Yahoo Lifestyle 32 TV Characters Who Were So Loathsome, Viewers Wanted To Throw Their Remotes At The Screen
Recently, Reddit user Whitino asked, "What TV show or movie had a character or plot that made you genuinely angry, and what was it?" and people nominated a ton of TV characters they absolutely despised. Here are some of the worst!
1.Donna from That '70s Show:
"That '70s Show has been a favorite sitcom of mine since I was a teenager. But rewatching it as an adult, I see just how awful Donna is to Eric. I'm only on Season 3 for this watch-through, and already, she constantly bullies the poor guy. And then any time Eric is in the right and Donna is in the wrong (knowing that another guy is clearly flirting when Donna is oblivious to it, trying to spare her feelings after killing her cat, giving a good and legitimate answer when they play the Newlywed Game, so many more examples), somehow Donna ends up mad, and Eric ends up apologizing."
2.Lynette from Desperate Housewives:
"She was just an awful self-centered character. I did not like her."
"She was manipulative and a control freak. And she preferred manipulating Tom to speaking to him. (To be fair, he was a man-child, but she could've just left him.)"
3.Elena from The Vampire Diaries:
"It was always about her in the worst of ways. Caroline becomes a vampire after being assaulted by Damon. Everyone judges Caroline. Elena dates Damon. Elena becomes a vampire. Everyone literally semi-destroys the supernatural world to get her the cure."
4.Wendy from Ozark:
"She's the most dislikeable character ever. She lies through her teeth constantly. She got her own brother killed. She's a professional gaslighter. She's just plain insufferable."
5.Pierce Hawthorne from Community:
"I loathed his character and was so happy when he was killed off. I don't get why they didn't ice him out of the group, as he made everyone uncomfortable."
6.Claire from Outlander:
"I hated Claire. She's so whiny, insufferable, nosy, and argumentative. She frequently does wild, reckless things that cause serious issues for others while she faces no consequences and never learns."
7.Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"He spent an entire season being a jealous asshole because Buffy rejected him romantically. He toned it down after Season 2, but there were two other instances in later seasons that are just dripping with misogyny, which is infuriating for a show built on being a refutation of that."
"His character would be at least somewhat tolerable if he ever had consequences for his actions. Instead, his shittiness is rewarded over and over again and treated like a lovable quirk of his personality."
8.Lana from Smallville:
"Practically every character has a crush or straight-up obsession with her at some point, and I just find her insufferable. I think she's nosy and bratty and acts like she's the only person that was impacted by the meteor shower sometimes."
9.Debbie from Shameless:
"She's legitimately the least likable character ever. What the writers did to her was a crime. There wasn't a single redeeming factor. You never once were on her side. You never even felt bad for her.
In a show where you're not supposed to like a lot of the actions of the characters, she takes it to a new level. It became unwatchable because of her. I bailed."
10.Nancy from Weeds:
"She's so self-entitled. She'd piss me off every time she was on screen. That god awful, 'I'm so smart and the queen' look when she sips her drink with a straw made the show hard to watch for me."
11.Dana from Mythic Quest:
"I don't have the time to go on a properly deserved rant, but Dana in Mythic Quest is by far the most negative contribution to a show I generally enjoy. The character started as a boring half to a shoehorned relationship that didn't fit the show's tone at all. Then she graduates to somehow being near equal to Rob Mcelhenney's character when she accomplished absolutely nothing but profiting off someone else's technology. In addition, the show makes other characters show her unearned reverence.
Her entire character and arc feel so forced and contrary to the tone of the show and the actress has zero charisma in addition to the faults in the writing. Everything just stands in such stark contrast to every other aspect of what is generally a very enjoyable show."
12.Beth from Yellowstone:
"I would literally cringe every time she showed up on the screen, waiting for whatever rancid, hateful thing she was going to eventually say for no particular reason. In the end, when it was finally apparent that Sheridan thought Beth was the hero, it retroactively ruined any enjoyment I got from the show."
13.Elizabeth from The Blacklist:
"I just finished The Blacklist Season 8 and can most definitely say Elizabeth Keen. Six-year-olds have more emotional intelligence, logic, and sense. Likewise, the entire Taskforce and their continuous refusal to hold Liz accountable for legitimately anything. Bomb a hospital one day, sleep with an FBI agent who doesn't care you're a domestic terrorist the next."
14.Pete from Mad Men:
"Pete Campbell on Mad Men is the picture in the dictionary for boot licker. He’s such a vindictive, manipulative little weasel of a character, and the fact that he’s generally rewarded for his shitiness is even more aggravating. There’s a reason damn near everyone immediately fell in love with Lane's character after he punched Pete in the face. The worst part is most everyone who works in an office knows a Pete, and they too fall upwards by being pieces of shit."
15.Ginny from Ginny and Georgia:
"I cannot tell you how much I hated every time she was on screen. She was so whiny and ungrateful about everything and had no idea just how privileged she was. I actually almost stopped watching the show because she pissed me off so much. That actress is incredible because the character is supposed to be annoying and insufferable, and she absolutely kills it."
16.Ted from Breaking Bad:
"He's so self-centered, incompetent, and so extremely frustrating to watch. I think it's because he's not malicious or calculated; he's just an inconsiderate dope."
"It's taken years for me to get over absolutely everything Todd does from the Tarantula episode onwards."
17.Gina from Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
"Gina just kept getting progressively worse and worse until the season they removed her from the show. And even then, there's this one episode where she shows up again after becoming a successful social media influencer, makes plans to hang out with Jake, and then ditches those plans last minute, fakes having a legitimate reason to ditch Jake, then when it's revealed to be a lie she says, 'Well I don't want to have to choose between being successful and being your friend'... like what? And Jake's just like, cool with it, like 'yup, totally understand,' no pushback at all?? No acknowledgment that lying about why you can't attend a meetup is fucked and has nothing to do with how 'successful' you are? God, Gina makes my blood boil; the one character I can't stand in an otherwise fantastic TV show."
18.Bernadette from The Big Bang Theory:
"She wasn't cute; she was a bully."
19.Charlie from Supernatural:
"She came in acting like this nerd queen genius and just never dropped it. Then the guys treat her like their best friend for some reason. It felt like a celebrity cameo that just got propped up as amazing for no reason and forgot she was playing a minor role. I was actually glad when they killed her off because she was just insufferable. I have nothing against Felicia Day; I just hated that character. "
20.Leo from Will and Grace:
"You mean to tell me that Harry Connick Jr. is a doctor and supposed to be a heartthrob? The dude has no charisma and isn't attractive. His acting is terrible, and he's in so many episodes. He did nothing to advance the show; he was just there, and it was dumb."
21.Josh from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend:
"I hated Josh in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and I couldn't buy him being a love interest from the start. He went from annoyingly idiotic to infuriatingly immature, irresponsible, and selfish. I couldn't believe he moved in 'platonically,' and then they had another go after the whole wedding debacle."
22.Manny from Modern Family:
"In the earlier seasons, he's a cute kid, but when he gets older, his character gets so annoying."
23.Chuck from Better Call Saul:
"He'd been working behind his brother's back the whole time and sabotaging him because he couldn't get over the fact that his brother had a criminal past and didn't believe he'd changed at all. 'You can't change who you are. You're Slippin' Jimmy! And Slippin' Jimmy I can handle, but Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree? That's like a monkey with a machine gun.'"
24.Vanessa from Gossip Girl:
"I can't start to explain to you how irrelevant I think her character is. Maybe even Jenny from the same series, but Vanessa is the cherry on top for sure."
25.Zoidberg from Futurama:
"Every scene centered on him is focused on the negative. He's poor, incompetent, clumsy, socially inept, unwanted, smelly, whatever.....pick one, anyone. The only reason the character is there is to ridicule him.
A few TV shows do this. Another example is Jerry from Parks and Recreation. Everyone in the office is excessively cruel to him...why? It's not needed and detracts from the characters doing it."
26.Carol from The Walking Dead:
"Her response to the prison sickness still pisses me off."
27.Chief from Halo:
"Put your helmet on, shut up about your feelings, and go kill some aliens."
"It is like, they took everything they learned from Halo 4 and said, "Ok, let's do that but fuck it all up." Like, I like the more emotional Chief; I love exploring the Spartans showing humanity as they are being framed as 'the Saviors of Humanity,' but Chief in the show was sickening. The whole show was a bastardization of a franchise, but Chief was one of the worst, if not THE worst, parts of the show. Just give us a series of Chief going back and forth between him in the opening stages of the Covenant War and reflecting on the fact his original purpose wasn't even to fight these things but to quell the insurrection. He is sometimes saving the people he was meant to destroy because if he doesn't, humanity might not last much longer."
28.Hayley from The Originals:
"Hayley would keep the child away from the people who could actually keep the child safe. Girl, you don't have to get along with your baby daddy, but ... you had a kid with him."
29.Stark from Farscape:
"He started out as this voice of reason/calming effect for Crichton, then replaced a beloved character in one of the later seasons, then turned out to be the most annoying, screamy, and useless imbecile that panicked the moment adversity showed up. ... I remember being super disappointed and annoyed with the character."
30.Ezra from Pretty Little Liars:
"A teacher/student romance is bad enough. That he'd been in a relationship with Alison before that and knew who Aria was before their first meeting makes it so much worse. Then, in the last season, they were like, 'We never really addressed the Alison thing,' without any actual attempt to actually address it."
31.Patrick from The Mentalist:
"At first, he seems quirky and smart, but then it's obvious that he's just rude and tricking people into thinking he's smart. And by the end of the series, he's as much a murderous criminal as the criminals they're supposed to be catching."
32.And finally, Angelica from Rugrats (lol):
"I watched Rugrats as a kid and liked it. I knew Angelica was the antagonist/villain of the show. But it wasn't until I got older that I realized just what an awful, irredeemably evil psychopath this girl was.
She wasn't just a bad case of princess syndrome. This girl was an outright sadist. She lies constantly and never feels bad about it. She's cruel, manipulative, and mean for the sake of being mean.
I would even rank her above Eric Cartman from South Park in terms of pure evil. At least Cartman is funny. Angelica Pickles has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. And every time I watch an old episode, I feel a hatred for her that is hard to put into words."
What TV or movie character could you not stand? Let us know in the comments!
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