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The Western Animation subpage on Audience-Alienating Premise has this Dungeons and Dragons example:
Dungeons & Dragons has six teenagers who go on an amusement park ride only to be transported into a world of perpetual war, forced to become mystical warriors in order to fight an evil mage trying to overtake said world as well as defend themselves and their Team Pet, whose cuteness masks its true nature and whose presence repeatedly impedes the sextet from completing their mission or ever getting home. Plus, it was more violent and expensive to produce than your average Saturday Morning Cartoon. All these factors eventually turned fans off and the series was canceled before any real resolution occurred.
Thing is, this is worded in a way that says Uni (the team pet) is considered evil in-Canon. While fans refer to him as The Scrappy and he is The Millstone, the idea that he's evil (or demonic) is only an urban legend. I don't know if the example even fits the trope without this bit of speculation.
Edited by Pisthetairos