History HateSink / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'': General Medrano comes off as one, as he has no qualms having the [[NebulousEvilOrganization criminal organization Quantum]] engineering a drought in his own country so he'll be the next dictator of it and even thinks of himself as Dominic Greene's [[BigBadDuumvirate equal partner]], but backs down when Greene threatens to have him killed. It's no reason why BondGirl Camille is after him, having raped her mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax. He even tries to do the same thing to Camille, but she [[KarmicDeath puts a bullet]] to his head.

* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': Meryl Burbank is Truman's wife in the show but in the movie's reality she is the RichBitch known as Hannah Gill. While her {{Jerkass}} attitude can be explained from being forced to sleep and pretend to marry a man she does not love, it does not excuse her being a BitchInSheepsClothing. She absolutely does ''not'' care about Truman's well-being and doesn't even try to support him even when he's distressed. Even [[BigBad Christof]] can be somewhat admired for his technological/showrunning genius, Meryl is just unpleasant through and through.

* ''Film/TheExorcist'': Pazuzu, the demon possessing Regan [=McNeil=], is not only one of the most infamous movie monsters, but also one of the few designed to be unambiguously vile and ''horrifically repulsive'' in every way. He subjects poor Regan and her mother to horrifying trauma, including ''raping the girl with a crucifix'', mocks the priests trying to help her with their past tragedies, and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain constantly spews violently misogynist drivel]]. Pazuzu is just as loathsome in ''Film/TheExorcistIIILegion'' despite his limited presence, trapping Father Karras in his own body with the bloodthirsty Gemini Killer solely to torment his foe. He is utterly devoid of any [[LaughablyEvil amusing]] or [[CreepyAwesome cool]] qualities, leaving only a disgusting, cowardly worm hiding behind the victims he abuses, and a demon the audience will want to see ''burn.''

* ''Film/TheAmazingSpidermanSeries'':
** Norman Osborn is [[GreaterScopeVillain directly and indirectly responsible]] for much of the misery in Peter Parker's life, from the deaths of his parents, to the foes he’d face; some being victims of Oscorp in some form or another. Aside from funding Oscorp’s unethical experiments to cure the disease he’s dying from, the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2 second film]] reveals Norman has been secretly developing weapons and selling them to terrorist organizations. When Richard and Mary Parker uncover Oscorp's illegal activities, Norman sets an assassin onto them to bury the truth. Appearing in person, Norman is shown to be an [[AbusiveParent emotionally distant parent]] to Harry, badgering him on his deathbed, and remarking that the disease that’s killing him will claim Harry too.
** ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Donald Menken]] is a corrupt employee of Oscorp who seeks to usurp Harry Osborn as CEO after his father's death. Menken has Max Dillon, A.K.A. Electro committed to Ravencroft, where he uses footage of Max to [[FrameUp frame]] Harry for the accident that turned him into Electro. Menken kicks Harry out of Oscorp, but not before [[KickTheDog spitefully]] telling him that he's going to die a horrible death and no one will care.

* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': Meryl Burbank is Truman's wife in the show but in the movie's reality she is the RichBitch known as Hannah Gill. While her {{Jerkass}} attitude can be explained from being forced to sleep and pretend to marry a man she does not love, it does not excuse her being a BitchInSheepsClothing. She absolutely does ''not'' care about Truman's well-being and doesn't even try to support him even when he's distressed. Even Christof can be somewhat admired for his technological/showrunning genius, Meryl is just unpleasant through and through.
* {{Housewife}}: Her main role once she marries Truman is to be a stereotypical example of this trope.

* ''Film/MysteryMen'': [[SmugSuper Captain Amazing]], real name Lance Hunt, is the superhero of Champion City. Unlike the genuinely heroic Mystery Men, however, [[ItsAllAboutMe Amazing is only in it for the fame and the money]] and [[{{Jerkass}} has no respect for his fans or other superheroes]]. Amazing crosses the line when, in an attempt to keep [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero his sponsors]] [[ItsAllAboutMe from pulling their endorsements due to his fights being boring without supervillains]], he tricks the insane asylum staff in releasing is nemesis [[AxCrazy Casanova]] [[FortheEvulz Frankenstein]], counting on Casanova to reek havoc. After Casanova blows up the asylum, Amazing arrives to apprehend him ([[TheSociopath showing no concern for all the inmates, guards, and asylum staff who are all dead because of him]]), but [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard is captured by Casanova instead]], and fails to convince Casanova to release him despite [[AintTooProudtoBeg promising to help with the evil plan]]. Considering he spends his final moments [[{{Jerkass}} yelling at and insulting the Mystery Men]], you will [[AssholeVictim probably cheer]] at his [[PoorCommunicationKills accidental death]] by [[BodyHorror psycho-fraculation]].

* ''Film/PitchPerfect'': Fat Amy's corrupt father Fergus from the third film is the only antagonist in the series with no redeeming qualities, or anything to make up for his scummyness. He is a crime boss who Amy separated herself from before the joined the Bellas and tracks her down claiming to want to reconnect with her. It's soon discovered he's after a trust fund of hers worth millions, and aggressive with her when she finally cuts him out of her life. Fergus then goes on to kidnap the Bellas and threatens to have them killed unless Amy turns over her money. The fact he's an otherwise serious character, connected to a comic relief character like Amy, makes for a rather jarring contrast.

* ''Film/TheRoom'': Lisa is supposed to be this, cheating on Johnny and then falsely accusing him of hitting her just as an excuse to break up with him. The problem is that [[InformedAttribute she doesn't really come off much worse than any of the other main characters]], apart from [[DoubleStandard not having the prerequisite genitals to get away with being a dick to everyone in this universe]].

* ''Film/BadEducation'': Pasco and Susan are the main antagonists, but their motives are understandable. Atticus Hoye meanwhile is a plain old bully with no depth or reason to his cruelty.

* ''Film/DontLookUp'':
** The audience can’t hate Comet Dibiasky, as it is a force of nature, but they can hate President Janie Orlean for being a complete idiot whose actions lead to humanity’s mass extinction. She treats the heroes with apathy, is revealed to have an affair with the sheriff, agrees with Isherwell’s plan to mine the comet instead of destroying it like in the first attempt, starts a smear campaign against Kate and Randall in response to their “Just Look Up” movement, is shown to have a callous disregard for rules and responsibilities and cuts China, India and Russia off from the deflection mission. She finally accepts the gravity of the situation once the BASH [=BEADs=] fail to completely obliterate the comet, but instead of [[GoingDownWithTheShip going down with the planet]], she [[DirtyCoward escapes]] in a SleeperShip with 2,000 other people just to save her pathetic hide and to add to that, she leaves her own son behind by accident. But the karma gods are not mocked. In the film’s epilogue, she ends up becoming a bronteroc’s lunch.
** Janie's son Jason is being a super dumbass who treats the heroes with apathy and doesn’t take the threat seriously. Depending on your interpretation, it can be hard to feel sorry for him after his mother and Isherwell abandon him to his fate.
** Peter Isherwell is being an absolutely arrogant moron. He has the most direct influence on [[spoiler:humanity's extinction at the end of the movie]], and is presented without any redeeming traits. His [[spoiler:aborting the initial deflection mission]] is an EstablishingCharacterMoment that shows how greedy and uncaring he truly is. He doesn’t even give Randall the time of day when the former tries to correct him on the sync-rates of his [=BEADs=].

* ''Film/DontLookUp'': The audience can't hate the comet that causes the apocalypse in the end, as it is a force of nature, but they can hate Peter Isherwell, the Orlean administration and the other government and media officials for their apathy, ignorance, in general, being a bunch of dumbasses. The karma gods are not mocked by the elites survival, as they end up getting stuck on a planet full of hungry Brontorocs.

* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The villain of the title is funny, creative, stylish, and highly susceptible to DracoInLeatherPants -- and anyway, he's really [[PunchClockVillain just a "bio-exorcist" taking on a job]]. And we certainly can't hate the heroes of the story: Barbara and Adam Maitland and Lydia Deetz. Even Lydia's self-absorbed stepmother, Delia, is understandable to a certain extent and has undergone a HeelFaceTurn by the end. But we're certainly welcome to hate the snooty New York yuppies Delia wants so desperately to impress, and Betelgeuse gives them exactly what they deserve.

* ''Film/{{Chicago}}'': [[AssholeVictim Fred Casely]] is a furniture salesman claiming to Roxie Hart [[CastingCouch that he can get her a headliner show]] and uses it as a means of seducing her into an extra martial affair--and after they're done, when she presses him on it, he says [[ImAManICantHelpIt it was the only way to convince her to go to bed with him]]. When Roxie is understandably upset and is begging him not to say that, Casely pushes her down violently while saying that he'll punch her out if she touches him again. With Roxie in a fit of rage then pulling her husband Amos's gun and shooting Casely dead, [[DownfallBySex given what he did leading into it]], one simple sentence said many times sums it up: [[KarmicDeath "He had it comin'"]].

* ''Film/TheDevilAlltheTime'':

* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Calvin Candie]] is a slavemaster who owns the infamous plantation Candieland in Mississippi, where the titular protagonist's wife Broomhilda was sold. Initially presented as a charming, intelligent Francophile, Candie ultimately subverts EvilIsCool as the film progresses. With his bigotry, arrogance and borderline sadism, Candie is a representation of much of the negative stereotypes involving people from the DeepSouth. Viewing his slaves (and other people of African origin) as nothing more than property and participates in a gruesome blood sport called Mandingo fighting, where male slaves were forced to fight to the death for a small amount of money. When one slave attempted to escape to avoid being part of the brawl, Candie orders him to be eaten alive by a pack of dogs. His cultured facade is nothing more than a sham, as shown by his violent reaction after Schultz called him "Mister" rather than "Monsieur", and is implied to be nothing short of envious that Schultz actually displays more culture than he does. In addition, Candie's seemingly profound interest of France is proven to be a skin-deep farce, as he barely has as much knowledge as he presents of the country (he didn't know that his favourite author Alexandre Dumas was black), let alone speak French.

* ''Film/Gladiator'' has Commodus. He is a depraved scumbag with no redeemable qualities.

* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': At his core, Carmine Falcone is a contemptible human being who prefers to lord over others by making them fear him, and is also an unrepentant murderer, [[spoiler:killing Selina's mother and Annika without remorse as well as actually having very little respect for anyone he's worked with, be it Thomas Wayne or Oswald. As a result, it's easy to root against Falcone and to not care when he's shot dead by the Riddler.]]

** ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' & ''Film/RedDragon'': Dr. Frederick Chilton is the [[SmugSnake smug]] and [[{{slimeball}} slimy]] psychiatrist running the Baltimore State Hospital where Lecter is imprisoned and proves to be a far more detestable and irritating person than even the cannibalistic SerialKiller himself--constantly trying to get attention and publicity from the "Tooth Fairy" and "Buffalo Bill" cases respectively. When Lecter has done things like withheld info about the cases; impeded them or killed someone else--even the prisoner who sexually molested FBI trainee Clarice Starling, Chilton has resorted to petty punishments like taking away mutliple privileges such as his drawings; books and even his toilet seat while also playing an insufferable gospel program in front of him at high volume too. Upon secretly listening to his recording of one of Lecter and Starling's conversations--in which Starling lied about offering Lecter a deal, Chilton rats the FBI out to Senator Ruth Martin to get them removed from the case while he brokers a deal to be able to take control and get the focus on himself instead. After Lecter's escape in part thanks to Chilton's reckless actions, Chilton tries to flee the country to make sure he's safe, only for Lecter to secretly follow him, fully intent on "having [his] old friend for Dinner."
** ''Hannibal'': Paul Krendler, briefly introduced in ''The Silence of the Lambs'', is a {{jerkass}} member of the Department of Justice leading the charge against Starling--now a full agent--when a drug raid she was supposed to be in charge of resulted in a mass shooting. Krendler has a particular grudge against Starling because he hit on her and she rejected the idea of having an extra marital affair with him, shadowing her when she's assigned to simply look through Lecter's old files when she's demoted and threatening to find any small infraction he can to get Starling kicked out of the agency altogether if she's difficult. Krendler then immediately agrees to a hefty bribe offered to him by Mason Verger later on to frame Starling as having kept a love letter Lecter "sent" her to be able to futher shame and disgrace her and so Verger can dangle her misery in front of Lecter to trap him as well. Even abducted and drugged by Lecter, Krendler still cannot bring himself to be anything but disrespectful to Starling, resulting in Lecter cutting off the top of his head, removing part of his brain and then cooking it to save for later--even feeding Krendler himself a little bit of it too.

* ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'':
** Cal Hockley is the scumbag fiancée of Rose. 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 (as mentioned by Rose herself) eventually takes his own life.
** Rose's mother Ruth can be easily disliked for trying to break up Rose and Jack's relationship, but because she wants what she believes what is best for her daughter by monetary purposes, her role is minor compared to Cal's. The same can go for the other antagonists (Spicer Lovejoy, the officers, Bruce Ismay, the more uptight first class passengers, some members of ''Titanic'''s crew and the stewards holding back the third class passengers).

* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'': In the first two, the titular machines are far too [[EvilIsCool cool]] and [[CreepyAwesome scary]] to really hate (not to mention the fact that as machines, they're just [[PunchClockVillain doing what they're programmed]] without the capacity to contemplate their own morality). But you can hate the brusque, cowardly [[DrJerk Dr. Silberman]], who wasn't that bad in the first movie but has gotten ''[[TookALevelInJerkass much]]'' worse in ''T2'', who's rude and dismissive to Sarah and is largely responsible for her being locked up in an insane asylum for [[CassandraTruth just trying to warn everyone about Skynet]], even though ''he was there when the Terminator attacked the police station.'' And you can definitely hate the slimy, obnoxious [[OrderliesAreCreeps orderly]] Douglas who not only beats her violently when she tries to resist but also ''[[YouTasteDelicious licks her face]]'' [[DudeShesLikeInAComa when she's lying comatose]]. You'll find it difficult not to cheer when she takes Silberman hostage and then beats the shit out of Douglas with a broken broom.

* ''Film/{{Scream}}''
** ''Film/Scream3'' At face value, John Milton appears to be a representation of HorribleHollywood. Then it's revealed that he participated in Maureen Roberts' gang-rape, traumatizing her into promiscuous behavior. The gang-rape also resulted in [[BigBad Roman Bridger]], making Milton [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom indirectly responsible for all the events in the series]]. This marks him as one of the few victims in the films, [[AssholeVictim who had it coming]].

** ''Film/Scream2022'':
*** The Ghostface duo are two of the more petty and entitled of the bunch, and shown to be all the more pathetic than their predecessors, making it a joy when they get theirs--along with their first fatal victim being just as unlikable too:

** ''Film/Scream2022'': The Ghostface duo are two of the more petty and entitled of the bunch, and shown to be all the more pathetic than their predecessors, making it a joy when they get theirs.
*** Richie Kirsch, along with Amber, is a disgruntled ''Stab'' fan, engineering a killing spree to inspire a "true" sequel. To this end, Richie woos Sam Carpenter -- Billy Loomis' illegitimate daughter -- planning to frame her as the "villain" of their narrative, due to her ties with Billy. Richie mocks Sam's trauma as he reveals their relationship is a farce, and when beaten, whines about not getting the ending he wanted. [[VillainousLegacy After his death]], his family would spread conspiracies to paint Richie [[VillainWithGoodPublicity as a victim]], while demonizing Sam.
*** Amber Freeman is a likeminded ''Stab'' fanatic, working with Richie to inspire a "true" ''Stab'' sequel. Picking out "legacy" characters, most of them being Amber's friend group, Amber hospitalized her supposed best friend Tara, and personally [[HeroKiller disembowels Dewey]]. When confronted by Sidney and Gale, Amber cowardly tries to [[PlayingTheVictimCard claim she was indoctrinated]], before gloating to them about Dewey's death.

* ''Franchise/HannibalLecter'' film series: Along with the far-less charismatic and likable [[Film/{{Manhunter}} Dr. Hannibal Lecktor]]; child molester and sadist [[Film/{{Hannibal}} Mason Verger]] and Nazi crime boss [[Film/HannibalRising Vladis Grutas]], these prove to be the most despised characters in the universe--especially glaring as [[Characters/HannibalLecterFilm Dr. Hannibal Lecter]] himself is a surprisingly empathetic character:

* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2004'': Count Olaf is the evil count and actor seeking to steal the fortune of the Baudelaire children. Setting their house on fire and [[YouKilledMyFather murdering their parents]], Olaf takes them in, abuses them, attempts to kill them, then stalks and murders their other guardians before forcing Violet to marry him so he can get the fortune. Unlike his book and TV counterparts, this Olaf lacks both their redeeming qualities and FreudianExcuse here--neither of which existed at the time of the film's release--and [[KarmaHoudini never faces the consequences for any of it]].

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* ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'': Albuquerque is Tallahassee’s less likable {{Expy}} who runs over his Beast mobile with his own monster truck and gives him attitude about it, apologizing with very little sincerity and also being a romantic rival to him for Nevada as well. When T-800 zombies show up, Albuquerque disregards the others to handle it himself with his associate Flagstaff (Columbus’s expy). Though he treats Flagstaff well enough, Albuquerque, when it’s discovered he was bitten, is quick to turn against Flagstaff and reveal he was bitten too before they both turn to T-800s and try to kill the others.

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* ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''