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12	* ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'': On one hand, we have our BigBad Sokurah who wants the magic lamp for his own nefarious schemes and shrunk Princess Parisa. Yet he is very hard to hate thanks to his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor and Torin Thatcher’s hammy yet charismatic performance. We can’t even hate the monsters since they are cool. Parisa’s father, the Sultan of Chandra on the other hand is a straight up jerk. He seems far too eager to find a reason to be displeased with Baghdad despite his daughter’s happiness with Sinbad. But then he straight up threatens the Caliph of Baghdad with war after finding his daughter shrunk by Sokurah, fully blaming them for Parisa’s predicament instead of the mysterious sorcerer who he himself saw perform his dark arts the night before.
13	* ''Film/AboutTheLittleRedRidingHood'': There are three old women and a shepherd boy, all of them bitter, bad-tempered and petty but nothing more. They are despised by viewers much more than the actual villain of the film, the near-psychotic She-Wolf who wants to avenge her son (TheBigBadWolf of the original fairytale), arranges the kidnapping of Little Red Riding Hood, and is almost murderously abusive towards her surviving WhiteSheep son.
14	* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The xenomorphs, as horrifying and vicious as they are, are [[NonMaliciousMonster Non-Malicious Monsters]] who kill because it's in their biological nature to do so. [[spoiler:Carter Burke, on the other hand, is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who betrays Ripley and the rest of TheSquad on [[SuitWithVestedInterests the orders]] of an amoral MegaCorp that wants a xenomorph sample to experiment on, [[FauxAffablyEvil after he'd gained Ripley's trust]] by being among the first people to reach out to her after her escape pod was picked up.]] When the xenomorphs die, it's cool. When he dies, it's ''cathartic'', to the point that his actor [[spoiler:Creator/PaulReiser]] said that ''his own family'' cheered when his character was killed off, with his sister playfully punching him as they left the theater for playing such a loathsome scumbag.
15	* ''Film/BabyDriver'': The villains include Doc, Griff, Buddy, Darling, Eddie No-Nose, JD, and Bats, all part of a criminal organization behind several organized robberies, with Bats being a mass-murdering psychopath who commits severe crimes just ForTheEvulz. Baby is forced to be the wheelman for their crimes to pay off a debt he owes them. Despite their villainous nature, the characters are [[EvilIsCool charismatic]] and [[LoveToHate entertaining]] to watch, with Doc, Buddy, and Darling [[AffablyEvil being the nicest to Baby]]. The same cannot be said for Baby's abusive, alcoholic birth father, who causes a car crash that gets [[AssholeVictim himself]] and his wife/Baby's mother killed and gives Baby tinnitus.
16	* ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': The most disliked character is neither of the cannibalistic serial killers, but the RichBitch Heather. She has a dour attitude and wet blanket nature, which amounts to being offended at the sorority's tradition of buying a Christmas present for the aforementioned killer. She does get a KickTheDog moment to Lauren -- who has a troubled relationship with her family -- but that does come after Lauren makes a dig at her. She also wants to leave Lauren in the house when she's nearly passed out in the middle of a blizzard, with a serial killer on the loose, and becomes TheLoad when they need to shovel snow off a car. Both the serial killers do get tragic backstories of being abuse victims as children, which is presumably why Heather is more disliked.
17	* ''Film/BlackChristmas2019'': Kris is the most despised character in the film, even up against the frat house of rapists and murderers. This is because she is a terrible friend to Riley; anyone calling her on her nasty behavior is portrayed as a {{Strawman}}. She also goes through no meaningful CharacterDevelopment and becomes a complete KarmaHoudini by surviving to the end. Not to mention that she is the most responsible for the continued abuse her sisters get from the frat. A contributing factor is that while the villains are all one-dimensional {{Hate Sink}}s, Kris is [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic supposed to be sympathetic to the audience]] despite having few positive qualities.
18	* ''Film/BlankCheck'': Preston's father, Fred, comes off as the most hated character in the movie, even more than the villains. [[ParentalFavoritism He lets his two older sons dominate Preston's room for their own business (despite being incompetent at computers)]] and berates Preston for not doing the same despite being clearly too young to do so. He also [[SkewedPriorities grounds Preston for ruining his bike]] rather than [[NoSympathy being worried that he was almost hit by a car]]. Even when Fred speaks to "Mr. Machintosh" about how he dislikes that he's taking his son's time away from him, his out-of-nowhere [[PapaWolf concern for Preston]] feels lazy and insincere.
19	* ''Film/Brothers2009'': Isabelle is despised by viewers for her nasty behavior towards her father when he returns from his tour of duty. Meanwhile, the Afghans, though not beloved, are not as hated, even though they brutally tortured Sam and Joe and forced the former at gunpoint to beat the latter to death with a pipe. Possibly because the Afghans at least get killed by the military, whereas Isabelle (aside from being called out by her mother and having to deal with her father's PTSD for the remainder of her life) doesn't suffer much punishment.
20	* ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'': The most disliked character in the film is Sally, Charlie's [[ParentalNeglect neglectful mother]], who constantly criticizes her daughter for being "mopey" (despite having lost her father not too long ago), not to mention jumping to conclusions and punishing Charlie for stuff way out of her control. This is in contrast to [[BigBadDuumvirate Shatter and Dropkick]], who are quite enjoyable to watch thanks to their EvilIsCool status, and [[AlphaBitch Tina]], who is a clear unsympathetic HateSink.
21	* ''Film/Carrie1976'': While Carrie is technically a VillainProtagonist, she is a '''very''' sympathetic AntiVillain, and doesn't even do anything villainous until near the end. Meanwhile, the main antagonists are [[HateSink completely loathsome]]. Her mother is a highly [[AbusiveParents abusive]] [[TheFundamentalist religious nut]] who hits Carrie repeatedly, throws coffee in her face, punishes her for having a period, and [[spoiler: outright tries to murder her at the end.]] The other antagonist, Chris, is a horrible AlphaBitch who's really mean to Carrie for no reason, and, when she is banned from the prom for her cruelty, decides to [[BloodSplatteredInnocents pour blood on her]] and ruin the happiest moment of her life, which leads to her [[DrivenToMadness going insane]] and killing everyone.
22	* ''Film/CentralIntelligence'': Even though [[spoiler:Phil]] is the BigBad, he is still far more entertaining than JerkJock Trevor, who bullied Bob Stone in high school by throwing him into the gym while he was still naked from taking a shower. Twenty years later, when Bob runs into him again, [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp he continues to make fun of him and still feels quite proud of what he did to him in high school]]. Fortunately, he gets his comeuppance when Bob, who has had enough of his antics, knocks him out cold.
23	* ''Film/TheCraft'': JerkJock Chris doesn't do much more than spread a mean rumor that Sarah slept with him after she turned him down, although it's implied he's done this to more girls at school. His attempted rape of Sarah later in the film is the result of a love spell she cast backfiring, but {{Fanon}} likes to imagine this as his true nature manifesting itself. Compare him to Nancy -- who murders two people, possibly helped kill a third and was giddy about it, threatens her friends when they disagree with her, tricks Sarah into thinking her parents died in a plane crash, psychologically tortures her and tries to make her commit suicide -- and the fandom loves her. Her case is helped by being a TragicVillain who was subject to SlutShaming from Chris and lives in a trailer park with a stepfather who sexually harasses her once in the film. The two people Nancy kills are in fact [[spoiler: Chris and the stepfather, the latter of whom gets killed after he hits her mother]].
24	* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
25	** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has the trucker who harrassed a woman at a bar and [[BullyingADragon mocked Clark for defending her.]] Compare [[BigBad General Zod]], a WellIntentionedExtremist who [[KnightTemplar only tried to destroy humanity to revive his race]] while the trucker had no excuse for his behavior. Many fans cheered when [[AssholeVictim Superman threw his truck into a tree.]]
26	** ''Film/Shazam2019'': Even though Dr. Sivana does a lot of horrible things and causes several deaths, his [[UsedToBeASweetKid sympathetic]] [[RefusedByTheCall backstory]] means the audience can still feel somewhat sorry for the guy while still rooting for him to be taken down. The [[BarbaricBully Breyer brothers]], meanwhile, ''beat up a handicapped kid'', so the audience can enjoy their comeuppance with zero guilt. [[spoiler:The most hated character however, turned out to be [[SparedByTheAdaptation Marilyn]] [[AdaptationalJerkass Batson]] for selfishly [[ParentalAbandonment abandoning Billy]] as a little kid. Unlike the Breyer brothers however, she gets no real comeuppance apart from being in an unstable relationship that's barely elaborated on.]]
27	* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Strictly speaking, [[DeanBitterman Headmaster Nolan]] is the primary villain of the story, but [[FantasyForbiddingFather Mr. Perry]] and [[TeachersPet Cameron]] are both considered [[HateSink more contemptible characters]], with the former heartlessly dictating Neil's life to the point that [[spoiler:Neil commits suicide instead of complying with his demands anymore]], and the latter [[spoiler:selling out Keating and the Dead Poets Society to save himself]].
28	* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'': This is played with, regarding Bobby Matthews and Headmistress Petrie. Both of them are the film's HateSink characters, in contrast to VillainProtagonist Lucy Diamond, the quirky criminal mastermind, who is in love with the film's other protagonist, Amy. Where this gets played with, is that Lucy undergoes a HeelFaceTurn midway through the film, at which point Bobby and Petrie ''do'' become the antagonists. Of course Bobby, Petrie and the Academy's attempts to separate Amy from Lucy are an unsubtle analogy to CureYourGays; Bobby is also a pushy ex-boyfriend to Amy with a DoggedNiceGuy streak. These things may hit closer to home with an LGBT audience, especially with young women.
29	* ''Film/{{Descendants}}'': All three main villains have their own fans -- Maleficent for a hammy and enjoyable performance by Creator/KristinChenoweth and her dragon transformation during the climax, Uma for her cunning and [[JerkassHasAPoint sympathetic motives for wanting revenge on the heroes]], and Audrey for her ''awesome'' VillainSong and, again, [[AllForNothing her relatively sympathetic motives]]. On the flip side, you'd be hard-pressed to find ''anyone'' who likes Chad Charming, a hypocritical, sexist ladies' man who's willing to do whatever it takes to come out on top and whose only purpose seems to be serving as Auradon's token jackass. What makes him even more dislikable is his [[InsufferableImbecile sheer stupidity]] in it all.
30	* ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'': Miranda Priestly is an abusive boss who regularly verbally belittles her employees, robs her friend of his dream job just to keep her own, and openly admits to trying to corrupt protagonist Andy into being ruthless like herself. However, due to her charisma, and being played by Creator/MerylStreep, most fans will often go to great lengths to justify and explain away her deeds. Meanwhile, Andy's friends are rude to her at the dinner table by playing keep away with her phone and get mad at her for getting swept up in her job. However, fans are far less forgiving of this, even claiming that her boyfriend, Nate, is the real villain due to him getting angry with her for putting her job first.
31	* ''Film/DieHard:'' While Hans Gruber is the BigBad of this film, his AffablyEvil personality almost makes him nicer compared to the arrogant [[FBIAgent FBI Agents]], [[PoliceAreUseless Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson]], and the slimy {{yuppie}} Harry Ellis. But the biggest jerk in the film is Richard [[ADickInName "Dick"]] Thornburg, the [[ImmoralJournalist amoral TV reporter]] who ends up exposing Holly's identity to the terrorists by threatening their immigrant housekeeper with deportation for the sake of a story. He gets his comeuppance when Holly punches him in the face at the end of the movie.
32	* ''Film/DrillbitTaylor'': The main villains in the story are Filkins and Ronnie, two [[BarbaricBully Barbaric Bullies]] who terrorize Wade, Ryan, and Emmitt daily, to the point where hire Drillbit Taylor as their bodyguard. And yet, they are impossible to hate due to their [[LaughablyEvil hilarious moments]]. Wade's {{Jerkass}} stepbrothers and stepfather also give him heart-to-heart talks. Meanwhile, Don and his gang of hobos serve as a bad influence on Drillbit, leading to his friendship with the main trio breaking apart. Don is arrested after a fight with Drillbit, although the others [[KarmaHoudini never face punishment]].
33	* ''Film/FallingDown'': [[VillainProtagonist William "D-Fens" Foster]] leaves devastation in his wake, becomes a borderline terrorist, shoots one of Sgt. Prendergast's colleagues, [[spoiler:and likely planned to [[PaterFamilicide murder his ex-wife and daughter]]]]. However, he is nowhere close to the most despicable person encountered. The film takes place in a WorldGoneMad that is shown to have pushed Foster over the edge, and while his actions are certainly in[[StealthPun defensible]], he at least has a sympathetic reason for lashing out against society that many people can relate to. As for the people he crosses paths with, while several of them (the AsianStoreOwner, the [[BurgerFool fast-food employees]], the construction workers) are presented as just {{Punch Clock Villain}}s at worst, others are jerks to Foster for no reason and deserve what they have coming.
34	** The {{gangbangers}} who tried to mug Foster and then try to murder him with a drive-by shooting, killing several innocent people in the process. Most people agree that the one who survived the subsequent car crash [[spoiler:deserved to get shot in the leg by Foster]].
35	** The homeless PhonyVeteran who Foster easily catches in his lies about having fought in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] -- no, sorry, UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar, and is strongly implied to have made up his sob story just to fleece gullible, sentimental passersby.
36	** The [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazi]] who gushes about Foster's violence, thinking he's a fellow white supremacist, and later tries to have him arrested when [[EvenEvilHasStandards Foster calls him out on his disgusting beliefs]]. [[spoiler:He's the only person who Foster deliberately murders, and nobody feels sorry for him.]]
37	** The {{jerkass}} old golfer who swung a golf ball at Foster because he was too impatient to wait for him to walk off the course.
38	** As for Prendergast, while he himself is a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist whose morality the film ultimately sides with, his colleagues on the force are a different matter, presented as bullies who degrade him even on what's supposed to be his last day.
39	* ''Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023'': William Afton is a SerialKiller who [[WouldHurtAChild targets children]], but [[spoiler:Creator/MatthewLillard]] is clearly [[ChewingTheScenery having such a blast playing such a deliciously evil character]] that it's hard to ''totally'' hate him. The same cannot be said for [[EvilAunt Aunt Jane]], who tries to get Mike fired from his new job by hiring goons to smash the place up, calls Abby "mentally ill" in an insulting manner, is haughty and mean towards ''everyone'' all of the time, and only wants custody of Abby to receive money from the state rather than out of any familial love.
40	* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': The villain of the story is the nightmare demigod Gozer, but the most hated character by far, even amongst the Ghostbusters themselves, is Walter Peck, a smarmy, sneering Environmental Protection Agency Officer who wants to shut down their operation.
41	* ''Film/TheGoodSon'': Wallace is the most dislikable character in the film due to both his [[AdultsAreUseless stupidity]] in failing to recognize his son's ObviouslyEvil behavior and his borderline abusive treatment of his nephew. On the other hand, Henry himself is beloved by viewers due to Creator/MacaulayCulkin's disturbingly authentic portrayal of a sociopathic killer. It also helps that Henry at least [[KarmicDeath gets his comeuppance]] at the end of the film, whereas Wallace [[KarmaHoudini completely gets away with his actions]] of borderline child abuse.
42	* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': Percy Wetmore, the [[{{Jerkass}} mean-spirited]] TokenEvilTeammate, is the most hated character in the film. He breaks prisoner Eduard Delacroix's fingers, steps on his pet mouse Mr. Jingles (which is quickly revived by John Coffey), and sabotages his execution to make it more painful by not wetting the sponge. Del, despite committing a crime to warrant being on death row, is more likable due to his childlike demeanor and remorseful actions. Wild Bill Wharton is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] Serial Killer who killed three people (including a pregnant woman) in an armed robbery and [[spoiler:raped and murdered two little girls, leading to John Coffey's execution in his place]], but he also gets points for being [[LaughablyEvil entertaining and over-the-top]].
43	* ''Film/{{Gremlins\|1984}}'': Mrs. Deagle is one of the most obnoxious old {{Rich Bitch}}es ever put to the silver screen, while the eponymous creatures are gleefully, LaughablyEvil. Hence, she ends up an AssholeVictim whose death (caused by the Gremlins themselves) is treated purely as BlackComedy.
44	* ''Film/Halloween2018'': Michael Myers is considered in and out of universe as pure evil, with his moniker, "The Shape", referring to his lack of humanity. This incarnation of Michael murders [[spoiler:seventeen]] people, including [[spoiler:a young boy]], upon escaping a prison transport for no reason other than he could. However, the person who gets the most the hate from the fanbase from this movie isn't Myers, but Cameron, Allyson's boyfriend. He lies to her about getting drunk and kissing his ex, only to spitefully break Allyson's phone when she calls his bluff. This puts her in danger when she's forced to walk home, unaware that Michael's rampaging through the town. The thing that really gets fans to hate Cameron though, is that he never suffers any kind of comeuppance for his loathsome behavior when similar douchebags in this genre always get axed off. He gets better in [[Film/HalloweenKills the sequel]]... [[spoiler:and also suffers one hell of a CruelAndUnusualDeath, leading to some AlasPoorScrappy reactions]].
45	* ''Film/HomeAlone'': The two Wet Bandits, [[BigBadDuumvirate Harry and Marv]], are impossible to hate, [[spoiler:even when they attempt to kill Kevin in the sequel]], as their ButtMonkey status and Marv's ditziness make them hilarious to watch. However, Kevin's family, especially [[BigBrotherBully Buzz]] and [[EvilUncle Frank]], are just unlikable, as they constantly bully him and don't get much comeuppance.
46	* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas2000'': While the Grinch is still the antagonist of the story, he is considered to be much nicer than Mayor Augustus. He bullied the Grinch when they were kids, [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp and even years later, he still sees the Grinch as an outcast]]. When the Grinch was invited to partake in the Cheermeister Celebration, he was genuinely having a good time. He could have turned over a new leaf right there and then if Augustus hadn't [[KickTheDog reminded him of the worst day of the Grinch's life]] and publicly proposed to Martha May just to pour salt in the wound.
47	* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Overlapping with HumansAreTheRealMonsters, Dennis Nedry is a greedy, sociopathic asshole who is fine with shutting down the power at the park thus putting everyone in it in great danger, and doesn't seem to care at all how many innocent people will get eaten as a result. Meanwhile, the carnivorous dinosaurs (if they can even be considered villains) are [[NonMaliciousMonster just animals looking for food]] (though still borderline sociopathic in the case of the raptors).
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51	* ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'': Johnny and the Cobra Kais are a pack of vicious bullies, but their biker gang vibe and badass fighting skills make them too cool to hate for many viewers, and the movie shows that their actions are mainly due to the influence of their sociopathic sensei. Kreese is a despicable SadistTeacher training his students to be brutes, but he's got a lot of fans for his [[ColdHam coldly dramatic demeanour]]. The most hated character in the film is Freddy Fernandez, for the comparatively minor offence of being a FairWeatherFriend who abandons Daniel after he gets beaten up by Johnny, only to start palling around with him again after he wins the All Valley.
52	* ''Film/KickAss2'': Chris D'Amico is a mass-murdering supervillain who is nonetheless [[LaughablyEvil too hilarious]] to hate. Brooke, on the other hand, has no such entertaining qualities, being an AlphaBitch who [[KickTheDog publicly humiliates Mindy]] out of pure spite. It is beyond satisfying when she falls victim to the "Sick Stick".
53	* ''Film/KindergartenCop'': Cullen Crisp is a crime lord, who is willing to kidnap his own son and hold him hostage at gunpoint during the climax of the movie, yet he is not as loathsome as [[AbusiveParents Mr. Sullivan]], Zack's physically abusive father. When John Kimble sees that Zack was beaten again, [[PapaWolf he angrily confronts Mr. Sullivan]], punches him in the gut when he tries to take a swing at Kimble and was clearly willing to proceed to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown... until he sees [[NotInFrontOfTheKid a bunch of parents with their own kids watching him]], so he stops himself and tells him that [[BadassTeacher he's going to press charges against him instead]]. Many thought that John punching out Zack's abusive father was the most cathartic moment of the film. Even the school principal, who was understandably skeptical of having Kimble as an undercover teacher with zero teaching experience, was glad that he [[PayEvilUntoEvil "hit that son of a bitch"]], with it being clear that Kimble will not be facing any penalty or disciplinary charge for what he did.
54	* ''Film/KindHeartsAndCoronets'': Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini may be a ruthless serial killer, but his wit and charisma make it hard not to root for him. It's much easier to hate the other D'Ascoynes, a family of snobbish, bigoted and hypocritical aristocrats [[AssholeVictim who make up most of Louis's victims]].
55	* ''Film/KnivesOut'': [[spoiler:Ransom]] is easily the worst member of the Thrombey family, being a greedy, psychopathic murderer and manipulative schemer. The rest of the Thrombey family, on the other hand, mostly put on a [[BitchInSheepsClothing facade of affable charm]] in an attempt to mask their bigoted and jerkass ways. The only two members that don’t try to hide their jerkassery are Jacob and Richard, the former being an alt-right troll who is quite awkward, soft spoken and comes across as a shrinking coward when dealing with a real life conversation and the latter being a bumbling, hypocritical, and xenophobic cheater. [[spoiler:Ransom]] meanwhile, is not only [[AtLeastIAdmitIt openly proud of being a jerk]] but he is also extremely confident and charismatic, traits that Jacob and Richard both lack. As such, some viewers found themselves disliking the rest of the Thrombeys -- or at least Jacob and Richard -- far more than [[spoiler:Ransom]].
56	* ''Film/{{Orphan}}'': John, the clueless adult who [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter trusts Esther]] more than his own wife and used to cheat on her ten years ago, is more hated than Esther herself, the EvilOrphan who wants to kill the whole family.
57	* ''Film/OrphanFirstKill'' is the origin story for what ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' revealed to be quite a disturbing sociopath. So how do you manage to make the VillainProtagonist more tolerable than those around her? [[spoiler:The girl Esther/Leena is impersonating was killed by her brother, whose mother then helped cover it up. Furthermore, Tricia (said mother) and Gunnar (said brother) are easier to hate because of their racism against Leena for being Eastern European, classism, ableism in mocking her dwarfism, and self-centered natures. However, since Tricia and Gunnar are not just "jerks", but evil and murderous villains just as much as Esther, this is more a case of "villains being more hated than the VillainProtagonist".]]
58	* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': Frank is deeply unpopular among viewers due to being quite unlikable and lethargic, with the most notable example being his emotionless reminder to Shane on how her mother died. He's actually more disliked than Thrax, who is seen as an [[EvilIsCool incredibly cool villain]] despite [[TheSociopath his utter depravity]], and Mayor Phlegmming, who, unlike Frank, [[HateSink was actually meant to be hated by audiences]].
59	* ''Film/Prey2022'' is another chapter in ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', a VillainBasedFranchise about an alien HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. But when the protagonists end up crossing the path of the French Trackers, a bunch of racist cowards who are introduced having slaughtered an entire herd of endangered Buffalo for seemingly no reason and who beat and belittle Naru and Taabe and use them as bait for the Predator, audiences will cheer when the creature is about to slice those people to bits.
60	* ''Film/ProjectX2012'': Costa is utterly despised by most viewers for his repugnant nature, being bigoted, amoral, and responsible for numerous problems. Compare that to T-Rick, an AxCrazy drug dealer who goes as far as [[spoiler:''purposely setting the entire neighborhood on fire'']] out of pure spite. It also helps that the latter ends up getting arrested, whereas the former ends up avoiding punishment (except for three pending paternity lawsuits).
61	* ''Film/ReAnimated'': Craig, Jimmy's horrendous excuse of a "[[WithFriendsLikeThese best friend]]", is far more despised than Sonny, a PsychopathicManchild who wants to ''[[WouldHurtAChild kill]]'' Jimmy to further his own goals. The fact that the latter is LaughablyEvil also helps his case.
62	* ''Film/{{Rope}}'': Rupert is a philosophy professor who taught all his students that there were a class of natural elites who had the right to murder the commoners, [[spoiler:then [[NeverMyFault insisted his words had been "twisted"]] when his student Brandon acted on his suggestions.]] He often gets more hate from viewers for his hypocrisy than Brandon does for actually committing the murder.
63	* Given the moral ambiguity of various characters, it's no surprise that the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise is no stranger to this trope.
64	** ''Film/Saw3D'': Bobby is an obnoxious writer who pretended to be a past victim of a Jigsaw trap in order to earn fame and money. While Hoffman (the Jigsaw killer who abducts Bobby for the aforementioned reasoning) ''is'' at his absolute worst in this film, he eventually got a direct comeuppance via an AndIMustScream fate. Bobby, on the other hand, only received punishment through proxy due to failing to rescue all of his ''[[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure loved ones and staff]]'' from the gruesome traps he should have been put into himself.
65	** ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'': Most, if not all, of the victims in the Barn game are pretty despicable themselves, including the former first apprentice of Jigsaw. However, the most dislikable of the bunch is Anna, who feigns innocence in spite of killing her baby and pinning the blame on her husband, who ended up committing suicide out of guilt. Ultimately, her selfishness doomed her and another trapped victim, who was left to rot beside her corpse.
66	** ''Film/SawX'': Anyone who's watched the film is likely to say Cecilia is the most detestable person in the franchise, or at least one of the most detestable, especially given her contrast with John throughout the movie. While John is, well, [[SerialKiller Jigsaw]], he has many humanizing moments in the film; Cecilia, on the other hand, easily shows that she's a lot more immoral than him. For starters, aside from being the ringleader of a medical fraud group that robs from the dying and desperate, she kills one of her own underlings (Gabriella) despite her succeeding in her trap, tries to use the intestines of another dead one (Valentina) to get an advantage for her personal survival, and forces [[ChildrenAreInnocent Carlos, a child,]] into the Bloodboarding Trap [[EvenEvilHasStandards to John's horror]].
67	* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs:'' Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer and a cannibal, while the worst Dr. Chilton has done is to be a smug, manipulative jerk who first obstructs and then takes credit for an investigation to boost his own reputation and ego. Most viewers were pleased to hear Lecter say that he's "having an old friend for dinner" when he sees Chilton walk by at the Caribbean resort.
68	* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020:'' While Robotnik is a rude, mad scientist who looks down and insults everyone he meets, at least his over the top [[EvilIsHammy acting]] is fun and has an amusing charm to it. Rachel, on the other hand, is an [[ObnoxiousInLaws overbearing]] SassyBlackWoman, who hates Tom for [[IrrationalHatred no explained reason]] and she wants her sister Maddie to divorce the poor guy even before he became a fugitive. It doesn't help that Rachel and Maddie are black and Tom is white, suggesting that the former may possibly be racist. She is so obnoxious that she had to be tied up to a chair and left behind in the Wachowskis' home, so that Tom and Maddie can help Sonic. She gets better in the [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022 second film]], where she, while still disliking Tom, is less abrasive to him and even [[TheWoobie gained sympathy from fans]] when [[spoiler: she is catfished into a wedding so the government can get closer to Sonic]].
69	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
70	** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin Skywalker, despite being a protagonist, is much more disliked than any of the film's actual villains, who are largely kept off-screen or have bland personalities. He gets hate for being petulant and immature, whining about the Jedi Council holding him back, and giving Padmé creepy sex-looks that make her feel uncomfortable. The fans don't even hate Anakin for slaughtering a village of Tusken men, women and children--they hate how he whines about it afterwards. Despite Anakin becoming full on evil in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' (his deeds include helping the BigBad evil dictator rise to power, slaughtering human children, and nearly choking his pregnant wife to death), fans hated him ''less'' than they did in ''Attack of the Clones'' simply because he's less whiny.
71	** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': The leaders of the First Order want to conquer the galaxy, but [[GeneralFailure Admiral Holdo]] gets quite a bit more ire for a number of reasons. A lot of it boils down to PoorCommunicationKills; Poe is convinced that her decisions are too slow and indecisive against the First Order pursuit, which is why he goes along with his own strategy. It's not until later that it's clear that he hadn't thought his plan through and Holdo has some reasoning behind her slower approach. No matter how you slice it though, a lot of trouble could have been averted if the two were more trusting and open to each other's explanations.
72	* ''Film/SupermanII'': Even though the [[{{Jerkass}} rude trucker]] was intentionally written to be an [[HateSink unlikable bully]] and the purpose of the diner fight was to show how Clark [[DePower no longer has his powers,]] the fact that he beats up Clark makes him more loathsome than the three Kryptonians who want to take over the world and kill anyone who stands in their way.
73	* ''Film/TheStepfordWives2004'': Joanna and Bobbie undergo {{Adaptational Jerkass}}es and new character Roger embarrasses his partner in public. As a result, viewers tend to see them as {{Asshole Victim}}s, far more than the husbands of Stepford -- who are brainwashing their wives into being passive domestics.
74	* ''Film/TasteTheBloodOfDracula'': William Hargood is one of the Hammer Horror Dracula franchise's most hated characters, even more so than Count Dracula himself, due to the horrible way he treats his wife and daughter. While Dracula is quite monstrous and won't hesitate to murder anyone even ForTheEvulz, he still has his fans, but Hargood's abusive ControlFreak nature has earned him exactly zero fans among the Hammer Horror fandom.
75	* ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': Sure, Gorr became an homicidal maniac bent on killing all gods, a class which includes the title character. But his very first victim was a JerkassGod who clearly didn't care for his followers and [[LaserGuidedKarma very much had it coming]]. And when Thor tries recruiting other deities against Gorr, he discovers they tend toward being unpleasant, cowards and hedonists -- best case being Zeus, who embodies all those characteristics to the point it's very satisfying to see Thor opening a hole in his chest.
76	* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': The biggest villain is Christof, since he's the creator of ''The Truman Show'' and the main manipulator of Truman's life, but he's also a [[EvilIsCool cool]], interesting and enigmatic character, and has some AntiVillain traits. On the other hand, Truman's "parents" and his wife "Meryl" just come off as unlikable and uncaring people who only use Truman for their careers. Sans deleted scenes, Louis/Marlon isn't much better, taunting Truman as he makes his final escape. "Meryl" gets this treatment the most, due to her blatant BitchInSheepsClothing obnoxiousness and having many scenes with Truman.
77	* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'' has the vengeful spirit of AlphaBitch Laura Barns as the main villain, who puts the six main characters through horrible torment and bloody deaths. However, most of the hatred goes to the main characters, who were the people who bullied Laura to the point of suicide. The worst ones are Adam, who roofied and raped a girl and slept with his friend's girlfriend, and the main character Blaire, who [[spoiler: was the one who recorded the humiliating video in the first place.]] It's often said that the [[TeensAreMonsters behavior of the teens]] was more horrifying then the supernatural deaths.
78	* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': Despite being Willy Wonka's many arch enemy who bribes the golden ticket finders with money and a better life in exchange for stealing an Everlasting Gobstopper from Wonka, Slugworth is not the most hated character in the film nor the four bratty kids who are supposed to be hated for being spoiled the most hated. None are more hated by people than Grandpa Joe who's seen as as a lazy leech that said he'd help Charlie support the family if he could get out of bed, but the only time we actually see him trying is so he can go to the chocolate factory, where he sings ''[[ItsAllAboutMe I've]]'' Got a Golden Ticket about his grandson's find. Him taking the fizzy lifting drinks and willingness to sell out to Slugworth after Wonka's rant are also sometimes held against him (although the last one he was angry at Wonka for crushing Charlie, but understood why Charlie couldn't do it). ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia'' points out that even at the end, when Charlie is being given the greatest opportunity a little boy could want that will secure him a bright and happy future, Grandpa Joe's only question is [[ItsAllAboutMe how it will benefit him.]].
79	* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': Despite having less screentime, plot significance, and vile ambitions, [[RichBitch Almira Gulch]] is far more hated than the Wicked Witch of the West, who's just way too [[EvilIsHammy fun, hammy, and deliciously evil]] to truly hate. Besides, there's no such thing as over-the-top evil witches in real life. But grouchy, strict, contemptible neighbors and corrupt tycoons? We've all met them at least once in our lives.
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