Characters in shows you can't stand
 

What characters irritate the hell out of you in cartoons/anime/live action shows? What characters just rub you the wrong way so much you wish you could reach through your tv screen and shut them up? Or maybe you don't hate or strongly dislike them, you just don't care for their character so much?

for me in anime:

Sailor Mars: from the Sailor Moon dub (she is not so bad in the sub but still not so great) she is just a cocky little biotch and she is just wants chad as her whipping boy

Bulma: From the Dragon Ball series. What a freakin shallow bitch/slut!! Ugh I just can't stand her. What the hell is her damn problem? all any one has to do is look in her direction and she she screams her head off at you. She acts like she has a stick jammed up her ass all the time

Chi-Chi: From the Dragon Ball series. Man what a shrew! the woman is as bad as Bulma. Except she's way more of an uptight bitch who won't cut the umbilical cord and get off her Gohans back! Man talk about being a nag! Poor Goku gets hen pecked by her all the time.

Hakafu: the main character from Ikki Tousen. My God what a useless character. All her character is, is a pair of boobs with no personality or brains. I just find it hard to believe that any one can be so niave or have such a lack of self awarness that they would not know that their boobs or panties are exposed. But then no one in that anime seem to care when their privates are exposed.

Yamazaki: from Card Captor Sakura that always tells really stupid and off the wall stories and tells them as facts. The one that always has his eyes closed. Can't stand him.

Akane : from Ranma 1/2. Well... I don't actually hate her but her personality and mannerisms really get on my nerves. She always jumps to wrong conclusions and she never gives Ranma a chance to explain/defend him self. Plus she hits him over little things

Cartoons:

Jean Grey: from X-Men. Normally I like characters like her with pshychic powers and normally I think she is a very cool character but often times in the show she came off as to weak, plus I was a little annoyed by the rivalry between Cyclops and Wolvern over her.

Cyclops: from X-Men. I...can't really put my finger on why exactly this guy annoyed me so much but for some reason he bothered me. I found him a biut to much like a perfectionist and I thought he was a shamless suck-up to the Proffessor and alot of times I didn't care for how he led the team.

Miss Cuttingham: from Tale Spin. Maybe it the fact she had a whinney voice (she was voiced my Sally Struthers :|) but she was just so tempermental and bitchy. I mean I know that Balloo tried her patients alot but she really flew off the handle way to quickly. Shut-Up already!

Inspector Gadget: from...Inspecter Gadget. I know I'm probably making enemies right now for this but I disliked him so much I couldn't watch the show.

Janine: from the first two seasons of the Real Ghostbusters. In the first two seasons she had the most annoying nasally voice with a hard edged brooklin accent. Plus she came off really sort of dumb and sarcastic. I know that it is not every ones favorite but I liked when Kath Sousie took over the part and they softened her personality a bit.

from live action show:

Jakie: from That 70's Show. Oh my lord, words can not express my annoyance with this character. WHat a bossy, bitchy, menstral, shallow brat she is. She became slightly more tolereable when she started going out with Hyde but still she is one character I sure would like to smack the snot out of.

David: from Roseanne. If any one remembers this show David was the emo guy that showed up in middle of the show as Darlen's live in boyfriend. He started out ok, even though he was a total doormat for Darlene who was slightly cool. But after a while the writers just made him more and more pathatic as time went on. He had zero back bone and he was just forever getting verbally or physcally pwned by every one in the house.

Becky: from Roseanne. She was the oldest daughter of the show and a go-getter over achivier. God, how I hated Becky. She was whinny and emotinal and took teenage agnst to a new level. I hated how she didn't give a damn about any one but her self and her boyfriend Mark. And I really despised her when Dan's motorcycle shop business went under, which really devestated Dan (and could have put the family in a fincial bind) and all Becky could care about was how Dan's motorcycle business would put her boyfriend Mark out of the job since Mark was Dan's only employee. And even went so far as to berate her father for mismanaging the bussiness would ruin Mark's life. Then she went and eloped with her boyfriend as an act of definace and then later started to regret it and yelled at Roseanne for letting her do such a thing. WTF? I so longed for Rosanne to bitch slap her, just once fo9r being such a self centered brat.

My guess is you don't like bitchy women.. :P

Hmm.. Trying to recall a character I can't stand..

Oh, yeah, that kid in Futurama.. Uhm.. Cubert!

And..

Teri Bauer from the first season of 24.. I know, she's going through hell, but she's just acting so pathetic I still have some problems with her..

Actually, a lot of the characters from the 2K3 TMNT-cartoon.. Uhm.. Mostly those created just for the cartoon, but also Michelangelo..

That's what I can think of right now..

I think it's much easier to hate real people, than it is to hate characters from TV-shows.. :P

My guess is that you're a thread thief! THIEF!

From anime, I cannot stand Ack-io from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Alcyone from Magic Knight Rayearth. My least favorite Sailor Senshi is Venus, but I do not hate her.

actually I got the idea for this thread on another board that I frequent :roll:

ugh, Makoto in the anime annoys me with her with her "I'm not very feminine" angst. When I was a kid I remember watching the show and wanting to slap her when she whined that she felt being strong, athletic and tall made her boyish. I was like "how the hell does any of that make you boyish"?! And the fact she tried to remedy that by pretending to be little miss Betty Crocker not only seemed pretentious to m but shallow . It wasn't until I realized that this was a cartoon from a different country that had different cultural (more traditional) standards for young girls that I began to feel sympathatic toward Matoko and her angst and I began to like her character more. But yeah her pining over some jerk that broke her heart still annoys me.

more anime characters:

Naruto: from...Naruto. At least I really can't stand his voice in the dub. He just annoys me and I think he over reacts to things

Saske: from Naruto honeslty I'm just so done with coldly stoic and calm characters that are supposedly bruting loners who thinks that every one around them is incompentent. They are sooo cliche at this point and done to death in anime that characters like him become a dime a dozen.

Yukito: from Card Captor Sakura. Honesty I didn't get why Sakura fell so damn head heels for the guy. I never thought he was so great and her obsession with him got to the point of being annoying. It was to the point that I thought her"crush" on him was a bit forced. Plus I thought that he was a Mary Sue character who was too perfect at every thing and overly nice plus his mannerisms really annoyed me.

Yue: From Card Captor Sakura. To be honest I just never got into the guy. Yes he is cool looking and he has the strong enigma persona but...I just never cared for his character. Maybe its a hold over from my dislike of Yukito but I just don't care for him that much. I liked it better when it was just Sakura and and Kero-chan.

Chad: from Sailor Moon (I don't know his japanese name). I just don't care for this guy, they make him way to goofy and childish to be taken seriously as a love interest for the hot tempered Rie. The writters couldn't have made him more of an equal for Rie? He was made out to be basically Rie's whipping boy that she always screamed at and he would just scamper to do her bidding to get her attention. And I was never fond of the the psudo rocker/surfer voice the anime gave him in the American dub.

Jaken: from Inuyahsa. this guy grovels so much thats its pathatic. Plus his American dub voice is just grating

The first character that came to mind was Screech from Saved by the Bell.
Urkle 2nd.....what's funny Urkle grew up into a pretty handsome young man.

hmmmm. Looks like this should have been named "characters in anime you hate"

but I don't watch anime.

Oh well. I love to hate House. Good show, good character. He gets the job done, but he's an ass to all the sick people while he's doing it. (and no, sweetie, I do not find him attractive in the least :P sorry...inside conversation)

Love and Hate that character.

Which means you missed the concept of the show completely. If he were effective as a bionic detective, the show wouldn't have been half as memorable. Sorry, but I'm sick of people saying that.

But characters I can't stand:

From Animaniacs- The Flame. What dull, dreary, unfunny segments made for a TV show that was intended as non-stop hillarity, even when it was educational. he really seemed out of place there.

From King of the Hill- Luanne and Lucky. I like Tom Petty, don't get me wrong, but the idea of KOTH was that the characters weren't low class rednecks. And Luanne is just comming off like Ralph Wiggum now. SHe's not supposed to be smart, but she's not a drooling imbecile either.

From The Simpsons-Ralph Wiggum, Cletus, and Sideshow Mel. These characters were good for a laugh in the single digit seasons, sure. But the lazy writers rely far, far too much on making fun of their accents and speach impediments for cheap laughs. That stuff lost its edge years ago.

From Masked Rider- Furbus. I will admit, I didn't like the sentai shows on Fox kids (half as much as most of the animated fare, anyway)... but adding a sqeaky brown puppet alien... no thanks. No thanks.

and finally...

From the Muppet Show Miss Mousey... just the ugliest muppet I've ever damn seen. Thankfully she didn't appear much.

Well it says Piggy broke her in half so that's why. Nobody tries to take her Kermie and gets away with it!!

And I'm not allowed to dislike something? I got the concept of the show just fine I just didn't care for it.

Cartoons:

Cubert: From Futurama. I found stories centered on him so boring.

Patty and Selma: from the Simpsons. What a couple of bitter old hags.

The Smurflings: from the Smurfs. I didn't hate or even find them annoying, I just didn't care for them to much. The one I liked was the one that was always slouching.

Captain Hero: from Drawn Together. He's not even funny any more.

Raph in the 2k3 TMNT. I didn't hate him, he just might as well have not been there. All he's good for is smacking Mikey.

I'm not a big fan of Kate from Lost. I don't think the character is interesting enough to justify the screen time she's given. At least Sawyer and Jack have their occasional badass moments.

Dr. House is really annoying. It seems like aside from being really good at what he does, he's a real piece of s***. I haven't seen every episode, but is there anything redeeming about the guy aside from the fact that he knows his stuff? I mean, it's not that I don't like smartass characters, but with House it's every other thing he says. It gets old.

Peter Petrelli from Heroes started to bug me a little in the second season. I don't see what point Maya really has either.

As far as "love to hate" characters go, Cain from Battlestar. Well written storyline, she's a good antagonist to Adama. She represented what would happen if someone was put in charge who didn't care about other people and was just hellbent on getting payback.

As long as you get the concept. I've met too many people who hated the show and clearly didn't get the point. Though, I would say that kind of thing would be better for a "Shows you can't stand" type deal than a characters type thing.

Uh... Yeah. You have to watch the show more than a few times to really understand his character. Do you know why he is the way he is? There is a back story and all that. If you're uneducated about the show, then it's easy to make an assumption about him. And he does have some sentimental moments. I personally love the character!

And I'll agree with Jean Grey and Cyclops. Though they are in ALL forms. (Though Cyclops in the movies wasn't SO bad, I still didn't much like him.)

There are more than that, but I'll have to think of some later.

Cyclops was in the X-Men movies?

I think he dropped in for a couple of minutes at one point in the series.

I also hate Katara from Avatar.

I cannot stand Rosie Webster from Corination street, she seems to be exactly what people expect all late teens to be like. Flirtacious and bitchy.

The same for Stacey Branning fro Eastenders. Described as tough, stubborn, fiery and bitchy, plus I dont think she knows trousers exist. She always wears mini skirts or hot pants even in winter.

Or maybe I don't like them 'casue they represent everything I hate about how people see teenage girls. I also hate soaps but my mum and brother love them.

Dragonball Z- I can't stand that fat ass Yojirobi. All he does is hold that sword with a pack of senzu beans. When trouble comes, he wimps out.

Teen Titans- Starfire really gets on my nerves sometimes b/c all she does is ask stupid questions and trying to look like a complete idiot.

Ed, Edd, & Eddy- I can't stand Ed's sister Sarah. Nothing funny or important comes out of her mouth.

You're all so full of hate. :cry: Can't we all just get along?

I hate Naruto. I'll hate him until the day I die. I will never understand why anyone likes that show. But then again, people probably say the same about Dragonball Z, and that's one of my favorite shows of all time. So I guess I'm open for people to say I "don't understand what I'm talking about."

Because Kakashi and Mega Pervert are the real stars of the show. Of course, I only read the comics. I find them enjoyable, I like them, but I can think of many other SJ manga/animes that are much better.

The character I hate the most is the White Power Ranger he fights like a girl and he is a waste of space

I don't really know what to make of such a blasphemously inane statement.

She... didn't use either "Raphael" or "Nightwatcher" in her post...

Oh, shut the hell up, I like the little brat. She's an important character to contradict her brother's submissive attitude mixed with his absolute stupidity.

Those Kanker Sisters are a waste, tho'. Boring white trash driven with hormones in all its glory.

Vidal: from Dragon Ball Z. What is it with the female characters in this anime?! They are all eighther spoiled tempermental little brats, or they are bull headed violent bitches. And Vadel is no diffrent, she comes off as this arrogant head strong girl who has to get her way. ugh

Aya : from Ayashi no Ceres. I've only really read the manga and I'm only on volume 7 but I'm slowly starting to get irritated with her character. (however I do think its a great story so far)

Molly: from the Sailor Moon dub. I just can't get over how freakin' awful her voice is in the Dub. Now that I've heard her voice in the Japanese and sweet it sounds, I can't stomach Molly's voice any more!

Luna: From the Sailor Moon Dub. I actually like her in the original japanese one but in the dub I can't stand her. She is just a rude bitch who insults Usagi (even though her insults are true) and puts her down to often. For some one who is supposed to guide Usagi she sure shows that she doesn't trust her capabilties very much. Dub Luna is the bitchiest cat i know

an oh my Goodness my all time number one character I hate the most:

ChibiUsa!!!

From Sailor Moon, I can not stand this little brat!! She was such a little bitch to Usagi when she appeared in Sailor Moon R that I instantly disliked her. Heck even during the times where she was all upset and crying because she missed her parents I hated her! I hated how rude she was to Usagi and how she would deliberately said things to cause Usagi problems and disrespected her when Usagi was trying to help her. And I never liked how her presence put a rift between Usagi and Mamarou, even after things worked out between Mamarou and Usagi. ChibiUsa just doen't know when to back off and and respect their reationship. And ChibiUsa really should have stayed in the future after Sailor Moon R . I didn't like how they brought her back because all she does is bring out the immature side of Usagi which I personally should have been the reverced. I also don't like the idea of Chibi Usa and Usagi growing up together Chibi Usa is Usagi's daughter from the future, not her sister! Let Usagi live her life and with out her future daughter mucking up things for her in the present. And I thought it was unforgivable when the Super S series replaced Usagi as the main character and gave it to ChibiUsa. Ugh send the little brat home and let Usagi stay in the spot light!

Wow. That's...quite a list.

Agreed on both points. I just started watching Ed Edd and Eddy this year and found it a joy to watch a little sister bossing about her older brother. As for the Kankers...yeesh. Sometimes they provide a good plot device, yes, but I think they just aren't needed most of the time. They are just there to...scare the living daylights out of the Ed's with the thoughts of marriage and make-outs? Err...yeah...

Just saw this one. Starfire might get on your nerves, but remember that it's in her character in the show. She's the only member of the team that didn't come from Earth, and is still learning about the culture around her. It's only natural to ask "stupid questions" when posed with something new. I guess it's like going to a foreign land where you haven't researched the language, have no idea of the customs there, or how everything works. Something along those lines.

Actually, I like the Kankers, only as foils for the Eds. The one I can't stand is that Blonde haired little girl that Double D has a crush on. Being the only sane one in a world of crazies makes you a dull character, unless you can play the straightman or the foil.

how can you say this? That is exactly what Arnold's role was in "Hey Arnold" to be the only sane logical person in a place full of insane border line socialpaths like Helga, his Grandma, and the big Fat kid with the twizel tooth. :| Amd Arnold as a character was kickass!

L - Death Note:
He's so arrogant and weird. I know the show tries to make you want to choose his side with the main character being evil and all that, but it simply fails. I hated him and everything he did eccentrically.

House - House MD:
Yeah, I guess many people have listed this one already. I think you're also supposed to dislike him a little, really. He's a total jerk with a buttload of talent. He's also a carbon copy of Dr Cox of Scrubs, who I also disliked for the same reasons. I haven't seen enough of House to know why he is like that, but I doubt it would make a lot of difference to me.

Sideshow Mel - The Simpsons:
He's got a very irritating way of speaking, he's the show's token atheist, he is genuinely worse than Sideshow Bob, not funny at all.

John Locke - Lost:
He's the same charactertype that I listed before yet again, I think. The confrontational bully that thinks he knows best for the others. But as an added bonus, Locke is very superstitious, sabotages stuff for everyone and the dumbest backstory you could think of in an otherwise fabulously written show.

Jakie - That 70's Show:
Since the OP said it best, I'll just copy it with some spelling fixes here and there. "Oh my lord, words can not express my annoyance with this character. What a bossy, bitchy, menstrual, shallow brat she is. She became slightly more tolerable when she started going out with Hyde, but still she is one character I sure would like to smack the snot out of."


I'm sure there are lots more but I guess this will have to do for now.

I really don't like Bill from King of the hill. He is such a loser.

that icky touchy feeling "lets discuss our emotions" english teacher from Daria

the boy Tom that Daria ended up with. Why did they have to stick such a cool social out cast with some one that was so normal and conventional?

I don't know if Reality TV shows count, but I hated New York from Flava Flav. I also hate her crazy ass of a mother, honestly I feel bad for the father who had to live with those two. :(

Is it ok to say that I hated almost every one from The Facts of Life?

Zapp Branigahn from Futurama.

I always find it funny when people say that, since Naruto is literally just DBZ with ninja.

The comic book store guy from The Simpsons : he always speaks to people in such a condescending way. He's really hateful.

Johnny and Vern (vaudeville performers) from Family Guy: The guy fails at making a funny joke and when he sees that he failed, he tells his partner to rock the piano and he starts dancing. More annoying than funny and I'm glad MacFarlane got rid of them.

And if anyone knows Sam & Max, I'd nominate the Soda Poppers for most annoying characters ever in all medias combined, but this topic is only about shows. :P

The Simpsons' CBG just makes me appreciate mine that much more!

Cartoons

Launch Pad: from Darkwing Duck. in this series they stripped all the coolness that made Launchpad cool in Duck Tales and watered him down to be more idiotic. Launchpad was an inept pilot but he frequently showed heroism and rare sparks of intelligence. in Dark Wing Duck I feel they down played those aspects of him. Which is sad because launch pad is usually my favorite character. :(

Jerrica: from Jem. I love the Jem series and I love all the dynamics and depth it has, and when Jerrica is "Jem" I love how sweet, independent, and awesome she is. But when she is Jerrica she often comes across as a bossy domineering manipulative older sister. And I get so annoyed with her whinny "I'm jealous of my alter ego" hysterics, where she gets wicked pissed off and jealous when her boyfriend Rio talks and admires Jem. My God if she didn't want to have a cheating boyfriend then she shouldn't come on to him when she is Jem. I've always defended Jerrica and her playing both sides of the table but I got so annoyed with her in the episode Midsummer Night's Madness that i wanted to slap her!

Rio: from Jem. I can not stand this guy. I honestly don't see what Jerric/Jem sees in this man or why she gets so worked up over him. He is such a self righteous little snot! He is supposedly a upstanding man among men but he has no problem going between Jem and Jerrica and then has the gaul to complain about both of them to each other. And then he gets on other peoples cases and gives them lectures for their behavior when he is doing the same thing. What a hypocrite! I do feel sorry that he is being played by jerrica but he claims in one episode that jerrica is "ten times the woman" jem is but in the very next episode he is all concerned when Jem goes missing (not caring that jerrica is too) and pursues her in a jealous rage when Riot tries to move in on her. What ever!

Clover: from Totally Spies. Ugh, what a cliched character she is... :sweatdro:

Wheeler: from the Planteers. He is just a big stereotype of how Americans are just lazy, ignorant, apathetic, losers that doesn't care about anything unless it effects them personally. And although alot of Americans are like that there are quite a few of eviromentally conscience, and educated, and respectful Americans who actually care about the world around them and try to do something about it. I hate stereotypes. :evil:

Firstly, how is he a token Atheist? He doesn't even do anything. Basically, i hate him too, since all he seems to do is pop up and say something in a funny voice for a lazy joke about how he has a British actor's accent. And on that list, let's throw Cletus and Ralph Wiggum in there. If you simply must use those characters, at least have them be treated as characters. Not stereotypes and catchphrases.

You know what, though. If you watch an episode of Ducktales with Doofus, and then watch a Darkwing, you really get a hillarious role reversal. You see, in DWD, Launchpad pretty much has a role similar to Doofus's in DT. So basically, by becoming someone's sidekick, he became his own sidekick. It's actually quite brilliant, if they intended it.


Well, what worked for Hey Arnold didn't work for that girl in E,E&E. The character doesn't so much come off as "the only sane one in a world of crazies" as much as a bland character devoid of interresting personality. I really should have rephrased that.

Kim: from Kim Possiable. What a Mary Sue!

Jane: from the Brady Bunch, stupid emo bitch

That Peace Croft girl: from Gundum Wing, ugh every one is shooting at each othr and dying and blowing up in these giant robotic war machines and she is whining about peace.

Kif and Amy: from Futurama, both these characters started to suck when they hooked up.

I'm not sure if movies count but the bitchy shreiky voiced blonde bimbo actress in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom. What was the point of her character? The token damsel in distress/eye candy/comic relief character? She was annoying and not even that attractive. I wanted to slap her every time she screamed: In--dyyyyyyy:roll:

That lab guy from CSI with the bad hair cut who's a comic relief,
who always gets on Grissolm's nerves.
Sorry I'm not good with names- anyone know WTF he is?

Also Ed from Cowboy Beebop.

Future Trunks (DBZ)...I don't know why this verison of the character irritates me so much, but he does. I love the main timeline Trunks though!

Videl (DBZ)...someone else summed her up nicely.

Chibi-Usa (Sailor Moon--ANIME version ONLY)...this child is the most annoying child in anime that I've come across, words can't describe how I hate her in the anime. She's the polar opposite of how the character is in the manga (I LOVE her in the manga, she's much more respectful of Usagi and has a much stronger relationship with her, she also tries to improve herself as a soldier.)!

Jessica/Nicky (Heroes)...Ugh! What a boring and irritating character. Her scenes dragged like crazy in the show, thank goodness they killed her off (or...that's what it looked like anyway)!

Becky (Rosanne) Disrespectful, irrisponsible loser. I miss the nice verison of the character they had for a while when the original actress left...

Kate (LOST) *groans* Both Sawyer and Jack could do soooooo much better than her. She's such a two-timer! If she's mad at one of them, she goes running to the other one and starts fliriting with them until she gets mad again and hops beds once more. She's really the only LOST character I don't like, I really love everyone else on the show.