Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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