Love It or Hate It: Difference between revisions

{{trope}}

 

Many shows have broad appeal, and most people who see them generally have a positive or neutral opinion on their value. Others appeal to a niche market and get positive views from their target audiences, while mainstream viewers are merely indifferent. Others are awful, but a lucky few of those manage to gain fans who like them ''[[So Bad It's Good|because]]'' [[So Bad It's Good|they're so bad]].

Contrast [[So Okay It's Average]].

 

 

== Advertising ==

* [[Exploited]] in ads for Marmite. The manufacturers use "You Either Love It or Hate It" as their advertising slogan, giving this trope an alternative name- The Marmite Effect.

* This is the newest series of ads for Miracle Whip salad dressing - different folks talking to the camera about how they love it or find it vile.

 

== Literature ==

* Neal Shusterman's ''[[Scorpion Shards]]'' has a character cursed [[In-Universe]] with Love It or Hate It. Every woman he meets immediately falls madly in love with him, and every man he meets immediately develops a powerful and [[Irrational Hatred]] towards him. Oh, and if he actually kisses a girl, [[Can't Have Sex Ever|his curse sucks her soul out of her body somehow]]. Tough break. (It turns out {{spoiler|his true superpowers are more benevolent, but he's been corrupted by an otherworldly power-sucking parasite}}.)

 

* ''[[Roger Ebert|Ebert and Roeper]]'' were deeply divided in their opinions of [[Metropolis (anime)|the anime adaptation]] of Osamu Tezuka's ''Metropolis''. You can see their review for yourself [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIS3DVc1f4 here.]

* On ''[[The Movie Show]]'', Australia's equivalent of At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert, David Stratton gave ''[[Dancer in the Dark]]'' 0 stars whilst Margaret Pomeranz gave it 5. This is the only time this ever happened on the show.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* [[Invoked]] by the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [http://magiccards.info/gp/en/129.html Schismotivate], which works by inciting strong positive and negative emotions in two target creatures. The happy creature gets powered up; the sad creature gets powered down.

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Mother 3]] has the Peculiar Cheese item. How much HP is restored from it depends on who eats it. Those who love it regain more HP, and those who hate it regain less HP.

* Played with in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'': the more Snake eats items he doesn't like, the more stamina he regains and the more he starts to enjoy them. However, he loves ALL the items thats give you full stamina.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The yearly [http://ifcomp.org/ Interactive Fiction Competition] has a special award for games that fall into this category: the Golden Banana of Discord, given to the title with the highest standard deviation.

* The music blog Pitchfork Media reviewed Robert Pollard's ''[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6383-relaxation-of-the-asshole/ Relaxation of the Asshole]'' and, on a scale of 0 to 10, they rated it a 0 ''and'' a 10.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Character Reaction Index]]

[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]

[[Category:Criticism Tropes]]

[[Category:No Real Life Examples, Please]]