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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has Faile, a young woman who often tops fans "most disliked character of the series" lists. Unlike most other characters who seem to appear as normal parts of the world when the main POV characters bump into them, Faile just appears in the story having nothing to do with the existing plot and forces her way into the group despite none of the characters particularly liking her at the time. She has a goofy nickname sequence, then gets CharacterShilling from Loial just a short time later "Nooooo, she was so free!" and becomes instant friends with two female Aiel characters with little reason given. She's often disliked for her manipulative, capricious, and abusive treatment of Perrin, but also because she's heavily associated with two plotlines most fans despise: the pointless romantic rivalry between her and Berelain, and the never-ending plotline where she is captured by the Shaido. On the flipside, she ''does'' at least force Perrin to take a greater role in world events despite his "I'm just a simple blacksmith" moping routine.

''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has Faile, a young woman who often tops fans "most disliked character of the series" lists. Unlike most other characters who seem to appear as normal parts of the world when the main POV characters bump into them, Faile just appears in the story having nothing to do with the existing plot and forces her way into the group despite none of the characters particularly liking her at the time. She has a goofy nickname sequence, then gets CharacterShilling from Loial just a short time later "Nooooo, she was so free!" and becomes instant friends with two female Aiel characters with little reason given. She's often disliked for her manipulative, capricious, and abusive treatment of Perrin, but also because she's heavily associated with two plotlines most fans despise: the pointless romantic rivalry between her and Berelain, and the never-ending plotline where she is captured by the Shaido. On the flipside, she ''does'' at least force Perrin to take a greater role in world events despite his "I'm just a simple blacksmith" moping routine.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Karen Brewer]] from the ''Literature/BabySittersClub''. She's annoying, rude, and a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but [[KarmaHoudini rarely gets called out on her behavior]] because she's a self-admitted AuthorAvatar, being the kind of the bright, imaginative kid the author had always wanted to be. Thus Karen even gets her own ''spin-off'' series, which also got its own spin-off. Except apparently the author was pretty much alone in her desire; it'd be hard to find even one fan of the series that actually viewed Karen in a positive light.

** While Karen Traviss didn't create the Mandalorians, she did make them into a MarySuetopia with plenty of exposition. You'd think that she [[{{LampshadeHanging}} points out]] the HeWhoFightsMonsters aspect of the Jedi making clones to fight their wars would go in her favor, but with how perfect the Mandalorians are, it doesn't. And while other authors agree that yeah, the race of BadassNormal ProudWarriorRaceGuys are pretty cool, Traviss seldom manages to write a book without shilling the Mandalorians and their moral superiority to the Jedi. The fact that many Mandalorians kill people for money and that the Jedi literally didn't have much of a choice in using the clones is never brought up.

%%** [[spoiler:Saba]] is turning this way, especially after ''Vortex'' and ''Conviction'', since Troy Denning tends to take the lead role in writing these nonologies.

* [[CreepyChild Renesmee]] from ''Literature/BreakingDawn''. Everyone who meets her loves her, despite the fact that she hasn't done anything other than be [[spoiler: Edward and Bella's half human/half vampire daughter with psychic powers]]. Many fans loathe her for [[SpotlightStealingSquad hijacking the story away from]] the OfficialCouple. Others hate her for her very existence [[ArtisticLicenseBiology defies biology]] ''and'' is a [[SeriesContinuityError direct contradiction]] to previous WordOfGod. And of course, [[spoiler: Team Jacob fans hate her for [[RelationshipSue other]] [[DieForOurShip reasons...]]]] It certainly doesn't help that it's obvious this is a motherhood fantasy with how, thanks to her vampire nature, Renesmee's super-smart and beautiful and loved by everyone who meets her, but Bella doesn't have to deal with any of the gross/boring/hard parts of being a parent. Not only that, it looks very much like she and children who were turned into vampires have a supernatural ability to make people love them, but it's entirely accidental. The reader is supposed to take it as a given that vampire and half-vampire children, [[CanonSue Renesmee especially]], are just that lovable.

* Parodied in ''Literature/ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheAdventure'', where the LemonyNarrator treats Ophelia as his pet character, depicting her as a GodModeSue ActionGirl who kicks ass and never mopes about anything. Attempting to [[CharacterRerailment make her act like she does in the play]] pisses him off, causing him to accuse you of sexism and of ruining the character. Do it enough and he throws a hissy fit and refuses to let you play as her anymore.

** Lord Jaxom from the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series. His high GaryStu levels were barely acceptable in ''The White Dragon''. But when he was made the focus character in ''All The Weyrs Of Pern'' - which featured the resolution of ''F'lar's'' dream of removing the threat of Thread permanently - the fandom turned on Jaxom en masse.

* Cassie from the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. She's the stated favorite of writer Creator/KAApplegate, she is the only character in-series to win the SuperpowerLottery (being both an estreen ''and'' a [[GameBreaker temporal anomaly]]) and she is usually praised and defended by the narrative even when it's completely unwarranted -- take for example ''Megamorphs #02'', when Marco privately compliments Cassie for going on a whiny rant about killing a Triceratops, or ''#53 The Answer'', when Tobias harshly criticizes Jake for excluding Cassie from the war council despite the fact that he had extremely good reason to (that reason being that she betrayed the whole team by allowing the blue box to be seized by the Yeerks, and all for a 'gut feeling' that [[GambitRoulette she's lucky to see pan out]]). She criticizes the others from start to finish, puts the whole team at risk on multiple occasions to justify her extreme sense of morality, and she is the only character to [[StaticCharacter never learn or grow in any way]]. [[spoiler:This even extends to the epilogue, where she is the only Animorph that Applegate spared from the BolivianArmyEnding.]]

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Karen Brewer]] from the ''Literature/BabySittersClub''. She's annoying, rude, and a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but [[KarmaHoudini never gets called out on her behavior]] because she's a self-admitted AuthorAvatar, being the kind of "[[InformedAttribute bright, imaginative]]" kid the author had always wanted to be. Thus Karen even gets her own ''spin-off'' series, which also got its own spin-off. Except apparently the author was pretty much alone in her desire; it'd be hard to find even one fan of the series that actually viewed Karen in a positive light.