Fictional characters you hated but ended up loving.

[Isabelle]

Lars from Steven Universe. Hated his guts until it become clear what his deal was. I can even sort of relate to him in an odd sort of way.

Diamond Tiara from MLP probably counts. She came off as a stereotypical rich bully character, but then I pieced it together. In that show, the rich are raised from birth to think that they are better and more important than the poor, and I imagined she must have gone through the same upbringing. So imagine growing up being taught that while your dad continuously bow to the biggest business owners in the region, a bunch of country bumpkins who run a farm. No wonder she targets that family's youngest member, she's trying to allign things to the only world view she understands. That was my headcanon for the longest time and I always saw her as a tragic character, a child who just doesn't know any better and never will because she's never taught otherwise.

Then the show right up confirms all of that five seasons in. God was I happy.

(I've never heard "transplant" used to refer to an immigrant before. Still horrible.)