Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 10 Worst Characters Who Appeared After Season 1

8. David Santiago

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Kate Peralta
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David, David, David. You smug little man.

Amy's excellent older sibling is someone that the writers immediately want you to despise. It's clear from the outset that the intention is for the audience to side with Amy - despite both siblings being as petulant as one another - and evidently, it would be rather difficult to argue that the writers failed in their task.

David Santiago is the epitome of the Golden Boy to his parents - his only appearance is in an episode called The Golden Child, after all - and anyone that has ever felt like an inferior child as opposed to one of the rest of the litter can certainly relate. That's kind of where the instant hate for David is born. It doesn't help either that he constantly has a s**t-eating grin painted on his face from ear to ear and genuinely takes pleasure in putting his sister down.

As it turns out, though, David isn't as perfect as he initially seems to be. Or that's the trick the writers decided to play anyway, as when being charged with the distribution of narcotics, he's instantly cleared. But the reason David appears so low is that a lot of the aplomb, attention and accolades placed onto him - as well as his ego - comes directly from his mother.

Which makes it all the satisfying when Jake goes on an absolute tirade and calls them both out for being so reprehensible to Amy.

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