Characters you hate that everyone loves

[Ace Morologist]

I don't hate Batman, but I'm sick of how awesome we're supposed to believe he is. (I also think it's time for him to get rid of the cape and switch to an all-black costume more like the one in Batman Beyond, but that's neither here nor there.)

Others: Amy Pond, Hermione Granger, Hal Jordan, Chiana [whatever her last name was]...

 

[Lynx]

Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games; mainly the second two books. She becomes a moany annoying character after being such a strong female lead in the first book and she just got on my nerves, and now because Of Jennifer Lawrence everyone loves Katniss

I find her relatable, which is nice for a change. It's the same issue some people have with Harry Potter in some of the later books, "why is he so whiny?"; but heck, I know if I was a sixteen-year-old with hormones, boy/girl troubles, a big fat price on my head and a mission to save the world that I didn't ask for, I'd feel a bit bitchy from time to time as well.

I've never liked Rachel from Friends. She's just sort of bland to me. Monica too. Now that I think about it, Chandler is probably the main reason I ever watched the show.

 

[Cabisco]

I've actually surprised by the large amount of people saying Batman I thought I was the only one getting annoyed by it. It's not so much the character himself which I find slightly boring but the over the top sycophancy that people have over him now, I think to me he just symbolises the current problem with movies in that everything has to be a slightly darker reboot from the past at the expense of new original ideas (oh Pacific Rim how I loved you).

edit: Apart from those college humour 'Badman' videos, I love that guy. I'd watch a movie with that version of batman.

Otherwise I think every character from every GTA, I love those games but really it's about the huge open world and dicking about, the main characters have never appealed to me.

Also as a big WWE fan, I don't like any of HBK, Austin, Flair or Bryan and to a lesser extent Jericho which to the majority of the IWC is heresy.

Sandow however is my favourite member of the roster

(thats the last one I swear)

Hopefully soon he'll get his own talk show and we'll get to hear his wonderful musings on the unwashed masses every week.

On a side note, we also both have a mutual love of fat frank, so thats cool.

 

[Mikeyfell]

For me it will have to be Goku from DBZ. Sure he's likable when your a kid but as you get older you realize how much of a dick he really is.

I didn't think that everyone loved Goku
I loved DBZ and I only remember Goku as that jackass who didn't kill Frieza and and gave Cell a sensu bean.

He was a terrible husband and an even worse father. Do most people actually like Goku that much?

Anyway back to the point.

Ned Stark, Sansa Stark, and Rob Stark, and Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones

Spoiler: Game of Thrones Spoilers

Ned Stark: No, being a "good guy" is not a likeable trait when you're hopelessly naive. What would possess someone to warn the most powerful and evil woman in the country that only he knows a secrete that if revealed would get her killed?

Sansa: Fucking inactive *****. She can't choose between defending her sister or the prince, She can't kill the guy who killed her dad, she can't even flee and go home when a free ride is offered to her! She just frustrates me and (I haven't seen any of Season 3 or read the books but) I hope she dies horribly.

Rob Stark: Just kill Jiame Lannister! Seriously just kill him! keeping him alive serves you no purpose! Oh, great you're going to let your mom kidnap him and set him free? Great! Way to wear the pants *****.

Daenerys: I heard that in the book she's 13 years old, which would make her character amazing. But in the HBO version she's 26 which makes her seem... um, mentally...slow, because she still acts like an emotional teenager
Just going along with what ever her big brother says, asking a prostitute to teach her how to manipulate men, going mad with power. Wild mood swings between insincere benevolence and ruthless petty revenge. Slinging threats at literally the only people standing between her and starving to death. Which would all make sense for a stupid teenager, but as an adult, she's just stupid.

Cheria Barnes from Tales of Graces F (I don't know how many people love her, because I don't know anyone who's played Tales of Graces F)
But she's set up to be the love interest, a very shitty type of love interest called a Tsundere where she's just a ***** right off the bat for no reason. I just can't stand any character that's like that.


13 from House.
Olivia Wilde can't act! There I said it!
She is the reason why seasons 6 and 7 of house weren't very good!

And Apple Jack from My Little Pony
Oh, crap I mentioned MLP the thread is doomed! Run for your lives!

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Probably my most recent hate would be Cortana in Halo 4.

I see everywhere, people saying they cried when she died. Me, I thought "Thank God I can forget about you and try to remember when you were a badass in the first three games".

Shortly followed by "You know, I don't think you actually are dead. It was way ambiguous, reviving you will probably be the plot of Halo 5".


I also don't like the new Chief. Too emotional, I know some people thought this was good, but I preferred it when there was more left to the imagination. Also way too attached to annoying Cortana...
Hopefully they don't try to give the Arbiter a personality. If he ever makes an appearance that is...


I also feel the need to mention that I hate nearly every character in the Hunger Games. Its just the names... Peeta? Man, fuck Peeta...

 

[jhoroz]

Itachi Uchiha from Naruto. He's the most over-glorified god sue to ever grace that show and his fanboys are on par with the Batman ones. Any Sharingan user really, because every fight ends with an ass pull, instead of the character demonstrating any genuine tactically ability and clever use of their power.

 

[rookie411]

Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games; mainly the second two books. She becomes a moany annoying character after being such a strong female lead in the first book and she just got on my nerves, and now because Of Jennifer Lawrence everyone loves Katniss

I find her relatable, which is nice for a change. It's the same issue some people have with Harry Potter in some of the later books, "why is he so whiny?"; but heck, I know if I was a sixteen-year-old with hormones, boy/girl troubles, a big fat price on my head and a mission to save the world that I didn't ask for, I'd feel a bit bitchy from time to time as well.

I've never liked Rachel from Friends. She's just sort of bland to me. Monica too. Now that I think about it, Chandler is probably the main reason I ever watched the show.

I see your point. I also agree with you on the Friends thing, those two and Ross just annoy me, the other three make the whole show. The only thing I like about Rachel is at least you see her grow out of being the whiny spoilt brat she is in the earlier series.

 

[Sparox]

Everyone in the anime "Mirai Nikki" I can't even explain why.. well.. I could, but it would take way too long and it's way too late for me.

 

[Harry Mason]

Is Cliffy B a real answer?

If not, Spiderman is overrated. Though I guess overrated isn't the same as hate-worthy...

Duke Nuke-Em or Micheal Jackson. Or Dr, Phil. Or something.

 

[randomrob1968]

all the characters in James Cameron's Aliens, except Bishop.

(and maybe Ripley)

 

[Loreley]

Sansa from ASOIAF. I always reget saying that one because I get a barrage of answers of how I just don't ~understand her subtle character arc~ and whatnot, but no. I do understand. I just don't care. I pity her, but I find her boring. I hate that so many fans see her as the next Queen of Westeros, pure angel and, at the same time, biggest schemer of them all. She has neither the intelligence for that (not to say she's dumb, she's not, but she always seeemed more of a Catelyn than a Tywin to me - and I like Catelyn) nor the pure power-grasping drive of a Cersei. I don't care about her thing with the Hound. I don't care about whether she sees Arya or Winterfell again. I don't care about this character. In book 1 she was okay; sure, she messed up, but at least she was doing something. I dislike passive characters and the combination of the positions GRRM puts her in and her disposition makes sure most of Sansa's POVs could be replaced by those of a chair that sometimes gets kicked over and stepped on. She seems to be there mainly to report on what other, more interesting characters are doing, anyway, so... I think I'd prefer the chair.

 

[Maeta]

Cat from Game of Thrones was such a stupid bint, Gandalf was such a useless prick all the way through LotR, and was more of a hindrance than a help at times, Legolas was just too smarmy, David Brent from UK's version of The Office for being unfunny, The Simpson family (except maybe Maggie), but especially Lisa for being a smartarse *****, and Marge for being a nagging arsehole, Deadpool, Strongbad, everyone in TF2, especially the Heavy (he and Strongbad in Poker Night made it a chore until you got rid of the cunts), Frodo Baggins (came back to it), and many more that I cant be fucked to remember because I hate them...

Oh, and MARIO!!

 

[SuperFrankieLampard]

I've actually surprised by the large amount of people saying Batman I thought I was the only one getting annoyed by it. It's not so much the character himself which I find slightly boring but the over the top sycophancy that people have over him now, I think to me he just symbolises the current problem with movies in that everything has to be a slightly darker reboot from the past at the expense of new original ideas (oh Pacific Rim how I loved you).

edit: Apart from those college humour 'Badman' videos, I love that guy. I'd watch a movie with that version of batman.

Otherwise I think every character from every GTA, I love those games but really it's about the huge open world and dicking about, the main characters have never appealed to me.

Also as a big WWE fan, I don't like any of HBK, Austin, Flair or Bryan and to a lesser extent Jericho which to the majority of the IWC is heresy.

Sandow however is my favourite member of the roster

(thats the last one I swear)

Hopefully soon he'll get his own talk show and we'll get to hear his wonderful musings on the unwashed masses every week.

On a side note, we also both have a mutual love of fat frank, so thats cool.

Blasphemy. The man is perfection.

 

[Chasing-The-Light]

Currently, for me, it's the entire SNK (Attack on the Titans) series. I watched it, and I think the story and animation is great... but the characters are just kind of... mehhhh.

It actually kind of annoys me how much the internet seems to be obsessing over it. It's an okay series but come on, there's no character development at all. (Except maybe Armin...)

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Duke Nukem - He's basically the ultimate misogynistic jerk in full power fantasy mode. I also don't get why he's liked by gamers considering if many of them met him in high school, he'd be the one stuffing their heads into toilets. It also doesn't help that many of his lines are stolen from other properties and he's claiming them as his own without irony.

You do know that Duke Nukem isn't a real person, and thus can't "claim" anything, right?

Anyway, Sarah Kerrigan from StarCraft and SC 2.

I liked the Zerg so much better when they were commanded by a giant disembodied floating eyeball with a cool voice than being commanded by a HR Giger wet dream with built in stiletto heels who gets her hair-care tips from the Predator. It's also annoying that she whines constantly about how she was betrayed, but that betrayal turned her into the most powerful creature in the Universe and she constantly talks about how awesome that is.

And Batman. I don't hate him but I actually didn't really dislike him till the Arkham games, and it gets boring how often they try and constantly shove into our face how ridiculously awesome he is. I'm sorry, but no person without superpowers, even if they never slept one minute and devoted every minute of every day to training and learning, could possibly be an expert on as many different things as he is supposed to be.

 

[Gameguy20100]

Gordon Freeman from half life.

the guy has no personality what soever.

Yea yea yea i know its for "Immersion" but I have 3 issues with that

1) why then does he have a set name face back-story and gender if your going to make a blank slate make it 100% blank.

2) even if he didn't have those things a chacter not saying a word while everyone else speaks is annoying.

3) Mass effect proved you can have a voiced protagonist without hurting immersion.

 

[gibbles545]

Morrigan from dao. I get that she is damaged and stuff but honestly she just seems to want to be evil for the sake of it.

 

[Ayay]

Lara Croft. Rich bored and kill every thing that moves so i can get some bling to a museum. I belive Yatzee captured my feelings on that women perfectly.

 

[Keiichi Morisato]

I hated Lum in urusei yatsutora. I didn't like her as a heroine and I thought shinobu should have been the focus of the relationship within the story.

 

[Strazdas]

Rob Stark: Just kill Jiame Lannister! Seriously just kill him! keeping him alive serves you no purpose! Oh, great you're going to let your mom kidnap him and set him free? Great! Way to wear the pants *****.

Daenerys: I heard that in the book she's 13 years old, which would make her character amazing. But in the HBO version she's 26 which makes her seem... um, mentally...slow, because she still acts like an emotional teenager
Just going along with what ever her big brother says, asking a prostitute to teach her how to manipulate men, going mad with power. Wild mood swings between insincere benevolence and ruthless petty revenge. Slinging threats at literally the only people standing between her and starving to death. Which would all make sense for a stupid teenager, but as an adult, she's just stupid.[/spoiler]

@Rob Stark.
He wanted to kill him. he was talked into leaving him alive because as long as they hold him hostage Lanisters will not date to kill Sansa and Arya (they think Lanisters got her, they dont know she escaped). I think thats a faily compelling argument that kept him alive.

@Daenerys.
I agree that the way she was portrayed in the show is not the best, but yes in the book she is 13 years old and that does explain A LOT. as you know in television kids are always palyed by 20s because of a tremendeous legal problems with needing kid actors (the parents must always be nearby and give permission for example). Also try to tell a 13 year old act out Daenerys sex scene.... yeah.... She is lost in the books and evne tohugh she pretends to be "As strong as dragons" shes just a kid inside and veri naive. I do liek her character though, although its not my favourite one (that would be Jon Snow or Sam).