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

"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."

"Exactly, Tom has suffered too much because of this dirty little mouse."

"They are actually very toxic for each other and anyone who’s involved in their friends/lovers' drama."

"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."

"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."

"At the end of the day, she is a spoilt brat."

"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."

"“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"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"She's sulky, self-absorbed, and petulantly self-righteous. I don't think I've ever hated a character more."

"The original 'pick me.'"

"Her character’s personality didn’t add any entertainment to the show. She was a smart pretentious bully with no witty lines. Just cringy/unoriginal insults and no growth. Such a waste of potential for the show. I wonder if she pissed off the writers at some point."

"Specifically when she bullies other people for laughs."

"In the early seasons she is tolerable because for the most part she is a supporting character. When I stopped watching, she had become the main character with Homer and Bart becoming side characters. Her voice is nails on a chalkboard. She butts in when not asked. Assumes to be the moral authority in town making her worse than Ned Flanders. Turned down Burns' money when she helped him rebuild his empire. Ruined Homer on several occasions (Stonecutters episode for example). Is absolutely no fun to be around. Completely unrelatable. Thinks that she is better than everyone else. Vegetarian."

"Book Ron was better. The assorted directors of the films just decided they needed "comic relief" so they decided to direct the actor that way. Kind of a lazy way out, if you ask me. "What does this scene need? Oh, I know! A goofy character!""

"Someone told me I reminded them of her. I watched two episodes, had an existential crisis, and vowed to not be an insufferable nitwit. They said they meant it as a compliment because they loved her. It was devastating to my self-esteem."

"I hate that Jess fought to be with Sam (the hot pediatrician) only to get with Nick a few episodes later. I stopped watching after that."

"He's a selfish, self-centered as*hole who thinks he's the only one who has problems, and he lashes out at all his friends whenever he's mildly inconvenienced. Will laughably calls him the 'heart of the group' in Season 4."
 
"Mike annoys the sh*t out of me. I think El would be more likable without Mike’s irritating presence. Just make them friends. Their relationship icks me out."

"I love the show, but she can be so annoying. I don't like the way she treats her parents or the way she jumps from man to man. She coddles her daughter so much in high school and in college that in the revival, she's a 30-year-old with no job or purpose in life. Everyone thinks the mother/daughter duo is so cute, but it’s annoying because she really held her daughter back from growing up, facing failures head-on, and adulting!"

"He's great in small doses, like in the early seasons, but they started overusing him and he just become obnoxious. I hated it when one of the other family members would go to see someone else and of course, it would be Roger in a disguise. Funny as the occasional gag, less so every single time."

"Frosty the Snowman. I can't explain, but he gets on my nerves big time."

"He's just so "I'm the guy." Like, we get it, dude, you're a jolly, happy soul."

"Zero redeeming traits. Definitely not funny. Yet millions of people, including adults! love him. So annoying."

"It’s a given she’s if not the most certainly one of the most annoying characters in television’s history. But I know a lot of people really liked her, and also that she pulled off her character’s brilliance with ease and natural finesse."

"Maybe it was the fact that she was an animated character that made the surreality of the character so wonderful (though to be fair, Elvira did just fine and she was real-life). But the movie version has never appealed to me."

"He's a racist cop and with an ego, as inflated as Walt's, I don't understand why people love him."

"Right on! Is he hilarious? Yes! But that's because he's in a movie and comic books and we don't actually have to deal with him in real life. Imagine having this guy as a family member or part of a friends circle. He would be infuriating and everything would be a constant "all about me" crap show."

"I need to read some kind of scientific study on how they became so ubiquitous in sh*tty boomer memes about wine time Fridays or how kids don't respect their elders anymore."
 
"My theory is that Minions appeal to boomers because boomers think of themselves as sort of a bunch of kooky hellraisers, but they also value conformity, so there's nothing too vulgar or subversive about them. Minions have the exact kind of PG-rated raunchy humor grandparents love."

"From early seasons of Grey’s. She’s so whiny and self-centered, it drives me BONKERS when some find her so wholesome."

"That little prick ruins every scene he's in constantly screaming out or tagging on to a funnier line said by someone else always unprompted. It boggles my mind that people could find him enjoyable."

"She's supposed to be an example of 'rich, pretty girls have problems, too!' but I disliked her more every time they tried to make her relatable. She could've actually done well in life, but she did nothing with all her money or her status as the 'it' girl. She could've gotten involved in a nonprofit (she probably would've been phenomenal with fundraising), but she had no idea how to do anything that wasn't handed to her and was unwilling to learn. I could even see her killing it as an influencer or a personal stylist, but she stayed in her toxic 'woe is me' rut because she needed to be the center at all times."

"She always jumped to the wrong conclusions, never learned from past mistakes, and acted like a spoiled princess whenever she wanted something. She didn't let people say no to her requests; they had to say yes to her every demand. I’m rewatching Gossip Girl at the moment, and I'm honestly finding it hard to like her now that I’m 10 years older."

"While not everyone loves him, enough used to find him relatable that they'd forget the guy is a selfish, self-righteous, xenophobic, vengeful fu*khead and would always act like he was such a cool "bro" character."

"It's so weird. I mean the acting is ok at most, the characters make dumb decisions, everything seems so straightforward without really interesting twists and I don't really like a lot of characters (pretty much the whole stone family is annoying me). And still, it hooks me much more than most other shows nowadays."

"The WORST! She made everything about her - Caroline said it brilliantly when she turned off her humanity: “I compelled a student to perform surgery on Stefan’s niece and you’re making this about you? Wow, you really have a gift Elena.”"

"The dad is a manchild lout and the mom is a control freak stick in the mud who has done questionable stuff with her temper and has never apologized for it (like when she tried throwing everything away in her kids' messy room). Sure it's realistic for parents to sometimes lose their cool but kids should at least know that parents are still obligated to own up to bad behavior. Hell, I even give Papa bear credit that he learned and grew by the end of the stories. Somehow Mama Bear losing her temper was never ever acknowledged as wrong, and she was treated as the altruistic figure of morality."

"I already roll my eyes at his as* existing in the first Avengers movie, and the more I hear about him it seems he literally causes major plot problems. He's an egotistical dick, and doing the big selfless act at the end of each movie doesn't override him being a sh*t person you wouldn't want to be around in reality. Not to forget him being 'only human' seems to be riddled with more plot armor and OP suits than anything that takes effort. Hot take, Bruce Banner was held back from being the smart guy because Tony couldn't stay out of the fu*king camera for more than two seconds to spout another round of Sci-Fi logic."

"Love the show, love each character, but JD's imagination and immaturity becomes super annoying the more you watch the show."

"Fez only got worse as time went on. He started off as a socially awkward kid that was happy for his little group of friends but was legitimately sad/lonely about having no romantic connection in his life. Like, I was there as a teen. I can relate to Fez wanting the happiness he sees all of his friends experiencing. But, instead of growing and learning that meeting someone is a natural consequence of maturing as a person, he went full 'incel' and became an outright creep."

"I just don’t laugh when he’s on screen. He’s creepy and perverted."

"He seems lovely, but he always acts like a child and expects everyone around him to make up for it. He's the kind of guy everyone would hate working with."

"Oh, yes, I would hate him in real life. My sis introduced me to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and she really liked Jake, and I was like, 'Why?'"

"He’s the human equivalent of white bread, and he bullies people for having any personality traits beyond 'white man who likes sports.' I hate Jim."
 
"Jim is a specific kind of as*hole that is bland, smug, and full of himself. He’s not that bad, but at the same time, he just kind of sucks."

"He's just so whiny and dramatic."

"I love her entire season. I love the dynamic. Every episode is fantastic... I. Just. Can't. Stand. Her. I don't know either."

"She was absolute crap but everyone likes her. She’s super jealous, possessive, and just nasty to everyone. Beck should’ve just dumped her and been single tbh."

"I love him, but totally understandable for those who can't tolerate him."

"Goku consistently puts people and planets in mortal danger just because he wants to fight someone strong."

"I got like a million reasons but my biggest is him telling Buffy's little sister that Spike tried to rape Buffy. I'm sitting there watching like "so did you dumbas*". At least Spike tried to atone for it unlike Xander who lied and said he couldn't remember. And he always seemed way to interested in Buffy's love life."

"My husband and I are watching Malcolm in the Middle for the first time, neither of us watched it as kids. And it has brilliant writing and is consistently laugh-out-loud funny... But damn if Malcolm is not one of the most trash characters I've ever seen, it's brutal."

"There's an episode where he recognizes that he's an annoying know-it-all and tries to shut his mouth for a while, but it nearly kills him."

"He was always in Jakes's business and so annoying. But when Jake got in his business regarding his adopted son, he got mad. He forced himself into Rosa's business when she was on the phone with her girlfriend before she came out as Bi!! When his dog died, he refused to do any work and tried to make Rosa feel bad for needing him to get his head in the game to work a case. I get you needing time to grieve when your dog dies. I'm just saying he should have just taken time off instead of coming to work and not doing anything. Finally, his lisp is so annoying. It's bad enough that he is this needy, irritating, unsure idiot, but he has a whole lisp!!!! I hate hearing him speak and I LOBE BROOKLYN 99!!!! Charles Boyle is the worst and needs to go!!!!!!"

"I’ve watched the show like 4-5 times through now (forcing various friends to watch it like a cultist) and on every subsequent rewatch I hated Walter more and rooted for someone else. By my last watch I was just fully team Hank, you know things are bad when you’re rooting for the war on drugs."

"I can't understand why he keeps topping the rankings as the most popular character when he's so awful!"

"It's not just me! I wasn't surprised to see that she was universally beloved for her 'tee hee crazy girl' act but I did think more people must be deeply annoyed by her."