But in honor of Owen Hunt, the Army trauma surgeon with a hero complex, a communication problem and an apparently bottomless capacity for emotional damage, who has tested the patience of \u201cGrey\u2019s\u201d fans for 17 seasons, we\u2019re looking back at the moments \u2014 in chronological order \u2014 that made him the show\u2019s most reliably unlikeable presence, from pig-stabbing to plane crashes to the long list of women he managed to make miserable along the way. A send-off befitting the man himself.<\/p>\n
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\tStabbing pigs for a skills lab<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tIn Season 5\u2019s \u201cLife During Wartime,\u201d Owen introduced himself to the residents by pulling back a curtain to reveal four anesthetized pigs, stabbing them one by one, and then ordering everyone in the room to save their lives \u2014 as if this were a completely normal way to spend a Tuesday. It was not. Izzie Stevens walked out on the spot and called him a monster, which, in fairness, was also a completely normal reaction. To cap things off, once the lab was done, Owen had Cristina euthanize all four pigs. \u201cDo no harm\u201d was apparently more of a loose guideline than a founding principle. Great first week, buddy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tBreaking up with his fiance in a two-line email<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tIn Season 5\u2019s \u201cBeat Your Heart Out\u201d Owen\u2019s ex-fianc\u00e9e Beth Whitman rushes her father to the hospital after he collapses at dinner \u2014 where she\u2019s stunned to find Owen, very much alive and stateside, having never told her he\u2019d come home from Iraq. While she\u2019d spent his entire deployment praying for him on her knees every night and calling him in tears every time she found a spider in her apartment, Owen had ended their engagement in a two-line email and apparently figured that was that. For context, Alex Karev, a man who once gave a nurse syphilis and spent the better part of a decade being genuinely terrible, still managed to write his wife Jo a multi-page goodbye letter when he left. To Beth\u2019s credit, though, she was genuinely happy to see Owen. Which he did not deserve.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tChoking Cristina (but mainly refusing to go to therapy for PTSD)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy of ABC\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tThis one is more sad than it is shitty. <\/p>\n
\n\tIn one of the show\u2019s darker moments, Owen chokes a sleeping Cristina in a PTSD-induced sleep trance in Season 5. <\/p>\n
\n\tOwen, a former army medic, has PTSD and while that isn\u2019t his fault, his refusal to get treatment for it is frustrating, especially when it puts those he loves in actual, physical danger. Owen even snaps at Derek, and basically tells him to look in the mirror at his own problems when McDreamy tells McArmy he should consider therapy.<\/p>\n
\n\tTo his credit (a rare sentence), he does eventually begin seeing Dr. Wyatt after the incident and his guilt over hurting Cristina.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tCheating on Cristina after shaming her for having an abortion (!)<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tArguably the worst of his direct actions, Owen cheats on Cristina, his WIFE at the time, with a random woman at a bar in Season 8. At least he got what was coming to him, when an understandably pissed-off Cristina throws a bowl of cereal in his face, milk and all. Do it again! Who said that?<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat makes things worse is the broader context of the fight. Cristina, famously anti-becoming a mother, got pregnant and decided to get an abortion at the end of Season 7. While her decision was hardly a surprise to any viewers, it somehow was one to Owen. After fighting over it and kicking her out of their house, Owen eventually shows up at her abortion appointment (after a stern talking to from Meredith, the true love of Cristina\u2019s life) and even holds her hand during the procedure. The caring gesture is quickly ruined when in Season 8, Episode 12, he yells at Cristina, \u201cYou killed our baby!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAT. A. CHILD\u2019S. BIRTHDAY. PARTY. Where everyone they knew could hear them, btw!<\/p>\n
\n\tTheir relationship takes a turn for the worse, on the brink of divorce and then screaming at each other in therapy sessions, leading up to Owen\u2019s one-night stand. Still doesn\u2019t excuse cheating on your wife Owen!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tDidn\u2019t check the plane\u2019s crash history that killed Lexie and Mark<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tAt the end of Season 8, Owen, then chief of surgery, put six of his colleagues (Lexie, Mark, Derek, Cristina, Meredith and Arizona) on a charter plane to Boise. What he apparently did not think to do \u2014 before signing off on the flight, waving them off and going about his day \u2014 was check that the plane had a well-documented history of mechanical problems. The result was one of the most devastating and shocking moments in TV history. The plane crash killed Lexie Grey and Mark Sloan, cost Arizona Robbins her leg and detonated the Callie-Arizona marriage. A basic Google search. That\u2019s all it would have taken.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tOwen\u2019s entire relationship with Amelia\u00a0Shepherd<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: ABC\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tFrom their whirlwind wedding to their messy post-divorce antics, Amelia and Owen were not a match made in heaven. Similarly to his relationship with Cristina, things took a steep downturn in Season 13 after Amelia confessed that she wasn\u2019t sure she wants to have children with him \u2014 which, by now, we know is a dealbreaker for Owen. Our question is this: What does Owen even talk about with his girlfriends before deciding to get married? You\u2019d think the kids conversation would happen pre-proposal, or at least pre-walking down the aisle, given his track record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\tOwen\u2019s entire relationship with Teddy\u00a0Altman<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy of Disney\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\tWhile the Season 22 finale may have ended with a dramatic rekindling between a just-divorced Teddy and Owen, the couple\u2019s happy ending does not rectify the past 16 seasons of their tumultuous relationship. There are too many moments to call back to, but an especially low moment for Owen comes in Season 14 when he flies to Germany to confess his love for Teddy \u2014 but only because Amelia (his ex-wife whom he was still sleeping with) encouraged him to do so. I mean, Owen. Why would you even tell Teddy that?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tEven more unforgivable, though, were his 11th-hour attempts to break up Teddy and her neurosurgeon boyfriend <\/strong>Tom Koracick in the weeks leading up to her giving birth. (When Owen flew to Germany, he\u2019d impregnated her.) Owen ultimately succeeded, but we\u2019re still thinking about how happy Teddy could have been in the apartment Koracick found for them to share.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 18 seasons, Dr. Owen Hunt is finally leaving Grey Sloan Memorial, and honestly, the hospital will probably…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,40211,19,17,94424,208336,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-475503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-greys-anatomy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kevin-mckidd","14":"tag-owen-hunt","15":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116541579490335198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}