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• Dragon Ball Multiverse:
  • Universe 20 Broly. Salagir exaggerates Broly's power, moving him from "extremely powerful" to "invincible" while in his Legendary Super Saiyan state. Additionally, he gets a lot of focus despite being an ultimately unimportant character (his fight with Vegito being the Batman Cold Open of the entire series). This occurs because he thinks Broly's awesome. Broly is pretty unpopular with the hardcore Dragon Ball fanbase due to overexposure, so this blatant favoritism doesn't go unnoticed.
  • Universe 16 Son Bra. Being the daughter of Vegetto, the most powerful character in the original Dragon Ball, you'd think we wouldn't even need Goku from the manga universe gushing on how powerful she is and having two specials focusing on just how awesome she is. There's also the whole disobeying her father's order not to kill her opponent and getting out of it with not even a mild admonition on top of being an insufferable Smug Super who mocks anyone weaker than her. Even then, she had her fans...until the King Cold fight where she went from a Base-Breaking Character to The Scrappy. Then "King Cold" turned out to be Captain Ginyu in Cold's body, who used his Body Change technique to jump to Bra's body. Readers cheered, hoping that even if it was undone, the experience might be humbling for Bra...only for Vegetto to catch on immediately and force Ginyu to change back, leaving the entire thing a "Shaggy Dog" Story. The list of grievances only gets longer once Bra is willingly made Brainwashed and Crazy during the Majin Rebellion arc and manages to kill off most of the heroic cast, then gets Easily Forgiven at the end of the arc and gets a power-up out of the deal.
• Vriska Serket from Homestuck was accused of this quite frequently. The author's story is that he wanted to write a highly divisive character, which amounted to making an egotistical, malicious yet not entirely unsympathetic psuedo-Sue and having her hog massive amounts of screentime and plot relevance, up to and including romantic interest with the main character. Reactions varied from fan to fan, and even after her character arc's conclusion, while not nearly as detested as in her peak, she remains one of the most strenuously debated aspects of the comic. Which seems to be just as the author wanted it.
  • Hussie even parodies it - Andrew Hussie is an actual character in the comic, albeit one who very rarely interacts with any of the characters and has no plot significance, and at one point he actually proposed to Vriska, only to get punched in the face. He turned up in a later flash sobbing pathetically.
• Zii from Ménage à 3 has attracted this label, at least in the comic's early days. There were a couple of reasons, but one large one was fan resentment of her convincing DiDi not to sleep with Gary, which was seemingly treated as perfectly valid; some readers didn't buy it. (Her reaction to Gary trying to draw her into a threesome with Amber also annoyed those fans.) Zii seemed to have perfect Karma Houdini status while being presented as a Lovable Sex Maniac, without any acknowledgment that her "hilarious" exploits maybe went too far. That said, there were fans who liked her, and discussions about her made her a Base-Breaking Character. Eventually, Character Development happened, as some of her actions developed significant consequences. Things like the appearance of her second Stalker with a Crush, her wall-climbing frustration at DiDi's antics, and her burning jealousy of Gary's sudden desirable status, left her looking far less casually invulnerable and made many of her detractors lose their vitriol.
  • Meanwhile, in the same comic, Yuki has also attracted the same accusation, as her sometimes very violent actions never seem to attract realistic consequences.
• Claire of Questionable Content is starting to draw accusations of this from the comic's fans. She's not a bad character in and of herself, but once she and Marten hooked up, the perfect sweetness of their relationship started to grate. Not helping matters was Marten suddenly developing the ability to glare relentless and omni-offensive robot-pervert Pintsize into silence when the latter started to make Claire the target of one of his comments, and Marten laughing hysterically for apparently hours following a rather lame pun on Claire's part.
• Makoto Yosue of Red String morphed into this over time. Originally introduced to the series to act as an antagonist to the Official Couple of Miharu and Kazuo, the author suddenly fell for him and even declared him her favorite character in an interview while the series was running. In his initial storylines he was shown to be a controlling jerk who doesn’t respect Miharu or her existing relationship with Kazuo, who is her fiance. However as he began to overtake the main cast in importance, his storyline shifted to how perfect and wonderful he was and explained away that his “jerk” persona was the fault of a mean girl dumping him because he was “too kind and sensitive to her needs” so he was merely pretending to be a jerk to impress Miharu. We’re also told his affluent parents aren’t very loving but when we see them on panel they’re extremely attentive to him and in response to said dumping give him a restaurant because he wants to be a restaurant owner some day and even give him the marriage arrangement with Karen because he’s so upset about his dumping. The Character Shilling starts in earnest when the series suddenly decides to switch the male lead to Makoto, creating a scenario in which Makoto gets to date Miharu simply because he wants to and Kazuo began to be derailed as too broken by the physical and mental abuse of his father to maintain his relationship with Miharu to ensure that Makoto looked better by comparison. Characters who have never even met Makoto sing his praises, people liked Karen who were screwed over by him suddenly like him and declare him a “flirty goofball,” characters who’ve seen him only as in his “jerk” persona talk about how much he has changed despite Makoto still acting exactly the same as when he was introduced, and Miharu’s parents constantly praise his skill and work ethic as extraordinary and unusual at the restaurant his family has bought for him despite the fact he’s only shown doing the same job as a server that Miharu and Karen have done most of their lives without any thanks or praise. The moment the fan base completely turned on Makoto came when during an outing with Miharu and Kazuo, who she is now friends with again, drags Miharu away and yells at her in public for not respecting him. This ends with Miharu, who up to this point has been portrayed as strong willed, independent, and very defensive of aggressive behavior, simply agrees that he’s right and meekly apologizes to him. The readers pointed out that Makoto was no better now than he was when he was actively an antagonist. At this the author became very defensive of complaints from readers about Makoto’s depiction in the series. As the story came to its rushed conclusion her only response to these complaints was to have him dress down Kazuo after stalking him and harassing him at his job and portraying Kazuo’s accurate criticism that Makoto simply gets everything handed to him as being a cruel and unwarranted insult. The series endgame completely derails Kazuo into a creepy weirdo just to make Makoto’s actually controlling behavior look better by comparison and completely removes all of Miharu’s agency just to make sure he gets the endgame marriage and dream job he’s wanted since he was introduced without anything actually serving as an obstacle to be overcome.
• Xanthe Justice from Sinfest (aka "Trike Girl"). She hit this trope by being the in-universe catalyst for a divisive Retool, plus an unhealthy dose of Writer on Board. For nearly a year, she was riding around talking about the "Sisterhood" taking down the "Patriarchy," trying to recruit female characters and talking down male characters. She gave a rather physical Get A Hold Of Yourself Man to the hand of God.
• Sister Oscar of Sister Claire. Initially a minor member of the abbey (Her most notable characteristic being her perpetual Bishie Sparkle) come the reveal that she's transgender, she leaped into this. The Missing Moments (Flashback mini-arcs between regular pages) ramped it up to eleven. She is loved by everyone, is a master sword fighter, became a high ranking member of the royal guard, is revealed to be the offspring of the King, is constantly remarked to be beautiful, is perfectly androgynous to pass as female, and has faced pretty much zero trials in her life, while practically every other character has been put through the wringer.
• Some readers of Unsounded see Sette and Murkoph as this. Both are pretty morally bankrupt (though the latter far more than the former), and some saw the narrative as expecting the viewers to forgive them for it and love them anyway. Interestingly, however, the author has addressed this directly, revealing that this is not the case at all:
  "If you come into Unsounded thinking I want you to forgive Sette her foibles because she's so cute and because I've stuck her in the lead, you got the wrong idea. But it's my fault if they get the wrong idea 'cause I'm the one givin' out ideas! Some people just can't enjoy a heroine with the issues that Sette has. And I absolutely get that. Funnily enough people have short memories and when Murk was introduced it's like they thought here's another morally reprehensible character that Glass fatuously expects us to adore. But no, dorks, he's just a morally reprehensible character."

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