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* Dorothy Heydt coined the words when reading [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/c67003d462c72a07?dmode=source Volume Two of] ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', and also [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/c0c86ef8c3d067df?dmode=source applied them] to a ''[[The Fionavar Tapestry|Fionavar Tapestry]]'' book.
* This is one of the many complaints that have been made by reviewers about the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' novelisations by Philip Athans, the protagonist being a [[Designated Hero]] [[Jerk Sue]] and the other characters barely counting as characters.
* Mark Twain's essay ''[[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]]'' touches upon this concept (if not so explicitly by name) a century before Dorothy Heydt, making this trope [[Older Than Radio]] and [[Older Than You Think]].
{{quote|10. They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. But the reader of the "Deerslayer" tale dislikes the good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together.}}
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