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