Characters that get a bit too much hate
As some of you know awhile back I looked at characters I like while at the same time see them as overrated
You can go read it right here if you want
💬 4 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Characters I like but consider overrated ·
As the title suggests I am someone who thinks it is entirely possible to like
Anyway I figured why not look at the opposite side of the spectrum of characters? Ones that I feel don't deserve all the hate. Now before we get into this list here are some ground rules
1: only one spot per franchise. Mostly to avoid bias for one over the others and to make things fair
2: multiple characters from the same series can share a spot (which you'll see soon)
3: any type of media is allowed like movies, books, video games, TV shows and etc.
4: everything said here is all my opinion so don't take this list as fact
Scrappy Doo from the Scooby Doo series: I was close to putting Scrappy on the list but I only didn't because well I never really grew up with those Scooby and Scrappy cartoons so I know very little about him. But honestly from the stuff I do know about him sure he's not the most likeable character ever but honestly I never found him annoying at all.
Princess Daisy from the Super Mario series: people find her annoying but I do not. Also she has way more fans than she dose haters.
Daniel Diaz from Life is Strange 2: as much as people have claimed how annoying, insufferable and bratty they find Daniel, he has just as many fans if not more than people who hate him so he's not on the list.
Lincoln Loud from the Loud House: same deal with Daisy but I think it's more to do with Lincoln's character in the odd episode here and there and maybe season 5-current.
Cream the Rabbit, Big the Cat and Charmy Bee from the Sonic series: I never found any of them annoying. I like Charmy and Cream and think their underrated. Also Big ain't that bad either.
Ice Age baby: I get it he can be annoying but guys he's just a baby. What even sparked hatred for this kid anyways? People don't even give any logical reason to why they hate him so much.
Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars: ok the hatred for Jar Jar has died down in recent years, honestly I'm not a massive fan of him either and yes he can be annoying but I never found myself hating him. He's not THAT bad.
Anyways here's my list in no particular order at all
1: Princess Peach from the Super Mario series
Ok so the hatred for Peach has died down in recent years but I'm still gonna talk about her anyway. Now for the longest time people hated her since she gets captured a lot. People often see her as weak or worthless because of her being a damsel in distress in the earlier games.
Firstly she's not worthless. Have you seen what she can do in the RPG's hell she was a main character in SM3DW and SMB Wonder. When you rescue her in the other games it feels good since she's sweet, well mannered and kind.
Also being saved dose not mean your weak. Superman saved Batman and Robin twice in Lego Batman 2, Winter Soldier turned himself into the Winter Guard to let Captain America free in Future Avengers and even Jak needed Daxter to rescue him after being experimented on with Dark Eco by Barron Praxis. If not for Daxter, Jak would've most likely been dead. Bottom line is you can't do everything on your own so neither can Peach. Again thankfully the hatred surrounding her has died down but in the early days it was bad.
2: Sally Acorn and Princess Elise from Sonic the Hedgehog
Ah yes KatarinaTheCat's favourite punching bags. I won't go too in depth about my thoughts on her but all you need to know is that she's so called Sonic fan who can't understand the basic morals of the character and franchise she claims to love so much. But if you want my in depth call out post on her antics check out my Wattpad page in my random book
I know I'll get commenters saying "why are you complaining about this in 2025? This is old news now" ok let me explain I'm more looking at the early days of the Sonic fanbase surrounding these girls. Let's start off with Sally.
Sally Acorn is one of my favourite characters in the Sonic series and I remember people hated her a lot. People would say she's a Mary Sue or steals the spotlight from Sonic in the SATAM cartoon which is not true if you actually watch the series like I did. Now when it comes to her character in the comics there are times where terrible writing made Sally an awful character like the infamous scene where she slaps Sonic (which is what a load of Sonamy "fans") used against us Sonally fans.
Also people in a lot of Sonic fanmade content turned Sally into a heartless hellspawn who hated Amy and wanted to steal Sonic for herself. While yes she can be bossy and impatient towards Sonic but she's brave, strong, she's a fighter, a leader and will stand up against those like Eggman who try to take people's freedom away.
For Elise I find aspects about her interesting. Her backstory, her friendship with Sonic was a really nice touch and reminded me of Shadow and Maria somewhat but I think the main problems I and many people have are, she gets captured way too many times and the romance between her and Sonic is so cringy to watch. Especially the infamous scene where she kisses him back to life.
However I just think it's time we move on from this hate as it feels more like old news at this point. She's a not a great character by any means but she isn't terrible either. Also at the end of the game when she says "I don't care what happens to the world" people clown on her for that but the thing is Sonic was her only true friend she had in years since she was Iblis's vessel and had to control her emotions and make sure she didn't cry for a whole decade.
Anyways Sally and Elise's hate came more from the 2010s and hopefully has died down by now. And if there are people still hating them for dumb reasons in 2025 (I'm looking at you KatarinaTheCat) all I'll say is it's been years now just move on.
3: Victoria Chase and Karen Reynolds from Life is Strange
This will be a bit shorter than the other ones as I can understand and respect why people hate Victoria in the first place. I mean she was one of the reasons Kate died if Max isn't there enough for her. And if anyone here reading this is a Victoria hater that's completely valid, you hate can all you like for that. But when you peal back her stereotypical rich girl personality Victoria has more lairs to her character which makes her interesting.
Firstly her parents have high expectations of her (or I could be wrong about which in this case tell me in the comments) and if you actually don't talk smack towards her in the episodes her and Max are actually on pretty good terms. This dynamic reminded me a lot of Peter and Flash from Spider-Man which I really liked so of course I'm gonna have a soft spot for this kinda dynamic here. So like Flash who changed his ways and became one of Peter's friends a similar approach could work for Victoria. I know what some of you are thinking "could Nathan also have this kind of redemption?" Well no and let explain why. Ya see a contrast that I like about Nathan and Victoria is that Nathan shows just how far someone can go down after being broken by so much negativity in his life while Victoria shows that yes the stuff she did to Kate was awful I will never excuse or ignore her actions for that at all. In fact I'm more than happy to ackwoldge them.
So yes I found Victoria's toxic behaviour obnoxious too like other LIS players, but she isn't in the story enough for me to strongly dislike her. That's why characters like Boscha from the Owl House and Sally Avirl from Spectacular Spider-Man worked because even though they were quite toxic towards the main characters they weren't in the series enough for me hate them. The reason I hated characters like X Amy was because of how much she was in that show for. That and the fact they gave her very little redeeming traits that are always outweighed by her bad ones. One final thing is that Victoria can pull of some pretty good roasts.
Now onto Karen. Yes she did leave her kids when they were young all because she wasn't happy with her life which yes is selfish. Why have kids if your not gonna stay committed in the first place? But one hypocrisy I find is that fans hate Karen yet praise Joyce when Karen is leagues above her. Let me explain.
Yes Karen abandoning her family was a dick move and you can hate all you like for that but one thing she has over parents like Joyce and David is that she actually dose help the boys when they need her. Sure Chloe's parents never abandoned her but David was insanely toxic and at times abusive and Joyce was an enabler who always took his side.
With Karen however she didn't believe the first thing the police said about her sons and at least made an effort to find them. She also takes responsibility for what she did when her and Sean talked and didn't get defensive when Sean was angry at her and she did risk her safety to make sure her sons were ok and she never expected forgiveness. I'm not saying I have sympathy for someone who abandoned their kids I'm saying that Karen's a well written character and never forced herself back into Sean and Daniel's lives. Rather she met them at the point they are now and offered support when needed. While not mother of the year she's leagues above the likes of David or Joyce
4: Spider-Man from the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon
Ah Ultimate Spider-Man. One of the most hated versions of Peter Parker in the multiverse and I'm someone who will defend his show till the world ends. The way he goes from an inexperienced young hero into the Ultimate Spider-Man is great to watch. He might be as compelling as Insomniac, Spectacular or 94 Spider-Man but Ultimate Spidey is an underrated depiction of the character.
Which I will get into more when I do a mini review of this series sometime in the future trust me. Another complaint people have with Ultimate cartoon Spidey is that he's nothing like his counterpart from Earth 1610. Yeah I love those comics too but I like it when Marvel does new things with their characters because of it not being comic accurate it caused toxic Ultimate comic fanboys to attack us Ultimate Spidey fans for just enjoying our show. All I'll say is comic accuracy isn't everything.
People also don't like Ultimate's voice actor Drake Bell but I honestly do. Drake brought a more campy flare to the character which I like and don't you dare say he's a pedophile because all those reports are lies (check out Ultimatedrakebell's YouTube channel if you don't believe me) but one reason for Ultimate Spider-Man's hate that makes no sense is back in the day fans blames USM for Spectacular Spider-Man's cancellation. Bull. Shit. I'm sorry but that right there is complete utter bullshit. Why hate Show A for cancelling show B. Disney were the ones who cancelled SSM not the show runners of Ultimate. This also lead to many SSM fans attack Ultimate fans for just enjoying their show. As a huge fan of Spectacular Spider-Man I'm very sorry to all the people have to deal with those clowns. *sigh* ya know if I had a nickel for every time Spectacular Spider-Man fans bashed a new Spidey show, blindly hated it and never gave it a chance I'd have enough money to revive SSM and make seasons 3-5.
I love the Mickey Mouse series. I have since I was a kid. I watched stuff like the classic series, the Mickey Mouse works, the Clubhouse series and the 2013 series by Paul Ruddish. In my adult years I got into Kingdom Hearts which I watched the cutscenes for all the games. For why people hate Mickey it's more just Disney themselves. Because of Disney's controversies in recent years Mickey himself has become a negative icon. Also a lot of Owl House fans negatively portrayed Mickey in a lot of their artwork on the internet making him homophobic for some stupid reason.
Ok this is completely stupid. How could Mickey who by the way is a fictional character have anything to do with Disney's mistakes? Further more why dosen't Bugs Bunny get this level of hate when Warner Bros makes questionable desicions? Or Mario when Nintendo takes down fangames?! It's stupid and did I mention how it makes zero sense?
6: the Rabbids and the Minions
I decided to combine them in a joint spot since these guys are kinda similar.
For the Rabbids I can understand why people don't like them. Yeah they can be annoying but I never found them as annoying as other people did. I even like the Nickelodeon Show Rabbids invasion. One thing I think is kinda unfair is that people hate the Rabbids because they blame them for Rayman's downfall when it was Ubisoft who prioritised the Rabbids more than he was. Also the Rabbids have come a long way since some of them can now talk in Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.
As for the Minions people acted like they were one of the worst to ever grace animation which I think is way too extreme. I found the Minionsto be ok but honestly their not that bad. Sure the Minions movie wasn't very good but it's sequel was.
7: Lori, Lynn Jr and Lola Loude from the Loud House
So I haven't seen the Loud House in a long time so bare with me on this one. I was gonna have all 11 Loud siblings here but then I remembered characters like Luna and Lucy who are generally more liked by fans.
I chose Lori, Lynn and Lola since they get the most hate out of all the sisters which a lot of it just stems from badly written episodes. Yeah I don't like episodes like No Such Luck or Save the Date either but at least I can enjoy the other aspects of the show
Lori in season 1 was bossy and rude but she went through actual character development and became a much better character in the later seasons. Her relationship with Bobby is well written and for some of the younger siblings like Lily she almost acted like a 2nd mother towards them in her better episodes.
If you hate Lynn Jr still just because of no such luck which by the way came out 8 years ago seek help ASAP. Again she might have had her moments like her regression in season 5 but I still have a soft spot for her. I also like her friendly rivalry type of relationship she has with Lincoln. It makes sense their seen together so much due to Lynn and Lincoln only being 2 years apart.
Lola is honestly just a better written version of cartoon brats like DW. In other words, yes she can be mean, bratty and hot tempered but underneath all that she has shown that she cares for her family.
Anyways that's it for my list. Do you agree or disagree with my picks? What characters do you think get way too much hate? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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