Hate Sink: Difference between revisions

** Even before he became a supervillain, he was a pedophile, sadist, and child killer who lured his victims by [[Bad Humor Truck|posing as an ice cream man]], then brutally [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|raping and torturing them to death]]. He was arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison, but his father, [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|a rich Senator]], used powerful attorneys and blatant bribery to have him granted parole after only six years, and he went right back to preying on children. Spawn - who had known of Kincaid while still human, and had tried and failed to assassinate him on behalf of the CIA - finally seemed to deliver true justice by giving him a most horrid death; upon arriving in Hell, Billy was recruited by Malebolgia and made into a Hellspawn himself.

** From there, the Hellspawn Kincaid would attack an injured Spawn, who still crushes him easily and decapitates him - however, he comes back as a ghost, [[Demonic Possession|possessing people]] and forcing them to commit crimes based on their most violent impulses and condemning their souls to Hell. Even worse, he gets stronger with each soul taken, and his [[Body Surf]]ing makes it hard for Spawn to get a bead on him until he [[Batman Gambit|tricks him into possessing a police officer and luring him to the Dead Zone]] (a part of the city where Heaven reigns and Hell has no power). From there, Spawn takes Billy down with [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] and some help from Sam and Twitch. Did his [[Karma Houdini Warranty]] expire? Not a chance. He forcibly turns Christopher into a Hellspawn, using him as a puppet to commit murders while [[Forced to Watch|forcing him to watch them all]]; this is enough for the [[Faustian Rebellion|the symbiotic Hellspawn costume to side with Christopher]] and turn on Billy, tearing his soul apart and ''seemingly'' putting an end to him for good.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** 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.

* Pick almost any villain from ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' and you'll have someone so irredeemably evil it'll be satisfying to see them get their butts kicked.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[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]].

* 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.

* Gill from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is this, though he also doubles as a scary swamp monster. He is a bully at his core that more or less bullies Ron for the fun of it. While he teased Ron about not wanting to swim in Lake Wannaweep, he shows no remorse when he discovers that it was polluted (the hints were there) and it turned people into mutants, which eventually happened to him. (To put it in perspective, only prolonged exposure resulted in someone becoming a mutant, so he could have avoided it if he didn’t swim in it so much.) So he isn’t such a tragic monster. And he’s even worse in his second appearance.

 

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