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Most Hateful TFTC Characters


Which characters from which episodes did you find to be the most hateful and why? Some who come to mind right away for me (spoilers abound):


Ezra (Fitting Punishment) - He needs no explanation. By far the most loathesome and detestable character of the series with how unbelievably cruel and mean-spirited he was to everybody and especially towards Bobby. The scene where he beats Bobby mercilessly actually makes me angry to the point I want to reach through my screen and beat him senseless for the bullying coward he is. His just desserts feels like a bit of a cheat since I REALLY wanted to see him get it big-time at the end.

Jonas (Collection Completed) - Not just a general A-hole but also an animal abuser. So satisfying to see him get what was coming.

Howard (None But The Lonely Heart) - The way he cheated on those women into making him think he loved them only for him to stab them in the back in the worst way.

Mitch (The Thing From The Grave) - Plain and simply, he was a big A-hole. Not much more to say.


There's more but these are whom come to mind for now.

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The one I think of off the bat is the wife in Korman's Kalamity although the episode is so humorous that I don't actually hate her. When she calls him "Love Nuts" while talking about his prostrate pills...I die.


"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"

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She was an entertaining love to hate type of villain for sure.

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I bought the DVD sets. I haven't seen all the episodes yet. So sorry, if I leave out some horrible ones.

1. Yvonne in Last Respects. Insults her sister, Dolores, mocking her for not being married and saying no man would want her. Telling her other sister - Marlys she hated the day she was born, and how her birth was an accident, with her parents running out of birth-control the night they decided to conceive her. Then she's abusive to said sister, kicking and beating her when she's crying. Before she finally murdered her sister to get the insurance money. Then tried to have her remaining sister sent to a mental institution, and was going to shoot her too if she didn't hand over her monkey paw. Her ending wasn't near as bad as I wanted her to get it.

2. Kathy (Demi Moore), In Dead Right. She's a wannabe gold-digger. She finds she'll marry a man who will inherit money and die. She and her friend sit at a restaurant, and joke about how he's going to die. Then when she wins money, she could have just left. But she goes back home to insult Charlie one last time, and get the last laugh on him.

3. Dalton in Forever Ambergis - Gets jealous of his "friend." Sends him to a village where he knows he'll get sick. Then laughs at his friend while he's dying, going far as to put his cigarette out in his friend's severed eyeball, and bragging about how he's gonna take his woman too.

4. Liz in Split Second. Her attitude in general was horrible. Especially when she seduces one of her husband's co-workers, then cries rape when her husband catches them. He then beats the guy mercilessly, she even eggs him on at one point. He ends up blind, and she says she doesn't feel the need to cry about it. Sad we didn't get to see her get killed.

5. Danny in The Kidnapper. hating a woman's baby, because he wants her all to himself. So he arranges to have her baby stolen, then trying to have sex with her while she's in tears from losing her baby. Then he only tries to get the baby back, so she'd see him as a hero and love him.

Are a few. But there's too many in this show to name. Didn't wanna ramble too much. So I erased some names in my list.

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Good additions there, especially Dalton and Liz. Forgot them and how terrible they were.

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A big a-hole in my opinion is Judd Campbell. He is from the episode "Death of some Salesmen". He lies and cheats because he is so incredibly greedy. Another one would be Zambini from "Food for Thought". There are a lot of jerks in this series.

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Forgot those two, they were pretty bad.

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Grunwald, the cruel head of the home for the blind played by Anthony Zerbe in "Revenge is the Nuts" was a miserable and hateful person. He held his brother hostage along with the residents of the home for the blind. He also tried to seduce that new beautiful young female resident (Teri Polo). He deserved his demise.


"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."-Orson Welles

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Dalton (Forever Ambergris)

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I feel you, my friend. Characters in this show like Ezra, Jonas, and Lavonne made me want to jump through the screen and kill them myself. Lol! Kudos to the creators behind the this show and the comics for making such despicable villains.

Let me mention the ones that hasn't been mentioned yet.

Helen(Beauty Rest)- She was willing to KILL her way to the top and as her agent had said, has a rotten attitude. She complains about and chastises other women for sleeping OR supposedly sleeping their way to the top. Her male counterpart from "Top Billing" was way more sympathetic than her. She was just a conniving and straight up jealous bitch. She willingly covered up her roommate's accidental death by making it look like a suicide, and killed her biggest competition at the pageant and put her body with some mannequins in some room. I wouldn't have been surprised if she would've killed again if given the chance. She had it coming.

Willa(99 & 44/100% Pure Horror)- Nonchalant, slutty, and insufferable. Not to mention, very stupid as we found out at the very end. Has a hissy fit all because her husband's company aren't using her artwork anymore on the products they produce and Lou found out about her cheating to where divorce would be extremely difficult on her financially. She could've found other avenues to show off her art and shouldn't have been such a mean bitch to her husband. She had one of the greatest comeuppances in the show!

That Priest(About Face)- What a disgusting and horrible piece of $#*%. A false prophet, a whore, a terrible husband, a deadbeat dad, and just a terrible person in general. Narcissistic, arrogant, and ultimately the opposite of what he claims to represent, demonic. Killed his wife in a rage all because he thought that she killed his mistress. Killed whom he thought was solely his unstable daughter when also inadvertently killed his other daughter. Man, I bet he went completely insane after that. The goddamn devil.

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My list :

Ezra (Fitting Punishment)

Willa Sandelton (99 & 44/100 Pure Horror)

Dalton (Forever Ambergris )

Zambini (Food For Thought)

Linda (The Switch)

Rona (The New Arrival)

Ellen & David (Strung Along)

Sylvia Vain (Only Sin Deep)

The Undertaker (Undertaking Palor)

Liz Kelly-Dixon (Split Second)

Mitch (Thing From The Grave)

Mildred Korman (Korman's Kalamity)

Dr. Trask (Mute Witness To Murder)

Eddie (My Brother's Keeper)

Miss Hagstead (The Secret)

The Wife (And All Through The House)

Jonas (Collection Completed)

Cathy Marno (Dead Right)

Cynthia (Curiosity Killed)






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Can't believe I forgot Les Wilton from House Of Horror, one of my favorite episodes. Such a completely detestable bullying D-bag who got what he deserved at the end.

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