The 19 most hated movie and TV characters ever, ranked
Not every character can be a winner.
Film and TV are littered with examples of lovable characters, figures who endear themselves to viewers and become thought of almost as close friends. But for others, it’s a very different story.
Sometimes, characters manage to become not just disliked but actively despised by a film or TV series’ fanbase.
This can be on purpose – with the public’s allergic distaste for characters like Game of Thrones’s Joffrey Baratheon a testament to effective storytelling.
Other times though, it’s inadvertant, with the backlash to creations such as Star Wars’s Jar Jar Binks or Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Dawn Summers more a result of shoddy writing than any deliberate character choices.
And of course, sometimes the public can turn on a character for completely unfair reasons, such as ’s unfairly maligned Skylar
