User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Why Lisanna is Fairy Tail's worst character~/@comment-5268982-20140104135800

Carrot made a blog post?! Unbelievable!

This was a very interesting post! I never realized how positively Lisanna's death would affect the series. It may sound weird, but Natsu, Elfman and Mirajane's characters would have evolved so much better if Lisanna stayed dead. Sure, the cheesy, emotional reunion between her and the Strauss siblings was heartwarming and all, but in the long run it may have not been the smartest move to bring her back. I completely agree with everything you've stated, the way she is now, she is just useless to the series and could be replaced by any other character.

As for my own least favorite character, it has to be Gajeel. Of course, characters like Crawford or Hades or Faust are way more hateable, but they are not central characters to the story. The thing about Gajeel is that I like Phantom Lord Gajeel as a villain, and I also like the Fairy Tail Gajeel(for his comedic moments and his relationship with Levy mostly) but I hate the character's overall journey and character development, or rather, lack of it.

When he was first introduced, he was cold, sadistic, ruthless, and made everyone hade him. He pinned 3 FT members on a tree after brutally beating them, and then also beat Lucy almost to death. The reason he did that was because he was angry at Metallicana for so long for leaving him, and that he did not have a kind-hearted person like Makarov around to teach him good values. Okay, I can understand that. However, I just can't fathom how everyone forgave him so easily, or how he forgave himself so easily. I mean, Jellal was mind-controlled by Ultear when he did all those atrocious things, but he never forgave himself for his actions and even wanted to kill himself for "his" sins. Gajeel had complete consciousness when he did all those evil stuff but did not seem to try and seek redemption like Jellal, or even Laxus. Laxus tried to kill everyone in his town just to prove himself to be the most powerful, which is downright selfish and evil, but at least he went on a kind of spiritual journey to find himself again and stuff. Gajeel was just reluctantly forgiven, and proceeded to form a romance with the girl he tortured. I think that if he was about to slip now and then, only to be brought back by Levy or other FT members, or if he went through a short period of self-hatred he would be a better character overall. But that's just my opinion on him anyway. Characters normally don't change as fast, and they should not, because people do not change as fast either.