There’s some wierd reactions around here about janeway. I kept getting some wierd freudian crap from some of the dopers when I said she was incomptent. I’m still trying to figure out if it was joking or serious.
One that was so obvious I forgot it: Short Round, from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He’s the Scrappy Doo of the Raiders of the Lost Ark franchise.
Problem was that even when we did get to see him beaten and tortured and stabbed, it still wasn’t satisfying. He never fought back, so it was just seeing somebody getting dogpiled. The guy existed to be a victim. An annoying, nosy, unshaven victim with bloodshot eyes. Plus, whenever he got beat up, it just upset Sydney.
At the moment, I’m developing a real hatred for Jack Bristow as well. (Just started watching on DVD a couple months ago, and I’m currently at 2 episodes away from the end of season 3.) He used to be cool, always on the border between good guy or bad guy. But now all the complexity is gone, and he’s just an asshole and a smug control freak who can rationalize away anything.
Oh, good one. Bitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitch…
In my opinion things like this are why English Majors are more dangerous to society than any number of rogue russian nuclear scientists…
-Joe
Sorry, yes. Thing is, I don’t particularly hate Faile (any more than the rest of the screeching harpies of the WoT, anyways).
The ones from GRRM’s book I do hate.
-Joe
I second Marianne Dashwood, and may I also add the wishy-washy Edward Ferrars from the same novel?
Although I usually don’t like it when films make serious alterations the endings of classic lit stories, I would be extremely happy if someone did a film version of Sense & Sensibility in which Elinor married Col. Dashwood and they lived happily (and sensibly) ever after, leaving Marianne and Edward stuck in the miserable marriages they deserved.
Other Austen’s heroines I dislike are the endlessly whiny, passive-aggressive Fanny Price in Mansfield Park and that snobby little rich-bitch Emma. And while Elizabeth Bennett remains one of my favorite fictional people, her mother is one of the most annoying.
Adric, Doctor Who. “And I try so hard!” I’m really the first to mention him?
Holden Caulfield
Kes and Neelix from Voyager. The show didn’t really have any good characters, but it had several bad ones.
Zap Brannigan
Mel, also from Doctor Who
Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby. The ultimate portrait of the smug, entitled jock.
Lestat. Thanks to whoever mentioned him earlier; I might’ve forgot otherwise. Then again, I hate Louis just as much.
I think some earlier posters were missing the point re: King of the Hill. The “joke” of the show is that Hank, who treasures order, routine, and mundanity above all else, is constantly having his world thrown off-kilter by his family and friends: his vain, stupid wife; his marvelously weird son; his asshole father; etc. The people surrounding Hank are pretty much the very people a guy like Hank deserves to be surrounded by. I enjoy every character on that show, though I wouldn’t want to live next to any of them. (Except Bobby, who is brilliant.)
Thanks. One of the big reasons why Shawshank is such an overrated movie. That and the fact that the other cons end up taking such an icky shine to him, instead of beating him into jelly every week for kicks.
Sherwood Schwartz claimed, apparently seriously, that it was a metaphor for the nations of the earth and how they could only succeed by putting aside their ambitions and working together. Yep, that’s what he said.
Every last one of the holier-than-thou Pattersons from “For Better or For Worse.”
I also hate Nermal. Garfield is always trying to mail him to Abu Dhabi, but look out, Garfield! Nermal is back, and he’s here to stay!
Plus she was so ridiculously hot that he coudn’t help but realize, “Yeah, she doesn’t even need to twitch her nose to do better.”
As the wise Joey Tribianni once advised, it is best to stay within two levels of your own hotness. Anything more is courting disaster. 
Certainly. I’m much more afraid of deconstructionism than I am of mushroom clouds.
I understand the Zoidberg dislike, as he doesn’t do much for me, but I love the Zap episodes! He’s always got the funniest lines on the show!
So now he’s one of those “men” who has a problem with his wife being smarter than him and making more money than he does? I’m sorry, but I don’t view that as much of an improvement.
Here you go- Larry Mudd’s analysis (sorry!) of “Margaritaville”.
Peter Griffin from the Family Guy drives me batty. I love that show, but sometimes have to turn it off because he’s just so…urgh… He’s fat, ugly, stupid and mean. He’s betrayed his wife in almost every way a man can and yet they remain together. If I were Lois in the early seasons, I would’ve left him for the dog, Brian.
Of course Lois has also dropped in my esteem since then so it’s not as big of a deal - they rather deserve each other now. (But he still bothers me) 
Frank Burns from MAS*H. The show got so much better when they replaced him.
I’ll add my vote to the Umbridge crowd. And I should add that I’m pissed that Harry never yelled at Scrimgeour for keeping her on staff (considering that Scrimgeour was seeking Harry’s favor).
Ditto Scarlett O’Hara, the fictional world’s most selfish character (with the possible exception of Eric Cartman).
Thanks, Anne. It’s more convincing if you’ve never actually listened to the song more than once.
Sorry to nitpick but, at least with regard to her magic powers (i.e., money and privileged background), Samantha acquired those by being lucky enough to be born to the right parents. However, had she somehow “earned” these advantages on her own, then I would likely agree with you on that point.
Has no one mentioned most of the characters in David Eddings’ epics The Belgariad and The Malloreon?
Bicker bicker bicker bicker nag nag nag bicker nag bicker nag.
So Bewitched is really really a metaphor in favor of retaining the estate tax?