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SimonDoom said:
The narrator/main character Theodore Decker from Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

For some reason, Donna Tartt likes to write novels from the point of view of completely unlikeable, borderline sociopathic, young men. She did that years ago with her first novel, The Secret History. It's an interesting artistic choice. I find the POV tedious after a while. I want her narrator to get his comeuppance, to get beaten up and left in a gutter somewhere.

The character perfectly embodies the term "annoying." Grating. I don't know if I've ever read a long, first-person novel that so steadfastly made me think "This narrator annoys me."

Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye is an annoying narrator/main character, but he is rendered so skillfully by the author that he's more sympathetic, and Holden's disaffected perspective spoke to a lot of people who saw their voice in his voice. I don't think that's true with Decker.
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Good calls, all around.
 
Dill, in To Kill A Mockingbird. He is an obnoxious brat who serves no other purpose than to kiss Truman Capote's ass.
 
Perrin, in the long middle part of the Wheel of Time when he's married to Faile. He was my favourite character to start with, but Gods, he becomes such a drip! I gave up a hundred pages into Book 10, so I don't know whether he stopped being a mopey whinger, but I doubt it.
 
SimonDoom said:
One of my "favorite" annoying characters from a TV series is Jack Bauer's daughter, Kim Bauer, on the show 24, whose role on the show is to do exactly the stupidest thing one can do at exactly the wrong time, so Jack has to take time out from saving the world and save his stupid daughter instead, thereby creating a completely contrived subplot. I watched the episode where she escapes from a psycho and runs down a hillside and just happens to encounter a mountain lion, and my sons and I just burst out laughing while watching it. We were rooting for the mountain lion.
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Yeah, she had horror movie character decision making skills, look a basement, I'm heading down!
 
This won't be a popular take, but just about all of Anne Rice's vampires.

What a whiny wimpy melancholy simp crybaby fest these posers were. I seriously blame Rice for where Meyers got her sparkly vamps crap from.
 
Rob_Royale said:
What they did to Luke Skywalker in the sequel trilogy.
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Disney uses the logic that the only way you can elevate one group is to denigrate another.

They thought instead of making Rey face some adversity-and maybe even lose a fight or be anything but perfect- and build some character for her, that it was easier to make her look strong by making Luke into a broken down simp.

It was one of countless things that made that movie/trilogy a joke.

It also made Daisy Ridley a target for incel whisperer knuckle draggers like Critical Drinker and his fellow toxic male whiners to continue to bash.

They're not bright enough to know these people play the part they're given, they're only smart enough to play with themselves, barely.
 
lovecraft68 said:
Disney uses the logic that the only way you can elevate one group is to denigrate another.

They thought instead of making Rey face some adversity-and maybe even lose a fight or be anything but perfect- and build some character for her, that it was easier to make her look strong by making Luke into a broken down simp.

It was one of countless things that made that movie/trilogy a joke.

It also made Daisy Ridley a target for incel whisperer knuckle draggers like Critical Drinker and his fellow toxic male whiners to continue to bash.

They're not bright enough to know these people play the part they're given, they're only smart enough to play with themselves, barely.
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In the same vein as Ahmed Best getting love and recognition, I'm happy to see Daisy Ridley doing decent things beyond Star Wars. She was easily the best part of the new Aussie zombie movie "We Bury The Dead". That movie was ultimately a little weak IMO, but not because of her.
 
ADirtyPerv said:
In the same vein as Ahmed Best getting love and recognition, I'm happy to see Daisy Ridley doing decent things beyond Star Wars. She was easily the best part of the new Aussie zombie movie "We Bury The Dead". That movie was ultimately a little weak IMO, but not because of her.
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I just saw that with my daughter. For me, zombie movies have more than run their course but it wasn't bad, tried a little something different and Ridley played a good role as opposed to the wooden character they stuck her with in Star Wars.

She-hulk is another example. That show was beyond awful, but the actress was also in Black Orphan and did an amazing job in multiple roles.

Every squealing male's favorite target is Morfyyd Clark because of how terrible Rings of Power portrays Galadriel (and everyone else) but check her out in Saint Maude

Even good actors can appear less than stellar when the writing and directing is shit.
 
There are two completely different types of "annoying" characters in stories/movies/TV shows.

One is the character that is annoying by design and whose annoying qualities serve a useful dramatic or comedic function in the story. Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Cliff Clavin in the TV show Cheers, for example, is annoying, but he's a wonderful character who enhances the show. Same thing with Janice (Oh . . . my . . . god!) in Cheers.

Then there's the character that is annoyingly written, and brings down the story. Jar Jar Binks is a good example of that sort of character. He's almost universally hated and part of what many people regard as what was wrong with that Star Wars movie.
 
lovecraft68 said:
This won't be a popular take, but just about all of Anne Rice's vampires.

What a whiny wimpy melancholy simp crybaby fest these posers were. I seriously blame Rice for where Meyers got her sparkly vamps crap from.
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I get your point, but I think it makes artistic sense that they would be annoying. It would totally suck (pun intended) to be a vampire. How could you NOT be a whiny bitch to spend eternity having to avoid the light and having to suck blood from living people to stay alive, and having to be careful about where you slept every day so humans didn't find you and kill you. One of Rice's contributions to vampire lore was exploring the sheer awfulness of the vampire's fate.
 
SimonDoom said:
I get your point, but I think it makes artistic sense that they would be annoying. It would totally suck (pun intended) to be a vampire. How could you NOT be a whiny bitch to spend eternity having to avoid the light and having to suck blood from living people to stay alive, and having to be careful about where you slept every day so humans didn't find you and kill you. One of Rice's contributions to vampire lore was exploring the sheer awfulness of the vampire's fate.
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I suppose it depends on preference.

I'm more a fan of the anarchist style vamps. Near Dark, Lost Boys, Lumley's bad ass Wamphyrie. Mix in the "there's plenty of shitty people who deserve to die' angle and that's more my take.

I think it was Tale of the Body Thief where undead simplord Lestat makes some guy he had feelings for into a vamp to spread his misery onto someone else.

In general and including Tale of the Body Thief and Mayfair witches Rice's characters are inconsistent assholes, I think she had a thing for bad boys who were actually pussies.
 
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