Typholosion. I <3 Quilava, and Cyndaquil and Typholosion are awesome Pokemon in themselves, with appealing designs and respectable battle prowess.
Regarding Charizard, I believe the n00b-fans, who are so hated here, are not fans at all, but merely bandwagon-jumpers and followers of fashion, who only like it because there friends do and because of over-showcasing.
Other than that, it suffers from the horrible disease that I call ''Psuedo-coolness'' It struggles to look cool, by packing every single thing that a modern youngster desires from a dragon; huge claws, fire-breathing, muscular, gigantic bat-wings, horns....... And ultimately fails.
Blaziken is similiar to Charizard in this respect, only less severe.