This comes a little late, but I was thinking about our discussion a few weeks back about voice, and how we tend to identify and sympathize with the protagonist. In trying to think of a protagonist I had not championed the only one I could come up with was Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. (Humbert Humbert is a middle aged man who initiates a love affair with a 12 year old girl, Lolita). Even then I gave him the benifit of the doubt for the longest time, and I had to make a concerted effort to not root for his success. Can anyone think of another protagonist whom they have not rooted for?