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Who is the most annoying fictional character ever?

757 replies

WomenHour · 06/09/2020 16:30

I would say currently it's Geoff from Corrie.

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Mittens030869 · 13/09/2020 12:44

I don't think George was 13 in the books. I thought Julian was 12, Dick and George 11 and Anne 10.

In one of the books, George said that Julian was now in his teens and she soon would be. And that was one of the earlier books, as I recall. I think it was Five Run Away Together. So too old surely to pass for a boy, however much she might want to??

KeepOnMovingForwards · 13/09/2020 14:22

In one of the books, George said that Julian was now in his teens and she soon would be. And that was one of the earlier books, as I recall. I think it was Five Run Away Together. So too old surely to pass for a boy, however much she might want to??

At 12, I could have maybe passed for a boy in baggy clothing and dim lighting. I was very straight up and down and extremely thin, bordering on underweight.

KitKatastrophe · 14/09/2020 22:22

@CatsArePeopleToo

Negan? Are you people for real??? Shock
You like Negan!?!?! I have yet to meet anyone who didnt find him a huge pain in the arse and couldnt wait for him to be killed off. The show just became gore porn and him strutting around swinging his dick baseball bat. I stopped watching it one season after he was introduced.

At one point Carl jumped out the back of a van with a machine gun, 10 feet from Negan and didn't shoot at him! Come on!

KitKatastrophe · 14/09/2020 22:26

@unicornpower

Oh and Bran Stark! I was really hoping he would get killed off ASAP!
Definitely. Although it did make for some comedy gold in later seasons where he would greet people by telling them disturbing things and they'd just have to nod and smile while obviously thinking "wtf?'
Bassettgirl · 15/09/2020 18:20

Aunt Fanny refuses to open the door and shouts down to them that they're quarantined for scarlet fever, but they can all look after themselves, can't they... Just in case anyone wants ideas to manage their children in a second lock down.

@EBearhug or we could just let them hop on a random aircraft by themselves for a few days as per The Valley of Adventure!

EBearhug · 15/09/2020 22:36

Not sure it's as easy to hop on random aeroplanes these days. Just locking the door is probably easier...

Facelikearustytractor · 15/09/2020 22:53

The parents in Topsy and Tim

All of the characters in that shrinking grandad kids programme.

tantamountto · 16/09/2020 10:51

Ah, Topsy and Tim. Icons.
I like Kipper and the siblings too.
And Peter and Jane are still going strong. I taught my DD to read with those.
Happy days.

DioneTheDiabolist · 16/09/2020 10:55

Goldilocks.Angry Theiving, trespassing little vandal. I'm glad the bears eat her, it's all she deserves.

Sophiafour · 16/09/2020 10:59

I'm torn between:

Bella Swann

Angel Clare

Claire in Outlander, who, in the books, is just so impossibly perfect on the one hand and so utterly dim in some ways on the other...hasn't she ever heard the phrase "The past is another country?"

Love the chick-lit comment up thread though...yep. Lots of the heroines make 1970s Mills and Boon main characters look positively progressive....

Prig · 16/09/2020 11:15

Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey. But then I find this particular period drama utter sanitised drivel.

IAteAlltheAvocadoPears · 16/09/2020 11:16

@Pagwatch

lydia in pride and prejudice
I thought Mary from price and prejudice was worse!
IAteAlltheAvocadoPears · 16/09/2020 11:24

Peppa Pig.
The entire cast of Dawson's Creek esp Dawson himself
Bianca off eastenders. Annoying grating voice

Everyone in The Slap. Horrible book
Perfect.Peter in Horrid Henry

Amy in Gone Girl

Vronsky in Anna Karenina

IAteAlltheAvocadoPears · 16/09/2020 11:25

I enjoyed Jane Eyre but I really think Mr Rochester was a bit of a dick

user27378 · 16/09/2020 11:28

Topsy and Tim's dad. Walt from Breaking bad.

SarahAndQuack · 16/09/2020 12:03

@Harriedharriet, poor Mrs Bennet is only in her mid/late 30s! She might very well not be menopausal (though I agree she's written as if she is).

I want Richard Gilmore, please. Yes, Lorelei is spoilt and a crap mother (and Lane's much-pilloried mum is actually much, much better on the whole). But Richard is really, truly shit. He gets away with murder because of the kindly old grandfather thing, but actually, when he shows his true colours, he's horrible. He loses his temper when he's actually challenged and he won't back down. And it's Emily who's made to look like the baddie.

I find Sam from TWW irritating, especially when he's being Highly Idealistic And Incidentally Really Sexist. Very Sorkin.

Melody's mum on Ceebeebees. Ugh.

I agree about CJ on TWW. She's great but Sorkin does pile a lot of shit on her. Although, why is TWW homophobic? I don't think it is especially. One of my favourite bits is the storyline where some reporter thinks CJ might be a lesbian, and she spends a fair while working out how to 'emphatically deny something she has no problem with it, while publicly stating it is a private matter'. Then she decides fuck it, it's not relevant. I liked that bit, it would have been so easy to make her point out she's straight rather than saying it was no one's business.

SarahAndQuack · 16/09/2020 12:13

Oh, and re. George and puberty - mightn't it be because puberty onset was slightly later when Blyton was writing? I think around 14 or so, whereas it's earlier now.

Even so, I don't think it'd be unusual for a 13 year old to be able to pass as a boy. People see what they expect, and if you've had it drummed into you that people with short hair are boys, you'll glance and see a boy.

Athrawes · 16/09/2020 12:21

AnnaBloodyKarenina

SarahAndQuack · 16/09/2020 12:28

OMG, and Meredith's dad in Grey's Anatomy. Such a waste of space and self-pity.

LunaNorth · 16/09/2020 12:29

Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk. Trespassing, thieving murderer.

What did the giant do to deserve all that?

SkaraBrae · 16/09/2020 12:32

Hated the new Mrs de Winter.
She was so wet and yet utterly snobby at the same time.
Happy to stay with a murdering husband because his wife had asked for it... Hmm

SkaraBrae · 16/09/2020 12:33

Mrs Danvers was the true victim in the book!
(And yes, I re-read it recently and it gave me the rage)

Collidascope · 16/09/2020 13:49

Richard Gilmore, please. Yes, Lorelei is spoilt and acrapmother (and Lane's much-pilloried mum is actually much, much better on the whole). But Richard is really, truly shit. He gets away with murder because of the kindly old grandfather thing, but actually, when he shows his true colours, he's horrible. He loses his temper when he's actually challenged and he won't back down. And it's Emily who's made to look like the baddie.

Oh God, yes. Richard is awful. So pompous and dismissive of Emily, and the way he allows his mother to speak to her is awful. And the sneaking around behind her back to meet up with Pennilynn (spelling??) Locke. The screwing over of Digger and the way he speaks to Lorelai when she's come to thank him for standing up for her to Christopher's parents about her teen pregnancy. Grrr.

Mylifeisboring · 16/09/2020 13:59

I second Jar Jar Binks. What was George Lucas thinking? Ugh!

Pemba · 16/09/2020 14:42

SarahandQuack, unlikely that Mrs Bennett is mid to late 30s, as we are told in the first chapter that her eldest daughter, Jane, is 22. So that would have her giving birth at about 12!

She was probably a young bride though, maybe late teens, so I'd say she's about 40 - 45.