Jar Jar is the key to all of this. If we get Jar Jar working, 'cause he's a funnier character than we've ever had in the movies before.
C'mon, Lana! You're amazing!
— Smallville, "Thirst"
Listen to me, Hideo Kojima, you really need to face the fact that nobody seems to like Raiden as much as you do. I mean, no one can say you didn't do all you could; you made him a cyborg breakdancing ninja, and he's still a little bitch.
And incidentally, Hideo, if breakdancing-ninja-cyborg-vigilante-biker hasn't made Raiden cool, a score that sounds like a J-rock artist composed it as he was trying not to burst into tears while meeting his own gaze in his bedroom mirror isn't going to clinch it.
— Zero Punctuation, again, on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Whatever you might wanna say about George Lucas, when audiences said they didn't like Jar Jar, he dialed the character down to a few cameos throughout the rest of the films. When the Voyager producers where told the audiences didn't like Neelix, they decided to get rid of Neelix's beautiful, smart, competent ex-girlfriend and let him hang around to remind the audience how much they hate you personally.
—SF Debris on Star Trek: Voyager, "The Gift"
"He's... tactlessly musing on how Rose would miraculously come up with a solution to the Carrionite problem. When in fact Rose would probably say something sarcastic and then get herself captured by snoozy PR robot, Lilith."
—Shadowlocked on Doctor Who, "The Shakespeare Code"
"Ophelia's adventure is as well-thought-out as Hamlet's, but rather than being a hero suffering from crippling inaction, you are a smart, self-sufficient woman who knows what she wants and is totally rad 100% of the time, and also you are dating a PRINCE. You can choose what you want to do with your life: help your boyfriend who's crying about a spooky ghost, or I don't know TAKE DOWN INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS INSTEAD?? It's nuts. It's awesome. Oh my gosh."
—The Narrator, To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure
Gleeman Vox: Wouldn't you like to play with an Ace Hardlight action figure? All the cool kids are doing it!
Vernon: Yeah, whatever, that guy's a tool.
Gleeman Vox: Uh, yeah. So if, uh, Ace is, uh... uh, a tool, whose action figure would you rather have? Huh?
Vernon: I don't know, maybe that lombax guy who smoked Reactor! He was like, (makes Funny Bruce Lee Noises and gets shocked for the trouble) Mom!
Vernon: Yeah, whatever, that guy's a tool.
Gleeman Vox: Uh, yeah. So if, uh, Ace is, uh... uh, a tool, whose action figure would you rather have? Huh?
Vernon: I don't know, maybe that lombax guy who smoked Reactor! He was like, (makes Funny Bruce Lee Noises and gets shocked for the trouble) Mom!
"Little did these guys know, they should never underestimate the power of the author's favorite character!"
