Unloveable Characters

I've decided there is just one type of unlovable characters: badly written 2D cartoon masks with no real emotions, feelings or dept what so ever.
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The bad guys are just hate-able.

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I've decided there are just one type of unlovable characters: badly written 2D cartoon masks with no real emotions, feelings or dept what so ever.
: )
The bad guys are just hate-able.

Your pretty much right there...

I find it hard to write an unlovable character.. I do write them evil, but in the later chapters they become nice and just like my other characters >.> I prefer reading them though :shifty

PersonallyI like unloveable characters more,because they can be slightly sadistic or twisted.

A good, yet overrated example is the Joker in The Dark Knight. He is extremely sadistic and very unloveable yet you can't help but be drawn to him. He relates to your inner dark and twisted psyche.

In one of my current unposted WIP my main character is extremely unloveable, but my friends think she's a great character because of it. So yeah unloveable characters tend to turn out greater than loveable ones.

Every story (in my opinion) has to have an unlovable character.

They always make the story interesting and it's close to reality.
Not everyone is nice, you know.

I have a really unlovable character in my story. It's because he's the antagonist, which is a good reason.

If stories lacked unloveable characters, it would be a pretty boring story, in my opinion. They bring a different element to the plot, and often inspire new events, in my case.
When it came to Tara in Conspiracies and Crushes, I had a comment which basically said that she deserved to be murdered. It was strange. There was however, a reason behind that situation - but still.

I don’t know if I have characters that people dislike.
I don’t write unlovable characters and I can’t recall reading about such characters.
But if we’re talking characters you shouldn’t love but you do, then yeah, those I have.
Most my characters are lovely louses. Some are jerks but somehow they’re still charming.
Some make the worst choices but people take pity on them anyway.
Most are a tad crazy and they’re often a little too self-absorbent,
a bit whiney, sort of introverted and never get around to deal with things.
Should be rather annoying, really, but they seemed liked by the readers.

I say I don’t write unlovable characters and yet I can’t think of any
appealing or positive trait for any of all my characters. :tehe:
I suppose most are compassionate.

The only “characters” that’s actually truly unlovable is me. :XD
(Me in an autobiographical one-shot, that is.)
I wrote it that way on purpose because the story I wanted to
tell would have meant that the characters would have gotten
on people’s nerves anyhow. So the characters (also the narrator)
knows it’s a pain but doesn’t care. It’s, in my opinion, a very
arrogant characters that’s just too much in you face about everything.
I find it impossible to like it (well, me, in that one-shot). x]

I don’t think it’s hard to read stories with characters that are jerks
because most of the time they still have something charming about them.
And evil characters are often interesting in some way.
But I do have a problem with the arrogant ones but
otherwise I like the so called unlovable characters. :cute:

I like unlovable characters, if that makes any sense. I feel that, while the protagonists are (usually) the admirable, tragic heroes that nobody can completely relate to. When I read a story about somebody who has gone through a terrible emotional loss and suddenly has to bear a great burden - be it saving the world or saving a relationship - I don't quite find myself believing it entirely. I mean, I always appreciate well-written stories, but sometimes things need to be more realistic. More rough, and down-to-Earth, sort of. Everybody has flaws.

And, usually, when I read stories where the main character is a total jerk, but has a better sense of morals and more common sense than your usual hero, I enjoy it much more.

Just saying. :)

You have to have an unlovable character, they're the best ones to write.

You can really go into depth about how twisted and hurt they are, and the background behind the whole thing. Flashbacks, haunting dreams, memories; stuff like that.

A nice guy, being a nice guy because he's had a nice life, hasn't really got much depth. Oh he loves the girl, but she doesn't know how much...it's just....not fun; to read or write.

I love the "unloveable" ones, cos usually they are so much more complex than any other ones, if they have logic, there are some terribly boring, but some are so interesting, dunno. Its my thing

I have a few. Laine Kimble from No Man's Land fits that very well, though although my readers are only wary of her right now, they will most definitely begin to hate her as she comes into the story more. Personally, I just feel sorry for her. She wants back into the life of Jackie Flores; she actually does miss him, maybe even still loves him, but she made a mistake and was forced to suffer for it when he broke up with her because of it. Now, if she ever gets the chance to get close to him again, she'll just come off as rather possessive...not to mention neurotic.

Jackie Flores isn't always that likeable either, though. He comes off as a fairly decent person in the story now, but a one-shot I'm writing about him right now portrays him as just the worst sort of asshole. But then, we all have that tendency when thrust into particularly unpleasant situations.

Thing is, I rarely see unlovable characters that I found to be all that believable. They remind me of most Disney villains. They're bad, there isn't always a reason explaining why they are this way, and it's fairly obvious that they only exist so the reader has someone to hate while they're reading.

the unlovable characters are the ones that you wind up loving at the end. and the ones that make the story more interesting.

I love it when unlovable characters have a backstory and we find out why they are like they are. For example; two of my two favourite literary characters are the 'evil' Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series. Because they only see them through Harry's point of view, most readers develop an annoyance or hate towards these characters. But I, personally, am in love with both of them because later on, we see their weaknesses, their true personalities and the cuase of their aggression/bullying yada yada.

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I tend to fall in love with the unlovable characters, whether it be with a movie, or a story. In Pj Hogans "Peterpan" from 2002, I fell hopelessly in love with Captain hook.

I tend to fall in love with the unloved.

I have a Brendon Urie in my story, 'The Winner Takes It All'. I designed him to be a brilliant genius talented in manipulation and sadism. It's just in Brendon's very nature to want to destroy the fabrication of something perfect, but before doing so, he plays around with the subject like a cat. The said subject in Ryan in this case.

All of the people that comment hate Brendon's guts xD I'm glad, because that's exactly what I intended (:

Everyone who has commented on my story A Life I Left Behind; For You hates Jeph, even though I didn't really intend for that...
As a writer, I sympathised with Jeph because I knew why he was doing the things that he did, but obviously the readers didn't know, so they just thought he was being horrible. XD

...There are some characters that I can't stand.
Spoiled brat ones.
:tehe:
I mean, yes, we understand that you wear high heels and nice clothes. Do you have to give description and designer names?
:shifty Don't beat me up.

Zoe, Shannons sister in 'Fling'. She's an arrogant, vain and bitchy slut who looks down on married people or people in serious relationships. She's probably going to be a bigger part of the story.

Wendy from 'The Pain I've Grown To Know'. Typical monster-in-law, really.

Parker Neilson in my story, 'Eidolon'.
Homicidal - check.
Bastardizing - check.
Sadist - check.
Abusive - check.

Well, I'll be damned, it's all there!
But, yeah, despite the fact that I created him, I absolutely hate Parker.
I can't believe I created a character as cruel as him. -__-;

Jamie in my "Roaming The Streets" story is turning out to be an unloveable character. When I first planned the story, he was going to be a really kind, sweet guy, but then I thought that it would make my story much more interesting if I was to make him into a selfish, self-centred, mean person. He's one of the most fun characters to write about so I'm glad I changed him in the way I did.