Putting Shakespearean characters in modern dress and contemporary situations is such a tired idea.
Her books were unusual for the time because she put the lead female characters in traditionally male type roles.
Often this is done by putting characters or objects out of context and the absurdity makes people laugh.
I can't imagine putting unlikable characters in a movie.
What I'm saying, I don't think of a plot and then put characters in it.
A simple remedy could be to put spaces or other characters between the words, with the added benefit of increasing the entropy.
Larson used them for his own shows, putting different characters in them.
As a political work, each opera was required to be politically correct, to exemplify class struggle and to put forward heroic characters.
For television writers, they served the dramatic function of putting characters in a small ship that could get lost.