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* Seth from ''[[
* Kurtis Stryker looked incredibly out of place in the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' universe, as he was a plainclothes cop in a video game world filled with demons, cyborgs and [[Palette Swap]] [[Ninja|ninjas]]. From his initial appearance in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'':
** The player base is split about the leaders of their respective factions being this. The first, Thrall, has generally been accepted as Chris Metzen's pet character ever since his initial appearance, but not many have called him out on it, since the change of the Horde from bloodthirsty demonic army to a shamanic society of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud warrior race guys]] under his leadership has been accepted as a good thing for the lore. Ever since the latest expansion pack, though, they've been treated to Varian Wrynn, the rightful king of Stormwind who was lost to his people until recently. The way his change in character, return and insertion into the game has been handled, however, has been heavily criticized. Not only does his character development run a clear parallel to Thrall's, but it has been done in a fraction of the time, in which his character made a complete 180 - a barbaric human to Thrall's educated Orc - it involved some major [[Ass Pull|asspulls]] and, to give him weight, culminated in his hijacking the lore of one of the most prominent quest lines the Alliance had: {{spoiler|the exposing and subsequent slaying of Onyxia}}. This has drawn bad blood from both factions, while getting others up in arms over Thrall's status as Metzen's pet. Currently, Varian seems more deserving of Creator's Pet status, as the developers keep pushing him in an ever more prominent role in matters even though a large part of the base hates him, while the main complaint of Thrall's detractors is that he's doing too ''little'' to oppose the inner conflicts, instead relying too much on advisers.
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* ''[[Guild Wars]] Factions'':
** The character of Mhenlo at times felt more like the hero than the player characters. In the cutscenes, he seemed to do most of the thinking and talking, and he appeared to be..."acquainted"...with most of the female population of Cantha. In addition, that chapter was full of [[Escort Mission|Escort Missions]], usually with him as the person who you had to keep alive. (It helped that Mhenlo was actually a healer who was good at keeping himself alive, though.) Fortunately, ArenaNet dialed his importance FAR back in later campaigns and didn't make that mistake again.
** Although Lieutenant Thackeray is coming close to taking his place. It's [[Foregone Conclusion|already been revealed]] that he's going to father an important character in the sequel with fan-favorite [[Broken Bird]], Gwen. However, he was only introduced in the Christmas event, and since then his interactions with her have been seen as ham-handed at best, and [[Strangled
* Joey MacAdoo in the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series. Saying nothing other than corny jokes (you gotta MACADOO it!) in his first appearance in ''Backyard Baseball 2007'', he was destined to become [[The Scrappy]]. The writers somehow thought he and Ernie Steele (who is also corny, but actually realizes he is making bad jokes) should be the poster boys for the series, evolving into a Creator's Pet. Even worse: In one of the few Backyard Books, Joey is the main character.
* Reaver from ''[[
* Reaver returns in ''[[
* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games have two such characters, both of whom were introduced in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'':
** FLUDD from ''[[
** The biggest Creator's Pet is Bowser Jr. In ''[[
* For several years, the creative team of ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' foisted the paradox that is Ash Crimson onto the world. [[Ambiguously Gay]], overpowered, [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|a strange, androgynous appearance]], and storywise is one of the strongest characters and is responsible for at least three characters [[Brought Down to Normal|losing their moves]]. The dev team absolutely loved him, but players (non tournament players, story obsessed nerds) wished he would he would step aside so that more orthodox characters could get a chance to shine. SNK acknowledged these complaints in ''KOF XIII''...by having him ''[[Ret-Gone|alter the past so he never existed]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'':
** The fans got their Creator's Pet with the form of Pichu, a second-generation Pokémon promoted heavily ''two generations later''. It's known that Pichu is one of the creator's favorite Pokémon, but in the height of rumors about the fifth generation and with a new movie on the way (that would make all Generation IV Pokémon featured at least once in the anime), Spiky-eared Pichu (a female Pichu with a spike/notch-ended ear) made her first appearance. She was basically promoted as one of the main stars of the twelfth movie, that featured the ''God of Pokémon''. She made her way into merchandising, got an anime ending, and even got an appearance as a very special event-only Pokémon in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
** Let us not forget about Plusle and Minun, who had a lot of exposure in marketing, movies and spinoffs despite lacking in stats and basically being "Pichu/Pikachu [[Recycled in Space|AS TWINS]]" designwise, for the sake of promoting double battles. Thankfully, they only had this much exposure during Generation III and the following "Pikaclones" had much less exposure...
** [[Series Mascot|Pikachu]] itself is treated as this, needless to say. It's far more popular with the young kids that make up ''Pokémon'''s traditional target demographic than with older fans (especially male). Yet, it constantly shoves its chubby yellow face into every single aspect of the franchise, even material related to the recent ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' (games where Pikachu ''isn't even obtainable''), making it an "[[Sesame Street
** Lucario came close, in that it got to be in its own movie, characters of its Gen. dress like it, and became a character in ''Brawl''. But aside from people who think he replaced Mewtwo in Brawl, Lucario was never an unpopular Pokemon.
** Zoroark also came close and didn't quite become a [[Creator's Pet]], but for different reasons. A blatant [[Expy]] of Lucario, it was shilled endlessly during the early days of Generation V as an attempt to repeat Lucario's success - and [[Hype Backlash|didn't reach the same level of popularity]]. However, instead of shoving Zoroark in everyone's faces, Game Freak shifted its main marketing for Gen V to other Pokémon such as pre-established [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]] Reshiram and Zekrom, and the Zoroark hate never really materialized. Zoroark instead became a somewhat popular Pokémon (though [[Captain Obvious|not as popular as Lucario during its peak]].)
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':
** [[The Rival|Shadow]] is currently seen as this by half of [[Broken Base]]. He was once the most [[Ensemble Darkhorse|popular character]] in the series with his debut in ''[[
*** The Sonic-displacing is proven by Sonic being nerfed in boss fights against Shadow to a truly unbelievable degree and being given a thorough backseat moveset-wise. In [[
**** Even after [[Shadow the Hedgehog]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]] continued this trend, giving not only Shadow but also Silver the treatment: it reserved the most interesting parts of the story to Shadow and Silver's episodes, while Sonic's story consisted in a tedious and uninteresting saveElise-from-Eggman-only-for-her-to-get-kidnapped-again loop; and made Sonic out to be the weakest of the three hedgehogs, with Silver expressing incredulity at how weak he was. There was even a cringe worthy scene in which Sonic got defeated by Silver ''in a matter of seconds'', followed by ''Shadow showing up and saving him'' as Silver was about to kill him. And that's not even getting to the part in which {{spoiler|Sonic actually got killed}}.
** Shadow is also the Assist Trophy (which work like Poke Balls) from Sonic's universe in [[
* This is always a risk with [[Exposition Fairy]] characters, such as Navi from ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'', and the titular ''[[Minish Cap]]''.
* The Soldier from ''[[
* ''[[Blaz Blue]]'':
** While she is for the most part well-loved, Noel Vermillion is very much being a [[Creator's Pet]]. The creator made no excuse in declaring how much he likes her and puts many things considered good into her character and she seems getting pushed into getting like a [[Breakout Character]]. But as said above, she's still well loved despite some Hatedom and the in-game story was MUCH more merciless to her.
** While this hasn't reached to official 'director declaring love', Makoto Nanaya is getting close into being one. Her story in ''Extend'' practically was just stumbling at some places and doing nothing important. Yet, she's been given a lot of [[Character Shilling]] in form of Hazama considering her a [[Spanner in
* [[Hot Scientist|Liara]] [[Bi the Way|T'Soni]] of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is this to some. She is with you at the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' without leaving you, appears to be [[Strangled
* ''[[Runescape]]'':
** Some of the marketing strategies they use to get free players to buy members definately fall under this category. Once every few months, the marketing team comes up with some new gimmick that they endlessly harp on about in order to justify their existance. The current Gimmick is the Squeal of Fortune, which definitely qualifies for this status.
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