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