Captain! Jack Sparrow. Fun to watch and wonder how much he plans or if he's just good at improv. But he's routinely sacrificing his crew-members/friends for his own advantage.
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Do you think Pokémon battles should be illegal, Ash?
No, of course not
Your pikachu is lying in a puddle of its blood.
We provide work for every town. Joy would be out of her nursing job if not for us.
Sheldon Cooper. Not sure if people love him as a fictional character either though...
Tony Stark would be controversial. A billionaire weapons dealer who indirectly killed millions of people with his weapons. Then he turns around and decides to be a superhero but continues to cause destruction and inadvertently kill people. A lot of people would think he's only doing heroic acts for the praise.
The main characters of ‘Friends’, perhaps excluding Phoebe Buffay. Once you try to figure out their morals, it's baffling how they can be considered even half decent people.
Barney Stinson is a creep whose actions border on rape and it was hinted he may have even been involved in human trafficking at one point
Donald J. Trump, the fictional character in Home Alone. Dude gave me the creeps, was looking at the underage Kevin like he was a pacifier
He's widely loved?
The mentally deficient think he's great
No they hate him so much, they elected him twice.
I mean... Yeah? In America, by the wrong sort of people, but... Yeah?
As a character in the film, no. He was barely even a character.
Jesus
Pretty sure that was the story arc in the original series
This movie was a wild ride. Every bit as awful as you'd expect. Highly recommend watching it illegally. That's a joke. Haha.
Yes, of course, a joke. Haha
Handsome Jack. Hilarious, beloved villain but anyone would want to punch his smug face in if they actually met him.
Every sitcom character ever. Also Dora the Explorer
What's wrong with having your adventure buddy randomly stop, stare into space and ask the most obvious questions and act like she got an answer?
Is this how everyone in the marvel universe sees Deadpool?
No, Deadpool actually gets an answer.
The entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
We enjoy watching them because they are horrible people who never really succeed at what they are trying to do. I don't think anyone would want to hang out with them.
Definitely not the main characters, but I'd love to hang out with Artemis.
That was basically the premise of Seinfeld.
IASIP was marketed as "Seinfeld on crack"
Quite literally, at times.
I'm continually amazed that characters of ‘Seinfeld’ are considered awful, while those in ‘Friends’ are supposedly fine. The latter are prime fit for an answer to this post, if one digs into their morals a little.
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Jesus
Jesus would probably get on my nerves.
He never called people by their names and gave them weird nicknames and spoke in riddles like a guy who fried his brain on weed and LSD in college during an ethics class.
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Willy Wonka may not be hated, but he would definitely be vilified. There is no way a candy maker who refused to allow inspectors into his factory would be allowed to sell candy to the general public.
Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.
Wonka is arguably guilty of slavery and even if he didn't kill four kids, he at least traumatized four kids. And he laid off all his workers, leading some of them to become impoverished.
Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.
Would trump deport them for not being white, save them for being orange, or leave them there because they're already slaves?
lol now THAT’S a brainteaser
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Amos Burton from The Expanse. Fans love him but he is a deeply damaged, disturbed, violent individual with no sense of right or wrong. At one point in the books, he looks at somebody and thinks he may have to kill them. The idea doesn't bother him. He doesn't get pleasure from it. But they're in his way so he'll do it.
What made me like Amos Burton (from the series, still have to read the book) is that he is self aware enough to know this about himself, and intelligent enough to understand it as a shortcoming in many situations.
He's a man where some part of him wants to do good, even be used for good, but doesn't know how. But he recognises good people, and anchors himself to those he believes can use him for good.
That somehow makes him smarter than most people in the series... Or in real life, for that matter.
I tried to play a TTRPG character a bit like this one, more like a dumb brute who knew his inclinations were usually not great and aimed to find a leader who could use his strength for good. Problem was the other players weren't experienced enough for any of them to be a leader. Usually I'd just launch into some dumb action hoping (as a player) the rest would stop me in time and get the idea they needed to be the thinkers.
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Sheogorath from elder scrolls is a fan favorite, but I'd hazard to say no one wants to live in a universe with a cheese obsessed mad god that regularly dicks with humans for fun.
Sheohorath gets pretty fucking dark.
At that same moment, a young woman nearby commented wistfully to herself, "The sounds of the birds are so beautiful."
Sheogorath silently agreed with her. Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds. Their voices were wretched and mundane. He could not change the nature of mortals, for that was the purview of other Daedric Princes. However, he could give them tools to make beautiful sounds.
Sheogorath took hold of the petulant woman and ripped her asunder. From her tendons he made lutes. From her skull and arm bones he made a drum. From her bones he made flutes. He presented these gifts to the mortals, and thus Music was born.
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