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