Congratulations to Uzumaki Naruto for topping even Itachi on my hate list! That is quite an accomplishment. But, without further adieu... How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways:

10) I hate your annoying smirk.

9) I hate your annoying laugh.

8) I hate your annoying cheerfulness.

7) I hate your annoying determination to do something when you so obviously suck at it.

6) I hate your retarded toad summons, WTF kind of power is that anyway??

5) I hate that the poor nine-tails kitsune is trapped in your pathetic little body.

4) I hate you for ever making Sasuke feel weak or unappreciated.

3) I hate you for the thought of defeating Itachi entering your demented little mind when you knew that would take away the only purpose Sasuke sees in life.

2) I hate you for making me stop watching a good show because the only person that made your presence tolerable ran away.

And the #1 reason:

1) I hate you for making me put off watching Bleach for so long because I though Ichigo would remind me of you.

I AM SO SOO HAPPY SASUKE KICKED YOUR ASS!!!

Killing your entire clan just to see if you're powerful enough to do so? That's respectable. Going out of your way to rub it in to your little brother who lives only to avenge their deaths? NOT COOL.

Other than first ignoring Sasuke, then insulting him, then embarrassing him and probably breaking his wrist and totally beating the living daylights out of him, Itachi hypnotized him to re-experience the death of his family for 24 hours straight (in a single second) and short-circuited his mind. My opinion of Itachi shifted from "wow! he's so cool, pretty, and powerful!" to "AAARGHH DIE YOU LITTLE @&#(*&#@^ PIECE OF !@@#%*# DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This severely traumatized me unlike anything else in anime... And Sasuke's subsequent dropping out of the show to train with Orochimaru (much as I like Orochimaru) made me unable to watch it again. Indeed, I even made a chat nickname Itachi_must_die and I must admit it is a great conversation starter! Observe:

Itachi_must_die enters chat.
Itachi: OMG!
Itachi_must_die: oh dear ~_~
Itachi: somebody has Itachi must die
Itachi: Itachi shouldn't die!
Itachi: >_>
Itachi_must_die: <_<
Itachi: ...
Itachi_must_die: *strangles Itachi*

I think one person on this-one-forum said it best when they explained "Itachi is a killbot... except somewhere along the line his programming got bugged, making him spare every 100th person he fights... this would explain why he did not kill Sasuke or Kakashi."

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Behold! The creature who has made me stop watching Evangelion not once, not twice, but three times! I had told myself to be patient, that the end will be worth it, that maybe him snapping and going insane might redeem him, but I think he's way too far gone on my annoyance scale for that to happen. Although his father Gendou is absolutely awesome, Shinji epitomizes everything I hate in a character. He's a whiny little coward who can't think for himself and is constantly seeking approval from others. I hate him. He makes me want to beat my head against a wall. Or, better yet, his head against a wall.

Indeed, there are very few people I can tolerate in Evangelion - Gendou, Rei, Kaworu, and Kaji - so Shinji's pitifulness is not helping at all. Him killing Kaworu firmly solidified his place on this list.

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