Most Hated Characters to this Point?
#161
Posted 07 October 2008 - 02:14 PM
Korbolo pisses me off more than anyone bar the Errant and Sirryn Kanar. At least Mallick Rel is cunning, and uses Ruse, which is always cule.
“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”
- China Mieville
- China Mieville
#162
Posted 23 October 2008 - 07:28 AM
Korbolo Dom for obvious reason.
Larseen for being stupid and turning out to be really incompetent and downright spineless.
Larseen for being stupid and turning out to be really incompetent and downright spineless.
This post has been edited by blewin: 23 October 2008 - 07:28 AM
#163
Posted 23 October 2008 - 05:17 PM
I dont hate cutter, but his whinning and crying thoughts are rlly pissing me off. Im not even looking forward to him and apsalars love destined meeting, hopefully he dies before meeting her, so apsalar can regret leaving him etc etc.
I hated Kalor at the start but hes an awesome charachter. Much needed in the book.
Myhbe I didnt hate, I just wanted her to stfu!!!!! and stop fooking dreaming!
Tehols ok, no hate.
Kruppe and Pust! I cannot stand, I really fast forward through there rambling, its rlly annoying at times, specially when finishes a section with Karsa or Rake or the Andi and then goes to a scene with pust or kruppe rambling.
Udinaas kinda got annoying at times.
Nimander got annoying to as he was a class A Puss eh!!! at the start.
When u say hate, do u mean Annoying to read? or do u mean a character that u dont like and wish died fast and soon, with agnoizing pain. like clip for example? or Korbolo dom?
I hated Kalor at the start but hes an awesome charachter. Much needed in the book.
Myhbe I didnt hate, I just wanted her to stfu!!!!! and stop fooking dreaming!
Tehols ok, no hate.
Kruppe and Pust! I cannot stand, I really fast forward through there rambling, its rlly annoying at times, specially when finishes a section with Karsa or Rake or the Andi and then goes to a scene with pust or kruppe rambling.
Udinaas kinda got annoying at times.
Nimander got annoying to as he was a class A Puss eh!!! at the start.
When u say hate, do u mean Annoying to read? or do u mean a character that u dont like and wish died fast and soon, with agnoizing pain. like clip for example? or Korbolo dom?
#164
Posted 23 October 2008 - 09:44 PM
Most hated?
Sorry guys, can't stand Kruppe
Mhybe
Iskaral Pust
Used to hate Karsa, but he's getting better
Sorry guys, can't stand Kruppe
Mhybe
Iskaral Pust
Used to hate Karsa, but he's getting better
#165
Posted 23 October 2008 - 09:57 PM
1) Felisin in DeadHouse. *yawwwwn* She didn't get any better in House of Chains, but at least she died.
2) Mhybe-- Yes there's something important to her...but getting through her overwrought pathos is brutal. I don't normally condemn characters for displaying emotion. But there comes a point where it's just...too...much.
3) Kallor--Can someone please kill him? It's annoying that he somehow manages to betray everyone around him and no one ever gets the hint. And it's not like he does subtle betrayals either. No one ever supposedly trusts him, yet he somehow keeps being put in places to hurt people. *head scratch*
2) Mhybe-- Yes there's something important to her...but getting through her overwrought pathos is brutal. I don't normally condemn characters for displaying emotion. But there comes a point where it's just...too...much.
3) Kallor--Can someone please kill him? It's annoying that he somehow manages to betray everyone around him and no one ever gets the hint. And it's not like he does subtle betrayals either. No one ever supposedly trusts him, yet he somehow keeps being put in places to hurt people. *head scratch*
#166
Posted 23 October 2008 - 10:00 PM
Ranger, have you read TtH?
“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”
- China Mieville
- China Mieville
#168
Posted 23 October 2008 - 11:00 PM
I hate Challice D'Arle and the Mhybe.
Not sure where all the Tehol hate is coming from though (previous pages), I find him hilarious.
Not sure where all the Tehol hate is coming from though (previous pages), I find him hilarious.
#169
Posted 24 October 2008 - 01:05 AM
yup challice was crap, and Tehol is the MAN
souls are for wimps
#170
Posted 24 October 2008 - 08:25 AM
Trull: I get bored to tears whenever he enters a scene
Mallick: just pointlessly obnoxious. Korbolo gets under my skin less these days.
incidentally by TtH I think SE found his pace re: tragic characters. Granted he went all softy by the end and saved almost everyone, but even when I thought they were headed for destruction I didn't MIND reading about Harllo, Duiker, Cop Guy, Challice and some of the other depressives. It's a step up from the Felisin / Mhybe days.
Mhybe: less enjoyable than toothbrushing my eyeballs
Hannan Mosag because he didn't need to be. If his ambition was dealt with more thoroughly he might have garnered some more sympathy.
Kallor USED to be high on this list but TtH made him amazing.
Mallick: just pointlessly obnoxious. Korbolo gets under my skin less these days.
incidentally by TtH I think SE found his pace re: tragic characters. Granted he went all softy by the end and saved almost everyone, but even when I thought they were headed for destruction I didn't MIND reading about Harllo, Duiker, Cop Guy, Challice and some of the other depressives. It's a step up from the Felisin / Mhybe days.
Mhybe: less enjoyable than toothbrushing my eyeballs
Hannan Mosag because he didn't need to be. If his ambition was dealt with more thoroughly he might have garnered some more sympathy.
Kallor USED to be high on this list but TtH made him amazing.
#171
Posted 24 October 2008 - 08:52 AM
Felisin was such a well written character - she may get a lot of hate directed at her, but she had a lot of depth. Deadhouse Gates was great imo.
The Mhybe, however...! Ok, not hate, but definitely difficult to read.
Kallor is awsome. I hope the Errant gets in his way.
The Mhybe, however...! Ok, not hate, but definitely difficult to read.
Kallor is awsome. I hope the Errant gets in his way.
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
#172
Posted 24 October 2008 - 10:54 AM
To my suprise, i don't hate Kallor any more...
The Seguleh Second, while funny, can be rather annoying. Obsessed with Skinner. Although I split my sides when in TtH he yelled, "I'm coming Skinner! But first, these guys...".
Gorlas made my Sirryn Kanar character-alike contest. What a dick.
The Seguleh Second, while funny, can be rather annoying. Obsessed with Skinner. Although I split my sides when in TtH he yelled, "I'm coming Skinner! But first, these guys...".
Gorlas made my Sirryn Kanar character-alike contest. What a dick.
Suck it Errant!
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."
QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.
#173
Posted 24 October 2008 - 02:34 PM
zwitterion, on Oct 24 2008, 03:25 AM, said:
Trull: I get bored to tears whenever he enters a scene
I used to think that, but I liked him a lot more in RG. Probably courtesy of being with QB.
<--angry purple ball of yarn wielding crochet hooks. How does that fail to designate my sex?
#174
Posted 24 October 2008 - 03:54 PM
Itkovian: Bored the crap out of me when he was alive, and now manages to be even more tedious.
Endest Silann: Oh get over yourself you hundred thousand year old p*ssy.
Traveller- another who needs to grow up. And his daughter's not even dead.
Raest - so one minute he's a bad ass Tyrant coming to blow up Darujistan but now he's a comedy act? Riiiight.
I didn't mind Whiskeyjack when he was alive, but he really should have stayed dead.
Endest Silann: Oh get over yourself you hundred thousand year old p*ssy.
Traveller- another who needs to grow up. And his daughter's not even dead.
Raest - so one minute he's a bad ass Tyrant coming to blow up Darujistan but now he's a comedy act? Riiiight.
I didn't mind Whiskeyjack when he was alive, but he really should have stayed dead.
#175
Posted 24 October 2008 - 11:31 PM
Really surprising about which people you guys think are boring. Traveller is awesome, how can you not like and respect all that he has gone though so end up as a god.
Kruppe is awesome, if you read between the lines of what he says. I have often in rereads noticed he reveals stuff about later books which I think it awesome. Makes me read his parts to try and gleam the future
Well, only persons I hate at the moment is mallick, korbola and the mhype.
Kruppe is awesome, if you read between the lines of what he says. I have often in rereads noticed he reveals stuff about later books which I think it awesome. Makes me read his parts to try and gleam the future

Well, only persons I hate at the moment is mallick, korbola and the mhype.
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I would like to know if Steve have ever tasted anything like the quorl white milk, that knocked the bb's out.
A: Nope, but I gots me a good imagination.
A: Nope, but I gots me a good imagination.
#176
Posted 25 October 2008 - 01:28 PM
Sindriss, on Oct 25 2008, 12:31 AM, said:
Really surprising about which people you guys think are boring. Traveller is awesome, how can you not like and respect all that he has gone though so end up as a god.
Kruppe is awesome, if you read between the lines of what he says. I have often in rereads noticed he reveals stuff about later books which I think it awesome. Makes me read his parts to try and gleam the future
Well, only persons I hate at the moment is mallick, korbola and the mhype.
Kruppe is awesome, if you read between the lines of what he says. I have often in rereads noticed he reveals stuff about later books which I think it awesome. Makes me read his parts to try and gleam the future

Well, only persons I hate at the moment is mallick, korbola and the mhype.
What have we seen of Traveller though really? Brooding his way through a couple of books, being bad-ass with a sword, and getting manipulated by everyone because of his single minded desire for a futile revenge. Not much of a God really. And besides every other character in these books is an Ascendant or a God. I just think he's one dimensional and his motivations not believable based on the limited and oblique interactions we've had with him. Maybe that'll change as I'm about to read Night of Knives.
Agree with you on Kruppe, he's a very interesting and clever character and is going to be a fulcrum for the final events I think. His narrative focus in this last book has tested a lot of readers patience though, so I doubt SE will do that again.
#177
Posted 26 October 2008 - 06:42 AM
I don't find the change in Raest weird/annoying. He is now a servant of the Azath, so that's bound to make him alter his personality a bit.
Kruppe can get annoying, sometimes. I bet the climactic part of the series is when he says something beginning with "I..."
Kruppe can get annoying, sometimes. I bet the climactic part of the series is when he says something beginning with "I..."
Suck it Errant!
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."
QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.
#178
Posted 26 October 2008 - 10:59 AM
I quite like Kallor. OK, he's a bad guy, a nasty little piece of dirt, he killed WJ, but that's just all in-character for him. So far as I'm concerned, he's a character that works very well in the series, and I enjoy reading about him, wondering what he's going to get up to next.
Most hated, which I definitely do not enjoy reading about:
1. The Mhybe, of course.
2. FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH
3. Clip
4. Fiddler when he was "Strings" (only half a book, thankfully)
5. Any of the Shake
Most hated, which I definitely do not enjoy reading about:
1. The Mhybe, of course.
2. FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH FEATHER WITCH
3. Clip
4. Fiddler when he was "Strings" (only half a book, thankfully)
5. Any of the Shake
#179
Posted 26 October 2008 - 02:34 PM
I can't believe the Errant is not the first on the list. The myhbe might have been annoying, but at least she wasn't nudge-crazy. I felt sorry for the Myhbe, and didn't find her that annoying even. Clip is just pathetic.
I can't really blame feather witch, she was a monster because she was abused all her life.
The Errant is the real monster.
Definitely agree with you there. I'd like the errant to run into either Paran, Kallor, or why not Iron bars. Hehe.
I can't really blame feather witch, she was a monster because she was abused all her life.
The Errant is the real monster.
Traveller, on Oct 24 2008, 09:52 AM, said:
Kallor is awsome. I hope the Errant gets in his way.
Definitely agree with you there. I'd like the errant to run into either Paran, Kallor, or why not Iron bars. Hehe.
This post has been edited by Gem Windcaster: 26 October 2008 - 02:36 PM
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#180
Posted 26 October 2008 - 02:56 PM
OH noes, Strings were genius!!
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I would like to know if Steve have ever tasted anything like the quorl white milk, that knocked the bb's out.
A: Nope, but I gots me a good imagination.
A: Nope, but I gots me a good imagination.