Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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