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** Finn suffered a lot of backlash from people who saw him as this, to the point of there being a "Hypocritical Finn" meme. His most infamous moment was when he outed Santana, and suffered no consequences other than her slapping him. Even his gay stepbrother, and raised-by-gay-dads girlfriend, don't say anything, and in the following episode it seems that everyone is convinced that Finn did the ''right thing''. This is made even worse when Season 4 came around, where ''after calling Sue's baby a retard'', Will decides to put him in charge of New Directions while Will is in Washington DC.
** Blaine Anderson. It didn't help that even right after being introduced, he was already getting more and more air time and way more solos than most of the original cast members, which ended up being shoehorned in once or twice (TSSBS, Prom Queen). And his characterization made him out to be a [[Canon Sue]] for a lot of people. It has reached the point where even his own actor Darren Criss thought Blaine had a little too much focus on him. This reaction only intensified when Blaine was upgraded to a main member of the cast from season 3 onward, but split along the lines of the increased screentime either fixing him by giving him more legitimacy as a character or at least downgrading him to a more tolerable [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|Spotlight Stealing]] [[Shallow Love Interest]]. On the other hand, some fans feel that this only turns him into even more of a Canon Sue.
** Rachel Berry's detractors see her as one of these. Co-creator Ian Brennan defended the criticism of splitting the narrative of Season 4 between the New Directions at McKinley High, and Rachel and Kurt at NYADA, by basically telling everyone that whether the fans hate the character or not, [http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/glee/news/a405712/glee-exec-defends-new-york-plot-rachel-is-core-of-the-show/ Rachel is the star of the show]. GodWhile forbidshe youis dislikeexceptionally this character's singing voice or think she's incredibly overusedtalented, because[[Informed in ''Glee'Ability|you'd reality,think her talents are limitless and herLea dreamsMichele arewas the mostonly important,talented so you ''are'' going to see and hear moremember of herthe thancast]] ofthe anyone else.way Otherother characters line up to [[Character Shilling|talk, sometimes to thin air, about how wonderful and important sheRachel is]], even if her success comes at their expense. (andThe itepisode frequentlythat does).showed Asthis thebest linkwas above"Props", indicateswhere Tina, it[[Demoted doesn'tto matterExtra|a howcharacter hugemany andfans incrediblyfeel talentedhas thebeen ensemblegetting is:pushed [[Wordto ofthe Godsidelines]], isbecomes frustrated that Rachel is once again singing lead while she remains stuck in the starbackground. But after experiencing a vision in which all of the showglee club members have switched roles, soshe ifexplains youto don'tRachel likeboth the dream and her thensubconscious you'lltelling justher havethat her part... is to crosshelp yourRachel fingersget thatwhatever yourshe actualwants, favoritebecause willby gethelping soher, muchshe ashelps the glee club. By the end of the season, Rachel is admitted into NYADA despite failing her audition and leaving Carmen Tibideaux annoyed enough by her repeated messages to say she does not deserve any special treatment, becoming a line[[Karma thisHoudini]] episodein the process.
** Unique, who was made into a main character in Season 4 because of Ryan Murphy's adoration for Alex Newell from ''[[The Glee Project]]''. Compare the screentime and focus Joe gets (despite actually winning the show). It went even further with Newell being promoted to main cast in Season 5, although his character's [[Transgender]] storyline went towards mitigating this somewhat.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Almost anything Sue does or says, though she certainly outdid herself in season 5 when she managed to take Figgins's place as principal by planting false evidence in his office, including gambling bills, porn magazines, ''gay'' porn magazines, gay porn ''foot fetish'' magazines, and '''''an autographed copy of Mein Kampf'''''.
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