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Post by masterofquackfu on Jul 12, 2016 7:29:06 GMT -5
For me, it is quite simple. I simply cannot stand the Skrulls. I don't like the way they look, their purpose...even the name. Just can't stand them. I remember whenever I would read them in the Avengers or FF, I would always feel like the whole experience was tainted. I just have never liked them. I won't buy any comic with them in it. They are number 1 on my list of hated characters. How about yours?
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 12, 2016 7:58:05 GMT -5
I can't say I truly *hate* any character, as I believe any of them can be great given the right creatives. If I must name a few I'm less than enamored of, I'd have to say The Green Goblin/Hobgoblin, The Punisher and Robin/Nightwing/Dick Grayson are at the top of the list. All the same, both have appeared in comics I really enjoyed so...
Cei-U!
I summon the ambivalence!
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Post by foxley on Jul 12, 2016 8:09:34 GMT -5
Well, I dislike Wolverine and Deadpool, for reasons of overexposure more than anything else.
But I truly loathe Thanos. He started as Darksied rip-off with a completely uninteresting motivation ("I want to kill everyone in the universe"), and since then has turned into Jim Starlin's ultimate Mary Sue, whom we're all supposed to sit around and admire (for reasons that completely escape me), with no one ever being allowed to defeat him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 8:25:52 GMT -5
Well, I dislike Wolverine and Deadpool, for reasons of overexposure more than anything else. But I truly loathe Thanos. He started as Darksied rip-off with a completely uninteresting motivation ("I want to kill everyone in the universe"), and since then has turned into Jim Starlin's ultimate Mary Sue, whom we're all supposed to sit around and admire (for reasons that completely escape me), with no one ever being allowed to defeat him. Except for Squirrel Girl.  And even here note how careful they were to nail it down, trying to leave no wriggle room for Starlin or anybody else to retcon her victory away. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 12, 2016 8:31:20 GMT -5
I think Rick Jones is the only character that is annoying and terrible in everything I've read him in. If there isn't a Rick Jones story that isn't terrible and grating on the nerves, I haven't read it.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 12, 2016 8:35:37 GMT -5
Number One on my list is Rick Jones. He's an obnoxious and mouthy jackass who succeeds in spite of himself. Everything in his "career" has been due to random happenstance and dumb luck, making him the kind of character I cannot stand, because he reminds me of real-life people who fall into mud puddles and find gold.
Second is Wolverine. When he was introduced, he was OK, but I really grew to dislike him when Uncanny X-Men become Wolverine, his teenage girl sidekick, and a bunch of other mutants. It got worse when he got overexposed by being included in every book that Marvel published in the '90s and reached full-on hatred when his healing factor because nigh-godlike, allowing him to survive anything that happened to him. Add in the convoluted and ever-changing backstory that just keeps getting added onto by subsequent writers, and he's a hot mess of a character that is really nothing more than a one-note thug.
Lastly, while I don't hate Deadpool, I hate that he (along with Harley Quinn) have become the poster children for comic books today. If he weren't part of the "real" MU and existed in a pocket universe with other non-serious characters like Howard the Duck, Squirrel Girl, and The Great Lakes Avengers, that would be one thing, but the fact that he is now an Avenger, with the blessing of Steve Rogers to boot, is disheartening. He's not a hero, he's a Looney Tune.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 8:42:15 GMT -5
Mighty ThorIn the early Avengers Story of where they dealt with the Space Phantom - it was Thor that I really have a hard time relating to and the nature of the way he talks in the many panels of the early days of the Avengers that drives me nuts and this panel alone of where both Mighty Thor and the Wasp together and the Wasp made it clear to me that his speech and the corny way he talks was a big turnoff for me and that's why I had a hard time relating to Mighty Thor when I was growing up and still do. He is on my list of 50 of the Most Influential Characters and having said that makes me ill to think about it. I just can't stand him period - but some unknown reasons that I'm drawn back to him for reasons that I just have a hard time explaining it.  This panel alone makes me wonder what the world Marvel Comics are thinking of!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 12, 2016 8:50:43 GMT -5
Arcade. I can't stand Arcade. I hate the concept, and I hate everything that's been done with him to date. He's so annoying that it's a surprise someone like Doom or Osborn hasn't put him out of our misery a long time ago. (Or the Punisher. I guess the Punisher could do it).
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Post by brutalis on Jul 12, 2016 8:54:00 GMT -5
Hate the Hatemonger. Hitler reanimated? Like the reality of Hitler wasn't atrocious we need to keep him alive as a comic book super-villain for the kiddies?
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 12, 2016 9:09:10 GMT -5
 and  Spawn mostly because of extremely uncreative and over-rated Todd McFarlane. He's also just a pastiche of other characters that's super lame IMO. Deadpool for pretty obvious, over-exposed and super-obnoxious reasons. I get why kids would like him but he's like fingers on the chalkboards to me. |
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Post by DubipR on Jul 12, 2016 9:39:35 GMT -5
I think Rick Jones is the only character that is annoying and terrible in everything I've read him in. If there isn't a Rick Jones story that isn't terrible and grating on the nerves, I haven't read it. Did you read Peter David's Captain Marvel run? Probably the one time I ever liked Rick Jones. But that really comes from Kurt Busiek and Avengers Forever for making Jones interesting... |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 12, 2016 9:49:12 GMT -5
I think Rick Jones is the only character that is annoying and terrible in everything I've read him in. If there isn't a Rick Jones story that isn't terrible and grating on the nerves, I haven't read it. Did you read Peter David's Captain Marvel run? Probably the one time I ever liked Rick Jones. But that really comes from Kurt Busiek and Avengers Forever for making Jones interesting... I have a two part Thanos story in the 1999 series. Which he was alright in I guess. If I remember the story right, he actually pulled his own weight, at the end. The 2002 series, I remember grabbing a story line because I liked the artist that did it. It was called "Crazy Like a Fox", I think. The story was alright, but I really liked that artists on the interiors. I don't remember though if Rick was it in or not. If he was I guess it wasn't impressionable or terrible. :-) Don't really know why I didn't continue with either series more, but it has been in the back of my mind to get the rest of the issues at some point. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 12, 2016 10:40:24 GMT -5
I absolutely detest Venom and Carnage, particularly Carnage. They are te embodiment of everything that went wrong with comics in the 90s. I'm also not keen on Gambit, Cable, Deadpool, or pretty much any of the other X-characters created in that benighted decade.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 12, 2016 10:45:24 GMT -5
While this question has been asked in other threads I am inspired by the quality and passion of the answers. I already disagree with three of the choices.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 12, 2016 10:53:54 GMT -5
Venom, Carnage, and Thanos are great picks! So are Wolverine and Deadpool! So much to dislike.
I do kind of like Rick Jones, though. I totally get why people don't like him, but I was first introduced to him in the pages of Rom - yes, he was Rom's sidekick too for awhile, he's been pretty much everyone's sidekick at one point or another - and I liked him there. He was also cool in Avengers Forever, though if you don't like Rick Jones, you might might fully appreciate that series as he plays a major role.
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