Holy cow, how could I have forgotten about Maggie?!?
I’m not sure whether the character is horribly written or whether Jennifer Carpenter is a horrible actress but wow is she awful.
One of the reasons I stopped watching Six Feet Under was the fact that I found Billy whiny and crazy and annoying and totally unbearable.
For anime, I can’t stand the trope of having a comic relief character whose sole shtick is bursting in, screaming loud, waving arms, screaming loud, and, ha ha isn’t this funny…screaming loud!
Planetes was unwatchable for me, and I hated the Ranma 1/2 episodes with the surfer dude.
The cutesy thing is wearing thin. She is 43 years old. Just a couple seasons ago they mentioned the character was in her late 20s. I would have done a spit take if I was drinking something.
I wouldn’t say ruined, exactly, but I am always tempted to skip over anything having to do with Grawp in the Harry Potter novels.
I’m the reverse: Rachel annoys the shit out of me! It’s combination of Ross dumping a compatible woman for Rachel, and Jennifer Anniston bitching about Brad “trading up”.
Yahweh, The Holy Bible.
If you want to discuss the Bible, start a thread in Great Debates.
Same here. I think I even started a thread about how much this character drove me crazy. (Found it. Similarly themed thread to this one.)
Then my wife bought me the DVD set for Christmas. I plowed my way through the Billy scenes to learn that Crazy Billy largely disappears for the rest of the show, except for a 3-4 episode arc where he gets it on with Claire and, yes, stops taking his meds.
Ramses Emerson in Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody Series.
He is annoying, pedantic, smug a know it all and he’s EIGHT years old! I bogged down forever after book 4 because of him. Thankfully he wasn’t as bad in Book five.
Bwhaaaa… Brandon deWilde. I found him almost as annoying in Hud but, admittedly, it was for traits that actually made him a perfect fit for the character. Had you mellowed on him by then? Just curious, would you own Hud? I’m not real crazy about him but in his short life he was right in the middle of two absolutely awesome flicks.
Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element. Yeah, he was supposed to be an annoying guy - he succeeded too well.
I love the movie now, but oh man, that character just ruined it for me the first time around.
I’ll nominate damned near every character in Lost. When I realized after the first season that I didn’t care if any of them lived or died - or frankly, was leaning toward a preference for “died” - I stopped watching.
Dora in David Copperfield. The book keeps referring to her as being “impractical.” I’m sorry, but Dora is mentally challenged and has the intellect of a 6-year-old. That’s not a character flaw, but she should not have been allowed to marry David. It becomes clear in the book (at least today it does; maybe it didn’t in 1850), but it angers me so much I really can’t read the book, and I’m a Dickens lover.
I second Lori from The Walking Dead and Maggie from Newsroom.
I’ll be your second.
Can’t stand Gambit in the X-Men; any Gambit, any X-Men.
Then again, last time I saw him he’d just discovered he was cooked from Summers stock, which I guess explains it: the whole family makes my hands itch, and not in a nice way.
It’s off the air now, and I wouldn’t say they ‘ruined’ it, but Lynette and Tom’s grown sons on Desperate Housewives irritated me. They sucked up valuable air time with their dumb sub-plots and they were just really plug-ugly doofuses, to boot.
No worries, I’ll recruit Skald, he’s always promised if I need it he’d send killer bees or some such.