History CreatorsPet / WesternAnimation

*** [[FridgeLogic But I thought Bart]] [[DesignatedHero was the villain]]?

* Roger from AmericanDad. His sociopathy is played for laughs, he has no regard for human life and he keeps getting the family in trouble for selfish reasons yet there would be whole episodes dedicated to assuring him that he is a valuable member of the Smiths.

** It helps that the writers were more in-tune than others in their profession. Originally Cubert was supposed to be the character who [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] all the ludicrous aspects of the series, which he does in his debut episode. However, the writers realized how terribly annoying this was and transformed him into a standard BrattyHalfPint TVGenius.

*** Sally's much more of an obvious Creator's Pet in [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog the comics]]. Read the first few pages of [[http://www.archiecomics.com/blog/sonic_universe/2009/06/archie-comics-first-looks-sonic-universe-5.html this]], and try to ''NOT'' feel the MarySue vibes.

* Many fans of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' think Elmyra is one of the most annoying animated characters ever created. Her capturing [[EnsembleDarkhorse Fifi LaFume]] didn't exactly help, either. Too bad the executives at Warner Bros loved her, and kept trying to get her her own show. Eventually, they had her co-star in a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' spinoff, ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'', which earned her the wrath of ''more'' angry fans. It's even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the theme song: [[BitingTheHandHumour "It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?"]] Even the writers hated her.

** Matt Groening has even admitted Lisa is his favorite character on the show.

* MickeyMouse became a Creator's Pet to the Disney animation studio after Walt Disney decided to make the character his AuthorAvatar. At Walt's instructions, all the faults that made Mickey popular were removed, and his positive attributes were played up. The writers had very little freedom to do anything with the character, so they turned him into a straight man and paired him with other, funnier characters. Especially grating was that Disney hated the upcoming new character at the time who had already become the studio favorite: Goofy.

* Some fans of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' think Elmyra is one of the most annoying animated characters ever created. Her capturing [[EnsembleDarkhorse Fifi LaFume]] didn't exactly help, either. Too bad the executives at Warner Bros loved her, and kept trying to get her her own show. Eventually, they had her co-star in a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' spinoff, ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'', which earned her the wrath of ''more'' angry fans. It's even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the theme song: [[BitingTheHandHumour "It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?"]] Even the writers hated her.

* Cubert from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste was actually]] ''[[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste created]]'' [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste to be one of these]], apparently in direct reference to the TropeNamer, and he was originally intended to be a sort of TheAce character, except he would still be hated and mistreated by the other characters. Really only the last part became true.

* Some fans of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' think Elmyra is one of the most annoying animated characters ever created. Her capturing [[EnsembleDarkhorse Fifi LaFume]] didn't exactly help, either. Too bad the executives at Warner Bros. loved her, and kept trying to get her her own show. Eventually, they had her co-star in a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' spinoff, ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'', which earned her the wrath of ''more'' angry fans.\\
{{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'' theme song: [[BitingTheHandHumour "It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?"]] Even the writers hated her.\\
The WB Kids executives had decided they wanted to see Pinky and the Brain in a more sitcom-y show, so not only did they give Elmyra her own show, they forced the writers to take Pinky and the Brain out of their own setting (the laboratory) and put them into Elmyra's setting, where Elmyra was shoehorned into and [[CanonSue made the center of every plot]] the Brain came up with. And then the 22 minutes long episodes were cut up into two segments, aired apart from each other. The show was cancelled after five episodes.

** Herbert even appears regularly in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. It's specially bad when such a bad character appears for no reason in not one but two shows.
*** There is a likely reason; both Cleveland and Herbert have the same voice actor (Mike Henry). Not that it helps...

* Ahsoka Tano on ''TheCloneWars'' full stop in the first season. The second season [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap started to rectify this]].
** ...only to risk fan wrath with the third season, which started off with several Ahsoka-centric episodes in loose sequence.
** Still, more episodes are now devoted to Anakin and Obi-Wan as the heroes than Anakin and Ahsoka.

* Some fans of ''TinyToonAdventures'' think Elmyra is one of the most annoying animated characters ever created. Her capturing [[EnsembleDarkhorse Fifi LaFume]] didn't exactly help, either. Too bad the executives at Warner Bros. loved her, and kept trying to get her her own show. Eventually, they had her co-star in a ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' spinoff, ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'', which earned her the wrath of ''more'' angry fans.\\

* Dulcy the Dragon in ''Series/SonicTheHedgehog'' (the "''[=SatAM=]''" version). Apart from [[RememberTheNewGuy just being there in season two without a proper introduction]], getting a [[SpotlightStealingSquad bigger part than most of the other freedom fighters]], the writers try and squeeze her into as many scenes as possible, thus [[OutOfFocus reducing Bunnie and Rotor to minor characters]], and she gets the whole 'magic powers in a techno environment' deal (though that aspect was first established by the evil wizard Lazzar). There's also the questionable logic of [[TeamMom Princess]] [[TeenGenius Sally]] trusting her safety (not to mention the safety of any other passengers) to riding a dragon who can't land without crashing, and falls asleep during flight.

* Herbert the elderly gay pedophile from ''FamilyGuy''. He's a one-joke character (we get it, he wants to have sex with little boys) and is openly hated by much of the fanbase, yet he still gets to appear in a lot of episodes, and sometimes even get a really long musical number.
** Herbert even appears regularly in ''TheClevelandShow''. It's specially bad when such a bad character appears for no reason in not one but two shows.

* [[TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]] is considered this by some fans, primarily because as the rest of the cast falls into {{Flanderization}}, she remains the only consistently intelligent person in all of Springfield and gets to lecture everyone as to why her views are right and theirs are wrong with annoying frequency. By the tenth season or so, the writers seem to have picked up on how obnoxious she could be to the fans, however, and played up her hardcore activism for comedy.

* Mickey Mouse became a Creator's Pet to the Disney animation studio after Walt Disney decided to make the character his AuthorAvatar. At Walt's instructions, all the faults that made Mickey popular were removed, and his positive attributes were played up. The writers had very little freedom to do anything with the character, so they turned him into a straight man and paired him with other, funnier characters. Especially grating was that Disney hated the upcoming new character at the time who had already become the studio favorite: Goofy.
* In ''{{King of the Hill}}'' we have Elroy, a.k.a. "Lucky". Lucky is a stereotypically ugly, middle-aged hill-billy with a drolling monotonous voice and no high-school education. His main source of income is filing lawsuits (regardless of their justification), as he practically refuses to get a job. He started off as a one shot character, but returns a season later, only this time he's become a ''regular character'' after Luanne falls in love with him. And he's still a homely, unemployed hillbilly who ends up [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave living with the Hill family]]. There are times when the show [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshades]] on his obnoxiousness, but, in general, the main cast just puts up with him (and the audience is expected to as well, since he ends up marrying Luanne).

* Mr Krabs of ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobsquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', despite arguably being an EnsembleDarkhorse early in the show's run, is slowly grating on fans of the show, due to his Flanderization into an [[FauxAffablyEvil an even bigger jerk]] than his [[DesignatedVillain "evil" rival Plankton]].
** It helps if you just imagine his behavior as an {{actor allusion}}, as his voice actor's most famous role was as [[{{Highlander}} The Kurgan]], meaning the rivalry between the two restaurants becomes an analogue to the fight between the Kurgan and Macleod. In other words, the hatred may be justified.

* Taffy the babysitter from ''{{Rugrats}}'' was praised by all the characters in the show, but not so much love from the fans as she clearly existed so Amanda Bynes could star in another {{Nickelodeon}} show.

* Cubert from Futurama [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste was actually]] ''[[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste created]]'' [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste to be one of these]], apparently in direct reference to the TropeNamer, and he was originally intended to be a sort of TheAce character, except he would still be hated and mistreated by the other characters. Really only the last part became true.

* Randy Marsh from ''SouthPark'' is arguably becoming one of these. More plots are starting to revolve about him and/or utilize his SeriousBusiness stance on trivial matters to the point where semi-main characters are now OutOfFocus.

* Randy Marsh from ''SouthPark'' is arguably becoming one of these. More plots are starting to revolve about him and/or utilize his SeriousBusiness stance on trivial matters to the point where ''semi-main characters'' are now OutOfFocus. Even ''his own fanbase'' is sick to death of him, and episodes focusing on him are considered among the worst of the series.

*** Sally's much more of an obvious Creator's Pet in [[SonicTheHedgehog the Comics]]. Read the first few pages of [[http://www.archiecomics.com/blog/sonic_universe/2009/06/archie-comics-first-looks-sonic-universe-5.html this]], and try to ''NOT'' feel the MarySue vibes.

* Randy Marsh from ''SouthPark'' is arguably becoming one of these. More plots are starting to revolve about him and/or utilize his SeriousBusiness stance on trivial matters.

* Mr Krabs of ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobsquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', despite arguably being an EnsembleDarkhorse early in the show's run, is slowly grating on fans of the show, due to his Flanderization into an [[EvillyAffable an even bigger jerk]] than his [[DesignatedVillain "evil" rival Plankton]].

* Randy Marsh from SouthPark is arguably becoming one of these. More plots are starting to revolve about him and/or utilize his SeriousBusiness stance on trivial matters.

* But Pluto was a Creator's Pet, too. MickeyMouse may not have been the ''funniest'' Disney star, but he's still unmatched as a star of funny ''adventure'' cartoons—which makes it disconcerting that from about 1934, numerous "Mickey" shorts shunt him aside to give Pluto the spotlight. The most amazing thing is that from 1937, Pluto ''had his own series'', yet he was still allowed to dominate Mickey's, too. It's gotten better nowadays, with Pluto and Mickey being kept more seperate in their adventures (y'know, since there's more of an effort to ''give'' Mickey adventures these days?)

* Owen from the ''TotalDrama'' series has become an increasingly blatant example, with a lot of focus put on him, his fart humor, and AnnoyingLaugh throughout all three seasons. He wound up [[spoiler:winning the first season]] despite having won few challenges and being up against the very competent and fan favourite [[PerkyGoth Gwen]]. In ''TotalDramaAction'', he was conveniently brought back onto the show after being eliminated halfway through, to the joy of all the other "good" characters, and even after that he is in the third season and made it to the merge, getting [[SpotlightStealingSquad an uhealthy ammount of focus]] before. On the whole, fans have not been pleased.

* Randy Marsh from SouthPark is arguably becoming one of these. More plots are starting to revolve about him and/or utilize his SeriousBusiness stance on trivial matters. The real YMMV comes in whether people enjoy this or are annoyed by it.

*** Sally's much more of an obvious Wesley in [[SonicTheHedgehog the Comics]]. Read the first few pages of [[http://www.archiecomics.com/blog/sonic_universe/2009/06/archie-comics-first-looks-sonic-universe-5.html this]], and try to ''NOT'' feel the MarySue vibes.

* Owen from the ''TotalDrama'' series has become an increasingly blatant example, with a lot of focus put on him, his fart humor, and AnnoyingLaugh throughout all three seasons. He wound up [[spoiler:winning the first season]] despite having won few challenges and being up against the very competent and fan favourite [[PerkyGoth Gwen]]. In ''TotalDramaAction'', he was conveniently brought back onto the show after being eliminated halfway through, [[ShillingTheWesley to the joy of all the other "good" characters]], and even after that he is in the third season and made it to the merge, getting [[SpotlightStealingSquad an uhealthy ammount of focus]] before. On the whole, fans have not been pleased.

* But Pluto was the Wesley, too. MickeyMouse may not have been the ''funniest'' Disney star, but he's still unmatched as a star of funny ''adventure'' cartoons—which makes it disconcerting that from about 1934, numerous "Mickey" shorts shunt him aside to give Pluto the spotlight. The most amazing thing is that from 1937, Pluto ''had his own series'', yet he was still allowed to dominate Mickey's, too. It's gotten better nowadays, with Pluto and Mickey being kept more seperate in their adventures (y'know, since there's more of an effort to ''give'' Mickey adventures these days?)
* Mickey Mouse became the Wesley to the Disney animation studio after Walt Disney decided to make the character his AuthorAvatar. At Walt's instructions, all the faults that made Mickey popular were removed, and his positive attributes were played up. The writers had very little freedom to do anything with the character, so they turned him into a straight man and paired him with other, funnier characters. Especially grating was that Disney hated the upcoming new character at the time who had already become the studio favorite: Goofy.

* Taffy the babysitter from ''{{Rugrats}}'' was [[ShillingTheWesley praised by all the characters in the show]], but not so much love from the fans as she clearly existed so Amanda Bynes could star in another {{Nickelodeon}} show.
** Really, most characters introduced in the second movie and onward are Wesleys. Kimmie joined the group of babies that had mostly stayed constant throughout the series, and practically took control of the group, taking over Tommy's role of taking them on adventures and being the leader. Fans never really warmed up to her, but she pretty much became the most prominent baby on the show.

* She-Hulk in the '96 ''IncredibleHulk'' cartoon. No one really had a problem with her in Season 1, where she only appeared in two well-received episodes. Unfortunately, when the series was renewed for Season 2, ExecutiveMeddling forced her on as a regular (with her name slapped onto the intro, no less) as part of their effort to make the series LighterAndSofter. Of course, her AscendedExtra status led to less screentime for others. (''Rick Jones'' was outright dropped after the Season 2 premiere!) She-Hulk was also subjected to TheOtherDarrin, with Lisa Zane replaced by Cree Summer (the voice behind other Wesleys, Elmyra and Dulcy). All of this arguably could've been forgiven if not for her horrendous characterization. She consistently proclaimed how much she loved having Gamma power in front of ''Bruce Banner'', ya know, the guy that wanted to cure his transformation. That was just ''one'' example of how obnoxious she could be. And let's not forget how she revealed the Hulk's identity to the world to clear Bruce of suspicion of attacking General Ross. (Considering there were no witnesses, any half-decent lawyer could've found some way - ''any'' way to get Bruce off the hook than that.)
* The concept of the Wesley was parodied brilliantly in ''RobotChicken''. It was done in a sketch featuring the producers of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' discussing how to make the fans love Wesley Crusher, after the fandom has paid for a billboard threatening to ass rape WilWheaton to death. So, they decide to include a character so annoying Wesley would look better in comparison. When one writer suggests they try to make Wesley a better character, he gets thrown out of the room. The resulting episode has an annoying GreatGazoo rip-off called "Snirkles", who proceeds to bother Wesley by playing a "space banjo song" and then disappearing. The fans then change the billboard to say "Kill Wesley. Keep Snirkles."