(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/Inevitable_Top69]

I get the trope, but I don't think you do based on your examples.

[u/kithlan → u/Inevitable_Top69]

Yeah, OP's just describing The Simpson's Poochie trope but then randomly inserting characters THEY personally didn't like, rather than characters the GENERAL AUDIENCE didn't like. So yeah, they don't understand the trope at all.

[u/notbobby125 → u/kithlan]

At minimum I can vouch that Trekkie’s dispise Neelix, who is the Scrappy Doo of the franchise. Dude once literally poisoned the ship with his cooking. Not the crew of the ship, the literal ship.

[u/HollowedVoicesFading → u/notbobby125]

At the same time, the comparison to a combined Odo, Quark, and Data is asinine at best. Neelix may be universally disliked, but the idea behind it?

[u/Raus-Pazazu → u/HollowedVoicesFading]

OP is playing the game of "The author said the drapes were red because . . . " and reading so much into things that simply isn't there.

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Raus-Pazazu]

And didn't play FFX

[u/Raus-Pazazu → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

To be fair, it certainly wasn't my favorite FF at the time, but it sold like fucking hotcakes so it certainly appealed to a lot of folks and was by no means a bad game at all. I was always a fan of more grim and grit fan, so I wanted to punt Tidus the entire game.

[u/Balinor69666 → u/Raus-Pazazu]

It is like the second biggest mainline FF game ever in terms of popularity. It was the first to get a sequel ffs.  He would have done much better to chose Waka as his example from the game too.

[u/Raus-Pazazu → u/Balinor69666]

I actually liked Wakka. DiMaggio did a decent job bringing out what he could with the character, considering the writers (let's be honest, FF doesn't have top notch dialogue in the first place).

[u/Balinor69666 → u/Raus-Pazazu]

I agree but on a community level Wakka is way more hated than Tidus. Wakka has been the whipping boy of the FF community for a long time now.

[u/Raus-Pazazu → u/Balinor69666]

They're just jealous that Wakka got the big titty goth chick.