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Who is a fictional character you hate the more you think about them?
Question^ Dewey in school of rock
Jack Black in School of Rock comes to mind as well.
Although to be fair, his character also learns that lesson as well, and becomes a better person.
They actually can't afford the loaf of bread, they assume Charlie stole it when he shows up with one
I really can’t stand the way modern audiences don’t understand that the film makers intended this. In Roahls world all the grownups suck and that’s the point. Grandpa is meant to be scoundrel why do people think they’re original or discovering this? It’s not subtext it’s just text!
meanwhile in Tim Burton’s version, Grandpa Joe is overly enamored with the very man who fired him (and the rest of the factory) for a cheaper, more disposable workforce
What a scab.
grandpa joe fucking sucks no matter what version
In Michael Bay’s version he’s a 30 foot robot that can turn into a car that only plays linkin park on its radio.
Man, if it's from the books, 8 have to accept the canon.
But I always saw it as he really was very sickly but really pushed through very hard to make this memory. Obvs Mom couldn't go with Charlie because she had to work and take care of everyone. So Grandpa Joe used every ounce of wellness he had left to make sure Charlie didn't miss out
Also it's a musical. Everyone is constantly doing cart wheels, especially the fucking orphans.
and the power of song can rouse anyone from a bedridden state
THE POWER OF SONG COMPELS YOU
YOUR MOTHER TAP DANCES IN HELL!
“Oh, does it? Does it compel me, Charlie??”
Grandpa Joe is much more sympathetic in the book.
The main reason is because Book Charlie has a dad. So with 2 parents working instead of one mom, the grandparents come off less like freeloaders and more just like elderly parents.
Next, I can’t recall but I don’t think they’re as poor in the book as they are in the movie. Yes, Book Charlie’s family is still poor, but in the movie they’re living on nothing but cabbage water.
Another aspect in the book that’s dropped from the movie: Grandpa Joe used to work at the chocolate factory. He loved it and had fond memories and was sad to get fired. So going to see it would be more special for him than it would be for either of Charlie’s parents.
Movie Grandpa Joe: asshole freeloader who relies on a single mother to slave away even though he’s capable of full on dance routines who also has no qualms about stealing.
Book Grandpa Joe: an old man who used to work but is now too old but still has the strength to spend the day with his grandson who he loves very much.
They are super poor in the book. Before Charlie finds his ticket the whole family is slowly starving to death due to a harsh winter and Charlie's dad losing his job at the toothpaste factory.
Yeah. I mean in the book at the factory Willie Wonka even gives him a mug full of the chocolate River while in the boat simply because he looks so starved. If anything the movie made them look better off than they were.
This was my interpretation. It was a true endeavor for Grandpa Joe to get up and go for this and for all I know he died five seconds after the credits rolled.
Man looked a little too excited to be floating towards spinning blades of impending death
I'm no expert, but I've noticed that in most of Dahl's work, there's one good adult, and all the rest are just horrible people.
And when his Mom asks where he got he says, “What difference does it make where he got, point is he got it!”, which foreshadows when he steals the fizzy lifting drinks from Wonka, nearly killing his grandson
Chekov's loaf
I've said this before, but everyone's got it all wrong!
a friend and I once joked about this but then we discussed the possibility of Charlie’s own mother stricken with Münchausen syndrome by proxy. She cracked after the loss of her husband when Charlie was a very young boy. But it wasn’t long until she decided to take it upon herself to care for her parents as well as her in laws. She couldn’t trust doctors to care for her loved ones after they couldn’t save her husband. No no, that just wouldn’t do at all!
Mrs. Bucket will be the one to take care of her elderly parents and in laws. She will be the one to shelter them, clothe them bathe them, etc. etc. All while she keeps them fed with nothing but cabbage soup, far from a nutritious meal. She tells them it’s not safe to go out, tells them they need their rest, they need to stay in bed until they get better. Grandpa Joe didn’t want to protest for the sake of his still grieving, widowed daughter. After the malnourishment takes its toll, Charlie’s grandparents are all but permanently bedridden, with no one to help them but one. Mrs. Bucket.
Charlie makes it out okay because he is a growing boy who gets his healthy lunch at school. “Cheer up, Charlie ” Mrs. Bucket sings, because for whatever happens, she will be there for him always, for better or worse. It’s only when Grandpa Joe shows his old strength when his grandson gets a Golden Ticket that she realizes her plans begin to unravel. He was told all this time he was too weak to walk, too weak to stand, or to sing! Hence his surprise when he breaks into song with Charlie.
Grandpa Joe and the rest aren’t assholes, they are victims
EDIT: I got a “reddit cares” message for this?
Wow that's dark.
jokes aside, it’s just a little satire on the people who take the Grandpa Joe hate a bit too seriously. He honestly was one of my favorite characters in the OG movie, along with Mr. Salt. I always liked how GJ stood up to Wonka and called him out near the end, he just wanted the best for his grandson Charlie
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The whole cast of Grease. Sandra is worse off for having ever met them. They're a gleeful bucket of crabs.
Frenchy seemed pretty nice.
They were all delinquents lol
I always hated how they turned this nice honest exchange student and turned her into another scuzzy greaser girl.
Yep. Literally broke her down until she decided to completely eradicate her individuality in order to get with a guy who was kinda shitty
Stupid kid
What gets me is the guy was willing to clean up his act for her. But when he saw she was willing to just degrade herself instead he dropped any reform of himself.
I'm adding "a gleeful bucket of crabs" to my vocabulary.
Outstanding.
Some people are so touchy.
Santa and the other reindeer in (1964) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer.
He was so cruel and hateful!! Santa is a total dick, and he encourages the other raindeer to be assholes too. Forget how he treats his elves.
I’m 41, born in 1982, I’ve literally always hated this story. Santa is a huge jerk.
He literally says to Rudolph's dad "You should be ashamed!"
Like WOW, Santa is a fucking ASSHOLE.
Big time. He probably farted on every sleeping kid before leaving their house.
This has me dying lmao
I post this every Christmas Eve:
Your Christmas Eve reminder:
In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa is trash.
He knew the other reindeer were bullying Rudolph and cared nothing about it until his shiny nose was useful to him.
Santa is a user and an enabler of bullying.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Deviation from the norm will not be tolerated unless it is exploitable.
You know they went right back to shunning, ignoring and alienating Rudolph the day after Christmas.
This, absolutely. I freaking HATE that whiny bitch Santa in Rudolph. And yeah, sure, I believe he never noticed an entire island of misfit toys before.
Until he was shamed into stopping there-yeah Santa was a total dick. But Rudolph's father wan't any better. I hated all those bastards. Rudolph should have led them right to the side of a mountain then let his reins off at the last second and let them all crash.
Hell I’m still salty Hermie took the Bumble’s teeth. He’s a Carnivore! How the hell is he going to eat? Are they going to put his food in a blender?
I swear, that Lion with wings should’ve cleaned house.
And on top of that, as soon as Rudolph can do something for them. They are like Hey, we like you now.
Adjudicator in John Wick
You’ve got to admit though, her “insufferably arrogant bitch” smirk was top tier.
Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
This kid is such a narcissistic jerk
I read the books as a kid.
Even then I knew Greg was a prick. Making his best friend dig in the snow for a longer period of time so he can “feel like he’s extra helpful” to Greg’s own idea.
Fucking dick
That’s the point of the book. It was always a weird adaptation choice for that reason.
I watched the movies years ago and never really realized how truly awful he was. Now that my kid is old enough to watch the movies and read the books, I’m in awe of how awful a person he is.
Mrs Carmody from The Mist. She deserved a much slower death than just getting shot
Had Ollie left it at the first shot where she was shot in the stomach, it actually WOULD have been a pretty nice death for her. She’d have bled out over hours and been in total agony the whole time~
Yeah when he was like "I had to" I was all "no you didn't, after the first shot you were fine; you should have saved the bullet."
Oh shit, I just realized that extra bullet would've played a huge part in the ending
Bev from Midnight Mass joins Mrs. Carmody for religious characters I hate the most. They both come at it from a different angle but they're also both so good at portraying the sanctimonious zealot (altho admittedly, I think Bev's belief was nowhere near as strong as Mrs. Carmody's and it was more that religion gave her a tremendous amount of control over others)
James Halliday in Ready Player One
Monopolist gazillionaire who locks away all his wealth until the world solves his 80s trivia video game. Worse, he puts no checks and balances on it and is shocked to find some people resort to murder for the chance at unimaginable wealth. Nothing to cure disease, fund science, the arts, scholarship etc. But as long as the first one to crack the game is a nice guy, it'll all come out ok in the end.
On brand for real life gazillionaires tbh.
He probably thought that whoever was as nerdy as him about the same stuff would probably be cool idk
has he MET Gamers ?
Roy Neary in Close Encounters. Trashes his family's home, abandons his family, gets with some single mom from Muncie, hell - leaves the fucking planet....yet is seen as some...hero? idk
It’s such a well-made movie but every time I can’t help but feel bad for his family who will only ever know that their dad went crazy, ran away, and was never seen again.
After reading Spielberg's quote about how he wouldn't have had that ending after having kids, I see CE3K as a story about a man literally burned and driven crazy by aliens, then sacrificed to them by his government.
I love to think he returns to earth after 40-50 years and there’s a big public to-do over all the returnees this time. His descendants come out of the woodwork with their stories of how they always thought he must’ve gotten into drugs, had a breakdown and died in a ditch somewhere and now they’re extremely disappointed to find out he’s just an asshole who deserted his family for “adventure“. Meanwhile stories of how his wife had to start from scratch after the government “accidentally” bulldozed their house (in case of alien evidence), and couldn’t even collect his pensions or much in the way of benefits for years until the bureaucracy would allow him to be declared dead. There’s a big stink and he wants to leave, but the aliens are bored with him too, so he’s stuck here. Screw that guy.
Spielberg wrote that well before he'd even entertained the notion of having kids, let alone had any. He's said if he wrote the film today, he'd never let Roy get on the mothership.
Mr. Peanut.
He’s a peanut selling other peanuts to be eaten.
Just like every BBQ sign that has a pig wearing an apron.
Cera from The Land Before Time fucking pisses me off. She is a bitch right from the start and her dad being an asshole himself is no fucking excuse. She LITERALLY talks shit about Littlefoot's DEAD MOTHER right to Littlefoot's face when his mom fucking SAVED HER LIFE! Her redemption arc is bullshit. Fuck Cera, punch her in the face.
I didn't realize until a few years ago that she wasn't Sarah but Cera as in triceratops.
The 13 direct to video sequels are mostly dumb but there‘s an absolutely hilarious moment in movie 10(?) in which Cera has a nightmare that everyone is worshipping Littlefoot as a hero and she screams “noooooo” before waking up.
I’m not going to sit here and listen to you talk shit about the 13 direct to VHS pure gold land before time sequels.
~ Dinosaur!
His tail was swift as lightning
Dinosaur!
His heart was brave and pure
Dinosaur!
Whenever times were frightening
call his name and he'd be there for sure
Lone Dinosaur ~
LOL. fuck. Those movies were a huge part of my early childhood. This is hilarious
To be fair, she was raised by a man named Daddy Tops
Whose main character trait is being racist.
Daddy Tops is hilarious and I'm convinced the writers knew exactly what they were doing, naming him that.
Yep yep yep
Dude! This needs more upvotes. She's the fucking worst.
I'd feed that bitch to the sharp tooth. I need an unrated Land Before Time.
I've always hated her.
Kai Winn. Louise Fletcher knew how to play evil so well.
My child...
She was one hell of an actress and I thought she couldn't portray a character you like to hate more than her role in Cuckoo's Nest. I was wrong. Also DS9 is awesone and all that jazz.
I’m in the middle of a rewatch and just got to season 4. She’s been so good at making me so mad I’m pissed at myself for not being able to seperate the actress from the performance at times. Louise Fletcher was phenomenal in that role, and the writers gave her good shit to watch. Also interestingly noticed in the third season one with the ‘three vipers’ and the wormhole - they actually say what’s going to happen to the emissary in the last episode. Never noticed the foretelling before.
Rita Skeeter
That woman launched a hate campaign against a fucking fourteen-year-old girl.
One thing I hate about Rita Skeeter is that Hermione figures out she's an animagus and can turn into a beetle, and no one ever makes an effort to step on her.
Book Hermione is fucking savage. And even she wouldn’t stoop that low.
I mean in the books Hermione captures her and keeps her in a jar for over a month lol. Books Hermione was based.
Hermoine pretty much kidnaps her at one point
Because that would be murder and a one way ticket to Azakban.
Your Honour, my client pleads "whoopsie daisy!"
Or worse, expulsion
John Hammond in Jurassic Park. “Spared no expense!”
He underpaid his most important staffer to the point the guy turned to corporate espionage for a payday. Tried to run his dinosaur island with a three-person skeleton crew during a hurricane.
The more you read or watch Jurassic Park the more you realize no one would have died if Hammond weren’t an idiot.
He's pretty actively an antagonist in the book, from what I remember, but for some reason they tried to make him "nicer" in the movie, despite most of the issues being based around him being a cheap, uncaring monster.
He's a cuddly grandpa in the movie while in the book he's a ruthless corporate cheapskate who dies unceremoniously to compys
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Eh honestly making John Hammond into a deluded Walt Disney-type character is one of my favorite changes in the movie. Overall, I'd say the strength of the movie - and why it's better than the book - is that all the characters are memorable and likeable, except of course for the characters we are supposed to hate.
Hammond in the books is hateable, but not in a fun way like Film Gennaro. He's just a greedy, stupid, cheating businessman. In the movie we see his love for his grandkids and his genuine enthusiasm for the idea of the park, casting him not as a conniving monster trying to exploit new technology to turn a buck, but as a naive, reckless, and compassionate man who jumped at the chance to accomplish something fantastic. The discussion over dinner is great, where he rebuffs Gennaro's talk of pricing out of a belief that the park is a miracle that deserves to be experienced by anyone. And by the end, Hammond has changed as a person. When Grant remarks that he's decided not to endorse the park, Hammond replies "So have I." He's learned that he's a fool, learned that he made mistakes, and feels the burden of his sins.
Hammond is just as culpable in the movie as he is in the novel, but casting Richard Attenborough and changing his characterization went a long way into making the film exceed the novel imo.
What I’ve read is that Stephen Spielberg wanted to make that change because he identified with the “showman” side of Hammond and didn’t think that that, in itself, was a bad thing.
Agree that it was a brilliant change, a great example of “the road to Hell being paved with good intentions”.
And plus in the movie, you do see two John Hammonds.
You see the friendly grandpa when he is interacting with the main cast, and then you see the cheapskate "cut all costs" businessman when he's interacting with Nedry.
Because the early 90s loved some capitalism and hating lawyers was a running joke. Which is weird because the book it’s the exact opposite.
They go over Hammond’s backstory a lot in the book, including him openly saying the only reason he’s not using this tech and money on medical science would be that if he did there’s a cap on profits (basically he wanted to be Martin Shkreli but laws at the time prevented it), he was going to only have rich patrons with maybe a make-a-wish kid every now and then as advertisement, misleading/defrauding investors (I’ll give that one a pass).
To top it off the whole reason the place falls apart is because he skimps on IT budget by only having like 1 guy (Arnold was actually a theme park ride guy I think). And then not only skimping on IT on a massive island-wide security system he overworks, underpays and is a dick to Nedry. Not to excuse Nedry but his stint in corporate espionage should’ve been seen as a massive potential security risk a mile away.
Also the girl in "Atonement." Which, excuse me very much, SHE NEVER ATONES
But isn't that the whole point: that she never actually atones and writes the novel as a confession?
If it isn't then I really didn't understand the meaning of the ending.
Also, even at 13 Saoirse Ronan was already an acting goddess
Oh, so so SO true about Saoirse Ronan. omg she was fantastic.
I never thought about it that way, maybe you're right. but is that an atonement? It's just a confession. She never atones!
AND SHE LET OUR JAMES JUST PERISH!! Unforgiveable.
I know that that's literally the title, but I think that the "Atonement" is what her self-insert in the novel tries to do and that she, when basically on her deathbed, wishes she could've done.
I mean, she tries to atone by serving as a wartime nurse, but yeah her easing her own troubled conscience by fictionalizing a less tragic ending for Robbie and Cecilia is somehow more infuriating than the nothing she'd been doing.
I was physically angry at the end of that film, because.. (and I'm sorry to do this) BIIIIIIITTTTCHHHH!!!!
Nelly from Little House on the Prairie.
I never wanted to punch a little girl so bad!!
Everyone rightly hates on Grandpa Joe, but what about Willy Wonka? He tells the kids to eat whatever they want, and doesn't tell them not to eat from the chocolate river. When one does, he lets the kid fall into a river and get stuck in a pipe, then he brings out the Oompa Loompas to sing about how fat the kid is.
Wonka set them up for failure. He wanted those kids to have a terrible time. He's (metaphorically) an avenging angel who is punishing them for their "sins."
So his protege becomes John Doe from Se7en? That's almost as good as the Snowpiercer angle.
The lack of safety rails and life rings seems like an OSHA violation to me
He BEGGED Augustus not to touch the river
I just realized how impressive the Oompa Loompas were at improvisation.
They had a few days to prep.
They knew what kind of children were coming in and probably prepped a song for each stage of the tour if a kid died there.
There's a really funny Robot Chicken sketch about this. Just a boardroom of Oompa Loompas brainstorming song ideas, and then another one busts into the room and says something like, "Guys the fat kid already fell into the river, we gotta go, just run with whatever we got."
Lilly Moscovitz from The Princess Diaries.
Pam (Teri Polo) from Meet the Parents.
Lilly is even more insufferable in the Princess Diaries books
Yup. Wild that basically telling Mia to get over her dad's death that happened only months ago in a Disney movie is still better than book Lilly. Although I did enjoy how they explained the movie within the book series.
Best friend straightens her hair and she flips out and accuses her of abandoning their friendship. It's such early 00's Not Like Other Girls shit.
Lily is just awful. Telling Mia she should be over her dead dad after a couple of weeks. Then berating her to the point of tears when she has the audacity to have a makeover.
Warden Norton from Shawshank Redemption
The ex-gf from 40 days and 40 nights.
Precious's mom. Burn in hell.
Well, you're supposed to hate Mary, because she is an evil piece of shit.
You should be at maximum hate, you shouldn't have to think about it to hate her more
And dad, too. (From what i remember)
Also the only time Mariah Carey wasn't a stuck up diva
Shelby in Steel Magnolias. She didn’t even try to adopt. She gets pregnant even though her doctor told her not to, and knowing full well that it’s extremely risky. She gets pregnant, in part, to save her rocky marriage. When her body inevitably gives out and she needs dialysis, she instead takes one of her own mother’s kidneys. When even that fails and she passes away, she leaves her child without a mother and makes him the responsibility of her mother. All because she wanted “Thirty minutes of wonderful over a lifetime of nothing special.”
While I don't disagree with you, they do state explicitly in the movie that adoption would be very difficult for them because no one would want to place a child with them with her medical history. So it seems like they DID look into it, as she says from the very beginning that Jackson was willing to do so. Whether or not they researched the black market option like Jackson also suggested remains to be seen.
There was a Mad magazine parody where her character is confronted about the chance that she'll die.in childbirth and she replies "I just said I wanted to HAVE a baby, not raise it."
This is based on a true story and the author was her brother. He plays the reverend at her wedding and funeral and her mother was on set for some of the filming. She insisted on being present for the life support scene because she wanted to see Julia Roberts get up and walk away at the end, something she didn’t get with her own daughter.
I know someone whose dad died of in his 50s from as a result of out of control diabetes. By this point he was divorced, in a nursing home with both legs removed above the knee. All from refusing to follow his diabetic diet. He never met his grandkids. In real life people make dumb choices ALL THE TIME.
It's based on a true story and was writtenby her brother. Real people make real choices that not everyone agrees with. We don't know everything that contributes to her story or why she made the choices she did.
She was a real woman who was really loved by her family. In the end, it's a story about love and grief.
I used to cry when Shelby died. By the time I reached my 30s, I started crying when M'Lynn breaks down after her funeral. I knew I'd be losing my mom soon, and I identified with her pain so much. I could run across the country and back, but my mom couldn't. Shit. I'm crying now.
Thank you for articulating why I dislike this movie so much! It’s got iconic moments and wonderful actors but always leaves a bad taste in my mouth for exactly this reason.
Percy Wetmore from The Green Mile (1999). Fuck that guy
Darren Fucking Stevens from Bewitched.
He's selfish and controlling. He knows she's a witch and can have any kind of life she desires, but she's with him because she loves him and wants a human life.
Does that make him appreciate her more?
No. He only thinks about his career and how her powers could be embarrassing or cost him his job, one that a college buddy got him because he can't do anything but suck up to clients.
He's just like every other mid guy who landed a girl out of his league, he only wants to punish and use her to make up for his own uselessness.
God I hate that guy.
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The little girl from The Children’s Hour!
The brattiest child in cinema history! I’ve never wanted to punt a child into the air but it’s completely justified!
Andrea’s friends in the first half (at least) of Devil Wears Prada
You're so right. I didn't even think about it until I rewatched it over Christmas, and her friends are AWFUL. Her one dubiously gay friend was super cool, though. I really wish we'd gotten more with him just because he's actually interested in fashion and understands why it could be important.
Reddit is so funny lmao why does this exist
I think the funnier thing is that sub has existed for YEARS. Like I've been on reddit for over a decade and that sub has existed most of the time I've been here (I remember seeing it years ago), it may be older than my reddit account, and it's such a niche community.
Not a movie, but there’s also /r/fuckmindy.
Stardew Valley: a casual game where you can farm, fish, mine, and get married.
Stardew Valley players: r/FuckPierre
Delores Umbridge is the absolute worst
Stephen King once said in an interview "...Dolores Umbridge, was the scariest villain of the series. He commented: The gently smiling Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish voice, toad-like face, and clutching, stubby fingers, is the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter."
King saying this makes a lot of sense because Stephen King is the master at single-dimension, sadistic, loathsome villains that still seem real.
It's all the worse because petty tyrants like her are very real.
I haven't watched or read Harry Potter in years and years yet this character is what came to mind. That actress killed the role
Yes, but at least we are supposed to hate her.
Don't start me on Dumbledore and how badly he screwed things up.
The safety record is atrocious
For gods sake, this hot take is over done.
Dumbledore was in a Cold War with a supervillain and doing his damndest to keep everyone alive. He kept a ton of secrets and made mistakes, because when you’re fighting someone like Voldy you never know what information is vital. For example, Voldemort discovering Harry and Sirius were close lead to a trap that almost killed Harry and did kill Sirius.
He was doing his best, dammit!
It’s pretty heinous that Grandpa Joe was in the bed for 20 years, but I didn’t interpret him getting up as him just trying to tag along for free food. I interpreted him being happy enough for his grandson, whom he’s basically the best friend of, finally winning something
Nancy from Weeds is like Charles Manson: manipulating everyone around her to do evil, terrible things, without actually dirtying her own hands
Achilles.
Very on brand for you
Dutch Van Der Linde. Fuck you for what you let happen to everyone. Then you decide to kill yourself instead of facing what you did. Everyone hates Micah, but Dutch doesn't get near enough hate IMO
Laurie from Walking Dead. Somehow, she manages to be a bigger monster than the actual undead.
Téa Leoni in Spanglish.
Percy from the Green Mile as well as the actor who played him. He married an underage girl when he was well into middle age.
And people bullied the child bride and called her a bimbo. Chrissy Teigan sent her death threats. What an insane and sad situation.
Looked it up after reading your comment - 16!!! When he was 51. 🤢
Commodus from Gladiator
This vexes me. I am very vexed!
Isn't that the point? You're supposed to hate him anyway.
Am I not merciful?!
AM I NOT MERCIFUL!!!!
Richard Harris telling him "your faults as a son...is my failure...as a father"
Fuuuuuuck
Why do you think Charlie’s family is poor in the first place? Who built the largest chocolate factory in the world, 50 times the size of any other in Charlie’s small town? Who abruptly shut down the factory town’s factory and destroyed its lifeblood? Who replaced his employees with unpaid slaves?
Grandpa Joe had his life destroyed by Willy Wonka, but he never shows a hint of resentment towards the man who fired him and his friends and plunged the town into poverty. He still speaks of him with kindness and wonder.
Half of the cast in TWD deserved hate but none more than Rick's wife.
I can't stand Mater from Cars.
Peter Pan. As a kid, I was like “oh he’s a fun magical imp”. As I’ve grown older, he’s a permanent child who refuses to grow up, steals kids at night, and more or less harasses the other creatures in Neverland.
While I have some problems with Once Upon A Time’s writing after season 1,
Patrick Star. Fake ass friend, I’ll never forget how he went along with No SpongeBob day as if SpongeBob isn’t the only purpose he has in life outside of being a bottom feeder. From the episode where he mistreats him in front of his parents for pretending to be dumb to the time he got a brain and truly showed how big of an asshole he could be with intellect- I hate his dumb ass. SpongeBob deserves better
Edit: oh! And don’t forget him being a deadbeat father and ALSO withholding SpongeBob’s own child (Gary) from him
Edit 2: Just to clear up any confusion caused by the structure of my sentence, the deadbeat father portion is in reference to the baby clam episode NOT when gary ran away to Patrick. I’m also very aware that Gary is SpongeBob’s PET and not his child lmao- they’re not even the same species. Pet owners often call their pets their children so I was simply using the term in that manner, didn’t mean to aggravate anyone with that and I can see how it was misinterpreted.
At least Squidward is honest about his dislike of SpongeBob
I don't blame Squidward for hating SpongeBob. The Krusty Krab is a crappy job with a crappy boss. Not only does he have to work with SpongeBob (who thinks it's the best job ever), he has to live next to him.
Kumar from Harold and Kumar. Who sneaks a bong on to a flight to Amsterdam, makes no sense.
Scott Pilgrim, from the titular movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Scott is an air-headed douchebag with an ego to match. At first, he dates a 17-year-old Chinese high school student named Knives Chau, mainly to help him heal and get over his big heartbreak he experienced earlier, but as soon as a hot girl named Ramona Flowers from New York comes to live and work in Toronto, Scott makes it his sole mission to be with her, no matter what, even if it meant ignoring his friends, neglecting band practice, dumping Knives (because of one of Wallace's famous ultimatums that may live in infamy), and beating the coin out of seven people who want him dead.
Even Wallace Wells would think twice about dating a 17-year-old.
In a movie episode review with Scott the Woz, James Rolfe famously said, "I love this movie... but fuck Scott Pilgrim." Honestly, after watching it about 30+ times, I've agreed to that point after the 10th watch long before James and Woz reviewed it.
Look, he’s old (96!!!!) and in poverty, so I can forgive him for not working (although if he had worked harder and saved when he was young, maybe they wouldn’t be poor in the first place). He isn’t just doing cartwheels; he has a whole song where he has to learn to walk again. Imagine, your poor as fuck and your grandson wins a sweepstake. You’d have a reason to live again after years of being dirt poor.
BUT, encouraging Charlie to steal fizzy lifting drinks is grossly irresponsible of Grandpa Joe, and the only reason Willy let’s Charlie win anyway is because he returns the gobstopper.
The DA in that changeling movie. He just comes off as incredibly douchy.
Most of the characters in Rent.
Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate. He lays around the pool all day every day, with no clue or desire to do anything now that he’s graduated, has an affair with the married woman friend of his parents, gets set up with her nice and gorgeous daughter and treats her like shit, and then, somehow, stops her from marrying the good looking rich guy so she can run with him, the short ugly guy with no job.
I want to see the follow up a year later when she says what the fuck was I thinking and bolts
The more Game of Thrones progressed, the more I went from being seduced and in love with Daenerys Targaryen, to not caring about her eye candy and generally disliking her.
SPOILER ALERT! Shameless: Fiona Gallagher. Same. I was gaga over her at first, then by the end she was just so tiresome that I was downright relieved when she went away the last season.
Been reading about this Hitler fella, not a fan
Noah Calhoun from The Notebook
John Bender from The Breakfast Club
All of the kids in the Breakfast Club are pretty insufferable.
Being bad feels pretty good, doesn't it?
Ferris Bueller
I mean ultimately his day off manages to enlighten his best friend into facing his biggest fear (his dad) and then his own sister suddenly finds peace in not caring about what Ferris gets away with and just live her own life.
Though I totally understand feeling a little sympathy for the principal, although he definitely went above and beyond any faculty member.
I get the principal’s frustration at first, but at the same time there are avenues to deal with situations like that. Rooney goes absolutely batshit insane because a kid is chronically skipping school.
Moreover, even if he caught Ferris ditching at home, what will he tell people? “Oh, I went and broke into his house because I knew he was faking sick. What do you mean I’m under arrest, he was faking sick!” Or say “I went to his house and he wasn’t home. Sure, his voice was on the intercom, but when I broke in he wasn’t there!”
Faking sick isn’t illegal, but breaking and entering and/or trespassing sure as shit is.
Or is he going to say “I knew he was ditching so I decided to leave and look around the city for him.” Like, what a waste of a day. He has no other kids to worry about at that big ass school? No kids he might be able to actually help? He should be shitcanned for pissing a day away looking for a kid skipping school and not, like, dealing with the million other discipline problems at the school.
Yeah, at the risk of being controversial, I think some people's level of hate for Ferris as a character is on par with people arguing that Disney villains did nothing wrong. I understand people disliking him, he's often a smug little jerk, but a lot of it feels weirdly performative. Dare I say, Buzzfeed-esque.
As if Rooney is just some poor, downtrodden principal who is doing nothing but enforcing consequences for this little piece of shit, when this is a grown-ass man breaking into someone's house because he is absolutely seething that some kid is literally just playing hooky again.
I don’t have much sympathy for the principal. He was overly obsessed with catching one student playing hooky. He decides the best option is to not only stalk this student, but to also break into his house.
Most of the townspeople in Edward Scissorhands suck but that one horned up suburban housewife one who sexually assaults him and then accuses him of assaulting her later on is particularly wretched.
That dickhead who owned the hotel in Home Alone 2
I feel like as I've gotten older, I've realized that in a lot of 'slobs vs snobs' movies, the slobs (who are the protagonists) would actually be insufferable IRL.
-Van Wilder is presented as the hero of the story, but he's basically a lazy man-child who spends his rich daddy's money so he doesn't have to take any responsibility.
-Sure Judge Smails was an asshole, but Rodney Dangerfield and Chevy Chase's characters were obnoxious douchebags.
-I always thought it was bizarre that they made the neighbors out to be the bad guys in 'Christmas Vacation'. Clark was a complete shithead to them and they were absolutely right that he was an idiot who screwed up everything. You would hate living next door to him.