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* ''Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded'': Beatrice Traville's no physical threat to Team Phantom and is overshadowed by both Vlad and his ghost bat in her debut during "Visited," but she stands out as a DirtyCoward elitist bitch and an AbusiveMom to her daughter Stella as well as a GruesomeGrandparent to Star. She bullies Stella into obeying her through verbal and emotional abuse, and tries to force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with her most hated wannabe-suitor, Donovan Loadman, just for her own personal benefit, regardless of Star's personal feelings, her genuinely happy relationship with Danny, or the fact that Donovan is willing to hit her for opposing him. Beatrice's utter lack of positive traits makes us cheer when Star cuts her out of her life with a restraining order, and Danny scares her into leaving Amity Park forever after she spent all of "Visited" treating them and their loved ones like dirt.

* ''Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded'': Beatrice Traville's no physical threat to Team Phantom and is overshadowed by both Vlad and his ghost bat in her debut during "Visited," but she stands out as a DirtyCoward elitist asshole and [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] to her daughter Stella as well as GruesomeGrandparent to Star. She bullies Stella into obeying her through verbal and emotional abuse and tries to force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with her most hated wannabe-suitor, Donovan Loadman, just for her own personal benefit, regardless of Star's personal feelings and genuinely happy relationship with Danny or the fact that he's willing to hit Star for opposing him. Her utter lack of positive traits makes us cheer when Star cuts her out of her life with a restraining order, and Danny scares her into leaving Amity Park forever after she spent all of "Visited" treating them and their loved ones like dirt.

* ''Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded'': Beatrice Traville's no physical threat to Team Phantom and is overshadowed by both Vlad and his ghost bat in her debut during "Visited," but she stands out as a Dirty Coward elitist as-shole and abusive parent to her daughter Stella as well as Gruesome Grandparent to Star as she bullies Stella into obeying her through verbal and emotional abuse and tries to force Star into an Arranged Marriage with her most hated wannabe-suitor Donovan Loadman just for her own personal benefit regardless of Star's personal feelings and genuinely happy relationship with Danny or the fact that he's willing to hit Star for opposing him. Her utter lack of positive traits makes us cheer when Star cuts her out of her life with a restraining order, and Danny scares her into leaving Amity Park forever after she spent all of "Visited" treating them and their loved ones like dirt.

See also JerksAreWorseThanVillains, which is an audience reaction often related to this trope but not necessarily intentional, and which only applies to a character's jerkish qualities as opposed to genuine atrocities. Contrast NobleTopEnforcer, which is when TheDragon or a minion is more sympathetic than the Big Bad, and VileVillainLaughableLackey, which is when a serious and nasty villain has a minion who's more silly than them.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': All the recurring villains of the show, up to and including SatanicArchetype Him, are more often than not LaughablyEvil and very clearly [[CartoonishSupervillainy cartoon characters]] even at their most seriously threatening. OneShotCharacter [[ADickInName Dick]] Hardly, meanwhile, is a MadScientist who mass-produces increasingly flawed clones of the title characters for profit with zero regard for the ''living creatures'' he is indeed creating as disposable products, and is portrayed more seriously and as [[HateSink more despicable]] than any other villain in the series, notably being the only one to explicitly [[KilledOffForReal die]] for his crimes.

# Works in which the antagonist is a mindless, or [[BlueAndOrangeMorality strange-minded]], EldritchAbomination that is too animalistic, unknowable, or non-sapient to despise.

The less sympathetic flavour of BigBadWannabe usually fits this trope, with their more detestable qualities standing out due to their lack of competence, intellect or bravery.

* The titular monster of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' is just a mindless monster and Lex Luthor is his typical MadScientist CorruptCorporateExecutive self -- but the Toyman is presented as a child kidnapper and ultimately child killer. That last one, killing a four year-old girl, leads to him suffering a VigilanteExecution at the hands of Luthor's Superman clone.

* ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'': Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites are sadomasochistic abominations who serve an evil eldritch deity, but their otherworldly morality and strange code of honor helps them avoid being completely loathsome. The Cenobites' main victim Frank by contrast is a depraved human hedonist who sought out the Lemarchand Box to satisfy himself, and has no problem killing and consuming innocents to regenerate his body when he escapes Hell. He also manipulates his lovesick girlfriend into aiding him and later casually kills her, murders his own brother to steal his skin, and has [[CreepyUncle a creepy lust for his own niece]], even plotting to make her a SexSlave in the sequel. Frank isn't a minor character, but he's a small potato in the franchise and yet far more repulsive than the Cenobites.

* ''Film/UltramanCosmosTheFirstContact'': Basical Baltan is the film's BigBad, but he's not evil, just a [[WellIntentionedExtremist desperate]], [[KnightTemplarParent fatherly figure]] to the last children of his kind that is seeking a way to save his species from extinction and give the children under his care a safe place to live in. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Commander Shigemura]], while not the main threat , is the absolute most despicable being in the film as he is a miserable cowardly manchild that causes the peaceful negotiations with Basical to fail by attacking the alien when he is pacified, eventually leading to the alien committing [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] out of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regret]] of almost harming humanity in his rage, and then tries to kill Ultraman Cosmos even when he helped stop Basical and was trying to help the Baltan children, all because he [[FantasticRacism hates aliens]].

* ''Literature/MasksOfAygrima'': While [[BigBad The Autarch]] is a horrible person, it's difficult to truly hate him due to his lack of screentime and formal way of speaking. In contrast it's very easy to hate Grute from the first book due to him being a sexist pervert who tries to sell Mara as a sex slave.

* The closest things ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7asz8x/has_anyone_heard_of_the_leftright_game_part_1/ Has anyone heard of the Left/Right Game?]]'' has to a BigBad are [[EldritchLocation the road itself]] and [[spoiler: the mysterious entity that led the narrator to the road, heavily implied to be her distant future self]]. However, both are so far beyond human comprehension that it's hard to truly hate them. This is not the case for Denise "Bluejay" Carver, a [[{{Jerkass}} rude, meanspirited]] sceptic who joined the convoy in hopes of publicly exposing the titular game as a hoax. She refuses to take the dangers of the road seriously [[DirtyCoward except for when it's her own life at risk]], and when her actions end up getting one of their number killed, she goes so far as to mock the others for mourning him. [[spoiler: As the story goes on, [[DwindlingParty the party continues to dwindle]], and supernatural phenomena starts taking place right before her eyes, she only grows more convinced that it's all fake, unable to accept she could have been wrong and rationalising everything by accusing the rest of the group of trying to trick her. This eventually culminates in her pulling a gun on the remaining survivors [[UngratefulBastard moments after they saved her life]], attempting to steal the last working car for herself and leave everyone else for dead]].

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* Most villains in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' are far too fantastical and charming to hate (like Katz, [=LeQuack=], Fusilli, Dr. Gerbil or Schwick) and some are even rather sympathetic (Shirley, Robot Randy, Freaky Fred, the Snowman). Neither can be said for Mad Dog, a cruel DomesticAbuser who keeps a terrified Bunny under his paw and threatens to kill her and her girlfriend Kitty if she steps out of line. Mad Dog is so vile he actually makes resident asshole Eustace look like a better person.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The main villain is Bill Cipher, an eldritch interdimensional demon who wants to destroy worlds for fun. He is also a clever [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and [[EvilIsCool boasts several impressive powers as he manipulates the Pines family throughout the show,]] making it hard to really hate him. None of these positive things can be said about Preston Northwest, a DirtyCoward asshole and {{abusive parent|s}} to his daughter Pacifica. Most of the intended audience hate is aimed at him despite having a smaller role in the overall story and only one episode where he's the focal villain.
* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'': While [[EldritchAbomination Canaletto]] is a horrifying, irredeemable OmnicidalManiac, he still has plenty of [[EvilIsCool impressive qualities]] for being a pragmatic, ruthless chessmaster and is even implied to develop a twisted sort of respect for Eva, the heroine. Likewise most of the alien racers manage to be both badass and sympathetic. A huge exception is [[StarterVillain the first opponent]] Groor, who has zero depth beyond being a smug, StupidEvil brute. He revels in mocking his opponents on the track and even [[spoiler:apparently]] caused Rick Thunderbolt's CareerEndingInjury with no remorse. And after Eva beats him fair and square, he throws a childish fit and assaults her in a bar over his bruised ego.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': All the recurring villains of the show, up to and including SatanicArchetype Him, are more often than not LaughablyEvil and very clearly [[CartoonishSupervillainy cartoon characters]] even at their most seriously threatening. OneShotCharacter Dick Hardly, meanwhile, is a MadScientist who mass-produces increasingly flawed clones of the title characters for profit with zero regard for the ''living creatures'' he is indeed creating as disposable products, and is portrayed more seriously and as [[HateSink more despicable]] than any other villain in the series, notably being the only one to explicitly [[KilledOffForReal die]] for his crimes.

* The closest things ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7asz8x/has_anyone_heard_of_the_leftright_game_part_1/ Has anyone heard of the Left/Right Game?]]'' has to a BigBad are [[EldritchLocation the road itself]] and [[spoiler: the mysterious entity that led the narrator to the road, heavily implied to be her distant future self]]. However, both are so far beyond human comprehension that it's hard to truly hate them. This is not the case for Denise "Bluejay" Carver, a [[{{Jerkass}} rude, meanspirited]] sceptic who joined the convoy in hopes of publically exposing the titular game as a hoax. She refuses to take the dangers of the road seriously [[DirtyCoward except for when it's her own life at risk]], and when her actions end up getting one of their number killed, she goes so far as to mock the others for mourning him. [[spoiler: As the story goes on, [[DwindlingParty the party continues to dwindle]], and supernatural phenomina starts taking place right before her eyes, she only grows more convinced that it's all fake, unable to accept she could have been wrong and rationalising everything by accusing the rest of the group of trying to trick her. This eventually culminates in her pulling a gun on the remaining survivors [[UngratefulBastard moments after they saved her life]], attempting to steal the last working car for herself and leave everyone else for dead]].

* Most villains in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' are far too fantastical and charming to hate (like Katz, LeQuack, Fusilli, Dr. Gerbil or Schwick) and some are even rather sympathetic (Shirley, Robot Randy, Freaky Fred, the Snowman). Neither can be said for Mad Dog, a cruel DomesticAbuser who keeps a terrified Bunny under his paw and threatens to kill her and her girlfriend Kitty if she steps out of line. Mad Dog is so vile he actually makes resident asshole Eustace look like a better person.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Because Gozer the Gozerian is too alien to hate within the film, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat 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 Smug Snake self-righteousness seals the deal securing the audience's hate for him.
* ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'': Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites are sadomasochistic abominations who serve an evil eldritch deity, but their otherworldly morality and strange code of honor helps them avoid being completely loathsome. The Cenobites' main victim Frank by contrast is a depraved human hedonist who sought out the Lemarchand Box to satisfy himself, and has no problem killing and consuming innocents to regenerate his body when he escapes Hell. He also manipulates his lovesick girlfriend into aiding him and later casually kills her, murders his own brother to steal his skin, and has [[ParentalIncest a ''creepy'' lust for his own niece,]] even plotting to make her a SexSlave in the sequel. Frank isn't a minor character,but he's a small potato in the franchise and yet far more repulsive than the Cenobites.

* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': The BigBad Valentine, played by Creator/SamuelLJackson, is ''much'' too intentionally hammy and hilarious to be seriously loathed even ''before'' you subtract his WellIntentionedExtremist goal, and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Gazelle is a badass with endearing down-to-earth moments herself, although they do have a MoreDespicableMinion in the form of [[RivalTurnedEvil Charlie]]. But the protagonist's {{wicked stepfather}} Dean is just an abusive, drunk, wife-beating HateSink, and it's even more satisfying to imagine him getting his dues at the movie's end.

* Most villains in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' are far too fantastical and charming to hate(like Katz, LeQuack, Fusilli, Dr. Gerbil or Schwick) and some are even rather sympathetic(Shirley, Robot Randy, Freaky Fred, the Snowman). Neither can be said for Mad Dog, a cruel DomesticAbuser who keeps a terrified Bunny under his paw and threatens to kill her and her girlfriend Kitty if she steps out of line. Mad Dog is so vile he actually makes resident asshole Eustace look like a better person.

* [[WebVideo/OutsideXbox The Oxventure]] has had two characters hold the post of BigBad, but neither qualifies for being a HateSink (Channail is too funny and incompetent, while Liliana is badass enough to elicit EvilIsCool. The same cannot be said for the unaffiliated villains of the following episodes:

* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Sonny Burch is much less sympathetic than Ghost. The former is a low-level criminal-type who wants Hank Pym's technology to sell on the black market. The latter is simply trying to find a way to end the pain she feels ''every second of every day''.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': Most of the conflict is between heroes who believe their actions are justified, and the BigBad, Zemo, is out for revenge for the death of his family. The one villain we truly can hate is Crossbones from the opening, who has given up the few redeeming qualities he had before and became a murderous ArmsDealer who kills dozens.

The More Hatable Minor Villain can be recognized by these signs:

* The actual BigBad must be someone who the work does not portray as hatable.
* The villain must, therefore, be hatable in place of the Big Bad.

* ''Film/Hellraiser'': Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites are sadomasochistic abominations who serve an evil eldritch deity, but their otherworldly morality and strange code of honor helps them avoid being completely loathsome. The Cenobites' main victim Frank by contrast is a depraved human hedonist who sought out the Lemarchand Box to satisfy himself, and has no problem killing and consuming innocents to regenerate his body when he escapes Hell. He also manipulates his lovesick girlfriend into aiding him and later casually kills her, murders his own brother to steal his skin, and has [[ParentalIncest a ''creepy'' lust for his own niece,]] even plotting to make her a SexSlave in the sequel. Frank isn't a minor character,but he's a small potato in the franchise and yet far more repulsive than the Cenobites.

* The villain must be unaffiliated with the BigBad -- if they are employed by them then they are a MoreDespicableMinion, which is a related but separate trope.

See also JerksAreWorseThanVillains, which is an audience reaction often related to this trope but not necessarily intentional, and which only applies to a character's jerkish qualities as opposed to genuine atrocities; and MoreDespicableMinion, where a minion of the Big Bad is more hatable than their boss. Contrast NobleTopEnforcer, which is when TheDragon or a minion is more sympathetic than the Big Bad, and VileVillainLaughableLackey, which is when a serious and nasty villain has a minion who's more silly than them.