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Sometimes these characters are just used to insult the heroes and make life hard for them, giving the character little point. Does [[Harry Potter]] really need another teacher who's out to get him? Hasn't [[Naruto]] dealt with enough crap already? In these cases, the character is simply used to replace the [[Canon]] obstacles for [[The Hero]] with smaller and (sometimes) more realistic ones.
An [[OC Stand-In]] is sometimes used to save a main character from being bashed... The [[OC Stand-In]] [[The Scapegoat|is then bashed instead]], like, e.g., in many ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfics people make Sakura's mother responsible for her being a [[Fan Girl]] and an [[Alpha Bitch]] and let her make an whole laundry list of crimes against Naruto and the village.
However, there are cases, even when the [[OC Stand-In]] is "high school evil", that these characters turn out likeable. Or, at least, the [[Fanfic]] does.
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A particularly successful [[Alternative Character Interpretation|interpretation]] of one of these sometimes [[Ascended Fanon|ascends into]] [[Fanon]] when other fans want to play with that version.
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