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* 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.

** Quite a few of Frieza's henchmen are just as disgusting as their master. There's Goku's brother Raditz, who lacks the cool factor most Saiyans have going for them due to being a cowardly bully. Then there's [[Fat Bastard|Dodoria]], who's just as cowardly as Raditz but far crueler, to the point of being ''way'' too happy to murder Namekian children. And finally, Vegeta himself started off as this. Before he became the cool [[Anti Hero]] people fell in love with, he was just as twisted and sociopathic as Frieza, and spent a lot of time acting like an utter prick to everyone around him until his [[Character Development]] really kicked into full swing.

* 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.

** 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]].