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  • YouTube user Benthelooney, known for his ranting, kept his videos fresh by adding in new characters. A video "Ben Rants: Marvin Marvin", played this trope by adding in a character who was separated into two halves from his comical "salute" on Fred: The Show, which in this video is now known as Neb.
  • Dusk's Dawn: Some peoplereally don't likeBreeze Rider. The fact his accent sounds disturbingly similar to Tommy Wiseau's probably hasn't helped.
  • While many characters in the GoAnimate-made "Grounded" videos tend to be Base Breaking Characters at best, but there are some that are universally hated.
    • Boris, Caillou's dad. He's one of the few, if not the only, character who will punish their kid for petty reasons or even no reason at all, then punishing or even torturing Caillou. He's an Ax-Crazy individual who is expected to be liked because he's punishing a baby show character and the creators of these videos tend to want their viewers to feel the same, too. It's gotten to the point where many Deconstruction videos that show Boris getting his just deserved by getting grounded himself or put away have been made.
    • Ericina Oates is also universally hated by the community since her debut by being a Replacement Scrappy for erika. who wasn't louielouie95 or eric's real girlfriend to begin with since Eric Walter Ericson from mrlegofan404 videos wasn't erika or ericina but Brielle, In the addition louielouie95's so called sequal video to claude's punishment day, where ericina grounds zack and kelly for giving claude a punishment day because claude was louielouie95's favourite male character, and was a part of louielouie95's team family which wasn't canon either from the latter and it's just as petty, Which pissed off a vyonder named gomultiverselegacy394 so much that it crippled his love for goanimate grounded videos and later went on a 2 year hiatus. After coming back from that hiatus and finishing the zack series he made a remake to claude's punishment day, Alongside that many vyonders including gomultiverse himself made ericina into a Hate Sink in their videos after the backlash she received.
  • Happy Tree Friends:
  • Homestar Runner:
    • Parodied on with Nebulon the alien.
    Strong Bad: Get out of here, Nebulon. Nobody likes your style. The Cheat, do you like Nebulon's style?
    Rumble Red: We don't have X on myyyyyy planet (rumble)...
    • Crack Stuntman is disliked by a lot of fans because of his out-of-place character concept (the voice actor of an in-universe cartoon character) and heavy focus during the site's later years.
  • The bird in the Lucas the Spider episode "Encore" became highly reviled by the fanbase for stealing Lucas's harp.
  • My Pride:
    • Many viewers grew to hate Fire after he Took a Level in Jerkass, acts just as ableist as the rest of his family, killed his best friend, and seemingly kills his cousin Feather.
    • Same goes to Powerstrike for being an ableist and being an Abusive Parent to Nothing.
  • Red vs. Blue:
    • For all the Base Breaking Characters the series had, the one consistently hated character is Zero, the titular Big Bad of season 18, due to his inconsistent characterization that resulted in him alternating between being a Noble Demon, a Card-Carrying Villain, or a Well-Intentioned Extremist at random while always remaining generic and bland, his ultimate motivation being both utterly nonsensical and pathetic, and his Narmy cheesy one-liners - one comparison was that he was like early villain O'Malley, but without the advantage\excuse of being Played for Laughs (to the point one episode of a non-canon spin-off has positive remarks for making Zero a Laughably Evil Large Ham).
    • Andy the Bomb is also quite disliked, and the least popular member of the Blood Gulch Crew. This comes from the fact that his main gimmick was being an obnoxious Jerkass, with none of the other Reds and Blues' depth or quirks. His often transphobic quips falling into Values Dissonance didn't help, either. It's telling that he's the only one of the main characters to have never returned after Season 5, and that he's been mostly forgotten by the fanbase.
  • Paper Puppets has Basketball and Slipper, who both of which are examples at this trope for many things: Slipper manipulated Ukulele into joining Team ], gave her a makeover, and sabotaged Knight Helmet in episode 13, while Basketball was hated for being lazy and being a pointless filler character.
    • Gong is also a victim to this trope.
  • While Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers is no stranger to Base-Breaking Characters, at least some people will find them enjoyable. But you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who genuinely likes Depresso. Nothing is done to change things up wit his normal format, aside from being an Unwitting Instigator of Doom in some of the episodes, and even then his appearances feel tacked on and/or forced in some cases.

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