Getting the word out again

[oursin]

Have you ever encountered a fictional character that the author intended you to think wonderful or sympathetic, and just found them really, really annoying? Not the ones they intended to be annoying, the ones they just assume you will love? The author thought they were creating a romantic, brooding, angsty hero but what comes over is a passive-aggressive pouter? or expects you to sympathise with their ever-so-sensitive heroine struggling against the vicissitudes of her existence when you can't stop thinking 'snap out of it and get a life'?

Don't you think these characters would be all the better for being repeatedly slapped around the chops with a wet codfish?

Come over and join codswallopers!

Polls currently still open:
Wuther My Codfish (Wuthering Heights)
Pride and Codfish (Jane Austen characters)
Slap that cod (general section)
Death of a Codfish: the annoying detectives poll

And soliciting nominations for the 'Is this a codfish I see before me' Shakespearean character most in need of a wet codfish across the chops.

Comments

[brigid]

The concept tickles me. Joined!

[tree]

my brain consistently renders the community name as CODSWALLOWERS. oh, dear.