Characters that get little respect

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What characters do you think get little respect from the writers of their shows? I mean characters that rarely if ever play a big role in an episode or allowed to play a big role in the closing battles, kind of like seating at the kiddie table, while the real important characters fight. Or even appear in episode at all. And most importantly you feel could offer so much more. There are many characters that get little respect, and I think don't deserve much respect.

Here are some of my examples:

Mai and Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender) pacificly the end of "The Chase" and "Crossroads Of Destiny", Azula was involved in the epic closing battles, while they either just dried up after being thrown into a river, or guarding a dumb bear.

The HIVE (Teen Titans) first of all they are pawns of Slade and Brother Blood in "Final Exam" and "Deceptions", Slade even planned on them losing. Than they have to beg for a spot in the Brotherhood Of Evil in season 5. They are treated as junior villains, they are what I refer to as kiddie table villains.

Duff Killingen (Kim Possible) He was the main villain in his first episode "Number One", than whenever he appeared another villain or most cases villains appeared in the same episode.

All of these characters are villains, that is just a coisidence, this is not a villain thread, lord knows I started enough of those, but free for any character in general, weather on the side of good, evil, or in between. Though I don't consider Mai and Ty Lee villains, they are on the villain's side for now anyway.
 
Here's a few characters that I think that get little respect from the writers:

Good guys:
Jabberjaw(Jabberjaw)
Edd(E,E,& E)
Marcia Martian/Foxy & Roxy(Tiny Toon Adventures)
Minerva Mink(Animaniacs) - I wish the writers would of give her two more episodes involving her vs. Newt maybe.
Sven Hoek(Ren & Stimpy)
Kevin/Dog Poo(South Park) - they would of gotten more big roles after their 1st big role episodes besides be in the background.
Ezekial/robot turkey(Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Space Rovers(Road Rovers) - As much as I miss the show, I wish the writers would of give them a few episodes since they're interesting and that their female captain is super hot next to Colleen.

Villains:
Liquidator(Darkwing Duck) - after his first episode, they would of give him more alone episodes besides be with the Fearsome Five.
Damien(South Park)
Ixis Naughus(SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog) - after his first episode "The Void", the writers would of give him a bigger role for continuing the next season since his glowing red eyes appeared in the season one finale while Robotnik's defeated.
Phantom Blot(Ducktales) - the writers would of give him a few roles like the Beagle Boys besides appearing in the comics.
Mandark's sister(Dexter's Laboratory) - after her first episode, she would of have more bigger roles like her brother.
Perfecto Prep(Tiny Toon Adventures) - the writers would of give them more roles after the Wacky World of Sports ep. by explaining more about their school/classes like with Acme Acres and give more other characters villain roles besides Roderick & Rubella.
 
I'm surprised noone's mentioned these yet:
Sokka (Avatar:the Last Airbender)
Half the cast of Tiny Toons (you know who I mean.
Wanda in later seasons of Fairly Oddparents.
 
I don't know, he has his moments when he is the hero. Jet and The Library and there is an upcoming episode called Sokka's Master which explaing itself. I guess he could have more episode when he is the hero, as oppose to a punching bag for the others to laugh at.

I do feel though that Aang stole Bato Of The Water Tribe episode from him. At the beginning it seemed the focus was going to be on Sokka when they showed him as a kid, but it take long for it to become about Aang and his feelings of neglete and not having the spotlight on him. And later about Aang getting that necklise back from Zuko.
 
Well this is just a guess, but maybe the reason that these characters aren't regarded very highly by the writers and the viewers could be because they each only made one single appearance on their perspective shows. One episode characters can't really be counted as being underused. Most of them were only good for one episode anyway.

Anyway, some more underused characters:

Mom (The Brak Show)
Shirley the Loon (Tiny Toons)
Mabel Moozipan (Viva Pinata)
Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball Z)
The mom on Johnny Test

Sad how so many female characters are left in the lurch.
 
Hmm. Is this thread about characters who get no respect in the context of the show itself or is it about characters who are just underused by the people making the show?
 
Thundercracker from Transformers G1, after the Coneheads(Dirge, Thrust, & Ramjet) showed up. Thundercracker was reduced to being in the background in scenes.
 
No respect, I always see that as a character who gets treated like garbage by most, of not the entire cast of the show, like for example:

Meg (Family Guy)
Blitz (Road Rovers)
Butters (South Park)
Waspinator (Beast Wars)
 
Waspinator - Beast Wars
Sky Byte - TF: RID
Thundercracker, Ransack, Crumplezone - TF: Cybertron
Meg Griffin, the ethnic newscasters, the Vaudville Guys - Family Guy
Krillin, Yamcha, Chaoutzu, Hercule, minor human charcters, Guldo of the Ginyu Force, Spopovitch, Yamu, Launch, Oolong, Puar, Baba, Ox King, Yajirobie, many namek charaters I could go on, but I'll stop here - DBZ
Francine Smith, Klaus, Jeff Fischer - American Dad
Ned Flanders and his Flanderinos, Moe, Marge, Maggie, Smithers, Grampa Simpson, Jasper, Dolph, Nelson's Parents, Gil, Skinner, Krabapel, Miss Hover, Apu, Manjula, the octuplets, Comic Book Guy, Sea Captain, Barney Gumble - The Simpsons
Darkwing Duck
Kuwabara - Yu Yu Hakusho
Naruto, Sakura, Rock Lee, Hinata - Naruto
Sokka -Avatar
Jack Spicer- Xiaolin Showdown
Jan - Class of 3000
Team Rocket "Senoh Region", Brock - Pokemon
Joey, Tristan, Tea, Bandit Keith, Mai, Weevil, Rex Raptor, Mokuba Kaiba, Mako Tsunami, Duke, Rebecca, Grampa Motou - Yu-Gi-Oh
Chicken, Boneless, Red Guy - Cow and Chicken
Johnny Bravo
Mojo Jojo, The Ameba Boys, The Gang Green Gang Harold and Family - The Powerpuff Girls
Bill Deuvative, Boomhaur, Didi Hill, John Redcorn - King of the Hill
Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Kiff, Mom's Sons, Proof. Farnsworth, Cubert and Dwight - Futurama
Anyone that was a nemesis for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzalies or Hippy Hopper in Looney Tunes
Tom and (sometimes) Jerry
Dale - Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers
Aisha Clan Clan - Outlaw Star
InuYasha, Shippo, Miroku, Jaken, Myoga - InuYasha
Jelly Jiggler, Dengakuman - Bobobo-Bo Bobobo
Usopp - One Piece
 
Actually in the Abridged Series, he's got his own catchphrase. He commonly uses the line "In America". As for the Abridged Series, I liked Kemo (sp?) and his "Attention duelists" line everytime you saw him.
 
There is no character named Jan on Class of 3000. Perhaps you're thinking about the character Kam from that show, or maybe Flimation's The Brady Kids?
 
Not one single Invader Zim Character? Skoodge gets less respect in proportion to his amount of screen time than any other character listed here so far.
 
That dude? He has a name? OK, but he's a very minor character. Little more than an extra, really. He's only in, like 1 episode out of 4, and he's never played a major part in a story. How do you figure that he's a character ho gets no respect? he's barely been characterized enough to qualify.
 
Yeah, but I kinda thought how he keeps getting himself into mishaps like getting attacked by a psycadelical blob, and being bossed around by Principal Luna, I kinda thought he needed a bit more respect.
 
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