I hated Snarf, I just didn't realise it. I thought Mum-ra was cool.
Smurfette wasn't on the list because she was kinda cool. Wasn't she created by Gargamel to lure the Smurfs into a trap, and the idea backfired and she became one of them? And I thought she was hot, too.
The only Transformers leader I knew of initially was Rodimus Prime, so initially I didn't care, but boy was I freaked out when I found out about Optimus. When Optimus came back, I decided that he was wayyy better and that the idea for Rodimus was kinda lame. See, what made me biased initially is that Rodimus Prime was the first Transformers figure I ever got.