I don't think Revan is hated. Revan fanboys on the other hand....
I personally don't hate Revan, he's just another character. I'm not emotionally involved with him.
Revan fanboys on the other hand,... ...seem to want him to be indestructible and infallible. That's where it gets annoying.
Of course, I say this but I have never read any comics or other novels with him in them, so I don't know all there is to know about the character or his presentation. Just the 2 rpg games.
Yeah, they were going to just kill him off originally and the fans raged..because, ya know, indestructible and infallible etc etc. As if he shouldn't be killed because their logic states 'I'm Revan, I'm a bad***, I can't be killed."
I lead to think that fans of the character had so many years to build him up in their minds into this unstoppable god-like figure that when Bioware wrote something different than what the fans came to expect they freaked.
Man, I heard so much rage on LucasForums and DeadlyStream back at launch it kinda made me want him to die off just for spite. Seriously, it gets pretty annoying.
Hopefully this go round won't be so bad and the fans will accept his death. But I know of Revan fans that still won't touch this game "because of how they treated Revan".
Seriously, gimme a break.