Wasted Potential Characters

[SecretStrategist]

When it comes to all forms of media and in your personal opinion, which character do you think had the most wasted potential in not being fully utilized?

For my personal example, I'll go with Gai Daigouji from Martian Successor Nadesico:

Despite his crazy and goofy personality, Gai does his best in wanting to be a hero and would eventually see Akito as both a good friend and great rival, especially as the two have a shared interest in the show Gekiganger 3.

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Unfortunately, Gai gets shot at the end of Episode 3 and later dies at the start of Episode 4. It would've been real interesting to see on how his character would've progressed during the course of the story had he still be alive and thankfully, some Super Robot Wars games which has Nadesico in it can allow you to help save Gai from his original canonical fate.

So, in your own personal words, which character do you think had wasted potential in their respective media?

 

[Segadude113]

Tenten from Naruto. She was treated better in filler episodes but in the original manga she was practically ignored most of the way. Never understood why. It's not because it's shonen because Sakura and Ino and even Temari got way more attention in the manga. Tenten only gets one fight.

 

[Soma_Shotgun]

Wish he were in games I like. (Haven't played Command Mission yet, maybe that one is good. Not holding my breath tho)

 

[Tonberry]

Mitsuru "Marin Karin" Kirijo

She looks cool as hell (literal ice queen trope even in gameplay lol) and feels really mysterious early on, but gets promptly regulated to a walking exposition machine the further the story progresses with no interesting characteristics whatsoever. Her SLink also just woobifies her to the nth degree ("omg a hamburger is this what le poor people eat??? how quaint!!") and turns her into a charisma black hole.

 

[Bonkers225]

Gohan post Cell will always be a huge one

 

[Bakuma1997]

Joseph Joestar post Stardust Crusaders, ironically they bring him back for Diamond is Unbreakable to advance the plot yet the old geezer barely does something (Except saving the invisible baby)

 

[Scotty]

Blaze the Cat.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Zelda, I mean what the hell makes her legend anyway

 

[Rox00]

Literally most of the Visored that's not Shinji from Bleach after the Arrancar arc, they pretty much vanish and barely get much use while getting jobbed hard during the TYBW arc (at least in the manga). Pretty much sucks cause they were my favorite group of the series due to a lot of things like their designs, how they fought, etc. So seeing them wasted like that blows. I know in the TYBW anime they get a little justice but man they deserved a lot more in general.