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Post by Cela on Feb 1, 2013 2:09:06 GMT -5
Inspired by the sympathetic villains thread, which heroes do you see in action and just lose all compassion for them.
For example: Kratos after God of War 1. He wants vengeance against the gods that betrayed him. Why did they betray him? Because he was destroying Rhodes for no reason than because he could!
Plus his path to vengeance involved sacrificing innocents in extremely brutal ways and he didn't care about the condition of the world with each god slain. All he wanted was his VENGEANCE!
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 1, 2013 2:12:18 GMT -5
I would baulk at calling Kratos any sort of hero at all.
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 1, 2013 2:17:23 GMT -5
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Post by Orange on Feb 1, 2013 2:30:22 GMT -5
The f***face in District 9.
Well, I guess I'm using hero loosely, but they want you to feel sympathy for him despite him being one of the biggest douchebags in film history.
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Post by stevieboy on Feb 1, 2013 2:37:11 GMT -5
Batman. Love the guy but man is he a douche sometimes.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 1, 2013 3:04:52 GMT -5
The Jedi Counsel in the Star Wars films, so, so badly.
For a bunch of wise men, they sure have no idea of how responsible they are for why Anakin becomes what he does. Had they bothered to provide any real guidance for him, rather than have him hang around Palpatine all the time, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
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Post by salsashark on Feb 1, 2013 3:36:29 GMT -5
Ferris Bueller
Iron Man in Iron Man 2 struck me as a major asshole
What are some other big smart-ass characters? They are usually the ones I'm rooting against, if I'm ever rooting against a hero. Also, rah-rah overly patriotic types aren't particularly sympathetic either.
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Post by 4real on Feb 1, 2013 6:09:46 GMT -5
I mention this in everyone of these threads but Jamie Foxx's character in Law Abiding Citizen is so unlikeable. Probably the most unlikeable hero I've seen in a movie.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 1, 2013 6:11:57 GMT -5
Oscar from Shark Tale. I hated him and he had no redeeming features whatsoever.
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Post by hassanchop on Feb 1, 2013 6:37:38 GMT -5
Wufei from Gundam Wing. He killed a bunch of trainees while they were sleeping.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Feb 1, 2013 7:09:00 GMT -5
I mention this in everyone of these threads but Jamie Foxx's character in Law Abiding Citizen is so unlikeable. Probably the most unlikeable hero I've seen in a movie. In his defence, nobody made it out of that movie with a full character. The clunky 'shades of grey' writing only served to pull a plot 180 halfway through, and you spend the last 20 minutes hoping nobody makes it out. |
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 1, 2013 7:27:27 GMT -5
Sheriff Geronimo from 'Final Justice'. Or Mitchell from 'Mitchell'.
Maybe I just hate Joe Don Baker.
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Post by OzzyMandez on Feb 1, 2013 7:51:40 GMT -5
The Doctor.
Oh his people died? His planet was destroyed in a war with the Daleks? Well he's killed millions of them time and time again as well as other entire species too. He's no different to them in some cases. Oh, and anyone who travels with him has a 90% chance of being warped or killed or turned into some sort of soldier for him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2013 8:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 1, 2013 8:08:47 GMT -5
-that kid from Return to Sleepaway Camp. yeesh, what an unlikeable f***stick.
-Wolverine whenever he makes passes at Jean. just makes him come off as a total creep. he knows she's married. I thought it was thoroughly warped he went and named his school after her. made me take Cyclops' side on principal. Cyclops is a bit of an asshole too but at least he never went and creeped on a married woman.
-Namor too, for the same reason as Wolverine. much like Wolverine his sympathy level wavers entirely on whether or not he's making passes at Sue.
-that douchetard from Wanted. Mark Millar claims this was the point but the text suggests we're supposed to think this pathetic sociopath is cool. for that matter, let's just throw every protagonist from a Mark Millar book in here.
-Anakin Skywalker. retroactively made Darth Vader's redemption plot seem stupid because his reasons for turning evil made him look like an idiot and he murdered a bunch of innocent children, which made him irredeemable. this is the main reason I pretend the prequel trilogy doesn't exist. it isn't the annoying kiddy s***, the bad dialogue, or Jar Jar. it's that it basically invalidates Darth Vader's redemption arc by revealing he's nothing but a pathetic child murderer.
-Miz and Sheamus. when Cena or the Rock try to be a hammy goof it works. when these 2 do it they just come off as smug, self-important douchebags and hypocrites.
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Post by The Tank on Feb 1, 2013 8:29:33 GMT -5
Inspired by the sympathetic villains thread, which heroes do you see in action and just lose all compassion for them. For example: Kratos after God of War 1. He wants vengeance against the gods that betrayed him. Why did they betray him? Because he was destroying Rhodes for no reason than because he could! Plus his path to vengeance involved sacrificing innocents in extremely brutal ways and he didn't care about the condition of the world with each god slain. All he wanted was his VENGEANCE!Not to mention he could've solved this whole thing with the most ridiculous plothole ever. (Granted, it's been a while since I played 2, so maybe there's an explanation for why this wouldn't work, but...) The second game ends with him time traveling to prevent the events of the beginning of the game. So why the hell doesn't he just use the time machine to, instead of go back to the beginning of the second game, go back to where he killed his family and, oh, I don't know...STOP HIMSELF FROM KILLING HIS FAMILY?!? |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Feb 1, 2013 8:33:02 GMT -5
Iron Man in Iron Man 2 struck me as a major asshole I think it was because he was dying a slow and painful death from Palladium poisoning he just didn't care about things anymore until the cure came. |
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Feb 1, 2013 8:50:49 GMT -5
Screwy Squirrel.
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 1, 2013 9:31:44 GMT -5
Godzilla
Hey, he saved us from the X monster and only destroyed 97% of our nation doing it. Thank you mister!
this is compounded by the fact that the only reason Godzilla fights other monsters around Japan is because he's trying to protect his personal punching bag.
"You can't burn Tokyo to the ground, that's my job!" RAR!
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Feb 1, 2013 9:49:20 GMT -5
The horrible jackasses from Hostel I & II. Way should I care about a guy whose earliest lines of dialog include several homophobic slurs?
Here's a hint Roth: maybe if you stopped making your "heroes" self-centered, homophobic s***stains with absolutely no redeeming values, MAYBE people wouldn't hate your movies quite as much.
I also lost a lot of sympathy for Zidane from FFIX after it was revealed that Amarant Coral was jailed for a crime he did not commit because of him. I just hate someone who purposely has someone else punished for their own deeds.
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