I Feel Like So Many Shows Make The Worst People The Main Character And Rely On People Rooting For Them

I feel like so many shows make the worst people the main character and rely on people rooting for them just bc they're the main character

(This is a long ass really bitchy post about lots of fandoms I'm in sorry in advance if you choose to read this. Also these are just my opinions, please don't be mad at me 😅)

Once upon a time - Emma Swan screws Regina over billions of times (if you put up your child for a closed adoption, that means you can't go steal him back because his new mum is a bit mean to you??) but whenever Regina is an asshole back (or a lot of the time when she didn't do anything) she's the "evil character"

How I met your mother - Ted Mosby is full of himself, never developed as a character and doesn't really care about any of his friends feelings.

Batman - Bruce himself. What the fuck, why does he treat his kids like that??? Tim's 16th birthday? In some older comics he punched Dick? Also he's a ✨billionaire✨ in a city that's such a mess and never tried to help with that (to my knowledge)

Heathers - Veronica is a bad person that acts like she's amazing. No one in this is really meant to be a fully good person though so moving on.

Hazbin Hotel - I know I'm meant to root for Charlie's dream but holy shit can she stay out of other people's business for once? Her "rehabilitation" is peer pressure from an adult woman who acts like she's 12

Miraculous Ladybug - Marinette is a literal stalker. She's such a an awful person and I swear every season I've watched she's got worse. Just because you're a "hero" doesn't mean your life is more important than someone else's

Most Alice Osman books - Angel from IWBFT, Francis from radio silence, I forgot her name because I didn't get that far in but the girl from loveless, all drive me crazy. They're so self centered (Francis sees someone crying and immediately makes it about her?)

Also Ted from the lorax (self centered and a bit creepy), Harry Potter (billionare wizard chad), Mirabel from encanto (self centered and victim complex) and most anime protagonists

And there are a bunch of shows where the asshole main characters are intentional they still get so much more development than these people (blitz from Helluva boss, the main character in doki doki literature club, etc)

IVE ONLY JUST WOKE UP BUT I STARTED IMMEDIATELY

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Tim angst makes me so sad I love it

"No, Jason, you don't get it! When they look at you, that's what they see, they see YOU, but when they look at me? They still see you. That's all they've ever seen. Don't you get it? I was never a replacement or a poser, I have always been your placeholder. I'm just a Jason shaped person they got so they could talk to me until they were done grieving. I was never meant to stay, but then you came back and you attacked me, and my Dad died, and Damian showed up and Bruce went missing, and suddenly it had gone on too long, gone too far, for anyone to be able to ask me to leave. I'm only still here because it would be somewhat cruel to ask me to leave. That's IT. When I walk into a room, I still expect someone to call me by your name, I still expect someone to look through me with those sad eyes they always had when you were gone, you weren't here while they were grieving you, you don't know what it was like. You think you can just walk in here after being dead for years and just understand my situation? You can't, that's not how it works. Now for godsake, can't you just leave me alone for once? Your face has already been haunting me for YEARS, just, please, please leave me alone. Please."

Absolutely! Tim Grayson, Jason Drake, Richard Drake could all work but he went with one of the worst. Timothy Todd or Jason Grayson are definitely the least believable

The fact this was Damian's go-to fake name is killing me

"Quick think of a fake name!"

"my brother's first name and my other brother's last name. I'm a genius."

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Yes that's how I feel about them! They didn't work when they were together and they broke up. So then they got back together and broke up again and that cycles a bit, constantly proving that they don't work until she falls in love with someone else (one of Ted's best friends too) and gets married. And then not even two episodes later they're split up and it's back to Robin and the guy that she wasn't in love with.

After Barney is prepared to change his lifestyle for her (Barney marrying anyone would have been a huge deal) and promising to never lie to her (again, huge for Barney) she went back to the man who never did anything for her (also the man who made her give up her dogs? But people forget about that)

And the entire time she was getting married he wouldn't be happy for her because he felt like he deserves the girl who doesn't want him. Even after he married someone and has 2 children he's still obsessed with Robin. The show should have ended with Robin and Barney married and Ted should have actually gone to chicago and grown up

Sorry for the long response, Ted makes me mad

The more I watch himym the more I fucking hate Ted. He's so full of himself, he constantly acts like he's better than all his friends and (minor s9 spoilers) gets really mad whenever someone suggests he move on from Robin.

Robin is literally getting married to one of his best friends (Ted is literally the best man) and he's still trying when she's told him she's not interested.

Instead of trying to be happy for them or even just talking about his feelings, he's moving to a different state? Because he got rejected?

I know I'm meant to be rooting for him but is he capable of caring about anyone but himself? If he's this unbearable from his own point of view, how horrible must he be from the other people's?