History Main / SlimeBall

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has a perfect example in Nobuyuki Sugou, an insecure creep and sexual deviant who sleazes his way up the business ladder and over-compensates his inadequacies and insecurities with expensive suits and [[GoodHairEvilHair slicked back hair]]. Yeah, he'd be right at home with fellow sleazebags [[Film/{{Aliens}} Carter J Burke]] and TheWolfOfWallStreet.

* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' Has the perpetually sleazy Robert California, played by JamesSpader. While he oscillates between being a PointyHairedBoss and ManipulativeBastard, he regards almost everything in terms of sex. Whenever he talks to his staff one-on-one, they usually go away with a vague feeling that they've somehow been sexually harassed regardless of the topic of discussion. He even tries to start a naked pool orgy at a party he hosts at his house, much to the extreme discomfort of the guests who all work for him.

* [[LouisCypher Daryl Van Horn]] in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastWick'' comes off this way to Alexandra when they first meet. He spouts off crass opinions and vulgar jokes at her over lunch, then invites her to his mansion and propositions her for sex on the spot. She gives him such a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dressing down]] that it would annihilate the soul of any ordinary man. Unfortunately, Daryl is [[DevilInDisguise no ordinary man]] and he's not even fazed; his next question is what sexual position she prefers.

-->'''Daryl:''' Uhm, would you like to be on the top or the bottom?

* Grí­ma Wormtongue as portrayed by Brad Dourif in the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings film adaptation of ''Lord of the Rings'']]. He's slimy to the core, subtly influencing King Théoden against his own kingdom. He also spends an excessive amount of time creeping on Eowyn. Even his appearance is disgustingly greasy.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has a perfect example in Sugou Nobuyuki, an insecure creep and sexual deviant who sleazes his way up the business ladder and over-compensates his inadequacies and insecurities with expensive suits and [[GoodHairEvilHair slicked back hair]]. Yeah, he'd be right at home with fellow sleazebags [[Film/{{Aliens}} Carter J Burke]] and TheWolfOfWallStreet.

The Slimeball's motivations and actions are usually directed towards the goal of personal gain, often monetary or of a sexual nature. While a Slimeball can also be a MagnificentBastard villain or a SmugSnake, not every Slimeball has such grandiose ambitions, some preferring to simply make quick easy money or to influence others to like and trust them. The Slimeball who only harbors petty ambitions is almost always a SmallNameBigEgo and a DirtyCoward. When dealing with just about any person in authority with the confidence and/or strength to back it up, he will default to being a ProfessionalButtKisser. When his ambitions are sexual, he is usually a CasanovaWannabe. In many romantic comedies, the romantic rival for the protagonist will usually end up being recognized as the Slimeball by the end of the film. The Slimeball may also be a MilesGloriosus, using tall tales of alleged courage and adventure as an attempt to be charismatic. The most common reaction from a protagonist after dealing with the Slimeball is the intense desire to take a shower.

** The worst was likely Buck, [[OrderliesAreCreeps an orderly at the hospital]] where Beatrix was treated while in a coma, who not only raped her while comatose, but pimped her out to others for profit. (Not surprisingly, [[AssholeVictim he was the first one she killed]] when she woke up.)

The average Slimeball is usually not competent enough to handle the reins of power on his own, should he find himself in a position of real authority - he often becomes DrunkWithPower and embraces the role of CorruptBureaucrat. Depending on his position, he will usually be a GeneralFailure or PointyHairedBoss; but if a group of Slimeballs have banded together to share power, then they become a DecadentCourt.

!!Examples

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* Burke from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is the embodiment of this trope.

--> '''Alexandra:''' I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and you smell]]. You're [[InsultToRocks not even interesting enough to make me sick]].
--> '''Daryl:''' Uhm, would you like to be on the top or the bottom?

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* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': Lord Agravaine, particularly toward Morgana and Guinevere.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The Ferengi are a PlanetOfHats of Slimeballs, always trying to suck up to anyone who they think they can profit from. It's always raining on their home planet Ferenginar, thus the planet itself is always muddy and wet - making it a literal giant ball of slime.
** In the expanded universe, the most popular soft drink on Ferenginar is Slug-o-Cola, a disgusting drink that looks and tastes like slime. The Ferengi are an entire race of Slimeballs who live on a giant Slimeball and even drink slime.

--> '''Robert California:''' There is only sex. Everything is sex. Do you understand that what I'm telling you is a universal truth?

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Ronald Laren, who is trying to get into the pants of his [[TheIngenue painfully naive]] neighbor.

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* House Frey in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Even before the infamous [[spoiler:Red Wedding]], nobody else liked them. Walder Frey was a spoiled little brat since the age of four who time has not improved one bit, and most of his family takes after him. They look the part too: Walder Frey has a weasel-like appearance that most of his family inherited.
** Depending on who you ask in-world, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish comes across as a mostly benign one of these: sure, he's a [[SleazyPolitician bit of a sleaze]], but he ''is'' in the business of moneymaking, after all -- and, whorehouses ''are'' a predictably profitable money-spinner, so it just stands to reason he has his fingers in those pies, too. Besides, what he is in the corrupt, he more makes up for in the useful charm, right? [[spoiler: He's not benign. At all: just ask Jayne Poole and Sansa Stark. Both girls find out about his bad side in heart-breaking ways.]]

The average Slimeball is usually not competent enough to handle the reigns of power on his own, should he find himself in a position of real authority - he often becomes DrunkWithPower and embraces the role of CorruptBureaucrat. Depending on his position, he will usually be a GeneralFailure or PointyHairedBoss; but if a group of Slimeballs have banded together to share power, then they become a DecadentCourt.

Synonyms include but are not limited to: Scum(bag/bucket), Sleaze(bag/oid) and [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]].

* In ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', Iago manages to be the MagnificentBastard, playing off the other characters against each other for his own gain while pretending to be a close friend and counsel to all of them.

Because most female antagonists are portrayed as either [[FemmeFatale attractive]] or [[TheBaroness tough and aggressive]], the instances of female Slimeballs are extremely rare.

--> '''Alexandra:''' I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.

* [[LouisCypher Daryl Van Horn]] in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastWick'' comes off this way to Alexandra when they first meet. He spouts off crass opinions and vulgar jokes at her over lunch, then invites her to his mansion and propositions her for sex on the spot. She gives him such a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dressing down]] that it would annihilate the soul of any ordinary man. Unfortunately, Daryl is [[DevilInDisguise no ordinary man]] and he doesn't even notice; his next question is what sexual position she prefers.
--> '''Alexandra'': I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.
--> '''Daryl''': Uhm, would you like to be on the top or the bottom?

The average Slimeball is usually not competent enough to handle the reigns of power on his own, should he find himself in a position of real authority - he often becomes DrunkWithPower while being a GeneralFailure or PointyHairedBoss; but if a group of Slimeballs have banded together to share power, then they become a DecadentCourt.

* Peter [[MeaningfulName Pettigrew]] from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is one. Being TheLoad to his friends at school, he only gravitated around them because they were "the biggest bully on the playground". His Animagus form is a [[YouDirtyRat a rat]]. It is revealed that he [[spoiler: betrayed the Potters to Voldemort]] out of [[DirtyCoward fear]]. In an ironic twist, he once called Severus Snape this trope.

* The school guidance counselor in ''Film/PumpUpTheVolume'' make the enormous effort to convince students that he is looking out for their interests while really being the school principal's lackey, assisting her in expelling all the undesirables. The film's protagonist "Hard Harry" even describes him as "slime" on his pirate radio signal for so deeply betraying the students who came to him for help.

Because most female antagonists are portrayed as either [[FemmeFatale attractive]] or tough and aggressive, the instances of female Slimeballs are extremely rare.

* Likewise, ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' features Benny, the leader of the Chairmen gang of New Vegas. He is the SmugSnake first and foremost, but what makes him truly slimy is [[spoiler: that as a female protagonist, you can seduce and sleep with him towards the end of the game, and this is ''after'' he shot and buried you at the beginning! Benny is so enthusiastic about getting laid that only once does he consider that you might be trying to get close to him to take revenge, and all it takes is your assurance to the contrary to [[TooDumbToLive persuade him otherwise]]]].

* House Frey in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Even before the infamous [[spoiler:Red Wedding]], nobody else liked them. Walder Frey was a spoiled little brat since the age of four whom time has not improved one bit, and most of his family takes after him. They look the part too: Walder Frey has a weasel-like appearance that most of his family inherited.

->''"There's a misconception, because many people think they're like amphibians, that are actually slimy. Now some of them do slimy things, they are not in fact slimy to the touch. Did you know that snakes posses a spinal cord? They're in the phylum cordata and all animals in that phylum have a spinal cord. Some of them don't posses a backbone, but that's a different story. Finally, did you know there are over 2,600 species of snake on Earth? Well on May 25th, there's gonna be one less. Because yours truly, Jim Nye the science guy, like the mighty boa constrictors of the Amazon, is going to eat Black Serpent alive."''

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* Every boss who has ever offered a promotion or raise to a female employee in exchange for [[SleepingWithTheBoss certain "favors"]].
* Every highschool or college professor who has offered good grades to a female student in exchange for the same.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi]], the former Prime Minister of Italy who got in legal trouble for too many instances of political corruption and criminal activities to list here, but included tax fraud, bribery and using child prostitutes.
--> '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Moran DylanMoran]]:''' "He’s so crooked he sleeps on a spiral staircase. So thoroughly corrupt, every time he smiles an angel gets gonorrhea! He’s had so many facelifts, his face has moved to the top of his head and you have to get on a stepladder to watch him lie."
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->"There's a misconception, because many people think they're like amphibians, that are actually slimy. Now some of them do slimy things, they are not in fact slimy to the touch. Did you know that snakes posses a spinal cord? They're in the phylum cordata and all animals in that phylum have a spinal cord. Some of them don't posses a backbone, but that's a different story. Finally, did you know there are over 2,600 species of snake on Earth? Well on May 25th, there's gonna be one less. Because yours truly, Jim Nye the science guy, like the mighty boa constrictors of the Amazon, is going to eat Black Serpent alive."
-->--Fringe Pro Wrestling

* Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels in Wrestling/{{TNA}} following the breakup of Wrestling/{{Fortune}}. Self gratification, envy, slander, blackmail, he basically ticked every box and drug Frankie Kazarian down with him. Most importantly, they, opened their own Hall Of Fame after TNA did and inducted Wrestling/BobbyRoode in protest of TNA's induction of Wrestling/KurtAngle instead of themselves.[[/folder]]

--> '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Moran DylanMoran]]:''' "He’s so crooked he sleeps on a spiral staircase. So thoroughly corrupt, every time he smiles an angel gets gonorrhea! He’s had so many facelifts his face has moved to the top of his head and you have to get on a stepladder to watch him lie."