I consider there to be a difference between hating a character because they are poorly written, and "hating" a character because you are supposed to.
For example I hate Kai Leng from Mass Effect because he has terrible dialogue, looked ridiculous and was incapable of fighting me in-game but had magical cutscene power.
On the other hand, I hate Heath Ledgers joker in the context of the story (with the whole murdering decent people thing), but think the character himself is fantastic.
Kidding, of course, but mind elaborating? I don't know anyone who even dislikes Mal, never mind hating him.
OT: Might agree with Yukari Takeba mentioned above, she's just really annoying in most situations be it for gameplay or story reasons.
Joffery from Game of Thrones is a real **** too.
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
And I'm sorry, but until there is definite and irrefutable evidence that this god person exists, they ARE a fictional character.
Haha, I think this answer is the most true. I was trying to come up with one myself, but now I think I'll just say I agree with you. God as he is portrayed in literature was an awful being. I suppose he thought we were just his toys since he created us.
OT: Also Galbatorix from the Inheritance Cycle comes to mind. I just did not enjoy this villain, he was barely in it and he was very uninteresting to me.
Also he was supposed to be this invincible god-like character and Eragon defeats him in the end with nothing but a creative spell that Galborix happened to not think of ever having to defend from. I have never really liked over powered characters in stories, this might be the reason I am not one for magic type characters.
Not saying I didn't like Inheritance, I just prefered the Ra'zac over the King. I certainly didn't HATE Galbatorix, he had some interesting parts near the end. I guess his mystery and evil presence is what was supposed to make him interesting. I look forward to Christopher Paolini's next book.
For me it's Cersei Lannister from A Song of Fire and Ice. God damn I have never wanted to reach into a book and strangle someone before. Also her son Joffrey, he is a horrible git and that's putting it mildly.
same, I loved how it was planned and carried out, that little git had it coming
VeryOddGamer said:
Padwolf said:
For me it's Cersei Lannister from A Song of Fire and Ice. God damn I have never wanted to reach into a book and strangle someone before. Also her son Joffrey, he is a horrible git and that's putting it mildly.
I knew I wasn't going to be the first one to say either of them. Well, I'll add to the ASoIaF cavalcade with Khal Drogo, a looting and pillaging bastard, that a lot of people apparently like for some reason that has eluded me.
Also, you might want to fix that typo, you've got Ice and Fire mixed up.
I also didn't quite like Khal Drogo, I didn't like the way that his people pillaged villages and raped women and then made them slaves. And thanks for pointing out the typo! ^_^ I shall fix that
Susan Mayer (from Desperate Housewives) since half of the time she is a blubbering idiot (not in a good way like a comic relief character) or just an emotional raging harpy! What's worse is that she never learn from her mistake that her emotional high output is NOT a solution to her problem!
How dare you! I love Susan during the last 2 season her story did get pretty bad, but she was still a great character. The most annoying is desperate housewives is probably Orson
Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of...-you know.
I know the whole point behind her is to be annoying, but that is really all there is to her. That whole fucking show is like the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Also a show where everyone pussy foots around this one annoying character, instead of ***** slapping her and telling her to shut the hell up.
Uhm....
How much of the series did you watch?
Because to me (and I would think anyone who has seen most of the series)....
***** slapping someone who is capable of re-writing the whole of reality seems like a *BAD*
idea. Especially given that she can re-write reality so that nobody/nothing *exists* anymore. Plus the fact that characters around her (Nagato in particular)were almost certainly working in subtle ways to keep anyone from doing so,
for obvious reasons.
I also hate River Song, of Doctor Who. Part of that's due to the problematic writing surrounding her and her backstory and part of it is because of her (also horrifically selfish) actions and reasoning in the sixth series finale.
Yes! I completely agree. I thought her character was somewhat intriguing in "The Library" episode during Tenant's tenure.. But the more exposition she gets, the more annoying she becomes.
And while we're at it...I really can't River Tam from "Firefly". The whole idiot savant/human weapon thing just didn't work for me. So strong was my dislike that it took me years to disassociate her from Summer Glau (the actress who played her who actually seems like a cool person).
Maybe I just a problem with characters named "River"...
As bad as Galby was Murtagh was worse. His entire character basicaly boils down to 'My Dad was mean to me and everyone likes my Brother better so I am going to smash up everyone I see'. Plus CP himself said that he changed his mind about the ending and what happened to some of the characters and originaly he was going to kill Murtagh as it was made clear in Eldest that while he was under Galbys control, he liked killing people because it made him feel big.
I also hate how everyone seems to be cool with letting him get away at the end. He killed so many people to save his own skin and he killed the Dwarf King because he wanted to not because he was told to.
And even more perplexing is that he is a fan favorite. The guy is a selfish, whineing, self pitying douche.
Aaron Sylvester said:
This idiotic tool of a character:
Let me know if anyone needs an explanation why -_-
So glad I am not the only one who hates her. But then every time I watched that show I just ended up missing the old characters due to the complete stupidity of every one of the new guys. Plus she and all the others seem to be really crap at bending compared to the original characters. The figh sceans seem smaller, slower and less impressive, but maybe it is just me.
Well for characters who we are supposed to hate in the context of the continuity they are in....
General Nakago from Fushigi Yugi.
I'm not sure if we were supposed to hate her or not, but....I was forced to watch Gone With the Wind
a couple of years ago, and I spent the entire second half of the movie looking at Scarlet O'Hara and
thinking "So Sherman burned all those towns and this slunt couldn't manage to die in a fire?".
So glad I am not the only one who hates her. But then every time I watched that show I just ended up missing the old characters due to the complete stupidity of every one of the new guys. Plus she and all the others seem to be really crap at bending compared to the original characters. The figh sceans seem smaller, slower and less impressive, but maybe it is just me.
Think of it as a hugely immersive open-world game with deep characters (original Avatar) getting turned into a fast-paced linear corridor shooter with shallow characters and an absolute twat of a protagonist who begs for every reason to be hated.
Oh and with a plot that got literally bum-fucked (no lubrication) in the last 15 minutes.
...sigh.
At least the villain was amazing and had lots of presence through the show.
Meg from Burst Angel: I generally find it very difficult to seriously dislike/hate a character. I pretty much always try to find at least something I like about them (I don't really understand all the hate for Yukari from P3 unless we're talking about the answer, she was kind of a ***** there.), but Meg, oh Meg.
She was completely and utterly useless, yet acted like she was the big-shit, and she got kidnapped pretty much every fucking arc, and then
*tries to get Jo to betray everyone else and run away with her because fuck everyone else I guess.
. I mean seriously, the youngest girl of the three is a tech wizard/demi-god, Jo the oldest is a fucking 1-man army, and Meg is... Recon I guess? And like was mentioned before, she can't even do that properly and has to get saved every fucking arc. There are limits to how selfish and stupid and self-important a person can be before you just want to cut all ties with them and dump them on the nearest deserted island.
Meg is probably the only character that I can say that I hate, but I still wouldn't say I quite hate her, but I do dislike her quite a fair bit.
Also, most generic gossipy girls in a slice-of-life anime who's main purpose seems to be to make some girls life a living hell and wants to drive her to suicide.
Also, Kirino from Oreimo for reasons already mentioned.
FUCK YOU AMY ROSE!
I think sonic team INTENTIONALLY made her annoying. But while Gearbox did it with Claptrap and he was endeering and hysterical, she is unbearable.
Claptrap? Endearing? Don't know about you, but I was certainly annoyed by him.
Most hated? Dante from DmC (the new one). It's not out yet, but he just flat out annoys the shit out of me. Chip from Sonic Unleashed was really bad. I hated Lily and Larry from The Walking Dead. Any one who isn't Waluigi in the Mario series (joking, but I do enjoy Waluigi). Xianghua from Soul Calibur II (and essentially the rest of them).
That's really all I've got right now. I want to add Raiden from MGS, but I don't really hate him, as much as I just like Snake better.
This ************ right here is one of the few who has made the list of fictional characters i wish to see die in the most violent and horrific manner imaginable. If you know who he is, you know exactly what he's done to earn that place on my list.
To those that don't? Well, let's just say Karma needs to get around to paying him a visit sometime soon and that he'll be the reason you won't think of the twilight novel or the phenomena when you hear the word "Eclipse" from now on.
Aaron Sylvester said:
Let me know if anyone needs an explanation why -_-
Given i never watched the new avatar series, and have heard some...mixed things about it, do you mind explaining a bit? If you have to use a spoiler tag that's fine but I'm a bit curious about just what the hell happened.
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