DragonMasterP
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Post by DragonMasterP on Dec 26, 2012 12:30:38 GMT -5
As we all know, fiction offers all sorts of different types of characters. What I want to know, which ones are you sick of and wish would just stop already?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 13:09:59 GMT -5
Zombies. Why are they so popular recently anyways?
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Post by Cela on Dec 26, 2012 13:17:24 GMT -5
Obnoxious ditz that triumphs over everything due to innate knowledge of something innane.
Basically the Legally Blond type.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 13:20:25 GMT -5
The sickeningly nice person who's life NEVER has flaws, and around whom reality seems to bend so that there's no "bad" people, just people that "have to learn a lesson" and turn super-nice afterwards.
Any character used as a sock-puppet for their creator's/writer's views, or used as a soapbox in general, while learning nothing and being HORRIBLY intolerant of other's views (Pre-Buddhism Lisa, I'm looking at you here).
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 26, 2012 13:29:13 GMT -5
The walking encyclopedia. As in the characters that are fluent in just about every language known to man and knows literally everything. The only things they can't seem to do is properly interact with other humans.
Prime example, Reid on Criminal Minds. He was bad enough but the show just had to go and replace Prentiss with a female Reid, so the show now has two of these characters in the main cast and that makes the show damn near impossible for me to watch now.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 26, 2012 13:38:37 GMT -5
The little defenseless girl that needs help BUT NO WAIT SHE'S THE ULTIMATE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE YOU MADE HER ANGRY EVERYBODY IS GOING DIE
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 26, 2012 13:44:46 GMT -5
The walking encyclopedia. As in the characters that are fluent in just about every language known to man and knows literally everything. The only things they can't seem to do is properly interact with other humans. Prime example, Reid on Criminal Minds. He was bad enough but the show just had to go and replace Prentiss with a female Reid, so the show now has two of these characters in the main cast and that makes the show damn near impossible for me to watch now. THISS!!!!Well actually sir, in ancient Sumerian this carving in the victim would have read "I will swallow your soul" not, " I shall devour your heart". Since the unsub is actually eating his victims' hearts, we can deduce that he isn't well educated. He probably fancies himself as a scholar but he's more than likely of below average intelligence. RAGE
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Post by Mike Wooster on Dec 26, 2012 13:48:05 GMT -5
The cynical bastard hero who hates the world yet will fight the good fight because "somebody has to".
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 26, 2012 13:57:03 GMT -5
The unredeemable asshole who we're supposed to find badass/hilarious because they're an asshole to everyone (i.e.: any Eli Roth character ever).
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 26, 2012 13:59:19 GMT -5
The cynical bastard hero who hates the world yet will fight the good fight because "somebody has to". Also has to make some rude/mean-spirited comment about everyone/everything. And gets swooned over (in and out of universe) because they're just "misunderstood". Even worse if this character actually starts out as a medium-to-high ranking villain, and switches sides over the course of the plot (most likely due to being betrayed by their boss).
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Post by Bone Daddy on Dec 26, 2012 13:59:33 GMT -5
The GIRL whose entire character is that she acts like a GUY
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Eunös ✈
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Dec 26, 2012 14:02:34 GMT -5
The stupidly dumb character.
When done right they can be quite likeable, but when not their just beyond annoying and you just wish something bad would happen to them.
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 26, 2012 14:06:00 GMT -5
Another one. The "affirmative action" hero(ine). When you have a (nominally) major character that just seems to only exist to fill some sort of diversity quota because the author is afraid they'll otherwise look like a bigot if they don't include them.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 26, 2012 14:22:40 GMT -5
The GIRL whose entire character is that she acts like a GUY Gotta agree with that, many writers try so hard to have a "strong, independent female character" that they seem to worry more about filling out a "things badass chicks do" checklist rather than actually make them interesting characters. Also "strong and independent" usually translates to "obnoxious jackass" because being likeable would make them womanly, and independent women aren't feminine, dontchaknow?.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Dec 26, 2012 14:32:44 GMT -5
The hero who complains because he or she just wants to have a normal life.
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Post by willywonka666 on Dec 26, 2012 14:34:37 GMT -5
The complete bitch that everyone is afraid of and she always gets her way, and on kids shows sometimes it's a spoiled brat
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 26, 2012 14:38:15 GMT -5
The Katherine Heigl character
The one who works for a media company/marketing company/TV studio/something to do with an office and media, who meets a quirky guy and eventually crushes his spirit, makes him settle down with her and live a boring life devoid of dreams and imagination.
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Jiren
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Post by Jiren on Dec 26, 2012 14:39:47 GMT -5
The "New Who" Companion
Nowdays it seems the Doctor's companion has to be "The most important person in the universe and all life in the universe centered around her & Only her" (Till the next one arrives).
Sarah Jessica Parker in SATC (I don't know the proper name)
She's so rich and yet her life sucks becuse a set of shoes she wanted sold out, Or She thinks life despite having a life most people woud kill for.
Boo freakin hoo
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 26, 2012 14:41:02 GMT -5
The First World Problem character
Who's "life troubles" consist of relatively trivial things that people with real problems would be happy to have instead.
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Post by willywonka666 on Dec 26, 2012 14:43:07 GMT -5
The Katherine Heigl character The one who works for a media company/marketing company/TV studio/something to do with an office and media, who meets a quirky guy and eventually crushes his spirit, makes him settle down with her and live a boring life devoid of dreams and imagination. Haha I have never seen her movies, but I take it this is a successful formula for chick flicks
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