout at everyone who makes fun of his characters, he doesn't care for the majority of them at all, ignoring them completely if he thinks that they serve no purpose for him anymore outside of battle scenes.
* ''FanFic/ReactWatchBelieveYikes'' introduced a character named Noire, who is the subconscious manifestation of Blake's perverted side. At first, she just makes lewd jokes and breaks the fourth wall during season 3, but becomes much more prominent to the point of replacing Blake entirely for season 5. The creator also got upset at people who didn't like her and had the characters in the story sympathize with her over a fake backstory. From season 7 onward she is her own separate entity. The only reason fans didn't [[TheScrappy outright hate her]] is that she continually got comeuppance for her actions and the other characters stopped liking her after they learned the truth.
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* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', Snake and Firecracker come across as being Creator's Pets, most tellingly because [[DesignatedHero we're supposed to like them]] and their creator, Atton Rand, had little intention of letting them be anything other than {{Karma Houdini}}s in the end when everyone else wanted to see them locked up.
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* One year, FOX's coverage of UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} races added a "Digger Cam"--a ground-level camera in the infield that showed cars coming around a turn. The "digger" part comes from [[RogerRabbitEffect an animated gopher]] named Digger, who would pop up out of a hole, look behind him, notice the cars, scream, and then frantically get back into his hole. It was kind of funny the first time... before they decided to do it repeatedly, every single race. This was the signal for FOX to render Digger in CGI, give him his own prerace cartoon, and offer Digger merchandise. The response escalated to three words: kill the rodent. Digger was so beloved by FOX, they gave him a speaking cameo in the film ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', which was hated in its own right. It doesn't help that NASCAR actually ''ordered'' Fox to stop using Digger, blaming him for a decline in attendance of NASCAR races.
* ''Series/SportsCenter'' had the Mark Sanchez "Butt Fumble", which the network refused to let be beaten in its "Worst of the Worst" competition. The hosts got sick of it, but the competition it went against was usually something it could easily beat when there were funnier fails in the lowlight reel. It was eventually retired after 40 undefeated weeks.
* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving; the conference barely survived by bringing in two new schools, one of them West Virginia—more than ''700 miles'' from its nearest conference opponent (Iowa State). The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
** It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole, given how it alone has driven the massive [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences conference]] realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accomodate them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Cosmos_(1970-85) The New York Cosmos]]. While some pro sports leagues get accused of giving certain teams preferential treatment, the North American Soccer League was upfront in saying they wanted the Cosmos to be the league's best team, since they felt the fate of the entire league depended on having a successful New York franchise. So the league didn't object to the Cosmos pursuing the world's top talent, famously luring the sport's biggest star, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9 Pelé]], to New York for three years. Instead, the Cosmos' InvincibleHero status ended up alienating fans of the other teams
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* Arachne in the first version of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' was [[CanonForeigner Julie Taymor's original creation]] and responsible for creating Spider-Man and giving him his costume, got no less than three songs of her own (including one devoted to shoe shopping), supplanted the Green Goblin as the main villain of the show in Act Two, was designed in-universe to be unbeatable as she was an immortal illusion master, competed with Mary Jane as Peter's love interest, and technically won in the end by regaining her humanity and being able to die like she wanted. Julie Taymor insisted that not making Arachne's redemption arc the main focus of Act Two would ruin the artistic merit of the play and compared cutting any of her songs or scenes to a mastectomy, while general audiences were much less receptive to her and how her story took focus away from Spider-Man, was too dark for a family-oriented show, and undermined the highlights of Act 1. After Taymor was fired, much of Arachne's role was cut out via an extensive Retool, reducing her to TheArtifact.
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing the cultural differences.
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* Same-character redecoes. It's common, in any action-figure line, for the later waves to feature an already-released character (usually the protagonist) with [[PaletteSwap a different paintjob]] and sometimes a different accessory. This is generally meant as a cost-saving measure, since it's much cheaper than remolding an entirely new figure. Collectors and fans hate these things from the start: they're rereleases of something they already own, most of them are [[http://i.imgur.com/lyZ9Bhm.jpg inaccurate in appearance]] to the actual character, and they tend to look... well, [[http://jericosmotureviews.tripod.com/samuraiheman/samuraiheman.jpg stupid]]. This would be fine - just ignore them and move on - except stores tend to not be aware of this. Most of the time, stores decide the figures that'll get put on shelves, and have a lot of power in determining case assortments. Stores place much more stock in the most recognizable names, so they tend to request lots of same-character redecoes, which leads to [[EnsembleDarkhorse more minor characters]] getting shortpacked or going completely unreleased. As an example, one ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' line features, in one case, three Superposeable Spider-Mans, three Hydro Blast Spider-Mans, three Dual Web Swinging Spider-Man, and one Sandman. This has the paradoxical effect of turning characters who are normally popular in fiction into Creator's Pets on the toy shelves, with many fans bemoaning their local store containing nothing but a solid wall of Spider-Man in tacky outfits. In the case of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 one series]], the Creator's Pet status of the main characters in this regard is often blamed for the line's cancellation - it turned out kids didn't want to buy three Claw Grabber Skeletors any more than the collectors did.
* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' has Vezon, [[BrokenBase to one half of the fanbase]]. Greg Farshtey admitted that Vezon was one of his favorite characters to write, and in the web serials, ''it shows.'' Despite actually having very little to offer in terms of advancing the plot, Vezon is usually there to offer his PluckyComicRelief antics, especially after he fused with the Kanohi Olmak and gained dimension-hopping abilities.
* ''Toys/{{Bratz}}'' has Cloe and Yasmin, two dolls that were in nearly every single line, with most other dolls being slight variations of them. They're even considered one of the main reasons the franchise is dead.
* The legendarily-bad ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' Side Swipe mold. When it arrived in stores, it was reviled as a fusion of every negative stereotype about the Unicron Trilogy: boring vehicle mode and a badly proportioned, overly gimmicky, and poorly articulated robot mode, with even the Minicon getting some hate. Hasbro listened to fans and never used the mold again... is what would be written here, if the mold wasn't reused ''twice'' in the ''Universe'' line, ''[[http://static.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/32/runamuck106.jpg and]]'' given a heavy-but-unhelpful remold into Runabout. The last of these earned particular ire for an EnsembleDarkhorse receiving the mold (and for having the wrong name, and for [[ThoseTwoBadGuys his partner]] not getting a similar release). It took three years for the mold to disappear from shelves... until Botcon 2012 offered a new version of him at premium price. Fortunately, ''Shattered Glass'' Treadshot finally [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap broke the curse:]] he's the well-loved ''Reveal the Shield'' Jazz mold with the color scheme and head of Side Swipe.
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* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'':
** Rhymey, whose [[RhymesOnADime constant rhyming shtick]] has led many readers to declare him the most annoying character in the series, not helped by him getting disproportionately large amounts of dialogue that don't contribute anything to the plot. He even gets [[TakeThatScrappy chewed out]] for talking this way by UnintentionallySympathetic ex-Wonderbolt Ace Ray. Unusually, Rhymey's sour reception only led to the character receiving ''more'' creator favoritism, leading to the author ramping up his screentime [[TrollingCreator to piss people off]].
** Lightning Dawn and Grand Ruler, being {{Author Avatar}}s and the main characters, naturally get a lot of attention and shilling; however, readers quickly noted that the characters themselves contribute very little and come off as much less sympathetic than the author intended.
** The sequel adds Goldwin, an {{Expy}} of Jeff from ''Series/TodaysSpecial''. Several episodes in ''My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic II'' (which plagiarize entire episodes of ''Today's Special'') are made specifically to involve Goldwin, even when they add nothing to the overall plot whatsoever.
** Ironically, while the author is willing to shout at everyone who makes fun of his characters, he doesn't care for the majority of them at all, ignoring them completely if he thinks that they serve no purpose for him anymore outside of battle scenes.
* ''FanFic/ReactWatchBelieveYikes'' introduced a character named Noire, who is the subconscious manifestation of Blake's perverted side. At first, she just makes lewd jokes and breaks the fourth wall during season 3, but becomes much more prominent to the point of replacing Blake entirely for season 5. The creator also got upset at people who didn't like her and had the characters in the story sympathize with her over a fake backstory. From season 7 onward she is her own separate entity. The only reason fans didn't [[TheScrappy outright hate her]] is that she continually got comeuppance for her actions and the other characters stopped liking her after they learned the truth.
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* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', Snake and Firecracker come across as being Creator's Pets, most tellingly because [[DesignatedHero we're supposed to like them]] and their creator, Atton Rand, had little intention of letting them be anything other than {{Karma Houdini}}s in the end when everyone else wanted to see them locked up.
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* One year, FOX's coverage of UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} races added a "Digger Cam"--a ground-level camera in the infield that showed cars coming around a turn. The "digger" part comes from [[RogerRabbitEffect an animated gopher]] named Digger, who would pop up out of a hole, look behind him, notice the cars, scream, and then frantically get back into his hole. It was kind of funny the first time... before they decided to do it repeatedly, every single race. This was the signal for FOX to render Digger in CGI, give him his own prerace cartoon, and offer Digger merchandise. The response escalated to three words: kill the rodent. Digger was so beloved by FOX, they gave him a speaking cameo in the film ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', which was hated in its own right. It doesn't help that NASCAR actually ''ordered'' Fox to stop using Digger, blaming him for a decline in attendance of NASCAR races.
* ''Series/SportsCenter'' had the Mark Sanchez "Butt Fumble", which the network refused to let be beaten in its "Worst of the Worst" competition. The hosts got sick of it, but the competition it went against was usually something it could easily beat when there were funnier fails in the lowlight reel. It was eventually retired after 40 undefeated weeks.
* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving; the conference barely survived by bringing in two new schools, one of them West Virginia—more than ''700 miles'' from its nearest conference opponent (Iowa State). The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
** It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole, given how it alone has driven the massive [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences conference]] realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accomodate them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Cosmos_(1970-85) The New York Cosmos]]. While some pro sports leagues get accused of giving certain teams preferential treatment, the North American Soccer League was upfront in saying they wanted the Cosmos to be the league's best team, since they felt the fate of the entire league depended on having a successful New York franchise. So the league didn't object to the Cosmos pursuing the world's top talent, famously luring the sport's biggest star, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9 Pelé]], to New York for three years. Instead, the Cosmos' InvincibleHero status ended up alienating fans of the other teams
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* Arachne in the first version of ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' was [[CanonForeigner Julie Taymor's original creation]] and responsible for creating Spider-Man and giving him his costume, got no less than three songs of her own (including one devoted to shoe shopping), supplanted the Green Goblin as the main villain of the show in Act Two, was designed in-universe to be unbeatable as she was an immortal illusion master, competed with Mary Jane as Peter's love interest, and technically won in the end by regaining her humanity and being able to die like she wanted. Julie Taymor insisted that not making Arachne's redemption arc the main focus of Act Two would ruin the artistic merit of the play and compared cutting any of her songs or scenes to a mastectomy, while general audiences were much less receptive to her and how her story took focus away from Spider-Man, was too dark for a family-oriented show, and undermined the highlights of Act 1. After Taymor was fired, much of Arachne's role was cut out via an extensive Retool, reducing her to TheArtifact.
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* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks have Duffy the Disney Bear. The main problem most people have with Duffy is that he isn't ''from'' any of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and/or Creator/{{Pixar}} films, the rides, shows, or live-action movies (compare him to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Figment]], WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]). He simply exists [[MerchandiseDriven to sell merchandise of himself]], TastesLikeDiabetes, and yet has more presence in the parks than {{ensemble darkhorse}}s like [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Hiro and Baymax]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome long-gone]] characters like WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] and WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}, and most of the Disney villains (who usually only appear for Meet and Greets at the Halloween parties). He even managed to outlast a character from a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts popular and ongoing video game series co-created by Disney]]. This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[CashCowFranchise cash-cow]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing the cultural differences.
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* Same-character redecoes. It's common, in any action-figure line, for the later waves to feature an already-released character (usually the protagonist) with [[PaletteSwap a different paintjob]] and sometimes a different accessory. This is generally meant as a cost-saving measure, since it's much cheaper than remolding an entirely new figure. Collectors and fans hate these things from the start: they're rereleases of something they already own, most of them are [[http://i.imgur.com/lyZ9Bhm.jpg inaccurate in appearance]] to the actual character, and they tend to look... well, [[http://jericosmotureviews.tripod.com/samuraiheman/samuraiheman.jpg stupid]]. This would be fine - just ignore them and move on - except stores tend to not be aware of this. Most of the time, stores decide the figures that'll get put on shelves, and have a lot of power in determining case assortments. Stores place much more stock in the most recognizable names, so they tend to request lots of same-character redecoes, which leads to [[EnsembleDarkhorse more minor characters]] getting shortpacked or going completely unreleased. As an example, one ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' line features, in one case, three Superposeable Spider-Mans, three Hydro Blast Spider-Mans, three Dual Web Swinging Spider-Man, and one Sandman. This has the paradoxical effect of turning characters who are normally popular in fiction into Creator's Pets on the toy shelves, with many fans bemoaning their local store containing nothing but a solid wall of Spider-Man in tacky outfits. In the case of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 one series]], the Creator's Pet status of the main characters in this regard is often blamed for the line's cancellation - it turned out kids didn't want to buy three Claw Grabber Skeletors any more than the collectors did.
* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' has Vezon, [[BrokenBase to one half of the fanbase]]. Greg Farshtey admitted that Vezon was one of his favorite characters to write, and in the web serials, ''it shows.'' Despite actually having very little to offer in terms of advancing the plot, Vezon is usually there to offer his PluckyComicRelief antics, especially after he fused with the Kanohi Olmak and gained dimension-hopping abilities.
* ''Toys/{{Bratz}}'' has Cloe and Yasmin, two dolls that were in nearly every single line, with most other dolls being slight variations of them. They're even considered one of the main reasons the franchise is dead.
* The legendarily-bad ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' Side Swipe mold. When it arrived in stores, it was reviled as a fusion of every negative stereotype about the Unicron Trilogy: boring vehicle mode and a badly proportioned, overly gimmicky, and poorly articulated robot mode, with even the Minicon getting some hate. Hasbro listened to fans and never used the mold again... is what would be written here, if the mold wasn't reused ''twice'' in the ''Universe'' line, ''[[http://static.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/32/runamuck106.jpg and]]'' given a heavy-but-unhelpful remold into Runabout. The last of these earned particular ire for an EnsembleDarkhorse receiving the mold (and for having the wrong name, and for [[ThoseTwoBadGuys his partner]] not getting a similar release). It took three years for the mold to disappear from shelves... until Botcon 2012 offered a new version of him at premium price. Fortunately, ''Shattered Glass'' Treadshot finally [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap broke the curse:]] he's the well-loved ''Reveal the Shield'' Jazz mold with the color scheme and head of Side Swipe.
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