The fan reception to Jar Jar summed up in one image.
It's a big galaxy and not everyone's going to come off smelling like roses.Original Trilogy
- C-3PO didn't have a bad response in the original Star Wars, but after The Empire Strikes Back... well, in an interview, George Lucas said some people considered the android "the worst character ever". It's kind of hard to fault them for thinking so due to him gaining characterization in Empire by being a shrill worrywart that never shuts up and constantly rattles off unfavorable statistics about their current situation. However, most fans have since warmed up to the character over the years.
Prequel Trilogy
- Jar Jar Binks is the unquestionable master of this trope for the series. Following his first appearance in The Phantom Menace, none of them found this supposed Plucky Comic Relief character either plucky or comical — and frankly somebody they needed relief from! (Discuss!) He is such an infamous character, that there have been at least 32 fansites dedicated solely to bashing him; the German and Russian versions of this site named this trope, "The Scrappy", after him; and many would argue the fact that he's considered an alien caricature of Jamaican people makes him an Ethnic Scrappy as well. It seems George Lucas got the message, giving Jar Jar Binks a smaller role in Attack of the Clones and giving him only a few cameos in Revenge of the Sith, and that's not even getting to the Expanded Universe - one reviewer, in particular, noted that seeing Jar Jar suspended in carbonite was the highlight of The Force Unleashed. By the time The Clone Wars animated series took place, however, Jar Jar has been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap for some, as he gets a little more to do and does it competently, and he's usually considered to be more tolerable; nevertheless, this still does nothing to undo the sheer infamy his film appearances garnered.
- Nute Gunray is widely hated for being a generic villain who takes screentime and attention away from much cooler and more intimidating villains in the Prequels, such as Darth Maul and Count Dooku. Being the leader of the Trade Federation, Gunray is also the impetus of the Prequels' widely mocked focus on taxation and politics. Not helping matters is Gunray's voice, which is uncomfortably similar to racist caricatures of Japanese people that was prevalent throughout the mid-20th century.
Expanded Universe
- WAC-47 and Colonel Meebur from Star Wars: The Clone Wars were this during the D-squad arc in The Clone Wars, with some people finding the duo so annoying that they even made comparisons to Jar Jar Binks who, surprisingly for some, was more tolerable.
- Mart Mattin from the Star Wars Rebels episode "Iron Squadron" was disliked by many viewers for being a bland, arrogant jerkass who thinks he can take on the entire Empire, even though he didn't even know what a Star Destroyer is note . Throughout the episode, Ezra and Sabine constantly warn Mart and his crew to evacuate to escape a large Imperial fleet, which they constantly ignore. Later, when said fleet attacks Mart's freighter, the crew evacuates to Ezra's dropship while Mart stays behind and tries to attack the fleet all by himself. This incredibly selfish and stupid act results in Mart's ship getting damaged beyond use and himself getting captured, forcing Phoenix Squadron to risk their lives again to rescue him. He's supposed to be a stand-in for The Wolverines, but the audience got to see them kicking Soviet ass before getting defeated by actual special forces. Needless to say, most viewers wanted Mart to die to save the rest of the cast the trouble.
- Ralsius Paldora from Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), the Imperial defector Han meets during the Skirmish on Takodana. While having good intentions, he has a truly obnoxious, patronizing personality that could rival Jar Jar Binks for sheer annoyance, he never shuts up about what's going on around him, and he's as useless as a man's nipple during gameplay due to his complete lack of combat experience. Thankfully, he only appears in one mission and the other characters don't like him much either, but the few minutes you do spend with him will make you wish you could put a blaster bolt through his skull.
Legends
- Jaxxon from Star Wars (Marvel 1977) was one of the earliest characters in the franchise to be derided by the fans, largely due to him being an alien Rascally Rabbit in a Flash Gordon-esque spandex. The fact that he speaks in rabbit puns, pilots a spacecraft called the Rabbit's Foot, and is in a romantic relationship with the human Amaiza Foxtrain has made him into the poster-boy of the campiness that many Star Wars fans wanted to forget. Frequently, he's been ranked in the polls of Star Wars magazines as one of the goofiest additions in Star Wars Legends, with many equating him to Jar Jar Binks. It isn't helped by the fact that Lucasfilm seems to hate the character as well,note with a skeleton of his species being featured in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and a variant cover
of Star Wars 1: Skywalker Strikes featuring the OT cast trying to prevent Jaxxon from getting into the new Disney canon. Ironically, Jaxxon did make into the official canon but with a revamped characterization that doesn't feel out of place unlike his Legends counterpart. This change, along with a gradual acceptance of realism campiness like Rocket Racoon in the film industry, has allowed Jaxxon to enjoy a better fan reception than he did in the past. - Star Wars: The Old Republic has some companion characters that make the player base wish BioWare kept in the "kill companion" option.
- Skadge (Bounty Hunter) is a one-note Psycho for Hire whose Establishing Character Moment was torturing someone for a laugh—and implying he's going to rape said character. Worse, he makes skeevy remarks about fan-favorite (and potential girlfriend for male hunters) Mako as soon as he comes aboard, leading many a hunter to ask the boards about how to introduce him to an airlock. Likewise, others aren't too thrilled with being told But Thou Must! when it comes to picking up "Gault," seeing that he was your target, not an ally, and a first-rate pain in the ass to capture.
- Kaliyo (Imperial Agent) gets almost as much flak as Skadge for being an unrepentant sociopath who betrays everyone she meets, and generally being more unpleasant than some of the worst Sith. If it weren't for the fact that she's the player's only companion for almost a solid third of the storyline, a potential Love Interest (who will sleep around regardless), and has a major role in the expansions, one could easily mistake her for a Hate Sink with the complete lack of redeeming qualities she has.
- Doc in the Knight's story gets a lot of heat for being a shameless man-whore who hits on the female Knight in a not-very-classy way and has a little trouble with "no" as an answer. Others, especially Sentinel players, are just irritated that it takes until the start of chapter 2 for the Knight to get their healer companion, and think the very first line of his very first companion conversation quest feels a little too much like a taunt:"Looks like ol’ Doc got here just in time. How have you survived with a droid and Little Miss Uptight as your only friends?"
- The Jedi Consular Player Character (particularly Shadows) appear to be this on the official boards. Complaints range from thinking the storyline isn't "cool" or "too slow" or just "boring" (Consular is mostly a behind the scenes type), the companions being hard to gain affection with or bad fits for a Jedi class, rushed romance arc, spiky mechanics on the Shadow Tank (you're a tank in light armor, hope your rolls for shield mitigation are good) and burst DPS (you do insane amounts of damage or barely a scratch - little between)...
- Supreme Chancellor Saresh quite possibly accumulated one of the fastest hate-doms in Star Wars history thanks to her role in the expansions. While she presented herself as a Reasonable Authority Figure, she really ends up causing more trouble than she's worth, as she refuses reasonable or practical solutions in favor of stupid ones that cause lots of damage, displays a disturbing lack of sympathy for the lives lost in the war, and refuses to admit the slightest possibility of being wrong. Many, many fans, even Republic players, express the opinion that they'd like nothing more than to kill her already with the option(s) finally arriving in the expansions.
- Pretty much nobody likes Callista. Though she was hardly the worst or dumbest part of her books, the idea of her being Luke Skywalker's One True Love was something that nobody wanted after the far more popular and well written Mara Jade had already been established. Her only appearance after her series was getting Eaten Alive by Abeloth.
- Admiral Daala is widely mocked among the fandom thanks to the massive amount of Informed Ability she has going, constantly claiming to be a genius prodigy held back only by sexism right before charging her fleet against a weaker opponent and slinking back home after having lost three-quarters of it and accomplishing little besides massacring many innocents. They tried to rescue her by having her finally show some talent in Legacy of the Force, but her appearances came off as contrived and silly, and her plans working due to every single character involved grabbing the Idiot Ball. When a tactical genius getting retconned to have brain damage has most of the fandom shrugging and saying "That sounds about right," you know you've messed up.
- Rosh Penin from Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is not well-liked due to his annoying voice, recklessness, and blatantly telegraphed Face–Heel Turn. That killing him right before the end is how you pick your ending indicates he was supposed to be annoying, but the developers did too well - rejecting the opportunity to cut him down is a test worthy of a true Jedi Knight.
- Zekk, the childhood friend of Jacen and Jaina featured primarily in the Young Jedi Knights series and a handful of other works since then. Presented as a young street tough who joined Luke's school and then abandoned them for the Shadow Academy, he becomes the lost friend the young heroes have to rescue and redeem. Most of the fandom see him as just fine in the young adult series he's introduced in, but his appearances in later works are jarring as he has very little characterization of his own outside of how he relates to the main protagonists. Forced efforts to pair him with Jaina in the Dark Nest trilogy, along with a heavy dose of Kissing Under the Influence, were generally greeted with deep sighs of aggravation.
