To ask which book characters irrationally annoy you?

[WaterBird]

I'm currently reading the play "The Rise and Fall of Arturo UI" by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (though it takes place in Chicago). There is a fairly minor character (at least at the point in the play where I'm at) called Young Dogsborough, whose father is a major character in his 80's. Any time the son says anything, it is to unnecessarily agree with the father. For example if the father says, "They've gone", the son will then say "My father says they've gone."
Which book characters have you felt annoyed by?

The main couple in Gone Girl.

Who's the drippy one in Vanity Fair? Amelia?

Wot a fule.

Irene in Scotland street series by A M Smith who wrote the Lady Detective.

It's obviously deliberate because the other characters dislike her too but she is unbelievable

Claire Fraser. Have had to take a breather halfway through Outlander because every time she opens her damned mouth I go "oh FFS..."

Pollyanna. All that being glad is so irritating

I agree about Marianne Dashwood. I don’t imagine she was very nice to Col Brandon once married to him.
Also Northey in Don’t Tell Alfred. I imagine Nancy Mitford intended her to be an attractive character but she’s extremely annoying.

Kitty and Lydia Bennett. And Mrs Bennett. And Mr. Benett too when he fails to stop lydia going to rot.
The slutty one in Northanger Abbey. All fakery and poise and no backbone. Her brother is awful too.

Mary Fucking Poppins. Horrible woman.

Uuurgh bloody Gala in Jilly Cooper's 'Mount'

Not quite a character, but a character trait. “She bit her lip”

Overused by every author and more irritating because I have never in my life bitten my lip.

Marylou Trelawney

@BigGapMum - I laughed a little too hard at your post I'd forgotten about Anne!

Mine may be controversial... But I wouldn't want to be around that smug little shit Hermione Grainger for any prolonged period of time.

Detective supremo Adam Dalglish in PD James books. Meant to be this demi-god detective poet type. Seemed like a bit of a cold fish to me.

Pretty much everyone, and everything, in 50 Shades. What a bloody awful book and awful characters.

Another vote for the second Mrs de Winter ("Max! Either than Danvers woman goes or I do!").

Clym Yeobright in "The Return of the Native". You've got a good business in Paris mate, why throw that away just to educate the Wessex poor?

Lord Peter Wimsey. Prancing around bell ringing and affectedly pretending to be a lackwit while in fact being an expert in bloody everything.

Gervase Fen can fuck off too. And Isobel Dalhousie.

Another vote.for.Mr Rochester. A manipulative, self-pitying drama llama. I do have a soft spot of St John Rivers though. I always got the impression that he was passionate underneath it all.

Well that would be quite the risk, Armadillo. Marrying the handsome but dull St John in the hope he's a filthy fox between the sheets. I bet there'd just be some awkward huffing and puffing and then a lengthy post coital reading from Leviticus.

St John Rivers again.

Fanny Price and both her aunts.

Holden Caulfield.

I was bored shitless during all the Dani/Khaleesi bits in the GoT books.

John Watson.
Harry Potter.
Myron Bolitar.

Becky Bloomwood from the shopaholic series

@Armadillostoes oh I have a massive crush on St John Rivers!!! Hes intense I dont think hes dull!