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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 12, 2016 10:58:04 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. I know. I'm almost afraid to come back. Didn't know Thanos was fairly disliked. :-( But I was expecting the usual Deadpool, Wolverine, Carnage and Venom. And I knew at least one other person I remembered shares in my dislike of Rick Jones. But I have to say, foxley isn't wrong about Thanos, in the reason he dislikes him. Maybe it's because I haven't read what Marvel is doing with him now, and am not a rabid Marvel movie goer, so maybe like Wolverine and Deadpool, he's not the great, to me anyway, character I remember him to be up to DnA's GotG. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 12, 2016 11:31:26 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. I think I first 'met' Rick Jones when he was Captain Mar-Vell's sidekick, and I rather liked him back then, and later when he was with Rom. The only time I've really disliked him was when some idiot decided to turn him into A-Bomb, basically a third rate Hulk. That struck me as totally pointless. I quite like She-Hulk, she's a distinctive character, but I really couldn't understand why we suddenly needed multiple Hulks a few years ago. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 12, 2016 11:40:21 GMT -5
 My first exposure to Rick Jones was Captain Mar-Vell in the 70's, and later the Hulk reprints, and then Rom. I didn't, and don't, dislike him. Didn't know about the A-Bomb thing, which sounds really stupid. Who I do really dislike is Snapper Carr. What's his current status anyway ? Hopefully I either never see him again or someone actually does something interesting with him, even making him a villain. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 12, 2016 11:41:56 GMT -5
I guess I'm with Kurt, in that I don't know that I "hate" any characters. Though I'm not sure that I agree that every character can be great with the right creator. Some characters/concepts are pretty limiting, so it's hard for anyone to do much with them.
I will say that there are a number of characters that I just have no interest in, though I can't say I care enough to hate them. Deadpool is certainly one of them. I haven't even bothered to see the movie yet, though I might eventually. Squirrel Girl, Thanos, most of the X-Men characters introduced since the 90's, the current incarnations of Lex Luthor and the Teen Titans, Spawn, any of the Captain Marvels between Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers, among others all fall into that category.
Probably the closest I come to hating characters are useless sidekick characters like Rick Jones and "Snapper" Carr. If I had super-powers and was going into a fight with super-powered bad guys, last thing I would do is drag some obnoxious kid that distracts me by having to protect him.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 12, 2016 12:07:47 GMT -5
Long-timers will know of my loathing for Superman so I won't go into that again.
I really hate both Bane and Doomsday. Stupid villains designed for one reason and one reason only, as marketing gimmicks to "Break the Hero." Bleah. Nothing remotely interesting about either of them.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 12, 2016 12:10:17 GMT -5
Something I love is when a writer takes a crappy character and surprises us with them.
Peter David is very good at it. I actually came to care for Rick Jones in the last issue of Peter's long run on Hulk (the one in which Betty died). The samhappened with the ridiculous Ringmaster, someone who made me wince for decades; when he was brought in to help psychoanalyze Bruce Banner, he suddenly went from a joke to an interesting character.
The Purple Man was silly until Frank Miller and then Brian Bendis turned him into one of the scariest villains around. There's no character that a good writer can't salvage!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 12, 2016 12:15:32 GMT -5
I really hate both Bane and Doomsday. Stupid villains designed for one reason and one reason only, as marketing gimmicks to "Break the Hero." Bleah. Nothing remotely interesting about either of them. Comic-wise I agree, but I thought the Tom Hardy Bane was a show-stealer. In a relentlessly grim film, he seemed to be the only one having fun, murdering people with as little care as a honey badger while uttering debonair speeches! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 12, 2016 12:16:14 GMT -5
There's no character that a good writer can't salvage! Except Silver/Bronze-Age Superman. Not even Alan Moore could make him interesting. Oops. I went there. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 12, 2016 12:18:48 GMT -5
I really hate both Bane and Doomsday. Stupid villains designed for one reason and one reason only, as marketing gimmicks to "Break the Hero." Bleah. Nothing remotely interesting about either of them. Comic-wise I agree, but I thought the Tom Hardy Bane was a show-stealer. In a relentlessly grim film, he seemed to be the only one having fun, murdering people with as little care as a honey badger while uttering debonair speeches! He needed sub-titles. Honestly that film was such a wretched mess that I'd have had a really hard time picking out anything good from it. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 12, 2016 12:23:50 GMT -5
My first exposure to Rick Jones was Captain Mar-Vell in the 70's, and later the Hulk reprints, and then Rom. I didn't, and don't, dislike him. Didn't know about the A-Bomb thing, which sounds really stupid. Who I do really dislike is Snapper Carr. What's his current status anyway ? Hopefully I either never see him again or someone actually does something interesting with him, even making him a villain. Snapper was last seen back in 2009. I believe he was an agent of Checkmate at that time. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 12, 2016 12:31:08 GMT -5
To the extent I've ever thought about or cared about Rick Jones, I thought his presence in the early Hulk comics made sense. He was the reason that Banner became the Hulk and was able assist Banner in dealing with it. So that made some sense. Far moreso than his hanging with Cap. And as a rule, I'm with Kurt. I don't care for teen sidekicks.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 12, 2016 12:50:01 GMT -5
Hulk was much more tolerable when Al Milgrom started writing the story that lead into Peter David taking over. Even though I really didn't like the concept outside of some pretty epic battles. But god lord, that dialogue and his punk ass attitude in Cap Marvel (Vol. 1) was just grating. With the writers like Roy Thomas, and others that wrote before Starlin, it almost seemed like they wanted you to hate that selfish punk. With Starlin, the dialogue just seemed really "off" and peculiar, so just bad, rather than inspiring to hate the character.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jul 12, 2016 12:50:04 GMT -5
I don't hate any characters but I've never found anything interesting about Aquaman.
My second least interesting characters would be Wonder Woman and Rick Jones. Hey maybe they should team up.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 12, 2016 13:47:01 GMT -5
I don't know if I really hate any character, but the OP's comment about the Skrulls reminds me that I really can't stand the sentinels. It infuriates me that even a fictional US government would spend trillions of dollars to illegally capture its own (mostly) law abiding citizens. And how on earth can a sentinel tell a mutant from somebody else with super powers, like the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man? What's really the different between the X-Men and the FF and Spidey, anyway?
I always tended to find Rick Jones an annoying and whiny punk.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 12, 2016 14:20:48 GMT -5
Like others, I don't think of myself as hating any characters, but I've found that I don't enjoy S. Clay Wilson's Checkered Demon stories.
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