The Unpopular Woman Love Post

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

It's pretty natural that some female characters do worse in fandom than others, right? And sometimes it's difficult, if not downright impossible, to find a place where you can fan these characters in peace, or fellow fans to fan them with. Not to mention trying to find fanworks about them. Experience says: It hard.

So, stealing the idea shamelessly from doyle_sb4's Women of Doctor Who celebration post, here is a love post for the unpopular female characters. Like in doyle_sb4's post, you start a thread with the character's name and their respective fandom in the subject line, after which people are free to share fic and vid recs, picspams, links to essays, defenses or simply thoughts of love about the character in question. Because unpopularity is a subjective thing most of the time, the character doesn't have to be somebody you know to be the fandom underdog for sure, but if the character also has a large number of fans it would be good to give some reasons about why they're hated and why it's wrong. Links to the character threads will be collected in this post.

Being a post for unpopular characters, this is a bashing free post. If you have any negative opinions about the characters discussed or the fandom rivals of the character of your choice, please keep them to yourself.

And now, knock yourselves out!

ETA: The character and the fandom should both be named in the subject line, I forgot to mention the fandom initially. Sorry about the inconvenience!

ETA 2: If you want to share you thoughts about a character who has a thread, please reply to the thread in question. General comments and threads for new characters go to the main post.

Threads:

Diana Fowley, X-Files (Vid rec, Fic Recs, Fic recs)
Jennifer Hailey, Stargate: SG1
Sakura, Naruto (Fic recs, Author rec)
Dawn Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Anastasia Dualla, Battlestar Galactica (Comic rec, Reasons why Dee is awesome)
Lana Lang, Smallville (Vid recs)
Maya Herrera, Heroes (Vid rec)
Relena Peacecraft, Gundam Wing (Fic recs)
Cally Henderson-Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica
Gwen Cooper, Torchwood
Jennifer Keller, Stargate: Atlantis (Community link, Fic recs, Fic recs)
Niki Sanders
Freya/Anise, Stargate: SG1 (Fic rec)
Maria Hill, Marvel Comics
Thirteen/Dr. Remy Hadley, House MD (Picspam links)
Bela Talbot, Supernatural (Fic rec, Fic)
Shiori Takatsuki, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Tifa Lockhart, Final Fantasy VII
Max Guevara, Dark Angel (Vid rec, Fic rec)
Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean (Author rec)
Cynthia Velasquez, Silent Hill 4
Allison Cameron, House MD (Meme rec)
Liz Sherman, Hellboy
Dr. Camille "Cam" Saroyan, Bones
Ruby, Supernatural
Chloe Sullivan, Smallville
Sakaki Ouka, Weiss Kreuz
Jo Harvelle, Supernatural
Inara Serra, Firefly (Fic Rec)
Lt. Colonel Hollis Mann, NCIS
Director Jenny Shepard, NCIS
Lilly Kane, Veronica Mars
Kate Austen, Lost
Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Teyla Emmagan, Stargate Atlantis (Link, vid rec)
Alex Drake, Ashes to Ashes
Anya Jenkins, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fic recs)
Koriand'r, DC Comics
Sam Carter, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis
Ana Lucia, Lost
Padme Amidala, Star Wars
Arwen, The Lord of the Rings
Martha Jones, Doctor Who/Torchwood
Kennedy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lois Lane, Smallville
Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter
Shmi Skywalker, Star Wars
Mai, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Fic links, Fic links & recs)
Keiko Yukimura, Yu Yu Hakusho
Orihime Inoue, Bleach
Yakumo Tatsuro, Shinzo
Sakuno Ryuzaki, The prince Of Tennis
Tenten, Naruto
Anzu Mazaki, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Temari, Naruto
Himawari, xxxHOLiC
Karen Kouzuki/Kallen Stadtfeld, Code Geass
Yuuki Miaka, Fushigi Yuugi
Meg Griffin, Family Guy
Elliot Reid, Scrubs
Princess Zelda, Legend of Zelda series/Brawl
Mizuki Kaho, Card Captor Sakura
Colette Brunel, Tales of Symphonia
Kaoru Kamiya AND Tomoe Yukishiro, Rurouni Kenshin
Ninian, Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
Katara, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Vid rec)
Naomi Hunter, Metal Gear Solid
Scheris Adjani, Scryed
Silk Spectre II/Laurie Juspeczyk, Watchmen
Jun the Swan, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Hinata Hyuuga, Naruto
Momo Hinamori, Bleach
Miyako Inoue, Digimon 02
Misa Amane, Death Note
Juri Katou, Digimon Tamers
Asuka Tenjoin, Yu-Gi-Oh GX

Comments

Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Jo. Jo whom I loved, loved loved and got kicked off the show because...fans didn't like her, pretty much. I have written SO MUCH about my love for her and I just don't even know where to start. In my mental SPN universe she has a much, much larger place than in the real one. I love her so much and she had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and Alona Tal was fucking BRILLIANT.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know. Jo was a time when they really, really shouldn't have listened to the fandom.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

I hate to admit it, but in retrospect, what they did to Jo was the reason I stopped watching the show. The potential in her was just so huge, I completely agree - and Alona Tal was just amazing to watch.

Since the beginning of the series, I'd wanted to see a strong female character with ties to the boys come in and kick some ass. It fit, it wasn't overwhelming, and it gave good character development.

I miss you, Ms. Harvelle.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It didn't really kick in for me until later, but Jo is why I don't like the show any more.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Joooooooooo! She was awesome. I hope they bring her back some day.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

God, I loved Jo. She was a brilliant character, who was used and then discarded summarily. I miss her and all of her potential for young, righteous ass-kicking.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

I got around to watching S2 a little later than the rest of the fandom, had seen all the complaints about her and couldn't understand why people hated her so much. She was charming and conflicted and there was so much potential for her to develop and grow. I couldn't believe how soon she was off my screen, and I still miss her.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

Jooooo! I miss the kickass Jo that took a shotgun from Dean, and then came up with her own hunt and was just amazing! *sighs*

In my personal cannon, she's taking names and kicking ass.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

She really did. To be honest I was resistant to the idea of her when the buzz started about who her character was going to be. But all that did was teach me not to make up my mind too fast about sides/advance word/rumors. She changed a lot between the early notes the show had on her and what went on screen and I'm sure Alona Tal had a lot to do with making her so vivid. As soon as I'd seen her in action a bit, I liked her a lot and was really intrigued with her story, seeing her tested and how smart and determined she was.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

The funny thing about Jo is that, when it comes to *searching out* killer ghosts and such, canon seems to indicate she's actually a better hunter than Sam and Dean. How many different episodes began with them getting a hunt handed to them, by their Dad, or Bobby, or Ash, etc.? Whereas Jo actually did the research and managed to hunt down patterns of deaths all by herself. Good on her. And BOO on the writers for knuckling under to fan reaction.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

That girl was made of awesome.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

I wasn't heavily in SPN fandom to begin with, but what fandom did to her and the show listening to them about it soured me on the idea of getting any further involved so much that I never managed to get into it again.

She was already amazing. I'm so disappointed she never got to be moreso.

Re: Jo Harvelle, Supernatural

[ciaan]

Yay for Jo!