History MemeticLoser / FireEmblemHeroes

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Darros, Xane, Elice,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Rinea, Rudolf,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Brigid,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Wolt, Geese,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Dozla, Saleh]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Greil, Rolf, Rhys, Zihark, Tanith,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Rafiel, Ena, Dheginsea, Sephiran,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Inigo, Noire, Severa]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Rhea, Dorothea, Felix, Sylvain, Raphael, and Lorenz]] [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.
** Any character that is stuck as an alt in the regular/grail pool [[note]] So far, this includes [[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Hardin,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ashnard,]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Mikoto.]] [[/note]] qualify for this trope for the same reasons listed above.

* Marth was initially mocked for not having any alternates since the game's release, despite being the protagonist of the very first ''Fire Emblem'' and a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros''. What's worse, random supporting characters and his own wife Caeda got alternates before him. He even lost his chance at getting a Brave version in the second Choose Your Legends poll because his votes were split between his ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'' incarnations. However, Marth's Memetic Loser status began to fade out when he finally received an alternate as a groom, ''and'' became the first groom unit in the game, at that. His Memetic Loser status effectively died after he received a Legendary alternate in which he's the best DragonSlayer in the game. Even then, he still had miserable luck in Choose Your Legends; after placing second in the third Choose Your Legends midterm, he was ganked by Eliwood in the eleventh hour and screwed out of a Brave variant ''again'', and in the fourth Choose Your Legends, he was run down by the incumbent male lords Dimitri and Claude (adding insult to injury, he scored more votes than Lysithea, but because of genders, she got a Brave variant while he didn't). He finally won his Brave variant in CYL 5, but his status as the trope when it comes to CYL still remains: Because he, the main face and the OG protagonist of the franchise, only placed ''second'' behind [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses the Gatekeeper]], who amounts to [[EnsembleDarkhorse a non-prominent NPC that somehow got really beloved by the fandom]], and since winners of CYL cannot participate in future CYL, that means Marth faces the danger of [[NeverLiveItDown being forever associated with the result of that CYL with no hope of fixing it.]]

* Tiki's adult self from ''Awakening'' just can't catch a break. After getting only one alt in 2017 (not long before the game's launch), IS seems to be more and more determined for its playerbase to forget about her. In contrast, Child Tiki has received heavy favoritism (much like Alfonse has over his sister Sharena), receiving one alt every year: Summer and Legendary versions in 2018, Fallen in 2019, a Halloween alt as the main unit with Ninian in 2020, and even a Resplendent in January 2021. People are seriously hoping that IS will give Adult Tiki more attention in the future due to how unfair she had been treated compared to her child version.

** As the years went by however, Alfonse would soon grow out of this title, with his poor sister Sharena growing more into this status in his stead. It started during Book II when Sharena was DemotedToExtra like Anna, to put more story focus on Alfonse and Fjorm. The story from that point onward would also give Alfonse the spotlight and show off his sharp thinking as he outwits the villains, earning him favour with fans, seeing him as a [[MemeticBadass total badass]]. Sharena on the other hand continued her downward spiral in Book III when it was revealed that in Askr's alternative universe where Hel won, Sharena was killed while the Alfonse of that universe while Alfonse got an alt by the name of Lif. Additionally, Sharena was only the cheerleader of a Duo unit with her brother Alfonse, the main unit of the two, in the 2019 New Year's banner Renewed Spirit. While Sharena was thankfully given more focus in Book IV, many felt that her character arc was shoved out at the last minute to focus more on Alfonse once again. The Book 5 movie trailer and artwork don't even feature Sharena at all! To add salt to the wound, Sharena never won even a single round in any Voting Gauntlet she participated in, often being curbstomped by another, more popular character. The final straw that pushed Sharena into the MemeticLoser category however, was during the Valentine's 2021 banner, where Alfonse got not one, but '''two''' alts (one for Alfonse, and another as his Lif alias) at once, with not even a mention of Sharena anywhere. Fans of Sharena are seriously hoping that Sharena gets more attention due to the unfair treatment she had received by IS in recent years.

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Darros, Xane, Elice,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Rinea, Rudolf,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Brigid,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Wolt, Geese,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Pent, Louise,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Dozla, Saleh]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Greil, Rolf, Rhys, Zihark, Tanith,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Rafiel, Ena, Dheginsea, Sephiran,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Inigo, Noire, Severa]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Rhea, Dorothea, Felix, Sylvain, Raphael, and Lorenz]] [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.

** As the years went by however, Alfonse would soon grow out of this title, with his poor sister Sharena growing more into this status in his stead. It started during Book II when Sharena was DemotedToExtra like Anna, to put more story focus on Alfonse and Fjorm. Book III continued Sharena's downward spiral when it was revealed that in Askr's alternative universe where Hel won, Sharena was killed while the Alfonse of that universe while Alfonse got an alt by the name of Lif. Additionally, Sharena was only the cheerleader of a Duo unit with her brother Alfonse, the main unit of the two, in the 2019 New Year's banner Renewed Spirit. While Sharena was thankfully given more focus in Book IV, many felt that her character arc was shoved out at the last minute to focus more on Alfonse once again. The Book 5 movie trailer and artwork don't even feature Sharena at all! To add salt to the wound, Sharena never won even a single round in any Voting Gauntlet she participated in, often being curbstomped by another, more popular character. The final straw that pushed Sharena into the MemeticLoser category however, was during the Valentine's 2021 banner, where Alfonse got not one, but '''two''' alts (one for Alfonse, and another as his Lif alias) at once, with not even a mention of Sharena anywhere. Fans of Sharena are seriously hoping that Sharena gets more attention due to the unfair treatment she had received by IS in recent years.

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Darros, Xane, Elice,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Rinea, Rudolf,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Brigid,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Wolt, Geese,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Pent, Louise,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Dozla,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Greil, Rolf, Rhys, Zihark, Tanith,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Rafiel, Ena, Dheginsea, Sephiran,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Inigo, Noire,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Rhea, Dorothea, Felix, Sylvain, Raphael, and Lorenz]] [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.

* Dorothea from ''Three Houses'', considering she's the ''only'' unit as of January 2021 to be an alt-only unit to have more than one alt, but no original variant. Veronica herself qualifies too, but her main form is still seen (and fought). Dorothea's doesn't even show up.

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Darros, Xane, Elice,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Rinea, Rudolf,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Brigid,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Wolt, Geese,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Pent, Louise,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Dozla,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Greil, Rolf, Rhys, Zihark, Tanith,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Rafiel, Ena, Dheginsea, Sephiran,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Inigo, Noire,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte,]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Rhea, Dorothea, Felix, Sylvain, Ingrid, Raphael, and Lorenz]] [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.

* Jorge had the most unfortunate fall from grace amongst Choose Your Legends goers. He had such a high showing in Choose Your Legends 4, ranking amongst the Top 20 male with 6,728 votes. However, it was later found out that he got that place because some {{Troll}} made bots to greatly multiply his votes. When the 5th CYL rolled in, Jorge ranked ''477th place'' with a ''measly 27'' votes, making him the character who lost the most votes ever in the history of CYL, since unlike the Gatekeeper, he earned his votes via cheating instead of a winning personality.

* Jorge had the most unfortunate fall from grace amongst Choose Your Legends goers. He had such a high showing in Choose Your Legends 4, ranking amongst the Top 20 male with 6,728 votes. However, it was later found out that he got that place because some {{Troll}} made bots to greatly multiply his votes. When the 5th CYL rolls in, Jorge ranked ''477th place'' with a ''measly 27'' votes, making him the character who lost the most votes ever in the history of CYL, since unlike the Gatekeeper, he earned his votes via dubious cheats that wasn't even his idea or matching his personality.

* Jorge had the most unfortunate fall from grace amongst Choose Your Legends goers. He had such a high showing in Choose Your Legends 4, ranking amongst the Top 20 male. However, it was later found out that he got that place because some {{Troll}} made bots to greatly multiply his votes. When the 5th CYL rolls in, Jorge only got a ''measly 27'' votes, making him the character who lost the most votes ever in the history of CYL, since unlike the Gatekeeper, he earned his votes via dubious cheats that wasn't even his idea or matching his personality.

* Marth was initially mocked for not having any alternates since the game's release, despite being the protagonist of the very first ''Fire Emblem'' and a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros''. What's worse, random supporting characters and his own wife Caeda got alternates before him. He even lost his chance at getting a Brave version in the second Choose Your Legends poll because his votes were split between his ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'' incarnations. However, Marth's Memetic Loser status began to fade out when he finally received an alternate as a groom, ''and'' became the first groom unit in the game, at that. His Memetic Loser status effectively died after he received a Legendary alternate in which he's the best DragonSlayer in the game. Even then, he still had miserable luck in Choose Your Legends; after placing second in the third Choose Your Legends midterm, he was ganked by Eliwood in the eleventh hour and screwed out of a Brave variant ''again'', and in the fourth Choose Your Legends, he was run down by the incumbent male lords Dimitri and Claude (adding insult to injury, he scored more votes than Lysithea, but because of genders, she got a Brave variant while he didn't). He finally won his Brave variant at CYL 5, but his status as the trope when it comes to CYL still remains: Because he, the main face and the OG protagonist of the franchise, is only ''second'' after [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses the Gatekeeper]], who usually amounts as [[EnsembleDarkhorse a non-prominent NPC that somehow got really beloved by the fandom]], and since winners of CYL cannot participate in future CYL, that means Marth face the danger of [[NeverLiveItDown being forever associated with the result of that CYL with no hope of fixing it.]]

* Jorge had the most unfortunate fall from grace amongst Choose Your Legends goers. He went to have such a high showing in Choose Your Legends 4, ranking amongst the Top 20 male. However, it was later found out that he got that place because some {{Troll}} made bots to greatly multiply his votes. When the 5th CYL rolls in, Jorge only got a ''measly 27'' votes, making him the character who lost the most votes ever in the history of CYL, since unlike the Gatekeeper, he earned his votes via dubious cheats that wasn't even his idea or matching his personality.

* Dorothea from ''Three Houses'', considering she's the ''only'' unit as of January 2021 to be an alt-only unit to have more than one alt, but no original variant. Veronica herself qualifies too, but her main form is still seen (and fought). Dorothea's doesn't even show up.

* Chrom pretty much topped Takumi in terms of losing in Voting Gauntlets and currently held the record of the most losses in Voting Gauntlet by ''[[https://i.redd.it/bq49zbuiuw841.png five times]]''. [[note]]Princes vs. Princesses, Choose Your Legends Top 8, Winter Festival vs. New Year's, Bunny Battle Ballot and Kingdoms vs Empires.[[/note]] People ends up chanting his MemeticLoser quote from the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' franchise[[note]]"I suppose I'll get my chance another day"[[/note]] in the wake of this.

* Marth was initially mocked for not having any alternates since the game's release, despite being the protagonist of the very first ''Fire Emblem'' and a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros''. What's worse, random supporting characters and his own wife Caeda got alternates before him. He even lost his chance at getting a Brave version in the second Choose Your Legends poll because his votes were split between his ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'' incarnations. However, Marth's Memetic Loser status began to fade out when he finally received an alternate as a groom, ''and'' became the first groom unit in the game, at that. His Memetic Loser status effectively died after he received a Legendary alternate in which he's the best DragonSlayer in the game. Even then, he still had miserable luck in Choose Your Legends; after placing second in the third Choose Your Legends midterm, he was ganked by Eliwood in the eleventh hour and screwed out of a Brave variant ''again'', and in the fourth Choose Your Legends, he was run down by the incumbent male lords Dimitri and Claude (adding insult to injury, he scored more votes than Lysithea, but because of genders, she got a Brave variant while he didn't). He finally won his Brave variant at CYL 5, but his status as the trope when it comes to CYL still remains: Because he, the main face and the OG protagonist of the franchise, is only ''second'' after [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses the Gatekeeper]], who usually amounts as [[EnsembleDarkhorse a non-prominent NPC that somehow got really beloved by the fandom]], and since winners of CYL cannot participate in future CYL, that means Marth face the danger of [[NeverLiveItDown being forever associated with the result of that CYL.]]

* Marth was initially mocked for not having any alternates since the game's release, despite being the protagonist of the very first ''Fire Emblem'' and a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros''. What's worse, random supporting characters and his own wife Caeda got alternates before him. He even lost his chance at getting a Brave version in the second Choose Your Legends poll because his votes were split between his ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'' incarnations. However, Marth's Memetic Loser status began to fade out when he finally received an alternate as a groom, ''and'' became the first groom unit in the game, at that. His Memetic Loser status effectively died after he received a Legendary alternate in which he's the best DragonSlayer in the game. Even then, he still had miserable luck in Choose Your Legends; after placing second in the third Choose Your Legends midterm, he was ganked by Eliwood in the eleventh hour and screwed out of a Brave variant ''again'', and in the fourth Choose Your Legends, he was run down by the incumbent male lords Dimitri and Claude (adding insult to injury, he scored more votes than Lysithea, but because of genders, she got a Brave variant while he didn't). He finally and totally shucked this in CYL 5, where he took the silver medal behind the Gatekeeper.

* Tiki's adult self from ''Awakening'' just can't catch a break. After getting only one alt in 2017 (not long before the game's launch), IS seems to be more and more determined for its playerbase to forget about her. In contrast, Child Tiki has received heavy favoritism, receiving one alt every year: Summer and Legendary versions in 2018, Fallen in 2019, a Halloween alt as the main unit with Ninian in 2020, and even a Resplendent in January 2021. People are seriously hoping that IS will give Adult Tiki more attention in the future due to how unfair she had been treated compared to her child version.

** The fifth Choose Your Legends pool ended with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Alder]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Dolth]] tied with this dubious honor with a pathetic '''2 votes each'''.

** The fourth Choose Your Legends poll had a three way tie between [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Halcyon]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Hayden]], and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Dalvin]] at the bottom, again with 11 votes each.

* Marth was initially mocked for not having any alternates since the game's release, despite being the protagonist of the very first ''Fire Emblem'' and a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros''. What's worse, random supporting characters and his own wife Caeda got alternates before him. He even lost his chance at getting a Brave version in the second Choose Your Legends poll because his votes were split between his ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'' incarnations. However, Marth's Memetic Loser status began to fade out when he finally received an alternate as a groom, ''and'' became the first groom unit in the game, at that. His Memetic Loser status effectively died after he received a Legendary alternate in which he's the best DragonSlayer in the game. Even then, he has still had miserable luck in Choose Your Legends; after placing second in the third Choose Your Legends midterm, he was ganked by Eliwood in the eleventh hour and screwed out of a Brave variant ''again'', and in the fourth Choose Your Legends, he was run down by the incumbent male lords Dimitri and Claude (adding insult to injury, he scored more votes than Lysithea, but because of genders, she got a Brave variant while he didn't).

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes Charlotte, Inigo, Noire, Greil, Bruno, Pent, Louise, Tanith, Wolt, Rinea, Dozla, Rolf, Elice, Rudolf, Rafiel, Rhys, Rhea, Dorothea, Sylvain, Ingrid, Lorenz, Darros, Brigid, Geese, Xane, Ena, Dheginsea, Zihark, Sephiran, Felix, and Raphael. [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.

* Every character that is exclusively a seasonal unit [[note]] So far, this includes Charlotte, Inigo, Noire, Greil, Bruno, Pent, Louise, Tanith, Wolt, Rinea, Dozla, Rolf, Elice, Rudolf, Rafiel, Rhys, Rhea, Dorothea, Sylvain, Ingrid, Lorenz, Darros, Brigid, Geese, Xane, Ena, Dheginsea, and Zihark. [[/note]] often receives this treatment, since being introduced in this manner tends to heavily lowers their chances of being featured in their normal outfits on New Heroes banners. Jokes about these characters being stuck in "seasonal hell" are common throughout the fanbase. Of particular note is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], who was the first seasonal only character introduced in the game, and has still yet to receive her normal outfit after ''three years''.

* Dorothea from ''Three Houses'', considering she's the ''only'' unit as of January 2021 to be an alt-only unit to have more than one alt, but no original variant.

* Tiki's adult self from ''Awakening'' just can't catch a break. After getting only one alt in 2017 (not long before the game's launch), IS seems to be more and more determined for its playerbase to forget about her. In contrast, Child Tiki has received heavy favoritism, receiving one alt every year: Summer and Legendary versions in 2018, Fallen in 2019, a Halloween alt as the main unit with Ninian in 2020, and even a Resplendent in January 2021. People are seriously hoping that IS will give Adult Tiki more attention in the future due to how unfair she had been treated compared to her child version.

* Knoll from ''Sacred Stones'' and twice. First, when Eirika was revealed as the first non-seasonal alt, she was revealed as a red mage with Knoll's Gleipnir, making Knoll the butt of jokes that he was shafted in favor of a unit who was already in the game. Then to add salt further in his wounds, when he finally did make an appearance in "Book V Begins: Reginn and More" banner, he was one of two "demote" units alongside Natasha. He also didn't have the Gleipnir as his weapon. Instead, he's more-or-less a clone of Hubert with a little less attack and a bit more resistance, sharing his weapon instead.

With abundance in cast, some characters end up being the fandom's punching bags, even if they might not be as such in their original games (excepting the OriginalGeneration cast).