In my opinion, Abby from TLOU 2. During the first part of the game, she is portrayed as the bad girl, but when she become the playable character, you understand that she isn’t:

-Her father and friends were unnecessarly killed.
-She became pariah from her clan when she saved a member of a rival clan.
-She have been harschly tortured.
-She spared Ellie despite having occasions to kill her for understandable reasons.

I don’t get why many players didn’t changed their minds at the second part of the game, it’s so obvious that the real bad people are Ellie and Joël. Theres no problem about having sympathy for bad guys, but you must keep your critical mind.

And what infuriates me is that people even harassed the voice actress because of what her character did. Come on, guys !

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    The actor who played Jar Jar Binks, Ahmed Best, said that the widespread criticism of his character had led to him considering suicide.

    While this is absolutely sad and I hope he’s healed past this, I feel like it’s also strange? No actor is ever going to play only beloved characters. Many are neutral side characters or even villains, meant to be hated. As long as the hate didn’t bleed through into real life, why internalize anger that’s really directed at the writers for creating such an annoyance of a character?

    • optissima
      3·
      1 year ago

      He got lots of hatemail directed at him, not JarJar

      • harmonea@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well, I did say

        As long as the hate didn’t bleed through into real life

        I suppose the person I quoted misrepresented the reason the actor took it so personally. It’s not “people didn’t like my character,” it’s “a few people are assholes who can’t separate fiction from reality.”