Top 10 Worst Animated Movie Protagonists
The worst excuses for main protagonists in animated movies. They may be the main characters of their movies, but their characters really leave a lot to be desired.
As far as movie protagonists go, Gene is a bland, boring, unoriginal, and forgettable character, just like the main human character whose name I can't remember nor care about.
This is why they didn't make The Smiley Central Movie.
Dex looks like Ace Hart from Dog City. He's yet another boring and bland character who can't stop blurting out bad puns.
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a spam."
That has got to be one of the worst movie quotes of all time.
Norm is the protagonist of 2016 animated film Norm of the North. He is a polar bear who comes to New York in an attempt to save his home from the hands of a wealthy businessman. He looks a little bit like Noah from Noah's Island, if you remember that, but it would be as if Noah's Island was rebooted and became CGI.
I would like to share something about this movie, but... I don't want you guys to hear it.
My friend almost bought tickets and brought me to watch this terrible movie.
Nothing about Oscar is redeemable. He's a horrible friend and a horrible employee who constantly borrows money from his boss for his crazy schemes, which never work and only get him further into debt. He literally sells his friend Angie's pearl, which she gave to him to repay his debt to Sykes, and he gambles it away on a horse race and loses.
He is the worst Will Smith role ever!
An unlikable character who's only out for himself and cares nothing about helping the animals in the park gather food.
This guy deserves to have his soul crushed more than that one redheaded squirrel from The Sword in the Stone.
The mere existence of this terrible movie makes me appreciate Over the Hedge so much more.
I've already talked about this character before. Here's a recap:
Davey is a selfish jerk who's mean to everyone for no real reason. He's placed under the watchful guidance of a super annoying old man who attempts to reform him with no success. Even after we get a flashback of him learning his parents died (which turned him into the person he is today), he's still too unlikable for anyone to sympathize with.
How is he not number one? Gene might be a bland and boring character, but Davey is just plain rude and learns no lesson by the end of the movie. It doesn't matter how tragic his backstory is, the way he treats everyone is just cruel. At least Gene is trying to grow as a character, whereas Davey openly and actively pushes others away, and yet we're supposed to sympathize with him and understand the emotions he's going through.
Tow Mater, or simply Mater, is a character in Cars and its sequels, Cars 2 and Cars 3 as well as Cars Toons. He is voiced by Larry the Cable Guy and inspired by a 1951 International Harvester tow truck. I always hated Mater just by the fact that he's voiced by Larry The Cable Guy, who just plays himself. It's even more confusing that they would make him the main protagonist in the sequel Cars 2.
I agree that he is one of the worst animated protagonists, next to Simba and Kion from The Lion King and The Lion Guard, respectively. Pico is annoying and needs to be squished and stepped on.
If you took Jiminy Cricket and made him as annoying as the Minions, you would end up with this guy.
Princess Ariel is a fictional character and the title character of Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated film The Little Mermaid. I always hated this chick. Her moral is, "If you're attracted to a guy you never spoke to, make terrible and selfish decisions. But don't worry, your love interest and daddy will save you with no real lasting consequences, and you will get everything you want." Bull. Crap.
This guy is an even bigger and more useless waste of oxygen than Buck Cluck from Chicken Little.
Even a tick is more likable than this chubby, toddler-brained waste of fictional beast cells.
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I liked The Black Cauldron. However, I really hated the main character Taran. He just comes off as that typical character who's cocky, arrogant, and thinks of himself as a hero who's not afraid of anything until he comes face to face with the Horned King. Later, he becomes overconfident after finding a magical sword and suddenly thinks he's a warrior.
It's Dougal who was better, and in the original Magic Roundabout, he liked sugar cubes.
If Donald Trump were a DreamWorks character. Actually, I take that back since this character still has a lot more likability than Trump will ever have.
Queen Elsa of Arendelle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 53rd animated film Frozen.The guy who was barely in the first movie is put in charge of rescuing a bunch of baby animals who were captured by poachers. Pip, along with his bug gang, has to go rescue them.
The only problem is they're too easily distracted. They end up at a carnival and are too busy having fun to remember why they even went out in the first place. Not only that, but Batty Koda literally tells him straight up that he's supposed to be saving the baby animals. However, he completely remains oblivious.
Next time you need someone to rescue your baby animals, don't ask this guy.
The fact that she's voiced by Roseanne Barr makes this an even worse movie than Chicken Little.
Aurora is a fictional character from the popular Disney Film, Sleeping Beauty and the 2015 Live Action Release, Maleficent. She is commonly known as Sleeping Beauty and is one of the group Disney Princesses. She is a unique Disney Princess as in her film, Sleeping Beauty, she has a total of 18 minutes... read more
The only reason these two characters were created and voiced by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sandra Oh was for paychecks and to make younger kids laugh. They are heroes you just wish would get eaten alive by Sharpteeth. They made the movie more of a comedy and were the main reason why The Wisdom of Friends is the worst Land Before Time movie ever made. Yep, yep, yep.
Every single character in this movie makes Jar Jar Binks seem as charming and funny as Rocket Raccoon.
Not in her original movie. The recent sequel where she went all selfish psycho radfem.
She was okay in the first movie, but she became such a selfish little brat in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
The one-dimensional furry counterpart of Miguel - or at least that's the impression I get from him.
A horrible knockoff of Max from The Secret Life of Pets.
Timmy did absolutely nothing. He's not a hero. His mother had to take so many risks to save him and her children, but Timmy did nothing at all, yet he was still honored as a hero. He's a disgrace to his family, Thorn Valley, the Rats of NIMH, his friends, and most importantly, his father. Timmy should have been the villain, like Don Bluth said he'd make him, instead of Martin. I wish Rasco from the second book would have been the hero instead of him.
He has done absolutely nothing to earn all the fame and fortune that he apparently got throughout the entire movie. Even Aurora from Sleeping Beauty has performed more acts of true heroism than he ever has!