Updated and edited version of my older list, having moved all of the characters who are specific versions of normally liked characters moved to a separate list.
Everyone has their favorites and least favorites, of course. But it must be said that some characters are less popular than others. And these ones in particular have very few if any fans or advocates. Whether for being seen as poorly written, annoying, morally repugnant, or some other reason, these are the characters who, near as I can tell, are the most widely hated and/or infamous for being widely hated.
For characters who have comparable numbers of vocal fans and defenders, see my "Bitterly Divisive" list.
Also, if you object to this or that character being here, I'll only ask that you don't shoot the messenger. This is a list of characters who I perceive to be widely hated. And while I agree with many of them, I don't agree with ALL of them. Just saying.
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Pretty sure anyone with even a cursory knowledge of The Last of Us: Part II and the firestorm of controversy it generated, knows about this one. The hate for her was SO bad, that her normally well-liked voice actress Laura Bailey got a ridiculous amount of online abuse for playing her (not cool, folks).
I hope I never have to explain this one to anybody.
The bane of many an Oblivion player's existence. That he can't ever die permanently suggests to me the makers of the game were fully aware of how insufferable he is, and were in a mood to be sadistic. Shame on them.
MCU version, considering he along with Malekith is generally recognized as a prime case of a boring and phoned-in MCU villain. I get that they can't all be Killmonger or Thanos, but still. And truth be told, I hate him myself. I'd have put him on the "hated versions of beloved characters" list, except the 616 version of Killian isn't exactly a household name for most people.
Even among those who DON'T hate the Sequel Trilogy with a burning passion (such as myself), general consensus is that her and Poe Dameron's plot was the weakest one in the film. Even her death, while awesome, gets a fair share of flak.
I think I may just be the only person on the planet who actually likes the MCU take on Taskmaster. I have yet to meet ANYBODY ELSE who does. At best a few folks maybe kind of tolerate her, but I seem to be the only one who actually liked what they were going for; a villain who is the embodiment of all of Black Widow's past sins and everything in her past she's ashamed of and trying to run away from. You couldn't really do that with the Tony Masters version, but it seems I was the only one who liked the idea. Or maybe it was less the idea people minded and more the execution, which I guess is fair. Either way, she's definitely widely hated.
Enough so that they retired the character. Not a choice everyone agreed with of course, but even so...
The personification of every negative stereotype about the Jedi, and basically everything Jedi haters accuse the organization as a whole of being; a self-righteous, holier-than-thou, oppressive type who constantly lectures and preaches about the dangers of the Dark Side while falling to it herself. So her being hated is no great surprise. Worth mentioning that she's actually my personal least favorite Star Wars character (yes, even worse than Jar-Jar). I just can't stand her.
The most infamous Dinosaur character there ever was, and in running for the most infamous TV character ever. I mean, there's a song little kids sing about violently killing him, so...
General consensus is that she's a terrible protagonist and an even worse role-model for the legions of underage girls who read and got hooked on the Twilight series.
