User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Sugar - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-4389268-20141030055132/@comment-24971793-20141030150334

There's a big difference between personally hating a character and claiming that a character is bad, poorly designed. Being mean or having disgusting habits are actually good reasons to hate a character. The joker is an antagonist initially designed to be hated since you are meant to side with batman.

Sugar being obnoxious, domineering, disgusting, mean,... are all valid reasons to hate her. But they aren't valid reasons to call her a poorly designed character. Since several of her plotlines revolved around those characteristics, for example her plotline in Sky fall was all about being a pain in Sky's **se. Foreshadowed by Sky saying at the beginning "an alliance with Sugar, how bad can it be?". So if Sugar came across as overly disgusting or irritating. Great! Cause that's exactly how she was supposed to be and the emotions she was meant to incite.

I think you can use habits, appearance or background to objectively say a character is bad when the character fails at those elements (example Zoey is supposed to be a strong likeable -easy to relate to- protagonist but often came across as an annoying hollow damsel in distress). I don't think Sugar failed, I feel like the writers had a clear vision of how they wanted her to be and succeeded pretty well.