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Contrast with [[The Scrappy]], who is an unintended example, or a villain who is hated for the wrong reasons.

 

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* ''[[Candy Candy]]'' is a [[Slice of Life]] story, with the Regan family (Ruth, Eliza and Neil) filling the antagonist role. They personify the worst traits of the [[Rich Bitch]] trope, especially Neil, and are guaranteed to gain the reader's wrath. Worse, they're usually [[Karma Houdini]]s, which makes the moments when they [[Karma Houdini Warranty|finally]] pay for their actions a spectacular sight to behold.

* ''[[Kill la Kill]]'': Satsuki [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this trope for the first half of the series. She intentionally makes herself the target of Ryuko's hate, even suggesting she had something to do with her ({{spoiler|or, better said, ''their''}}) father's murder to fuel her hatred. She did this so {{spoiler|Ryuko will be powerful enough to join the battle against the [[Big Bad]] Ragyo.}}

** A straight example would be [[Cute and Psycho|Nui Harime]], {{spoiler|the actual killer}}. A sadistic, disgustingly childish madman bordering on [[Villain Sue]], it was made clear she existed to be hated. Nui herself lampshades this, stating hate and love are pretty much the same thing, and wants to earn love by making everyone hate her. [[Love to Hate|She succeeded]].

** And she's nothing compared to [[Big Bad|Ragyo Kiryuin]], Satsuki's mother {{spoiler|who turns out to be Ryuko's mother too.}} She's considered to be the "Worst Anime Mother Ever", and for very good reasons, given her [[Parental Incest|sexual abuse]] of Satsuki, {{spoiler|her experimenting on and ditching Ryuko as a baby, raping Ryuko mentally (and possibly physically too), and being the one who created Nui in the first place, with her "raising" being the reason why Nui is such a Hate Sink as well, making her a [[Jerkass Woobie]] in retrospect}}. The fact she doesn't have a reason for being evil apart from [[For the Evulz|liking it]] doesn't help in the least.

* Griffith from ''[[Berserk]]'', possibly the most hated character in the entire genre of Anime. His fall from grace leading to the murder of his trusted and loyal allies for makes his name synonymous with "betrayal".

* Admiral Akainu from ''[[One Piece]]'', a man who believes the end ''always'' justifies the means, a man who has committed some of the gravest atrocities in the series in the name of Justice. Slaughtering civilians and his own soldiers, using blatantly untrue propaganda, his brand of "justice" seems to do little but cause more ''injustice''. His worst act by far is {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|murdering Ace right in front of Luffy]], causing the poor guy to go on an [[Heroic BSOD]].}} It really says a lot about him he makes ''[[Evil Counterpart|Blackbeard]]'' look better by comparison. He downplays this trope [[Love to Hate|a little]] by being [[Badass|a scarily competent fighter]], which is more than can be said for the examples below.

** In the Enies Lobby Arc there's Spandam, who completely lacks CP-9's cool or redeeming traits, being an absolute coward who is always [[Kick the Dog|kicking dogs]] (''especially'' [[Broken Bird|Robin]] and [[Cyborg|Franky]]). Needless to say, his comeuppance at the end of the arc is [[Catharsis Factor|extremely satisfying]].

** The crowning examples of this trope, however, are the [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Celestial Dragons]]. Being descendants of the World Government gives them carte blanche to perform every atrocity ever known to man, with many not being able to retaliate due to them being protected by said government, thus making it extremely satisfying to see someone giving them their just desserts. Though good Celestial Dragons exist ({{spoiler|Sabo and the Donquixote Family [[Black Sheep|save]] [[Manipulative Bastard|Doflamingo]]}}), they're clearly shown being [[Defector From Decadence|defectors]] working to dismantle said cruel system.

* There are a ''lot'' in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', but one of the biggest examples would be Frieza from ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'', specifically during the Namek saga. As [[Evil Is Cool|badass]] as he is, it's clear that Akira Toriyama ''really'' went out of his way to make him utterly despicable as a middle finger to the real estate speculators he based him off of. He's a smarmy sadist who takes a lot of glee in ordering planetary massacres as well as killing people in the most horrible ways he can think of. And when Goku defeats him for the first time, he takes a hit to his coolness factor when he turns out to be a wimpy little coward who begs Goku for mercy, only to try to murder him once he helps him. However, his effectiveness as a villain got him a ''lot'' of fans, so once he returned in ''Super'', he properly left this status due to developing a few genuine [[Evil Virtues]] during the Tournament of Power.

* While most of the demons encountered in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' are evil, a lot of them have [[Tragic Villain|tragic backgrounds]] and [[Alas, Poor Villain|deaths]] that make them sympathetic both [[Sympathy for the Devil|in-universe]] and [[Cry for the Devil|out]]. Nevertheless, there's still some despicable demons designed to be hated:

** The [[Big Bad]], Muzan Kibutsuji, is the first demon and the being responsible for most of the death and suffering in the series. His [[Establishing Character Moment]] involves him turning an innocent man into a demon and slaughtering humans just because they inconvenienced him, and the series starts with him slaughtering [[The Hero|Tanjiro]]'s family and turning Tanjiro's sister [[Badass Adorable|Nezuko]] into a demon; with his actions getting worse and worse as time progresses. To top it all off, he's a [[Bad Boss]] who corrupts innocent people into being his subordinates, then kills them in horrific ways when he has no more use for them.

** A close second would be Upper 6 Rank [[Dirty Coward|Kaigaku]], [[Lovable Coward|Zenitsu]]'s former rival and [[Evil Counterpart]]. He was introduced as a mere [[Jerkass|douchebag]] who bullied Zenitsu for being a cowardly weakling ([[Hypocrite|despite the fact he proves to be even worse in that regard]]), but subsequent appearances only serve to make him [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk|worse]]. {{spoiler|He told a demon to attack the temple he and other orphans [[Genius Bruiser|Himejima]] was taking care of were [[Disproportionate Retribution|just because they caught him stealing]], and willingly sold himself out to Muzan, causing his and Zenitsu's master to [[Driven to Suicide|commit Seppuku]] in remorse. He spends most of his battle with Zenitsu being an [[Ungrateful Bastard|ungrateful shithead]] hurling slurs at his former master and mocking Zenitsu, who fortunately manages to slice the bastard's head off in revenge.}}

** And then there's Hatengu, who was already a thief and a murderer before Muzan turned him into a demon and killed the magistrate who sentenced him to death afterwards, all the while [[Never My Fault|refusing to claim responsibility for his actions]]. [[Nice Guy|Tanjiro]] refusing to [[Sympathy for the Devil|sympathize]] with him only emphasizes this further.

* While it initially comes off as an incredibly unfair, yet well-intended AI doing its job, ''[[Psycho-Pass]]'''s Sibyl System falls into this territory after [[The Reveal]]. {{spoiler|Thanks to being a smug [[Hive Mind]] of sociopathic criminals}}, it's far easier to hate it for being responsible for the emotionally constipated and oppressive society it oversees that results in lives being ruined just because an arbitrary, flawed algorithm pegs certain people as being "latent criminals". Then once {{spoiler|it becomes a full-on [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] and manipulative murderer}}, you'll probably find yourself rooting for Shogo Makishima to dismantle the damn thing despite the horrific evil he indulges in.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Minimonsters]]'' is a comic filled with several characters, so it's expected to have [[Jerkass|jerks]] and even [[Arc Villain|outright villains]] among its cast. [[Jerkass Woobie|Due]] [[Laughably Evil|to]] [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|several]] [[Pet the Dog|factors]], none of them could be considered truly hateful. The exception is [[The Grotesque|Quasim]], the [[Dumb Muscle|dumb]], [[The Brute|brutish]] [[The Bully|bully]] of [[Quirky Town|Villa Susto]]. His only role in the plot is to torment the students [[Up to Eleven|and teachers]] and generally being a pain in the ass. To reinforce this trope, his favorite victim is the local [[Cute Ghost Girl|Cute Ghost Guy]] [[Adorkable|Gus]], [[The Woobie|who is the least deserving of his abusive treatment]]. He usually [[Karma Houdini|doesn't get any comeuppances]], but when he [[Karma Houdini Warranty|does]], is extremely satisfying to watch.

 

* In the 2002 movie ''[[Groove Squad]]'', the villains can't be hated for several reasons: [[Big Bad|Dr. Nightingale]] is entertaining in his ambition of [[Take Over the World|TOTAL! WORLD! DOMINATION!]]; [[The Dragon|Flower Power]] are a trio of evil hippies with cool powers, and the Giant Worm is a... well... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|giant worm]]. So the movie has one in the form of [[Rich Bitch|Star]], [[The Hero|Chrissy]]'s [[Alpha Bitch|bitchy]] rival at the squad. Every moment of her screentime is her [[Green-Eyed Monster|complaining]] about how [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|Chrissy]]'s the cheerleader captain and not her, constantly trying to [[The Starscream|take her place in the squad]] and steal her [[Love Interest]]. And if that wasn't enough, {{spoiler|she's revealed to be Nightingale's [[Daddy's Little Villain|daughter]], which makes him kidnap the heroines to make her the captain. Unlike her [[Karma Houdini]] father, she gets her comeuppance at the end of the film.}}

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] [[Tragic Villain|tragically]] in ''[[ParaNorman]]''. {{spoiler|[[Hanging Judge|Judge Hopkins and the other Puritan citizens]] ''did'' [[Moral Event Horizon|cross the line]] by [[Would Hurt a Child|sentencing]] [[The Heavy|The Witch]]/[[Dark Magical Girl|Agatha Prenderghast]] [[Would Hurt a Child|to death]], showing nothing but [[Dissonant Serenity|callous dismissal]] over the whole thing, which led to [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Aggie]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|viciously retaliating by transforming them into zombies, leading to Blithe Hollow's famous curse]].}} As it turns out later, {{spoiler|Hopkins did not do this out of [[For the Evulz|senseless cruelty]], but because [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|he wanted to protect his people]] and was afraid of Aggie's ability to speak to the dead (the [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|time period]] didn't help matters). The zombies [[My God, What Have I Done?|are crushed with guilt over this]], and the reason they help [[The Hero|Norman]] is [[The Atoner|to make up for the mess they've caused]].}} Their state, instead of being portrayed as a [[Catharsis Factor]], shows how [[Jerkass Woobie|tragic]] they are {{spoiler|and how [[He Who Fights Monsters|deranged]] {{spoiler|Aggie}} [[Revenge Before Reason|has become]]. Due to this, [[Nice Guy|Norman]] [[Talking the Monster to Death|talks her out of her rage]] in order for her and the zombies to finally pass away and end the curse once and for all.}}

* Bob's boss Mr. Huph from ''[[The Incredibles]]'' isn't a murderous supervillain like Syndrome or even a criminal, but he makes up for his lack of crimes with his startling [[Lack of Empathy]]. He belittles Bob for trying to help Insuricare's customers get paid, refuses to let him stop a mugger, and takes a sickening amount of glee in humiliating him. You'd be hard-pressed to shed a tear once Bob has enough and breaks every bone in his body by throwing him through several walls, [[Reality Ensues|even though he gets fired for it in the process.]]

* Lord Barkis from ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' is not just a deplorable [[Gold Digger|gold digging]] murderer, but also a smug blowhard with no good qualities to his name. Him tricking the lovable Emily into eloping with him only to murder her once he got his hands on her family's money is horrible enough, but when he cruelly mocks her for never being able to marry either the men she loved, the viewer's bound to have no sympathy for him when his own stupidity leads to his death and horrible afterlife.

* ''[[Titanic]]'': Billy Zane's character, Cal. He [[It Will Never Catch On|disparages the Picasso paintings]]; [[Domestic Abuser|verbally and physically abuses Rose]]; [[Murder the Hypotenuse|tries to have Jack killed]]; is exposed to [[Greed|care more about money than Rose]]; and finally [[Dirty Coward|cowardly escapes on a lifeboat using a small child]]. Although he survives, he is deprived of Rose in the end, loses his money through bad investments and ultimately puts a pistol in his mouth and that is the audiences' consolation.

* ''[[Independence Day]]'': The Secretary of Defense, Mr. Nimzicki (a.k.a. [[Riff Trax|Foily McAntagonist]]). The aliens are inscrutable, have [[Cool Ship|cool ships]] and bring the [[Monumental Damage]] and massive carnage that is [[Just Here for Godzilla|the reason you bought the ticket]]. This guy knows about the aliens ahead of time but stays silent to give the President "plausible deniability." He continually pushes the use of nukes that are ineffective. He cockily celebrates victory too soon only to immediately be proven wrong. Finally he is the only person to disagree with the final plan that ends up working. His comeuppance is being fired by President Whitmore in person.

** To a somewhat lesser degree, the two Agents Johnson (no relation). The are rather disrespectful to Powell and the other police, unknowingly play into the robbers' hands by cutting the power, and are perfectly fine with allowing some of the hostages to die if it means getting the villains. However, thanks to being hilarious it's a bit harder to hate them than the other guys mentioned above.

** The same reporter gets zapped with a stun gun by the same Holly McClane in ''Die Hard 2'' after revealing on international TV that the airport has been hijacked, thereby causing a panic that the authorities were desperately trying to avoid. William Atherton seems to have made a career playing jerks we love to hate. Speaking of which...

* ''[[Twister]]'': Cary Elwes plays the corporate-backed scientist Jonas. You can't rage at the tornadoes, right? They're a force of nature, and they inspire awe in the heroes and give them purpose. But this guy "sold-out" and got corporate funding, making him a puppet of [[The Man]] (and why would a scientist ever want funding?). His team travel in four sinisterly identical black SUVs compared to our [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]' ragtag assortment of vehicles, he's a hack that doesn't know the true science and just copies the heroes or relies too much on the instruments rather than the clairvoyant way that Helen Hunt just stares at the storm and knows which way it will go. Ultimately, his whole team is sucked into the storm when he arrogantly ignores the heroes' warnings.

* Sean Parker from ''[[The Social Network]]''. In a story full of [[Gray and Gray Morality]], he's the closest character portrayed as an outright villain due to what a [[Jerkass]] he is, though he manages to be [[Love to Hate|mildly entertaining]] despite this.

* ''[[Unstoppable]]'': You can't hate a runaway train, but you can hate [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] Galvin. His comeuppance is that he loses his job afterwards.

* ''[[Back to the Future]]'': While he gets a lot of genuinely funny lines, Biff Tannen is still a real shitheel at the end of the day. It's bad enough that he's currently George McFly's boorish, overbearing boss, but when they were teenagers he was a violent bully who got his kicks out of cruelly humiliating him, and attempts to do the same to Marty when he travels back to 1955. He's also an attempted rapist who tries to have his way with Lorraine, but gets his lights punched out when George finally stands up to him.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' novel ''Deadhouse Gates'' the Chain of Dogs (a massive host of refugees marching across the continent) is constantly being attacked by enemy armies, but our viewpoint character for these sections of the story never gets more than a few glimpses of the enemy leaders. Without a face or personality to put to them, it's hard to dislike the armies of the Apocalypse on a personal level. Instead we're invited to vent our loathing upon a group of whiny nobles within the Chain of Dogs, who protest the [[Canon Sue]]'s actions at every turn, are openly cruel to their servants, and get a lot of their fellow refugees killed through incompetence.

* Since there's no real villain in ''Flight 116 Is Down'' by Caroline B. Cooney, the audience gets to focus their hatred on Darienne, a selfish passenger who ends up being completely unharmed in the crash. Heidi and Patrick work hard to save the passengers of the crashed plane while Darienne stands around doing nothing but complaining and being useless, yet she tries to take credit for saving people at the end. Even Patrick loses his cool when Darienne gets too much to handle.

* ''[[Speak]]'' runs on [[Teens Are Monsters]] who basically ostracize the protagonist [[The Voiceless|Melinda]] for calling the police at a party a year prior, with some examples being Rachel, Melinda's former best friend; and Heather, who dumps Melinda for popularity. The worst of them all is [[Jerk Jock|Andy Evans]]. Why? {{spoiler|He raped Melinda at the party, traumatizing her and initiating the whole shabang, and it's eventually revealed he assaulted many more female students prior. In the climax, he tries to assault Melinda again when she ruins his reputation, even going as far as saying [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|she enjoyed it]]. This time, though, Melinda kicks his ass, and subsequently he suffers an off-screen but equally satisfying beatdown from the female hockey team.}}

* The ''[[Percy Jackson]]'' series has Gabe Ugliano, who is the last husband you would want to have as a woman. Not only does he hit his own wife, but when she allegedly dies, he’d actually happy about it, because he gets the payout money from her life insurance. And yes, there’s the implication that he would eventually be accused of murdering her. And he also treats his son Percy Jackson much the same way. Thankfully, Percy’s mother eventually finds a much better husband.

* While it's a given that you're not supposed to like the IRA-offshoot with communist leanings in a Tom Clancy novel, Sean Miller from ''[[Patriot Games]]'' is far more vile than the rest of his comrades for the sheer cruelty and bigotry he displays through the book. Him choosing to cripple a prison guard who saved him from rape, his attempt to murder Jack Ryan's daughter and wife out of spite, and his racism while working with a black [[Western Terrorist]] will all make the reader loathe him as much as Jack does.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

** Said commanding officer is Valin Hess, a ridiculously ''creepy'' high-ranking Imperial who is just as ruthless as Grand Moff Tarkin but with none of his wit and Peter Cushing's natural charisma. When talking with Din and Mayfeld, he shows no remorse in sending thousands of his troops to their deaths and is downright smug about outliving them, then goes on to boast about willing to commit the atrocity that killed all those men on a grander scale. Viewers have been known to ''cheer'' when {{spoiler|Mayfeld shuts his smug ass up by plugging him in the head with a blaster bolt.}}

** Morgan Elsbeth is the tyrannical magistrate of Corvus, who rules over the planet with an iron fist and gleefully tortures and orders the deaths of innocent civilians as easily as breathing, all the while overseeing an operation to strip mine the planet of everything it's worth. It's hard not to sympathize with Ahsoka's deep, ''seething'' hatred of the bitch due to her being as unlikable as humanly possible with every bit of screentime that's afforded to her.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', the evil Team Rocket organization only turns up three times and hardly drive the plot, and end up hardly detestable as a result. However, the story features ''many'' encounters with your rude, thieving, Pokemon-abusing, borderline-sociopathic rival, who is ''much'' easier to hate. Until he finally undergoes [[Character Development]], that is.

** Your rival in ''Red/Blue'' might count. He's not evil in any sense, but he's a rude, annoying braggart, always one upping you and WILL make you want to beat his face in. He gets better at the end of the game, though.

** While the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Pokémon X and Y]]'' has a sympathetic backstory and does show regret over having to kill all the innocent Pokémon in the crossfire of his plan to wipeout mankind, most of his Grunts as a whole make up for his likability. While comedic, they're so smug, boorish, and delighted at the thought of wiping out all the people that they deem inferior that it's satisfying to watch them freak out after beating them in a Pokémon battle.

* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. As it's rather hard to develop much hatred for a giant, emotionless crustacean regardless of how many people it kills (and even harder to keep coming up with excuses to wind up in the ocean having boss fights with it), Seymour keeps popping up in the plot to provide a ''speaking'' villain for the party to fight on land instead of Sin. While he does have his own motivations and does get somewhat tied into the plot with Sin, his personal impact on the story itself is quite minimal overall aside from providing ever more complex boss fights {{spoiler|after you kill him and he just keeps creating ever more elaborate boss forms for himself.}}

* Volgin of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. His [[Establishing Character Moment|first action]] is blowing up his allies with a nuclear bomb, [[For the Evulz|for the hell of it]]. However, despite being ([[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|relatively speaking]]) the [[Big Bad]] of the game, he's not the main antagonist - the game is much more interested in the relationship between Naked Snake and [[The Messiah|The Boss]]. Volgin simply serves as 1) A [[Homage]] and [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[James Bond]]'' villains; 2) a [[Foil]] to The Boss; and 3) a form of catharsis before [[The Reveal]]. Not to mention the fact that if it hadn't been for the stunt he pulled with the nuke, ''the entire series'' would probably had never happened.

* ''[[Amateur Surgeon]]'' is a wacky medical comedy in which the patients are [[Laughably Evil|hilariously]] [[Affably Evil|sympathetic]] criminals who can't be hated due to their hijinks, so we have the [[The Heavy|main villain]] of ''the entire series'' and Alan's [[Arch Enemy|arch-nemesis]] {{spoiler|Dwayne Pipe}}. He's a [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]] [[Serial Killer]] whom his horrible misdeeds include: {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|killing a million patients]] (including [[Vigilante Man|Aureola]]'s parents) and blaming [[The Mentor|Dr. Bleed]] for it (ruining their lives in the process); poisoning Bleed when uncovered and [[Kick the Dog|mocking Alan about it]]; disguising himself as [[President Evil|The President]] and ruining [[The Hero|Alan]]'s life by closing his hospitals and making him lose contact with his family; forcing [[The Woobie|Bradley]] to kill Alan and [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beating him to near-death]] when he refuses to...}} All of this for [[revenge]] and [[For the Evulz|fun]]. Every one of his deeds are taken [[Knight of Cerebus|in a much more serious way]] compared to the others, and settles his status as [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|an horrifyingly dark villain in an otherwise lighthearted game]]. Not to mention, his levels are possibly [[Nintendo Hard|the hardest]] in the entire game, making him a [[Goddamned Boss]].

** The first game has Redd White, a slimy [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who thinks he can get away with his actions due to his money. He's especially hated due to him murdering Mia Fey, Phoenix's mentor and a fan-favorite character, and is extremely satisfying to render him a pathetic, begging wimp after his trial.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto V]]'': While the main characters [[The Caper|Franklin, Michael and Trevor]] are highly flawed criminals (''especially'' [[Ax Crazy|Trevor]]), they're nowhere near as loathsome as the [[Big Bad Ensemble]], Devin Weston and Steve Haines. Devin is one of the most despised GTA antagonists due to him acting like a cowardly and incredibly annoying [[Rich Bitch|Rich Bastard]] [[Man Child]] who goes as far as to {{spoiler|send the military organization Merryweather to kill Michael's family, as well as forcing Franklin into betraying either Michael or Trevor.}} Steve, for his part, beats the crap out of Michael for the [[Sarcasm Mode|unforgivable crime]] of standing up to him, becoming more and more of a dick as the game goes on. {{spoiler|Needless to say, choosing the C Option (leading to the "Deathwish" ending) is extremely satisfying despite its difficulty, since it allows to deliver these bastards the comeuppance they so deserve.}}

* ''[[The Last of Us]]'' focuses on a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] full of [[Grey And Gray Morality]], so it has [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|David]] from the Winter Chapter, a cannibalistic psychopath who tries to [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|rape Ellie]], with his boss battle being considered the most tense "Hide and Seek" level ever. {{spoiler|Which makes it more of a relief when Ellie slams the psycho with a machete repeatedly.}}

* ''[[Blaz Blue]]'': Yuuki Terumi is a weird zig-zagged example. [[In-Universe]], he's the personification of this trope, being a sadistic and cruel [[Troll]] who thinks of himself as the center of the universe, and ruins everyone's lives [[For the Evulz]], to the point he even uses this trope to survive. Out of universe, though, he's [[Love to Hate|beloved by the fans]] for his design, cool powers, accomplishments, and generally being praised for succeeding at being this trope.

* ''[[Undertale]]'' invokes this trope with [[Big Bad|Flowey]]. For most of the game, he's shown as a [[Jerkass|repulsive]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] who tries to kill you at the beginning of the game, {{spoiler| steals the six souls you collected ''twice'', uses his resetting powers to torture the player, and overall tries to prevent you from getting your happy ending.}} This is done to make [[The Reveal]] about him all the more effective: {{spoiler|Namely, his true identity as [[The Lost Lenore|Asriel]] [[Nice Guy|Dreemurr]], and consequently, the [[Came Back Wrong|most]] [[Tragic Monster|tragic]] [[Jerkass Woobie|character]] of the game.}} As such, his status as this can be [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] with both the Pacifist Run ({{spoiler|When he, as Asriel, recovers his compassion for enough time to apologize for his actions}}) and the Genocide Run ({{spoiler|When he's killed by [[Bigger Bad|the Fallen Child]] while [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg|pleading for mercy]], making his fate [[Alas, Poor Villain|too horrifying to get any satisfaction from it]].}})

* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' has another invoked example in [[No Fair Cheating|Resetti]], [[Foil|in a completely opposite role to the aforementioned]] [[Undertale|Flowey]]. His main job is to prevent players from resetting the game by acting as a deterrent, which means acting like a loud [[Jerkass]] by lecturing the player endlessly and forcing him to say certain words for the player to be left alone. [[Gone Horribly Right|It worked a little too well (there were reports of young children crying because of his attitude)]], so he was [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|toned down]] in ''New Leaf'' by making him an optional feature, giving certain options when he appears to prevent his lectures, and emphasizing his [[Jerkass Woobie|pitiful traits]] and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|benevolent intentions]]. [[Never Live It Down|Don't expect fans to live his previous reputation down, though.]]

* ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'' doesn't have a clear cut villain, as all antagonists have legitimate reasons for what they do and have extremely cool traits to boot. Because of this, the duology gives us {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist|Serph Sheffield]], [[The Hero|Serph]]'s human template and [[Bigger Bad|the catalyst for every tragedy in the story]]. He was a sociopathic [[Smug Snake]] who wanted to become [[God]] by performing callous experiments on [[The Woobie|Sera]], [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|whom he frequently manipulated at every turn]]; dismissing [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Heat O'Brien]]'s concerns about it, and has him killed for trying to stop him, [[Hoist by His Own Petard|which led to Sera snapping and angering God himself, transforming him into a demon and killing him not soon after]]. Poor [[Nice Guy|Serph]] was ''horrified'' about this, and when fighting him as the Fake Varna, he shows he hasn't changed one bit, which makes all the more satisfying when you finally kick his ass.}}

* In the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' games, main villain Sigma as well as other prominent baddies like Vile, the X-Hunters, and {{spoiler|Lumine}} are too cool to hate. So picking up their slack are several of the ''many'' Boss Mavericks through the series:

** Thanks to being fleshed out in the ''Maverick Hunter X'' rerelease, Flame Mammoth and Sting Chameleon are a lot easier to hate than they were in the SNES days. Flame Mammoth is a smug bully who takes great joy out of crushing those he deems weaker than him, and is so unlikable that none of the soldiers he commanded followed him when he joined Sigma. Sting Chameleon on the other hand is a slimy, giggling asshole who loves to rub it in to X's face that a number of his friends have gone Maverick.

** Magma Dragoon may be one of the most badass Mavericks in existence thanks to basically being [[Street Fighter|Akuma]] in robot dragon form, but he still makes the grade thanks to the sheer ''pettiness'' that drove him to commit the atrocities that kick off the game. Why did he destroy Sky Lagoon and kill millions of innocents in the process? ''Because he wanted to fight X and/or Zero.'' And he even has the gall to mock X over it, and brag that he would happily do it again.

** Most of the Maverick bosses in ''X5'' have been turned evil due to the Sigma Virus, and either beg to be put out of their misery or are visibly corrupted by it. This does ''not'' apply to Mattrex, Dark Dizzy, or Axel the Red, all of whom don't seem to be under the viruses effects and are more than happy to help Sigma destroy Earth for the hell of it. The first two are simply sadistic lunatics, while Axel only cares about being able to steal everything he wants once most life on Earth is dead.

* There aren't any true villains in ''[[Stardew Valley]]'' due to it being a farming simulator, but Morris is so unlikeable that he may as well be one. He's a representative of the corrupt Joja Corporation who seeks to establish a Jojamart in the valley, and goes out of his way to antagonize the town's local shopkeeper Pierre by poaching his customers by offering to slash his prices so they're way cheaper than his. He's also written letters expressing mock-pity for his shop floundering and offers to take him on as hired help and pay him ''5G'' (Around 5 cents or so) an hour. He's so smug and cold-blooded that when you restore the community center, it doesn't matter if he's chased out of town in a panic or {{spoiler|''punched though the ceiling'' by Pierre}}, it's satisfying to dump him on his ass either way.

* ''[[Bug Fables]]'': While a vile piece of work himself, the Wasp King doesn't go out of his way to antagonize the good guys and is a pretty impersonal foe at the end of the day. The same does ''not'' go for [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Mothiva]], Team Snakemouth's explorer rival. Despite acting the part of a friendly bubbly popstar, it's all an act for her fans. When she's out of the public eye, she's a rude and antagonistic pain in the ass who attacks Team Snakemouth twice in order to steal their glory. The second time is especially bad, since she's threatening to ruin important negotiations with another kingdom to help save the world and doesn't give a damn when [[The Big Guy|Kabbu]] tells her this. The one guy she's decent to is her partner Zasp, but that's because he's useful to have around. If he falls in battle first during Team Mothiva's boss fights, she's every bit as rude and bitchy to him as she is with everyone else.

* As befitting of one of the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest]] takes on the [[Batman]] universe, the ''Batman: Arkham'' series has quite a few nasty, despicable punks that will make you want to bash their skulls in with a Batarang.

** In the DLC, the devs ''really'' wanted to make [[The Don|Hammerhead]] as much of a scumbag as possible. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever and cares for nothing aside from power, and the lows he'll sink to get it include murdering a bunch of police officers just to terrorize and hurt one of them {{spoiler|until she snaps and gets kicked off the force after going on a murderous rampage}}, having the likable Silver Sable tortured, and even stealing aid to a foreign country, something that has ''nothing'' to do with his plans, just because he can. Unlike Mr. Negative and {{spoiler|Doctor Octopus}} who are pitiable in their defeats, the player's bound to feel great after taking down such a cruel, sadistic asshole.

** Screwball also graduates from goofy one-shot side villain to this in the same DLC. Not only is she an obnoxious blabbermouth who's forcing Spidey to participate in dangerous, stressful challenges for livestream views, but she's more than happy to mock and insult him for doing a less-than-perfect job. And on top of that, she's annoyingly untouchable and keeps slipping through Spidey's fingers despite her general stupidity, and even capturing her at the end of ''Silver Lining'' feels like a hollow victory at best.

** Micah Bell from [[Red Dead Redemption 2|the sequel]] not only eclipses Ross in sheer loathsomeness, but has made his mark as one of the most hated villains in video game ''history'', to the point that there's an entire [https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckMIcah/ subreddit] dedicated to hating him (with even his voice actor joining in!). Every ounce of hate he gets is completely warranted: he's a sadistic mass-murdering asshole, kicks and later on ''kills'' Jack's dog Cain, is openly racist and heavily implied to be a rapist, {{spoiler|sells out the rest of the Van Der Linde gang to the Pinkertons}}, and depending on your playstyle, {{spoiler|kills the lovable Arthur Morgan.}} Thankfully, {{spoiler|his fate is similar to that of Ross's, as you end the game by playing as John Marston, who hunts him down and kills him for his betrayal.}}

* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'' has [[Evil Brit|the Twin Tropys]], who take caring about absolutely no one other than themselves to the point where their main evil plan is "destroy our entire universe and then rebuild it so that it will be exactly how we want it to be (in other words, make ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' itself no longer exist) while committing [[Screw Yourself|selfcest]] in the process". In fact, [[Even Evil Has Standards|Neo Cortex himself utterly despises them]], [[A Worldwide Punomenon|as does]] ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'''s Nitros Oxide after incredibly-abusively being forced to work with/for the two of them.

 

* ''[[Sakana]]'', being a [[Slice of Life]], doesn't have any real antagonists (the closest would be a [[Yakuza]] boss who doesn't appear much anyway), but it has one hateful scumbag in {{spoiler|Arata Tasaki, Yuudai's [[Domestic Abuser|abusive ex-boyfriend]]. He's the reason why [[Jerkass Woobie|Yuudai]] is the messed-up person he is, causing his scar (which he sees as a [[Mark of Shame]]) by [[Moral Event Horizon|hitting him in the face with a bottle]]. His first appearance involves him appearing unnanounced to the stall after a misaimed drunken text, and acts so insulting and manipulative [[Beware the Nice Ones|Jiro]], otherwise an [[Extreme Doormat]], [[Tranquil Fury|coldly]] [[Get Out!|kicks him out of the stall]]. It gets [[Sarcasm Mode|even better]] when he shows up after working, having the gall to tell Yuudai [[Entitled to Have You|nobody is going to love him as much as he did]].}} The fact {{spoiler|Yuudai}} is a fan-favorite character does not help, nor does being the [[Foil|exact opposite]] of the much more beloved [[Nice Guy|Taisei]], {{spoiler|whom many root for to become Yuudai's [[Second Love]].}} Ironically enough, [[Love to Hate|his status as this has made him popular with the fanbase]].

** There's also the unnamed old woman in the side-story "Help Wanted". She proves to be an unpleasant [[Jerkass]] who dismisses [[Jerkass Woobie|Yuudai]] [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|for being half-Japanese]], and isn't much nicer to [[Cool Old Guy|Uncle Ren]] either. The thing that made her ''despised'' by the fanbase is her being the responsible for [[The Stoic|Shigeru]]'s injuries by making him accidentally [[Fingore|chop off his fingers]] due to her constantly interrupting his work, clinching this by [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|running away after the incident]] like a [[Dirty Coward]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The [[Netflix]] animated series ''Bojack Horseman'' is all about showing how [[Horrible Hollywood]] can be, and as such, it has many characters worth the viewers' hatred and revulsion. That said, it provides a unique spin on this trope by making the Hate Sinks as three-dimensional as possible, either by showing some [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|redeeming qualities]] ([[Villainous Friendship|Vanessa Gecko and Rutabaga]]), [[Jerkass Woobie|genuine tragedies that made them the way they are even if their actions are still inexcusable]] ([[Abusive Parents|Beatrice and Butterscotch Horseman]]) or [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|simply following the standards of the era]] ({{spoiler|Beatrice's father Joseph Sugarman}}) The point is that, while they're horrible people whose actions can ''never'' be excused, they're still people whose role in the show isn't just commit horrible deeds [[For the Evulz|for the sake of it]], but rather to illustrate what kind of extreme [[Crapsack World]] would require to make them such Hate Sinks in the first place.

* ''[[Recess]]'' has Randall, who’s hated by pretty much every student at Third Street Elementary School. The reason for that? He's a snitch who rats out students to Mrs. Finster. He also happens to be a coward. For this reason, he's one of the enemies of the Recess gang. "Randall's Friends" reveals that he doesn't have friends at school, and it's not hard to see why. Even the Ashleys dislike him. Inevitably, Prince Randall (in which he obtains power over the playground by King Bob, due to Randall blackmailing Bob) has him become [[The Caligula]].

** Lawson is basically a Spear Counterpart to the Ashleys. He's not the type of person that you would want to play sports with, as he is a very sore winner. One episode in particular had him stealing the fort the Recess Gang had worked so hard to build, and he and his gang of friends threw water balloons at them when they tried to take it back. It's not surprising he's Vince's rival when it comes to sports.

** Miss Finster herself zigzags the trope...while she's regularly portrayed as a sadist teacher, it is shown in ''Recess: School's Out'' that she was against Dr. Phillium Benedict's idea of abolishing Recess. And she legitimately considers Principal Prickly to be a friend of hers. It's also shown that she's a nice lady when she's off the clock. And she actually ''does'' sew the Recess Gangs's pants when they rip, as embarrassing as it for them.

* Burgermeister Meisterburger from ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'' is a lot goofier than most examples of this trope, but since he's a humorless adult obsessed with not letting the children of Sombertown have fun in a [[Christmas Special]], he still runs afoul of it. It's best exemplified when he gets so fed up with Kris sneaking toys to the children, that he has them all tossed into a roaring bonfire while the crying children are forced to watch. Being petty is one thing, but the Burgermeister definitely takes it to new heights.

 

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