Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!

[BrokenQuill92]

As an avid bibliophile I've read my fair share of books, and even in books that I love there some seriously shitty protagonist. I felt my fellow books lovers would like air their grievances against these horrible heroes. And obviously this thread will be full of spoilers so tread lightly.

[BrokenQuill92]

I think I'll start us off, Rubeus Hagrid. He's terrible. I can't tell if he's supposed be developmentally delayed or if he's just an asshole. Draco Malfoy (and I hate Malfoy) is right to want him gone. He brings dangerous vicious creatures to his lessons. When his class I rightly frightened he says things like "Don't hurt them!" and "They was only playing." He's forever breaking the law: 1 Creating mutants that are crossbreeds of already highly dangerous magical creatures 2. Transporting his giant brother who was also highly dangerous across a few countries then endangering other people (yes I consider the centaurs people) and disrupting their lives by keeping a giant in their home 3. While I'm not against the occasional drink Hagrid is always drinking to excess. 4. When anyone tries to dissuade him from wrong doing or point out flaws in his logic he blows them off! 5. He's always pretending he totally isn't hiding his wand in that umbrella, and honestly from the way he acts he totally doesn't need a wand

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hagrid isn't the protagonist, Harry is.

My pick would be Holden Caulfield from 'Catcher In The Rye'. I like the idea of the book, but not how it's place in the frame of Holden's never-ending whinge. About everything. I mean, EVERYTHING. People have a right to complain, but this guy never does anything else. I think the novel would have been greatly improved if Salinger had included a plot device whereby Holden enters a coma during the first chapter and doesn't come out of it until the sequel. What's that you say? There isn't a sequel? So much the better...

Boru

[BrokenQuill92]

Hagrid isn't the protagonist, Harry is.

My pick would be Holden Caulfield from 'Catcher In The Rye'. I like the idea of the book, but not how it's place in the frame of Holden's never-ending whinge. About everything. I mean, EVERYTHING. People have a right to complain, but this guy never does anything else. I think the novel would have been greatly improved if Salinger had included a plot device whereby Holden enters a coma during the first chapter and doesn't come out of it until the sequel. What's that you say? There isn't a sequel? So much the better...

Boru

hes still part of Harry's friends and a main/supporting character

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hagrid isn't the protagonist, Harry is.

My pick would be Holden Caulfield from 'Catcher In The Rye'.  I like the idea of the book, but not how it's place in the frame of Holden's never-ending whinge.  About everything.  I mean, EVERYTHING.  People have a right to complain, but this guy never does anything else.  I think the novel would have been greatly improved if Salinger had included a plot device whereby Holden enters a coma during the first chapter and doesn't come out of it until the sequel.  What's that you say?  There isn't a sequel?  So much the better...

Boru

hes still part of Harry's friends and a main/supporting character

True enough.

Boru

[Homeless Nutter]

Jesus Christ. 'Nuff said.

[Alex K]

Jesus Christ is much better than King David or Moses.

[Homeless Nutter]

Jesus Christ is much better than King David or Moses.

In what sense? At least some of other a**hole protagonists in the bible did some entertaining - albeit gruesome - sh*t. Jesus just walked around, performed magic tricks, told bullsh*t stories to illiterate peasants and got himself killed, the hippy t*at. And he doesn't even get laid once in all four gospels. 

And then there's also the problem of the horrible, cliched, Hollywood-style ending, where the protagonist inexplicably comes back from the dead... 0/10 Would not recommend.

[Excited Penguin]

I love the Catcher in the Rye and Harry Potter.

I dislike those two cunts, male and female, from 60 shades of retardism.

[paulpablo]

In a few Stephen King books I wouldn't say the protagonists suck, if anything really sucks badly in a book I can't carry on reading it.

But it's annoying that a lot of his protagonists are writers, just like him, and seem to be popular with the ladies, and in a pretty corny way too.

Or in the gunslinger book when he says the gunslinger has an eye for detail and if I remember rightly he draws on similarities to himself as a writer with an eye for detail, that was pretty fucking annoying. If you're a geek with big thick glasses who's amazing at writing books then plenty of people will respect you for that, but there's no need to start thinking "Hey I'm a bit like a cool western gun slinging killer with the way I write my books with such detail."