History CreatorsPet / Literature

** Her ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' {{Expy}}, April, also qualifies. She is just as endlessly self-righteous as Cassie and, out of the main cast, she's the only one who never has to undergo any major suffering from her own character flaws which, like with Cassie, are glossed over or ignored.

* Rudi frakking Mackenzie in the Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'' series. Almost universally disliked by fans but apart from card carrying villains, [[spoiler: and one solitary romantic rival who conveniently self sacrifices]] no one in universe has anything less than gushing praise for him. He is the best fighter, best general, most handsome, most kind and generally all round best person on the entire Continent. He literally has no flaws and is uniformly above average at everything and excellent at most. Every decision he makes is correct, or at least works out that way no matter how stupid it might have appeared at first. Every friendly character we meet is happy to sacrifice their interests for his [[spoiler: up to and including subordinating whole countries to his High Kingship without visible dissent.]] No wonder he turned a lot of people off the series.
* Angel from ''Literature/MaximumRide'' is widely disliked by the fandom for being an [[BrattyHalfPint obnoxious]], [[TheLoad useless]] and [[CreepyChild unsettling]] little brat. Despite this, she constantly gets [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands more powers]] and starts [[SpotlightStealingSquad hijacking the plot]], culminating in her getting her own self-titled book.

** Jude Watson has Ferus Olin, a padawan who was pretty much just Anakin without the background of being born into slavery as well as the negative bias the Jedi Council has towards him. He was regularly shown to be arrogant, frequently bad-mouthing Anakin to other people, including ''Obi-Wan'', yet was said to be so perfect in everything that he tried that everybody (save for Anakin) admired him, even the Jedi Council who would regularly praise and talk about him in meetings. After Order 66, not only did Obi-Wan note about wanting to keep in contact with him during the Clone Wars (which breaks one of the Order's rules about attachments as Ferus had left the Order by then), but Palpatine wanted to turn him to the Dark Side because, supposedly, Ferus was more powerful than ''Anakin'', the ''Chosen One''. Watson eventually tried making Ferus a more flawed character, but by then, the damage was already done in the eyes of his critics.

*** But even that pales in the eyes of Kal Skirata, a Mandalorian mercenary who worked with Jango Fett on Kamino. He's regularly shown to be an emotionally abusive ManipulativeBastard towards his "sons" and sexist towards the women in his "family", yet the narrative can't stop singing his praises about what a wonderful man he is. When he finds out that Etain is pregnant with her and Darman's son, he not only vows to take the baby away from her after she gives birth (even going as far as to name the baby himself), but he dumps her on a backwater planet with no good medical care to speak of to "punish her". Unsurprisingly, she nearly miscarries the baby and is in ''incredibly'' poor health by the time anybody wises up and checks on her, earning Kal a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Darman... yet Kal faces no real consequences for this. He also regularly insults Etain's appearance and capabilities, yet Traviss seems to believe he's the paragon of greatness.
** [[spoiler:Saba]] is turning this way, especially after ''Vortex'' and ''Conviction'', since Troy Denning tends to take the lead role in writing these nonologies.

* 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.]]

*** But even that pales in the eyes of Kal Skirata, a Mandalorian mercenary who worked with Jango Fett on Kamino. He's regularly shown to be an emotionally abusive ManipulativeBastard towards his "sons" and sexist towards the women in his "family", yet the narrative can't stop singing his praises about what a wonderful man he is. When he finds out that Etain is pregnant with her and Darman's son, he not only vows to take the baby away from her after she gives birth (even going as far as to name the baby himself), but he dumps her on a backwater planet with no good medical care to speak of to "punish her". Unsurprisingly, she nearly miscarries the baby and is in ''incredibly'' poor health by the time anybody wisens up and checks on her, earning Kal a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Darman... yet Kal faces no real consequences for this. He also regularly insults Etain's appearance and capabilities, yet Traviss seems to believe he's the paragon of greatness.

** Todd Reeve in "Decision at Doona". An anti-social six year old who knew everything. Once he got out of the over-populated corridors of Earth and into the wild of Doona he was such a "natural genius" he was practically a Messiah. It was pretty blatantly clear that the author adored him, as he was [[CharacterShilling talked up by everyone]] (except his father!) as being spectacular. Perhaps not coincidentally, he has the same name as the author's son.

* Rudi frakking Mackenzie in the Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'' series. Almost universally disliked by fans but apart from card carrying villains, [[spoiler: and one solitary romantic rival who conveniently self sacrifices]] no one in universe has anything less than gushing praise for him. He is the best fighter, best general, most handsome, most kind and generally all round best person on the entire Continent. He literally has no flaws and is uniformly above average at everything and excellent at most. Every decision he makes is correct, or at least works out that way no matter how stupid it might have appeared at first. Every friendly character we meet is happy to sacrifice their interests for his [[spoiler: up to and including subordinating whole countries to his High Kingship without visible dissent.]] No wonder he turned a lot of people off the series.

* In the ''Literature/CassonFamilySeries'' by Hilary [=McKay=], Rose Casson gradually gets revealed as this over the course of the series. At first they seem like an ensemble series, with each book focused on a different member of the family with the others getting their own subplots... but then Rose not only gets more books with her name in the title than anyone else, she also starts taking over the books of OTHER characters, so much so that Caddy is basically a minor character in her own book. Especially blatant evidence of [=McKay=]'s Rose favoritism is that every time Tom is mentioned, it's in relation to Rose--despite him being established as INDIGO'S best friend in the first book he appeared in.

* 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.]]
** Her ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' {{Expy}}, April, may qualify as well. She is endlessly self-righteous and, out of the main cast, she's the only one who never has to undergo any major suffering from her own character flaws which, like with Cassie, are glossed over or ignored.

** Jude Watson has Ferus Olin, a padawan who pretty much just Anakin without the background of being born into slavery as well as the negative bias the Jedi Council has towards him. He was regularly shown to be arrogant, frequently bad-mouthing Anakin to other people, including ''Obi-Wan'', yet was said to be so perfect in everything that he tried that everybody (save for Anakin) admired him. After Order 66, not only did Obi-Wan note about wanting to keep in contact with him during the Clone Wars (this breaking one of the Order's rules about attachments as Ferus had left the Order by then), but Palpatine wanted to turn him to the Dark Side because, supposedly, Ferus was more powerful than ''Anakin'', the ''Chosen One''. Watson eventually tried making Ferus a more flawed character, but by then, the damage was already done in the eyes of his critics.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Karen Brewer]] from the ''Literature/BabySittersClub''. She's annoying, rude, and a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but 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.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Karen Brewer]] from the ''Literature/BabySittersClub''. She's annoying, rude, and a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but 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. 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.

** Kevin J. Anderson has Kyp Durron, a slave raised on the penal colony of Kessel because his parents were Rebel sympathizers. Han Solo finds him, and discovers that he's more powerful than Luke. He then becomes Luke's brightest student, but TheParagonAlwaysRebels and he does so in a big way, rending Luke's soul from his body and stealing an invincible Imperial planetkiller that he stole from the Empire in the first place, and turning it on a system with an Imperial training academy. He then demands to see his brother, but they can't find his brother, so he blows up the star. And they find his brother and release him to Kyp, but [[{{anvilicious}} he doesn't get to the Sun Crusher in time to be protected]]. And when Luke recovers, after ThePowerOfFriendship destroys the evil Sith Lord influencing Kyp, the New Republic grants him the power to determine Kyp's fate, and Luke forgives him. Although, after ''I, Jedi'' pointed out the ''massive'' problem with this (among other decisions Anderson made), rare was the appearance of Kyp where someone didn't point out "Dude, you killed a ''solar system''".

* 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 [[IncorruptiblePurePureness 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 was annoying, rude, a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but never got called out on her behavior because she was a self-admitted AuthorAvatar for the kind of "[[InformedAttribute bright, imaginative]]" kid the author had always wanted to be. Thus Karen even gets her own ''spin-off'' series. 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.
* [[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.

* Creator/AnneMcCaffrey

** Todd Reeve in "Decision at Doona". An anti-social six year old who knew everything. Once he got out of the over-populated corridors of Earth and into the wild of Doona he was such a "natural genius" he was practically a Messiah. It was pretty blatantly clear that the author adored him, as he was [[CharacterShilling talked up by everyone]] (except his father!) as being spectacular.

* Arguably Lily Potter is this in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', because she's pretty much ''perfect''. While James Potter has both his good qualities and bad ones explored over the course of the series, every time we learn something new about Lily it's always about how wonderful she was or important she was to someone. James and Snape both made a FaceHeelTurn for her, Lily is shown to be right in every conflict she's involved in (like calling James out for being an insufferable jackass or Snape for his obsession with the Dark Arts), [[CharacterShilling she's constantly praised by everyone who knew her as beautiful, kind, charismatic, intelligent, etc,]] and the people who don't like her are either her [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] [[TheUnfavourite sister]], magic-hating brother-in-law, or anti-Muggleborn Wizards. [[WordofGod J.K Rowling describes her as "a bit of a catch"]] and it's Lily's sacrifice that grants Harry's magical protection against Voldemort - nevermind James went down fighting Voldemort, it's ''Lily's'' love that matters.

* Creator/KarenTraviss rears her head [[Literature/HaloGlasslands with her]] [[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar inclusions]] [[Literature/HaloMortalDictata to the]] ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' novels, this time with Admiral Parangosky and Serin Osman. Usually, anything they say is right and is a mirror to Traviss' own beliefs, at the cost of shattering canon relationships, butchering how psychology works, and ignoring the military chain of command.

** Kevin J. Anderson has Kyp Durron, a [[ChewToy slave raised on the penal colony of Kessel]] because his parents were Rebel sympathizers. Han Solo finds him, and discovers that he's [[GodModeSue more powerful than Luke]]. He then becomes Luke's brightest student, but TheParagonAlwaysRebels and he does so in a big way, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent rending Luke's soul from his body]] and stealing an invincible Imperial planetkiller that he stole from the Empire in the first place, and turning it on a system with an Imperial training academy. He then demands to see his brother, but they can't find his brother, so he blows up the star. And they find his brother and release him to Kyp, but [[{{anvilicious}} he doesn't get to the Sun Crusher in time to be protected]]. And when Luke recovers, after ThePowerOfFriendship destroys the evil Sith Lord influencing Kyp, the New Republic grants him the power to determine Kyp's fate, and Luke forgives him. Although, after ''I, Jedi'' pointed out the ''massive'' problem with this (among other decisions Anderson made), rare was the appearance of Kyp where someone didn't point out "Dude, you killed a ''solar system''".

** 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.

* Elizabeth Wakefield of the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' series and it's numerous [[SpinOff spinoffs]] is described at the beginning of ''every single book'' as studious, level-headed, etc. In other words, the "good" twin. And whatever plot plays out, she is always in the right or the heroine. Never mind that she's actually self-righteous, judgemental, and meddlesome.

** Stackpole has Corran Horn. The author repeatedly shoved Horn into the background of other authors stories, and in the case of the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', completely subverted its tone in the ''I, Jedi'' book. He repeatedly has major lore characters (Wedge, Han, and Luke for starters) singing Horn's praises.

** Stackpole has Corran Horn. The author repeatedly shoved Horn into the background of other authors stories, and in the case of the JediAcademyTrilogy, completely subverted its tone in the ''I, Jedi'' book. He repeatedly has major lore characters (Wedge, Han, and Luke for starters) singing Horn's praises.

* Karen Traviss rears her head for the second time on this page [[Literature/HaloGlasslands with her]] [[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar inclusions]] [[Literature/HaloMortalDictata to the]] ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' novels, this time with Admiral Parangonsky and Serin Osman. Usually, anything they say is right and is a mirror to Traviss' own beliefs, at the cost of shattering canon relationships, butchering how psychology works, and ignoring the military chain of command.

* Elizabeth Wakefield from the [[SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley]] series is purported to be the good twin who is nice to everyone - but, more often than not, she comes off as a sanctimonious hypocrite. As such, many find her to be even worse than the allegedly bad twin, Jessica.

* Literature/VorkosiganSaga has Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan. Likeable in her two POV books she becomes much less so over the succeeding novels in which she is ''invariably'' loved and respected by all and has ''all'' the answers to any problem. And is never, ever called on her mindless hostility to Barrayaran customs and assumption Beta got it right.

* Literature/VorkosiganSaga has Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan. Likeable in her two POV books she becomes much less so over the succeeding novels in which she is ''invariably' loved and respected by all and has ''all'' the answers to any problem. And is never, ever called on her mindless hostility to Barrayaran customs and assumption Beta got it all right.

* [[CreepyChild Renesmee]] from ''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.

* Every ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' author has favorite characters, usually their own creation, but some are more beloved than others:

* Rudi frakking Mackenzie in the ''Creator/SMStirling'''s ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'' series. Almost universally disliked by fans but apart from card carrying villains, [[spoiler: and one solitary romantic rival who conveniently self sacrifices]] no one in universe has anything less than gushing praise for him. He is the best fighter, best general, most handsome, most kind and generally all round best person on the entire Continent. He literally has no flaws and is uniformly above average at everything and excellent at most. Every decision he makes is correct, or at least works out that way no matter how stupid it might have appeared at first. Every friendly character we meet is happy to sacrifice their interests for his [[spoiler: up to and including subordinating whole countries to his High Kingship without visible dissent.]] No wonder he turned a lot of people off the series.

* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Karen Brewer]] from the BabySittersClub. She was annoying, rude, a know-it-all prone to causing trouble because of it... but never got called out on her behavior because she was a self-admitted AuthorAvatar for the kind of "[[InformedAttribute bright, imaginative]]" kid the author had always wanted to be. Thus Karen even gets her own ''spin-off'' series. 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.

* In the CassonFamilySeries by Hilary [=McKay=], Rose Casson gradually gets revealed as this over the course of the series. At first they seem like an ensemble series, with each book focused on a different member of the family with the others getting their own subplots... but then Rose not only gets more books with her name in the title than anyone else, she also starts taking over the books of OTHER characters, so much so that Caddy is basically a minor character in her own book. Especially blatant evidence of [=McKay=]'s Rose favoritism is that every time Tom is mentioned, it's in relation to Rose--despite him being established as INDIGO'S best friend in the first book he appeared in.

* Richard Knaak's personal MarySue Rhonin from the WarcraftExpandedUniverse novels ''Literature/DayOfTheDragon'' and ''WarOfTheAncients'', who has since become a CanonImmigrant in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' but managed to avoid any fan hate from people unfamiliar with the novels due to not really doing much, other then being extremely {{badass}} in the one cinematic he plays a major role in.
* {{Anne McCaffrey}}