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Started by Illbethewriter, June 11, 2011, 11:30:32 PM

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TYRA BANKS!  I'm not even sure if I spelled her name correctly, but it seems simple enough.  I cannot stand her...she brings a foul taste to my mouth and brings a stench into my nostrils.

hismikeness

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Quote from: Jabbles on June 15, 2011, 10:52:58 PM
Now that you mention it, Wilson is pretty annoying.

No way a person would take all that shit from House and still be friends, let alone still giving a crap about his personal life. Also, he had an awkward relationship with Cuddy too- inappropriate for a boss/employee relationship.

House though, combined with Dr. Cox from Scrubs, are my heroes. Speaking of Scrubs, the acapela singing assistant to Dr. Kelso was annoying. Ted, I think.
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Asmodean

Quote from: hismikeness on June 16, 2011, 01:57:05 AMNo way a person would take all that shit from House and still be friends, let alone still giving a crap about his personal life.

Actually... I have a friend like this.  :D
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Shy

Quote from: Asmodean on June 18, 2011, 07:40:16 AM
Quote from: hismikeness on June 16, 2011, 01:57:05 AMNo way a person would take all that shit from House and still be friends, let alone still giving a crap about his personal life.

Actually... I have a friend like this.  :D

I believe it. Some people enjoy to be the doormat/punching bag. So annoying you just want to scream at them to grow a pair!


Cecilie

I don't like Dr. House. He's an asshole. I also find Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami extremely annoying.
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hismikeness

Quote from: Cecilie on June 22, 2011, 11:09:23 AM
I don't like Dr. House. He's an asshole. I also find Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami extremely annoying.

Is he the main guy on CSI:Miami? The one that is always looking at the ground?

I've only ever like Grissom as the main characters on any of the CSIs. Lawrence Fishburne's character sucked, this guy (if it's who I'm thinking of) on Miami sucks and the guy from CSI:New York- Lieutenant Dan- sucked as well.
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wildfire_emissary

Aquaman and Namor. Sea-King suckers of DC and Marvel.
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Cecilie

Quote from: hismikeness on June 22, 2011, 01:43:20 PM
Quote from: Cecilie on June 22, 2011, 11:09:23 AM
I don't like Dr. House. He's an asshole. I also find Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami extremely annoying.

Is he the main guy on CSI:Miami? The one that is always looking at the ground? 

Yes.
The world's what you create.

Aaron SF

Any female character who is competent for their first two scenes and then falls to pieces at the end of the movie so the male characters can "save" them.

Really any supposedly main character who is not a real person nor given a story/struggle for the audience to empathize with. These are what we call "plot moving characters" who's existence is predicated on how much use they can be to the actual main character who is again usually a young white guy with a sword/gun/ohanddidimentionhehasapenis etc...  though it does happen in other genres.

Examples of plot moving characters include: Jar Jar, Everyone in the D&D movie except the young white guy with the sword (does it matter what his name is?), the Asian azgaurdian from Thor, Jimmy Olsen, Neytiri from Avatar (what the heck was her motivation for anything?), The Colonel from Avatar (again, why?)... etc... etc...

Obviously any story can have extras or scenery characters or characters who have small parts, it's the characters who have main parts and a lot of screen time and yet are less than half a dimension that annoy the crapola out of me.

Will

Larry the Cable Guy bugs the crap out of me partially because I don't find him funny and partially because of how cynical the character's existence is. Instead of Daniel Whitney doing well based on his comedy, he's successful because he tapped into the same strange cultural zeitgeist as the likes of Rush Limbaugh and televangelists. He panders to predominately white, Southern audiences by playing the "I'm simple, and you worship simple" card. Something about it really just bothers me.
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Quote from: Cecilie on June 22, 2011, 11:09:23 AM
I don't like Dr. House. He's an asshole. I also find Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami extremely annoying.

I like Dr. House, especially because the character is an asshole ;D

But I agree that the guy from CSI Miami is the most annoying. The guy can't act and overdose the drama.
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Melmoth

Quote from: Aaron SFAny female character who is competent for their first two scenes and then falls to pieces at the end of the movie so the male characters can "save" them.

Seconded. All of the female characters in Dexter. :)

Quote from: Aaron SFReally any supposedly main character who is not a real person nor given a story/struggle for the audience to empathize with. These are what we call "plot moving characters" who's existence is predicated on how much use they can be to the actual main character who is again usually a young white guy with a sword/gun/ohanddidimentionhehasapenis etc...  though it does happen in other genres.

Examples of plot moving characters include: Jar Jar, Everyone in the D&D movie except the young white guy with the sword (does it matter what his name is?), the Asian azgaurdian from Thor, Jimmy Olsen, Neytiri from Avatar (what the heck was her motivation for anything?), The Colonel from Avatar (again, why?)... etc... etc...

Every single Character from Avatar, I'd say! Including the main guy. By the time I was twenty minutes in I could already see the entire plot panning out ahead of me: who was going to get redeemed, who was going to die, who was going to die and get redeemed, and in exactly what order. This was partly because of how formulaic it was but also because of the obvious, cheesy, go-green agenda behind it, which is never a good basis for a story. 'Messages' of any kind instantly make characters 2-dimensional, points in an argument rather than people, and plots predictable.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is another example of this. The characters in that book pissed me off massively with their bland, black and white obviousness. So does Ayn Rand, come to think of it, and so does 'objectivism'.
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MariaEvri

rose from doctor who. I don't know why... just never liked her
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xSilverPhinx

The Pope.

If only he were just a character.
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