Protagonists you hate

[Dfskelleton]

Jack Kelso from L.A. Noire. When you have a game full of gray and black morality, the last thing we need is a protagonist that is so...damn...perfect!

Ugh, Thank You! I was trying to remember who it was that I hated so much, and THAT'S who I was thinking of. Personally, I liked Cole. At first I thought he just lacked personality, but then I figured out that he was just terrible at displaying emotions and relating to people, like when he informs a woman that her husband has been murdered, only to begin yelling at her and accusing her of murdering him. They spent the entire game setting up his story and helping us build an affinity for him, only to throw him out in the LAST 2 CHAPTERS OF THE GAME in favor of some goody-two-shoes guy who had only been mentioned in flashbacks up unto that point. Then he picks up a flamthrower and fights a bunch of sewer dwelling thugs... yeah.
I still hope that there's a sequel. A franchise like L.A. Noire has a LOT of potential.
Also:

I hate you Godzooky.I hate you so much.

 

[BNguyen]

There are two that I can think of at the moment-

Micah from Fire Emblem Radience Dawn. I hated her view on Ike from the previous Fire Emblem game, acting as if her nation are the victims. Ok the civialian are but not their army since they're the one who invaded the other nation in the first place! Not once did I saw her admitting her nation fault considering they are racist toward those animal hybrid people.

Zael from The Last Story. He was so bland and uncompelling for an hero of a RPG game. He alot worse at the whole romance stuff aswell.

to be fair, Micah's country was suffering from droughts, starvation, all sorts of problems and obtaining resources was the only means to survive. the king from the first game used this as an opportunity to invade another country by motivating his people (at least the more zealous ones) into going after a relatively weak but prosperous nation, in this case Ike's home. The vast majority of the king's army were forced to fight and when Ike and the army came marching in, they pretty much trampled all of Micah's country and made it much worse than when it started. And I'm sorry but she did start hating on her military adviser who wanted to use the beast people as cannon fodder, so yeah, she is against racism but people like her, human/beast people hybrids are hated even worse than that.
Besides, maybe she doesn't know all of the details of the king's invasion which is why she supports the army or at least supports the liberation forces from the kingdom which took over

 

[Artemis923]

40k: Kaldor fucking Draigo. Mary Sue^10,000,000 with this one. Wait he did what? Okay I guess that could feasibly happe- Wait what's this about Mortarion? Yeah, no. He can't do that by himself unless he's the warp-dammed Emperor and even then, that's no cake-walk. WAAAAAAAAAARDDD!!!! For those who don't know, Kaldor Draigo carved the name of his master into the heart of the mother of all Badguys' heart which also happens to be surrounded by what amounts to hyper-infectious super space AIDS. Draigo did not become infected despite literally being inside corruption and disease itself. This is after he kills/defeats 7 Greater Daemons of More disease and nastiness (if Mortarion keeps similar company to Angron that is, which seems likely). And he destroys literally impossible architecture despite it being, well, impossible to understand. So... much... Derp.

Grey Knights can scrub my dick, I hate them so much.

Captcha: moon cheese. A good Space Marine description, that.

On topic...

The Starks from A Song of Ice and Fire. Everyone just nuts all over themselves because Starks are the "good guys" and "honorable" and bluh bluh...

Fuck that. They're BORING. Not only are the Lannisters a better House, their bannerman and sowrn swords are all awesome.

...That's a losing battle though. I went to a book signing once in my Lannister shirt...the only one out of a crowd of 500. Even ol' George commented on it, bless his heart.

 

[BNguyen]

honestly, it's hard for me to hate protagonists since I mentally try to project myself into their shoes and see myself doing pretty much everything they do, so yeah, I can't understand the hate on Shinji since I'm willing to bet that if anybody was suddenly taken from a peaceful life, given a weapon and told to kill, not some long range weapon like a gun where you can't see the death but a full close-combat weapon of mass destruction, would affect them in negative ways no matter how desensitized you think you are. Killing in a game or watching it happen in movies does not take away the effects it has on you if you have to be the one to shove a knife into someone's throat.
Honestly, I don't see why everyone labels a character who has emotional issues as emo - emo has to do with having suicidal thoughts or at the very least having totally negative views on life and existence, so an emotionally disturbed character or person is not always emo.


But as for the OP, I would have to go with the girls in Hostel 2,
especially the first one since she's pretty much the type that would fall for any cheap romance line and disregard any sound advice from her friends, go off with a total stranger she met 20 seconds ago to a secluded place and then get kidnapped and tortured to death.
EDIT: Lorna was her name

 

[TheLizardKing]

Fiona from Burn Notice.
Whenever she says something i want to smash her teeth in. "Hey Michael lets go in there guns blazing instead of being stealthy because thats more fun even though its means we'ill blow our cover oh well"

 

[Vault101]

Okay, for me I hate Kratos because he goes out of his way for revenge and I hate bad/evil people. I also hate renegade Shepard from the ME series, I mean I just hate his asshole attitude with a passion.

And all other evil protagonists out there, I just fully hate them to the extend where I do not want to play the game. (For some reason I feel like that the Saints Row series is about one man rebelling against evil governments.)

agree (though I do find it hard to justify the actions of my saints row charachter alot of the time)

I hate renegade shepard...and I actually hate the fact that some (and do) play him/her that way (nott hat I would stop them or take away that option)...NOTHING turns out better with renegade

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Korra and Mako in new Avatar series.

Huh, is the not so good looking but funny guy going to get the girl? Nope, pretty boy with no character is it. I actually found it hard to tell Mako from another firebending character (General Iroh) who was introduced in the second to last episode. Both are moody benders with no substantial character. The "romance" element seemed tacked on and contrived but had to be included since the first Avatar series had it.



Usopp from One Piece

Completely irrelevant to the crew or anything else. Only develops character in the Water Seven arc and promptly goes back to his annoying self once the story arc is over. I pray the only reason he is still in the series is so that he can provide a touching death scene later on.

 

[revjor]

Donnie Darko = Twatface biggity *****.

 

[Khanht Cope]

Dante - Devil May Cry 3.

 

[revjor]

I don't know if he counts, but I'd go with the Punisher. The hardcore vigilante street-justice that Punisher is all about NEVER struck a chord with me. He's just so... self-righteous.

I've always found that to be one of the best parts. His righteousness just illustrates how batshit insane the dude is.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I also agree that I was rooting for the humans to win in avatar.

WHAT? The humans in that movie couldn't have been any more cartoonishly evil if they all had Snidley Whiplash mustaches, wore top hats, and tied all the Na'vi to railroad tracks.

I just didn't like the Na'vi, they seemed so silly and I couldn't take them seriously. Plus I alway's hate that whole theme of military equipment like gunships and mechs being beaten by animals and arrows just because JUSTICE!!!

I was rooting for the humans in that. "Show those stupid blue people how useful technology is!"

Also a human supremesist

That may be, but the humans weren't any better. Like I said, the corporate guys were cartoonishly evil and the military guys were cartoonishly stupid. "Herp derp, let's go shoot missiles at a tree."

OT: As for protagonists I've disliked, one that comes to mind is the protagonist from Gantz (can't remember his name, sorry). Stopped watching the show about 5 or 6 episodes in because I couldn't stand the stupid little horn-ball fuck-head.

 

[spartan231490]

That boy from Evangelion... I couldn't finish watching because of him.
He's so annoying that makes me want to kill innocent bystanders...

^This.
Only more so. I was in an anime club and I had to leave cuz the first anime was Evangelion and I couldn't stand (Shinji, I that his name) to the point that I had to leave before the first ep was even over. Lost all my nerd cred too, which where i was is actually a bad thing.

Let's see, there've been a few over the years, but I tend to forget them because I can't watch, read, or play something if I hate the protagonist.
Yu-Gi-Oh, Joey was just so stupid I wanted to set him on fire. I always liked Kaiba better, not afraid to get his hands dirty to get what he wants. There was a Christopher Crutcher book as well, I like most of his stuff but either Whale Talk or Spartan, I just couldn't stand the main character. Never made it past chapter one.
That meister with the purple hair from Gundam 00 and believe it or not, I can't stand Suzaku from Code Geass. Love the anime, and his character is awesome, but he's painfully naive, and a bit of a coward.

But Shinji still wins the cake. God i hate him so much.

And thank you to the poster above me for reminding me how much I hated that squeem from Ganzt. Really fun show but I had to quit after the first ep cuz I was gonna bash my screen in to shut him up.

 

[Smithburg]

Kratos from God of War. The guy is such a massive asshole.
Also Tony Montana. So happy he died.

 

[Syndarr]

Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher. There's just nothing likeable about him. None of the characterization that ends up getting shoved onto him via player choices is believable. The "romance" subplot is especially jarring, because he says all these lovey-dovey things to his chosen woman, and I don't buy a single word of it. There's nothing about him that suggests he's the kind of character who'd say these sorts of things, and his gravelly monotone doesn't help that one bit. Plus he has a weird-shaped head.

Jack Russell from Radiata Stories. What an annoying, shrieky little brat. He is part of the reason why I stopped playing that game. That and the gameplay just bored me. I'm told it gets better, so I suppose I'll pick it up again...eventually.

Karin Koenig from Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Not quite a protagonist, but she's the female lead, so I say she counts for the purposes of this post. She's supposed to be an officer in the military, for crying out loud, so why is she such a whiny, needy, clingy bimbo good for nothing but dressing up in slutty costumes for absolutely no reason? And on top of that, she tries to replace Alice as Yuri's love interest! NO. GTFO.

Squall Leonhart from FFVIII. I don't like Cloud, but Cloud at least had a good reason for being whiny and emo; the only thing Squall has going for him is teen angst. He sort of redeems himself near the end, but meh. Oh, and I hate Quistis too, for much the same reason I hate Karin, though not quite as intensely. She's insecure and clingy and boring.

I actually like Tidus, and I don't have a problem with Nowe, though I can totally understand the hate he gets. Caim is a billion times better. :3

 

[Erttheking]

Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly strikes me as a bi-polar, short tempered, self centered jackass who hated all forms of government and social order, for poorly justified reasons, mainly that the Alliance is EVILLLLLLL! I like the rest of the crew though. Even Jayne. At least he doesn't pretend he's not an asshole.

 

[Reyold]

Honestly, I've yet to play a game whose protagonist I hated; I either like them or I'm "meh" towards them.

The closest thing to hating a protagonist was when I was playing one of my favorite games, Tales of the Abyss. Luke fon Fabre starts out as a brat and a jerk, and I didn't care too much for that. I started liking him more when his personality does a 180 later in the game, but even then he wasn't quite as interesting as the other characters. He's fun to to play as, though, so there's that.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I watched Avatar recently and the Na'vi just pissed me off. They acted like they were better than the humans and didn't even listen to the humans terms. I have a few others, but that is the biggest one. What protagonists that you are supposed to side with did you hate?(and by extension prefer the antagonist)

Now, It was a while since I saw that movie. But i distinctly remember humans coming to the Na'Vi and just wrecking their shit up because humanity is greedy as fuck, because we are.

Yeah that whole lets just firebomb them and take it thing certainly doesn't do them credit but then again for the entire first part of the movie I just kept thinking, why wont they take the deal and just give them the metal.

 

[Infernai]

Wow, nobody said Dante yet?
Well, Dante.
He's a smug prick. Everything he says is just smarm.

Protagonists who just swan around being smug and acting like they're fucking perfect piss me right off. Especially in games.

I honestly don't get why Dante has so much damned Venom thrown at him around here.
Ok, naturally everyone's got different tastes on stuff and i understand you don't like him (And there is nothing wrong with that) but the way everyone goes on about him you'd think he was as bad as freaking Vaan.

Dante's not all that well developed in some parts, yet he still has a backstory and has gone through some measure of development as a character but that's not why i like him. I like him because he's one of the only protagonists i've seen who'll not only willingly throw himself into a life and death situation without a fuss, but he'll go into it with a smile and ready to crack a joke. In other words, he's a fun character and as such he's just damned fun to play as (Not all protagonists need to be mopey and serious all the time guys). He's a bit of a subversion to the usual "I'M NOT FULLY HUMAN! WAAAH! PITY ME!" Protagonists we usually get saddled with as he's fully acknowledged what he is but doesn't let it rule him. He just goes with the flow, and has decided to just try and get as much fun out of the stuff life throws his way. He will admittedly get serious if things become personal for him, but again he isn't ruled by his past or what he is: He acknowledges his lifes been less then stellar(And if you actually go reading up on him and Vergils history..it's been pretty shitty for them both even if Dante got the slightly better deal compared to his brother), but he knows sitting around sulking about it isn't going to help anyone least of all himself.
And let's be honest, he's a half demon of excellent lineage and power: If anyone wasn't confident after having that kind of power and doubting themselves then i would be raising some eyebrows.

I honestly just view Dante like I do Deadpool: A fun little character who shouldn't be taken the least bit seriously and who's just there for some damned fun. Go in to Devil May Cry ready to just have a fun little battle romp then you'll have a blast. If you go in trying to judge him like a serious protagonist, then you're naturally going to be disappointed incredibly disappointed as he just doesn't work as a serious character (Eg. Devil May Cry 2, and i guess we can throw Ninja Theories adaption in too from what I've seen).
That said, you don't have to like him and i understand he isn't everyones cup of tea but..i honestly wouldn't have him any other way and i just don't get why everyone hates him so damned much (I've read enough escapist posts to get that people seem to hate his guts for some reason). I love him how he is and i honestly wouldn't have him any other way.

 

[Ledan]

Nathan Drake because he was killing for treasure. Sure, the other guys weren't willing to talk it out, but.... idk.

Romcom characters, they usually cause drama for no reason or break up with people because of stupid reasons.