Totally dislikable 'heroes'

[MiserableOldGit]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Any film with the ridiculous Steven Seagal as the 'hero'.

[Sam]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Practically the whole of the Bluth family (the adults, at least) in Arrested Development. George Senior and Lucille might be anti-heroes really, but the others are all cast-iron arseholes, Michael aside.

Also the central four characters in Seinfeld. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with any of them.

[ad hoc]

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Sits wrote: Does it qualify for this thread if the actor playing the hero annoys the fuck out of you? Like anything with Tom Cruise in it? Not that I would actually watch it.

Absolutely this. How anyone can watch, Jerry Maguire, say, and not want Cruise's character to die in a fire to put us all out of our misery is beyond me. And then there's fucking Top Gun. I'd have sabotaged that plane.

[Gangster Octopus]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Jerry

[evilC]

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Gangster Octopus wrote: Jerry

Yes - I always wanted Tom to 'win' as well.

[Ginger Yellow]

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Practically the whole of the Bluth family (the adults, at least) in Arrested Development. George Senior and Lucille might be anti-heroes really, but the others are all cast-iron arseholes, Michael aside.

They're not presented as heroes, though. They're all supposed to be mocked. Even Michael, who in an ordinary sitcom would be the hero/audience surrogate, is an arsehole most of the time. He just thinks he's a good person, whereas the others are under no illusions (or oblivious)..

[Snake Plissken]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Not sure if he is supposed to be the "hero" as such, but John Cusacks character is an utter cock in "Pushing Tin" yet we are supposed to be rooting for him, even as he screws up his own life and career out of jealousy.

[Eggchaser]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Tony Stark.

Arms dealer.

Treats women as sex objects and it takes a near death experience for him to even notice the beautiful redhead who is clearly in love with him.

Refuses to share his tech with the Government but is fine to endorse a register and control system for superheroes run by the Government.

And then enlists a teenager to fight the dissenters.

Operates heavy machinery whilst intoxicated.

Hell, Stan Lee is on record as saying that they created Iron Man to see just how obnoxious a superhero could be and still be a success.

[Guy Profumo]

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Sooty

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

It's worth reading Casino Royale for bond's meditation on the stupidity of women as he hurtles through the boccage at night in a 30's bentley at 100 miles an hour, after spending the day drinking heavily.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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MiserableOldGit wrote: Any film with the ridiculous Steven Seagal as the 'hero'.

C'mon, admit it. Under Siege is ace.

Gangster Octopus wrote: Jerry

Yes. Jerry was insufferably smug.

[Bored Of Education]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

The one I was going to put - but didn't as I think that Han is the real hero - is Luke Skywalker. Whiny, show-off beige brat.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

[wrong thread]

[Eggchaser]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Stumpy Pepys wrote: [wrong thread]

Ooooh, I hate him.

[Various Artist]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Guy Profumo wrote: Sooty

Fucking hell Guy, you've gone too far now.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote:

Any film with the ridiculous Steven Seagal as the 'hero'.

C'mon, admit it. Under Siege is ace.

Gangster Octopus wrote: Jerry

Yes. Jerry was insufferably smug.

He wasn't a patch on Margot.

[3 Colours Red]

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Gangster Octopus wrote: Jerry

Not to disagree but Tweety Pie makes the mouse look meek.

[Various Artist]

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[Various Artist]

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Toby Gymshorts wrote:

Yes. Jerry was insufferably smug.

He wasn't a patch on Margot.

I don't get it.

[hobbes]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

It's a The Good Life reference.

[Various Artist]

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I know really hobbes – I was attempting to allude to the brilliant Christmas episode, where Margot's wearing a newspaper hat and reading the joke from one of the Goods' homemade crackers...

Probably was a little too oblique, I admit – it's just that I can never think of those words without hearing her voice:

Margot [reading]: "The Ooh-Aah bird is so called as it lays square eggs."
[Everyone else falls about]
Margot [plaintive]: "...I don't get it."

[Jah Womble]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

Was that the episode in which the four of them get tipsy and flirtatious? If so, that was the definitive moment in The Good Life, in my estimation. As contrived as it (often) was, the acting in that episode was second-to-none.

Anyway, as you were.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Totally dislikable 'heroes'

I think I speak for a lot of men of a certain age who think that a tipsy and flirtatious Barbara Good is quite the thought indeed.

[Bored Of Education]

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evilC wrote: Wolverine's perma-grump schtick gets boring after about one movie. It wouldn't hurt him to be polite just once in a while, would it?

And I thought Canadians were meant to be so civil too!

Hugh Jackman has just called him the darkest, most dislikeable superhero yet and I think he mentioned how ride he is. Mind you, Hugh Jackman seems like a lovely guy so he probably saw it quickly.

[Hot Pepsi]

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Bordeaux Education wrote: The one I was going to put - but didn't as I think that Han is the real hero - is Luke Skywalker. Whiny, show-off beige brat.

He's supposed to be that way. I heard a recent interview with Mark Hammill where the talks about a scene early in the original script (it's in the novelization) in which Luke is hanging out at Toschi Station with Biggs and some other people. It showed how much of an uncool dork he is.