Creator's Pet/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Touhou]]'':

** Aya Shameimaru has long flirted with Creator's Pet status. She made her first appearance in ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' as a tengu reporter who was investigating the incidents going on at the time. Oh, and she also "accidentally" beat up everyone along the way because she was "holding back" and "not actually trying to fight". This would have been one thing, but she would, in some form, go on to appear in the next ''four'' Touhou games, including a [[Gaiden Game]] with her as the main character. Her appearance in ''Mountain of Faith'' was particularly infuriating because most of the old cast, Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame notwithstanding, made no appearance in this game... except for Aya, who not only ended up being the level four boss, but was explicitly stated by Touhou creator ZUN himself to have lost to the heroine ''on purpose''.

** At her peak, Aya had become so bad that a minor [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] had spawned explaining that she had gotten into so many games in exchange for giving ZUN sexual favors. However, fanon often portrays Aya as a [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|humorously over-the-top, so-obnoxious-she's-funny]] tabloid reporter with a penchant for taking embarrassing photos of the other girls. This interpretation of Aya is not nearly as bad as the one that ZUN has saddled her with, and it not only [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|rescued her from the scrappy heap]], but it gave her almost as many ''fans'' as she has haters, making her one of the most polarizing characters in the series.

** At her peak, Aya had become so bad that a minor [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] had spawned explaining that she had gotten into so many games in exchange for giving ZUN sexual favors. However, fanon often portrays Aya as a [[So Bad It's Good|humorously over-the-top, so-obnoxious-she's-funny]] tabloid reporter with a penchant for taking embarrassing photos of the other girls. This interpretation of Aya is not nearly as bad as the one that ZUN has saddled her with, and it not only [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|rescued her from the scrappy heap]], but it gave her almost as many ''fans'' as she has haters, making her one of the most polarizing characters in the series.

* ''[[Rayman]]'':

** Some older members of the fandom absolutely deplore the Rabbids. There can be little debate about their forcibly changing the ''Rayman'' series from adventure platformers to collections of short, bizarre minigames, pushing all of Rayman's previous supporting cast out of the spotlight, and carrying on their franchise hijack for a large number of games in a short amount of time.

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** [[Series Mascot|Pikachu]] itself is treated as this, needless to say. It's far more popular with the young kids that make up ''Pokémon'''s traditional target demographic than with older fans (especially male). Yet, it constantly shoves its chubby yellow face into every single aspect of the franchise, even material related to the recent ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' (games where Pikachu ''isn't even obtainable''), making it an "[[Sesame Street (TV)|Elmo]]" of sorts.

** Lucario came close, in that it got to be in its own movie, characters of its Gen. dress like it, and became a character in ''Brawl''. But aside from people who think he replaced Mewtwo in Brawl, Lucario was never an unpopular Pokemon.

** Zoroark also came close and didn't quite become a [[~~Creators~~ Pet]], but for different reasons. A blatant [[Expy]] of Lucario, it was shilled endlessly during the early days of Generation V as an attempt to repeat Lucario's success - and [[Hype Backlash|didn't reach the same level of popularity]]. However, instead of shoving Zoroark in everyone's faces, Game Freak shifted its main marketing for Gen V to other Pokémon such as pre-established [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]] Reshiram and Zekrom, and the Zoroark hate never really materialized. Zoroark instead became a somewhat popular Pokémon (though [[Captain Obvious|not as popular as Lucario during its peak]].)

** Zoroark also came close and didn't quite become a [[Creator's Pet]], but for different reasons. A blatant [[Expy]] of Lucario, it was shilled endlessly during the early days of Generation V as an attempt to repeat Lucario's success - and [[Hype Backlash|didn't reach the same level of popularity]]. However, instead of shoving Zoroark in everyone's faces, Game Freak shifted its main marketing for Gen V to other Pokémon such as pre-established [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]] Reshiram and Zekrom, and the Zoroark hate never really materialized. Zoroark instead became a somewhat popular Pokémon (though [[Captain Obvious|not as popular as Lucario during its peak]].)

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':

** [[The Rival|Shadow]] is currently seen as this by half of [[Broken Base]]. He was once the most [[Ensemble Darkhorse|popular character]] in the series with his debut in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', having a deep and compelling backstory as well as being an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Sonic. After his apparent death at the end was [[Retcon|Retconned]] into him surviving with amnesia, a huge amount of plot focus was put on him in ''[[Sonic Heroes (Video Game)|Sonic Heroes]]''. Later, he got [[Shadow the Hedgehog|his own game]] that continued his story arc. Due to all of the focus on him, many fans have started to hate him for somehow managing to displace, if only temporarily, ''Sonic himself'' from being the focus of the series.

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* The Soldier from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' is getting accused heavily with this for a number of reasons, including a recent spree of highly controversial updates that give him more weapons to work with (ignoring what statistically amounts to reskinned weapons, Soldier has 20 different weapons. Demoman and Heavy only have 16 each). The fact that he's Robin Walker's favorite class does ''not'' help defend his case.

* ''[[Blaz Blue]]'':

** While she is for the most part well-loved, Noel Vermillion is very much being a [[~~Creators~~ Pet]]. The creator made no excuse in declaring how much he likes her and puts many things considered good into her character and she seems getting pushed into getting like a [[Breakout Character]]. But as said above, she's still well loved despite some Hatedom and the in-game story was MUCH more merciless to her.

** While she is for the most part well-loved, Noel Vermillion is very much being a [[Creator's Pet]]. The creator made no excuse in declaring how much he likes her and puts many things considered good into her character and she seems getting pushed into getting like a [[Breakout Character]]. But as said above, she's still well loved despite some Hatedom and the in-game story was MUCH more merciless to her.

** While this hasn't reached to official 'director declaring love', Makoto Nanaya is getting close into being one. Her story in ''Extend'' practically was just stumbling at some places and doing nothing important. Yet, she's been given a lot of [[Character Shilling]] in form of Hazama considering her a [[Spanner in The Works]] for his oh-so-perfect [[Evil Plan]], Relius suddenly declaring her 'having a powerful soul' and just can't seem to get enough of her and even Rachel ''not'' snarking at her (especially when compared to Ragna, where she spent every second of their on-screen time together being a snob to him). That's quite a way to go for someone at first presented as unimportant at first and doing nearly nothing in her story. But just like Noel, fans utterly ''adore'' her.

* [[Hot Scientist|Liara]] [[Bi the Way|T'Soni]] of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is this to some. She is with you at the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' without leaving you, appears to be [[Strangled By the Red String|pushing as the main love interest]] even when you romance someone else, and has a comic book and a DLC [[A Day in The Limelight|dedicated to her]]. Also, she was never as popular as Garrus or Tali before both were accused of being a [[~~Spot Light~~ Stealing Squad]], and she gets a lot more screen time and conversations than every other character in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''. This is partly because she cannot die {{spoiler|until the end}} but it also doesn't explain why things like the interactive comic [[Character Shilling|pans lovingly to her]], or having both Shepards call her "beautiful" and putting her figure at the foreground in every panel. In addition, quite a few people were confused {{spoiler|as to why their Shephard's final thought before death was to remember Liara's smile.}} {{spoiler|If you didn't romance Ashley/Kaidan, Liara's face appears in Shepard's flashback montage of his/her closest friends at the end of [[Mass Effect 3]], even if you romanced someone else.}}

* [[Hot Scientist|Liara]] [[Bi the Way|T'Soni]] of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is this to some. She is with you at the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' without leaving you, appears to be [[Strangled By the Red String|pushing as the main love interest]] even when you romance someone else, and has a comic book and a DLC [[A Day in The Limelight|dedicated to her]]. Also, she was never as popular as Garrus or Tali before both were accused of being a [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]], and she gets a lot more screen time and conversations than every other character in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''. This is partly because she cannot die {{spoiler|until the end}} but it also doesn't explain why things like the interactive comic [[Character Shilling|pans lovingly to her]], or having both Shepards call her "beautiful" and putting her figure at the foreground in every panel. In addition, quite a few people were confused {{spoiler|as to why their Shephard's final thought before death was to remember Liara's smile.}} {{spoiler|If you didn't romance Ashley/Kaidan, Liara's face appears in Shepard's flashback montage of his/her closest friends at the end of [[Mass Effect 3]], even if you romanced someone else.}}

* ''[[Runescape]]'':

** Some of the marketing strategies they use to get free players to buy members definately fall under this category. Once every few months, the marketing team comes up with some new gimmick that they endlessly harp on about in order to justify their existance. The current Gimmick is the Squeal of Fortune, which definitely qualifies for this status.