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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!

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#1

These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group I'd say Lex Luthor, but Jeff Bezos is already half way there.

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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

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    #3

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Freddie Kruger by a lot. Assuming he at any point gets tired of Elm Street kids.

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    #4

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

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    #5

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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?

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    #6

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Dr. Evil - He'd kill us all using frickin sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads...

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, at least it’ll solve the worlds problems by wiping it off the face of the galaxy

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    #7

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Pennywise...

    Duh...

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    #8

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Cthulhu.

    I shouldn't have to explain why.

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    #9

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group The xenomorph!

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    #10

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group That massive alien spider thing from the Mandalorian and all its babies ;-;

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    #11

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Godzilla. I mean imagine all the property damages

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not really related, but when ong fell off the empire state bulidng he wouldve exploded. like water balloon popped. just wanted to let yall know

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Sandman. Imagine some stupid mf comes every night in your house and puts f*****g sand in your eyes.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s a stopmotion animated version where he rips out your eyes and feeds them to his children if you don’t go to sleep!

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess OP didn't read Sandman by Neil Gaiman. It would be very cool if that guy existed.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got 3 of em. Buying that sandbox for the kids was the worst idea ever

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    #13

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

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    #14

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group The stay puft marshmallow man

    For obvious reasons

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    #15

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group The Joker. The last thing the world needs right now is that guy running around.

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    #16

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Well, Hitler was real, and that was pretty bad. So I'm gonna assume Mecha-Hitler would be worse.

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    #17

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

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    #18

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

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    #19

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Homelander

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    #20

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group All the dimensionless characters in H.P. Lovecraft literature because they're terrifying, beyond words.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite take on Cthulhu mythos creatures, is that they only seem to be made out of hundred goat legs, a million eyes and tentacles because their appearances are so so so alien they completely break our minds. So we see the scariest, ugliest things our brains can come up with.

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Kirby, he could eat everything you hold dear.

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    #22

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group The Man in Black, the Walkin’ Dude, Randall Flagg… multidimensional pure evil.

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    #23

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

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    #24

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Little Finger...

    We don't need World war 3 anytime soon!

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just a talented, well connected manipulator with no empathy and huge ambition. Pretty sure there a real version of him in every government, corporation and organization, to all levels.

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    #25

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Darth Vader, love the character but would not like to be on the receiving end of his lightsaber/force/arm

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no!! A limbless grandpa with asthma that sucks at the floor is lava!!! (Sarcasm on)

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    #26

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Baldrick.

    Imagine the smell..

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He has cunning plans though and knows a fair amount about history

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    #27

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group The Terminator. Hopefully unstoppable killer robots will never be part of our lifetime.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But killer robots are already here. We have strategic drones some of which are now almost completely autonomous, requiring little to no human input :O

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    #28

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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

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    #29

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Eric Cartman.

    Rick Sanchez.

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group 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

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do y'all know those nutjobs outside of convention centers screaming about jesus and the rapture (t? my dad once saw a guy counterprotesting by screaming that "the end is nigh! galactus is coming! repent! galactus!"

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    #31

    Smaug. Literal fire breathing dragon.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All Smaug wants is gold, so unless ur Jeff Bezos or Donald Trump, ur fine

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Omni man

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    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group Light yagami dude probabaly would've taken over the world by now

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NOPE! IDGAF what you say! THIS MAN WOULD END THE WORLD! or I could steal his book and do it myself.

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    #34

    These 30 Fictional Characters Are The Most Unwanted In The Real World, As Shared By People In This Online Group anything from Subnautica

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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SUBNAUTICA IS F***ING TERRIFYING I CAN NOT PLAY THAT GAME IF I COULD UPVOTE THIS MORE I WOULD, HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE TERROR OF GOING OVER THE OPEN OCEAN HOPING YOU DON'T SEE A FRICKIN REAPER BC THATS THE ULTIMATE FEAR FOR ME

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    #35

    Azula, she really scared me as a child and would be a terrifying person in real life.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    have you seen the anime on Netflix when katara froze her on those bars, SHE LOOKED LIKE A COMPLETE PSYCHOPATH

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    #36

    The Gravemind from Halo. It's an absolutely horrifying monster than can literally resurrect you and violate you in the most horrific manner.

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    #37

    Ghostfreak from Ben 10, he possesses bodies and haunts whenever you come up upon it.

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    #38

    Brightburn or Homelander

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if ur nice to brightburn, he just might give you either a quick and painless death, or leave u alone

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    Darth Nihilus

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How much do you want to bet that not a single person knows who this guy is.

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    #40

    Sephiroth

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    Almost everything from SCP except 999

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just imagine seeing a phot of 096 and you just hear "AAAAAAAAAAAA" next thing you know a tall pale man is running at you

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    #42

    Ted Faro from horizon: zero dawn

    Thing is, he doesnt have superpowers nor mystical weapons from ancient civilizations, he is just a guy that somehow accidentaly manages to wipe the entire human race

    It scares me because it could honestly be something that happens in real life

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    Trevor f*****g Phillips

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He is real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Phillips

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