Who is the most annoying fictional character ever?

[WomenHour]

I would say currently it's Geoff from Corrie.

Amelia and Maggie in Gray's
Mandy in the WW, also Liz Bartlet
Ian Beale, how is there still a storyline for him?

@MrsZola

Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities. She needed a good slap and certainly didn't deserve anyone dying for her!

I'm not having that, but I love Sidney Carton and agree he didn't need to die for that wet blanket.

Also Hunt from Gray's.

Peter Benton in ER, also Susan's sister and her baby

Tom Goode from the Good Life, simpering prick

Bella in Twilight...so inspid!

Peter from the Secret Seven - sexist snob who isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is. He only gets to be chief because its his shed. They should have chucked him out, made Janet leader and let the spirited Suzy join.

Can you tell what we've been reading over lockdown?

Recently watched Parks and recreation. I had to whizz past any scene with Jean-Ralphio Saperstein or his sister.

Jean-Ralphio looks like he has terrible breath. That’s all I can think of whenever he’s on screen.

Oh gosh, so many.
Julian in the famous five has got to be top 10, though! (and Anne for being so wet)

That wet fish woman in 50 shades

@JustanotherTuesday

Kirk from Gilmore Girls.

I love Kirk.

I agree about Becky Bloomwood from shopaholic.. I enjoyed them as maybe an early twenty something, but on rereading ten years later, I just found her icky and wanted to shout at her poor husband to ltb!
Christina in Grey’s Anatomy (currently watching season 10) she’s so adamant about not wanting kids, but is pregnant twice during her residency (I mean, she’s a doctor, it’s not like she doesn’t know how it happens).

180 posts and no mention of Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

Another vote for Kay Scarpetta’s niece too. I’m currently working my way through the whole series and she just gets more and more irritating

I had a visceral loathing of Noddy and Big ears as a child.

😂 they are, to be fair, really annoying.

I hated nearly all Disney cartoon characters as a child, particularly Micky Mouse who I thought was a creepy weirdo. My mum used to threaten to take me to DisneyWorld if I was misbehaving.

Whilst I haven't read the book so I don't know if its the same in that but see also Grandpa Joe in the original Willy Wonka film. Stays in bed and has his meals brought to him for years but as soon as Charlie finds the golden ticket he's up and about like an elite gymnast

Yes! And quite happy to let his son(in law?) support a child and 5 adults from a job screwing caps on toothpaste, when he could have quite easily at least looked after the other three and let Charlie's mum get some additional income. What a tosser.

Yes, yes Cathy and Heathcliff. Most of the other Wuthering characters too including Linton. Still love the book though!

Sebastian Flyte out of Brideshead Revisited is another one. With all of them I can tolerate them in the world of their novel but couldn’t stand being in the same room with them for more than 10 mins.

It’s now got me thinking about what the literary dinner party from hell guest list would look like. Anna Karenina and Mm Bovary would be sat next to each other comparing crap marriage notes with Linton while Heathcliff broods grumpily and mucks about with his lasagne as Sebastian tries to introduce him to Aloysius the teddy bear. The mood jollies up after the third bottle of wine and H&S head off to a club together. Cathy gets the hump and joins Anna and Mm B to get a bit of sisterly solidarity going but they go all mean girls on her because even by their standards she turns out to be a drama llama. Linton puts on ‘I will survive’ and gets them all dancing and doing shots, embracing his eternal ‘friend zone’ status and saving the evening.

@Elbie79

Professor Umbridge. Utterly grim and never gets a proper comeuppance.

Agree Mandy from WW also a good shout.

You don't think being raped by centaurs was punishment enough

Agree with those who have said Fanny Price and Emma from Jane Austen novels.
Also, most of the characters in Miranda especially her Mum.

Amanda from The Holiday.

I’m thinking of more.

Emily in Friends. Horrific. Wasn’t even sorry when Ross was so awful to her.

This one might be sacrilege, but I cannot be the only one who thinks if I worked with Gina Linnetti from Brooklyn 99 I wouldn’t admire her like they all seem to. I’d want to slap her round the chops.

Laura from "Women on The Verge"

Another vote for the main character in the shopaholic books. I just read one. Also couldn't stand Basil Fawlty.

Any character played by Alyson Hannigan.

Hated her in Buffy, couldn’t stand her in How I Met Your Mother. Annoying in American Pie. Her bloody annoying baby voice irritates the hell out of me!

the little prince.
annoying twat

(Grown up) Kate and Toby in This is Us - equally annoying

Oh, and Pollyanna!

OK Wuthering Heights - I'm a big defender of Cathy. She's bound completely by the constraints of her age, Hareton and his new wife treat her like dirt and control her every move, and we're only seeing her through the eyes of Nelly Dean who clearly loathes her. Dean calls her views on marriage wicked and unprincipled but Cathy is actually right. If she married Heathcliff the two of them would be beggars.

OK that recalls another one for the shit list: Nelly Dean. She's a nasty, judgemental, manipulative witch. Cathy doesn't even find her own voice because her character's narrated solely through the uncomplimentary narration of Dean. And Dean's morals naturally win out (they would).

As for Heathcliff, violent abuser whose treatment of Isabella is shocking.

Nice cast of characters or what? But still a great book.