10 Incredibly Annoying Characters Who Almost Ruined 2013 Movies

5. Carol - Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek: Into Darkness wasn't as good as many of us were hoping, but it was a still worthwhile (and good-looking) exercise in distraction, anchored by exceptional performances by Zachary Quinto as Spock and Benedict Kumberbatch as Khan. Even Chris Pine's Kirk made a good go of it, but there was one character who seemed to serve absolutely no purpose, other than to attract the kind of reductive accusations that plague sci-fi and blockbuster movie fans. Carol, played by Alice Eve, was the daughter of one of the movie's villains whose most notable moment came when she took her clothes off for absolutely no reason, allowing a lingering shot of her in her underwear. That's pretty much all her character lent to the movie, and the moment was excessive enough to invite vitriol from fans who wondered why that scene was there to begin with. Not to mention it brought up issues of sexism: the suggestion being that fans of that sort of movie wouldn't be able to get through that long a running time without some bare female skin. She spends the entire movie failing: to convince her father not to kill everyone on the Enterprise; to successfully hide on the Enterprise; to save her father from Khan... Her only successful act is to save McCoy from being trapped in a torpedo that isn't really a torpedo anyway, thus rendering her single act of heroism pointless.