Protagonists you hate

[VonKlaw]

40k: Kaldor fucking Draigo. Mary Sue^10,000,000 with this one. Wait he did what? Okay I guess that could feasibly happe- Wait what's this about Mortarion? Yeah, no. He can't do that by himself unless he's the warp-dammed Emperor and even then, that's no cake-walk. WAAAAAAAAAARDDD!!!! For those who don't know, Kaldor Draigo carved the name of his master into the heart of the mother of all Badguys' heart which also happens to be surrounded by what amounts to hyper-infectious super space AIDS. Draigo did not become infected despite literally being inside corruption and disease itself. This is after he kills/defeats 7 Greater Daemons of More disease and nastiness (if Mortarion keeps similar company to Angron that is, which seems likely). And he destroys literally impossible architecture despite it being, well, impossible to understand. So... much... Derp.

It's shit like this why I quit 40k tabletop gaming. I still play the computer games and read the books, but ever since "He Who Shall Not Be Named" took over... I did not think that something I loved so much for so long could be destroyed so quickly.

2nd this so badly. Still love the games and the books but the tabletop seems to have devolved into "let's make everyone so overly super badass and hope people think they are cool" that it's just ridiculous. Made only more stupid by the fact that authors / developers who wanted to mutilate lore like that would get told to piss off. He has alot to freakin answer for.

OT: Frank West from Dead Rising. Say what you want about Chuck, atleast he didn't deliberately put himself in a position wheres he's stuck in a mall for days and then moan about it.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

Not sure about this one, but i'm going to say it, Makoto from School Days, a hateful character from a hateful anime,I cannot describe in words, how badly I would love to kick the shit out of him,because of him sleeping around with every girl in school and treating Kotonoha like crap, at least this happens to him in the end

Spoiler

 

[WaysideMaze]

I can't stand Ted for HIMYM. He had potential early on. When he decides to actually be friends with Robin after their dating falls through I though was a great character moment. But as it goes on I get more and more "meh" about him. Whenever he complains about anything, he's a handsome architect living in New York who dates dozens upon dozens of women, his life is so hard.

Not helped that all of the other characters are funnier and more interesting.

Thank fuck it's not just me. You really have summed up my feelings on Ted well there.

I think it's not helped by the fact that his character doesn't seem to have changed at all throughout the seasons. Look at the development in all the other characters, and then look at Ted.

 

[The Harkinator]

Daenaerys Targaryen, one minute she says Westeros will be all happy and smiles and peaceful when she rules, she will be kind and the peasants will genuinely love her. Then she says she will drink from Roberts skull (even after learning he had died) she (just like Viserys) cannot seem to accept or understand why there was a rebellion against Aerys, or comprehend how it was able to succeed or how Robert rules for almost two decades.

They don't realise how mad Aerys was or how much of a dick Rhaegar was.

 

[penguindude42]

That red guy who hangs out with Luigi.

Fuck that guy.

 

[Nerexor]

I can't stand Ted for HIMYM. He had potential early on. When he decides to actually be friends with Robin after their dating falls through I though was a great character moment. But as it goes on I get more and more "meh" about him. Whenever he complains about anything, he's a handsome architect living in New York who dates dozens upon dozens of women, his life is so hard.

Not helped that all of the other characters are funnier and more interesting.

I'm divided on that. Wacky hijinks Ted is awesome and funny. Narrator Ted is occasionally insightful and sometimes hilarious. But Ted when he's with a girl (which is every episode) is such a douchebag that you kind of want to kick him in the balls. He judges Barney for sleeping around so much, but Barney doesn't pretend to be anything but a player. Ted's always claiming he's so romantic and then ditches girl after girl for little to no reason. And the Robin thing... ugh, we've known since like season 2 that she isn't the mother, stop yanking that chain! So annoying.

Others: Tidus The whole cast of FFX, Vaan, Nathan "Mass Murderer in Denial" Drake, Whats-his-face from Prototype 2, Starkiller Sue, and Horatio "Dramatic Sunglasses" Caine

 

[foxtrot3100]

Vaan from ff12.....Want to smash he's face in.

This.

He doesn't. do. ANYTHING!

Who else? hmm... Sonic! ...No wait, that's too easy.

Tron Legacy.
Great visuals. Classic (if a bit overdone) plot.
Crappy, one-note, douchy protagonist that we're supposed to somehow empathize with. The most horrible example of "every-man" that I've ever seen in a movie that I still liked despite it. I don't even remember his name and I don't care.

 

[Silvianoshei]

Vaan from ff12.....Want to smash he's face in.

YES. This so much. I can't tell you how many times I yelled "VAAN SHUT THE FUCK UP" at my screen when I played FF12.

 

[Wintermoot]

That boy from Evangelion... I couldn't finish watching because of him.
He's so annoying that makes me want to kill innocent bystanders...

yeah Shinji was a bit of a brat what episode did you stop? there are a few episodes later on that make him a bit likeable and in the rebuild movies he actually grows a backbone.
Although he is a self-absorbent douche in EOE
OT
while we are on the topic of Gainax

Nono from Diebuster/Gunbuster 2
she felt like a annoying fan girl although she becomes a bit likeable near the end of the OVA still I hated her in the first part.

 

[kortin]

Salsa the fucking Monkey from Mother 3. Does no damage in combat and is only there as a framing device so you could see what the bad guys are doing.

Also Paula in Earthbound for the same goddamn reason. She does no battle damage, she can't heal, and the only reason she exists is because of the final fight against Giygas.

It's really rare for me to dislike a character in a game, though, which makes it really odd as to why two of my favorite games ever both have characters I severely dislike.

 

[the December King]

Kratos.

There is something about that level of mindless violence that he embodies that I find abhorrent. There is no character here, it's a blank slate for violent tendencies to erupt. It's like Heracles wasn't a violent enough son of Zeus, so we needed an even more muscled and oily murderer, to then kill an entire pantheon.

I forgot about him. Ash is just annoying, but I genuinely hate Kratos for killing the heros of my childhood stories. Especially Perseus. I love Perseus

Totally. I just pretend the whole God of War thing is a sugar- rush fuelled tweeny dullard dream.

With well done graphics, I guess.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I also agree that I was rooting for the humans to win in avatar.

WHAT? The humans in that movie couldn't have been any more cartoonishly evil if they all had Snidley Whiplash mustaches, wore top hats, and tied all the Na'vi to railroad tracks.

 

[kickyourass]

For some reason The Punisher has always rubbed me the wrong way, I think it's more certain writers then the character himself but half the time when I read or watch anything Punisher related, he's a complete psychopath.

Particularly in the movie Warzone,

Spoiler: I'll make a list

Shotgunning a man's head off in clear view of a little girl.
Throwing a man begging for mercy off a building so he impales his throat on some kind of gate.
Shooting one of his 'friends' in the head dispite him looking perfectly able to survive a trip to the hospital.
Blowing another man's head off dispite the man being armed with only a cigar (I suppose Frank Castle REALLY takes the smoking on elevators rule seriously).
And my personal favorite is when another one of his friends is being held hostage along side the aformentioned little girl with one bad guy on each of them. Instead of shooting the man holding a gun to the little girl's head, he shoots his friend and THROWS his gun at the guy with the little girl. I rewatched that part like 5 times and I still have no fucking clue what the point of that was (Something about having only one bullet left, but if that's the case why not shot the guy with the little girl and throw it at the other guy?).

 

[dalek sec]

Mako from The Legend of Korra (sequel to the above mentioned A:TLA).

The guy is a massive douche bag who : cheats on his girlfriend, refuses to own up to it when called out on it by his girlfriend, acts like a self obsessed asshole, and then we're still expected to swallow the horrible romance forced between him and Korra, with the creators trying to force down our throats that he's such a "great guy".

Yeah, single-handedly tainted my enjoyment of that show.

Yeah, he's the only protagonist from the show I wanna strangle with a length of piano wire.... how the hell did Bolin get stuck with that git for a brother?! He must have massive amounts of self-control to not smash his head in with a little earth-bending.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Cox- Because going out of your way to destroy another human being and then self-rationalize it to yourself as some kind of "tough love" is just BS. Even in a sitcom he should of been arrested to rage at burly cops with beating sticks and no time for his crap

That's kind of the point of Dr. Cox's character. He's mentally unhinged, narcissistic, constantly belittles even his closest friends (especially JD, who looks up to him like a father), is ridiculously hypocritical, and has some strange vendetta against Dr. Kelso (who represents "the system", but was just trying to do the best for the hospital), but he is called out on it on multiple occasions.

You're not really meant to like him, despite the occasional parts which shows him in a positive light, or the life lessons that he doles out to the younger characters such as JD and Elliot. Nonetheless, he's my favourite character in Scrubs because he's the guy you love to hate and John C. McGinley portrays him so brilliantly.

But, to look it from a realistic perspective, I actually can't believe that he has so many friends and people around him to still put up with his condescending crap, let alone having a girlfriend (although Jordan seems just as much of a jerk as he is, so it kind of balances out), which kind of reinforces the idea that it's just a "tough guy" act that he mainly puts on around the hospital.

 

[SecondPrize]

Dude from Dead Rising 2. He just comes off to me as entirely unlikable, and designed by a focus group.

 

[irishmanwithagun]

Hello, Escapists!
This my first post on this website's forums so I thought I'd start with a relatively ambitious statement by saying that I don't get why Shinji Ikari gets all the hate he does and he's probably the best protagonist I've seen ever. I mean, his quest isn't to Get The MacGuffin or Save The Princess (... AGAIN!), it's to get over the, very real, personal problems that cripple him as a person and many people (myself included) suffer, or have suffered, from.
As for a protagonist that I DO hate I'd have to go with Eragon (though the cast of CSI does warrant a mention for being the worst assemble cast ever written). You see, Eragon is a character without faults, not a perfect character but one who hasn't any depth written into him. This means he can do whatever the story throws his way, not because he's a courageous Hero of the Rebellion, but because he hasn't any personal limitations or flaws that prevent him from doing so. This, along with the fact that the only characterisation he could have under his empty shell could be a manipulative, sociopathic, anarchist (which could have made a good book, think of a deconstruction on the classic Rebel Against The Empire story) is why he must be the worst protagonist I have ever seen, read or watched that stood in my sightline as more than another generic "SQUARE-JAWED AMERICAN FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM!"

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Shinji from Eva and nearly every character ever to grace a JRPG.

 

[Alcamonic]

That 3rd priest brother in Call of Juarez: Bound in blood. Yahtzee's comments about him is all-so true.

 

[Dandark]

I also agree that I was rooting for the humans to win in avatar.

WHAT? The humans in that movie couldn't have been any more cartoonishly evil if they all had Snidley Whiplash mustaches, wore top hats, and tied all the Na'vi to railroad tracks.

I just didn't like the Na'vi, they seemed so silly and I couldn't take them seriously. Plus I alway's hate that whole theme of military equipment like gunships and mechs being beaten by animals and arrows just because JUSTICE!!!

I was rooting for the humans in that. "Show those stupid blue people how useful technology is!"

Also a human supremesist