Recently I've been playing through Tomb Raider Chronicles and I ran into some really cool characters. Father Patrick Dunstan was just beyond cool but then the game introduced me to Zip. Oh Zip...

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What other annoying characters have graced games? I'll add some more later as I remember them.

I hated almost the entire cast of FFXIII right out of the gate, but in the end I became okay with most of them.  Except for Snow and Vanille, who may well be my least favorite characters in any RPG ever.

This. I tolerated Snow but hated Vanille to the very end. The rest of the characters were largely cookie-cutter and forgettable. Like the game.

Other annoying characters? Pretty much anyone under the age of 15 in the JRPG genre.

This. I really don't know why nearly all JRPGs mandatorily include retarded girls (or boys) and let them bring troubles, or even talk about some crappy life philosophy in the front of the final enemy.

Bayonetta and Kratos spring to mind first. Both ostensibly represent male fantasies, but are taken to such garish extremes as to be completely repellent.
Also Cream the Rabbit. The extra characters in Sonic are all annoying but she gets singled out because that voice could etch glass.

It's funny you bring up Kratos because I offen believe we aren't meant to like him in the first place.

Cat girls. And furries. And girls who're, like, completely and totally ditzy and flakey. Fer sure!

I'd swear a lot of characters in JRPGs are only included, because the producers/story writers think that gamers either want or expect such characters;

or maybe they do just want to annoy us?

Either that, or they mistake the script as an opportunity for their bad stand-up comedy they always wanted to do?

Chrono Cross had plenty of furries.

Legend of Dragoon. I'm embarrassed about this, but I remember even the bit characters that annoyed me from this game. Dabas, the merchant in Lohan, Kafi, the waitress in the bar of the Twin Castle town, and Meru, the scantily-clad, hammer-wielding, platinum-haired chick who joins your party. Also, just reading the poor translation, you'd swear it'd make you stupider, but it actually tempts your mind into re-wording it, just so you can understand it...

Star Ocean 3: Roger S. Huxley. "A real man's gotta...!" shut up, squirrel boy. And Welch Vineyard.

Stella Deus had Tia. Here, we have a serious epic about religion and war, and they drop a cat girl in the middle of it...don't really need the comedic relief; not that kind of story. Man, imagine if The Holy Bible had stories about furries...?

Tales of the Abyss had Mieu, your high-pitched, squeaky-voiced utility creature for action commands. Luke had fun beating up on her from time to time, and while it even illicited laughter out of me, I was still annoyed with the creature when it wasn't having the stuffing beaten out of it.

Xenogears had Chu-Chu. And Esmeralda speaking in third-person, and generally talking like a retarded child.

Any time a character has some kind of gimmicky speech scheme, it's annoying.

Okay, enough "Nya"s, you're a cat, I get it. And enough "Aw hell naw" you're supposed to be an African-American stereotype...

That's Zip in a nutshell!

Cat girls are hawt! ;P
You're not telling me you don't like Felicia, are you!?

Anyhoo, I do agree on the furry mascot thing most JRPGs seem to have (that little piece of shit in Blue Dragon stands out in particular), but I'll be damned if Xenoblade's Riki isn't one of the funniest and most endearing characters in the game.

...which Felicia are we talking about?

They are talking about Felicia from Vampire (Darkstalkers)

I'm not aware of any other Felicia than the Darkstalkers one.

Are there more?
I suppose Felicia would be an obvious name for feline creatures.