Yahoo Lifestyle 15 TV Characters Who Were So Painfully Insufferable, They Should've Just Been Killed Off The Show
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which TV characters were just SO bad they should've been killed off. Here's what they said:
1.Xavier Thorpe from Wednesday, who was pretentious, kinda cringe, and just the worst love interest option ever.
"I thought Xavier was cool, but then I low-key wanted to puke later in the show whenever he talked. I eye-rolled at him being the 'better' love interest."
2.Owen Hunt from Grey's Anatomy, who is somehow always screaming at the women he's dating or married to because they don't always agree with him.
"Initially, I loved him, but quickly it became very clear that he was the worst character in this show — and that's saying something, considering how many characters have been on Grey's. He doesn't bring anything to the show besides whining and screaming at the women in his life. I stopped watching after Season 14 because the show stopped being interesting for me a while ago, but maybe I would have kept watching without Owen."
3.Debbie Gallagher from Shameless, who lied about taking birth control and tricked her boyfriend into getting her pregnant.
"Pretty much everyone on the show did shitty things at one point, but most of them were actually decent and showed remorse for their wrongdoings. But Debbie continually did shitty things and never faced consequences for her actions. It's ridiculous. She never showed remorse for anything she did."
"I stopped watching because of her."
4.April Nardini from Gilmore Girls, whose sole purpose was to break up Lorelai and Luke, and added nothing at all to the show's plot.
"It didn't add anything to the plot other than making viewers frustrated and changing Luke's character arc. I don't think he would have hidden the truth from Lorelai."
"That arc on Gilmore Girls was lazy and awful, she and her mom were just a Walmart Rory and Lorelai. That was obviously written to ruin Luke and Lorelai getting married that season, which seems stupid after they dragged out the relationship for six seasons."
"April was unwatchably annoying. It might have been an interesting arc if April was in any way likeable."
5.Nathan Shelley from Ted Lasso, who was such a whiny, mean-spirited asshole that viewers couldn't stand watching him onscreen.
"At first, he was a great laugh, but later on, he just became an asshole."
6.Sarah Bunting from Downton Abbey, who was so problematic, she gave "Marxist Feminist suffragettes a bad name."
"My god, did she give Marxist, feminist suffragettes a bad name!"
7.Malick D. from Elite, who totally manipulated Nadia to get to her brother, and then got him to cheat on his boyfriend, who was suffering from cancer.
"He literally had no purpose except making Omar cheat on Ander. He also had a weird relationship with Omar's sister Nadia at the same time and totally used her because their relationship ultimately meant nothing to him. He was so manipulative."
8.Roland Schitt from Schitt's Creek, who was so painfully obnoxious, that he made people not want to continue watching the series.
"Awful."
"I loved that show so much but hated him. I’m not sure if it was the character or Chris Elliot, but I hated him."
"He's the number one reason the show is hard to get into the first season, but they reduce his screen time in later seasons, and it gets much more watchable."
9.Andy Bernard from The Office, who was an unfunny crybaby and too self-centered to be enjoyable.
"He was absolute garbage and totally ruined the show. He was not funny, charming, or anything remotely positive. He was a crybaby brat who was the epitome of white privilege."
"He was the worst part of the show and the reason the later seasons were terrible. He was good as a wannabe bro, but then they tried to make him sympathetic, THEN switched back again. Awful. Seeing him with Erin was gag-inducing."
10.Ani from 13 Reasons Why, who kept trying to defend Bryce Walker for sexually assaulting women.
"She annoyed me so much, and her character was so forced. Her defense of Bryce and his unforgivable behavior killed the show for me. She never should have tried to make us feel sympathy for him. She was just annoying and self-righteous."
"It really felt like she didn't belong there. It was very weird that all the characters were confiding in her when they didn't even know her."
11.Vanessa Abrams from Gossip Girl
"She didn’t bring much of anything to the overall plot of Gossip Girl. To me, her most memorable thing was when she had a threesome with Dan and his actor girlfriend at the time...and even that was kinda awful."
12.Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother, who was selfish, irritating, and kind of a pick-me girl.
"She was super irritating and selfish. She kept going on about being a tomboy when actually she never had any tomboy traits at all, she actually loved girly things."
"I liked the show at first, then the jokes became kind of boring and over the top, but her character in general...she was self-centered, arrogant, and how could she just date two male best friends in a clique without getting the focus of hate? I don't know about Barney, but Ted would have turned out much better if Robin had not been there."
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13.Landon Kirby from Legacies, who was painfully boring and constantly got himself into trouble, especially when he knew he couldn't save himself.
"Landon is your typical Gary Stu–type character. He has no agency and is constantly depending on Hope to save him. Hope literally goes through hell and back to save his life, and then Landon just dumps her and leaves town. Like, WTF?! Who does that?"
14.Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl, who was so whiny and self-involved that it was actually so fucked up that he was revealed to be Gossip Girl.
"He was so awkward and cute, and he and Serena were a really cute couple (for a teen CW drama). In the later seasons, he was so whiney and self-involved, and when Serena married him after he admitted to being Gossip Girl, I was INFURIATED."
15.Finally, Che Diaz from ...And Just Like That, who added literally nothing to the show except unnecessary relationship drama for Miranda and was straight-up annoying.
"Not only did they tear apart Miranda's marriage, they were just annoying all around and added nothing to the show."
