Right well there have been a lot of 'favourite character' and 'least favourite character' threads about the place and now I think is a great chance to ask a serious question. We all know that a great character has a decent personality with traits that are both likeable and dislikeable. A hero might be a noble warrior at heart but still has a savage and violent nature that plagues him, something like that. A character might even be all awesome and such but be very clearly going down the wrong track. Or the character in question might just be a tiny bit annoying who then just gets worse and worse as the movie progresses. Something like that.
Like for instance one example is Rorschach from Watchmen. He has firm ethics and is frankly very awesome in his monolouges but his extreme right wing attitude is one of the things I find distasteful about him... killing people is fine and so is being a sociopath just try to be more left wing about it.
Also once again Ashley Williams from Mass Effect, I was charmed by her wit and chemistry with Shepard combined with her emotional weakness. But she had clealry been raised by her racist family and was having trouble changing her values (even though it's clear throughout the game that she is trying).
Also the Arbiter in Halo for once being a frenetic server of the prophets... fortunatley he redeemed himself.
If you could make sense of that paragraph what I'm asking is that of all characters in movies, games, books, comics and any other form of storytelling, the ones with a real well rounded dimensional scope of characterisation with the good bits and the grimy bits... what are some dislikable qualities about characters that you did like?
Like for instance one example is Rorschach from Watchmen. He has firm ethics and is frankly very awesome in his monolouges but his extreme right wing attitude is one of the things I find distasteful about him... killing people is fine and so is being a sociopath just try to be more left wing about it.
Also once again Ashley Williams from Mass Effect, I was charmed by her wit and chemistry with Shepard combined with her emotional weakness. But she had clealry been raised by her racist family and was having trouble changing her values (even though it's clear throughout the game that she is trying).
Also the Arbiter in Halo for once being a frenetic server of the prophets... fortunatley he redeemed himself.
If you could make sense of that paragraph what I'm asking is that of all characters in movies, games, books, comics and any other form of storytelling, the ones with a real well rounded dimensional scope of characterisation with the good bits and the grimy bits... what are some dislikable qualities about characters that you did like?
