History TheScrappy / AnimeAndManga

** Anna Heartfilia earned some curiosity given her connection to Zeref and the Dragon Slayers, but fell into this trope when she was revealed to have come to the present with them. She leaves several {{Plot Hole}}s in the process (such as how people in on the 400-Year Plan like Zeref and Aquarius did not seem to know this), giving flimsy excuses as to why she never contacted ''anyone'' for the past 15 years, and only served to introduce a plot device that would give Acnologia an anticlimactic end while denying readers the long-awaited showdown between him and the Dragon Slayers. Her plan doesn't even work, instead making Acnologia even ''more'' powerful, making her reintroduction in the story come off as pointless, though it did set the stage for two cathartic final battles against Acnologia's dragon persona and his human persona when his power became so chaotic that the two separated. In essence, her status as this relates to many considering her another example of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter. However, the epilogue reveals Anna is now a teacher, and that gives her a chance to impart some of her wisdom from the past to future generations.

* ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'': Espimon quickly became the most hated character in the show. The biggest reason is his unfunny [[RunningGag running gag]] where he thought that Hiro was a "fake" due to [[LiteralMinded not looking exactly like Hokuto]], even after Hiro explains to Espimon that he's the "real" Hiro despite not being Hokuto's "spitting image." Additionally, said running gag was not only unfunny, but it also rapidly got on fans' nerves because it went on for 20+ episodes. Along with Espimon's one-note characterization of being an unfunny comic relief character, his subplot is [[ShaggyDogStory overall useless]] to the show. His subplot of [[spoiler: wanting to evolve]] is resolved [[AntiClimax rather hurriedly and without much build-up]], with said [[spoiler: evolution]] being the reason he abruptly accepts Hiro as "real" [[spoiler: after Hiro helps him evolve]]. Espimon's subplot being suddenly resolved brought much relief to fans because it meant the end of the despised "fake Hiro" running gag, but it was too little, too late because of the overall irrelevance of the character.

* ''Manga/BlueLock'': Wataru Kuon fans can be counted on one hand given that his biggest role in the story was [[spoiler: selling his team out to the their opponents so they would let him score enough goals to be exempt from elimination even if they lost.]] Although the audience was clearly [[ArcVillain meant to dislike him]] for this, what puts him into this status is his supposed redemption; [[spoiler:getting a red card after deciding at the last possible second to actually help his team after refusing to play the whole match]], [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which did little if anything to actually redeem him]] to most readers.

** Alessi is a strong contender for the most universally hated character in Part 3, and possibly all of ''[=JoJo=]''. As a creepy ChildHater who [[FountainOfYouth turns his victims into kids]] before [[WouldHurtAChild attempting to murder them with an axe]] and who lacks any redeeming qualities, he is definitely intended to be a HateSink. However, the fight against him is too full of uncomfortable and {{Squick}}y moments -- mainly thanks to Polnareff spending most of it as a naked kid -- to be enjoyable for most people, so he fails to garner the LoveToHate reaction that such a character is supposed to elicit during the brief time he's there. Alessi also gets hatred for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot perceived missed potential]], as he never uses his powers on (or even gets to interact with)[[note]]At least outside of the [[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Capcom fighting game]], which ''does'' explore the possibility in Young Joseph's Story Mode.[[/note]] Joseph, a character whom [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency the audience knows to have been a great fighter in his youth]] and thus would have been the perfect member of the group to outwit and defeat him. Thankfully, Alessi is also a PlotIrrelevantVillain who's entirely contained within a single story arc, so those who can't stand him can easily skip over him without missing anything.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' has Yggdrasill/[[DubNameChange King Drasil]], the main villain. This is [[Anime/DigimonXEvolution hardly]] [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad his]] [[Manga/DigimonNext first]] [[VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth incarnation]], and he's already a BaseBreakingCharacter for his increasing prominence as an antagonist, but ''tri's'' version of him is easily considered the absolute worst of his appearances. Not only is the character [[GenericDoomsdayVillain incredibly poorly-defined]] as a consequence of [[TheGhost never properly appearing onscreen]] and preferring the [[EvilDoppelganger Mysterious Man/Dark Gennai]] to do all the work, but the motivation he does receive comes across as complete nonsense. He wants to protect the Digital World from evil humans... when every recent threat the Digital World has faced resulted from evil Digimon, and most of them were thwarted by good humans. It leads you to wonder [[RememberTheNewGuy where he was when the likes of Devimon, Etemon, Myotismon, the Dark Masters, Millenniummon, Diaboromon and the Daemon Corps were running amok]], let alone actual human villains like Ken and Oikawa who were manipulated by Myotismon anyway. It doesn't help that Yggdrasil's plan, which involves reviving all of the dead Digimon, ''[[{{Hypocrite}} also includes the aforementioned villains]]''. Furthermore, he's in competition with other villains (both the leftover ones from the original series, and the new-blood villains ''tri'' established), [[SpotlightStealingSquad pulling away their screentime and relevance]] in favor of [[GenericDoomsdayVillain this boring jerk]] and also removing any suspense from his own agent. In the Mysterious Man's case, it tricks the viewer into thinking that either Ken is the Digimon Emperor again, or that Gennai suddenly turned on everyone, before [[HijackedByGanon revealing that he served Yggdrasil all along]]. He's also a RecycledScript of his ''Data Squad'' incarnation, who was already divisive but at least ''some'' reasons to dislike humanity, seeing what [[OmnicidalManiac Akihiro Kurata]] was capable of by himself. Speaking of past incarnations, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter he's also stripped of all of his lore elements]]; the Royal Knights that serve him don't exist as a group in this continuity, and none of their members serve him aside from a [[AdaptationalVillainy very different Alphamon]], meaning he doesn't even have the benefit of faithfully representing the Digital World's ruler.[[note]]Gankoomon and Hackmon also appear in ''Adventure's'' PSP adaptation, and ''are'' actually the Gankoomon and Jesmon of the Royal Knights, further compounding the issue.[[/note]] And to cap it off, he gets taken down offscreen by Homeostasis, so there isn't even [[LoveToHate any satisfaction]] out of him finally being defeated. Bottom line, ''tri.'' Yggdrasil was easily the weakest villain in the franchise and many agree that his presence was not needed.

* ''Manga/BlueLock'': Wataru Kuon's fans can be counted on one hand given that his biggest role in the story was [[spoiler: selling his team out to the their opponents so they would let him score enough goals to be exempt from elimination even if they lost.]] Although the audience was clearly [[ArcVillain meant to dislike him]] for this, what puts him into this status is his supposed redemption; [[spoiler:getting a red card after deciding at the last possible second to actually help his team after refusing to play the whole match]], [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which did little if anything to actually redeem him]] to most readers.

* ''Manga/BlueLock'': Wataru Kuon's fanbase could be counted on one hand given that his biggest role in the story was [[spoiler: selling his team out to the their opponents so they would let him score enough goals to be exempt from elimination even if they lost.]] Although the audience was clearly [[ArcVillain meant to dislike him]] for this, what puts him into this status is his supposed redemption; [[spoiler:getting a red card after deciding at the last possible second to actually help his team after gloating about his immunity and refusing to play]], [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which did little if anything to actually redeem him]] to most readers.

* ''Manga/BlueLock'': Wataru Kuon's fanbase could be counted on one hand given that his biggest role in the story was [[spoiler: selling his team out to the their opponents so they would let him score enough goals to be exempt from elimination even if they lost.]] Although the audience was clearly [[ArcVillain meant to dislike him]] for this, what puts him into this status is his supposed redemption; [[spoiler:getting a red card after deciding at the last possible second to actually help his team after gloating about his immunity and refusing to play]] [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which did little if anything to actually redeem him]] to most readers.

* ''Anime/SasamiMagicalGirlsClub'':
** Makoto the AttentionWhore JerkAss or Anri the {{Yandere}}, take your pick.
** Also Misao of all people in the second season for her unproven beliefs of the ObviouslyEvil witches just being mistaken about them attempting to kidnap them, next siding with them and becoming a huge asshole.

** Typically, by the end of the series, all the fan hatred has, in an interesting meta-contrast to the ending, been shifted towards Kaname Ohgi. Initially he was able to compensate his status as TheGenericGuy in an otherwise vividly colorful cast by virtue of being the Black Knights' VoiceOfReason to the point of becoming a minor EnsembleDarkhorse. But his increasingly rash decisions and degeneration into hypocrisy towards the end of R2 (including [[spoiler:backstabbing Lelouch based on VillainsNeverLie, and functionally surrendering the ''entire world'' to Britannia in an under-the-table deal to free Japan]]) quickly plummeted him to Scrappy status. The only real consequence he faces is getting arrested and held in prison for two months, only to be freed at the faux execution of the Black Knights. And at the end of the series, he gets one of the happiest endings out of all of the cast by being HappilyMarried with Villetta Nu. He even became the ''Prime Minister of Japan'' while two of the main characters -- [[spoiler:Lelouch and Suzaku]] -- get much less ideal endings, which made him even more hated by several fans of the show. This was amplified by the knowledge that [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Ohgi's actions basically led to the final arc and the particularly sad endings for Lelouch and Suzaku]], which have been a matter of controversy among various fans.

** Ohgi's newlywed wife, Villetta Nu, also shares in the hate for [[LoveMakesYouDumb supposedly leading him astray in the first place]] and screwing Lelouch over in the most inopportune moments, culminating in her being trusted over Lelouch leading to [[spoiler:the betrayal]] when she has no right to be, as an agent against him on behalf of Britannia (re:the geass and him being AWOL following the Black Rebellion, even though she was the one watching over Lelouch for geass, meaning she may have very well misled them, and keeping him under surveillance during that year, making her partly responsible for the latter, and also that she was the one who incapacitated Ohgi in the first place partly due to the latter's carelessness, and Ohgi [[NeverMyFault still completely blames Lelouch for being treated as an expendable and abandoning him during that moment]]). And yet, she too shares in Ohgi's happy ending for her convenient [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor team switch]], even though she undergoes no redemptive character development nor actually does anything for the peace. And the worst part? Unlike Nina and Ohgi, she suffers '''''[[KarmaHoudini no]]''''' consequences and [[IdiotHoudini narrowly avoids arrest]] on the grounds that she conveniently got pregnant with Ohgi's child before the FinalBattle. Meanwhile, each of the main leads had already [[spoiler:lost a love interest they both cared about, one of which started falling deeper into despair after being used by Villetta]]. It's not too strange to find fans who wished they didn't survive the waterfall incident.

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': Prime Minister Honest. He's the BigBad in a series where the single most popular character by an intensely wide margin (Esdeath) is merely TheDragon to him, which is surprisingly easy to forget about. This wouldn't be bad enough to label him this trope, if only he weren't one of the single most [[{{Narm}} narmy]] villains people could think of. Every single scene with him has him straddling the MoralEventHorizon in some way, yet he comes across as nothing more than an annoying, over-the-top and flat BigBadWannabe. In a fictional example of XPacHeat, instead of viewers wanting to see him get his comeuppance, they view him as a waste of time at the expense of other, mostly more popular antagonists and want him to go away.

** Astra is also heavily disliked due to his catchphrase, which became annoying after repeating it one too many times, and his YouTuber personality that was just considered grating and obnoxious. Eri also had a catchphrase, but she used it less and less as the series went on, so it wasn't as in your face. Astra on the other hand...

* ''Manga/SanzaEyes'': Haan. He spends most of the series feeling out of place (being TheRival of Yakumo, an uncommonly uncompetitive and cool headed hero for a shonen manga), and once he finally finds his place he is already dead. From then on, we are treated to his clone, his corpse, and the CloneAngst that follow.

* ''Manga/3×3Eyes'': Haan. He spends most of the series feeling out of place (being TheRival of Yakumo, an uncommonly uncompetitive and cool headed hero for a shonen manga), and once he finally finds his place he is already dead. From then on, we are treated to his clone, his corpse, and the CloneAngst that follow.

* There’s a sizable number of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fans who don’t like Mineta at all because of his pervert tendencies and often over-inflated ego.