Tropescilloscope: Hate Sink

A character designed to be disliked for villainous actions, or for ludicrously intolerable traits, usually in lieu of a hateable main villain. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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