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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Poochie:''' [[But Now I Must Go|I have to go now. My planet needs me]].
'''Title Card:''' ''[[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.]]''
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A character is introduced into a show with a lot of fanfare, and almost at once moves up to main character status (if not necessarily the credits). He/she will often form a close relationship with the existing main characters, and may even have a prior history with a main character, even if this has [[Remember the New Guy?|never been mentioned before]]. Sometimes the character is a result of [[Executive Meddling]].
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== Film ==
* Jar Jar Binks is an infamous failed attempt at [[Kid Appeal Character|pandering to kids]] in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Phantom Menace]]''. Thankfully, [[George Lucas]] took the hint and severely reduced his screentime in the following prequels. Nowadays, he usually only shows up as [[Take That, Scrappy!|the butt of cheap jokes]]; and even ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', probably the one canon place where he's given an ounce of respect, only features him maybe once a season.
== Literature ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* In the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], Kevin [[Fan Nickname|"Big Poochie"]] Nash (though nicknamed more for his [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] nature). Came in with lots of history (he was, after all, Diesel back in the early '90s, but [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|wrestling fans aren't supposed to remember that]]) and an infamous [[Real Life]] friendship with [[Shawn Michaels]], [[Triple H]], Scott Hall, and X-Pac (his teammates in the nWo). His presence seemed to leave a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths, and after his [[Game-Breaking Injury|second quad tear]], he left for another several years. Why Hall and X-Pac didn't get a Shoo Out the New Guy treatment is anyone's guess.
** Nash's nickname of "Big Poochie" actually [[Older Than They Think|dates back to]] late-90s WCW, where he was [[Running the Asylum|Head Booker]] and essentially forcing ''Nitro'' to revolve around himself, with increasingly absurd segments that seemed to be aired purely for the amusement of Nash himself.
* This is actually fairly common in wrestling. Whenever a wrestler debuts and is immediately hated by the fans, promotions will usually either retool him with a different gimmick, or [[Put on a Bus|put him on a bus.]] An example would be Beaver Cleavage, who was heavily hyped by the WWE prior to his debut and lasted all of a week before becoming Chaz.
** A more recent example was Kizarny. The gimmick was that he was apparently a carnival/circus performer so he always spoke in Carny. Carny is a form of [[Pig Latin]] commonly used by carnival folks ([[Captain Obvious|duh]]) and wrestlers, where you put "iz" before the first (or maybe all) vowels of a word. This, of course, made nearly everything the guy said unintelligible and the character was dropped before he could even debut save for one match against MVP.
** In 80's [[
** ECW and WCW tag team Public Enemy was brought into the WWF as a favor to there-for-a-cup-of-coffee-himself booker Terry Taylor in 1999. They managed to irritate both the fans and wrestlers in short order, and found their way out of the company after being legitimately beaten up during a match.
* The most infamous example though, is The Gobbledy Gooker. He had all of one match before he was never mentioned again, save for a gimmick battle royale at Wrestlemania X-7.
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== Video Games ==
* As much as [[Unpleasable Fanbase|fans complain]] about [[Loads and Loads of Characters|all the additional]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' characters the newer games have added, Sonic Team seemed to learn their lesson with [[The Scrappy|Silver]]; after his debut in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)
** His return in ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' was met with ire, until people actually fought him. Cue everyone liking him again.
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== Web
* The guy from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohUVRVoXtY&feature=channel this] short [[Cyanide & Happiness]] video.
* Todd and Travis from ''[[Arby 'n' the Chief]]'' were introduced, and subsequently removed a few episodes later, because of the enormous backlash they received from the fanbase.
== Western Animation ==
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** That and they might as well fulfill her [[Meaningful Name|prophetic name]]. She may have always been planned to be a [[Stealth Pun|substitute teacher]] while Mr. Garrison took some [[Character Development]].
** In his first appearance, Towelie appears to be a parody of this trope. He appears out of absolutely nowhere, the boys react just enough to get him to wander off periodically, and the episode features a fake commercial for Towelie merchandise (including, just in case, "I hate Towelie" T-shirts).
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'', with Larry, who got an awkward [[Promotion to Opening Titles]], and generated a [[Retool]] into a ''[[Three Stooges]]'' knock-off. And plenty of [[My Friends and Zoidberg]] moments. In a [[Lampshade Hanging]], he left specifically ''because'' Brain pointed out that he didn't gel. Then, at the very end, just as it looked like that Pinky and the Brain will carry on as a duo again, a scientist placed another mouse into their cage, and the mouse introduces himself as [[The Marx Brothers|Zeppo]]. The ending reprise of the theme song was then reworked to have Zeppo's name in it in the same manner as Larry. [[Status Quo Is God|He's gone
** And then used for real with ''[[Pinky, Elmyra
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' cartoon show averts this trope by the fact that most of the Smurfs are basically [[Faceless Masses]], identical to each other. A character can be brought in, given prominence for a while, and then be easily written out with no problem and without anybody really missing them.
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