X-Pac Heat/Playing With

Basic Trope: Whether the character is liked or not, the actor that plays the character is strongly disliked.
Played Straight: The audience likes Alice, but hates the actress behind her.
Exaggerated: The actress gets several metric tons of hate mail, and even death threats.
Inverted: Whatever the feelings towards Alice, the audience really likes the actress behind Alice.
Justified: The actress made some racially, politically, sexually, and/or religiously incendiary remarks to the press, or some such remarks were erroneously attributed to her.
- The actress is a Teen Idol who (intentionally or otherwise) violated the rule of Contractual Purity in a big way.
- Alice's actress is a Nice Character, Mean Actor.
- Alice's actress committed a very serious crime in real life, such as homicide or child-molestation.
- The audience simply does not like her real-world fashion choices, or her figure or her looks, or other petty things.
Subverted: Alice's actress gets into a minor tabloid scandal, but it's overshadowed by another actor's larger scandal.
- Alternatively, the controversy is cleared up.
Double Subverted: But it still becomes a Never Live It Down incident.
Deconstructed:
Reconstructed:
Parodied: Alice's actress has to quit and move to a Far Side Island...and even that's not enough.
Lampshaded:
Averted: Alice's actress never gets any controversy, no matter what (or whom) she does.
Enforced:
Invoked: She makes insensitive remarks at a press conference.
Defied: She knows that whatever her opinions on (controversial issue) may be, the audience may not necessarily agree with her. She is not a politician, and she doesn't want to alienate her fans, so she keeps mum on political issues or other hot-button topics.
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Conversed:
Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
Played For Drama: Almost always is.

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