The Most Hated TV Characters of All Time

The Most Hated TV Characters of All Time

Matthew Cole Weiss
Updated January 2, 2025 368.0K views 184 items

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Vote up the TV characters from any series whom you just didn't like for whatever reason.

Latest additions: Oliver Trask, Jonah Ryan, Robert Romano
Most divisive: Ted Mosby
Over 45.9K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Most Hated TV Characters of All Time

Television is fun, but some TV characters are just the worst. For every beloved character on TV, whether it be Mary Tyler Moore of The Mary Tyler Moore Show or everyone's favorite resident of the Seven Kingdoms, Tyrion Lannister, there's an equally and adamantly disliked character on the tube (hi, Joffrey and Cousin Oliver!) This list ranks the worst of the worst, including all the most terrible and hated TV characters of all time.

Yes, it's true that not everyone is going to like every character on a show, just as not everyone will like every person in real life. However, some characters are so universally detested that no one bats an eye to learn they're near the top of this list of awful TV characters. Have you ever stopped watching a show simply because one character annoyed you so much? This is a list about those guys and gals.

The curated collection includes some of the most vile TV characters. They aren't necessarily vile because they are bad or evil, but simply because every time they come on the screen, you wish they'd just go away.  In other words, they're not characters you "love to hate" - they're unpopular, disliked, and even annoying characters you just absolutely can't stand.

Vote up the worst characters in all of television history you dislike the most!

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