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70 Beloved Characters In Movies And TV Shows Who Others See As Annoying
Movies & tvJAN 6, 2023

70 Beloved Characters In Movies And TV Shows Who Others See As Annoying

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Characters can either be a hit or a miss with the watcher. The plot might be interesting, but the movie or TV show character is the one who tells the story to us. Either in a movie theater or your living room, we watch movies and series for the beloved characters in them. However, others might see these characters in a much different light than we do. In movies and TV shows, an annoying character can emerge for many reasons.
A fictional character is not always guaranteed to please every fan. It either clicks with the watcher or misses the mark by a mile. For movie characters, first impressions are everything. If you make a wild card type of character, he might come off as a bit annoying to the calmer fans. And you can't be sure that two hours will be enough to turn the character around in the minds of annoyed fans.
On the other hand, TV show characters can be annoying for multiple reasons. If a series has several seasons, a fan-favorite character might become stale — if a series takes a heavier story turn, a beloved character can become an annoying one. The presented situation is what dictates the flow of a character. A character that fits into the fictional world is a character that can capture the watching hearts.
With so many opinions floating around the world, it is hard to distinguish the honest ones from the more trolling ones. Luckily, someone on AskReddit has asked a question we all wanted to ask — Who's the character everyone loves but is actually annoying? An important question that reveals just how many annoying characters we tend to like. In the list below, upvote the characters that you think are annoying too. Also, comment below if you think the Redditor is wrong about the given opinion.

#1 Monica Geller, Friends

Monica Geller, Friends
"She really is very annoying, especially in the second half of the series. Her relationship with Chandler is supposed to be perfect and wholesome but it's borderline abusive with how she forces him into doing things her way and constantly emotionally blackmailing him."
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47points

#2 Jerry, Tom And Jerry

Jerry, Tom And Jerry
"Exactly, Tom has suffered too much because of this dirty little mouse."
43points

#3 Ross And Rachel, Friends

Ross And Rachel, Friends
"They are actually very toxic for each other and anyone who’s involved in their friends/lovers' drama."
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38points

#4 Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory

Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory
"The guy blows straight past 'creepy' and into straight-up sex offender territory. There are throw-away lines about how he put webcams into teddy bears he gave Penny, and he just chuckles, and the conversation carries on. There are scenes where he uses various cameras to look up people's skirts or down their tops. The dude isn't, as the show puts it when Penny gives him a dressing down, a little peculiar.' Dude should be in prison."
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37points

#5 Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
"It's one thing to be ridiculously smart, but it's another to browbeat everyone with it and force conformity amongst your peers. He goes out of his way to be cruel and spiteful in how he treats his 'friends.' It's disgusting."
35points

#6 Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig
"At the end of the day, she is a spoilt brat."
34points

#7 Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City

Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City
"The one that put me off Carrie forever was when she made fun of Samantha for turning up to her book launch after her chemical peel had gone wrong. I was disgusted by how rude she was to a friend who still showed up to her event when she was quite obviously in pain and very embarrassed."
"I couldn't look at her the same after what happened with Natasha and Aidan. She should've had a therapy arc."
33points

#8 Dora, Dora The Explorer

Dora, Dora The Explorer
"“Where is the blue path?” It’s right next to you. “Say it louder, where is the blue path?” IT’S RIGHT NEXT TO YOU"
33points

#9 SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob SquarePants
"I'm more of a Squidward guy. He's more realistic and the type of dude I'd take a hit with."
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31points

#10 Peter Griffin, Family Guy

Peter Griffin, Family Guy
"I can't watch the show because most of it is just him being a horrible person."
"Peter was a lovable moron with good intentions; now he's a violent narcissistic sociopath."
31points

#11 Piper, Orange Is The New Black

Piper, Orange Is The New Black
"To be honest, that whole show was a sh*tshow and I don't know why it was such a zeitgeist when it was coming out."
 
"I think the show's biggest failing was not really leaning into the "Piper is horrible and that's the whole point" of it all."
27points

#12 Ted, How I Met Your Mother

Ted, How I Met Your Mother
"What’s even worse, if we adhere to the structure of the show, this is his own retelling of himself. Have you heard the unreliable narrator theory? In Ted’s retelling to his kids, he makes Barney out to be way worse and more disgusting. It explains the last second pivot of Barney to a family man. Ted is trying to reconcile the good father his kids have met to the cartoonish sexist he’s portrayed him as. Ted wants his kids to sympathize with his pursuit of Robin and demonize the man he has consciously or subconsciously viewed as a romantic rival for most of his adult life. And even then Ted comes across as a douche."
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25points

#13 Rachel Berry, Glee

Rachel Berry, Glee
"Everyone in the show acts like she is so amazing, but she is so self absorbed. She tricked a girl into going to a crack house so she wouldn't join the club because Rachel was scared she would be better. Plus, so many of the other characters were just as good at singing, if not better, like Mercedes and Santana, but Mr. Schue was just obsessed with her (he's also so creepy, but I don't want to get into all that), so she always got all of the solos. The performance where she wasn't allowed to participate is probably my favorite since the other kids are so good. Mercedes even calls Mr. Schue out on his blatant favoritism, such as when she deserved to be Maria in West Side Story, but he instead wanted the girls to share the roll because he couldn't bear not picking Rachel. But the show was just not self aware enough to stop favoriting her."
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25points

#14 Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter
"I truly don't understand why so many people like him. I thought the point is that he's actually not a badas* and is just a punk bully under all his talk."
25points

#15 Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls

Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
"I loved her character in the first season, but from Season 2 onwards, she got worse and worse. It’s like a villain origin story. Gone was the Season 1 snarky, clever girl who struggled between maturity and teenage meltdowns during coming-of-age hurdles. Enter the 'manic pixie dream girl' who strolled into every situation like she knew everything, accidentally stumbled into all of her achievements, had all the boys fall at her feet, and was relentlessly fawned over despite acting bratty and finding a reason to dislike everyone she met."
"Rory goes through the opposite of a redemption arc. She actually becomes a worse person by the end, which is something a lot of shows just don’t do."
24points

#16 Dobby, Harry Potter

Dobby, Harry Potter
"Lots of people seem to love him, but I honestly just thought he was annoying as fu*k. Actually pissed a friend off in the theater because I chuckled when he died lol."
23points

#17 Gina Linetti, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Gina Linetti, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
"Gina always comes out on top, and it's so irritating. Amy occasionally calls her out, but it never goes anywhere. And, of course, Gina ends up having the last word and being right all along. I feel like Gina fell into the trap of the 'funny but awful' character and ended up getting way too much screen time and becoming obnoxious for it."
 
"Her character was completely off-kilter with the whole tone of the show. All the other characters were quirky but ultimately lovable, whereas she was just a narcissistic as*hole with no redeeming traits whatsoever. Her comments about Terry in particular were sexual harassment, and her treatment of Charles and Amy was workplace bullying. What was particularly annoying is that she never learned a damn thing. She always got away with her sh*tty behavior, and she only seemed to get even more cartoonishly awful as the show went on. It was an improvement when she left."
22points

#18 Lily, How I Met Your Mother

Lily, How I Met Your Mother
"I feel like her character was very bland and had no specific traits that weren't just traits of Alyson Hannigan's. Marshall had very Goofy jokes and standards, Ted was virtuous and corny, Robin was very headstrong and direct, Barney was childish and extremely emotional underneath. But Lily has no overarching qualities IMO."
"I though she was manipulative and always made Marshall's life harder eg Dumping him, the story with the captain, her financial issues."
21points

#19 Homer Simpson, Simpsons

Homer Simpson, Simpsons
"He had moments of being a good person, but in later seasons his worst traits became so amplified."
21points

#20 Amy March, Little Women

Amy March, Little Women
"I have hated her since I first read Little Women when I was 11 years old! How the fu*k can the most recent adaptation try and make her the feminist? Giving her all those dialogues that the real Amy would never even dream of! She is supposed to be a feminist? The girl who only ever focussed on clothes and ribbons and laces? The one who destroyed her sister's writing? The girl who got to run off and enjoy Europe while Beth died and Jo suffered? The one who got the emotional support of Laurie? And then got to live like a rich lady, while one of her sisters lost her husband? She was the weakest of them all, and she got the very best of everything."
20points
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