What are your least favorite type of main characters?

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Biggest-Kusa-Out-There said:
Beta incel mc's whose only way of socializing with the opposite sex is to gaslight, manipulate, and trap them into a relationship where only they have 'power', then gaslight them again into thinking they're the only good person in the world that will care about them.
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As I'd assume you're referring to something that isn't intentional portrayal by the authors (Unless it's simply stockholm), I'd be very interested to hear some example novels.

HokuouTenrou said:
Either the Edgy McEdge types, the Shounen Jump dumb, the Deku, or the horndogs.
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How did you end up on SH? Unless BL/GL vastly differ in your opinion.
 
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I don't like the idiots who go all 'evil for the lols' and pretend it's the 'smart' thing to do. The psychopaths, the traitors, the infiltrators, the ruthless cold-hearted plotters. They are always portrayed as being so much better than everyone because they can 'make the hard choices' and 'eliminate all obstacles'. In reality, they'd be eaten alive in a second if they didn't have plot armor.

Lol, I couldn't think of any I hated, and then I ended up ranting when I grasped for straws. Somehow I found one I actually hate.:ROFLMAO:
 
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I'm going to say that I'm starting to dislike anti-heroes. Yes the Cold and Calculating ones who think they are better than anyone else. Because they represent something with "society". I know preference matters. I used to hate Shonen MCs. Now I find them more admirable than most of what todays standard of an overly bland, one-dimensional, cool character, whose only purpose is to be relatable.

I find good in those who can still keep their good in them while being faced with countless hardships. I find them stronger than those Cold and Calculating protagonists who relies on plot armor for their "plan" to work. (Except for Naruto though he really bugs me off). Its annoying to have an a dense and naïve protagonist but I'd rather have them in a story rather than some "normal guy". Giving me expectations of character development rather than being flat as a l0li.
 
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Cipiteca396 said:
I don't like the idiots who go all 'evil for the lols' and pretend it's the 'smart' thing to do. The psychopaths, the traitors, the infiltrators, the ruthless cold-hearted plotters. They are always portrayed as being so much better than everyone because they can 'make the hard choices' and 'eliminate all obstacles'. In reality, they'd be eaten alive in a second if they didn't have plot armor.

Lol, I couldn't think of any I hated, and then I ended up ranting when I grasped for straws. Somehow I found one I actually hate.:ROFLMAO:
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Generik0 said:
I'm going to say that I'm starting to dislike anti-heroes. Yes the Cold and Calculating ones who think they are better than anyone else. Because they represent something with "society". I know preference matters. I used to hate Shonen MCs. Now I find them more admirable than most of what todays standard of an overly bland, one-dimensional, cool character, whose only purpose is to be relatable.

I find good in those who can still keep their good in them while being faced with countless hardships. I find them stronger than those Cold and Calculating protagonists who relies on plot armor for their "plan" to work. (Except for Naruto though he really bugs me off). Its annoying to have an a dense and naïve protagonist but I'd rather have them in a story rather than some "normal guy". Giving me expectations of character development rather than being flat as a l0li.
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This fits for both your quotes, yeah some authors try to use gray morality or lack of morality to show how the world shaped their character, more often than not these characters come off as harsh, rude, and a surplus of moral degeneracy; and often said authors will have a straw optimist in the story to show how 'positivity bad, negativity good', because they forgot to flesh out their self-insert I mean morally gray character.

I feel one of the best ways to write a moral gray character is to show the human side of them, that way they actually feel human. With Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas and Guts from Berserk being two of the best examples.
 
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