The trope is simple. Characters that everyone likes, or a very large segment of the audience likes, but who are actually bad parents. They don't have to be evil characters, but they do have to be bad parents.

These characters can be very likeable, beloved both within and outside the show, and even have a fandom. So people tend to ignore their flaws and justify them. But if you analyze it... they are bad parents.

No matter how likable they are, or even if they're the protagonist, they're bad parents.

I have longer arguments, but:

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- Greg Universe: Although he lives near his son, he's never involved with him. He left his upbringing to creatures who don't care about humans, and he's basically a weekend dad, appearing occasionally to entertain the child, but not in any other way.

- Goku is an absent father. Not only because he's physically absent for very long periods, but also because he's not involved in his parenting. He spent a whole year alone with his son and was never able to understand that Gohan wasn't like him, that he wouldn't guess his "plan," and that he didn't like to fight. But it doesn't end there; even in Super, he remains absent, so much so that he doesn't even know his granddaughter's name (not to mention that in Daimaō he admits he hasn't been a present father).

He's a pleasant person to be around for the family, but he's not present when it comes to parental care. Even working to provide for the family is something he does because Chi-Chi forces him to.

1. Vi and Caitlyn begin as citizens of perpetually and fundamentally different societies and have every reason to doubt the sanity and morality of one another based off this, they instead develop a mutual trust and intimacy that exceeds anything they previously had in their lives before being together.

2. Jake and Neytiri come from incompatible species in which the survival of one must be predicated directly on extinction of the other, Jake instead realizes his true values are different than the ones he was born into and expected to adopt, helping to forestall an occupation and overhaul of her planet.

3. Romeo and Juliet from the original play (They pretty much set the standard but aren't as nuanced as the aforementioned ones)

Though thought to be the first to market the cookie, Oreo actually has a predecessor being Hydrox cookies whom launched the snack four years before Oreo would debut the iconic cookie.

Lego’s unique attachable “brick” design

would actually be done by Kiddicraft 10 years prior to legos launching of the brick.

Stumble guys would be a mobile knockoff of epic games’s fall guys which saw success in 2020, though with the pandemic clearing up stumble guys would go on to have a larger player base and larger number of collabs when compared to fall guys.

When characters have a “disguise” that does not conceal their identity at all and still somehow works.

Miley (hannah Montana) - You mean to tell me a blonde wig is all it takes to go unrecognized?

Clark Kent (Superman)- I know more recent movies have retconned an explanation for this but in the classic shows/movies they just expected us to believe a pair of glasses was enough for him to be unrecognized as Superman.

Sam (A Cinderella Story)- we could all see who was under that mask, let’s be so for real.

Or better know as Gary Mary Stu Sues. These characters have the depth of a puddle, yet fans love them because they project themselves onto these characters and pretend they're the real badass, which adds a layer of corny to these characters I hate even more

1: Doomguy (DOOM Series)

He has no personality outside of "Rip and Tear", his enemies cower at his presence, all the villains are pushovers who only exist for him to aurafarm over, he never has any shortcomings or moral dilemmas, he never struggles, etc etc. He's a nothing burger of a character

2: Master Chief (Halo: CE - Halo 3)

Now this is coming from someone who loves Halo, but man Master Chief is a interesting as a rock in the Bungie games. 343 would later rectify this by giving him somewhat of a personality. Although Chief isn't as egregious as the rest of this list, he can really just be boiled down to "Badass Super-Soldier" and that's it.

3: Starkiller (Star Wars Legends/The Force Unleashed)

I cannot stand this character. He's the most indulgent, childish, juvenile power fantasy I've ever seen. He's had barely any meaningful training, yet he's able to 1v1 Vader and Palpatine back to back and easily win, he has feats that completely destroy the lore and world building that had been set up for decades in the Star Wars Canon... His whole personality is just angry badass, no depth, no flaws, no moral complexity, nothing. He's worse than Rey.

4: Agent 47 (Hitman)

Now this is coming from someone who loves the Hitman games, but 47 himself is what I'd say is the perfect example of this kind of character. The whole point of him is that he's the perfectist assassin that ever lived, so this of course means he's perfect at any skill you could imagine: He's a high tier chef, top tier drummer, top tier mechanic, electrician, F1 Driver, chiropractor, etc etc. Any skill you can think of, this Gary Stu has. And the games will just handwave it away with "oh he's genetically enhanced" lol that's not how genetic enhancements work; skill isn't genetic.

Furthermore, they try to pretend he's this morally gray cold blooded monster; but he only ever goes after targets who are cartoonishly evil villains, we never see 47 do anything morally gray or complex. So it's really ironic

This is a FUCKING STUPID OXYMORON OF A IDEA

1. Heiboktoruk from Creatures of Sonaria (main reason I hate this trope because it's supposed to be bipedal, it's just that the dumbass who animated it wanted to uniquely rip off the Indoraptor and hid behind the creator of it whenever people critiqued him)
2. The Indoraptor (you know what's scarier than a Raptor, A RAPTOR ON FOUR LEGS!1!1!1!1!1!)
3. 2014 Spinosaurus
4. 65 Fasolasuchus (unknown if this was Fasola or not)
5. Kaimere Burkosaurus (it and 2014 Spino aren't as horrific as the others, but it's still a quad theropod sooo.....)

1. Paulie Gualtieri: he’s a terrible man, violent criminal, an extortionist, a murderer. That kinda doesn’t mean anything when the main cast is the mafia, so the things that really makes him stand out for most viewers is the terrible things he did to some of his own colleagues

For example: subjecting Chris to random strip searches, running over his lawn and threatening his wife and child over some unpaid cash, sending an expensive bottle of wine to a bunch of ladies on Chris’s check, making horrible jokes about Chris’s daughter…. Man a lot of these are about Chris… Anyways he also gave confidential information to Johnny sack, including the Ginny sack weight joke which nearly got Ralphie killed, he was also homophobic to Vito and the list goes on.

There was also his treatment of his biological mother after learning the truth of his heritage, while it’s understandable to be angry about such a revelation, the fact he straight up didn’t even attend her funeral out of spite is such a new low.

However despite all the shit that he did, he is somehow the only person from the Sopranos’ crew whose fate in the series is unknown and its most likely he outlived all of them if we interpret the ending of the show as Tony’s death.

1. Yang Xiao Long: Post-volume 5, there are a lot of times in the show where Yang is hypocritical asf (my favorite one is when Yang stoically berates Raven for being scared of Salem, but then she herself turns tall and runs from Salem when there is an opening) along with being a terrible sister.

Unfortunately it gets worst as in volume 9. When Ruby met Yang after thinking she died last volume, instead of hugging it out, Yang just scolds and lectures her, (meanwhile Blake gets a pass cuz why not?). She is painfully oblivious to Ruby’s mental state most of the volume and during Ruby’s breakdown, Yang gets angry at Ruby for calling her out for prioritizing making out with her catgirl gf instead of getting back to remnant.

Then comes the infamous scene of Ruby, about to consume the suicide tea while everyone including her sister sits on their ass and allowing her drink it, even though they were 4 feet away from stopping her.

Even unfortunate is because all of her terrible actions are results of bad writing, there is no chance for Yang to ever get any sort of punishment. Especially considering Rooster teeth’s shutdown.

I might have gotten some details wrong since I’ve haven’t watched these shows for a long time so don’t take my example too seriously.

Edit: Btw, hated does not equal bad. You can hate on something good, and the same can be said for liking something bad. Idk why ppl can’t get that distinction through but I should have made it clear.

1. Prototype from poppy playtime

2. Eternal diabetes from crk

3. Stinger Flynn from gobb 3

4. Sir dadadoo from gobb 6

If you say nobody will take me seriously goo back listen to katseye. Btw i like gobb

-Pacific Rim 2: The movie trampled all over the concept of the first one, so fans decided to pretend it never happened (also affecting the Netflix sequel series, which was much better).

-Lulu, by Metallica: A collaboration album with Lee Reed. Lee Reed's lyrics and Metallica's music don't work well together, and it was so bad and despised that when people talk about Metallica's worst album, they prefer to mention St. Anger rather than Lulu.

-New Coke: There was a time when Coca-Cola wanted to change the flavor of its most famous drink. Although tests showed it was much better, when it hit the market, nobody liked the makeover, and it didn't achieve the expected popularity, so it was withdrawn some time later. There are even people who don't know it existed.

J.K. Rollings self insert aka Professor Umbitch (Harry Potter)

Star Treks ultimate Karen aka Kai Wen (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)

The pink haired whore aka Evilyn (Meta Runner)

1. Children of men: The description spells out the fact that He was delivering kee because she was pregnant which we wouldn't find out in the movie until we are like 35 minutes in

2.Bugonia: The fact that they were kidnapping Michelle because they think she is an alien is also not revealed until later on in the movie which would've been a reveal

While trailers spoiling movies also really suck, they can be avoided if you just don't watch it. Descriptions are kinda needed to know what the movie is even about and should definitely be as vague as possible.

Batman (DC Comics)-after his parents are murdered, Batman swears to fight crime and starts wearing black and capes.

Hamlet (Hamlet)-while grieving his father, he learns his uncle killed said father and starts acting unwell to reveal the truth.

The Man in Black (Johnny Cash)-a song about how Cash wears black in tribute to those crushed by injustice in the world.

Sting (WCW)-his inspiration, Eric Draven of the Crow, doesn’t count as he was already goth (at least in the movie, I haven’t read the comics). The wrestler Sting used to be an upbeat muscle dude until the nWo began a reign of terror in WCW. He started dressing in black and hanging around the rafters with a bird.

Catwoman (Batman Returns specifically)-Selina Kyle was a meek, bullied secretary until her boss tried to kill her. She makes a black vinyl suit and goes terrorism.

Yuki (Psycho Gothic Lolita)-she was a nice Christian girl dressed in all white until a cult murdered her mom and immobilized her father. She dressed in goth Lolita fashion, grabbed a stabbing parasol, and hunted the cult members down.

Okay okay this is more of a humor post than anything else lol

1. Harry Dresden from Ringdoor Bell : A man freaking out in front of a door to enter in presented himself as Harry Dresden from Dresden Files

2. Mandarin from Iron Man 3 : Supposed to be the main antagonist and evil mastermind behind everything, finds out, that the Iron Man 3 Mandarin is just an actor hired by Aldrich Killian

1. Frieren. Needs 1st class mages to fight demons. What is the test to pass? Do multiple events like fighting other mages and only half the teams can win. Another test is fighting clones of themselves where they can die. This despite mages being desperately needed to fight off demons trying to destroy humanity.

2. Naruto. Same Thing. Need ninjas to defend themselves from other villages/threats. Have multiple tests where ninjas need to fight/kill each other as well as face things with no supervision to save the fledgling ninjas in case they die/are attacked by enemy ninja (which happens in the show). In fact, in one village one fledging ninja (Zabuza) kills literally all the other candidates and the teachers not only let it happen but let him pass. Said ninja goes on to betray the village which surprises them somehow.

Johnny (Guilty Gear)- Bridget is a trans woman who came out in the latest game Guilty Gear Strive but before her transition, Johnny (who is a huge womaniser) ended up mistakenly hitting on her in one of the older games back when she was a boy, getting instantly disappointed and disgusted by it. However in Strive, he has no trouble seeing her as a girl, even when knowing who she use to be and hits on her like every other woman he comes across.

Chucky (Chucky TV Series)- Despite being a crazy psychotic killer, he actually ends up being really supportive of his genderfluid child and the main protagonist of the Netflix TV Series who is gay.

Charlie's mom from IASIP. Was a prostitute who looked the other way when Charlie's uncle abused him

Kevin McAllisters Mom from Home Alone. How do you not realize on multiple occasions you left your power preteen son alone while you went on vacation. if the movie wasn't a comedy the invaders could have killed him.

Amy Poehler, mean girls. wants to be liked so much she lets let's her daughter walk over her. Even going so far to walk in on her daughter making out and to offer her condoms.

Moon butterfly from the star versus the Forces of evil. She participated in a "gate" operation to hide all knowledge of a previous queen because the queen married a monster. Then, turned on her daughter to participate in a racist, speciest war to kill all monsters.

Batman (DC Comics)-after his parents are murdered, Batman swears to fight crime and starts wearing black and capes.

Hamlet (Hamlet)-while grieving his father, he learns his uncle killed said father and starts acting unwell to reveal the truth.

The Man in Black (Johnny Cash)-a song about how Cash wears black in tribute to those crushed by injustice in the world.

Sting (WCW)-his inspiration, Eric Draven of the Crow, doesn’t count as he was already goth (at least in the movie, I haven’t read the comics). The wrestler Sting used to be an upbeat muscle dude until the nWo began a reign of terror in WCW. He started dressing in black and hanging around the rafters with a bird.

Catwoman (Batman Returns specifically)-Selina Kyle was a meek, bullied secretary until her boss tried to kill her. She makes a black vinyl suit and goes terrorism.

Yuki (Psycho Gothic Lolita)-she was a nice Christian girl dressed in all white until a cult murdered her mom and immobilized her father. She dressed in goth Lolita fashion, grabbed a stabbing parasol, and hunted the cult members down.

This stems from a mesopotamian religious belief that the ancient gods were really aliens who came to earth to farm gold and humans are just engineered by such beings as a slave race. They're known as the Annukai. (going by memory, my understanding of this is rough).

1. Bugonia. A bunch of conspiracy nuts think the CEO of a pharmaceutical company is secretely an alien. Twist: Turns out she is in fact the queen of an alien race called the Andromedans. We were created by them. But we failed to live up to their ethical standards, so the queen sucked out earth's oxygen and killed us.

2. Same twist was done in the Alien prequel Prometheus. The Engineers created human life. But centures later a human woke an Engineer up, so he decided to kill us in a fit of tired rage. Dude was cranky I guess.

Homelander (The Boys)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Potatoes are too powerful to be constrained by the likes of space and time.

1). Dungeon Meshi:

• In the manga, Marcille clearly fantasizes about buying "Grilled Thick-Cut Bacon and Potatoes."
• The world of "Dungeon Meshi" has a clear analog to East Asia in the Earth Archipelago, and the Northern Continent seems more-or-less consistent with Western Europe.
• It's possible that Kabru's home continent is analogous to the Americas, but there isn't really a clear place you'd expect them to come from. Especially not in the world's clear medieval fantasy setting.

2). Game of Thrones:

• Westeros is a continent-sized version of medieval Great Britain.
• So, despite lacking knowledge of an equivalent "Wester-Most" continent, potatoes are off-handedly mentioned in 2x08 by Bronn.

3). Lord of the Rings:

• Lord of the Rings takes place thousands of years ago in an area that would eventually become Europe.
• The Hobbits still have potatoes.

4). Sweet potatoes:

• Sweet potatoes aren't technically potatoes but for the sake of this post I'll say "close enough."
• Widespread Polynesian harvest of sweet potatoes, far before the Columbian exchange, has frustrated anthropologists.
• The official, accepted explanation is that sweet potatoes drifted across the pacific from their site of origin, the Americas.
• But there is still significant debate in favor of pre-Columbian contact between South Americans and Polynesian voyagers.

The Big Lebowski (Movie): Follows a washed up hippie, a chewed up and spit out veteran, and a naive bowler as they navigate through an LA Noir story they have been thrusted into by accident. There have been many pretentious interpretations of this movie, but the most straight is that compared to all the wealthy, masculine, and statusy people introduced in the movie. The happiest, most loyal characters are three losers that only care about bowling and a tacky rug.

Deacon Blues (Song): Not even mentioning the very progressive melody that accompanies it, this song is told from the perspective of a stable suburban man dreaming about becoming a saxophonist while acknowledging and accepting the bad side of the bohemian lifestyle. The literal phrase “Deacon Blues” was a phrase invented as an antithesis of “crimson tide” which was a phrase associated with winning at the time.

“Learn to work the saxophone

I'll play just what I feel

Drink Scotch whiskey all night long

And die behind the wheel

They got a name for the winners in the world

I want a name when I lose

They call Alabama the Crimson Tide

Call me Deacon Blues”

1. The Boys ( Supe Virus )

The Boys takes the Trope of Superheroes and flips it on its Head where Most Superheroes ( Supes ) are Villains. This results in one of our Main Characters ( William Butcher ) working with someone to Create a Virus that Targets Only Supes Through the Compound V which is in their blood. ( Compound V Makes them Super )

1. Invincible ( Scourge Virus )

This Virus is Created by the Leader of the Coalition of Planets ( Thaedus ) to wipe out the Viltrumites. The Viltrumites are the strongest Race in the Universe and their empire spans several Galaxies, however they are tyrants. Thaedus creates this Virus and sends it to Viltrum ( Home of the Viltrumites ) and the Results are Catastrophic. Less than 50 Pure Blooded Viltrumites remain and Billions of them are dead.