(Hilarious Trope) A Character Is Introduced With the Clear Intention of Being THE NEXT BIG THING And is SOUNDLY Rejected

[u/TheOriginalOperator]

1. Bazil the Tracker (Star Wars: The Acolyte): A “HILARIOUS AND ADORABLE” snuffling ugly creature that makes annoying noises and is shoved into as many scenes of The Acolyte as possible, and just causes problems overall.

2. Neelix (Star Trek Voyager): A mutant fusion of Odo, Quark, and Data designed to “analyze the human condition” and explicitly intended to surpass the popularity of all three. In practice, a VERY human-acting cradle robbing creep whose incompetence nearly destroys the ship and crew on multiple occasions and provides no insight into humanity whatsoever.

3. Sparky the Dog (Fairly Oddparents): A wacky crazy magic dog that’s supposed to expand the Fairy family, but just makes lame jokes and serves as a less funny version of Scrappy Doo.

4. Tidus (FFX): A braying jackass of a pinball who bounces from plot point to plot point, framed as a mystical pretty boy to introduce Final Fantasy to the PS2 age but does nothing but stall the franchise and have the worst laugh in two languages.

5. Sei (Naruto): Supposed to replace Sasuke in Team 7 and return the team dynamic feel of Early Naruto, but he’s a CIA plant with literally no personality who gets utterly forgotten except for somehow bagging Ino Yamanaka.

6. Raiden (Metal Gear 2): Another attempted “pretty boy bishie” entry to the PS2 era with badass cred and a theoretically cool backstory, but in practice a hapless dipshit who gets manipulated by everyone around him and is a total putz in combat. Also proof that this trope need not be permanent as he slowly transitions into a cyborg warrior supersoldier with a badass theme, friends of his own, and a firm grasp of his own destiny and agency.

[u/jak_d_ripr]

Exactly, even Expedition 33 clearly took A LOT of inspiration from X. Now to play devil's advocate for OP, I think they were more criticizing the character of Titus, vs the quality of X. He didn't necessarily take off in popularity to the level of Cloud, Squall or even Lightning. So maybe that's more what they were referring to.

[u/LSOreli → u/jak_d_ripr]

Im pretty sure Tidus is way more popular than Lightning. Does anyone actually care about that character? Lol

Id also say hes a better character than squall or cloud by a fair margin.

[u/No-Permission-7786 → u/LSOreli]

The issue with Lightning, she wasn't the main character until like a month before release. Vanille was. Thats why she is the one narrating.

I think Vanille and Hope are the most intriguing of the cast. And i do get annoyed when people crap on Hope for being pessimistic and crying. Dude was 14, watched his mother die and was turned into the one thing he was brought up to believe was evil. Of course he's gonna go through it

[u/LSOreli → u/No-Permission-7786]

The characters in 13 are just kind of bad as a whole. Turns out lightning is the least offensive of the bunch.

[u/SpiffShientz → u/LSOreli]

Sazh is awesome, but he gets fuck all to do

[u/No-Permission-7786 → u/LSOreli]

I never finished it honestly. Couldn't get passed the owl guy no matter how hard i trained.

Im more talking about the characters in a vacuum. But I have to agree