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  • Alien:
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Dr. Kafka has taken flak for being just too cheesy or campy that it felt out of place even with Max Dillon's and Rhino's brand of campiness, like something out of Joel Schumacher's Batman films. Additional flak comes from the character being significantly different than the Dr. Kafka of the comics, who was a woman and one of the good guys, not to mention largely devoid of hamminess.
  • Black Christmas (2019): Kris is not well-liked due to her Soapbox Sadie persona being perceived as too obnoxious and self-serving, with little regard for how Riley feels, except when it benefits her. She is also apathetic to Helena's disappearance and seems to make a habit of flashing Kubrick Stares at people when they disagree with her. Plus, she gets a Karma Houdini by surviving to the end.
  • Blank Check: Preston's father, Fred, is undoubtedly the most hated character in the movie, even more than what the writing intended. In addition to the usual uselessness in most 90's kids films, he lets his two older sons bully Preston and use his room for their own business (despite being incompetent at computers), berates Preston for not doing the same (or finding a job, despite being clearly too young to do so), starts the plot by being so money tight that even giving him twenty bucks for a theme park is too much to ask, expressed more concern about how Preston's bike was ruined rather than concern that he was almost hit by a car, and overall is just so unlikable that Preston comes just shy of being actually sympathetic in the process.
  • Brothers (2009): Isabelle is the most despised character, even more so than the truly villainous Afghans, for coming off as very bratty towards her father, who just came back from war and flat-out saying in a callous manner that he should have died... which directly leads to Sam's breakdown in the climax. The fact that she doesn't suffer punishment (aside from the belief that she will now live with that guilt and the fact that her father suffers from PTSD) doesn't help either.
  • Christmas with a Capital C: Greg (played by conservative comedian Brad Stine) is supposed to be Dan's quirky, inseparable sidekick and a Cool Uncle to his children. But his constant quips get annoying really fast, his various rants about "political correctness" in regards to Christmas making him seem less like a man protesting a corrupt system and more like an Entitled Bastard making a big deal over nothing.
  • Malak from Conan the Destroyer, whiny, cowardly and, except for one scene, The Load.
  • The DC Extended Universe has a serious issue with its villains falling into this trope. Examples include Jared Leto's Joker (who was disliked for his "edgy" design and not bearing much resemblance to the comic book character,) and Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor (disliked for his eccentric, manic performance and not bearing much resemblance to the comic book character...noticing a pattern here?) Two villains stand out as particularly hated:
    • The villain Enchantress was seen as the weakest part of the Suicide Squad (2016) (and given how people felt about the Jared Leto Joker, that is really saying something). This was thanks to a combination of poor characterization, generic and vague motivations, and her Story Breaker Powers that leaves little room for an interesting conflict. Not to mention that she's horribly out of sync with the rest of the movie; watching her battle the Suicide Squad is a little bit like watching the Dirty Dozen fight Rita Repulsa. The odd decision to have the character flop about like a Wacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Man for most of the movie and Cara Delevingne's poor performance certainly didn't help matters either.
    • Steppenwolf from Justice League (2017) is considered to be the most forgettable and least-liked villain of the franchise due to having a bare-bones personality and an uninteresting CGI design. It didn't help matters that he was the main villain of the film instead of the more popular Darkseid (or, really, any New God; Steppenwolf is pretty much the definition of C-list among the group) or actual Leaguer villains like Starro, Amazo, or the Crime Syndicate.
      • However, three out of four of them did get a better reputation come Zack Snyder's Justice League, with Joker getting a particularly creepy scene in a post-apocalyptic future where he loses the tattoos and interacts with Batman in a manner that plays up their trademark dynamic from the comics and most other media, Lex Luthor acting closer to his comics-self (a shrewd businessman rather than a maniac), and Steppenwolf not only having a fleshed-out personality and clearer motivations (to the point some audiences felt bad for him), but a better and more unique design and far more generally badass moments.
  • Snails, the thief from the first Dungeons & Dragons (2000) movie, was hated for being an incredibly aggravating Ethnic Scrappy and a failed attempt at the Plucky Comic Relief. While his death may have pushed him into Alas, Poor Scrappy-territory for some, Ridley's Big "NO!" following it at the hands of evil head minion Damodar was considered the height of Narm.
  • An adaptation of The Dunwich Horror from The '70s gives Wilbur Whateley a love interest. Most Lovecraft fans consider her everything wrong with Hollywood.
  • Extraction 2: Sandro, like you would not believe. Aside from receiving poor comparisons to the much better received Ovi from the the first film, Sandro is utterly hated for acting like an Ungrateful Bastard towards his rescuers and blindly idolizing his father (who displays much evidence that he doesn't reciprocate the feelings at all). His response towards the Unwanted Rescue is to betray his own family and reveal his location to his father, who leads a seige that results in the death of the much-liked Yaz. To top it off, he gets off completely scot-free by the end of the movie, even if he expresses genuine regret later on.
  • The Eye Creatures: Culver, the Covert Pervert, was labeled by Tom Servo as one of the most instantly unlikeable characters in film history.
  • Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element. He's supposed to be the comic relief, but the only thing he does is scream like a little girl and complain about everything in a grating, high-pitched voice, and while no one would call the rest of the movie a masterpiece of characterization, Ruby Rhod has zero depth to his character beyond being "humorously effeminate black guy." Not only that, he is completely useless and does nothing to help the plot or the other characters. This seems to be the point of the character, as protagonist Korben Dallas is frequently grimacing around Ruby and clearly dislikes him. In recent years, however, he tows the line between this and Base-Breaking Character, considering the amount of growing fans he has acquired for adding a little personality to the film, thus being the comic relief.
  • Gamera: Toshio, or Kenny, is a particularly disliked example of the sort of obnoxious Kid-Appeal Character who tags along for no reason in many kaiju and sci-fi films, such that Brandon Tenold dubbed all such characters "Kennies." What makes Toshio such an irritating example of the type is that he's not Too Dumb to Live in a normal childish way, but outright deluded about the danger Gamera poses in spite of witnessing the monster's rampage firsthand, and puts himself and others in danger while trying to interfere with the adults' efforts to stop it.
  • Godzilla
    • Minya/Minilla, a.k.a. the Son of Godzilla is often panned by Godzilla fans of all ages due to his goofy nature, odd resemblance to a young Gary Coleman and the Pillsbury Doughboy, and the fact that he starred in All Monsters Attack, which is widely considered the worst of the Japanese Godzilla films.
    • There is the first American Godzilla, nowadays officially called Zilla due to this trope. He is hated for being weak compared to the original, lacking the powerful breath vision and durability, as well as having a totally different backstory (he's a mutated marine iguana, not a dinosaur). He also runs away from the military, and looks very different from the original. Ironically, in some international markets, he's actually by far the most well known and popular monster of the franchise, and it's the Japanese one and the newer American one that's hated (primarily due to poor distribution of the Japanese films in these regions, leading to the 1998 film greatly overshadowing them in popularity). In more recent years, Zilla's status among the fandom has softened (in part due to his appearance in the comic Godzilla: Rulers of Earth), and many have begun accepting him as a terrible Godzilla incarnation, but perfectly acceptable as a distinct kaiju on his own.
  • The Good Son: Wallace is well-hated by viewers for refusing to believe his nephew about his son, even locking him up after Henry pulls a Wounded Gazelle Gambit. The fact that he gets away with it hasn't done any favors.
  • Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman: Sipuak and Sisuliya, the comic duo who come off to a lot of viewers as less funny, more annoying.
  • Alfrid in The Hobbit trilogy. While he was tolerable in the second film where he didn't overstay his welcome, he's almost unbearable in the third due to a combination of being incredibly unlikeable even for a Hate Sink, a Canon Foreigner in a script already stuffed with them, a comic relief character whose gag of Aesop Amnesia wears thin very quickly, lacking any plot-relevance to an already badly padded story, and his storyline not actually concluding in the theatrical film (leaving him a Karma Houdini). On top of that, he's a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to his boss in the prior film, who was at least based on a canon character and played by Stephen Fry. Even fans of the film despise him, as his role of comic relief was filled better by the dwarves in prior films, who are largely Demoted to Extra in Five Armies in favor of him (a decision believed to be the result of Executive Meddling and near-universally seen as a poor one). It's rumored that audiences applauded during a screening of the Extended Edition, which added a scene where Alfrid dies horribly (and hilariously).
  • Jingle All the Way features an In-Universe example with Turbo Man's sidekick, Booster. It's a Running Gag that every store Howard and Myron go to is sold out of Turbo Man action figures, but has a large stock of Booster action figures. During the climax, Myron, dressed as Dementor, snaps at the guy in the Booster costume when he tries telling him to stick to the script ("Nobody likes you, Booster!") before he knocks him off the parade float. Afterwards, the kids surround him and start beating on him yelling about how much they don't like him.
  • Jurassic Park:
    • Sarah Harding from the second film. Despite apparently having years of experience with dangerous predators, she does extremely stupid things such as approaching a baby Stegosaurus standing right next to its family, taking a baby Tyrannosaurus back to their base camp (despite her predicting that T. rex likely cared for its young), and walking through the jungle covered in T. rex blood despite knowing that Tyrannosaurus has a very good sense of smell. She's basically a complete load, and her completely idiotic actions end up costing people lives.note  In a similar case to The Man With The Golden Gun listed above, she is a genuinely competent Action Girl in the book, but the film combined her with Richard Levine, who is an impulsive moron.
    • The Spinosaurus in the third film is this because of its status as overpowered. When your Establishing Character Moment is killing a T. rex (easily one of the most popular dinosaurs of all time and not just the film series), you're going to be drawing a lot of hate. It's telling that promotional materials for Jurassic World had to retcon it as the result of experiments to give dinosaurs feathers, and it may have been a forerunner to the Indominus Rex, but in the end the damage was done, as Spinosaurus only appears as a skeleton in that film smashed by the Tyrannosaurus rex, and specimens hidden on Isla Nublar are confirmed to have gone extinct in promotional materials for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, although this falls into Alas, Poor Scrappy for some.
    • Then there's Amanda Kirby from the third film, who easily earns the title of the most hated character in the series. Starting when they land on the island, she spends way too much of her screen time either screaming hysterically whenever she has even the slightest reason to, or simply being Too Dumb to Live, even though most of this is justified from her concern for her son, who has been stranded on Isla Sorna for weeks. Because of her boneheaded nature, she continuously makes Dr. Grant's attempts to keep everyone safe harder than ever, and it really doesn't help that on top of all that, she has other less-than-admirable traits such as occasional moments of stubbornness and selfishness. To be fair though, she does get a little better and smarter by the end, but at that point, it really isn't enough to make much difference or make up for all of her incredible moments of stupidity that nearly got herself and the others killed. In fact, the character of Tiffany from Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous was based off of her; given the character's generally and extremely unpleasant nature and gruesome death, it's widely believed that it served as a Take That!.
    • Franklin from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gets a lot of hate for being a walking nerd stereotype who does nothing but complain, whine, and even scream during 90% of his screen time, as well as for being comic relief in a movie that honestly didn't need any. The fact that he does nothing of importance other than take out Wu, which could be just as easily accomplished if Zia had released Blue a few seconds earlier, doesn't do him any favors. Granted, Zia was handcuffed by Wu to Blue's cage at the moment, meaning any wrong movement could have resulted in her undoing.

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  • Lady in the Water: Vick Ran. Unlike most of the examples listed here, it's not because he's annoying or unlikable. The real reason he's hated is because he's essentially destined to become the messiah of writers...who just so happens to be played by the film's writer/director: the one and only M. Night Shyamalan. Needless to say, many viewers didn't care for Shyamalan making a character who exists just to brag about how amazing his writing is. The fact that this movie was widely panned only makes the ego trip even worse for most. To top it off, he was even nominated for and won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor at that year's ceremony.
  • The Legend of Zorro:
    • The poor young Joaquin was dumped into the mix, adding a needless (and quite annoying) child element when all people were wanting was to see Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones kick any asses they might have missed from the first movie.
    • Jacob McGivens is considered by many to be a terrible and utterly forgettable villain, due to being very useless, ineffective, incompetent, and obnoxious...in addition to having a distractingly unconvincing scar.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Thor: The Dark World: Of all the MCU villains, Malekith the Accursed has the fewest fans. He doesn't have any real motivation for trying to destroy the world, and while most of the MCU villains were fairly Flat Characters at that point, most of them had at least a little more to go on. Malekith has nothing; it's even worse when compared to first film's Anti-Villain Breakout Character Loki.
    • Black Widow (2021):
      • This incarnation of Taskmaster has very few fans, largely due to the massive deviations in almost every respect from the comic book character, one of the more popular Marvel villains at that, to the point that it's widely considered In Name Only (and even then, the civilian name has also been changed). What really makes it bad is not just the changes, but the fact that Taskmaster is reduced to a mind-controlled, voiceless mook with no personality to speak of that might have made the changes tolerable, making the character a Winter Soldier knock-off, even discounting the gender swap.
      • Dreykov is similarly unpopular for being a one-note, underutilized Big Bad who's hard to take seriously and hurts the attempt at a more grounded story with his over-the-top nature. Although all the hate was intentional, he still fails to be a truly menacing villain, for that matter, making it a complete waste of Ray Winstone's talents. In addition, his final death scene during the finale suffered from a severe case of Special Effect Failure.
  • Zeppo Marx quickly became audiences' least favorite member of The Marx Brothers, due to his failure to adopt a strongly identifiable screen personality like Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. This eventually caused him to go behind the scenes and manage the other three, though they continued having straight romantic hero parts in their films that Zeppo clearly would have played if they'd still been together. Ironically, several of their contemporaries stated that in real life Zeppo was the funniest of the brothers. This includes the Marx Brothers themselves, as not only was he a capable straight man, he could subtly suggest further improvisations without breaking character or drawing undue attention. In contrast, most of the non-sibling cast had difficulty dealing with the brothers without laughing or storming off angrily. Played with by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when they named Xander "The Zeppo".
  • The Night of the Hunter: Icey Spoon is an old woman who is, without a doubt, the personification of The Nag. She's constantly belittling her husband to the point that he's completely ineffectual in helping anyone (she even admits to a crowd that she thinks about canning when she's having sex), she pushes Willa Harper into getting remarried to Harry Powell, and is utterly won over by his charms. Half the problems in the movie John and Pearl have to deal with are because of Icey's "helping hand". When Powell is finally arrested, Icey appears at his trial, drunk out of her mind and leading a lynch mob to hang Powell.
  • Orphan: John's stupidity, blind trusting of Esther, cheating on Kate after the stillbirth of their child, and myopia towards all the horrible events that had been occurring since Esther was adopted made him quite unlikable among viewers, to the point that his brutal death comes and goes without much thought; the rest of the film is dedicated to showing the much more likable Max attempting to survive Esther's rampage.
  • Osmosis Jones: Frank is seen as such for being such a despicably unlikable slob. Especially with how he casually disregards his own health, his apparent apathy towards Shane's frustration, and Bill Murray's emotionless performance. It doesn't help that the beginning of Ozzy & Drix shows him going back to his old self-destructive habits.
  • Pearl Harbor: Rafe is widely hated by viewers for being overly cocky, hot-tempered and downright unlikeable. It's not helped by the other characters going on about how wonderful and talented he is.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
    • Philip the missionary and Syrena for being a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to the couple of Will and Elizabeth. Many people thought they feel out of place with the rest of the cast (a priest in a pirate ship) and like Flat Characters who just slow down the plot even more.
    • Between the villains, Barbossa and Davy Jones are some of the most popular characters of the franchise, Beckett and Mercer had some fans too and Salazar and Angelica are base-breakers, but hardly anyone is a fan of Blackbeard. He's seen as uninteresting in comparison to the rest of the villains gallery and suffers severe Badass Decay after his introduction (being introduced as the pirate all pirates fear, having a powerful ship and sword, but then not doing anything really cool the rest of the movie). The fact that he changes from a Loving Dad to a Manipulative Bastard to Angelica depending the scene doesn't help.
    • Shansa and Scarfield also suffer this to some degree for being a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Tia Dalma and Norrington respectively, two of the most popular characters in the fandom, without having enough screentime to make them feel unique enough to justify it. Shansa got it worse since she only had two scenes and fulfilled the same role on Tia Dalma in DMC (give some advice about the enemy and an artifact that can help them in their adventure). While Scarfield is shown to be more of a Jerkass and acts as the Hate Sink instead of The Woobie without redeeming qualities, he still follows in the same role that Norrington had in the original movie but without getting any significant action sequences, which make many feel his character was redundant to the plot.
  • Pixels: Ludlow has No Indoor Voice and acts like a complete Loony Fan towards Lady Lisa, complete with Stalker Shrine and everything.
  • Project X: Costa is an arrogant, promiscuous, sociopathic bastard who bullies his friends, is casually misogynistic, racist, and homophobic, and is responsible for most of the problems that occur in the film, including stealing from a drug dealer he knows. He also brings a pair of psychopathic kids as "security" who assault a man whose only crime is being upset about the titular party. It doesn't help that he basically ends up a Karma Houdini.
  • Santa Claus (1959): The narrator. He loves telling the audience the most obvious things and never shuts up.
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Benjamin (the orange-shirted brother). He was played by a former baseball player who couldn't sing or dance very well. Look closely at him during musical numbers; he's either in the background, seated or blocked by a crowd. This wouldn't be too much of a problem if his designated bride wasn't trained singer/dancer Julie Newmar (who was apparently angry about this as well).
  • Many fans of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire strongly dislike Harriet Hoctor in Shall We Dance?.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Rachel was supposed to be disliked as an Obnoxious In-Laws disliking Tom for no apparent reason. But she was unintentionally disliked, as the worst aspects of the Sassy Black Woman trope—Rachel and her sister Maddie being black and Tom being white—suggest she may be racist and contribute nothing to the plot. Her reception greatly improved in the sequel as she took a level in kindness and badass as she helped Maddie rescue Sonic and Tom from the anti-villainous G.U.N., but she is still divisive due to her wedding subplot lasting way longer than it has any right to be as it has no relevance outside that moment.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014):
    • A lot of people didn't like this incarnation of April O'Neil, due to feeling she takes up too much time in the movie away from the Turtles (not helped due to their dynamic being considered one of the strongest points in the movie), has too bland a subplot, and leads to a lot of what's generally considered Padding. Being portrayed by Megan Fox also added to the divisiveness, as her sexpot looks diverge from how April is typically drawn or played.
    • When it comes down to it, Eric Sacks is just an unnecessary new character who steals the spotlight not only from Shredder but from Karai and Baxter Stockman as well. What earns him such a great amount of hatred is the fact that he was supposed to be this incarnation's Shredder through a Race Lift. Even with the inevitable fan backlash and acquisitions of whitewashing during the film's production forcing the writers to split the characters (thus diluting Sacks' importance in the overall plot), the negative response to his character is likely why he was completely dropped with no explanation from the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
  • Heathcliff, the dismally unfunny comic relief in The Wild World of Batwoman. He's a major reason why the movie is painful to watch, even with Mike, Tom and Crow.
  • The Wolverine: Viper, with any semblance of being a Magnificent Bitch taken by Yashida himself, leaving her an enormously bitchy Smug Snake with Fetish Retardant. Didn't help her case when Viper's characterization here gives her snake powers note  and Svetlana Khodchenkova was terrible in the part. As a final punch to the gut, she has absolutely nothing to do with her comic book counterpart.

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