Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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