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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E7 Ghosts of Christmas Past]]" Jennifer is an exceptionally shrill and cruel instance of one who never ceased hounding her brother Ferdy over his desire to pursue a career as a magician rather than a 'real' job and actively destroyed his happiness by seeing his fiancée framed as a thief, directly resulting in the pair separately committing suicide. Even after Ferdy's death she's found to have heartlessly gotten rid of his magical paraphernalia and branded the attic it was kept in off-limits, and seemingly having learned nothing she treats Howard in much the same way.
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* ''Fanfic/ADevilAmongstWorms'', Director James Tagg is certainly this to his colleagues in the PTR board. [[spoiler:Not even the news of Leviathan's permanent defeat can put a smile on his face]].
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Diane Chambers, mainly it's because her interests just don't align with the much more lowbrow tastes of everyone else at the bar. Even gets a LampshadeHanging at one point, during a Thanksgiving episode when one character mentions every dinner always has "that one fuddy-duddy old aunt who shows up to ruin everyone's fun." Diane immediately appears at the door, and true to form, refuses to let anyone watch the Super Bowl (despite being a guest at Carla's sufferance) and just generally sucks whatever fun the day had.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Diane Chambers, mainly it's because her interests just don't align with the much more lowbrow tastes of everyone else at the bar. Even gets a LampshadeHanging at one point, during a Thanksgiving episode when one character mentions every dinner always has "that one fuddy-duddy old aunt who shows up to ruin everyone's fun." Diane immediately appears at the door, and true to form, refuses to let anyone watch the Super Bowl Thanksgiving NFL games (despite being a guest at Carla's sufferance) and just generally sucks whatever fun the day had.
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has [[AmericanEagle Sam the Eagle]], a self-appointed MoralGuardian of the Muppet Theater who believes that it's his duty to keep things "cultured" and stop the other Muppet "weirdos" from going too far. In his mind, this makes him the OnlySaneMan of the bunch, but everyone else just thinks of him as a wet blanket, usually just ignoring him.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Heroes' Mission'' film he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare for no reason other than them being happy. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Heroes' Mission'' film he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare for no reason other than them being happy. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* In ''FanFic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', a bonus chapter focuses on Lakeisha Knowles, one of Julia's old classmates. All throughout the chapter, she is consistently crabby and grouchy towards everyone because she finds her autistic sister Merlin to be annoying and bothersome in spite of evidence to the contrary, and wonders why nobody else thinks the same way. She constantly scolds her and yells at her if she does anything, such as talk about names or flaps her hands. In the chapter immediately after that, the main trio run into them, and they see firsthand how snappish Lakeisha is towards Merlin, and are quick to call her on it, especially when Lakeisha makes Merlin cry after rejecting the Smeargle the latter caught for her solely out of pettiness.
* In ''FanFic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', a bonus chapter focuses on Lakeisha Knowles, one of Julia's old classmates. All throughout the chapter, she is consistently crabby and grouchy towards everyone because she finds her autistic sister Merlin to be annoying and bothersome in spite of evidence to the contrary, and wonders why nobody else thinks the same way. She constantly scolds her and yells at her if she does anything, such as talk about names or flaps her hands. In the chapter immediately after that, the main trio run into them, and they see firsthand how snappish Lakeisha is towards Merlin, and are quick to call her on it, especially when Lakeisha makes Merlin cry after rejecting the Smeargle the latter caught for her solely out of pettiness.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Diane Chambers. Mainly it's because her interests just don't align with the much more lowbrow tastes of everyone else at the bar. Even gets a LampshadeHanging at one point, during a Thanksgiving episode when one character mentions every dinner always has "that one fuddy-duddy old aunt who shows up to ruin everyone's fun." Diane immediately appears at the door, and true to form, refuses to let anyone watch the Super Bowl (despite being a guest at Carla's sufferance) and just generally sucks whatever fun the day had.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Diane Chambers. Mainly Chambers, mainly it's because her interests just don't align with the much more lowbrow tastes of everyone else at the bar. Even gets a LampshadeHanging at one point, during a Thanksgiving episode when one character mentions every dinner always has "that one fuddy-duddy old aunt who shows up to ruin everyone's fun." Diane immediately appears at the door, and true to form, refuses to let anyone watch the Super Bowl (despite being a guest at Carla's sufferance) and just generally sucks whatever fun the day had.
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* Mr. Berkley from ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' takes every opportunity he can to spoil the titular duo's time, although this stems from feeling left out rather than general dickishness (bit of a chicken-vs-egg situation. Does he have a prickly personality from being excluded or is he excluded because of his poor attitude?).
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* Mr. Berkley from ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' takes every opportunity he can to spoil the titular duo's time, although this stems from feeling left out rather than general dickishness (bit of a chicken-vs-egg situation. Does situation; does he have a prickly personality from being excluded or is he excluded because of his poor attitude?).
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** The show has the Loud family's grumpy neighbour Mr. Grouse, who often tells the family to stop having fun and goofing around because he finds them too... well, loud.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Heroes' Mission'' NonSerialFilm he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Heroes' Mission'' NonSerialFilm film he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare.DeathGlare for no reason other than them being happy. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Mission'' NonSerialFilm he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Heroes' Mission'' NonSerialFilm he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. And in the ''World Mission'' NonSerialFilm he silences 1-A celebrating being given a mission with a DeathGlare. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Mr. Krupp is [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] this in regards to school dances. While there are laws preventing him from outright cancelling them, [[LoopholeAbuse there's no rule saying he]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse can't]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse make them as dull as possible]], with the aid of the noise-hating music teacher Ms. Hurd as the DJ. That is until George and Harold decide to liven things up a little with their antics.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Mr. Krupp is [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] this in regards to school dances. While there are laws preventing him from outright cancelling he isn't legally allowed to cancel them, [[LoopholeAbuse there's no rule saying he]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse can't]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse make them as dull as possible]], doing so with the aid of the noise-hating music teacher Ms. Hurd as the DJ. That is until George and Harold decide to liven things up a little with their antics.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch, constantly ruined other people's fun by bringing up unpleasant facts. The character's name became a slang term for a depressing person and has been added to several dictionaries.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch, Creator/RachelDratch, constantly ruined ruins other people's fun by bringing up unpleasant facts. facts or stories. [[PersonAsVerb The character's name became a slang term for a depressing person and has been added to several dictionaries.dictionaries]].
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* ''Series/DeadRingers:'' BBC News correspondent Orla Gerun is depicted as such, covering depressing news topics. When Hue Edwards mistakenly says one of her news items sounds fun, she icily corrects him that she doesn't ''do'' fun. After she does her piece, she informs him she's off to feast on the tears of misery from those nearby.
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* ''Series/DeadRingers:'' BBC News correspondent Orla Gerun is depicted as such, covering depressing news topics. When Hue Edwards mistakenly says one of her news items sounds fun, she icily corrects him that she doesn't ''do'' fun. After she does her piece, she informs him she's off to feast on the tears of misery from those nearby.
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Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys; WetBlanketWife; FanHater; FunHatingVillain; FantasyForbiddingFather; TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy. A character who is TheBore can be this accidentally for the most part, but sometimes they also invoke it.
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Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys; WetBlanketWife; FanHater; FunHatingVillain; FantasyForbiddingFather; TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. Sister trope to IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual (A Killjoy without the antagonistic attitude). If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy. A character who is TheBore can be this accidentally for the most part, but sometimes they also invoke it.
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They might just shout, "Stop that racket!" or similar, but they may also try to actually sabotage the people's fun, which could make them a HarmlessVillain or SitcomArchNemesis. Usually, this is just a personality trait, but sometimes it's for a serious reason (see SourOutsideSadInside).
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* In ''Series/PlanetAjay'', Norman [[MeaningfulName Killjoy]], the security guard of Ajay's palace, absolutely hates fun and will do anything in his power to prevent the other characters from having any fun. Thankfully, being called by his mother is usually enough to get him out of the others' hair.
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* Bernice from ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}.'' Her habit of loudly disparaging anything she felt was beneath her became much more pronounced in college. When Luann eventually took the hint and simply didn't invite her (to a lingerie party she knew Bernice would ''never'' want to attend), Bernice threw a tantrum and stated that she expects to be invited to everything regardless, so that she can make her choice (and by extension, her negative opinion) known to everyone.
** She also took that same buzzkill attitude towards the university student body as a whole when serving as an RA. Although keeping order in the dorm is admittedly an RA's job, Bernice took things a bit far (knocking on doors to do bed checks, enforcing a curfew on weekends, physically separating couples ''a la'' [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Dolores Umbridge]], etc.) Commenters on ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' eventually nicknamed her "the Dormenführer."
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* Bernice from ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}.'' Her habit of loudly disparaging anything she felt was beneath her became much more pronounced in college. When Luann eventually took the hint and simply didn't invite her (to a lingerie party she knew Bernice would ''never'' want to attend), Bernice threw a tantrum and stated that she expects to be invited to everything regardless, so that she can make her choice (and by extension, her negative opinion) known to everyone.
** She also took that same buzzkill attitude towards the university student body as a whole when serving as an RA. Although keeping order in the dorm is admittedly an RA's job, Bernice took things a bit far (knocking on doors to do bed checks, enforcing a curfew on weekends, physically separating couples ''a la'' [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Dolores Umbridge]], etc.) Commenters on ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' eventually nicknamed her "the Dormenführer."
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* ''Film/Annie1982'': Miss Hannigan is the matron of a girls' orphanage in depression era New York. The children often entertain themselves by singing with each other and with the radio programs they listen to, but scramble to hide when they hear Miss Hannigan coming. One of her signature lines is "Do I hear ''happiness''?" and her standout song is "Little Girls" where she complains about all things most people like about raising little girls. She makes her wards walk punitive laps while reciting lines about how much it sucks to be an orphan and actively works to keep the title character from being adopted by a wealthy billionaire.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon is upset that the gang is having a get-together at Raj's place instead of his own so he makes a point of being as passive-aggresively annoying as possible.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch, constantly ruined other people's fun by bringing up unpleasant facts. The character's name became a slang term for a depressing person, person and has been added to several dictionaries.
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Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys; WetBlanketWife; FanHater; FunHatingVillain; FantasyForbiddingFather; TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy. A character who is TheBore can be this accidentally for the most part, but sometimes they also invoke it.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission [[CruelToBeKind to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work, work]], even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his co-worker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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** Marge Simpson has an InUniverse reputation as one of these. She is just a colossal nag that many episodes involve her clashing with her family and the rest of town over some form of entertainment - she likes to defend herself by saying it may be too dangerous or morally reprehensive, and DependingOnTheWriter [[ProperlyParanoid she's right]], RightForTheWrongReasons or [[ImproperlyParanoid just plain wrong]].
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** Marge Simpson has an InUniverse reputation as one of these. She is just a colossal nag that many episodes involve her clashing with her family and the rest of town over some form of entertainment - she likes to defend herself by saying it may be too dangerous or morally reprehensive, reprehensible, and DependingOnTheWriter [[ProperlyParanoid she's either right]], RightForTheWrongReasons RightForTheWrongReasons, or [[ImproperlyParanoid just plain wrong]].
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** Principal Seymour Skinner [[DependingOnTheWriter in multiple episodes]] militantly seeks to destroy any enjoyment children could have of being in school, as well as [[HopeCrusher their hopes and dreams]], in order to keep them obedient and mediocre. In others it's just a natural side-effect of [[TheBore being an incredibly boring man.]]
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Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys, WetBlanketWife, FanHater, FunHatingVillain, FantasyForbiddingFather, TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy.
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Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys, WetBlanketWife, FanHater, FunHatingVillain, FantasyForbiddingFather, StopHavingFunGuys; WetBlanketWife; FanHater; FunHatingVillain; FantasyForbiddingFather; TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy.
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* In the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, "The Guest", [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Grinch]] sees a commercial for the Lake Malloon Lodge, and hates how happy everyone is there. He checks into the lodge for the sole purpose of sabotaging the fun of everyone there, including Larry Nooly, a young boy who is dragged along by his parents, who are on their second honeymoon. Among the things The Grinch does during his stay are drain the lake, dismantle the roller coaster, and cut holes in the trampoline. After The Grinch drives everyone else away, Larry gets an idea to throw a party in The Grinch's honor, topping it off by giving him a gift. However, instead of undergoing a HeelFaceTurn like his book counterpart, The Grinch is unable to handle people being nice to him, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreats back to Mt. Crumpet]].
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* In the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, episode "The Guest", [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Grinch]] sees a commercial for the Lake Malloon Lodge, and hates how happy everyone is there. He checks into the lodge for the sole purpose of sabotaging the fun of everyone there, including Larry Nooly, a young boy who is dragged along by his parents, who are on their second honeymoon. Among the things The Grinch does during his stay are drain the lake, dismantle the roller coaster, and cut holes in the trampoline. After The Grinch drives everyone else away, Larry gets an idea to throw a party in The Grinch's honor, topping it off by giving him a gift. However, instead of undergoing a HeelFaceTurn like his book counterpart, The Grinch is unable to handle people being nice to him, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreats back to Mt. Crumpet]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'', Squidward often grumpily tells his neighbours Spongebob and Patrick to stop goofing off. Sometimes it's because they're getting in his way, but other times he's just crabby.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward often grumpily tells his neighbours Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to stop goofing off. Sometimes it's because they're getting in his way, but other times he's just crabby.
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* ''Series/MamasFamily'': How Thelma's mother is portrayed in flashbacks. She's constantly critical of anything lighthearted Thelma tries to do, to the point of almost being abusive.
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-->-- '''Oscar''', ''Series/SesameStreet''
Some people are just very hard to please. No matter how hard you try, they always find ''something'' to complain about. And they won't just let everyone have fun, they'll try to spoil it for everyone else too. That's the Killjoy in a nutshell.
Sometimes they try to spoil everyone's fun because it's too noisy, or they're jealous, or they feel like the thing the other characters find fun is idiotic and can't stand to see people enjoying something so stupid.
They might just shout, "Stop that racket!" or similar, but they may also try to actually sabotage the people's fun, which could make them a HarmlessVillain or SitcomArchNemesis. Usually, this is just a personality trait, but sometimes it's for a serious reason (see SourOutsideSadInside).
Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys, WetBlanketWife, FanHater, FunHatingVillain, FantasyForbiddingFather, TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work, even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his coworker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. This is also {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* In ''FanFic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', a bonus chapter focuses on Lakeisha Knowles, one of Julia's old classmates. All throughout the chapter, she is consistently crabby and grouchy towards everyone because she finds her autistic sister Merlin to be annoying and bothersome in spite of evidence to the contrary, and wonders why nobody else thinks the same way. She constantly scolds her and yells at her if she does anything, such as talk about names or flaps her hands. In the chapter immediately after that, the main trio run into them, and they see firsthand how snappish Lakeisha is towards Merlin, and are quick to call her on it, especially when Lakeisha makes Merlin cry after rejecting the Smeargle the latter caught for her solely out of pettiness.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Nemo's father Marlin complains a lot and often disallows things because he feels they're too dangerous. This is due, in part at least, [[FreudianExcuse to his wife dying when Nemo was still an egg]].
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* ''Film/Annie1982'': Miss Hannigan is the matron of a girls' orphanage in depression era New York. The children often entertain themselves by singing with each other and with the radio programs they listen to, but scramble to hide when they hear Miss Hannigan coming. One of her signature lines is "Do I hear ''happiness''?" and her standout song is "Little Girls" where she complains about all things most people like about raising little girls. She makes her wards walk punitive laps while reciting lines about how much it sucks to be an orphan and actively works to keep the title character from being adopted by a wealthy billionaire.
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* In ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch hates Christmas and wants to steal it. When he steals the Whos' Christmas-related things, he is even happy to anticipate hearing them cry. When they don't cry, however, he [[HeelFaceTurn changes his tune]] and decides to bring Christmas back.
* In the short story ''Piddler on the Roof'' by Creator/PaulJennings, Weesle's aunt Sue is a cross-patch who won't let him drink soda because it's "bad for your teeth"[[note]]Which can be true, but as long as you brush your teeth twice a day and don't drink soda excessively, it's fine[[/note]] and won't let him [[NatureTinkling pee outside]] because she thinks it makes him a "filthy, disgusting, despicable child".
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon is upset that the gang is having a get-together at Raj's place instead of his own so he makes a point of being as passive-aggresively annoying as possible.
-->Raj: Okay, we've got fajitas with all the fixins, so you make your own.
-->Sheldon: Wonderful. Dinner, some assembly required.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Victor, the perpetually grumpy and old caretaker of Anubis House, gets very easily annoyed when the students do...well, anything, but especially when they try and have fun. There are several times when he'll walk in on them talking happily amongst themselves and demand they stop being so noisy and get to class, he once temporarily stopped a party just by walking in and glaring at everyone, and the one and only time he was interested in participating in any sort of party, [[spoiler:he was a Sinner trying to trick the students]], and the party was ''still'' considered incredibly dull by literally everyone.
* Mr. Berkley from ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' takes every opportunity he can to spoil the titular duo's time, although this stems from feeling left out rather than general dickishness (bit of a chicken-vs-egg situation. Does he have a prickly personality from being excluded or is he excluded because of his poor attitude?).
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. In the short film "A Day at the Fair", one of the events is a cake contest, with some dour-looking judges.
-->'''Narrator:''' Judging cakes should be fun!
-->'''Mike:''' But this woman manages to suck the joy out of it.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch, constantly ruined other people's fun by bringing up unpleasant facts. The character's name became a slang term for a depressing person, and has been added to several dictionaries.
* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Oscar the Grouch is as grouchy as his name indicates and he doesn't want people having fun near the trash bin he lives in. If someone is having fun near him, he'll often purposely try to make them angry.
* In the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, "The Guest", [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Grinch]] sees a commercial for the Lake Malloon Lodge, and hates how happy everyone is there. He checks into the lodge for the sole purpose of sabotaging the fun of everyone there, including Larry Nooly, a young boy who is dragged along by his parents, who are on their second honeymoon. Among the things The Grinch does during his stay are drain the lake, dismantle the roller coaster, and cut holes in the trampoline. After The Grinch drives everyone else away, Larry gets an idea to throw a party in The Grinch's honor, topping it off by giving him a gift. However, instead of undergoing a HeelFaceTurn like his book counterpart, The Grinch is unable to handle people being nice to him, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreats back to Mt. Crumpet]].
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* In ''VideoGame/OperationYouthClub'', the neighbours will complain whenever you employ a DJ or band or put a turntable up, and they only shut up if you remove the offending person/people/thing, which isn't the best idea since then, your guests will complain about the hall zone being boring. The neighbours will also claim to have been sleeping, even in the daytime.
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*''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': The platypus Edward is embedded forever into this role. He's always whining about bad luck or else he's trying to put someone else down. Scoutmaster Lumpus also seems this way, all he wants is for the [[ScoutOut Bean Scouts]] to just stop having fun so he can get some rest.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Mr. Krupp is [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] this in regards to school dances. While there are laws preventing him from outright cancelling them, [[LoopholeAbuse there's no rule saying he]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse can't]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse make them as dull as possible]], with the aid of the noise-hating music teacher Ms. Hurd as the DJ. That is until George and Harold decide to liven things up a little with their antics.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the RunningGag character Buzz Killington, a friendly, old-fashioned sophisticated gentleman type who obliviously ruins the excitement of any fun parties or gatherings he's involved in with either unfunny jokes or boring activities like looking at sketches, which is usually met with characters rubbing their eyes in exasperation.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** The show has the Loud family's grumpy neighbour Mr. Grouse, who often tells the family to stop having fun and goofing around because he finds them too... well, loud.
** While Lori isn't usually an example, she becomes one if she's left in charge, disallowing her siblings to goof around like usual to the point of being nicknamed the "Queen of No".
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' features a hat called the "Bossy Hat" which makes the wearer grumpy and bossy, disallowing activities the others find fun.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Marge Simpson has an InUniverse reputation as one of these. She is just a colossal nag that many episodes involve her clashing with her family and the rest of town over some form of entertainment - she likes to defend herself by saying it may be too dangerous or morally reprehensive, and DependingOnTheWriter [[ProperlyParanoid she's right]], RightForTheWrongReasons or [[ImproperlyParanoid just plain wrong]].
** Principal Seymour Skinner [[DependingOnTheWriter in multiple episodes]] militantly seeks to destroy any enjoyment children could have of being in school, as well as [[HopeCrusher their hopes and dreams]], in order to keep them obedient and mediocre. In others it's just a natural side-effect of [[TheBore being an incredibly boring man.]]
** Occasionally Moe shows that he will ruin other people's enjoyment [[{{Jerkass}} out of a desire to feel better for himself.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'', Squidward often grumpily tells his neighbours Spongebob and Patrick to stop goofing off. Sometimes it's because they're getting in his way, but other times he's just crabby.
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-->-- '''Oscar''', ''Series/SesameStreet''
Some people are just very hard to please. No matter how hard you try, they always find ''something'' to complain about. And they won't just let everyone have fun, they'll try to spoil it for everyone else too. That's the Killjoy in a nutshell.
Sometimes they try to spoil everyone's fun because it's too noisy, or they're jealous, or they feel like the thing the other characters find fun is idiotic and can't stand to see people enjoying something so stupid.
They might just shout, "Stop that racket!" or similar, but they may also try to actually sabotage the people's fun, which could make them a HarmlessVillain or SitcomArchNemesis. Usually, this is just a personality trait, but sometimes it's for a serious reason (see SourOutsideSadInside).
Super-trope to StopHavingFunGuys, WetBlanketWife, FanHater, FunHatingVillain, FantasyForbiddingFather, TheCynic, and FunHatingConfiscatingAdult. If they're elderly, it's overlapping with GrumpyOldMan (or Woman) and if they live in a world of optimists, it's overlapping with GrumpyBear. Can also be played alongside ChildHater, CrankyNeighbor, ComicallySerious, or SternTeacher. See TheGadfly, {{Troll}}, and {{Sadist}} for other people who want to see others unhappy and TheEeyore for another kind of negative character. SafetyWorst (where being safety-conscious spoils people's fun) can qualify, but only if the safety-conscious person is also grumpy.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a compassionate example in Aizawa. He has made it his mission to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work, even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times where his coworker, Present Mic, walks into 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. This is also {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in 1-B, Kan, is a better teacher than him.
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* In ''FanFic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', a bonus chapter focuses on Lakeisha Knowles, one of Julia's old classmates. All throughout the chapter, she is consistently crabby and grouchy towards everyone because she finds her autistic sister Merlin to be annoying and bothersome in spite of evidence to the contrary, and wonders why nobody else thinks the same way. She constantly scolds her and yells at her if she does anything, such as talk about names or flaps her hands. In the chapter immediately after that, the main trio run into them, and they see firsthand how snappish Lakeisha is towards Merlin, and are quick to call her on it, especially when Lakeisha makes Merlin cry after rejecting the Smeargle the latter caught for her solely out of pettiness.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Nemo's father Marlin complains a lot and often disallows things because he feels they're too dangerous. This is due, in part at least, [[FreudianExcuse to his wife dying when Nemo was still an egg]].
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* ''Film/Annie1982'': Miss Hannigan is the matron of a girls' orphanage in depression era New York. The children often entertain themselves by singing with each other and with the radio programs they listen to, but scramble to hide when they hear Miss Hannigan coming. One of her signature lines is "Do I hear ''happiness''?" and her standout song is "Little Girls" where she complains about all things most people like about raising little girls. She makes her wards walk punitive laps while reciting lines about how much it sucks to be an orphan and actively works to keep the title character from being adopted by a wealthy billionaire.
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* In ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch hates Christmas and wants to steal it. When he steals the Whos' Christmas-related things, he is even happy to anticipate hearing them cry. When they don't cry, however, he [[HeelFaceTurn changes his tune]] and decides to bring Christmas back.
* In the short story ''Piddler on the Roof'' by Creator/PaulJennings, Weesle's aunt Sue is a cross-patch who won't let him drink soda because it's "bad for your teeth"[[note]]Which can be true, but as long as you brush your teeth twice a day and don't drink soda excessively, it's fine[[/note]] and won't let him [[NatureTinkling pee outside]] because she thinks it makes him a "filthy, disgusting, despicable child".
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon is upset that the gang is having a get-together at Raj's place instead of his own so he makes a point of being as passive-aggresively annoying as possible.
-->Raj: Okay, we've got fajitas with all the fixins, so you make your own.
-->Sheldon: Wonderful. Dinner, some assembly required.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Victor, the perpetually grumpy and old caretaker of Anubis House, gets very easily annoyed when the students do...well, anything, but especially when they try and have fun. There are several times when he'll walk in on them talking happily amongst themselves and demand they stop being so noisy and get to class, he once temporarily stopped a party just by walking in and glaring at everyone, and the one and only time he was interested in participating in any sort of party, [[spoiler:he was a Sinner trying to trick the students]], and the party was ''still'' considered incredibly dull by literally everyone.
* Mr. Berkley from ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' takes every opportunity he can to spoil the titular duo's time, although this stems from feeling left out rather than general dickishness (bit of a chicken-vs-egg situation. Does he have a prickly personality from being excluded or is he excluded because of his poor attitude?).
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. In the short film "A Day at the Fair", one of the events is a cake contest, with some dour-looking judges.
-->'''Narrator:''' Judging cakes should be fun!
-->'''Mike:''' But this woman manages to suck the joy out of it.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch, constantly ruined other people's fun by bringing up unpleasant facts. The character's name became a slang term for a depressing person, and has been added to several dictionaries.
* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Oscar the Grouch is as grouchy as his name indicates and he doesn't want people having fun near the trash bin he lives in. If someone is having fun near him, he'll often purposely try to make them angry.
* In the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, "The Guest", [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Grinch]] sees a commercial for the Lake Malloon Lodge, and hates how happy everyone is there. He checks into the lodge for the sole purpose of sabotaging the fun of everyone there, including Larry Nooly, a young boy who is dragged along by his parents, who are on their second honeymoon. Among the things The Grinch does during his stay are drain the lake, dismantle the roller coaster, and cut holes in the trampoline. After The Grinch drives everyone else away, Larry gets an idea to throw a party in The Grinch's honor, topping it off by giving him a gift. However, instead of undergoing a HeelFaceTurn like his book counterpart, The Grinch is unable to handle people being nice to him, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere retreats back to Mt. Crumpet]].
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* In ''VideoGame/OperationYouthClub'', the neighbours will complain whenever you employ a DJ or band or put a turntable up, and they only shut up if you remove the offending person/people/thing, which isn't the best idea since then, your guests will complain about the hall zone being boring. The neighbours will also claim to have been sleeping, even in the daytime.
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*''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': The platypus Edward is embedded forever into this role. He's always whining about bad luck or else he's trying to put someone else down. Scoutmaster Lumpus also seems this way, all he wants is for the [[ScoutOut Bean Scouts]] to just stop having fun so he can get some rest.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Mr. Krupp is [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] this in regards to school dances. While there are laws preventing him from outright cancelling them, [[LoopholeAbuse there's no rule saying he]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse can't]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse make them as dull as possible]], with the aid of the noise-hating music teacher Ms. Hurd as the DJ. That is until George and Harold decide to liven things up a little with their antics.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the RunningGag character Buzz Killington, a friendly, old-fashioned sophisticated gentleman type who obliviously ruins the excitement of any fun parties or gatherings he's involved in with either unfunny jokes or boring activities like looking at sketches, which is usually met with characters rubbing their eyes in exasperation.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** The show has the Loud family's grumpy neighbour Mr. Grouse, who often tells the family to stop having fun and goofing around because he finds them too... well, loud.
** While Lori isn't usually an example, she becomes one if she's left in charge, disallowing her siblings to goof around like usual to the point of being nicknamed the "Queen of No".
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' features a hat called the "Bossy Hat" which makes the wearer grumpy and bossy, disallowing activities the others find fun.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Marge Simpson has an InUniverse reputation as one of these. She is just a colossal nag that many episodes involve her clashing with her family and the rest of town over some form of entertainment - she likes to defend herself by saying it may be too dangerous or morally reprehensive, and DependingOnTheWriter [[ProperlyParanoid she's right]], RightForTheWrongReasons or [[ImproperlyParanoid just plain wrong]].
** Principal Seymour Skinner [[DependingOnTheWriter in multiple episodes]] militantly seeks to destroy any enjoyment children could have of being in school, as well as [[HopeCrusher their hopes and dreams]], in order to keep them obedient and mediocre. In others it's just a natural side-effect of [[TheBore being an incredibly boring man.]]
** Occasionally Moe shows that he will ruin other people's enjoyment [[{{Jerkass}} out of a desire to feel better for himself.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'', Squidward often grumpily tells his neighbours Spongebob and Patrick to stop goofing off. Sometimes it's because they're getting in his way, but other times he's just crabby.
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