" The answer will aways be Carrie . "
I loooove drama, and when I’m watching something or reading a book, there’s nothing better (to hate-watch?) than a toxicbest friend. So, IaskedtheBuzzFeed Community: who are some of the worst best friends in fiction? Here are their takes, from controversial to generally agreed-upon.
1.“Rachel Green. I’ll never understand why she is the most popular [of the characters inFriends];she always seems to act out of self-interest. She was the worst friend to Monica and Ross in particular.”
2.“ALL of Andy’s friends fromThe Devil Wears Prada. They talk shit about her job, but gleefully take free stuff, criticize her, and side with her boyfriend when she missed his birthday. Not one supportive friend in that whole circle! Oooh, that scene when they’re tossing her phone when Miranda calls her always makes me so angry, haha.”
3.“Everyone inGossip Girl, honestly. Too many examples, but Dan gave a good summary when he [eventually] told Serena, ‘What I did is no worse than what all your friends do to each other every day. You try to ruin each other and then you sit down for Thanksgiving and you call yourselves family.’ Dan is terrible too, but at least he got that one right.”
4.“Phoebe Buffay, hands down. She’s the worst friend in The Gang alongside Rachel. I’ve never liked her character and not just because I don’t find her quirky vibes as charming, cute, or funny. She was rude — cruel even — and hypocritical, but I always hated Phoebe [most] for the way she treated Chandler.”
5."[Both] Greg Heffley and Rowley fromDiary of a Wimpy Kid.They had a horrible relationship!"
— torturedpoet444
6.“Lord Henry Wotton from Oscar Wilde’sThe Picture of Dorian Grayis the absolute worst best friend in all of fiction, bar none.”
" He rig Dorian ’s mind and play with his life story merely because he is bored and wants to see how far his influence can go . He denote to the fact that he can make Dorian ' a titan or a miniature ' and compare speaking to him to playing notes on an instrument . It ’s all an experiment to him , and he does not care how many living he destroy along the room , including his own sister ’s . "
— Anonymous
7.“InSex and the City, Charlotte was definitely the worst friend. How often did she slut-shame her friends, especially Samantha? Then she’d go out and do the same things [they did]. And she was a huge snob. Carrie was flawed, but who isn’t?”
8.“Rory Gilmore. She ignores her so-called best friend Lane unless she wants to vent about her problems, yet completely ignores Lane whenever Lane wants to talk to her about something.”
9.“Ross was the WORST. He whined constantly and always made everything about him, and he threw his best friend and sister under the bus to get out of trouble even when he knew he was already his parents' favorite child.”
10.“Dodie inAs Told By Ginger. She was always working against Ginger behind the scenes in order to try and make herself more popular, and could never genuinely be happy for Ginger.”
— snuchin09
11.“Everyone onGossip Girl. What a dumpster fire of a friend group. God, I loved them.”
12.“Feyre from theA Court of Thorns and Rosesseries. Not necessarily a best friend but she’s just the absolute worst.”
" She treats multitude like poop , apply them , and has no insight into how dire her conduct is . She ’s ego - centered and irritating and immature but clearly meant to be an awesome heroine , which makes her even more damn annoying . I love the books , they ’re entertaining , but she just grates on me . "
13.“Walter Sobchak inThe Big Lebowski.”
14.“The first character that comes to mind is Dijonay Jones fromThe Proud Family. All of Penny’s friends were fake, but Dijonay was the fakest friend Penny had.”
15.“Toni and Joan inGirlfriends.Toni was terrible to Joan and Joan was a doormat with shitty boundaries and low self-esteem!”
— ashmocheez
16.“Lily fromPrincess Diariesor Rhiannon fromEasy A. If my best friends treated me the way [they treated their friends], I’d literally never speak to them again.
17.“Ferris Bueller. He is self-centered, self-righteous, and horrible to his best friend. He is an absolute jerk.”
18.“Literally every main character fromGirls.”
19.“Lorelai Gilmore; she was so selfish. Poor Sookie never got a chance to be the heroine in her own story, [it] was always just Lorelai drama.”
20.“Ginny and Max fromGinny and Georgia.”
21.“Rachel Berry fromGlee. You can’t be more successful than her. She mistreated Kurt when he got more popular than her at the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, and then treated him terribly when he beat her in the Diva-Off.”
22.“J.D. fromScrubs!When the show was on, I thought the character was quirky and smart… but my goodness. He is shallow, narcissistic, and annoying.”
23.“Belly fromThe Summer I Turned Pretty. She called her ‘best friend’ a slut for kissing her brother when she’s been messing around with Conrad, Jeremiah, and Cam the entire book. She also insulted Conrad at his mother’s funeral.”
24.“Bella Swan inTwilight. Jessica may have been a little bitchy, but she was genuinely interested in befriending Bella. But as soon as Bella learned about the Cullens, she simply lost all interest in ‘normal people’ like Jessica.”
25.And finally, everyone’s most problematic fave-to-watch: “Carrie Bradshaw is a terrible friend. She doesn’t properly listen to her friends when they vent their problems; she always finds ways to turn them intoherproblems, or to turn the discussion back to her, or to make [her friends] feel bad for her. She treated Aidan appallingly.”
“Carrie Bradshaw inspired a generation of young women to expect everyone to pander to their narcissistic ideals. She continually buys cute $700 shoes then gets pissed off when her ‘friend’ Charlotte won’t sell her engagement ring to finance her down payment on her apartment. I just don’t understand what Miranda or Charlotte ever got from the ‘friendship’ with Carrie. She needed to forget the shoes and put the money into a good therapist.”
notice : Some submission have been edited for length and/or pellucidity .
