Characters you hate that everyone loves

[Gizmo1990]

I don't precisely know how many people loved him. but Frodo Baggins, (in the movies at least) despite it having been on my to-do list for years I still haven't actually READ Lord of the Rings, but I recently re-watched the movies, and just wanted to smack Frodo in the face

for starters, he's constantly praised for being resiliant to the ring, now a little bit of perspective.

Bilbo carried that ring for 60 YEARS, and still managed to let go when the time came (albeit with a little nudge from Gandalf) Frodo had it for about a year, and when the time came to destroy it, "the ring is mine!" you dick, you deserved to get your finger bitten off, there is no way he didn't know that the ring would never answer to him, and once he put it on, everyone in Mordor knew where he was, what was he hoping to accomplish?

that and the falling into the marshes for no reason bit, Bilbo was a much better protagonist I thought, but maybe I'll feel differently when I get around to reading the books, maybe get a little more perspective on it

As much as I love the movies that did bother me. In the book Frodo has the ring for 18 years before he even leaves the Shire. Plus the ring was laying low when Bilbo had it. Saroun had not yet shown himself and the last thing the Ring would do is show itself to Gandalf of all people.

OT:
This is not really hate, more indifference, but I have never really liked Quicksilver or the scarlet witch. I know alot of fan are excited that they might make an apperance in The Avengers 2 but I am not bothered.

As for full on hate, I hate Ant-man. Just never liked the character. Maybe Edgar Wright can change that but I doubt it.

 

[kurokotetsu]

It may be a problem for the Capt. but still he is more or less "the greatest hero that ever lived" and everybody loves him. His go America attitude while outdated isn't that frouned upon, it usually makes him a hero to even heroes. The modern America isn't that past that "America is the best" mentality, so it isn't that uch of a struggle to adapt. And there is that thought that small town 50's America is an ideal place and time and the Capt has that nostalgia around him too. I simply have him too patriotic and boring.

Maybe I just read it differently? It seems like it becomes less acceptable to other characters in the universe the more it continues, especially in/after the Civil War story arc.

I haven't read that many Captain America stories, and less since his "death", so I guess what you say may be true. But in several representations I feel that he still is as I percieved him before.

 

[Zeraki]

Deadpool


I'd rather my superheros have some flaws.

He does... well at least he did until Daniel Way made him into nothing more than a joke character with voices in his head. Deadpool used to be a more complex character with some great development going on. That was all dropped after 'Cable & Deadpool' when they decided to focus only on the "funny", and drop the more dramatic stuff that balanced him out and made him interesting.

 

[wyldchyld337]

Final Fantasy 7. All of them. Probably because I was raised with FF2(4) and FF3(6) and the characters that those games had. Probably because of the people whose first FF was 7. I don't know, I just can't get a good feeling from anyone from 7.

 

[Raika]

Deadpool is an utterly bland, unlikeable character whose only trait consists of "LOL RANDUM XDDDDDDD" one-liners, fourth wall breaks, and pop culture references. If you were to remove his suit, seven seasons of Family Guy, four seasons of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and eight seasons of Happy Tree Friends would be all you'd find beneath. A bunch of DVDs of fucking nothing. Deadpool is not a character. He is a gimmick designed to sell the Marvel brand to teenagers. That is all he has ever been and all he will ever be.


Joker has no personality or motivation. He could be replaced pretty easily by a baby with a flare gun or even just a natural disaster. Nothing would change.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

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.

I think the point is that that whole "80s macho actionhero" thing is so extremely exaggerated that he becomes more of a parody that you can laugh at. I don't think we are actually to like him as a person or to identify with him.

 

[makmende]

Deadpool
Wolverine
Superman
Batman

Fuck em all. I'd rather my superheros have some flaws.

How are Deadpool and Wolverine not flawed? They are more of anti- heroes than heroes. Wolverine is violent and has anger issues, and Deadpool as well as Batman are just batshit crazy, especially Deadpool!

 

[Mister Chippy]

I both hate and love batman. On the one hand his character is bland, his 'emotional trauma' is suitably messed up but not for the reasons DC thinks (I have friends who have lost their parents far more recently than batman and deal with it far better), and I really just see him as a vehicle for his villains.

On the other hand, I love making fun of him so much he's probably become my most referenced superhero.

I hate most of the 'badass' characters from anime and stuff, primarily the guys like Kamina. There isn't really anything wrong with those characters themselves, but my friends just downright WORSHIP the 'badass' in any show they watch and it gets really annoying since normally those characters just aren't all that interesting.

Finally, I hate wolves. They're kinda intelligent wild canines. They are not holy badass coolness incarnate. And yet, for some reason everyone treats them as if their japanese name (which translates roughly to 'great spirit') is an understatement. If you tell me your favorite animal is the wolf, I will immediately lose respect for you.

 

[Bruce]

Maybe not someone everyone loves, but...

Robert Baratheon. He is a wife-beater who ordered the death of a wolf he knew to be innocent, over testimony he knew to be a lie. As a king he spent most of his time drunkenly bankrupting the kingdom, and his parenting skills produced Joffrey, a vicious little sadist who tried to murder a child because he thought it would make daddy love him. Admittedly he was married to Cersei, but Cersei when it comes right down to it is Catelyn Stark after being married to a prick.

 

[Anti-Robot Man]

Master Chief, practically every character in the COD series, Catelyn Stark, the film versions of the hobbits, Marcus Fenix, are the one's that spring to mind at the moment.

 

[Jynthor]

Liara, an annoying as hell Mary Sue with the personality of a brick. A monotone voice actress doesn't exactly help either.
Even worse is how much BioWare is pushing her as the canon romance for Shepard because she's obviously their favourite.

But hey, she's a virgin with blue tits so everyone loves her.

 

[makmende]

Every Character from Family guy

 

[chocolate pickles]

Garrus after mass effect 1. In the first one, he managed to have some flaws in his personality (a little bit reckless, struggled to see other points of view etc) while you could still beleive he was a good soldier.

After 1? Seemed Bioware tried to make him an untouchable badass. Lost intrest in him.

 

[hermes]

Kratos. I can't fucking stand Kratos from the God of War series.

Kratos is an idealized mad man who kills anyone he comes across if they happen to have something he wants. Or even if they don't. Sometimes they'll be willing to fucking GIVE him an item he needs if he'll help them out, and he'll still just kill them anyway. They try to paint this picture that he is a fallen hero who only became a monster after becoming the Ghost of Sparta, but he was a terrible person when he was serving Ares and he was a war mongering asshole even before that.

In God of War III, the world is slowly being destroyed by his actions and he doesn't seem to care. All that matters to him is his revenge for something that happened specifically to him. The first game is okay because I can at least buy into his back story about how Ares tricked him into killing his family in the hopes that without that attachment, he would become a more hardened warrior, but in the second game, he's just out for revenge against Zeus. Anyone that won't help him gets killed by him.

I guess I hate him most of all because so many people try to convince me that he's a tragic hero and that he does try to save people, but he only really tries to save people if they happen to have tits. If you ask me, Kratos brought all of the suffering he has endured upon himself.

I don't want all of my characters in video games to be shining examples of what it means to be a hero, but Kratos is just so contradictory that I can feel my left eye start to twitch whenever people try to convince me he isn't an asshole.

/rant

Kratos was an interesting character in 1... At least he was somehow justified, and he was the underdog when compared to Ares. By the time he reached 3, he is just a big crying baby with swords that can't stop having a temper tantrum about something and doesn't really cared for anything else. Even when I was actually rooting for my enemies at the end of 3, I would have bought the character more if they didn't try to pull the whole "he is so noble" curb ball with the character of Pandora... completely uncalled for.

OT: Dante, especially Old Dante... I grew tired of the game trying to sell him like he was the coolest guy in the face of the Earth, since every time he opened his mouth all I could think of was "what a douche".

 

[TwiZtah]

Every damn superhero that sits on that moral high horse and just refuses to kill the villains. Think of Batman, if he would have just put a bullet between the eyes of The Joker for example, how many lives could he have saved? but noooo, can't do that because "MY EMOTIONS!!!"

Also on that note, I fucking hate Batman, he would have died 60 years ago if it was not for all that Deus Ex and plot armor the mass of Jupiter.

 

[hermes]

Deadpool
Wolverine
Superman
Batman

Fuck em all. I'd rather my superheros have some flaws.

How are Deadpool and Wolverine not flawed? They are more of anti- heroes than heroes. Wolverine is violent and has anger issues, and Deadpool as well as Batman are just batshit crazy, especially Deadpool!

I believe his point was that they are written to be overpowered. Specifically, Wolverine regenerative power reached a point where he can regenerate entirely out of a single cell, which (besides being stupid) means anything shorter than throwing him to the sun is wasting everyone's time.

Batman's insanity is conveniently left off by most writers, to the point he might not only be pretty sane within his world, but actually be considered the smartest, wisest and most capable person in the DC universe. His personality issues get dismissed as he is written out as "the greatest in the world". He is the greatest detective, tactician, crime fighter, martial artist, chess player, melodic singer, playboy lover, car driver, stealth assassin, interrogator, richest man alive, with eidetic memory and training to resist every poison and mind control technique known to man.

 

[Gatx]

I don't hate him but I don't have the love for Rider from Fate/Zero that everyone who ever watches the show seems to. I mean I thought he was a cool and fun gun at first, but then he just shut down Saber's philosophy (which is basically to be a selfless superhero who protects people), which I thought was a little too harsh.

Well I wouldn't say I hated him, but I do dislike how he's worshiped as awesome by seemingly everyone. He was nothing more than an overblown windbag and I couldn't stand him. Simon was a billion times better as a character as he actually developed over the course of the series. Kamina is just a bland gar character with nothing else to his personality and I don't get why people think he's all that awesome. There are a billion other characters just like him in anime and manga, and quite a few do it way better than he ever did.

I don't like how people latch onto him either, but I don't think it's fair to say that Simon is better because he gets character development. Of course Simon would get character development, he's the main character. Kamina is Simon's Uncle Ben, Obi-wan (original trilogy), etc. Their sole purpose is to serve as an example and a source of motivation for the main character so of course they won't have character development.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Oh, I remember a good one. Light Yagami.

Guys. I had to quit that series because there's only so much pitch perfect bullshit planning that I can take. I don't remember that guy fucking up once asides, like, the end.

Of course, I will endlessly compare him to Lelouch Lamperouge, another planning, scheming kinda guy. Except that he actually fucks up and freaks out. And that's why he is so much more enjoyable as a character, in my eyes.

 

[bigsby]

Michael Cera. I know, not a character, but I hate every character he has ever played, including Superbad and Arrested Development. God I hated George Michael Bluth

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Mario. What's to love? He's a stereotypical Italian

How the hell is Mario a stereotypical italian? The most italian thing about him is his name and the accent - which he uses just as often as a Brooklyn accent.

Stereotypical italians are plumbers/carpenters? His moustache is more German than Italian. He's not depicted as lazy and irresponsible like most Southern European stereotypes..

I suppose I should clarify; perceived stereotypical Italian. A bit like how everybody would assume all Australians are like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin. Not true, but it's cementing that idea in their heads, even to the point Ubisoft had a character go 'It's a' me, Mario'.

Stereotypes aside, I don't see what's so lovable. He's more of a brand mascot than a fleshed out character these days. Whatever the cartoons made of him is a distant memory, if the games were more like the old cartoons then I might still be vaguely interested.