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== Professional Wrestling ==

* In the [[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.

* 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 [[~~WWE~~|WWF]] a lot of vignettes were filmed hyping a wrestler named Outback Jack. This was basically Vince's attempt to cash in on the success of [[Crocodile Dundee]]. After months and months of hype, fans were treated to some of the worst "wrestling" ever performed in public. Jack was shown the door in short order.

** In 80's [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] a lot of vignettes were filmed hyping a wrestler named Outback Jack. This was basically Vince's attempt to cash in on the success of [[Crocodile Dundee]]. After months and months of hype, fans were treated to some of the worst "wrestling" ever performed in public. Jack was shown the door in short order.

** 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)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' and prominent role in ''Sonic Rivals 2'', he's been demoted to extremely minor roles and is not missed.

* 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)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' and prominent role in ''Sonic Rivals 2'', he's been demoted to extremely minor roles and is not missed.

** His return in ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' was met with ire, until people actually fought him. Cue everyone liking him again.