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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[–] 56 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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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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    Besides Cthulhu?

    Every trickster god like Loki, Q, Miss Frizzle…

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

    Willy Wonka may not be hated, but he would definitely be vilified. There is no way a candy maker who refused to allow inspectors into his factory would be allowed to sell candy to the general public.

    Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.

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

    Sheogorath from elder scrolls is a fan favorite, but I'd hazard to say no one wants to live in a universe with a cheese obsessed mad god that regularly dicks with humans for fun.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Sheohorath gets pretty fucking dark.

    At that same moment, a young woman nearby commented wistfully to herself, "The sounds of the birds are so beautiful."

    Sheogorath silently agreed with her. Mortals could not make the beautiful and inspired calls of birds. Their voices were wretched and mundane. He could not change the nature of mortals, for that was the purview of other Daedric Princes. However, he could give them tools to make beautiful sounds.

    Sheogorath took hold of the petulant woman and ripped her asunder. From her tendons he made lutes. From her skull and arm bones he made a drum. From her bones he made flutes. He presented these gifts to the mortals, and thus Music was born.

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

    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

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

    I was genuine, but given the state of the world today I think an unstable deity of madness and whimsy periodically gifting insane relics and literal mental illnesses to people probably wouldn't even be in the top 30.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Amos Burton from The Expanse. Fans love him but he is a deeply damaged, disturbed, violent individual with no sense of right or wrong. At one point in the books, he looks at somebody and thinks he may have to kill them. The idea doesn't bother him. He doesn't get pleasure from it. But they're in his way so he'll do it.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Amos is self aware though. He knows he was born without a moral compass and allows Naomi, who he knows is good, to give him direction. He trusts that her decisions will keep him from crossing a line that he knows is there but he can't see himself.

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    True, he latches on to people he thinks are righteous, first Naomi and then Holden, and uses them as his moral compass. But when they are not around, he beats people up and kills then as his go to reaction to a threat and he has no remorse over doing it. As Naomi tells Holden about him, He is a monster. He doesn't want to be a monster, but he is one.

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

    What made me like Amos Burton (from the series, still have to read the book) is that he is self aware enough to know this about himself, and intelligent enough to understand it as a shortcoming in many situations.

    He's a man where some part of him wants to do good, even be used for good, but doesn't know how. But he recognises good people, and anchors himself to those he believes can use him for good.

    That somehow makes him smarter than most people in the series... Or in real life, for that matter.

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

    Every sitcom character ever. Also Dora the Explorer

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Donald J. Trump, the fictional character in Home Alone. Dude gave me the creeps, was looking at the underage Kevin like he was a pacifier

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Tony Stark would be controversial. A billionaire weapons dealer who indirectly killed millions of people with his weapons. Then he turns around and decides to be a superhero but continues to cause destruction and inadvertently kill people. A lot of people would think he's only doing heroic acts for the praise.

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    [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    People like Cave Johnson? I thought they find him interesting, not a likeable person.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Combination of:

    • People whose only exposure is clips from Portal and think he's just a goof who rants about combustible lemons, not a deeply disturbed person who subjected people to horrific experimentation.
    • People who can't distinguish between other fans saying "I like this person as an interesting, well-portrayed, flawed character" and "I like this person directly as an individual".
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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sonic would be soooo annoying.

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Barney Stinson is a creep whose actions border on rape and it was hinted he may have even been involved in human trafficking at one point

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    Sheldon Cooper. Not sure if people love him as a fictional character either though...

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

    The main characters of ‘Friends’, perhaps excluding Phoebe Buffay. Once you try to figure out their morals, it's baffling how they can be considered even half decent people.

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Do you think Pokémon battles should be illegal, Ash?

    No, of course not

    Your pikachu is lying in a puddle of its blood.

    We provide work for every town. Joy would be out of her nursing job if not for us.

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  • Captain! Jack Sparrow. Fun to watch and wonder how much he plans or if he's just good at improv. But he's routinely sacrificing his crew-members/friends for his own advantage.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau. AKA Harry Dubois.

    If he was real, at best he'd be kind of pathetic; at worst he's a horribly disturbed, sexist, racist, homophobic drug addicted alcoholic. With a gun.

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