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** Bonnie gets some grief from parts of the fanbase for her inclination to cry at the drop of a hat whenever she gets into a sticky and emotional situation, especially when it comes to satisfying Annalise; this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MlOt07Wej8 SimGM parody video]] turns it up to its most absurd point, though it should be noted that Liza Weil liked it on Twitter, so even she takes it in stride.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Laurel, in season 3. She is meant to be seem as a sort of JerkassWoobie as she keeps being a jerk to everybody while [[spoiler:grieving Wes' death]]. Her actions, however, are far more abbrassive and jerk-ish than what's acceptable for a griefing person, particularly actions as [[spoiler:showing no consideration for Annalise's lost baby and telling Connor to kill himself after he suspect he might have killed Wes]]. The fact she is a jerk even to people who have nothing to do with anything and is a random jerk especially to the people who are trying to help her. As a result, she slowly became the show's newest TheScrappy.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Almost invetiable given the morality and themes of the show. By season 3, aside from [[spoiler:[[OneTruePairing Connor and Oliver]] breaking up]] right at the start of the season, every character has become, at least, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, everyone spending almost all their time crying, screaming, turning against each other and suffering with nothing positive ever happening, with [[GenkiGirl Meggy]] leaving soon after being introduced and even Oliver becoming a darker and darker ALighterShadeOfGray. The fact that several characters do become apathetic jerkasses during the second half of the season makes it really hard to continue caring for the characters as if their TraumaCongaLine would get any better.
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** Laurel turned into one over the course of season 3, but especially after [[spoiler: Wes' murder]] when her understandable grief over it was ''heavily'' [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] to the point of turning her into one of the biggest [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] on the show, especially when she [[spoiler: shows an astounding lack of respect when Annalise reveals the truth about Baby Sam's death, yet the episode ends with Annalise having to comfort her and the implication that Laurel was in the right]].
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* AlasPoorScrappy: [[spoiler:Wes was definitely not the most popular character, but it was still hard to watch him as he's violently murdered, desperately crawling for help as he's easily overtaken, and the viewer is forced to watch as he can only struggle in horror as he's suffocated.]]
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** Nate. He has never been the most popular aside from being the show's resident MrFanservice, and his role on the show has greatly diminished since the first season despite being one of the series regulars. This has led many fans to wonder if he has any true purpose in the story anymore aside from occasional eye candy. Of all the characters closest to Annalise, he seems the most likely to betray her, considering she did frame him for Sam's murder. In season 3, he finally gets fed up with Annalise's lies and manipulating and ends their relationship. Now he seems focused on [[spoiler: getting back at Annalise, starting by sleeping with the ADA and trying to turn Wes against her.]] It doesn't help that many preferred Eve and Annalise together over Nate.
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[spoiler: Wes' death reeks of this, considering he was black and mentally ill, and it brings out parallels to other main non-Caucasian characters being brutally killed off and shown dead in 2016's TV season.]]
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*** Not helping his case: he goes into HeroicBSOD on the second part of the second season, making him acting as a jerk to everybody who tries to show any sign of helping him, particularly, Laurel and Annalise. He also ends up hogging a lot of the screen time of various characters due to having an entire side plot dedicated to his past, something that few viewers were interested on anyway. Also, his BeardOfSorrow took away some of his attractiveness.
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** The person Under The Sheet is revealed to be none other than [[spoiler: Wes Gibbins]]. And [[spoiler: he was already dead]] when the fire broke out.
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** Nate. He has never been the most popular aside from being the show's resident MrFanservice, and his role on the show has greatly diminished since the first season despite being one of the series regulars. This has led many fans to wonder if he has any true purpose in the story anymore aside from occasional eye candy. Of all the characters closest to Annalise, he seems the most likely to betray her, considering she did frame him for Sam's murder. In season 3, he finally gets fed up with Annalise's lies and manipulating and ends their relationship. Now he seems focused on [[spoiler: getting back at Annalise, starting by sleeping with the ADA and trying to turn Wes against her.]] It doesn't help that many preferred Eve and Annalise together over Nate.
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** [[spoiler: Simon being the one behind the "Killer" posters. He's done nothing all season but complain about Annalise, trade insults with the Keating 5, and express interest in Oliver. However, many viewers think there's more to the story.]]
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** Season 3:
*** Someone was burned to death in the burning of Annalise's house.
*** Someone is found barely alive in the basement of the house. It's [[spoiler: Laurel]], and [[spoiler: she's pregnant]]!
*** [[spoiler: Bonnie and Frank]] having a night of passion together.
*** Someone was burned to death in the burning of Annalise's house.
*** Someone is found barely alive in the basement of the house. It's [[spoiler: Laurel]], and [[spoiler: she's pregnant]]!
*** [[spoiler: Bonnie and Frank]] having a night of passion together.
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* BrokenBase: In regards to how characters treat Annalise. Is she a manipulative MagnificentBastard that has no qualms over using every aspect of the lives of the people under her, even the most embarrassing and dark ones? Yes. Do the characters have the right to be mad at her, being that she is dedicating almost every waking moment to guarantee none of them have to pay for their crimes, which include [[spoiler:the murders of Sam, Rebecca and Sinclair]] and is basically the single reason nobody of the team is in jail after everything? That's up for discussion.
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*** Not helping his case: he goes into HeroicBSOD on the second part of the second season, making him acting as a jerk to everybody who tries to show any sign of helping him, particularly, Laurel and Annalise. He also ends up hogging a lot of the screen time of various characters due to having an entire side plot dedicated to his past, something that few viewers were interested on anyway. Also, his BeardOfSorrow took away some of his attractiveness.
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*** [[spoiler: Levi]] turning out to be [[spoiler:Eggs911.]]
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* BaseBreaker: ''Most'' characters on the show are shaping up to be this, as they all have some major damage that makes them at best [[GrayAndGreyMorality morally grey.]] This was probably a given considering the show centers around defending people who are often guilty of what they're accused of.
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* BaseBreaker: BaseBreakingCharacter: ''Most'' characters on the show are shaping up to be this, as they all have some major damage that makes them at best [[GrayAndGreyMorality morally grey.]] This was probably a given considering the show centers around defending people who are often guilty of what they're accused of.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Connor is arguably the shows BreakOut character on account of his status as MrFanservice and the shows [[FemmeFatale Homme Fatale]] since Episode 1. His popularity has only skyrocketed since he's undergone CharacterDevelopment and his JerkWithAHeartOfGold status has become more focused on the heart of gold. [[spoiler: The fact he is one of the few non-murderers on the show also helps.]] Many fans are hoping that he gets a happy ending when his role ends rather than go to jail, despite the fact he ''did'' help cover up murders
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Connor is arguably the shows BreakOut character on account of his status as MrFanservice and the shows [[FemmeFatale Homme Fatale]] since Episode 1. His popularity has only skyrocketed since he's undergone CharacterDevelopment and his JerkWithAHeartOfGold status has become more focused on the heart of gold. [[spoiler: The fact he is one of the few non-murderers on the show also helps.]] Many fans are hoping that he gets a happy ending when his role ends rather than go to jail, despite the fact he ''did'' help cover upmurders murders.
** Asher became very popular with the audience during the second half of Season One due to his CharacterDevelopment and reveal of his multiple HiddenDepths, changing him from an immature arrogant fratboy, into a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold complex and ignorant but well-meaning]] young man. It’s helped by the near universal agreement that Matt [=McGorry=] nails the role.
** Eve received a huge fanbase after her first appearance, due to Famke Janssen’s stunning performance, and being an interesting and likeable BadassGay Lawyer. It’s also much helped by her relationship with Annalise which is both complex and sweet with Eve being more or less the only person who can easily make Annalise happy. It’s not uncommon to see fans wishing that she will return in the future, or that Annalise had taken her offer for them to live together in New York.
** Connor is arguably the shows BreakOut character on account of his status as MrFanservice and the shows [[FemmeFatale Homme Fatale]] since Episode 1. His popularity has only skyrocketed since he's undergone CharacterDevelopment and his JerkWithAHeartOfGold status has become more focused on the heart of gold. [[spoiler: The fact he is one of the few non-murderers on the show also helps.]] Many fans are hoping that he gets a happy ending when his role ends rather than go to jail, despite the fact he ''did'' help cover up
** Asher became very popular with the audience during the second half of Season One due to his CharacterDevelopment and reveal of his multiple HiddenDepths, changing him from an immature arrogant fratboy, into a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold complex and ignorant but well-meaning]] young man. It’s helped by the near universal agreement that Matt [=McGorry=] nails the role.
** Eve received a huge fanbase after her first appearance, due to Famke Janssen’s stunning performance, and being an interesting and likeable BadassGay Lawyer. It’s also much helped by her relationship with Annalise which is both complex and sweet with Eve being more or less the only person who can easily make Annalise happy. It’s not uncommon to see fans wishing that she will return in the future, or that Annalise had taken her offer for them to live together in New York.
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* HoYay: Frank makes more than a few passes at Oliver when the two first meet in "I Want You to Die". You could say that it's mostly Frank being a snarky asshole, but he does make a lot of comments about spanking him...
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* HoYay: Frank makes more than a few passes at Oliver when the two first meet in "I Want You to Die". You could say that it's mostly Frank being a snarky asshole, but he does make a lot of comments about spanking him...him . . . When Connor confronts Frank about his treatment of Oliver, Frank mentions that he's "not [Frank's] type." Again, could definitely be read as a flippant, snarky line, but he seems relatively serious about it.
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** Asher became very popular with the audience during the second half of the first season.
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** Connor rapidly became the show's most popular character.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Frank being, essentially, a hit-man who is perfectly willing to carry out murders for anyone to whom he owes a favor would've been a much more effective reveal had he not offered to "take care of" Hannah Keating three episodes earlier]].
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** Not that Liza Weil's talent was ever really in question, but her tenure on the comparatively LighterAndSofter ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' didn't often give her a chance to stretch her acting muscles as she does on this show. Her nuanced performance has won over ''many'' who were skeptical about the casting.
** Not that Liza Weil's talent was ever really in question, but her tenure on the comparatively LighterAndSofter ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' didn't often give her a chance to stretch her acting muscles as she does on this show. Her nuanced performance has won over ''many'' who were skeptical about the casting.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In season 1, a woman Bonnie speaks to while working on a case says, "[[spoiler:You've never been raped. Have you?]]". Actually, ''yes''. [[spoiler:In season 2, Annalise reveals to Asher that Bonnie's father sexually abused her as a child]].
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