Fictional characters you dislike that others like.

[xitel]

Gordon Freeman. It's a stretch, given that he's not even an actual character, just a named shell, but I see more fanwangledangles about him than anyone I can think of, and it just annoys the shit out of me. "Hey look at Gordon Freeman, he's a nerd that saves the world!" No, you're told that he's a nerd. For all you know his degree is a fake and he's only doing menial labor.

 

[FitScotGaymer]

Tali'zorah nar Rayya vas Normandy.

In ME1 she was a kind of "meh" forgettable background character. She wasn't hugely important except for the beginning where she had to be rescued.
There is no real reason to take her onto the ship, or keep her.

I mean with Garrus, Wrex, and Liara all have several conversations and character development to go through. With Tali in ME1 you basically have one conversation with her on the ship and you unlock pretty much everything she has to say in one go.

I don't mean to sound so negative about her, I didn't dislike her in ME1.

Got to ME2 and when Shep stumbled across her on Freedoms Progress, and I was genuinely pleased to see her.
I was like "Awe ME1 Char! Shep found an old friend yay!"

Then I was promptly confused at Shep and Tali behaving like they were best buds right from the get go. I was kinda like "yeh they were pals in ME1, but I don't recall them being THAT close or having THAT much to talk about. and then shep was dead. when did they become such good buds?"

But that didn't bother me that much. I still liked her in ME2. Also in ME2 she and Shep do go thru things that MAKE them become much closer friends. So it works out in the end.

No it wasn't all that that made me dislike her.

It was when I discovered the Talimancers.

They frightened me off. Because of them, I actually don't like Tali anymore.

It's scary. Truely scary.

 

[Terminate421]

Gordon Freeman, really. He has NOTHING special

 

[Dango]

Wrex and Grunt from Mass Effect one and two. Wrex's only character trait in the original was "complete asshole", and Grunt's character and side mission were fucking agonizing. His whole character arc was just wanting to be a macho, murder-without-remorse prick so he can fit in with the rest of the Krogan. The whole thing is so irritatingly reminiscent of a teenage douchebag who acts like a complete dick so he can fit in with the cool kids in his high school.

 

[Zulnam]

Barney from How I Met Your Mother.
Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.
All the DC and Marvel "superheroes".

Not sure those are all, but that's definitely the top of the list.

 

[Valis7]

Rick (The walking dead) - Most people hated Dale but Rick is JUST as preachy and self righteous.
Mitsuru (Persona 3) - stereotypical mary sue
Starkiller (TFU) - He's a bland-overpowered product of fanboy wet dreams.
Sanji (One Piece) - He's sexist.

 

[Icehearted]

This idiot, with every bone in my natural body. I don't know at what point I was supposed to like her, but everything she was and did made me hate her a lot more than I probably should have. Given what Monkey eventually did I grew to hate him too.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Umm there are likely some characters I don't like all that much that others do. But I don't care if they do. All this kind of thread is is hipster ego jerking off. "Oh you don't like something that someone dose like, that clearly makes you better then them and more intelligent" All this ever turns into is I don't like X others are dumb for liking it. I would love to be proven wrong but I don't think I will be.

"makes you better than* them" -sorry it just hurts my brain whenever I read something like that that.

OT: I agree with everything you just said. Everyone has their own opinions, it doesn't matter if you disagree with them. These topics so often devolve into pointless debates.

I will say though, sometimes people do present new points of view that give a unique insight into a character. I consider these new insights valuable. It's just unfortunate that they are uncommon in topics like this one.

 

[Alcoholidayer]

All them ponies. Almost all the characters in the ME series. Master Chief. Drake.

 

[MortisLegio]

Mako; from the legend of Korra

This guy is a douche and yet somehow has 2 attractive woman after him, one being the Avatar the other a girl from an incredibly wealthy family. The entire finale I was waiting for both Korra and Asami to ditch him and go for lesbians.

Yes, This.

Mako is a total ass. He treats Korra like trash for the early parts of the season, and then after he is in a good relationship with Asami he then develops feelings for Korra and then justs leaves Asami for Korra after Asami's dad gets arrested. Mako is a terrible character who I want to punch in the face.

Others Include:
Tali'zorah nar Rayya vas Normandy (Mass Effect) - I don't really hate her but I find it interesting that so many people like her alot. Maybe it's the mystery of her face but I find her just ok.

Rarity (MLP:FiM) - For being the element of generosity she is kind of a greedy *****. Unless she ends up being very generous in Season 3 or ends up with Spike (yeah I think it could happen) she isn't really appealing to me.

Kratos (God of War) - All he does is kill stuff and have sex.

Captain Price (Modern Warfare) - In the first one he's ok but in two and three is is just plain nuts.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

Nearly every character played by Adam Sandler comes readily to mind.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

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.

She's got a cool outfit, a pretty good design and an amazing voice. Actually, yeah, i think it's mostly due to her voice actress.

But i'm gonna say Fluttershy. As a placeholder for that shy, innocent, submissive female archetype that i hate, hate, hate. Now, Fluttershy does at least have her moments of genuine personality other than "i'm cute and innocent, please don't hurt me" but there are worse examples. I mean, there's being shy and there's being a doormat and i don't find the latter likeable at all.

 

[chadachada123]

Rarity (MLP:FiM). A complete ***** that, despite being the element of generosity, is selfish and spoiled and encompasses basically every negative personality trait a woman could possibly have.

To bring it away from pony-related things, I don't understand what anyone could possibly see in Nathan Drake or the Uncharted franchise in general. The gameplay is shit, the characters are shit...it's all just...shit.

I'm drawing a huge blank, here, because I know there are tons of characters that I absolutely despise that other people adore...I suppose every single character in Nightmare Before Christmas would fit.

 

[Aetera]

I absolutely LOATHE Gwen from Torchwood. I hate her SO MUCH. She's completely inept and always lets her feelings override her reason. Just... so many reasons to hate her. She's basically a Mary Sue. She never faces consequences for her mistakes. I can't stand her. So of course...

Spoiler

...she's the only one other than Jack to survive the series. Ianto should have lived instead of her. Ianto was my favorite.

 

[the December King]

Kratos. I know too many people who think he's the coolest fucking thing this side of The Fonz.

Spongebob

also, this guy

I'll second Kratos. I just don't like my monsters to be human, I find it a waste of my time and interest. And I find that he is a monster.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

I've never really liked Ezio Auditore very much. I'll concede that he's a step-up from Altair, in that he at least has a personality, but there wasn't really enough depth to him to make him interesting enough to carry a trilogy of games, in my opinion. After the conclusion of AC2, I thought he lost a lot of the motivation he had initially. Not just motivation, actually: his entire character in the second game is defined by the opening hour or so, and when you move past that, he just becomes extremely thin. After the second game, they should just have taken a break, and made AC3 the 3rd entry in the series, both numerically and chronologically. That's assuming Connor can carry a game, of course.

 

[SilverBullets000]

Johny Test. I can understand a character being motivated by selfish desires and maybe brushing their guilt to one side so they can move foward, but everything Johny Test does is for selfish reasons and he shows little to no guilt for doing so. He doesn't think, he doesn't empathize, and he gives no thought to the possible consequences of his actions. He's only a selfish little fuckwad with an annoying voice who would put the entire world in a pernament ice age if only to have an extra day off of school.

Actually, I hate all the characters from that show for various reasons, but he's so bad that it infuriates me.

 

[Jynthor]

Liara fucking T'Soni. Was only plot relevant in the first game due to Benezia being Saren's right hand, does nothing for the rest of the series but be space waifu socially awkward nerd fantasy bait, either for them to shove their dick in with Sheploo or have steamy PG Lesbian sex with Femshep.

Seriously, what did she do that was plot relevant past ME1? Become the Shadow Broker? Whatever happened to that whole Scientist thing? And even that does little to pan out. Once she joins you again in ME3, anything regarding her being the Shadow Broker barely even registers.

I fucking hate her personality. It's just the same Wilting Flower routine to make socially awkward gamers go gaga over her, because there is somebody more inept than they are, and since she's virtual, they are playing a power fantasy.

I agree. She's really useless, clingy, and worst of all, omnipresent. It's like all the other characters can die, one way or another, except her... I know some people like her, but I can't quite fathom why.

On top of this I also couldn't stand her voice acting, I had to laugh several times whenever she started talking.

 

[johnnyLupine]

This may not be entirely relevant to the thread, since I don't know what other people think of the subject.

From what I can gather the only thing my brother watches is the disney channel. Recently I have noticed there is a new version of spiderman airing and I took an almost instant dislike to it.

I can't claim that its because the new one is not proper marvel or what have you since Ive never really actually read the comics and my experience of the cartoons is limited to the series as it was in the 90's and it was enjoyable. There are many things about that new show which I felt were wrong, despite not being a hardcore comic fan. This irritates me.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

If I've understood correctly, people like Daenarys Targaryen from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones quite a lot.
I don't, although I don't really know why. It might be because I

Spoiler

thought Viserys was a more effective threat and I might still be blaming her for his death

If it matters, I'm still reading the first part of A Storm of Swords (and from what I've heard, it does).
But generally, I don't really ever visit any other forums, so I can't really tell what characters are liked and who aren't.