Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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