An NPC you truly hate with passion

[Tetsujin]

"The Great One", eh? Reminds me of a bully.

Couldn't have put it better myself.
There are quite a few other things I didn't mention like how being disintegrated was considered one of the "better" things that could happen to you if you angered the elementals and actually suffered their greenwrath. They'd transform people into monstrosities and such. Or how to even travel through, you'd have to pay them tribute in some form and gain their favor. Odin and the like though? Oh, no, no. The woods will (literally) open a straight path for them. Probably because those beings could actually fight back.

[Enkidoh]

Justified contempt towards the elementals and their bizzare thought patterns it may be, it is tempered though with the revelation in EW where

that they were shown to be, surprise surprise, just yet another wayward creation by the Ancients (an Ancient researcher with a bunch of them nearby acting docile can be found in Elpis, with no explanation).

Given many of the creations of the Ancients were ending up exhibiting abhorrent or unforseen behaviour not expected by their creators (requiring the existence of Elpis in the first place), it's entirelly possible the completely alien mindset the elementals have is simply because they are broken, and no one alive even knows it - it's possible that the idea was to help regulate the aetherial levels in the environment, but for whatever reason they acted like a broken AI and after the Sundering took "regulate the environment" to the extreme.

EDIT: and a sidequest in Elpis all but confirms that - the quest reveals that the elementals were originally designed as experimental familiars that communicate not with words but by "information-laden aether" (to quote the quest NPC), which explains the elementals' completely alien mindset as well as the virtual impossibilty of directly communicating with them unless you can 'talk' through the aether. During the quest one such experimental elemental was shown to be stuck in an apparent feedback loop due to encountering a situation it wasn't 'programmed' for and was motionless, further playing on the "broken AI" idea.

So, if you have a beef with Gridania over the elementals and the city's restrictive policies regarding doing anything that might annoy them, blame the Ancients I guess?

Rather sad really.

[IkaraGreydancer]

No one is hate worthy imo

[ReynTime]

Any of the Loporrits.
Every moogle from the Churning Mists.
G'raha Tia, the teacher's pet of the game since ShB.
Post ShB Y'shtola who became completely flanderized.
Julyan Mandeville. I love the Hildibrand questlines but every time she was on screen she dragged the humor down to the mud with her repetitive shthick that got old after the first two times they did the "omg lmao she's so op and scary aha ha" like a Bleach filler.
Every pixie that isn't Feo Ul. We didn't need yet another rehash of the "cute race that wastes your time with pranks" and their chapter in the msq made me dislike their existence forever.
Magnai. The most tryhard edgelord in XIV who gets his ass handed to him by us constantly and still acts like he's tough shit. And we're basically forced to take his cringe edginess seriously because of the MSQ.
Meteion. She made me stop taking Endwalker's plot seriously. And I hate that the MSQ tries to make me feel sorry for her at the end. And by proxy Hermes too for his sheer hipocrisy.

I would add Zenos to this list... But he redeemed himself by becoming a source of memes almost the level of Ilberd thanks to Endwalker. And I like a man who generates amusing memes.

[Snorky]

Zeno's can't stand bored babies

[Lieri]

Any old lalafell monetarist

[phiore]

this thread is just full of bad taste and bad takes, isn't it.

anyway ilberd sucks.

[Machoman]

My least favorite NPC has to be the "YOU pull, you tank" NPC. While not technically an NPC, they could certainly be one. Pulling one trash pack a at a time in high end dungeons, their over-inflated sense of ego. I can understand lower level dungeons, but by the time you reach SHB, or EW, you should know how to pull one trash pack at a time and how to use DCD'S.

Worst NPC by far, no other NPC comes close.

[Ramesses]

Valens Van Varro.

From the Sorrow of Werlyt quests.

This wretch rocketed to the top of my hated list so quickly that he eclipsed everyone else-- I actually find it a little alarming that this thread is over 30 pages and nobody has yet to mention him.

[Tlamila]

This wretch rocketed to the top of my hated list so quickly that he eclipsed everyone else-- I actually find it a little alarming that this thread is over 30 pages and nobody has yet to mention him.

I think it's cause he's so clearly hateable, all of him is made to be hated with passion. I think you wont find a single person liking him. And instead I think people in this thread. are focusing more on those characters who are liked.