Many shows have new characters join the main cast after the main cast has already been developed and explored.
Usually this gives a chance to refresh character interactions and add new layers of drama through the newcomer
Other times you end up with Poochie.
So in your opinión which characters added later in the game are the best and which are the worst?
Let me start off with
BEST
Toph Bei-Fong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Toph joins Team Avatar a bit into season 2, she's a bLind girls with immense earth bending powers who escapes her over protective family to fight in tournaments
The chapter she's introduced feels like a one off "help X person learn Y lesson" but it goes in a completely different direction near the end, instead of a clichéd ending were her family learns to accept that she is not fragile due to her disability and deserves her independence, her father doubles down on overprotectiviness to the point of abuse, causing her to escape with the main cast.
From there the team learning to adapt to her presence becomes a big plot point and this leads to them all learning from each other. Toph's power,development and interactions with the cast made her one of the most beloved characters in the franchise.
And she's a freaking badass
Beerus and Whis (Dragon Ball Z/Super)
The God of Destruction and his Angelic Servant are introduced as the main antagonistsin the "Battle of Gods Movie", a pair of deities with a knack for good food.
Quick to Anger, Beerus easily destroys anything that remotely annoys him, while Whis makes sure that his destructive rampages work for the benefit of the Universe
After meeting Goku and fighting him, Beerus slowly starts caring about Goku and his ambitions of being the strongest there is, a goal he easily identifies with.
This results in Beerus and Whis taking Goku and Vegeta as apprentices and from there becoming regulars in the main cast.
And they could not blend any better, each has developed a different relationship with members of the old cast, and they can easily add to the series most comedic moments, the most tense moments and even serve as a source of information for the main cast.
They pretty much steal every scene they're in.
WORST
Dil Pickles (Rugrats)
In a series that's all about babies having defined personalities and traits, adding a baby that just acts like an actual baby and only cries and shit himself is boring AF
The only thing interesting about this character is him becoming a freaking weirdo in the God awful "All Grown Up!"
Which is saying something
Every Single Character added to the Fairly Odd Parents
Like why!? Why add a baby a talking dog and a girl who shares Timmy's Odd Parents at all?
The show had a diverse cast back when it started but near the end Timmy became more and more estranged from the real world as the show kept introducing more and more magical characters and plots.
His group of losers, his crush, his school bullies, all of them disappear in later seasons to keep adding more and more magical main characters with the same boring plots
Just awful
Usually this gives a chance to refresh character interactions and add new layers of drama through the newcomer
Other times you end up with Poochie.
So in your opinión which characters added later in the game are the best and which are the worst?
Let me start off with
BEST
Toph Bei-Fong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Toph joins Team Avatar a bit into season 2, she's a bLind girls with immense earth bending powers who escapes her over protective family to fight in tournaments
The chapter she's introduced feels like a one off "help X person learn Y lesson" but it goes in a completely different direction near the end, instead of a clichéd ending were her family learns to accept that she is not fragile due to her disability and deserves her independence, her father doubles down on overprotectiviness to the point of abuse, causing her to escape with the main cast.
From there the team learning to adapt to her presence becomes a big plot point and this leads to them all learning from each other. Toph's power,development and interactions with the cast made her one of the most beloved characters in the franchise.
And she's a freaking badass
Beerus and Whis (Dragon Ball Z/Super)
The God of Destruction and his Angelic Servant are introduced as the main antagonistsin the "Battle of Gods Movie", a pair of deities with a knack for good food.
Quick to Anger, Beerus easily destroys anything that remotely annoys him, while Whis makes sure that his destructive rampages work for the benefit of the Universe
After meeting Goku and fighting him, Beerus slowly starts caring about Goku and his ambitions of being the strongest there is, a goal he easily identifies with.
This results in Beerus and Whis taking Goku and Vegeta as apprentices and from there becoming regulars in the main cast.
And they could not blend any better, each has developed a different relationship with members of the old cast, and they can easily add to the series most comedic moments, the most tense moments and even serve as a source of information for the main cast.
They pretty much steal every scene they're in.
WORST
Dil Pickles (Rugrats)
In a series that's all about babies having defined personalities and traits, adding a baby that just acts like an actual baby and only cries and shit himself is boring AF
The only thing interesting about this character is him becoming a freaking weirdo in the God awful "All Grown Up!"
Which is saying something
Every Single Character added to the Fairly Odd Parents
Like why!? Why add a baby a talking dog and a girl who shares Timmy's Odd Parents at all?
The show had a diverse cast back when it started but near the end Timmy became more and more estranged from the real world as the show kept introducing more and more magical characters and plots.
His group of losers, his crush, his school bullies, all of them disappear in later seasons to keep adding more and more magical main characters with the same boring plots
Just awful
