History Main / ZeroPerCentApprovalRating

* August [[spoiler:at first]] in ''[[Literature/Wonder2012 Wonder]]''.

* In one episode of ''{{Iznogoud}}'', he actually manages to become the Caliph by changing bodies with him. However, due to his tyranny, he's overthrown by the people of Baghdad, who think that "everything's been worse since he threw the Grand Vizier in jail". After overthrowing him, the "Grand Vizier" (really the imprisoned Caliph in Iznogoud's body) becomes the new Caliph, thus restoring everything to normal (except the two now have swapped bodies and Iznogoud is in jail, together with Dilat Harat, who now has the body of the Caliph's food taster).

* Rare [[JustifiedTrope Justified example]] from ''{{Summoner}}'': when the BigBad[=s=] initially invade Orenia and Medeva, there are actually [[DyingLikeAnimals significant portions of the population]] that think their rule might be an improvement. They're quickly proven VERY wrong, as the villains are revealed to be Nuvasarim, followers of a ReligionOfEvil which revolves around deriving magical power directly from raw human suffering, and consequently have an excellent motivation to [[ForTheEvulz become the most hated despots they can be]].

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* ''Webcomic/{{Bug}}'' BrokeTheRatingScale, as shown in the image above. [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world/ Here's the link to the comic.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Bug}}'' manages to take this BeyondTheImpossible, as shown in the image above. [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world/ Here's the link to the comic.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Bug}}'', as shown in the image above. [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world/ Here's the link to the comic.]]

[[caption-width-right:226:[[BeyondTheImpossible Ouch indeed.]]]]

'''Nota Bene''': This trope ''does not work'' in RealLife because real politicians [[RealityEnsues start running into major problems]] before they can achieve a ZAR. "Very low" is different from "zero". In stable governments, politicians with very low approval ratings are usually unable to accomplish any actual legislating, usually because they're working with other politicians who don't want ''their'' approval ratings to plummet. In less stable situations, politicians with very low approval ratings are overthrown before they can quite hit the zero mark. Even in a complete and absolute dictatorship, the leader needs to maintain at least the grudging approval of his bodyguards, most of the army, and the top bureaucrats, to avoid being deposed/shot at the first possible opportunity. They also commonly have support among certain segments of the population, like their family or a minority race. However, the farther you are away from said hating subjects nation-wise, the easier it is to be hated without being attacked. This trope also doesn't work on polls and movie reviews as well, because polls and movie review are sampled through a small group of people and is often biased towards one opinion. That said, NoRealLifeExamplesPlease [[noreallife]]

[[caption-width-right:226:[[UpToEleven Ouch indeed.]]]]

* The titular ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' suffers from this because he's an 80's video game villain. What makes this worse is that his working buddy (and the title star of the game) Fix-It Felix, Jr., has a OneHundredPercentApprovalRating and the Nicelanders use it to shun and ridicule Ralph. In fact, this is what forces Ralph to start the main plot: he's tired of that approval rating!

* Venandekatra the Vile in Literature/BelisariusSeries is hated by everyone, even his own kin. He not only has every vice that can possibly be crowded into a single man, he is utterly incompetent.

* The Borgias in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' is universally loathed by everyone in Roma, even the soldiers are more interested in the florins paid to them than the cause they fight for as Ezio remove the pillars of support that funds the armies.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Scar is such an unpopular ruler that even [[FisherKing THE LAND ITSELF]] seems to hate him; it begins to wither and die as a result of his reign (and once he's overthrown, everything gets pretty again.) The lionesses and Zazu openly criticize his policies, all the animals seem to hate him, and the Hyenas who helped him come to power have grown so irritated with his rule that, at the end of the movie, they eat him alive. Yet no one even tries to overthrow the guy until Simba returns from exile to take him down.

** After House Frey breaks the rules of SacredHospitality by [[spoiler: brutally murdering King Robb, his mother and his bannermen at a wedding]], the entire North want them dead and the rest of the continent are appalled by them.

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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': [[KnightTemplar Meredith]] is completely bonkers, and everyone from beggar to lieutenant seems to know this, but everyone's too afraid to do anything about it. Except Justice...

* Venandekatra the Vile in BelisariusSeries is hated by everyone, even his own kin. He not only has every vice that can possibly be crowded into a single man, he is utterly incompetent.

*** Not quite, she introduces the Zerg campaign of Brood War by threatening to kill the [[NonEntityGeneral player cerebrate]] if they don't obey her, and between the first game and StarcraftII she apparently disposed of the cerebrates and replaced them with Brood Mothers who only defer to her because [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority they respect her strength]].

* In the {{Starcraft}} expansion pack, Brood War, Kerrigan almost lampshades this when she says she is 'the Queen bitch of the Universe'. The Protoss also describe her as the 'enemy of all who live'.

* One of the complaints directed against the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of Alan Moore's ''VForVendetta'' is that everyone already hated and distrusted the government ''before'' V came around, and had no fear of saying so. This is definitely not the case in the original comic; one of the most nefarious things about the Norsefire Coalition, as Moore depicted them, was that they were [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Villains With Good Publicity]] who actually had valid accomplishments to brag about (e.g., resurrecting the UK economy in the aftermath of a ''nuclear winter'').

* In [[TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]], it is made clear that [[BigBad Sauron]] is not well-loved even by his own minions. His Nazgul are directly enslaved to his will and don't have much choice in the matter, but beyond that, he controls endless swarms of Orcs and Trolls. From what little we hear from them, they aren't at all content with their lot, and if they weren't completely terrified of their master and hoping for a better life once he successfully takes over the world, they would probably be much happier looting and pillaging for themselves. {{Mordor}} is apparently designed to keep all of Sauron's slaves ''in'' just as much as it is to keep everyone else ''out''.

** The so-called "Mouth of Sauron" is an exception, as he seemed to be in it willingly, being rumored in-universe to have been one of the "Black Numenoreans" who sought Sauron's power. Still, that makes only one inhabitant throughout all of Mordor explicitly stated to like what he was doing.

** A flashback scene in "The Crystal Empire" shows that [[SorcerousOverlord King]] [[CompleteMonster Sombra]] was a similar case to Discord. He used his incredibly powerful BlackMagic to [[SlaveRace oppress and enslave]] [[SugarApocalypse the population]] directly, [[TheDreaded earning the hate and fear of literally everyone]] (as demonstrated by their continued misery and reluctance to remember what life under his rule was like, one thousand years after being reawakened).

-->-- '''Machiavelli''', ''ThePrince''

* The King of Town from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', while not a villain per se, manages to be hated by all of his "subjects" except the ones he employs. With the possible exception of [[CloudCuckoolander Homsar]], no one respects him, and he is routinely beaten up and stolen from.