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Who are some widely loved fictional characters that would be hated if they were real? (lemmy.world)
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I was running through some old Portal 2 quotes in my head and realized that it Cave Johnson were a real person, people would absolutely hate him.

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[–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We enjoy watching them because they are horrible people who never really succeed at what they are trying to do. I don't think anyone would want to hang out with them.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That was basically the premise of Seinfeld.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Seinfeld characters are whimsical. This not true of Its Always Sunny where they are at best, degenerates.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    George is whimsical?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    George is entirely built on the premise of doing minor things that a normal person wouldn't consider doing: he's a fictionalized Larry David, and ‘almost everything’ of his antics comes from David's real experiences. As you probably know, David later did another whole show on the same premise: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    My favorite story from the cast is when Jason Alexander was talking with Larry David about a particularly unlikely scenario, saying he was having trouble relating as a character to something that would never happen to anyone. David said "What are you talking about? This happened to me." It was then that Alexander realized that George is Larry, and he stopped doing George as Woody Allen.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'm continually amazed that characters of ‘Seinfeld’ are considered awful, while those in ‘Friends’ are supposedly fine. The latter are prime fit for an answer to this post, if one digs into their morals a little.

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