25 Fictional Best Friends Who Were Totally Toxic And We Need To Stop Pretending They Weren't

I loooove drama, and when I'm watching something or reading a book, there's nothing better (to hate-watch?) than a toxic best friend. So, I asked the BuzzFeed 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 in Friends]; 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 from The 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."

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 from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. They had a horrible relationship!"

—torturedpoet444

6. "Lord Henry Wotton from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the absolute worst best friend in all of fiction, bar none."

"He manipulates Dorian's mind and plays with his life simply because he is bored and wants to see how far his influence can go. He refers to the fact that he can make Dorian 'a titan or a toy' and compares speaking to him to playing notes on an instrument. It's all an experiment to him, and he does not care how many lives he destroys along the way, including his own sister's."

—Anonymous

7. "In Sex 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 in As 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 on Gossip Girl. What a dumpster fire of a friend group. God, I loved them."

12. "Feyre from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Not necessarily a best friend but she’s just the absolute worst."

"She treats people like crap, uses them, and has no insight into how terrible her behavior is. She’s self-centered and annoying and immature but clearly meant to be an awesome heroine, which makes her even more damn annoying. I enjoyed the books, they’re entertaining, but she just grates on me."

—Anonymous

13. "Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski."

14. "The first character that comes to mind is Dijonay Jones from The Proud Family. All of Penny's friends were fake, but Dijonay was the fakest friend Penny had."

15. "Toni and Joan in Girlfriends. Toni was terrible to Joan and Joan was a doormat with shitty boundaries and low self-esteem!"

—ashmocheez

16. "Lily from Princess Diaries or Rhiannon from Easy 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 from Girls."

—Anonymous

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 from Ginny and Georgia."

21. "Rachel Berry from Glee. 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. from Scrubs! When the show was on, I thought the character was quirky and smart... but my goodness. He is shallow, narcissistic, and annoying."

23. "Belly from The 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 in Twilight. 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 into her problems, 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."

Some of these people are just the worst. I'm glad we could commiserate together. If you have any strong opinions, please, be my guest and feel free to complain your heart out in the comments below!

Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.