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