Annoying literary characters you want to punch in the nose

No other literary character evokes as much repulse as Professor Umbridge. Hannibal Lector is far better than this infuriating woman. With her toad-like features and fetish for everything pink and feline, this muggle hating, government loving woman is someone all the Harry Potter fans wanted brutally dead even before Voldemort.
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This annoying character is undoubtedly pitiful but evokes a lot of irritation. At one point, he is running around the castle freaking out at anybody, and the next moment he is staring at the window and sulking. Let’s not forget his habit of talking about himself 24x7.
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Jay Gatsby might be the only person who thinks Daisy is a prize. This annoying and insufferable woman is the embodiment of greed and selfishness. She is one those shallow beauties of the roaring twenties, harming and hurting everybody with her overt stupidity.
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Ideally, it should be completely compulsory to hate a middle-aged paedophile lusting after an innocent 12-year-old girl. His creepy demeanour and depraved crimes, his self-justifications and perverse romanticizing of his “love” for the child does nothing but disgust any sane person.
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Any man who rapes a woman to “put her in her place,” as it were, fully deserves the hatred of his readers. His persistent abuse of his pregnant wife Stella and the fact that he feels absolutely no sense of shame for any of the atrocities he commits, make our blood boil over with hate.
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This annoying school girl could get an award for sulking for no reason. Bella Swan has no such excuse. She willingly chases after a vampire who could literally eat her because she is constantly bored by her own boring personality. Also, she uses her best friend Jacob, a werewolf, for everything she needs and even gets a little intimate with him despite having a vampire boyfriend, just to be sure of her emotions towards Jacob, who had crazy feelings for Bella.
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Within the first few lines of this play, Romeo declares his undying love for one woman, leaves her, falls instantly in love with another girl, and indulges without notice in an ill-advised love affair. The story maybe iconic and all, but Romeo is just a reckless teenager who maybe needs to think twice before jumping into things. Also, his impulses get him and his girlfriend Juliet killed.
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The most irritating journalist ever, The Daily Prophet’s Rita Skeeter loves to cook up the ‘truth’ in a fierce adherence to the establishment. You’d want to beat her up with rolled up newspaper.

We give Jane Austen the credit here to illustrate such range of female characters with their vivid, relatable demeanour. Lydia and Kitty are like the two most annoying teenagers you would never want to encounter at a wedding. These slap-worthy girls are selfish, irresponsible and extremely vain.
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Ewell is an alcoholic who spends the entirety of his government relief checks on alcohol. His entire family is considered to be a disgrace by their town. This racist creep who frames the innocent black man, Tom Robinson for raping his daughter, is deservedly one of the most hated book characters of all time.
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