That negative reaction reinforced the feeling that if trans characters are unwelcome in games, trans players are unwelcome, too.
And, in a tellingly odd turn, three characters read unwelcome, but essentially accurate, judgments about themselves on a tiny local Web site, and all three disintegrate into fear and fury.
The boxing match, as well as a string of soccer games, gave many a good reason to forget, at least for a few hours, the Taliban, the foreigners, the warlords and every other unwelcome group or unsavory character that has inflicted pain and suffering here.
But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that "when characters work against the author they come alive and take on depths and facets that are unpredictable".
Opponents contend that the bridge would destroy Chiloé's unique character and bring unwelcome influences from outside, including big companies that they fear will pillage their verdant island.
But his performance as this uncomfortable man is spectacularly assured, his familiar wide-eyed amazement deployed cunningly to portray the melancholy befuddlement of the character, the perpetual unwelcome surprise of feeling neither here nor there.
Conversely, The Chicago Tribunes Maureen Ryan disliked Weston's character, calling him "An unwelcome distraction... an irritating pipsqueak".
"They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!" he tweeted in August, raising the unwelcome vision of some bitter Roger Hargreaves character brought monstrously to life.
Any time a television show or film needs to portray an unwelcome authority figure, or a pushy character with little patience and lots of attitude, but also provide comic relief, they send in Angry Black Woman.
Hands and arms: during the kiss, a character's hands could be up in the air (usually indicating an unwelcome or surprised kiss) or wrapped around the character's body (usually an indication of an enjoyable kiss).
