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Gregory House from House seems to apply. I stopped watching a while ago, but he was in the middle of a season long arc about trying to learn to be less insufferable when I stopped watching.
He's pretty insufferable again now.
So he's a lapsed Recovering Insufferable Genius? That might be too specific even for TV Tropes.
Such a suggestion for an article would indeed be shut down with haste
If he ever stops being insufferable, I'm pretty sure it will mean the show is over.
Oh, come on, he can be polite and gentlemanly and still make the show interesting. Anybody here watch My Little Pony? He could also be The Dumbledore, which is another way of being an insufferable genius while being nice and caring at the same time.
The ponies could stop being ponies and still make the show interesting. However, the show is about ponies. So even though the show could still be interesting if the ponies were permanently changed into penguins, the creators are unlikely to do that. Similarly, Buffy the Vampire slayer would still be interesting if the supernatural events were ended and Buffy became a teenage detective like Veronica Mars, but the creator was unlikely to do that. Shows tend for the most part to keep being what they are about, even though a show about something else would still be interesting.
Oh. You mean if House became a decent human being the show would reach its conclusion.
Well, it might be a nice Aesop. Too many series suffer from excessive Sequelitis anyway. Although I don't know if there was a drop in House MD's quality as of late. Was there?
Seriously? Didn't expect that of him.