Mibba's Thoughts: Annoying Characters

There are all types of characters in stories, even annoying ones. In this week's edition of Mibba's Thoughts, Mibbians discuss types of characters that annoy them.

The manic pixie dream girl characters. I just loathe them completely because they're there to fulfil the fantasies of some male character and that's their only purpose.

Male characters with the hero complex; the type of complex in which they have to save everything and everybody and they have some destiny to fulfil and blergh. I dislike them because they seem so "perfect" that they come off as two-dimensional and underdeveloped.

- sobre mi cadaver

- "Skater girls". I know, skater girls are real (my best friend's one), but they're no fun to read about because they act so hardcore and awesome and funny and so un-likeable.
- Abusive/dead/apathetic parents. Can't a guy just have a functional family without ruining an entire story? Most authors seem to kill the parents as soon as they can.
- "Awkward" people; most of what they do that's considered awkward by everyone except their love interest would be awkward to everyone in real life. It's not cute just because you like someone, it's awkward either way.
- Those characters that are all cutesy and shy until they are in a relationship, and then they're suddenly some sort of underage sex god. What? No.
- Girls that are "plain or ugly" but have c+ cup size, long blonde/black hair, beautiful eyes, perfect skin, straight teeth, size 2 hips, and a BMI of about seventeen.

- C418

I'm beginning to get annoyed with characters that have these...recycled idiosyncrasies, I guess, that are overused because I feel like the author thinks that it makes the character come across as unique, but in actuality, if it's a quirk I've already read a gazillion times in online fic/published novels or saw on T.V., it just comes across as dumb and like the author is trying too hard to make their character "different."

I love characters that have quirks to a certain degree because I feel like everyone has things they're weird about, but there's definitely such a thing as overdoing it.

That probably makes no sense at all, but whatever.

- i saw sparks

I hate underdeveloped minor characters. The author just spends so much time on the main characters, that the rest just fall flat. I wish people spent as much time with their minor characters as they do with their main characters, because minors add such a good flare to a story.

I look at it like the way I look at musicals: you can have amazing leads, but if your ensemble sucks, then the whole show kind of sucks.

- liam payne.

Characters with no backbone. And by the end of the story, they still have no backbone. Especially when these characters are main characters, I mean, really, c'mon. It's called character development, people.

That being said, characters with too much backbone, and too much attitude. Not everything you say has to be said with so much attitude.

- swell

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Special thanks to silent hearts. and Goddess_Of_Muse for editing!