Go back and watch the first Star Wars. He’s actually pretty whiny there too. In fact, he’s more like Tarkin’s pet attack dog(and Leia implies as much). It’s only in the later movies that he seems to calm down a bit and be a bit more bad-ass.
Tidus, from Final Fantasy X. A self-centered whiner who did not know how to shut the fuck up. A friend spoiled the end of the game for me, so I at least had that to look forward to.
Dondo dy Jironal, The Curse of Chalion. You’d think his deathwould get him out of my hair, but no.
God, in To Reign in Hell. I just wanted to reach through the pages and slap him around. I read the last 100 pages thinking 'If you weren’t such a moron, none of this would have happened!" Which was the point, of course, but still.
Pretty much the whole cast of The Catcher in the Rye. And A Separate Peace.
That did piss me off. I thought Darth Malak was a pretty good villian, until he made that increidbly long speech before the final fight, and it turned out he was pretty weak anyway. Just a pussy who loves to hear himself talk. During that final speech, I kept thinking “Just shut up so we can fight!”
You know, like that awful cream soda.
Yeah, all that “not even all three of us are strong enough to stand against him” stuff: if the first fight on the Leviathan hadn’t cut to his running away, I would have handed him his arse in the first combat round. Ditto the second Leviathan fight, except that glory-hound Bastila, who couldn’t bear to have her thunder stolen, showed up to “save me”. Yeah, nice rescue, babe.
And Darth Bandon? Great entrance cut-scene, I was all set up for a real knock-down drag-out battle with a bona fide badarse, and then - what? Force Immunity, Master Speed, a couple of Flurries and he was my bitch. Hell, I had tougher fights with random parties of Sand People. What that game really needed was a “You gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?” conversation option before fights
Yes, he was the first one that leapt to my mind. An extremely loathsome character. I remember being told by my teachers at school that I was supposed to empathise with him. All I wanted to do was shove him in front of a bus.
While I dislike many of the characters already mentioned, I can think of only one I truly despised.
Lestat.
Self-centered, stupid, whining little git. I spent the entire book wanting to smack him.
Vampires should be either sexy or scary – not neurotic assholes. What a waste of immortality.
I ain’t read no books lately, so all mine are from TV and movies.
Will Tippin from “Alias”
Had an irrational hatred for him the first second he came on-screen, and I spent the whole rest of the first two seasons just wanting him to die horribly. And it’s probably wrong to fault an actor for hatred against his character, but it bugged me how they kept doing extreme close-ups of him and his eyes were always creepily bloodshot. Can’t ABC afford Visine?
Allison Doren from “Alias”
Every other character had something redeemable about them, but she was just pure evil. Plus the way they introduced her – damn, I was yelling back at the screen and everything. I suppose I should be worried that I only found the actress really hot after she started playing evil, but I guess that’s another thread.
Lorne from “Angel”
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.
Every one of the main characters in High Fidelity
Every last one of them completely unlikeable and the worst kind of pathetic – pathetic but smug enough to think that being aware that they’re pathetic lets them off the hook.
Oh, A-men! The prodigal son was one of the first bible stories I was taught. I can still remember being outraged on behalf of the other siblings, and my religious education ground to a halt shortly after.
The fatted calf was pretty pissed off, too.
Everyone mentions Scarlett and there’s no mention of Ashley Wilkes? If he’d had the balls to say “Damn you, Scarlett, I love Melanie and I’m going to marry her,” Scarlett’s life would have been entirely different. It’s really Ashley’s nampy-pampys that get the whole story started. He joins the army despite the fact he knows the war is unfair and doomed to fail, lives on Scarlett’s genorosity after the war, deserts Scarlett when they are caught in a scandal, and never apprecites Melanie until she’s dead.
On a contemporary note, Red Forman in That 70’s Show is mean to his children, can’t hold a job, and I think he’s why Kitty is so loopy.
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Lord Denethor (Lord of the Rings)- hatred.
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He was traduced in the film. In the books he is no drooling incompetent, but a hard-assed dude who gradually crumbles over the seeming hopelessness of his task, aided and abetted by some carefully-selected negative images Sauron feeds him through the palantir. He’s a fearfully strong character who, tragically, is not quite strong enough to play the hand that history has dealt him, and he only finally goes to pieces when he believes that not only is the War lost, and the Ring once more in Sauron’s possession, but that his last remaining son has got himself killed through trying too hard to please him. And whereas the film has him running in panic when he realizes he has set himself on fire, the book Denethor, even when Gandalf has rescued Faramir, determinedly breaks his staff of office, slams the door shut, and lays calmly down on his funeral pyre to burn alive.
Agreed. I despised Holden Caulfield after reading that book, and I’ve had many arguments since about it.
More for me would be, Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City (actually all of those vacuous, irritating women).
Homer Simpson, which is probably an unpopular choice.
Frankly, the men (as if any of the heroes has actually “graduated” from boy to man) are just as bad for letting the women treat them like doormats. None of those losers deserves to save the world - not that they’ll ever get around to doing that.
At this point (which is book 10 gathering dust under my bed) I could line the whole freakin’ cast up and quite cheefully feed them to the sharks.
Well, from TV: All the Seinfeld characters, particularly Kramer. All of the Everybody Loves Raymond characters.
I didn’t even finish To Reign in Hell because it was so annoying.
Said feeding scene would be 300 pages long and would end with none of the mahor characters actually dead.
Frannie, from The Stand. I mentally applauded when Jess smacked her.
Man, you disliked her from the get-go, hm? I liked Frannie. I did, however, hate Julie Lawry. Of course, I was supposed to dislike her but man oh man.
I disliked her so much, that I automatically dislike Shawnee Smith when I see her, because her portrayal of her was so perfectly loathsome. Not rational, I know, but hey.