The Best of 2014: These 13 Characters Need a Little Love and Attention

Potential is worthless if a character doesn't get enough time in the game.

It can be even worse when the time they do get is wasted – and that's the case with many of our TV Fanatic staff picks for most underutilized character of 2014.

Love 'em or hate 'em, it's hard to deny what we thought we were getting when these characters made their entrances isn't what we got. Among the suffering:

• Cole Lockhart on The Affair is relegated to a cuckolded spouse who runs drugs.
• In the small scenes Trip has been given on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., he's been overshadowed by new cast members. 
• We can hardly stand to talk about poor Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. If she's not dead or believed dead, she's practically cast aside (witch pun intended!).

See if you agree and then weigh with our poll and/or in the comments.

The Best of 2014: Underutilized Characters

1. Bonnie Bennett -- The Vampire Diaries

Omg! BONNIE from TVD. It's taken her 6 seasons to get a halfway decent storyline and now she's stuck in some witchy prison world alone. Previously she's been trotted out when somebody needed a spell performed. Or she was dead. Then sort of undead. Now this. Poor BONNIE.

Who is the most underutilized character of 2014?