Never Live It Down / Live-Action TV

Current works with its own pages:

• Charmed
• Doctor Who

The rest:

A-F

• Felicity was one of the most popular characters in the first two seasons of Arrow, which ironically proved to be her undoing in Season 3. After their killing off Sara Lance in the season premiere went over horribly with the fans, the writers essentially made Felicity their mouthpiece to defend the storytelling choice, having her make completely out-of-character statements that Sara's sister Laurel deserved to be Black Canary far more than her, apparently banking on her popularity to get the fans on board with it. It backfired big time as many fans turned on Felicity as well, and even the ones who still liked her hated those scenes and simply argued that the writers should be blamed rather than the character. Ultimately the backlash became so huge that they brought Sara Back from the Dead for the spinoff Legends of Tomorrow.
  • How could anyone forget the time when Felicity blew up an entire city because she somehow wasn't able to redirect the bomb to either the ocean or a much less populated place than its original destination?
  • Crisis on Earth-X: The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris, whose first attempt at a wedding had already been ruined by the invasion from Earth-X, are finally about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time. Granted, for many, it was just the straw that broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a Creator's Pet / Escapist Character, being never called out on her selfishness (though on the following episode of The Flash (2014), Barry and Iris throw some subtle shade on her and Oliver by returning their wedding present), and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television not to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.
• In Auction Kings, Jon bringing in the banged-up piano. Cindy hurting herself on the gasoline-powered pogo-stick or electrocuting herself on the 1920s vibrator. Paul forgetting to pay for a piece of art and ending up on the Wall of Shame. The fake signed first-edition first-printing of Gone with the Wind. Lampshaded when another signed first-edition first-printing of Gone with the Wind shows up and the same expert appraises it.
• Burt Newton's infamous line about Muhammad Ali at the Australian Logies: I like the boy. Meant without any malice at all, but he will be forever known (outside of Australia) as 'That racist guy who nearly got beat up by Muhummad Ali'.
• Of all the over-the-top situational gadgets Batman has pulled out over the years, Batman (1966)'s infamous shark repellent spray will probably never be forgotten. It's been referenced in multiple adaptations since.
• In The Brady Bunch, Jan only said "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" ONCE in the whole series. The line underwent Memetic Mutation thanks to a series of early-'90s "Weekend Update" sketches on Saturday Night Live, in which Melanie Hutsell's unhinged Jan appeared as an editorial commentator. Its iconic status was further sealed by The Brady Bunch Movie.
• Most casual fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer know the titular heroine as a high school cheerleader who kills vampires. The last time Buffy shows any interest in cheerleading at all is in the third episode of the very first season. After that, she practically never mentions it again. The identification of Buffy as a cheerleader seems to have been a holdover from the original movie which featured it much more prominently. The first season's opening also features Buffy as a cheerleader.
• The TV show Cheaters is mainly remembered for one thing: the episode where host Joey Greco got stabbed.
• People are never going to let The Dating Game live down the fact that they let Rodney Alcala, a registered sex offender who later turned out to be a serial killer, not only get on the show but win the episode he was in.^note While they obviously didn't know that, he had enough of a criminal record that a background check should have disqualified him. He only won the televised game; the woman who picked him backed out almost immediately due to his creepy behavior and is thankfully alive and safe. You may think a serial killer wouldn't murder someone he appeared alongside on national television, but one look at his Courtroom Antics after he was caught shows that he was irrational even for a serial killer.
• Degrassi:
  • Jake Martin: chicken connoisseur. Though he was only shown eating chicken in one episode, you'd think that he eats it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
  • Zig Novak: Though the majority of fans have since moved on, there are still some fans refusing to forgive Zig for his indirect role in driving Cam to suicide.
• In Faking It, Liam sleeping with Amy (and vice versa) after the former found out that Karma was lying to him when she said she was a lesbian (which he probably should have guessed by all the times she wanted to make out with him, but still...) and the latter was rejected as a romantic partner by Karma. In the fandom, the scene is something the writers never lived down, thanks to a majority LGBT fandom furious that yet another lesbian was "turned straight" on television.
• The Flash (2014): Barry's time-travel that resulted in the Flashpoint timeline. Reddit blamed Barry for everything that went wrong on television for months afterward. "Goddammit Barry, stop sticking your dick in the timeline!" And when his daughter from the future Nora introduced herself by saying she'd messed up the timeline herself, the unanimous fan reaction was that she's definitely Barry's daughter.

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• Game of Thrones:
  • Daenerys actually did more things in Season 2 than run around yelling "Where are my dragons?" It didn't even start until the season's second half. But that second half packed in so much of it, while everyone else was doing much more interesting things, that it really sticks in the mind. Emilia Clarke herself even poked fun at it.
  • The infamous "bad pussy" line uttered by Tyene Sand to Bronn is forever associated with the poorly-received Dorne arc in Season 5. This line became a Fan Nickname for Tyene.
  • Sansa is still remembered for her crush on Joffrey in Season 1, particularly for lying about him attacking a butcher's boy, and blaming her little sister Arya for defending the boy and publicly calling Joffrey out for his actions. Since then, Sansa's probably had the most Character Development in the whole cast, but from the amount this story pops up, you'd think she was throwing servant boys under the bus every other episode.
  • Jaime raping Cersei in "Breaker of Chains." The makers of the show insisted that the scene wasn't supposed to be rape: Cersei was only supposed to be putting up token resistance before yielding and consenting by the end of the scene. A wide swath of viewers rejected that interpretation and continued to see Jaime as a rapist through the rest of the show, undermining his intended character arc.
• Gilligan's Island: Gilligan is so infamous for "always" accidentally ruining the Castaways' plans to get off the island that Just Eat Gilligan became a meme and then a trope. But a dedicated fan decided to watch every episode and make note of the number of episodes the castaways tried to get off the island and the number of those episodes where their plans were ruined by Gilligan. It turns out Gilligan bungles their plans in exactly 17 episodes. Which is still a lot, but it's less than half of the number of episodes the Castaways tried to escape, 37. More importantly, there were 98 episodes in total. So Gilligan botched the Castaways' rescue/escape attempts less than half the time they tried and in only a little more than a sixth of all episodes.
• Glee:
  • Fandom will probably never forgive Finn for inadvertently causing Santana to be outed not only to the entire school but the entire town. It just goes to show how selective fandom's memory can be, since Finn only snapped back after being bullied by Santana all day and had no idea that he was being filmed by someone who was out to get Sue Sylvester.
  • Will probably never be forgotten for blackmailing a student into joining the club by planting drugs in his locker.
• Happy Days: Fonzie is known for his promiscuity, being the Trope Namer for Jumping the Shark, hitting things to make them work, and being "afraid of liver" (despite that only being in one episode, and even then it was unclear whether it was a true fear or simply an exaggeration of Does Not Like Spam).
• The Swedish TV show Hipp! Hipp! featured the character Mike Higgins. Despite using the same entry-line in every episode he appeared, it's the last line he ever said in the series that people remember:
  Mike: And let me just finish by saying: Go to hell.
• Though Tim Taylor of Home Improvement had had many, many, many accidents over the years, for some reason he never lived down that one time he glued his forehead to the table.
  • Except, maybe, sticking his tongue to a frozen hammer in the first Christmas Episode.
  • Many Tool Time fans also bring up the time he fell through the roof of a port-a-potty.
  • And the wooden beam that he hit Bob Vila on the back of the head with.
• Jessica Brody from Homeland going on a racist tirade about how evil Islam is in the season two premiere, capped off by desecrating her husband's Quran. The idea was apparently that her major concern was him keeping his conversion hidden from her for so long, but it certainly doesn't come off that way.
• The Honeymooners will forever be remembered as a show that made light of Domestic Abuse ("RIGHT to the moon, Alice!"). While it's certainly a case of Values Dissonance that has no place in comedy, actually watching the show reveals that Ralph's threats to Alice were always empty bluster, and furthermore, Alice herself knew they were meaningless and often rolled her eyes at them. Indeed, the fact that Alice repeatedly puts Ralph in his place and refuses to let him bully her marked The Honeymooners as incredibly progressive in an era when sitcom wives were almost inevitably docile homemakers.
• iCarly: Viewers will never forgive Sam for nearly killing Freddie by beating him with a tennis racket and throwing him out of a treehouse in "iMeet Fred", all for simply stating he didn't find Fred funny. While she did become much nicer to Freddie later on in the series after the "Seddie" arc, her near deadly beating of him in that episode put her beyond redemption in some viewers' eyes despite her later Character Development.
• Kamen Rider
  • Shadow Moon is undoubtedly the most popular Kamen Rider villain. And that's all he's remembered as. Even though before his canonical death in Kamen Rider BLACK RX, he had a last-minute Heel–Face Turn that's always forgotten in favor of how kickass he was as a villain. (This is even in-show: in Kamen Rider World, he was the Big Bad, and giant-sized for no good reason, and the first Kamen Rider Decade movie has an Alternate Universe Shadow Moon who curb-stomps two Riders with the power to destroy the world at the same time until Kamen Rider Double shows up and completely turns the tables. Not one word about getting Nobuhiko back to his family's side has ever come up in his non-Black or Black RX appearances.)
  • Two things from Kamen Rider Blade's first episode. Kenzaki's overacting and slurring of words, and Tachibana(-san) just watching him due to his supposed betrayal of BOARD.
  • Kamen Rider OOO fans will not let go of the scene in episode 6 where Eiji tries to ride an untransformed Ridevendor. It's even made it into at least one officially released figure!
  • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid has a Christmas Episode where one of the Riders, Kiriya Kujo, got killed. Granted, this was not a new thing, since other seasons do have Christmas episodes where one of the main cast died, but what makes it really infamous among the fanbase is that unlike other Christmas episodes, the death hadn't been foreshadowed.
• One of the most famous moments of L.A. Law is how Rosalind Shays was written out: falling into an empty elevator shaft to her death.
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: According to knowyourmeme.com, "'Come On, It’s 2015', sometimes iterated as >[Current Year] or 'It’s 2015,' is a catchphrase expression often said by users on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) board to mock English comedian and pundit John Oliver’s frequent resort to reminding his viewers of the present year as a straw man argument against ideas and beliefs which he deems to be old-fashioned or conservative." John's use of this is so "frequent", in fact, that the amount of times he has used it on his show in the manner described is exactly zero. He made an offhand remark in a similar vein on another show once, and he used "it's 2014" as the setup to a joke (not as a part of his actual argument) in his segment on beauty pageants. According to his detractors, this is effectively the same as doing it Once an Episode.
  • The Brazilian version of Last Week Tonight, Greg News, did this to Flavio Bolsonaro, politician and son of the country's president. After showing a clip where a politician said that Flavio soiled himself during a debate for the 2016 municipal election, the show's host never mentions Flavio again without saying he's in a Bring My Brown Pants situation.
• On Leverage, Hardison has this over the time he was kidnapped by the Russian mob while pretending to be Parker(the world's greatest thief). Parker herself had the incident in which she stabbed a mark with a fork while she was supposed to be getting information from him.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Galadriel's "I have a tempest in me!" remained the most infamous scene among those who don't like the show. There are many jokes about Galadriel having a tempest in her to critique turning her into the dreaded "independent strong woman". But the importance of that scene is exaggerated, because is not even a supposed badass moment for Galadriel, but a Small Name, Big Ego moment of her getting owned by Miriel.
• Lost:
  • Many fans tend to ignore Michael's more positive (or at least less negative) traits after his Moral Event Horizon moment in season 2 (i.e. murdering Ana Lucia and Libby). While the act was certainly indefensible (which makes this a partial case of Justified Trope), fans gloss over the fact that having your son kidnapped by strangers on a weird island doesn't exactly make a loving parent rational, nor did the fans acknowledge what he did AFTERWARD, which contradicts the assumption that he's an amoral, heartless bastard. This includes neverending guilt for doing the aforementioned act, which sparked numerous suicide attempts, and a last-ditch effort to help the friends he betrayed on the island. Hell, even Hurley later forgave Michael for what he did, despite him killing Hurley's girlfriend Libby. Good luck finding fans who feel the same way Hurley did. Or maybe after screaming "WAAAAALT" too much, people started considering him only as The Guy Who Screams "Walt", even after he built two rafts, or after Walt and him stopped sharing any screentime.
  • Jack is rather well-known for his frequent emotional outbursts (Jears) around the interwebs. In the actual show, he's a mostly-stoic character (for the first few seasons, anyway) who relies on logic and rarely tells people how he feels.
• On Love Hate, fans act as if "Coola boola!" is Fran's catchphrase — he only ever says it once (season 3, episode 1). Similarly, Tommy only asked for a "fizzy orange" once (season 4, episode 1).
• M*A*S*H: The show is haunted by the episode "House Arrest," which features Hawkeye and Trapper displaying a shockingly cavalier attitude about rape. The producers have openly apologized for it.
• Merlin:
  • Lancelot has a reputation among the fandom for being something of a dolt. This is distinctly odd considering he is one of only two characters to have deduced that Merlin has magic, and picks up on the sparks between Arthur and Guinevere before even they are fully aware of it. Yet so many times you'll see him described as "a bit dim", perhaps because he takes the Honour Before Reason trope up to eleven.
  • Guinevere's reputation as a useless Damsel in Distress. She had a total of two episodes in five years dedicated to rescuing her, and both times she was extremely outmatched. Other times, she spends most of her time rescuing other people.
  • In fanfiction, Gwaine is always referring to Arthur as "Princess". In truth, he never actually does this in the show and it all stems from one episode in which he says "Don't be such a princess" to Arthur.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: MSTings have a Running Gag dubbed "Crow Syndrome", where Crow (or another character) almost constantly makes sexually suggestive riffs and gets a First-Name Ultimatum from the Team Dad. This seems to be based entirely on the episode Riding with Death, where everyone uses the film's trucking scenes as sex metaphors; Crow is just the one who takes it a hair too far and gets chewed out by Mike. Of course, usually he displays Ping Pong Naïveté; compare to the episode where he puts together a presentation about how women don't exist, despite interacting with Pearl Forrester for years. In regards to MSTings, Crow Syndrome has become a Discredited Meme and is now viewed as something to be avoided.
  • Amusingly enough, most people tend to forget that in the Riding with Death episode, Mike himself makes a suggestive joke shortly after reprimanding Crow, who responds "And you think I'm bad?".
  • If you went strictly by MSTings, Tom Servo's head exploded every other episode. It only happened four times in ten seasons: Two of them in the disavowed Season 1, and none after Season 4.
    • Unless you also count The Movie, where poor Tom kept getting hit by death rays.
• In the early 1990s, there was a span of game shows that aired on Nickelodeon: Nick Arcade, Get the Picture and Family Double Dare. Each one had a trip to Universal Studios in its grand prize rotation, which was where the shows were taped. Fans remember these shows for being cheap simply because of that grand prize alone.
• The Nightly Show already had a Tough Act to Follow in replacing The Colbert Report, which helped make sharp political satire cool. In an early episode, host Larry Wilmore had Bill Nye on its panel to discuss space exploration, only for him to be peppered with dismissive anti-science jokes from comedians on the panel. Fairly or not, viewers perceived Wilmore as catering to the lowest common denominator, favoring shallow and easy jokes over an interest in complicated subjects. The fledgling show never emerged from this perception and was canceled after only 19 months on the air.
• Poor Northern Calloway. He served 18 seasons on Sesame Street as one of the human cast members and appeared in a few specials like "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" & "Don't Eat the Pictures." And yet, all people remember about him is that he had a mental breakdown ^note during which he did some questionable things, but keep in mind he had very well-known and legitimate mental troubles. which forced him off the show, and died. It probably doesn't help that, unlike much of the rest of the human cast, his character David was basically The Generic Guy and had nothing that really helped him stand out from the others.
• Dennis Franz showed his naked ass for a very small part of one episode of NYPD Blue. Ask a casual fan and you'd think the guy never wore pants.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • Most fans would prefer to forget that Emma's temporary boyfriend Walsh was in fact a flying monkey. Others keep bringing it up as often as possible.
  • The showrunners have said that the fans have never stopped giving them grief over Tamara's taser.
  • Fans will definitely remember how Zelena raped Robin Hood with him thinking she was his wife and then later conceiving a child together
• On Person of Interest Shaw is short and everyone has noticed, from one of her descriptors on her medical files being 'compact', to the actress tweeting that she's "not that short". And of course it gets a mention in every fanfic.
• Power Rangers
  • Besides Billy's braininess, Trini's translating, Zack's dancing, Kim's gymnastics, and Jason's jocular nature, no other quirk for any of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers from the first season lasted for longer than that particular episode's plot requirements demanded it... except for Tommy's being a complete scatterbrain, written into the series to justify his absence (since his Super Sentai counterpart didn't last too long). This took root in the fanon after a single episode and ultimately got many a Call-Back in subsequent incarnations. It's all the more amusing for the fact Tommy is the Trope Namer for Sixth Rangers.
    • Hilariously called back by Kat and Hayley in both his original exit in Power Rangers Turbo and his earliest episodes of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder.
    • And by the man himself in the first episode of Dino Thunder where, during an escape from a T-rex, he locks the doors of his car... and then realizes he's in a Jeep. "Yeah, real great, Tommy. Lock the door."
  • Despite being a minor character, Tommy's brother David is most remembered for being disappointed that he lost a sparring match with Tommy.
  • Likewise, Power Rangers Turbo will never live down that one episode where the Rangers got baked into a giant pizza. It even got a good-natured jab in the 10th-anniversary episode.
  • Fans will never let TJ live down the fact that he sacrificed the Zords at the end of Turbo, leading to Divatox's victory over the rangers. Similarly, Tommy's appearance in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder is remembered for one thing: "SACRIFICE THE ZORDS!"
• One of the biggest pricing game flops on The Price Is Right was a mid-'90s game called "Split Decision". It has a reputation for being the game where nothing worked right and the board was constantly falling apart. In truth, there was one playing where two of the numbers fell off their markers (a rule change taking place on the game's next occurrence likely because its clock broke didn't help matters). The game's short life was due to the fact that contestants simply had trouble understanding the rules.
  • There are also the many backstage turmoils that former host Bob Barker had with practically the entire staff, particularly after he became executive producer in The '80s. Never mind that he hosted said show for a staggering 35 years — one of the longest runs ever for any TV host — and already had 18 years of Truth or Consequences under his belt on top of that.
• On an episode of QI, Stephen Fry asked a question about an ancestor of his, C. B. Fry, who was one of the best athletes of his time and was offered the throne of Albania in the aftermath of World War I. He mentioned that C. B. had the ability to jump backwards from standing onto a mantelpiece and that was all the panellists wanted to talk about from that point on, refusing to engage with the actual question or any of C. B.'s other impressive achievements, to the point that Stephen eventually just yelled "I wish I'd never mentioned the bloody mantelpiece".
• Spaghetti Western fans remember the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Black Sheep" for little more than being the episode that got Clint Eastwood his Star-Making Role on the big screen as the Man with No Name.

R-W

• Scrubs:
  • The fandom will never forget about Carla making JD move out of the apartment (that was his to begin with) once she and Turk got married.
  • Kim won't really be known for anything other than the fact she lied to J.D. about having a miscarriage, abandoning him, and keeping most of her still active pregnancy secret and the fact she didn't actually tell him, he just happened to be at the same convention that she was speaking at.
• While The Shield star David Rees Snell (aka "Ronnie Gardocki") had a manly beard for the bulk of the series, it's not the beard that the actor is most remembered for when it comes to facial hair; it's his magnificent Porn Stache that David Rees Snell had for the first two seasons of the show.
• It will be a long time before hardcore television fans forgive Sony Pictures Television for plastering older logos with their "Bars of Boredom" logo since 2002, to the point where it tends to come up any time Sony acquires another company.
• The Sopranos is remembered as a great show, but the main thing that it's known for is fading to black mid-scene at the end of the Series Finale.
• Stargate SG-1:
  • Daniel Jackson's many deaths/resurrections/ascensions (although that last one only happened twice). It's lampshaded in the series itself. The Other Wiki used to list them; it's about 22 times. And Samantha Carter blew up a sun.
  • Cameron Mitchel has lost his pants twice. Twice is not always. And yet...
• Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay blew up a solar system (though he'd like to remind you that it was actually just five-sixths of it).
• Stargate Universe: Nicholas Rush dialed an untested address into a gate, marooning him and most of his coworkers on an ancient ship. Let's just assume that being hired as a scientist by Stargate Command requires high knowledge of Stuff Blowing Up.
• In the Stargate-verse, the Goa'uld sarchophagus is a healing device that can reverse pretty much any injury seen thus far that does not violate the Chunky Salsa Rule. Many characters have been brought back from apparent death by it (Poor Daniel has had several turns in it.) However, there was an episode called "Need" in which the guest star of the week asked Daniel, "Have you ever wondered what happens if you use one while healthy?" Turns out the answer to that is it's like a drug. If you use it repeatedly when healthy, you become addicted and start to go dark side. But try telling that to fans: ever since "Need," the sarcophagus has been treated as an insta-evil-ifying Artifact of Doom: imagine the One Ring and the Venom Symbiote, roll 'em together, then make 'em about forty times worse. Never mind that in real life we have something that promotes healing, but can become quite horrible with overuse, or use when not actually suffering from the condition it's made for; we call it… every medication in the history of ever. The writers fall into the trap once (the Tok'ra don't use sarcophagi for fear of becoming like the Goa'uld. Again, ridiculous when "Need," the episode that introduces the drug effect, also makes it abundantly clear that it's only through misuse that this happens!) but later episodes have again had the sarcophagus used on those who really did need its healing properties, most memorably to allow Baal to horribly torture O'Neill to death over and over and over and restore him for more; Daniel feared that the sarcophagus might begin to mess with O'Neill's head but it never happened.
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: The Original Series'
    • James T. Kirk is well known as a space-traveling playboy who has more notches than bedpost. Apart from some brief flirtation with various space babes, this reputation largely hinges on three instances where he is confirmed or implied to have had sex with the babe of the week.
    • The scene where Scotty tries to steal an alien's control device by drinking him under the table is so memorable that he's widely remembered by the fanbase as a drunkard, though his fan reputation as party animal is a little at odds with a guy who reads technical manuals for fun. Ironically, Bones, who more than once is shown drinking on duty, tends not to be remembered as a boozer nearly as often.
    • Kirk is also notorious in and out of universe for violating the Prime Directive. He does break the Prime Directive fairly often, but most of these instances are when responding to situations where it has already been broken. The number of times he breaks the Prime Directive of his own accord is limited.
    • He's even remembered this way in-universe: when a time-travelling adventure by the DS9 crew lands them in hot water with temporal bureaucrats, when Kirk's name comes up, both agents both flop back in their chairs exasperatedly.
  Agent 1: (slowly) James T. Kirk.
  Sisko: (in admiration) The one and only.
  Agent 1: …Seventeen separate temporal violations… the biggest file on record.
  Agent 2: That man was a menace!
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Wesley Crusher saves the ship on only about six occasions over the course of his four seasons with the show, but this became the biggest focal point for the anti-Wesley backlash due to fans balking at the idea of a precocious kid genius outsmarting seasoned Federation officers in the first place.
    • That one time that Beverly Crusher had sex with a space ghost who also had sex with her grandmother and numerous other of her female ancestors will forever live in infamy.
    • Dr Pulaski was the only character in the show who actually received a flaw for her to work through, namely being prejudiced against Data for being an android. She learns the error of her ways about halfway through her only season and thereafter treats Data as a respected comrade and friend, but viewers were simply never able to forgive her and tend to remember her as that mean, racist doctor.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    • Captain Sisko can never live down the events in "For the Uniform." After Maquis defector Michael Eddington spends half the episode comparing himself to Jean Valjean, Sisko (who takes Eddington's betrayal very, very personally) decides he's going to damn well be Javert and fires a bioweapon into the atmosphere of a Maquis planet that renders it uninhabitable to humans, forcing Eddington to surrender. Viewers will frequently call this decision "genocidal," even though Sisko allowed an evacuation and really just made them swap back with the Cardassians because poisoning planets was Eddington's idea in the first place.
    • Talk about Kira Nerys and there's a fairly good chance that the subject will turn to that one time she beat up a serial killer while heavily pregnant.
  • Star Trek: Voyager:
    • Harry Kim and his habit of dying and coming back to life. It's been exaggerated by the fans, though, to the point where someone who only knew the show through its fans would think Harry's grave says "Harry Kim: Born: 2351. Died: 2371, 2372, 2373, 2374..."
    • You can expect every decision Kathryn Janeway makes to be picked over and ripped apart to within an inch of its life by people who dislike her, but the ones that come up most often are separating "Tuvix" back into Tuvok and Neelix against his will, and her temporary alliance with the Borg. Also, the line "There's coffee in that nebula" is one of her most often-quoted lines.
    • B'Elanna Torres is remembered as being unable to identify anything, even with a tricorder, due to a throwaway gag in "The 37's".
  • Star Trek: Enterprise:
    • Archer and Porthos will never live down the events of "A Night in Sickbay", in which the latter causes a diplomatic incident for peeing on a tree (he's a dog).
    • Dr. Phlox basically committing genocide in one episode, which was supposed to be about medical ethics and difficult choices but did not read that way, was horrible for the character and became symbolic of the writing problems early in the series.
    • Type "Hoshi Sato" into Google and one of the first few search suggestions is "loses shirt". This happened exactly once in the series.
• Supernatural: As befits a show that ran for 15 Seasons and has a very opinionated fanbase, there are some moments that stick out.
  • For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its Homoerotic Subtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the controversy over making Destiel canon, the incestuous subtext, or the long debate about the show's queerbaiting. In fact, after 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.
  • The show is also notorious for its crappy treatment of female characters, especially love interests. More than one was killed off because the writers listened to the loudest internet fans, many of whom were Yaoi Fangirl types who hated any female that threatened their slash fantasies. Plenty of fans, in fact, liked some of those characters, and new fans are often bewildered by the abrupt exit/gruesome deaths of female characters. This was so egregious that at least one actor called out the show for it. On top of that, the show had a habit of producing meta episodes with Take That! stories about their fans that were played off as good-natured ribbing but can come off as the writers bitterly resenting the same fans they continuously appeased. On top of that, the writers created a lesbian friend for the Winchesters to serve as a surrogate sister that would not inspire the jealous rage of fangirls, and she was gruesomely killed off in a manner that offended both fans and nonfans of the character.
  • In Season 4, Sam bleeding and killing a nurse who is possessed by the devil after she's begged for mercy still bothers people. He's being manipulated by Ruby and thinks he's stopping the Apocalypse, but it still made people very uncomfortable.
  • Castiel becoming the Big Bad of Season 6 could have been avoided if he had just revealed his plans to Sam and Dean rather than concealing his deal with Crowley. Instead, he betrays his friends, backstabs Crowley, and goes insane with power. Some fans are still resentful that the writers turned a popular character so dark, and despite the redemption arc he was given, some fans don't forget.
  • Sam quitting hunting and ignoring a phone call from Kevin in Season 8 so he could hang out with a girlfriend who had pushed him into adopting a dog will never be forgotten. Fans hate the girlfriend, who was a veterinarian and should have known not to push a drifter with no resources into adopting a dog, and they still resent Sam for his entire involvement with her. Seriously, the vet is hated more than the demon Ruby, see above, and they hate Ruby.
  • Dean throwing a human Castiel out of the bunker in Season 9 felt wildly out of character. While it's somewhat justified in that Dean thinks he's saving Sam, the fact that Dean throws his vulnerable best friend out with no resources and knowing how few coping skills Castiel has and that he's being hunted by angry angels made Dean look terrible.
  • The Winchester brothers simply forgetting/ignoring that their half-brother is trapped in a cage in hell with Michael and Lucifer for about a decade is one of those things the fandom will never let the writers forget. It's even lampshaded in the episode "Fan Fiction."
• Super Sentai
  • Megumi Misaki/Blue Dolphin of Choujuu Sentai Liveman is brought to tears in the first two episodes as nearly everything she's known and loved is destroyed all around her by three former friends turned evil. She hardly ever cries after that, yet fandom seems to believe she did so nearly every episode thereafter.
  • While we're on the subject of Liveman, it seems that the only thing Junichi Aikawa/Green Sai is known for is being impregnated by a Monster of the Week and giving birth to said monster's child.
  • Also, Dai Sentai Goggle Five is actually a show based on science, about good science vs bad science in order to create a better future. But because their weapons are based on gymnastic apparatus (and only one of them (the sole girl of the team, Miki Momozono/Goggle Pink) is the actual gymnast), they were mistakenly thought as a team of rhythmic gymnasts and every single Sentai references are going will remember them as a gymnastic team (their actual jobs, aside of Miki, are as follows: Explorer, chess player, hockey athlete, and zoo worker). Even Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger makes fun of it!
  • From what people say about him, you'd think all Kou ever did was touch Rin's chest and flip her skirt. Said habit lasted only five episodes.
  • Lucky from Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger has "Talk about Lucky" as his catchphrase. While he does say it a lot more than other examples on the page (especially early on), if you listen to fans of the show, you'd swear it's the only thing he says. Strangely, this doesn't apply to Tsurugi from the same show, who has a similar catchphrase ("Holy Moly"), despite him saying it almost as much as Lucky does.
• Torchwood
  • Some people will never forget the time Gwen Cooper confessed to her boyfriend that she'd cheated on him, demanded his forgiveness, and then retconned his memory so that he couldn't remember it. The fact that it's never been brought up since doesn't help, but that Gwen has married, had a child with, and remained faithful to that same boyfriend doesn't seem to win her any points either.
  • Jack? Yeah, he's that guy who dies once an episode, right? Now, not to say he doesn't die often, but saying he does so that frequently on the show is definitely stretching the truth. The Children of Earth miniseries is a special exception, but realise that most of Jack's team didn't even know he was immortal until the final episode of series 1. Prior to his constant state of suffocation and rebirth in "Exit Wounds" (which is another special example where he feasibly died millions of times while buried alive), he died nine times in seven episodes, plus twice in a flashback of one of those episodes; barely a quarter of the episodes that had aired up to that point. Following Children of Earth, there were only two episodes in Miracle Day where he was shown to die, due to his new state of being mortal for much of that series, and one of those was only in a flashback.
  • Owen's introduction, where he uses a spray on a woman that makes her instantly want to sleep with him, and then on her boyfriend when he objects. It doesn't really distract from the fact that our first impression of the guy is as a serial date rapist.

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