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** Her sister Lysa Arryn isn't particularly popular, either, due to her GenreBlindness, wanting to see [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tyrion Lannister]] executed, [[spoiler: indirectly causing the entire plot to kick off, and trying to murder her niece Sansa.]] Not to mention she still breastfeeds her six year old son...
** Many of the characters in Daenerys's very disliked Meereenese storyline in "A Dance with Dragons". Dany's Meereenese supporting cast in "A Dance With Dragons" is very unpopular for a variety of reasons -- difficult names, perceived blandness and the idea that the conflict in Meereen is ultimately irrelevant. Daario Naharis draws particular ire for his negative effect on Dany's character.
** Daario Naharis is hated by many readers for a number of reasons, the main being his [[InformedAbility constant claims of being an amazing swordsman]], his [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogance]], his disrespectful attitude towards in-story legends like Barristan Selmy, and his cartoonishly flamboyant descriptions. Despite this, he is adored by Daenerys and therefore takes up a lot of her internal monologue during the disliked [[ArcFatigue Meereen storyline]].

** Dawn Schafer has gained quite a hatedom in recent years, though most of this can be blamed on her {{Flanderization}} from a laid back GranolaGirl to a self-righteous extreme Liberal environmentalist. Mallory and Jessi are hated too, fans seeing Mallory as whiny and unsympathetic and Jessi as a badly-written Token.

** There is also a lot of hate for the rest of the Human Crew, as well as [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Penny]], [[InvisibleJerkass Bug]], [[AsianAirhead Taylor]], and [[InsufferableGenius Astrid]]. But even they have pretty dedicated, vocal and yes, reasonably sized fanbases. Just less so than others. No one's really the scrappy ''except'' Zil...and even he has a few notable followers on ''Gaiaphage.Com''.

** Roxanne in ''My Best Friend Is Invisible'' is the most despised character in the book, and for very good reasons too. She is very abrasive and harsh towards Sammy most of the time, and [[WithFriendsLikeThese despite being his friend]], she is even willing to humiliate him in school by telling everyone about his imaginary friend without a single lick of remorse. While she has become nicer after learning Sammy was telling the truth, that does nothing to make up for the way she's treated Sammy beforehand.

** Jackson and Gillian Gerard from ''Help! We Have Strange Powers!''are loathed by many a reader for being insufferable, lazy, bullying {{Designated Hero}}s with none of even Evan or Sarah's more sympathetic qualities. Worse, they're some of the few protagonists who get superpowers, which they mainly use to bully poor Artie and Nina Lerner, who they hate just for being awkward and nerdy. They only start being nice when it turns out the Lerners have powers themselves. It makes them being pursued for experiments by the villain come off as borderline LaserGuidedKarma.
* Most who read ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' did not like Estella, finding her cold and haughty persona intolerable. There is an in-universe reason for it which makes her a ''little'' more sympathetic, but they also felt that [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens]] got really carried away with the descriptions of her beauty, and Pip pretty much falls for her based on her beauty alone even though she treats him with indifference at best. It was the 19th century where young men weren't able to socialize with women like they can now, but this comes across as shallow now. She does go through some CharacterDevelopment that humbles her and makes her more friendly, but this happens at the very end. And off-screen.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''[[Literature/GervaseFen The Moving Toyshop]]'' by Creator/EdmundCrispin, where the protagonist and one of his sidekicks decide to pass the time by naming fictional characters they detest, whom the author intended as sympathetic. They come up with [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Beatrice and Benedick,]] [[Literature/LadyChatterleysLover Lady Chatterley and "that gamekeeper fellow",]] [[Literature/TheFaerieQueene Britomart,]] [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky "almost everyone in Dostoevsky",]] "those vulgar little man-hunting minxes in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''", and [[Creator/WilliamWordsworth the Leech-Gatherer.]] At which point, they are interrupted by an outraged Creator/JaneAusten fanboy...who just happens to give them the next clue they need.

** Elayne gets a lot of hate, because she spends a ton of screentime complaining, and/or [[spoiler: daydreaming about Rand]]. It doesn't help that her politics-heavy storyline takes centre-stage just as the plot slows down and the writing gets much worse (Books 9-11).
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* Most who read ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' did not like Estella, finding her cold and haughty persona intolerable. There is an in-universe reason for it which makes her a ''little'' more sympathetic, but they also felt that [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens]] got really carried away with the descriptions of her beauty, and Pip pretty much falls for her based on her beauty alone even though she treats him with indifference at best. It was the 19th century where young men weren't able to socialize with women like they can now, but this comes across as shallow now. She does go through some CharacterDevelopment that humbles her and makes her more friendly, but this happens at the very end. And off-screen.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'', thanks to its polarizing reviews based on the quality writing on each of them, has its fair share of characters that are despised in certain books:

** Within the fandom, few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal MarySue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a Mary Sue, ridiculously pointless plot [[InsultToRocks even for Anne Rice...]]you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past ''Queen of the Damned'' agreed that this novel was the moment the series was ruined and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.

** Easily the books with the largest number of hated characters are the ''Monster Blood'' series (with the exception of [[JerkJock Conan Barber]] and [[InsufferableGenius Kermit Majors]] since [[HateSink the hatred they get is deliberate]]). However, the most hated character of the series by far is, ironically enough, the main character Evan Ross. While he's a ButtMonkey whom readers are meant to feel sorry for, he loses all likability due to his incredibly whiny attitude and incredibly dumb decisions (like telling everyone about Monster Blood without contemplating the fact that no one will believe him) that only makes him come off as unsympathetic. In fact, his stupidity in the second ''Monster Blood'' book actually caused many readers to [[RootingForTheEmpire root for Conan over Evan]].

*** Of course, her bunkmates don't come off any better either due to their [[DisproportionateRetribution reaction of her minor mistakes she made in the beginning]]. The one who is arguably the most hated of the three, however, is Jan, who deliberately attempted to tip the canoe over to cause Sarah to fall in the lake, knowing the latter is a bad swimmer -- [[DisproportionateRetribution because Sarah accidentally revealed to everyone that Jan has asthma]].
** Greg Banks in ''Say Cheese and Die - Again'' practically slipped into this territory due to bringing the evil camera to his school just to get a good grade and prove the camera is real ([[WhatAnIdiot never mind the fact that writing a book report about the evil camera without contemplating the fact that no one, especially his teacher, would believe a damn thing about the story, was perhaps the dumbest thing he could ever do]], and his grade because of it was well-deserved), which even caused some readers to call him an even bigger menace than Spidey in the first book.
** Courtney in ''You Can't Scare Me'' due to her "little Miss Perfect" attitude in the story. Granted, the main characters aren't really likable either due to how pathetic their attempts to scare her become, but Courtney is just too much of a ParodySue for many readers to root for her either.

** Dr. Maniac, introduced in ''Dr Maniac Vs Robby Schwartz'', is regarded as one of the most obnoxious new villains in the franchise. This is largely because he's basically a worse version of the Masked Mutant whose attempts at being LaughablyEvil are grating and cringe-worthy, his "evil plans" are incredibly moronic(forcing kids to skate for money), his feature stories are convoluted to the point of being nonsensical, and he gets thwarted in stupid ways. It doesn't help that for a while, he was one of the most featured villains next to [[DemonicDummy Slappy]] whose [[BaseBreakingCharacter quite polarizing himself.]]
** Jackson and Gillian Gerard from ''Help! We Have Strange Powers!''are loathed by many a reader for being insufferable, lazy, bullying {{DesignatedHero}}s with none of even Evan or Sarah's more sympathetic qualities. Worse,they're some of the few protagonists who get superpowers, which they mainly use to bully poor Artie and Nina Lerner, who they hate just for being awkward and nerdy. They only start being nice when it turns out the Lerners have powers themselves. It makes them being pursued for experiments by the villain come off as borderline LaserGuidedKarma.

* The eponymous character of ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof'' in Sweden, apparently. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff In Russia he has a cult following]].
* ''Literature/LittleBrother:'' The Severe Haircut Woman, or [[spoiler: Carrie Johnstone]], the BigBad of the book. The reader is supposed to hate her because she's the villain. However, due to the Anviliciousness of the story, readers ended up hating her because she's a one-dimensional StrawmanPolitical. Rather than caring about the safety of the country, she joined the Department of Homeland Security and enforced its strict security methods just ForTheEvulz, and then [[spoiler:waterboards the protagonist, Marcus]], just to drive home how evil she is.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''[[Literature/GervaseFen The Moving Toyshop]]'' by Creator/EdmundCrispin, where the protagonist and one of his sidekicks decide to pass the time by naming fictional characters they detest, whom the author intended as sympathetic. They come up with [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Beatrice and Benedick]], [[Literature/LadyChatterleysLover Lady Chatterley and "that gamekeeper fellow"]], [[Literature/TheFaerieQueene Britomart]], "almost everyone in [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky Dostoevsky]]", "those vulgar little man-hunting minxes in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''", and [[Creator/WilliamWordsworth the Leech-Gatherer]]. At which point, they are interrupted by an outraged Creator/JaneAusten fanboy... who just happens to give them the next clue they need.

** Bella Swan. Many fans, whether they really enjoy the book's content or just see it as SoBadItsGood, really do not like Bella. This is because she lacks personality, treats her parents and classmates like shit, and most of her positive characteristics are [[InformedAttribute informed]] (for example, claiming to be well read, while completely missing the point of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and taking it as a ideal romance). And even if she's supposed to be a socially awkward and insecure girl who has trouble fitting in, she ''immediately'' becomes a popular DudeMagnet at her new school for no apparent reason.
** Renesmee because she is responsible for the infamous birth scene, and everyone [[CharacterShilling loves her instantly]]. She is also hated because she's more of a thinly-veiled motherhood fantasy than an actual character.

** Within the fandom, few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal Mary Sue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a Mary Sue, ridiculously pointless plot even for Anne Rice...you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past ''Queen of the Damned'' agreed that this novel was the moment the series was ruined and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.

** The most disliked character in the books is Darkstar. Unlike the other controversial characters, it doesn't seem like ''anybody'' actually likes the guy. That might have something to do with his appearance being a rare example of Martin breaking the "ShowDontTell" rule to make a replacement for Oberyn Martell-- he is supposed to be some kind of amazing, witty badass. Unfortunately, this attempt at an EnsembleDarkHorse [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], as his greatest "onscreen" achievement, a botched attempt to assassinate [[spoiler: another fan-favourite-- Myrcella Baratheon, an 11-year old girl--]] only managed to inspire his entire hatedom, based on this appearance in that one chapter.

** Many of the characters in Daenerys very disliked Meereenese storyline in "A Dance with Dragons". Dany's Meereenese supporting cast in A Dance With Dragons is very unpopular for a variety of reasons - difficult names, perceived blandness and the idea that the conflict in Meereen is ultimately irrelevant. Daario Naharis draws particular ire for his negative effect on Dany's character.

* Sam Jones, from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures, whose HolierThanThou and overly politically correct and 'right-on' character was so disliked that her replacement, Compassion, may have been ''deliberately'' written as the exact opposite - i.e. rude, snobby, opinionated, and selfish - either to avoid this {{Hatedom}}, or to make people say "now that I think about it, Sam wasn't that bad."

** Easily the books with a lot of hated characters are the ''Monster Blood'' series (with the exception of [[JerkJock Conan Barber]] and [[InsufferableGenius Kermit Majors]] since [[HateSink the hatred they get is deliberate]]). However, the most hated character of the series by far is, ironically enough, the main character Evan Ross. While he's a ButtMonkey who's meant to feel sorry for, he loses all likability from the readers due to his incredibly whiny attitude and incredibly dumb decisions (like telling everyone about Monster Blood without contemplating the fact that no one will believe him about) that only makes him come off as unsympathetic. In fact, his stupidity in the second ''Monster Blood'' book actually caused many readers to [[RootingForTheEmpire root for Conan over Evan]].
** Sarah Maas, the protagonist of ''The Curse of Camp Cold Lake'', has also gain a lot of basklash due to her incessant whining and selfishness. Her attempt to guilt-trip the other campers by [[TooDumbToLive pretending to drown in a lake]] pushes her even further on this trope.
*** Of course, her bunkmates don't come off any better either due to their [[DisproportionateRetribution reaction of her minor mistakes she made in the beginning]]. The one who is arguably the most hated of the three, however, is Jan, who deliberately attempted to tip the canoe over to cause Sarah to fall in the lake knowing the latter is a bad swimmer - [[DisproportionateRetribution because Sarah accidentally revealed Jan's asthma medication to reveal to everyone that she has asthma]].
** Greg Banks in ''Say Cheese and Die - Again'' has practically slipped into this territory due to actually bringing the evil camera to his school just to get a good grade to prove the camera is real ([[WhatAnIdiot never mind the fact that writing a book report about the evil camera without contemplating the fact that no one, especially his teacher, would believe a damn thing about the story, was perhaps the dumbest thing he could ever do]], and his grade because of it was well-deserved), which even caused some readers to call him an even bigger menace than Spidey in the first book.
** Courtney in ''You Can't Scare Me'' due to her "little miss perfect" attitude in the story. Granted, the main characters aren't really likable either due to how pathetic their attempts to scare her become, but Courtney is just too much of a ParodySue for many readers to root for her either.
** Most of the AnnoyingYoungerSiblings due to how irritatingly annoying most of them are, and some of them even end up causing the [[CruelTwistEnding Cruel Twist Endings]] of certain books.

* ''Literature/LittleBrother:'' The Severe Haircut Woman, or [[spoiler: Carrie Johnstone]], the BigBad of the book. The reader is supposed to hate her because she's the villain. However, due to the Anvilliciousness of the story, readers ended up hating her because she's a one-dimensional StrawmanPolitical. Rather than caring about the safety of the country, she joined the Department of Homeland Security and enforced its strict security methods just ForTheEvulz, and then [[spoiler: waterboards the protagonist, Marcus]], just to unnecessarily drive the point on how evil she is.

** Bella Swan. Many fans, whether they really enjoy the book's content or just see it as SoBadItsGood, really do not like Bella. This is because she lacks much personality, treats her parents and classmates like shit, and most of her positive characteristics are [[InformedAttribute informed]] (for example, claiming to be well read, while completely missing the point of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and taking it as a ideal romance). And even if she's supposed to be a socially awkward and insecure girl who has trouble fitting in, she ''immediately'' becomes a popular DudeMagnet at her new school for no apparent reason.

** Within the fandom few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal Mary Sue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a Mary Sue, ridiculously pointless plot even for Anne Rice...you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past ''Queen of the Damned'' agreed that this novel was the moment the series was ruined and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.

*** Dany herself to a lot of readers as a matter a fact. In a series where stupidity tends to be swiftly rewarded with predictable results, she gets away with plenty of blunders yet keeps on surviving because she happens to have a very strong army, very competent subordinates and of course, dragons. Far more competent characters can only dream of ever having such resources at their disposal. Her very unpleasant comments on Ned Stark don't help matters, showing how out of touch she is with reality.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has Cassie. A large part of the fandom thinks she's hypocritical and self-righteous and just can't stand her in general. It doesn't help that many of her books are {{Filler}}, and the ones that do give her plot-relevance tend to do it by either giving an AssPull for how she's special (''Megamorphs 4'' making her a "temporal anomaly") or forcibly benching the rest of the team (''The Sickness'', where the other Animorphs were all [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sick]]). Plus, in the final book, she's [[spoiler:the only character to get a happy ending with the rest of the cast strongly implied to have died in the BolivianArmyEnding]]. All that said, it's generally acknowledged that while her bad books were some of the worst, her good books were genuinely some of the best.

* Manny, Greg's AnnoyingYoungerSibling from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''. He [[KarmaHoudini never gets in trouble for any his actions]], often gets rewarded for his overall behavior despite being a total SpoiledBrat, and always ends up on top no matter the trouble he causes. The most notorious example of this is in ''Cabin Fever'', in which he cuts out all of the electricity to the entire house during a blizzard (and also stealing most of the family's food in the process), thus leaving everyone to die from starvation and hypothermia — and ''still'' suffers absolutely no consequences for doing so. And just the very fact that he hasn’t gotten better in the slightest since ''Cabin Fever'' easily makes him out to be the absolute worst character in the book series for a number of fans. Not to mention that in ''The Long Haul'', he acts as TheMillstone towards the entire family and gets rewarded a pet pig in the process.

** Tara in ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'' subverts this trope since her being hated is [[HateSink the whole point of her character in the story]], but Michael's parents definitely gained a lot of detractors due to their constant doting on Tara and treating Michael like garbage, accusing him of lying about Tara's treatment of him and even condoning Tara's cruel treatment of him during his birthday. On top of that, they ''don't even care about Michael being beat up by a bigger guy'', and going back in time, Michael's parents have even treated their son like that even back when he was about four, as when he ties his shoes for the first time during that age, his father's response is "took him long enough!"

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': A significant portion of the fandom aren't too fond of Ginny Weasley, mainly for her sudden CharacterDevelopment from a ShrinkingViolet to a FieryRedhead (which, to some, came off more as a hasty retooling of her character to make her into the main character's perfect girlfriend) who often receives CharacterShilling for her supposed "talents". Of course, part of the problem is that a) most of the fandom that hates Ginny is fiercely in favour of [[ShipToShipCombat Harry/Hermione]], b) we're limited by Harry's perspective for almost the entire series, and understandably, Ginny hardly registers on his radar between his Second Year (when she was the victim of the Diary Horcrux, and had a massive crush on him) and Fifth Year (when she appears as a more assertive character as part of the DA).
** Dobby, while arguably RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, is frequently deemed to be annoying at best during most of ''Chamber of Secrets'', making all of Harry's problems that much worse - you can understand why the normally patient and considerate Harry is left briefly homicidal at one point. However, his moment at the end, when he flattens Lucius Malfoy shortly after being freed by accident, helps considerably.

** Courtney in ''You Can't Scare Me'' due to her "little miss perfect" attitude in the story. Granted, the main characters are really likable either due to how pathetic their attempts to scare her become, but Courtney is just too much of a ParodySue for many readers to root for her either.

** Tara in ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'' subverts this trope since her being hated is [[HateSink the whole point of her character in the story]], but Michael's parents definitely gained a lot of detractors due to their constant doting on Tara and treating Michael like garbage, accusing him of lying abut Tara's treatment of him and even condoning Tara's cruel treatment of him during his birthday. On top of that, they ''don't even care about Michael being beat up by a bigger guy'', and going back in time, Michael's parents have even treated their son like that even back when he was about four, as when he ties his shoes for the first time during that age, his father's response is "took him long enough!"

** Greg Banks in ''Say Cheese and Die - Again'' has practically slipped into this territory due to actually bringing the evil camera to his school just to get a good grade to prove the camera is real ([[WhatAnIdiot never mind the fact that writing a book report about the evil camera without contemplating the fact that no one, especially his teacher, would believe a damn thing about the story]]), which even caused some readers to call him an even bigger menace than Spidey in the first book.

** Sarah Maas, the protagonist of ''The Curse of Camp Cold Lake'', has also gain a lot of basklash due to her incessant whining and selfishness. Her attempt to guilt-trip the other campers by [[TooDumbToLive pretending to drown in a lake]] pushes her even further on this trope.4

** Easily the books with a lot of hated characters are the ''Monster Blood'' series (with the exception of [[JerkJock Conan Barber]] and [[InsufferableGenius Kermit Majors]] since [[HateSink the hatred they got is deliberate]]). However, the most hated character of the series by far is, ironically enough, the main character Evan Ross. While he's a ButtMonkey who's meant to feel sorry for, he loses all likability from the readers due to his incredibly whiny attitude and incredibly dumb decisions (like telling everyone about Monster Blood without contemplating the fact that no one will believe him about) that only makes him come off as unsympathetic. In fact, his stupidity in the second ''Monster Blood'' book actually caused many readers to actually [[RootingForTheEmpire root for Conan over Evan]].
** Sarah Maas, the protagonist of ''The Curse of Camp Cold Lake'', has also gain a lot of basklash due to her incessant whining and selfishness. Her attempt to guilt-trip the other campers by [[TooDumbToLive pretending to drown in a lake]] pushes her even further on this trope.

* In-universe example: In Literature/{{Discworld}}, the Personal Dis-organizer is an imp-powered [=PDA=] that comes equipped with so many malfunctions, warranty loopholes, and annoying personality-flaws, people unfortunate enough to purchase one (or, in Vimes' case, have one foisted off on them by their wives) have been known to snatch up a sledgehammer at the first hint of a "Bingeley-bingeley ''beep!''". The introduction of the Gooseberry in ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' serves as an in-universe example of RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.

** Sansa Stark was this as well for a period of time, though [[CharacterDevelopment she grows out of it]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': A significant portion of the fandom aren't too fond of Ginny Weasley, mainly for her sudden CharacterDevelopment from a ShrinkingViolet to a FieryRedhead (which, to some, came off more as a hasty retooling of her character to make her into the main character's perfect girlfriend) who often receives CharacterShilling for her supposed "talents".

*** Some readers like Nynaeve, if only because of [[spoiler: her channeling/healing awesomeness]] and the fact that she was [[spoiler: one of the two women the Dragon takes with him to face the Dark One... alongside freaking ''Moiraine Damodred''.]]

* Most who read ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' did not like Estella, finding her cold and haughty persona intolerable. There is an in-universe reason for it whichs makes her a ''little'' more sympathetic, but they also felt that [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens]] got really carried away with the descriptions of her beauty, and Pip pretty much falls for her based on her beauty alone even though she treats him with indifference at best. It was the 19th century where young men weren't able to socialize with women like they can now, but this comes across as shallow now. She does go through some CharacterDevelopment that humbles her and makes her more friendly, but this happens at the very end. And off-screen.

** Within the fandom few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal Mary Sue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a Mary Sue, ridiculously pointless plot even for Anne Rice...you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past ''Queen of the Damned'' agreed that this novel was officially the moment the series JumpedTheShark and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.

* The FiveManBand in ''Literature/BlackDogs'' liberate a girl from the service of an evil magician, and as she tags along with them, she quickly becomes TheScrappy to both the characters in the book and the reader. The nicest character treats her with a polite indifference, and most of the other characters dislike her to some extent because of her [[TheLoad uselessness]], [[CultureClash ignorance of their customs]] and tendency to fawn sickeningly over the only humanoid male in the party. When she is finally killed she is not mourned by anyone.

** There is also a lot of hate for the rest of the [[FiveBadBand Human Crew]] , as well as [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Penny]], [[InvisibleJerkass Bug]], [[AsianAirhead Taylor]], and [[InsufferableGenius Astrid]]. But even they have pretty dedicated, vocal and yes, reasonably sized fanbases. Just less so than others. No one's really the scrappy ''except'' Zil...and even he has a few notable followers on ''Gaiaphage.Com''.

** In the spinoff ''Babysitter's Little Sister'' series, Kristy's stepsister Karen Brewer might as well be renamed Dirty Hellspawn.

** Bella Swan. Many fans, whether they really enjoy the book's content or just see it as SoBadItsGood, really do not like Bella. This is because she lacks much personality, treats her parents and classmates like shit, and most of her positive characteristics are [[InformedAttribute informed]] (for example, claiming to be well read, while completely missing the point of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and taking it as a ideal romance).

** Within the fandom few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal MarySue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a MarySue, ridiculously pointless plot even for Anne Rice...you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past ''Queen of the Damned'' agreed that this novel was officially the moment the series JumpedTheShark and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Many fans of Fëanor and his sons loathe Indis (much like Fëanor himself), seeing her as the cause of Fëanor's anger and believing that Finwë had no right to marry her after his first wife's death (since Elves generally do not remarry).

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Manny]] from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' often gets this treatment, mostly due to the fact that he [[KarmaHoudini never gets in trouble for any his actions]], often gets rewarded for his [[SpoiledBrat overall behavior]] and always just has to end up on top no matter the trouble he causes. The most notorious example of this is in ''Cabin Fever'', in which he cuts out all of the electricity to the entire house during a blizzard (and also stealing most of the family's food in the process), thus leaving everyone to die from starvation and hypothermia — while ''STILL'' suffering absolutely no consequences for doing so. And just the very fact that he hasn’t gotten better in the slightest since ''Cabin Fever'' easily makes him out to be the absolute worst character in the book series for a number of fans. Not to mention that in ''The Long Haul'', he acts as TheMillstone towards the entire family and gets rewarded a pet pig in the process.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Manny]] from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' often gets this treatment, mostly due to the fact that he [[KarmaHoudini never gets in trouble for any his actions]], often gets rewarded for his [[SpoiledBrat overall behavior]] and always just has to end up on top no matter the trouble he causes. The most notorious example of this is in ''Cabin Fever'', in which he cuts out all of the electricity to the entire house during a blizzard (and also stealing most of the family's food in the process), thus leaving everyone to die from starvation and hypothermia — while STILL suffering absolutely no consequences for doing so. And just the very fact that he hasn’t gotten better in the slightest since ''Cabin Fever'' easily makes him out to be the absolute worst character in the book series for a number of fans. Not to mention that in ''The Long Haul'', he acts as TheMillstone towards the entire family and gets rewarded a pet pig in the process.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Manny]] from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' often gets this treatment, mostly due to the fact that he [[KarmaHoudini never gets in trouble for any his actions]], often gets rewarded for his [[SpoiledBrat overall behavior]] and always just has to end up on top no matter the trouble he causes. The most notorious example of this is in ''Cabin Fever'', in which he cuts out all of the electricity to the entire house during a blizzard (and also stealing most of the family's food in the process), thus leaving everyone to die from starvation and hypothermia — while '''''still''''' suffering absolutely no consequences for doing so. And just the very fact that he hasn’t gotten better in the slightest since ''Cabin Fever'' easily makes him out to be the absolute worst character in the book series for a number of fans. Not to mention that in ''The Long Haul'', he acts as TheMillstone towards the entire family and gets rewarded a pet pig in the process.