Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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