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!