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** Not so much anymore. While what {{spoiler|she}} did was very much beyond the [[Moral Event Horizon]], {{spoiler|her}} motive now puts {{spoiler|her}} squarely in [[Knight Templar]] territory: {{spoiler|avenging her brother in prison who was Serena's teacher in boarding school who was put away after the school got a complaint from Serena claiming statutory rape. Except it wasn't Serena who signed it}} making the real [[Complete Monster]] {{spoiler|Lilly}}.

** The first villain on the show to enter this trope may be {{spoiler|Russell Thorpe. A ruthless blackmailer and corporate shark, he at first appears to be more of a [[Knight Templar]] attempting to avenge his dead wife, accidentally killed by Chuck's father. [[Wham Episode|Then it turns out that he was the one who caused her death, not Bart Bass. And then he kidnaps Blair.]]}}

* [[~~Creators~~ Pet]]: Vanessa, according to some. The vast majority of the fans loathe her and any episode she doesn't appear in is immediately hailed as being so much better for her not being in it. Yet she keeps getting storylines, is the only girl who has been romantically linked to all male leads and is constantly talked about as being a great person with high morals even though she behaves just as badly as Blair, Jenny and Serena. On the other hand, she is the only main character who is missing from several episodes each season and while she gets storylines most of them directly involve one or more other main characters rather than Vanessa and guest stars.

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Vanessa, according to some. The vast majority of the fans loathe her and any episode she doesn't appear in is immediately hailed as being so much better for her not being in it. Yet she keeps getting storylines, is the only girl who has been romantically linked to all male leads and is constantly talked about as being a great person with high morals even though she behaves just as badly as Blair, Jenny and Serena. On the other hand, she is the only main character who is missing from several episodes each season and while she gets storylines most of them directly involve one or more other main characters rather than Vanessa and guest stars.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: See the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/GossipGirl separate page].

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: See the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/GossipGirl separate page].

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* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Happened to Nate in season 3. Fans grew tired of his constant bed-hopping and sheer aimlessness in season 2, so the writers gave him an abundance of family-oriented stories and returned him to his roots by having him be desperately in love with Serena and suddenly interested in his best friend's welfare.

* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: Many fans' reaction to the ''Indecent Proposal'' storyline. And Chuck and Jenny having sex.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Vanessa Abrams, especially true among fans of the books [[They Changed It Now It Sucks|when they watch the series]]. She got better (a little) in season 2, only to get a lot worse in season 3. In fact, [http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20423146,00.html the very same author of the books talks about it]. [[~~Creators~~ Pet|But the producers insist on giving her more stories, in spite of general dissaproval]]. Just visit any [[Gossip Girl]] webforums and you'll see rabid comments about Vanessa.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Vanessa Abrams, especially true among fans of the books [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|when they watch the series]]. She got better (a little) in season 2, only to get a lot worse in season 3. In fact, [http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20423146,00.html the very same author of the books talks about it]. [[Creator's Pet|But the producers insist on giving her more stories, in spite of general dissaproval]]. Just visit any [[Gossip Girl]] webforums and you'll see rabid comments about Vanessa.

*** As of Season 4, Vanessa has no friends left, among the characters or the viewers. Frustrated with how the NJBC seem to [[Karma Houdini|always escape the consequences of their actions]], she gave up the integrity that used to separate her from them in an ill-advised and ill-fated attempt to beat them at their own game. [[An Aesop|Now she's just the dog sitting next to a river, watching her steak float away]], and even her fans want her to Just. Go. Away.

**** And they got their wish in Season 5.

** Jenny's portrayal in the series [[They Changed It Now It Sucks|has been a bittersweet taste for fans of the book]].

** Jenny's portrayal in the series [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|has been a bittersweet taste for fans of the book]].

* [[Ship Mates]]: People who ship Chair (Chuck and Blair) tend to be positive of a Serenate (Serena and Nate) pairing since it for one keeps Nate away from Blair and for another means the NJBC is nicely paired off. Dan/Blair fans seem to convenience ship Serena/Nate as well.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Blair and Dan recently. The writers have long said they would like to try a romance between the two because they like their possible "[[Slap Slap Kiss]]" vibe. They never did though because of possible backlash from Chair fans. Lately, though, they seem to have said screw it and are teasing them anyway.

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** There also seems to be a great deal of warring between fans who believe Nate belongs with Serena and those who believe he belongs with Jenny, even though there hasn't been much on the show itself to support the latter pairing.

** Chuck/Blair fans vs the emergent Dan/Blair ship in Season 4. Blair+Dan is either a chance for both characters to be truly happy with someone they understand, or a narrowly-dodged bullet that [[Ruined FOREVER|would have killed it]].

* [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good]]: The poetry Dan writes in the books is just so incredibly awful that it's unbelievably awesome.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: The poetry Dan writes in the books is just so incredibly awful that it's unbelievably awesome.

* [[Stoic Woobie]]: Chuck.

* [[Super Couple]]: Chuck and Blair.

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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Serena's [[Start of Darkness]] as Gossip Girl last for a single episode before the real Gossip Girl demands her site back.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The show tries very hard to downplay Jack Bass attempting to rape Lily in season 2, but the audience never forgets. So when Chuck {{spoiler|sets Blair up to sleep with Jack in exchange for his hotel}}, he is not only {{spoiler|allowing her to prostitute herself}}, he is also {{spoiler|placing her in danger of getting raped}} according to the majority of viewers.

* [[What an Idiot]]: Serena spends months doing everything she can to get her father's attention. Most of it consists of getting paparazzi to take pictures of her partying like crazy, appearing topless and sleeping around. Then when her father does appear she doesn't want him to know about her wild past, and pretends like the craziest thing she's ever done is take part in a coco drinking contest. Only to Serena (and possibly Nate) could that make any logical sense.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: Serena spends months doing everything she can to get her father's attention. Most of it consists of getting paparazzi to take pictures of her partying like crazy, appearing topless and sleeping around. Then when her father does appear she doesn't want him to know about her wild past, and pretends like the craziest thing she's ever done is take part in a coco drinking contest. Only to Serena (and possibly Nate) could that make any logical sense.