Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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