Who are some widely loved fictional characters that would be hated if they were real?
I was running through some old Portal 2 quotes in my head and realized that it Cave Johnson were a real person, people would absolutely hate him.
The entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I love this show and can confirm, they are the worst
I hate this show because they're the worst.
Bender
I think Fry would be kind of annoying too.
I know plenty of people like him
Besides Cthulhu?
Every trickster god like Loki, Q, Miss Frizzle…
Don’t forget bugs bunny
Willy Wonka may not be hated, but he would definitely be vilified. There is no way a candy maker who refused to allow inspectors into his factory would be allowed to sell candy to the general public.
Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.
Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.
Would trump deport them for not being white, save them for being orange, or leave them there because they're already slaves?
lol now THAT’S a brainteaser
Wonka is arguably guilty of slavery and even if he didn't kill four kids, he at least traumatized four kids. And he laid off all his workers, leading some of them to become impoverished.
Sheogorath from elder scrolls is a fan favorite, but I'd hazard to say no one wants to live in a universe with a cheese obsessed mad god that regularly dicks with humans for fun.
Sheohorath gets pretty fucking dark.
At that same moment, a young woman nearby commented wistfully to herself, "The sounds of the birds are so beautiful."
Sheogorath silently agreed with her. Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds. Their voices were wretched and mundane. He could not change the nature of mortals, for that was the purview of other Daedric Princes. However, he could give them tools to make beautiful sounds.
Sheogorath took hold of the petulant woman and ripped her asunder. From her tendons he made lutes. From her skull and arm bones he made a drum. From her bones he made flutes. He presented these gifts to the mortals, and thus Music was born.
Amos Burton from The Expanse. Fans love him but he is a deeply damaged, disturbed, violent individual with no sense of right or wrong. At one point in the books, he looks at somebody and thinks he may have to kill them. The idea doesn't bother him. He doesn't get pleasure from it. But they're in his way so he'll do it.
Amos is self aware though. He knows he was born without a moral compass and allows Naomi, who he knows is good, to give him direction. He trusts that her decisions will keep him from crossing a line that he knows is there but he can't see himself.
True, he latches on to people he thinks are righteous, first Naomi and then Holden, and uses them as his moral compass. But when they are not around, he beats people up and kills then as his go to reaction to a threat and he has no remorse over doing it. As Naomi tells Holden about him, He is a monster. He doesn't want to be a monster, but he is one.
Yep.
In one of the books he is on Earth without his shipmates and pretty quickly regresses back to sociopathic behaviour.
But he recognizes this and does not welcome it. After killing a stranger just to get access to gear he needs, Amos realizes that he is making the wrong choices and states: "I need to get back to my crew."
He has an understanding of what is good and what is bad. He cannot understand why there are limitations to by which means "good" can be achieved. But he knows these limits do exist and should be respected, therefore he needs Naomi and Holden to lead him.
Plenty of Amos's IRL already though.
Donald J. Trump, the fictional character in Home Alone. Dude gave me the creeps, was looking at the underage Kevin like he was a pacifier
He's widely loved?
The mentally deficient think he's great
No they hate him so much, they elected him twice.
As a character in the film, no. He was barely even a character.
Tony Stark would be controversial. A billionaire weapons dealer who indirectly killed millions of people with his weapons. Then he turns around and decides to be a superhero but continues to cause destruction and inadvertently kill people. A lot of people would think he's only doing heroic acts for the praise.
In the comics and movies defense, within universe he is controversial and it is a major plot point with the Sokovia Accords / Registration Act to put some guardrails around him. And in terms of character growth, he supports those laws, even though they restrict his autonomy, whereas a younger version of himself wouldn't comply and act as a reckless narcissist.
People like Cave Johnson? I thought they find him interesting, not a likeable person.
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Given how people deify billionaires, I’d imagine there would be plenty of people that would defend a real life Cave Johnson.
Hell, he does get shit done. His company came up with the red and blue gels, and THE FRICKIN’ PORTAL GUN.
He actually solved the energy problem (run water over a dynamo into a blue portal, then open an orange portal above it so the same water powers the dynamo forever, and that’s just the easiest one I thought of!).
People love Jeff Bezos, and he’s done a lot less and treated more people worse!
Sonic would be soooo annoying.
Barney Stinson is a creep whose actions border on rape and it was hinted he may have even been involved in human trafficking at one point
Sheldon Cooper. Not sure if people love him as a fictional character either though...
Jesus
Pretty sure that was the story arc in the original series
The main characters of ‘Friends’, perhaps excluding Phoebe Buffay. Once you try to figure out their morals, it's baffling how they can be considered even half decent people.
As much as I love Friends, the show had a bad habit of loosening the character's manners and morals for the sake of a joke. This habit gets worse as the show goes on.
I'd actually put Phoebe as the worst in this regard. Well, after the triplets and London, before that she was sweeter. It was like the writers decided she should inherit the meaner jokes from Chandler. Also she always lets the others down at the worst times.
Do you think Pokémon battles should be illegal, Ash?
No, of course not
Your pikachu is lying in a puddle of its blood.
We provide work for every town. Joy would be out of her nursing job if not for us.
Captain! Jack Sparrow. Fun to watch and wonder how much he plans or if he's just good at improv. But he's routinely sacrificing his crew-members/friends for his own advantage.
Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau. AKA Harry Dubois.
If he was real, at best he'd be kind of pathetic; at worst he's a horribly disturbed, sexist, racist, homophobic drug addicted alcoholic. With a gun.
Pac Man
This movie was a wild ride. Every bit as awful as you'd expect. Highly recommend watching it illegally. That's a joke. Haha.
Yes, of course, a joke. Haha
Handsome Jack. Hilarious, beloved villain but anyone would want to punch his smug face in if they actually met him.
Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.
Dude should've been cashiered and tossed in jail a long time ago.
Mr Rochester (abuser), Heathcliff (abuser), Colonel Brandon (pedophile).
The Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k. We’re supposed to root for his enlightened rationalism in contrast to what the imperium would become, but he comes across as an expansionist tyrant.
Jesus
Jesus with the caviat of who specifically would hate him.
People would hate the real time moralising, but would love free wine and would be amazed by his party tricks, like walking on water. That was pretty cool!
Jesus would probably get on my nerves.
He never called people by their names and gave them weird nicknames and spoke in riddles like a guy who fried his brain on weed and LSD in college during an ethics class.