History CreatorsPet / MarvelUniverse

** ComicBook/MilesMorales became infamous for being Bendis' creator's pet. Despite being a new, amateur kid hero, he has the tendency to beat everyone when written by Bendis (who wrote Miles' ongoing for the first ''seven years'' of Miles' existence), including his far more experienced predecessor Peter Parker from the main universe. The worst example was probably Miles defeating the uber powerful EldritchAbomination Blackheart, ''just after this one had taken out all the other heroes''. Thankfully, this isn't the case under other writers -- in fact, the film ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' does the opposite and is all about Miles not measuring up to the other Spider-people's standards and learning to do so while being his own Spider-Man.

** For his run on ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2013'' Creator/BrianMichaelBendis introduced yet ''another'' creator's pet in Tempus, an original character who in a very short span of time got two entire annuals dedicated to her, defeated the entire ComicBook/{{Avengers}} team in a total CurbStompBattle, and gave a suspiciously meta TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Cyclops (who was on a VillainProtagonist kick at the time). Except many found her amazingly overpowered, her personality flat and Bendis' random (and misused) insertions of Australian slang to be awkward. While some readers liked Tempus despite (or occasionally even because of) these things, following the book's end she was shunted into ComicBookLimbo and was only brought back after several years to be used as part of a plot device to resurrect deceased X-Men.

** Gabby (AKA Honey Badger), X-23's clone, has been accused of being her creator, Tom Taylor's pet. After being introduced early into Laura's latest book, Gabby is quickly cemented as a quirky DeadpanSnarker that everyone loves. Gabby gains more and more prominence in the story; many issues have Laura herself just being there to enable whatever quirks Gabby has, or just being DemotedToExtra. This is continued in Taylor's ''ComicBook/XMenRed'' where Gabby is put on the team, continues her comical antics, and has much more presence than Laura, despite being her sidekick. Laura's next solo book also heavily focuses on Gabby's inane complaints about wanting a birthday, while also being central to the main conflict. On top of all this, WordOfGod confirmed that Laura's romance with her boyfriend, Warren was almost completely cut out of Laura's story to make more room for Gabby stories. Now, even the idea of Gabby's mere presence in a book makes fans turn their nose at it, with many Laura fans actively actively wishing for the character's death.

** Luke and Jessica have gotten additional flack from fans for the opening arc of ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', where they're the ones who did most of the work in exposing ComicBook/NormanOsborn to be the Green Goblin following his post-''[[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]]'' VillainWithGoodPublicity status, with said fans thinking that if anyone should've exposed Franchise/SpiderMan's archenemy, it should've been Peter Parker himself.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Carlie Cooper, Franchise/SpiderMan's ReplacementGoldfish after Marvel ended the Spider-marriage. She was introduced after the much-loathed ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and was quickly established as being Peter Parker's next love interest. Initially starting off as a minor character who just happened to have a crush on Peter, writers cranked up how much she's perfect for Peter, having both Peter complain about not being worthy of her and Mary Jane telling him he needs to hook up with her. Oh, and did we mention she's named after Creator/JoeQuesada's daughter? At best she came off as a Composite Character of Peter's previous love interests.[[note]]It was originally intended for Gwen Stacy, who Carlie is similar to, to be resurrected in the role, but despite the CosmicRetcon nature of ''One More Day'', Quesada was vetoed[[/note]] After breaking up with Peter when she found out about his life as Spider-Man, she stuck around as a supporting character and even began popping up in other Marvel books. Within the pages of ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', it's ''her'' -- not Aunt May, the Avengers or even MJ -- of all people who is able to discern that Peter Parker has been acting out of character when he was possessed by Doc Ock, despite him ''blatantly'' doing so and Ock making almost zero effort to act like Peter, using a method that requires him to grab the IdiotBall. When she's eventually hit with some Goblin formula, she is able to resist its brainwashing powers. Fortunately, she was later dropped from the book, and has since been reintroduced and RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.
** Many detractors towards Dan Slott tend to paint his usage of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain ComicBook/DoctorOctopus as this, especially after he became the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan. A major complaint by fans toward this end is that Otto's thus-far-successful attempt at hijacking Peter Parker's life has less to do with him being clever and strategic, and more with all of Peter Parker's friends, allies, and family becoming total, brain-dead idiots, with the plot at times bending over backwards to keep Otto from getting egg on his face.

** This seems to be a running trend with Dan Slott and ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' characters. Peter's newest love interest ComicBook/{{Silk}} has had even ''less'' of a relationship with him than Carlie had, being clumsily shoehorned into Peter's backstory during the ''Original Sin'' event. From there she essentially hooked up with him on the spot, thanks to having Spider-Man focused pheromone powers, showcased having superior powers to Spider-Man and somehow being just as skilled as him despite utterly lacking in training, experience or education. Her place as Peter's love interest also came at the cost of either writing out his previous love interests or turning them evil, in the case of Black Cat. During the ''Spider-Verse'' event, she also got a disproportionate amount of focus, overshadowing other popular alternate universe Spider-Men. Dan Slott has even gone on record to say that Silk was responsible for the sales of Amazing Spider-Man (a comic that normally gets high sales, and was obviously benefiting from the fact that it was a relaunched series that debuted alongside ''Amazing Spider-Man 2'') and that he has received a high amount of fan mail praising her yet refuses to post any evidence to that fact when asked for proof. Once Silk got her own comic, her role as a love interest was abandoned and the pheromone power retconned, leading her out of being a creator's pet.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':

** And of course Arcade is one too, being portrayed as a genius who managed to outsmart everybody in the MarvelUniverse to have his sick game run for a month without anybody noticing, when in reality his plan worked only because everybody who could stop him had either been handed the IdiotBall or been written as uncaring jerks. We're supposed to see him as a clever mastermind who manipulated the cast into fighting each other to death for his amusement, when in reality he needs to make one ham-fisted interference after another to try make the kids play his game, clearly showing he didn't think his plan through. Furthermore, with three exceptions, two of which don't really count anyway [[spoiler:(Apex, who was already playing without his push, and X-23, whom he can get to play if he sprays everybody with Trigger Scent, that sets her into state of uncontrollable rage, which cannot be counted as playing on her own will)]], all of them failed. In the last arc, when everybody starts fighting each other, Arcade claims he broke the kids, and we're supposed to see him as right. There's only one that has been lead naturally to the point where he has understandable reasons to try to kill somebody else [[spoiler:(Aiden trying to avenge Nara)]]. Others not only don't have one, but one of them [[spoiler:(Nico Minoru)]] experienced things that make her suddenly trying to kill others make no sense whatsoever [[spoiler:(she died and came back to life to save the same people she now suddenly tries to kill)]]. It also happens after Arcade rants in defense of making the game last thirty days, which looks like [[AuthorAvatar Dennis Hopeless putting words in his mouth in defense of a commonly criticized plot point]].

** Creator/ChuckAusten introduced nurse and single mother Annie Ghazikhanian during his run on ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMenChuckAusten Uncanny X-Men]]''. WordOfGod stated that she was based on Austen's wife and she became a central character in many storylines. Annie is mostly remembered for her relationship with Havok, which started as a crush when he was in a coma and she was caring for him. Once revived, Havok showed an immediate attraction to Annie and it was eventually revealed that Annie's mutant son had been setting them up on 'psychic dates' for months before he awoke. Austen's run depicted Havok's longtime partner Polaris as insane, homicidal and bitchy, emphasising that Annie was a far better choice for him. Fan reaction to Annie (and the run in general) was negative, which led Austen to dismiss critics as unreasonable "trolls". With his final story arc with the X-Men franchise, Austen wrote Annie and her son out of the X-Men books. The pre-Austen Polaris/Havok relationship was eventually restored. As of 2022, Annie has only reappeared once since Austen left.

* ComicBook/DoctorDoom rivals the Sentry below when it comes to the sheer number of writers who love making a pet of him. Most recently it's been Creator/JonathanHickman who inexplicably chose ''him'' to be the literal God-level BigBad of his ComicBook/SecretWars2015 story (supplanting several more powerful characters in the process such as ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, The Comicbook/{{Maestro}}, and even ''Comicbook/{{Thanos}}''), but Hickman is just the latest in a very long line of writers to lovingly use Doom as a borderline Villain Sue - though it is worth noting that in both his Fantastic Four run and the climax of ComicBook/SecretWars2015, it is demonstrated that while Doom is brilliant, he's not quite as good as he thinks he is... or as good as Reed, which in split second of frustration he actually admits (and where Doom managed to preserve bits of the old multiverse as Battleworld, Reed manages to restart and rebuild the Multiverse). From David Michelinie and Bob Hall on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' to Hickman (again) during his ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' run and Steve A. Roman for his ''Chaos Engine'' novels, when it comes to villains writers love slipping into the old [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]], none tops Doom. Creator/JackKirby even created an author device, the Doombots, explicitly for the purpose of handwaving away any of Doom's less impressive showings, making him one of the oldest examples of this trope in the House of Ideas.

* ComicBook/TheSentry from in everything after his debut miniseries. A Superman expy with mental issues, the original miniseries by Paul Jenkins was well-received. However, when the character was incorporated into the wider Marvel Universe by Brian Michael Bendis, he ate up focus in every book he appeared in, which was ''a lot'', despite doing very little and generally existing as a cheap way to resolve plots thanks to being a GodModeSue, e.g. ''he's better at molecular manipulation than Molecule Man''. His plots revolved around the never-ending conflicting stories of what he and the Void were, from super-powered evil side stuff to the literal angel of death. Worse still is the way he was retconned into importance when he died, with various heroes waxing poetic about how wonderful he was and how he'd made their lives better in flashback retcons. The hamfisted attempt at AlasPoorScrappy was ''not'' well-received. Thankfully, his following appearances in ''Uncanny Avengers'', where he was one of the new Horsemen of Death, in Doctor Strange's solo, and his solo miniseries, ensured he was successfully RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap by making him new and interesting kinds of insane.

* ComicBook/DoctorDoom rivals the Sentry below when it comes to the sheer number of writers who love making a pet of him. Most recently it's been Creator/JonathanHickman who inexplicably chose ''him'' to be the literal God-level BigBad of his ComicBook/SecretWars2015 story (supplanting several more powerful characters in the process such as ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, The Comicbook/{{Maestro}}, and even ''Comicbook/{{Thanos}}''), but Hickman is just the latest in a very long line of writers to lovingly use Doom as a borderline Villain Sue. From David Michelinie and Bob Hall on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' to Hickman (again) during his ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' run and Steve A. Roman for his ''Chaos Engine'' novels, when it comes to villains writers love slipping into the old [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]], none tops Doom. Creator/JackKirby even created an author device, the Doombots, explicitly for the purpose of handwaving away any of Doom's less impressive showings, making him one of the oldest examples of this trope in the House of Ideas.

* ComicBook/TheSentry from in everything after his debut miniseries. A Superman expy with mental issues, the original miniseries by Paul Jenkins was well-received. However, when the character was incorporated into the wider Marvel Universe by Brian Michael Bendis, he ate up focus in every book he appeared in, which was ''a lot'', despite doing very little and generally existing as a cheap way to resolve plots thanks to being a GodModeSue, e.g. ''he's better at molecular manipulation than Molecule Man''. His plots revolved around the never-ending conflicting stories of what he and the Void were, from super-powered evil side stuff to the literal angel of death. Worse still is the way he was retconned into importance when he died, with various heroes waxing poetic about how wonderful he was and how he'd made their lives better in flashback retcons. The hamfisted attempt at AlasPoorScrappy was ''not'' well-received.

** Creator/ChuckAusten introduced nurse and single mother Annie Ghazikhanian during his run on ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMenChuckAusten Uncanny X-Men]]''. WordOfGod stated that she was based on Austen's wife and she became a central character in many storylines. Annie is mostly remembered for her relationship with Havok, which started as a crush when he was in a coma and she was caring for him. Once revived, Havok showed an immediate attraction to Annie and it was eventually revealed that Annie's mutant son had been setting them up on 'psychic dates' for months before he awoke. Austen's run depicted Havok's longtime partner Polaris as insane, homicidal and bitchy, emphasising that Annie was a far better choice for him. Fan reaction to Annie (and the run in general) was negative, which led Austen to dismiss critics as unreasonable "trolls". With his final story arc with the X-Men franchise, Austen wrote Annie and her son out of the X-Men books. The pre-Austen Polaris/Havok relationship was eventually restored and, as of 2022, Annie has never reappeared.

** Annie Ghazikhanian has ''[[Comicbook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]''. Universally maligned "writer" Chuck Austen introduced the single mother/apparent expert in mutant physiology shortly into his equally despised run on ''X-Men''. WordOfGod stated she was based on Austen's real-life wife, never a good start. He quickly made her the inane central character in many of his story lines. This usually included vapidly gossiping about sexy men with once-intelligent characters Husk and Northstar, throwing tantrums/acting holier than thou during battles and various X-Men crises, dispensing shallow advice to other characters on their "romantic woes", wrapping bandages around injured characters' heads (regardless of their actual injury) and apparently boning Iceman for no apparent reason. Annie is mostly remembered for her creepy relationship with Havok, which started as a crush when she was caring for the longtime X-Man while he was in a comatose state. Once revived, Alex showed an immediate and unfounded attraction for Annie also. It was eventually revealed Annie's equally creepy mutant son Carter had been setting the two up on 'psychic dates' for months, allowing Austen to place the two characters in a relationship without needing to bother about annoying things such as context or developing a rapport between the characters. To further infuriate and confound readers, Austen also depicted Havok's longtime partner Polaris as an insane, homicidal, bitchy ex to further drive home the point that Annie was the Virgin Mary and Gandhi rolled into one. Fan reaction to Annie (and Austen's run in general) was overwhelmingly negative, a fact that led the writer to dismiss critics as unreasonable "trolls". With his final story arc with the X-Men franchise, Austen wrote Annie and Carter out of the X-Men books. The pre-Austen Polaris/Havok relationship was restored in time and Annie was never mentioned again, presumably dying on the way back to her home planet and/or country.

* ComicBook/DoctorDoom rivals the Sentry below when it comes to the sheer number of writers who love making a pet of him. Most recently it's been Creator/JonathanHickman who inexplicably chose ''him'' to be the literal God-level BigBad of his ComicBook/SecretWars2015 story (supplanting several more powerful characters in the process such as ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Maestro]], and even ''Comicbook/{{Thanos}}''), but Hickman is just the latest in a very long line of writers to lovingly use Doom as a borderline Villain Sue. From David Michelinie and Bob Hall on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' to Hickman (again) during his ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' run and Steve A. Roman for his ''Chaos Engine'' novels, when it comes to villains writers love slipping into the old [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]], none tops Doom. Creator/JackKirby even created an author device, the Doombots, explicitly for the purpose of handwaving away any of Doom's less impressive showings, making him one of the oldest examples of this trope in the House of Ideas.

** Creator/GrantMorrison had the Stepford Cuckoos, Beak, and Angel during his run on ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' run as the Cuckoos tended to save the day as much as already existing X-Men and the GrandFinale was advertised as being one for the whole mythos, but in reality, outside of the core five, it tended to focus on characters Morrison created, including the grandson of Beak and Angel. Said run also originated the below-mentioned Glob Herman and Quentin Quire.

** Carlie Cooper, Franchise/SpiderMan's ReplacementGoldfish after Marvel ended the Spider-marriage. She was introduced after the much-loathed ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and was quickly established as being Peter Parker's next love interest. Initially starting off as a minor character who just happened to have a crush on Peter, writers [[UpToEleven cranked up]] how much she's perfect for Peter, having both Peter complain about not being worthy of her and Mary Jane telling him he needs to hook up with her. Oh, and did we mention she's named after Creator/JoeQuesada's daughter? At best she came off as a Composite Character of Peter's previous love interests.[[note]]It was originally intended for Gwen Stacy, who Carlie is similar to, to be resurrected in the role, but despite the CosmicRetcon nature of ''One More Day'', Quesada was vetoed[[/note]] After breaking up with Peter when she found out about his life as Spider-Man, she stuck around as a supporting character and even began popping up in other Marvel books. Within the pages of ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', it's ''her'' -- not Aunt May, the Avengers or even MJ -- of all people who is able to discern that Peter Parker has been acting out of character when he was possessed by Doc Ock, despite him ''blatantly'' doing so and Ock making almost zero effort to act like Peter, using a method that requires him to grab the IdiotBall. When she's eventually hit with some Goblin formula, she is able to resist its brainwashing powers. Fortunately, she was later dropped from the book, and has since been reintroduced and RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.

* Roger Stern ''really'' liked Monica Rambeau, the [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]] of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', and actively pushed her into the limelight. He repeatedly had other characters talk about how powerful she was, men gushed over her beauty, and she was even made chairman of the Avengers for a time. The fans never quite took to her, but she was never really hated. She did develop a larger fanbase once Creator/WarrenEllis made her a member of the ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' series.

* For the ''Avengers'' comics, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis has ComicBook/SpiderWoman, ComicBook/LukeCage, ComicBook/JessicaJones and ComicBook/{{Ares}}. There is some balance though, because Bendis has a tendency to showing his affection by [[BreakTheCutie heartlessly breaking them]], so all five went through some serious crap under his care. But for many fans it's still not enough to equal all the attention he gives them. And that's not counting Bendis' "love" for Hawkeye, who has become nothing more than a vehicle from which Bendis [[TakeThatCritics attacks his critics]] (and to spite fans whose overwhelming hatred for Bendis' attempt to permanently kill Clint off led to Bendis being forced against his will to bring him back to life, at which point he turned him into a ninja (replacing Echo in the Ronin identity) to further spite fans).

* The entire faction of ComicBook/TheInhumans was seen as this for a good while. For most of their history, they had been an inoffensive corner of Marvel's cosmic stable, but between about 2012 and 2018, mainly under the direction of Ike Perlmutter, Marvel attempted to push them as the next big thing and a replacement for the X-Men, mainly due to X-Men’s film rights still being tied up at 20th Century Fox at the time, as Perlmutter felt it didn’t make sense to promote characters they couldn’t use in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. However, the Inhumans have always been at best morally grey and better suited as supporting characters than ongoing protagonists, which meant the attempt to retool them as straightforward heroes [[DesignatedHero couldn't be more of a square peg in a round hole]]. There were even attempts to treat them as the victims of FantasticRacism -- and as this is something the X-Men [[FantasticAesop struggle with on their best day]], a race of isolationist nobles who are only superpowered by choice [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic never really had a chance with making it work]]. Pretty much every other event involved the Inhumans heavily, every other new character was an Inhuman or got retconned as one, and invariably, the only ones to have any success (mainly Ms. Marvel) were the ones to have basically no connection to the overall franchise. It certainly didn't help that the writers and editors had the bright idea to try to stoke the fires of the FandomRivalry by placing the Inhumans [[ReplacementScrappy frequently in opposition to the X-Men]] (including the idiotic reveal that the Terrigen Mists kill or sterilize mutants). The period ended with the double-bill FranchiseKiller of Disney buying Fox and the TV series bombing hard, at which even Perlmutter could no longer deny their lack of value as a going franchise.

* For the ''Avengers'' comics, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis has ComicBook/SpiderWoman, {{ComicBook/Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, ComicBook/JessicaJones and ComicBook/{{Ares}}. There is some balance though, because Bendis has a tendency to showing his affection by [[BreakTheCutie heartlessly breaking them]], so all five went through some serious crap under his care. But for many fans it's still not enough to equal all the attention he gives them. And that's not counting Bendis' "love" for Hawkeye, who has become nothing more than a vehicle from which Bendis [[TakeThatCritics attacks his critics]] (and to spite fans whose overwhelming hatred for Bendis' attempt to permanently kill Clint off led to Bendis being forced against his will to bring him back to life, at which point he turned him into a ninja (replacing Echo in the Ronin identity) to further spite fans).