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Just in case I'm not being clear: if the creators intentionally wanted the situation to paint Della and Louie as both sympathetic and unsympathetic, wouldn't that by definition disqualify them from being either Unintentionally Unsympathetic or Unintentionally Sympathetic?
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. Unintentionally Sympathetic is when a character comes across as more sympathetic than intended; it says so on the page and on the laconic. A math analogy: -2 is more than -5, but that doesn't mean -2 is a positive number.
Edited by BreadBullThe laconic actually says "An unsympathetic character gets more sympathy than the author intended." Personally, though, I think if a character was trying to have some complex morality, with sympathetic actions as well as unsympathetic actions, but came off as completely unsympathetic, it should still count. Tropes Are Flexible, after all.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Tropes are flexible...but this is an Audience Reaction, not a trope. Is it actually flexible? Unlike tropes, these things can't be played with or varied; they're just about how people react to things.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallYou have a point it's not technically a trope that can be played with, but I think it still should count if the character was meant to be at all unsympathetic, but fans regarded them as completely sympathetic, and vice versa. If the fans mistakenly act like the character was meant to e 100% [un]sympathetic, then that's probably not this YMMV, but if they understand that the character was meant to be grey and still think it failed to make them sympathetic, I think it counts.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

So over in YMMV.Duck Tales 2017 S 2 E 21 Timephoon, Bread Bull wrote this entry:
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Of all the things Louie has done, being grounded for causing a timephoon seems a bit impertinent given there is very little to indicate Louie knew the consequences of Time Travel for Fun and Profit. If Louie knew of the danger but chose to do it anyway it would've made the grounding a lot more justified.
When the episode first aired someone else had put in Unintentionally Sympathetic and Unintentionally Unsympathetic and both were deleted with the edit reason being that neither Louie or Della were supposed to come off as sympathetic or unsympathetic which was backed up by Word of God https://suspendersofdisbelief.tumblr.com/post/187623601051/della-said-if-you-want-to-be-a-part-of-this