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** Rose Tyler was a very strange and [[BaseBreaker base-breaking]] case of this, since for her first series most people liked and accepted her, but throughout the second, third and fourth the writers started putting her on a pedestal. Gradually, the writers [[{{Flanderization}} changed]] her from a flawed and believable character to an [[CanonSue infallible saint who was The Doctor's one true love]], even continuing after she'd ceased appearing as a regular.

*** Then there's River Song. River's actions destroy the universe, perhaps twice, and the Doctor just seems to love how wonderful she is. That is, until the last episode where River nearly destroyed time itself. The Doctor was very angry with her, even if he married her in order to get her to stop. Then River was sent to prison for murder. It's important to note that River and the Doctor have been meeting in reverse order. River attempting to destroy time may have been part of a StableTimeLoop.

* Some, especially the members of TelevisionWithoutPity, would argue Izzie Stevens is this on ''[=~Grey's Anatomy~=]''. No matter what Izzie does, be it cutting LVAD wires or stealing hearts or spending several self-absorbed episodes moping, she is the Shining Light and Most Human of the interns.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' brings us Wesley Crusher the former TropeNamer and possibly the TropeCodifier. He nearly killed the show off by being an InsufferableGenius and an admitted CanonSue for Gene ''Wesley'' Roddenberry. He became a bit more bearable with the episode "The First Duty", where he screws up ''big time'' by participating in an illegal stunt that gets a schoolmate killed and attempting to cover it up. That leads to [[TakeThatScrappy being bawled out]] by Captain Picard and getting that school year's marks voided. Eventually he was [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] and the character disappeared from the series.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' brings us Wesley Crusher, possibly the TropeCodifier. He nearly killed the show off by being an InsufferableGenius and an admitted CanonSue for Gene ''Wesley'' Roddenberry. He became a bit more bearable with the episode "The First Duty", where he screws up ''big time'' by participating in an illegal stunt that gets a schoolmate killed and attempting to cover it up. That leads to [[TakeThatScrappy being bawled out]] by Captain Picard and getting that school year's marks voided. Eventually he was [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] and the character disappeared from the series.

*** Neither of the above can hold a candle to River Song and to a lesser extent, Amy Pond. River's actions destroy the universe, perhaps twice, and the Doctor just seems to love how wonderful she is. The show has been more about River and Amy than the doctor in recent years.

** Irina was this in Season 6 as well

* Gwen in ''{{Torchwood}}'', mostly due to DieForOurShip. The other factor is that she drugged her husband with amnesia pills, admitted to cheating on him, and then tried to make him forgive her before he fell unconscious and forgot it all. They have a child and a happy marriage now, probably due to the fact that she never confessed what she did.

** To be fair, there was more of a plot to it than David Simon hating on his old bosses, it had as much to do with 1) How easy it was for Scott to at first make "creative edits" to his own stories, and then later make them up entirely; and 2) It was completely plausible for this to happen at a nationally recognized newspaper. That, Klebanow and Whiting's white-washing over any perceived imperfections and Gus' own inability to reveal this lack of integrity in any way that was productive seemed to make the Aesop: "don't trust everything you see or read from the news, just because it's their job doesn't mean there aren't ulterior motives."

** Sean Tully is a combination of JerkSue and KarmaHoudini as well as being the Token Gay on the show. The latter is probably the only reason he hasn't been axed. Even gay fans hate his guts for being such an over the top and exaggerated stereotype. His most recent moment involved impersonating Liz on Facebook so he could see his son (he donated his sperm but became too obsessive and demanding about the baby so the mother took off) but he started flirting with other men while on there as her which resulted in several coming to the pub and harassing her. When she found out he turned on the Crocodile Tears and never got any comeuppance for it.
* For season eight of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'', Dana Walsh became this in record time. Her beyond stupid exploits during the first half even put Kim's ridiculous season two plotlines to shame (and when that included a cougar chase, that's saying a LOT). Dana suddenly becoming [[spoiler: the mole]] did nothing to change this. By the time that [[spoiler:Jack finally executed her]], the fans wanted it almost as badly as Jack did.

* Jennifer Keller on ''StargateAtlantis''; since her inclusion in the fourth and fifth seasons, she has become the writers' favorite character. It has even been speculated that a few writers even use her to live out their fantasies. The writers are insanely defensive of this character, and it was even revealed by a producer that the more people complain the more she will be included in the episodes in an effort to make her appeal more to fans. With the exact opposite effect.
** Can an entire cast count? Because outside of Eli, pretty much every character on ''StargateUniverse'' seemed geared towards making you hate them as much as possible. Sure, they had their good days, but then the next episode the character you thought might finally start to grow on you decides to pull their tenth HeelFaceTurn [[ConflictBall because no fights broke out in the last ten minutes]]. And the writers never seem to notice.

** Most of the reasons why some fans and viewers hate ''{{CSI}}: Miami'' is because they believe that Horatio is one of these. He gets more spotlight than any of the characters, and all the promos focus on him.

** Jo Danville from ''{{CSI NY}}'' seems to be taking over the show, interrogating other people besides Flack and having several romantic moments with Mac.

* [[CanonSue Zoey]] from ''{{Zoey 101}}"'. Canon: Popular, Nice, Smart, fun, leader, ANNNNND EVERY SINGLE BOY ON THE SHOW IS ATTRACTED TO HER IN SOME WAY. Fanon: Annoying, Annoyingly Perfect, Sue, Static Character, wish-fulfillment character, and..isn't it obvious that the writers adored her?

* [[{{canonsue}} Zoey]] from Zoey 101. Canon: Popular, Nice, Smart, fun, leader, ANNNNND EVERY SINGLE BOY ON THE SHOW IS ATTRACTED TO HER IN SOME WAY. Fanon: Annoying, Annoyingly Perfect, Sue, Static Character, wish-fulfillment character, and..isn't it obvious that the writers adored her?

* [[CousinOliver Olivia]] in TheCosbyShow is dangerously close to being this. Lampshaded in the episode "Nightmare on Stigwood Avenue."

** Depending on what part of the season you're watching, the Pearl Islands Creator's Pet was either [[LargeHam Rupert Boneham]] or [[MagnificentBastard Jonny Fairplay]]. Both men got over the top edits, had more confessionals than almost all the other players, and for years were generally the faces of ''Survivor''. Before Russell came along, Rupert was unquestionably the most popular player ever, and Fairplay was unquestionably the biggest outright villain of the show( Richard Hatch from the first season being somewhat VindicatedByHistory). The attention these two got caused a backlash from some fans who preferred the older style of editing where the whole cast got approximately a decent amount of airtime.

*** They attempted to pull Maya off the heap in Season 3 because while her character was awful the actress was hot enough to provide some Fanservice.
** There were also a number of fans who actually didn't like the focus on Sylar as the series went on, especially after he killed off [[EnsembleDarkhorse Elle]]

** Most of the reasons why some fans and viewers hate {{CSI}}: Miami is because they believe that Horatio is one of these. He gets more spotlight than any of the characters, and all the promos focus on him.

** Jo Danville from {{CSI NY}} seems to be taking over the show, interrogating other people besides Flack and having several romantic moments with Mac.

* Raymond Langston in ''{{CSI}}''. It's not that all of the fans hate him, it's that ''he never goes away''. Every other character on the show has been relegated to the background because of him. It even got so bad that one of the characters isn't even coming back for the tenth season because she got no CharacterDevelopment. The fans have a problem with him because he started out as a lovable rookie and almost overnight turned into a CSI expert that goes on solo cases despite the fact that soloing at Level One ''has been specifically stated as not allowed''. To make matters worse, ThePowersThatBe have said that he's going to be given ''more'' screentime in Season Ten because it's "what the fans want". Oh, really?
*** He was brought in as the Grissom replacement, so they writers must believe he's the main character. Even though the entire point of the original CSI is that there really isn't a single main character even when Grissom was there.

** To be fair, there was more of a plot to it than David Simon hating on his old bosses, it had as much to do with 1) How easyit was for Scott to at first make "creative edits" to his own stories, and then later make them up entirely; and 2) It was completely plausible for this to happen at a nationally recognized newspaper. That, Klebanow and Whiting's white-washing over any perceived imperfections and Gus' own inability to reveal this lack of integrity in any way that was productive seemed to make the Aesop: "don't trust everything you see or read from the news, just because it's their job doesn't mean there aren't ulterior motives."

* Kennedy from ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - Some fans are bewildered why Willow hasn't put [[JerkAss Kennedy]] out by the curb by now, what with [[spoiler:snakebabe Saga in tow]]. The writers other then JossWhedon knew how hated Kennedy was by the fans and often toyed with her almost getting killed. Joss, however, loved her, and so she stayed til the bitter end.

* For season eight of [[TwentyFour 24]], Dana Walsh became this in record time. Her beyond stupid exploits during the first half even put Kim's ridiculous season two plotlines to shame (and when that included a cougar chase, that's saying a LOT). Dana suddenly becoming [[spoiler: the mole]] did nothing to change this. By the time that [[spoiler:Jack finally executed her]], the fans wanted it almost as badly as Jack did.

** And now she's back for three episodes in Season 8 with faux-Navy SEAL training and superpowers sending her beyond Creator's Bet and well into CanonSue territory. GodModeSue even. She's just all kinds of Sue.

** What arguably made it even more annoying for fans was that the show constantly had other characters rave about how awesome Lana supposedly was. There were plenty of times when Lana did wrong to Chloe, only for us to see Chloe blindly ''praise'' Lana later in the same episode, and times she toyed with Clark's emotions only for him to willingly continue to be her doormat. Even Tess Mercer, a tough-as-nails corporate executive and occasional DarkActionGirl who is usually the {{SnarkKnight}}, practically declared her undying love and hero-worship of Lana in Season 8.

** What arguably made it even more annoying for fans was that the show constantly had other characters rave about how awesome Lana supposedly was. There were plenty of times when Lana did wrong to Chloe, only for us to see Chloe blindly ''praise'' Lana later in the same episode, and times she toyed with Clark's emotions only for him to willingly continue to be her doormat. Even Tess Mercer, a tough-as-nails corporate executive and occasional {{DarkActionGirl}} who is usually the {{SnarkKnight}}, practically declared her undying love and hero-worship of Lana in Season 8.

* Isobel Sutherland from ''Series/HamishMacbeth''. In the final episode of season 1, she threw a massive temper tantrum, nitpicking the title character (apparently [[CanineCompanion owning a dog]] and [[HeterosexualLifePartners being friends with TV John]] is a bad thing), earning her more than a few [[TheScrappy Scrappy points]]. [[RelationshipSue Then when she starts crying and announces that she's in love with Hamish, he forgets all about his previous love interest]] (who was in fact based on Hamish's love interest from [[Literature/HamishMacbeth the original books]], earning Isobel hate from fans who got into the series through the books). [[BettyAndVeronica The first half of the second season was pretty much Hamish struggling to choose between the two women]], and they even dedicated a whole episode to Isobel's journalistic career. He eventually chose Isobel, despite the fact that they didn't really spend much screentime together. [[DieForOurShip Then the writer decided to kill Alex off so that Isobel could have Hamish without any competition]], and retconned Hamish's entire relationship with Alex to make his return of Isobel's affection seem less of an AssPull. And in the one episode of season 2, where she *gasp* ''wasn't'' in (?!), she was given a "Where's [[strike:Poochie]] Isobel?"

* In Chris Lilley's new series ''AngryBoys'' has African american rapper S'mouse who was hated by all critics and fans, some said he was racist, some said he was 2 dimensional, others found it plain not funny. Unfortunately, there wasn't really anything that could be done to write the character out of the show.

* Anastasia Dualla from the re-imagined ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''. Dualla was a minor character at first, not very popular with the fans but not in the limelight so it didn't matter. All of a sudden in season 2, her relationship with Billy Keikeya came to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim an abrupt end]] (the actor left the show) and Dualla immediately vaulted into a relationship with Apollo to set up a love triangle with Starbuck, a sequence of events that seemed ''designed'' to make the fanbase hate her. And then it just wouldn't go away. The relationship was voted the "Biggest Plot Blunder" of the season on the [[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Golden_Toaster_Awards/Season_Two "fan awards" show] from the official forum polls. Rather than stop using Dualla, Moore had her marry Apollo, and promoted her to ''first officer'' of the Battlestar Pegasus. Ultimately the Apollo/Dualla relationship dragged on for all of season 3. [[spoiler:Even Dualla's eventual suicide wasn't enough to endear people to the character by that point.]]

* Anastasia Dualla from the re-imagined ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''. Dualla was a minor character at first, not very popular with the fans but not in the limelight so it didn't matter. All of a sudden in season 2, her relationship with Billy Keikeya came to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim an abrupt end]] (the actor left the show) and Dualla immediately vaulted into a relationship with Apollo to set up a love triangle with Starbuck, a sequence of events that seemed ''designed'' to make the fanbase hate her. And then it just wouldn't go away. The relationship was voted the "Biggest Plot Blunder" of the season on the [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Golden_Toaster_Awards/Season_Two "fan awards" show] from the official forum polls. Rather than stop using Dualla, Moore had her marry Apollo, and promoted her to ''first officer'' of the Battlestar Pegasus. Ultimately the Apollo/Dualla relationship dragged on for all of season 3. [[spoiler:Even Dualla's eventual suicide wasn't enough to endear people to the character by that point.]]

* Gwen in ''{{Torchwood}}'', mostly due to DieForOurShip.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' brings us Wesley Crusher, the former TropeNamer and possibly the TropeCodifier. He nearly killed the show off by being an InsufferableGenius and an admitted CanonSue for Gene ''Wesley'' Roddenberry. He became a bit more bearable with the episode "The First Duty", where he screws up ''big time'' by participating in an illegal stunt that gets a schoolmate killed and attempting to cover it up. That leads to [[TakeThatScrappy being bawled out]] by Captain Picard and getting that school year's marks voided. Eventually he was [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] and the character disappeared from the series.
* Jake Sisko and Nog from ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and Naomi from ''StarTrekVoyager'' ran the risk of becoming Wesleys, but most of them have actually become well-{{rounded character}}s and dodged most of the hate. Nog became a Starfleet officer, and Jake... well, he became more of an [[AntiSue Anti-Wesley]].
** On the other hand, there's Vic Fontaine, the holosuite lounge singer who had several episodes devoted to him in the final seasons. The writers loved loved loved him, while fans kept wondering why they were [[TrappedByMountainLions wasting time in the holosuite while a war raged]]. Vic was well used in his first appearance in the sixth season, but then the writers kept trying to wedge him in randomly all the time in the seventh season just as a spacefiller.
** Then there's Neelix from ''Voyager''. Seriously, the only way to describe his place here is to quote SFDebris:
--->'''SFDebris:''' Whatever you might say about GeorgeLucas, when audiences said they didn't like [[ThePhantomMenace Jar Jar]], he [[DemotedToExtra dialed the character down to a few cameos throughout the rest of the films]]. When the ''Voyager'' producers were told that the audience didn't like Neelix, [[DieForOurShip they decided to get rid of Neelix's beautiful, smart, competent ex-girlfriend]], [[ShillingTheWesley and let him hang around to remind the audience of how much they hate you, personally]].
* Anastasia Dualla from the re-imagined BattlestarGalactica. Dualla was a minor character at first, not very popular with the fans but not in the limelight so it didn't matter. All of a sudden in season 2, her relationship with Billy Keikeya came to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim an abrupt end]] (the actor left the show) and Dualla immediately vaulted into a relationship with Apollo to set up a love triangle with Starbuck, a sequence of events that seemed ''designed'' to make the fanbase hate her. And then it just wouldn't go away. The relationship was voted the "Biggest Plot Blunder" of the season on the [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Golden_Toaster_Awards/Season_Two "fan awards" show] from the official forum polls. Rather than stop using Dualla, Moore had her marry Apollo, and promoted her to ''first officer'' of the Battlestar Pegasus. Ultimately the Apollo/Dualla relationship dragged on for all of season 3. [[spoiler:Even Dualla's eventual suicide wasn't enough to endear people to the character by that point.]]

* Kate from ''{{Lost}}'' existed pretty much to create a LoveTriangle between her, Jack, and Sawyer. She didn't contribute anything towards helping the Islanders, and frequently came off as needy and codependent. She would cause moral dilemmas that would leave everybody worse off. Her backstory wasn't any worse than anybody else's, but it made her look more edgy than she acted on the island. But worst of all, and this is what really made her TheWesley and not merely TheScrappy, was that while other, more interesting female characters, even ones that existed as love interests, succumbed to AnyoneCanDie, she hung around until the very end as a main character.

** Hell, Jack himself qualifies, due to his [[DrJerk lack of charisma]], [[ManlyTears constant crying]], his weird, ugly faces [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jackface which even have their own article on the show's wiki]], and the fact that he starred in some of the show's worst episodes (Looking at you, Stranger in a Strange Land). As the series neared its grand finale and more and more important and well-loved characters were killed off, however, it became all the more apparent that he was sticking around until the end.

** What arguably made it even more annoying for fans was that [[{{ShillingTheWesley}} the show constantly had other characters rave about how awesome Lana supposedly was.]] There were plenty of times when Lana did wrong to Chloe, only for us to see Chloe blindly ''praise'' Lana later in the same episode, and times she toyed with Clark's emotions only for him to willingly continue to be her doormat. Even Tess Mercer, a tough-as-nails corporate executive and occasional {{DarkActionGirl}} who is usually the {{SnarkKnight}}, practically declared her undying love and hero-worship of Lana in Season 8.
** And now she's back for three episodes in Season 8 with faux-Navy SEAL training and superpowers sending her beyond The Wesley and well into CanonSue territory. GodModeSue even. She's just all kinds of Sue.

** Also from ''{{Smallville}}'' is Oliver Queen. A perpetually {{Wangst}}y rich {{Jerkass}} who many fans grew tired of after he became a regular, but he was constantly [[ShillingTheWesley shilled]] by other characters, often overshadowed even Clark himself, and in the end, became Chloe's permanent boyfriend and probable husband. {{YMMV}} though and it might actually be BrokenBase issue - because an alternative interpretation could be that Oliver's increased prominence was ''because'' the character became popular with some fans (particularly those who supported the [[BetaCouple Chollie]] pairing) and he really wasn't [[ShillingTheWesley shilled]] all that much during the 8th and early 9th season with [[TheHero Clark]] at one point even telling Oliver that he wasn't worthy to be part of the Superhero League (which was ''founded by Oliver in the first place''). So yeah, BrokenBase with one faction seeing [[TheHero Clark]] as actually being the {{Jerkass}}.

** To some extent, Dawson ''himself'' is a Wesley, especially for the Joey-and-Pacey fans.

** Funnily though, the character actually ''called'' Wesley, who was intended to be annoying and hated by the audience, TookALevelInBadass in ''Angel''. The fans ''did'' find him annoying enough (though rather for his humorous ''in''competence than for being hyper-competent) until he was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.

** There's also Dawn. Though she has leveled up in the Season 8 comics, fans of the show who remember her from the [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] seasons five and six still regard her as the Wesley character. A debateable example of how she qualifies as a Wesley is the fact that despite how polarizing her character was, she was still often shoved into every spin off taking place before she was "born", such as a planned animated spin off taking place before season 5, and some prequel comics showing Buffy's earliest days as The Slayer. They wouldn't be showing these stories how they actually happened, but how the characters would remember them because of Dawn being planted in their memories.

* Dr. Allison Cameron was the original Wesley on ''{{House}}''. However, her storylines and character gradually grew less obnoxious, so of course she was then pushed aside in favor of a new Wesley, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley. Ever since Hadley appeared, she's getting more and more airtime (especially concerning her personal life and diagnosis), while much of the show's fanbase seems to despise her utterly.

** And now we got yet ANOTHER Wesley in Martha Masters, Thirteen's replacement.
*** Who was put on a bus as thirteen came back from her vacation. It almost seems like the house writers realize they've gone too far sometimes...except with house who seems to be getting Flanderized. In later episodes of house any accusation of TheWesley should probably look at how House himself drove the plot to that character with his increasingly bizarre behavior.

** The "Spixie" ship created another Wesley in the form of Winifred, who was basically killed on arrival when the head writer proclaimed his enthusiasm for the chemistry between her and Spinelli...''before a single episode featuring them aired.'' It doesn't help that she was given the same character traits as Spinelli, thus making half the fandom hate her on the spot, with the other half hating her because, well, she was breaking up their favorite ship.
* Raymond Langston is arguably the ''{{CSI}}'' Wesley. It's not that all of the fans hate him, it's that ''he never goes away''. Every other character on the show has been relegated to the background because of him. It even got so bad that one of the characters isn't even coming back for the tenth season because she got no CharacterDevelopment. The fans have a problem with him because he started out as a lovable rookie and almost overnight turned into a CSI expert that goes on solo cases despite the fact that soloing at Level One ''has been specifically stated as not allowed''. To make matters worse, ThePowersThatBe have said that he's going to be given ''more'' screentime in Season Ten because it's "what the fans want". Oh, really?

** ''CSI'' also has a Wesley ''director'', William Friedkin, who directed the two worst episodes of ''CSI'', ever, as generally confirmed by the fandom. ThePowersThatBe love him, however, and think that he's the best guest director they've ever had. (Which... they've had ''Quentin Tarantino'' for God's sake...)

* Adric of ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the original Wesley beat by almost a decade. Not only did the fans hate him, but when Matthew Waterhouse - the guy that portrayed him - started lecturing his thespian cohorts on how to act ''when his professional acting career up to that point could have been measured in mere months'', nearly everyone backstage did, too. That didn't stop him from saving the Doctor at least once a story.
** Rose Tyler was a very strange and [[BaseBreaker base-breaking]] case of this, since for her first series most people liked and accepted her, but throughout the second, third and fourth the writers started putting her on a pedestal. Gradually, the writers [[{{Flanderization}} changed]] her from a flawed and believable character to an [[CanonSue infallible saint who was The Doctor's one true love]], even continuing after she'd ceased appearing as a regular. This lead to an interesting case of ShillingTheWesley for a character who was never really TheWesley ''[[TimeyWimeyBall until they started shilling her]]''.

* Jay Leno could always be considered one outside the middle-age-and-older demographic that put him on top during his run on ''TheTonightShow''. The recent [[ConanOBrien Conan]]/Leno controversy shattered any doubt and placed him into full-fledged Wesleydom.
** On the other hand, when Leno was forced out originally, O'Brien was very much The Wesley. Like any other Wesley mentioned here, he was deemed unfit for his position by viewers, but backed by TPTB (at least until the ratings drop became so steep and presumably irreversible).

** Her first appearance consists of her doing [[TooDumbToLive one stupid thing after another]], culminating in her [[NiceJobBreakingItHero brother's death]]. Despite never being officially declared an outlaw and having ''no'' useful skills to contribute to the team, she's [[TheSmurfettePrinciple inexplicably invited to join anyway]], and spends [[FauxActionGirl the majority of the following episodes getting captured or injured]]. At one stage she needs to be [[TheLoad spoon-fed]] back to health, and yet despite her inherent helplessness she [[UnwantedRescue rips into anyone]] who takes the trouble to rescue her. She becomes a ClingyJealousGirl the very ''second'' that Isabella turns up, a character who is [[DerailingLoveInterests derailed]] in order to start the pointless [[RomanticPlotTumour Robin/Kate relationship]]. She gets a huge amount of [[ShillingTheWesley nonsensical shilling from the other outlaws]] (apparently walking through a door is "amazing!") who all fall in love with her, even though she's a complete bitch to Much and Allan, insulting them regularly on everything from their physical appearance to their annoying habit of saving her life every twenty minutes. She never manages to do anything that could not have been achieved just as easily by one of the other outlaws, and ultimately her only purpose on the show is to be the the TokenGirl, the DamselInDistress and the ShallowLoveInterest, all in the most obnoxious ways possible. Throw in a few TrappedByMountainLions plots, a [[http://www.robinhood2006.com/gallerys3/Series3/episode2/slides/S3E2842.html truly stupid hairstyle]], the InformedAbility of ''an imagination'', and dialogue that contained nothing except moaning, crying, whining, screeching and gushing over Robin, and you have a character that seems to have been designed for the sole purpose of being loathed by the audience. Ticking off the last box of this trope, actress Joanne Froggatt gets the coveted "[[AndStarring And]]" before her name in the opening credits, and she's prominently displayed on all the merchandise (her image is even bigger than ''Richard Armitage's'' on the DVD box set).

** In ''Tocantins'', this was [[CloudCuckooLander Coach]]. However, he was [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeemed]] in ''Heroes vs. Villains'' where he was actually a much better player - and this wasn't because he was alongside Russell; he was actually becoming good at challenges and thinking about the game. He was the Wesley of ''Tocantins'', but you at least wouldn't watch ''Tocantins'' and wonder who the winner was.
** Richard Gutierrez, the temporary host of the Philippines' CelebrityEdition, after the original host [[TheAce Paolo Bediones]] left the network, also making the former a ReplacementScrappy. Fans of the show already warned the network since Gutierrez's StageMom uses her [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]] to put her son in the job, thus, fans made a BigNo after the announcement. To make him look credible, the network [[ShillingTheWesley made him host many programs and re-aired his past programs with promotions of his new hosting gig.]]

** Depending on what part of the season you're watching, the Pearl Islands [[TheWesley Wesley]] was either [[LargeHam Rupert Boneham]] or [[MagnificentBastard Jonny Fairplay]]. Both men got over the top edits, had more confessionals than almost all the other players, and for years were generally the faces of {{Survivor}}. Before Russell came along, Rupert was unquestionably the most popular player ever, and Fairplay was unquestionably the biggest outright villain of the show( Richard Hatch from the first season being somewhat VindicatedByHistory). The attention these two got caused a backlash from some fans who preferred the older style of editing where the whole cast got approximately a decent amount of airtime.
* Zane from ''{{Eureka}}''. The writers have labored diligently to make this character likable, yet audience dislike continues, probably largely because Zane [[OneTruePairing replaced fan favorite Taggart as Deputy Jo Lupo's romantic foil]]. Despite this pairing (or perhaps because of it) being the focal point of viewer discontent, the writers placed even more emphasis on Zane's relationship with Lupo in Season 4, rather than pursuing the slightly more successful tactic used in some Season 3 episodes of developing Zane's interactions with other characters, thus elevating Zane from a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] to a Wesley.

** ...Who curiously shares the same actor as CousinOliver himself. Forshadowing much?

* The Filipino Christian drama "May Bukas Pa" (There's Still A Tomorrow) had the rare case of the main character being TheWesley. Santino is a good kid with healing powers and IncorruptiblePurePureness who changes the lives of everyone around him. But later story arcs showed him getting involved in increasingly improbable situations. He averted a civil war by getting himself shot (Don't ask how how that happened), saved the town from the 10 plagues of Egypt, gotten kidnapped by Communist rebels and testified in a Congressional hearing involving corruption in government. When he dies, all the people who met him (a veritable AllStarCast) mourn him but he comes BackFromTheDead because [[BeyondTheImpossible the Virgin Mary]] (played by the show's producer!!!) said it wasn't his time yet. And at six years old, he's racked up a rogues gallery with a size that rivals {{Batman}}, one of whom is the town mayor [[spoiler:who is also his father]]. And everyone there always asks [[DrinkingGame "Where is]] [[ShillingTheWesley Santino?"]]

* Kurt from ''{{Glee}}'' is a very polarizing character for this very reason. Fans either love him to death, or think he's the biggest Wesley in the series. Rachel might get more attention, but ''massive'' FridgeLogic and {{Idiot Ball}}s are thrown around by other characters to ensure that Kurt is never wrong.

** [[FlatCharacter Blaine]] [[RelationshipSue Anderson]]. When ''DarrenCriss'', ''who plays Blaine'' says that his character has been the focus for way too much time, you '''know''' you've got TheWesley on your hands.
* Noel Edmonds. Nobody really likes him, but he keeps getting gameshows to host.

** Jeff and Jordan are a LoveItOrHateIt, but an interesting case. Some people see them as TheWesley because BB's producers want to make a good show, which means putting in a bunch of safeguards and slanting the show so that Jeff and Jordan will be on as long as possible, at the expense of the other extras on the show.