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10: Sliver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise)

It’s become quite popular to crap on Silver because of his association with the most unpopular game in the Sonic franchise, but other than that, he is a cool character. Maybe if he had a better story line (or ever a better game) he wouldn’t be some hated, maybe you could focus of his time traveling adventures with Blaze the Cat, setting up a sort of will they or won’t they relationship, this Valerian meets Slider.

9: David Marcus (Star Trek Franchise)

This guy is supposed to be the son of the most amuse statship captain in the world and you probably didn’t even remember him until I brought him up. He was such a nothing character is both Wrath of Khan and Search for Spok that you wonder why he even exists. Maybe if he had survived or had a bigger role, he could have had more development and been in The Final Fronter and The Undiscovered Country, you could even have him take over as captain of the enterprise after Kirk leaves.

8: The Real Seymore Skinner (The Simpsons)

This man in unmanly blamed for single handily killing the Simpsons by just existing, a man so hatted, the show pretty much erased him from existence like the Time Lord did to the War Lord leader in the Doctor Who serial “The War Game”. But I don’t think that fer, I’ll agree it was a stupid idea, but just acting like in never happened is stupid, because if you don’t want to menschen that is ever happened then why did you do it in the first places? So after watching BlackScarabFilmZ's video on "The Principal and the Pauper" I thought "What if the Real Seymore Skinner replaced the fake one of for a hole season of the one we knew "Armin Tamzarian" doesn’t come back until the season finale?” How would things be different? What would the Real Skinner do differently from the old one? And having the old Skinner only come back at the end the season would make his return more satisfying and be over all more memorable.

7: The Persian (Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera)

I can understand the cultural and political reasons why this character is overlooked (being a racial stereotype and all) but I feel there’s a lot more to him than his thirstier. In the original Gaston Leroux novel, he was the one thought the Phantom all about magic and elusions which would then use in his adult life to terrorise the Paris Opera House. This guy is essentially the Samuel Loomis to The Phantom of the Opera’s Michael Myers, he was both the Phantom’s metre and father figure, so he’s indirectly the case over every bad thing that happens at the opera house. Think of what you could do with that, show the drama between him and the Phantom, have him break down and feel responsible for all the people who’ve die. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical had a character similar to the Persian with Madame Giry and the Maury Yeston musical “Phantom” gave the Phantom a father but these weren’t the same, if the Persian was in the Broadway show, maybe you have the same mystery as the book with having him be suspected of being the Phantom, bringing some racial politics into the story, and then have him be arrested closing the Phantom to feel guilty and is what turns him at the end, and then have him be the one finds the Phantom’s mask at the end instead of Meg Giry.

6: Agent L (Men in Black)

She was a main character in MIB: The Series but in the movies, she got the short end of the stick, most people agree the getting rid of her in Men in Black 2 was a bad idea and had she stayed, she would have brought a new dynamic that could have made the series more interesting. How would her and J work off each other? How would she help save the day? We should have got these questions, but the studio didn’t.

5: Eddie Brock (Sam Raimi Spider-Man Franchise)

Not all was Eddie Brock so mis-cased but he’s character was so way off, all the layers of tragedy and anger was replaced with something you might find in an episode of Teen Titans of Loonatics Unleashed. Meany people agree that the main problem was that was his entire arc was quizzed into a short amount of time with the rest of the running time being dedicated to dancing Tobey Maguire and Sandman, we should have gotten his origen story before he came Venom in one movie this the ending of Spider-Man 3 being the symbiont consuming him and ending on a cliff-hanger. Then Spider-Man 4 could have been about him and Spider-Man having a good old chin wag.

4:  Harry Sullivan (Classic Doctor Who)

Harry Sullivan is by fare the most underrated companion in Doctor Who history, after the more civil and kind mannered Jon Pertwee was replaced by the more excitable and giddy Tom Baker, the relationship between the Doctor and Sara Jane Smith became a lot weaker. To me, I think Harry completed the group of the Fourth Doctor and Sara Jane Smith, I always preferred Sara Jane and the Third Doctor was way stronger because Sara was more redbellies when compared to the more authoritarianistice version of the Doctor, so when Tom Baker arrived, she seemed less interesting. But Harry on the other hand, helped the dynamic more as he acted as the authoritarian fighter for Sara to bounce off of and him and the Doctor kept fighting with one another making Sara seem smarter by comparison. So, if he had stayed for stories like “Pyramids of Mars” and “Brain of Morbius” and left at the end of Seeds of Doom, then he could have been way more developed and become one of the defining Fourth Doctor companions.

3: The Cat (Red Dwarf)

It’s ironic that in the episode “The Inquisitor” the Cat was put on trail for his relevance to existence and somehow got off scot free, because in turms of adding to the show he’s in, it’s very little. He’s the only thother character outside of Lister to appear in every episode, but while Kryton get’s episodes like The Last Day, Camille, DNA, and Krysis and Rimmer get episodes like Dimension Jump, Holoship, Terrorform, Stoke Me a Clipper and The Beginning to develop their characters, the Cat (one of the main characters) doesn’t get one episode to his name in over thirtee years. The only episode he had that revolved around his character was “Identity Within” and episode that was never smeging made, and even when the show gives him the time to shine like in “Wating for God” and the special “The Promised Land” and special about his people and reveals he has a long lost brother, he just decided to sit to one side and sleeps it out like a…well, cat. I don’t now what the writer have against this character “they” created, but it’s obvious that they don’t particularly care for him a hole lot. The Promised Land should have been about him and him trying to re connect with his people, become there new savvier, and he should have had more episode to his name where he can be more than just an overly golfingiid serotype.

2: Pris Stratton (Blade Runner)

Blade Runner is by far the most overrated science fiction movie ever made; it works on every single level except the level it should work on the most “the story”. But to me, the character that represent everything wrong with this movie it’s Pris. This character (like the movie) has such great potential in her concept but seems to deliberately throw it out of the window for seemingly no reason. The main problem with this movie is that it keeps telling us to feel sorry for the replicas without actually making us feel sorry for the replicants, how can I spouse to feel any sympathy for these thing when every other scene is villeinage them and making them out to be inhuman monster who actively enjoy hurting people. When I first Blade Runner, I was noised there was going to be a love story between her and J.F. Sebastian, so imagine my horror when she suddenly turned into a something out a vampire movie with her acting like a creepy doll, doing back flips, and riving around on the flora like and insane monster, its dame near pissed me off. Pris could have been and exception to all the psychotic replicants who plagued this movie from beginning to end, even the smallesed amount of redemption would have improved her character emencly, I’m not saying you should give her a happy ending or anything but just something to show she was the most human of the replicants, madye have her fight back against Roy Batty after he kills J.F. Sebastian or have her sacrifice her self to save Deckard at the end, you know, something.

1: Anakin Skywalker (The Star Wars Prequel)

“I don’t like sand” “I my opinion, the jedi are evil” “This is Pooooooood racing!” “If you’re not with me, then you my enemy” “Ooops” “IY ATE CHOW!!!!!!” yes, we know and love him, or rather “hate” him, his character was fixed in Star Wars: The Clone Wars but in the movies, not so much. I hate Anakin less than most, but I still think he has his weak point, the first is the hole chosen on aspect. The Chosen one cliche is by far my least favourite cliche, not just because it asked the question “if the hero is prophesised to save the day, why would I care in they loose or not” it because it's only ever used in situation where the main character is so under developed and un-interesting, so the statement “the prophesy says” it essentially the writer saying “you have to care about this character because fate it’s says that he’s important”. When Anakin first showed up, he was essentially a random nobody that no-one would want to turn into a jedi, but because he was the future father of Luke Skywalker and later become Dark Vader, the character had to care about his journey, so George Lucuse just slapped the worlds “chosen one” on him and suddenly, he’s the most important person in the universe. This is sad because Anakin could have way more, the hole concept of the jedi hole this one by up as a Masaya only to have it all fall on there heads is great concept, but that’s not what came throw. What should have happened is that Anakin should have been a Jedi from the start who has been hand picked by the senit to be their own personal warrior, but then Anakin sees the doubt and hypocrisy of the jedi order and how they carelessly they are about the own troops, leading him to turn to the sith. Maybe if he had gotten the respect he deserved, the Star Wars Prequels would have been just as loved as the original trilogy

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