Top 10 Worst Types of Fictional Characters
Yes, so true. They never make mistakes and are always perfect. Many people like them, they look attractive, they always do things right, and they have no flaws. Real humans are not like that. Not only are those characters unrealistic, but you cannot relate to them. People want characters to be relatable and realistic.
I try to not make Mary Sues in my story because I know that nobody is perfect. I don't think I have a single character without any problems.
Yeah, Makoto Itou and Alois Trancy are terrible characters from anime. This is even worse than sparklers in TV shows. And Dora is only a sparkler.
In my story, I have one equivalent to the popular girl, but she has her own character development where she turns out to be really nice.
Zuri from The Lion Guard is one character I hate because of this. She whines and complains about even the most harmless things.
So annoying. They cry all the time over petty things. Just shut up already!
I can't stand those kinds of characters!
Why didn't Babar's creator sue Tezuka for copying the story and making it about a certain white lion, but adding a bad ending to it?
The Lion King (1994) and all of its characters and legacy: An obvious ripoff of Kimba, Hamlet, and the Bible. 'Nuff said.
That's kinda like cheating, but it's not that bad.
My story has a bully who was really evil, but then I made her change into a better person.
I despise bullies! Aren't they ashamed of their actions? They ruin people's lives!
I really hate these guys. I want to shove them down a hole so bad.
She is just an annoyance that needs constant saving by a male protagonist and is super boring. She is annoying and stupid and gives people a bad message that girls always need to be saved by boys and marry them. I never liked how they always got kidnapped by the antagonist (also a male). If they know that they keep on getting abducted, then why don't they make a plan to get rid of the bad guy instead of depending on their boyfriend? Princess Peach, I'm looking at you.
GOD, I hate these. However, in my story, I wrote one of these with a lot of depth. She has her own sense of will and is extremely kind despite being extremely weak and moderately stupid. She tries to be helpful to the other characters and even falls into a crisis when she realizes how useless she really is. She's actually a lot more motivated and stronger than the male protagonist who keeps saving her but just happens to be really helpless because of her "a stranger is a friend you haven't made yet" philosophy and how cruel I am to her.
Especially if they're weird and creepy like Sarah from Gumball, Mark the tapir from Sonic Boom, or Chloe in Always Bratz. That makes me mad.
I had to send one of my characters to jail after he killed someone. The story is getting boring without him, but, like, dude, you killed someone, so you need to go to jail or else it would be unfair.
Loki in Avengers - I never saw him getting real consequences for killing hundreds in New York. Same for Nebula.
The only vampire I'll ever like in a story is a story about My Chemical Romance. Haha, I hate vampires that are romantic and all that.
Ugh. I hate this so much. They are usually perverts whose only purpose in the story is to bite the girl for fan service.
I voted for this since DIO counts as one of them!
Pretty much modern Lisa Simpson sums up everything wrong with the Know-It-All. She's controlling, arrogant, and condescending, and has a really uncomfortable obsession with being the best at everything.
Hermione Granger is a know-it-all written greatly. But most of the time, those characters are really annoying.
Even the know-it-all has to mess up once in their life. It's boring when they never do.
The Newcomers
I always found Gabby from Gulliver's Travels to be ridiculously annoying. His voice sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks trying to rap and can easily get on your nerves quickly.
I hate both Pico the Woodworm from The Magic Voyage and Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King with a burning passion because both characters have inherited traits that made Gabby annoying and turned them up to eleven. And don't get me started on Scrappy Doo. Seriously, there are better sidekicks and comic-relief characters than these abominations.
Aleu from Balto II and (bleh) Kiara from The Lion King II are this. At least not all daughters are like that, thankfully.
Especially if other characters brush it off like it's nothing.
These characters are often kind of boring. I mean, they do not change throughout the whole series. They just stay the same. That makes a character flat out and plain boring.
It is even worse if the character with no development is a huge fan favorite. It's like they want every character to be that, regardless of what some view otherwise.
It's worse when this is one of the main characters.
Yeah, these kinds of characters are bland as heck. They're as bad as the ones with no development.
Some are okay (Tron from Megaman Legends), but a lot, especially in shonen anime, are just annoying and unrootable to end with their love interest, in my opinion. Why would I want a favorite character of mine to end up with someone who constantly calls him an idiot, belittles him, yells and hits him for anything he does, accuses him of doing something he wasn't doing, and ruins relationships with the opposite sex because she's jealous? Nah, they can f off, and the guy can end up with a woman who knows how to treat people with respect.
Honestly, I can't see tsunderes and their love interests ever working out healthily. If anything he does pisses her off, then why does she want to get with him? Why would some guy get with a girl who constantly belittles and hits him?
I read this, and the first one that came to my mind was Sasuke. LOL. Also Zeref and Jellal (sometimes). But they're still my favorite characters in their respective shows.
Fun fact: several of these (e.g., "Snow White," "Hansel and Gretel") were originally the actual mothers. They were quickly changed to stepmothers (and this was long before Walt Disney was even conceived, let alone the Disney corporation existing).
An evil stepmother could make her stepchild grow up to be a monster!
You don't love them if you think you need to control them THAT much! "If you love someone, let them free. If they return to you, it was meant to be!"
Timon and Pumbaa are probably among my most hated comic reliefs in fiction, next to the villainous hyena trio from the same film and Bunga from that film's spinoff, The Lion Guard.
First, Timon is very similar to Gabby from Gulliver's Travels (1939), being annoying, having anger issues at times, and even sharing the same reddish hair color. One could say that Timon has inherited all the traits that made Gabby annoying and turned them up to eleven. And man, I thought Gabby was pretty awful.
Pumbaa, on the other hand, is stated to be the first character in the Disney animated canon to provide toilet humor, notably fart jokes. What?! Fart jokes in the supposed-to-be-family-friendly-and-conservative-world-of-Disney?! That can't be possible. You have got to be kidding me.
Not to mention that The Lion King is supposed to be "epic" since it is based on both Hamlet and the Joseph/Moses stories from the Bible. Thus, toilet humor doesn't fit well in a story that is supposed to be epic or Biblical in tone. Just look at every comic relief in every other Disney movie made before TLK. There were no fart jokes or any other form of toilet humor the last time I checked. It is possible to lighten a story without using such low, downright immature humor like that.
What's the point of a character being made if they barely do anything? It would honestly be better to NOT make the character in the first place if you can't even think of anything interesting they do.
You know, a character which we've forgotten about because it doesn't get screen time or doesn't even talk!
Yeah, I'm not a fan of most of them.
Who wants to see some jerk hurting a poor, innocent animal anyway? I honestly want to choke slam anybody who does that!
I know that some of them are funny, like Jakotsu as you said before, but the ones I cannot stand are the brooding ones found in the Kingdom Hearts series, like Organization 13 or whatever you call them. These are terrible characters, yet their fans drool and fawn over them.
Not that bad. I like some of them. Yeah, some are disgusting (like Master Bob in Fairy Tail. Yuck!), but some are really funny and lovable. Jakotsu from InuYasha is actually one of my favorite characters from that series. He's absolutely hilarious!