Significados de unlikeable characters em inglês

I am curious to hear your thoughts on creating likeable or unlikeable characters.

There's been a trend popping up recently, at least in my life, of unlikeable characters.

If you took out the unlikeable characters, the atrocious ones, the filth and the scum, where would literature be?

A millennial author who writes from the female perspective, Rooney somehow makes you deeply care about annoying and ultimately unlikeable characters.