Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which of their fave TV characters started out good, but then ended up being terrible. Here's what they had to say!
1. Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls

2. Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother

3. Tina Cohen-Chang from Glee

4. Randall Pearson from This Is Us

5. Debbie Gallagher from Shameless

6. Owen Hunt from Grey's Anatomy

7. Veronica Lodge from Riverdale

8. Gina Linetti from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

9. Andy Bernard from The Office

10. Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from Game Of Thrones

11. Piper Chapman from Orange Is The New Black

12. Ben Chang from Community

13. Haley Marshall (née Dunphy) from Modern Family

14. Xander Harris from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

15. Nancy Botwin from Weeds

16. Blaine Anderson from Glee

17. Ross Geller from Friends

18. Rafael Solano from Jane The Virgin

19. Danny Castellano from The Mindy Project

20. Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

21. Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl

22. Castiel from Supernatural

23. Bernadette Rostenkowski from The Big Bang Theory

24. Jim Halpert from The Office

25. Izzie Stevens from Grey's Anatomy

26. Jaime Lannister from Game Of Thrones

27. Fiona Gallagher from Shameless

28. And finally, Elena Gilbert from The Vampire Diaries

Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
What other TV characters started off with so much promise, only to end up disappointing you? Sound off in the comments!
CORRECTION
An earlier version of this article included a submission about Lexa from The 100. On further review and based on reader feedback, we have decided to remove the submission, as it did not meet our editorial guidelines. Thanks to our readers for being honest and pointing it out!