Peggy is funny because you are supposed to hate her for her high opinion of herself
Dweia, who I always thought was badly written. (Apparently they were all badly written but Dweia was the one that I actually noticed. And by noticed, I mean was really surprised and confused about her reaction to being magically lifted off the bed being psychically coldcocking Althalus.)
…What?
Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. I could probably watch the show if not for him.
When he was first learning how to use the book, he lifted her into the air and she whanged him hard in what I can only assume was a display of dominance.
So maybe it wasn’t quite coldcocking but it was uncalled for.
Everyone in the film Crash except the locksmith and the woman who bought the blanks for her father’s gun. Unsympathetic jerks, all of them.
Not to mention Young Ani.
Gotta go with the Ruby Rhod haters. The Fifth Element was an interesting, visually appealing sci-fi flick until he arrived on the scene. From then on it was over-the-top, screechy camp that I found damned near unwatchable.
Tinkerballa comes pretty close to ruining The Guild for me. Her dialog is hilarious, but I think my associating with a person like that for any amount of time will end up in a gruesome axe murder.
In “Good Omens” I absolutely hated the anti-christ. If I didn’t know that his character was of the utmost importance I would have skipped every section that he was in. I found him annoying as all hell (HA!).
Emm, I would have said totally called for… I’d have reacted the same or worse to being sudden levitated with warning or a by your leave.
Navi, from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
“Hey! Listen!”
<smack>
Funny how people are different, IMHO there is no show without Sheldon.
JarJar, not just actual JarJar, but the badly overdone comic relief character wherever it appears.
Dawn, Buffy.
“Get out, Get Out, GET OUT!”
One thing I loved about the show is that just about every character has both times when you root for them, and arcs when they are unbearable dicks. Just when Brenda starts being normal, Nate goes off the deep end. They really captured the amazing/unbearable paradox excellently.
I never liked Lucky (Luann’s boyfriend/husband in later seasons). This is despite the fact that he was voiced by Tom Petty, who is perhaps my second favorite singer (behind only Ke$ha).
Agreed. He added nothing to the show, but the stumping episode was watchable.
I read Eddings’ first 10 volumes, and then the series that came after that. I concluded that he had certain themes that he liked, and I didn’t like those themes. What was interesting in the first five books became boring in the second five books, and then grating in the next series.
I also do not want to read about a rapist protagonist. In general, I don’t find criminals to be sympathetic characters, but rapists are particularly nasty. I think that Pratchett’s Thieves Guild characters are funny, but it’s how Pratchett treats them that makes them interesting. Not only was Covenant a thoroughly unsympathetic character, but whatshisface was a bad writer. I believe that this was the guy who wrote about how horses reared to a character to show their submission. Horses don’t rear to show submission, they rear as a threat.
People get levitated all the time in fantasy novels without their express permission. It’s not like it should have been a surprise to her. The first time should be a verbal warning and then if Althalus did it a second time, a physical smackdown would be more appropriate. As it is, it comes off as muscle-flexing for the sake of muscle-flexing, which, frankly, is a pointless exercise for a deity to be doing, anyway.
Oddly, he grew on me, which is not something I expect from a Chris Tucker character. When I saw it at the theater, it was one of the few movies in about the last 20 years that I knew very little about. The whole tone of the movie threw me, then when I realized that Ruby Rhod was going to be in the entire last part of the movie, well, it upset me. Now that I’ve seen it like 10 or 12 times, I enjoy the movie for what it is - very odd, very funny, cool FX, and lots of barely-dressed Mila Jovovitch.
Perhaps you could, but as 80% or more of the jokes would have been removed, it would be fairly pointless. Sheldon’s annoyingness, in large part, is the show.
ETA: I see I was beaten to it by Icerigger. Anyway, the point is, this is supposed to be about works that you would like if a certain character were removed. If the character, and the way they are, are vital to the work, it is just a case of not liking the work.
I like Alphas. But I really do not like the Gary Bell character.