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From beloved protagonists to fan favorites, not all character journeys age like fine wine. Join us as we examine once-cherished TV personalities whose development left viewers disappointed over time! Our countdown includes misguided writing choices, character derailments, and personalities that simply became insufferable as their shows progressed.
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00:00Don't make people into heroes, John. Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we're counting down art picks for the once-loved TV characters
00:10whose development over time led to many viewers coming to dislike them.
00:14You got the devil inside you, boy.
00:19No, I think it's just me.
00:22Number 10, Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother.
00:25He may be the protagonist of this sitcom, but Ted's nine-season-long story about how he first met his kid's mom
00:31sours viewers on the man himself over time.
00:34Ted continually pursues shallow relationships with women who are objectively wrong for him.
00:38His obsession with Robin, in particular, is arguably a detriment to the entire show.
00:43I changed my mind. I don't want to meet her.
00:46Why? She sounds perfect.
00:48I don't want perfect.
00:50I want Robin.
00:51Oh, God. Not this again, Ted. It's a mistake.
00:56Maybe.
00:58But it's a mistake I have to make.
01:00His sanctimonious attitude towards his friend Barney's promiscuity,
01:04while engaging in most of the same behavior as well as his general pretentiousness,
01:08are also rather irritating.
01:10What the hell is wrong with you, dude?
01:13I don't mean I lose things.
01:14Ted's romance with the titular mother, it's admittedly sweet once the show gets around to it,
01:31but by then, Ted lived up to his Shmozby nickname.
01:34Mosbius' design says fail.
01:38But Alex and Jessica's love reminds us that...
01:41Classic Shmozby.
01:49Number 9.
01:50Izzy Stevens, Grey's Anatomy.
01:52What about me?
01:54What about me when you go to the light?
01:57No, I get it, okay?
01:59I get it.
02:00You'll be okay.
02:01You'll be fine.
02:02But what about me?
02:04So don't do it for yourself.
02:06Do it for me.
02:07Given how long it's been running,
02:09you could argue that many Grey's Anatomy characters get worse over time,
02:12but few are as disliked as Izzy Stevens.
02:15Although initially popular for her humor and dedication to her patients,
02:18Izzy started to fall out of favor after a series of questionable storylines.
02:22I'm Bambi.
02:24I'm Bambi, George, okay?
02:26If anyone in this situation is a sad little cartoon character, it's me.
02:31I'm all alone in the forest, all alone in the forest, George.
02:34And my mother's been shot by Hunter, and where are you?
02:37Between violating the Hippocratic oath to save a patient,
02:40her ill-received relationship with her best friend George,
02:43and whatever the hell that ghost sex thing was,
02:45the writers really made some strange choices with her.
02:48Add in her increasingly condescending attitude,
02:51and it's no surprise why fans, and even actress Katherine Heigl,
02:54came to dislike Izzy.
02:55I think I have the flu, or maybe it's food poisoning.
02:58You're sweating.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Yeah, I'm hot.
03:01And cold.
03:02Hot and cold.
03:03I have the chills.
03:04Yeah, I think I'm just gonna go back to bed.
03:06You didn't sound like you were sleeping.
03:08Number 8.
03:09Piper Chapman, Orange is the New Black.
03:10Look, I cannot be responsible for you right now.
03:13I have to be pragmatic.
03:15Sorry.
03:15That's it.
03:16You're throwing me to the wolves.
03:18I wouldn't say I'm throwing you to them.
03:19I would say that wolves exist,
03:21which I am helpless to defend you against.
03:24It's generally helpful to have a viewpoint character for audiences
03:27when depicting an unfamiliar environment.
03:30Piper Chapman fills this role wonderfully in the show's first season as the protagonist.
03:34However, as the series went on,
03:36Piper began to feel less and less relevant
03:38as the ensemble of other characters proved more interesting and relatable.
03:42Plus, her toxic relationship with Alex and joining up with some white supremacist
03:46certainly did her no favors.
03:48I want you to go and be happy and free.
03:53Alex, you're not a detour from my life.
03:58You are my life.
04:00It's like the writers just decided what to do with her at random.
04:03Even Piper's actress, Taylor Schilling,
04:05has admitted that her character's actions can feel arbitrary rather than intentional.
04:09I am not that self-destructive.
04:12Aren't you?
04:13No!
04:17I am heartbroken.
04:21And I do not know what to do.
04:23Number 7.
04:24Will Schuster.
04:25Glee.
04:26He may have gotten the glee club together,
04:28but this teacher made fans significantly less gleeful over time.
04:31From his mediocre grasp of the subjects he teaches
04:34to how complacent he is about bullying in the school,
04:37Mr. Schu is really not a good teacher.
04:39You'll get kicked out of school.
04:41You'll lose your football scholarship.
04:42Wait, I had a football scholarship to where?
04:45You could land in prison, son.
04:47Oh my God.
04:48Please, don't tell my mom.
04:52Look, I see a lot of myself in you, Finn.
04:56I know what it's like to struggle to make good life choices.
04:59His creepy level of involvement in his students' lives,
05:02his blatant favoritism,
05:03and many of his song choices are also rather problematic.
05:07It was you.
05:08You're the one who complained to Principal Figgins about me.
05:10Yeah, and I do it all over again after that performance.
05:13You're messing with adult things here, Santana.
05:15This is my job.
05:15This is my life.
05:16This is my education,
05:18and it's not a joke to me,
05:19although it seems to be one to you.
05:21The show putting Will on a pedestal,
05:23despite his many failings,
05:24only makes them stand out more.
05:26It's no wonder everyone sided more with Sue over him
05:29in their ongoing feud.
05:31It's called the First Amendment, Sue.
05:32This is about freedom of expression.
05:34Well, then feel free to express that out loud
05:36as you pace the floors of your dingy, lonely apartment,
05:39because you, Will Schuster, are fired.
05:42I am not leaving,
05:44and I will be appealing this to the school board.
05:47Number six, Rory Gilmore.
05:49Gilmore Girls,
05:50and Gilmore Girls,
05:51A Year in the Life.
05:52Fans began this series loving the precocious Rory Gilmore
05:55and her witty banjo with her friends and mother.
05:57However, after going off to college,
06:00Rory becomes downright insufferable.
06:02That one looks good.
06:04Yeah.
06:05Nice and seaworthy.
06:07Not ours to take.
06:10That ever stopped you before?
06:13I think I've been a bad influence on you, Ace.
06:15Let's go, Huntsberger.
06:17Let's go.
06:17She engages in multiple affairs,
06:20steals a yacht,
06:20drops out of Yale,
06:22and takes everyone around her for granted.
06:23I'm ordering 300 hours of community service
06:26to be completed in no more than six months
06:29and one year's probation.
06:31But I can't do 300 hours.
06:34I have to get a job.
06:36Well, add that to your list of things
06:37you should have thought about
06:38before you decided to joyride on someone else's boat.
06:42There are plenty of characters
06:43who believe their own hype out there,
06:45but Rory's continual entitlement
06:47and inability to learn from her mistakes
06:49makes her hard to watch for many.
06:51Even the revival nearly 10 years
06:53after the series finished
06:54didn't manage to improve Rory.
06:55Look, we have an agreement.
06:57What happens in Vegas
06:58stays in Vegas.
07:00We do.
07:02And when we leave Vegas,
07:04we forget about Vegas
07:05until we're back in Vegas
07:06and then it's just us in Vegas
07:07until we're not.
07:08Throw me a rope, man.
07:09Number 5.
07:10Fiona Gallagher.
07:11Shameless.
07:12Look,
07:12the whole Gallagher clan
07:14is honestly pretty terrible
07:15at one point or another,
07:16but we had such high hopes for Fiona.
07:19She left!
07:21I was nine!
07:23Nine!
07:24And taking care of you.
07:27Taking care of all of us.
07:28In the early seasons,
07:30she's often the lone voice of reason
07:31in the family,
07:32effectively raising her siblings
07:34in her parents' places.
07:35However,
07:36while it could be argued
07:37that many of the other characters
07:39become better people,
07:40Fiona only gets worse.
07:42And unlike many of them,
07:43she knows better.
07:44Please tell him that I love him, okay?
07:46And I'm so, so sorry.
07:47Please, please.
07:49Lip.
07:49Trying to stop the construction
07:51of a homeless shelter,
07:52leaving drugs out
07:53that her kid brother
07:54nearly overdoses on,
07:55and her absolutely
07:56disastrous romantic life
07:58are just a few things
07:59that bring Fiona down.
08:00And she tops it all off
08:02by walking out on her family.
08:04I did it all, Frank.
08:06Yeah.
08:07Well,
08:08that helps you sleep better.
08:11Number four.
08:12Bran Stark,
08:13Game of Thrones.
08:14If you want to substitute
08:15Daenerys Targaryen
08:16for this entry in your head,
08:17we'd understand.
08:18What about everyone else?
08:22All the other people
08:23who think they know what's good?
08:27They don't get to choose.
08:29However,
08:30her downfall is a bit more abrupt.
08:32Bran, on the other hand,
08:33took years to become broken,
08:35figuratively speaking.
08:36It was you.
08:38You made the White Walkers.
08:40We were at war.
08:42We were being slaughtered.
08:44Our sacred trees cut down.
08:47We needed to defend ourselves.
08:50From whom?
08:52From you.
08:53Although Bran's exploration
08:54of the more mystical side
08:55of Westeros
08:56proved interesting at first,
08:58his ascension to become
08:59the Three-Eyed Raven
09:00felt more like a descent.
09:01His monotone voice
09:02and complete lack of emotions
09:03left fans feeling disappointed
09:05by a once-promising character.
09:07Bran.
09:07I'm not really.
09:11Not anymore.
09:15I remember what it felt like
09:17to be Brandon Stark.
09:19But I remember so much else now.
09:21And by the time Tyrion claimed
09:23Bran should be king
09:24by virtue of having the best story,
09:26we could only scratch our heads
09:27and wonder
09:28what show he's been watching.
09:30All hail Bran the Broken.
09:33First of his name,
09:34King of the Andals
09:35and the First Men.
09:38Lord of the Six Kingdoms
09:40and Protector of the Realm.
09:42Number 3.
09:43Jax Teller,
09:44Sons of Anarchy.
09:45As the series' protagonist,
09:47we're initially rooting for Jax
09:48as he grapples with his own morality
09:50and the violent lifestyle
09:51embraced by his motorcycle club.
09:53However,
09:53as Jax obtains more power in the club
09:56and experiences some heartbreaking losses,
09:58he embraces violence and revenge.
10:00I need you to get off the bike.
10:01His selfishness
10:16and need to put his idea
10:17of the club
10:18ahead of its actual members
10:19leaves him with few allies
10:21by the series' end.
10:22The people I've hurt.
10:28That's a false pardon.
10:31It's dangerous
10:34and it's selfish.
10:37While far from being
10:38the only TV anti-hero
10:40to become a full-on villain,
10:41Jax's descent into darkness
10:43is also less satisfying
10:44than some others we could name.
10:46And forcing your ex
10:47to take drugs
10:48after she was able
10:49to stop using them,
10:50that's just vile, dude.
10:52I got him home a safe.
10:53Yeah, and you would think
10:55that with a close call like that,
10:56that it might have motivated you
10:58to get the hell out of this.
11:00But instead, no.
11:01What do you do?
11:01You knock her up,
11:02spit out another kid,
11:03and throw your entire family
11:04against the chaos.
11:06Number 2.
11:07Sherlock Holmes.
11:08Sherlock.
11:08Bored.
11:09What?
11:10Bored!
11:11No.
11:12Bored!
11:13Bored!
11:14There's an argument
11:15to be made
11:15that the show itself
11:16was ruined over time,
11:17and the titular characters
11:18certainly suffered as well.
11:20Sherlock isn't exactly
11:22empathetic to begin with.
11:23As a self-described
11:24high-functioning sociopath,
11:26yet he seemingly becomes
11:27more human over time,
11:28even if his deductions
11:29are increasingly ridiculous.
11:31Once I'd invited
11:31Moriarty onto the roof,
11:33I wanted to avoid dying
11:34if at all possible.
11:36The first scenario
11:36involved hurling myself
11:37into a parked hospital
11:38van filled with washing bags.
11:39Impossible.
11:40The angle was too steep.
11:42Secondly,
11:42a system of Japanese wrestling...
11:43You know,
11:44for a genius,
11:44you can be remarkably thick.
11:45What?
11:46I don't care
11:47how you faked it,
11:49Sherlock.
11:49I want to know why.
11:51But then he continues
11:52to use,
11:53drug,
11:53manipulate,
11:54and recklessly endanger
11:55the people who care about him.
11:56And that wouldn't be so bad
11:58if there were some kind
11:59of consequences
12:00for his actions.
12:01But time and again,
12:02Sherlock is forgiven
12:03for everything he does
12:04to people.
12:05And while some fans
12:06are willing to forgive,
12:07too,
12:07not all of us are.
12:09Mycroft.
12:10Hello, little brother.
12:11How's the exile going?
12:12I've only been gone
12:13four minutes.
12:13Well, I certainly hope
12:15you've learned your lesson.
12:16As it turns out,
12:17you're needed.
12:19For God's sake,
12:20make up your mind.
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12:37Number one.
12:38Dexter Morgan.
12:39Dexter Franchise.
12:40I've had a bad week.
12:42My wife died
12:43and it was my fault.
12:45Given that he's
12:45a psychopathic serial killer
12:47who hunts other killers,
12:48Dexter isn't exactly
12:50the best person
12:50to start with.
12:51However,
12:52his gradual discovery
12:53of his own humanity
12:54is compelling,
12:55at least at first.
12:56However,
12:57after his wife's death,
12:58the spark kind of
12:59went out of both Dexter
13:00and the show
13:00that bears his name.
13:01His strict code
13:02of killing only the deserving
13:03becomes far looser.
13:05Oh, please,
13:06you don't have to do this.
13:07That's what I'm realizing.
13:09I don't have to,
13:11but I want to.
13:16Even though you don't
13:17meet my code,
13:17I really,
13:18I really want to.
13:22Dexter's attempts
13:22at finding human connection
13:24ring hollower.
13:25He and the show
13:25just seem to drift
13:26from one thing
13:27to the next,
13:28even a revival
13:29and prequel spinoff
13:30having managed
13:30to recapture
13:31that old magic
13:32for the character
13:33or the franchise.
13:34Is there a TV character
13:45who got worse
13:46whose absence
13:47destroyed our list?
13:48Help make our next one
13:49better by telling us
13:50your picks
13:50in the comments
13:51down below.
14:04I don't know
14:06what you need
14:06to judge
14:06or her Childrenly
14:07ётся.
14:07If you have enough
14:08to grab that
14:08like your phone
14:09that you can
14:09get,
14:11you don't have to
14:12just chuck me
14:12because you can
14:13tell us
14:14the size
14:15you can
14:15want to
14:16give me
14:17a deal
14:19to the hell
14:21you can
14:21qui
14:23make
14:24you
14:25to the
14:27번
14:29out
14:31the
14:31answer
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