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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has Felicity Smoak, starting in the third season. In seasons 1 & 2, she's an dorky IT Girl with an unrequited crush on the main character, and the source of a lot of the show's humor. Starting in the third season, she supplants Laurel Lance (Green Arrow's iconic LoveInterest from the source material) as the female lead & love interest, takes on several of the traits that once led to Laurel & Thea being considered TheScrappy, receives more screentime than any other character on the show aside from Oliver Queen, is consistently depicted as being in the right even when she is being unreasonable, receives CharacterShilling from seemingly every other character on the show - including the antagonists - and becomes a SpotlightStealingSquad with a good chunk of seasons 3 & 4 being dedicated to her subplots. In comparison, the characters of Roy, Laurel and Thea are pushed OutOfFocus despite becoming the show's incarnations of Arsenal, Black Canary & Speedy; and Diggle only receives a proper subplot in season 4 because it's tied so closely to the main plot and, outside of that, doesn't receive that much attention either. On top of all of this, season 4 opens with the reveal that a major character would killed off by the end of the season, and Felicity was one of two characters deemed untouchable by the writers -- the other being the main character. It all culminated in the ending of the crossover ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', in which she steals the special moment of one of comics' most iconic couples, [[SuperCouple Barry Allen and Iris West,]] literally interrupting them in the middle of their vows to tack on her own wedding to Oliver.

** Creator/LorneMichaels most definitely has his favorites. Some of these favorites include Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/TinaFey, Creator/AmyPoehler, Fred Armisen, Creator/WillForte, Creator/KristenWiig, Taran Killam and Creator/KateMcKinnon. There were surely some from the past, but it seems even more blatant now.

** For Dick Ebersol, Creator/EddieMurphy was his pet UpToEleven, and he wasn't shy about letting you know that. SNL was basically the Eddie Murphy Show from Season 7 to 9 (until Murphy left). After that it became the Creator/BillyCrystal / Creator/ChristopherGuest / Creator/MartinShort show. Even people who defend Ebersol's tenure tend to admit that Ebersol definitely thought in terms of "This person/people are the lead(s), and everyone else is backup."

* On ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the major "villain" characters on the show have all had this accusation thrown at them.
** The producers have openly stated that Regina is by far their favorite character, and their first question about literally any plot idea from the writing staff is "How can we make it about Regina?" This really started to be a problem around Season 3 when the show started treating Regina as a hero, which made her seem like an EasilyForgiven KarmaHoudini to many fans. And it got even worse in Season 4 where she wanted to force the Author to write her a new happy ending. And with the 100th episode in Season 5 it's taken UpToEleven: you would expect the 100th episode to star the main character (Emma), but nope, it's Regina. The finale does go some way into addressing fan concerns though, although Season 6 just broke the base on the matter all over again. [[spoiler: Accusations worsened beyond what was thought possible after she is crowned "the Good Queen" over ''every realm'' in the series finale.]]
** Hook has been accused of this because, due to his position as Emma's official love interest, he has gained a more prominent role in the stories than Henry, Snow, or Charming. In Season 5, every main character, including several who have no motivation to do so, choose to [[spoiler:risk traveling into the Underworld to bring him back to life, contradicting the previously established rule that the dead cannot be resurrected]]. Not helping matters is that the resolution to that plot ended with [[spoiler: a literal DeusExMachina that revives him which occurs in an episode that kills Robin permanently and in a way that prevents revival. This occurred after it looked like Hook would stay dead.]] Love him or hate him, there's little doubt that Hook has received much more preferential treatment from the writers than just about any of the other men in Emma's life, be they former lovers (Neal) or potential love interests (Graham and August).
** And of course, there's Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold, who some fans felt had long worn out his welcome by the fifth season and should have been considered irredeemable at that point, but who not only stayed on the show and in important roles, but more often than not seemed to [[KarmaHoudini get off scot-free for all of his evil deeds, if not flat-out rewarded with even MORE power.]] [[spoiler: Whether or not he redeemed himself by the series finale is a major point of contention.]]
** Zelena is seen as this by part of the fandom too. While the fifth season gave Zelena her own redemption arc and did a decent job in fleshing her character out enough for more fans to feel sympathy for her, there were a number of fans who questioned if she was being forgiven ''too'' easily even by the standards of this show. She has at least expressed remorse for the things she did to Regina, but hasn't actually done the same for all the other people she wronged.[[spoiler: Since Zelena's crimes include: manipulating Neal into trading his life to resurrect Rumple, abducting Snow and David's infant son as soon as he was born to use in a magical ritual, potentially killing him, and murdering Robin's lost love Marian in order to masquerade as her, then having sex with Robin (which can be considered rape by fraud) thus producing their daughter -- it can be jarring for viewers to see how easily the group accepted Zelena's change without much fuss.]]

** Ramsay Bolton quickly became this, as well thanks to AdaptationExpansion. His extended torture of Theon happened offscreen in the books but was shown in the series to give Alfie Allen something to do. Soon after he started to dominate plotlines and [[InvincibleVillain the universe seemed to conspire to make him come out on top]], despite his StupidEvil tendencies. [[spoiler: He ended up derailing Stannis's entire war effort with one sneaky midnight raid on his camp with just twenty people, and proceeded to beat the rest in a CurbStompBattle. And then next season he easily kills his father to become Lord of Winterfell. Sure enough, add Ramsay is the most despicable person in this CrapsackWorld and [[HateSink everything meant to make him unlikable works with precision]], while also making [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty his eventual and painful death]] cathartic to viewers]].

** Emma was the first, though Craig shared time with her in this. The difference being that while Craig is angsty and whiny from the start, the writers gave him a plurality of episodes in seasons 2, 3, and 4. Then there's Emma, who is also angsty and whiny as well as being[[AuthorFilibuster a place to inject the writers' political views]], in addition to being self-righteous and bitchy, and she's a {{tsundere}} who's much more "tsun" than "dere". Her issues tend to be [[WhatAnIdiot things you have to be a moron to do]], like go down on a guy who's already sleeping with numerous girls, leading to the {{fanon}} that she just does it for attention. And she gets a plurality of episodes in seasons 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. She's a black hole who sucks the redeeming qualities out of every character she's around.

** Charlie Bradbury. While fan reaction is [[BaseBreakingCharacter very mixed]], she definitely qualifies by her second appearance. If being an over-the-top EndearinglyDorky genius hacker (that even BigBad Dick Roman [[CharacterShilling thinks is amazing and special]]) who just happens to be a lesbian wasn't enough, she returns in a later episode, where she's introduced beating a LARP-knight in a swordfight and gets talked up by more and more characters. And in her next episode, she suddenly has ImprobableAimingSkills, a BelatedBackstory, and is an AscendedFangirl. Additionally, she's an AuthorAvatar for [[http://missyjack.livejournal.com/954514.html writer Robbie Thompson]]. It also doesn't help that she ended up being a rather unsubtle mouthpiece for the writers' political views. [[spoiler: That being said, the fandom was able to warm up to her well enough before she got StuffedInTheFridge, which caused '''loads''' of backlash from both fans and even the actors on the show. She was later replaced by an angstier version of herself from a CrapsackWorld AlternateUniverse, who doesn't show up quite as often or is as clearly written as an EscapistCharacter.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' brings us Wesley Crusher, the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes former]] {{Trope Namer|s}}. He nearly killed the show in the fans' eyes, by being an InsufferableGenius and an admitted CanonSue for [[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Gene]] ''[[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Wesley]]'' [[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Roddenberry]]. Whenever the other characters weren't [[CharacterShilling praising him undeservedly]], they were [[NotNowKiddo rudely dismissing him undeservedly]], depending on which one would make him look better. Even worse was the 1987 Writer's Strike, which left the network sitting on a ton of unused "Wesley Saves The Day" scripts as most of what they had to work with. (Ironically, these episodes are generally considered SoOkayItsAverage, making him marginally more likable when he's the [[CharacterFocus focus character]], as opposed to when he's given such a large role in other episodes.) It got so bad that even Creator/WilWheaton, the actor who played him, [[CreatorBacklash hated his guts]]. He became a bit more bearable with the 5th season episode, "The First Duty", where he screws up ''big time'' by participating in an illegal stunt that gets a schoolmate killed and then attempting to cover it up, and for once he isn't EasilyForgiven, or [[IdiotHoudini otherwise allowed to get away with it]]. Instead, this leads to him [[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, only coming [[BackForTheFinale back for the near-final episode]] Journey's End, and finally being [[DeletedScene cut out]] of a [[TheCameo cameo]] appearance on ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Elmo is despised for this reason. The writers never make him smart because he's supposed to represent the target audience's youngest age bracket, not to mention that he's given way too much to do and the show now suffers from his omnipresence.
** On a similar note, Abby Cadabby has gotten tons of screen time since her debut in 2006; although not as hated as Elmo, some people think she is a useless addition to the cast and is a huge SpotlightStealingSquad.

** Creator/PeteDavidson has repeatedly been accused of being one. Several viewers have noted that having an actor who both has very little range and almost always breaks character is a poor fit for a live sketch show which requires playing a multitude of parts. There's also the fact that Davidson has repeatedly either barely appeared in or completely missed episodes, with accusations that he doesn't pull his own weight in comparison to the other big names in the current cast. And then there's the time where he was still allowed to remain on the show even after publicly criticizing his coworkers. Many have noted that due to Davidson gaining fame from his relationship with Ariana Grande and frequency discussing his poor mental health have caused Lorne Michaels to give Davidson free passes due to a combination of taking advantage of his fame as well as stopping his health from worsening. All this has caused Davidson to become one of the more divisive actors in the show's cast.* Flynn from ''Series/ShakeItUp''. At only 10 years old he is portrayed as a SpoiledBrat far more intelligent than all the characters older than him, except Henri. They even said he set up Wi-Fi in the apartment when he was three. Also, he is given all the good stuff no matter what he does. He's been given the spotlight dance despite not doing anything the entire episode, he tricked Rocky into getting him a toy by pretending to be a needy child, becoming an internet sensation, and even impressing a girl twice his age. No matter what he does he almost always gets away with his actions despite being selfish, greedy, and obnoxious.

* Gemma Teller-Morrow from ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' gradually became this. Some fans think that her character is quite overused and takes up focus in plots that isn't even about her. Throughout the show she lies, schemes and bullies people but rarely suffers the consequences of her own actions while others have to. [[spoiler: Even after the controversial finale of Season 6 which ended with her killing her own daughter-in-law and then putting the blame on the Triads to save her own skin, the show [[AuthorsSavingThrow desperately]] tries to make you sympathize with her, and her eventual death at the hands of her own son is clearly portrayed in a sympathetic light [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which many thought came off as unearned for someone like her]]. Not to mention that Jax never found out the truth about his own mother's involvement in his father's death. So in a way she got what she wanted]]. The fact that [[Creator/KateySagal her actor]] is married to [[Creator/KurtSutter the show's creator]] in real life ''[[{{Understatement}} might]]'' have something to do with it.

** Gilly. A ridiculous waste of Creator/KristenWiig's talent and widely believed to be her least funny character and one of the least funny sketches the show continues to do. And they keep doing it over and over again! Gilly even got a freaking holiday special!
** Creator/KristenWiig herself was this for many SNL fans during the 2008-2010 seasons. She was guaranteed to be in the majority of the skits every show, almost always playing the female lead. It didn't help that most of her recurring characters, like the previously mentioned Gilly and her awful Kathy Lee impression, were incredibly grating and time-consuming. Even worse, the other female cast members were shoved into background roles to make more, unneeded room for Wiig. With Wiig out of the cast, however, the rest of the female cast have now been finally given enough screentime to show their talents.
* Flynn from ''Series/ShakeItUp''. At only 10 years old he is portrayed as a SpoiledBrat far more intelligent than all the characters older than him, except Henri. They even said he set up Wi-Fi in the apartment when he was three. Also, he is given all the good stuff no matter what he does. He's been given the spotlight dance despite not doing anything the entire episode, he tricked Rocky into getting him a toy by pretending to be a needy child, becoming an internet sensation, and even impressing a girl twice his age. No matter what he does he almost always gets away with his actions despite being selfish, greedy, and obnoxious.

* Gabby Dawson of ''Series/ChicagoFire'' is a terrible paramedic riding a wave of ProtagonistCenteredMorality. Even if we skip the series' frequent use of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, she still commits gross insubordination repeatedly (the ''only'' offense that can get a fire department employee fired on the spot), performs medical procedures that are outside her scope of practice (bye-bye paramedic certification, hello prison), openly carries on an inappropriate relationship with her company officer, casually violates the expressed wishes of a conscious and oriented patient (they have a legal word for that: kidnapping), on one occasion casually destroying a social worker's cell phone, the list goes on. It's really no wonder the EMS battalion chief is always looking for an excuse to get rid of her, she's one of the worst liabilities imaginable. And she always gets away with it, for no particular reason except that she's one of the star characters. Nary an episode goes by without other characters talking up how great she is—often for doing something stupid or even illegal. Several fan forums declared her a Mary Sue, and after a later episode has her complain about being assigned to a training class for a day (which anyone with any level of emergency medical certification is required to do every year in order to maintain their certification, for obvious reasons), half-ass everything, and then score 100% on the test, it's easy to see why.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Martha Masters, Thirteen's temporary replacement while her actress, Creator/OliviaWilde, was shooting ''Film/TronLegacy'', is widely disliked for being a MarySue. Many season 7 episodes focused heavily on her, and she came across as worse than Cameron--not just obnoxious, but obviously didn't know what she was saying or doing outside of differentials.

* Hope Logan from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. The writers' love for her results in at least one or two scenes per episode where characters talk about her [[PurityPersonified purity]] and [[EmbodimentOfVirtue virtue]]. She's such a [[TheParagon paragon]] of goodness that after her stepsister's miscarriage, she tries to convince Steffy's husband that it's for the best so that they can be together again. It's hard to swallow a character who we're constantly told is the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness epitome of goodness]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality acting so cold]]. Fans are [[BrokenBase polarized]] about her, not that it stopped her from being shoved in their faces as if they were trying to make the audience love her... or else.

* Hope Logan from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. The writers' love for her results in at least one or two scenes per episode where characters talk about her [[PurityPersonified purity]] and [[EmbodimentOfVirtue virtue]]. She's such a [[TheParagon paragon]] of goodness that after her stepsister's miscarriage, she tries to convince Steffy's husband that it's for the best so that they can be together again. It's hard to swallow a character who we're constantly told is the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness epitome of goodness]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality acting so cold]]. Fans are [[BrokenBase polarized]] about her, not that it stopped her from being shoved in their faces as if they were trying to make the audience love her... or else.

* Susan Mayer of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' was confirmed by creator Marc Cherri to be his favorite, a sentiment not shared by the audience, who found her ContrivedClumsiness, constant meddling, questionable parenting of fan-favorite Julie, featuring in every major plotline, and constantly getting forgiven for doing awful things like burning Edie's house down in Season 1.

** In Season 18 Nicole Franzel and Corey Brooks, the most disliked houseguests of the season, are given a lot of screentime compared to the more liked houseguests such as Natalie Negrotti, Da'Vonne Rogers, Bridgette Dunning, and Victor Arroyo.
** In season 19, ''Paul'' turned into this when he returned by [[BlatantLies popular demand]], [[SpotlightStealingSquad took up 90% of the screentime]], [[ExecutiveMeddling got a free pass to week three]], and [[JerkAss was placed with the least likable]] and [[TooDumbToLive hands-down stupidest batch of players ever]]. His popularity took a nosedive without [[MoralityPet Victor Arroyo]] around to keep his {{jerkass}} tendencies in check, or [[EnemyMine more disliked players like Nicole and Corey]] who people rooted ''against''. When Paul returned to perform a musical number in ''Celebrity Big Brother'', many ''Big Brother'' fans voiced their displeasure with his return. They wanted Rachel Reilly, Jodi Rollins, Jessica Graf, Cody Nickson and Jessie Godderz, who had a much smaller role in the musical number, to be the only houseguests in that number, because they were not happy to see Paul again. Note that all of the previously mentioned people are already Scrappies.

* Hope Logan from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. The writers' love for her results in at least one or two scenes per episode where characters talk about her purity and virtue. She's such a paragon of goodness that after her stepsister's miscarriage, she tries to convince Steffy's husband that it's for the best so that they can be together again . It's hard to swallow a character who we're constantly told is the epitome of goodness acting so cold. Fans are polarized about her, not that it stopped her from being shoved in their faces as if they were trying to make the audience love her... or else.

* Hope Logan from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''. The writers' love for her reults in at least one or two scenes per episode where characters talk about her purity and virtue. She's such a paragon of goodness that after her stepsister's miscarriage, she tries to convince Steffy's husband that it's for the best so that they can be together again . It's hard to swallow a character who we're constantly told is the epitome of goodness acting so cold. Fans are polarized about her, not that it stopped her from being shoved in their faces as if they were trying to make the audience love her... or else.

* Megan from ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' is a massive {{jerkass}} who makes her brothers miserable for no reason, yet gets away with everything, infuriating the fandom to the point they legitimately wanted her killed off. For some reason, showrunner Dan Schneider was completely unaware of this.

* Det. Olivia Benson from ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU''. Her SoapboxSadie attitudes have had a long history of rubbing viewers the wrong way, yet Dick Wolf seems to have no problem making her the series' [[AuthorTract primary sociopolitical mouthpiece]] (as opposed to Det. John Munch, whose CloudCuckoolander rants usually designate him to ButtMonkey status). Not only did she [[SpotlightStealingSquad gradually replace her more well-received partner Elliot Stabler as the face of the series in both advertisements and the show itself]], but with Stabler [[PutOnABus now out of the picture]], fans have all the more motivation to throw ire and bile her way.

* Gemma Teller-Morrow from ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' gradually became this. Some fans think that her character is quite overused and takes up focus in plots that isn't even about her. Throughout the show she lies, schemes and bullies people but rarely suffers the consequences of her own actions while others have to. [[spoiler: Even after the controversial finale of Season 6 which ended with her killing her own daughter-in-law and then putting the blame on the Triads to save her own skin, the show [[AuthorsSavingThrow desperately]] tries to make you sympathize with her, and her eventual death at the hands of her own son is clearly portrayed in a sympathetic light [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic which many thought came off as unearned for someone like her]]. Not to mention that Jax never found out the truth about his own mother's involvement in his father's death. So in a way she got what she wanted]]. The fact that Creator/KateySagal is married to Creator/KurtSutter in real life ''[[{{Understatement}} might]]'' have something to do with it.

* Babe Carey from ''Series/AllMyChildren''. She is introduced as the new wife of JR Chandler, son of Adam Chandler, one of the richest men in Pine Valley and a common antagonist. Up to the day [[spoiler: her character was killed off]], she was hailed by the residents of Pine Valley as a sweet, wonderful person, Ooe character describing her as a "walking miracle". Well, this walking miracle was exposed for being a gold-digger and bigamist, but worst of all a kidnapper. Because when she realized the baby she’d thought was hers was really her best friend Bianca's child, she decided to keep the child anyway and not tell Bianca her dead baby was still alive. She only gave the baby back to Bianca when she found out her own thought-to-be-dead child was still alive. By this point a whole year had passed with her keeping this secret. But then she proceeded to tell JR that ''their'' child was dead, and then took her newfound child and ran off with Jamie. Not only did several people in Pine Valley support Babe and Jamie with their crimes and deception, but the ''entire town'' actually rallied around them against JR when he dared to try and fight for his son. ''Including Bianca.'' What stands out most is when everyone had thought Babe had been the victim of a serial killer that had killed other, more predominant characters. With the exception of Erica Kane, everyone grieved for her passing as though she was an important family member to every character. And everyone rejoiced when it was revealed that she was actually alive, to the point that Bianca ''actually begged for Babe's forgiveness for not forgiving her''.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has Felicity Smoak, starting in the third season. In seasons 1 & 2, she's an dorky IT Girl with an unrequited crush on the main character, and the source of a lot of the show's humor. Starting in the third season, she supplants Laurel Lance (Green Arrow's iconic LoveInterest from the source material) as the female lead & love interest, takes on several of the traits that once led to Laurel & Thea being considered TheScrappy, receives more screentime than any other character on the show aside from Oliver Queen, is consistently depicted as being in the right even when she is being unreasonable, receives CharacterShilling from seemingly every other character on the show - including the antagonists - and becomes a SpotlightStealingSquad with a good chunk of seasons 3 & 4 being dedicated to her subplots. In comparison, the characters of Roy, Laurel and Thea are pushed OutOfFocus despite becoming the show's incarnations of Arsenal, Black Canary & Speedy; and Diggle only receives a proper subplot in season 4 because it's tied so closely to the main plot and, outside of that, doesn't receive that much attention either. On top of all of this, season 4 opens with the reveal that a major character would killed off by the end of the season, and Felicity was one of two characters deemed untouchable by the writers - the other being the main character. It all culminated in the ending of the crossover ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', in which she steals the special moment of one of comics' most iconic couples, [[SuperCouple Barry Allen and Iris West,]] literally interrupting them in the middle of their vows to tack on her own wedding to Oliver.

* Gabby Dawson of ''Series/ChicagoFire'' is a terrible paramedic riding a wave of ProtagonistCenteredMorality. Even if we skip the series' frequent use of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, she still commits gross insubordination repeatedly (the ''only'' offense that can get a fire department employee fired on the spot), performs medical procedures that are outside her scope of practice (bye-bye paramedic certification, hello prison), openly carryies an inappropriate relationship with her company officer, casually violates the expressed wishes of a conscious and oriented patient (they have a legal word for that: kidnapping), on one occasion casually destroying a social worker's cell phone, the list goes on. It's really no wonder the EMS battalion chief is always looking for an excuse to get rid of her, she's one of the worst liabilities imaginable. And she always gets away with it for no particular reason except that she's one of the star characters. Nary an episode goes by without other characters talking up how great she is—often for doing something stupid or even illegal. Several fan forums declared her a Mary Sue, and after a later episode has her complain about being assigned to a training class for a day (which anyone with any level of emergency medical certification is required to do every year in order to maintain their certification, for obvious reasons), half-ass everything, and then score 100% on the test, it's easy to see why.

* Rose Tyler from ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Russel T. Davis era made it clear no other companion could live up to her, even classic series fan-favorite Sarah Jane Smith was at best a close tie. The Doctor spent the next season after she left [[CharacterShilling telling people how awesome she was]] OnceAnEpisode, with The Master gleefully joining in to taunt Martha. In reality she had basically spent her first season being TheLoad then in the finale saved the day through {{Accident|alHero}}ly through a massive DeusExMachina that took absolutely no effort on her part. She was also always portrayed as right all the time even when displaying blatant MoralMyopia such as becoming jealous in "Boom Town" when she found out her boyfriend Mickey had been spending time with another woman, this is after she'd been blatantly having an emotional affair with the Doctor and had been abandoning him for months on end to travel with him [[MistakenForMurderer which almost got him arrested for murdering her,]] she was also indirectly responsible for the death of his parents. Then in the end while most companions get {{Bittersweet|Ending}} or even DownerEnding's she got basically everything she wanted living in a parallel universe where her father were still alive and getting her own clone of The Doctor to grow old with.

** Talisa was seen as this, with her being introduced essentially mouthing off to her king, and it being shown as a positive character trait. Fans of the books disliked her for being a replacement for Jeyne Westerling and AdaptationExpansion (her and Robb's marriage happened off screen in the books) drastically changing Robb's plot. In the books he marries her after a one-night stand to preserve her honor, [[HonorBeforeReason knowingly breaking a marriage promise to a potential ally]] (said one-night stand happened when he heard his brothers may have just been murdered too). In the show, Talisa and Robb fall madly in love and he breaks the marriage promise to marry her because. [[spoiler: Then at the end of Season 3 when she's given a shocking DeathByAdaptation, her many haters [[AlasPoorScrappy were horrified]].]]

** Summer Hoyland. That's TheOtherDarrin Summer Hoyland, who's so different from the [[SameCharacterButDifferent charming and sweet-natured original]] it's hard to believe they were meant to be the same character. She dumps her likeable boyfriend for spurious reasons (the fact that he was competing with Andrew for her), her next boyfriend turns out to be gay prompting her to make lots of big speeches about how there's nothing wrong with that without noticing she's causing most of the hostility towards him, then she sleeps with her sometimes-best friend's boyfriend who she's suddenly decided is the love of her life. (It doesn't last, despite the show trying to turn them into the OfficialCouple when they're actually something of a CrackPairing.) And she still has the nerve to be self-righteous about everything and everyone. She gets the school radio station closed down by wrongly accusing the local council of being corrupt without any evidence, for which she receives no punishment. She attempts to cheat at an exam (albeit in a desperate, poorly planned fashion that wouldn't have been very effective even if the exam hadn't been postponed due to her teacher collapsing) and instead of redoing Year 12 after being caught out, she convinces the local newspaper editor (her boyfriend's dad) to give her a job. As a result, at the age of eighteen, she's a full-time professional journalist despite having no qualification and next editor Susan (basically an older version of Summer) effectively makes her her right hand woman. Even after she sleeps with the deputy editor and tries to run off to his next paper with him, Susan still wants her to stay on but instead she leaves to do charity work. In Paris.

** Ray Langston on the regular ''Series/{{CSI}}''. The producers had brought Lawrence Fishburne in to replace William Petersen as the show’s famous lead name. Ray entered as a Level 1 [[CSI]] but got a lot of the big plots, including the crossover of all 3 shows, due to this. He started out struggling a bit but often seemed to be a bit too good at a lot of things later on.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has Felicity Smoak, starting in the third season. In seasons 1 & 2, she's an dorky IT Girl with an unrequited crush on the main character, and the source of a lot of the show's humor. Starting in the third season, she supplants Laurel Lance (Green Arrow's iconic LoveInterest from the source material) as the female lead & love interest, takes on several of the traits that once led to Laurel & Thea being considered TheScrappy, receives more screentime than any other character on the show aside from Oliver Queen, is consistently depicted as being in the right even when she is being unreasonable, receives CharacterShilling from seemingly every other character on the show - including the antagonists - and becomes a SpotlightStealingSquad with a good chunk of seasons 3 & 4 being dedicated to her subplots. In comparison, the characters of Roy, Laurel and Thea are pushed OutOfFocus despite becoming the show's incarnations of Arsenal, Black Canary & Speedy; and the EnsembleDarkhorse Diggle only receives a proper subplot in season 4 because it's tied so closely to the main plot and, outside of that, doesn't receive that much attention either. On top of all of this, season 4 opens with the reveal that a major character would killed off by the end of the season, and Felicity was one of two characters deemed untouchable by the writers - the other being the main character. It all culminated in the ending of the crossover ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', in which she steals the special moment of one of comics' most iconic couples, [[SuperCouple Barry Allen and Iris West,]] literally interrupting them in the middle of their vows to tack on her own wedding to Oliver.

** Charlie Bradbury. While fan reaction is [[BaseBreakingCharacter very mixed]], she definitely qualifies by her second appearance. If being an over-the-top EndearinglyDorky genius hacker (that even BigBad Dick Roman [[CharacterShilling thinks is amazing and special]]) who just happens to be a lesbian wasn't enough, she returns in a later episode, where she's introduced beating a LARP-knight in a swordfight and gets talked up by more and more characters. And in her next episode, she suddenly has ImprobableAimingSkills, a BelatedBackstory, and is an AscendedFangirl. Additionally, she's an AuthorAvatar for [[http://missyjack.livejournal.com/954514.html writer Robbie Thompson]]. It also doesn't help that she ended up being a rather unsubtle mouthpiece for the writers' political views. [[spoiler: That being said, the fandom was able to warm up to her well enough before she got StuffedInTheFridge, which caused '''loads''' of backlash from both fans and even the actors on the show.]]

* From ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Ruby, at first. Fan-reaction to her was very negative at first, but Kripke believed that with enough time and characterization, fans would like her. Towards the end of Season 3, it seemed to be working, but the final reaction was... mixed.

* Hannah [=McKay=] from ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. The writers just adored her and were really clearly trying their absolute damnedest to make fans like her, yet fans on the whole found her [[FlatCharacter flat, boring and all around unlikable]]. Dexter [[StrangledByTheRedString rapidly falls in love with her]] and can't bring himself to kill her despite her more than fitting [[SerialKillerKiller his code]]; that she came after the better-received [[NiceGuy Rita]] and [[BrokenBird Lumen]] marks her as a ReplacementScrappy on top of all that. Other characaters frequently [[CharacterShilling praise her and gush about how great a fit she and Dexter are]]. Her SpotlightStealingSquad tendencies got so bad that most of the story in Season 8 revolves around people trying to catch her. In other words: in the final season of a drama about a serial killer, a huge chunk of the plot is about ''people trying to catch his girlfriend''. Scott Buck even went so far as to state he wished he could do a SpinOff based on the character (which never came to fruition, to the relief of Hannah's hatedom).

%%** Same with Ray Langston on the regular ''Series/{{CSI}}''. Now it's sometimes brought up with D.B. and Finn because they get so much screentime.