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21 Of The Most Unlikable Movie Characters Of All Time

By Casey Rackham,

13 hours ago

Recently I asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which movie characters they absolutely hate. From pure-evil villains to characters who people think should be classified as villains, here are their answers:

1. Cal Hockley from Titanic

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2bYwdW_0uIuP26B00 — "He’s so manipulative and abusive. He puts Rose down every time we see them together in the movie (like when they talk about artwork). Also spoilers, but him claiming the child he found crying during the sinking as his own kid just so he could get on a lifeboat is such a cowardly move. Hands down my most hated character of all time."
—17, US
20TH CENTURY FOX / PARAMOUNT PICTURES / Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Evans

2. Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter movies

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2a7mmT_0uIuP26B00 — "She really and truly did not have a single redeeming quality. I couldn't even feel bad for her after she had been taken by the centaurs. I loathed her more than Voldemort."
— jjchambers1986
Warner Bros / Courtesy Everett Collection

3. Mr. Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3jpXwl_0uIuP26B00 — "Wrongful accusal of a Black man in 1930s Alabama, always creeping around, and attacking two small children. He was awful."
— strcar
Courtesy Everett Collection

4. Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0jOUB7_0uIuP26B00 — "He's so cruel...and creepy! They didn't even need to give him any crazy Disney supervillain magic powers; he's just pure evil (which somehow makes him even more terrifying)."
— buttercupbailey
Buena Vista Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

5. Albert Johnson from The Color Purple

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2g19D0_0uIuP26B00 — "I despised that character so much that I swore off anything Danny Glover played in after it."
— kelleym4168683f2
Courtesy Everett Collection / Warner Bros

6. Scar from The Lion King

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Umooi_0uIuP26B00 — "He killed his own brother, tried to kill his nephew, then made his nephew feel guilty about killing his father."
— bubblysedan70
Walt Disney Co. / Everett Collection

7. Percy Wetmore from The Green Mile

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2QOXq9_0uIuP26B00 — "Absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He's cruel, he's mean, and he's a coward to boot. Prolonging the torture of a prisoner like that? Disgusting. Watching him in the hospital losing his mind was so satisfying because that could easily be a fate worse than death. He deserved it."
— morgan_le_slay
Warner Bros / Courtesy Everett Collection

8. Warden Norton from The Shawshank Redemption

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1a1wFo_0uIuP26B00 — "He was a 'God-fearing Christian man' who believed in discipline and the Bible. In reality, he was a bully, overlooked physical and sexual abuse, cheated legitimate business owners, and exploited his workers. He had no remorse, no redeeming values, and had an army behind him to make sure he was undisputed, all while playing the benevolent leader of prison reform."
— mommacat123
Columbia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

9. Frank Booth from Blue Velvet

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=31Umza_0uIuP26B00 — "He is so creepy in the scene where Baby wants blue velvet, I can barely watch! Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl. So much so that just seeing him in another role is hard to take."
—37, California
De Laurentiis Group / Courtesy Everett Collection

10. President Alma Coin from The Hunger Games movies

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=38lnT6_0uIuP26B00 — "I hate her way more than I hate Snow. She used Katniss and a very traumatized Peeta for views. Then she killed a bunch of children. So, yeah, I hate her."
—16, Colorado
Lions Gate / Courtesy Everett Collection

11. Mary from Precious

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2mjG3P_0uIuP26B00 — "She absolutely made my skin crawl and my blood boil."
— minitree232
Lions Gate / Courtesy Everett Collection

12. Johnny from The Karate Kid

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Eod8N_0uIuP26B00 — "He was so smug and conceited I can see why Allie broke up with him. I would’ve too, but first I would’ve clocked him harder than she did for being such a jerk."
— smellytortoise841
Rights Managed / Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Evans

13. Charles McCarter from Diary of a Mad Black Woman

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2kwT5w_0uIuP26B00 — "He was so cruel to his wife. The way he belittled her was so evil. Even after he changed his life around in the end, I still found him unforgivable!"
—30, Chicago
Lions Gate / Courtesy Everett Collection

14. Professor Callahan from Legally Blonde

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2AaEQk_0uIuP26B00 — "He spends the entire year ogling this 22-year-old girl who didn't ask for his attention, takes advantage of the internship to get her closer to him, demeans her and the other girl on the team in the most misogynistic way possible having them get food and coffee and discounting her case-defining discovery, then praises her when it suits him. I'm glad the movie ended with her sticking it to him, but I would have liked a little more retribution. Maybe a nice sexual harassment conviction and some jail time or disbarment."
—22, New York
Mgm / Courtesy Everett Collection

15. Jasper from The Holiday

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0EDBxk_0uIuP26B00 — "Random one, but the way he kept poor Iris on the hook even after getting engaged and then had the *audacity* to show up on her vacation only to toy with her again. He doesn't need to be some sort of supervillain to be the straight-up WORST."
— buttercupbailey
Columbia Pictures

16. The Prime Minister, Harry, and Mark from Love Actually ...

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3nDLNI_0uIuP26B00

17. Mayor Larry Vaughn from Jaws

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3jjeDH_0uIuP26B00 — As far as movies go, I don't think there's anyone who, as a reasonable person, can say that the mayor from *Jaws* is in any way likable. In order to keep those tourist dollars coming into Amity, he not only suppresses all information about the shark and shark attacks, but he actively encourages people to go into the ocean. Unapologetically awful thanks to great screenwriting and acting."
—42, Japan
Courtesy Everett Collection

18. Gordon Gecko from Wall Street

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3ahwrR_0uIuP26B00 — "Pure narcissism."
—67, Arizona
20thcentfox / Courtesy Everett Collection

19. Captain Vidal from Pan’s Labyrinth

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4fXDUV_0uIuP26B00 — "He was such a psychopath. Violent and controlling. The scene with the father and son was so shocking that I still think about it."
— cheesemonster
Picturehouse / Courtesy Everett Collection

20. Hans from Frozen

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4T2oFL_0uIuP26B00 — "I was watching it with my grandchildren the other day and he pissed me off so much that I had to skip the scenes with him in them."
—88, Texas
Walt Disney Co. / Courtesy Everett Collection

21. And finally, this take on Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3mOSkF_0uIuP26B00 — "GRANDPA JOE LET HIS FAMILY STARVE BUT THEN HOPPED UP AND DID A LITTLE JIG FOR FREAKING CHOCOLATE! AND HE MADE HIS FAMILY FUND HIS TOBACCO HABIT FOR DECADES! WAS THE FLOOR TOO COLD FOR YOU TO QUIT SMOKING MONEY, JOE? Also, from a scientific point of view, his muscles would’ve atrophied if he’d been bedridden for a long time. He’s been getting up for little midnight strolls. The man is a con artist and a scammer and I want him to choke on an everlasting gobstopper for starving his family and forcing his child to run in the snow with broken shoes at night just so he could smoke a pipe and do nothing all day. Freaking Joe."
—19, US
Warner Bros / Courtesy Everett Collection

Do you have any other movie characters you think are incredibly unlikable? Let us know in the comments!

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