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)

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