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It's not a minor character no one else cares about, is the thing (although the plot was pretty much a distant third priority to most people). The character was a protagonist who, in this new development, became a villain. Their end at the hands of the new protagonist was built up to be ignoble and completely deserved. And...well, given the changes to the character, it was, but the character I remember wouldn't have developed that way. It was like they needed a villain, so they took a familiar character (who was once pretty complex and always morally ambiguous, but not truly evil) and slapped a generically villainous story to their name that also happened to completely invert everything that character had been shown to care about, then had the new guy kill them, and expected us to cheer because the bad guy was dead. They took away the first character's likeability to ensure we'd like the new guy. And they didn't need to! That new guy's genuinely interesting on his own!

A whole bunch of interesting plot points were dropped, too. It's like a different universe with the same premise and names, but nothing else. It wasn't an Angel/Angelus situation either - if not for the side material, I'd have no idea what had happened to justify the switch (and the justification is excessively stupid, even for this universe, which is already pretty insane).

I'm sorry that your character didn't have the ending s/he/it deserved.
I'm just going to giggle at a private joke, don't mind me. But thank you. Fans of the obscure, unloved and unlovable, unite!