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** Alice is the biggest JerkAss imaginable. When she learns that Bob respects her and values her friendship, she wonders why. (Somebody Doesn't Hate Chris?)

** Alice is almost universally-beloved; however, when she finds out that Bob once said something bad about her, she has a mental breakdown.
** Bob doesn't just "dislike" her, he utterly hates her guts because of whichever reason he does (or worse yet, [[IrrationalHatred he doesn't really have a reason to hate her, he just does, and he doesn't bother to question this lack of reason]]) and makes it his life's mission to make her life hell, to the point that having the rest of the universe on her side and constantly reassuring her really can't compensate for all the bullying of this one man.

** Alice is a [[ThePerfectionist die-hard perfectionist,]] and she takes Bob's dislike of her as a sign of a personal flaw she has rather than [[IrrationalHatred something irrational]].

** Alice is the biggest {{Jerkass}} imaginable. When she learns that Bob respects her and values her friendship, she wonders why. (Somebody Doesn't Hate Chris?)
** Bob is the Protagonist. From his point of view, he seems to be the only man in town that has some amount (hell, ''any'' amount) of dislike for Alice the WalkingDisasterArea (who has brought down unspeakable catastrophes to the town on a daily basis) and wondering why everybody else loves her ends up driving him insane. (Nobody Else Hates Chris?)

** After Bob ruins her credit rating, calls a SWATTeam on her, smashes her car with a crowbar, sets her summer home ablaze, gets her daughter expelled from school, her sister mistaken for an Argentinean and deported, her father fired, her mother arrested as an alleged drug dealer, runs over her Golden Retriever and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking breaks into her house]] to [[RevengeIsADishBestServed piss in her coffee maker]], Alice wonders (as she sits with her lawyer to file a restraining order) just what the heck did she do to Bob to deserve him acting like ''this''.
** Now Bob is the one obsessing over the face that Alice doesn't like ''him''! How could miss popularity who seems to like everybody not like Bob? So, now we have a weird situation of someone trying to get someone to like him that he doesn't even like.
** Alternately, Bob was attempting to invoke this trope through reverse psychology, to try to get Alice obsessed with him. It backfired.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is sometimes rude to Alice and sometimes nice to her. Alice alternates between obsessing over his dislike and not caring.

** "He doesn't like me? ...what, you think I'm going to obsess over that? I have plenty of friends."

** Alice ''makes'' Bob like her. How she manages to achieve this, especially if Bob's militant about hating her, may wander into the realm of horror, though...

* '''Played For Laughs''':

** Alice causes an awful lot of mayhem trying to find out why Bob hates her and overcompensating to make him like her, which of course leads to Bob having a thousand more reasons to hate her more afterwards. For further irony points, the initial reason why Bob hates Alice [[RiddleForTheAges is probably left unsaid]].
* '''Played For Drama''':

* '''Played For Horror''': Either Bob is going to kill Alice because he hates her '''that''' much and believes he's doing mankind a favor or Alice will go full-on {{Yandere}} on Bob because she is ''that'' driven to have him like her. Though they're still afraid that the other will kill him/her first.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': What seems to be one of these plots turns out to be a series of [[ContrivedCoincidence absurd coincidences]] in which Alice is in the general direction or collateral damage of some other person Bob hates for more understandable reasons, giving us the chance to obtain the Aesop while not turning Bob into a militant {{Jerkass}}.

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** Alice likes or hates everyone except Bob.

** Bob is the Protagonist. From his point of view, he seems to be the only man in town that has some amount (hell, ''any'' amount) of dislike for Alice the WalkingDisasterArea (who has brought down unspeakable catastrophes to the town on a daily basis) and wondering why everybody else loves her ends up driving him insane.

** It probably would be easier to ignore Bob if not for the way he [[ConspicuousInACrowd stands amongst the crowd and forces it to part like the Red Sea]] while giving her [[DeathGlare a hateful glare]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': Everyone hates Alice, but she takes the news that Bob dislikes her as a personal assault.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice has a crippling personality disorder that won't allow her to accept the fact that people might not like her. Therefore, when she learns that Bob isn't fond of her, it tears her up inside.

* '''Implied''': Bob is the only one among LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters who doesn't regularly talk to Alice.

* '''Justified''': Alice doesn't like when people dislike her; she tries to please people.

** Bob doesn't just "dislikes" her, he utterly hates her guts because of whichever reason he does (or worse yet, [[IrrationalHatred he doesn't really have a reason to hate her, he just does, and he doesn't bother to question this lack of reason]]) and makes it his life's mission to make her life hell, to the point that having the rest of the universe on her side and constantly reassuring her really can't compensate for all the bullying of this one man.

** Bob doesn't just "dislikes" her, he utterly hates her guts because of whichever reason he does (or worse yet, [[IrrationalHatred he doesn't really has a reason to hate her, he just does, and he doesn't bothers to question this lack of reason]]) and makes it his life's mission to make her life hell, to the point that having the rest of the universe on her side and constantly reassuring her really can't compensate for all the bullying of this one man.