Character Discussion Which characters do you find unsympathetic despite them supposed to be sympathized with ?

#25
- Oden. Fell for Orochi’s BS hook, line, and sinker, dooming Wano to two decades under Orochi and Kaido’s rule. Well done, sir.
- Most Post TS side characters/civilians the SHs have to save, especially the Dressrosa and Wano ones.
- The Scabbards. Unless I’m mistaken, Kinemon and Momo are some of the companions we’ve spent the most time with, yet Kinemon and most of the Scabbards are still generic at best, while Momo remains utter shit. When Momo was captured, and the Scabbards were defeated, I applauded Kanjuro and Kaido for their valiant service.
 

Jew D. Boy

I Can Go Lower
#26
Can’t believe how long it took someone to mention Oden, figured he’d have been brought up way quicker...we’d heard about what a great man he is ever since Zou, but the flashback in this arc truly cast him in an unfavorable light. Forget his foolhardiness for a second; he had multiple opportunities to challenge Kaido and Orochi (whether they would have been successful or not), and yet, he danced naked in the street for five years. That’s not something to be admired, he earned the “foolish lord” with that stunning lack of awareness.
 
#29
Can’t believe how long it took someone to mention Oden, figured he’d have been brought up way quicker...we’d heard about what a great man he is ever since Zou, but the flashback in this arc truly cast him in an unfavorable light. Forget his foolhardiness for a second; he had multiple opportunities to challenge Kaido and Orochi (whether they would have been successful or not), and yet, he danced naked in the street for five years. That’s not something to be admired, he earned the “foolish lord” with that stunning lack of awareness.
I have exactly zero sympathy for the idiot lord. Gallivanted around playing pirates without a care in the world, then sacrificed thousands of people and the entire land of Wano itself over twenty years to save a hundred. The most obnoxious, short-sighted and incompetent leader in history; his bad reputation is entirely deserved.

PSA: just because he felt shitty about it and made some kind of sacrifice doesn’t make him a good leader, nor does it make him a sympathetic character. Any half decent leader would have gazed two seconds into the future and realised the damage Kaido and Orochi could do. He was also too proud to call on Rayleigh, Whitebeard or their allies, meaning he threw his people to the wolves to satisfy his own misguided belief in fated events.
 

Jew D. Boy

I Can Go Lower
#30
I have exactly zero sympathy for the idiot lord. Gallivanted around playing pirates without a care in the world, then sacrificed thousands of people and the entire land of Wano itself over twenty years to save a hundred. The most obnoxious, short-sighted and incompetent leader in history; his bad reputation is entirely deserved.

PSA: just because he felt shitty about it and made some kind of sacrifice doesn’t make him a good leader, nor does it make him a sympathetic character. Any half decent leader would have gazed two seconds into the future and realised the damage Kaido and Orochi could do. He was also too proud to call on Rayleigh, Whitebeard or their allies, meaning he threw his people to the wolves to satisfy his own misguided belief in fated events.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that he never called ANY of his monstrously powerful friends, one of the greatest missed opportunities in a life story full of them...
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
#31
Oden is a clown. Oda's worst creation and it's not even close. Forget being logical for a second. Oden couldn't even be illogical properly. Suddenly a straight forward thick headed bozo like him wanted to make deals instead of fighting as soon as possible....yea ok (when he had the upper hand at that). That's how you know how poorly he was written, he goes against his own personality when convenient. There's also a limit to how much stupid shit one man can do while the author tries to paint it in a positive light (like we're supposed to be captivated by his dumbass decisions).

Easy answer here.
 

Cinera

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#33
Aarlong, fuck if he suffered, that dosent justify fucking up several innocent villages just to boost his fragile fishmen ego on humans who are not even fighters. If he wasnt such a big hypocrite he would also do something to the people that are actualy screwing his people over, like joining the revolutionaries to fight back at the tenryubito or something.
Arlong was intended to be unsympathetic. @Buusatan94 is asking about characters that you're supposed to sympathise with/like but end up hating anyway.
 
#34
The "Unintentionally Unsympathetic" trope is refers to characters that the public is supposed to find sympathetic and side with but who turns out to be disliked by the readers or viewers due to their hypocrisy and other unpleasant traits that make them unlikeable and unsympathetic.

Which characters in One Piece do you think that it's the case for, characters that you are supposed to like or feel empathy for but that you don't because of their unpleasant, stupid and hypocritcal traits and moments ?

I have to say that despite her traumatic experience with the World Nobles I never found Hancock very likeable due to how hypocrital, petty and self-centered she is which ironically is basically a toned down version of the CD's attitude, and to how irrationnal her misandry is considering that many of the Celestial Dragons are females and that many men suffered the same things that she and her sisters endured as slaves, that many slaves didn't developp irrationnal grudges despite what they suffered and not counting how she was saved by Fisher Tiger and Rayleigh.

I also don't find Roger to be a very likeable person given how he was able of massacring many persons just for the slightest insults towards his men and how he basically set his son for the goal of fullfiling a centuries-old prophecy.

Also despite his care and benevolence towards citizens Fujitora could have clearly avoided a lot of destructions and casualties at Dressrosa by stopping using meteors and if he had used his powers to take down Doflamingo or at least protected the citizens from the Birdcage instead of giving all the work to Luffy.
Oden only because both Oda and Kaido has his cock rammed inside their throats
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Doffy for sure. Although his back story is sad and what not. However, his brother who experienced the same thing didn’t turn to this evil maniac.
Doffy was never meant to be sympathized with bro.
He although had bad past, didn't improve from that past instead turned his grief into madness and caused way more suffering then the suffering was caused to him.
 
#39
Pekoms, fuck that hypocrite. "It's ok for Momma to genocide countries for not providing her food, but when it's done to my homeland it's too far".

Also Oden's dad, he could have protected The Kurozumi instead of letting them get lynched. He deserved getting killed in his sleep
I really disliked Peokoms by the end of WCI arc, the guy was basically a weathercock during the arc.
 
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