Characters You Hate

[ProfessorLayton]

I recently watched the Green Mile (fantastic film) and one thing that stuck with me was the character of Percy. I don't know if you've seen the movie or not (which, if you haven't, you totally should), but Percy was the most disgustingly sick and twisted character I've ever seen and while I was watching it, I genuinely hated him. I'm sure the actor is a nice person in real life and he's got skill to make me hate him like that.

So, Escapists. Have you ever actually hated a character? Not just simply found them annoying or mean, but seriously hated them?

 

[jakko12345]

Can't think of a character from a film, but from a game, I'd have to say Hope from FF13. No other character has made me want to rip my face off in rage as his every single action and line of dialogue.

 

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Priscilla.
No real explanation necessary.

That's the only one the really sticks in my head from day to day, but I've done my fair share of hating throughout.

 

[Scarecrow]

Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends with You comes immediately to mind, as does the atrocious Sonic the Hedgehog, who should never have existed beyond the year 1999.

Why? Why do you hate Neku? He was a great character...

 

[RatRace123]

Naruto, NINJAS DO NOT WEAR ORANGE JUMPSUITS!!!
Yes, I have a hatred of him because of his fashion choices, believe it!

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Priscilla.
No real explanation necessary.

The Queen of the Desert?

Because if not then you're going to have to explain.

I'll just go with a cop-out answer: Any character from Spiderman 3.

 

[Togs]

pretty much every character from GTAIV, Rockstar seem incapable of creating characters who arent overblown grotesques, which mixes poorly in a game that strives so desperately for gritty realism.

 

[Somatsu]

All super villains with (if you'll permit me) bullshit powers. Those would be, say, Madara Uchiha from Naruto, Aizen from Bleach and such characters who have the seemingly endless powers and cannot be stopped until the protagonist does the same thing to beat them.

 

[NeutralDrow]

So, Escapists. Have you ever actually hated a character? Not just simply found them annoying or mean, but seriously hated them?

You do realize most people are going to interpret this as "characters I found annoying" anyway, right (I mean, come on, Hope)? We've diluted the word hate to that point.

But I know exactly what you're talking about, and my usual answer is Kyoka and Gaito from A Drug That Makes You Dream.

And when I say "hate," I mean I honestly found myself wanting to sink my teeth into their throats and drink their blood. For everything they stood for, and everything they did to Aeka on my watch, they needed to suffer.

Almost as badly as the nameless students who gang-rape Yuka near her route ending in Crescendo. I actually amused myself by writing an elaborate revenge fantasy about that; I'm not sure if people can long survive being stabbed in the vocal cords, but I'm pretty sure it's long enough to castrate them and suffocate them. The corpse desecration may be a bit over the top, though...unless you consider that they get away with the act, which made me even more furious.

Also, Zouken Matou of Fate/Stay Night. It takes someone special to make me hate them more than Shinji (who eventually came off as more pathetic than evil and hateful), but the things he did to Sakura and the thing he was striving for managed quite well.

 

[Canid117]

Carth...

My emotional response to Carth goes beyond mere hate...

 

[Somatsu]

For Neku, he does have a cool name though.

 

[Scarecrow]

Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends with You comes immediately to mind, as does the atrocious Sonic the Hedgehog, who should never have existed beyond the year 1999.

Why? Why do you hate Neku? He was a great character...

Neku is the worst video game character of all time. He whined, brooded, bitched, moaned, and began and ended every sentence with "......" for the first half of the game, then he does that cute little J-RPG one-eighty for no reason and is suddenly all about friendship for the second half. Pretty much every negative stereotype associated with J-RPGs applies to him and to The World Ends with You in general. What a fucking terrible game. Square should be ashamed of themselves for that more than Final Fantasy XIV, and that's saying something.

I....guess that's a good anought answer. Not that I agree.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

pretty much every character from GTAIV, Rockstar seem incapable of creating characters who arent overblown grotesques, which mixes poorly in a game that strives so desperately for gritty realism.

And who would those be?

Apart from Jacob or Brucie, I can't really imagine who you could be talking about.

OT: Thanks for bringing up the game, by the way, Francis McReary, from GTA IV.

Fucker.

Also, the Brothers from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I recently watched the Green Mile (fantastic film) and one thing that stuck with me was the character of Percy. I don't know if you've seen the movie or not (which, if you haven't, you totally should), but Percy was the most disgustingly sick and twisted character I've ever seen and while I was watching it, I genuinely hated him. I'm sure the actor is a nice person in real life and he's got skill to make me hate him like that.

Ah, but with Percy, don't you think that what happened to him, made up for the terrible and sadistic things that he did during his time on the Mile?
EDIT: Or rather, seeing what happened to him in the end, gave a sense of satisfaction that no horrible deed goes unpunished?

OT: I've had a few but my most recent ones would be the idiot parents in The Children or Emily from Case 39. In a way, I think they were designed to be hated, or it might just be me.

 

[DanielBrown]

Whenever I see a person with a face that resembles a pig I get an inside urge to totally smash that person up. I don't know what it's all about, but I really get filled with rage and have to restrain myself.

Anyways, there's an actor that has those facial... qualities.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000498/

Recently saw him in "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale", and fitfully he was supposed to be a hated character.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I recently watched the Green Mile (fantastic film) and one thing that stuck with me was the character of Percy. I don't know if you've seen the movie or not (which, if you haven't, you totally should), but Percy was the most disgustingly sick and twisted character I've ever seen and while I was watching it, I genuinely hated him. I'm sure the actor is a nice person in real life and he's got skill to make me hate him like that.

Ah, but with Percy, don't you think that what happened to him, made up for the terrible and sadistic things that he did during his time on the Mile?

It only works if their comeuppance is disproportionate. Simple karmic retribution doesn't change the fact that we hate the character, it just leaves us satisfied.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

It only works if their comeuppance is disproportionate. Simple karmic retribution doesn't change the fact that we hate the character, it just leaves us satisfied.

That was more along the lines of what I meant really, I just worded it wrong... what he did was in no doubt, horrible, but there was a feeling of satisfaction when he got what was coming to him... I was wondering if he thought the satisfaction of what happened to him made the story even better. I guess I'll edit. Sorry.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

I hate the protagonist's of virtually every videogame, manga, anime, or movie ever made. If the protagonist is some scrawny kid who gets put in a fight against some immortal or powerful enemy who has killed or defeated countless people before, the kid will somehow always beat them with sheer willpower or some BS like that. Or any sort of comic/manga/anime style series will have the Heroes win like 90% of the time, yet they still act as if they are at a disadvantage or that the bad guys are to be taken seriously.

A good example is "History's strongest disciple: Kenichi", there has been maybe 3-5 fights out of like 80 that the main character has lost, and his 'Masters' act like the bad guys are super powerful and dangerous even though they beat the bad guys single handed without ever breaking a sweat. I'm still wondering why they don't just flat out murder the bad guys from the start and then go home and have a sandwich or something instead of having a entire issue where they sit around and discuss why the villains are too dangerous to fight head on.

(I used a Manga as a example since they tend to be the worst offenders alongside Anime and Videogames)