In the fictional world, anything can happen: people can fly, make all of their dreams come true, read minds, and other fun stuff. But it also reveals people’s darkest fears, explores the dark side of human psychology, and the authors of those fictional worlds let their characters loose.
They’re only fictional characters, right? So no harm here—we can exit the story as easily as we entered it. But what if some of the movie, book, and mythological characters were real? Reddit user SugarMinnow had that thought too and asked “Who is a fictional character that you’re glad isn’t real, and why?”
Over 17k people responded, listing their most feared characters. Some of them reasoned their opinions, while some didn’t think that obvious things need to be explained. Bored Panda went through the thread and picked the characters that most people felt glad were not real. What do you think of them? Is there any character that you’re glad is not real that is not mentioned here? Then put it in the comments down below!
More info: Reddit
#1
I’d say Lex Luthor, but Jeff Bezos is already half way there.
Image source: dominant5th, Warner Bros.
#2
The duck from The Duck Song
Imagine trying to run your business and a 4ft duck comes in everyday asking for grapes and s*** KNOWING you don’t sell grapes
Image source: Zebbylmao, forrestfire101
#3
Freddie Kruger by a lot. Assuming he at any point gets tired of Elm Street kids.
Image source: crowe_1, New Line Cinema
#4
Burger King. He has not demonstrated to me that he would effectively rule a sovereign nation. He has shown little in the way of diplomacy skills, and has no record on defense. Unlike rival nations he has no enduring cabinet or advisers (no Grimace, for example). He has never forged an alliance (with Ronald or Wendy, at least). Flame-broiled only gets you so far on the world stage.
Image source: reddy-or-not, Mike Mozart
#5
Jigsaw. I don’t wanna make some mistake in my life and get killed for it. Have you seen the petty s*** people get abducted for in some of those movies?
Image source: Shronut, Lions Gate Entertainment
#6
Dr. Evil – He’d kill us all using frickin sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads…
Image source: EDude7779, New Line Cinema
#7
Pennywise…
Duh…
Image source: GreenEyes9678, Warner Bros. Pictures
#8
Cthulhu.
I shouldn’t have to explain why.
Image source: BoredBSEE, BenduKiwi
#9
The xenomorph!
Image source: Little_Hobbitt, Glamhag
#10
That massive alien spider thing from the Mandalorian and all its babies ;-;
Image source: Anxious-Basis8648, Disney Platform Distribution
#11
Godzilla. I mean imagine all the property damages
Image source: Renzetii-chan, Warner Bros. Pictures
#12
Sandman. Imagine some stupid mf comes every night in your house and puts f*****g sand in your eyes.
Image source: i_like_boobies_69420, Kat Lowry Illustration
#13
Voldemort.
Having an immortal wizard dude (Since Harry isn’t around) that can just go around Avada Kedavra’ing anyone he doesn’t like sounds miserable.
Image source: cp_87, Warner Bros. Pictures
#14
The stay puft marshmallow man
For obvious reasons
Image source: joedirte70, Columbia Pictures
#15
The Joker. The last thing the world needs right now is that guy running around.
Image source: Apache1One, Warner Bros. Pictures
#16
Well, Hitler was real, and that was pretty bad. So I’m gonna assume Mecha-Hitler would be worse.
Image source: cbusalex, PC Gamer
#17
Zapp Brannigan. Incompetent, arrogant, shameless, manipulative, zero morals or empathy, yet in a position of almost unequalled power.
Although he isn’t real, he’s unfortunately representative of a lot of man-children in positions of power.
Image source: Zeruvi, 20th Television
#18
Azathoth
Literally the embodiment of true chaos and insanity. His dreams are our universe, if he ever wakes up all of reality will be wiped from existence.
Image source: Galileo258, Dominique Signoret
#19
Homelander
Image source: HECUMARINE45, Amazon Studios
#20
All the dimensionless characters in H.P. Lovecraft literature because they’re terrifying, beyond words.
Image source: SnooCrickets3204
#21
Kirby, he could eat everything you hold dear.
Image source: Mini-Heart-Attack, Nintendo
#22
The Man in Black, the Walkin’ Dude, Randall Flagg… multidimensional pure evil.
Image source: Statement-Fluffy, CBS Television Distribution
#23
Kratos. Sure he’s a single dad just doing his best now but he killed an entire pantheon and sent the world into irreparable chaos. He raised the seas, unleashed hordes of lost souls from hades, blocked out the sun, killed Gaia, literally Mother Earth, and no matter how hard he or anyone else tried he couldn’t seem to die. And that’s just in one of the games.
Image source: finallyoneisnttaken, Stephen Russell
#24
Little Finger…
We don’t need World war 3 anytime soon!
#25
Darth Vader, love the character but would not like to be on the receiving end of his lightsaber/force/arm
Image source: InvalidUsername2404, 20th Century Fox
#26
Baldrick.
Imagine the smell..
Image source: BayneInsane, BBC
#27
The Terminator. Hopefully unstoppable killer robots will never be part of our lifetime.
Image source: DeadSharkEyes, Orion Pictures
#28
Megatron. Do we really need a crazy robot the size of a tank running around? Even worse would be his namesake from Beast Wars. That one is devious, yeees
Image source: ChronoLegion2, MonsterKing
#29
Eric Cartman.
Rick Sanchez.
Image source: dreadfulNinja
#30
Galactus. We ain’t got s*** for him and he would just roll through our solar system as we just watched the news talking about strange phenomenon happing related to gravity in flux. Then one day we just see a giant hand in the sky
Image source: cagpipes
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