Battle for BFDI has Loser, a Parody Sue character who is practically worshipped by the rest of the show's cast. Loser often completes challenges for his team entirely on his own, giving the rest of his team (which contains multiple Ensemble Dark Horse characters), very little to do. Due to being a brand new one-dimensional character who everyone seemingly relies on, he was quickly voted offby the viewerstwice, in both the "vote to eliminate" and "vote to save" formats. Loser has been named by Cary and Michael Huang, both of the show's primary creators, as their favorite character, so much they brought him back into the game without being voted back in. When he was eliminated again, they wrote a song dedicated to his elimination in the post-split era, and made a marketable plushie for him, showing how much they care about a contestant who barely has a backstory apart from later being revealed to have been a duo with a new contestant who got voted into TPOT, Winner.
The Furtopia Darwin's Soldiers RPs has Dragore, who fits this trope perfectly. He is a scrappy with a big role, adored by the creator and steals the spotlight.
Lupis from the rebooted Furtopia RP is even worse. He literally hijacks the entire story and the plot shifts from a focus on the terrorists to the rogue scientists, who were originally in the background.
Diedrich of Gaia Online gets a lot of hate from users who find his personality quirks obnoxious, and are sick of seeing him shoehorned into one event after the other.
A rather large part of the Happy Tree Friends fanbase view Lumpy as this. While he has his fans, it doesn't help that there were only two TV episodes Lumpy didn't appear in. In some of these he didn't have much of a role other than just to be there. This is only justified by the fact that the writers seem to work on a "take the dumbest character in the series and throw him into jobs that require brains and see what happens" system.
Ronnie the Skeleton on The Irate Gamer. He is a Jewish stereotype who was hated from his first appearance, where he was given an extremely Overly Long Gag regarding talking non-stop on the telephone. It seems none of his fans or non-fans like him, yet Bores is attached to him so much that he'll put him in any possible place, like having this already hated character do things like host a Christmas Special and save his life.
One of the recurring complaints about Marvel Super Heroes: What The—?! concerns the fact the ugly and obnoxious M.O.D.O.K. appears in nearly every episode. Despite this, Marvel still gives him a frequent amount of scenes.
MLB Trade Rumors publishes a number of articles based on players' agents despite the fact that the comments for them are the lowest on the site. Simply put the viewers don't care who represents who (with the exception of super agent Scott Boras, or recently when Jay-Z became an agent).
Certain Neopets rank low in popularity, but seem to be favorites among the creators. The chia (currently ranked 31/54) and blumaroo (36/54) both pop up far too frequently on the site in the form of NPCs, special items, location art, and the like. On the other hand, the chia was the first Neopet created.
The biggest example on the site is probably AAA, the game master. Not only is he an insufferable prick, but his challenges also directly cut into the various plots on the site, forcing them to be rushed. Considering that the plots and their associated puzzles were some of the highest draws on the site, many fans cried foul.
Since his Flanderization kicked in, Mr. Goodman has become one of the most hated characters from SuperMarioLogan, even more so than Jeffy, due to him rarely, if ever, suffering any consequences for his actions, always getting away with essentially extorting Mario. However, Lance, the older brother of Logan Thirtyacre, has stated that Goodman is his favorite character, and Logan has also stated that Goodman is one of his favorite characters as long as he does not have to hold back on inappropriate jokes with him.
KaraszKun from True Capitalist, whose calls are painfully awkward and unfunny, due to him apparently having autism and not actually being a troll. Yet Ghost has taken a liking to him, in occasions giving him entire segments of the show. However, this being the kind of show it is, it has been used against him for hilarious results.
Zapdramatic desperately wants the viewer to sympathize with Ted Hartup from Ambition. Keep in mind the guy starts out trying to get his kids back from his ex-wife by going to her office strapped with dynamite to hold the entire floor hostage by threatening to "blow us all to hell" while ranting that he's a victim of some kind of conspiracy, and after he's arrested starts regularly escaping from jail (the first time including assaulting a police officer) and at one point threatens the player with a gun (and even accidentally kills them if they say the wrong thing.) Zapdramatic soon tries to paint him almost like some kind of Hannibal Lecter-style intellectual who's always right and regularly abuses ten-dollar words. Early on, the player has to interrogate him and rule that he's perfectly sane, which in the world of Ambition, means that he's excused of every criminal act he commits because he's an innocent victim being played by sinister outside forces, instead of being criminally responsible for his actions like it works in the real world. It gets even better when Duke Crabtree forces you to go along with a plan to frame either Ted or Yale for a murder. Trying to frame Ted locks the player into a no-win scenario while the game chastises them for trying to frame poor, innocent Ted.
Bonus points for there being strong evidence that Ted is Zapdramatic's Author Avatar.
Sir Basil Pike Elementary has Janina, who seems to be a stand-in for Zapdramatic's daughter, in a series that was apparently made to help her cope with bullying. Only the series does nothing to make Janina at all likeable, with her constantly spying and butting into other people's problems and snarking at them. She's supposed to be a big up-and-coming musician, but her only song can't decide whether it wants to ripoff "Enter Sandman" by Metallica or "Animal I Have Become" by Three Days Grace, isn't very good, and comes with a very confusing music video.
Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged: Aerith is accused of being this. During the first three seasons, she gets a lot of Ship Tease with Cloud all the while Tifa was made into anAdaptational Jerkass who bullies Cloud and had to earn his respect in season 4, something she didn't have to do in canon. She is adored by most of the main characters, with the exception forTifa, and even she warms up to her when her hostility towards her was sort of justified. Any time Tifa and Aerith squabble, Aerith is always the one who gets the last word. She gets way too much lenience for her mistakes or her acts of malevolence. Barret is uncharacteristically reasonable with her when she tries healing an enemy robot when he would look for any excuse to dump on Cloud for his mistakes. She gets away with attempting to murder Tifa by refusing to heal herafter getting poisoned by the Midgar Zolom and she never apologizes for it when she and Tifa started getting along. Nobody scolds her for intentionally breaking the Shiva Materia because she was jealous Cloud admired her beauty. In season 3, she ends up being the voice of reason and the one who makes Tifa realize that Yuffie's behavior isn't too different from her own, which makes the aforementioned attempted murder kind of hypocritical.
The trio of Meggy, Saiko and Tari. They are largely the most Base-Breaking Characters of the show because of this. They have all gotten ample amounts of focus at different times (especially the former one), are all portrayed as more competent than the rest of the cast, rarely suffer slapstick or injuries, they do bad things at times and never get punished for it, and are the same tomboyish, level-headed Action Girl cliché that's been seen in practically every work of fiction in the 2010s. Not to mention they're the ones who have the most merchandise made after them. "Boys Vs Girls" was the peak of this due to its infamousending. This isn't even getting into their specific problems as characters:
For Meggy: Having no negative qualities at first, being the most developed character at the cost of everyone else's development and screen time, and said Character Development and humanization following the Anime Arc taking away the best aspects of her character. Speaking of which, her humanization didn't help improve her reputation, as Luke and Kevin were now able to use her character without getting Screwed by the Lawyers, which further increased her Character Focus even more, to the point that in mid-2019, SMG4 essentially became Meggy and Friends, as, with the exception of Solo Mario videosnote episodes that have Mario as the only member of the main cast to show up, the videos released during her bus trip in early-2021 and very rare occasions like "The Fan-Written Episode", every episode is either focused on her or features her as an important part of the story. She could be considered SMG4's unofficial Series Mascot at this point.
For Saiko: Being too unsympathetic of a character at first, sticking out as a Original Character, being Uncanny Valley in design, her wonky animation, and losing what many thought were the most interesting aspects of her character once she made a Heel–Face Turn.
For Tari: Losing her Butt-Monkey qualities after her debut and as a result having no negative qualities (similar to Meggy's criticism), being another original character, and her character being essentially a promotion for Meta Runner in hindsight.
Fishy Boopkins, mostly from 2017-2018. Frankly, there's no way you avoid this trope once the main writer (Kevin) singles you out as his favorite character, not helped by the fact that he also voices Boopkins. Also going against Boopkins is that around 2017, his trait of being an otaku was upped to rather grating levels of second-hand embarrassment and sometimes he came across as more annoying than entertaining. He escaped this to an extent once his importance to plots lessened a great deal after the Rapper Bob arc and became more of a supporting character, but it returned in 2020 once he was given a younger brother JubJub, who also qualifies as a pet.
Melony suddenly become this after her human transformation in "Mario's Mask of Madness" as Kevin seems to have a very strong affinity for her, as shown in this Hobo Bros video where he tries to findRule 34of her. He ends up finding Rule 34 of Melony the Gym Leader from Pokémon Sword and Shield because they have the same name. Also, a Ship Tease occurred with Melony and one of the characters Kevin voices (Axol), to the point of becoming an Official Couple in 2021. Fortunately, she managed to escape the last point after Axol's death.
Pop. As the series progressed, Pop has become more of a Knight Templar Parent and a Spotlight-Stealing Squad; the fanbase was already split about him, but his overexposure in Gory Toons only worsens this. "You're Too Slow" was when it got particularly bad. By this point, he had become an overzealous rouser, and for most of the season, Pop was involved with an A- or B-plot in almost ever episode. Granted, Pop is starting to die more often like the rest of the cast, as his death-survival ratio in Season One was pretty low. But even then, episodes like "And It Just Fixs!" excludes him from the ridiculously brutal carnage that everybody else (especially Kirby) had suffered. Also, while early Pop-centric plots at least gives him sympathetic depth (often he got involved in the story because Cub was in trouble), later episodes shove Pop into the storyline without much reason to do so.
SpongeBob as well. It doesn't help that there were only three Season One episodes SpongeBob didn't appear in. Unlike Pop, he does retain some likability, but even he's becoming that one character who works on the logic of "being someone who must be involved with every major conflict".
The Ultramarines are "The GREATEST of them ALL!" as the 5th Codex tended to portray them, with outright impossible feats under their belts and a massive chain of victories that never seems to end. They are also hilariously obnoxious, generally acting like ultra-goofy paladins ripped straight out of a high fantasy parody with an impossibly inflated opinion of themselves and their entire chapter. All of this is epitomized in the shrill-voiced Glory Hound that is Cato Sicarius, who won't stop at anything to get himself more glory and inherit the Chapter, and who is obsessed with himself and telling everyone what he'd do in a given situation. Only Uriel Ventris and Marneus Calgar have noticed all of this, and the latter utterly despises it because the combination of obnoxious underlings and zero difficulty in doing anything (he personally punched out a massive Eldar Titan on-screen like a man would swat a fly) is driving him nuts. Particularly because, if the various hints are correct, he's the one to blame for it all.
Kaldor Draigo is just as Sue-ish as the base material, at least in terms of skill. He can trash entire armies of daemons all by himself, and literally punches out a Daemon Primarch gone One-Winged Angel in a millisecond or so. However, this is justified by way of him being entirely convinced he can do all of this and more, and since the Warp runs on belief and has imbued him so thoroughly, he can. And he's so convinced of this all because he has lost his goddamn mind from Warp exposure and isolation. He's less of a brave paladin fighting the perils of the Warp and trouncing them flawlessly every time, and more of a hilariously incoherent Almighty Idiot stuck in Power Armor who thinks he's a brave knight when he isn't just doing weird shit for absolutely no reason.
Zhuge Liang in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. The narrator is openly on his side, and has been known to help him in various battles and even give him MacGuffins.
Two More Eggs (an animated web series created by the guys who created Homestar Runner) parodies this trope mercilessly in Trauncles. The Lemony Narrator loves Jordy, a Bratty Half-Pint. In "Beans", when the narrator finds out Jordy stole the beans, he pins the blame on Stevens instead, causing Stevens to get arrested by the constable.
dedicated to his elimination in the post-split era, and made a marketable plushie for him, showing how much they care about a contestant who barely has a backstory apart from later being revealed to have been a duo with a new contestant who got voted into TPOT, Winner.