Creator's Pet/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Beyblade]]'': Daichi in the the later season. Basically a exaggerated [[Copy Cat Sue]] of Tyson with a very irritating voice who gets just as much spotlight, leaving Max, Rey and Kai with less screentime.

* ''[[Bleach]]'': In the [[Filler|Invading Army arc]], Nozomi has come to be considered this. She has Rukia's [[Tsundere|personality]] crossed with Orihime's [[Healing Hands|healing abilities]], which rendered ''both'' ladies utterly useless to the plot (they go for entire episodes without any lines). Despite [[Fridge Logic|her status as a modsoul, she has a zanpakuto]] with [[Instant Expert|an ability]] that's essentially a [[Plot Twist|modified]] [[Energy Absorption|version]] of Yumichika's [[Energy Absorption|Ruri'ro Kujaku]]. How modified is it? She can one-shot ''two bankai-wielding captains'' and [[God Mode Sue|absorb]] multiple lieutenant-level abilities [[God Mode Sue|without reaching her limit]]. What else? She can make the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] fall in love with her and become a serious character, she can tell [[Badass Grandpa|Yamamoto]] himself how to fight, and fight better than him to the extent of ''saving his life'', she can analyze and instantly defeat Kyoraku's shadow ability... so far, we haven't seen anything she ''can't'' do. She even fulfills the role of the [[Mary Sue]] of the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] type, having obviously been set up as such from the start of the arc. To ensure the perfect [[Heroic Sacrifice]], she actually [[Beyond the Impossible|breaks the arc's own established rules]] on how swiftly modsouls die to ensure [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|the canon characters can all swoon suitably over her heroism as they focus on how much she meant to them as she slowly fades away]].

** Ohgi however, plays the trope straight, [[Love Makes You Dumb|due to]] [[Lima Syndrome|his actions]] [[Idiot Houdini|late in the]] [[Karma Houdini|second season]].

* ''[[Darker than Black]]'': Suou Pavlichenko in the second season. She [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|gets much more attention than the original protagonist]], which is particularly jarring since his personality has changed drastically ([[Took a Level in Jerkass|and not for the better]]) with the explanation [[All There in the Manual|relegated to the OVAs released with the DVDs]]. Suou herself doesn't have a very distinctive personality and is often used as a vehicle for lolicon subtext and fanservice, alienating viewers who aren't interested. Some go so far as to say she [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|singlehandedly ruined what could have been an interesting story]]; others just feel some of her screentime could have been better spent focusing on established major characters like Yin, Hei, or Kirihara.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Parts of the fandom viewed [[Filler|Anime-only]] creation [[One-Shot Character|Princess Sara]] as it rewrote canon to happen as a story about the one person who managed to love Sesshoumaru (canon: three people did: Rin, Jaken, Kagura). A pure-hearted girl [[Fridge Logic|willingly]] turns into a demon via Naraku's method (canon: only an evil heart can do this). The demon made stealing Tessaiga look easy (canon: if it was that easy, Sesshoumaru would have succeeded by now). [[Evil Weapon|Toujikin]] can't hurt the demon because it's a hate-filled sword (canon: Toukijin's hate is what makes it a powerful youkai-killer). Kagome's sacred arrows make the demon stronger instead of injuring it (canon: impossible, sacred arrows = purification = youkai death). Only Tessaiga can harm the demon. Sesshoumaru never met the girl before she became a demon (she was a [[Stalker with a Crush]] he once distantly heard the flute of), and spent most of the time dealing with the demon's personal vendetta against him (reason never given). The girl randomly starts fighting the demon control, asking Sesshoumaru to save her which Sesshoumaru (randomly compassionate) does by defying Tessaiga's barrier (canon: he can't do this) to injure the demon and free her soul. In short, creator heaven, canon hell.

* ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'': Joriri, an anime exclusive character. An annoying, one note joke, poor role model who apparently taught many lessons to the young Keroro and friends. Did we mention he wasn't mentioned until 150 + episodes in? Fans tolerated his presence in the fan favorite flashback episodes...until he appeared in the present, bumming it in the base. That officially graduated him into Creator's Pet territory.

* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'': Ranka Lee, and to a certain extent Sheryl Nome as well. The show's director Kawamori is notorious for his love of Ranka, but his enthusiasm only seems to make her more and more unlikeable. On the flip side, the writer Yoshino is a self-professed Sheryl fanatic. His bias has been criticized as the cause of the extreme contrast between Sheryl's favorable portrayal against Ranka's not-so-positive image. As the accusation goes, Yoshino wanted to promote his pet character Sheryl, so he makes Ranka a selfish obnoxious brat, and turns Sheryl into a mature and perfect [[Mary Sue]].

* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' often has a problem in balancing the screen time of the titular creatures. Ash used to be criticized for his overuse of Pikachu back in the day but Piplup is the most blatant Creator's Pet, being constantly forced as the secondary mascot of the series while Dawn's other Pokemon rarely get a chance to shine. Still, for what it's worth, Piplup's over-exposure on the show has also cemented him as the very definition of the [[Butt Monkey]] when it comes to the Pokemon themselves.

** The production crew members' [[Twitter|Twitters]] have shed a bit more light on this: turns out Crow ''wasn't'' a [[Creator's Pet]] at all! Rather, his ''deck'' was a ''[[Executive Meddling|marketing executive's]]'' pet. After his first appearance, nobody predicted that the Blackwing cards would sell as well as they did, and when the numbers came in, the card company execs ordered the anime crew to make him a main character. This ended up torpedoing a lot of [[What Could Have Been|things the creators intended to do]], including a rematch between Rua and Bommer that would've presumably resulted in {{spoiler|Rua getting his dragon a season earlier than he actually did}} as well as a full backstory for Demak, who ended up a [[Generic Doomsday Villain]] in the final product. No matter what side of the Crow [[Broken Base]] you're on, it wasn't the creators' fault at all; they were probably as annoyed as his haters.