Characters that annoy you

[Ragnar]

Wendy Torrance from The Shining.  Like a whiny and whingeing cross between Olive Oyl and Kat from Eastenders, who needed "correcting".

Ugh, I hated her in the movie. I didn't mind her in the book.

The bit that stuck in my mind was when she was back tracking up the stairs, meekly waving a baseball bat, crying (as usual), while Jack was ranting at her about his responsiblities, etc.  I personally thought he raised a few good points.  But most of the women I know, would have just stood their ground and gave him a clout.

[Medusa]

She's not a 'character' per say. But Nancy Grace gets on my fucking nerves.

[MiiriChan]

Harry Potter.  He's such a whiny brat!  Always going in and being all like "Oh no, don't risk your lives for me!  I'm not worth it."  Oh come on!  Please be a little more interesting than that.  Don't get me wrong, I love almost everyone else in that series.  Just not Harry.

[OldGit]

If I could draw, I'd make a poster showing an agonised Harry Potter flying through the sky propelled by a broomstick jammed up his arse.

The title would be:

Harry Potter And His Ring Of Fire

[Tank]

^^^ LOL!!

[Melmoth]

I know I've already gone, possibly twice, but I can always think of more:

1) All gay, male characters in recent mainstream media. There was a time when homosexual men in particular were represented as villains - malevolent, scheming, surreptitious etc. - but that seems far more flattering than the kind of fluffy, background comic relief that they're generally put up as today. At least the villains had depth. I'd rather be perceived as a 'bad guy' than as someone too stupid and shallow to possess any defining flaws at all.

2) All characters from American sitcoms - Scrubs, Friends, Frasier etc. - without exception. They always have to permeate the humour with a bit of cheesy seriousness, a few "today I've learned something new about friendship" moments, because apparently we're a load of foamy-mouthed children and we need that sort of nannying. One day, in the long forgotten past, some cocaine-addled schizophrenic executive must have received wisdom from above that people were looking to situation comedies - shows that implicit a feeling of smug superiority in the face of other people's suffering and embarrassment - for lessons on optimism and team spirit, but that this itching demand simply wasn't being met. Our man must have then taken it upon himself to change that, while everyone else, seeing that he was insane, had the good sense not to argue. I can think of no better explanation for this bullshit occurring.

3) All the faces of TV journalism in the developed world, who ought to count in this game if only because they're fictional. And I'd list them for a similar reason as above: their maddening preoccupation with what we can take away from this or that violent catastrophe.

4) All protagonists, to some degree, annoy me. So often they're trying to unravel the meaning of their lives, or the answer to some nagging question about themselves, usually with an overblown and vain sense of importance about what the answer will be. "Am I a monster!? Is my destiny good or evil? WHO AM I!?!?" etc. So much energy wasted on nothing.

That'll do. Sorry. This is what boredom does to me.

[Heretical Rants]

If I could draw, I'd make a poster showing an agonised Harry Potter flying through the sky propelled by a broomstick jammed up his arse.

The title would be:

Harry Potter And His Ring Of Fire

I'd draw this if I didn't have so many other things to work on right now  

Even though I like Harry Potter 

[Ihateyoumike]

Andy Dick. I don't know how I didn't think of him before. Sure, he's a person, but the characters he plays are all horrible. Even when he's supposed to be himself i think he's playing a character.  Every time I've ever seen him I've wanted to throw up in my mouth a little bit. He is truly the epitome of all that is annoying and unfunny in this world.

[xSilverPhinx]

4) All protagonists, to some degree, annoy me. So often they're trying to unravel the meaning of their lives, or the answer to some nagging question about themselves, usually with an overblown and vain sense of importance about what the answer will be. "Am I a monster!? Is my destiny good or evil? WHO AM I!?!?" etc. So much energy wasted on nothing.

Heheh...nihilist 

Soap operas, I just really dislike the way their plots twist and turn, as if the general audience wouldn't interest themselves in it if it didn't. I guess the producers are right. Without all the cliffhangers, somewhat predictable events and shallow characters, I doubt anybody would.

[j.woodard24]

Just watched Creation.
Darwin's wife is agonizingly frustrating.

[Jay]

The female cop from Boondock Saints 2 and Steve Harvey (I realize it's an odd combination)

[hismikeness]

Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
Every one of the guys from Jackass fame.

[Icarus]

Glen Beck.  Benny Hin fills me with revulsion and I think that Joel Osteen is a weird huckster. I see Eric Cantor on the tube from time to time. I really dislike the TV personna of that guy.

[Ali]

Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
Every one of the guys from Jackass fame.

Yes.  Also Stannis, that self righteous prick.  And speaking of HBO, True Blood's Tara (although she's ok in the books.)

Agree with the people who said Jenny from Forrest Gump. 

[OldGit]

All characters from Fifty Shades Of Grey, except the perverted murderous boss.