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