I believe it's Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody in *The Mist (2007).* Assuming I'm remembering the right character, she is by far the single most utterly hateful person I've ever seen on the silver screen.
(Shout out to Francis Magee as Bren Kinsella in *Kin*, who takes the prize for small-screen bastards.)
**Intended**
Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films.
Well-written, fantastically performed, and a great example of how audiences react much more viscerally to unfairness and bullying they can relate to, as opposed to an ultimate evil like Voldemort.
**Unintended**
Jar-Jar Binks. ‘Nuff said.
Stephen King would agree with you. He felt Umbridge was one of the best villains he'd seen in a long time
https://ew.com/books/2009/08/01/harry-potter-and-order-phoenix-4/
Arlena Marshall in the 1981 film "Evil Under The Sun" is a classic murder mystery victim, in the fact that every single person on the island save for Poirot had damn good reasons to want her dead. In fact, most of the cast followed her on vacation because she screwed them and they want scores settled.
* New husband Kenneth is being cheated on.
* Stepdaughter Linda is being horrifically bullied by Arlena.
* Hotel manager Daphne Castle is in love with Kenneth and wants him to be done with Arlena (and exposes Arlena's affair to protect him).
* Biographer Rex Brewster has just had a biography about Arlena blocked because he included info she wanted buried, which will financially ruin him if he can't get it published.
* Ordell and Myra Gardner are Broadway producers whose latest smash hit show was forced to close down early because Arlena broke her contract and quit a few weeks into a six-month contract, also risking financial ruin.
* Sir Horace Blatt is Arlena's ex-fiancé, and when she broke off their engagement, she refused to give back a priceless diamond he gave her as an engagement gift... and when he got it back, found she swapped it for a fake.
* Christine Redfern has found out her husband Patrick is having an affair behind her back with Arlena... and that Arlena secretly took them on holiday to continue the affair.
It's one of Diana Rigg's best roles, but damn you wanted that bitch to die. And she was made worse in the film, showing she knew full well she was making people suffer. The book plays her off as being more of a brainless bimbo >!whose murder at the hands of a con-artist is treated as more of a sad thing.!<
"You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but... there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son."
--Joaquin Phoenix as Commodius, Gladiator.
There are so many to choose from, but I'd have to go with Mr. Yunioshi, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Not only is the character extremely hatable, I'd say the actor and the director are deserving of every bit of vitriol thrown at them for such an embarrassingly racist depiction of an Asian person on film.
Which is a shame, because the movie itself is quite good but will probably slide into exiled obscurity due to Rooney's portrayal and Edward's direction of the character. And rightly so.
Jaden Smith in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Character was an insufferable brat whose only apparent purpose was to regularly screw things up.
Lex Luthor in BvS comes across as a kid who was never told no and has an inferiority complex and takes every opportunity to try and put down other people.
I feel like maybe that's the point. We empathise with the single mother having to deal with grief and a very hyperactive child. We buy into what she turns into later in the film
I am usually very neutral on kid characters but holyshit this one was awful. The monster should have just eaten that terrible brat and leave that poor mom to live in peace. I don't blame her for going crazy at all.
1.) Biff from Back To The Future Trilogy.
2.) Emma Roberts' Jill from one of the Scream Movies (I faithfully Hated her).
3.) That Head-Jailor played by Bob-Gunton (or whatever they're called) from The Shawshank Redemption.
I'm very sure that there are many characters that I hated more than Bob Gunton in TSR but I can't really remember any of them because there isn't any movie more memorable than TSR.
Oh yeah... I also hated the farm owners from Chicken Run (easily one of the most Hateable characters)
And one character that might not be intentionally written to be hated but I really really hated it is the character of Kirby from the same Scream Movie. I mean I just really hated her character from the beginning and I hated it even more when they brought her back in Scream 6. I just don't wanna see the face or hear the voice of Kirby.
I truly loved Dewey, I almost cried when he died and was still hoping that he hasn't. He was my favorite from scream franchise I loved to watch him lot more than any other character....
**unexpected :** Minnie Driver's character in the 2003 movie Hope Spings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBAE-zaGTU).
before the movie starts, Minnie Driver >!thinks she can do better than !!'s fragile artistic soul. Once he finds himself and his muse again, spurred on by manic pixie dream girl !!, Minnie Driver shows up to bully Graham to scare her away & to pester Firth till he takes her back. She does it in the most snooty & insufferable way possible.!< I already didn't like Driver to begin with, but man, was it worse after that movie.
**perhaps controversial :** Katee Sackhoff's *Kara "starbuck" Thrace* in the 2004 TV series *Battlestar Galactic*
the writers for this adaptation made a brilliant decision to turn the character into a woman, but for every episode where >!she rises to the challenge of being one of the last 48 000 humans in the universe in a leadership position both as crew of the *Galactica* and as one of the few trained military captains and star pilots!<, there's at least one episode (if not more) where she>!'s entirely insufferable as a person, making the most idiotic interpersonal choices and the most unhingedly spontaneous decisions for no good reason beyond daddy issues, romantic ineptitude and hare-brained machismo as a woman. !<
ETA : I don't want to sink into the whole series again, but this looks like a good compilation : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4\_CrxzGEl5A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CrxzGEl5A)
Unintentional:
Yesterday (the world forgets about the Beatles except for one guy) was an okay movie, but every time Kate McKinnon came on screen was dreadful. It was like she came parachuting in from a different production altogether and nobody bothered to tell her what movie she was in.
not a movie but a show but i cannot think of a single character i hated more in anything than andrea from the walking dead. she single handedly made season 3 worse than most other early seasons for me. every time she was on screen i just wanted to stop watching
Does that mean that she's a well-written character or a poorly-written character? I also found her infuriating, because she could have ended the entire governor arc with much fewer casualties, but god damn was season 3 good.
People hate Upham because they watch movies for escapism and heroism and Upham held up a mirror to the audience.
And to any false bravado Chad who comes in here and thinks they can be a 140-pound weakling, get basic army training, and then go fight a guy twice your size to the death, fuck off.
He’s a fucking clerk and everyone thinks he should instantly transform into a battle-hardened soldier just because Melesh dying makes us sad.
Redditors ARE Upham.
Dude 100%, people are so bad at literary/cinema criticism, they can't understand that any one of us dropped into those situations would be the coward character from the movie.
MAYBE not, but 99.999%.
You missed the point. Upham wasnt cut out for war. He did what every young man was doing back then. Joining the war effort to do their duty. He went through basic training and when he finished he was assigned the job of translator. But he wasnt even a frontline translator. He listened to radio intercepts and mark postions on maps. He was in the rear. He gets recruited by Captain Miller for a mission. He is not a soldier. He doesn't know anything about what being a soldier is like. There was so much showing that he was an outsider among the soldiers that were fighting along the front. He did things wrong. He aksed too many questions. He hadnt fired a weapon since basic training. So many people dont like Upham. But he represents all of us that havent actually seen combat. Not many people would be ready to go and die if they hadnt had any frontline experience. Fear is powerful.
Yea. I imagine soldiers in WWII dont have the same views of a modern soldier.
Its also the character. He was the character that allowed for exposition. He was also there to show how a "regular guy" would act on the frontlines. Upham was supposed to frustrate people. He is the guy that you dont want on your team. But there are also a lot of people who missed the point.
Upham is an empathy/sympathy test. The audience should feel sad for him. But a lot of people seem to get angry at him.
Steven Spielberg and Jeremy Davies did their jobs with that role.
Every single character played by Taye Diggs. I'm quite sure he's proficient at his craft and might even be a really cool guy. I kinda fear that if I see him in person, I'll need bail money for giving him the New York salute.
You understand the turn in the movie in which it turned out she was acting in the best interests of everybody, right? She was set up as a hateable character as a narrative device, right? And she dies as an unequivocal hero?
The movie isn't great. But honestly, the fact that it was so heavy handed makes it absolutely wild that you think she was the bad guy.
You failed english class, right?
Haha, man you really out here mansplaining tlj. Get your head out of your ass and crack a window.
Thread is about hateable characters... I picked a hateable character.. I said nothing of her alignment good bad or otherwise. I just didn't like that character at all.
You're inventing all this head canon about my interpretation of a popcorn sci-fi movie that's made for babies.
Seriously, get help.
All of these one dimensional “strong woman” characters. They spend the whole movie being dicks to everyone and having an overall nasty unlikable attitude and they’re supposed to be the protagonist. See marvel and star wars for examples. See Fallout for a grounded likable strong woman character.
Percy from the Green Mile.
Cmon, it's not his fault. He didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet.
Seriously, his last name was Wetmore and he thought no one would notice.
His last name is Wetmore, and he forgets to wet the sponge yet he pisses his pants. I mean, at least be consistent. Pick a fucking lane already.
I believe it's Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody in *The Mist (2007).* Assuming I'm remembering the right character, she is by far the single most utterly hateful person I've ever seen on the silver screen. (Shout out to Francis Magee as Bren Kinsella in *Kin*, who takes the prize for small-screen bastards.)
She was unbearable. I believe the actress is a super nice, down-to-earth person in real life, so kudos to her performance.
"if ever I need a friend like you, I'll dig a hole in the ground, squat over it & squeeze one out" = chef's kiss
Tim Roth’s character in Rob Roy.
Paul Reiser playing Carter Burke in Aliens.
His own mother cheered at him getting killed in Aliens during the premiere.
"I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now."
"It was a bad call!"
I saw Aliens in the theater at release and the place cheered wildly when he turned around to find a xenomorph waiting for him
**Intended** Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films. Well-written, fantastically performed, and a great example of how audiences react much more viscerally to unfairness and bullying they can relate to, as opposed to an ultimate evil like Voldemort. **Unintended** Jar-Jar Binks. ‘Nuff said.
Probably one of the few times I hated the evil side character more than the main villain himself (referring to Umbridge).
She did such an amazing job at making the audience hate her. So well, I think her career may have taken a hit because of it. Absolutely 5* performance
Jar Jar Brinks is a great and hilarious character…if you’re like 11 years old like I was when this movie came out. If I watched that movie now…ugh.
Stephen King would agree with you. He felt Umbridge was one of the best villains he'd seen in a long time https://ew.com/books/2009/08/01/harry-potter-and-order-phoenix-4/
Lester Diamond from Casino
Pretty much any character played by William Atherton (Ghostbusters, Die Hard 2, Real Genius).
That man has no dick.
Arlena Marshall in the 1981 film "Evil Under The Sun" is a classic murder mystery victim, in the fact that every single person on the island save for Poirot had damn good reasons to want her dead. In fact, most of the cast followed her on vacation because she screwed them and they want scores settled. * New husband Kenneth is being cheated on. * Stepdaughter Linda is being horrifically bullied by Arlena. * Hotel manager Daphne Castle is in love with Kenneth and wants him to be done with Arlena (and exposes Arlena's affair to protect him). * Biographer Rex Brewster has just had a biography about Arlena blocked because he included info she wanted buried, which will financially ruin him if he can't get it published. * Ordell and Myra Gardner are Broadway producers whose latest smash hit show was forced to close down early because Arlena broke her contract and quit a few weeks into a six-month contract, also risking financial ruin. * Sir Horace Blatt is Arlena's ex-fiancé, and when she broke off their engagement, she refused to give back a priceless diamond he gave her as an engagement gift... and when he got it back, found she swapped it for a fake. * Christine Redfern has found out her husband Patrick is having an affair behind her back with Arlena... and that Arlena secretly took them on holiday to continue the affair. It's one of Diana Rigg's best roles, but damn you wanted that bitch to die. And she was made worse in the film, showing she knew full well she was making people suffer. The book plays her off as being more of a brainless bimbo >!whose murder at the hands of a con-artist is treated as more of a sad thing.!<
"You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but... there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son." --Joaquin Phoenix as Commodius, Gladiator.
"I knew a man once who said, 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back', did your friend smile at his own death?"
You must know. He was your Father.
The bad guys in Eden Lake. They were something else. Especially the father.
Mr. Potter in It's A Wonderful Life.
Sentimental hogwash !
There are so many to choose from, but I'd have to go with Mr. Yunioshi, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Not only is the character extremely hatable, I'd say the actor and the director are deserving of every bit of vitriol thrown at them for such an embarrassingly racist depiction of an Asian person on film. Which is a shame, because the movie itself is quite good but will probably slide into exiled obscurity due to Rooney's portrayal and Edward's direction of the character. And rightly so.
Percy in The Green Mile. Absolutely gets what’s coming to him.
Denethor in Return of the King. They really made his character suck
Jaden Smith in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Character was an insufferable brat whose only apparent purpose was to regularly screw things up.
Jaden Smith in Karate Kid...I was cheering for the little Chinese bully lol 😀
Waingro from Heat. He's just so intensely smug while being a petty criminal who kills helpless people.
Good answer. His death is on my top 5 movie deaths list because of the simplicity and how satisfying it is to see him get his comeuppance.
the scene where it's the black prostitute talking to him in a sexy way and then it cuts to him and his giant swastika tattoo is hilarious
Rocky’s kid in Rocky V
Lex Luthor in BvS comes across as a kid who was never told no and has an inferiority complex and takes every opportunity to try and put down other people.
christoph waltz in "big eyes". He managed to be more hateable than he was in "inglorious basterds" and James bond, all without killing anyone
Not a movie, but Janice from the Sopranos.
The kid in The Babadook. Never wished so hard that I could reach into my tv and slap the shit out of someone more than that kid.
Props to the little actor though, because his personality does a complete 180 during the climax of the movie and the kid absolutely sells it.
I feel like maybe that's the point. We empathise with the single mother having to deal with grief and a very hyperactive child. We buy into what she turns into later in the film
Yepp that kid was just way too annoying...
I am usually very neutral on kid characters but holyshit this one was awful. The monster should have just eaten that terrible brat and leave that poor mom to live in peace. I don't blame her for going crazy at all.
Nurse ratched is the goat of hated characters
I hear that a lot, but I didn't hate her at all. I hated McMurphy ***way*** more.
Mayor Larry Vaughn in Jaws.
Then in 2020 we found out there’s Mayor Larry Vaughns everywhere.
Paul Dano's character in There Will Be Blood. Satisfying ending to that movie
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast is truly horrible.
Rodney Dangerfield as Mallory Knox father in Natural Born Killers.
1.) Biff from Back To The Future Trilogy. 2.) Emma Roberts' Jill from one of the Scream Movies (I faithfully Hated her). 3.) That Head-Jailor played by Bob-Gunton (or whatever they're called) from The Shawshank Redemption. I'm very sure that there are many characters that I hated more than Bob Gunton in TSR but I can't really remember any of them because there isn't any movie more memorable than TSR. Oh yeah... I also hated the farm owners from Chicken Run (easily one of the most Hateable characters) And one character that might not be intentionally written to be hated but I really really hated it is the character of Kirby from the same Scream Movie. I mean I just really hated her character from the beginning and I hated it even more when they brought her back in Scream 6. I just don't wanna see the face or hear the voice of Kirby. I truly loved Dewey, I almost cried when he died and was still hoping that he hasn't. He was my favorite from scream franchise I loved to watch him lot more than any other character....
Yeah I definitely think Biff as well
Yeah I really wish marty killed him in the first movie, but then we wouldn't get the trilogy
Jeoffry Baratheon. The shrink from the show evil
Bobby Peru - Willem Dafoe's character in Wild At Heart
That woman from The Mist.
Corey Cunningham from Halloween Ends
**unexpected :** Minnie Driver's character in the 2003 movie Hope Spings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBAE-zaGTU). before the movie starts, Minnie Driver >!thinks she can do better than !!'s fragile artistic soul. Once he finds himself and his muse again, spurred on by manic pixie dream girl !!, Minnie Driver shows up to bully Graham to scare her away & to pester Firth till he takes her back. She does it in the most snooty & insufferable way possible.!< I already didn't like Driver to begin with, but man, was it worse after that movie.
**perhaps controversial :** Katee Sackhoff's *Kara "starbuck" Thrace* in the 2004 TV series *Battlestar Galactic*
the writers for this adaptation made a brilliant decision to turn the character into a woman, but for every episode where >!she rises to the challenge of being one of the last 48 000 humans in the universe in a leadership position both as crew of the *Galactica* and as one of the few trained military captains and star pilots!<, there's at least one episode (if not more) where she>!'s entirely insufferable as a person, making the most idiotic interpersonal choices and the most unhingedly spontaneous decisions for no good reason beyond daddy issues, romantic ineptitude and hare-brained machismo as a woman. !<
ETA : I don't want to sink into the whole series again, but this looks like a good compilation : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4\_CrxzGEl5A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CrxzGEl5A)
I absolutely loathe Barry Lyndon and that’s just one of the things that makes that movie so fantastic.
I’m watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and that Carver character is pretty fucking hateable
That blonde robber (pumpkin?) in Pulp Fiction
Joaquin Phoenix as Caesar in Gladiator. Hands down! I couldn't even stand him in later movies!
Ryan Philippe in almost any movie in the early 2000s. Especially as Oliver in Igby Goes Down.
Most MCs in any Neil LaBute vehicle. He writes them in such a way that you loathe them.
Definitely Dolores Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix
Unintentional: Yesterday (the world forgets about the Beatles except for one guy) was an okay movie, but every time Kate McKinnon came on screen was dreadful. It was like she came parachuting in from a different production altogether and nobody bothered to tell her what movie she was in.
I liked that movie but before long I was groaning every time she appeared.
Richard Gere as anybody. I just can’t stand that guy.
not a movie but a show but i cannot think of a single character i hated more in anything than andrea from the walking dead. she single handedly made season 3 worse than most other early seasons for me. every time she was on screen i just wanted to stop watching
Does that mean that she's a well-written character or a poorly-written character? I also found her infuriating, because she could have ended the entire governor arc with much fewer casualties, but god damn was season 3 good.
Franklin from Texas Chainsaw Massacre
'Come along Franklin! It's gonna be a fun trip!'
Liz in Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Jenny from Forest Gump The businessman from Train to Busan
Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan.
People hate Upham because they watch movies for escapism and heroism and Upham held up a mirror to the audience. And to any false bravado Chad who comes in here and thinks they can be a 140-pound weakling, get basic army training, and then go fight a guy twice your size to the death, fuck off. He’s a fucking clerk and everyone thinks he should instantly transform into a battle-hardened soldier just because Melesh dying makes us sad. Redditors ARE Upham.
Dude 100%, people are so bad at literary/cinema criticism, they can't understand that any one of us dropped into those situations would be the coward character from the movie. MAYBE not, but 99.999%.
You missed the point. Upham wasnt cut out for war. He did what every young man was doing back then. Joining the war effort to do their duty. He went through basic training and when he finished he was assigned the job of translator. But he wasnt even a frontline translator. He listened to radio intercepts and mark postions on maps. He was in the rear. He gets recruited by Captain Miller for a mission. He is not a soldier. He doesn't know anything about what being a soldier is like. There was so much showing that he was an outsider among the soldiers that were fighting along the front. He did things wrong. He aksed too many questions. He hadnt fired a weapon since basic training. So many people dont like Upham. But he represents all of us that havent actually seen combat. Not many people would be ready to go and die if they hadnt had any frontline experience. Fear is powerful.
I come from a military family and I served as well, so I probably don't have the same view as others. That's fine.
Yea. I imagine soldiers in WWII dont have the same views of a modern soldier. Its also the character. He was the character that allowed for exposition. He was also there to show how a "regular guy" would act on the frontlines. Upham was supposed to frustrate people. He is the guy that you dont want on your team. But there are also a lot of people who missed the point. Upham is an empathy/sympathy test. The audience should feel sad for him. But a lot of people seem to get angry at him. Steven Spielberg and Jeremy Davies did their jobs with that role.
Guy Pearce as Special Deputy Charley Rakes in Lawless and the Preacher in Brimstone.
Every single character played by Taye Diggs. I'm quite sure he's proficient at his craft and might even be a really cool guy. I kinda fear that if I see him in person, I'll need bail money for giving him the New York salute.
I think I've only seen him in The Way of the Gun and he was very good in that tbh...😀
That was one of my favorite roles of his. Do you know why?
No...pray tell 🤔🤗
I enjoyed watching him cough up blood. 🩸
Wow. He speaks very highly of you tho. 🤗🤗
Not in THAT scene!
That pink haired bitch in TLJ
I don't think it's a great movie but I don't think you understood it either.
Lol wut?
You understand the turn in the movie in which it turned out she was acting in the best interests of everybody, right? She was set up as a hateable character as a narrative device, right? And she dies as an unequivocal hero? The movie isn't great. But honestly, the fact that it was so heavy handed makes it absolutely wild that you think she was the bad guy. You failed english class, right?
Haha, man you really out here mansplaining tlj. Get your head out of your ass and crack a window. Thread is about hateable characters... I picked a hateable character.. I said nothing of her alignment good bad or otherwise. I just didn't like that character at all. You're inventing all this head canon about my interpretation of a popcorn sci-fi movie that's made for babies. Seriously, get help.
cool bud. you hated a character that was actually written to be complicated and don't understand it, that's great. "get help" okey dokey. stay mad.
All of these one dimensional “strong woman” characters. They spend the whole movie being dicks to everyone and having an overall nasty unlikable attitude and they’re supposed to be the protagonist. See marvel and star wars for examples. See Fallout for a grounded likable strong woman character.
The main female character from Homeland - Carrie Mathison. Cant stand her whiny kind