Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

Ugly and/or obnoxious character in romantic pursuit of another. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Kill It with Fire Artistic License – Gun Safety Composite Character Shout-Out Horror Films Shower Scene Laser-Guided Karma Sanity Slippage Scenery Porn Adults Are Useless Action Genre Obstructive Bureaucrat Domestic Abuse Immune to Bullets Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Early-Bird Cameo It Will Never Catch On Chewing the Scenery Spiritual Successor Leitmotif Heroic Sacrifice Informed Ability Made of Iron Pragmatic Adaptation From Bad to Worse Idiot Ball Music Stories Roaring Rampage of Revenge The X of Y Artistic License – Military The Quiet One Defiant to the End BFG Humiliation Conga Black Comedy Rape Take That! And the Adventure Continues Ironic Echo Your Cheating Heart Stepford Smiler No OSHA Compliance Martial Arts Movie Break the Cutie Italian Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Only Known by Their Nickname Badass Grandpa Mighty Whitey Stylistic Suck Bloodless Carnage Shipper on Deck As the Good Book Says... Really Gets Around Contrived Coincidence Scary Black Man Stalker with a Crush Ripped from the Headlines Hoist by His Own Petard Taking the Bullet Heterosexual Life-Partners Cat Scare Say My Name Crazy Jealous Guy The Power of Love Eureka Moment All There in the Script Dumb Blonde Visual Pun Mystery and Detective Films Fan Disservice Spanner in the Works You Killed My Father The Starscream Villain Song Determinator Fat Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Slap-Slap-Kiss Loads and Loads of Characters Hair-Trigger Temper Thriller Amusing Injuries Truth in Television Bald of Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? True Companions Meaningful Name This Is Gonna Suck Award-Bait Song Meaningful Echo Mad Scientist Cloudcuckoolander Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Flipping the Bird Silent Movie Word of God Dirty Old Man Neck Lift Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Serious Business Arch-Enemy Adaptational Villainy Double Entendre Betty and Veronica Accidental Misnaming The Place Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big-Bad Ensemble Gender Flip Dutch Angle Sealed Evil in a Can Based on a True Story Bolivian Army Ending Dual Wielding Armor-Piercing Question Military and Warfare Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Covers Always Lie Light Is Not Good Creator Cameo What the Hell, Hero? War Is Hell Never Trust a Trailer Rich Bitch Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Great Depression Creative Closing Credits Rasputinian Death Superhero Does This Remind You of Anything? From Nobody to Nightmare Wretched Hive Love at First Sight Deliberate Values Dissonance The Brute Improbable Weapon User La Résistance Artistic License – Law Call-Forward Age Lift Show Within a Show Plot Hole Boom, Headshot! Evil Laugh Only One Name Japanese Films Male Frontal Nudity Refuge in Audacity Properly Paranoid Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sports Stories Victoria's Secret Compartment Australian Movies Body Horror Vacation Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Anti-Villain No-Sell German Films Match Cut Manchild Bloody Hilarious Romantic False Lead Crazy-Prepared Male Gaze Motor Mouth Fainting Reality Ensues Big Bad Duumvirate Manipulative Bastard Hero Antagonist Big Bad Death by Irony Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Curse Cut Short Non-Indicative Name Deus ex Machina Works Set in World War II Heel Realization French Films Cluster F-Bomb Police Brutality Line-of-Sight Name Silence Is Golden The Reveal Artistic License – Biology Intrepid Reporter Heroes Want Redheads No Ending Blood from the Mouth I'm a Humanitarian Brutal Honesty You Have Failed Me Jerkass Has a Point Never My Fault Pyrrhic Victory Kids Are Cruel Bullying a Dragon Black and Gray Morality Off-into-the-Distance Ending Obviously Evil Pimped-Out Dress Foreshadowing Heel–Face Turn Lampshade Hanging Deadpan Snarker N-Word Privileges It's Personal Tap on the Head Unreliable Narrator Red Herring Shut Up, Hannibal! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Straight Gay Dying Moment of Awesome Distracted by the Sexy Darkest Hour I Need a Freaking Drink Frame-Up Fake Shemp Ax-Crazy Precision F-Strike Freeze-Frame Bonus Re-Cut Department of Redundancy Department Up to Eleven Genre Shift Early Installment Weirdness Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Annoying Younger Sibling Death Seeker More Dakka Dropped a Bridge on Him Those Two Guys Breaking the Fourth Wall Blackmail Villainous Breakdown For the Evulz Naked People Are Funny The Stoner Crapsack World Broken Aesop Stock Footage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Large Ham The Load Fingore Affectionate Parody Unusual Euphemism Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Twist Ending Didn't Think This Through Animal Title Index The Remake The Stinger Creepy Child Abusive Parents Evil-Detecting Dog Final Girl Beard of Evil British Films Not Using the "Z" Word Spared by the Adaptation All Men Are Perverts Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ship Tease Antagonist Title Agony of the Feet Jerk Jock Redemption Equals Death Death by Sex Overprotective Dad Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Affably Evil Animal Motifs timeperiod Setting Update Bare Your Midriff Insistent Terminology Wrong Genre Savvy Bound and Gagged Children Are Innocent Funny Background Event Historical In-Joke Humans Are Bastards Sexy Discretion Shot Parental Abandonment Big "NO!" Let's Get Dangerous! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Shell-Shocked Veteran Your Head A-Splode Eagleland What Happened to the Mouse? Accidental Murder Abhorrent Admirer Same Language Dub The '90s Adaptation Name Change Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Red Right Hand Evil vs. Evil Historical-Domain Character Downer Ending All Just a Dream Took a Level in Badass Vitriolic Best Buds '80s Hair I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Artistic License – History Dirty Coward Groin Attack Suspiciously Similar Substitute An Arm and a Leg Take a Third Option Market-Based Title Foregone Conclusion Evil Counterpart Kill 'em All Disney Death Interrupted Suicide Death of a Child Punch-Clock Villain Adapted Out Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Room Full of Crazy Index of Film Westerns Chekhov's Skill Guile Hero Fantasy Films Plucky Comic Relief Dwindling Party Amoral Attorney No Celebrities Were Harmed Noodle Incident Oh, Crap! No Antagonist Famous Last Words Chekhov's Gunman Bond One-Liner Real Life Writes the Plot Earn Your Happy Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Brainless Beauty Horror Comedy Dirty Cop Genre Savvy Meaningful Background Event Book-Ends Super Strength The Atoner Outrun the Fireball Becoming the Mask The Ace Sir Swears-a-Lot Adaptation Expansion Every Car Is a Pinto Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gilligan Cut Would Hit a Girl Badass Longcoat Knife Nut Monumental Damage Hate Sink Never Found the Body And Starring All Girls Want Bad Boys Fantastic Racism Camp Gay The End... Or Is It? Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Good Is Not Nice Mood Whiplash Love Triangle Cool Old Lady Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Guns Akimbo Insult Backfire And I Must Scream Rule of Funny Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Public Domain Feature Films He Who Fights Monsters Documentary Vomit Discretion Shot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Shirtless Scene Mama Bear Green-Eyed Monster Poor Communication Kills Scare Chord Sassy Black Woman Race Lift Femme Fatale Married to the Job Anachronic Order Dull Surprise Retired Badass Fatal Family Photo Not So Stoic Genre Throwback Gory Discretion Shot Ghost Fiction Biopic The Big Guy Determinator aka: The Determinator In Medias Res Enemy Mine Extremely Short Timespan Country Matters Reality Has No Subtitles Fanservice Taking You with Me Disguised in Drag Storming the Castle Obfuscating Stupidity Dramedy Vampire Fiction Deal with the Devil My Greatest Failure MacGuffin The Sociopath Product Placement Corpsing Attempted Rape Killed Mid-Sentence Rated M for Manly Artistic License – Physics The Vamp Leaning on the Fourth Wall Nothing Is Scarier As You Know Zombie Stories Evil Sounds Deep Neck Snap Dogged Nice Guy Retirony Four-Temperament Ensemble As Himself Yandere Mr. Exposition Get Out! Cain and Abel Anachronism Stew Major Injury Underreaction The Musical Needs Wiki Magic Love Decoy Protagonist Butt-Monkey The '70s The Cavalry Recycled IN SPACE! Smug Snake Homage It's All About Me Toplessness from the Back The Alleged Car Alpha Bitch Cruel and Unusual Death Important Haircut In the Back Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Action Prologue It Can Think The Hero Establishing Character Moment Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Oner Self-Deprecation Malevolent Masked Men Madness Mantra Canon Foreigner Manly Tears Bait-and-Switch Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Not So Different Bowdlerise My Beloved Smother Hero of Another Story Evil Plan "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Villain Opening Scene Hollywood Darkness Intergenerational Friendship Nice Guy Gone Horribly Right Expy Fun with Acronyms Heroic BSoD Parental Incest Stealth Pun Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rewatch Bonus All for Nothing For Want of a Nail Gorn folderlabel Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Cool Guns Only Sane Man Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Anti-Hero As Long as It Sounds Foreign Freudian Excuse Naïve Newcomer Last-Name Basis Bad Boss Red Shirt Facial Horror Happily Married Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Catch-Phrase The Smart Guy Actor Allusion Disappeared Dad The Un-Reveal She Cleans Up Nicely Drugs Are Bad Defrosting Ice Queen Hollywood Law Eye Scream Evil Brit Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Playing Gertrude Handicapped Badass Off with His Head! An Axe to Grind Made of Explodium Kubrick Stare Smoking Is Cool Rape as Drama How We Got Here Wicked Cultured Call-Back Mundane Made Awesome Took a Level in Jerkass Artistic License – Geography Disney Villain Death Mooks Mercy Kill Bad "Bad Acting" Badass in a Nice Suit Scenery Gorn Blatant Lies Put on a Bus Aluminum Christmas Trees Sinister Minister Jerk with a Heart of Gold Big Brother Instinct Blood Knight Black Comedy No Name Given Man on Fire Author Appeal The Chick Reckless Gun Usage Gold Digger One Steve Limit Faking the Dead Token Minority Karmic Death Those Two Bad Guys Badass Boast Apocalypse How Central Theme Be Careful What You Wish For Mexican Standoff Evil Is Hammy Only in It for the Money Vomit Indiscretion Shot He Knows Too Much Reality Is Unrealistic Irony Getting Crap Past the Radar Mistaken for Gay Slashed Throat Dark and Troubled Past Daylight Horror Posthumous Character Big Fancy House Offscreen Teleportation Novelization Hope Spot Our Zombies Are Different Sci-Fi Horror Cassandra Truth Darker and Edgier Diabolus ex Machina Mind Screw I Did What I Had to Do Hong Kong Films Drowning My Sorrows Jitter Cam Empathic Environment Undying Loyalty Red Eyes, Take Warning Shown Their Work Police are Useless Cold-Blooded Torture Depraved Bisexual Lighter and Softer Even Evil Has Standards Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Chessmaster The Dreaded Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Ambiguous Ending Curb-Stomp Battle Face–Heel Turn The Voiceless Deconstruction Morality Pet Red Oni, Blue Oni Narrator Very Loosely Based on a True Story Pre-Mortem One-Liner Back from the Dead Eldritch Abomination The Bully Mythology Gag Punny Name Fate Worse than Death Big Applesauce Calling the Old Man Out Rousing Speech Laughing Mad Bi the Way May–December Romance Badass Bookworm Hidden Depths Author Avatar Jump Scare Animated Credits Opening Psychological Thriller Leave the Camera Running Title Drop Babies Ever After Slasher Movie Adult Fear Actually Pretty Funny Epic Movie Insane Troll Logic Authority Equals Asskicking Crucified Hero Shot Sequel Escalation Mr. Fanservice Beware the Nice Ones After the End Bloodier and Gorier Spell My Name with an "S" Face Death with Dignity Eyepatch of Power Villain Protagonist Air-Vent Passageway Science Fiction Films Faux Affably Evil Alliterative Name The Ghost Ambiguously Gay Fiery Redhead A Father to His Men Maybe Ever After "Awesome McCool" Name Dark Action Girl Villain Ball Dressing as the Enemy Epic Fail Random Events Plot Bilingual Bonus Daddy's Girl Easily Forgiven Chekhov's Gun B-Movie Almost Kiss Batman Gambit Papa Wolf Adaptation Distillation Belligerent Sexual Tension Auto Erotica Not Quite Dead Trailers Always Spoil My God, What Have I Done? Pragmatic Villainy Cool Old Guy Bring My Brown Pants Only a Flesh Wound Exact Words The '80s Corrupt Corporate Executive Together in Death Gainax Ending Overly Long Gag There Is No Kill Like Overkill Card-Carrying Villain Framing Device Advertised Extra Loophole Abuse Better to Die than Be Killed Karma Houdini Throwing Your Sword Always Works Here We Go Again! Pretty Little Headshots One-Man Army Bunny-Ears Lawyer Black Dude Dies First Destination Defenestration Danny Peary Cult Movies List Casting Gag Broken Bird Fourth Date Marriage Whole Plot Reference Adaptational Heroism Suddenly SHOUTING! Dramatic Irony Time Skip Brother–Sister Incest Slasher Smile Anguished Declaration of Love Did Not Get the Girl Video Credits Lock and Load Montage Fanservice Extra Death Glare Five-Man Band Camera Abuse Ominous Latin Chanting Dark Is Not Evil The Dragon Redshirt Army Not So Above It All Kick the Dog Arc Words Friend to All Children Woman Scorned Combat Pragmatist Ambiguous Disorder Training Montage Wham Line Black Best Friend Eiffel Tower Effect Anyone Can Die Instant Death Bullet Paper-Thin Disguise Alas, Poor Villain Totally Radical Politically Incorrect Villain An Aesop Chiaroscuro Coming-of-Age Story Half the Man He Used to Be Race Against the Clock Beauty Is Never Tarnished Drill Sergeant Nasty Spiteful Spit Implacable Man Would Hurt a Child She's Got Legs Logo Joke Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Is Petty Arranged Marriage Big Damn Heroes What You Are in the Dark Honor Before Reason Tagline The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! NO INDOOR VOICE Star-Crossed Lovers The Mole Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Missing Mom Rule of Symbolism Death by Adaptation Jerkass Psycho for Hire Protagonist Title Cat Fight Wham Shot Our Vampires Are Different Ms. Fanservice Hell Is That Noise Pretty in Mink Action Girl Everyone Has Standards Pay Evil unto Evil Berserk Button Too Dumb to Live Improbable Aiming Skills The Casanova Bottomless Magazines Running Gag Aside Glance The '50s Captain Obvious The Lancer A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Stoic Developing Doomed Characters Worthy Opponent Character Development Drives Like Crazy Hypocrite Sequel Hook Adorkable Unresolved Sexual Tension Russian Films Cool Car Tempting Fate Cowboy Cop Sadistic Choice Imagine Spot The Cameo Revenge Celebrity Paradox Ascended Extra Chase Scene Driven to Suicide Foil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Alcoholic The Hero Dies Due to the Dead Expository Hairstyle Change Bury Your Gays Pet the Dog Mugging the Monster The Smurfette Principle The Mafia Translation Convention Shoot the Shaggy Dog Canadian Movies Asshole Victim Big Eater Well-Intentioned Extremist Grievous Bottley Harm Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Parental Neglect Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Demoted to Extra Real Life Christmas Movies Index Villain with Good Publicity Despair Event Horizon Break the Haughty Serial Killer Funny Foreigner Those Wacky Nazis "Shaggy Dog" Story No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Broken Pedestal Closed Circle Once More, with Clarity! Hypocritical Humor The '60s Retcon Rule of Cool Flashback Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Historical Hero Upgrade No-Holds-Barred Beatdown I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Bad Guy Wins Historical Villain Upgrade Hooker with a Heart of Gold Meet Cute Does Not Like Shoes A Date with Rosie Palms Credits Gag Grey and Gray Morality Riddle for the Ages Small Name, Big Ego Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Kick the Son of a Bitch Dies Wide Open Reasonable Authority Figure Film Noir Index Exactly What It Says on the Tin Soft Glass Adaptational Attractiveness Disproportionate Retribution Television Movie Index Ungrateful Bastard Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptation Dye-Job Fire-Forged Friends Suspiciously Specific Denial Not What It Looks Like Improvised Weapon In Name Only Cool Shades Make It Look Like an Accident Gratuitous English Badass Normal Stuff Blowing Up Deliberately Monochrome A God Am I Catapult Nightmare The Lost Lenore Bar Brawl Ass Shove Double-Meaning Title Psychopathic Manchild O.O.C. Is Serious Business Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Dog Bites Back Captain Ersatz Have a Gay Old Time Skewed Priorities Woman in White Older Than They Look Bavarian Fire Drill I Have Your Wife Beta Couple Film Series Moment Killer Film Noir Fish out of Water Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Action Survivor Dark Reprise All There in the Manual Comically Missing the Point Dissonant Serenity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bond Villain Stupidity Demonic Possession Bland-Name Product Rule of Three Parental Substitute Damsel in Distress Knight Templar Stealth Hi/Bye Extreme Doormat Henpecked Husband Men Are the Expendable Gender A Minor Kidroduction Left the Background Music On Costume Porn Failed a Spot Check Brick Joke The Ditz Awesome, but Impractical Continuity Nod Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sacrificial Lion One-Word Title Sole Survivor Tranquil Fury The Film of the Book The Faceless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Car Fu World of Ham Bittersweet Ending 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptational Badass Romantic Comedy Conspicuous CG Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Nice Hat Fatal Flaw Soundtrack Dissonance Greater-Scope Villain