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{{quote|''"I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally."''
|'''[[H. L. Mencken]]'''}}
If you treat one person like dirt, you're an asshole. If you treat a group of people like dirt, you are a racist and a bigot. If you treat ''everyone'' like dirt you are... kind of okay. At very least, it says "Evil? [[Jerkass|Maybe]]. But ''[[Evil Is Petty|petty]]''? [[Magnificent Bastard|Never!]]".
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This can be [[Truth in Television]]. The term for this kind of people is 'misanthrope', they usually manage to function within society, and can form normal relationships with other humans. Indeed, it's considered an asset for humourists (H.L. Mencken being the prime example).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kyoya Hibari from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. He hates ''everyone'', and treats them ''all'' with contempt. Everyone in series accepts this as just being him. And guess what? He's been consistently voted as [[Draco in Leather Pants|the most beloved character in the series]].
* Hiyori of ''[[Bleach]]''. She hates humans, she hates shinigami, she hates her fellow vizards, she hates hollows, but most of all she hates [[Berserk Button|Aizen]].
== [[Comedy]] ==▼
* A certain comedian said of his father that all the races his dad hated most was human.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Kim Pine is accused of this in ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', where she responds to her coworker asking her if that includes her by saying 'you're part of everyone'
* [[Superman|Sam Lane]] seemed less than thrilled to find out that his daughter Lois was going to marry Clark Kent, and seemed to give various reasons to why he didn't like him, ranging from Clark being too mild-mannered to blaming Clark for breaking off the engagement the previous time (Clark promptly pointed out that it was actually Lois who broke it off). Ron Troupe, who was engaged to Lois' sister, Lucy, was worried how he would take Lucy marrying a black man. Lucy replied that Sam was by no means racist. He hated all of his daughters' beaus.
* One of the reason [[Spider-Man]]' foil J. Jonah Jameson supports civil rights and equality; he hates ''everyone''.
* In the comic strip [[The Boondocks]], Huey Freeman seems to hate everyone and everything. He once tried to write a book about people he hated, seeing as he [[Write What You Know| was so good at hating.]] But he didn't include [[Osama bin Laden]], because as he explains, "He's so EASY to hate. I'm trying to challenge the reader to expand his or her hate horizons." He did however, include Lucy from ''[[Peanuts]]'', because of [[Running Gag|"the whole pulling-the-football-away thing."]]
== [[Film]] ==
* Henry Higgins from ''[[My Fair Lady]]''.
{{quote|'''Higgins''': You see, the great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls. The question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you've ever heard me treat anyone better.}}
* Sergeant Hartman from ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' claims to be this. If you aren't a Marine, you are nothing. If you are a Marine, you are a god.
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'''Joker:''' Sir, negative, sir! Sir, the private believes that any answer he gives will be wrong, and the senior drill instructor will beat him harder if he reverses himself now, sir!
'''Hartman:''' Private Snowball, you're fired. Private Joker is now promoted to squad leader. Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant, but he's got guts, and guts is enough. }}
* Samara from ''[[The Ring]]''. She doesn't care in the least who her victims are, she hates the entire world and wants everyone to suffer.
* ''[[Dirty Harry]]'':
{{quote|'''Di Georgio''': Ah that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody. Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.
'''Gonzales''': How does he feel about Mexicans?
'''Di Georgio''': [[Shmuck Bait|Ask him.]]
'''Harry Callahan''': Especially Spics. }}
* [[Transformers (film)|Bonecrusher]] [[Memetic Mutation|hates everything]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Jonathan Strange
* [[Noble Bigot with a Badge|Vimes]] of ''[[Discworld]]'':
{{quote|"'I can't say I like dwarfs much, Littlebottom. But I don't like trolls or humans either, so I suppose that's okay." }}
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* Police officer Henry "Roscoe" Rules from Joseph Wambaugh's ''The Choirboys''. It's considered to be his [[Jerkass|one redeeming trait]]. He expresses a wish for a word as ugly as "nigger" that he can apply to ''all'' humanity, and his co-workers eventually come up with "scrotes," which Roscoe gleefully adopts.
* In Stuart M. Kamisnky's Inspector Rostnikov series, the detective Emil Karpo is cold, detached, and a lot like a monk (and somewhat like Mr. Spock). When Rostnikov's wife meets Karpo, she thinks he's cold and distant towards her because she's Jewish. (As in the Monk example below, Karpo isn't misanthropic.)
* Argus Filch in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels, Hogwarts' grouchy caretaker. He hates everyone except his cat, Mrs. Norris; downplayed a little, as he hates Peeves ''much'' more than anyone else.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** (Becomes [[Harsher in Hindsight|greatly less funny]] once you realize that Toby is actually ''not'' exaggerating.)
* Dr Cox from ''[[Scrubs]]''. And Kelso. And the Janitor.
* Oscar the Grouch on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' hates everybody except children (the only people that he can actually act nice to without facing ridicule from other Grouches), and possibly Maria, although he'd never admit it.
== [[Music]] ==
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''And all the people that I don’t''
''I hate you all'' }}
* Say Anything's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQd7_HqR900 Hate Everyone] blends this with [[Humans Are
{{quote|''Did you know that there are people in the world''
''annoyed with all the other people in the world,''
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* Dethklok prove this with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_sioHsT7GQ Fan Song], which is a song dedicated to all their fans... And how much they hate them and wish they would die. You can tell it solely by the fact that the word "hate" is used a total of 48 times, along with the fact that "die" is used a total of 31 times. Yet, fans still continue to buy their records...
* The [[Kingston Trio]]'s song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGsY4vBYdYM "The Merry Minuet"] (AKA [[Refrain From Assuming|"They're Rioting In Africa"]]) includes this passage:
{{quote|''The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
''The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
''Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch.
''And I don't like anybody very much!}}
* Czech band Oberon (split up) had an [https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Oberon/I_Hate_Everyone_Equally/253161 album] named ''I Hate Everyone Equally''.
== [[Radio]] ==
* [[Neal Boortz]] styles himself as such.
== [[
▲* A certain comedian{{who}} said of his father that all the races his dad hated most was human.
* Saying: "All the world's cracked but me and thee; and I'm not too sure about thee."▼
* Some describe [[Harlan Ellison]] this way.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Former New York mayor Ed Koch invoked this to defend Rudy Giuliani against charges of racism: "Blacks and Hispanics ... would say to me, 'He's a racist!' I said, 'Absolutely not, he's nasty to everybody'."▼
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** Beholders are a race of evil, greedy, arrogant, xenophobes. They look down upon other races, certain that "lesser" creatures covey their magic and knowledge. Their vanity causes this hatred to extend to other beholders, as each beholder considers itself to be the "perfect" example of a beholder, with all others being ugly copies. While the basic body shape (large sphere with a central eye and ten smaller eyes on stalks) allows a great deal of variance (some beholders have smooth skin, others have thick scales; some have small sharp teeth, others have large, blunt teeth; and so on) even a difference as minute as size of the central eye is enough to make two beholders hated enemies.
** [[Demon Lords and Archdevils| Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undead]], a [[Fat Bastard| vile, bloated monster]], bloated on spite and contempt. Despite his title, he hates undead beings, [[Bad Boss| using them without thought or consideration]]. He hates the living too, including his own worshipers; he hates other demons, and he hates himself. He hates everything except gaining personal power and spreading misery, destruction, and death; he wants all of existence to suffer before it is crushed, and he personally wants to be the one who crushes it. Orcus is a being born from the contempt, loathing, and hatred or all sapient beings, manifested when the [[Ancient Evil| Queen of Chaos]] birthed them from the moribund flesh of the primordial obiriths, and yes, Orcus hates them too. The one upside to this is, he doesn’t hate any one group of mortals more than he hates anyone else. Unlike his foe Demogorgon, he has no desire to see clerics of good-aligned gods sacrificed to him in horrific rituals; that would only imply that he hates some mortals more than others. Some of his worshipers have pondered whether it would be different if it were ''a thousand'' of them; maybe ten-thousand? A hundred-thousand? A ''whole species''? If all life on a planet were brutally slaughtered in Orcus’ name, would that please the Prince of Undead? No... He would merely hate that such achievements didn’t happen more often, and despise his would-be servants for their failure to show tenacity in their offerings.
** Arguably anyone with a [[Chaotic Evil]] alignment. [[Chaotic Neutral]] could easily fall into this, too; they'd just be less [[Ax Crazy|active]] about it.
** In ''[[Planescape]]'', the [http://www.mojobob.com/roleplay/monstrousmanual/v/vaporigh.html vaporighu] is a vile and disgusting monster native to Gehenna, who are believed to be manifestations of the plane's foul nature, meaning they are literal embodiments of Hate. They savagely attack anything that moves.
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Foamy the squirrel from ''[[Neurotically Yours]]''. He has shown some bits of fondness for Germaine and his fellow squirrels Pillz-E and Begley. The world at large, though? Either [[A God Am I|worship Foamy]] or go to hell.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* It's yet to be seen whether [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730144353/http://thedugs.com/?p=1127 Bob the Crab] from ''[
* Dr. Lorna from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
* Mike of the ''[[Walkyverse]]'', various webcomics all taking place in the same fictional canon.
* [[Jerkass|Yuudai]] from ''[[Sakana]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321230940/http://sakana.smackjeeves.com/comics/1033527/035/ claims] that he's this, but it seems to be [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] since [[Tsundere|he]] [[Pet the Dog|adores]] [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|his cat]] and seems to get along at least a little bit better with Taro than with everyone else, so he makes exceptions for some.
* Davan (and [[Comedic Sociopathy|most of the main cast]], to a degree) from ''[[Something
{{quote|I know Davan would never single out a religion. If anything, his disdain is shared by everyone.}}
* Baxter the squirrel from ''[[Catharsis]]'':
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* Norman the squirrel (does anyone notice a pattern here?) from ''[[Dragon Tails]]''.
* Karkat from ''[[Homestuck]]'' is an angry asshole to everyone. Absolutely everyone. Including [[I Hate Past Me|him]][[Future Me Scares Me|self]]. (With the possible exception of [[Team Mom|Kanaya]].)
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
* ''Slack Wyrm'' has [http://joshuawright.net/slack-wyrm-036.html Duchess Doris].
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' has a whole poem on this — [//www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-07 Bobby and the Gurg].
* Pictured above (and lampooned), the Ku Klux Krayons from ''[[Wonderella]]''; when the heroine points out the diversity in ''their'' group, they turn on each other.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'''s Yahtzee styles himself this way as a self described cynic and misanthrope. A female viewer who called him out for apparent misogyny received the reply that she was technically right in that he did hate women, but only because Yahtzee apparently hates people across the board.
* [[SF Debris]].
* Andrew Ti of the "Yo, Is This Racist?" blog [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927112907/http://yoisthisracist.com/post/14473139777/w-c-fields-once-said-i-am-free-of-all-prejudice-i delivered] a magnificent [[Take That]] to people who use this joke.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] has admitted to being bigoted against pretty much every nationality, gender and disability.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Karaba the villainess and title sorceress of ''[[Kirikou and The Sorceress]]''.
* Mandy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Grouchy Smurf from ''[[The Smurfs]]'' hates almost everything. Although, [[Hidden Heart of Gold|he does like Baby Smurf.]]
* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Homer offers this trope to Bart as a way to get out of jury duty. The trick is to say that you're "prejudiced against all races."
* Lemongrab of the show ''[[Adventure Time]]'' doesn't like anybody. His sour personality is the result of a failed science experiment that occurred during his creation in a laboratory. Unless you completely avoid him, don't talk to him, don't look at him, and don't come anywhere NEAR him, then you're okay. But if you do so much as ask "Who are you talking to?" when he goes into one of his near-psychotic screaming rants, then he'll send your ass to the dungeon for the rest of your life. Even if you're his MOTHER. He just doesn't care.
* Zigzagged with Rick from ''[[Rick and Morty]]''; he ''does'' hate everybody but he hates his family a ''little'' less and hates himself ''far'' more.
* Similar to Rick is the protagonist of ''[[BoJack Horseman]]'' who hates himself slightly more than he hates everyone else.
* On ''[[Futurama]]'', the alien newscaster Morbo hates humans, calling them "puny", "insignificant", and other insults (which his human co-host Linda oddly doesn't seem to mind), but he also seems to hate robots, other aliens, and pretty much everyone, even his wife. The only friends he seems to have are Richard Nixon and ''maybe'' Linda<ref>"Friend" may be an overstatement, but he does usually address her by name instead of as "pitiful human female".</ref>
▲* Saying: "All the world's cracked but me and thee; and I'm not too sure about thee."
▲* Some describe [[Harlan Ellison]] this way.
▲* Former New York mayor Ed Koch invoked this to defend Rudy Giuliani against charges of racism: "Blacks and Hispanics ... would say to me, 'He's a racist!' I said, 'Absolutely not, he's nasty to everybody'."
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