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** Shortly after the game's release, Abby from would quickly become one of the most hated characters in video game history, right up there with the Duck Hunt Dog and Navi. {{spoiler|Killing Joel, a near-universally beloved character in such a cruel and humiliating fashion did not endear people to her, and the revelation that you'd be ''playing'' as her would prove to be the killing blow to any potential popularity she could have had. And to top it off, she's a [[Karma Houdini]] to boot, and she walks away from the game smelling like roses while Ellie, who slaughtered her way through her equally hated friends to avenge Joel is left a miserable and broken wreck despite being a lot more sympathetic. And that's after she spared her, for god knows what reason}}. Needless to say, if you're going to [[Character Shilling|shill a new character out the ass]], ''don't'' shit on beloved pre-established ones to do so.

** Out of that circle of friends, Manny is especially hated for {{spoiler|spitting on Joel's corpse}}, for being responsible for the creepy and widely despised sex scene between him and Abby, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and his stupid man-bun.]] {{spoiler|Thankfully, [[Karma Houdini Warranty|he gets his when Tommy blows his brains out right out of nowhere.]]}}

* While calling ''any'' character from ''[[YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG|YIIK]]'' likable [[Eight Deadly Words|is a bit of a stretch]], [[Hipster|Alex's]] sheer obnoxiousness makes them feel tolerable by comparison. He's a self-absorbed dick who whines and complains about the littlest things, has a creepy savior complex towards a missing girl he barely knows, acts like a raging asshole towards a friend troubled by {{spoiler|his sister's suicide}}, and makes {{spoiler|that very same friend's potential suicide}} all about himself. He's also a pretentious fuckwad who goes on overly long and drawn-out monologues filled with [[Purple Prose]], and often screams at everyone around him to explain [[Memetic Mutation|"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"]] anytime something mildly weird happens. And if that wasn't bad enough, he's the main character, meaning that you have to put up with his attitude for the entire game. What's funny is that Alex is ''supposed'' to be hateable, but he's also supposed to win the player over by developing into a better person. Players and even the rare fans here and there almost unanimously hate him anyway because he doesn't do nearly enough to balance out his [[Jerkass]] behavior or truly change his ways for the better, resulting in him going down in history as a textbook example of how ''not'' to write an unlikable protagonist.

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