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  • 2000 AD has had several over the years.
    • Nikolai Dante was, by a fairly wide margin, voted to appear on the cover of prog 2000, in spite of the series only having run for three years at the time and pushing aside long time fan favorites like Hammerstein and Sláine.
    • Sinister Dexter was hugely popular during its run, sometimes running twice in the same prog, and the ending of the series made prog 1139 the first prog since prog 2 that did not have any Judge Dredd in it.
  • 30 Days of Night:
    • George, the Addled Addict Playful Hacker who works for Vampire Hunter Judith, only has minor roles in each arc he appears in but has a good number of fans for his likable attitude, useful skills, and Small Role, Big Impact moments. His being bitten and experiencing an abrupt case of Transhuman Treachery is one of the only unpopular things about Return to Barrow.
    • Badass Normal Genius Bruiser Hunter Trapper John Ikos and his Brawn Hilda ally and eventual girlfriend Deputy Donna Sikorsky are only introduced in Return to Barrow and tend to play second fiddle to other protagonists, but make favorable impressions on the fans every moment they spend fighting vampires.
    • Olbrecht, the head of the vampire hit squad from 30 Days Til Death, gets some love for being a downplayed Noble Demon who is a formidable warrior who mostly targets unsympathetic vampires but is capable of feeling Worthy Opponent respect.
  • Raul the Cat, from American Flagg!. He even won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for "Favorite Supporting Character" in 1984.
  • Archie Comics: A later comic had Sabrina switch everyone's gender. Fans really want more of Reggie's counterpart, Regina, who is a proper Alpha Bitch.
    • Archina and especially J.J. are very popular (a picture of them and Regina can be found here). Archina has cute Girlish Pigtails and people enjoy her reverse harem more than the usual version, while J.J.'s fashion choices, apathetic personality, and Big Eater qualities make her attractive to people (much more so than normal Jughead).
    • Kevin's debut issue sold out in record time. While this could have been due to the publicity over Kevin being the first openly gay character, issues where he is prominent consistently sell better than average, especially if he's on the cover, to the point that he got his own spinoff in less than a year.
  • Battle Chasers: Red Monika. Even though the comic might be obscure these days, she is the main reason why anyone still remembers it due to the amount of pin-ups and fan art spawned by it, which is ironic, considering she was a secondary character to Garrison and Gully, who were the story's point-of-view characters.
  • G.I. Joe's Snake-Eyes. The character created only so that the company could sell another figure without having to pay to paint it ended up becoming the posterboy for the franchise as a whole.
  • Knights of the Dinner Table:
    • Patty (and by extension, her gaming group, Patty's Perps) is very popular with the fans. It seems that almost every issue includes at least one request from fans for "More Patty!"
    • Crutch (who is, incidentally, a member of Patty's group) has amassed a respectable fanbase of his own. Readers responded well to the sympathetic portrayal of his criminal past, and his determination to keep his nose clean. The awesome Crime Nation the RPG campaign he started running helped matters.
    • Gordo has his fans, mostly for his unshakable niceness, even in the face of Stevil's constant bullying. And he has one kickass home gaming setup, complete with special lighting, aromatherapy machines, and a sno-cone maker.
  • Bug from the Micronauts was originally just the Plucky Comic Relief on the team but as time went on, he became a more sympathetic three dimensional character. Along with his own one shot comic, he also got to appear in non-Micronaut titles such as Guardians of the Galaxy and according to Word of God, he came very close to being in the movie.
  • Common Grounds: Mosche/The Acidic Jew is a good contender for the best-remembered protagonist of the series despite having to share the focus of the one story he has a speaking role in due to being a Humble Hero with a strong sense of spirituality and duty while still having some Blessed with Suck moments.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Scourge the Hedgehog and, by extension, the Suppression Squad. When they first appeared, Scourge was just "Anti-Sonic", the Suppression Squad the "Anti-Freedom Fighters" and their homeworld of "Moebius" was just "Anti-Mobius". Even their looks were bland - they were just "Freedom Fighters in leather". Anti-Sonic was so ineffectual, his lowest point was being dropped by Antoine completely by accident. Under the pen of Ian Flynn, however, he shed all of those traits, getting a new look and taking a breaking speech to heart, becoming a massive threat.
  • Star Wars Expanded Universe: Doctor Aphra was introduced as a supporting character several issues into Star Wars: Darth Vader, acting as Vader's sidekick. She proved to be so popular that when that series ended, she was quickly spun-off into one of her own to star in.
  • In Wildguard "Freezerburn" was originally going to die in #4, but the series site poll showed him to be one of the most popular characters. Crag Langley was dispatched instead. Freezerburn ultimately won the poll, out of a very big field of applicants, to become a member of the final team.


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