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14->''"We were fully prepared to say, 'Yes, [Jax killing him] really happened. He's dead. He's gone.' But ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'' is about bringing every character back to life, so Hsu Hao is back... much to my dismay."''
15-->-- '''John Vogel''' on '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9L0ddQBa4 Hsu Hao]]'''[='=]s [=BioKard=], ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon''
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17[[TheScrappy There are characters that a majority of the fanbase dislike.]] But, it's also possible for a creator to hate a certain character and working with them in their own work.
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19Maybe that character is born out/modified because of an ExecutiveMeddling, maybe the creator realized that they have written the character wrongly, maybe the creator has gotten tired of the character because [[EnsembleDarkhorse fans keep asking for more]], or maybe the creator is pressed because [[UnintentionallySympathetic the character they intended to be unlikable ends up having a lot of fans]]. Or perhaps the character is simply hard to draw or portray; one can only strain their wrists and vocal chords so many times before they start to resent the cause.
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21Often, it's a case of the character just came with the work, such as where a creator joined the staff after the character was created. Or maybe the work is an adaptation and the character is too important to the story to be AdaptedOut.
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23This dislike often shows in how the creator handles the character. They might try to keep them as OutOfFocus as possible or write them out, give them CharacterDerailment or AdaptationPersonalityChange into something more their liking, or turn them into a total ButtMonkey. However, being any of those tropes doesn't necessarily mean that the creator hates them.
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25Note this does not apply to creators disliking characters from other works thus bashing or portraying negatively in their work, as they do like their work version of them. And as FanWorks lack the {{Creativity Leash}}es that force creators to include/work with characters they don't like, it only applies to their {{Original Character}} or characters they're "forced" to include (such as by co-creators, audience demand, or not being able to write around) despite not liking them.
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27The opposite of CreatorsFavorite, where a character is well liked by the creator. Not to be confused with CreatorsPet, where a character is loved by a creator but hated by the fans.
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29See also UnpopularPopularCharacter, when a character is loathed by in-universe characters but is well liked by the audience.
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31If this goes for an entire work however, that is instead a case of CreatorBacklash. In-universe examples are OldShame.
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33''Please only put examples of the creator admitting that they dislike the character''.
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38* ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'': Olba Frost was hated by [[Creator/NozomuSasaki his voice actor]] -- apparently, the role even gave him logomisia toward the phrase "Nii-san."
39* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': An obscure character who only appeared in 5 chapters in the original manga and its on screen adaptation in the now inaccessible 1973 anime was Gatchako, a robotic duck. The character was quickly discontinued by the writers, Fujiko Fujio, as they found the character annoying and unlikable. Since then, Gatchako hasn't appeared in any incarnation of ''Doraemon'' since outside of a seconds-long cameo in the 2000s series, due to the current writers for ''Doraemon'' wanting to respect the original authors' wishes.
40* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
41** Creator/AkiraToriyama admitted that, "I'm really not fond of Chi-Chi as a character," and he didn't enjoy drawing the character in a TV anime guide's interview with him and animator Nakatsuru.
42** To a lesser extent, Cell was this for both Toriyama and Toei's animators. Not because of his personality, but because his different forms' designs were all more intricate than any other character, with the spots on his exoskeleton being noted as a particular pain to keep drawing.
43** Creator/VicMignogna, Broly's former dub actor, has admitted that he doesn't like the strain on his vocal cords playing the character entails. He does seem to have warmed up to the character later down the line, given his frequent reprises of the role in the 2010 video games, and in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''. Broly's Japanese voice actor, Creator/BinShimada, has expressed similar concerns.
44* In the anime version of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', the character of Nozomi [[AdaptedOut didn't appear at all]] because the director of the anime hated her, even going as far as to say that it wouldn't make any difference whether or not she was present.
45* Kouta Hirano [[https://sacchiri.tumblr.com/post/182905635350/new-hellsing-interview-translated-for-those-not-in considers]] Zorin Blitz his least favorite character in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. By his account, he found she had very little personality outside of being a brutal villain, and her design was a huge pain in the ass to draw due to her detailed tattoos (his assistants reportedly joked about being DrivenToSuicide), but also didn't look appealing. Her CruelAndUnusualDeath (having her tattooed face slammed against a wall and [[WipeTheFloorWithYou scraped into a bloody smear]], after which she's dismissed as a miserable failure by her bosses) was reportedly revenge for all the trouble he'd had writing her.
46* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
47** According to Creator/HirohikoAraki in an interview with ''[[https://jojowiki.com/Interview:Kappa_Magazine_(December_1996) Kappa Magazine]]'', [[BlindObedience Vanilla Ice]] from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is his least favorite character, because he grew to [[CreatorBacklash regret his character design]] and found drawing him to be a hassle.
48** Though Araki likes Avdol just fine and agrees with the consensus of readers [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter that he deserved more time in the spotlight]], he thinks Magician's Red was a mistake. By his own account, he found its [[PlayingWithFire fire-based abilities]] to be a pain to draw, but also felt they didn't offer a lot of possibilities for fights aside from "can burn things." He claims that the whole experience put him off the idea of fire-based Stands altogether, and true to form, there hasn't been one since.
49* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Series creator Gege Akutami seems to regard Satoru Gojo as [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW7YnZKXgAATX8C?format=png&name=small this]]. In fact when Gojo won Jump Festa's popularity poll by a landslide, Akutami insisted that everyone vote for Nanami instead... and all apparently just to relish in drawing [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYuIISzXQAAWwtl?format=jpg&name=900x900 a color page where Gojo looks dejected about losing his top spot.]]
50* In the commentary track for the ''Anime/MobilePolicePatlaborTheEarlyDays'' [=OVA=]s, director Creator/MamoruOshii spends most of the second episodes' track talking about his hatred of Kanuka Clancy, saying she added nothing to the narrative or Team [=SV2=]'s group dynamics. He even ends it with a statement to the effect "It pains me to even look at her". Despite this, he still gave Kanuka major roles in some of the episodes he wrote for the TV series.
51* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
52** Creator/TakeshiShudo, the showrunner for ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', has expressed a low opinion towards Ash's first companion Misty. Shudo has gone on record comparing Misty to garnish, something only there for set dressing and not adding anything of substance. Allegedly, Shudo's last piece of involvement in the franchise was choosing if Misty or Team Rocket would be dropped in the anime's [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire next iteration]], with Shudo quickly picking the former.
53** While Creator/AndrewRannells has a [[CreatorBacklash low opinion of the franchise as a whole]], he has particular distaste towards Harley, one of the characters he voiced in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire''. Rannells, being openly gay in real life, felt Harley embodied [[CreepyCrossdresser several]] [[{{Manchild}} negative stereotypes]] of LGBT individuals, a criticism accentuated in the English Dub by making Harley's flamboyant traits [[CharacterExaggeration more pronounced]]. For similar reasons, Rannells also has a negative view of James, a character he had previously played in ''Theatre/PokemonLive''.
54* In ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', [[VillainousPrincess Princess Malty's]] English voice actress, Creator/FayeMata, hated doing her voice since she shares the fanbase's reaction to [[HateSink the character]].
55* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': While working on the show, director Creator/KunihikoIkuhara had an infamously lukewarm stance towards Usagi's {{Love Interest|s}}, Mamoru, which coincidentally coincided with [[DemotedToExtra a downplayed role in the story]] and some would argue a complete removal of his personality starting in the third season, despite heavily tying the character's backstory into the series' first film which he himself wrote and directed. Ikuhara later clarified he was simply not a fan of the archetypal hyper-idealized prince-like boyfriend that was so common in shoujo. On the other hand, until Ikuhara wrote for him, Mamoru had a more complex personality and relationship with Usagi. Ikuhara's idea of "complexity" was to force a break up arc so contrived it reads like character assassination for him. After that, Mamoru's role in the story is so minimal he's little more than a prop trotted out to occasionally cause Usagi to have some angst because he didn't really know how to write Usagi either. Both manga story arcs used to adapt ''Sailor Moon S'' and ''Super S'' gave him critical role and character development, in Ikuhara's version Mamoru is always conveniently rendered unconscious or physically debilitated.
56* In the afterword for ''Manga/{{Solanin}}: an epilogue'', Creator/InioAsano says that he avoided thinking about Taneda's actions too much when writing ''solanin'' but now dislikes him for his careless, leave-everything-to-chance attitude.
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60* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'':
61** Roy Thomas didn't care for [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]], which is why he wrote the character out of the book ''twice''. Thomas apparently wasn't the only one who felt this way, as there was [[https://www.cbr.com/marvel-avengers-quicksilver-internal-memo-not-important/ an internal company memo from 1972 that ranked the various Marvel heroes in order of importance]], with Quicksilver coming in dead last among the Avengers.
62** Editor Mark Gruenwald rather infamously disliked that Creator/RogerStern made Monica Rambeau, then known as [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Captain Marvel]] (a character Stern had created during his time writing ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'', whose arc in ''Avengers'' followed her growth from rookie to veteran), the team leader of ComicBook/TheAvengers over the established Captain America, whose book Gruenwald was writing at the time. He pushed Stern to reverse the decision, and although Stern was prepared to do it, he pushed back against the UnfortunateImplications of Gruenwald's instructions that Monica had to be shown screwing up as leader and then acknowledging Cap as a better choice to lead the team, and Gruenwald responded [[https://web.archive.org/web/20040516190215/http://www.geocities.com/mh_prime/8802.html by having Stern removed from the book]]. Much later on, under the same editor, she was also stripped of the title Captain Marvel, with Rambeau "willingly" giving the title to Mar-Vell's biological son Genis-Vell.
63* Throughout the 80s, it was far from uncommon to see ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' writers espousing some level of disdain for Robin--they saw the identity as [[TheArtifact a relic of the campier days of the franchise]], defined by Creator/BurtWard's "Holy [x], Batman!", and hated the whole idea of the KidSidekick, especially when applied to a character they were trying to push in as dark a direction as they could go. Creator/JimStarlin, who wrote ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', recounted an incident where DC considered having a TragicAIDSStory with one of their existing characters, at which he then stuffed the ballot box with as many entries for Robin as he could manage. After the 90s, which saw the introduction of Tim Drake (who had a more sensible outfit and acted independently enough that writers could ignore him if they wanted to), the hatred towards the concept slowly cooled off (though it still sees purchase among those doing adaptations). Consequently, ''Death in the Family'' is often remembered as having been a reaction to hatred of Jason Todd, rather than an attempt to junk the concept of Robin as a whole.
64* Characters/BlackCanary often gets this with ComicBook/GreenArrow writers, with Judd Winnick and Andrew Kreisberg both admitting to this. Part of it seems to be that Black Canary, in-universe, is a much bigger badass than Oliver himself, so she would naturally steal the spotlight and leave the title character OvershadowedByAwesome if not nerfed and mistreated. At one point, Oliver went through a huge training regimen just so they could claim he was a better fighter than her (which required ignoring just how extensive her training is), while her own skills were by contrast under-used and treated her as nothing more than a damsel at times, even when they were supposed to be co-headliners (at the time, the book being titled ''Green Arrow/Black Canary''). As Black Canary is an independently popular character in her own right, rivaling the Green Arrow himself, fans of her character understandably don't appreciate this tenure.
65* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The writers of the comic grew to dislike Kennedy as much as the audience did, splitting her and Willow up, then reducing her to a ButtMonkey even the rest of the cast couldn't stand. This is despite Creator/JossWhedon's apparent and notorious [[CreatorsPet undying love for the character]].
66* Creator/DanDiDio: The former Editor and co-publisher of DC Comics is infamous for the characters he disliked, the way he had them treated, and the antagonistic relationship he had with their fanbases. The biggest victims of this were [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]], [[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]], and the Legacy Characters/{{Batgirl}}s, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, all of whom are LegacyCharacter heroes, and legacies were a pet-peeve of his (which he later admitted to, as several months after he was ousted from DC, [=DiDio=] gave an [[https://www.gamesradar.com/former-dc-publisher-dan-didio-on-the-new-52-vs-rebirth-and-why-he-hated-wally-and-dick interview where he explained]] that he disliked sidekicks specifically because he believed that their inability to grow past their mentors forced them to reboot the timeline, and that Wally West specifically being a legacy character was subservient to Barry Allen and made a more complicated story). All of the characters he hated would be given more prominent roles again once he was laid off.
67** Under [=DiDio=]'s watch, Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown were excluded for years from comic books, even non-canon titles. Brian Q. Miller planned to use Stephanie Brown in the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' digital-first comic and received approval. He even gave an interview talking about using Stephanie. Weeks later, [=DiDio=] announced the character had been removed from the comic and replaced with Barbara Gordon.
68** Creator/TomKing also heavily implied that [=DiDio=] was the one who pushed for not only Dick Grayson's controversial amnesia storyline in ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', but also Wally West's [[FaceHeelTurn antagonistic role]] in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'', which was heavily lambasted as a hamfisted attempt to bury the character to the extent that both ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' went out of their way to absolve Wally of any wrongdoing. ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'''s portrayal of a possessed Wally has also been widely linked to when he was heavily involved with its earlier draft, ''5G'', prior to his departure from the company.
69** Oddly this dislike didn't extend to other legacy characters like Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Damian Wayne. Along with Dick Grayson, they continued to appear in the New 52.
70* Creator/JackKirby didn't exactly give much of a damn about ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, a character and book he was forced to create when his ''ComicBook/NewGods'' books were cancelled by DC. According to Creator/MarkEvanier, Kirby created the entire concept while waiting for his order at a Howard Johnson's.
71* Creator/GarthEnnis is famously not a fan of most American superheroes. In his work for Marvel and DC, his treatment of their characters runs the gamut from good-natured ribbing to scathing hatred, with [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] apparently being the lowest of the low (his run on ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' sees Wolverine get his face shot off, run over with a steamroller, and beaten by the Hulk, while his equivalent in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' is a complete joke with hammers instead of hands). Surprisingly enough, this doesn't extend to ''all'' superheroes; even he treats Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} with utmost respect, and has admitted to having a soft spot for Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]].
72* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'':
73** Creator/AlexRoss famously does not like Kyle Rayner, and has said in interviews he goes out of his way to avoid drawing him.
74** Creator/FrankMiller has stated in interviews that he thinks Green Lantern is worthless, and it shows in his treatment of Hal Jordan in ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder''. Which is curious, considering he wrote Hal as one of the most noble characters in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
75* ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'': Matt Wagner has stated that he has come to hate Hunter Rose, [[LegacyCharacter the original Grendel]], viewing his original ByronicHero view of the character as driven by adolescent, unfocused "rebellion". While he has regularly returned to Hunter, every installment has made him more of an unambiguous and irredeemable VillainProtagonist.
76* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'':
77** Both Creator/MikeMignola and Duncan Fegredo realized they'd made a huge mistake after they designed and debuted Nimue's three-raven helmet and learned how awful it was to draw it. This not only led to Nimue wearing said helmet making few appearances in ''The Storm and the Fury", but also to Mignola writing a scene in which the helmet gets ditched so Fegredo no longer had to illustrate it.
78** Mignola doesn't ''hate'' Liz Sherman, but admitted that in the early days of the comic she was a creative dead end to him, to the point that he intended to kill her off after her initial appearances.
79* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
80** Cary Bates and Mike Grell, who worked on the book in the 1970s, both despised the character of Tyroc, as his creation was the result of ExecutiveMeddling by editor Murray Boltinoff. As Grell explained it, the team had been trying to introduce a black Legionnaire for over a decade by that point, and when Boltinoff finally did allow them to create one, it was with the stipulation that in the future of the Legion, racial separatism is the norm and the largest black nation on earth, Marzal, periodically vanishes into another dimension. Both Bates and Grell thought the whole idea was supremely racist, and [[WriterRevolt so they designed Tyroc to be as lame as possible]], giving him an incredibly stupid costume (described as "somewhere between Elvis' Las Vegas costume and something you would imagine a pimp on the street corner wearing") and an even stupider power (he can warp reality by screaming).
81** Keith Giffen vocally hated Karate Kid and spent much of his career openly saying that he would kill the character off if he ever wrote for ''Legion''. Eventually he did and he kept his promise. Oddly enough, however, instead of going for a TakeThatScrappy approach, Giffen gave Karate Kid [[AlasPoorScrappy a respectful and heroic]] send-off despite his hatred of the character; it seems Giffen had enough self-awareness to know that a creator's most hated character is not always the ''fandom's'', and that readers who did not share his dislike would respond poorly to an UndignifiedDeath.
82* ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'': Keith Giffen had little love for Lobo, despite having created the guy and written his defining stories. This mostly owed to viewing him as a major case of DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Lobo had been written as an over-the-top parody of a NinetiesAntiHero, and then become popular because the execution of that ended up being basically just a NinetiesAntiHero, attracting all the usual fans for that kind of character, and the gag ended up wearing thin. According to the behind-the-scenes of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', Giffen hated the idea of bringing Lobo back, actively ''begged'' Creator/GrantMorrison to reinvent the character as much as possible, and decided Grant was the right person to write Lobo when they [[HireTheCritic admitted to not being a big fan of him]]. This is why Lobo spends most of his appearances in that series as a priest of a god of space dolphins operating [[ActualPacifist under a vow of nonviolence]] (which he despises).
83* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Ibañez wasn't very fond of Irma, and she stopped appearing altogether the moment he regained control over the comic.
84* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
85** Creator/JossWhedon has said in interviews that he hates [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]], as he views the character's concept to be fascistic and irresponsible. During his time writing ''Runaways'', Whedon brought in the Punisher for a guest spot, and intentionally wrote him in an ''extremely'' unflattering manner (complete with being on the receiving end of a GroinAttack, courtesy of Molly).
86** When Terry Moore took over writing duties for ''Runaways'', he quickly put Xavin [[PutOnABus on a bus]] because he disliked the idea of a [[TokenHeroicOrc heroic Skrull.]]
87* Bryan O' Malley said if he could remove or rewrite one character from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', it would be Scott's younger sister Stacey. It shows in the books themselves in how she becomes OutOfFocus as the series goes on. He regrets naming her after his own sister.
88* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
89** The reason Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg left the Destructix in ''Sonic Universe'' #15 was because Ian Flynn found him uninteresting.
90** Flynn also wasn't very found of Drago Wolf, due to his ObviouslyEvil personality, and had him beat up as much as possible. He got tired of this however, and eventually made him one of the Grandmasters of the Soumerca Dark Egg Legion.
91** Ken Penders didn't like Mina Mongoose, only including her in the ''[[FlashForward Mobius: 25 Years Later]]'' storyline because the head writer at the time, Karl Bollers, happened to be her creator. As a result, she's only briefly seen during a flashback partially obscured by her family.
92* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
93** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]]'s presence as the title character's wife is often blamed for problems in the book's narrative by editors, despite her immense popularity with fans. The most vocal is Creator/JoeQuesada, who was the mastermind behind the infamous ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' storyline, and who has called MJ "unrealistic" due to being an actress/model married to TheEveryman. Previous attempts to get MJ out of the book included [[ExecutiveMeddling editors demanding]] first that [[DroppedABridgeOnHim MJ die]], and then when that didn't stick, [[PutOnABus that she and Peter be separated]] at the beginning of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski''. In large part due to fan demand, the ResetButton was hit on these storylines, and a version of ''One More Day'' was undone by Creator/StanLee in the [[ComicStrip/SpiderMan newspaper comic continuity]], where the two are still married and MJ still gets a lot of focus.
94** A lot of the writers of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' really didn't care for Judas Traveller, not sure of what to do with him [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants and making it up as they went along]].
95* Creator/StanLee:
96** He famously killed off [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] in an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and Toro in an issue of ''[[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]'' because he hated {{Kid Sidekick}}s, as he felt the idea was child endangerment.
97** In an interview with ''Podcast/NerdistPodcast'', Lee admitted his biggest regret as a creator was the ComicBook/FantasticFour villain Diablo, as he felt that there was nothing memorable about the character or his motives.
98* The BrokenBase with the various versions of Characters/{{Supergirl}} is reflected in the creators:
99** Creator/JohnByrne and to a lesser extent Creator/MarvWolfman resented Kara's existence because they feel she "[[UniquenessDecay de-uniques]] Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}" (Byrne's own words) by taking his "last son of Krypton" status away from him, and both writers have gone out of their way to erase her existence from canon. Wolfman, while sharing the sentiment, liked & respected Kara so when he famously killed her off in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' he gave her one hell of a HeroicSacrifice [[note]] While Wolfman stood by his decision, he admitted in a 1998 interview that he missed Kara too like her fans did [[/note]]. Later, Byrne created a genderless artificial lifeform who called itself "Supergirl" so that DC didn't feel tempted to bring Kara Zor-El back to not lose the trademark.
100** However, this is not a sentiment shared by everyone in their peer group, including ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' writer Keith Giffen, who ''did'' like Kara, created {{expy}} Andromeda after being denied the chance to bring her back, and himself views the non-Kara Supergirls as this instead (see his depiction of Post-Crisis Linda Danvers as a FallenAngel after he had her literally PutOnABusToHell in ''Reign in Hell'' and during ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', he had Lex Luthor frequently disparage Matrix as a "protoplasmic being that thinks it's Supergirl"). History ended up siding with Giffen, given not only was the Supergirl of the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' somewhat based on Kara, but in the 2004 storyline ''ComicBook/{{The Supergirl from Krypton|2004}}'', Kara came back and has stayed since.
101* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': Bernie Wrightson, co-creator of Swamp-Thing, had no fondness for drawing Literature/{{Dracula}} or any other vampires, due to their lack of [[TragicMonster sympathetic qualities.]]
102* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
103** Jay Faerber has been upfront on the rampant ExecutiveMeddling he had to deal with during his time writing ''ComicBook/Titans1999'', especially when Andrew Helfer took over from Eddie Berganza as editor. Faerber mentioned he was forced to include the [=DEOrphans=] into the series because editorial wanted to introduce a new team of young heroes. Their very presence derailed most of Faerber's plots, especially the Epsilon arc (which got forcibly mangled when one of the kids was revealed to be possessing Epsilon the whole time). That said, it appears Faerber used Lian Harper as a mouthpiece to voice his unhappiness with the situation. Lian, normally one of the sweetest kids around, couldn't stand the [=DEOrphans=] and screamed at them that she'd been in Titans Tower long before them.
104** Though fans generally agreed with Faerber's dislike of the [=DEOrphans=] and sympathized with the situation, less can be said about his view and treatment of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jesse Quick]], who he inherited from Devin Grayson's run. Despite having been a well-liked character on the book (and a well-liked ''Flash'' supporting character), he felt that Jesse didn't ''fit'' with the rest of the cast, and so that became the basis of her characterisation, being the outsider of the group. She was then given a storyline seemingly designed solely to turn fan reception against her (she was revealed to have been having an affair with her mother's fiancé), had her budding teased romance with Nightwing crushed, and instead spent the rest of her time with the team being [[TheFriendNobodyLikes The Friend Nobody Liked]] with Nightwing making it clear he could barely tolerate her. Ironically, Devin Grayson ''had'' given Faerber and out by having Jesse quit during her last few issues, but in the ones they co-wrote, Jesse was convinced to stay, leading directly to these hated storylines.
105* Daniel Warren Johnson claims that this was a big part of his motivation for killing off Bumblebee in the first issue of ''ComicBook/Transformers2023''. He likes Bumblebee just fine as a character, but found him annoying to draw due to his arms featuring detailed ridges, and felt the character had been [[SpotlightStealingSquad overexposed in recent years]].
106* The character ComicBook/{{Venom}} gained his iconic MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily + OverlyLongTongue appearance when Erik Larsen had to draw him. Because Larsen disliked the character, the only way he could get through the experience of drawing him was by making him look as goofy as possible, which resulted in the teeth and the long tongue. Somehow, [[SpringtimeForHitler people liked it]].
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110* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' editor Alan Digby wasn't keen on Calamity James, so the strip gradually appeared less frequently, became reprints and was eventually dropped. However, ex-Beano editor Euan Kerr, who had played a significant role in the creation of the character, was editing the monthly Beano Max, which he continued to appear in, although Digby has since become editor of that publication. He has appeared as reprints, both in the weekly Beano and Beano Max and returns in new strips in the Beano Annuals. Once Digby was gone, James returned, now written and drawn by Leslie Stannage instead of Tom Paterson.
111* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' creator Creator/BillWatterson regretted creating the short-lived character of Uncle Max for the strip, feeling it was a failed attempt to bring something new out of Calvin, but it just went nowhere because he had no real chemistry with Calvin, and it was awkward with him not being able to call [[UnnamedParent Calvin's parents]] by their names. After a brief story arc with him, [[PutOnABus Max was put on a plane and permanently vanished from the comic]].
112* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' featured a one-shot character named Loud Howard, whose sole character trait was that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he was loud and annoying]]. Scott Adams noted, to his surprise and irritation, that the character became extremely popular with fans, and even brought him back a few times to lampshade how he didn't find Howard funny, or understand why people liked him. Howard received an expanded role in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}} animated series]], where it was much easier to build jokes around his persona of being really really loud.
113* According to ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'' creator Greg Evans, Delta was this due to the character being [[FlawlessToken perfect and near flawless]], making her difficult to write compared to flawed characters like Luann and Tiffany. This was a major factor in Delta being [[PutOnABus written out of the strip in 2014.]]
114* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': By the end of the strip, Lynn regretted April Patterson, the youngest child of the family. She was created as a stand in for her considering having a third child. But after she changed her mind and April started getting too old for cute little kid shenanigans, April first became a ManChild to keep her as a toddler while aging her and then became TheUnfavourite, expected to sacrifice and put aside her problems and life for her family without getting anything back.
115* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
116** Creator/CharlesMSchulz disliked [[ThePigPen Pig-Pen]], mainly because he was only written as a one-joke character, but his popularity caused Schulz to include him as part of the cast.
117** Schulz also disliked the short-lived character of Faron, Frieda's pet cat who never walked and was always being carried and only appeared as a regular across a few months in 1961. This was partially because Schulz didn't draw cats quite well, but also because the cat would ''think'' words the same way Snoopy did, as they never speak in words, being the only way to have them interact with each other (just as Snoopy would do with his siblings much later on). Schulz named him after Faron Young, which was his favorite country singer, a move that he regretted after chucking the character. Later in the '60s, Schulz introduced the "The Cat Next Door" (which was unseen and didn't have a name originally), which worked much better than Faron.
118* ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' creator Antonio Prohías originally introduced Grey Spy, a sexy female spy, to act as a neutral third party between the Black and White Spies. However, he quickly retired her because he found that doing so made her extremely predictable (she always won). She did not reappear until Peter Kuper (the strip's fifth artist) reintroduced her in the 21st century.
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122* While the creator of ''"Athens and Sparta Adventures"'' (a Fan Webcomic about the [[NationsAsPeople personifications of the two two titular city-states]], which is [[TagLine inspired but not constrained by Axis Powers Hetalia]]) doesn't exactly ''hate'' Athens, she cannot understand why everyone seems to like him and prefer him more than Sparta, even though he is massive {{Jerkass}} (and Sparta is, in comparison, more chill). She does admit that he is an interesting character to write though…
123* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'': Due to the increasing hostility between the lead author, Redskin, and the co-authors in the later chapters of the story, the co-authors had grown to hate the lead human character, Marcus Renee, especially [=DoctorFluffy=] and [=JedR=]. It got even worse due to his abrasive personality, as well as how the narrative kept glossing over his flaws, but the moment that Marcus reached the point of no return for them was when the lead author intended to have Marcus kill a pregnant woman and face no consequences for it. It was because of this that when the team decided to cut ties with Redskin and reboot the story into ''Fanfic/{{Spectrum}}'', they decided to have Marcus AdaptedOut and replaced him with the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Alexander Reiner, who had most of Marcus’ worst traits toned down.
124* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'' (''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''): While their treatment of the fanfic's characters is as impartial as possible (no CharacterDerailment or leaving someone OutOfFocus for no reason) out of a desire to preserve the work's quality, some of the authors have expressed dislike for a couple of characters. Phoenix Daybreak loathes Daniella Alsing because of her shitty parenting whereas Popsicle and Crowgirl hate [[BigBad Eudora Budarthil]] for the extremism part of her WellIntentionedExtremist status. Bloom_Farella doesn't despise anyone in particular but would punch Sky for neglecting his daughters when they needed him the most.
125* In ''Fanfic/PersonaTheSougawaFiles'', the author has stated she dislikes [[spoiler:Satomi Kobayashi]] - though this isn't because of the character themselves, it's more the massive amounts of exposition required to convey their backstory and their lackluster fight scene that she didn't have much fun writing. Interestingly, she actually quite likes [[spoiler:Grendel, despite him being introduced in the same fight scene]].
126* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': RM’s Friend was kept around longer than RM’s Other Friend, RM’s Friend’s Twin, or RM’s Other Friend’s “Sister” because the real Rayquaza Master thought he’d develop into an important character later on. He ultimately didn’t, and RM [[PutOnABus got rid of him]] when it was becoming apparent that he was nothing more than a one-joke character.
127* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaDoOver'': Out of their original characters, they use to hate Robert most, though this changed after he underwent CharacterDevelopment in ''All Stars'' and actually became their second favorite OC.
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131* The writers of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' grew to resent Cri-Kee the cricket, as they quickly viewed him as a pointless character. Whenever they were developing a scene, someone bringing up what the cricket should be doing was met with frustrated dismissal.
132* Unlike the Goofy example in the Western Animation tab, Walt Disney's distaste for the title character of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' ''can'' be confirmed by his own words. Walt himself admitted that he thought Peter Pan was too cocky to be sympathetic or likeable. Tellingly, although ''Peter Pan'', first released in early 1953, did well enough to be reissued in 1958, its next reissue would not come until 1969, eleven years after its first reissue and three years after Walt's passing.
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136* Characters/{{Robin}} doesn't appear in either ''Film/Batman1989'' or ''Film/BatmanReturns'' because both Creator/TimBurton and screenwriter Daniel Waters hated him. To quote Waters:
137-->One of our big bonding issues is me and Tim Burton hate Robin. He's just the most worthless character in the world, especially with Tim's conception of Batman as the loner of loners, to have this gushing boy run around, it made us both kind of sick to our stomachs!
138** Robin didn't appear in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' because neither Creator/ChristopherNolan nor Creator/ChristianBale wanted to include the character, due to Nolan believing that the character would have been out of place in this universe.
139* Former [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] head Tom Rothman [[ExecutiveMeddling executively mandated]] [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] into an InNameOnly version and got his mouth sewn in the highly reviled ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' because of Rothman's major dislike towards the character because he found the character annoying and originally refused to greenlight [[Film/Deadpool2016 his successful first solo film]] due to his belief that the audience would not care about him. Ironically, the film made more money than the notorious ''Film/FantasticFour2015'', which was his last greenlit project until his departure in 2012 to work with Creator/SonyPictures.
140* For ''Film/FellinisCasanova'', Creator/FedericoFellini's original script was ''very brutal'' on the [[Creator/GiacomoCasanova historical figure]] owing to the disdain he had for the man (producer Dino De Laurentiis hired him to make the film and he accepted, so go figure), and it's mostly felt in the finished film through the lack of pleasure Casanova (Creator/DonaldSutherland) experiences when having sex. It wasn't until Fellini shot the scene of Casanova and the nun that he began to sympathize with Casanova's inability to love, giving him the character of the mechanical doll and the dream ending.
141* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'': Like a lot of fans, ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny Dial of Destiny]]'' director Creator/JamesMangold disliked Mutt Williams, Indy's son introduced in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', enough to [[spoiler:[[KilledOffscreen kill him off between films]]]].
142* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': Creator/RayFisher reported that replacement director Creator/JossWhedon took a strong dislike for Cyborg (and [[HostilityOnTheSet for him]]), cutting out all the scenes of Victor's CharacterDevelopment. This pans out when ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' was released, with many considering Cyborg the best part of the film.
143* ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' was originally going to feature David Lieberman, alias Microchip, the Intel man. He was written out as director Jonathan Hensleigh had an intense dislike of the character.
144* Creator/JamesGunn admitted that he made Scrappy-Doo [[spoiler:the [[BigBad villain]]]] of ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' because he despised the character (Scrappy being the TropeNamer for TheScrappy, this is hardly an unusual opinion). That said, he did apologize after hearing that Scrappy actually did have some fans who were upset by the movie exaggerating his negative traits at the expense of ignoring his positive traits.
145* Creator/SamRaimi disliked the character of ComicBook/{{Venom}}, but was forced into including him in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' by way of ExecutiveMeddling so bad that Sony threatened to sue him for breach of contract. All the unpopular changes made to his character have been described as a result of this.
146* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
147** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' director Creator/RianJohnson admitted to disliking Supreme Leader Snoke, perhaps accounting for why the character [[spoiler:gets abruptly killed two thirds of the way through the film.]] He also did not care for Poe Dameron and Finn very much, calling the former a "clear-cut, simple character" carried by his actor's charisma. He found both of them generic, to the point that while his original draft gave them a subplot together, he scrapped it and decided to instead append them to other newly-created characters' subplots because "they got along too well, it was just really boring... I knew something was wrong when I looked at their dialogue and realized I could interchange any of their lines." He jokingly expressed a desire to keep Finn in a coma for the course of the movie.
148** According to Creator/JohnBoyega, Johnson's dislike of Finn was shared by many of the executives of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}}. Creator/JJAbrams had intended Finn to be one of (if not THE) major heroes of the Sequel Trilogy. After Abrams left the project, ''Film/TheLastJedi'' made Finn a BumblingSidekick for the better part of the movie, and even when Abrams returned for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', most of his plans for the character were scrapped (including Finn coming to realize he was Force-sensitive and begin training as a Jedi). Creator/AlanDeanFoster also reported that the original script he was given to write for his novelization contained considerable ShipTease between Rey and Finn that he was ordered to tone down. It got to the point where Creator/KathleenKennedy personally reached out to Boyega to apologize, and Johnson publicly supported the actor when he spoke at Black Lives Matter protests.
149* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
150** ''Film/Transformers2007'' originally featured [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Arcee]] as part of the lineup of Autobots, but she was later replaced with Ironhide, partly due to both director Creator/MichaelBay and writer Creator/RobertoOrci considering [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial the existence of a female Transformer "too complicated to explain"]]. In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', she reappears along with Chromia and Elita-1 (two other female Transformers), [[DemotedToExtra but only as nameless extras]] who get [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremoniously killed off]]. Their actual fate is a little unclear in the film ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the last we see of them is Elita-1 getting shot during the final battle]]), but Bay explicitly confirmed in press statements that they all died, and that it was due to his dislike of the characters.
151** Bay wasn't a big fan of The Fallen, despite him being the main villain of ''Revenge'', calling him "kind of a [expletive] character."
152** In several interviews, Bay has admitted to "kind of hating" the Dinobots, which seems to have been a reason why, despite their absurd popularity in the fanbase, they didn't show up until ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' (and even then, the ads [[AdvertisedExtra played up their presence far more than in the final product]], where they're mostly confined to the third act).
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156* ''Literature/TheApothecaryDiaries''' author, Natsu Hyuuga, has openly voiced her disdain for Jinshi and is rather annoyed that he became a bigger deal later in the story.
157->Question: What is Jinshi-sama's favorite thing about Maomao?\
158Answer: My least favorite thing about Jinshi is how a gag character worked his way up to deuteragonist.
159* A. C. H. Smith grew to find the podlings annoying while writing the novelization to ''Film/TheDarkCrystal''. He originally wrote a scene where a cafe full of them goes over a cliff but Creator/JimHenson wouldn't let him publish it.
160* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
161** Writer Gary Russell ''hated'' Chris and Roz, the Seventh Doctor's final companions in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'', going so far as to call them the worst characters ever.
162** According to Stephen Cole, the editor of the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', ''none'' of the writers liked the series' first companion Sam Jones. So much that they were always trying to kill her off. (Or, in Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum's case, make her a fully rounded character.)
163* In ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'', Margaret Weis absolutely did not like Elistan and considered him a PuritySue that she would have rather been without in the story and repeatedly asked to kill off his character, but since he was at that point the only Cleric of Palladine on the planet, he had to stay in. As a result, Elistan's involvement in ''Dragons of Winter Night'' is mostly limited to saying something once in a while to remind readers he's still there.
164* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
165** Creator/JKRowling doesn't seem to ''hate'' [[RivalTurnedEvil Draco Malfoy]], but she often expresses concern about [[DracoInLeatherPants his massive popularity]], which she mostly attributes to him having [[Creator/TomFelton a talented, good-looking actor]] in the films.
166** However, she ''does'' hate Pansy Parkinson, his DistaffCounterpart, who lacks his redeeming qualities. Rowling admits that Pansy is a stand-in for [[AlphaBitch all of the girls who used to make fun of her]], which makes sense when one remembers that Hermione is largely based on Rowling as a child.
167** She has called Vernon Dursley, Harry's abusive uncle, her least favorite character, however. Notably, he does not get any CharacterDevelopment -- unlike his wife and son, who also started out pretty awful. Rowling revealed that she thought about giving Dudley magical kids in the DistantFinale, but decided "no magical genes could survive contact with Uncle Vernon's DNA".
168* Creator/AgathaChristie faced this issue with Literature/HerculePoirot, her most famous character. While she initially enjoyed writing the Poirot stories, she quickly became tired of his preening and smugness (she was calling him out for this as early as 1930...''forty-five years'' before the last Poirot novel). She also admitted to regretting making him Belgian -- it was largely done because British people had high sympathy for Belgium after the German occupation of the country, which occurred during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI -- because actual Belgian readers kept writing in and telling her she was getting things "wrong" about him. By 1960, she was outright calling him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep" (check out [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot the Other Wiki]] for proof!). Much like Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, though, fans clamored for more Poirot stories, and Christie never failed to provide them, as she knew the public's taste dictated her work (for extra [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor caution about wishing for success]], Christie even admitted that she invented Poirot as a kind of SpiritualSuccessor to Holmes: both are eccentric geniuses with an obsession for order and logic). However, Christie ''did'' find a way to mock both herself and her fans for their Poirot-centrism: namely, the character Ariadne Oliver, an UrExample of AuthorAvatar. Oliver, like Christie, was a female author of popular novels with an eccentric foreign hero--hers is Finnish and grates his vegetables before eating them--and often [[BitingTheHandHumor made jokes]] about how annoying writing him was, and how fans kept bothering her to be excessively accurate in her depictions (all while also making fun of mystery readers for only caring about gore and murders, rather than plot points).
169* ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' has a fictional example: Paul Sheldon hates Misery, the main character of his most popular book series, and kills her off in his latest book so that he can move on to other projects. Unfortunately, he happens to get injured in a car crash and wind up in the care of a LoonyFan of his ''Misery'' books who is NOT happy when she finds out that he killed Misery off and she forces him to write a new ''Misery'' book that brings her back to life.
170* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'':
171** Henry became a thorn in Rev. Wilbert Awdry’s side due to his similarities to Gordon and the illustrators doing a poor job differentiating his build after he was painted blue at the end of the first book.[[note]]Originally Henry was not going to be even let out of his tunnel, but publishers insisted on him writing "Edward, Gordon and Henry" to give the book a HappyEnding[[/note]] Awdry at one point considered quietly ''scrapping'' Henry, with his illness being tacit nods to his lingering fate, but publishers and fans obviously spoke against this, leading him to writing Henry's repaint to green in the fifth book and his rebuild in "The Flying Kipper", forcing a divergent redesign for the illustrators to follow.
172--->'''Awdry:''' I was so annoyed about [the artist’s] treatment of Henry that I endeavored to kill Henry off. That’s why in ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' Henry only appears once or twice as a Very Sick Engine. After that, I got inquiries from children about Henry’s health, so I had to bring him back again. We had Henry painted green again, but in the end the only thing to do was to be ruthless, and Henry had to have an accident and be rebuilt differently.
173** Christopher Awdry expressed frustration having to write excessive Thomas-centric stories to coincide with the popularity of the TV series. He did sometimes manage to find loopholes around this however, the book ''Thomas Comes Home'' doesn't even feature Thomas outside the very end of the last story and instead revolves around the other engines' misadventures in his absence beforehand.
174* Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's opinion on his most famous character, Literature/SherlockHolmes, ranged from ambivalence to dislike, as he felt "[Holmes] takes [his] mind from better things". At first he tried to raise his price to a point that would discourage publishers, which resulted in him being [[SpringtimeForHitler one of the highest paid authors of the time]]. He then tried to TorchTheFranchiseAndRun by having Holmes and Moriarty plunge off a cliff to their deaths. Massive public outcry made quick work of that, and so three years later, it was "revealed" that Holmes was still alive.
175* Derek Landy intended to kill Tanith Low off in the first ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' book, but was forced to let her live due to his publisher's ExecutiveMeddling. Because of this, she tends to take a severe beating in any book she appears in.
176* A significant number of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' writers disliked Mara Jade, [[spoiler:leading to the character's death at the hands of Jacen Solo]]. Creator/GeorgeLucas himself disliked Mara greatly, as he much preferred Luke to be a CelibateHero.
177* Despite having given her several of her own traits, author Colleen [=McCullough=] disliked the heroine Meggie Cleary of ''Literature/TheThornBirds'', possibly explaining why Meggie has such a difficult life.
178* {{Light Novel|s}} author Creator/YomuMishima hates the "little sister" character archetype and threw this hatred into Marie Fou Lafan in ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs''. To his chagrin, [[EnsembleDarkhorse his readership loves her]].
179* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'': Sara Douglass hated Faraday and expressed desire to kill her off many times. Her editor managed to persuade her to keep her alive [[spoiler:until the end of the first series]] and she was [[spoiler:brought back for the second series]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse due to positive fan reception to the character]].
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183* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
184** Controversial former showrunner Marc Guggenheim was blatant for his apathy to Creator/KatieCassidy and her characters. It got to the point that Cassidy's original character was made OutOfFocus for most of the episodes before eventually being killed-off, and despite the ease for which she could have been resurrected she remains dead, and the second character (an alternate universe counterpart of her) was unable to make the HeelFaceTurn that fans wanted, though she did eventually do so by the time his tenure as showrunner was ending. Even after he was no longer the showrunner, he retained enough influence that [[spoiler:the original Laurel Lance was never resurrected when ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' rebooted the universe]]. The reasoning for this was explicitly that Guggenheim preferred the character Felicity Smoak, so he gave her preferred treatment.
185** Before Guggenheim, the previous showrunner Andrew Kreisberg wasn't innocent of this, as under his tenure Laurel was constantly being given little to do besides serving as a DamselScrappy or chewing out other characters, and after a while being chewed out ''by'' other characters. As noted under comic books, Kreisberg was known for not being a fan of Black Canary, so the fact her adaptation was so shoddily treated isn't much of a surprise. His accusations of misogyny and a toxic work environment that got him [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor terminated]] from the show, however, suggest that, unlike other writers who similarly disliked the character, his reasons for doing so stemmed from his misogyny.
186* Creator/JMichaelStraczynski was forced by ExecutiveMeddling to add a [[AcePilot "hot-shot fighter pilot"]] to the cast of ''Series/BabylonFive'' in the second season, which Straczynski despised because he considered it such a trite and cliched character archetype. The character he ended up creating, Lt. Warren Keffer, hung around for a while not doing a whole lot (appearing in only six episodes), and then as soon as Straczynski realised the executives weren't paying attention any more, was brutally killed off by the Shadows. He wasn't actually all ''that'' bad a character, it's not like Straczynski had [[StylisticSuck intentionally written him to be annoying]], and the actor was a nice enough guy that Straczynski felt guilty about killing him off, but he still went through with it. At least he died in a significant way that advanced the plot, rather than just [[DroppedABridgeOnHim being casually killed off in an accident]].
187* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
188** Creator/JossWhedon named Adam as the most boring of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s {{Big Bad}}s, a sentiment shared by a lot of the fandom.
189** Cordelia Chase was gradually phased out of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' during seasons four and five due to [[HostilityOnTheSet friction]] between Creator/CharismaCarpenter and Whedon (he told ''Magazine/TVGuide'' that it this was due to the writers running out of things for her to do). This became HarsherInHindsight when she revealed in 2021 that Whedon had essentially written her off the show to punish her for getting pregnant at a time he considered inconvenient.
190** Creator/VincentKartheiser said that he quickly lost interest in playing Connor after about four episodes. He disliked that every scene would have him and Angel arguing, and he would then go into a corner to sulk. He said he wasn't surprised when he learned that Connor was hated by the fans as well.
191** To say that a decent number of writers on staff were befuddled and annoyed by [[BreakoutVillain Spike's]] popularity would be an understatement. Whedon was known to be particularly frustrated by it, as he believed very firmly that soulless vampires shouldn't be redeemable, and Creator/JamesMarsters has told several stories over the years of seeing the brunt of that frustration on-set. Other writers like David Fury were known to openly condemn Spike's fans on online forums while the show was running, likening them to people writing love notes to serial killers in prison. It had also been stated in several interviews that the point of the deeply controversial episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]" was to [[CharacterCheck remind viewers that Spike was evil]]. Curiously, later down the line many of these creators have walked back on much of this, with Whedon admitting to preferring Spike with Buffy and David Fury trying to push for Spike to be the one to fulfill the Shanshu prophesy.
192** By the seventh season, another character that Whedon had grown tired of was Dawn, admitting that she was completely spent out as a character after [[CosmicKeystone the Key]] storyline was finished in the fifth season, even having Buffy admit she might be willing to let Dawn die if it meant saving the world this time.
193* ''Series/{{Charmed 1998}}'':
194** Notably had the lead character Prue become this -- largely thanks to her actress. Creator/ShannenDoherty had repeated clashes with cast and crew members, most notably her co-star Creator/AlyssaMilano. By the third season, episodes often deconstructed Prue's status as TheAce -- one episode featuring the SevenDeadlySins has her get infected with the sin of Pride, and she's the only character to not overcome her sin. Another episode has a TakeThat where she [[StealthPun gets turned into a dog]]. Shannen Doherty had to be fired over her behavior, and Prue ended up [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies killed off between Seasons 3 and 4.]] Milano would later go on to say that she regretted how things turned out as she realized that the showrunners had essentially pitted Doherty against the others and that the conflicts were largely their fault (due to misogyny and fear of the leads asking for more money).
195** The writers regretted the character of [[TagalongKid Jenny]] in the second season, and ushered her out after four episodes when they realized she served no purpose.
196* ''Series/{{Community}}'' notably had Pierce Hawthorne become this in Season 4 -- largely thanks to his actor. Creator/ChevyChase had repeated clashes with series creator Creator/DanHarmon, culminating in their well-publicized fallout near the end of the third season. Because of this, Pierce was OutOfFocus for much of Season 4--despite Harmon's temporary absence from the production--with Chase ultimately deciding to leave the show towards the end of the season's production, resulting to the SeasonFinale getting rewritten to have Pierce graduate along with TheHero Jeff Winger. While Chase agreed to make a cameo in the Season 5 premiere, [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Pierce was killed off two episodes later.]]
197* ''Series/DadsArmy'' co-creator David Croft wrote that Private Cheeseman was "irritating without being funny", and as an exotic Celt, he was too similar to Private Frazer. Creator/JohnLaurie also disliked the character (in contrast to Croft, he was concerned that Cheeseman was getting ''too many'' laughs), and requested that he not return for the next season.
198* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
199** The reason the Cybermen were absent during the Third Doctor's tenure was that script editor Creator/TerranceDicks hated them, as he found them boring. When he was tasked to write "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", the then-script editor Creator/EricSaward, who loved the Cybermen, wanted them in it. Dicks responded by taking several opportunities to destroy them, most overtly the notorious Raston Robot scene, in which a platoon of Cybermen suffers a humiliating CurbStompBattle at the hands of a lone bit-part monster created [[OneSceneWonder solely in order to do that]].
200** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]", [[Characters/DoctorWhoK9 K-9]] comes down with "robo-laryngitis" and is sidelined from the plot. According to many sources the reason was Creator/TerryNation disliked the character and did not want his creation, the Daleks, sharing screen time with him. The K-9 prop is also pesky for crew members, as it has an infamous history of breaking down or ruining shots by veering too far left or right. 1980s producer Creator/JohnNathanTurner also hated K-9. Tellingly, every story of Season 18 (his first year as producer) saw K-9 damaged in some way, until he gets written out of the series.
201** The problems with K9 were minuscule compared with Kamelion, an actual robot that was hated by everyone in the crew because nobody could get the thing to work properly (partially due to his creator being killed in a boating accident). As a result, he only appears in three serials (one of which was a cameo in a deleted scene). Creator/PeterDavison once joked that the best acting he ever did in the show was the Doctor's sorrow at having to kill Kamelion, as he was genuinely glad to be rid of the troublesome prop.
202** Script editor Creator/EricSaward was staunchly against the casting of Creator/ColinBaker as the Sixth Doctor and took every opportunity he could to sideline the character (this being after three whole seasons of the Fifth Doctor already being a PinballProtagonist). This reached a peak in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]], where the Doctor does only one thing of any real significance and spends the rest of the story wandering around and chatting. The Sixth Doctor was also disliked by BBC One controller Michael Grade, who was notoriously unimpressed with ''Doctor Who'' as a whole and fired Baker after just two seasons.
203** Many books have been written about how the implosion of the series during Season 23 was caused in part by production infighting over the companion Mel, who became a locus for the internal rivalries between the script editor, producer and PromotedFanboy elements of the team. She is disliked in the fandom too, but much of this is because she was intentionally written as an insufferable DamselScrappy to sabotage the actress and producer. The team's 'continuity advisor' Ian Levine hated the character so much that he quit over her inclusion; most fans today regard this event as one of the reasons for the show becoming more creatively interesting for its last couple of seasons.
204** Some companions were written out of the series due to the production team deciding that they just weren't working, like Dodo Chaplet, Ben Jackson, Adric or Mel Bush. Katarina was killed off midway through [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan her sole story as part of the TARDIS team]] because her FishOutOfTemporalWater nature was seen as too limiting by the production team (thus making her the first companion to die), Liz Shaw was written out after one season because Creator/BarryLetts felt that she was too over-qualified to be the Doctor's assistant, and Harry Sullivan was written out after one season because Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe felt he was a redundant presence (though he did later admit that writing him out was a mistake). The reason Turlough spent a lot of time imprisoned is that the writers admitted to just not knowing what to do with him.
205** Creator/RussellTDavies claimed to hate the Master and that the character would never appear in the show while he was in charge. However, this turned out to be a case of LyingCreator. More genuinely, he's made it pretty clear that killing off all the other Time Lords was emotionally satisfying for him, writing that they did nothing for the show except "spout bollocks".
206* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Before he was booted off the show, Andrew Kreisberg confirmed in an interview that they 'found it hard' to write two [[TheSpeedster speedsters]], which is why Wally West was written out. It was of course also likely why he spent so much time before that being OutOfFocus, having his character development being put on hold or dragged at a snail's pace, and often injured so that Barry Allen could solve the crisis himself. The annoying thing about this? The primary source material for the show was comics from the time ''Wally West was the Flash'', so Wally was getting sidelined in an adaptation ''based on his character's works''.
207* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' co-showrunner Creator/DBWeiss has admitted he dislikes Stannis Baratheon. This is often considered to be why the show's version of Stannis is [[AdaptationalVillainy generally less sympathetic than in the source material]] and [[spoiler:ends up dying disgracefully [[AllForNothing after sacrificing his own daughter]]]]. It was to the point where even after-episode interviews by the showrunners depicted the character in an even more unflattering light than what was just shown onscreen.
208* In ''Series/{{House}}'', ExecutiveMeddling reared its head and Fox execs demanded the creators cast a "villain" to go up against House. The creators reluctantly created the character of Vogler, a hospital admin who wants to get rid of House and his team, but they were not happy with the character. Luckily for them, Fox began airing ''House'' after ''Series/AmericanIdol'' giving the show ratings clout and producer David Shore the ability to make creative changes... [[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/arts/television/30hous.html?pagewanted=1 like getting rid of Vogler]].
209* Creator/JennetteMcCurdy has made ''very'' clear that she '''hated''' playing Sam Puckett on ''Series/ICarly'' and its spinoff ''Series/SamAndCat''. She hated playing Sam, as she felt that the character was a bad role model for children and found it difficult to portray a character so different from her real self, and just found the character flat-out unlikeable and the show in general terrible. Clearly she doesn't share Creator/DanSchneider's fondness for {{Jerkass}} female characters...
210* ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'': Co-creator Peter Laird ''hates'' Venus de Milo, the female fifth turtle created for the series, with a passion. This is likely the reason she's never been seen since.[[note]]Interestingly, the other co-creator, Kevin Eastman, likes Venus de Milo and has expressed interest in using her in the future.[[/note]] While Laird no longer has final say on such decisions since selling the franchise to Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, the overall poor reception to the character hasn't exactly encouraged new creators to give her another shot.
211* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s writers experienced a lot of headaches with Susan Ross, George's long-time girlfriend and fiancée, because actress Heidi Swanberg had poor chemistry with her costars and they found her difficult to work with. Creator/JasonAlexander explained that he and Swanberg had a cordial relationship, but her acting style was not suited for the show and he and the other main cast struggled to perform scenes with her, leading to tension on the set. Although Creator/LarryDavid initially liked the odd couple pairing of George and Susan, he and the writing staff came to agree over time that her character was a poor fit for the show. Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus jokingly suggested that they kill Susan after a rough day of shooting, and the writers ran with the idea, killing Susan in a ridiculous fashion that signposted their dislike of the character. For her part, Swanberg thought Susan's death was ActuallyPrettyFunny and didn't harbor any grudge towards David or her costars.
212* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
213** Creator/GeneRoddenberry and the writer of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'''s second pilot "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]" were not satisfied with the character of Doctor Mark Piper, finding that him being a "old country doctor" archetype didn't work for plots that called for a more active and emotive doctor. The character would be replaced by Doctor [=Mc=]Coy for the rest of the series run, who would prove to be much more popular with both the audience and the creative staff.
214** Counsellor Troi was almost written out of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' after the first season because the writers didn't know what to do with her. When the show lost its other female castmembers, she was kept on.
215** Creator/WilWheaton grew to hate Wesley Crusher, joking that he finally understood why he got so much hate mail upon rewatching the series.
216** On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Creator/AndrewRobinson didn't care much for [[EvilCounterpart Mirror Garak]], finding him to be a boring [[FlatCharacter one-note]] toady who lacked all of his Prime counterpart's nuance and menacing aura. The character's [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E12TheEmperorsNewCloak final appearance]], where the Prime Universe Ferengis brag about how much more clever and competent their Garak is, followed by [[spoiler:Mirror Garak being injected with his own virus and left for dead]] may have been a wink to the sentiment.
217** The writers of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' didn't want to deal with Harry Kim because they found him boring. His subplot in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame The Killing Game]]" was only expanded because the episode ran short.
218** Nobody involved in the production of ''Voyager'' beside Creator/MichaelPiller liked the Kazons, the sentiment being that the Voyager crew running into them over and over stretched believability, and they were dumb and ineffectual retreads of the Klingons who had far overstayed their welcome by the end of the second season. The show would phase them out after the third season opener outside of time travel and hologram sheanigans, with a later episode establishing that the Kazons are among the few species the Borg refuse to assimilate [[TakeThatScrappy because]] they're just ''that'' useless.
219* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
220** Season 2 set up a storyline with a number of "psychic kids" that were also fed demon blood and had similar powers to Sam. Two of the psychic kids, Andy and Ava were well-liked by fans but creator Creator/EricKripke explained on that Season's DVD commentary that the storyline wasn't working and so had all the psychic kids killed off in a battle royale storyline at the end of Season 2.
221** The angel Castiel was a fan-favorite upon his first appearance, thanks to his [[HoYay interesting dynamic with Dean]] and his mysterious motives. Originally intended as a short-term character, he was supposed to die and a female FallenAngel character was to take his place as the boys' angelic guide and Dean's long-term {{Love Interest|s}}. But fans far preferred Castiel, so he was promoted to series regular in Season 5, becoming the brothers' angel guide [[TheNotLoveInterest without the romantic element]]. The writers realized very quickly that they had made Castiel and all the angels massively overpowered. They constantly had to devise ways of neutralizing Castiel so the Winchesters could be the heroes during weekly monster hunts. In Season 6, new showrunner Sera Gamble made Castiel one of the Big Bads of the season, having him betray the Winchester brothers. However, the character remained a fan favorite. Some writers, especially Ben Edlund, also continued to like the character and so he was given [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E20TheManWhoWouldBeKing highly sympathetic motivations]] that actor Creator/MishaCollins was able to play to the hilt. Even after the character committed multiple atrocities that seemed designed to make fans hate him and was [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Category:Season_7 killed off early in Season 7]] fans still loved the character and ratings plummeted. By late Season 7, he was resurrected and given a several seasons long redemption arc. Gamble left the show and was replaced by Jeremy Carver, who was more sympathetic to the character but for the rest of the series, the writers had to find ways to de-power him and re-power him as the plot demanded. Complicating matters further was the fact that despite not being canon, Dean/Castiel became a FanPreferredCouple and one of the most popular fanfic pairings ''across all media'' while another significant subset of fans rejected/were oblivious to any subtext and saw the two as friends [[note]]Further complicating matters, prior to Castiel, the most prominent ship for Dean was his own brother and those who held to that ship disliked Castiel[[/note]]. Despite repeated attempts by the writers to pair Dean and Castiel off with female characters and their repeated insistence that the two were just friends, there remained quite a bit of perceived ShipTease for Dean and Castiel. Various writers and actors expressed conflicting accounts of how much of this was intentional, though everyone seemed to agree fans were welcome to interpret things the way they liked. Cue a [[https://gizmodo.com/thats-bait-1845593202 debate on queer baiting]] that bled into the mainstream media. In the end, [[spoiler: final showrunner Andrew Dabb made Dean/Castiel half canon with Castiel admitting to being in love with Dean before dying in the final season.]] On the show, God himself appears in the final season and laments that the character never behaved the way he was intended and was "broken" from the start, which many fans took as the writers expressing frustration at the popularity of the character and by extension, the Dean/Castiel ship.
222** Crowley was an incredibly popular villain thanks to his truth-telling and snark. However, as a villain, he had to be defeated regularly by the heroes and this led to BadassDecay. There was a flirtation with making him one of the good guys, a la Spike on later seasons of Buffy, but it never fully happened and it was clear that the writers just didn't know how to resolve the menacing, villainous side of the character with the snarky, innuendo-laden comic relief side of the character. Eventually, he was given a rather [[https://screenrant.com/supernatural-crowley-mark-sheppard-departure-bad-terms-reason/ unsatisfying exit]] that Creator/MarkSheppard was not happy with.
223* Kenny was written out of ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973'' after the first season due to actor Stephen Salmon's poor dramatic ability and an inability to act in general. Salmon would frequently forget lines and spoke with a drawl, making him to difficult to understand by the other actors. For this reason, Kenny's character is seldom seen "in the action" after the pilot, with Kenny often guarding the lab or visiting his home during the bulk of the series.
224* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Series creator Rob Thomas grew to dislike Sheriff Lamb, largely due to the DracoInLeatherPants attention he was getting, and fans petitioning to get him more screen time. [[spoiler: He responded by killing Lamb off in the third season]]
225* The creators and producers of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' hated the notorious "Megaword" category used for the nighttime show's 12th season in 1994-95. The puzzle was a long vocabulary word that, upon solving, the contestant could use in a sentence for a bonus. Little to no judgment was given on the grammatical correctness of the sentences; rounds often dragged on due to the shortness and obscurity of the puzzles; and one contestant was ruled wrong for mispronouncing the answer PRISTINELY despite having the entire puzzle filled in (which is at least consistent with the show's rules). Not only did Pat Sajak go out of his way to deride the category every single time it came up, even LovelyAssistant Vanna White and TheAnnouncer Charlie O'Donnell berated it! Megaword was finally put out of its misery at the end of the season and seldom mentioned since.
226* According to the fansite golden-road.net, the producers of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' have retired various pricing games due to various staff members disliking them. Victims of this include Add 'em Up, Buy or Sell, Give or Keep, Joker, and Telephone Game (the actual, WordOfGod quote from a producer about why it was retired was that "it was lame.")
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230* Wrestling/RicFlair was the target of Jim Herd when he was still in charge of Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Herd (who had no prior involvement in the wrestling business and had been a manager at Pizza Hut) thought that Flair, at the age of 40, was too old to draw. He wanted Flair to shave his head and take up a Roman Gladiator gimmick. When Flair refused, Herd - thinking that nobody else would want Flair either - fired him without even making him stick around to lose the WCW Championship. Flair immediately showed up in WWF with the [[Wrestling/BigGoldBelt WCW Title Belt]].
231* Wrestling/{{Kevin Nash}} derisively referred to the white cruiserweights such as Wrestling/DeanMalenko, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero[[note]]he got lumped in with them because he didn't wear a mask[[/note]], and Wrestling/ChrisJericho as the "vanilla midgets" because he thought they were too small and bland to get over.[[note]]Though he's later said that he never intended to throw Jericho in that group, agreeing that while Jericho might be undersized he definitely isn't vanilla. He also gave Guerrero credit for proving him wrong with his work in WWE.[[/note]] Even though they already were.
232* Nash also refered to Ric Flair, Rowdy Wrestling/RoddyPiper and Wrestling/ArnAnderson as too "old" though he apparently got over it concerning Flair. This came full circle when Nash returned to WWE to crash their version of the Summer Of Punk and Wrestling/CMPunk made jokes about Nash's age. While Nash has gradually learned to laugh at himself, at the time it angered him and made Nash refuse to allow anymore of his promos to be scripted, making Kevin Nash the pest to WWE's "[[InsistentTerminology writers]]". If you think this lead to Nash's burial think again. He was still one of Vince Jr's favorites.
233* Booker Wrestling/KevinSullivan especially hated Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, stemming from an angle in which Sullivan's real wife, Nancy (aka "Woman") ditched him for Benoit. Sullivan asked them to spend time together on the road, Nancy actually fell for Benoit and divorced Sullivan to marry him, and Benoit wouldn't hold a title until Sullivan left the booking committee.
234* Wrestling/EricBischoff was particularly dismissive of Wrestling/ChrisJericho and also had it in for Ole Anderson but, contrary to popular belief, did see potential in [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stunning" Steve Austin]], just not enough to get over their difficulties in working together.
235* Wrestling/VinceRusso didn't believe that any non-American could get over with American audiences, and so he fired or misused WCW's Luchadors (ex: Wrestling/{{Psicosis}}, Wrestling/LaParka) and Japanese wrestlers (ex: Wrestling/TheGreatMuta, Kaz Hiyashi). He also wasn't fond of women's ''wrestling'', preferring a T&A based division, and gutted the fledgling Women's division WCW was starting to build around Wrestling/{{Madusa}} and [[Wrestling/MollyHolly Mona]] in favor of building it around [[Wrestling/StacyKeibler Miss Hancock]] and Major Gunns. As for his time in the WWF, Russo hated Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield due to his backstage bullying and Russo claims that he came up with the idea for the infamous "[[Wrestling/WWEBrawlForAll Brawl For All]]" tournament because he overheard Bradshaw bragging that he could beat up everyone in the locker room and Russo wanted to see Layfield get his ass kicked.
236* Mark Jindrak was this in WCW, Ohio Valley and about every other promotion he worked for until he went to Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. The man had [[UnskilledButStrong incredible athleticism but "two left feet"]], as Wrestling/JimCornette put it.
237* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's most infamous case was first booker Gabe Sapolsky and first champion Wrestling/LowKi, which eventually resulted in Low Ki being dismissed from the promotion. It happened again in EVOLVE, where Ki did himself few favors with Gabe by legitimately knocking out AHTU in under a minute, which caused [[WrestlingMonster his monster aura]] to dissipate. Sapolsky wasn't too fond of Steve Corino either. Mike Hogewood had the dubious honor of being a creator's pet and pest at the same time during Ring Of Honor's time on HD Net. While ROH's staff respected him as a person, they didn't want him behind the commentary table. He lasted their entire run on the station because keeping him there was a condition of being on HD Net in the first place.
238* Wrestling/JohnMorrison reportedly drew the ire of WWE producer Kevin Dunn, which might explain why all of his pushes were short-lived.
239* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon has plenty:
240** The entire women's division was this for him, and he refused to push the performers as anything but {{Fanservice}}. If not for the facts that (a) [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo]] was one of the most successful promotions in the world and (b) getting the belts was something to rub in the face of rival organization Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA, the women's divisions would not have even been in WWF. He gave up on absorbing Zenjo pretty quickly too, Wrestling/WendiRichter making him a lot of money is what kept women's wrestling from being phased out of WWF altogether. Even then, he got rid of Richter herself fairly quickly because she wanted a cut of that money she made him, then let the women's division dwindle to nothing. Renewed interest in Zenjo got the belt dug back up for Wrestling/{{Madusa}}, but she committed the sin of trademarking her own ring name and [=McMahon=] gradually lost interest again, sending her to get [[ProgressivelyPrettier nose and boob jobs]] before deciding a women's division wasn't worth it. The women's division came back again to give Wrestling/{{Sable}} something to do after she got over by power bombing Wrestling/MarcMero, but that something wasn't "wrestle", as the WWF's women's division became synonymous with bikini contests, stripper matches, water fights and {{mud|wrestling}} pools. There was a brief spike in quality when most of the Sable-like models had left and [[Wrestling/TrishStratus the one]] WWE decided to push ahead of all the established wrestlers decided she was going to train to be like said wrestlers, but that was quickly corrected by releasing most of those wrestlers and hiring even more models. Only with the greater influence of [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon his daughter]] and [[Wrestling/TripleH son-in-law]] in the company did things start changing, reportedly with much kicking and screaming from the boss.
241*** Vince wasn't the only one. One of the worst offenders was WWE's VP of Talent Relations from 2004-12, Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis. Laurinaitis was a big proponent of "looks over talent" and was one of the creators of the Diva Search, considered to be the point where the women's division began to crumble. In his first year, he fired Wrestling/{{Ivory}}, [[Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} Jackie Moore]], [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], Wrestling/{{Nidia}} and Wrestling/GailKim, reduced Wrestling/MollyHolly to a jobber before driving her out of the company by denying her request for a HeelFaceTurn on the grounds that it would never work, and was the one who pushed to make Wrestling/StacyKeibler (a non-wrestling, eye-candy manager) Women's Champion (to Keibler's credit, she refused the overtures, noting there were far more deserving workers than herself). In 2006, he hired Wrestling/KellyKelly (considered by some to be the worst female wrestler in WWE history) after seeing her in a swimsuit catalog. Bra & panties matches and costume themed matches became the norm, along with women's matches mainly being meaningless 3-minute tag team matches.
242** After knocking out Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams in the Wrestling/WWEBrawlForAll and thus [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom inadvertently ruining plans for a feud with]] Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, Bart Gunn became this so much that after he was squashed by Butterbean at ''[[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania 15]]'', he was reportedly ''fired immediately once he returned to the locker room.''
243** [=McMahon=] had a grudge against Scott Levy. Levy had worked in WWF in the early 90s as Johnny Polo, and introduced his son Wrestling/{{Shane|McMahon}} to the partying life, which is what led to the grudge. When Wrestling/{{Raven}} was signed, Vince [[RecognitionFailure didn't realize]] that it was Levy playing the character until he actually saw the man backstage and recognized him. This is why Raven never got pushed while working for WWE.
244** [=McMahon=] also didn't care for Wrestling/{{Christian}}, feeling that although he was a good midcard hand, he was too ugly to make a good World Champion. Seriously. Christian's popularity with the fans and a dearth of main eventers at the time led to his World Heavyweight Title win, but his feud with Wrestling/{{Randy Orton}} was booked to make it clear that Christian genuinely wasn't in Orton's league.
245** [=McMahon=] believed that cruiserweight wrestling couldn't draw until he was finally badgered into signing Rey Mysterio, Jr. Rey quickly became immensely popular, too much so for even Vince to ignore, as he appealed to former WCW fans and Latino fans. Vince okayed a push for Rey to become World Champion, but also insisted that Rey should not ever look too strong, even while holding the title. This led to such nonsense as Mysterio losing clean to midcarders in non-title matches while Champion, and never being allowed to win his matches fair and square.
246** Speaking of cruiserweights, after Mysterio's debut, Vince decided he wanted another flippy masked wrestler, and hired Wrestling/UltimoDragon without doing any research on him. Dragon worked a slower, martial arts based style with a few highly polished flying spots. Once Vince actually watched Dragon work, he became enraged, declared Dragon's style incompatible with the entire roster, and went so far as to edit ''out'' the cheers Dragon got on the C-shows like Jakked and Velocity. Then to get rid of Dragon, he tricked him into quitting by promising to rehire him, unmasked, under his real name Yoshihiro Asai, only to renege after Asai unmasked in Japan.
247** Joey Matthews was well liked across the independent circuit and treated well by Ohio Valley Wrestling even when OVW had a developmental deal with WWE. But make no mistake, he wasn't very well liked by WWE's executives and was seen mainly as a tool to build up John Morrison. Yes, ''that'' very same Morrison who was himself a pest. At least Morrison got pushes to cut short.
248** Once WWE had Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/{{Goldust}} and Wrestling/CodyRhodes on television all at once, they admitted on screen that they had been trying to make Dusty and his proxies look stupid for decades and the Rhodes had managed to succeed in spite of [=McMahon=]. Presumably that meant [=McMahon=] had finally gotten over it, but given he ran ''three'' TakeThat gimmicks of Dusty and put him in that polkadot singlet, which Dusty took as a challenge, Dusty's pest status wasn't exactly a secret.
249** Wrestling/BeckyLynch was originally a target to Kevin Dunn and Vince [=McMahon=]. Dave Meltzer of Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter reported in September/October 2016 that Dunn hated her Dublin accent on her first reign as the inaugural [[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]] Women's Champion, as a reason why she lost to Wrestling/AlexaBliss at ''[=TLC=] 2016'' and later ended up DemotedToExtra for two years, before her sudden rise of popularity in 2018 when she snapped on Wrestling/CharlotteFlair for taking away her momentum at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2018'', under the new AntiHero gimmick as "The Man", and the ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]'' go home show for ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' where she got busted open by a stiff punch from Wrestling/NiaJax, which Becky [[NoSell shrugged off]]. This event catapulted Lynch as the current most over superstar in the company not named Wrestling/JohnCena by taking the Brass Ring of Vince [=McMahon=].
250*** The reason why Wrestling/BillieKay was released was due to Dunn "not getting" her and declaring that he thought she "had a ceiling" in the company, despite being well-liked in the locker room and positive fan reaction since her split from [=The IIconics=]. Though it's likely, as with Becky Lynch above, the real reason was due to her Austrailian accent.
251** [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] was also another pest to [=McMahon=] after he vacated the WWE Universal Championship in 2016, being sidelined by an injury until he made his return in 2017. However, his push for the Universal Title got faded away and being DemotedToExtra in the upper-midcard most of 2017 and 2018 with meaningless repetitive feuds and being treated as an afterthought. Reports at the time were that Vince said that Balor wasn't over as a superstar, which Balor said to Vince that he didn't believe in him on the ''RAW'' build up of his match with Wrestling/BrockLesnar at ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2019'' for the Universal Title.
252** Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} O'Shaunessy, Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli and Rusev all have the same start-stop push issue stemming from "accents".
253** Vince may hate accents, but supposedly the reason he hated Wrestling/LukeHarper? Luke couldn't do a DeepSouth accent. While Harper had the look (and sizable beard) to come across as a hillbilly, he was from Rochester, New York and no experience in doing an accent. Vince was reportedly annoyed that Harper couldn't pull off the accent to be the hick persona Vince envisioned for him and eventually released him.
254** Tag Team Wrestling in general has been seen as this, as [=McMahon=] sees that it is much more profitable to put two singles wrestlers together as a tag team than to bring in a single tag team and that the best use of a tag team is to find the next BreakupBreakout. On ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing,'' Bart Gunn would even mention that for one reason or another, any tag team that debuts in the WWF/WWE are eventually broken up.
255** Wrestling/MickieJames. Despite being a six-time champion in WWE, it's obvious that she was not a favorite among the higher-ups. The end of her first run in the company saw her being a walking fat joke, being referred to as "Piggy James" by Wrestling/{{LayCool}}, even though [[HollywoodPudgy she was no where near overweight]]. She was eventually fired in 2010, allegedly for causing issues on a tour, but some have disputed this. Mickie returned six years later and it was clear almost from the get-go that they had no plans to push her, using her as a glorified jobber, never giving her a title run, and replacing the fat jokes with [[HollywoodOld age jokes]] since she was in her late thirties/early forties. After being released for the second time in 2021, Mickie said that management often shot down her ideas and were conviced that she was "too old", trying to force her to retire and take up a commentary or agent role. Massive controversy erupted when Mickie announced that her WWE belongings were sent to her in a ''trash bag'' (though Mickie wasn't the only recipient of this treatment, as other Pests spoke up about similar treatment), perfectly symbolizing what those in [=McMahonLand=] have thought of her all along.
256** If [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Nikki Bella]] is to be believed, the cast of ''Series/TotalDivas'' was this to him as he originally wanted the show to be seen as a joke [[SpringtimeForHitler only for it to become very popular]] to the point where it rivaled ''Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians''. This didn't set well with Vince, who would take any opportunity to bury the ''Total Divas'' cast. Case in point, when Wrestling/AJLee turned down the show, Vince gave her the green light to give her infamous "Pipe Bombshell" promo. When the Bella Twins won "Diva of the Year," presumingly due to their exposure on the show, Vince was so furious he yelled at them when they got backstage.
257* When Wrestling/JimCornette was asked about the most undeserving workers he ever booked, he named Wrestling/UltimateWarrior and Wrestling/{{Sable}}, citing their lack of passion for the business, poor ring work, and strictly [[MoneyDearBoy mercenary]] motivations. He even at one point called Warrior the [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to Sable.
258* Tony Khan of Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling dislikes supernatural characters. He did not care for [[Wrestling/MattHardy Broken Matt Hardy]] and the Broken Universe, and although the angle was cut short after a spot between Matt and Wrestling/SammyGuevara nearly went disastrously wrong, it was clear it was something Tony was ready to do anyway. Another supernatural pest is Abadon. Abadon is well liked both by the fans and fellow wrestlers, and she gets enough of a crowd reaction that she was promptly made a full member of the roster after her debut, but Tony still doesn't like ''booking'' Abadon, so she mostly wins squash matches on Dark and occasionally earns and loses a shot at the AEW Women's Championship without ever being put in any angles. Some other wrestlers with supernatural gimmicks he's simply taken a pass on - for example, Sunny Daze (who was in the Casino Battle Royale in AEW's inaugural event) was hired as a producer rather than a wrestler.
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262* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
263** J.P. Grosse, Scooter's uncle who owns the theater. Head writer Jerry Juhl once claimed that the character worked well as TheGhost, but when he started to actually appear in the second season, he was too harsh to have around and was dropped from the show altogether.
264** Fleet Scribbler. Like J.P., once the cast and crew began to work with him, they found him way too aggressive and awful, so he only appeared a few times. They had to use him in the show because when Fleet was introduced in a press conference, the reporters loved him and gave him huge publicity.
265* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
266** According to Jon Stone in the 1991 book, ''The Story of Creator/JimHenson'', Jim reportedly disliked performing Guy Smiley, due to the character's voice being hard on his throat.
267** Richard Hunt hated performing as Elmo when he briefly did him back in 1984 for season 16, to the point that he reportedly threw the puppet at Kevin Clash after filming was completed and asked him to do something with him, leading to a chain of events that culminated in Elmo becoming the show's BreakoutCharacter.
268* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Creator/GerryAnderson hated John Tracy due to his "all-American" quality, among numerous other reasons he has cited over the years, which is why John is so rarely seen in the series. John Tracy went on exactly ''one'' mission, in the episode "Danger At Ocean Deep," and even there he didn't get to do much of importance. Anderson's dislike for the character becomes even more obvious in the episode "Operation Crash-Dive," in which Thunderbird 5 plays a much larger role than usual, which coincides with Alan being on duty relieving John.
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272* In ''Roleplay/UltimateChatFicOfMutualMemeing'', Gonta's role-player [[MyGreatestFailure can't apologize enough]] for their InNameOnly portrayal of him, turning him from a GentleGiant into a crazed BloodKnight.
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276* Ed Greenwood, creator of ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', wasn't too fond of many of the monsters introduced in the original Fiend Folio, but seems to have had a special dislike for the xvarts, viewing them as both uncreative (being borderline identical in their initial function and role to goblins and kobolds) and redundant (''D&D'' already had beings based on the ''svartalfar'' of mythology, namely the drow). Because of this, you can count the number of times a xvart appears in a pre-2000s ''Realms'' story on one hand. They only started popping up again in the days of 4th and 5th Edition, at which point Greenwood had lost a lot of his old grip and the xvarts had been retooled enough to stand out a bit more.
277* The designers of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' reportedly didn't like the Squats very much, due to a general belief among them that they had screwed up the faction's design and feel and turned it into a lame joke, even down to the name (essentially being ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'''s dwarves, but in space). They spent most of Second Edition delaying giving the faction a proper update because they just didn't ''want'' to, claiming [[CreatorsApathy they didn't feel inspired to do so]] and they couldn't figure out what was fun and what worked about the Squats for them to focus on. Upon the designers realizing that they couldn't just keep kicking the can down the road, the Squats were famously removed as a playable army in Third Edition (their homeworld was eaten by Tyranids) and spent much of the next few decades ExiledFromContinuity. There was a tentative return with the Demiurg (a short, technologically-skilled Tau ally), but a few editions later, the Leagues of Votann appeared: dwarves in space with a better design, subfactions of which the Squats and Demiurg were retconned into being.
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281* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
282** Former Story Team leader Bob Thompson hated the 2002 [[PoweredArmor Exo-Toa]] toy, which was otherwise extremely popular with the fans. He asked the other writers to diminish its role in the comics and books. As a result, following a dramatic reveal which paints them as borderline DeusExMachina, the Toa quickly discard them when they realize the exo-suits are blocking their special powers. They made a cameo in the following arc, only to get destroyed.
283** Comic and book author Greg Farshtey disliked the Vahki enforcer robots for lacking individuality and not being able to communicate with the main characters. Most of them ended up going offline, destroyed, or damaged and then destroyed. When their city was repopulated much later, Greg decided not to have the characters reactivate the Vahki for the remainder of the story. He claims to have been rather unfond of similar "horde"-type characters like the Bohrok and Visorak, as well, though he gives the Rahkshi a fairer shake for their role in buoying the franchise during one of its rougher patches.
284** Greg also disliked writing for Air-element characters that spoke in [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture "treespeak" or "chutespeak"]]. He eventually heavily toned down this speech pattern, and explained that newly introduced Air-characters didn't speak it to begin with, only so that he'd be able to write their dialogue the way he liked it.
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288* ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand'': Chris [=McElligott=] Park has stated he came to dislike [[GreaterScopeParagon the Exodian Blade]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain the CORE]], and Badger (one of his main collaborators) outright ''hated'' them, and thus scrapped them both for the sequel. Gameplay wise, the Exodian Blade threw the whole game out of whack by turning it into an EscortMission, and lorewise they devalued humanity as their own entity (and their own destroyers) by having alien intervention, and they just weren't creative or interesting, being an alien ArtifactOfDoom and its GoodCounterpart fighting to the death and dragging humanity into it.
289* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'':
290** Creator Steven Mayles has stated on his Twitter account that Tooty is his least favorite character in the series, presumably due to [[FlatCharacter her utter lack of personality]], hence why she didn't return in the sequels, save for joke cameos.
291--->''"She's officially the least favourite BK character. Didn't even make the sequel. Go on, name me a more unpopular BK character."''
292** Lead designer Gregg Mayles has said that Brentilda is his least favorite character as well, though this is due to him regretting how poorly the execution of the idea behind her (her randomly giving you answers to questions that would help you in the Grunty's Furnace Fun quiz) turned out, hence why she was dropped from the sequels as well.
293--->''"Brentilda is my least favourite Banjo-Kazooie character and her role around providing 'facts' on her sister to enable you to win Furnace Fun is certainly one of the worst pieces of design I have ever created. The idea was OK, but I think I could have done a much better job of implementing it."''
294* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has Tawna Bandicoot. While she still gets the occasional reference or cameo, she was jettisoned from the mainline games after the first entry: Sony of Japan wanted a more family-friendly female character, a Universal Studios executive disliked her outright, and developer Naughty Dog was just plain dissatisfied with the character's design. Fast-forward to ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' decades later, and new developers Toys For Bob went on record as stating that they disliked Tawna for being nothing more than [[SatelliteLoveInterest Crash's]] [[MsFanservice sexy]] [[FlatCharacter girlfriend]], and [[PutOnABus wrote her out of the series]] with the explanation that Crash and Coco had lost contact with her. To ensure Tawna couldn't return, she was replaced by an ActionGirl alternate universe counterpart who is so radically different she's effectively an entirely new character.
295* Gregg Mayles and Steve Mayles, the lead designer and artist of the first two ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games, respectively, expressed a dislike for Winky the Frog and Rattly, stating both characters have awkward jumping mechanics and bad hitboxes that make them useless and frustrating to play as. This may be why neither has ever made a second proper appearance in the series [[note]]Winky makes a cameo in ''[=DKC2=]'' in the Monkey Museum and Rattly appears in ''Donkey Kong Land 2'', which is much closer to its SNES counterpart than its predecessor[[/note]], and why the third ''DKC'' game lacks any animal buddy with a high-jump ability.[[note]]The GBA ports of both games rework Winky and Rattly's movement into their hopping essentially be a normal running animation rather than be periodically airborne while "running".[[/note]]
296* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': This is the reason why Warbucks was removed. The dev team realized that his character design could cause some UnfortunateImplications and were not happy with his gimmicks[[note]]He gained sanity when he has money in his inventory (which only applies to Hamlet mode), but lost sanity if he ate food that didn't come from a crock pot[[/note]], and realized he wasn't that interesting after all. He was replaced by Wormwood, a living plant who as a concept is more unique.
297* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'': Interviews with Creator/YokoTaro confirm the man's patented dislike for Furiae, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Incorruptibly Pure]] LittleSisterHeroine of the party, and the bearer of the seal of the Goddess. Part of the reason was that Taro had her as [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype his answer]] to "[[DisposableWoman boring women who only exist to be fought over as a prize]]". She is the ''only'' character [[spoiler:[[TheyKilledKennyAgain who is killed off in every ending of the games]], and is also revealed to be extremely incestuous to her brother [[VillainProtagonist Caim]]]], so the dev's patented dislike of her character is observable even within the confines of the game itself.
298* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': In an interview, producer Akihiro Suzuki admitted that his regrets character-wise were Wei Yan and the two Qiaos (Daqiao and Xiaoqiao). The former as, despite having a good design, his HulkSpeak made his presentation difficult despite being a major general (especially in regards to conversations). The latter two as their purpose was to fulfill the need of a TokenMiniMoe, only to realize something was wrong when they were shown together with their husbands Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectively as next to them they look like small children. Ironically, ''9'' introduces another Mini Moe, Xiahou Ji, who not only looks much younger than her husband Zhang Fei, but her ''children'' Xingcai and Zhang Bao.
299* Ironically enough, Matt Roszak, creator of the ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series, has expressed dissatisfaction towards his own AuthorAvatar, also named Matt. In an interview, Matt the creator lamented that he could no longer [[PutOnABus write Matt the character out]] due to having inserted him into too many projects.
300* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': The scrapped character Timmy was this to the creators. He was initially intended to act as a second player, but the developers disliked his presence in the game and cut him out. In the present day, his hat can be found in the Laundry Room as a nod to him. When asked about what happened to Timmy, the official Twitter account just responded [[BlackComedy "electrical fire"]].
301* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': For the longest time, a lot of fans, and SNK themselves, went along with the sentiments that SNK hates the character [=K9999=] for being not only a huge {{jerkass}} but a blatant ripoff of [[Manga/{{Akira}} Tetsuo Shima]] (which may attract a massive copyright battle) that was created right after SNK declared bankruptcy and was bought by Eolith. Eventually SNK had to completely replace him with Nameless, with a more somber but serious personality, yet limited his appearance in non-canon materials. Fast forward to 2022, as they unveiled ''KOF XV'', and they announced a surprise reveal of a 'new' character named Krohnen, who [[spoiler:is actually [=K9999=] with a completely different, less infringing design, plus some actual CharacterDevelopment]], to fans' delight. SNK eventually revealed via a Twitter message that [[AvertedTrope they averted this trope]]; they don't really hate [=K9999=] per se, but [[spoiler:they needed time to re-design him to make him less of an obvious CaptainErsatz, which took time. Luckily, the rumors about SNK hating [=K9999=] became so popular that they went along with the lie to better cover their redesign efforts until they were done]].
302* Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto [[https://shmuplations.com/ocarinaoftime/ admitted]] in 1999 that he shared much of the fandom's dislike for Navi from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', calling her hint system "the biggest weak point" of the game. He describes her as being left at a "stupid" level because they could not come up with a hint system that was tailored to players of all skill levels. The only reason she was left in was because his team found that no hints at all was even more player-unfriendly.
303* According to former Capcom employee Katsuya Akitomo, Marvel absolutely ''hated'' Norimaro from ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', and to appease them, Capcom ended up pulling the character from the American release of the game. It's believed that this, in addition to the licensing issues (as he was co-created by comedian Noritake Kinashi), is why Norimaro never made another appearance in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series.
304* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Amongst many many kombatants featured in the series, [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Hsu Hao]] is the one hated the most by the developers, and the fans also agreed. Ed Boon has many times expressed his distaste and disinterest to the character, usually by giving him horrific, undignified fates every time he appeared.
305* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', Mike Stout confirmed that the reason Angela Cross largely disappeared from the series was because they didn't know how to write her, hence why she's never shown up again in the games. The team also aren't fond of the Y.E.T.I. enemies, due to being a result of running out of time, which meant they were poorly balanced and difficult to fight, resulting in the team coming up with a "Snowbeast Award" for anybody in Insomniac who was responsible for the worst element in the game that had most recently released.
306* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''’s co-creator Creator/ShinjiMikami was quite clear in how little he liked Rebecca Chambers compared to the other female characters in his games due to her demure nature. Mikami only put her in the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil first game]] due his staff (who liked Rebecca’s character) urging him to. He fully explained his dislike for Rebecca in a 2014 interview for ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin''.
307-->'''Shinji Mikami''': If I had to name the woman character I most disliked in my games it would be Rebecca Chambers. She's submissive, she's not independent. I didn't want to include her but the staff wanted that kind of character in the game, for whatever reason. I'm sure it made sense to them. And in Japan, that character is pretty popular.[[note]]Western audiences mostly shared in Mikami's dislike for her until the 2002 [=REmake=] [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap retooled her characterization]] and made her into more of a StoicWoobie.[[/note]]
308* ''Franchise/SilentHill'''s creature designer Masahiro Ito seems to have grown to dislike [[BreakoutVillain Pyramid Head]], or at least resent his [[TheArtifact overuse]] and disproportionate popularity. When asked if he was willing to participate in a Team Silent reunion, Ito [[https://twitter.com/adsk4/status/903266428744118272 replied,]] "''If it's not [sic] sequel and I don't have to use Pyramid Head or [[DroppedABridgeOnHim can kill him in the opening]], I'll have no qualms about joining it.''"
309* ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'': Bandai Namco and Project Soul threw [[TheScrappy Patroklos Alexander]] under the bus during the popularity poll, saying that they were "impressed" that the hero of ''SCV'' placed so low, even below characters like [[JokeCharacter Dampierre]]. For the record, he placed #37 out of 45 characters, with only 32 votes received out of over 10,000 that were cast. Sure enough, ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI'' turned out to be a reboot that returned to the original setting of the series, and Patroklos was among the first characters (alongside the other V newcomers) that were confirmed to be cut from the game. And even moreso, the DLC announcement of Cassandra revealed some things: [[spoiler:First, Cassandra was tasked with naming Sophitia's children and if a boy, she's picking the name 'Deucalion', so if Patroklos would ever be 'born' into the 'verse, it would be under hopefully different context that he won't turn out as atrocious. Second, Cassandra ended up stumbling into the Astral Chaos, met the original timeline's Cassandra who had been turned into a Malfested and she managed to tell the new Cassandra that the old timeline leading to ''Soul Calibur V'' was a BadFuture that needs to be prevented, so new Cassandra is working on to create a new timeline where Patroklos won't manifest again]].
310* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In one [[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Super-Mario-3D-World/Super-Mario-3D-World/4-Time-Solves-All-Things/4-Time-Solves-All-Things-829629.html Iwata Asks interview]], series creator Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto would admit that he wasn't initially fond of Rosalina in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', finding her to be a redundant and unnecessary addition when Peach already exists and only okaying her on the basis of thinking that she would be a OneShotCharacter (something he ended up being [[BreakoutCharacter greatly wrong about]]). He also disliked the addition of her backstory, finding its melancholy and dramatic tone to be unsuitable for a ''Mario'' game (to where [[ExecutiveMeddling he made the devs scrap their plans]] to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen expand on her story]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''). That said, he has since warmed up to her.
311* The developers of ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' have said they weren't fond of Ocram, the console/mobile-exclusive FinalBoss, for not fitting in very well in terms of both gameplay and lore/theme. Not only was Ocram never added to the desktop version, but he and all other content exclusive to the console and mobile versions was removed when they were updated to 1.3. The 1.4.4 update makes several jokes at his expense outright, such as one of the randomly-selected window titles being "Now with even less Ocram!" (Or "Now with more Ocram!," [[TrollingCreator which is a lie]]) and adding an item called "Ocram's Razor" that can only be found in worlds made with a certain seed [[spoiler:which instead summons a mix of the Mechanical Bosses]].
312* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''[='s=] art book, Creator/TobyFox claims that one of the reasons he added the musclebound horse-merman Aaron to the game was because Creator/TemmieChang "hates muscles and horses", so [[ItAmusedMe he thought it would be funny]] to have her draw him. This is why the True Pacifist credits claim that she designed him "reluctantly", and why making Aaron show up by flexing while battling [[AuthorAvatar a Temmie]] will cause her to storm off in disgust. [[https://toby.fangamer.com/interviews/temmie/ A 2023 interview]] does suggest that her opinions on him have softened over time, though -- just not by much.
313-->'''Toby:''' I literally made the character "Aaron" from UNDERTALE have muscles to troll you. How are you about muscles now? Do they still gross you out?\
314'''Temmie:''' [[DamnedByFaintPraise i have grown to accept they exist]]
315* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'': Sarah from Season 2 was hated by the developers, who took great pleasure in [[spoiler:killing her off in Episode 4]].
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319* For ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Sayaka Maizono and Leon Kuwata were used as the female and male base models, respectively. Since the developers had to constantly come back to them whenever they designed a new character, they had gotten sick of them by the time they designed everybody, which is why [[spoiler:they both die in Chapter 1]].
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323* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', fans had some outrage over Nonexisty, not getting to play in BFDI, even when in the debut, he was the second most-voted player, and Price Tag (the third most-voted plaer) was let in the game over him. As the production staff explained, having Nonexisty in the game would just be a “waste of a slot”. They’ve also been saying that while preparing for the new characters in the game to be non-binary, they reconsidered letting in Nonexisty, as having a nonexistent nothing, being non-binary would become very offensive.
324* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'':
325** The show's staff have confessed their dislike towards Cro-Marmot due to him being such an [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme]] FlatCharacter, which is probably why he [[OutOfFocus appears so little]] compared to the other characters.
326** During the production of the Internet series, most of the writers, with the exception of Rhode Montijo, did not like Disco Bear because they found him annoying. It was not until the TV series [[AvertedTrope that they began to like him]].
327* Krinkels of ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' fame has admitted that he never really liked the Sheriff, which explains why he died in ''Avenger'' and never came back. That said, he does make a surprise reappearance in ''VideoGame/MadnessProjectNexus2'' (and with a redesign, to boot).
328* ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'': Adam Taurus is a villain that is considered so despicable that co-showrunner Miles Luna has made no secret of his hatred for him - he even included a footnote in the Volume 5 script that said "fuck you Adam Taurus" when Blake smacks Adam down. The feeling is shared by many within the animation team; Adam's own voice actor, Garrett Hunter, admitted that saying Adam's lines creeps him out. When Adam's character short debuted at RTX, CRWBY nicknamed him "The Worst".
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332* In ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', author Duke said that his least favorite character in the strip to write for was Xemnas. Xemnas was a straight laced villain who didn't seem to realize he was in a comedy webcomic, and that made his dialogue very difficult.
333* Mookie of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' did not like the fact that Lord Sigfried -- the only morally grey character in a story full of overly pure heroes and cartoonishly evil villains -- was so popular among the fandom. He tried to fix it by retconning every good thing Sigfried ever did as just part of a (successful) plan to get into Jaylen's -- the wife of his supposed best friend -- pants.
334* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
335** PlayedForLaughs in Act 6 Intermission 3, where Hussie refers to [[CasanovaWannabe Cronus]] as "the worst character in Homestuck" (which isn't true) and his avatar only talks to Cronus just so he can steal Seahorse Dad, but Cronus gets as much screentime as the other pre-scratch Trolls who aren't Aranea or Meenah.
336** Played a bit straighter with Feferi, who gets unceremoniously killed off ''three times'' in the story and Hussie has implied more than once that he made [[MoneyFetish Meenah]] TheLeader of the pre-scratch Trolls because he felt like he'd shafted his Pisces fans.
337* In ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', it's rather clear Christine hates Bananasauros, a Patreon backer's pre-existing character. Christine wrote him out of the comic in the same episode he was introduced, and called the paid advertisement for the Bananasauros video game "out-of-context, outdated and juvenile" on the same page as the ad itself. Christine later outright had the original iteration of the character die offscreen in lore that she later described -- a rarity for Christine's story -- although the species is still technically alive.
338* David Willis of ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' and ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' fame states that his only character that he absolutely cannot stand is [[TheFundamentalist Mary Bradford]].
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342* In Wildbow's serial webnovel ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the character of Panacea was apparently supposed to be disliked by the fandom, but the multiple fanfics that involved her tended to make her into TheWoobie more than anything else. So when he wrote the sequel ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', he not only had her embrace villainy (which she'd fought against doing all the way through Worm), but also included flashbacks from the Worm era that retconned some of her thought processes, specifically to make her look like a much worse person.
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346* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
347** Creator/TeamFourStar have been anything but subtle about their hatred of Broly and deemed him to be one of, if not the blandest villains of the Z-era ''Dragon Ball'' films. In their abridging of Broly's [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan debut film]], TFS give no quarter in mocking Broly by using Vegeta as a [[AuthorAvatar mouthpiece]] to criticize the character (particularly his [[EvilIsPetty motives for hating Goku]] and [[GenericDoomsdayVillain non-existent personality]]) while the Z Fighters even go so far as to say that they'd rather fight any of the previous movie antagonists instead of Broly. Averted with the canon version of Broly, as they were more positive towards him.
348** They also have a hatred towards Icarus, Gohan’s pet dragon in movies 3-5, due to him eating up screen time. So much so that he was killed twice when they covered ''Lord Slug'' and ''Cooler’s Revenge''.
349** Creator/KaiserNeko hates Mr. Satan's students Caroni and Piroshkii, and his manager Piiza; they don't appear in the manga, their jokes take over screen time, and they're generally just really annoying. He made it a point to have Cell kill them almost as soon as they show up and to edit them out of any subsequent scenes.
350--->'''[=KaiserNeko=]:''' I would rather put in the effort to edit them out of every single shot they appear in than actually take the time to write jokes for them.
351* WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}:
352** In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign, "Heir Superiority" ends up featuring a rather heavier role for an NPC named Lynton who ends up being a whiny, selfish little shit, moreso than the GM, Johnny Chiodini, had intended. At the end of one of Lynton's lines, Johnny breaks character to say, "God, I hate him."
353** In the ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' spinoff, GM Luke mentioned at the end strongly disliking Pickett, the NumberTwo of the Lampblacks Guild. This was because the voice he selected for Pickett was taxing on his vocal chords. Pickett then becomes the group's mole, promising her a larger role in the narrative. During the story, a ghost claws its way down Pickett's throat, and Luke reasons that she'll probably have a different voice after such an event.
354* Logan Thirtyacre, creator of ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' has stated at times about how he regrets adding Jeffy to the cast, even stating in a chat with dabhdude that he would like to go back in time in order to make sure he never creates Jeffy. Logan has also stated that he can't retire or kill him off due to the fact [[JustHereForGodzilla a large portion of his subscribers only watch his channel for Jeffy]], and would unsubscribe, harass, and/or even send death threats if Jeffy was removed (not helping is the fact that Logan's address is public knowledge, as he often has fans visiting his house who appear in Chilly's vlogs).
355* ''WebVideo/TheUncannyValley'': Rob Walker hated playing The Meditation Guy, and he only existed because Doug was compulsed to change things at the last minute. In Doug's ''Shut Up And Talk'' episode with Welshy, both of them discuss how badly Rob's character was received, and Doug {{Suspiciously Specific Denial}}s that he had anything to do with the writing of those segments.
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359* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': At a fan convention for the show, creator Chris Rowley said "Oh, Buzzwang. We wanted to kill him ''so'' badly..." To which the gathered viewers responded [[TheScrappy "So did we!"]]
360* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Despite being well-received by the fanbase, Tobias' sister Rachel never had a second speaking role, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome and eventually disappeared from the show almost entirely]], because the show's creator and other staff members disliked her character and design.
361* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
362** Several animators who worked on [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 the Original Series]] have expressed their frustrations with how complex the designs for Ben's alien transformations were, thanks to the difficulties presented in keeping their designs on-model with [[TheSpeedster XLR8]] and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily Ripjaws]] being cited as the most troublesome to animate. It likely isn't a coincidence that Ripjaws was DemotedToExtra after Season 2, [=XLR8=] would take a LongBusTrip after the Original Series concluded, and subsequent shows would use [[ArtShift more simplistic art styles]].
363** Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, the voice of many of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'''s aliens, admits he doesn't like doing Humungousaur's voice due to how much it strains his throat. This might be why he didn't reprise the role in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' and [[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 the reboot]], where Humungousaur is [[TheOtherDarrin instead played]] by Creator/JohnDiMaggio and Creator/DavidKaye, respectively.
364** While the main villain of the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', [[PowerCopying Aggregor]], was well received by fans, staff felt burnt out on the character by the time his arc concluded, with nobody being proud of [[WalkingShirtlessScene his design either]]. There were plans to bring him back during the Rooters Arc in ''Omniverse'', [[BackForTheDead where he'd be killed off in his first scene]] but this scene was ultimately cut due to time concerns and nobody being able to think of a good enough redesign for him, despite the plot holes his lack of appearance or even mention brought to the storyline.
365** Ben and Julie breaking up prior to the events of ''Omniverse'' was a result of ExecutiveMeddling due to higher-ups wanting something different from the franchise along with a general disdain towards Julie and her relationship with Ben, much to the frustration of several writers who were fond of the character.
366** Derrick J. Wyatt who was a Story Editor and the lead Character Designer for ''Omniverse'' hated how [[MyFutureSelfAndMe Ben 10,000]] was portrayed in ''Ultimate Alien'', with Ben forgoing any transformations in favor of being able to use their powers in his human form. As a result, Omniverse's take on Ben 10,000 would have a design and personality much closer to the version seen in the Original Series, albeit now having [[MixAndMatchCritters the power to fuse alien transformations]].
367* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
368** According to biographer Neal Gabler, Creator/WaltDisney reportedly hated WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, considered his cartoons to be nothing but "stupid cartoons with gags tied together", and even considered axing the Goofy series altogether but didn't go through with it since it gave his Goofy-loving animators something to work on. That said, neither Gabler nor his book cites any source for the claim of Walt hating Goofy.[[note]]Gabler's source may have been Harry Tytle's book ''One of Walt's Boys'', specifically a chapter called "Shorts Go Out of Style", and even then, there is no evidence that Walt hated Goofy; his main issue with the Goofy cartoons was that they were, in Walt's words, "no good for merchandising."[[/note]] In fact, there is evidence that Walt had warmed up to the character by the 1950's, even dedicating several episodes to him on his ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' television show.
369** According to Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice and Magic", some of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck staff grew to dislike the character and how formula driven his shorts became over time. One of the directors, veteran Jack Hannah (no relation to Hanna-Barbera) even complained "I got so damned tired of that duck's voice. I just could not stand having to work with it all the time." Likewise, Bill Peet, in his own autobiography, admitted to disliking Donald so much that at one point during the production of one short, he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere would temporarily leave Disney]] in a [[RageQuit fit of rage]] after being handed a giant stack of Donald Duck drawings, screaming ''"NO MORE DUCKS!!! NO MORE LOUSY DUCKS!"'' in the process.
370* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
371** The reason why the Riddler didn't appear that much in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' was because the creators felt that he was hard to write for and that he made plots too complicated.
372** While the crew finally got to use Firefly in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' after [[ExecutiveMeddling pushback]] on ''BTAS'', Creator/PaulDini and Creator/BruceTimm admit that he was one of the most boring villains to write for.
373** Timm is on record as saying the crew of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' hated Professor Hamilton from day one. When DC rejected having Darkseid kill the Kents at the end of "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E25E26ApokolipsNow Apokolips... Now!: Part 2]]", they'd briefly considered killing Hamilton until they realized it wouldn't have the impact they wanted. This is also likely why Hamilton only reappears in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' to pull a FaceHeelTurn and work for Cadmus.
374** More of a BaseBreakingCharacter within the crew in addition to the fandom, but some of the writers didn't like Max Gibson from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' and used Bruce as an AuthorAvatar in "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E27WheresTerry Where's Terry?]]" to vent their own feelings. Others, like Alan Burnett, liked her and actually attempted to have her replace Dana as Terry's girlfriend. This might explain why Max doesn't appear in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' or the FullyAbsorbedFinale "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" in ''Justice League Unlimited''.
375** Reportedly, the crew weren't very fond of Bane, considering him to be a gimmick villain. This would explain both the infrequency of his appearances and why he was made into an AdaptationalWimp. Seemingly further corroborated by the fact that the DTV film ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'', which prominent crew members such as Creator/BruceTimm and Creator/PaulDini [[BTeamSequel had no involvement with]], portrayed Bane as much more of a genuine threat to Batman.
376** Creator/DwayneMcDuffie considered Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} to be the hardest character of the core WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague to write. He saw her as lacking a coherent concept (an Amazon ambassador who wears patriotic colors and has an invisible jet and a truth lasso and FlyingBrick powers) compared to the other Leaguers, who were either strongly defined in other shows or had much clearer gimmicks. He also felt that, given the BrokenBase surrounding the character, it was hard to give her any kind of quirks or flaws or personality that wouldn't result in some faction of her fans yelling at him.
377* The most prolific writer of the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon, Erika Strobel, wrote in a post she made on Retrojunk that she hated Candy Kong, saying "her weird face made me cringe" and "she looks like a burn victim".
378* The creators of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' say that Doofus was the only character from [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 the original series]] that they didn't like, because he functioned solely as a living fat joke. After confirming that no one else seemed to have any fondness for him either, they [[InNameOnly reworked the character entirely]], turning him into a rich and [[SpoiledBrat spoiled]] CreepyChild.
379* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has an interesting example in Sparky, a character added in the ninth season. While Creator/ButchHartman personally liked the character, he was ultimately disliked not only by fans, but also the show's writers and network executives; the latter group would demand Sparky's removal from the show entirely. And so he was removed from the series entirely with zero in-show acknowledgement the very next season.
380* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
381** Joe Swanson's son Kevin simply disappeared from the series. This was due to the show's staff finding him boring. In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E13StewRoids Stew-Roids]]", Joe offhandedly mentions that he died in Iraq, though "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E6Thanksgiving Thanksgiving]]" later revealed that he actually [[FakingTheDead faked his death]]. However, even after Kevin eventually returns to the show he remains largely OutOfFocus.
382** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E4SavingPrivateBrian Saving Private Brian]]", Stewie guns down the vaudeville duo Vern and Johnny and tells the audience that they're dead and that we won't be seeing them again. The staff confirmed in the DVDCommentary that "People just got sick of them." Ironically, they made one last appearance in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E9BackToTheWoods Back to the Woods]]" where Vern appeared as a ghost while Johnny is in hell because according to Vern, he "[[PaedoHunt liked little boys]]."
383** The writers admitted that they don't know how to write for a teenage girl like Meg. Her ButtMonkey status in later seasons is often attributed to this.
384** Loretta was disliked by the show staff, finding her to be bland and nasty. With the addition of Creator/AlexBorstein hating the strain of voicing her ''and'' her unpopularity with the fanbase, she was eventually divorced from Cleveland and later killed in the ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' episode "Gone With the Wind", which ends with a eulogy montage for her that only really showed off more of her unlikable traits (namely her constant nagging and her cheating on Cleveland).
385** The one character that nearly all of the show's writing staff despised was Paddy Tanniger due to how annoying he is and has since then been killed in the season 5 episode "Hell Comes to Quahog".
386* On the topic of Creator/SethMacFarlane shows, [=MacFarlane=] stopped voicing Tim the Bear halfway into Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' because he found the character annoying and unfunny.
387* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
388** Creator/LaurenFaust admits that she hated [[KarmaHoudini Bendy]] just as much as the audience did, which is why he never appeared again.
389** Creator/TaraStrong has said that Terrence, Mac’s BigBrotherBully, was her least favorite character to play, as his raspy voice made her go hoarse with each appearance. This is probably partly the reason why he was downplayed in later episodes.
390* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
391** Matt Groening has apparently ranked the Hyper-Chicken (the SimpleCountryLawyer who helps Planet Express in court cases from time to time) as his least favorite character.
392** Series director Peter Avanzino has described H.G. Blob as "a pain in the ass to draw."
393* The writers for ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' and ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', when asked by Creator/{{Mattel}} to utilize Stinkor in the latter series, had a laugh after he was described to them and made an effort to never utilize the character, due to them seeing him as "a walking fart joke".
394* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Creator/CraigBartlett admits that in the latter seasons, Arnold did indeed become too "perfect", and had less stories focused on him than before. He also didn't like Miss Slovak, feeling she was a boring character, which is why Mr. Simmons replaced her as Arnold's teacher in the second season.
395* According to ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' executive producer and screenwriter Creator/JessWinfield, skateboarding boy (and Lilo's crush) Keoni Jameson was only made because Creator/DisneyChannel execs wanted an AudienceSurrogate character, and the show's writing staff hated him for it.
396* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
397** Several Creator/WarnerBros staff grew to hate WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, particularly director Creator/FrankTashlin, citing him to be "a terrible character" who was less charismatic and flexible to the franchise's trademark slapstick as later additions such as [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Bugs]] and [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]], and felt forced to make cartoons of him in starring roles due to his title billing. Porky's last solo cartoon in MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation was 1951's "The Wearing of the Grin", and after that, he got demoted to sidekick for the rest of his appearances. Even his own creator, Creator/FrizFreleng (who, tellingly, stopped using him long before Jones or [=McKimson=] did, after 1952's ''Cracked Quack'') made fun of how much more boring he was to utilize:
398--->'''Freleng:''' Nobody liked working with Porky Pig much because he was sort of a square.
399*** Ironically among the few of the staff that loved Porky was producer and later head of marketing, Leon Schlesinger, which may explain why Porky's career flourished far less upon his death.
400*** In ''Chuck Amuck,'' Chuck Jones admits to initially having a hard time with Porky, but finally realizing he worked very well both as an easily relatable {{Everyman}} character and a StraightMan for other wackier stars, resulting in his frequent pairings with Daffy.
401*** The dislike of the character extends to the present day; animator Mike Fontanelli (who works for Warner Bros.) claims that Porky's current downplaying is a result of an unexplained dislike of the character by many Warner Bros. executives. They appear to have gotten over it since then, because in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'', Porky is just as prominent as Bugs, if not more so. Porky is also one of the main characters in ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders'', giving him much more screentime than the previous preschool-friendly ''Looney Tunes'' spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', where his appearances were limited to the music videos.
402** Creator/FrizFreleng wasn't fond of WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd, stating the character was too dumb and pitiful, thus WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's usual [[KarmicTrickster Karmic Trickery]] on him made him look too sympathetic and caused a delicate dance to avoid Bugs looking like a DesignatedHero. Because of that, he created WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam as a more formidable and less sympathetic foe for Bugs.
403** The main reason why Creator/ChuckJones retooled Bugs and Daffy into a cool winner and a jealous loser (respectively) was that he disliked their original {{Troll}} personas. Conversely, Creator/RobertMcKimson was slow to adapt to their new personalities because he preferred their older ones. He even thought that Bugs had become an outright FlatCharacter during the mid-to-late '50s due to how reserved he got. Ironically, Jones did not have the same hard feelings towards Porky or Elmer as his fellow directors, as they feature in some of his most beloved shorts, such as ''WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy'' and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''.
404** Producer Eddie Selzer hated the Tasmanian Devil for being too "grotesque", and ordered Creator/RobertMcKimson to stop making cartoons about him. He would later relent because he was [[EnsembleDarkhorse popular among the fandom]] (and because Jack Warner himself liked Taz). Selzer wasn't fond of WesternAnimation/PepeLePew either, claiming there was nothing funny about a skunk who spoke French after watching ''WesternAnimation/ForScentimentalReasons'' (which is ironic, considering that particular cartoon ended up winning an Oscar).
405* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Thomas Astruc, the creator of the show, has made clear a disdain for Félix, the proto-Cat Noir from the promotional video. Among the reasons for this is because the plan was for Félix to be indifferent and rude towards Marinette in civilian life and manipulative towards her when she's Ladybug[[note]]The only reason he tries to win her over is because a kiss imbued with her good luck will remove the ring he wears that brings misfortune to him[[/note]], and said that if the 2D version does get made, Cat Noir would still be Adrien from the series proper, not Félix. When Félix ''was'' eventually incorporated into the show as Adrien's cousin in season 3, [[spoiler:he was written to be a thoroughly unpleasant HateSink, and then this was doubled down by him [[WhamEpisode stealing and giving Hawk Moth all of the Miraculous other than Ladybug and Cat]] in the season 4 finale]].
406* Dana Terrace, creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', has a stated dislike for writing Belos, the show's main antagonist: not due to him being poorly written, but more because his character, to her, [[HateSink comes off as particularly detestable and repellent]] due to invoking a lot of real-world prejudices. This may have been why [[spoiler:his ultimate fate, literally being stomped on while he was ''already'' dying]], is so comically mean-spirited.
407* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', [[KidAppealCharacter the Junior]] [[TheLoad Ghostbusters]] were despised by the writers, as their addition was one of many things [[ExecutiveMeddling mandated by an outside consulting firm called Q5]]. When Creator/JMichaelStraczynski came back to the show after Q5 left, he said that he'd only use them in an episode if he were allowed to have them run over by a truck.
408* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} executives absolutely ''loathed'' George Liquor, in part due to his name (both because it was an alcohol reference, and because it sounded to them like "lick her"). John Kricfalusi [[CreatorsFavorite loved him]] and wanted to include him in as many episodes as he could (being based on Kricfalusi's hyperconservative father), but ExecutiveMeddling made it so that he only appeared in two of them (one of which was a BannedEpisode). When Kricfalusi was fired, they let him take the rights to George Liquor with him.
409* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': Angelica was initially written as a mean kid who would [[KarmaHoudini never be punished for her actions]], to teach children that sometimes life isn't fair. But Arlene Klasky has admitted that they came to loathe Angelica's brattiness so much that they started having her be punished for her actions, and later on gave her more sympathetic traits.
410* The reason we never saw Fred and Daphne look for clues together in the early days of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' was due to the writers finding them boring. According to writer Charles M. Howell, while Daphne was brought back for ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMysteries'', the writers simply didn't know what to do with Fred, despite having Creator/FrankWelker onboard.
411* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
412** Creator/MattGroening and Creator/HarryShearer hated Dr. Marvin Monroe because the former found his voice annoying (which is ironic, considering the fact that Groening based him on David Viscott, a radio therapist he was a fan of, despite some people finding his voice annoying), while the latter strained his throat voicing him. As a result, the character disappeared from the show in its seventh season. He came back in three episodes; "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" (mostly just to joke about his long absence), "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (to joke about him being an artifact of the show's early days; the segment he appeared in was about the Simpsons' Tracey Ullman-era selves), and "Flanders' Ladder" (as a ghost).
413** Groening has said he doesn't like Database, as he finds him very annoying.
414** While not hated outright, writer Bill Oakley once noted Marge was the most difficult character of the Simpson family to write episodes for, to the point new writers were often assigned Marge episodes as a test of their storytelling skills.
415* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' had Rotor DemotedToExtra due to creator and producer Len Janson's unexplained dislike of the character.
416* According to ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' creator Daron Nefcy, Alfonzo and Ferguson were added because Disney [[SocialCircleFiller wanted Marco to have male friends]]. She resented this, using them as little as possible in the show's first season, completely ignoring them for Season 2, and only giving them sporadic appearances in the final two seasons.
417* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
418** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] was KilledOffForReal because Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone were getting sick of him and finding new ways to kill him off. After a season of Butters, and later Tweek, filling his place, Kenny was brought back, [[DemotedToExtra though with a reduced role]].[[note]]Which was Parker and Stone's [[WriterRevolt way of getting back]] at Creator/ComedyCentral for forcing them to reinstate the character; his death was originally meant to stick.[[/note]]
419** Parker and Stone originally considered killing Kyle off, because they felt that he and Stan were interchangeable, but the pair have since undergone DivergentCharacterEvolution, and Kenny ended up being killed off instead.
420** [[MadScientist Dr. Mephesto]] was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome phased out]] because Parker and Stone stopped finding him funny. They felt that they should have gotten rid of him in [[Recap/SouthParkS4E5CartmanJoinsNAMBLA "Cartman Joins NAMBLA".]] He did end up making appearances in "201" and in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' years later.
421** Pip [[InvokedTrope existed]] simply because Parker and Stone hated reading ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. Eventually, they realized that Butters fulfilled [[ThePollyanna his role]] better, and Pip was DemotedToExtra after his [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]]. They brought him BackForTheDead in "201," mostly so that fans would stop asking what happened to him.
422* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'':
423** The show's editor, John Semper, was deeply frustrated by the show's handling of the Hobgoblin, as he thought including him before the Green Goblin appeared made no sense and defeated the point of the character. This call was made by the person he had replaced and could not be undone because merchandise had already been produced for the character.
424** He also hated the Spider-Slayer robots featured in two season 1 episodes and only included them at [[ExecutiveMeddling Avi Arad's insistence.]]
425* ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'': For some reason, Creator/TexAvery '''hated''' Screwy Squirrel. There are accounts of him throwing out fan letters about the character ''on sight''. It explains why Screwy ended up meeting [[KilledOffForReal such a gruesome end]] in his final cartoon, "Lonesome Lenny".
426* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
427** Board artist Chris Tabares named Sandy as his least favorite in a Discord interview from January 2021. He said that he found Sandy better in the first few seasons, being portrayed as more sporty, and that her scientist personality she later developed isn't as interesting.
428** This is part of the reason why, aside from a brief cameo in Season 10, [[RichBastard Squilliam Fancyson]] [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome hasn’t appeared in the series since season 7]]. Showrunner/executive producer Vincent Waller has been quite vocal about his dislike towards him, and has gone on record saying that there are no plans to bring him back any time soon.
429* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'': Tom Ruegger admitted he hated Flim-Flam, to the point that the character gave him a better appreciation for Scrappy-Doo.
430* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
431** Daisy was this to the staff members who operated the scale train models during the show's first few seasons. Her model was troublesome to work with, and as a result, she didn't appear very much during the model era. ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' creator Rick Siggelkow also found Daisy a female stereotype due to her fluttering eyelids, which was why "Daisy" and "Percy's Predicament" were never broadcast on ''Shining Time Station'', neither during the Ringo Starr era nor the George Carlin era.[[note]]George Carlin's narrations of "Daisy" and "Percy's Predicament" were, however, released commercially on the ''Daisy and Other Thomas Stories'' VHS tape, which was later re-issued as the ''Percy Takes the Plunge'' DVD.[[/note]] Since Daisy's return to the series after its [[ShiftedToCGI shift to CGI animation,]] she has been featured more prominently.
432** Henry was also notably hard to handle from the writing team's point of view, due to his huge change in personality after Season 8. In Season 22, he was DemotedToExtra and his position on the Steam Team was taken by Rebecca, with his appearances since his departure being limited mostly to brief cameos. In fact, Henry's status as a Creator's Pest is even extended to ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' books that the TV series is based on: being the Rev. W. Awdry's least-favorite character. Awdry even considered writing Henry out due to issues with illustrator C. Reginald Dalby drawing him inconsistently, and [[KilledOffForReal would have had Henry be scrapped]] after his accident in "The Flying Kipper". He ultimately rewrote the story to have Henry undergo a major rebuild instead, at least partially to ensure that Dalby kept Henry's design consistent from then on.
433* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
434** More than a few times the writers have stated that Fifi is one of their least-liked characters of the main cast, simply because of how ''overly'' popular she was with the fanbase. The constant fans demanding more Fifi episodes and screentime is the main reason she has the fewest episodes out of the main cast, with a StrawFan character even being written as a criticism of those fans.
435** Elmyra was infamously an ''[[ExecutiveMeddling executive's]]'' CreatorsPet, which naturally led the writers to hate her, and they weren't shy about it bleeding into the story. When Elmyra had two different {{Poorly Disguised Pilot}}s in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', her role in the story is almost completely about her being insufferable. When she was shoehorned into ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'', the writers' contempt was literally written into the theme song (''[[BitingTheHandHumor It's what the network wantsWhy bother to complain?]]''). Since ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'', ''Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain'' [[CanonDiscontinuity has been retconned out of existence]].
436** The [[CreditsGag gag credit]] for "Toons From the Crypt", one of Concord Condor's few major appearances, is "We gave Concord Condor a new haircut - And he still isn't funny."
437* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
438** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Despite ironically writing over half of the episodes featuring him, David Wise disliked Omega Supreme, dismissing him as a "stupid character" based on a "completely illogical" toy.
439** Initially, the writers for ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' hated Waspinator because they found his voice was annoying and he also ate up valuable screen time. Because [[MerchandiseDriven they were contractually obligated to include Waspinator in every episode]], they made sure to have him [[TheChewToy viciously maimed and dismembered at every opportunity.]] Over time, this went away as the writers grew to love Waspinator because of this, and they later convinced Creator/{{Hasbro}} to spare him when they were looking for characters to kill off at the beginning of Season 2. The writers settled on killing [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Terrosaur]] and [[UndyingLoyalty Scorponk]]]] due to seeing them as boring, with their roles having been taken up by the more interesting [[spoiler: Tarantulus and Inferno]] respectively.
440** Of all the characters in the franchise's decades-long history, the only one the creators of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' universally and utterly ''despise'' is [[NewAgeRetroHippie Beachcomber.]] Not only did they only ever include him as a background crowd-filler, but the one big appearance they intended to give him in season three would’ve consisted of [[TakeThatScrappy him being murdered by Shockwave.]] When that had to be cut for time, they planned to have [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the sadly-cancelled fourth season]] open with him being [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill brutally killed]] in battle by ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction Blackout.]]'' If they hadn’t gotten to do that, they’d have tried to kill him ''again'' in season five. It takes a special kind of Creator’s Pest to inspire such murderous hatred.
441** Creator/BradSwaile, who provided the English dub voice for Kicker in ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', has gone on record saying that [[CreatorBacklash he felt terrible about playing him]] after he gained mainstream success with ''Manga/DeathNote.''
442** The reason that Primus, the Transformer God and often a major character in the cosmology of the franchise, [[AdaptedOut doesn't exist]] in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' largely boiled down to the fact that Derrick Wyatt, the art director and lead character designer, didn't really like him that much.
443* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
444** [[PsychoForHire Kevin and Tim-Tom]] were difficult for Jackson Hammer and Doc Publick to fit into the plot after their introduction, which made it increasingly difficult to find a place for them in stories. Them being [[TheScrappy largely loathed by the fandom]] actually ''helped'' Hammer and Publick figure out [[HatedByAll what to do with them going forward]].
445** Hammer and Publick have expressed a lack of fondness for Baron Underbheit, believing that he never really clicked as a joke. The original concept of him was for him to be a proper heavyweight villain and the most genuinely cruel and monstrous character to contrast the Monarch, but in practice they didn't find him particularly intimidating. Another factor was that they had plans to make him absurdly beyond-the-pale in his malevolence, such as giving him a puppy fountain, orphan slave labor, or sending agents of his kingdom to incinerate the toys of his subjects, but in practice, most of those planned scenes were cut, and they opined that even had they made it in, they would have made him silly rather than scary (not to mention, other villains in the show could do over-the-top cruel things without it dominating their characterization). They also regard "Love Bheits", his main spotlight episode, as [[CreatorBacklash one of the worst episodes of the show]], since it features a plot about homophobia that they feel aged like milk.
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