Almost everyone has encountered a fictional character that annoyed them, or in their experience writing wrote a character that irritated readers.
To clarify, I don't necessarily mean unlikable characters. For example, Grand Moff Tarkan from Star Wars is a loathsome villain, an evil and ruthless Imperial warlord who with the calm, cold command to his Death Star subordinates of 'You may fire when ready' is willing to destroy whole planets populated by millions of people. But while Tarkan is without doubt unlikeable and was written as such, few if any people would class the character as 'annoying' or 'irritating'. The same would apply to other characters like Nurse Ratched from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', O'Brien from '1984' or Curly from 'Of Mice and Men'.
From the entire world of fiction - movies, TV shows, books, animation, stage plays - and any genre, which characters did you find irritating, and what is your experience with annoying characters on Literotica either as a reader, writer or editor?
In recent times, the most irritating character I have encountered would be Mindy Meeks-Martin in Scream 5 and Scream 6, a sort of 'meta' character like her late uncle Randy in the earlier Scream movies. Lacking any sort of tact or the ability to keep her mouth shut, the obnoxious Mindy proves to be more a liability whenever a Ghostface killer attacks, yet has survived two Scream movies and is soon to appear in Scream 7 set for release next month. Go Ghostface, or if you can't finish the job, please outsource to Pennywise the Dancing Clown!
Back in the past there is Willie Scott from 'Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom' in 1984 but no doubt others will nominate her so I won't say any more about her. I will nominate Jackie Peters from Jaws 2 in 1978 however. If you don't remember her (but if you've seen Jaws 2 you probably will), the cousin of a girl from the older Brody son Mike's group of friends, from New York City and very much out of her element in the coastal New England town of Amity where she is visiting for the summer. Jackie is the one who encourages Mike to break his father's curfew and go sailing, and the others to go out further than normal in their sailboats. Then when trouble strikes and the shark attacks, she starts screaming, sobbing and panicking and continues to do so throughout the rest of the film, putting everyone else in danger and one guy losing his life saving her when she becomes even more hysterical. And at the end of the movie, Jackie survives without so much as a bruise or scratch.
On Literotica, I thought when writing my 'Spoiled Princess Hates Camping' series that readers would find Madison, the titular spoiled princess, very annoying. But nobody has ever commented to that effect, but did find the young Australian guy who winds up banging her very annoying and saying so.
What are your experiences?
To clarify, I don't necessarily mean unlikable characters. For example, Grand Moff Tarkan from Star Wars is a loathsome villain, an evil and ruthless Imperial warlord who with the calm, cold command to his Death Star subordinates of 'You may fire when ready' is willing to destroy whole planets populated by millions of people. But while Tarkan is without doubt unlikeable and was written as such, few if any people would class the character as 'annoying' or 'irritating'. The same would apply to other characters like Nurse Ratched from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', O'Brien from '1984' or Curly from 'Of Mice and Men'.
From the entire world of fiction - movies, TV shows, books, animation, stage plays - and any genre, which characters did you find irritating, and what is your experience with annoying characters on Literotica either as a reader, writer or editor?
In recent times, the most irritating character I have encountered would be Mindy Meeks-Martin in Scream 5 and Scream 6, a sort of 'meta' character like her late uncle Randy in the earlier Scream movies. Lacking any sort of tact or the ability to keep her mouth shut, the obnoxious Mindy proves to be more a liability whenever a Ghostface killer attacks, yet has survived two Scream movies and is soon to appear in Scream 7 set for release next month. Go Ghostface, or if you can't finish the job, please outsource to Pennywise the Dancing Clown!
Back in the past there is Willie Scott from 'Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom' in 1984 but no doubt others will nominate her so I won't say any more about her. I will nominate Jackie Peters from Jaws 2 in 1978 however. If you don't remember her (but if you've seen Jaws 2 you probably will), the cousin of a girl from the older Brody son Mike's group of friends, from New York City and very much out of her element in the coastal New England town of Amity where she is visiting for the summer. Jackie is the one who encourages Mike to break his father's curfew and go sailing, and the others to go out further than normal in their sailboats. Then when trouble strikes and the shark attacks, she starts screaming, sobbing and panicking and continues to do so throughout the rest of the film, putting everyone else in danger and one guy losing his life saving her when she becomes even more hysterical. And at the end of the movie, Jackie survives without so much as a bruise or scratch.
On Literotica, I thought when writing my 'Spoiled Princess Hates Camping' series that readers would find Madison, the titular spoiled princess, very annoying. But nobody has ever commented to that effect, but did find the young Australian guy who winds up banging her very annoying and saying so.
What are your experiences?
