History HateSink / Literature

* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': Bob Ewell is a redneck who spends so much of his welfare money on booze that the sheriff allows his family to illegally hunt so his children do not starve. After one of his daughters, whom he sexually abuses, befriends a local black man, Bob beats her senseless and frames her friend for it. While the man is convicted because the jury is racist, his lawyer makes a fool of Bob in the courtroom, so [[spoiler:Bob tries to murder his children]].

** Laurie, Abby's mother's old friend from college, is an obnoxious and self-righteous HolierThanThou StrawVegetarian who criticizes and berates the Hayes family for not eating organic food at every single opportunity, even though they're letting her and her daughter stay at their house for free. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is turning her nose up at the special lasagna and cherry cobbler (formerly her favorite foods) that Abby's mother made to welcome her because they're unhealthy. She also forces Abby to babysit her bratty daughter Wynter for several hours every day while not bothering to pay her a cent, despite having more than enough money to do so. It is very satisfying when Abby's parents finally find out about her making Abby babysit Wynter for free and put their foot down, telling her it's not acceptable.

** Ms. Lee, a one-shot substitute teacher who hates children and constantly yells at Abby's fifth-grade class for supposed infractions. When Hannah asks Abby for a pencil before a test, Ms. Lee's reaction is to yell at them and threaten to give them both zeroes if they don't be quiet.

* ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', a tie-in novel to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', introduces the King of the Southern Isles, the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of [[TragicVillain Prince Hans]]. While Hans himself commits actions that are inexcusable in the film, this novel depicts him in a more sympathetic light [[ALighterShadeOfBlack by comparison]]. His father is an emotionally abusive and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who is feared and widely despised in his entire country for destroying homes and arresting (possibly killing) people for not providing enough favors or criticizing him. He's also shown to be an abusive spouse to his wife, who is left in a fragile state due to years of childbirth. Except for Hans, who decides to become his gofer as a way to escape home for good and harbors little to no loyalty to him, most of his sons are all heavily loyal to him and do what he asks, though it's implied they act out of fear as he despises any form of compassion or kindness. He exists solely [[EvilerThanThou to make Hans look tame in comparison]].

* In ''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'', Marcy's Father is a terrible husband who constantly fights with his wife Lily to the point where she appears to be taking drugs to cope and is abusive to his two children, calling his teenage daughter fat, stupid, and ugly (leaving her with severe self-esteem issues as a result), and harshly scolding his four-year-old son for [[FelonyMisdemeanor sucking his thumb and playing with his teddy bear.]] It's quickly obvious to the reader that he doesn't even like, let alone love his family. Especially when Marcy tries to get her family to sit around the dinner table and discuss things like a normal family, her father's response is, "I work hard all day for this family, I don't have to talk to all of you too, do I?" as if talking to his wife and children without screaming at them is a strenuous chore. He also uses Marcy as a scapegoat for nearly everything that goes wrong in his life, including Lily spending less time with him and more with their children, his fighting with Lily [[NeverMyFault that he always initiates,]] and Marcy's attempt to initiate a simple family discussion going horribly wrong. One has to wonder why he decided to get married and have children in the first place if he hates having a family so much, outside of a possible ShotgunWedding. From start to finish, he has zero redeeming qualities and it's obvious that he's meant to be despised by the reader more than any other character. The only good thing that can be said about him is that by the end of the book, he's been convinced to more-or-less leave Marcy alone and has achieved an uneasy peace with her, but he's still far from being any kind of family man. The ending shows Lily is starting to stand up to him and making a life for herself, foreshadowing the possibility she may hopefully leave him and take Marcy and Stuart with her.

** Laurie, Abby's mother's old friend from college, an obnoxious and self-righteous HolierThanThou StrawVegetarian who criticizes and berates the Hayes family for not eating organic food at every single opportunity, even though they're letting her and her daughter stay at their house for free. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is turning her nose up at the special lasagna and cherry cobbler (formerly her favorite foods) that Abby's mother made to welcome her, because they're unhealthy. She also forces Abby to babysit her bratty daughter Wynter for several hours every day while not bothering to pay her a cent, despite having more than enough money to do so. It is very satisfying when Abby's parents finally find out about her making Abby babysit Wynter for free and put their foot down, telling her it's not acceptable.
** Victoria, the rude, snotty AlphaBitch in Abby's grade who make Brianna look tolerable. Even though Brianna does almost nothing but brag about herself, she doesn't go out of her way to bully others like Victoria.

** Scythe Goddard slowly devolves into this as he commits more and more atrocities under the hypocritical guise of helping the Scythedom. [[spoiler: His revival and rise to Overblade of North Merica only make him less likable, loosing the charm he had in the first book and making him even more smug, petty, and cruel. His backstory doesn't make things any better, he murdered his parents and destroyed two space colonies because they made the Scythedom useless and he wanted power within the Scythedom.]]

** An Olive Baboon named [[spoiler: Stinger (Formerly known as "Seed")]] is very popular at his introduction. [[spoiler: He]] was well liked by fans and characters In Universe. However, fans develop an intense dislike for [[spoiler: Stinger]] after Thorn Middleleaf (One of the protagonists) discovers that [[spoiler: he]] assassinated their former leader [[spoiler: Bark Crownleaf]] in order to usurp her. [[spoiler: When Thorn confronts Stinger on his findings, Stinger threatens to end the former's life if he stands in his way. Stinger is true to his words when he turns lion cub, Fearless Gallantpride against Thorn by scapegoating Thorn for his (Stinger's actions). Fearless buys into Stinger's deception and would've killed Thorn had Sky Strider had not intervened. After Sky and Loyal unsuccessfully attempt to convince Fearless that he's fighting on the wrong side, Fearless returns to Baboon Island in order to warn Stinger about Loyal and Sky, however Stinger's true colors become apparent to Fearless when he finds that he took Nut as prisoner and mistreated the latter while he was in the troop's captivity. However it's only after Stinger reveals that he killed Snarl Fearlesspride, and confirms Loyal and Sky's revelations that he (Stinger) is in league with Titan (Another primarily antagonist of the book series) that Fearless realizes in shock that it was Stinger who had betrayed him and Brightforest Troop ''not'' Thorn.]] [[spoiler: Fearless subsequently disowns Stinger and storms off to reconcile with Thorn. Near the end of ''Blood and Bone'' Stinger is finally defeated, when Sky Strider tosses him into the lake Baboon Island is located on where the Baboon is subsequently torn apart by crocodiles. Both fans and Bravelands characters rejoice at Stinger's downfall and agree that Stinger Crownleaf got was he deserved]].
** Titan Tiatanpride is introduced in the beginning of ''Broken Pride'' as a major villain in the first arc. He kills Fearless's father, Gallant by allowing his cronies to assist him when it becomes clear that Titan can't beat Gallant in a one-on-one match. He then sends Cunning after Fearless and Valor to eliminate Gallant's heirs. Fearless manages to escape, but his sister is captured and taken into the newly formed Titanpride as a prisoner. Titan was a power-hungry lion who was brutish, arrogant and dishonorable. [[spoiler: He is subsequently killed in the final book of the first arc]].

* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': In the original book, we got Chris Hargensen and Billy Nolan; Chris is the sociopathic AlphaBitch in her school, who holds a personal grudge towards Carrie for getting her suspended when [[NeverMyFault she was punished for bullying her]]; Billy is Chris' abusive boyfriend, and a violent thug who gets in on Chris' scheme to humiliate Carrie. Out of Carrie's subsequent victims, these two had it coming the most (aside from Margaret White). Ironically, Tommy and Sue, who actually cared about Carrie, receive more blame for Carrie's killing spree than either Chris and Billy.

* ''Et je prendrai tout ce que j'ai à prendre'', by Céline Lapertot: Charlotte's father, beneath his loving facade, is in truth a narcissistic pervert who abused his own wife Mathilde so much he turned her into a BrokenBird before the story even starts. Introduced giving Mathilde a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown because he had a bad day at work, he punched his daughter Charlotte and locked her up in the cave because he felt his control over her was slipping. The cave became Charlotte's bedroom for 10 years, during which her father constantly abused her, threatening her into not saying anything to her grandparents in a fatherly tone, beating her up and ripping to shreds one of her books when her grades worsened, or forcing Charlotte to watch as he destroyed her old bedroom (that he constantly changed to fit Charlotte's tastes). When Charlotte befriended Guy, her father found out, and attempted to rape her when she had shown the slightest bit of defiance.

* ''Literature/TheGirlNextDoor'': Ruth Chandler is a woman who has taken her nieces Meg and Susan in after their parents died. Believing that [[FemaleMisogynist all women are whores until proven otherwise]], Ruth starts starving and emotionally abusing Meg, escalating to physical when she fights back. Threatening to turn her wrath on Susan if Meg resists, Ruth has her sons lock her in their basement and regularly torture her. As Ruth and her sons convince other neighbourhood kids to join in on the violence, she starts allowing the boys to rape Meg. After a young boy named David tries to stop Ruth, she has him thrown in the basement so she can kill him later, after which he learns that [[spoiler:Ruth has been molesting Susan. David escapes, kills Ruth and alerts the police, but Meg dies of her injuries before paramedics can arrive.]]
* Quite a lot of what makes ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' scarier to read as an adult is digging deeper into how many of the [[AdultsAreUseless adults]] and [[KidsAreCruel children]] exmeplify the sins of human nature. But [[ItsAllAboutMe Alexander]] from ''Literature/DeepTrouble'', [[EnfantTerrible Tara Webster]] from ''Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom'', [[SadistTeacher Mr. Saur]] from ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'', [[WickedWitch Vanessa]] from ''Literature/ChickenChicken'', [[VillainProtagonist Brandon]] from ''Literature/HeadlessHalloween'', [[BigBrotherBully Micah]] from ''Literature/RevengeRUs'', and [[JerkJock Conan Barber]] from ''Literature/MonsterBloodII'', ''[[Literature/MonsterBloodIII III]]'' and ''[[Literature/MonsterBloodIV IV]]'' are probably the ''worst'' examples.
* ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' has Jin Guangshan, leader of the Jin Sect. While nearly all of the other villains have [[FreudianExcuse some kind of reason]] for why they are, or are at least [[LargeHam entertainingly evil]], Jin Guangshan is nothing but a spoiled, hedonistic, womanizing asshole who uses, abuses, and ruins everyone around him at his leisure. It's notable that when his [[OutWithABang manner of death]] is uncoverered, everyone agrees it was horrible, but nobody actually ''cares'' beyond it being proof of how vicious the one who plotted it actually is.
* ''Literature/HisOnlyWife'': Afi's uncle, Tͻgã Pious. He is petty and a cheapskate, often insisting on the duty the Ganyo family (Afi’s in-laws) has towards him as Afi's "father". But when Afi's actual father did die and she and her mother were evicted from their home, Pious left them out on the street despite having room in his home. Despite that, he quite often talks about himself being like a father to Afi. He is also a neglectful parent towards his younger children. He has a flush toilet inside his home but does not allow anybody other than himself to use it. Then he changes his mind and allows the others in the family to use it... for a monthly fee.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Certain members of the political factions opposed to the Queen make rumblings from time to time through the books, but in ''War of Honor'', after they have managed to take control of the government, it ''really'' starts to manifest itself. The High Ridge government begins making ill-advised, short-sighted decisions (drawing down the navy since the fighting's stopped, but not rescinding the war time taxes since the war's still on among others) that ''nobody'', outside of their own political offices, think are a good idea. Over the course of the book they manage to set themselves at odds with the Queen (though that actually happened in the previous book), completely frustrate the Republic of Haven officials they're supposed to be negotiating with by ''not'' really negotiating, completely alienate many of their allies, to the point that there is genuine concern that one of them might jump ship to Haven's side, and present such a weak image of the Star Kingdom that the Andermani emperor thinks it's a prime opportunity to move on territorial ambitions he's had for years. Even the science team they have searching for an additional wormhole terminus feels little more than contempt for them. In addition, they are all high-minded, arrogant, petty individuals who attempt to silence Honor, one of their most vocal critics, by trying to catch her in an infidelity scandal, and bench officers who don't agree with their naval policies. At the end, when all their missteps finally blow up in their faces, Queen Elizabeth III coldly demands their resignation, and they are uncerimoniously replaced by a new government with little lament from the populace.

* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' has Dennis Nedry. He has [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal a reasonable motive for betraying the park]] (he was overworked, underpaid, and at least in the novel the higher-ups blamed him for the inevitable glitches and bugs that emerge from one guy having to build a complex system from scratch), and in [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the movie]] he's a LaughablyEvil LargeHam, but this doesn't make Nedry less of a greedy, selfish, and all-around unpleasant SmugSnake who carelessly puts lives at risk for money, giving us a human antagonist to root against.

* ''Literature/TheKingKillerChronicle'' has Ambrose Jakis. While the ostensible {{Big Bad}}s of the series are the Chandrian, they remain an [[OutsideContextProblem enigmatic]], looming threat whose [[HiddenAgendaVillain motives]] and identities are major driving mysteries of the series. Ambrose, on the other hand, is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain sexist]], [[TheBully bullying]], [[SmugSnake smug]] [[{{Jerkass}} jackass]] who goes to every conceivable length imaginable to make TheHero, Kvothe's, life a living hell. The levels of spiteful deeds he engages in ranges from trying to get Kvothe expelled from school and getting him fired from his job, all the way to poison him, torturing him with malfeasance and ordering a hit on him, all the while hiding behind his wealth and connections to make sure he never gets any permanent comeuppance.
* ''La République des imberbes'', by Mohamed Toihiri : Guigoz is the main protagonist of the book. Based on Ali Soilih, Guigoz manipulated a far-left group into giving him complete power in the Comoros after their coup d'état. Guigoz proved to be a dictator through his Zazis commandos, ordering brutal punishments against anyone who criticized him, dissolving all political parties and forbidding witchcraft and "sorcery" while having several "sorcerers" as advisors. Upon their advice, Guigoz sacrificed 7 seven-year old kids. Guigoz also manipulated the Comorian youth into joining his ideas leading them to commit murders, thefts, horrors and rapes, thus becoming Zazis. When his advisors told him that spirits were angry and required three sacrifices, including one person truly close to Guigoz, Guigoz tricked his friend and advisor Lulé Ben Katil into killing two people before having him executed. When a group tried to rebel against Guigoz in Iconi, Guigoz went to the village and hid in his car while an onslaught happened, resulting in the deaths of 11 people at the scene and 100 other people executed under Guigoz's orders.

** Madicken's school headmaster is hated by all the children because he's so mean and gruff. Not to mention that he's [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain politically incorrect by modern standards]], with his rigid views on how girls should behave and his tendency to let rich kids get away with more than poor kids. But he passes the MoralEventHorizon by humiliating and caning a poor girl, who had stolen his wallet. And to make the situation even worse, he does all of this right in front of her class-mates. Madicken acknowledges that stealing is wrong, but it's made clear that the punishment was too severe for the crime.

* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' has two examples.

** Agatha Trunchbull is a horrible DeanBitterman who shows {{sadist}}ic pleasure in hurting people. She abuses the children in such violent ways that [[RefugeInAudacity adults don't believe them]], doing things like throwing a girl by her pigtails, tossing a boy out the window for keeping M&Ms in her mouth, and forcing a boy to eat an entire cake. It's later shown that [[spoiler: she had murdered her brother in law for his inheritance and adopted his daughter Jennifer Honey. She's shown to be terrible to Miss Honey, having broken her arm in the past, almost drowned her, and forced her to live on a pitiful allowance]]. While the [[Film/{{Matilda}} film version]] downplays her HateSink status by making her more LaughablyEvil, she's still entirely loathsome.
* ''Literature/{{Nevermoor}}'': There are plenty of villains in the series, but Jessica Townsend has outright said Inspector Flintlock is the only one she wrote to be utterly loathsome with no redeeming qualities. A [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain xenophobic]] [[TheBadGuysAreCops cop]], he spends the entire first book trying to prove Morrigan is an illegal immigrant in the Free State so he can deport her. She ''is'' in the country illegally, but as the other characters continually point out, it was quite literally life or death, and if she's sent back, she'll almost certainly be killed. Flintlock doesn't care, and talks about immigrants in a way that indicates he sees them as less than human. Bear in mind, Morrigan is ''[[WouldHurtAChild eleven]]''. He's utterly despised, in-universe and out, for being an utter bigot who represents everything that's wrong with law enforcement.

** ''Halfway to the Grave'': The primary parties involved in the HumanTrafficking network are power hungry individuals motivated by [[ItsAllAboutMe self interest]].
*** [[TheSpook Hennessey]] puts on an act of [[FauxAffablyEvil being a gentleman]], but in reality, runs a vicious human trafficking network which keeps women, especially the impoverished, as livestock and brood mares, subjecting anyone who would betray him to the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruelest of fates]]. Hennessey regularly allows his clientele to sexually abuse the women under his control, as well as feed on their blood. Identifying Cat as his attempted murderer, Hennessey has her grandparents killed, then takes her mother hostage to trap her.

* ''Literature/NightOfTheAssholes'': In a world where being an asshole is like a zombie-virus, no character in the book is more of an asshole (in the conventional sense) than Ellen. Everything she says or does is based around her own ego and an almost pathological contempt for the world around her. All she ever does is judge or insult Todd and Barbara and their decisions, preferring to hide out in the house's enormous grandfather clock. She mocks Barbara for accepting Todd's lint-covered sandwich after denying her any of the candy she had in her purse. Her relationship with her husband Harold is clearly abusive, with her calling him a child at several points, speaking for him and generally ordering him around like a repeat target of a high-school bully. The only redeeming quality she seems to have is that she cares for the well-being of her daughter and even then she keeps her under constant sedation because [[spoiler: the HatePlague had turned her into ''goddamn UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'' and created a massive risk in all of their survival by keeping an asshole with them in the house]].

* Peter Quint of Creator/{{Greg Egan}}'s short story "Literature/{{Oracle}}". Unlike Jack Hamilton, who is a TragicVillain who easily could have become Stoney's friend instead of his enemy, Quint is [[TortureTechnician a sadist with state backing]]. He is so petty-minded and parochial that he assumes that anyone with a foreign name is either a fascist or a communist, and is completely oblivious that he himself would fit in better in a totalitarian state than in a liberal democracy, because he enjoys torturing his prisoners. How does he torture Stoney? By locking him in a cage too small for him to stand up straight or find any comfortable sitting position, for days at a time, only letting him out once a week to coerce labor out of him. There is no intellectual discipline which he doesn't treat with the utmost scorn and contempt, and when Stoney suggests legalizing victimless crimes so that they can't be a national security risk, Quint is as offended as if Stoney had suggested legalizing treason--not out of any moral principle, but because if that were done, then [[NoPlaceForMeThere Quint's job would no longer be necessary]]. If that were not enough, he is also a casual misogynist--the narration states that neither he nor [[NoWomansLand anyone else in the civil service]] would find a smart and outspoken woman attractive. After Stoney escapes and has his name cleared, Quint pursues him like InspectorJavert, only to be effortlessly dispatched by Stoney and his lover. Ultimately, he serves as the perfect example of the kind of anti-intellectual bully that Egan assures us will no longer exist after TheSingularity.

* While a mild example, Mrs. Kemp from the ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'' series is one of its most unsympathetic characters. Since Ramona has to stay at her house every day after school, she takes advantage of the situation to make Ramona babysit her granddaughter Willa Jean for free, and always blames Ramona when Willa Jean does something bratty, because she's older and "should have stopped her" or "should have known better". While she does this a lot, she has a major KickTheDog moment in ''Ramona Forever''--when Willa Jean breaks an accordion that was a gift from her Uncle Hobart, not only does Mrs. Kemp blame and punish ''Ramona,'' but openly shames and humiliates her in front of Uncle Hobart when he comes back. This stings Ramona so badly that she later cries when recounting the incident to her family at dinner.

* Lemony Snickets' ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', despite dabbling in both [[BlackAndGreyMorality Black]] and [[GreyAndGreyMorality Grey]] moralities as the series goes on, still manages to include a few characters that are either utterly devoid of redeeming features or burn through their alloted supply of goodwill through repeated displays of staggering incompetence.

** Perhaps its because we know so little about them, but the Man With Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard are never described as anything other than emitting a palatable aura of menace. As the highest rank we see of the villainous side of the [=VFD=] schism they are [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater Scope Villains]] of the entire series and implied to have a hand in everything misfortune to happen to the Baudelaire orphans, either directly or indirectly, and a great many others besides.

* Caelan from ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' is a blatant knockoff of [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Edward Cullen]]: a morose, brooding vampire who lusts after the female protagonist, Valkyrie Cain, to the point that he sees himself as her guardian angel and wants to control her life. He is hated by pretty much every other character (even the other vampires), his obsession is frequently mocked and [[spoiler: he's eventually killed by the very person he was so in love with.]]

** [[EvilOldFolks Walder Frey]], who makes ''no attempt'' to hide what a degenerate, vile scumbag he truly is to everyone around him. The only reason people continue to tolerate him is because he holds an important strategic point between the North and the Trident. [[spoiler:When he and his family commit the most appalling and most craven of crimes by breaching [[SacredHospitality the Guest Right]], everyone except the Boltons and Lannisters (who are already both extremely hated by that point) in the continent wants to see him and his entire family dead. In fact, it seems, Tywin planned on the Freys being an in-universe HateSink from the get-go. While people understood Tywin engineering the Red Wedding because he was at war with the Starks, they loathe Lord Frey and his family for carrying out Tywin's plan, because, by doing so, they broke one of the most sacred laws of the realm.]]
** [[TheBerserker Ser Gregor Clegane]], "the Mountain that Rides". He's a BloodKnight known for his cruelty and brutality, who enjoys torture, murder, and rape. [[spoiler:He also kills EnsembleDarkhorse Prince Oberyn Martell when Oberyn tries to avenge his sister, who was raped and murdered by the Mountain. Fortunately, Oberyn [[AssholeVictim had]] [[PoisonedWeapons the]] [[TakingYouWithMe last]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath laugh]].]]

** ''Literature/OfBloodAndHonor'' has Barthilas. Despite being Tirion's subordinate, he shows Tirion no respect, and eagerly turns on him when Tirion is put on trial for disobeying orders to save the life of [[DefectorFromDecadence Eitrigg, an orc]]. While Tirion's old friend Uther and wife Karandra have justifiable reasons for opposing him, Barthilas is entirely unsympathetic, and even Uther doesn't think much of him. When Barthilas goes too far in badmouthing Tirion, Uther gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech saying that after eveything Tirion has accomplished, "he certainly deserves more than to be harangued by an unseasoned boy like (Barthilas)."
** ''Literature/LordOfTheClans'' has Aedelas Blackmoore, the BigBad. He runs an internment camp for defeated orc prisoners, and after killing the honorable orcs Durotan and Draka, he takes in their infant son to raise as his own. Blackmoore's ultimte goal is to use Thrall as a pawn [[TheStarscream so Blackmoore can lead the orcs in a rebellion against Lordaeron]]. When Thrall lays siege to Durnholde, Blackmoore has Taretha executed, both for betraying him and to spite Thrall, resulting in Thrall killing Blackmoore. There are sympathetic characters on both sides, but Blackmoore is vile and irredeemable.
** ''Literature/TidesOfWar'' features Malkorok, TheDragon to the [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope increasingly villainous Garrosh]]. He's a former Blackrock assassin from the Old Horde who becomes Garrosh's personal hatchet man, and is apparently responsible for murdering a few dissidents by blowing up a tavern. The fact that Garrosh associates with people like Malkorok is generally shown as proof that his moral character is slipping.

* Cassie's father in ''Literature/{{Wintergirls}}'' is a cold-hearted, unloving, authoritarian parent who is all but stated to be the cause of her self-esteem issues and emotional instability. He never has a moment where he shows that he cares about her, and is always berating her for not being perfect. When her pet mouse died, he told her to stop crying over it because he was watching a baseball game; when a boy snapped the back of her bra in fifth grade and she beat him up, her father yelled at and punished her instead. The only thing he appears to worry about is making her look perfect so he can have a trophy child to show off to other parents, and he doesn't care a bit about her well-being outside of that. He also never seems to show any regret for the way he treated his daughter (though, to be fair, he doesn't actually appear that much, so we don't know how he really feels). It's not a huge stretch to think that his reaction to her death may not have been "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" but "Oh no, 18 years of emotional and financial investment just went completely to waste."
* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', you can't hate the zombies, but you CAN hate Breckenridge Scott, an asshole pharmacist company owner who made tons of money scamming people into buying his untested products meant to keep people from turning into zombies. He openly brags about scamming people out of their money, says they were stupid for not checking to see if they actually worked, and laughs when he hears that most of his buyers wound up infected.

* ''Literature/HisOnlyWife: Afi's uncle, Tͻgã Pious. He is petty and a cheapskate, often insisting on the duty the Ganyo family (Afi’s in-laws) has towards him as Afi's "father". But when Afi's actual father did die and she and her mother were evicted from their home, Pious left them out on the street despite having room in his home. Despite that, he quite often talks about himself being like a father to Afi. He is also a neglectful parent towards his younger children. He has a flush toilet inside his home but does not allow anybody other than himself to use it. Then he changes his mind and allows the others in the family to use it... for a monthly fee.

* Colin from the ''Mostly Ghostly'' book series (which incidentally, is made by the same author of the Goosebumps series) is Max's abusive older brother that has a habit of humiliating and injuring him. He crosses the MoralEventHorizon rather quickly when he threatens to feed Max's pet bird to their aggressive dog.

* In ''Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess'', Yvonne Smollett is described as an InUniverse example of this, as the villainess of the otome game where the story is set. She mercilessly bullies protagonist Elsa Dorothy, since she's angry at Elsa for stealing her fiance away and goes so far as to make a deal with demons to kill her. Her endings involve her being sentenced to death or exile, with the latter being an option for those who don't want to kill her, and she never shows any remorse for her crimes, even wanting to [[FrameUp frame]] Elsa to [[TakingYouWithMe bring her down as well.]] Since the actual story is a RebornAsVillainessStory, Yvonne ends up averting this trope and becoming a sympathetic protagonist.

** Gabe Ugliano from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', the WickedStepfather of Percy. He's implied to have abused his wife Sally and is shown to be abusive towards 12-year-old Percy. Pretty much his only positive quality is that he accidentally saved Percy from monsters by [[EvilSmellsBad smelling to bad they wouldn't go near him]]. By the end of the first book, Sally [[spoiler:uses Medusa's head to turn him to stone and sell him as a statue]].

** ''Literature/PaperTowns'' has [[BastardBoyfriend Jase Worthington]], [[JerkJock Chuck Parson]], [[BetaBitch Becca Arrington]], and the rest of the popular crowd who betrayed [[LovableAlphaBitch Margo Roth Spiegelman]] and in doing so kick off the plot.

* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Glaves has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, he's just an utterly selfish, cowardly asshole.

* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' has Octavian, a descendant of Apollo and the augur at Camp Jupiter who also happens to be [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious and power-hungry]] enough to do anything to become praetor, whether that's going behind Renya's back to usurp leadership, recruiting criminals and dangerous monsters to his side, or being willing to betray and kill his fellow Romans[[note]]It's heavily implied he was the one who killed Gwen[[/note]]. He also hates the Greeks to the point of wanting to go to war with them, and finally tries to destroy Camp Half-Blood and Gaea with onagers so he can claim the glory for it without having to do any work. When his clothes get snagged on the ammunition, causing him to accidentally launch himself and get killed along with Gaia, nobody mourns his death at all, and even his bodyguard doesn't bother to warn him about his snagged toga.

* While some Creator/ChrisCrutcher novels have [[BigBad outright villains]] and others don't, a consistent presence in all of them is a Hate Sink character, typically taking the form of a smothering, close-minded authority figure who restricts the personal freedoms of the teenage protagonists in some manner. Examples include the SmugSnake assistant principal in ''Literature/StayingFatForSarahByrnes'' who deliberately engineers conflicts between students he doesn't like so he can punish them both, the jingoistic, hypocritical history teacher in ''Deadline'', and the heroine's authoritarian, uncaring adoptive father in ''Losers Bracket'' who wishes to completely isolate her from her biological family.

** [[TheBerserker Ser Gregor Clegane]], "the Mountain that Rides". He's a BloodKnight known for his cruelty and brutality, who enjoys torture, murder, and rape, to the point he has the FanNickname "the Mountain that Rapes". [[spoiler:He also kills EnsembleDarkhorse Prince Oberyn Martell when Oberyn tries to avenge his sister, who was raped and murdered by the Mountain. Fortunately, Oberyn [[AssholeVictim had]] [[PoisonedWeapons the]] [[TakingYouWithMe last]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath laugh]].]]

* Lemony Snickets' ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', depite dabbling in both [[BlackAndGreyMorality Black]] and [[GreyAndGreyMorality Grey]] morailites as the series goes on, still manages to include a few characters that are either utterly devoid of redeemng features or burn through their alloted supply of goodwill through repeated displays of staggering incompetence.

* ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' has Jin Guangshan, leader of the Jin Sect. While nearly all of the other villains have [[FreudianExcuse some kind of reason]] for why they are, or are at least [[LargeHam entertainingly evil]], Jin Guangshan is nothing but a spoiled, hedonistic, womanizing asshole who uses, abuses, and ruins everyone around him at his leisure. It's notable that when his [[OutWithABang manner of death]] is uncoverered, everyone agrees it was horrible, but nobody actually ''cares'' beyond it being proof of how vicious the one who plotted it actually is.

* ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' has Jin Guangshan, leader of the Jin Sect. While nearly all of the other villains have [[FreudianExcuse some kind of reason]] for why they are, or are at least [[LargeHam entertainingly evil]], Jin Guangshan is nothing but a spoiled, hedonistic, womanizing asshole who uses, abuses, and ruins everyone around him at his leisure. It's notable that when his [[OutWithABang manner of death]] is uncoverered, everyone agrees it was horrible, but nobody actually ''cares'' beyond it being proof of how vicious the one who plotted it actually is.

* ''Bravelands'':

** In ''Bravelands'', An Olive Baboon named [[spoiler: Stinger (Formerly known as "Seed")]] is very popular at his introduction. [[spoiler: He]] was well liked by fans and characters In Universe. However, fans develop an intense dislike for [[spoiler: Stinger]] after Thorn Middleleaf (One of the protagonists) discovers that [[spoiler: he]] assassinated their former leader [[spoiler: Bark Crownleaf]] in order to usurp her. [[spoiler: When Thorn confronts Stinger on his findings, Stinger threatens to end the former's life if he stands in his way. Stinger is true to his words when he turns lion cub, Fearless Gallantpride against Thorn by scapegoating Thorn for his (Stinger's actions). Fearless buys into Stinger's deception and would've killed Thorn had Sky Strider had not intervened. After Sky and Loyal unsuccessfully attempt to convince Fearless that he's fighting on the wrong side, Fearless returns to Baboon Island in order to warn Stinger about Loyal and Sky, however Stinger's true colors become apparent to Fearless when he finds that he took Nut as prisoner and mistreated the latter while he was in the troop's captivity. However it's only after Stinger reveals that he killed Snarl Fearlesspride, and confirms Loyal and Sky's revelations that he (Stinger) is in league with Titan (Another primarily antagonist of the book series) that Fearless realizes in shock that it was Stinger who had betrayed him and Brightforest Troop ''not'' Thorn.]] [[spoiler: Fearless subsequently disowns Stinger and storms off to reconcile with Thorn. Near the end of ''Blood and Bone'' Stinger is finally defeated, when Sky Strider tosses him into the lake Baboon Island is located on where the Baboon is subsequently torn apart by crocodiles. Both fans and Bravelands characters rejoice at Stinger's downfall and agree that Stinger Crownleaf got was he deserved]].

* Busqueros from ''The Manuscript Found In Saragossa''. Smug and [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave infuriatingly clingy]], his unwanted "help" always brings more bad than good (if it brings any good at all), yet he still claims he is indispensable for the viewpoint characters' plans and schemes, and he will not take "no" for an answer.

* In ''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.'' Marcy's Father is a terrible husband who constantly fights with his wife Lily to the point where she appears to be taking drugs to cope and is abusive to his two children, calling his teenage daughter fat, stupid, and ugly (leaving her with severe self-esteem issues as a result), and harshly scolding his four-year-old son for [[FelonyMisdemeanor sucking his thumb and playing with his teddy bear.]] It's quickly obvious to the reader that he doesn't even like, let alone love his family. Especially when Marcy tries to get her family to sit around the dinner table and discuss things like a normal family, her father's response is, "I work hard all day for this family, I don't have to talk to all of you too, do I?" as if talking to his wife and children without screaming at them is a strenuous chore. He also uses Marcy as a scapegoat for nearly everything that goes wrong in his life, including Lily spending less time with him and more with their children, his fighting with Lily [[NeverMyFault that he always initiates,]] and Marcy's attempt to initiate a simple family discussion going horribly wrong. One has to wonder why he decided to get married and have children in the first place if he hates having a family so much, outside of a possible ShotgunWedding. From start to finish, he has zero redeeming qualities and it's obvious that he's meant to be despised by the reader more than any other character. The only good thing that can be said about him is that by the end of the book, he's been convinced to more-or-less leave Marcy alone and has achieved an uneasy peace with her, but he's still far from being any kind of family man. The ending shows Lily is starting to stand up to him and making a life for herself, foreshadowing the possibility she may hopefully leave him and take Marcy and Stuart with her.

* Quite a lot of what makes ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' scarier to read as an adult is digging deeper into how many of the [[AdultsAreUseless adults]] and [[KidsAreCruel children]] exmeplify the sins of human nature. But [[ItsAllAboutMe Alexander]] from ''Deep Trouble'', [[EnfantTerrible Tara Webster]] from ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'', [[SadistTeacher Mr. Saur]] from ''Say Cheese and Die-Again!'', [[WickedWitch Vanessa]] from ''Chicken, Chicken'', [[VillainProtagonist Brandon]] from ''Headless Halloween'', [[BigBrotherBully Micah]] from ''Revenge R Us'', and [[JerkJock Conan Barber]] from ''Monster Blood II''-''IV'' are probably the ''worst'' examples.

* In-Universe Example: In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', Emmanuel Goldstein, leader of [[LaResistance the Brotherhood]], actually has two minutes of each day devoted to members of [[TheEmpire the Party]] unleashing their fury on him. [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that Goldstein doesn't even physically exist, but was instead fabricated by the highest echelons of the Party with the specific purpose of becoming a Hate Sink for its lower-ranking members (thus allowing them to direct their pent-up frustrations about their [[CrapsackWorld terrible living conditions]] away from the Party itself). O'Brien even admits to having authored part of "The Book", which is essentially Goldstein's manifesto, himself.]]
* ‘'Literature/NorthangerAbbey'': John Thorpe is James Morland's friend and a boorish GoldDigger who seeks to marry Catherine Morland, mistakenly believing her to be a rich heiress. Desiring to have Catherine all to himself, Thorpe makes repeated attempts to sabotage her attempts to make friends with the Tilney family, making shameless lies to force her to spend time with him. Thorpe also lies to General Tilney about Catherine's wealth to get him to drive up his own prospects. When this backfires with the General pushing Catherine towards his son Henry, Thorpe slanders Catherine to General Tilney by projecting his own situation onto Catherine's family, prompting him to throw Catherine, who is staying with the Tilneys at this point, out of the house in the dead of night. A shameless liar who talks of nothing but carriages and horses and [[SirSwearsALot speaks with crude language]], John Thorpe is the closest thing to a BigBad in Creator/JaneAusten's novels.

* Cassie's father in ''Literature/{{Wintergirls}}'' is a cold-hearted, unloving, authoritarian parent who is all but stated to be the cause of her self-esteem issues and emotional instability. He never has a moment where he shows that he cares about her, and is always berating her for not being perfect. When her pet mouse died, he told her to stop crying over it because he was watching a baseball game; when a boy snapped the back of her bra in fifth grade and she beat him up, her father yelled at and punished her instead. The only thing he appears to worry about is making her look perfect so he can have a trophy child to show off to other parents, and he doesn't give two shits about her well-being outside of that. He also never seems to show any regret for the way he treated his daughter (though, to be fair, he doesn't actually appear that much, so we don't know how he really feels). It's not a huge stretch to think that his reaction to her death may not have been "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" but "Oh no, 18 years of emotional and financial investment gone completely to waste."

* ''Flip-Flop Girl'' has Vinnie's mother and grandmother. Although they mean well most of the time, they cause most of the problems in the novel by completely neglecting Vinnie in favor of her younger brother Mason because they believe he's been traumatized into becoming mute over the death of his and Vinnie's father (actually, he's faking it because he enjoys the tons of extra attention he gets, which should be obvious to everyone but them). As a result, Vinnie's mother and grandmother don't just neglect her in favor of pampering Mason like a little prince, but seemingly expect her to put up with all the problems in her life without a word of complaint, and are quick to scold or punish her whenever she acts out. Despite her not being that much older than Mason (she's 9, while he's 5) and also going through a rough time (she is dealing with her father's recent death while having trouble adjusting to life at her new house and new school), they seem to expect her to simply handle the situation by herself with the maturity of a much older person. Their incompetence is a major source of frustration for both Vinnie and the reader.

** Ms. Lee, a one-shot substitute teacher who hates children and constantly yells at Abby's fifth-grade class for supposed infractions.

** Vice Principal Nero is the [[DeanBitterman tyrannical]] and [[SadistTeacher abusive]] head of Purfrock Prep. Utterly convinced of his own musical genius [[DreadfulMusician despite all evidence to the contrary]] and running a bizarre and nonsensical punishment system that sees students punished for failing to attend his violin recitals ''even if they've been put into involuntary lap-running exercises at the same time,'' Nero is little more than a PsycopathicManchild given absolute power.