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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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.
This movie was a wild ride. Every bit as awful as you’d expect. Highly recommend watching it illegally. That’s a joke. Haha.
Yes, of course, a joke. Haha
Handsome Jack. Hilarious, beloved villain but anyone would want to punch his smug face in if they actually met him.
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
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
He’s widely loved?
No they hate him so much, they elected him twice.
As a character in the film, no. He was barely even a character.
I mean… Yeah? In America, by the wrong sort of people, but… Yeah?
Jesus
Pretty sure that was the story arc in the original series
Mr Rochester (abuser), Heathcliff (abuser), Colonel Brandon (pedophile).
Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau. AKA Harry Dubois.
Every sitcom character ever. Also Dora the Explorer
Sonic would be soooo annoying.
Sonic discovering caffeine would be the subject for an immediate emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
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 and forcibly deport all the Ommpa Loompas.
Wonka is arguably guilty of slavery and even if he didn’t kill four kids, he at least traumatized four kids. And he laid off all his workers, leading some of them to become impoverished.
I’m not sure… Elon is still praised as a visionary…
Plus, under the current administration, ICE would break in and forcibly deport (kidnap) all the Ommpa Loompas.
Would trump deport them for not being white, save them for being orange, or leave them there because they’re already slaves?
lol now THAT’S a brainteaser
The entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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.
Definitely not the main characters, but I’d love to hang out with Artemis.
That was basically the premise of Seinfeld.
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.
IASIP was marketed as “Seinfeld on crack”
Quite literally, at times.
Seinfeld characters are whimsical. This not true of Its Always Sunny where they are at best, degenerates.
George is whimsical?
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’.
I love this show and can confirm, they are the worst
I hate this show because they’re the worst.
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 their in his way so he’ll do it.
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.
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.
Yep.
In one of the books he is on Earth without his shipmates and pretty quickly regresses back to sociopathic behaviour.
But he recognizes this and does not welcome it. After killing a stranger just to get access to gear he needs, Amos realizes that he is making the wrong choices and states: “I need to get back to my crew.”
He has an understanding of what is good and what is bad. He cannot understand why there are limitations to by which means “good” can be achieved. But he knows these limits do exist and should be respected, therefore he needs Naomi and Holden to lead him.
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.
Plenty of Amos’s IRL already though.
Pac Man
People like Cave Johnson? I thought they find him interesting, not a likeable person.
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”.
Given how people deify billionaires, I’d imagine there would be plenty of people that would defend a real life Cave Johnson.
Hell, he does get shit done. His company came up with the red and blue gels, and THE FRICKIN’ PORTAL GUN.
He actually solved the energy problem (run water over a dynamo into a blue portal, then open an orange portal above it so the same water powers the dynamo forever, and that’s just the easiest one I thought of!).
People love Jeff Bezos, and he’s done a lot less and treated more people worse!
Those who like Harry Dubois as a character vs those who like Harry Dubois as a person who could exist. 😳
Bender
I think Fry would be kind of annoying too.
I know plenty of people like him
Besides Cthulhu?
Every trickster god like Loki, Q, Miss Frizzle…
Don’t forget bugs bunny
Jesus
Jesus would probably get on my nerves.
He never called people by their names and gave them weird nicknames and spoke in riddles like a guy who fried his brain on weed and LSD in college during an ethics class.
People would hate the real time moralising, but would love free wine and would be amazed by his party tricks, like walking on water. That was pretty cool!
Jesus with the caviat of who specifically would hate him.
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.
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.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
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.
My biggest problem with someone like Sheogorath is that he can just create a planet sized object at will and there’s nothing anyone could do to stop him