These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group
In the fictional world, anything can happen: people can fly, make all of their dreams come true, read minds, and other fun stuff. But it also reveals people's darkest fears, explores the dark side of human psychology, and the authors of those fictional worlds let their characters loose.
They're only fictional characters, right? So no harm here—we can exit the story as easily as we entered it. But what if some of the movie, book, and mythological characters were real? Reddit user SugarMinnow had that thought too and asked "Who is a fictional character that you're glad isn't real, and why?"
Over 17k people responded, listing their most feared characters. Some of them reasoned their opinions, while some didn't think that obvious things need to be explained. Bored Panda went through the thread and picked the characters that most people felt glad were not real. What do you think of them? Is there any character that you're glad is not real that is not mentioned here? Then put it in the comments down below!
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I'd say Lex Luthor, but Jeff Bezos is already half way there.
However, I do think Michael Rosenbaum played the best Lex Luthor, hands down
The duck from The Duck Song
Imagine trying to run your business and a 4ft duck comes in everyday asking for grapes and s*** KNOWING you don’t sell grapes
"No but I sell lemonade it's cold and it's fresh and it's all homemade, can I get you a glass?"
Load More Replies...I laughed way to hard at this. If you dont know what this is, look it up on YouTube. Then go the rest of your day singing this in your head.
Freddie Kruger by a lot. Assuming he at any point gets tired of Elm Street kids.
Well, there are certain medicines that prevent REM sleep, and thus dreams, and thus Freddy. Also, who would win, Freddy v.s Deadpool?
The full “backstory” of Freddy is much more disturbing than anything in the movies. Like his conception, birth and upbringing. I always wondered why they didn’t do a movie about that, but it would be too f’ed up and end up like some Tom Six movie
If he wants to enter my dreams he's up for some unpleasant surprises
Burger King. He has not demonstrated to me that he would effectively rule a sovereign nation. He has shown little in the way of diplomacy skills, and has no record on defense. Unlike rival nations he has no enduring cabinet or advisers (no Grimace, for example). He has never forged an alliance (with Ronald or Wendy, at least). Flame-broiled only gets you so far on the world stage.
Don't forget Mayor McCheese... though he did mysteriously disappear.
Grimace is the general of the armies in McDonaldLand. Change my mind.
Jigsaw. I don’t wanna make some mistake in my life and get killed for it. Have you seen the petty s*** people get abducted for in some of those movies?
Oh god, this f****d me up when it came out, I had a really hard time getting to sleep for a month bc of the scene in the first movie where the little girl wakes her dad up saying there's a man in her closet talking to her-one of my worst fears is waking up to someone standing over my bed about to kill me. I honestly don't understand how they even came up with some of the torture "games" in this series.
ive never actually seen saw. its on my list. i think jigsaw looks pretty cool though
You've got to watch all the films in order, because they all tie into one big storyline.
Load More Replies...Have you seen the petty sh*t people get fried for everyday on social media? It like y’all have nothing more meaningful to do than point out mistakes, non norms or anything else boosting your fragile egos, begging the term to be rebounded to you “triggered much?” What is more torturous!
A Minecraft YouTuber got cancelled for tossing ducks some bread lol
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Dr. Evil - He'd kill us all using frickin sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads...
Pennywise...
Duh...
He is really only confined to Derry though. Plus, as long as you are not scared of it, which should be easy after the fifth time he tries and fails to kill you, it has little effect. It was beaten by a group of knock-off goonies!!!!
The xenomorph!
I've got a xenomorph facemask, because why not? I alternate it with my plague doctor + soap mask.
I collect Xenomorph figures (I know, i'm weird) but I'm really glad those buggers aren't real.
That's not weird at all. Alien and also Predator, are my absolute favourite flicks. I have a ridiculous amount of Alien stuff, including figures, toys, bas reliefs, puzzles, mugs, comics, books, t-shirts, socks etc. I also have a facehugger tattoo and the self destruct code from Predator on my knuckles (the two go hand in hand after all). I have to use a cane when I walk and I thought if I have to use one, I'm going to make sure it looks ace. So I had one custom made with a carved Xenomorph head on the top. It's so ace.
Load More Replies...Tim Curry and Bill Skårsgard(both nice-looking) did great jobs, tho'!
I actually find the original smooth-carpaced xenomorph from "Alien" to be quite relaxing. Smooth-flowing organic lines. No guilt, remorse, or illusions of morality. If I'm having trouble sleeping, thinking about a nesting hive of them is better than counting sheep!
I cant believe anyone looked at the first 4 winning ranks, and thought, "nope. Scarier than a xenomorph." These are the scariest things in the universe! If I ever learned they were real and in the same galaxy... id probably just kill myself. DONT THINK THEIR MERE PRESENCE IS TERRIFYING? PLAY ALIEN:ISOLATION, AND GET BACK TO ME LOL
That massive alien spider thing from the Mandalorian and all its babies ;-;
Hi, arachnophobe here, AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH I FREAKING HATED THAT CREEPY A**E SPIDER
I'm 38 and even I had to cover my eyes for that bit, much to my boyfriend's amusement :-D
Godzilla. I mean imagine all the property damages
not really related, but when ong fell off the empire state bulidng he wouldve exploded. like water balloon popped. just wanted to let yall know
This should be added to that sad list I couldn't get all the way through.
Load More Replies...No. Not this Godzilla. SHIN GODZILLA. Now that one is truly a nightmare. It's a walking nuclear bomb with the ability to morph and to reproduce by splitting off xenomorph-looking creatures from it's own body. If you have not seen Shin Godzilla, it is an anti-American snooze-fest - but the monster scenes are truly something from a horror film.
Sandman. Imagine some stupid mf comes every night in your house and puts f*****g sand in your eyes.
There’s a stopmotion animated version where he rips out your eyes and feeds them to his children if you don’t go to sleep!
I guess OP didn't read Sandman by Neil Gaiman. It would be very cool if that guy existed.
Got 3 of em. Buying that sandbox for the kids was the worst idea ever
He said it would keep your eyes closed until morning so you would stay in Dreamland
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Voldemort.
Having an immortal wizard dude (Since Harry isn't around) that can just go around Avada Kedavra'ing anyone he doesn't like sounds miserable.
I sooo agree with you there, cause she is a f*****g psychopath
Load More Replies...I mean, just use a gun. If it is just Voldemort, then no horcruxes, just shoot him in the nose... oh wait..
Okay, so I have heard this several times before, and I have a whole list of reasons why a gun wouldn't work: One, I'm sure there could be a spell to stop a gun from working, Two, Voldy could just expelliarmus the gun out of someone's hand, and three, unless the bullet killed him instantly, I'm sure it could be healed. Also, I liked you nose joke :)
Load More Replies...His biggest feat was to try taking over a high school, and failed.
The stay puft marshmallow man
For obvious reasons
I'd be okay with him if I also had a giant Graham cracker and a giant hershey's bar.
Load More Replies...I always thought they said "State Puffed" until now. The more you know.
in terrible Russian accent "In New York city, marshmallow eats you!" (Its an old, old, old comedy routine, dont judge me)
The Joker. The last thing the world needs right now is that guy running around.
"Some men just want to watch the world burn." No one else on the planet could deliver that line like Michael Caine. Can we appreciate him now instead of when he dies? Seems like we always wait for someone to die before we realize how much we love and respect them. Throw the guy a friggin parade or something.
Here in Britain we have Boris Johnson which is way worse. All the destruction but done in a legal fashion. There may be no explosions but he doing as much damage in other ways.
I’m sorry you’re still stuck with him—we finally shed our creature, the 🍊🍄💩
Load More Replies...Apparently the world has Karens, anti maskers, antivaxxers, and entitled wannabes to cause enough chaos in the world.
Well, Hitler was real, and that was pretty bad. So I'm gonna assume Mecha-Hitler would be worse.
Zapp Brannigan. Incompetent, arrogant, shameless, manipulative, zero morals or empathy, yet in a position of almost unequalled power.
Although he isn't real, he's unfortunately representative of a lot of man-children in positions of power.
Wouldn't the last two elections have been more fun if the spoiled manchild had been wearing Brannigan's miniskirt uniform?
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Azathoth
Literally the embodiment of true chaos and insanity. His dreams are our universe, if he ever wakes up all of reality will be wiped from existence.
He's an old deity from the Cthulhu mythos, H.P.Lovecraft.
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Homelander
Needs infinitely more upvotes as he is the absolute toxic mega douchebag, who has a pee-on to assassinate everyone that offends his tender sensibilities.
He's even worse in the comics. The series was s**t, it wasn't about The Boys taking superheroes to task, it was about Butcher and his wife. Who cares? The worst bit was when (the terribly inaccurate portrayal of) Frenchie tried to kiss the Female. He's essentially her adopted father for goodness' sake! It was stupid. If you like the series then I highly recommend reading the comics, they're excellent. Way more brutal and no namby pamby romance.
A nearly all-powerful, invulnerable d**k. That's pretty terrifying.
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All the dimensionless characters in H.P. Lovecraft literature because they're terrifying, beyond words.
My favorite take on Cthulhu mythos creatures, is that they only seem to be made out of hundred goat legs, a million eyes and tentacles because their appearances are so so so alien they completely break our minds. So we see the scariest, ugliest things our brains can come up with.
Kirby, he could eat everything you hold dear.
But if you tame him, he could eat all your enemies and help you hide dead bodies
The Man in Black, the Walkin’ Dude, Randall Flagg… multidimensional pure evil.
Kratos. Sure he’s a single dad just doing his best now but he killed an entire pantheon and sent the world into irreparable chaos. He raised the seas, unleashed hordes of lost souls from hades, blocked out the sun, killed Gaia, literally Mother Earth, and no matter how hard he or anyone else tried he couldn’t seem to die. And that’s just in one of the games.
Little Finger...
We don't need World war 3 anytime soon!
Just a talented, well connected manipulator with no empathy and huge ambition. Pretty sure there a real version of him in every government, corporation and organization, to all levels.
I was going to say you're getting pretty close to describing a few people who come to mind........right now.
Load More Replies...I saw the picture and I was like “Janson?!?!?” But no. Janson was the first person I thought of for the post tho.
In my opinion the maze runner movies SUCKED.
Load More Replies...He’s good in Those Who Wish Me Dead, I didn’t realise it was him until the credits, I thought his face was familiar!
Darth Vader, love the character but would not like to be on the receiving end of his lightsaber/force/arm
Oh no!! A limbless grandpa with asthma that sucks at the floor is lava!!! (Sarcasm on)
Between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, this guy was a soulless walking nightmare. After he discovered he was a family man, complete pu**y. I mean he even let Admiral Piett fail him - twice!
VADER IS SO AWESOME IT TAKES TEN ACTORS TO PLAY HIM!!! (But Palpatine is the one I'd like to have a drink with.)
"have you ever heard of the legend of Darth Plagueis..."
Load More Replies...You will though, because by assuming he didn't exist for real, you disappointed him a lot.
Baldrick.
Imagine the smell..
Baldrick wouldn't recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing cunning plans are here again.
Load More Replies...He’d be fine, just don’t take any food or drink he offers you! Rat au Van (a rat that’s been run over by a van), Filet mignon in Sauce Bearnaise (dog turds covered in glue), Plum duff (a mole hill decorated in rabbit droppings), Cream custard (cat’s vomit), Coffee (hot mud), with milk (spit), sugar (dandruff) and rather dubious ‘chocolate sprinkles’ (try and guess what that one is) . Apple crumble which contains fish More rat; sautée, which involves: taking the freshly shaved rat and marinading it in a puddle (When Blackadder asks how long it should be ‘marinated’ for, the reply is ’till it’s drowned’) stretching it out under a hot lightbulb getting within dashing distance of a latrine scoffing it right down! Rat fricassée, which is the same as above, but a slightly bigger rat.
A cunning plan you say? Is it as cunning as a fox who's just been made Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
NOOooooooooooooo. I love Baldrick. I love his war poems. They're hilarious. Just watch them here and have a good laugh.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSvKNQNzc0
The Terminator. Hopefully unstoppable killer robots will never be part of our lifetime.
But killer robots are already here. We have strategic drones some of which are now almost completely autonomous, requiring little to no human input :O
🤦♀️if the operating system is skynet or genesis then we sound like we are all screwed
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Megatron. Do we really need a crazy robot the size of a tank running around? Even worse would be his namesake from Beast Wars. That one is devious, yeees
Honestly I wouldn't want the Autobots either. They cause so much property damage...
Eric Cartman.
Rick Sanchez.
My name is Jerry. Rick Sanchez is automatically off the "friends" list.
Galactus. We ain't got s*** for him and he would just roll through our solar system as we just watched the news talking about strange phenomenon happing related to gravity in flux. Then one day we just see a giant hand in the sky
do y'all know those nutjobs outside of convention centers screaming about jesus and the rapture (t? my dad once saw a guy counterprotesting by screaming that "the end is nigh! galactus is coming! repent! galactus!"
It'd be fine if squirrel girl was real, but she's not so HECK NAW, I'M GLAD HE'S FICTION
Smaug. Literal fire breathing dragon.
All Smaug wants is gold, so unless ur Jeff Bezos or Donald Trump, ur fine
Whatever, I'd deal with Smaug, he isn't even the scariest dragon in Tolkien's writing. There's Ancalagon, who wass fricking massive, and worse yet was Glaurung. He wasn't so large and couldn't fly, but he possessed mind-controling abilities and used them in the meanest, cruelest way possible. Total psychopath.
I don't fear many things, but that dragon, I fear.
Load More Replies...A lot of people aren’t scared of him because we see him briefly, and he gets outwitted by Bilbo and the dwarves, and shot by Bard. But he’s freaking gigantic, amazing, and terrifying. A huge flamethrower with wings. Who wants that nearby, even if it’s sleeping?!
Omni man
the way he mashed mark into the train and all that blood that came out, EWWWWWW= innapropiate
Light yagami dude probabaly would've taken over the world by now
NOPE! IDGAF what you say! THIS MAN WOULD END THE WORLD! or I could steal his book and do it myself.
anything from Subnautica
SUBNAUTICA IS F***ING TERRIFYING I CAN NOT PLAY THAT GAME IF I COULD UPVOTE THIS MORE I WOULD, HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE TERROR OF GOING OVER THE OPEN OCEAN HOPING YOU DON'T SEE A FRICKIN REAPER BC THATS THE ULTIMATE FEAR FOR ME
I thought it would be like a fun, ocean-exploration (Abzu-like) survival thing. NOPE!
Load More Replies...Oh come on, most of the fishies are no danger at all. Not even all of the leviathans are bad. That said, there are some things on planet 4546B I really wouldn't want in this world....
Azula, she really scared me as a child and would be a terrifying person in real life.
have you seen the anime on Netflix when katara froze her on those bars, SHE LOOKED LIKE A COMPLETE PSYCHOPATH
The Gravemind from Halo. It's an absolutely horrifying monster than can literally resurrect you and violate you in the most horrific manner.
However humans are considered holy to it. We would be completely untouched according to the book.
Ghostfreak from Ben 10, he possesses bodies and haunts whenever you come up upon it.
Well, I personally do not have much knowledge on Ben 10 so I cannot comment on anything :O
Load More Replies...Brightburn or Homelander
But if ur nice to brightburn, he just might give you either a quick and painless death, or leave u alone
Darth Nihilus
How much do you want to bet that not a single person knows who this guy is.
Sephiroth
And some very deep-seated Daddy issues as well...
Load More Replies...Almost everything from SCP except 999
Just imagine seeing a phot of 096 and you just hear "AAAAAAAAAAAA" next thing you know a tall pale man is running at you
a picture of 096 cant kill you, because its an artistic representation
Load More Replies...No no no! That article was the most terrifying one for me.
Load More Replies...Well, some of them, at least. A pizza that knows what you like and adjusts itself to fit isn't gonna start any world wars. Neither is the eye Roombas.
Some people actually think SCP is real. But then, some people think Earth is flat, so.... People are stupid sometimes, no wait, a lot of the time
Ted Faro from horizon: zero dawn Thing is, he doesnt have superpowers nor mystical weapons from ancient civilizations, he is just a guy that somehow accidentaly manages to wipe the entire human race It scares me because it could honestly be something that happens in real life
Trevor f*****g Phillips
so many doctor who creatures. the weeping angels are especially terrifying to me
You stick those damn statues in front of me and I'll cry like a baby.
Load More Replies...President Snow. I really don’t want the Hunger Games to happen...
Give it 20 more years of the bachelor and bachelorette shows and they will slowly morph into all out battle or porn. Or maybe both.
Load More Replies...I didn't see your comment before I left mine. Yup x 1000
Load More Replies...What about the Mind Flayer and the Demi-Dogs from Stranger Things? Those are TERRIFYING
so many doctor who creatures. the weeping angels are especially terrifying to me
You stick those damn statues in front of me and I'll cry like a baby.
Load More Replies...President Snow. I really don’t want the Hunger Games to happen...
Give it 20 more years of the bachelor and bachelorette shows and they will slowly morph into all out battle or porn. Or maybe both.
Load More Replies...I didn't see your comment before I left mine. Yup x 1000
Load More Replies...What about the Mind Flayer and the Demi-Dogs from Stranger Things? Those are TERRIFYING
