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Jute88 said:
I'm not exactly in love with Doctor Who, but I enjoy it every now and then. The most agonising part of the the Doctor's adventures was Amy Pond. I'm still amazed I managed to finish the story lines she was involved in. She was the most annoying character in the show. I have no idea how Rory managed to tolerate her as long as he did. Me and my fiancee both cheered when she finally died.

Also, Cowboy Bebop, though not my favorite anime series (by far), it's was mostly pretty okay. Then Ed came along and so did my frustration with the show.
When I first watched Cowboy Bebop, I found Faye the least likable. As I grew older I found more appreciation for her, but I never found Ed annoying and enjoyed her presence. She was used when necessary and never overstayed her welcome. Now if you want annoying, here's Aisha from Outlaw Star. Back when I first watched the show I couldn't stand her. While I can tolerate her now, there are still parts that piss me off. When you break it down, she's a glorified elf that likes to boast about how the Ctral-Ctral are all powerful, Terrans (Humans) are "weak", and is such a fucking loudmouth that almost never shuts up. I know this was intentional, but it's still annoying. Lady, it's implied that there are things more powerful than you or your race, you can stop overcompensating. I can name fictional characters from different stories (and not from DBZ) that are either stronger, smarter, or just plain better than you and can kick your ass 20 times over.

If there any other characters I can think of, I'll come back and add them later.
 

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Jute88 said:
Also, Cowboy Bebop, though not my favorite anime series (by far), it's was mostly pretty okay. Then Ed came along and so did my frustration with the show.
But Ed was my favorite character... :(

Then again, of the Bebop crew, Spike himself was my least favorite, so go figure.

Oh, and while I'm here:

-Rosemary Dahl (StarCraft)
-Zanza (Xenoblade Chronicles...who, unless my suspicions about a facade are correct, just won't...stop...talking...about...gods. Which is a shame, because up to that point at the game's end, he's a pretty good character)
-Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars, because...y'know...in fairness, I don't think he's nearly as annoying as some claim, but he's still annoying all the same)
 

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Shalon (or however she spells it, I listen to the audiobook) from The Stormlight Archive.

She hits, at least in the first book, every fucking negative trope for a female character I can think of.

She's constantly talking shit to people, always making little smartass comments and twisting their words even when they don't deserve it. Why? Because she's just petty that way. She has that "SUPER SECRET TRAGIC PAST THAT SHE MUST KEEP HIDDEN FROM EVERYONE EVER, EVEN HERSELF!!", and she will do anything to keep it hidden, including screwing over her friends and allies. She has that "born to aristocracy" arrogance, even though she is from an incredibly poor and small House. Just...bleh, fuck her.

She gets a LITTLE bit better in book 2, but Sanderson simply trades out some tropes I hate, for others by that point. I'd really rather not have to deal with her point of view storyline, given it means I have to be inside her head and listen to her thought process. But I have to, because I love the series.
 

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Jute88 said:
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Generally speaking, I tend to sway in favour of Dragon Age but today we'll talk about Inquistion. More specifically, how Sera is the most goddamn annoying companion since Fenris' emo whining and Anders'... emo whining. She's immature, vulgar, useless (in my case, as I was playing as a Dalish Elf rogue archer), selfish, chatty, "lolrandom" and thinks that because she joined MY party, she can threaten to leave because she doesn't like the way I run things. Don't let the door hit you. I hate it when writers think having a character talk smack to the MAIN character means they're "cool" and "badass".
She was mostly a coin toss away from being fired from my team as well. But to be fair, the companions in DA:I seem, kinda lacking. They feel somehow flat and boring. They all seem to be missing, something, which is frustrating, since I can't really point what's wrong with them.
I can see that though every time I think they were lacking, I just look at them and say "well, at least they aren't Dragon Age II companions". There were a couple from Inquisition that I really liked (see. Cole and Dorian) but some of them weren't as fleshed out as they could've been. I mean, they were no Sten-- *shot*
 

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Daenarys Targaryen from Game of Thrones takes that title for me, and then some.

I wouldn't dislike the character so much if so many people didn't insist on white washing her and making her out to be super nice or kind, when she has shown to be just as petty, cruel and vengeful as any other ruler in westeros, with about 10 times more entitlement, damnit the throne is hers and she deserves it cos she has dragons and can burn to death anyone who disagrees!

Dany in show also has some odd moments of pandering girl power in ways the book version never did, "All men must die...But we are not men..." booya! Yeah, wimmin too strong to die! :D (in book she never says this and in fact draws the opposite conclusion, that all men must die including her, a very interesting change).

Dany is always portrayed as being in the right or at least in a positive sympathetic light with everything she does and seems to have moments designed to pander to the SJW types to keep them satisfied in between complaining about Samsa Rapes, Dany literally burns down the patriarchy at one point, to the glee of countless media articles (why the roomfull of big burly men never try to attack Daenarys which would be the most obvious thing to do I'll never know, guess gotta have her gloat and look all triumphant), and makes such crowd pleasing speeches such as "I'm not going to break the wheel...I'm going to SMASH it!" (she is talking about the politics of a land she doesn't understand and has never been been to..But it's ok, because it's Daenarys :D!! Woohoo you go girl!)

So yeah fuck Show Dany. Smug, insufferable git with annoying plot armor in a show where you genuinely don't know who is going to die, it seems a safe bet that Dany is going to be laming it up all the way to the end, and will probably be the one to end up on the Iron Throne. Which makes the character even more insufferable.

Book Dany I got no problems with though.
 

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Rose "Mary Sue" Tyler from Doctor Who. I HATE her. I hate the way everyone seems to fawn all over her despite the fact that she initially shows no loyalty towards her relationships and abandons her boyfriend at the time to run off with the Doctor. To be fair she does grow out of that, but at the end of series 4 the Doctor makes a big deal about how she "made him better," but I can't for the life of me figure out when she did that. I hate her and I hate her forced romance with the Doctor.
 

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Laurie from Watchmen. An annoying bore of a character who whined about Jon far too much, wasn?t nearly as interesting as the rest of the ?Crimebusters?, and deals with her problems by jumping in bed with the first man who gives her attention (inb4 ?slut-shaming?; she complains about her life having been dictated by her mother, but never once relies on herself to get shit done). I mean, I get it that she was sixteen when she met Dr. Manhattan, but even in adulthood, she seemed to have no guilt about effectively breaking up his and Janey?s relationship.

Iggy from JoJo?s Bizarre Adventure. Not cute at all, and his sudden character development from selfish bastard to supposedly sacrificial ?best friend? of Polnareff?s came too late and was unrealistic as all hell.

Wrath from the first FMA anime. I prefer Brotherhood, but I admit that the original anime had its good points. However, there is nothing good about Wrath?s character. Just an irritating brat with mommy issues.
 

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For me, I'd say Teddie from Persona 4. As anyone who's played the game knows, he has an annoying voice which gets used incessantly to make tons of obvious statements for the first half of the game. I doubt anyone considered that a positive attribute of the game.

Also, while I took an interest in the other characters and their character development moments, Teddie's whole "Who am I?" schtick just had me going, "Can we get on with this already?" probably because I found his voice to be a real drama-killer.
 

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I would say Sakura from Fate Stay Night I just never liked her character, her voice and the intolerable way she kept always referring to Shiro as sempai. Just call him by his fucking name already God!
On that note I never cared for Ciel from Tsukihime I think it was because of the glasses

Of course the lions share of my hate goes to fucking Shinji that fucking fuckhead!
 
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For me, I'd say Teddie from Persona 4. As anyone who's played the game knows, he has an annoying voice which gets used incessantly to make tons of obvious statements for the first half of the game. I doubt anyone considered that a positive attribute of the game.









Also, while I took an interest in the other characters and their character development moments, Teddie's whole "Who am I?" schtick just had me going, "Can we get on with this already?" probably because I found his voice to be a real drama-killer.
Dude... YES.

I know they really tried with Teddie's character. I know what they were going for; subverting the traditional 'cute/annoying non-human dork' archetype into an intriguing character with depth, depth based on his literal emptiness no less. But they succeeded too well in his facade of inane stupidity. God did I get sick of his shtick, and honestly, now that I've finally finished the game I kind of don't want to replay it for the single reason that I dread how much Teddie I would have to put up with again.
 

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I'm gonna do one better.

DS9 is a piece of wrong floating in my Star Trek experience. Some parts are interesting and entertaining, but most of it for me is a slog and a constant reminder that this is the show that doesn't boldly go anywhere. If you wanna watch a show about a station, watch Babylon-5.

And for a good example of who to hate in B-5? Try President Clarke, a future-era representation of what's wrong with politicians today. He's just a fucking idiot looking out for himself and he doesn't care about anything else.
 

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I'm really loving Mairo & Luigi: Dream Team and most of the supporting cast especially the hilariously absurd Massif Bros. They are absolutely full of prime beef but if there's one character who's worse than a wilted side salad it's Prince Dreambert. Prince Dreambert is a character very similar to Fi and what your memory tells you Navi was like; I'm at a point in the game where I'm close to storming Neo Bowser Castle and yet Prince Dreambert still insists on giving me tutorials, nearly 35 hours in! I could have easily ragged on Fi who is a far worse example of Toriels but I choose to rag on Dreambert because it seems like nobody likes to talk about what a wet blanket he is.

Outside of that trope, I never liked the Creevey brothers from the Harry Potter series. It's one thing when Harry is a self-indulgent prick but what's worse than that is when he's presented with characters who hero worship him so hard that even he starts getting nauseated. Another really annoying aspect about them is the ambiguity of their fate so consider the next sentence a spoiler: Basically, towards the end of the final book it seems to imply that both Colin and Dennis had been killed during the first assault of the Battle of Hogwarts and yet sources like Pottermore it seems like one of the brothers survived. The entire event has oddly ambiguous issues concerning who survived and who died but that's what we get for following around a narrator as unreliable as Harry James Potter...I don't necessarily care if the Creeveys lived or died but closure would be nice is all.
 

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Spike from MLP:FIM. Not because I actually hate him, but because its not uncommon for them to pair him with Rarity and I really really hate the dynamic of their personalities. Plus the fandom tends to ship them together, which I just find absolutely creepy.
I've hated Spike since that one episode where Rarity's fashion show was ruined. The Art of the Dress episode. And Rarity is crying in her room and just wants to be alone. And Spike shoves all the other ponies out, and then skips back inside with this creepy...rape smile on his face.
And I've never been able to look at him as anything BUT a total creep. Like what did he think was going to happen when he's alone with Rarity all day and she's emotionally vulnerable and weepy?

Totally fucking creepy.
 

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I rather like A Song of Ice and Fire, but I absolutely loathe Jon Snow. He's bland as hell, never to has to resolve his moral dilemmas by himself, keeps getting showered with plot gifts, is bland as hell, and is bland as hell. If I had to choose what food would represent him the best, it would probably be cardboard.

I also find Arya dreadful to read, and I find her whole character arc (and the people who cheer for her) creepy as hell.
 

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I hate Naruto himself. I hate the central protaginist of the show itself because Naruto is a fuckin annoying little shit at the beginning, and yes I get it he grows up and matures but still the idea of having to sit through him as a kid in the whole series is just unbearable.

I never watched the show because of him.

And Hinata, baby, you deserve much better than him :p


Also I dislike Ben from Ben 10 when he was 10 years old and him during Omniverse.

Alien Force and Ultimate Alien is THE Ben for me.
 

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*SPOILERS*

Although I've heard he's much better in the books, show wise I couldn't stand Stannis Baratheon. Like a moron he let Melisandre lead him around by the dick, blinded by his own ambition and lust for power, going as far as sacrificing his daughter (literally the only 100% innocent character in the entire show). I was indifferent to him at first but after Shireen I couldn't wait to see him die, just a shame we didn't get to see Brienne strike the final blow.

Can't stand Daario Naharis since the actor change either. The original actor played him with a suave and slightly cocky confidence but the new actor plays him bland and kinda uppity.

Also chalk me down as the third Yennefer of Vengerberg hater. Demanding, overbearing yet standoffish. Frankly, she's insufferable.
 

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Dany's for SJW's
Strange. I'm fairly indifferent to the SJW crowd myself and found it quite funny that you didn't hear a peep through all the beheadings, incest, infanticide and castration but they lost their shit as soon as there was a rape. Not really seeing Dany as some feminist hero though, just a girl in a dark world who slowly grows (through a fairly decently explained character arc) into a woman of power. Not like there isn't real life examples of this throughout history either, some women are just built that way.

She's got a bit of the ***** in her now, no question but I'd think most wouldn't deny it and that it's to be expected given the world and her position in it.

Not trying to start shit, it just surprises me a little to hear some might view her in a feminist light. Then again I had it out with someone not long ago who said The Witcher 3 was feminist propaganda. Perspective is weird sometimes.
 

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Street Halo said:
Frankster said:
Dany's for SJW's
Strange. I'm fairly indifferent to the SJW crowd myself and found it quite funny that you didn't hear a peep through all the beheadings, incest, infanticide and castration but they lost their shit as soon as there was a rape. Not really seeing Dany as some feminist hero though, just a girl in a dark world who slowly grows (through a fairly decently explained character arc) into a woman of power. Not like there isn't real life examples of this throughout history either, some women are just built that way.

She's got a bit of the ***** in her now, no question but I'd think most wouldn't deny it and that it's to be expected given the world and her position in it.

Not trying to start shit, it just surprises me a little to hear some might view her in a feminist light. Then again I had it out with someone not long ago who said The Witcher 3 was feminist propaganda. Perspective is weird sometimes.
Do you browse Game of Thrones fansites such as Winter is coming by any chance? Or heck just google episode reactions and read the various media articles, you'll see there is a bit of a trend when it comes to Dany.
Thus that's how I've gotten my perception of Dany as I described.

And I'm fine with her being a ***** or evil or whatever (i tend to view people as shades of grey rather then put them in goodies and baddie camps), but when "everyone else" (figure of speech) seems to be portraying her as a saint and our lord and savior I kind of start to hate the character since from my point of view she is very much an evil person wanting to bring death and fire to the 7 kingdoms all out of a selfish desire to rule it simply because she has dragons capable of burning people alive who disagree with her. Freeing slaves and petting the dog moments doesn't make me forget her moments of outright cruelty and pettiness, she has killed "innocents" way too many times for me to get comfortable yet those moments seem brushed under the carpet in said articles I really should stop browsing. Well I have actually, stopped browsing Winter is Coming and looking up articles exactly because of this. Instead I talk GoT stuff on forums where we can agree to disagree but there is no "dominant" view and I can call BS on Dany being Snow White perfect in deeds and morality.
 

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Becca in Californication and Sally in Mad Men for the same reason: They're teenage girls.

Sally in later Seasons and Becca after the quirkiness wears off, I absolutely can't stand, they both have that teenage holier than thou attitude and it pisses me off, even more because I remember *being* like that.

I can halfway give them a pass because they grow well as characters and they both still have enough depth to avoid being cliche (which I would have hated even MORE) but every time they appear on screen I think "Oh boy, here comes the pissy indifference."