The Most Disliked Characters in the Buffyverse

[Tome]

So, I was arguing in another thread about how a certain character would pretty much be at the bottom of a poll that asked people which Buffyverse characters they dislike the most.

It made me curious to find out where BB stands on this. I think I know which characters will be most voted for, but let's find out for certain!

By the way, I only put characters who appeared in the opening credits in the poll or else it would have been unbelievably long. If there are other characters that you really want to put in your top three, just select "Other" and specify who in your post.

Thanks for participating!

 

[nightshade]

Tough I tend to dislike them at certain times rather than overall.

 

[November]

That was harder than a favourites list!
My 5, in order are
1. Tara
2. Willow
3. Cordelia
4. Lorne
5. Xander

P.S. it only wants to let me choose 3

 

[Skanky Vamp]

That was harder than a favourites list!
My 5, in order are
1. Tara
2. Willow
3. Cordelia
4. Lorne
5. Xander

If you add in Joyce as the Other then our lists are pretty much the same, unless you are talking Buffy Cordy and not Angel Cordy. They are just two different characters in my opinion.

 

[thetopher]

My top six most disliked 'credited characters' would be:

1. Anya
...
2. Harmony (still kinda bitter that they put such a non-character in the actual credits...)
3. Spike (souled)
4. Lorne
...
5. Doyle
6. Connor

And even then by the time I get past Lorne it's really just in the 'like a bit less or pretty indifferent to' category because I tend to consistently like almost all the credited characters, only disliked them (sometimes intensely) for certain episodes or seasons.

But there are plenty of guest appearing characters who I really don't like; Andrew, Wood, Holden, Kennedy, Forrest,

 

[spikenbuffy]

1 Connor
2 Anya
3 Doyle

 

[Dogs of Winter]

It is difficult as I tend to like some characters far more in certain seasons than others

I don’t like Cordy in BS1, like her more and more in S2+3, love her in AS1+2, hate the whole St Cordyness of S3, and then S4 really shows up her limited acting range

I really like Spike in S2-S4, increasingly less after that especially in S7 but like him again in AS5.

Lorne was great to begin with but should have stayed as a supporting character

And I find Connor annoying at times in S4 but he was brought up on a hell dimension by someone who had been driven insane by his obsession with Connor's father and had no other human contact (as far as I can remember). So how could he not be annoying !

I finally went for
Xander
Dawn
Riley
Cordy
Connor
(but would still consider Cordy for a Top 10 characters list based on different seasons!)

 

[TamsinValencia]

Probably out of Xander, Riley, Dawn, Kennedy or Warren if I had to take a guess.

 

[Taake]

Rats, I was too quick to vote. I thought it was character I think are the most disliked. So I voted Dawn, Riley, and Connor.

But I actually love Connor myself!

 

[Skanky Vamp]

I voted Dawn, Riley, and Connor.

You're part of the reason Connor is tied for most hated. Shame.

 

[Hunga Munga]

I feel I might have voted shark demon if I'd remembered .

 

[November]

I swear I did not see this before the other thread! That made me laugh a bit when I saw the post this thread was spun from.

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Lorne works best in small doses. I think the writers understood that in season 5.

 

[Taake]

If I could vote again, I would still vote Dawn. I don’t hate her, I just never warmed to her character, decades later I’m still not keen and especially after season 5 when the writers don’t seem to know what to do with her.
(I wish they would’ve developed her in s7, especially with the friends she makes in ep 1)

The ones I would vote for otherwise are Harmony and Spike.

Harmony is just a mild annoyance most of the time. But I never like seeing her on screen. In Angel s5 she is the weakest part and while I see why they added her, her scenes can drag on for too long* and it was a mistake to give her an entire episode.

*like Not Fade Away, where she is all ”it’s because you have no confidence in me”, ”can I get a letter of recommendation” … just go away! This is a series finale!

Spike. No secret, the older I get the less patience I have for him. Am ready for this character to go away, which he won’t, so I just won’t engage with new content.

 

[Bop]

Well, I experience my dislike of Spike the most because of his fans (some of his fans) but I don't know if it's fair to vote for him because I do like him in Buffy season 2 and Angel season 5. But again my experience within the fandom really makes me want to vote for him.

It's between Spike and Anya. Riley doesn't induce any emotion from me, and I love Connor and Dawn to get rid of the obvious choices.

I don't know someone choose between Spike and Anya for me and then I'll vote 😂

@nightshade Oh I didn't see it's multiple votes well that makes it easy- I'll go for Spike, Anya and Harmony.

 

[Miss Muffet]

Connor could have been interesting, but the writers didn't handle him well.
I also put Spike, but I only dislike him during S6-7

 

[Plasma]

Team Spike strikes back against this slander!

Honestly don’t love S1-3 Angel. The whole “angsty brooding vampire hunk” doesn’t do it for me. He’s better when he leaves for his own show.

Riley is Riley. Good riddance to that wasted potential. 👋

Final one is Connor because I just don’t care. Giving Angel a son is honestly just not a great idea, and he never seems to do anything but hinder the team and show.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

He’s better when he leaves for his own show.

He's worse when he leaves for his own show. They turn the character into a comic-relief, bumbling fool.

 

[VampireSlayer07]

Only character I consistently dislike is Spike.

 

[thrasherpix]

This was too hard. I voted as a VIEWER as opposed to "which would I get a restraining order against were they to move next door."

Harmony almost makes it, but she wasn't in it enough to bother me...and strangely, a couple of Harmony-centric eps were actually enjoyable to me to cancel out the dislike.

Connor is another close one, but I couldn't help but sympathize with him a bit, and also can't help but feel he was written more as a plot device than an actual character which also makes me sympathize with his character in a meta-way. His demeanor in season 5 also makes up for it.



I dislike the Trio made into the Big Bads of season 6. I wouldn't mind an arc of them, but their presence was too much, especially as they're so one-note, even if some bits of dialog (plus painting the Death Star on their secret van with arguments over if it was done right) make me laugh (offhand, my favorite being where they forget to spy on the Slayer because they get so into their argument on who the best James Bond is).

If you want to go for real life is the Big Bad (which I think s6 did very poorly, with even s5 before it doing a better job without even trying) it's not like most get targeted (even beaten up) by geeks (note, I consider myself a geek) It just got burdensome to watch, and unlike some of the other burdensome aspects of season 6, there was nothing really to make up for it before or after (Warren in season 5 was just enough Warren without getting on my nerves to watch it, but I still wasn't much of a fan, and I've always been neutral about Jonathan overall).

Though I did like the Buffybot arc (which I bring up since Warren made that possible)...but I expect many hate that one. Though the crowning moment of that for me was Buffy gritting out, "You couldn't tell me apart from a robot!?" (Guess Tara lost some of her psychic senses, but I can't remember if she actually saw the Buffybot or just heard about it). And after the crowning moment, the Buffybot is used well, storytelling wise.

I'm going to count the Trio as one entity, so two more...Flutie, and whatever lawyer that Faith beat up really bad (glad we didn't get too much of him, though he was an important component to more than one story for me to dismiss as a very minor character).

Snyder is a horrible toad (no insult to toads intended), but he was a fun foil as well (speaking as a viewer) who played his part well. I'm happy with him getting eaten by a snake, but I took way too much pleasure in Flutie being eaten early on, despite that Flutie (unlike Snyder) did seem to genuinely mean well. Flutie really rubbed me the wrong way and was funny for maybe the first 5 minutes.

I'm refusing to let myself think of season 7 (despite a few redeeming moments of it, ALL of it early in the season for me, I won't even give credit for the speech at the end since there really wasn't a choice to be made). I'm also ignoring one-shot or very minor characters that I liked or hated or felt meh about.