How about the characters that aren't party members?
In Origins, I dislike the presentation of Harrowmont. How on Earth could that guy run a faction being so incompetent. I mean, sure, he had integrity, but it takes more than that to be a good ruler. Even he has to know about the trade with the surface. I think they forgot to give him the good qualities to make the choice more difficult.
I hate Isolde, but she was intentionally made to be hatable, so she doesn't count.
There are quite a few characters that I don't care for, I wouldn't say hate though, but I find very little that I like about these characters, if I like anything at all. The one I dislike the most though I would have to say is Velanna, she is the only one I dislike enough that I stopped bothering to recruit her in my game.
Otherwise (in order from game):
Morrigan
Velanna
Sebastian
Vivienne
Yeah, if I feel like the writers are hitting me over the head with how I'm supposed to loathe a character, I just tend to roll my eyes. They tend to be too one-dimensional to really be worth that much emotion.
The Harrowmont versus Bhelen situation annoyed me a bit, too. I think Bhelen falls into the category of character whose supposed (political) competence the writers didn't have enough skill or screentime to show properly, so instead everyone around him suffers from "drooling f*ckwit whom the writers won't allow to do anything" syndrome -- including both his father and his middle sibling, which is hugely grating if you play as that origin. The eldest was supposed to be incompetent, but Endrin and the middle kid were not. Vivienne has a touch of that, too, and I think it plays a role in many people's dislike of her. In my not so humble opinion, that is one of the biggest mistakes that writers can make. Don't drag down or hamstring other character just to make yours look better.
Not counting the "deliberately hateable" characters, I think Loghain is the one non-companion NPC I disliked the most in Origins. It doesn't help one bit that (as with Morrigan) I was apparently supposed to sympathize with him and respect him despite not being given any reason to.
Cole. I enjoyed reading his wiki page entries. And then I read Asunder. And then I played DAI. I seriously cannot stand any aspect of the character and I hope to the Bioware gods I never have to put up with Cole ever again.
That is exactly how I feel. He wasn't the character I wanted to see again after reading Asunder. He was a demon in the book, and now they made him mercy and compassion. Nor do I like Cole's reading minds and wanting to knife someone in pain. I'm not a fan of the mercy kill.
Merrill -- Boring, twee, couldn't stand her kitten eyes and didn't care about anything that happened with her, ever.
Blackwall -- Don't even get me started. This guy is THE WORST. The Britta of Dragon Age.
Vivienne - Every time she opens her mouth, I just can't. Even when you play a "loyal" mage or templar apologist, she comes off as arrogant and awful. No thanks.
Sera - I have to turn on the subtitles whenever she talks. Because WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!
Well the most disliked in DAO was a toss up for me between Alistair, he always seemed like he was whining, and Zevran.
In DAI it is probably Cole, just don't like him, a close second is Blackwall, he is just dull.
Merill. In DAO she was serious and seemed intelligent, curious, but not to the point of "killing the cat" so to speak that she was in DA2.
"Just because I made a contract with a demon to learn blood magic because he might know something about this ancient artifact that I know little more than it dangerously affecting 2 previous members of my clan members a while back is no reason to call me stupid, naive, and stubborn!"
Turned her from a seemingly competent (if in training) Dalish mage to a complete dunce in, what, a year's span? Yeah. And it took the clan chief dying before her eyes for her to figure out that "learning" from a demon is not the wisest thing to do.
Just out of curiosity, is there anyone who actually liked Dagna ?
I like Dagna. I've no issues with her. She is kind of nerdy and loves learning and doesn't realize she is saying things that are weird because she is so into studying what she is fascinated by.
I also love Dorian. He is my everything and should be in every Dragon Age game all the time with his hipster stache.
I don't like Loghain though. He was a douche. And in DAO, his face always looked like he walked into a room of stinky cheese.
Loghain
Arl Eamon
Isolde
Gamlen
Varric
Solas
The Elder One
Lord Seeker Lucius
Varric
Avarr DLC
Sera
Blackwall
Cole
(innumerable bit players in the open-world who exhibit Neverwinter Nights-style dialogue structure)
Dragon Age Origins:
(None).
Dragon Age 2:
Carver - Dull and extremely annoying character with one of the worst justifications for joining the templars despite his own sibling being an apostate.
Fenris - Just seemed out of place, more suited for JRPG or MMORPG and was always complaining about trivial issues.
Anders - Constant whining and complaining about almost everything, similar to Fenris. That and he's also a terrorist. (Jowan for me, should have taken his role instead).
Aveline - Very plain and stale. Was one of the most predictable and one dimensional characters in Dragon Age. Along with some of the most cringe worthy dialogue in DA history - 'Oh no no, If anyone kicks her ass [Isabella] it's me' which just felt completely out of place with her 'character' and a forced attempt at humor.
Sebastian - An individual who loves the Chantry who happens to be somewhat attractive, has a bow, arrows and a very large bank account. I'm struggling to think of anything else significant.
Dragon Age Inquisition
Josephine was a bit too 'disney princess' for me
Otherwise none.
Vivienne. Completely cold and hypocritical with very little redeeming qualities. She is shown to be extremely condescending to "common" people like Blackwall (even before learning his true indemnity) for no reason other than to feed her own ego. Forgetting that she is little more than a pet to her benefactor. Petty and jealous as shown by her moving the furniture in Skyhold around to annoy you when she doesn't get her way, yet tries to put on this holier-than-thou ms. mature attitude with Sera. And Cole basically exposes her feelings about Morrigan if you already couldn't tell. Shes a complete snake and ignorant to boot.
Lets not even get started on her power grabbing ways and complete indifference to mages rights. She would gladly force her fellow mages back into a position that has already been proven not to work, for her own benefit and relevance. But, wait the Circle are only a solution if Vivienne herself doesn't have to live there.
"Oh, but what of the common people. These wolves cannot be allowed to coexist with the scared defenseless sheep"
...then she turns around and snap freezes and kills a man with her magic over a petty word squabble the didn't even involve her just the make herself seem more scary and make her entrance all the more grand, if you will. And the way she casually uses her magic on even the nobility of Orlais makes me think this isn't the first time shes bullied someone with her magic. I wont even get deeper into her terrible behavior and attitude, such as basically promising revenge on the inquisitor if you refuse to help her in her quest.
She basically an insufferable my-way-or-the-highway brat. I would love to hear her response to having to go back to regular circle and not be allowed to live in a palace and mingle with nobility, grabbing at power.
Vivienne, because for all her talk she is just trying to keep (and possibly increase) her own power. i don't believe she cares at all for what's right for the mages, I believe she is afraid to become insignificant if the Circles are not restored.
Also, she is incredibly petty and vain. If you talk to her when your approval is low, she greets you with something along the lines "oh darling, you look terrible!" with this fake sympathy in her voice, I would've laughed in her face if I could. And she doesn't even realize how ridiculous that sounds, she obviously considers it witty for some reason.
I think the problem with Vivienne is that the Inquisitor completely lacks the ability to snap back. We can with so many other companions. Blackwall can be booted along with Sera, Cole can leave or you can try to kill him, Solas and Dorian can be punched. I'm trying to think of the others. With Vivienne though, you're left completely powerless to even respond to her, nevermind boot her out or threaten her. It's like your quizzy becomes a clueless mute around her. If Bioware had a way for us to reply back in equally bitchy condescension or to threaten to strip her influence and power, then it would make her less an untouchable bio-luvvy and more of a character who has actions/reactions and consequences like the others.
DAO: Arl Rendon Howe easily, followed by Loghain. And I'm not afraid to use "hate" for these treacherous sons of Mabari. Sure, they were set up as obvious Villains are obvious with big red pointy arrows that shouted, "You should hate this guy," but so what? Still hate them. I even hated Loghain's rehabilitation, or at least the option for it.
Melisande (no R), I mean, Marjolaine is up there too, but more on a, "How dare you make my Leliana all sad and twisted up inside!"
DA2: didn't play.
DAI: Given that the writers kind of played it safe across the board (for reasons discussed elsewhere), it's hard to really hate anyone or even have a strong dislike. Even Corphyfish is more sad than hateful. But that said, Vivienne is intentionally a snob and that grates, but I actually dislike Blackwall more. Dour and awkward to begin with and then he turns out to be a big fat liar? Fuhggedabboutit!
If you talk to her when your approval is low, she greets you with something along the lines "oh darling, you look terrible!" with this fake sympathy in her voice, I would've laughed in her face if I could. And she doesn't even realize how ridiculous that sounds, she obviously considers it witty for some reason.
I thought it was pretty funny when she said it to Fiona. Though, if you're on the wrong end of it...
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I thought it was pretty funny when she said it to Fiona. Though, if you're on the wrong end of it...
Yeah, she's entertaining to me..
I can understand not liking her as a person, but the writing (and Indira Varma) is funny.
Hmm not hate? Well w/e the word is for I really really wish there was an option to kill them and as long as there isn't I want them to get the hell off my screen and I treat em like crap as much as I can?
Lets see.
Origins: Not many here tbh, Just Wynne really. And that dumb Templar Rylock.
Dragon Age 2: Ohoho theres plenty of people in this game I really didn't like, but the top ones would be: Tallis, Tallis, and Tallis. Oh and Anders and Meredith. Then to a lesser extent: Isabela & Merrill
Inquisition: Bianca.
And to a lesser extent Varric, found him irritating. Got a vibe from him like he thinks to highly of himself.
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Hmm not hate? Well w/e the word is for I really really wish there was an option to kill them and as long as there isn't I want them to get the hell off my screen and I treat em like crap as much as I can?
Lets see.
Origins: Not many here tbh, Just Wynne really. And that dumb Templar Rylock.
Dragon Age 2: Ohoho theres plenty of people in this game I really didn't like, but the top ones would be: Tallis, Tallis, and Tallis. Oh and Anders and Meredith. Then to a lesser extent: Isabela & Merrill
Inquisition: Bianca.
And to a lesser extent Varric, found him irritating. Got a vibe from him like he thinks to highly of himself.
Think of it this way, Isabela and Tallis balance each other out. Two rogues, one is a foil for the Qun, the other gets away with her allegiances to it.
I'd love to have both on a team again. Their stories feel unfinished.
I did not like some things about Morrigan in DA: O. It was not her arrogance and acerbic tongue but to whom and when it applied. I did not rage at her sparing with Alistair and Wynne. Alistair was a Templar; she had no reason to be friendly towards him, and Wynne seemed disingenuous about her 'concerns' for Morrigan's upbringing as a hedge-mage and views on the Circle. Morrigan's sarcastic replies to Leliana made me dislike her some. Being non-theistic, I am acquainted with the 'arguments' Leliana put forward for Morrigan and she seemed so approachable in her questioning that I could not have been any type of hostile in response.
I agree - even if I dislike Morrigan for her arrogance too. She is supposed to be "so intelligent", but many times she seems to be only a very stupid person that needs to do the opposite that other people do for the only sake of acting like that. For example, her "who cares treaties? Go to kill Loghain". After that, I simply stopped listening her. I dislike her attitude with everyone, I don't trust her and I think that Thedas will be better with people like her dead.
Anders is another character I higly dislike. Not for the question is-right-or-wrong-blowing-up-the-chantry, but for his approval when you give Fenris to Danarius. Anders says to Isabela "If you are agaist slavery you should support me", and then... well, very, very coherent. Free all the slaves, but only the ones you like.
Sebastian. It's funny, Varric still complains about him in DA: I. Varric has an "I know this guy who is sooo boring that..." story about Sebastian. The writers seem to know that a lot of players disliked Sebatian. XD
Oh, I also dislike Carver, Anders and Fenris.
DAO: None.
DA2: Anders was lame compared to his Awakening version, and Fenris is an ungrateful, emo traitor with a get-up so bad you'd think he was ripped straight out of some lame and unmanly anime.
DAI: Vivienne is uninteresting and, aside from having some fun convo when paired with Solas and Dorian, brings nothing to the table. Sera is the elf version of Uncle Ruckus, except she's unfunny and doesn't shut the hell up. Solas was cool for the majority of the game, but the ending makes him out to be a hypocrite, a coward and a weakling. Unless you're playing as an elf of course, in which case you find out all of this within the first 5 minutes of talking to him at Haven. Cole was just boring, especially if you recruited him through the mage questline. I get that he's a spirit, but Justice was a spirit and he was interesting.
Well, aside from villains who I'm obviously supposed to hate ...
Bianca. I really dislike Bianca. And I generally like everybody. That smug attitude and parting threat just rubbed me the wrong way, though. 
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