Getting My Cartoon Hate On
14 years ago
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This is essentially a journal meme started by
asuraludu here. She lists off the top 13 cartoon characters that pissed her off, and then asks others who's on their lists.
It was fun to read, even though I'm also not generally a hateful person when it comes to cartoons. They usually entertain me a lot more than they anger me, though I admit I'm displeased with the general direction in which new cartoons seem to be going these days. Luckily, I have been a bit irritable today, and this was a good opportunity to really vent off some steam. I got to thinking about it, and I managed to make my own list. Admittedly most of them were intended by their show's writers to be hated by the audience, but I still only listed characters that have made me genuinely angry at one point or another. I might add to it later on if I manage to think of more after posting it.
So here is my top 9 list of:
Cartoon Characters you just gotta KICK in the $@#%#$
9. Brian Griffin from Family Guy: Honestly, it's mostly the times when his ego gets out of control that just make me want to turn a vacuum or dog whistle on him. I'd do worse but that'd be animal abuse. But seriously, when it comes to that guy's ego, you give him an inch and he doesn't just take a mile, he takes over 10 miles. Episode 6 of Season 9, "Brian Writes a Bestseller" is one of the most blatant examples of this. Seriously, it's gotten to the point where almost every time I watch that episode I then watch the clips of him being beaten by Stewie and Quagmire. Of course, Quagmire gives you plenty of reasons to hate Brian when he lists off all of Brian's flaws at the end of Episode 7 of Season 8, "Jerome is the New Black".
However, most of the time I still like this character and find him very entertaining. He's often the voice of reason in a house of idiots, and he still cares about all of them and lends his emotional support when needed, which is why he's at the bottom of my list.
8. Tokine Yukimura from Kekkaishi: I do like her and can relate to dedication and studious attitude, but sometimes the way she's treated Yoshimori has really pissed me off. There have been times when she's come off to me as an uppity ungrateful bitch who seems to chastise Yoshi's efforts more than appreciate him. She really pissed me off when it was obvious that she enjoyed the cake Yoshi made for her, but instead pretended she hated it to try to get him to focus more on his duties to the Karasumori Site. On top of that, she seems to sway with the rest of the female crowd, fawning over cute guys that acknowledge her existence, including her professors and Yoshi's brother Masamori.
7. King Julian from The Penguins of Madagascar: Let's just say the writers of did an excellent job of making this guy a self-absorbed royal jerk. However, he does have his good moments, and he does seem to care about his "subjects" at some of the time, which is why he's low on my list.
6. Almost the entire cast of American Dad!: The show itself is very entertaining, especially its political satire, and I realize the writers do this for comedy, but I hate the annoying habit almost all the characters have of forgetting whatever life lessons they learn by the next episode. In American Dad! it's only the minor and supporting characters that seem to have any continuity between episodes, while the Smith family always seems to reset their personalities and experiences by the beginning of the next episode. Honestly, shows and the characters in them that do that always piss me off to some degree.
On top of that a few of characters have each had at least one moment that really made me hate them.
5. Francine Smith from American Dad!, however, is probably the character I hate the most out of all the characters of the show. I've never really liked "dumb blonde" characters that much, but she takes it to a whole new level. She's incredibly superficial and sometimes even as much of a bigot as her husband. She basically has no intelligence or will of her own unless it's needed for the episode to work. She has had some good moments, but she's also had several moments that have really made me hate her.
The moment I hate the most is when her empty-nest syndrome caused her to basically tell Steve that she's the only woman who will ever love him, after his breakup at the end of the episode. Not only did she not learn the lesson she was supposed to for that episode, but she seemed evil at the moment she said it. On top of that, it hit me pretty close to home because of my own overprotective mother, so that scene has always made me want to beat the crap out of her.
4. Kahn Souphanousinphone from King of the Hill: The stuck-up Asian neighbor of the show who's almost always insufferable to me. He's almost always talking down to all his neighbors and shamelessly kissing up to those he admires. He doesn't hesitate to make a huge fuss over anything that upsets him, which sometimes even includes reporting it to the authorities. There have been moments where one of the characters has had something really good going for themselves, and Khan was the one to ruin it or at least try to, and that has angered me the most. Overall, he's a stuck-up jerk, and is not afraid to show it, and he's had very few good moments.
3. Paul from Pokemon: It wasn't just that he was jerk, since all of Ash's rivals have been jerks to some degree, but it was the way he was a jerk. I mean, seriously, from the way he interacts with other people and the way in which he treats his pokemon, it's almost as if he's unable to properly emotionally connect to them, which could mean he's a sociopath. I'll admit that he does improve a little bit by the end of the 4th gen journey, but only after Cynthia's wisdom caused him to actually make an effort at it. The fact that he actually had to force empathy rather than it coming naturally could indicate a mental disorder of some sort, which is a rather disturbing thought. What's even more disturbing is that we don't even know how long he's been on his pokemon journey before he met Ash. He could have been walking around for years abusing pokemon like this.
2. Prince Blueblood from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I may not believe in chivalry, but I do believe in common courtesy, and this asshole had neither. Seriously, for the way he treated Rarity throughout the final episode of season 1 of the show, he deserves so much more punishment than what he got at the end of that episode. He's essentially one of those stereotypical heartthrob celebrities that girls faun over but are really total jerks behind the curtain, only he's also a jerk in front of the curtain, which makes him worse than that stereotype I can't stand. However, given the show he's a part of, he might actually have a tiny of a chance of someday redeeming himself. But for now, he needs to get his own personal lesson about friendship, right up his ass.
1. Squilliam Fancyson from Spongebob Squarepants: One of the first cartoon characters I started hating, almost everything this character does makes me angry, mostly because 99% of his actions involve blatantly rubbing his success in Squidward's face. He's never reluctant to show how he's achieved (and sometimes taken away) all of Squidward's dreams, and just generally be a jerk. To top it all off, he gets away with it almost all the time. There have only been a few episodes where Squidward and/or other characters have beaten him, and none of them have really been big victories. He always returns just as rich and successful and conceited as he was before. I like to imagine that the heart attack he had at Squidward's half-time concert left him with long-term heart issues.
Who is on your hate list? That's right, I'm asking you,
Tapewolf and
SiegfriedNox.
asuraludu here. She lists off the top 13 cartoon characters that pissed her off, and then asks others who's on their lists.It was fun to read, even though I'm also not generally a hateful person when it comes to cartoons. They usually entertain me a lot more than they anger me, though I admit I'm displeased with the general direction in which new cartoons seem to be going these days. Luckily, I have been a bit irritable today, and this was a good opportunity to really vent off some steam. I got to thinking about it, and I managed to make my own list. Admittedly most of them were intended by their show's writers to be hated by the audience, but I still only listed characters that have made me genuinely angry at one point or another. I might add to it later on if I manage to think of more after posting it.
So here is my top 9 list of:
Cartoon Characters you just gotta KICK in the $@#%#$
9. Brian Griffin from Family Guy: Honestly, it's mostly the times when his ego gets out of control that just make me want to turn a vacuum or dog whistle on him. I'd do worse but that'd be animal abuse. But seriously, when it comes to that guy's ego, you give him an inch and he doesn't just take a mile, he takes over 10 miles. Episode 6 of Season 9, "Brian Writes a Bestseller" is one of the most blatant examples of this. Seriously, it's gotten to the point where almost every time I watch that episode I then watch the clips of him being beaten by Stewie and Quagmire. Of course, Quagmire gives you plenty of reasons to hate Brian when he lists off all of Brian's flaws at the end of Episode 7 of Season 8, "Jerome is the New Black".
However, most of the time I still like this character and find him very entertaining. He's often the voice of reason in a house of idiots, and he still cares about all of them and lends his emotional support when needed, which is why he's at the bottom of my list.
8. Tokine Yukimura from Kekkaishi: I do like her and can relate to dedication and studious attitude, but sometimes the way she's treated Yoshimori has really pissed me off. There have been times when she's come off to me as an uppity ungrateful bitch who seems to chastise Yoshi's efforts more than appreciate him. She really pissed me off when it was obvious that she enjoyed the cake Yoshi made for her, but instead pretended she hated it to try to get him to focus more on his duties to the Karasumori Site. On top of that, she seems to sway with the rest of the female crowd, fawning over cute guys that acknowledge her existence, including her professors and Yoshi's brother Masamori.
7. King Julian from The Penguins of Madagascar: Let's just say the writers of did an excellent job of making this guy a self-absorbed royal jerk. However, he does have his good moments, and he does seem to care about his "subjects" at some of the time, which is why he's low on my list.
6. Almost the entire cast of American Dad!: The show itself is very entertaining, especially its political satire, and I realize the writers do this for comedy, but I hate the annoying habit almost all the characters have of forgetting whatever life lessons they learn by the next episode. In American Dad! it's only the minor and supporting characters that seem to have any continuity between episodes, while the Smith family always seems to reset their personalities and experiences by the beginning of the next episode. Honestly, shows and the characters in them that do that always piss me off to some degree.
On top of that a few of characters have each had at least one moment that really made me hate them.
5. Francine Smith from American Dad!, however, is probably the character I hate the most out of all the characters of the show. I've never really liked "dumb blonde" characters that much, but she takes it to a whole new level. She's incredibly superficial and sometimes even as much of a bigot as her husband. She basically has no intelligence or will of her own unless it's needed for the episode to work. She has had some good moments, but she's also had several moments that have really made me hate her.
The moment I hate the most is when her empty-nest syndrome caused her to basically tell Steve that she's the only woman who will ever love him, after his breakup at the end of the episode. Not only did she not learn the lesson she was supposed to for that episode, but she seemed evil at the moment she said it. On top of that, it hit me pretty close to home because of my own overprotective mother, so that scene has always made me want to beat the crap out of her.
4. Kahn Souphanousinphone from King of the Hill: The stuck-up Asian neighbor of the show who's almost always insufferable to me. He's almost always talking down to all his neighbors and shamelessly kissing up to those he admires. He doesn't hesitate to make a huge fuss over anything that upsets him, which sometimes even includes reporting it to the authorities. There have been moments where one of the characters has had something really good going for themselves, and Khan was the one to ruin it or at least try to, and that has angered me the most. Overall, he's a stuck-up jerk, and is not afraid to show it, and he's had very few good moments.
3. Paul from Pokemon: It wasn't just that he was jerk, since all of Ash's rivals have been jerks to some degree, but it was the way he was a jerk. I mean, seriously, from the way he interacts with other people and the way in which he treats his pokemon, it's almost as if he's unable to properly emotionally connect to them, which could mean he's a sociopath. I'll admit that he does improve a little bit by the end of the 4th gen journey, but only after Cynthia's wisdom caused him to actually make an effort at it. The fact that he actually had to force empathy rather than it coming naturally could indicate a mental disorder of some sort, which is a rather disturbing thought. What's even more disturbing is that we don't even know how long he's been on his pokemon journey before he met Ash. He could have been walking around for years abusing pokemon like this.
2. Prince Blueblood from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I may not believe in chivalry, but I do believe in common courtesy, and this asshole had neither. Seriously, for the way he treated Rarity throughout the final episode of season 1 of the show, he deserves so much more punishment than what he got at the end of that episode. He's essentially one of those stereotypical heartthrob celebrities that girls faun over but are really total jerks behind the curtain, only he's also a jerk in front of the curtain, which makes him worse than that stereotype I can't stand. However, given the show he's a part of, he might actually have a tiny of a chance of someday redeeming himself. But for now, he needs to get his own personal lesson about friendship, right up his ass.
1. Squilliam Fancyson from Spongebob Squarepants: One of the first cartoon characters I started hating, almost everything this character does makes me angry, mostly because 99% of his actions involve blatantly rubbing his success in Squidward's face. He's never reluctant to show how he's achieved (and sometimes taken away) all of Squidward's dreams, and just generally be a jerk. To top it all off, he gets away with it almost all the time. There have only been a few episodes where Squidward and/or other characters have beaten him, and none of them have really been big victories. He always returns just as rich and successful and conceited as he was before. I like to imagine that the heart attack he had at Squidward's half-time concert left him with long-term heart issues.
Who is on your hate list? That's right, I'm asking you,
Tapewolf and
SiegfriedNox.
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