History HateSink / LiveActionFilms

** Finally, Tverdillo qualifies big time. He betrayed the Russian people and helped the German Teutonic knights in their crimes. It was very satisfying to see him being torn by the mob.

** In the live action production of ''Film/TheMist'', the monsters are terrifying but don't appear to be acting with true malice. They're just following their instincts to eat and reproduce. But boy, oh boy, can you ever hate Mrs. Carmody, the shrill, hateful Jesus freak who looks down her nose at anyone who isn't as "righteous" as she is and whipped the mob into a religious frenzy that almost resulted in the murder of the protagonist's young son.

* The version of ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is this as his mannerisms can get on people's nerves, he openly mocks people who don't help him, he projects his personal issues on people who had nothing to do with them (his reason for hating Superman in this incarnation is that his worldview, shaped by being a victim of abuse by his father, is that power and benevolence can't go hand in hand), and he'll kill anyone who refuses to help him or even [[spoiler: have a crisis of consciousness at his actions]], he throws Senator Finch's "Take a bucket of piss and call it 'Granny's Peach Tea'." and throws in back at her in a very literal way [[spoiler:before blowing her up to discredit Superman, and creates Doomsday to kill Superman.]] This makes it very cathartic in the [[ReCut Ultimate Edition]] when [[spoiler: after Luthor smugly mocks Batman over knowledge about his secret identity as Bruce Wayne and that he pulled an InsanityDefense for his crimes, Bruce wipes the smug look off by revealing he's arranged for Luthor to be sent to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].]]

* ''{{Film/Ladyhawke}}'': The Bishop casts a curse on two lovers so they will never be able to love each other - Navarre also says that while hawks and wolves mate for life, the Bishop did not even leave them that option. He also instructs the hunter Cezar to trap wolves, hoping to actually kill Navarre during the night when he is in his wolf form. Plus his ways to rule over the region.

** ''Film/{{Alien3}}'' has both the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat prison warden]] Andrews, who refuses to believe Ripley's claims about the xenomorph even after several prisoners' deaths, and AxCrazy inmate Golic, who frees the xenomorph after the other prisoners manage to trap it.

* ''Film/DieHard'':
** The reporter, played by TypeCast Creator/WilliamAtherton, who played Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', giving the audience a subconscious reason to hate him. The German terrorists/bank robbers have awesome accents and their leader is the perfect villain to love: [[MagnificentBastard intelligent]], WickedCultured, and [[AffablyEvil somewhat]] [[PetTheDog considerate to the hostages]], but swift and deadly toward the authorities and driven by greed. So who do you hate? The annoying reporter that ends up exposing who Holly [=McClane=] really is by threatening the [=McClane=] housekeeper with deportation and terrorizes their kids all for the sake of a story. Possibly the greatest comeuppance example: he gets punched by Holly [=McClane=] at the end.
** The coke-snorting yuppie asswipe who [[CasanovaWannabe constantly badly flirts with Holly]] and exposes John's identity to the terrorists, probably hoping to ''finally'' get her in the sack. OK, he was also trying to defuse the whole hostage situation thing, but he's so bad at it that he's just wasting screentime until he inevitably fails. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves He ends up getting shot in the head by the terrorists for his trouble]].
** To a somewhat lesser degree, the two Agent Johnsons (no relation). They are rather disrespectful to Powell and the other police, unknowingly play into the robbers' hands by cutting the power, and are perfectly fine with allowing some of the hostages to die if it means getting the villains.
** A third example: Deputy Chief Robinson is a massive {{Jerkass}}, continually assumes Powell is wrong, distrusts [=McClane=] and generally acts as though he has the IdiotBall in his pocket at all times. Creator/RogerEbert went so far as to argue that this character alone more or less wrecks the film for him.
** The same reporter gets zapped with a stun gun by the same Holly [=McClane=] in ''Die Hard 2'' after revealing on international TV that the airport has been hijacked, thereby causing a panic that the authorities were desperately trying to avoid. William Atherton seems to have made a career playing jerks we love to hate. Speaking of which...

** ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': Walter Peck is made especially obnoxious and slimy so that his entirely reasonable request to check the Ghostbusters' equipment quickly escalates into him rashly shutting down their containment grid and unleashing a literal hell on earth. Granted, Peck is ''absolutely right'' about the inadequacy of the containment procedures, but he proves it by ''breaking'' them. The fact that his first reaction to a disaster, which he is clearly responsible for bringing about in front of multiple witnesses, is to have the Ghostbusters arrested while totally ignoring his own culpability with such SmugSnake self-righteousness seals the deal securing the audience's hate for him.

* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'': Raynald de Chatillon fanatically hates the Muslims and seeks any excuse to slaughter them. He also believes that since [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he is a noble, he can do as he likes]]. When he gets punished and imprisoned for it, he merely tries to find a way out of it, and slaughters yet another caravan including Saladin's sister. In the end, when he gets captured by Saladin, he shows no remorse for his actions.

* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'': Raynald de Chatillon fanatically hates the Muslims and seeks any excuse to slaughter them. He also believes that since [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he is a noble, he can do as he likes]]. When he gets punished and imprisoned for it, he merely tries to find a way out of it, and slaughters yet another caravan including Saladin's sister. In the end, when he gets captured by Saladin, he shows no remorse for his actions.

* ''{{Film/Alligator}}'': Mr. Slade, a CorruptCorporateExecutive, has his researchers experiment on puppies to get the hormone, and has them pay a pet store owner to dognap puppies when they run out of their legal supply. These experiments lead to an alligator who lives in the sewers becoming giant and getting a ravenous appetite. This was an accident, so it can't be held against him. However, he has the mayor hinder the investigation in order to keep his company going. During the climax, the alligator attacks his daughter's wedding. He makes a beeline for his car, locks it, and tries to drive away and leave everybody else tibdie. [[KarmicDeath The alligator gets him anyways]].

* ''Film/RobotAndFrank'' centers around a VillainProtagonist who uses a robot caretaker to help him in his burglary schemes, so to help preserve audience sympathy, his main victim isn't presented in the best light. Said victim is Jake, who's sponsoring the public library in Frank's neighborhood, but is haphazardly disposing of the books in favor of more modern formats and putting Jennifer, Frank's love interest, out of a job. He's also generally irritating and full of himself, and is quite well-off, to the point where we don't feel too bad when Robot and Frank eventually steal some jewelry he keeps in a safe.

* The version of ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is this as his mannerisms can get on people's nerves, he openly mocks people who don't help him, he projects his personal issues on people who had nothing to do with them (his reason for hating Superman in this incarnation is that his worldview, shaped by being a victim of abuse by his father, is that power and benevolence can't go hand in hand), and he'll kill anyone who refuses to help him or even [[spoiler: have a crisis of consciousness at his actions.]], he throws Senator Finch's "Take a bucket of piss and call it 'Granny's Peach Tea'." and throws in back at her in a very literal way [[spoiler:before blowing her up to discredit Superman, and creates Doomsday to kill Superman.]] This makes it very cathartic in the [[ReCut Ultimate Edition]] when [[spoiler: after Luthor smugly mocks Batman over knowledge about his secret identity as Bruce Wayne and that he pulled an InsanityDefense for his crimes, Bruce wipes the smug look off by revealing he's arranged for Luthor to be sent to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].]]

** ''Film/SweeneyToddDemonAtABarberStreet'': If you don't hate Judge Turpin for sending the main character away to Australia and raping his wife, or you don't hate him for ordering a beating a young man for looking at his hostage, you will certainly hate him for sentencing a crying little boy to death without even knowing if he was guilty by his own admission.

* ''Film/RobotAndFrank'' centers around a VillainProtagonist who uses a robot caretaker to help him in his burglary schemes, so to help preserve audience sympathy, his main victim isn't presented in the best light. Said victim is Jake, who's sponsoring the public library in Frank's neighborhood, but is haphazardly disposing of the books and turning the library into a multimedia experience. He's also generally irritating and full of himself, and is quite well-off, to the point where we don't feel too bad when Robot and Frank eventually steal some jewelry he keeps in a safe.

* ''Film/{{Troy}}'': Paris, the unrepentant womanizer who started a war that ultimately destroyed his entire city and family because he wanted to get laid with the wife of the king of Sparta. He's also a DirtyCoward who refuses to follow through on any attempt to take responsibility for his actions, most notably by running out on the honor duel against aforementioned king of Sparta ''that he proposed'' when it became clear he was going to die. This being a GrayAndGrayMorality world, however, his final fate is left unclear ([[KarmaHoudini though it is implied that he got to live out the rest of his days with the most beautiful woman in the world staying as his wife]]).

''Film/{{Troy}}'': Paris, the unrepentant womanizer who started a war that ultimately destroyed his entire city and family because he wanted to get laid with the wife of the king of Sparta. He's also a DirtyCoward who refuses to follow through on any attempt to take responsibility for his actions, most notably by running out on the honor duel against aforementioned king of Sparta ''that he proposed'' when it became clear he was going to die. This being a GrayAndGrayMorality world, however, his final fate is left unclear ([[KarmaHoudini though it is implied that he got to live out the rest of his days with the most beautiful woman in the world staying as his wife]]).

* The version of ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is this as his mannerisms can get on people's nerves, he openly mocks people who don't help him, he projects his personal issues on people who had nothing to do with them (his reason for hating Superman in this incarnation is that his worldview, shaped by being a victim of abuse by his father, is that power and benevolence can't go hand in hand), and he'll kill anyone who refuses to help him or even [[spoiler: have a crisis of consciousness at his actions.]], he throws Senator Finch's "Take a bucket of piss and call it 'Granny's Peach Tea'." and throws in back at her in a very literal way [[spoiler:before blowing her up to discredit Superman, and creates Doomsday to kill Superman.]] This makes it very cathartic in the [[ReCut Ultimate Edition]] when [[spoiler: after Luthor smugly mocks Batman over knowledge about his secret identity as Bruce Wayne and that he pulled an InsanityDefense for his crimes, Bruce wipes the smug look off by revealing he's arranged for Luthor to be sent to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].]]

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Billy Zane's character, Cal. He [[ItWillNeverCatchOn disparages the Picasso paintings]]; he [[DomesticAbuser verbally and physically abuses Rose]]; he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tries to have Jack killed]]; is exposed to [[{{Greed}} care more about money than Rose]]; and finally [[DirtyCoward cons his way onto a lifeboat using a small child]] to save his pathetic hide. But the karma gods are not mocked: in the aftermath of the disaster Cal loses the Heart of the Ocean diamond, loses Rose, loses his fortune, and eventually takes his own life.

* The version of ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is this as his mannerisms can get on people's nerves, he openly mocks people who don't help him, he projects his personal issues on people who had nothing to do with them (his reason reason for hating Superman is this incarnation is that his worldview, shaped by being a victim of abuse by his father, is that power and benevolence can't go hand in hand), and he'll kill anyone who refuses to help him or even [[spoiler: have a crisis of consciousness at his actions.]], he throws Senator Finch's "Take a bucket of piss and call it 'Granny's Peach Tea'." and throws in back at her in a very literal way [[spoiler:before blowing her up to discredit Superman, and creates Doomsday to kill Superman.]] This makes it very cathartic in the [[ReCut Ultimate Edition]] when [[spoiler: after Luthor smugly mocks Batman over knowledge about his secret identity as Bruce Wayne and pulled an InsanityDefense for his crimes, Bruce wipes the smug look off by revealing he's arranged for Luthor to be sent to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].]]

==> '''Dr. Kaufman''' I'm just a professional doing a job!
==> '''James Bond''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Me too.]]

* Creator/RolandEmmerich gets a lot of mileage out of this trope due to his films typically having [[DisasterMovie nature or non-speaking monsters]] as their antagonists.

** ''Literature/{{IT}}'' has a lot of people to hate. The titular monster is downright hilarious, so he's pretty much impossible to hate. Henry Bowers got a bit of a pass because he'd grown up on (in the words of Mike Hanlon) "a good farm gone to shitshack shambles" with his insane, abusive father. However, it's very easy to hate the men in Bev's life, particularly the nameless early boyfriends (one of whom broke her nose), her husband Tom (although he dropped dead after he saw IT in the book, his fate was left unresolved in the film) and her violent, twisted, sexually abusive. Several of the townspeople who looked away while the kids were being beaten up and might have died at the hands of the bullies also deserve the HateSink.

** The reporter, played by {{Type Cast}}ed Creator/WilliamAtherton, who played Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', giving the audience a subconscious reason to hate him. The German terrorists/bank robbers have awesome accents and their leader is the perfect villain to love: [[MagnificentBastard intelligent]], WickedCultured, and [[AffablyEvil somewhat]] [[PetTheDog considerate to the hostages]], but swift and deadly toward the authorities and driven by greed. So who do you hate? The annoying reporter that ends up exposing who Holly [=McClane=] really is by threatening the [=McClane=] housekeeper with deportation and terrorizes their kids all for the sake of a story. Possibly the greatest comeuppance example: he gets punched by Holly [=McClane=] at the end.

* In the live-action version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the title character is still TheHeavy causing the story's conflict, but receives a sympathetic backstory thanks to AdaptationExpansion, and even if he hadn't is [[TheGrotesque pretty lovable]] all the same. A more directly loathsome character is original creation Augustus Maywho, Whoville's [[MayorPain greedy mayor]] who thinks Christmas is all about the commercialism. He even turns out to have been one of the Grinch's boyhood bullies and to have stolen his adolescent flame Martha Whovier from him, thus playing a part in his StartOfDarkness.

* ''Film/TheGodfather'''s main villains are either BitchInSheepsClothing whose villainy isn't discovered until late in the movie (Barzini), have little screen time (Tattaglia), or are AffablyEvil and hard to hate (Solozzo). Most of our hatred goes to minor characters:
** Carlo. He's a Jerkass who abuses Connie verbally and physically, plays a key role in setting up [[spoiler:Sonny's murder]] and turns out to be [[spoiler: working for Barzini]]. He receives ''two'' immensely satisfying retributions: a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown from Sonny, and [[spoiler:a gruesome strangulation death courtesy of Clemenza]].
** Jack Woltz, a pedophile Hollywood producer who blocks Johnny Fontaine's career for purely personal reasons. We feel bad for the horse, but Woltz deserves everything he gets.
** Captain [=McClusky=], a boorish DirtyCop who's introduced calling Michael a guinea and breaks his nose, precipitating his ProtagonistJourneyToVillain. It's extremely satisfying when [[BoomHeadShot Michael repays him in kind]].

** ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has a more minor example with Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who keeps the impending global disaster a secret from all but those who can afford to buy a ticket to safety, to not mention being a belittling {{Jerkass}} to those who put honor or humanity over survival. He's given slightly more respect than the above examples, with a couple of JerkassHasAPoint moments and much less of a comeuppance at the end.

** Captain [=McClusky=], a boorish DirtyCop who's introduced calling Michael a guinea and breaks his nose, precipitating his ProtagonistJourneyToVillain. It's extremely satisfying when [[BoomHeadShot Michael repays him in kind]].

* ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' has both the conniving news anchor Charles Caiman (who among other things steals Audrey's story (and the video she took from Nick)) and the meddlesome Mayor Ebert (who keeps jerkishly complaining about everything the military does (although he ''is'' kind of right to be angry [[DestructiveSavior when said military wrecks half of downtown Manhattan on their first confrontation with Godzilla]]) and is focused on his re-election (to the point he thinks on his last scene about using Godzilla's slaying as a publicity booster)).

** ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': Walter Peck is made especially obnoxious and slimy so that his entirely reasonable request to check the Ghostbusters' equipment quickly escalates into him rashly shutting down their containment grid and unleashing a literal hell on earth. The viewers are called upon to place full blame on Peck and give a pass to the heroic Ghostbusters for their part; Peck is ''completely right'' about the inadequacy of the containment procedures, but he proves it by ''breaking'' them. The fact that his first reaction to a disaster, which he is clearly responsible for bringing about in front of multiple witnesses, is to have the Ghostbusters arrested while totally ignoring his own culpability with such SmugSnake self-righteousness seals the deal securing the audience's hate for him.

** ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians are indisputably the bad guys here, with their constant and unprovoked attacks against [[StupidGood a human race who just want to be their friends]]. Problem is, the Martians are [[LaughablyEvil so goofy in their evil]] that it's a lot easier to laugh at them than to hate them. And, truth be told, it's hard not to root for them when their opponents are a seemingly endless stream of pathetic douchebags that include James Dale, the gladhanding and thoroughly insincere President of the United States (though he becomes a better man [[spoiler: all too late]]); Art Land, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the sleazy businessman who cares only about making money]] and completely ignores his wife's drinking problem; Donald Kessler, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the pompous and delusional scientist]]; Jerry Ross, the lecherous and TooDumbToLive White House press secretary; Nathalie Lake, the extremely superficial TV talk-show hostess; General Decker, who is obsessed with violence, and General Casey, who considers advancing his career more important than guaranteeing national security... and we can even hate the Norris family, even though they never do anything worse than confining the grandmother of the family to a nursing home and are actually quite sympathetic because they are mourning the death of their eldest son, because they're [[{{Eagleland}} fat, lazy, right-wing trailer-trash rednecks]] [[StopBeingStereotypical who make America look bad]].

** ''Literature/{{IT}}'' has a lot of people to hate. The titular monster is, as with other examples, a creature that lives by its nature, although during shooting, Creator/TimCurry was an outcast on set because he looked so creepy in the makeup. Henry Bowers got a bit of a pass because he'd grown up on (in the words of Mike Hanlon) "a good farm gone to shitshack shambles" with his insane, abusive father. However, it's very easy to hate the men in Bev's life, particularly the nameless early boyfriends (one of whom broke her nose), her husband Tom (although he dropped dead after he saw IT in the book, his fate was left unresolved in the film) and her abusive, creepy-bordering-on-paedophile father. Several of the townspeople who looked away while the kids were being beaten up and might have died at the hands of the bullies also deserve the HateSink.