Hate Sink: Difference between revisions

** And if he wasn't hate-worthy already, he {{spoiler|used his own clone, Hubris, as a pawn, becoming the [[Big Bad]] of the third game and carrying out the [[Evil Plan]] of poisoning everyone in sight in revenge for Dwayne's imprisonment.}} Even then, {{spoiler|Hubris}} is still more likable despite doing the same things on a larger scale, which is really saying something.

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' has a lot of these, given its premise. Some are the [[Big Bad|main villains]] of the games (like {{spoiler|Manfred Von Karma}} and {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne}}), but most of them are secondary villains and [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]] more often than not. Standouts include:

** {{spoiler|Matt Engarde}} from ''Justice for All'' proves to be one of the most despicable culprits despite having a shorter rapsheet than other similar Hate Sinks like {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne}}. {{spoiler|Dahlia at least committed her murders partly to cover herself (and this applies to other villains as well), and has something of a tragic backstory that gives her a ''very'' slim bit of pity despite her actions being completely inexcusable otherwise. Matt, on the other hand, doesn't even have ''that'' in his favor, ''[[Driven to Suicide|driving to suicide his innocent ex-girlfriend]]'' out of [[Evil Is Petty|spite]] and [[For the Evulz|fun]]. Moreover, he manages to kidnap Maya Fey and forces Phoenix to defend him in court while gloating about it like the [[Smug Snake|smug bastard]] he really is. God, is it satisfying to wipe his smug grin and seeing him [[Villainous Breakdown|break down]] in court at the end of the case, no matter the sentence you chose.}}

* While he was more stupid and later in life, insane, than truly malicious, you'll absolutely want to punch Ted Faro's teeth in after hearing how he sent the world of ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' down the toilet. {{spoiler|Thanks to his negligence, the robots his company created turned into genocidal human-eating machines that destroyed ''all life on Earth'', save for survivors hidden deep in bunkers. While Elizabet Sobeck and her AI Gaia were able to restore the world, Faro would go on to delete the archives that would teach the re-cloned humans Earth's history and kill all the Zero Dawn personnel so they couldn't somehow reverse it, which forced humanity back to the stone-age and reset its evolution all out of a mix of guilt-induced insanity and wanting to cover his ass so he wouldn't be remembered as humanity's greatest monster. Thankfully, ''Forbidden West'' reveals he got his [[Karma Houdini Warranty|long-due karmic retribution]] by being subjected to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] not long after said events.}}

** Blaze Heatnix and Infinity Mijinion are a lot easier to hate than the rest of the Nightmare Investigators, who are either tragic, sympathetic, or simply less severe in their attitudes and crimes. Heatnix was an asshole who endangered his companions as a disaster relief worker and would leave them to die, not giving a damn because he thought they were too weak to live. Meanwhile, Mijinion was also prone to endangering his coworkers while testing out heavy machinery and didn't care, causing them to murder him and cover it up as an accident with no one caring to look into it any deeper. Now that they've been revived, they're bloodthirsty and willing to kill anyone they look down on... which is basically everyone else in the world, with Mijinion being particularly obnoxious and haughty about it.

* The [[Playstation 4]] ''[[Spider-Man (2018 video game)|Spider-Man]]'' incarnation of the Sinister Six is mostly full of people with sympathetic, or at least understandable reasons for their horrible attack on Manhattan at the end of the game: Mr. Negative and {{spoiler|Doc Ock}} want revenge on Norman Osborn for screwing them over in the past, Rhino wants to be freed from his restrictive suit, and Vulture wants a cure for his cancer. And even though he selfishly wants to become a being of pure energy, you can't hate Electro since he's a funny guy willing to [[Villainous Friendship|pal around]] with Vulture and ''quip back'' with Spidey. But [[Scary Scorpions|Scorpion?]] He's a [[Jerkass|sadistic, scummy little asshole]] who kills and tortures for the hell of it, and is incredibly rude and obnoxious towards Rhino during their boss fight. He's such a douche that Spider-Man is more than happy to trap him in a shipping container with Rhino, and let him be mercilessly beaten until the cops show up.

** Unlike the Tinkerer, who is at least ''supposed'' to be sympathetic ([[Unintentionally Unsympathetic|with mixed results]], but still), Simon Krieger's designed to attract all the player's bile during the main campaign of ''[[Spider-Man: Miles Morales]]''. He's a smug, sociopathic blowhard and textbook corporate douchebag willing to allow his dangerous new energy resource to poison the citizens of Harlem with the justification that no one will care about the deaths of sick people in a bad part of town. [[Bad Boss|His own mercenaries are treated with the same kind of disdain]], and he's more than happy to screw over anyone who works with him if he can benefit from it in some way. His creepy willingness to torture and dissect the teenage Miles don't win him any likability points either.

* The fourth ''[[God of War]]'' game doesn't have a [[Big Bad]] per se, and since most of [[Jerkass Gods|the Norse Gods]] don't appear in this game and [[The Heavy]] {{spoiler|The Stranger/Baldur}} is [[Jerkass Woobie|surprisingly]] [[Tragic Villain|sympathetic]], there's Thor's son Modi to take up the mantle. Unlike his brother Magni (who at least has ''some'' [[Even Evil Has Standards|standards]] and [[Noble Demon|decency]]), Modi's a [[Dirty Coward|cowardly thug]] who constantly throws out misogynistic taunts about Kratos' late wife, as well as some seriously ''creepy'' comments about his young son Atreus that have heavy pedophilic undertones to them. {{spoiler|His death is horrifying, but that's because of concern for Atreus' [[Sanity Slippage]] rather than any kind of regard towards him.}}

* The ''[[Dragon Age]]'' franchise has plenty of despicable jerks, but Arl Rendon Howe from ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]'' is arguably the worst. While Loghain has at least [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|understandable reasons]] for his evil deeds, his underling Howe (his dismissive smugness portrayed ''excellently'' by VA [[Tim Curry]]) is little more than a power hungry coward; players who choose Human Noble origin are likely to hate him the most, where his betrayal of the PC's father is there for all to see and [[The Quisling|quisling behavior]] is the most pronounced. The man is even willing to murder children to fulfill his selfish goals. While you are able to gain revenge - and a great deal of Catharsis - later, he maintains his [[Entitled Bastard]] delusions to his final breath, and a lot of players were upset that they couldn't make his death more agonizing than it was.

* ''Bomb Rush Cyberfunk'' has an example in its [[Big Bad|main]] [[Walking Spoiler|twist villain]] {{spoiler|[[Blondes Are Evil|Faux aka Teun Vogelaar]]. Far from the [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|seemingly friendly]] and [[Beneath Notice|generic]] [[Decoy Protagonist]] shown in the beginning, he's a [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|treacherous]], [[It's All About Me|entitled]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] who uses his newfound status as the police force's [[Person of Mass Destruction|Project Algo]] to [[Hunter of His Own Kind|hunt down other writers]] so he could become "All City King", going as far as to murder the previous commissioner and try to slaughter treacherous crew Devil Theory for [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outliving their usefulness]].}} If ''that'' wasn't enough, {{spoiler|he murdered his [[False Friend|friend]] and previous All City King [[The Ace|Felix]] (who is [[The Hero|Red]]'s true identity) in the backstory because he [[He Knows Too Much|discovered]] he was using his [[Dirty Cop]] father to [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|scrub off his criminal records by pining them on other innocent writers]] as well as [[Green-Eyed Monster|petty jealousy]].}} When confronted with all of this, he goes from [[Soft-Spoken Sadist|self-assured]] [[Smug Snake]] to [[Psychopathic Manchild|spoiled brat throwing a tantrum]] trying to [[Never My Fault|poorly justify his actions]] on his roots, having the gall to [[Victim Blaming|put the blame on]] {{spoiler|Felix}} for [[Disproportionate Retribution|daring to go All City by himself]]. Needless to say, {{spoiler|seeing Red/Felix [[Shut UP, Hannibal|shutting down his rant]] and delivering an [[Ironic Echo|ironic]] [[Karmic Death]] in the final battle}} is [[Catharsis Factor|immensely satisfying]].