Pretty Little Liars: Every Main Character, Ranked By Likability
Dealing with a missing friend and blackmail is a lot for any teen, but some Pretty Little Liars characters are easier to root for than others.
Being a teenager is hard. Dealing with a missing friend and a mysterious figure named “A?” Well, that’s even harder, which is why the main characters on Pretty Little Liars aren’t always very easy to like.
Rosewood is a pretty crazy place and when Alison DiLaurentis returns, her old friends are left questioning everything they ever knew. While they have to tackle a wild mystery and fight for their lives, they also have homework and love lives and parents, so it makes sense that they would behave in rude ways sometimes. Some of the major players on this beloved teen drama are easier to root for than others, that’s for sure.
Sure, the story of Pretty Little Liars might begin when Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse) disappears, but that doesn’t mean that she’s a very likable character. Ali, in fact, is a classic mean girl who wants everyone to pay attention to her. Of course, once she’s missing from the fancy town of Rosewood, no one can forget her.
Ali does become a bit sweeter as time goes on, but she can’t really make up for lost time or her true Queen Bee nature.
Fans have to admire Spencer Hastings (Troian Bellisario) and her work ethic. She does what she puts her mind to and deals with a pretty tough family situation.
Unfortunately, sometimes Spencer can be mean and selfish, and she isn’t always as caring and compassionate as she should be. It’s also fair to say that fans feel a bit negatively toward her as they don’t love the reveal at the end of the series that she has an evil twin.
Aria Montgomery can be tough as the character, played by Lucy Hale, can act much younger than she actually is. She has a tendency to want what she wants immediately and she’s not always patient or mature. It doesn’t feel like she always has her own best interests at heart.
Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson) is fairly likable, but she has her moments of being sarcastic and negative.
At the beginning of the show, Hanna is healing from her parents’ divorce and she doesn’t feel like she’s very loved. She shoplifts and suffers from some insecurities, and as she becomes closer to the other girls, she starts becoming a lot nicer. But sometimes, it’s hard not to want to tell Hanna to take a deep breath and be in a better mood.
Fans sympathize with Emily as she has loved her best friend Ali from afar for so long. But they finally get together, and no one deserves happiness more than Emily does.
