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  • Despite being major characters who give directions to the main characters so they could return home, Marcel and Paddy from Alpha and Omega are not really that popular with the fandom. Go ahead and check out any fanbase on DeviantArt or YouTube, and you'll be surprised that those two have barely to any mention with the rest of the characters, a majority being wolf fans.
  • Animals United:
    • Charles isn't very popular with most viewers due to his obnoxious, hammy behavior, his stereotypical French accent, and for stealing the spotlight from all the other side characters, some of whom ended up being a waste.
    • Maya, the bratty, Anvilicious Tomboy-looking teenager who constantly whines about how awful the businessmen are being to the animals, yet doesn't do much to help the animals at all.
    • Smiley doesn't appeal to many fans for two very big reasons: he's an Expy of Taz, and he farts a lot. Other than that, there's nothing special about him.
    • Hunter gets the most hate out of all the human beings for being an exaggerated example of modern-day hunters, poachers, etc., and for tormenting the animals for almost no reason. He's not even a good Big Bad; Hunter's just a Dirty Coward with a gun who hardly has any lines in the film.
  • Ballerina: Victor. Many viewers found him annoying and felt his subplot with trying to win Félicie's affections was an unnecessary addition to the film.
  • Tika the elephant in Barbie as the Island Princess is one of the most despised sidekicks in any Barbie movie; she has a very off-putting design-large, glassy eyes that look more like a human's than an elephant's, and a giant toothy smile-and her voice is annoying; on top of that, she has an incredibly selfish, bratty attitude, and goes out of her way to sabotage Ro and Antonio's relationship.
  • The Black Cauldron:
    • Gurgi has been widely criticized for his annoying voice, tendency to abandon his own friends in the face of danger, and lacking his more engaging traits from the books like fighting alongside Taran and the others.
    • Creeper, given his tendency to break the mood during some of the Horned King's more genuinely frightening scenes.
  • Cars 2: Sir Miles Axelrod, the Hidden Villain. Though he's definitely a character that we're meant to root against, the character is one of Pixar's most unpopular villains due to a lack of memorability as well as an utterly nonsensical plan. Creating a fake alternative fuel solely to sabotage it and make the idea of alternative fuel look bad is not only ridiculously impractical and convoluted, but comes off as especially pointless due to the film's implication that alternate fuel isn't even being used that much yet, and when Mater figures out that Axelrod is the mastermind, many viewers have expressed both surprise and frustration that he was actually right. It doesn't help that the film already has an entertaining villain in the form of Professor Z, who is ultimately relegated to The Dragon in favour of the far less charismatic Axelrod.
  • Chicken Little : Buck Cluck is without question THE most reviled character in the entire movie. He neglects his son's well being in favor of his own reputation and only comes around after he's done something that he can benefit his public image with. A lot of people found his treatment of Chicken Little not only bad, but that it would emotionally scar most children, so much that they never forgave him for what he did in the movie, despite realizing how wrong he was and trying to make up for it in the end.
  • Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness: Abe. From his constant complaining, constant cowardice and even going as far as chewing out the other heroes when they were in a bad spot during the middle act, it's safe to say he doesn't have a lot of fans.
  • Sunflower from the centaur segment in Fantasia is hated by many, especially actual black people, due to her being a blatant blackface character who is shown to have a stereotypical subservient personality, to the point that Disney has removed her from the movie starting in the 70s. Compare several other racial stereotypes from other Disney films such as Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp, and Peter Pan that keep their roles in the original movies (albeit largely for plot reasons).
  • Felix the Cat: The Movie : Princess Oriana isn't exactly liked by fans due to being fairly dismissive of the idea of Felix being the hero that was meant to save her, disbanding her army despite knowing that she had a crazy power-hungry uncle threatening her kingdom, not doing anything useful once she joins Felix, and saying she'll shut down the dimensporter for good despite barely using it at all and it actually helping them in one of the few (or possibly only) times it's been used.
  • One would have a difficult time finding someone who likes Nozemkemph (The "wild breed" cat) from Felidae. Fans were not thrilled that Francis ended up choosing her as his mate and not Felicity, ignoring the fact that one, Felicity is murdered not too long after Francis meets her and, two, cats aren't known for romance. It doesn't help that Nozemkemph is never mentioned by name in the movie, only appears for a brief time to provide some exposistion, has sex with Francis, and then just leaves until showing up at the end of the film.
    • While several characters have their share of fans, including Bluebeard and Pascal AKA Claudandus, Kong's lackeys "Hermann" and "Hermann" (Or Herman 1 and Herman 2) are often overlooked by the fandom due to their lack of plot significance or any real distinctive personality.
  • Flushed Away: Not too many people are fond of Sid, mostly due to him being perceived as a plot device whose entire character is basically an intrusive and crude slob.
  • Gulliver's Travels: You won't find many fans of Gabby. He's an attempt to mix the comic relief of the Seven Dwarfs (his design looks like a bargain basement knockoff of them, and he's even voiced by one of their actors, Pinto Colvig) with the temper of Donald Duck into one character, but he has none of the likable qualities of either. He's a self-important and whiny nuisance who contributes almost nothing to the story (beyond leading the Lilliputians to Gulliver and warning them of Bombo's surprise attack) and he just comes off as an annoying and unpleasant person in general (although in fairness, he's not all that well liked in-universe either). And to say nothing of his shrill "nails on chalkboard" voice. His follow up short cartoons, which put him in the center of focus, only made it even more obvious how unappealing of a character he is.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): Hugo is the most disliked of the Gargoyles who were already seen as the weakest part of the movie for detracting from its Darker and Edgier appeal. While the other two, Victor and Laverne, have some supporters, even those fans single Hugo out for causing a great deal of Mood Whiplash, having little personality beyond being a Fat Idiot, his creepy attraction to Djali, and wasting the talents of Jason Alexander.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: Sarousch is considered an obnoxious disgrace to the Disney Villains brand — especially by the (numerous) fans of Judge Claude Frollo, the first film's brutal Knight Templar villain — due to being an obnoxious, unlikable one-note narcissist who lacks Frollo's charisma and complexity and never even comes close to being threatening. He also pales in comparison to other, cooler sequel villains/antagonists such as the Creepy Awesome, Tim Curry-voiced Forte, gleefully-vile poacher McLeach, murderously insane cult leader Zira, conniving Evil Former Friend Buster, and genuinely likeable, Reba McEntire-voiced Dixie. Even Morgana, herself considered a Replacement Scrappy for Ursula, at least had a more established backstory and fleshed-out personality, and could be threatening when she wanted to. In other words, Sarousch is even lame by Disney sequel standards.
  • Ice Age:
    • Crash and Eddie are considered annoying, despite the fact that they were somewhat important as Ellie's adoptive brothers who play a role in the climax of the second film when they alert the main characters to saving her from a cave note . Their role was more minimal in the third aside from their devotion to Buck and the two helping him save Sid, but if you remove them from the fourth and fifth films, where they are reduced to semi-background characters who are sometimes called useless by the other characters, the story will be completely the same.
    • Teenaged Peaches in the 4th movie also gets this for her plot of that movie being pretty much a cut and paste of a million teen sitcom cliches.
    • Orson, the Big Bad of The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, is regarded as being the worst antagonist featured in the franchise - even more so, in fact, than Gavin and his dino birds due to being annoying and hardly a real threat once the rest of the herd comes in.
    • Roshan, the baby from the first movie, is a parody of this trope. In 2020, the Internet inexplicably started hating on him for the sake of humor. Considering that it’s just a meme, it’s hard to tell if people really hate him… probably not.
  • Joshua and the Promised Land: The Narrator, for being a pitch-perfect example of Mr. Exposition who never shuts up and talks down to the audience.
  • The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends: The Yellow Bellies, particularly Loofah and Doofah, are, bar none, the most hated characters in the franchise and a major reason why this film is seen as the worst by the fandom. It's bad enough that they're annoying, what with their shrill voices and a tendency to goof around at the expense of the gang, but they're the focal characters of the film and the only reason much of the film's events happen is that they're too stupid for their own good and end up causing far more trouble than it's worth. That, and they do little to justify the moral message of the movie, which is to put trust and faith in your friends.
  • The Legend of the Titanic:
    • Don Juan's not particularly liked given his strange infatuation with Elizabeth despite only speaking to her once. In the sequel, he's constantly rude to his companions whenever they're rightfully intimidated by their circumstances and constantly shills the morally dubious Atlantians.
    • Pingo has this reputation for being both quite creepy and annoying, as well has having a bizarre musical number.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Flash Sentry was hated from announcement as a Love Interest for Twilight Sparkle out of Die for Our Ship and the parent series avoiding unnecessary romance. In the film proper him being a Flat Character with no meaningful plot contributions (His being Sunset Shimmer's ex-boyfriend has no bearing on either. The sub-plot of him providing evidence exonerating Twilight was so brief and tacked-on it could have been cut without changing anything) or reason for Twilight to immediately crush on him despite never showing any romantic inclinations for anyone prior did no favors. Tellingly is as the Equestria Girls series Grew the Beard, rather than fix him like Sunset, they made Flash a Butt-Monkey over and sunk his romance with Twilight while reducing his prominence. While this did improve Flash's popularity by making some fans fell bad for him and triggered his Character Development into a good-natured goofball at peace with not being a love interest by the digital shorts, it was too late/not enough to make his hate fully disappear.
  • Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow: The film's version of Thor is disliked by fans, since he not only abandoned Earth to Ultron's rule (even after the villain had killed all his friends), but abandoned his daughter there for reasons that make no sense (he wanted to teach her humility like his own father had done, but that ignores the fact that Odin at least raised him to adulthood beforehand, whereas Thor didn't even bother to raise Torunn before sending her there).
  • PJ Sparkles: Not many people like the villains, particularly Betty, for being superfluous to the plot and needlessly gross.
  • Pocahontas:
    • Governor Ratcliffe is an unusual example for several reasons, starting by the fact that as a villain motivated by greed and racism, he's meant to be disliked. But he has a very unusual reasons for being disliked among Disney Villains - he just isn't cool enough. He'd be a So Okay, It's Average villain, and perhaps would even have a couple of fans, if not for the fact that like the rest of the movie, he had the bad luck to follow The Lion King (1994), which had Scar, who was generally considered far cooler. To add insult to injury, Ratcliffe was followed by a villain who was even more beloved and cool than Scar: conflicted Knight Templar Claude Frollo, who was succeeded by the likeable and cool Hades, who was followed by the incredibly intimidating and impressive Shan Yu, who was followed by the Faux Affably Evil Egomaniac Hunter Clayton who was voiced by BRIAN BLESSED note . Ratcliffe just couldn't cut it compared to the otherwise-stellar track record of Disney Renaissance villains as far as coolness was concerned, and fans of Evil Is Cool villains didn't forgive him for it. That being said, Ratcliffe was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap for some in the DTV sequel due to being a more competent threat there as opposed to just a greedy buffoon.
    • John Rolfe from the sequel for coming between John Smith and Pocahontas. Historically, Rolfe did marry Pocahontas, whose relationship with John Smith was never anything more than a platonic friendship, but fans of the Disney version think she belongs with Smith. In fact, the Smithahontas were so angry, Disney kept releasing merchandise reaffirming Smith and Pocahontas as a couple in spite of the sequel (which said hating fans have jumped upon the opportunity to interpret as a sign of Canon Discontinuity).
  • The Prince of Egypt: Many were disappointed by the film's portrayal of Aaron, whose depiction as a cowardly and generally useless tagalong is a far cry from the original biblical tale where he acted as Moses' spokesperson before the Pharaoh (as Moses spoke with a stutter).
  • Quest for Camelot: Few people seem to care much about Devon and Cornwall, for being pointless comic relief, as the main villain is already Laughably Evil, and many find their jokes and song more obnoxious than funny. Notably, a lot of fanfics will either write them out completely or rewrite their characters to be more serious and helpful.
  • Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure: You will have a very hard time liking the naked twin singing dolls. That is a fact.
  • In Don Bluth's Rock-A-Doodle, there's Edmond. Most people dislike him, probably due to his voice and Elmer Fudd Syndrome, and the fact he's a friend of the lead character, Chanticleer doesn't help much.
  • Rock Dog 2: Rock Around the Park: Wei and Shumai. Two blatant Wayne's World expies who take up a lot of screentime to make corny one-liners and incredibly lame puns at every opportunity, and are superfluous to the film as a whole considering their lack of impact on the plot.
  • Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss:
    • Kissy the Kissing Fish for being overly cute and contributing little to the plot.
    • Mercutio is probably the most hated of all, for making all sorts of annoying jokes (some of which are racist jokes), and making the distasteful line "This party looks dead" at the titular characters' funeral.
  • Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July: Scratcher is a pathetic letdown after the build-up of being Rudolph's exact opposite, doing little more than whining and hanging around Winterbolt like a disaffected groupie.
  • Gary from the 2017 Netflix film Sahara is very hated for his lack of concern for his kidnapped sister, annoying Totally Radical talk, and deliberately being The Load to main protagonist Ajar. Ajar and his scorpion friend Pit even tell him how annoying he is right to his face, and to some, his Character Development at the end of the movie seemed to be too little, too late.
  • The Swan Princess: Derek. His reason for suddenly being attracted to Odette is because he finally sees her beauty, which he is at least called out for in-universe by Rogers and Odette herself. He really takes the cake when he's holding the Idiot Ball so many times that he's practically playing hackysack with it, as using a little common sense against Rothbart would've ruined the plan of the latter entirely. In fact, the producers had to edit the film because a test screening showed Derek to be too unsympathetic and the viewers were not happy about it.
  • Thumbelina (1994):
    • Jacquimo has become something of one, and endless comments have been made about how it completely flies over him that he simply could've flown Thumbelina back home instead of looking for the Vale of the Fairies.
    • Ms. Fieldmouse has gotten this status for providing the So Bad, It's Good song that gave the movie its Razzie award, as well as being the first animated movie in general to win one, and also for trying to manipulate Thumbelina into an unhappy marriage for reasons that don't really make sense.
  • Thunder and the House of Magic: Jack and Maggie. Jack's disdain towards Thunder may be understandable, given he's trying to protect Maggie. But it overstays its welcome to the point of prejudice, where both the mouse nor the old rabbit refuse to recognize Thunder's intentions are sincere, not to mention their jealousy towards him clouds their judgement. When their machinations to get Thunder kicked out results in their owner Mr. Lawrence injured, they blame Thunder for it instead of admitting that they let their jealousy get the better of them.
  • Tom and Jerry: The Movie: Pugsy, as he is the one who got Tom and Jerry to talk and sing about how they are best friends; making them the opposite of what they usually are. It doesn't help that he has an obnoxious, overly-happy attitude with barely anything else to him otherwise.
  • Juniper from Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is an odd Gender Scrappy for being a Flat Character and evident of the gratuitous sexism in the movie.

Alternative Title(s): Animated Film

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