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* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'':
** [[Bratty Half-Pint|Megan]] is hated by pretty much everyone. She's a [[Villain Sue]] in a show without any heroes, so all her schemes target her two brothers, Drake and [[Butt Monkey|Josh]]. Megan never gets caught, never gets punished, and there are quite a few examples of her benefiting from her schemes, just plain coming out on top in an episode she's barely in. The writers tried to balance this out by giving Drake and Josh a few [[Kick the Dog]] moments towards her, making her schemes more [[Disproportionate Retribution]] than anything, but by then Drake and Josh's pranks were seen as [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|justified revenge]] for everything she had done to them so far.
** Sam in the [[Spiritual Sequel]] ''[[
** In addition to Sam, there's Guppy, when he got added to the show along with his brother Gibby. That whole upgrade has been horribly done, with boring sub-plots, and a complete lack of funny. How is saying "Happy Birthday" at random events funny?
* ''[[Entourage]]'':
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** Lisa and Ben. For [[Die for Our Ship]] reasons (since Lisa interferes with the [[Incest Subtext]]), as Dean's [[Morality Pet]] (On this show, the heroes need one.), and because most fans saw the beginning of their relationship as unrealistic. [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] is averted, though; at the end of season 6, despite everything that happens in the finale, Lisa's still alive. {{spoiler|Oddly, the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] just became the new [[Big Bad]]. Go figure.}}
** The problem with Lisa and Ben was that they were only brought back as a way to give Dean a semi-happy ending when season 5 was planned to be the end of the show... And then, when [[Post Script Season|season 6]] was greenlighted, they brought them back anyway. Most fans expected them to be [[Put on a Bus]] or [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] early in the season, but for some reason the writers kept them around even though they didn't have anything to contribute to the plot.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|TeenageMutant]] [[Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation]]'' had one - Venus, the female turtle trained in the art of Shinobi who was deliberately [[Not Blood Siblings|not related to any of the boys]] so that a relationship wasn't out of the question. It didn't stop her being so hated that [[Canon
** The power of magic - shinobi - so she never really got into any fights, making her [[The Chick]], and using said power to single-handedly save the day or appear amazing solely for knowing about magic, ''way'' too often.
** Her creation for the apparent sole purpose of [[Ship Tease]], by pointedly making the other turtles [[Not Blood Siblings]], and then aiming her at Leonardo and Raphael, which would surely have had them fighting over her.
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