Spoiler for like, any book existing.

I think mine has to be the villain in Mirror Man. Idk, he wasn’t intimidating, he wasn’t interesting. He was meh.

Also the villains from The Chain. Dear God they weren’t sympathetic in the slightest. The book tries to act like they were atleast pitiful but FROM THEIR INCEPTION, they were just evil assholes who enjoyed causing pain. The book itself wasn’t all that great anyways.

  • Neither_Tomorrow_238@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure if there’s a single character in literature that I despise more than Joffrey Baratheon. Arrogant, cruel, takes pleasure in other people’s pain.

    • ghostconvos@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      And he’s fun to hate because he’s so stupid about it! There were so many ways he could have been just as bad, but he was too incompetent to not piss people enough to get murdered, meaning even more suffering for the realms. If you’re a legalist, which I’m not, there’s an argument that even if he ruled with an iron first but competently, the damage would be more limited to those unhappy enough to be around him, more simple opportunistic sadism. There were many crueler characters in ASOIAF, but he’s probably the easiest to loathe.