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** It also hurt that Marv Wolfman had no idea how to write a telekinetic to complement the Titans' diverse power set. Chase's powers were mainly shown to be (at best) extremely limited: at best he could levitate himself (but only while sitting Indian style) and throw small objects around at bad guys to annoy them. Jean Grey he wasn't; this combined with his wussy behavior during combat, made him practically useless in battle. As bad as Cypher was power-wise, at least he had training in hand-to-hand combat and was willing to take a bullet for his teammates when necessary.
* When [[Armed With Canon|written by his fanboys]], [[Batman]] becomes this in spades. [[Frank Miller]] and Doug Moench are especially guilty of this, having him being perfect in every way, capable of easily defeat all other superheroes like Superman or Spawn just by virtue of being Batman, other characters gushing about how awesome he is and him easily thwarting every danger just because he is Batman. Thankfully, DC has tried to balance out this by establishing Hal Jordan as Batman's better; granted, Bruce has been shown to be able to steal Hal's ring off his hand, but Hal has had the pleasure of punching Batman in the face and generally speaking, shown as the only person in the DC Universe that Batman can't bully or intimidate or outright threaten into subservience. And then Batman punched him right back in a later issue.
** ''[[JLA: Act of God (Comic Book)|JLA Act of God]]'' gets this particularly bad, with all the heroes becoming utterly useless except those who opt to train like Batman. Those that do practically worship him and he insults them and denigrates their previous contributions. Because the superpowered heroes were never at risk. Even when they were fighting demigod-level threats like Darkseid and Doomsday who could splatter Batman with an errant breath.
*** While you might think the comic is making a good point, the problem is more how EVERYONE talks about how Batman (and just Batman, other tech based heroes are barely mentioned) was always the BEST of them EVER. All characters are derailed into whining fanboys for Batman who does almost nothing in the story. He doesn't actually try to help anyone or gather the heroes together, instead just stays in Gotham and only helps once the heroes come to him and ask for help. So it isn't even a very heroic version of Batman.
* [[Dwayne McDuffie]] had Green Lantern John Stewart, though this was largely part of self-fulfilling prophecy; a lot of fans didn't like Stewart for the way that leapfrogged Kyle Rayner to be the JLU Green Lantern, which led to McDuffie (a black creator who was quite vocal on what he felt was racism within the TV and comic industry and who had inherited Stewart on the cartoon from the previous showrunner) making some rather off-putting comments where he basically accused anyone who hated Stewart as being racist, which led to the widespread notion that Stewart was McDuffie's pet character. Fast forward a couple of years when McDuffie DID take over the JLA comic, he was made to use John instead of Hal as the JLA Green Lantern on orders from above (partly due to the fact that Hal was being given HIS OWN JLA TEAM!). Sadly, McDuffie failed miserably with regards to the transition process and the overall backlash (aided by the fact that Hal's JLA spin-off was reduced to a mini-series when it became apparent that James Robinson's artist was never going to get the book done on time) led to Hal being restored to the title until ''[[Cry for Justice|Cry For Justice]]'' was released/John re-instated just long enough for him to be bounced again and replaced with Hal (who was then quickly replaced with Jade when they needed a book to focus on her ''[[Brightest Day]]'' storyline).
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*** This is ironic, given that she was initially an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] when she originated on ''[[X Men Evolution]]''. Perhaps it's the fact she has poor characterisation these days whilst being a ''regular'' (always a failure of a combination for any character).
* [[The Sentry]] from ''Mighty Avengers'', ''Dark Avengers'', ''Age of the Sentry'', ''[[World War Hulk]]'', ''Secret Invasion'', ''Dark Reign'', ''Siege'', ''Fall of the Hulks'', ''New Avengers'', and ''The Sentry'' mini series. Writers love using him, fans hate seeing him. If they wanted to see Superman with mental problems, they would've just gone to [[Super Dickery]].
** The Good News: {{spoiler|He's finally dead!}} The Bad News: {{spoiler|despite being utterly useless for most of his comics existence and a [[Face Heel Turn]] that also revealed he was an [[Eldritch Abomination]] and saw him try to destroy the world, his send-off issue was nothing but the entire cast of Marvelverse heroes waxing poetic about how wonderful he was and how he'd made their lives better in flashback retcons. The hamfisted attempt at [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] was ''not'' well-received.}}
*** {{spoiler|Don't forget how Rogue had sex with him first, despite the fact that was established in the pages of Xtreme X-Men that Rogue lost her virginity to Gambit when the two lost their powers.}}
** He's also an example of a [[God Mode Sue]]. He's ''better at molecular manipulation than Molecule Man'', for instance. Of course, all this may come with the territory, given that he's heavily implied to be {{spoiler|''[[The Grim Reaper|Death]]''}} and all that...
* Kitty Pryde became Peter Parker's girlfriend in ''[[Ultimate Spider Man]]'' and, after they broke up, remained a part of the cast and was fit into as many plotlines as possible. [[Brian Bendis]] has gone on the record to state that [[Author Appeal|he's always liked Kitty Pryde from back when he was a kid]] and that he enjoys using her. [[Base Breaker|Some don't mind the attention paid to her...but others do.]]
** Some characters in his Avengers comics - Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Ares- are accused of being Creator's Pets. Of course, Bendis has a tendency to showing his affection by [[Break the Cutie|heartlessly breaking them]], so all five went through some serious crap under his care. And that's not counting Bendis's "love" for Hawkeye, who has become nothing more than a vehicle from which Bendis [[Take That, Critics!|attacks his critics]] (and to spite fans whose overwhelming hatred for Bendis' attempt to permanently kill Clint off led to Bendis being forced against his will to bring him back to life, at which point he turned him into a ninja to further spite fans).
* Mary Jane Watson-Parker of the [[Spider-Man]] comics is an ''inversion'': Most of the fans like her and want stories featuring her, while creators (''especially'' [[Joe Quesada]]) hate her and are willing to ruin the franchise to get rid of her. This ''might'' be because they were [[Running the Asylum|readers when they were young]], when MJ became the target of [[Die for Our Ship]] from Gwen fans following {{spoiler|Gwen's death}}, and MJ and Peter's marriage became a [[Base Breaker]] move. As MJ went through massive amounts of character development and became a much more beloved character, a combination of lazy writers using her in uncreative ways during [[The Clone Saga]] and old hatred of her and/or the marriage led to people like Quesada gaining control over the writing.
** Carlie Cooper, however, has been playing this '''frustratingly''' straight:
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** [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]] is taking effect thanks to now being written by fan-favorite [[Last Standofthe Wreckers|James Roberts]].
*** Well, considering how Roberts is playing up [[The Fundamentalist]] aspects of Drift and including entertaining little tidbits like him being Rodimus' speechwriter (which is even funnier when you remember the core of his personality aside from swords was "delivers a lot of pseudo-philosophical rousing speeches)... It seems Drift is ascending from the Scrappy Heap as we speak.
* The ''[[Silent Hill (Comic Book)|Silent Hill]]'' comics had more than their fair share of problems, but worst of all was the addition of Christabella, a [[Creepy Child]] who commands an army of monsters and constantly [[Bratty Half
** At least she was [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|forgotten]] when Tom Waltz took over the writing chores of the comics.
* In [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|the original]] [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] comics, Donatello was Peter Laird's favorite Turtle, and Raphael was Kevin Eastman's favorite. Add that Leonardo had much focus due to his role as a leader, and Michelangelo had a much minor role ([[Breakout Character|which started to reverse in the]] [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|original cartoon]]).
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