14-05-2025
The Most Unlikable Movie Characters Of All Time
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:
Cal Hockley from Titanic
"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
Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter movies
"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
Mr. Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird
"Wrongful accusal of a Black man in 1930s Alabama, always creeping around, and attacking two small children. He was awful."—strcar
Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"He's so 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
Albert Johnson from The Color Purple
"I despised that character so much that I swore off anything Danny Glover played in after it."—kelleym4168683f2
Scar from The Lion King
"He killed his own brother, tried to kill his nephew, then made his nephew feel guilty about killing his father."—bubblysedan70
Percy Wetmore from The Green Mile
"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
Warden Norton from The Shawshank Redemption
"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
Frank Booth from Blue Velvet
"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
President Alma Coin from The Hunger Games movies
"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
Mary from Precious
"She absolutely made my skin crawl and my blood boil."—minitree232
Johnny from The Karate Kid
"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
Charles McCarter from Diary of a Mad Black Woman
"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
Professor Callahan from Legally Blonde
"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
Jasper from The Holiday
"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
The Prime Minister, Harry, and Mark from Love Actually...
"I don't know how people see that movie as romantic but all of these characters' story arcs are just not it. The Prime Minister dates his subordinate while everyone calls her fat when she's not. Harry was straight up just cheating on his wife and she finds out by seeing him buying beautiful jewelry for his mistress, which she at first mistakingly believes is for her. And then there's Mark, the creepy stalker guy who stalks this bride all through her wedding because he 'loves' her, and then confesses this outside her front door."—toot-toot-mcgee
Mayor Larry Vaughn from Jaws
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
Gordon Gecko from Wall Street
"Pure narcissism."—67, Arizona
Captain Vidal from Pan's Labyrinth
"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
Hans from Frozen
"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
And finally, this take on Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
"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
Do you have any other movie characters you think are incredibly unlikable? Let us know in the comments!
