History CreatorsPet / WesternAnimation

** A clever in-universe example has [[ShooOutTheNewGuy Poochie]], a new character for ''TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', whose premiere episode has him be talked up by his creator and voice actor, Homer Simpson

** It helps if you just imagine his behavior as an {{actor allusion}}, as his voice actor (ClancyBrown)'s most famous role was as [[{{Highlander}} The Kurgan]], meaning the rivalry between the two restaurants becomes an analogue to the fight between the Kurgan and Macleod. In other words, the hatred may be justified.

* Daffy from ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. He is [[TheScrappy despised by a large portion of the fanbase]] for his JerkAss TooDumbToLive personality and his [[KickTheDog constant torture]] of [[TheWoobie Porky]], but gets ''way'' more screentime than any of the other Looney Tunes except for Bugs, and even ''he's'' been OutOfFocus.

** Subverted however as he does have a ''huge'' fanbase.

* Reginald the Koala from AmericanDad became a scrappy due his SpotlightStealingSquad tendencies, the fact he was written like a bad fan character, and that he had a completely pointless StoryArc that involved him hooking up with an incredibly out-of-character Hayley. It doesn't help matters that they replaced [[TheOtherDarrin his original voice actor]] with someone who didn't sound half as charismatic.
** For some fans, ''Roger'' has become a scrappy for similar reasons; he's been given a [[SpotlightStealingSquad pivotal role]] in almost every recent episode, even when he could have easily been cut out with no repercussions to the current storyline, he's a complete {{Jerkass}} who rarely receives his comeuppance for his actions, and he seems to be less funny the more he's shown.

** Subverted however as he does have something of a fanbase.

* Daffy from ''TheLooneyTunesShow''. He is [[TheScrappy despised by a large portion of the fanbase]] for his JerkAss TooDumbToLive personality and his [[KickTheDog constant torture]] of [[TheWoobie Porky]], but gets ''way'' more screentime than any of the other Looney Tunes except for Bugs, and even ''he's'' been OutOfFocus.

* Daffy from ''TheLooneyTunesShow''. He is [[TheScrappy despised by a large portion of the fanbase]] for his JerkAss personality and his constant torture of [[TheWoobie Porky]], but gets way more screentime than any of the other Looney Tunes except for Bugs, and even ''he's'' been OutOfFocus.

* Daffy from ''TheLooneyTunesShow''. He is [[TheScrappy despised by a large portion of the fanbase]] for his JerkAss personality and his constant torture of [[TheWoobie Porky]], but gets way more screentime than any of the other Looney Tunes except for Bugs.

* Daffy from ''TheLooneyTunesShow''. He is despised by a large portion of the fanbase for his Jerkass personality and his constant torture of [[TheWoobie Porky]], but gets way more screentime than any of the other Looney Tunes except for Bugs.

** A large part of the hate for Lucky comes because he represents the [[CharacterDerailment total destruction of Luanne's character]]. Originally she was a BunnyEarsLawyer who tried to make something of her life after receiving visions from her dead boyfriend. [[{{Flanderization}} Over time she became more air-headed]], but her relationship with Lucky marked the point where her intelligence and ambition completely evaporated, turning her into exactly the type of stereotypical white trash she swore never to become.

** Trey Parker has explicitly said in the commentaries that he loves the character of Jimmy, which is probably why he gets an episode about OnceASeason.

** Princess Sally herself also qualifies to a varied amount of the fanbase, due to her overwhelming utility in most missions (it was arguably her that rendered Rotor redundant due to her increased tech skills) and sometimes exagerrated use as a {{foil}} and {{Romantic Interest}} for Sonic that rendered other characters needless extras (eg. Tails who in other portrayals was often Sonic's closest friend and ally). In the second season, aside from Dulcy and Antoine as comic relief, the show was near entirely revolved around Sonic and Sally's chemistry. Granted there is [[BaseBreaker a lot more positive reception of Sally than Dulcy at times]] but she has rubbed off a lot of fans the wrong way. Sally and Dulcy were both stated to be favorites of Ben Hurst, who wrote the majority of Season Two.

* Mr. Krabs of ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', despite arguably being an EnsembleDarkhorse early in the show's run, is slowly grating on fans of the show, due to his Flanderization into an [[FauxAffablyEvil an even bigger jerk]] than his [[DesignatedVillain "evil" rival Plankton]].

** Never mind that the whole point of the character is to be obnoxious and unlikeable.

* Some fans of {{Archer}} absolutely hate the characters of Cheryl and Pam. The two are constantly brought into episodes and situations where they don't belong and really serve no purpose other than to make jokes that Archer could have made on his own.

** [[BrokenBase Half the fandom]] would argue Duncan and/or Courtney and/or Gwen. The third season LoveTriangle especially inspired hate, though ''which'' one or more you hate varies.

* Some fans of ''Archer'' absolutely hate the characters of Cheryl and Pam. The two are constantly brought into episodes and situations where they don't belong and really serve no purpose other than to make jokes that Archer could have made on his own.

* Some fans of ''WesternAnimation/Archer'' absolutely hate the characters of Cheryl and Pam. The two are constantly brought into episodes and situations where they don't belong and really serve no purpose other than to make jokes that Archer could have made on his own.

* But Pluto was a Creator's Pet, too. MickeyMouse may not have been the ''funniest'' Disney star, but he's still unmatched as a star of funny ''adventure'' cartoons—which makes it disconcerting that from about 1934, numerous "Mickey" shorts shunt him aside to give Pluto the spotlight. The most amazing thing is that from 1937, Pluto ''had his own series'', yet he was still allowed to dominate Mickey's, too. It's gotten better nowadays, with Pluto and Mickey being kept more separate in their adventures (y'know, since there's more of an effort to ''give'' Mickey adventures these days?)
* MickeyMouse became a Creator's Pet to the Disney animation studio after Walt Disney decided to make the character his AuthorAvatar. At Walt's instructions, all the faults that made Mickey popular were removed, and his positive attributes were played up. The writers had very little freedom to do anything with the character, so they turned him into a straight man and paired him with other, funnier characters.

*** He is also downgraded from a genius to an insufferable brat who thinks He's smarter than he is. And still acts like a typical twelve year old.

* Owen from the ''TotalDrama'' series has become an increasingly blatant example, with a lot of focus put on him, his fart humor, and AnnoyingLaugh throughout all three seasons. He wound up [[spoiler:winning the first season]] despite having won few challenges and being up against the very competent and fan favourite [[PerkyGoth Gwen]]. In ''TotalDramaAction'', he was conveniently brought back onto the show after being eliminated halfway through, to the joy of all the other "good" characters, and even after that he is in the third season and made it to the merge, getting [[SpotlightStealingSquad an unhealthy ammount of focus]] before. On the whole, fans have not been pleased.