Kermode Uncut: The Most Offensive Movie Characters Ever

[@quidestveritas659]

On a similar theme; the character of William Murdoch in Titanic - an actual real-life Officer who gave up his life jacket to a passenger before going down with his ship, depicted shooting a passenger before killing himself. He still had living relatives when the film was released, too.

[@Torthrodhel]

Yeah that kind of historical rewriting, if you're aware of it... that's gotta sting. Horrible. And very, very often - why-even? Like, it annoys me enough when people muck around with characters for no seeming reason at all in a follow-up to an existing fictional event. To do it to an existing factual event. It's gotta take a special kind of flippant disregard.

[@nicholasprotz4297]

And it wasn’t directed by Mel Gibson.

[@basbrush]

there was that one guy, in Birth of a Nation...

[@tomrogers7301]

that dictionary moment was priceless

[@LazyMasquerade]

May I direct everybody's attention to the characters in Shallow Hal...

[@Kirchnerize]

You may! Allow me to add that the depiction of Jewish people in Harlan's "Jud Süss" is from today's standards more than questionable.

[@PhlegmBrulee]

James Corden.

[@mantistoboggan5171]

perfect!

[@PaoloLery]

In Titanic William McMaster Murdoch was depicted taking a bribe from a passenger to save himself then shooting some third class passengers before shooting himself! According to eyewitnesses that didn't happen at all and he died in the water after helping many people. His family even contacted James Cameron before the film was released to complain but he did it anyway. You'd struggle to be more offensive than that. But it's all ok though because he apologised after. Berk

[@yakuza01]

Any character played by Ken Jeong as of late. They are basically the modern version of the mentioned Mickey Rooney character in Breakfast at Tiffany's but since he is actually Asian, Hollywood can get away with it. I know he needs to make a living but I pray he starts to become more selective about the roles he picks.

[@charlehboi]

Much as Mark may love the films, I have to say I find the characterisation of Bella Swan to be an utterly offensive portrayal to Women....her entire character is a complete white-washy, bland mess for her to validate herself through the men she is with/endlessly pining for....And to think that some consider her a role model? Utterly baffling.

[@imageaware]

Any character that is played by Adam Sandler is offensive. WORST ACTOR EVER.

[@Torthrodhel]

I was around someone's house once and they plonked on Little Man and I sat through it feeling awkward and put-off but not wanting to cause a scene, and... when it appeared on the list in this video, I had no idea that's what they'd done. I didn't know they'd superimposed one actor's face onto another. And my mind was STILL going "yes that has to be on this list, what a bloody awful movie" and then you said that and I'm like wait what? I had not imagined that film could get somehow worse.

[@11sdownie]

Bella from Twillight. The most pathetic, needy, hollow, dull character in the history of cinema. She may self combust if she doesn't have a soppy bloke longing for her.

[@fasbinder62]

can't decide between Lise Cohen in Last Orgy of the Third Reich (a Jewish woman who finally learns to let her hair down after being dehumanized and sexually tortured for an hour) or Adam Sandler in Waterboy. Yep, it's got to be the Waterboy.

[@InsideJobFilms]

I'd have to say every Tyler Perry movie is a blasphemic form of filmmaking.

[@vermis8344]

Imagine, what JJ Abrams gave us instead was a whole array of characters we'd sooner see shot into the heart of an exploding star before Jar Jar Binks.

[@KorAnos1]

Before Jar Jar? Not a chance.

[@MrJwhite83]

The representation of men and women in any film by Zack Snyder.

[@otflipz1]

I for one would love to see the full Keith Lemon and dictionary experiment

[@chrisreadman9426]

A lot of slasher teens were written beyond cynically. Friday 13th The Final Chapter is essentially teenagers mocking each other before meeting in a dark room to steal each-others partners. Actively out to destroy relationships, isolate each other - and then be offed by the supreme being. The perfect meld of 80's political culture; competitive individualism and neoconservatism - and a ruthlessness that embodies both. One of the first lines is the coroner joking about fucking a corpse & if you look closely @ that film there's a darker current to it mixing sex & death - in a more grim way than the previous ones. I mean, one of the girls walks out to the lake to get away from the gf-swapping, she calls her boys name before she goes to her death - the last thing she believes is that she is cold, she is alone, and her bf chose someone else. Pretty bleak.

[@adamwright9517]

Snails in Dungeons and Dragons. His tragic death was greeted at my cinema with cheers and gales of laughter.

[@Phi1618033]

I watched Eddie Murphy Raw just last month. I still think it's hilarious.

[@keithsamuels2533]

JJ Abrahams will give us a great Star Wars , good shout . I wonder how that turned out.

[@wobblertv8083]

The bill Cosby set in raw is very funny .And strangely prophetic 😆

[@a3lfeoxld]

He was using queens as a reference to how they were portrayed in the film - as two screaming queens! Jeez! he wasn't actually calling them queens...

[@Markstubation01]

Belle from Twighlight. Apparently women can live a normal life without a man by their side.

[@EOTA564]

Jason Isaacs character in The Patriot. The British basically portrayed as the SS.

[@pimlico108]

What's the name of that green ogre from the Shrek movies..?

[@iamBIGBROOX]

The three most offensive characters in the Star Wars Prequels were Jar Jar Binks, Nute Gunray, and Watto.

[@numberstation]

I found the characters in Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” offensive.

[@thecrazyoneism]

About every character in movie 43.

[@gabself]

Quentin Tarantino in pretty much every bit part he's played

[@danieloneill9560]

He's good as Richie in From Dusk Til Dawn.

[@wallybazoum]

Agreed. Tarantino is such a creep in person. He would never know the touch of a woman if he wasn't famous--i think that's the real reason he became a director other wise he'd be a middle aged store clerk polishing his virginity.

[@mantistoboggan5171]

i'd say pretty much every character in a horror film who isn't the baddy. terrified of any noise, bang, cat, flash, scream at everything (as if this is helping you get away from the killer) and suddenly become incredibly stupid and incapable of running for more than a few seconds.

[@williamhogan4031]

Don't go into that room . Oh, she has...

[@CraigSips]

Every character in the lion king. A movie that teaches kids to know their place and bow to their "superiors"

[@stokton10]

Forget the last response ipad malfunction. I didn't finish my missive .

[@MWeistra]

Love Raw, Delirious is even better

[@boredagain85]

raw is one of the best stand-up specials ever

[@chegeuvera]

You're completely wrong about Raw by Eddie Murphy.

[@bodacioused1]

kristen stewart in twilight... as having to be forced to watch these films by my girlfriend at the time, I found it offensively sexist that a high school girl couldn't even stand to be alive without having her man in her life. To suggest that women are incapable of living without their other half I find rather sexist and to be honest completely annoying. Also the open mouth thing and 'same face' acting drives me insane.

[@Kirchnerize]

You being insane does not make you an unworthy person! I know a lot of people with down syndrome who are cute.

[@captainoz2112]

I was offended by Xerxes from the movie 300. I found him to be a composite of gay male stereotypes. And not only was he a stereotype, but he happened to play the villian, opposite the hyper-masculine protagonist, King Leonidas. I truly believe these images hurt the LGBTQ community more than people can grasp. I believe we need more protagonists who are proud, honest and strong gay characters -- not merely villians, token-funny characters or sidekicks.

[@treadman28]

I don't get the love for JJ Abrams either. He's only made one movie that was any good- the first Star Trek. (I have hope for the second one, though) and he's just not that great a filmmaker to me.

[@THECRAZY320]

Any character in a Roland Emmerich film usually gets me throwing things at the TV screen. The idea of great britain surviving on tea and biscuits in The Day After Tomorrow is just one example

[@brilliantneen6219]

My wife is Irish so she gets peed off by the Irish stereotypes so often seen in movies.and often not even played by Irish actors.

[@TheCimmerianKing]

Every character from the Hang Over. I don't think I need to say any more, however I will note that the surprising popularity for these so-called comedies makes the characters even more grating.

[@tcs1964]

Any female character in any summer teen horror schlock who is only there to be semi or wholly naked for no particular reason in first twenty minutes. Normally first to die as character purpose has been served.

[@alittleolder]

That's a very good question. I have to get back to you on that one.

[@EdwinBobo]

I find the portrayal of "chinese" characters in modern films offensive. In alot of american films where there should be a chinese actor speaking chinese. it sounds as though they never spoken a word of chinese before! One example is the chinese triads in 'The Departed' who supposedly from China but speak as they are american, what makes this worst is the film is an adaptation of a chinese movie "Infernal affairs!"

[@ZuluRomeo]

Every character Pauly Shore has ever played.

[@468jayz]

Love these

[@baseoneTPC]

I find Fat Bastard less offensive than Mel Gibson's take on Braveheart.

[@Klaaarke]

oh and if I had relatives that died on the Titanic I would probably find the suggestion that the ship crashed because the night watchmen were distracted by Dicaprio and Winslet necking quite offensive. However not personally having relatives who perished - they just stand as badly written irritants.

[@safaribeatle2074]

he referred to all of them

[@MrSwanley]

The only movie characters that really offend me are from the reformed criminal genre. This is where some creep does really vile things for decades with no sign of remorse, right up to when he got pinched. Then he "saw the light", ratted out his pals, wrote a self serving tell all book in which he's really a misunderstood hero, and Hollywood laps it up. Totally pukeworthy.

[@MrDarkweaver]

I can't want Breakfast at Tiffany's because of Mickey Rooney. I love Audrey Hepburn, and she is excellent in the film, but every time Rooney comes on screen I want to cringe so hard my spine busts......

[@wesleyhalfpenny3873]

There was a film called THE GIRL NEXT DOOR about a poor girl who is abused by relatives, an absolutely disgusting film and massively offensive.

[@1minigrem]

Colin Farrell, he sets my teeth on edge whenever I see him in anything.

[@zekedimblebee]

He's great in his collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin McDonagh though

[@JO3HYSTERIA]

have you seen the original straw dogs?

[@SSJ2VEGEROTRULES]

Any Katherine Heigl rom-com role, particularly "the Ugly Truth". I'm a man and yet I cannot fathom how Katherine Heigl can be so against sexism in Knocked Up (which was there) and yet agree to be in such degrading depictions of women.

[@jpjpish1830]

Those kids in the sound of music. I was routing for the Nazis

[@torenielsen9993]

"Meesa sinister minstrel show character!"

[@arthurprado1369]

Sucker Punch is one of the most offensive films ever made. At least a offence to my intelligence.

[@Welshguy78]

Bit late to the day, but any time a Welsh person/place is featured in a movie (also applies to the Irish). Always show the country and people as bizarrely still living in the 19th century and nothing more than simple country folk with wacky accents that the visiting English/American lead has to overcome and learn their primitive country ways so they can go back to a simpler time. See Kevin Bacon's recent 'You Should Have Left' as a prime example (in which he rents a holiday home located in 'Wales' - That should help with the SatNav...). Our shops are not stuck in the 1920s and locals don't view strangers as mysterious, exotic creatures....

[@jeremyramsay706]

I don’t think this video has aged well.

[@MrMarkzilla]

John Hughes was responsible for some classics and I never want to take away The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller, but the films Curly Sue, Baby's Day Out and, yes, even Home Alone annoy me, the lead in Curly Sue especially! There is also a film called Milk Money which is hugely offensive. Police Academy 7 Mission To Moscow and any of the Final Destination films. Not enough space to say what I think about The A-Team and Transformers movies.

[@scannon90]

I don’t buy the dictionary thing. Mark tucked his chin so it didn’t actually connect with his nose. I wanted to know whether Keith Lemon was worse than a profuse nosebleed, not just a thump on the forehead.

[@milton7763]

Also offensive: every single gay character in any US sitcom

[@nextabe1]

Watching this in 2019 waiting for him to mention Loqueesha, then I noticed this is from 2013

[@Dave062YT]

I suppose Peter Sellers in The Party ......but I still love it.

[@HAL5990]

The "white chicks", for racial and social reasons, and the Australians in B.L.'s 'Australia', in Django, and in every other US depiction of Australians.

[@17peteclarke]

“I oppose the notion that the media is monolithic. It’s neither monolithic nor does it act only and always to domesticate. Sometimes it ends up producing images that it has no control over. This kind of unpredictable effect can emerge right out of the centre of a conservative media without an awareness that it is happening. There are ways of exploiting the dominant media. The politics of aesthetic representation has an extremely important place.” - Judith Butler, Gender as Performance

[@michaelstearnesstearnes1498]

Every member of the Lollipop guild in The Wizard of Oz.

[@skyblazeeterno]

The obvious character is one of the 4 leaders in Salo 120 Days Of Sodom utterly punchable

[@Vebinz]

We don't know whether Xerxes was a fighter or not. but being royalty he was likely trained to fight.

[@sidsordid9904]

Yes because as we all know when you become rich and famous you automatically become excited, happy, reasonable and considerate...

[@nedgilroy1114]

In trading places, the train scene

[@jeremiahsand102]

Yeah, that scene is problematic at best.

[@frankmcdonnell6931]

Effing Bella effing Swan. Even moreso the werewolf 3rd-wheel character.

[@brianvandervord9692]

Eddie Murphy Raw is classic stand up comedy. Eddie playing himself was just some scene before the actual footage of the concert. Kermode you're wrong.

[@purplevolcano]

I had the misfortune to see a few minutes of a Cody Banks film once, and the whole thing was offensive, but I'm happy to single out Cody Banks. Keith Lemon the Movie has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!

[@shanemulvey4065]

The entire cast of Oceans 12...In Oceans 12.

[@crazyrythms]

All the characters in Prometheus

[@aliray1165]

There should have been a scene in the force awakens where jar jar binks home planet was destroyed by the Death Star and in a tragic twist of fate taking jar jars lineage out of history.

[@TheCaptScarlett]

That would be Naboo, Palpatine/The Emperor's and Padmé (Vadar's love) home planet. Not sure the Sith Force ghosts are going to be in favour of that.

[@aliray1165]

@@TheCaptScarlett like I said there should have been a scene where jar jar binks whole lineage was wiped out. No mercy.

[@TequilaToothpick]

No Pain no Game. How they portrayed the real life victim of an horrific crime and made him the villain. Ugh.

[@zoeevans6410]

The whole premise of Forrest Gump - even the name offends me.

[@DALAN96]

By the end of "The devil wears Prada" I honestly hoped that every single character would just die in a horrible carcrash. I had to cleanse myself or all the nasty misanthropic nastyness by watching something comparably profound and humanistic, so Blackhawk Down it was...

[@randomanimallover3196]

Thank goodness- I've found something online that deals with being offended! There's not enough offended people these days...

[@mmmallory33]

Every character Adam Sandler plays that isn't Barry Egan.

[@neilwilliams7591]

I watched Big Stan the other day with Rob Schneider, I could easily see how that could ruffle a lot feathers. It wasn’t even made that long ago, have to agree about Ada Sadler (except I find everything he is in offensive).

[@stewheart]

paulie shaw- biodome

[@adamchabbi6]

I loved the Austin Powers films as a child and when I saw your comment, I completely disagreed with what you posted. So I was just tempted to respond to it. Seriously though, it is only a Comedy and only intended for laughter.

[@jeremiahsand102]

I agree. The movie has stereotypes but they're so OTT that you really can't take it seriously which is precisely the point. It's a comedy. I'm Scottish and find the character of Fat Bastard to be hilarious. It's also self knowing in that Austin is this guy who' in reality barely any woman would touch with a twelve inch barge pole in real life, but somehow manages to be attractive to the opposite sex. It's poking fun at old sixties spy movies ad TV series which let's face it, haven't exactly aged well in their attitudes towards women.

[@magicatthemovieS]

When Kermode says he doesn't like Star Wars, does he mean the prequels or all of the Star Wars movies?

[@17peteclarke]

there is a reactionary tendency that exists around media critique in that “well i [listen to/watch/play] this, and i don’t do the things it tells me too, it's personal choice”. that is not the point in how actions emerge from media manipulation. this kind of analysis of butler’s is in line with larger political sorts of how capital itself is viewed as a monolith, in charge of the “controls”, as if there were any.

[@imaedacomment]

You will hear from my lawyers.

[@MagnificentFiend]

Well, Phoenecian: living in Joppa and all.

[@CashlessCollector]

I pretty much agree with all the analysis of those movies I'm familiar with. However did you say you didn't like any of the Star Wars films including the original ones? Over rated perhaps but episodes 4 and 5 are great timeless movies. What critique could you possibly have of those two?

[@ZerooOne01]

Jar-Jar and several of the different transformers.

[@1402shelly]

Rasputia from norbit

[@clacclackerson3678]

What's the difference between being offended and being annoyed?

[@Bigste_123]

HOLLYWOOD IS EUGENICS !!

[@Kitsua]

Every character in Prometheus that is not played by Michael Fassbender. In fact, if they take the whole movie with them that would be nice too.

[@12schoolies]

Tom Cruise as Senator Jasper Irving in Lions for Lambs. A typical career orientated politician who puts men in harms way for personal gain. I can't think of anything more offensive.

[@iainjames03]

I can envisage this list being populated with plenty of decades-old movie characters who, in the context of modern social mores, seem hackneyed, sexist, racist or offensive in some other outdated way - should these necessarily count?

[@AntZombie121]

nearly all the characters in spring breakers

[@christovnolan6391]

I found offensive the movie"My fat big greek wedding" by nia vardalos. because i am a greek myself.the whole movie was an excessive portay of greeks and our habits.i am not saying it was untrue some things but they were excessive.maybe Vardalos made them like this because its a movie and especially a comedy. she did the same mistake and in another movie of hers.My Life in Ruins(2009)