[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

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[lilacfield.livejournal.com]

Haruno Sakura from Naruto. Before the timeskip she's part of the background more often than not, after the timeskip she's stronger and more capable, but tends toward being a mini-Tsunade. It's inevitable, I know, but still. (On the same vein, I don't really like the original Team 7 to be portrayed as younger versions of the legendary Sannin - I prefer them to be themselves) But she's very human, and I adore her to bits for that.