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This was a meme idea I had been mulling over for a very long time, I guess you could say it's kind of natural for me to want to see certain characters catch a break for once but I had so many ideas I was a tad overwhelmed with who I should use. It took some time, but I think I've come up with a decent line-up of characters. I judged them for this list either for getting bad treatment/writing in their respective canon, just being overall unlucky and having everything just end up bad for them, and/or even a little influence from their fanbases.

And for anyone who might be asking, I'm unsure if whether or not I'll do the opposite meme for the top 10 characters that deserve worse. It's a topic I feel a little uncomfortable going into, and I'm not the type of person to wish worse on other people like that, and it's a little vague to me.

Anyway, here we go with the meme:

10. Leopold "Butters" Stotch and Pip Pirrup (South Park) - A little bit of cheating since it's two characters in one slot, but I feel they both can get pretty bad treatment at times and they both have a similar optimistic attitude. Butters gets taken advantage of quite a lot due to his kindness and naivety, plus his parents treat him pretty horribly by grounding him constantly. Pip is always picked on by everyone, and was even killed off later on in the series. I probably would've included Kenny, but I didn't want to crowd this too much, so you can say he's an honorable mention.

9. Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants) - It's...rather self-explanatory given the pretty harsh treatment he gets in some of the more recent episodes. He may be a snobbish, cynical jerk at times, but sometimes his bad treatment can go way too far and even feel undeserved. The main reason he's a bit more low though is since I'm not that big into Spongebob that much, but I do feel rather bad for Squidward, and from what I hear, Spongebob is gradually picking up the pace with Stephen Hillenburg coming back on the show, so there's room for improvement.

8. Courtney (Total Drama) - I know this will be a very controversial choice, since I know many people will say otherwise about Courtney deserving better, but this is mostly since I'm just overall disappointed with how TD has derailed most of the original cast to such a disgusting degree, and Courtney has got this treatment among one of the worst. In the first season, Courtney was admittedly rather snobby, but she could be pretty compassionate too. Though that's long since changed since the first season ended, she just got derailed into a straight-up villain for the most part, acting as if she never had any redeeming qualities. And whenever Courtney seems to show improvement and shows she can care (in the first half of World Tour and for a good chunk of All-Stars), the writers suddenly decide to make things worse for her by literally making her more nasty and have the narrative go completely against her.
This is Squidward levels of bad, and she deserves better writing than this. I know you could argue someone like Gwen deserves better, and while she could really use better writing too, Gwen usually gets to have a pretty happy ending with friends who still care about her. Courtney has none of that, her only possible ally/friend is Bridgette, but we haven't seen them interact for the longest time, so how can we know how valid their possible friendship is?

7. Sakura Haruno (Naruto) - Another possible controversial choice, as Sakura is kind of a basebreaker in the Naruto fanbase. Sakura is also pretty similar to Courtney, as neither character is considered the nicest. Yes, she can be pretty bitchy at times and I do believe her feelings for Sasuke are rather shallow (since everyone else loved him too for being considered cool and mysterious), but I felt she was gradually growing up and starting to improve with time. She felt like a legitimately flawed character, even acknowledging her faults at times, including the frequent claim about her being 'useless'. Sakura, alongside Rock Lee, was also considered to be a representation of human weakness, she didn't have any special abilities of her own, and she came from a rather average family life so she wouldn't be able to have the same experiences as her teammates had. In Shippuden, she held a lot of promise and was a little more mature and stronger than in part 1. She even seemed like she was actually moving on from Sasuke. But I can't stand what they did with her character later on, especially in the epilogue. All that development she had felt absolutely wasted, and I seriously question why she still pines for Sasuke. All this relationship did was bring out the worst in her.
And then there's Kishimoto and even Studio Pierrot who feel the need to glorify and worship the character of Hinata, while Sakura gets shafted for not being as nice and pretty as Hinata, even being said that she would be considered a 'terrible woman' if she were to move on from Sasuke. ...You serious?

6. Ezekiel (Total Drama) - Oddly enough, I wouldn't consider Ezekiel to be one of my favorite TD characters, but I perfectly sympathize with his fans on what they did to this character. He also got horrid derailment in TDWT by being so desperate to stay in the season that he basically turned into a Gollum parody. I'm sorry, but that is sad. Not funny at all...

5. Bushroot (Darkwing Duck) - I guess you could tell Bushroot would've been here on my list for rather obvious reasons, but he's just that kind of character you want to hug (or at least, I want to. ). Though I am aware he can be a very legitimate threat, as he is proven to have his malicious side and is likely one of the few villains in Darkwing's rogue gallery to have committed murder. However, for the most part, he is a character with very understandable motivations. He can hardly ever catch a break even when he tries to be nice or wants something as simple as companionship, but you can't blame him when he snaps, having enough of being pushed around.

4. Crona (Soul Eater) - Crona's here basically for a very similar reason as Bushroot, due to their similar personalities, but Crona was much more asocial on an unhealthy level and had a hard time for his/her entire life because of the upbringing of Medusa. While Crona does have a more happy ending in the anime, the manga's a completely different story.

3. Team Guy (Naruto) - A very underrated team in my personal opinion. I even see them as almost being similar to Team 7 in a lot of ways. But I really do feel the characters do deserve more appreciation/treatment. Rock Lee is a very likable character, Neji had some great development, Might Guy is entertaining and a great foil for Kakashi, and Tenten has a lot of potential to be a good character. But still, I hate how they dealt with...certain things, such as killing off Neji solely to be a cupid for Naruto and Hinata. And poor Guy as well in the epilogue... Plus Tenten unfortunately has very little known about her, not even a surname.

2. Meg Griffin (Family Guy) - I wouldn't call myself a fan of Family Guy by any stretch anymore, and Meg's treatment certainly didn't help. In the earlier seasons, Meg was actually treated with more respect, like a person. But I don't know what happened now for everyone to make her the punching bag of the show nowadays. I really don't get it, what did she do exactly to deserve it? It sure doesn't make me laugh.

1. Dib (Invader Zim) - Okay, this is a character I always felt bad for. This kid is clearly going out of his way to try to save the world from an alien invasion, but not only does nobody seem to care, he constantly gets the short end of the stick in general. Pretty much everyone seems to hate his guts. I get that it's meant to imply Dib was sort of the 'boy who cried wolf' type of character, obsessed with the paranormal, and because of his false alarms, nobody will believe him or care what he has to say. And I do get it's because Zim is the main character, and from Zim's perspective, Dib is the antagonist because he wants to expose him as an alien. What's interesting about this is how interchangeable their roles are, as they both could be simultaneously the hero and the villain based on their roles and morality, and they both have similar issues of being frowned upon by their respective species. They're more similar than we give them credit for despite how much they clash. But man, I just want to hug Dib so much, as a way to show I care. I even felt like I could identify with Dib when I first got into the show because I felt like I was in a similar situation, being picked on by my peers in middle school.

Credit for the meme goes to

Description
This was a meme idea I had been mulling over for a very long time, I guess you could say it's kind of natural for me to want to see certain characters catch a break for once but I had so many ideas I was a tad overwhelmed with who I should use. It took some time, but I think I've come up with a decent line-up of characters. I judged them for this list either for getting bad treatment/writing in their respective canon, just being overall unlucky and having everything just end up bad for them, and/or even a little influence from their fanbases.

And for anyone who might be asking, I'm unsure if whether or not I'll do the opposite meme for the top 10 characters that deserve worse. It's a topic I feel a little uncomfortable going into, and I'm not the type of person to wish worse on other people like that, and it's a little vague to me.

Anyway, here we go with the meme:

10. Leopold "Butters" Stotch and Pip Pirrup (South Park) - A little bit of cheating since it's two characters in one slot, but I feel they both can get pretty bad treatment at times and they both have a similar optimistic attitude. Butters gets taken advantage of quite a lot due to his kindness and naivety, plus his parents treat him pretty horribly by grounding him constantly. Pip is always picked on by everyone, and was even killed off later on in the series. I probably would've included Kenny, but I didn't want to crowd this too much, so you can say he's an honorable mention.

9. Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants) - It's...rather self-explanatory given the pretty harsh treatment he gets in some of the more recent episodes. He may be a snobbish, cynical jerk at times, but sometimes his bad treatment can go way too far and even feel undeserved. The main reason he's a bit more low though is since I'm not that big into Spongebob that much, but I do feel rather bad for Squidward, and from what I hear, Spongebob is gradually picking up the pace with Stephen Hillenburg coming back on the show, so there's room for improvement.

8. Courtney (Total Drama) - I know this will be a very controversial choice, since I know many people will say otherwise about Courtney deserving better, but this is mostly since I'm just overall disappointed with how TD has derailed most of the original cast to such a disgusting degree, and Courtney has got this treatment among one of the worst. In the first season, Courtney was admittedly rather snobby, but she could be pretty compassionate too. Though that's long since changed since the first season ended, she just got derailed into a straight-up villain for the most part, acting as if she never had any redeeming qualities. And whenever Courtney seems to show improvement and shows she can care (in the first half of World Tour and for a good chunk of All-Stars), the writers suddenly decide to make things worse for her by literally making her more nasty and have the narrative go completely against her.
This is Squidward levels of bad, and she deserves better writing than this. I know you could argue someone like Gwen deserves better, and while she could really use better writing too, Gwen usually gets to have a pretty happy ending with friends who still care about her. Courtney has none of that, her only possible ally/friend is Bridgette, but we haven't seen them interact for the longest time, so how can we know how valid their possible friendship is?

7. Sakura Haruno (Naruto) - Another possible controversial choice, as Sakura is kind of a basebreaker in the Naruto fanbase. Sakura is also pretty similar to Courtney, as neither character is considered the nicest. Yes, she can be pretty bitchy at times and I do believe her feelings for Sasuke are rather shallow (since everyone else loved him too for being considered cool and mysterious), but I felt she was gradually growing up and starting to improve with time. She felt like a legitimately flawed character, even acknowledging her faults at times, including the frequent claim about her being 'useless'. Sakura, alongside Rock Lee, was also considered to be a representation of human weakness, she didn't have any special abilities of her own, and she came from a rather average family life so she wouldn't be able to have the same experiences as her teammates had. In Shippuden, she held a lot of promise and was a little more mature and stronger than in part 1. She even seemed like she was actually moving on from Sasuke. But I can't stand what they did with her character later on, especially in the epilogue. All that development she had felt absolutely wasted, and I seriously question why she still pines for Sasuke. All this relationship did was bring out the worst in her.
And then there's Kishimoto and even Studio Pierrot who feel the need to glorify and worship the character of Hinata, while Sakura gets shafted for not being as nice and pretty as Hinata, even being said that she would be considered a 'terrible woman' if she were to move on from Sasuke. ...You serious?

6. Ezekiel (Total Drama) - Oddly enough, I wouldn't consider Ezekiel to be one of my favorite TD characters, but I perfectly sympathize with his fans on what they did to this character. He also got horrid derailment in TDWT by being so desperate to stay in the season that he basically turned into a Gollum parody. I'm sorry, but that is sad. Not funny at all...

5. Bushroot (Darkwing Duck) - I guess you could tell Bushroot would've been here on my list for rather obvious reasons, but he's just that kind of character you want to hug (or at least, I want to. ). Though I am aware he can be a very legitimate threat, as he is proven to have his malicious side and is likely one of the few villains in Darkwing's rogue gallery to have committed murder. However, for the most part, he is a character with very understandable motivations. He can hardly ever catch a break even when he tries to be nice or wants something as simple as companionship, but you can't blame him when he snaps, having enough of being pushed around.

4. Crona (Soul Eater) - Crona's here basically for a very similar reason as Bushroot, due to their similar personalities, but Crona was much more asocial on an unhealthy level and had a hard time for his/her entire life because of the upbringing of Medusa. While Crona does have a more happy ending in the anime, the manga's a completely different story.

3. Team Guy (Naruto) - A very underrated team in my personal opinion. I even see them as almost being similar to Team 7 in a lot of ways. But I really do feel the characters do deserve more appreciation/treatment. Rock Lee is a very likable character, Neji had some great development, Might Guy is entertaining and a great foil for Kakashi, and Tenten has a lot of potential to be a good character. But still, I hate how they dealt with...certain things, such as killing off Neji solely to be a cupid for Naruto and Hinata. And poor Guy as well in the epilogue... Plus Tenten unfortunately has very little known about her, not even a surname.

2. Meg Griffin (Family Guy) - I wouldn't call myself a fan of Family Guy by any stretch anymore, and Meg's treatment certainly didn't help. In the earlier seasons, Meg was actually treated with more respect, like a person. But I don't know what happened now for everyone to make her the punching bag of the show nowadays. I really don't get it, what did she do exactly to deserve it? It sure doesn't make me laugh.

1. Dib (Invader Zim) - Okay, this is a character I always felt bad for. This kid is clearly going out of his way to try to save the world from an alien invasion, but not only does nobody seem to care, he constantly gets the short end of the stick in general. Pretty much everyone seems to hate his guts. I get that it's meant to imply Dib was sort of the 'boy who cried wolf' type of character, obsessed with the paranormal, and because of his false alarms, nobody will believe him or care what he has to say. And I do get it's because Zim is the main character, and from Zim's perspective, Dib is the antagonist because he wants to expose him as an alien. What's interesting about this is how interchangeable their roles are, as they both could be simultaneously the hero and the villain based on their roles and morality, and they both have similar issues of being frowned upon by their respective species. They're more similar than we give them credit for despite how much they clash. But man, I just want to hug Dib so much, as a way to show I care. I even felt like I could identify with Dib when I first got into the show because I felt like I was in a similar situation, being picked on by my peers in middle school.

Credit for the meme goes to