Who are your least favorite squadmates in the ME trilogy and why? [Pick 2]

Late to the party, but anyhoo... I'll base it off character personality and arcs, because I tend to stick with the same companions 99% of time out of habit, so powers aren't really something I can comment on.

Jacob is definitely my least favourite, for reasons that have been mostly covered already. His biggest sin is his attitude towards my FemShep's surrogate baby sister, a.k.a Tali. How very dare he!

Outside of that, I just personally feel that the man is about as interesting as watching paint drying on cardboard. And the way FemShep talks to him is just infuriating. "Relaaaax, Jaaaacob..." - argh!! That being said, I did find his loyalty mission interesting. But that was more for the dark and twisty story with his dad and the survivors and less about Jacob himself - in fact, he annoyed me for most of it, lol.

For the second, I'd have to pick Morinth I guess. Because psycho. Although, I did feel a twinge of sadness for her. I think she was pretty well done, actually. But yeah, out of the whole gang it would have to be her. I all the others - except Captain Boring.

Jacob and Liara probably.

Jacob mostly because he's just not interesting, and his character being there at all, feels forced. He's the only dark skinned character in the game. Which on itself is bad enough, how about more diversity? It feels like they wanted to have a character of color there, but didn't know what to do with it. His dialogue isn't interesting and so isn't his back story. If it weren't for Jacob though, Kaidan would have been a close second. They could have been brothers in the boring department.

Although I like Liara as a character, she feels way too forced as a romance or key character. Bioware really wanted to sell the alien romance when they made her. Liara is basically: 'I'm a blue alien, I have a big rack, why don't you wub me Shepard?' and 'Shepard, I'm back in ME2, will you wub me now, I have a dlc'.

Still regretting a time lock on this poll. I'll have to remember that for future polls.

Its odd that she says friend when Shepard tells her he/she wants to throw her back in the volcano. If someone were to say that to me, I would avoid them never wanting to deal them again. She also believes its alright to take Shepard's armor off the body and put it on display like its a trophy. She has head problems. She was never needed to get Shepard's body. Cerberus could do that by themselves. She was put in to do that because....reasons. She also has Shepard's dogtags. If romanced she says she discovered them. Why wouldn't she give them to Shepard's mother? Does she believe she is more important than Mrs. Shepard? Apparently Bioware does. If not romanced, she says Hackett gave them to her. Why 2 different versions? I like to know why Shepard couldn't ask her about all that? Was it because Bioware didn't want to create friction between Shepard and the asari?
She shoud have been killed on Thessia. Kai Leng is referred to as an assassin. Let him be one. Kill the asari instead of throwing her across the screen like a sack of potatoes.

Ok that may have come across as too much focussed on the sexual aspect, didn't mean it that way. The concept of romancing an alien has been a thing in a lot of games and literature, as far as I know, and it felt like they were pushing for that in ME as well. Just the excitement of interacting with an alien and having a relationship with it, like that's the way to go if you make a sci fi game.

Liara is nice and lovely, yes, but she is clingy as well, she's very understanding from the get go (a female version of Garrus almost), she also can't die afaik (maybe she can, but you really have to try), she almost immediately becomes a romance option once you get her in ME1. There's just a lot of pressure liking the alien option. To be fair, I never romanced her, but I've read stories about 'falling in love' inadvertently through dialogue options. Anyway, don't want to make this a Liara topic, I'm going by what I've seen from her. She's nice, but she feels way too forced  to me.

She probably is.  She's among the most like squadmates, but also the most hated.  Similar things happen to Kaidan.  Garrus seems to be a rarity in being loved but not hated.

So; nearing the end of my first playthrough of all 3 of the MET in a straight line; I like Jacob a lot less than I used to. I still like him in ME2, but in ME3 he's such a clipped, closed-off jerk... I don't understand it. I get personality-wise he's not the bubbliest or most talkative, but in contrast to everyone else he's feels like he's deliberately keeping my MShep at arm's length. Am I alone in sensing his comments seem geared towards getting under your skin when you're trying to be nice? I really wanted to yell at him in Huerta Hospital after I saved him AND his babymomma. Maybe next playthrough I won't bother making sure he's loyal in ME2 and let him die. >.> 

Updated to add #2 least favorite, which is harder because no one else soured on me like Jacob did. I have to tentatively go with Kasumi, though; while her flippant and careless attitude makes sense, her singsongy "Find me later, I might have more to talk about" line when she's out of dialogue grates on me like nails on a chalkboard. Her ME3 revelation of "Haha I reconstructed the data we destroyed because it was dangerous because reasons" was really frustrating, too.

I'm trying to remember. But what exactly does Jacob do where he gets under your skin? I just remember a several of his lines in ME3 just being very short or uninteresting. What did he say in the hospital that makes you want to yell at him? I don't really recall anything there either. I can understand people thinking he's extremely boring. But his actions are still commendable and he continues to be a really nice guy into the Citadel DLC. 

I actually found Kasumi's initial unwillingness to help the war effort to be really annoying personally. Like she doesn't even want to help at all and had to be convinced by Shepard. That and she cannot be romanced AT ALL. Why can't I save myself for her in ME3 Citadel DLC? That comes off as bad writing. Which sadly is something Jacob suffers from as well. Its funny because Kaidan was also unpopular at one point, but they took the time to make him better in ME3. I don't get why Jacob didn't get that treatment.

Oh dear.

It's possible that Liara might be one of the most divisive characters in the OT. A common complaint is how her character development didn't make a lick of sense, given her drastic personality jump from ME1 to ME2 and the fact that she becomes the Shadow Broker in two years. (That sounds like something out of a bad fan-fiction)
Of course you get some drama with her in ME2 and the DLC as well as ME3, but I honestly felt that these bits were red herrings more than anything. I remember lurking on BSN prime a little bit and someone said this best, that Liara would automatically be a better character if you took the whole redemption arc out of the equation. Though she would still have the issue of being shoved down our throat. I also wasn't fond of the fact that she was the only squadmate to get a cameo in ME:A.

Wow so much dislike towards Liara...I love it Good job BSN

Liara was my least favorite because I found her creeping/crushing on Shep annoying! I told her I'm not interested in her yet she was still trying to get into my panties throughout the Trilogy. Sorry Liara, but no means NO! Plus she was your stereotypical Hollywood girl-next-door romance. Pretty boring imo

And I Can't really pick a second character lol

I also hated how that's the only constant with Liara. I really found her to be quite shallow. (Why can't I romance Shiala goddammit!)