You beat me to it. I hate you now.RufusMcLaser said:I don't care for angsty, obsessed main characters in general; I've quit on more than one show (Yukikaze, for instance) because I hadn't the slightest interest in what happened.
That being the case, my vote for absolute least favorite protagonist goes to Holden Caulfield.
It took me three tries to read Catcher in the Rye. The first time I quit after the first page, the second time I quit after the first chapter and only after the third try did I finish the book. Mostly because I wanted to see if anything every actually happens. And my answer was: Nope, nothing ever happens.
Because the entire book is about Holden Caulfield being a whiny little *****. His whining is so annoying and so repellent which is the sole reason it was hard for me to finish the book.
I've been told that's the point, but it doesn't make it any less annoying. At least Shinji has a really good Freudian excuse for his whineness, and can occasionally be likable. And if nothing else, at least there's giant robot/monster battles, vague conspiracies and obstuse religious metaphors to distract from Shinjis whining. Cather has nothing but Holden whining.