Musing Mondays — Characters

Today's Musing Mondays question is... "What makes you love / hate a character in a book?"

I imagine we're talking about characters we're supposed to like — what makes them good characters or awful characters we'd like to chuck out a window along with their books.

So in that case... my favorite characters are the ones that have a nice balance of wittiness, self-awareness, self-confidence, and knowledge. If they have a little more of one, or a little less of another, that's cool. But if they have too much or too little... that's when I dislike them. I am not a fan of the character that's always spouting off one-liners, unless they are self-aware enough to realize how silly they are. But once they get so self-aware that they are basically psychoanalyzing themselves on a regular basis? Count me out.