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