Jamie, the wretched bitch played by Helen Hunt in Mad About You. She should have been thrown out the window of their fancy New York apartment.
Oh I have to mention that I think part of the reason I despised her so much was she was certainly not worthy of the name Julie 
The two books I’ve thrown across the room in a fit of sheer unalloyed hatred were “Of Mice and Men” and “Titus Groan”.
I hated, HATED, the main characters in those stories. All of them. Some more than others, sure, but essentially I wanted them *all * to die, in the worst way.
Sharks! With frickin’ laser beams! That’s what those stories needed. Or possibly the authors. Damned if I’m ever touching anything by Steinbeck or Peake ever again.
I was upset about that too! My favorite author finally has a character named Julie, and it’s…her.
On the other hand, I thought she was a very realistic character. There actually are people out there who are “more kin to the trundling and coldblooded beetles you find under dead trees than to other human beings.” And they’d survive the superflu too!
Alec Leamas from The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Vicious, amoral, drunken bastard who was too stupid to realize that he was being used by other vicious amoral bastards until it was too late.
Actually, most people from LeCarre’s pantheon just piss me off to no end. There was George Smiley, Peter Guilliam, and Connie Sachs. Everyone else just wasted good oxygen. If it weren’t for Smiley, I would have been rooting for Karla.
Both male leads in Sideways.
You’re right. I can’t think of anyone I particularly like, male or female. Even Lan went off and married that screaming, panicking nitwit. I just hate the whole cast of WoT, I guess. And the scenery, for good measure. Women= screaming harpies, men= stupid helpless doormats.
Note to Malacandra: Thanks for an excellent summary of the book vs. movie Denethor character. Book Denethor was indeed tragic, complex. Movie Denethor was hateful - don’t know if they ran out of time to flesh him out, or what.
Ooh! I got one.
Captain John Sheridan from Babylon 5.
He’s a pompous blowhard who always has to be right (and of course, the writers make it so he is.) The best example?
An automated alien ship shows up at B5’s door. Using advanced alien technology, scans their computers and learns English, and then sends a message full of very hard science, biology, astronomy, etc… questions. It also send an ultimatum, that if the questions are not answered in X amount of time, it will blow up with the force of Y megatons. They scan the object and find out its fusion core could, if set to blow up, make an explosion that big. It also says if enough questions are answered correctly, it will give us secrets to ending disease, hunger, etc…
Well, after getting all the answers, with seconds to spare, they are about to send them back. But, at the last second, Capt. Know-it-all says,
“Now wait. If I were an advanced civilization, I would like to size up potential enemies. Instead of giving them more info for getting the answers right, I’d blow them up so they couldn’t do anything bad to me. Let’s not send the message.”
Everyone thinks that’s a bad idea, but he’s captain, so they do what he says, and he’s right! When it doesn’t get the answers it flies away! Of course, when it’s far enough out, he then sends the answers, and yup, it blows up, far away fro mthe station and protecting anyone else from it’s wrath. :rolleyes:
Preach it! I hate Will so much I can taste it, and it’s not entirely rational. But I’m with you, from the first moment of screen time I hated him and wished for his death (violent and painful). No matter what he did, it drove me crazy. Why is he standing like that? Why is he holding a coffee mug like that? Why does he have that stupid look on his face?
For a while, I was thinking there was something I hated about the actor, but I recently saw The Wedding Crashers and he played a character that you are supposed to dislike, which I did, but that passionate hatred was completely absent.
I could not possibly disagree with you more. :eek:
Nah. That just means that he’s familiar with the work of Fred Saberhagen. He even calls it a Berserker!
Seriously, though, the point of the episode was to show how Sheridan trusts intuition at least as much as he trusts logic. You may not like that, but I think it’s part of what made him such a great character (and what made B5 such a great show).
He might be a great character, I jsut don’t like 'em all that much. 
Also, it seemed to me that he was too perfect. He could do no wrong, he was always right, etc…
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Lord Denethor (Lord of the Rings)- hatred.
Do not assume my hatred is from the movies, sir. This is a prick, who plays favorites with his children, and expresses the wish that Faramir were dead rather than Boromir. IMO, that does not make for a “strong character”, it makes for a loathsome pustule. His manner of death in no way mitigates that.
Well, I agree the movie did a hatchet job on him, but cinematically he needed to stand in contrast with Gandalf, Saruman and Theoden: if he’d been played as written in the book, he would have been just one more wise but weary old man bowed down by the weight of care - with Saruman gone, the film needed another hissable human villain, otherwise there would have been a lot of talking scenes with Gandalf trying to stiffen his sinews and reason him out of despair. Two old men talking would have slowed the film down just at the point where they were trying to emphasise that the reign of Sauron wasnigh, and getting nigher.
It was the smugness for me. The never ending, thin-lipped smirky smugness. Something really bad is happening… Cap’n Smuggy is here to SMIRK his way out of trouble! SMUG ON! I really got to enjoy B5 after my husband got the first 4 seasons on DVD and made me watch them all in a row (I was dreaming B5 for a month). Except for him. Cap’n Smuggy. Hate.
Marianne Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility. The all time most annoying character I’ve ever read about. I threw my book across the room in discust when
the annoying twit lived.
Pip and Estella from Great Expectations. I couldn’t have cared less what happened to those two. I only finished the book because of the other characters.
Strangely, I don’t hate anime villains often. (Yeah, Gendou Ikari’s a manipulative bastitch, but it’s Shinji whom I think really needed to die in a horrible, painful manner, resurrected, and then killed again.)
Here’s two characters that I have a surprising amount of hatred for:
Vash the Stampede from Trigun. You’d think he’d have figured out that his particular brand of pacifism does more harm than good. But I guess if he’d killed Knives when he first realized that his brother was a psychopath, we wouldn’t have a series.
Kenshin, from Rurouni Kenshin. He’s just about as bad as Vash, although I do sympathise with his worldview a little bit more. I still find it very annoying that he never really has to deal with the consequences of his non-killing vow, and all the convenient deus ex machinas that pop up to keep him from really going off the deep end.
Heero is the, well, hero of Gundam Wing. Relena is the female lead. Thus, it is thought that they must be a couple, by default. Problem is, she is more annoying than any person I have ever met. Damn her stalker ways!
Given Heero’s masochistic tendancies, though, I say he totally deserves her. (Note how he never actually gets around to killing her, despite repeatedly threatening to.)
Besides, you can get all the Relena death you want in the Heero x whoever Gundam yaoi fics. 