Most Hated (Major) Character

[Boaz]

That's the beauty of a longer story. Characters grow and develop, kind of like in real life.

I'm hooked on the TV series Lost. If the show had ended after the first season, then Locke would be one of the good guys in my book, but now I hate him even more than Ben... I detest Locke.

I may end up hating the Lannister boys by the end of this series, but as it stands now they're my faves.

 

[Rainswept]

Jaime is a hell of an interesting read, but I still may never forgive him for Bran.

 

[vervain_ashe]

My hatred for Catelyn is well known, but she's a character that I love to hate.

Surprise, surprise, I did not vote for Catelyn either. I have to face the fact that Eddard did love her, very much so. Her children loved her very much too. She was not an evil woman, I just don't like the character.

Walder Frey got my vote. Such a scheming villain!

 

[Eulalia]

Thanks for the line-up, stormtrooper!

Joffrey was unredeemably, psychopathically evil, but he got what he deserved, so I feel appeased somehow. He doesn't seem to have had any other way of being.

Walder Frey, who was creepy anyway, deliberately betrayed his allies by inviting them to a wedding and a slaughter. Justice has not been served and he seems to have benefitted a great deal.

Cersei seems to be paying for her actions.

Gregore is a beast. Theon is not having a good time.

Littlefinger is creepy and Macheavellian. At least he is rational. He's not on the list, but I wouldn't have picked him, if only because of Lysa. Isn't he lord of Harrenhall? That either spells doom, or he'll sit the Iron Throne because he is the best at the game of thrones.

I voted for Walder, but it's a toss up!

 

[the smiling weirwood]

I vote for Stannis. He's just too...blah. I don't even find him interesting, just irritating.

 

[viZion]

Jaime is a hell of an interesting read, but I still may never forgive him for Bran.

I agree. It's because of Jaime that we have to deal with Bran whining his way through his chapters. Ugh. However, I still really like Jaime overall.

 

[Boaz]

Jaime is a hell of an interesting read, but I still may never forgive him for Bran.

Me neither. Defenestrating a person is horrible, but tossing a boy of seven is absolutely monstrous.

The real fascinating part is that Jaime does not feel regret about it. Oh, he feels bad that he's acted the fool for Cersei, but he does stay awake at night remembering Bran. I wonder how Jaime's quest for redemption will go? Is he just making a permanent break with the past... i.e. forgetting the good and the bad while moving on? Or will he confront his victims and confess his crimes like he did to Tyrion?

Jaime could end up as the most hated villain in the story, but right now he's on the fence.

 

[Rainswept]

Littlefinger is creepy and Macheavellian. At least he is rational. He's not on the list, but I wouldn't have picked him, if only because of Lysa. Isn't he lord of Harrenhall? That either spells doom, or he'll sit the Iron Throne because he is the best at the game of thrones.

Rational? Spending your life obsessing over a woman who doesn't want you, to the point where you bed her sister and hope her daughter is next?

As for doom or throne, I see no reason it can't be both.

 

[Rainswept]

P.S. We should reboot this thread with better name choices.

My top ten would be:

Littlefinger
Viscerys
Cersei
Joffrey
Gregor
Millesandre
Tywin
Theon
Walder Frey
Catelyn

I don't particularly like Stannis, but I can' see how he's the most hated character in the series... Hell I hated Allisser Thorne more than stannis, and he's nothing compared to his red bitch.

 

[Eulalia]

Quite right Rainswept! The Catelyn thing is not rational! To me it seems sort of understandable and human, compared to violence for its own sake. I'm not sure if Littlefinger has these passions in connection to furthering himself or some kind of obsessive love (isn't that a little normal?)enhanced by social status. Lysa seems like she was a logical mark for moving up the ladder. Sansa makes a great pawn, or is it attraction or both. What will win out!

I don't really get where Littlefinger is coming from yet, other than ambition. Ruthless for sure. He hasn't done anything that doesn't make sense or done something extra cruel for the pleasure of it like other characters do, or am I missing something. He could have just terrorized Sansa. Maybe he is simply tidier than other characters.

Does he have a conscience? He certainly has the potential to be the baddest of the bunch or to save the day. I may vote for him in a book or two! Maybe I need a re-read, too!

What if he sees Cat now!

 

[devilsgrin]

from this list i had to vote for Stannis. Walder Frey was my 2nd choice.
Joffrey a close 3rd. Gregor certainly doesn't qualify as a major character - he's appeared what? 4 times i can recall?
The other characters you listed i actually rather like - or at least enjoy reading about their idiocies, brilliances and assorted trials and tribulations. In fact in the cases of jaime, cersei and catelyn (pre un-cat of course) these are among my favourite characters - or at least their POVs are amongst my favourite. Once Sansa leaves KL its up to Cersei and Jaime to let us know whats happening in the capital - and the broad picture of the rest of Westeros.

Alas that this list did not include my utterly most hated of all characters in the options... oh how i loathe Tyrion Lannister.

 

[Rainswept]

Tyrion, really? He's one of my favorites.

 

[devilsgrin]

yes tyrion. i've always detested the dwarf.
its the "oh woe is me" that underlies everything he does. poor dwarf, everyone thinks i'm ugly. poor dwarf, no-one actually cares i have a brain. poor dwarf, beautiful sansa couldn't bring herself to even liking me. poor dwarf, my glorious father hates me. poor dwarf, my beautiful sister hates me. poor dwarf, my brother who i thought loved me betrayed me.
He doesn't wallow in self-pity, don't get me wrong, but it drives him. A vain desire to prove his worth to his father. a vain desire to earn the honest love of any woman - Tysha aside... and that worked out so well. a vain desire to earn the respect (at least) of the people.
Add to the fact that beyond any other character, GRRM seems to be force feeding us reasons to like Tyrion. tyrion is not a nice person, and we learn that early on. yet he keeps doing nice things for poor down-trodden Stark children.

 

[Rainswept]

How did we learn that early on? He's been kind throughout to the best of my recollection. He runs off at the mouth every so often, I grant you...

Tyrion is far less "woe is me" than other characters (Bran) and actually has reasons to believe people hate him just for being a Dwarf. It's not paranoia if they really are after you. To me, his position is even more understandable than Brienne's.

So far, he's joined Jon and Dany as the only leaders shown to be both competent and non-monstrous. He's not Ned and Robb, who don't pay enough attention to the game to keep themselves alive, and he's not Stannis or Tywin, as prone to horrors as they are good leadership.

 

[Koopa]

Tyrion aint nice, he killed that singer for no reason at all for example. He has done lots of awful stuff too.
Tyrion is funny though, and has done some good things as well, he is just another grey-character.

 

[Rainswept]

"No reason at all?" The guy was blackmailing him and putting both his and Shae's lives in danger!

 

[the smiling weirwood]

What singer? Perhaps you are thinking of Littlefinger and his singer.

 

[devilsgrin]

didn't this singer perform at joffrey's wedding and end up Shae's pet singer... then tried blackmailing Tyrion for keeping his whore in the city in defiance of Tywin's orders.

of course Jon is going to be a good leader/ruler. He's Eddard Starks son (or at least was raised as such) and nobility was bred into him from infancy. Duty and honour are integral to his nature.

Must ask though, when does Dany show competence as a ruler? I've seen her sack a bunch of cities. cause the destruction of the largest Dothraki tribe in eons. order her dragons to burn to death a person who does nothing more that oppose her - yes he's a slaver, but she has slaves of her own so that would make her a hypocrite. She's naive and selfish. arrogant beyond any reason for her to suddenly change her personality that much - unless she was always that way and Viserys made sure to keep her in line.
All Targaryens are mad... she's no different. Lets see what mania she develops. they're far too in-bred these "Blood of the Dragon" freaks.

the "woe is me" element is the key ingredient in my own image of Tyrion. just like any other work of fiction people are going to take different elements of a character to form their own image of him. I have never been a fan of Tyrion, nor of Dany, Stannis or Davos, and yet i know that many people love Tyrion and or Dany the most, Davos too (i think there is a near-universal dislike of stannis though).

Its a very strange thing for me to like a character like Catelyn or Ned, and yet i enjoyed Ned's pov probably the most of aGoT -, and Catelyn's pov's always had the broadest view of Westeros - no one else travels from Winterfell to Storm's End and all but Casterley Rock of the major places between. Sansa too actually. so much happens in her povs, yet she's almost completely oblivious to what is going on - she starts to learn, then gets taken under the wing of perhaps the best player of the Game aside from Olenna - who would have taken her under her wing if the Tyrell's had been able to marry her off to Willas.

 

[Koopa]

After Shae mentionong of the singer after the battle of blackwater bay, after just being recovered, he immediatley sets Bronn on finding him with grim intentions, only for the mere possibility of someone finding out. When he finds him the singer asks for the favor to perform, Tyrion just kills him, there are other examples as well for Tyrion being less then nice at a particular moment.

 

[purple_kathryn]

It was a toss up between Joffrey and Cersei and Joffrey won.

Spoiler

If there hadn't of been people around me I would have cheered out loud when he died