Fictional characters you dislike that others like.

[KingHodor]

Jigsaw from the "Saw" movies.

So grieving people, addicts or self-harmers don't deserve life because they don't appreciate it, therefore you're going to force them to mutilate themselves? Anyone who survives Jigsaw's game isn't going to be "cured", they're going to hate life even more because they're freaking traumatized.

Although that may be less of a problem I have with the character as a villain per se than the people who think that there actually is something to his "philosophy".

 

[Evil Smurf]

Garfield.

I hope you're aware of Garfield Minus Garfield [http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/], a shocking look into the inner turmoil of Jon Arbuckle.

For my own pick, Starbuck from BSG. I'm not sure if people actually like her, but anyway, her uncanny ability to act like a horrible person and then take it incredibly personally when they get upset is incredibly endearing, but I especially like how she makes many issues about herself despite the fact that everyone is miserable, you know, because there's a robot fleet trying to eliminate the human race. Nothing compared to lame drama with Apollo.

this one reminds me of tf2
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I can't stand people in teen orientated shows that cheat on their partners/do drugs/get drunk in school and then complain that their life is going to shit. Don't ask for me sympathy after you have made yourself an idiot in my eyes. Looking at you people from Skins

 

[Legion]

I find it funny how many people on this forum talk about "I don't understand why so many people love Gordon Freeman, when he is a silent protagonist with no personality", when during my entire time online I have never actually once come across anybody who has so much as suggested that he is a good character.

I see a lot of love for Half Life, but I have never seen it for Gordon Freeman specifically.

 

[FitScotGaymer]

I just wanted to say about Jack from Mass Effect, I actually did like her as a character.

One thing annoyed me about her though, and that was the whole marketing thing where BiowarE billed her as "The Psychopath". And I am like "Yeh who's bright idea was that?"

Because seriously she is NOT a psychopath in any way shape or form.

Whoever decided that has absolutely no idea what a psychopath is.

Even in game she is portrayed as "the psycho" by the writers (so it was clearly one of the writers who first said "yeh she is a psychopath") or rather you get the definate feeling that the writers want you to think she is a psychopath.
Thing is as I said she isn't a psycho.

There is a big difference between being a psychopath, and being a bit effed up and a bit nuts. She is clearly and obviously the latter.

A psychopath is a person who genuinely is mentally incapable of any sort of empathetic feeling. All they know is their own petty feelings and desires, and THAT is all they care about. They generally aren't "nuts" or unstable.
Nor are they always malicious, although sometimes they are.

She is a sociopath, and perhaps a little unstable as well.

 

[The_Fezz]

Ezio Auditore, he's a character that started out with a great deal of promise; that we'd see the character become molded slowly into a merciless assassin.

But we don't see this, instead he switches to assassin mode almost as soon as he dons the outfit and only becomes less interesting in Brotherhood and Revelations.

 

[theSteamSupported]

I agree with those who mentioned Batman.

Especially do I hate it when people say that a character now sucks, because he/she "isn't Batman any more".

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Also, Sasuke Uchiha, do I really have to explain why I hate him?

People like him??? That's news to me.

sephiroth Hes a cookie cutter bad guy with mommy issues. FF7 was the most over rated game ever made.

Gotta go with this too. Hate Sephiroth, or as I like to call him Sephiroth Bates, and not even in that love to hate kinda way; I just hate him. I mean the guy was a douche, and not a particularly impressive douche either.

EDIT: Also pretty much all the main characters in most horror movies that follow the formula of college students on road/camping trip, run into serial killer and die a lot. Because they're pretty much always drug addled sex fiends that I'd just as soon have the serial killer kill off before they can spawn more of their kind.

 

[KingHodor]

King Leonidas.
Claims to fight for "democracy", but only a very small minority of his people actually counted as "citizens" - the Helots, which formed the majority of the population, were basically slaves, to the point where randomly killing one of them was supposedly considered a rite of passage for young Spartiates.
It baffles me that "small government"-conservatives worship this guy as one of their idols, when life in Sparta involved a whole lot of government influence - even if you were among the "lucky" few Spartiates (male Spartan citizens), you'd constantly be called upon to fight in various wars (often wars of aggression). Oh, and let's not forget the fourth-trimester abortions.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I can explain mine with a video.


Also: Darth Vader after his transformation. It doesn't so much bother me that he's a one-dimensional supervillian with no real motivation for being as evil as he is, it's that his fans keep trying to insist that this is a far better characterization than the more relatable, realistic supervillian he becomes once Revenge of the Sith fills in all the blanks.

While I do agree with you for the most part, I did find it a tad unbelievable that once Anakin submitted to Palpatine and became Darth Vader he suddenly became a Saturday morning cartoon villain, but that that lends it's self to a larger problem I've always had with Star Wars.

 

[Harker067]

See I'm not actually sure that anyone is playing god of war, half life, or Halo because they can't get enough of the main character....

 

[gigastrike]

Trixie from MLP:FIM

I don't get why so many bronies like her?
They say she's just "misunderstood" and "over looked".
Well all I see is an attention seeker who likes to make other ponies miserable and make herself feel superior.

Exactly this. She doesn't have a single redeeming quality, but for some reason people always defend her. My best guess is they just want to like her because she has a great color scheme.

I swear, I'm gonna be pissed if she gets an episode in season 3. I'll watch it, but it's gonna have to be done pretty darn well for me to not hate it simply because of her fans.

 

[Breywood]

Ok then, I must be the only one. Or perhaps the mists of time are slowly obscuring the fanbase.

Drizzt Do'Urden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzt_Do%27Urden]

"Oh wow! A SENSITIVE and GOOD ALIGNED Drow elf [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29]!! Who should be evil! And can kill opponents outright! What an original idea!"

He was passe long before he was ever written, and the fanboys had me pushed to "vomit" before I ever read "The Crystal Shard. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Shard#The_Crystal_Shard]" He was a stuffed shirt. A colorful one, but still pretty full of straw, although his fans certainly believed otherwise.

EDIT: Linkage for the unfamiliar terms

 

[Misterian]

Hey OP, you thought a brony disliking Discord was going to get "boos"?

I can explain mine with a video.


Also: Darth Vader after his transformation. It doesn't so much bother me that he's a one-dimensional supervillian with no real motivation for being as evil as he is, it's that his fans keep trying to insist that this is a far better characterization than the more relatable, realistic supervillian he becomes once Revenge of the Sith fills in all the blanks.

I hope you take no offense what I say that I think I'll pretend I didn't see that video.

Trixie from MLP:FIM

I don't get why so many bronies like her?
They say she's just "misunderstood" and "over looked".
Well all I see is an attention seeker who likes to make other ponies miserable and make herself feel superior.

Exactly this. She doesn't have a single redeeming quality, but for some reason people always defend her. My best guess is they just want to like her because she has a great color scheme.

I swear, I'm gonna be pissed if she gets an episode in season 3. I'll watch it, but it's gonna have to be done pretty darn well for me to not hate it simply because of her fans.

I think a good chuck of Bronies find her appealing in the sense that she's this over-the-top traveling performer that pretended to be this invincible sorceress.

I personally wasn't really bothered by her, though for what it's worth, there are a few good fanfics (yes, you heard those words right) that do address the way she acts and try to give her interesting back-stories to why she is the way she is.

I think 'Getting Back On Your Hooves' is the most successful, it gave Trixie a background that I think fits almost seemlessly in explaining why she had her canon personality yet does well to make you still feel sorry for her.

but back on topic, I will say I do find Skyrim's Thieves Guild a little iffy, you could argue they're just somewhat bitter about how they're facing difficult times, but I was kinda disappointed with how mean-spirited and gruff they were compared to how they were in Oblivion.

 

[Zombiefish]

Serana from skyrim. I have never hated a character more. Mostly because of the fact you are forced to help in in order to play the DLC, and she is unkillable.

Heh, Lydia is mine. She is so annoying (I am *sigh* sworn to carry out your duties or whatever she always says). That and she creepily sits at the edge of my bed.. Watching me. It's hard enough to sleep with dragons, the thalmor and vampires out to get me.

Yeah she annoys me too, just not as bad as you can kill her off lol.
Serana you are stuck with, essential and necessary for half the dawnguard quests >__>

 

[Magicman10893]

Not only was her reaction to her backstory weak (I saw the "twist" coming as soon as I went into the facility and saw the first hologram) and frustrating that I couldn't talk some sense into her and explain what really happened there, but the fact that her whole story arc can't be completed unless you are both a man and happen to romance her just pisses me off.

twist?..waht twist?....and what do you mean by "explain what really happened there"?

The purpose of that facility was to make a super powerful biotic soldier. Subject Zero (Jack) was the shining result of the project. Every method used to make her more powerful was first tested on the other kids at the facility in the event that the method failed and/or killed the subject. Jack gets all the "successful" methods of torture, but doesn't get the most intense ones that didn't work or were too lethal. Despite seeing this and being flat out told this she doesn't listen and still maintains that she got the worst of it despite the fact that so many more kids were killed or horribly crippled/disfigured trying to find the "perfect" formula.

This has to be one of the most frequent complaints that is flat out wrong.

Whether or not Jack recovers and starts getting her life back together in ME2 is more dependent on whether or not you do her loyalty mission, romancing her simply lets you see more of the emotional turmoil it kicks up in her since you cannot romance her until you have done it.

And helping her get better has nothing to do with sex. If you "just" have sex with her she loses respect for you, and locks you out.

In ME3, she gets her life together to the point that she is a teacher in an alliance facility teaching biotic prodigies whether or not you romance her. And even if you do romance her, she still won't join you because she has to take care of "her" kids.

I am glad they included her in ME3 in that capacity, but in ME2 it felt like the only resolution with her character comes with romancing her. For anyone who doesn't she gets into an endless loop of "Come back later" like the whole "I got some calibrations to do." Everyone else had some resolution after their loyalty mission. Jack just sits there unless you enter the romance with her and that just isn't fair to female characters or males that just don't want to.

 

[Uhura]

Glory from the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer... and Darla... and Drusilla. I guess I just can't stand over the top characters like those three. In comparison, I don't really dislike any of the most commonly hated characters (Dawn, Riley, Adam and Kennedy).

 

[talker]

Harry Potter. for one thing it all seems rather staged to me and for another thing JK Rowling stole lots of material off Tolkien (in my opinion), so I'm kind of automatically disliking her and anything she writes

 

[Terminate421]

the one kid who just won't shut the fuck up (most people I know cared for him somehow but I enslaved him even on my good guy playthrough):

Brian Wilkes,I don't care about you nor do I care about what happened to you, I care that you are an annoying little ***** who deserves to die for saying "Funny looking TV thing"

Also, a die hard reference earns you no points when you say it EVERY TIME I'm near you.

Also Gordon Freeman, everyone seems to say, "Master Chief is a boring generic Character, this is why I like Gordon Freeman, he is a total badass!"

Problems with him:

A. He is not a badass
B. He has no personality what so ever, not even in his actions and yet here we are claiming he's a better character than Master Chief who at least has a personality and a damned good one.

 

[Wereduck]

Rose Tyler in Series 2 of Doctor Who. She is clingy, possessive, and immature. She also VASTLY overestimates her own importance in the overall scheme of things and never ever gets brought down a level. Not to be confused with Rose Tyler of Series 1, who is a much more relatable character who exhibits actual character growth and gets called out on her mistakes every single time she made one. I seriously have no idea why RTD thought reducing her to the status of Designated Love Interest and Nothing Else was a good idea.

Spoiler

The absolute height of her immaturity comes in Series 4, when the Daleks invade and she's eavesdropping on a conference call of former companions. What is she thinking about? Not that everyone she ever knew is about to die horribly, but that she "was here first" and therefore is more entitled to be in on this conversation than the four people who are more useful, powerful and informed than she is. Seriously, gain some goddamn perspective.

Bleeehhg, Rose...I mean seriously, that whole 'epic romance' thing left SUCH a bad taste in my mouth.

And then everyone started hating on smart, competent Martha for NOT BEING ROSE. >.>

People are hating on Martha Jones? I need names! My wereduck minions & I will come to their homes & eat every piece of bread that isn't nailed down.
Seriously, Martha >>> Rose.

OT: "The Bride" from Kill Bill and Duncan Idaho. Idaho's just a Marty Stu but The Bride is just a flat-out ***** & everything that happened to her she brought on herself.