Top 10 Rom-Com Characters That Don't Deserve the Hate
#10: Darcy “Something Borrowed” (2011)
First of all, everyone here was cheating. Darcy was cheating on Dex with Marcus, Dex was cheating on Darcy with her best friend, Rachel. It’s all one big mess. John Krasinski’s character, Ethan, is the only one out of the whole lot of them who truly deserved a happy ending. Yes, there was a huge shock factor when it’s revealed that Darcy was also cheating because we spent the whole movie debating the morality of Rachel and Dex’s actions. It’s a really hard blow when you, arguably, sympathize with her for the majority of the movie. But that doesn’t negate what her fiance and best friend did to her. She deserves no more hate than any of the others.
#9: Marianne Bryant “Easy A” (2010)
Okay, she wasn't the best. She did spread the rumor about Olive losing her virginity. But in her defense, she didn’t do it knowing it was a lie. Of course, it was none of her business to talk about in the first place. But Rhiannon was the one who pressured Olive into coming up with the lie in the first place. And Micah is the one who spread the nastiest rumor of them all. We’re not saying that Marianne or even Olive are innocent victims in all this, just that there is plenty of blame to go around. Marianne even attempted to be true friends with Olive. That’s more than nearly anybody else wanted from her.
#8: Andrew “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002)
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Wow. How could anyone think this guy is the antagonist in the story? He’s the only decent person around. Melanie completely lies to him about her past, and upon finding out she is a huge liar, he still wants to marry her. What a prince of a guy. Jake might have been her first love, but all they do together is fight. Hello, red flag waving right in your face. Andrew didn’t care that she was poor, he got over the fact that she was married, he even defied his mother in choosing to be with her. And what does he get for it? On second thought, Melanie and Jake deserved each other, they’re both terrible people. And Andrew deserved way better.
#7: Bianca “10 Things I Hate About You” (1999)
Bianca gets brushed off as the entitled little sister, but all she wants is to go on a date with the boy she likes. Why is that so bad? Their father is the one with the completely overbearing rule that Bianca can’t date until her older sister Kat does, knowing full well that Kat has no interest in dating. He turns his daughters against each other in an attempt to control them. He’s the real villain here. Bianca is just a teenage girl who wants to be able to express her feelings.
#6: Aldous Snow “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008)
It’s really easy to hate both Sarah and Aldous for causing Peter so much pain. Especially, when Aldous is portrayed as such an annoying, self-indulgent idiot. It sucks that Sarah cheated on Peter with this absolute loser, and then brutally dumped him. But if we’re being completely honest, that's not really Aldous's problem. He was just there. He didn’t know Peter. He’s not the one doing the cheating. It would be one thing if he and Peter were best friends beforehand or something. Sure, it’s still a jerk move to hook up with another guy’s girlfriend, but from Aldous’ point of view, Peter is just some guy in the way of the woman he wants to be with.
#5: Peter “While You Were Sleeping” (1996)
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The dude is in a coma. How is he possibly the bad guy? Let’s look at things from his point of view for a moment. Peter is saved by a beautiful stranger from a mugging in which he almost got hit by a train. Then he wakes up to a world where his own brother is trying to steal away the fiance he had no idea he had. Lucy infiltrated the dude’s family based on a lie, and Jack, believing in that lie, wooed his brother’s fiance. No matter how you spin it, Peter is by no means the villain here.
#4: Kimmy Wallace “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997)
An argument can be made for Jules and Michael. She realizes she’s in love with her best friend and needs to tell him before he gets married. Michael is thrown into a tailspin when he finds all this out. Yeah, the timing sucks, but we can at least sympathize with the sentiment. However, even if you root for Jules to get the guy in the end, Kimmy is definitely not a villain here. She tries so hard to fit into Michael’s world, and he just doesn’t appreciate any of it. Not only does Kimmy have to deal with Michael’s complete nonchalance. She has to deal with Jules trying to make her look like an idiot at every turn. Who really deserves the hate here?
#3: Noah Ashby “When We First Met” (2018)
People see him as the ultimate "nice guy". A guy who basically is only friends with you because he wants to sleep with you. But the whole point of the movie is that he's wrong for that behavior. He learns and grows as he continues to travel back in time and realizes the error of his ways and eventually makes things right for everyone. Sure, in an ideal world, Noah would have already had all these admirable qualities. But in the real world, people are flawed. They learn and grow and become better.
#2: Summer Finn “500 Days of Summer” (2009)
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Tom grows to really hate Summer for leading him on, but that’s not really the way things went down. Summer told him from the very beginning exactly what she wanted. And she continued to explain it to him over and over again. Maybe an argument can be made that at a certain point Summer should have seen what was going on and just ended things before things went as far as they did. But she’s not a mind reader. It’s not her job to tell him what to do or how to feel. It sucks that he fell in love with her and she didn't feel the same, but it's not her fault. She did nothing wrong. Even Joseph Gordon-Levitt feels that Tom is the one in the wrong.
#1: Mark “Love Actually” (2003)
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Everyone gives this dude such a hard time because he was into his best friend's wife, and told her so. But that's all he did. He kept it to himself for years even though it was hurting him, and she figured it out on her own. Then he privately told her how he felt with no expectation of anything in return. He was just being honest. And Juliet gives him a kind of thank you kiss. Just something to let him know that she appreciates him, and that what he said meant something to her. What's so wrong with that? This was actually a very mature way to deal with an awkward situation.
