7 most disliked Game of Thrones characters, ranked

6. The High Sparrow

The High Sparrow, Westeros' least favorite religious fanatic, has to be on this list. He's like your nosy neighbor if they had a whole army of equally nosy buddies. His "holier-than-thou" attitude and his love for meddling in everyone's business in the name of the Seven made you wish you could reach through the screen and punch him in the face.

This fellow runs into King's Landing, sandals slapping, and decides it's high time everyone lived according to his strict, no-fun-allowed version of the Faith. Picture him as that one relative who comes over and criticizes all of your life choices. But he doesn't just wag his finger and tsk-tsk; oh no, he gets the rich and powerful to walk the streets in their birthday suits as atonement, locks up queens and princesses, and basically turns King's Landing into his personal playground of piety. He's like that one person who, given a little power, decides to enforce every rule in the book, plus some they made up for good measure.

Despite the High Sparrow's control-freak ways, he's not chopping off heads or flaying people, at least not directly. His weapon of choice is shame, not the sword, which in the grand scheme of Westerosi villainy is almost quaint. And let's be honest: watching the mighty get taken down a peg or two by a man who looks like he's wandered off a medieval commune is kind of entertaining.

In the end, the High Sparrow's blend of fanaticism and ambition made him a headache for the highborn but didn't quite stir up the kind of personal vendettas among the fandom that a few other characters did, characters like...