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