Who are the most loathsome characters in literature and film/tv?

[StraightOutside]

Percy from The Green Mile is on my list
The Captain from Pan's Labyrinth.
At least Half of the characters in Wuthering Heights.

There's a lot more but my mind has just gone blank.

Who are your nominations?

James Steerforth.

Have we done Bertha Dorset yet?

“ Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders”

Good Lord, why?! 😂 I thought her biggest crime was just being an insipid crashing bore. Tully always annoyed me for some reason.

@DufferMum yes re Boy! Utterly awful and an horrific abuser.

I’d forgotten about Boy Dougdale - thank goodness Polly saw the light.

@BillyShears

Mrs. Reed in Jane Eyre. Spiteful old bitch.

Agreed though her son is arguably even worse. In Jane Eyre's words to Mrs Reed: 'I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed'. Really, a teen boy persistently bullying and victimising his little 10-year-old cousin....what a psychopath. The only good thing about him is that he died young.

@PetronellaPea

“ Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders”

Good Lord, why?! 😂 I thought her biggest crime was just being an insipid crashing bore. Tully always annoyed me for some reason.

Joyce is obvs the REAL Midsomer Murderer; every time she gets a new hobby, people DIE. And she and Cully are fairly irritating and smug .

Angel judgey pants Clare.

The bastard brother in Kes who killed Kes.
Bob bastard Ewell.
Widmerpool in A Dance to the Music of Time; you just love to hate him. Also his evil wife Pamela who is utterly fucked up but basically sent poor Peter to his doom. I hold that one over her.
Miss Minchin in the film of A Little Princess- that traumatised me as a child.
Napoleon in Animal Farm.
Chessie France-Lynch. I know she lost her little boy but she was horrible anyway and would have been as bad had Will lived.
Roberto Rannaldini
Livia in I Claudius
YY to Alicia in Mallory Towers- cheeky and smug and a bully.
Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory- he's so, so selfish.
Daisy Buchanan- watched the world burn.

I also can't stand Jo March. She's not a villian - selling her hair for example shows she's anything but, but I also find it quite satisfying watching her get fucked over. It's usually deserved and a consequence of her own behaviour.

For those who have picked characters from the work of genius that is Polo, I totally agree. Chessie is awful. Perdita is awful.

Hamish is also totally awful and has an awful mother. The bit where he takes her can opener. Awful. I like Ricky and Luke and that's it.

I just want to say, YES to Jo March. I know I am prob BU but I don’t care.

@funtimefrank Polo is a masterpiece but SO. MANY. ARSEHOLES in that novel! Ricky and Luke are gorgeous all round though.