X-Pac Heat/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: Whether the character is liked or not, the actor that plays him/her is strongly disliked.
 * Played Straight: The audience likes Alice, but hates the actress behind her.
 * Exaggerated: The actress gets several metric tons of hate mail, and even death threats.
 * Inverted: Whatever the feelings towards Alice, the audience really likes the actress behind Alice.
 * Justified: The actress made some racially, politically, sexually, and/or religiously incendiary remarks to the press, or some such remarks were erroneously attributed to her.
 * The actress is a Teen Idol who (intentionally or otherwise) violated the rule of Contractual Purity in a big way.
 * Alice's actress is a Nice Character, Mean Actor.
 * Alice's actress committed a very serious crime in real life, such as homicide or child-molestation.
 * The audience simply does not like her real-world fashion choices, or her figure or her looks, or other petty things.
 * Subverted: Alice's actress gets into a minor tabloid scandal, but it's overshadowed by another actor's larger scandal.
 * Alternatively, the controversy is cleared up.
 * Double Subverted: But it still becomes a Never Live It Down incident.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied: Alice's actress has to quit and move to a Far Side Island...and even that's not enough.
 * Lampshaded:
 * Averted: Alice's actress never gets any controversy, no matter what (or whom) she does.
 * Enforced:
 * Invoked: She makes insensitive remarks at a press conference.
 * Defied: She knows that whatever her opinions on (controversial issue) may be, the audience may not necessarily agree with her. She is not a politician, and she doesn't want to alienate her fans, so she keeps mum on political issues or other hot-button topics.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
 * Played For Drama: Almost always is.