Hate Sink / Western Animation

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Hate Sinks in Western Animation.

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Shows with their own pages:

• American Dad!
• The Owl House
• Star Wars

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Individual examples:

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• Adventure Time:
  • Subverted with Martin, Finn's human dad. Finn and Jake risked everything to reach this guy, with their quest to reach the Citadel he was imprisoned in resulting in Prismo's death and the Lich releasing a ton of super-criminals. And what does Finn find? A complete Jerkass loser who abandons him yet again, as well as causes him to lose his arm. Needless to say, many fans were pissed. However, the "Islands" miniseries, which featured his backstory, showed him to be a more sympathetic father towards Finn in the backstory as he was the one who got Finn off the island he was born in to protect him from danger but under circumstances beyond his control, Martin was forcibly separated from Finn, and that his jerkishness stemmed from a head injury. This revelation caused a lot of the hate towards Martin to evaporate.
  • Played completely straight with Ricardio, Ice King's heart. Infinitely more evil than Ice King himself, he inherited Ice King's obsession for Princess Bubblegum. His first appearance was bad enough, tricking Bubblegum into becoming his friend to lower her guard and cut out her heart with broken glass bottles. His second appearance was even worse, engineering a vast fleshy fortress from Ice King's cells (which was agonizing for Ice King), kidnapping Finn and Jake to lure Bubblegum to him, tying Lady Ranicorn into a knot to show off his new body (while she was PREGNANT!), and trying to force Bubblegum into marrying him. Many viewers who didn't like Bubblegum began to love her after her extremely satisfying beating to this scumbag.
  • Ash, Marceline's ex-boyfriend. In his sole major appearance, he is shown to be a tremendously sexist and abusive boyfriend to Marceline who sold her Hambo to the witch just for his own self-benefit. As a result, any comeuppance he receives is definitely well deserved.
  • The Earl of Lemongrab was a Hate Sink during his most hateful moments back in Season 4 and especially Season 5. He tortured several children and Jake with Electric Torture ("You Made Me"), threw Princess Bubblegum in the dungeon twice and even tried to attack her with his sound sword, was physically abusive towards his children and his brother with a sadistic glee ("Too Old"), and unlike most villains in the show, his Ax-Crazy behavior was downright nightmarish. Thankfully, he returned to being sympathetic in Season 6 due to now being combined with his brother, who had learned actual kindness and empathy.
  • Flame King literally became a sink flaming with hate in “Earth And Water” when it’s revealed that he abandoned his daughter Flame Princess in the forest because he feared that she would usurp his throne and after getting caught in the act by Princess Bubblegum, he locks Flame Princess in a lantern for 15 years. He also murdered his own brother and expected all of his citizens to be evil like he is even though he’s not well-liked by the citizens.
  • The Witch who appeared in the episode "Witch's Garden". She is shown to be a very mean woman who takes away Jake's powers and curses him with lethargy just because he absentmindedly took one of her donuts that he did not know belonged to her. She refuses to give Jake his powers back unless he apologizes and means it and when he does so, she adds extras on her demands to him by forcing him to do a humiliating dance with his subconscious while recording him with a camera. Fortunately Jake gets the last laugh after he reclaims his powers.
  • Warren Ampersand. If you thought that Martin and Flame King were bad fathers, just see what Warren is like. This shapeshifter fathered Jake for the sole reason of taking his lifespan away to make himself younger again. It was revealed in the semi-penultimate episode to the series finale that he had done this countless times to other children that he fathered and attempted to do the same to Jake's kids.
  • The sequel miniseries Adventure Time: Distant Lands has the royal advisors. They are all cowardly, incompetent, xenophobic jerks who try to control the princess through intimidation, and constantly tell her she should give up the crown and put them in charge. When the dragon attacks they run away and hide, then try to kill Glassboy, Marceline and Bubblegum, by locking them in the furnace with the Dragon.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Eustace Strych is incredibly arrogant, vain, narcissistic, and snobby, and while he is not as evil as most of the show's villains, he compensates by being an incredibly irritating Smug Snake.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • Julius the Bomb Guy, who Gumball and Darwin meet in detention. While most of the other bullies of Elmore Junior High have a soft spot and Pet the Dog moments beneath their jerkass behavior like Tina Rex and Jamie Russo, Julius is little more than a violent, sadistic jerk. He enjoys abusing smaller students like Ocho and Sussie, is implied to hold misogynistic viewpoints, and won't help out anyone except for his own benefit. It's pretty funny watching Darwin and Gumball blow him up.
  • Harold Wilson, Tobias's father, is a smug, unsympathetic, misogynistic Rich Bastard. He's enjoyed humiliating Richard since High School and rubs his success in his face as an adult. He doesn't even seem to care for his wife much either, ranging from leaving her in danger to save himself, to replacing her with a younger woman when he thinks he's struck it rich. One vision of Nicole's future in "The Choices" shows that had she married him instead of Richard, he'd have degraded and insulted her to the point where she snaps and kills him. His attitude seems to have rubbed off on his son as well, which of course never goes well for Tobias. A case of Tropes Are Not Good, as he ended up becoming The Scrappy, with most of the fans regarding him as too realistically mean to actually be funny.
  • Felicity Parham is an arrogant, snobbish hypocrite who constantly berates and looks down on all the other characters whenever she appears. On top of that, she's extremely neglectful towards her son, and "The Extras" and "The Law" show that, beneath her cultured exterior, she's actually a deranged psychopath who could turn into a murderous lunatic at the slightest provocation; insults Nicole directly to her (Nicole's) face in "The Egg" by saying that Gumball, Darwin, and Anais are "not good enough", and has absolutely no respect for the Wattersons in general.
• American Dragon: Jake Long:
  • The Huntsman not only wears the skull of a dragon he murdered as a helmet, but he's also frequently shown to have zero compassion for even his own clan. To show how he's more monstrous than any creature he's slain, he kidnapped a baby from her family, molded her into his apprentice, and threatened the lives of her family when she begins to rebel.
  • Brad Morton is a rude jerk with an ego who likes verbally putting down or physically intimidating anyone and everyone, particularly Jake. He's also shown no hesitancy in regards to dumping his date at a dance for the first girl he meets who he considers more attractive.
  • Councilor Chang is easily one of the least likable villains in the show, being harsh and condescending towards basically everyone. An Obstructive Bureaucrat with a clear bias against Jake, she repays him saving her (along with the rest of the Dragon Council) with not wanting to give him his dragon powers back and still trying to eliminate him whenever she gets the chance.
  • Cousin Greggy, like Brad, is a huge jerk with an ego. His entire screentime spent belittling his older and more accomplished relative, Greggy has all of Jake's cockiness with none of his redeemable/likable qualities.
• Amphibia:
  • King Aldrich Leviathan. As revealed in "The Core & The King", Aldrich was the one truly responsible for the events of the series. He was shown to be abusive towards his son Andrias and was responsible for ruining Andrias' friendship with Leif and Barrel and putting Andrias on the dark path he was shown to be on in "True Colors". Even in death, Aldrich continued to manipulate and abuse his son by assimilating himself with the Core and trying to manipulate him into invading and ravaging Earth.
  • The one-time villain Dr. Frakes. She is an incredibly egotistical scientist who has no problem performing dangerous experiments, and when she finds out the Plantars are frog aliens, she immediately tries to vivisect them. She also abuses her position of authority by threatening to blacklist Terri in the scientific community for trying to stop her murder. As Terri puts it, she is a massive jerk, and that may be putting it kindly.
  • Barry as well. Behind his public persona as a friendly berry and candy seller, he's an extremely vengeful individual who has no problems cursing people for the smallest mistake, including Anne and Sprig for accidentally causing him to spill his berries. Even after they apologize to him, he refuses to lift the curses, leading to Maddie transforming him into a combined version of what he did to her friends. He later returns in "Sasha's Angels" as the leader of the Marauders, who do not side with the resistance or Andrias, but revel in the destruction they cause throughout Amphibia. At the end of that episode, he gets another Karmic Transformation, this time into a chicken, who escapes from his fellow Marauders as they chase him with forks and knives.
• Archer: Veronica Dean from Season 7. Despite almost every character praising her or being some form of a fan of her work, she's dismissive, petty, and aloof. Furthermore, she effectively orchestrates the plot arc for the entire season, murders her ex-husband and tries to frame Lana, and manipulates Shapiero into planting evidence by playing on his emotions before gunning down Archer and leaving him to die - all for money. Archer's crush on her is also the catalyst for the breakdown of his relationship with Lana.
• Arthur:
  • As much of a brat as D.W. is most of the time, she does have her fair share of redeemable moments. We do not get that from her Cousin Cora from "D.W. Thinks Big", who constantly bullies D.W. by taking her personal possessions and blaming her for something that was her own fault. Cora exists to be loathsome enough to have the audience root for D.W. for once.
  • Supreme Dog from "To Eat or Not to Eat" is a corrupt businessman who knowingly distributes life-threatening candy bars to children in order to make himself a profit. Thankfully, he gets arrested by the end of the episode and his business gets recalled for good.
  • The titular character of "Little Miss Meanie", Portia Demwiddy, is a callous young beauty queen who tells her fellow contestants, Muffy and Lydia, that they have to drop out of the beauty pageant because they have the unfair advantages of being rich and disabled, respectively, although she says it in a polite demeanor to make herself sound caring. It's incredibly satisfying to see her throw a tantrum on stage, which costs her the pageant.
• As Told by Ginger
  • Miranda Killgallen is the right-hand woman to Courtney Gripling, and when Courtney shows an interest in the titular protagonist Ginger Foutley, Miranda constantly performs any underhanded tactic possible in order to humiliate her, including lying, blackmail, theft, vandalism, and even getting Ginger's best friends to join her in plotting to break up Ginger and her boyfriend.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Hahn was a snobby, arrogant Northern Water Tribe soldier who was engaged to Princess Yue as a rival for Sokka, and he only cared about the "perks" he'd get by garnering approval with the chief. He disregarded and irritated Sokka, brashly declared his presence before charging Admiral Zhao, and was immediately thrown by Zhao off a ship into the ocean.
  • All his atrocities aside, Fire Lord Ozai himself was characterized by being abusive toward his family. He constantly derided his son Zuko for not living up to his expectations and ultimately became responsible for the loss of a mother figure in his life, and it hit its zenith when he burned and scarred Zuko in an Agni Kai and then banished him just for disrespecting him and speaking out because of a strategy that involved using novice troops as fodder. Ozai's cruelty is what highlights Zuko's sympathy even more, being the source of all the misery he has been through. Even his sociopathic daughter and Dragon Princess Azula looks sympathetic compared to him, especially once it's made clear toward the end of the series that he deliberately molded her into what she is today through years of psychological abuse, leaving her woefully unprepared to cope when confronted with the reality that all he instilled in her was wrong.
  • In Book 1, Fire Lord Ozai had not yet taken center stage nor been fleshed out enough to reveal how despicable he was. Meanwhile, Prince Zuko, the first villain introduced was far too sympathetic and showed numerous Evil Virtues and heroic qualities along with his villainy. Admiral Zhao, on the other hand, was just an all-around asshole. Whereas Zuko avoided needless cruelty and collateral damage and was only pursuing the Avatar in order to gain the love of his abusive father, Zhao was pursuing him for the glory and didn't care at all about who he hurt on the way. He also reveled in the idea that capturing the Avatar before Zuko would ruin any chance he had to ever come home and gain his father's acceptance.
  • The Prison Rig Warden (the one voiced by George Takei) from the episode "Imprisoned". While starting out Faux Affably Evil, he has a prisoner placed in solitary confinement for coughing in his presence, goes out of his way to break his prisoners' spirits, murders his own men for petty reasons, and proves to be a Dirty Coward when about to be killed.
  • Yon Rha's career as head of the Southern Raiders saw him eliminating water benders in the Southern Water Tribe, practically destroying them as a people. More personally, he is the one who killed Katara and Sokka's mother, even when she gave herself up to be taken hostage. After his military service ends, he goes from being a murderous war criminal to being a spineless coward who offers his own mother to Katara for revenge. Whereas far more evil characters like Ozai and Azula at least have some semblance of Evil Is Cool or engaging personalities, Yon Rha is so pathetically spineless and loathsome that there are no redeeming traits, Katara's decision to spare him and move on being more for her benefit to avoid tainting herself.
• Avengers Assemble:
  • Season 5 features Princess Zanda, the most loathsome member of the Shadow Council. When Captain America is supposedly killed trying to prevent the Crown from exploding, she uses her shapeshifting power to impersonate Black Widow and successfully turns the Avengers against Black Panther by claiming that he killed Captain America. She later tries to violate a peace conference between Tony and Attuma by rigging Tony's suitcase armor to explode, therefore inciting a war between the surface and Atlantis. All these make her the most detestable character in the series. It's extremely satisfying to see her fall to her death.
  • Ultron's so hateworthy with a lot of Kick the Dog moments that fans would root for the Avengers more. He convinced the government to take control of the Avengers, and he reprimanded the Avengers for every little wrong thing done despite the results being more than satisfactory, and he singles out the Hulk who he kicked out even though many lives were saved. He then kickstarts the Inhuman Registration Act which forces Inhumans to wear registration disks, and orders the Avengers to forcibly detain uncooperative Inhumans. When the Avengers quit, he bars the group from being or being referred to as superheroes just for refusing to comply with an unfair law, and sics the Mighty Avengers against the Avengers. When the main Avengers get taken to prison, he continues to insult Tony out of all of the Avengers. At the end, Ultron only acted like such a prick just to rile them up.
• The Batman: Since this series takes place before Batman and the GCPD were on friendly terms, we have Police Chief Angel Rojas, a smug Fat Bastard. He treats all of his subordinates (particularly Ethan Bennett) like garbage and is beyond hell-bent on arresting the Batman rather than the criminals who are actually causing harm to the city. Not only that but he's incredibly incompetent at his job and is implied to be an abelist. Thankfully he is replaced by Jim Gordon in the third season and never appears again.
• Batman: The Animated Series: The famous episode "Heart of Ice" give us the truly contemptable Ferris Boyle. Not only is he directly responsible for the events that led to the creation of Mr. Freeze, he is also a smug, arrogant prick who looks down on anyone poorer than him and is a textbook Corrupt Corporate Executive. In the original framing of the story, it was heavily implied that Nora was already dead, adding murder of an innocent to Boyle's list of irredeemable qualities. Even Batman is emotionally moved and sympathetic towards Mr. Freeze despite opposing him. Conversely, Batman shows absolutely zero sympathy for Boyle's predicament despite saving his life from the vengeful Mr. Freeze, mirroring the audience's disgust when he turns contemptuously bids Boyle good night... while leaving him frozen solid from the waist down. Reviews unanimously agree that Mr. Freeze is a Tragic Anti-Villain, while Boyle is the true monster of the episode.
• Batman Beyond: David Wheeler from "The Last Resort". A child psychologist who advertises his rehab clinic as a friendly place to send teenagers at to improve their behaviour, it is soon revealed that the clinic is actually a ranch where Wheeler psychologically tortures all the teenagers sent there. He forces them to listen to his rants towards them for hours and hours, refusing to let them go anywhere else, and punishes them by sending them to ISO, a room completely deprived of any light and sound, to deprive anyone of their senses. He is also a coward to boot, as he pathetically begs for his life when one teenager at the ranch threatens to throw Wheeler off the roof of the building. Lacking any of the sympathetic or cool qualities of most other villains, Wheeler stands out as one of the very worst, if not the worst villain in the whole series.
• Ben 10:
  • Ben 10: While even the most monstrous villains (like Vilgax and Ghostfreak) avert this by virtue of being as cool as they are vicious, the initial leader of the Forever Knights, Enoch falls into this perfectly. Beneath his classy demeanor, Enoch is merely a pretentious, power-hungry Smug Snake who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is. He's introduced capturing Ben as Grey Matter to vivisect him for study, while being completely dismissive of the man who brought him the alien to begin with. He later shows he has no problem killing Ben and Gwen (two 10 year olds) for getting in his way, and later tries to get the Omnitrix for himself by tormenting Ben in a Lotus-Eater Machine, which speaks volumes just how petty and childish the man is. It's later revealed the Forever Knights were founded to protect humanity from Extraterrestrial threats, meaning Enoch is disloyal even to the oath he swore by.
  • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse has Will Harangue, an anchorman who outright hates Ben and declares him a menace on television, besmirching his name at every turn and actually tries to kill him once. He even ends up supporting the Incursean invasion, praising them for defeating Ben Tennyson.
• Big City Greens has Chip Whistler, a Corrupt Corporate Executive and a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who thinks that all others are below him and is willing to do anything and everything for the sake of power. He hates the Greens because he ate fake produce that they made (even though they told him it was fake and not to eat it), and Chip even tries to kill Cricket at one point. It’s no wonder why he eventually gets banned from Big City altogether.
• Most of the villains on Big Hero 6: The Series are either very dark and good at achieving their plans (ie. Obake & Di Amara) or are Laughably Evil (High Voltage, Mr. Sparkles, Hardlight), but are still usually liked due to Evil Is Cool or other reasons. Likely, this is why the show has Richardson Mole, Fred's nemesis for this purpose. A Spoiled Brat Manchild, Richardson is never depicted as anything more than a jerk who enjoys tormenting Fred for extremely petty reasons and though Fred can be viewed as a Base-Breaking Character or The Scrappy, he doesn't deserve what Richardson does to him. At least two episodes show just how much of a hateful jerk he is, "Big Hero 7" ^note  In which he finds out Big Hero 6's identities after Fred accidentally blurts them out, and blackmails them into making him part of the team, where he does nothing but be The Load. Then, after they save him from High Voltage, he still threatens to reveal their identities anyway and only doesn't due to suffering Laser-Guided Amnesia. and "Mayor for a Day" ^note  Where he becomes San Fransokyo's mayor for a day due to a large charitable donation and abuses his position to make BH6 hang out with him and act as his friends. When they refuse to respond to any more of his self-serving phone calls, he actually teams up with the Supersonics to get revenge on them.
  • Unlike the sympathetic Callahan and cool Obake, Liv Amara is a manipulative Corrupt Corporate Executive who turns people into monsters often without their consent, blackmails people into supporting her, treats her assistant like a pet, and manipulates Karmi and pretends to be her friend while she couldn't care less about her and sees her as nothing but a pawn. Fans officially state she crossed the line when she mutates Karmi and attempts to force her to eat Hiro. ^note  Zig-zagged somewhat in that all of that was done by Liv's clone, Diana, not Liv herself, who in cryosleep for most of the series. Indeed, Liv was so disgusted by her clone's actions, she allowed Di to go to prison and later sold Sycorax to Krei Tech.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • Jimmy Pesto, the operator of the restaurant across from the Belchers. A smug, condescending bastard, he seems to live to make Bob's life miserable, mainly out of jealousy because Bob, while not as successful as Jimmy, is the superior chef. Most episodes featuring him end with Jimmy being outdone by the Belchers in some way, to their amusement.
  • The health inspector, Hugo. He actively goes out of his way to make Bob miserable by abusing his powers as a health inspector, all out of spite of "stealing" Linda from him. Hugo is also quite petty. For example, in one episode, he forced Bob to close down his shop and make a full clean of the restaurant after finding green mold but just brushed it off when the same is found at Jimmy Pesto's.
• For a show that is typically in Grey-and-Gray Morality, BoJack Horseman had a small number of characters that lacked the qualms that our titular equine being has.
  • Sarah-Lynn's mother and stepfather. The former is a selfish Stage Mom who pushed the then-child Sarah-Lynn into acting despite the girl's desire to be an architect, and shows a Lack of Empathy for her young daughter. The latter is a bear who is implied to have molested Sarah-Lynn at some point.
  • Hank Hippopopalous is a comedian who was beloved until Diane reveals that he sexually harassed women for years. Nobody believes Diane's claim and some people have sent threatening letters to her, and Mr. Peanutbutter feels nothing but embarrassed by this. Even BoJack refuses to believe her because not only did he know Hank, but he still felt hurt by his book that she had ghostwritten. However, Hank reveals to Diane that she was right the whole time despite lacking any evidence, but nobody would ever find out or care about his crimes. Hank is more despicable considering the scandal with Bill Cosby at the time, as well as the eventual Me Too movement, and he has never been properly punished on-screen.
  • In season 4's flashback episodes, Joseph Sugarman is this on a whole different level, thanks to some fantastically employed Deliberate Values Dissonance. Refusing to let his wife grieve over the death of their son, lobotomizing her over an emotional breakdown, and his treatment of BoJack's then-young mother both ended up setting the stage for the generations of mental illness, abuse, and dysfunction that would plague the Horseman family down to our hero.
  • Vance Waggonner is an unapologetically sexist actor hired by Flip McVicker, much to Diane's disgust. This time around, she isn't alone in her feelings, but only because of a misunderstanding involving BoJack and a cheese platter. Eventually, Vance's role was filled by Mr. Peanutbutter, who was seeking to make a bad-boy image.
  • Ana Spanakopita is a strange example. Her first few appearances in season 3 have her as BoJack's publicist and sometimes-lover, where she is shown to be somewhat sexually-abusive towards him. We then learn later on that Ana had nearly drowned in an accident, which has earned her some sympathy. However, after BoJack ends up firing her in season 5, Ana decides to leak a private conversation about what he and Penny almost did to Diane, leading to a rift between them.
  • Vanessa Gecko turned out to be a complete subversion as of season 6. Princess Carolyn envied her success from the beginning, her tone of voice towards PC sounded patronizing, and she sabotaged PC at one point in season 3, which led to a rift between her and BoJack. Despite all of this, Vanessa reveals that she never really hated her.
  • Jeremiah Whitewhale exists as a biting satire of MegaCorp monopolies. Having a hand in every industry he can think of, Jeremiah forces other companies to sell themselves to him by driving them out of the market when they refuse. After dominating a market, he works his employees to the bone, having them murdered for things like taking too many bathroom breaks and leaving their bodies on the floor to scare the employees. This is all a plan to be as openly evil as possible so his fellow billionaires will buy into his company to maximize his power, which he uses to do things like getting murder legalized for billionaires.
• The Boondocks:
  • While Ed Wuncler Sr. seemed like a friendly businessman in his first appearance, his 2nd appearance onwards reveals himself to be a greedy asshole who will go to any lengths and sink to any depths to get what he wants. These include tricking an 8-year-old girl into working in sweatshop conditions, giving Robert his dream of a soul food restaurant while knowing that the restaurant's food was so addictive that people lost their jobs, crime rose, and property values lowered, made Huey think he gave a girl a permanent limp during a kickball tournament so he would leave the sport and Wuncler's own team would win, and have his grandson and his friend set up bombs in a building to kill one man just to make more money, while uncaring that his grandson might die even saying "Well, go ahead, SHOOT HIM!"
  • His son Ed Wunceler II, the Big Bad in Season 4, is just as despicable as his father, if not worse, as he's an outright slavedriver and primarily does it For the Evulz rather than for money and business! He also doesn't seem to care about hurting children as several children are seen in his slavery park, and he later attempted to slice off Huey's foot. Oh and unlike most other Boondocks "villains", he's taken very seriously by the narrative.
• The Brave Locomotive: While Baron von Kapital is quick to reassign Linus to the forestry railroad when Samson renders him obsolete, he proves to be more honorable and reputable than the typical Railroad Baron of the 1890s after Linus rescues Samson and his crew from a bridge that collapsed under Samson's weight. The same cannot be said for the owner of said forestry railroad, a thoroughly contemptible individual who treats the locomotives who work for him like slaves and has already reduced several locomotives to nothing but rusting corpses. He even kills Linus by shooting at his boiler when the latter defies him to save Samson, causing his boiler to eventually explode (though he's later repaired).
• On Castlevania, the Bishop is designed to be as deeply unlikable as possible. He's a hypocritical, self-righteous fundamentalist who is directly responsible for bringing Dracula's wrath down on Wallachia (by personally arranging for Lisa to be burned at the stake), and spends the rest of the season using anyone not affiliated with the Church (from the Belmonts to the Speakers) as scapegoats. It's even heavily hinted that part of him is secretly glad that Dracula's army has devastated Wallachia so badly since it gives him more authority over the surviving populace in his mad quest to "burn out" every sin in the country. When the demons finally kill him, they state that even God is disgusted by him.
• Celebrity Deathmatch:
  • Backstage interviewer Tally Wong from the uncanceled seasons. While she puts on a pleasant smile for the cameras, she is frequently dismissive and even downright spiteful towards the fighters she's interviewing, leading commentator Johnny Gomez (another frequent victim of her insults) to call her out on it on numerous occasions. Needless to say, fans frequently clamored for her to be killed off.
  • In the original seasons of the show, Debbie Matenopoulos was such, and not just because she replaced the previous interviewer, Stacy Cornbred. She was frequently disrespectful towards the celebrities she was interviewing, and she was especially cruel towards Nick. Of course, compared to Tally, she gets it fairly easy.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is known for having villains that are so over-the-top or weird that they end up being enjoyable (e.g. Fat Cat). Some of them, however, are just cruel at their worst.
  • Lord Howie, the villain in “Pound of the Baskervilles”, owned the mansion that the Rescue Rangers end up in since the will that McDuff is searching for is hidden away. If that wasn’t enough, Lord Howie (who is also allergic to dogs) goes out of his way to kill McDuff and the Rangers multiple times. Seeing him get foiled by the Rangers is absolutely satisfying.
  • “The Luck Stops Here” gives us Kismet, a cat who bullies Gadget after the former’s unlucky owner Cosgrove decides to adopt the latter for fixing his invention. Let’s just say that Gadget wasn’t the only one laughing when Kismet loses a lot of her fur to a blender. To a lesser extent, there is also Cosgrove’s boss Gribbish, who constantly yells at him and steals credit for an invention. The closest punishment he gets is a machine shoving vegetables in his mouth and ears.
• Chowder has the Faux Affably Evil Reuben, a pig Con Man who has antagonized the Mung Daal Catering Company whenever he has a major appearance in an episode. Certifrycation Class has him act as a cooking instructor who shows favoritism only towards Endive's cooking, berating Mung when he doesn't follow the rules and treating him horribly even when he does. The Party Cruise has him trick passengers into boarding a party cruise he stole from the rightful owners, harass Mung while he's trying to fish in peace, then abandon the ship when the owners come to reclaim it. The Rat Sandwich has Reuben at his most despicable when he blackmails the Mung Daal Catering Company into serving him free food and treating them like slaves. While many of the characters' antics make you want to laugh, Reuben's scenes just make it clear he is meant to be hated. Also, while most other characters are not the nicest people around and some are outright villainous, they have redeeming qualities or are at least are entertaining to watch unlike Reuben.
• Classic Disney Shorts: The trope is parodied in "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" with Horace Horsecollar playing the evil Simon Legree. His costumed appearance is so ugly a mirror shatters from it; the audience boos at him whenever he shows up on stage; and when he begins to whip Uncle Tom (played by Mickey Mouse himself in Blackface), they start pelting him with all kinds of rotten fruit even when he stops playing the character for a curtain call. Ironically, Horace as Legree is perhaps the only part that modern audiences could enjoy in this outdated and racist short.
• Craig of the Creek:
  • If being a spoiled, manipulative, control freak bully didn’t make King Xavier this he definitely becomes this trope when he sabotages Kit’s report card and gets her sent to Summer School and attempts to get Craig grounded, not only is he a bully when playing pretend but he’s willing to ruin the kids home lives as well.
  • Xavier's parents are very greedy and refuse to punish and ground Xavier because of his evil actions that caused many bad things at the Creek.
  • Richard is partially invoked. He is an obnoxious kid who calls "dibs" (Or "finders keepers" in "The Anniversary Box") on whatever he finds but has absolutely no sympathy for people trying to get their lost stuff back, though the kids of the Creek leave him alone because calling "dibs" is a fair rule unless there are loopholes.
• The Cleveland Show: Arianna the Bear, Tim the Bear's wife. A stuck-up, Holier Than Thou, hypocrite whose sole purpose is to be a bitch, mostly to Donna, but to others as well.
• Close Enough: Wyatt and Deborah Trickle have almost no redeeming qualities and are willing to use anyone and everyone, even their own son, for personal gain.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • While most of the villains are a serious threat to the KND, they have interesting quirks or redeeming qualities (e.g. Captain Stickybeard, Father, etc.). Meanwhile, Chester is just a cruel man who tortures children For the Evulz. The Operations C.A.M.P.^note where Chester hypnotizes campers into slavery, F.A.S.T.F.O.O.D.^note where Chester has kids served as burgers to sharks and almost succeeded doing so to Numbuh 3, and U.T.O.P.I.A.^note where Chester kidnaps Numbuh 1 and traps him in a virtual paradise showcase how sadistic he can get.
  • Soccer Mom from "Operation M.A.T.A.D.O.R.", an angry woman who does nothing more than shriek at her kid captives and force poor Numbuh 1 to be a soccer ball.
  • The Grand Finale has Numbuh 363, Numbuh 362's little brother. Unlike most of the characters on the show, he is hated by pretty much everyone in-universe aside from his sister for his selfish attitude towards Sector V and how he treats his own sector badly. Heck, he even makes Numbuh 86 seem nice by comparison! It's satisfying that Numbuh 84 stuffs his yoyo in his mouth. Heck, he even gets decommissioned the following month.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog:
  • Eustace Bagge is a zig-zagged example. He's a portrayed as a greedy asshole who regularly mistreats Courage and shows him no gratitude whatsoever when Courage even risks his own life to save him, not to mention how he often puts his love for wealth over his own family. Plus, a lot of his humor revolves more around his Chew Toy status, which is rather satisfying to watch since he often has it coming. However, he does have his sympathetic moments and the show's creator John R. Dilworth said that he gave Eustace a Freudian Excuse to make him more human and understandable, so he wasn't written only to be hated by the audience.
  • Mad Dog is a disturbingly realistic take on a Domestic Abuser who threatens to bury Bunny and her friend Kitty alive if he saw them together again, and he attempts to mow Bunny and Courage down with his car when Courage helps her to escape.
  • The Cruel Vet from "Remembrance of Courage Past". He was the one who kidnapped Courage's parents and kidnapped many more dogs, sending them to another planet for an experiment. The consequences of his actions led Courage to be completely isolated from any care or love until Muriel found him. And unlike most villains in the series, he has no cool qualities (except maybe for his intellect) and his cruelty is played very seriously, cementing himself as a horrible man and one of the most hated villains in the series.

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• Ms. Angela Li from Daria. She's by far one of the most intentionally unlikable characters on the show, having zero positive qualities and about as corrupt as one could get, with her only entertainment value coming from Daria making her look like a jackass.
• DC Super Hero Girls 2019:
  • Leslie Willis aka Livewire is not a nice person at all, as she relishes in Kick the Dog moments as shown in her debut episode.
  • Robin is basically Dick Grayson with all of Jason and Damian's negative traits, but none of their positive ones. He is also extremely unlikable, having humiliated Barbara twice in her life, cowers when faced with real danger, and talks down to every person he meets.
• Zordrak, despite being the Big Bad of The Dreamstone, doesn't actually have much involvement in the scheme of things, his far more sympathetic lackeys the Urpneys usually doing all the active work in whatever new plan is made. As such usually he has little role outside abusing his minions and acting as a driving force into them trying to take the stone, and being the one legitimately evil bad guy so we don't feel too bad about the Urpneys losing.
• DinoCity (2020) is a show for pre-schoolers with a setting that's not too Sugar Bowl but not too Crapsack World and often has No Antagonist in many of its episodes and the conflict coming from a misunderstanding, but this trope is zig-zagged; the only character who seems to be hateful is Di Vega, wife of Mr. Raptorson, a local millionaire. She's snobbish, an Alpha Bitch, belittles and humiliates other characters, and is a Jerkass a lot of the time. But she's never shown as evil due to the show's setting and audience, so it's toned down. But there has been the occasional episode that shows her as likeable, although very infrequently, therefore zig-zagging this trope.
• The Dragon Prince: Finnegrin, unlike most characters in the show, is an unsympathetic and power-hungry pirate with barely any redeeming qualities. He is incredibly abusive towards his ship's crew, and tortures others by freezing the blood from their veigns. He is also shown to be petty when he tried to feed Rayla to a sea leviathan just to spite Calllum, and refusing to stop even when Callum told Finnegrin how to kill the archdragon Domina Profundis and be capable of ruling over the ocean.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • Similarly to his comic counterpart, Gladstone Gander is lazy, selfish, obnoxious, smug, and relies entirely on his Born Lucky status. He constantly insults, belittles, and humiliates his cousin Donald in front of his nephews, and endangers the lives of his family members to save himself.
  • Doofus Drake is easily one of the most unpleasant characters in the show. The characterization of Doofus as a Spoiled Brat is such that he's given plenty of opportunities to be nice, and rejects all of them in favor of being as much of a jerk as he can be, all to make the audience hate him.
  • Despite her hammy personality and comedic quirks, Magica De Spell is this in Season 1, presented as an abusive aunt to her niece Lena De Spell. Later episodes reveal that Magica has some control over her, making it impossible for her to escape her influence. Worse, it is made abundantly clear that Magica doesn't value Lena's well-being, being willing to let her die if it means that she gets possession of Scrooge McDuck's number one dime. Despite her supernatural qualities, Magica is painted as a realistic take on an abusive caretaker. After she loses her powers, Season 2 downplays her hateability by often making her the subject of humiliation, while Season 3 completely averts it by revealing that she misses her brother Poe de Spell, who got turned into a raven and escaped during an incident with Scrooge.
  • Bradford Buzzard, despite claiming to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, is written to be as loathsome as possible in the Grand Finale. He planned on erasing hundreds of people from existence due to their association with adventure, treated his creations/clones as expendable, and possibly worst of all, he revealed that he was the one who told Della about the Spear of Selene, causing her to get lost in space and Scrooge's family to be torn apart. Then, even though he claimed that he would allow Scrooge's family to return home safely if Scrooge stopped adventuring, he still tried to kill Donald For the Evulz. His actions were so bad that even the other villains were disgusted by him.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Eddy's Brother from Big Picture Show. He brutally beats Eddy in horrible (though cartoonish) ways such as twisting his leg to play "uncle", throwing him against the door, and even slamming Double D just for defending Eddy. It's later revealed that Eddy's Brother has been brutalizing Eddy throughout his entire life, which helps give Eddy a Freudian Excuse for his behavior during the series, leading the other kids to realize that they were being just as awful as Eddy's brother from time to time throughout the series, eventually deciding to stand up for the Eds and become friends with them afterwards. The true nature of Eddy's Brother has also been hinted at in past episodes. His comeuppance at the end of the film is definitely satisfying.
• Elena of Avalor:
  • Rocco Villalobos's an unpleasant, arrogant jerkass who is also vaguely sexist.
  • Lord Elrod's a bad sport and cheats in order to win. He also got away with breaking Lucia's wrist during the Swordsman's Cup because the referee thought it was an accident.
  • A murderous, power-hungry throne usurper and tyrant who killed Elena's parents, subjected Avalor to a 41-year oppressive regime, Shuriki is incapable of feeling empathy or caring about anyone but herself. To drive the point home, Word of God's personal belief is that while most characters on the show are capable of redemption, you can’t say the same for her. invoked
• Mayor McShane serves the role of blatantly unsympathetic character whose purpose is to give the audience someone to despise in Extreme Ghostbusters. He's an arrogant Jerkass who continues to insist that ghosts aren't real and that the Ghostbusters are frauds in spite of constantly bearing witness to proof that ghosts are real and the Ghostbusters saving his life at one point.
• The Fairly OddParents!: Vicky is a sadistic babysitter whose primary purpose on the show is always making Timmy's life miserable. Also, she has a habit of bullying her own little sister Tootie. It is VERY satisfying to see her get Laser-Guided Karma from Cosmo and Wanda every now and then. Though she DOES have Pet the Dog moments, these tend to be so rare that they don't really balance out her nastiness. This was downplayed in the earlier seasons of the show where she was simply a babysitter trying to do her job, though even then she made Timmy's life miserable enough for him to have fairy godparents in the first place.
• Family Guy, being a high-order Sadist Show, tends to flip around with this for almost every character depending on Rule of Funny.
  • Carter Pewterschmidt. To call him a Jerkass is an utter understatement. He's extremely unpleasant and irritatingly childish and annoying, especially in later seasons. And unlike the main characters (who are not specifically saints), he has neither a Freudian Excuse nor a reason for his actions.
  • Connie D'Amico is a hateworthy Alpha Bitch character whose only purpose on the show is to bully Meg at any given opportunity as shown when she makes insults towards her on her appearance and weight and at one point, pelting her with rancid meat during a cheerleading rally in a school football match.
  • Peter's father, Francis Griffin, for being an angry Fundamentalist, Holier Than Thou Jerkass who is rude to his son and his family, especially his daughter-in-law. Only somewhat mitigated by the fact that he does love his son despite the mistreatment (he just doesn't like him) and was thus capable of the occasional Pet the Dog moment. Notably, when he died, Lois and Brian celebrated.
  • Diane Simmons in the episode "And Then There Were Fewer" when she orchestrates a scheme to murder James Woods and frame Tom Tucker to get revenge on both of them. She proceeds to not only murder James but also murders Mort's wife Muriel and Jillian's newlywed husband Derek. She also manipulated news intern Priscilla and then brutally murdered her when she found out. Diane also tried to kill Lois when she found out about Diane's crimes. Fortunately, Stewie guns Diane down.
  • Jeffrey Fecalman is an example of what would happen if the writers took Peter Griffin's jerkass behavior and abuse seriously and placed all that in another character. Jeffrey abused Quagmire's sister Brenda relentlessly and none of the abuse and jerkassery that he threw out followed the Rule of Funny. He was completely unrepentant of the abuse and was also a jerk towards Quagmire himself. Many of the main characters, including Peter and Joe, also hated him and it got to the point where Quagmire decided to kill Jeffrey to stop the abuse of his sister once and for all.
• Fast & Furious: Spy Racers: Cleve Kelso is easily the most evil out of the main villains since he has no well-meaning goals and values no one else. Even when he teams up with Tony's crew, it's more to protect his home, and he is not wanted by the police because he bribes them.
• Fillmore!:
  • Brad Parnassus from "Ingrid Third, Public Enemy #1" is the—smug—smartest kid at X Middle School who joins the safety patrol as Cornelius Fillmore's new partner only to add to his resume/credentials and when threatened by Ingrid Third's arrival displacing his status, he sets off a stink bomb in the school so as to frame her for it and get her expelled. Parnassus also constantly impedes the investigation by accusing Ingrid—a former delinquent—regularly, destroying the evidence and having his associate Vud Groton lie and take the fall for him. He's the only antagonist in the series to get away with what he did, but never appearing again likely means his role as Fillmore's Arch-Enemy was both offscreen and likely short-lived.
  • Patrol Sheriff J.T. Thrift, Jr. from "South of Friendship, North of Honor" is the very definition of a Small-Town Tyrant in middle schooler form. Having gotten his job thanks to his father Colonel J.T. Thrift, Sr. running the school, the Patrol Sheriff swipes contraband video games from the students to use for his own pleasure; talks down to and abuses his charges—while also forcing each one to deliver cinnamon rolls for him regularly; steals the valued pralines to rack up funding for more games and drives Emily Kinzey out of the school for trying to expose his corruption—nearly doing the same to Wayne Liggett too. Once he's fully exposed to his father beyond just being reported, the Patrol Sheriff is stripped of his title and shipped to a military school while Wayne then becomes the new far more honorable Patrol Sheriff in his place.
  • The Author of the Vampirita series from "The Unseen Reflection" has come to the point that by Book 23, she's Only in It for the Money now—having written the book without any interest or effort while on a plane to Milan. Her unpublished manuscript reveals that she violated her own continuity and narrative rules with both her characters and plot very blatantly, she hates being at the fan event while hardly pretending to actually be happy to be there and doesn't care for the commotion her terrible writing caused with the sabotage against the Vampirita entry throughout the episode—hand-waving the whole thing as "just a book". When the Author is leaned into for her lack of passion and care for the fans she disappoints with her crabby demeanor and outlook, the crowd immediately cheers against her.
• Final Space:
  • Superior Stone, one of heads of the Infinity Guard, is a nakedly rude, obstructive prick who already doesn't make a good impression by forbidding Quinn Ergon from investigating a breach in space that threatens to destroy Earth. So it's little surprise that he and most of the Guard are in cahoots with the omnicidal Lord Commander. He more than earns his death by a black hole gun.
  • Werthrent was worshipped as a benevolent god on the planet Serepentis, but in reality, it's far from it. It demands human sacrifices, and when consuming one, they're kept alive inside him forever as mindless zombies, one of them being Ash's sister Harp.
• F is for Family:
  • Jimmy Fitzsimmons pretty much exists just to make Bill's life miserable. This gradually wears off over Seasons 2 and 3, as Jimmy starts to develop a few sympathetic qualities.
  • His sister Bridget Fitzsimmons is enough to make Jimmy of all people look like a sympathetic Woobie by comparison! Like her brother, this trope goes away as she develops more sympathetic qualities and bonds with Maureen over being bullied by someone even worse.
  • While Chet Stevenson seems to be a likable guy at first, he becomes much more despicable once his true nature starts to surface, as he plays cruel mind games on Nguyen-Nguyen, Sue, and Frank alike.
  • Scoop Dunbarton is possibly the least likable character in the series, and has zero redeeming qualities. He's loud, egotistical, rude, racist, and is too stupid to even be working at an airport, let alone managing one. Probably the only good thing that can be said about him is that he single-handedly thwarted the terrorist group's plans to hijack a plane... just moments before he accidentally killed himself and his uncle with their suitcase bomb.
  • Along with his nephew Scoop, Roger Dunbarton's an insufferable asshole meant to make us root for Frank and all the other employees they've screwed over.
  • Tracey, Gene, and Dana're completely repulsive and insufferable due to their treatment of Sue and Vivian.
  • Henrietta van Horne's betrayal of Sue sets her up to be one hell of an unlikable, backstabbing bitch.
  • Charles "Chuck" Sawitzki's an obnoxious, immature, cruel man who is not above belittling his potential customers.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
  • Terrence was practically made to be hated. He has no other purpose in the show outside of bullying his brother Mac and doesn't seem to have any personality other than being a bully. In addition, he is not liked by anyone in the show at all, and they enjoy watching him suffer whatever horrible fate comes his way, knowing full well he deserves it.
  • Duchess is one too, as her purpose on the show is to be nothing but a spoiled diva who bosses around all of the other imaginary friends in the house, and behaves very badly during most of her screen time (the pilot even had her outright plan to have Bloo be EATEN ALIVE simply because the daughter of a rich family wanted him instead of her. In "Duchess of Wails", her behavior got to the point where Mac and Bloo got fed up with her and tried to get rid of her by having her adopted by another family...who happens to live next door to Mac. Eventually, his mother gets so fed up with Duchess' constant wailing that she plans to move as far away from her and her adoptive family as possible, and what's worse, Terrence exaggerates it to a ridiculous degree by creating a huge lie about moving to Singapore, which Mac believes and is frightened since it means he won't be able to see Bloo again and he'll end up being adopted.
  • Bendy in his first and only major appearance on the show, was deliberately written to be despised for one thing and that is breaking the rules of the Foster home and framing other imaginary friends in the house for the rule-breaking. He constantly framed Bloo, Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo for a lot of misdeeds he committed in the house and got them all severely punished by Mr. Herriman. Many fans believed that Bendy crossed the Moral Event Horizon when he framed Bloo for playing around with the house loudspeaker and got him grounded from his TV, video game, and paddleball privileges. What makes Bendy different from other examples is that he got more hate than it was intended because he became a Karma Houdini at the end of the episode. As a result, the episode actually got so much backlash that its writer eventually apologized for it, and Bendy was not featured in any more episodes.
  • Kip Snip, the main villain of the episode "The Sweet Stench of Success" is the sleazy and abusive CEO of the Deo brand deodorant company who is in reality a fraud and an abusive pet owner. He tricked Bloo into signing adoption papers by disguising them as acting contracts and then overworks him in filming commercials for Deo while never paying him. He even refuses to feed Bloo for days and makes him sleep in a small pet crate. Later on when Bloo with the help of Max and the other foster friends exposes Kip and reveals that Deo does not make people smell good, Kip does not deny this fact and says that Deo makes people smell worse. This cathartically gets Kip arrested by the police for false advertising.
• Futurama:
  • Richard Nixon's head, being one of the show's villains is the president of Earth yet he acts like a tyrannical dictator in a government that's supposed to be a democracy. He is a huge Jerkass who has constantly cheated in the presidential elections and even ran for more than two terms. He has also attempted to commit genocide against all of the robots of Earth in "Crimes of the Hot" by tricking them into going to a party in the Galapagos islands and exterminating them there all to try to solve global warming, he is also a hypocrite as he has orchestrated invasions like the Omicronian army did as he did that against other alien species, such as the spheroid and spiderinians. Leela is shown to hate him in the episodes focusing on his presidential elections. Matt Groening (the series' creator) hates the real Richard Nixon, which is likely where his in-show portrayal stems from.
  • Michelle, Fry's ex-girlfriend who cheated on him, is supposed to personify how crappy Fry’s life was in the 20th century. She was shown to be a selfish woman in her limelight episode. Even when later episodes explored Fry's old life with his family and Seymour and he realized he only convinced himself his life was horrible so he wouldn't have to feel remorseful for everyone he left behind, Michelle's still shown to be nothing but a horrible woman when she reenters Fry's life in the future and forces him to do whatever she wants before she dumps him again.

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• Gargoyles is a series filled with sympathetic and/or three-dimensional villains. However, there are still villains who are not among those.
  • Coldsteel. Unlike Demona (who was angry about the way humans treat gargoyles) and Thailog (who was made to be the Evil Twin of Goliath), Coldsteel's villainous actions aren't caused by evil humans but are instead motivated by petty romantic jealousy. He's basically just there to show that gargoyles are just as capable of being evil as humans.
  • Among the human villains, Xanatos is far too magnificent to hate, Macbeth is too sympathetic, and even Sevarius and the Pack are both too entertainingly hammy to really hate. But go right ahead and hate Tony Dracon. The guy is just a plain Jerkass who doesn't have enough charisma to make him likable anyway.
• The Ghost and Molly McGee: The Chairman of the Ghost Council ends up being this in the first season's finale. After spending much of the season being a mysterious and intimidating figure, in the finale, he's revealed to be a hateful being that feeds off of misery, and is using the ghosts to spread more misery into the world. Any ghosts who don't meet his standards are banished to the Flow of Failed Phantoms, something he and the council have been looking to do to Scratch for a while. When they find out Scratch and Molly are friends, they banish them both to the flow, only for Molly to overpower the Flow through her touch of joy, freeing the other ghosts and killing the Chairman after telling him off.
• Pete on Goof Troop is not a traditional villain due to the show's setting. Instead, he's just a thoroughly unpleasant person who treats everyone like crap, especially his neighbor Goofy and his own son, PJ, the two characters who deserve it the least. Most of his episodes play him as The Chew Toy and it's always satisfying to see his schemes fail. This is downplayed to a certain degree, as Pete does have some intentionally sympathetic moments, infrequent though they may be.
• The Northwest families from Gravity Falls are a family full of Rich Bastard Jerkasses whose entire generations are full of cheaters, liars, and scammers, something even Pacifica herself finds despicable, to the point of having a change of heart after learning about it.
  • Nathaniel Northwest. He ordered the commoners to build a huge mansion that cost the lives of many lumberjacks and innocent people in order to flaunt his fortune in front of other people, promising them a big party in return. Except he didn't even do that; he laughed at them and kicked them out as soon as the mansion's construction was complete, directly causing one lumberjack by the name of Archibald Corduroy (an ancestor of Wendy) to invoke a Dying Curse by manifesting himself as a ghost to annually terrorize the Northwests, hoping that he could force them to uphold their end of the bargain. The sad part is that everyone who ever knew of his vile nature is long dead.
  • Preston Northwest may not be as a prominent villain as the two major Big Bads or even the Lumberjack Ghost in his featured episode but he is a massive Dirty Coward who is willing to endanger the lives of innocent people to preserve his own pride and abuses his daughter by manipulating her into an Alpha Bitch and if she ever try to speak up, he rings a bell to force her to obey. When he tries to sell himself out to Bill's apocalypse, he gets his face completely rearranged, by which is obviously painful and horrifying, but considering what a Jerkass he is, fans actually cheered for Bill when he did that. For fans who found his facial rearrangement too horrifying a punishment, this is compensated for by having him lose his mansion and his family's standing. His family never deserved those in the first place.
  • Filbrick Pines, who threw his teenage son out in the street for one dumb mistake and told him he could never come home without making a fortune.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has a sizable amount of characters who are either idiots like Billy and his dad, jerks like Mandy, evil, or just wimpy like Irwin. While they have some redeeming features, Mindy doesn't really have any. She is a snob who often calls others "losers" or "ugly" unprovoked, usually to Mandy since she told Mindy to shut up for talking too much when they were younger. As rude as it was, that isn't a good enough excuse for Mindy's personality.
• Trina Riffin from Grojband is pretty much meant to be as unsympathetic as possible. She's a selfish, violent, vain, bossy, and ill-tempered bullying big sister and Alpha Bitch who constantly tries to ruin brother Corey's life (sometimes even willing to kill him) often for no reason beyond petty spite; she frequently abuses her Only Friend and loyal underling Mina, usually expressing little regard or appreciation for her and their friendship; and on more than one occasion, she has put the lives of others (and even the entire world) at risk for her own sake and just to get back at Corey. This makes her status as The Chew Toy for Corey's schemes to aggravate/humiliate her and then steal her diary to use its entries as inspiration for his songs' lyrics all the more satisfying and entertaining to watch.
• Hamster & Gretel: One Villain of the Week who is a social media influencer named Belle, makes fake videos of Hamster and Gretel to make them into despised pariahs for clout. She even takes great pleasure in them being almost arrested along with Kevin. All these make her a truly despicable character in the show.
• Harley Quinn (2019):
  • Since this series is the story of Harley Quinn breaking free of Joker's grip on her, he's made as despicable as possible to heighten the catharsis of her triumphs. The Joker's Domestic Abuser traits are ramped up to make him a misogynistic asshole who treats Harley like a piece of property, to say nothing of his hatred for women in general. He's a raging narcissist who makes everything about himself and cares for no one else, and the usual dominance and fear he evokes in his fellow supervillains is framed like a petty Alpha Bitch bossing around their cronies. And he also retains his usual shtick of being a mass-murdering cackling psychopath. All of this is done with the intention of making Joker unsympathetic and make Harley's victories more meaningful. He drops several of his more unpleasant traits upon his return in season 2. He's still a mass-murdering psychopath, but his time with Bethany while amnesiac makes him realize what true love is. He also no longer is focused on or seemingly even interested in claiming Harley like property.
  • This spin on Two-Face was not only a scumbag politician even pre-disfigurement, he's partially responsible for Harley becoming a villain in the first place, namely, the Joker said he had planted a bomb that would explode in two hours. Dent demanded Harley try to get him to talk, despite being explicitly warned she wasn't qualified yet. This could be a Well-Intentioned Extremist moment on his part (better to put her at risk than risk a bomb killing a bunch of people), except the same episode makes it extremely obvious the only reason he cares is he might not get reelected if a bomb kills a bunch of people.
  • Poison Ivy's father is depicted as a horribly abusive man who beat and berated her daughter, even junking her beloved ficus plant as punishment for catching him sleeping with a maid. All of this of course shapes Ivy into the jaded, misanthropic Eco-Terrorist we see in the present.
• For a show that takes place in Hell, Hazbin Hotel's cast is largely fairly likable, with even season 1 Arc Villain Adam being too Laughably Evil to fully hate and his bloodthirsty second-in-command Lute is The Comically Serious half of her and Adam's Ham and Deadpan Duo. That said, it's still a show that takes place in Hell, so it's to be expected that there are some characters who are just too despicable to like.
  • While her screen time in the show proper is brief, Katie Killjoy is shown in the pilot to be an image-obsessed, rude, and homophobic Bitch in Sheep's Clothing designed to be a loathsome as possible so as to make the audience want to root for Charlie as much as possible.
  • Among the show's major villains, Valentino is the only one whose villainous actions are very seldom Played for Laughs. He's an Ax-Crazy Mood-Swinger whose exploitation of Angel Dust on a financial, physical, and sexual level is all Played for Horror.
• Since Hades, the Big Bad of Hercules: The Animated Series, is Laughably Evil, the show created the character of Adonis to be this. His smug arrogance, self-serving cowardice, tendency to take credit for things he had nothing to do with and refusal to learn from his mistakes made him such an unlikable douche, you'd sometimes wonder why Herc just didn't super strength punch his arrogant head off; heck, even Zeus hated him! If that isn't enough reason to dislike him, a Retcon revealed that he's the reason Megara from the movie was working for Hades, as was the guy who jilted her and she joined Hades to forget about. Fortunately, he suffers frequently from divine karma.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • The Jerk Jock bully Wolfgang, who was introduced in season 2, around the same time that the other bullies (Helga and Harold) started becoming too sympathetic to hate. Wolfgang is a complete Jerkass who never undergoes any development, a Karma Houdini, and just a plain bully. Oh, and he beat up Helga and stole the vacant lot from the fourth graders. It's only mitigated by the fact that in The Jungle Movie, he is seen among the group cheering Arnold on at the party on top of Sunset Oaks, hinting that Wolfgang may have gotten better and the gang forgave him.
  • Big Bob Pataki is about as bad of a parent to Helga as one can be short of being physically abusive, all while showering his attention on Olga. He's also a complete, greedy Jerkass to everybody, even mocking Arnold by calling him "Orphan Boy" (not to his face mercifully, but still in earshot and completely insensitive to the idea that Arnold might hear him). While a few episodes show that he does have some redeeming qualities and he almost always gets retribution for his jerky behavior, he never learns his lesson in the end and always repeats the same mistakes. Nonetheless, episodes like those establish that he will not cross certain lines. It's not until the two movies that Bob somewhat redeems himself.
  • Gerald's Big Brother Bully Jamie O is an even bigger Jerkass than Big Bob; though thankfully not as bad as Wolfgang, he seemingly having no other purpose in life besides making Gerald's life hell. He also has a few Pet the Dog moments, but like Bob, he never keeps his promises to do better, and, unlike Wolfgang above, there's no indication that he ever got better between the end of the original series and The Jungle Movie.
  • Worst of all is Big Bob's frequent associate Nick Vermicelli, whose name includes the Italian word for "worm". He's a figuratively and literally greasy Smug Snake who cares about nothing other than making money and actually makes Bob look sympathetic by comparison. If he and Bob are together in an episode, chances are that the episode will end with Bob (temporarily) learning his lesson after watching Nick cross a line he isn't willing to, usually physically harming Helga or another child, and in The Movie, he sells Bob out to Alphonse Scheck and demonstrates he may even be okay with casual murder.
  • Hey Arnold! The Movie: Alphonse Perrier du von Scheck is the land developing head of Future Tech Industries seeking to tear down the entire neighborhood where Arnold Shortman lives to make up for a major battle Scheck's British ancestor lost during the American Revolution. Scheck hides the document to keep the truth about the neighborhood's historic significance secret, later burning it, too (only for his own surveillance cameras to catch him red-handed), and then spitefully tries to kill the main characters before and after he's exposed. He's ultimately portrayed for the most part as nothing but a smug and dominating figure for most of the film.
• Hilda: Erik Ahlberg is not very likeable at all with his arrogant behavior, unwillingness to listen to reason, Glory Hound tendencies and behavior towards trolls.
• Inside Job (2021):
  • Rand Ridley is Reagan's abusive father. All of Reagan's emotional and psychological problems can be traced directly back to him (for example, Reagan's inability to hug is a result of him never hugging her and getting a robot to do it instead). In the current day, Rand treats Reagan as a tool to make his own life better, both figuratively and literally as the season 1 finale would reveal that he erased her memories of her Only Friend growing up to ensure nothing would get in the way of him raising her to be his ticket back into Cognito if he was ever ousted. Downplayed in throughout season 2, while he's still remained a horrible jerk, he isn't giving any real trouble to Reagan. Averted by the end of season 2, when he ultimately comes to realize how much he loves Reagan and sincerely apologizes to her for the pain he caused her, though he more or less remains petty when he goes to Shadow Prison X.
  • Brett's entire family are stuck up, greedy, fame obsessed, and only care about each other in terms of how good they make the family look. Of particular loathsome note are Brett's brother Jagg, who recasts Brett in his family campaign ad and only acknowledges Brett when he becomes popular on the news, and Brett's father who is the one who pits his children against each other in the first place and only promotes Brett to son number one due to Jagg's weakness.
• The cast of Invincible (2021) is mostly populated by complex characters, and even among the villains, many of them are either too complex or too entertaining to truly hate. However, there are a few truly hateable characters in the series. The most disliked character might be the Unintentionally Unsympathetic Amber, but there are characters who are intentionally unlikable as well, like...
  • D.A. Sinclair. Sinclair is an Insufferable Genius who insults the intelligence of everyone around him and is unwilling to accept that he might be wrong about how the world should work. Because of this, he is incapable of seeing any issue with kidnapping people, stripping away their humanity and free will, and reducing them to his personal minions, all in a very painful process with no anesthetic. All the while, he acts like he's doing them a favor.
  • Eve's father Adam Wilkins is sexist, controlling, and overall disrespectful towards his daughter. He claims she should forgive her ex-boyfriend for cheating on her and then says learning that she has powers was the worst day of his life, the latter of which brings her to tears. While he does genuinely love his daughter and worries about her safety, the fact that he's entirely incapable of expressing it in a way that doesn't come across as misogynistic ensures that he wins no audience sympathy. The Atom Eve special makes him look even worse, with him being initially unwilling to have Eve enrolled in a school for the gifted for fear of looking "abnormal" to his neighbors and only doing so once his wife convinces him that not doing so would make him look worse, and not being understanding when Eve only displays a special aptitude for science and is lagging behind in other classes that she's not as gifted in.
  • Steven Erickson, former agent of the GDA, embodies every single negative trope regarding spies and government agents. He was the man who commissioned the experiments that resulted in Atom Eve having superpowers, and he fully intended to have her raised in a loveless setting to be blindly obedient to the government, until her birth mother Polly and Brandyworth, the scientist who gave her her powers, had a crisis of conscience and snuck her to a hospital, where they swapped her with a stillborn baby so she could hopefully have a better life. Erickson bullies and threatens both Brandyworth and his replacement, shows no concern for Polly's well-being whatsoever, even using her body to create more children who aren't even given the dignity of having names, and treats said children like garbage, degrading them constantly as failures and later sending them to die against Eve with no empathy or remorse. And while his killing Brandyworth and Polly was unintentional, he refuses to take responsibility for it, instead trying to claim it wasn't his fault. Despite her home life being less than ideal, Eve could have had it a lot worse had Erickson been the one allowed to preside over her life.
• Jem has Eric Raymond's constant muscle, Zipper. While Eric himself is much of a bastard in his own right, he at least has an extremely rare moment of clarity or conscience and often receives karma through his own failure via a plan falling through or pissing off the Misfits somehow (especially Pizzazz). Zipper on the other hand always makes some sort of real trouble, be it in the way of attempting to seriously injure or kill a member of the Holograms (be it pushing a statue off of a building onto them, blowing up their new house with them inside or leaving Kimber in an active volcano, to name a few) or anyone who happens to be in the way of his plans (which includes the Starlight Girls.) Furthermore, it's not like he seems to be driven solely by money or relies on a Just Following Orders excuse for his actions; he relishes in the misery he causes and always lets out a vicious cackle in the midst of everything.
• Justice League: Lord Orm is Aquaman's evil younger brother who provides every reason for the audience to hate him, especially when he tries to kill both Aquaman and his baby son.

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• Kaeloo: Pretty the Alpha Bitch. Unlike the other villains, she is nothing more than a cruel brat most of the time. Also, she seemingly cares about nobody except herself, and possibly her twin sister, though she normally treats the latter as a mule and controls every aspect of her life.
• When Kim Possible isn't saving the world, chances are she's dealing with Bonnie Rockwaller, a stereotypical cheerleader who loves making her life miserable. While she does help Kim on occasion, it's mostly out of pragmatism, and will go back to making Kim's life miserable when the job is done. Ron Stoppable wonders why Kim doesn't resort to using kung fu on her since she's dedicated her life to stopping evil. Kim, for her part, apparently doesn't resort to such tactics with Bonnie because it wouldn't be a fair fight in her opinion (unlike with all her other villains who either know hand-to-hand combat or utilize deadly weaponry). The one time she attempted to do that ended up forcing Bonnie to open up and reveal her deepest insecurity, to the point of uncharacteristically begging Kim to help her with said problem.
  • Of course, Bonnie has nothing on her two older sisters: Connie and Lonnie. We only see them in one scene but they manage to make Bonnie seem sympathetic from the fact that they constantly bully her saying that she's not as smart of pretty as either of them.
• King of the Hill often pits Hank and company up against a massive Jerkass who tends to bend some rule or another to their favor. They usually get karma to them by the episode's end.
  • King Phillip from "Joust Like a Woman", who uses his Renaissance Faire's "historical accuracy" as an excuse to be a sexist creep. He limits the job options for women to terrible jobs, punishes them for breaking character, and at one point he grabbed one of them by the ass. His female employees only keep their jobs because they need the money and it's their only option until Peggy beats him in a jousting and convinces them to sue him. The ending of the episode heavily implies that he loses his job and, at least, is forced to go back to a job he hates.
  • The teenagers from "Four Wave Intersection" pick on Bobby and his friends for not being "locals" and throw Bobby down a massive water slide multiple times (and Kahn once, offscreen). They're Jerk Jocks to the core, and when Boomhauer simply knocks them into the water at the end, nobody's complaining.
  • The Wassanasong family, particularly Ted and Chane. Ted is rather affable but is also a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing as well as a gigantic hypocrite. In "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana", he chastises Kahn for supposedly betraying his Laotian heritage in favor of the American Dream, even though Ted is a wealthy businessman with lots of material possessions, and in "The Redneck on Rainey Street", he and his family attend Christian churches to attract more business. In "Trans-Fascism", he buys illegal high-trans fat foods after he was the one who proposed they be banned in the first place! And when called out for his hypocrisy, he always has an excuse ready, such as saying that he owns his possessions, but they don't own him and that unlike most people, he has enough restraint to limit his consumption of fatty food. His appearances are usually done in order to make Kahn and Minh look sympathetic in comparison. And as for Chane, he's just an asshole who pervs on Connie and bullies Bobby.
• The Legend of Vox Machina: Most of the villains in the series avert this trope, especially those with more screentime, such as the Briarwoods, who mutually cared about each other. This trope is even averted in the likes of the Chroma Convlave who are more destructive but at least being enjoyable foes, especially their leader Thordak who is undoubtedly an impressive badass that had greater goals. However, the same things do not apply to some of their associates and minions:
  • Sir Kerrion Stonefell is the Captain of the guard for the Briarwoods, who lacks their ability to love someone else. Make it short, Stonefell has no love for anyone beyond himself. He is respectful and obedient to the Briarwoods, but mainly because they let him run an pseudo Spanish Inquisition for rebels who try to take Whitestone back. Even worse, Stonefell commits sadistic acts of torture and murder for no other reason than sheer enjoyment, which he even admitted in an episode and has little to no characterization beyond being a sadistic, murderous toadie for the real antagonists.
  • Professor Byron Anders is a traitorous former tutor of the de Rolo children who betrayed them and joined the Briarwoods. For starters, he blames Cassandra and Percy for their parents denying his scientific ambitions, which seem to be only fueled by Ander's overbloated ego and irrepresible desire for power instead of society's benefit, murders most of the De Rolos and turns Percy and Cassandra over to Dr. Ripley and the Briarwoods to be imprisoned and tortured for information neither one had, wholeheartedly aids in oppressing the citizens of Whitestone, slits Cassandra's throat right in front of Percy and mocks them about it, calls Percy's mother a "bitch" and mind-controls Vox Machina to attack Percy. He did believe the de Rolos looked down on him and didn't appreciate him, his personal feelings pale in comparison to the amount of despicable things he did.Needless to say, no one was sad to see Percy take Anders off the list.
  • While he is definitely not a coward and hates to be such, Kevdak has zero impressive, admirable, sympathetic or redeeming qualities that makes him at least a likeable villain. He is a brutal, selfish, petty and horrible piece of savage that raids countless villages and murdered numerous innocent people for no reason. Members of the Herd also despised him for his willingness to work with Umbrasyl. Even worse, Kevdak is extremely abusive and even murderous towards his own family when they disobeyed him and turned against him, subverting his initial care to Zanror in the process. Working with the Chroma Conclave isn't helping either, since he made a deal for selfish reasons and gleefully returned to his old life of a despoiler once more. Needless to say, his death at the hands of his nephew, who is also one of his most miserable victims, is more than satisfying to watch.
• Lilo & Stitch: Mertle is a bullying Alpha Bitch who repeatedly insults and excludes Lilo, while making harsh and insensitive comments about her mother (as she did in Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, even though Lilo happens to be an orphan who is being looked after by her sister. Every dose of Laser-Guided Karma she gets is well-deserved as a result (such as when Stitch knocks her over on her tricycle after she cruelly rejects Lilo's apology in the original film).
  • Lilo & Stitch: The Series gives us their Big Bad in the form of Jacques von Hamsterviel, who was Jumba's former partner. Despite being a small alien hamster ^note although resembling more of a gerbil or chinchilla, he seeks to rule the galaxy with an iron fist. Whenever Gantu (who has since become far less threatening) fails to snag an experiment, he would harshly berate and insult the big guy. "Aww Blitznack", indeed.
• While most of the villains in the Looney Tunes shorts are funny even when they’re at their worst, the unnamed dog seen in Chow Hound has no such moments. He relentlessly bullies a cat and mouse into getting him food and beats them up when they do, claiming that they forgot the gravy. To top it all off, he is used as an example of how greed can corrupt a person. You won’t feel sorry for the dog when he overeats at the end of the short, goes to the hospital, and gets force-fed gravy by the cat and mouse.
• Virginia of Lola & Virginia. She's a super stuck-up Alpha Bitch who acts like the world revolves around her and is willing to use every dirty trick to get her way. It is very satisfying when she does get her comeuppance in the end.
• The Long Long Holiday:
  • Hans is a German solider who uses 'requisition' to steal food to sell on the black market and acts more like a bully than a soldier. He would constantly pick on everyone in a demanding way and getting away with it by using his position, acting more like a child than the Robinsons themselves. When his actions disgust his college Otto he is forced to be reassigned to the eastern boarder but not before stealing Colette’s pet pig Muddy with intentions of eating him, and when he returns he mocks the Robinsons by reminding them of what he did. When the Colonel orders his troops to hold the townspeople hostages he kills the Morteau's dog and possibly planned to kill Jeanne and her children as revenge for getting him in trouble and to spite Otto who grew attached to them. It's only satisfying to see him killed by Otto.
  • Durand is a proud Nazi sympathizer and collaborator who constantly tries to expose the Robinsons to the Nazis, knowing full well they won’t care that they are children. He gets even worse when he gets one of the Robinsons Fernand arrested by the Nazis for being Jewish and refusing to wear the Star of David, and smugly smiles as he sees Fernand be sent to Auschwitz. He would then have the school teacher Mr. Herpin be exposed as the local resistance leader and be arrested as well, and would be the leading cause of his death when he discovers the Robinsons hideout and lead the Nazi soldiers there forcing Mr. Herpin to stay behind and sacrifice himself for their escape. After everything he’s done no one will mourn his execution when he was arrested by the French resistance.
• The Loud House:
  • Tetherby from "Out on a Limo" is a snooty, conceited rich man who convinces Lincoln to blow off his sisters, claiming that personal success required such sacrifices as family. When Lincoln's time in the limousine came to an end, Tetherby remorselessly pops all of the balloons for a party he was going to throw for Lincoln.
  • Chandler McCann, the snooty and popular son of a wealthy sewage plant worker, also qualifies. He tricked Lincoln and Clyde into getting money from Lori, initially refused to allow them to come to his party in his first episode, "The Waiting Game", and when he did relent, still expected them to bring them presents. It seemed he would finally humble himself after "Jeers For Fears", but it seems it was all for naught, for post-Flanderization Chandler even started physically bullying Lincoln in "Schooled!" as they are now classmates as of this episode. Fittingly, neither Lincoln nor his friends like him very much.
• Love, Death & Robots: The Governor in "Good Hunting" is a disgusting man who can only become aroused by machines. He abducts the prostitute Yan to painfully turn her into a cyborg so he can treat her like a toy and regularly physically and sexually abuse her.
• Portia from The Mighty B! is a sadistic Alpha Bitch who takes pleasure in tormenting Bessie just for her own amusement. One occasion even had her attempting to murder a blindsided Bessie by falling into a piranha tank. As such, any comeuppance received on her part is well-deserved.
• On Miraculous Ladybug we have Chloé Bourgeois. An Alpha Bitch of the highest class, her constant belittling and bullying of everybody around her, exploiting the fact that she's the daughter of the Mayor of Paris to get whatever she wants (even getting people expelled from her school) and only noting that she has hurt people's feelings just enough to snark about it, it's no wonder that most of the Akuma attacks on the show can be attributed to her. However, Chloé shifts to a Jerkass Woobie in season two, showing sympathetic qualities and a Freudian Excuse. She goes back to being a Hate Sink come the season 3 finale, where she willingly sides with Hawk Moth over her newfound resentment of Ladybug for forbidding her from fighting alongside her as a superhero anymore (for her and her loved ones' safety since her secret identity was known by Hawk Moth) and exposes the identities of all the Sixth Ranger heroes to the villains.
  • The "Queen's Battle" two-parter introduces Audrey Bourgeois, Chloé's absent mother, who has all of her daughter's reprehensible traits and none of her sympathetic qualities - and on top of that, she's horribly abusive to Chloé. Season 4 would eventually reveal that she had cheated on her husband around the time Chloe was born, though we don't know the full details of the affair (that said, this affair did produce the family White Sheep, Zoe.)
  • Lila Rossi seems to be taking Chloé's place as the most loathsome student. She's dishonest enough to lie to people to get attention or invoke sympathy, spiteful towards Ladybug when her lies are exposed, and inculpable enough to blame her for humiliating her. She gets even worse when she willingly lets herself be Akumatized and helps Hawk Moth of her own volition. You know she's bad when Marinette says Lila is worse than Chloé. However, Chloé does eventually help Hawk Moth of her own volition as well, therefore making her and Lila equally loathsome.
  • There's also Bob Roth, a music producer who is so obnoxious and money-minded that it causes people to get fed up with him In-Universe. In "Troublemaker", he is perfectly willing to violate a teenage girl (Marinette)'s privacy for ratings, and in "Silencer", he and his son Xavier "XY" Yves plagiarize the teen band Kitty Section, and the episode also reveals that this is how Roth has made his entire career. Him plagiarizing the band and then threatening to ruin Marinette's musical career makes the lead guitarist, Luka Couffaine, angry enough to be vulnerable to Akumatization. At the end of the episode, he thankfully gets hit with Laser-Guided Karma when Ladybug and Cat Noir stage an Engineered Public Confession to expose his plagiarism.
  • Although he has never physically appeared, what little is known about Colt Fathom makes him out to be an incredibly detestable person, even arguably up there with the likes of Lila and Chloé, for being an incredibly rude snob and an absolutely horrible father to Félix, abusing him and calling him a monster while taking away anything that brought him joy.
• Moonbeam City gave us the following examples:
  • Rad Cunningham is forced to take on this role in one episode by doing performances to pay off a parking fine. Chrysalis notes he is "so effortlessly hatable".
  • Pizzaz's older sisters Panache, Charisma, Sophistica, and Accoutrement Miller are absolutely horrible women in every sense of the word. They treat Pizzaz like total shit, have spent years trying to get the rest of their dad's fortune, and were responsible for ruining the family's laser mining business by wasting the profits. It's actually their fault Moonbeam City's such a cesspool since their mismanagement of the family company destroyed the local economy and thus created a lot of crime. The sisters with husbands have totally emasculated their lovers (even castrated them) and the four of them enjoy abusing Pizzaz to kill time or out of resentment for her (understandably) being their dad's favorite.
  • Rad's parents are abusive con artists and his sister's not much better, to the point the three of them tried to force Rad into a sham marriage with said sister so they could get free stuff as wedding presents. The Cunninghams aren't even Rad's real family. They stole him from his actual parents when he was a baby.
• Moral Orel: The town of Moralton is set in a Crapsaccharine World where many of the denizens mask their true intentions behind a veil of religious convictions. Of those individuals, these two are the absolute worst:
  • Clay is the abusive patriarch of the Puppington family who insults and mistreats those around him as a means of boosting his self-worth regardless of it being good or bad. He reveals his true colors when he shot his son in the legs and then drinking the rubbing alcohol in the first aid kit. While claiming to have no recollection of the incident, Clay later takes pride in what he did when his son was assisting Miss Censordoll when she was running for mayor. Despite having a sympathetic backstory in the form of his mother dying when he was a child and his father resenting him for it — and getting goaded into a marriage he did not want — Clay nevertheless refuses to acknowledge his own faults, instead pushing the blame onto others, especially in his attempts of molding Orel into becoming like him.
  • Cecil Creepler is an ice cream man who sells biblical-themed ice cream to Moralton's youth. In Alone, Creepler is exposed as a Serial Rapist who sexually assaulted 7 dark-haired women and later rapes and impregnates schoolteacher Agnes Sculptham when she used herself as bait.
• ''My Life as a Teenage Robot: During school, Robot Superhero Jenny Wakeman often has to put up with the obnoxious Crust cousins. Brit and Tiff are the main bullies who treats those who are considered unpopular (especially Jenny and her friends) like crap. Along with their Girl Posse, they never miss a chance to call poor Jenny a "freak" and torment her just because she's a robot. Even when she saved their lives a couple of times, they still go back to belittling her.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a show where many jerks or even villains could have sympathetic backstories or moments, but there are characters like these that are just plain mean:
  • The teenage dragons from "Dragon Quest". Their only purpose is to be complete and utter Jerkasses to Spike and anything that's not a dragon. Toward the end of their episode, the dragons attempt to kidnap baby phoenixes and try to force Spike to smash an unhatched phoenix just because it's fun. Their leader, Garble, becomes even worse in "Gauntlet of Fire". The plans of other dragons competing for the title of Dragon Lord border on Poke the Poodle, while he wants to take everything valuable in Equestria and burn it to the ground.
  • Prince Blueblood. He's just a Royal Brat who acts like a jerkass to Rarity in the episode "The Best Night Ever" when Rarity tries to win his affection. How effective is he as such? An Equestria Daily poll asked its visitors who they thought the best royal pony was. Tony Stark got six times more votes than him. You can't just write this stuff.
  • Suri Polomare in "Rarity Takes Manehattan" is not a nice pony. She steals Rarity's designs for the fashion contest and passes them off as her own, treats her assistant, Coco Pommel, like garbage, and when Rarity wins the contest, Suri lies to her, saying that Rarity actually lost, just so she would win by default. Luckily, the third thing doesn't happen as Coco decides that she's had enough of Suri and quits being her assistant and gives Rarity the trophy that she deserves.
  • Wind Rider in "Rarity Investigates". He's a retired Wonderbolt who is admired by a lot of ponies, especially Rainbow Dash. That is until he sends Spitfire away on a wild goose chase by giving her a fake letter saying that her mother was sick and she needed to find a rare flower to cure her, and he tried to frame Rainbow Dash for it and get her kicked out of the Wonderbolts Reserves, all because he was afraid that Rainbow Dash would break his flight speed record.
  • For a long time, Diamond Tiara, who's really just an ordinary filly with an Alpha Bitch streak was presented as the least sympathetic character in the show and only appeared to exist to make life miserable for the Cutie Mark Crusaders and other school-aged characters. It wasn't until Season 5 that they presented her in a sympathetic light and shouldn't be considered an example of this trope any longer. However, the same episode also introduced her mother, Spoiled Rich, who's an incredibly nasty snob who looks down on everyone for virtually no reason and holds Diamond Tiara to ridiculous standards, with no forgiveness should she fall short.
  • Svengallop in "The Mane Attraction". The manager of Applejack's Childhood Friend Coloratura, throughout the episode he was obnoxious towards everypony whether it be Applejack, children, or even Coloratura herself. The final nail in the coffin for him was his treatment of Pinkie Pie to the point where she's battered and almost about to cry.
  • Zesty Gourmand in "Spice Up Your Life". She's a famous food critic who believes that only her opinion matters and forces all of the restaurants in Canterlot to serve food that only she likes, or else she won't give them her three-hoof stamp of approval. At the end of the episode, Zesty badmouths the Tasty Treat for not serving any food she likes, despite it having tons of customers. Even when Rarity suggests that she at least give the food a try, Zesty refuses and leaves in a huff.
  • Sludge in "Father Knows Beast" lies to Spike that he is his long-lost father just to exploit him, use him as a slave, and alienate him from his friends while he lives in luxury. He's even a disgrace to other dragons, being a Lazy Bum who prefers to be waited on others while the Dragons raised in the Dragon Lands are shown to be tough, independent, and self-sufficient.
  • Chancellor Neighsay in the Season 8 premiere. He is a bigot who has a strong prejudice towards other creatures that aren't ponies and is willing to shut down Twilight's School of Friendship because of this. Turns out he's a Red Herring for the real Big Bad of the season, who put him in his place, which leads Neighsay to get better and help save the day.
• Ninjago:
  • The Omega is definitely this. Every time the Omega is onscreen, he is shown to be arrogant and ruthless, and he has no qualms in taunting Garmadon over his insecurities and wiping out all of existence.
  • Vex is probably one of the most despicable villains Ninjago's got. He's insanely petty and entirely self-serving, manipulating an amnesiac Zane, whose amnesia he caused, to wipe out entire settlements, and unlike Aspheera, he has absolutely no comedic moments whatsoever, nor even anything remotely approaching a sympathetic trait, and is completely loathsome through and through.
  • The Skull Sorcerer tricked the Lowly into helping him attain the Skull of Hazza D'ur to become the Skull Sorcerer and cast them into the deepest depths of the mountain for years, and manipulated the Munce and Geckles into turning against each other by stealing the Blades of Deliverance so they would be easier to conquer and enslave.
  • Kalmaar is utterly deplorable, being so prejudiced against surface dwellers, he even killed his father to wage war on Ninjago, he cares nothing for either his family or people and does everything to sate his own bloodlust and desire for control. The writers even called him "the worst villain" in teasers for Seabound. In fact, he is probably the most despicable and vile villain seen in the series so far.
  • Ulysses Trustable, while justified in rejecting the Ninja's request to free Aspheera from Kryptarium Prison, still manages to be hateable due to his ungratefulness for the many times the Ninja saved Ninjago City, even blaming them for the damage caused by their battles, and lack of sympathy towards the Ninja's grieving of Nya. He's also shown to be a Dirty Coward, given that he abandons Ninjago City and its civillians when the New Ninja are turned into Crystal Zombies just to save his own skin.
  • Dragons Rising: Empress Beatrix, the main villain of Season 1, is one of Ninjago's most detestable villains due to her being an extremely egotistical dictator of an empire built on the abuse of Dragons, while also punishing everyone who defies her will by humiliating them infront of everyone in Imperium. And that's just the stuff that's shown in Part 1; In Part 2, it's revealed that she killed her father and framed her sister to gain her throne, while also trying to her MergeQuake Weapon to murder her own subjects for turning against her.
• Ōban Star-Racers:
  • Miss Stern, She's a callous, unfeeling tyrant of a person with zero sympathy for the problems of her students. Despite her very little screentime, Eva makes it clear her time under Stern's care was absolutely miserable.
  • Groor spends every second of his short screentime being an insufferable, petulant bully, and has no cool backstory or charisma that makes him even fun to watch. Therefore, it's unlikely anyone would give a rat's ass about him disappearing from the story after Aikka beats him up.
  • Colonel Toros much like Groor and his own successor General Kross, Toros' whole characterization is being an insufferably smug, racist brute who thinks he's way cooler than he actually is. He demonstrates just why it'd be a very, very bad thing if the Krogs won. Furthermore, he has the gall to taunt Rush about the damage the Krogs did to his planet, just to give himself an advantage.
  • General Kross while Canaletto is the bigger threat, Kross is if anything more odious personality-wise, as he's a cruel, smug overbearing bully of a general who delights in hurting his opponents. He's also a cheater of the highest order, holding Aikka's parents hostage to give himself an advantage in the race. Kross also brushes off the implied execution of his predecessor and is motivated more by a desire to have the Imperium bow to him than actually leading them to victory. In the end, everyone else on the track has to team up to take him out before he can achieve his selfish goals. His death in the final lap against Eva is both anti-climatic and totally well-deserved.
  • President McMullen is a reasonable man at the start of the show, but as the race reaches its climax, he becomes a smug, condescending, war-mongering hypocrite. Not only does he shrug off the idea of forcing the universe's greatest position on a 15-year-old, but he's actively planning on using the Avatar as a weapon for Earth supremacy. He later orders an attack on Crogs territory, nearly plunging humanity into war on the notion that the Crogs might've attacked first. It blows up in his face when the Crogs predictably fire back.
• Phineas and Ferb: Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the closest thing that the show has to a Big Bad, is nigh-impossible to hate due to his delightfully hammy nature and being a Harmless Villain through and through. His parents, on the others hand, are a completely different story. They saw their son as an object instead of a person, which led to them being horribly abusive towards him. Just to give a couple of examples, they forced Doofenshmirtz to stand as a lawn gnome for months on end, his dad named their dog "Only Son", his mother showed clear favoritism towards his younger brother, Rodger, they outright abandoned Doofenshmirtz at one point, forcing him to be raised by Ocelots, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Even though the abuse is mostly Played for Laughs, it's still easy to feel bad for Doofenshmirtz and to resent his parents for their horrible treatment of him; even Doof's nemesis Perry feels sorry for Doof after seeing how shallow Doof's parents are towards him.
  • There's also the unnamed biker that appeared briefly in the episode Vanessassary Roughness. Given to his only line when he tries to make a pass on Doofenshmirtz's daughter Vanessa, there are several implications that he likes to hit on underage girls and enter romantic and/or sexual relationships with them for his purposes. Ironically, despite having Abusive Parents, Doof refuses to let this slide and rightfully punishes the biker by sending him to an alternate dimension, where the biker ends up being squashed with a rubber mallet by a giant baby alien.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has many villains that are goofy or even sympathetic, though there are ones that are either pure evil or rotten to the core:
  • Princess Morbucks. She is incredibly arrogant, loud, snobby, and one of the most shallow, vain, cruel, and revoltingly evil villains in the show who's nothing but a Spoiled Brat with a disturbing Lack of Empathy who desperately wants to be a Powerpuff Girl just so she can have superpowers like them since it's something someone else has that she doesn't have. Her most repulsive acts on the show include legalizing crime to spite The Powerpuff Girls, and tricking Santa Claus into giving all the nice kids in the world coal — while he gives her superpowers — by changing the naughty and nice lists, resulting in Santa declaring her irredeemable and deserving of being in his "Permanent Naughty Plaque".
  • Dick Hardly from "Knock It Off" is perhaps the most repugnant villain to ever appear in the show. What started off as using his old roommate Professor Utonium's Chemical X to mass-produce clones of the Girls leads to him extracting their essence and nearly killing them. And worse, most of the clones are defective and end up being neglected by their creator. It's telling something that while Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, the aforementioned Princess Morbucks, and even HIM had their fair shares of likable moments or at least some sort of moral restraint, this man is absolutely despicable and unsympathetic. As such, he is one of the few villains in the series to get Killed Off for Real.
  • Mike Brikowski from "Cop Out", a lazy, irresponsible, short-tempered, and hypocritical cop who hates the Powerpuff Girls for very petty reasons^note Specifically, all he ever did was sit in his car and eat donuts all day. Then, when he's fired from his job for being lazy, he pulls Never My Fault and reasons he got fired because the Powerpuff Girls stopping crime means that they caused him to lose his job., and was more than willing to dip them in acid with glee.
  • Femme Fatale from "Equal Fights", a bank robber, is a "feminist" who absolutely despises men for petty reasons, only robs banks for Susan B. Anthony coins, and shows us the worst parts of feminism. It doesn't help that other women were also victims of her crime spree, showing that she only fights for feminism when it's convenient for her and only her. It makes her comeuppance at the end of the episode all the more worthwhile, when the girls come to their senses and lecture Femme Fatale about Susan B. Anthony since it's revealed that Femme Fatale had no idea who she even was; while Susan B. Anthony did fight for women's rights just like Femme Fatale did, she was willing to let herself be sent to jail for her actions just like any man who broke the law, while Femme Fatale was fighting for women's rights to avoid being sent to jail. Susan B. Anthony believed that not only should women have the same rights and privileges that men have, they should also be punished the same way as any man would. Shortly after, the girls do the exact thing to Femme Fatale, treating her like they'd treat any male criminal: beating her ass and send her to jail, while Femme Fatale complains that they can't do this to her... because horizontal stripes make her look fat.^note This particular episode is an Old Shame to writer Lauren Faust, who felt that the concept of feminism was simply too complex to be adequately explained in what is supposed to be a kid's show.
  • Stanley and Sandra Practice from "Girls Gone Mild" are extremely strict Moral Guardians with No Sense of Humor who decided to ban the Powerpuff Girls from using their powers just because kids would imitate their actions, despite the girls' powers being what keeps the city from being in danger. As a result, crime rates increased and the city went to ruins because of its strict rules. They only lift the ban once their own lives were in danger, and despite being responsible for letting crime raised, they were scolded-free, possibly being the only characters in the show to not be punished for their actions.
• Primal (2019): On a show where Humans Are the Real Monsters is a prevalent trope, Egyptian Queen Ima from the 3-episode "Colossaeus" arc is easily the vilest character on the show. She leads group of soldiers that gladly slaughter or enslave any other people they come across, even the ones that peacefully surrender, just because she can. She personally keeps Kamau's daughter and Fang's babies hostage and forces them into compliance because she'll kill them if they don't. Luckily, she ends up getting a Karmic Death at Kamau's hands.
• The Proud Family:
  • In a show where even nice people like Penny and Trudy have moments of being unpleasant and jerks like Oscar and LaCienega can have their nice bits, Sista Spice is one of the only exceptions. She pretended to be nice to her nephew just to annoy her sister, ripped people off with false promises of psychic powers, and was more than willing to let Oscar take the fall for her. She even left her own apprentice, Zoey, at the mercy of her enraged audience.
  • Dijonay's much older cousin Bethany is just a rude and unpleasant person. She even mistreats her own cousin sometimes (apparently treating your allies terrible runs in the family).
  • Unlike Wizard Kelly, there's nothing redeemable about the Talking Baby, and he's solely made to be despised for his treatment on Oscar.

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• ReBoot: Herr Doktor, Megabyte's personal assistant, stands out as the most despicable of Megabyte's minions, being a Sadist who enjoys inflicting pain to others. For starters, he clearly enjoys trying to vivisect Frisket, as well as helping launch Bob into the Web, and torturing both Hexadecimal and Phong; when Megabyte gives him free reign to do whatever he wants to the latter, Herr Doktor even gleefully thanks him while bragging about how he is going to make Phong "squeal." It's even revealed in "My Two Bobs" that none of this is even due to Megabyte's infection and influence, Herr Doktor is just a sicko who actually likes working for Megabyte.
• Regular Show:
  • The Night Owl, from the episode of the same name, is an immoral radio DJ obsessed with gaining fame and glory. To this end, he tricks Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-5 Ghost into a contest where he lies to turn them against each other, before freezing them for thousands of years as a display piece to build himself fame and power. When the heroes thaw out centuries later and try to escape his future museum, the now cybernetically-enhanced Night Owl attacks them while ranting about how they belong to him as "ice cubes in his long drink of success". Upon escaping to the present, Muscle Man punches out Night Owl before he can begin his contest. Even among other Jerkasses on the show, Night Owl's extreme entitlement and greed make him one of the very worst.
  Muscle Man: (after punching him) That's for freezing us on purpose.
  • The unnamed TV company executive from That's My Television. Given the episode is a satire of fame and the nature of TV stardom, he embodies all the worst qualities of power-hungry networks. To elaborate,he had an innocent man trapped in his RGB2 TV costume to turn him into his own personal cash cow, enslaving him for years and denying him freedom. And unlike other villains, he has hardly any comedic or over-the-top moments, which just emphasizes that he's nothing but an abusive, greedy human being.
  • While not as evil as the latter two, Bert Coleman from Expert Or Liar seems designed to be an infuriating, obnoxious prick. He's a smug, cruel, spiteful bully of a gameshow host who gets a kick from humiliating people on Live TV when they get his trivia questions wrong. Rigby, his latest victim, goes on an obsessive search to win his honor back, and even Benson feels sympathy, having been the victim of a gameshow humiliation himself. Then when Rigby challenges Coleman to another round, Coleman declares if he fails, he'll rerun the episode again and again ''every day.'' It's very gratifying when Rigby scores the quiz and punches Bert into a video game monster's jaws, all on Live-Television.
• Rick and Morty: While Rick, the show's protagonist, is considered to be an amoral man who has done questionable things, many of the villains he goes up against have deliberately done things that are deserving of so much hate from the audience because many of them have done far worse things than Rick has done.
  • King Flippy Nips is the king of Pluto who basically exists just to be hated for doing things such as exploiting his own home planet for riches through its plutonium and in the process slowly destroying it to the point where it was no longer considered a planet, lying to his own people about Pluto being a planet, and having his own son arrested and sent to Plutanamo Bay for questioning his actions and promoting environmental conservation of Pluto. To add insult to injury, King Flippy Nips even gets away with these crimes.
  • King Jellybean from "Meeseeks and Destroy" is a pedophile rapist Villain with Good Publicity, who assaults Morty in a bathroom. Unlike most villains of the show, he is not the least bit Laughably Evil (despite the ridiculousness of an anthropomorphic jellybean), just plain slimy and disgusting. His assault traumatizes Morty so much that even Rick, who usually doesn't care much about Morty's feelings, is shocked. Rick killing King Jellybean is a very satisfying moment.
  • Supernova, the leader of the Vindicators is a scummy woman who leads a team of heroic galactic superheroes that Morty looks up to but she in the Vindicators 2 webseries was revealed to be the person responsible for multiple atrocities. First off she cheats on Alan Rails with Million Ants and lies to him about it after getting pregnant. She then decides to abort the child to try to prevent Alan from finding out about the affair, which leads to the destruction of Dorian 5 in the process. She also neglects to have herself and the team fight Doomnomitron and has Rick take care of it instead while stealing all the credit from him through making a cover up story. She also gets drunk afterwards and kills fellow teammates Calypso, Lady Katana, and Diablo Verde in the process. Later on in “Vindicators 3: The Return Of Worldender”, she solely blames Alan Rails for the planet she killed and blames Rick for all the Vindicators' deaths despite assisting in murdering Alan and then kills her lover Million Ants when he objects to Supernova trying to kill Rick and Morty. Because of all this, Supernova in ultimately the one responsible for the destruction of the very team she led and gets away with this.
• Rocko's Modern Life has Rocko's Bad Boss Mr. Smitty. His aggression and tyrannical demeanor towards Rocko make it easy to despise him with a fiery passion.
  • The one episode Mr. Smitty is at his worst is Day of the Flecko. Rocko prepares to get ready for the big camping weekend and tries to check out of work. But he is soon averted by Mr. Smitty, who reminds Rocko to add another whisker on Bunny Man of the sixth issue of every last comic. By the time Rocko finishes the final issue, hours have elapsed and Rocko is now in lethargy. And worst part, Mr. Smitty gets away scot-free.
• Rugrats: Angelica Pickles is an example that varies between being this or not Depending on the Writer. In some episodes, she'll be an antagonist who bullies and deceives the Rugrats, while other ones have her depicted as more sympathetic and a member of the Rugrats. The reason for the inconsistency of Angelica's characterization is because the writers wanted her to be a more complex antagonist, while one of the show's directors, Arlene Klasky, absolutely despised the character and wanted the audience to feel the same way about her.
  • Josh on the other hand is a more straight example. After the babies are sick of Angelica's bullying, they quickly befriend him, only to find out that Josh makes Angelica look like a saint by comparison.
  • As a tv show host Angelica idolizes, Miss Carol seems to be a gentle woman when filmed but is a complete Child Hater whenever her show is not on, constantly making profane insults about them. In one incident, she says a swear word to insult the children within earshot of Angelica. Karma comes straight back at Miss Carol when Angelica mistakes the insult for the fun phrase she is supposed to say on tv and given her age, Angelica did not know what the word meant. Miss Carol ultimately gets fired after Angelica uses the swear word on tv and calls Miss Carol out on this, leading to Miss Carol showing her true colors and gets fired in the process. Miss Carol can be considered the show’s version of Coco Labouche.
  • The Spin-Off All Grown Up! has Savannah Shane, a stuck-up Alpha Bitch who's so nasty that she makes Angelica (who, although not as mean as she was in Rugrats, is still not a particularly nice person) more sympathetic. For instance, in "Lucky 13", she throws a party on the same day as Angelica's 13th birthday party (knowing that people will choose her party over Angelica's) for no other reason than to get back at Angelica for sitting in her seat at the popular table. Everyone Angelica invited cancels in favor of Savannah's party, and when Angelica nicely asks Savannah to change the date of her party, Savannah pretends to consider, but then tears her down for thinking she'd even consider helping her, leaving Angelica a crying mess. This act is so cruel that even Tommy and his friends, who have been bullied by Angelica their entire lives, feel sorry for her and come up with a scheme to make sure that people come to Angelica's party.
• Samurai Jack:
  • It's made abundantly clear that the Minions of Aku are meant to be hated for their casual sadism, abuse of power, gleeful violence, smug overconfidence, torture, animal cruelty (if the episode "Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess" is any indication), bullying, and overall oppressive nature. They are utterly despicable when other villains in the same show have more class, or at least funny bits while the Minions of Aku have no characterization outside of being sadistic, twisted bullies.
  • The High Priestess is the psychopathic leader of a religious cult that worships the Big Bad Aku and trains her own seven daughters as assassins to kill Jack. You can't hate her children, as they were brainwashed from birth, and abused all their lives. However, she's the one who did the brainwashing and abusing, and shows no remorse for any of it. Although, to be fair, she managed to be a Downplayed Example, since in her final fight with Ashi, she proved to be an incredibly badass fighter.
  • The Dominator only appears for one episode and his appearance is used to demonstrate how Aku's influence has allowed the truly malignant to prosper in the future. He destroys an innocent village, kidnaps their children, and turns them into Slave Mooks via chips in their heads which cause them pain. After sending them to attack Jack he spends his time torturing Ashi and bragging about how easy it is to control children. From this, he is meant to garner as much of the audience's disgust and revulsion as possible.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • Most of the Horde apart from the Faceless Goons are given redeeming features. The Big Bad, Hordak, shows affection to Imp, has a trusting and respectful relationship with Entrapta, and has a tragic backstory. Catra, who does some really messed-up stuff during her Villainous Breakdown in season 3, at the very least has a Freudian Excuse. The big exception? Shadow Weaver. Even flashbacks to when she was Light Spinner showed her to be power-hungry and short-tempered, and in the present, there's just nothing to like about her: she's manipulative, cruel, dishonest, and selfish, her parenting style for Adora and Catra was openly abusive, particularly towards Catra, and her few moments of apparent tenderness invariably have ulterior motives. On top of that, her actions have had little in the way of long-term consequences for her - she gets smacked down by Catra and thrown in jail by Hordak, but she escapes, and then after she makes it to Bright Moon, she manages to worm her way into Glimmer's confidence, where she works to sabotage Glimmer's relationships to gain more influence over her. Nonetheless, Shadow Weaver does somewhat mellow out since arriving at Bright Moon, becoming not so much likeable, but rather her despicableness being less palpable. While she has become fairly easygoing gains a few virtues like honor and bravery, she still remained manipulative and selfish, and the damage she did to Adora and Catra is done.
  • At the end of season 4, Horde Prime's evil characteristics dwarf those of all the other villains, that even the aforementioned Shadow Weaver fears him more than death. He's an intergalactic conqueror who has subjugated large swaths of the universe. He staffs his army with cloned drones who are denied free will and individuality. After Hordak has spent decades building an army from the ground up and conquering Etheria in his name, Horde Prime shows no gratitude, but instead is angry that Hordak acted autonomously. He is so offended by Hordak's displays of free will that he subjects Hordak to Mind Rape and mind-wipes him. Horde Prime initially planned on destroying Etheria so that news of Hordak's autonomous actions would not reach the outside world, but when Catra explains that Etheria is a superweapon, he decides to use Etheria for conquest instead. The man is truly reprehensible.
• The Simpsons:
  • Judge Constance Harm, a Hanging Judge who likes to legally bully the Simpson family (particularly Bart and Homer) just because she can. Even through her limited appearances, she's given no character development outside of being an angry Jerkass. Not helping matters is that she's voiced by Jane Kaczmarek, reminding people of her other infamous role. (Coincidentally, both shows are created by Fox.)
  • Jack Lassen, the 4th grade teacher Bart has in "Blazed and Confused". This teacher behaves a lot like Umbridge as he is a Sadist Teacher who torments and humiliates Bart by shaving his head in class and electrocuting him. He even has a parodied Kick the Dog moment when he kicks a cat for no reason. He gets humiliated by Bart in the blazing guy festival and after attempting to kill Bart, gets fired from Springfield Elementary, which he deserved so greatly. His antics even caused school bully Nelson to fear him. He gets his just desserts when he's fired in the end, becomes a prison guard, and offers Sideshow Bob to pull a Villain Team-Up on Bart next time. Bob is intrigued at first but after Lassen suggests they take turns gutting Bart Bob says "No Deal" .
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): In most of his incarnations, while Dr. Robotnik is selfish and cruel, he doesn't actually hate life - he's really an Attention Whore who wants the world to respect his genius. His plans are generally incompetent, and his evil nature is sometimes overcome with a pang of remorse, so it's difficult to really hate him. Here, however, those few redeeming features are stripped away and replaced with pure seething sadism and malicious intent, making him truly repulsive and despicable.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Squilliam Fancyson, Squidward's rival who is just as persnickety as he is but way more of a bully. His losses, however short, are always rewarding, especially considering how unusual wins are for Squidward.
  • Flats, namely due to his role and the way he treats a harmless SpongeBob and his own father in his only episode, which shares the name of his "occupation".
  • The Unsatisfiable Customer at the end of "Pizza Delivery". Despite SpongeBob and Squidward moving Heaven and Earth to bring him his pizza on time, refuses to accept or pay for the pizza, and rudely slams the door in SpongeBob's face, driving him to tears, all because they didn't bring him his drink (which they didn't know he had ordered). It's extremely satisfying when Squidward stands up for SpongeBob by reopening the door and smashing the pizza in the bastard's face with a surprisingly badass one-liner, "This one's on the house."
  • Kevin C. Cucumber in the episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic" is the head of the Jellyspotters and a total jerkass. When SpongeBob wants to join his club, Kevin forces him to capture some jellyfish, trying to get him injured or humiliated. When SpongeBob manages to do that, Kevin tells him to catch a Queen Jellyfish, which is actually a Humongous Mecha piloted by himself and the Jellyspotters. He then tries to run SpongeBob off a ravine, and it's revealed that he has done that to his other fans before. When SpongeBob saves him from an actual giant jellyfish, Kevin still refuses to let him join the Jellyspotters, resulting in the other Jellyspotters getting tired of his bullshit, and ripping his "crown" (actually a piece of his body) off. Given how horrible he is, this makes the abuse he takes throughout the episode (getting repeatedly stung by jellyfish) hilarious.
  • In "All That Glitters", it's hard to imagine how Le Spatula could be anything but this, given how cruelly he tells off SpongeBob after all the effort the guy put into acquiring him and declaring himself to be too good for the likes of the Krusty Krab kitchen before leaving.
• South Park:
  • Sergeant Harrison Yates is one of the most unlikable characters of the show. Comedic moments aside, he's a stupid, bigoted, inept, unpleasant Dirty Cop who abuses minorities and seems to have something against children, particularly Kyle. It doesn't help the fact that he is a critique of the police force and has essentially replaced Officer Barbrady as the main cop character. His status as this increases in the Season 22 episode "Time To Get Cereal" when he knowingly arrests the boys for the school shootings, despite glaring evidence that they are innocent (as well as the "school shootings" within said episodes not really being shootings, or even taking place at school).
    • He reaches a new level in "The Pandemic Special". While filling in as teachers for South Park Elementary School, he and the other police officers abuse the children under their care, shoot Token for no reason and then cover it up by claiming he was infected with COVID-19, forcing the rest of the kids into quarantine, and when they break out, Yates and the other cops take advantage of the subsequent chaos to get refunded and use their newly-gained munition to go on a child-killing spree under the pretenses of restoring order.
  • Butters' parents are hated because they always ground him for no good reason, occasionally beat him, tried to sell him to Paris Hilton, and seem to punish him just for existing. The one time Butters goes berserk and punches his father in the groin is a cathartic moment for many fans.
    • If you think Butters' parents are hateful, meet Grandma Stotch from "Butterballs". She has no characterization outside of being a bully of a grandmother who torments Butters (both physically and mentally) for kicks. And unlike Butters' parents (who occasionally seem to care about Butters), she is an outright sadist with no redeeming qualities. Furthermore, the effects of her bullying are played very seriously for Butters, resembling a lot with Real Life bullying, and therefore, making her even more despicable.
  • The Super Adventure Club from The Return of Chef are card-carrying child molesters, but that's actually not played all that seriously; what truly cements them as this trope is their responsibility for the permanent death of a beloved pre-established character, which in turn is based on Reality Subtext regarding Isaac Hayes and Scientology.
  • The Whole Foods cashier from Safe Space. He is a bully who shames people into donating to hungry kids. Despite Randy explaining that he donates to charity a lot and doesn't have the money to donate every time he goes shopping, the cashier puts him though increasingly elaborate refusals options designed to humiliate anyone doing them. When Randy donates, the cashier still goes out of his way to humiliate him, loudly declaring that Randy only donated one dollar. Even when Randy brings Vin Diesel and Steven Seagal with him, the cashier just fat shames them and Randy has to claim that his charity will also be raising money for hamsters to go to collage just to get him to stop.
  • The Whites, particularly Robert. A Take That! to Trump supporters who support President Garrison and Randy despite their countless crimes and lambast everyone for not caring about their opinion, while at the same time ignoring the opinion of anyone who doesn’t agree with them and Wangsting about how nobody cares about the Whites. They also emotionally and physically abuse their adopted Mexican son Alejandro, treating him like a dog and not bothering to learn his language to understand him.
  • Strong Woman's ex-boyfriend "Heather Swanson", AKA Blade Jaggart. He's a garishly-dressed, roided-out Jerk Jock who declared himself transgender purely so he could compete in women's sports and get away with beating them up. If anyone tries to point this out, Heather accuses them of being transphobic and has them publicly vilified. Never mind that Heather made no attempt at getting a sex change before competing, which meant he had an unfair advantage over the other women (plus any genuine trans-women who had gone through months of hormone therapy before competing). When he's beaten by some 10-year-old girls at board games, Heather cries about how he was at a disadvantage due to being born a boy, showing that he's selective when it comes to his (fake) identiy.
  • The teenagers in "Help, My Teenager Hates Me!" are presented in a completely negative light in this episode, being obnoxious and childish to the Boys throughout the episode while possessing little to no redeeming qualities. It makes watching the Boys, their fathers, and Jimbo, team up and beat them in airsoft all the more satisfying.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • Jeremy Birnbaum, a student in Marco’s karate class, is nothing but a despicable little brat. Mercilessly (and smugly) taunting Marco, lording over his money to everyone’s faces, and boasting of his karate skills to anyone who will listen (not that he really has any), he makes fellow Hate Sink Brittney Wong seem tame.
  • Speaking of which, Brittney’s not much better, taking an immediate hatred towards Star for her popularity outshining her own despite Star being nothing but friendly towards her. She’s implied to only be head cheerleader thanks to her money and parents influence, and is a Dirty Coward to boot, pushing fellow cheerleader Sabrina (who’s in a wheelchair by the way!) into the path of a monster just so she could escape.
  • Ludo's parents were emotionally abusive to him just because he was the runt of the litter and left him behind while they go on vacation. They also treated their son Dennis with fear.
  • King Shastacan, Eclipsa's former husband, shows nothing but contempt for monsters to the point he immediately replaced Eclipsa's daughter, Meteora, with the peasant girl who would become Festiva just to avoid having a half-monster heir.
  • Saint Olga, the robot tasked by King Shastacan to raise Meteora, rivals Ludo's parents in terms of abusiveness, demeaning and humiliating Meteora in a passive-aggressive tone. Her abuse ends up shaping Meteora into becoming Miss Heinous, and when Meteora discovers the truth, St. Olga tries to emotionally manipulate and guilt-trip her, leading to her destruction.
• Steven Universe:
  • Kevin is a chauvinistic jerk who constantly invades Stevonnie's personal space even after they voice their discomfort. Even Steven's reaction to this guy is to snarl his name through gritted teeth when he shows up at It's A Wash, and he flat out states that he hates the guy not a minute later.
  • While other unpleasant characters in the show usually show Hidden Depths at some point, Marty seems to exist just to be hated. Both Greg and Vidalia, the people who primarily interacted with him, have expressed that they neither know nor care where Marty is today, with Greg adding that Marty was "dead to me". He gets even more hate when he tries to exploit his own son's interest in making music just to promote a drink that no one likes. To show how bad the guy is, Steven dislikes him and makes no attempt in befriending him.
  • Holly Blue Agate's only role is to direct all the hate from the Diamonds once they start to show a sympathetic side. Her Fantastic Racism, Bad Boss behavior, and sycophantic attitude towards the Diamonds pretty much cements this.
• SWAT Kats: In both of his appearances, Commander Steel is portrayed as an arrogant and incompetent officer. His only purpose in the show is to make Ulysses Feral look reasonable by comparison.
• Sym-Bionic Titan: The flashback episode "Shadows of Youth" has Baron, the bully who ruined Lance's life throughout the school year. It was only after Lance wins the war games that Baron goes to extreme measures to murder him. After a brief scuffle in suits of Manus armor, the two boys are arrested. Unfortunately, Baron gets off scot-free while Lance is forced to repair the damages to the school over the summer. These qualities have made Baron the most detestable character in the series overall.

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• Tangled: The Series: Zhan Tiri is made to be as despicable as possible. She manipulated Cassandra into becoming a villain and betraying Rapunzel, destroying the bond between them. Whenever it seemed like there was hope that Cassandra and Rapunzel would reconcile, Zhan Tiri would sabotage it and ruin their relationship even more. In the finale, she sadistically tried to drain the lives of everyone in Corona.
• Teen Titans (2003): The episode "Troq" has the Politically Incorrect Hero Val Yor. It's hard to hate the Locrix since they don't speak and aren't given enough focus for the audience to care about them, but it's easy to hate Val Yor for being racist against Tamaranians. Even getting his life saved by Starfire isn't enough to get him to drop his prejudiced views, merely remarking that she's "one of the good ones". When the Titans defend Starfire, Val Yor claims that Earthlings are no better than Tamaranians.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987):
  • Vernon Fenwick becomes more cowardly and selfish as well as antagonistic to both April and the Turtles in season 2, likely to justify his Butt-Monkey status.
  • Burne Thompson like Vernon, his main role in the series is to constantly blame the Turtles no matter what they do all for the fans to hate him.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Drako. Among other things, he blatantly cheats in the Battle Nexus tournament, resorts to murder upon losing, betrays the Ultimate Ninja, his partner in crime, and is generally antagonistic toward everyone. To drive the point home, while the Ultimate Ninja was found to have enough potential for good for Lord Simultaneous to resurrect him as a child, he doesn't even bother to do the same for Drako.
  • Zanramon is a Bad Boss, who's a coward and only thinks about himself. He would cause the deaths of innocent people and defenseless enemies if it means victory and is an all around jerkass.
• Time Squad: Sister Thornly, the nun who runs the orphanage that Otto once lived in, is shown to basically be nothing but a very mean JerkAss who loves to abuse the children in the orphanage and even punishes them for doing things that children should be doing such as brushing up on reading and history and she did that to Otto. What's worse about her is that she goes as far as to send orphans into coal mines and she even gets away with every single bad thing she does to these orphans.
• Tom and Jerry^note (In the works.):
  • The female cat in the short Blue Cat Blues. Jerry immediately knew that she was very much a Gold Digger that only valued people for their money and what they can give to them, and tried to warn Tom not to pursue her, but he did so anyway, despite being beaten in terms of money by Butch, leading to the more depressing parts of the series where Tom squandered his savings, sold himself to slavery and no longer owning an arm and leg, getting suicidally depressed in trying to win her attention to no avail, while she never gave a damn, married Butch for his money (and God knows what she'll do to Butch in case he somehow failed to impress her later...), getting away with everything. While Jerry's girlfriend also ditched him, her situation was more ambiguous, but the female cat was clearly written as an allegory for the audience to beware of a Gold Digger that will make you lose control of yourself to chase after something that's not really worth it in the long run when she's just interested at mooching off your belonging, thus making her fall to the trope.
• Total Drama:
  • Ezekiel's debut season saw him voted out first for his sexist comments, without any particular positive traits to cancel it out. When fans felt sorry for him, feeling his beliefs stemmed from not knowing any better, he was brought back in World Tour, Took a Level in Jerkass, got eliminated first again, and finally mutated into a monster.
  • Similarly to Ezekiel, Noah was originally intended to be a forgettable character that no one would miss, perhaps even moreso then Ezekiel. Noah spends most of his screentime acting like a condescending Jerkass towards his own team and refuses to help compete in a challenge, whilst Ezekiel was Innocently Insensitive and willing to help his team win. Noah still acts like a Sore Loser when he’s eliminated, whilst his entire team cheers when he’s voted off.
  • Though seeing Character Development in later seasons, Heather's debut in Island featured few sympathetic traits. As the resident Alpha Bitch, Heather took advantage of her allies, read Gwen's diary on national TV, and staged an affair with Trent to drive a wedge between him and Gwen. Her comeuppance throughout the season was meant to elicit catharsis, not sympathy.
  • Blaineley, from World Tour, can be surmised as dishing dirt she can't take. In the Aftermath segments, she bullies eliminated contestants, relishes in exploiting the strained relationship between Geoff and Bridgette, and even throws a temper tantrum when the two reconcile. Dissatisfied with the lack of drama between the couple, Blaineley sends Bridgette to Siberia, putting her life at risk. Geoff to get revenge on Blaineley with a Villain Sucks Song, then tricks her into becoming a latecomer contestant. Even during her time as a contestant, Blaineley demands to be pampered, cheats in challenges, and transparently plays to the cameras to appear more likeable than she really is. Even when she's severely injured post-season, everyone just laughs at her expense.
  • Staci's only purpose is to be the first eliminated in Revenge of the Island. She accomplishes this by being extremely annoying to the rest of the contestants, lying non-stop about inventions her ancestors are supposedly responsible for.
  • Scott is the villain of Revenge of the Island, throwing several challenges, framing Nice Guys B and Dawn for sabotage and theft, respectively. Come merge, he selfishly takes advantage of Mike's multiple personality disorder to blackmail him into helping him win challenges, not even letting him safe Zoey from a fall, bullies Mike for said disorder, and votes him out after the challenge, just because he could. These heinous acts cause most of the campers to spite him and not show any sympathy to him when they find out that he got mauled by Fang after getting eliminated. That being said, his All-Stars incarnation downplays his mean streak and even gives him some sympathetic traits.
  • All-Stars gives us Mike's fifth personality, Mal, who unlike most villains has not a shred of humanity that can be uncovered and is played dead serious. He's a sociopath who has made several murder attempts on other contestants, goes out of his way to ruin the lives of others, and breaks their spirits for no reason other than For the Evulz. He's so heinous that even other villains are appalled by or terrified of him, including Chris, and ultimately no character has even the slightest sympathy towards him.
    Alejandro: Mal doesn't belong in juvie. HE BELONGS IN JAIL!!!
  • Amy doesn't do much other than bully her twin sister Samey, and she isn't exactly nice towards anyone else or helpful in the challenges either. As a result, she has little character beyond being an Alpha Bitch, and one who gets nowhere at that.
• Totally Spies!:
  • On top of being a murderous monster, Helga Von Guggen is also a greedy, self-centered hag with no likable qualities whatsoever, not even having cool points to save her.
  • Mandy Luxe is a selfish Spoiled Brat and an Alpha Bitch who causes trouble for the girls for the pettiest of reasons.
• Transformers: Animated:
  • Porter C. Powell becomes this starting from the beginning of Season 2. He is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who kicks Sari Sumdac out of her home once he finds no legal proof of her existence or that she's Issac Sumdac's daughter and takes control of her father's company, all the while smugly rubbing it in her face. He's willing to use his connections and any legal loophole to get what could make him the most money, from hiring Henry Masterson (a man who invents war robots, something that goes against Issac Sumdac's policies, and also held the city of Detroit hostage) to ensuring he doesn't get arrested. Every humiliating and bad thing that happens to him is satisfying and well-deserved.
• Transformers: Prime:
  • Vince is a schoolyard bully who exists only to be loathed. He always picks on Jack any time he shows up and insults him on regular basis, and when Jack saves him from getting kidnapped, the only nice thing he got to say about him is a backhanded compliment about his car (who's actually Bumblebee). Not even Arcee and Bumblebee can stand him, as the former decides to agree to his challenge when he insults her motorcycle form, and Bumblebee blows dust at him for the aforementioned backhanded compliment. When he reappears in "Legacy", he throws a burger at Jack driving Smokescreen's vehicle mode just because he can (only to get his car covered in fast food later).
  • Airachnid is psychotic and smug monster that commits genocide for ''fun''. Though nobody in the Decepticons is exactly "good", Airachnid is the worst of them all, being a sadistic bully who freaks out even her colleagues.
• Velma:
  • Judging by the way Sheriff Cogburn is written and being unpleasant in his actions, he can be a character designed for audiences to dislike but ends up on the opposite way with the audience reaction with him being against whom his victim is, even if said victim is an underaged girl.
  • The Killer's abusive nature to Fred and killing innocent girls to have one of their brains replace his out of selfish intentions shows how she is a character meant to be hated.
• Villainous: Inverted. There is literally nothing remotely good in Black Hat, as far as we've seen. He's nailed down kicking dogs and generally being unpleasant to an art form. However, how he carries himself due to how powerful and impressive he is, along with being a Villain Protagonist, means the audience can't help but like how inexplicably awesome he is.
• Sky Marshall Wade from Voltron Force. He is a corrupt and self-righteous military commander and war profiteer who causes more trouble than the real big bad King Zarkon. The main characters spend more time fighting against Wade's oppressive rule, and he does almost everything on the Evil Overlord List
• X-Men: The Animated Series:
  • Graydon Creed in the second season. Mainly due to the actual Big Bad Mr. Sinister spending most of the season plotting from the Savage Lands and barely interacting with the characters until the season finale. Being the leader of the anti-mutant hate group 'Friends of Humanity', Creed is one of the most evil and vile villains in the entire show. He claims to be defending humanity by attacking any mutants he sees (even if it means attacking mutant-friendly places run by regular humans), attempts to murder Jubilee, attempts to murder every mutant on Earth with the Legacy Virus, attacks a hospital Beast is working at and kidnaps and attempts to murder his patient just to spite him (even after he saved his life from an exploding building) and is a coward to boot.
  • There is nothing remotely likable about Henry Peter Gyrich. Somehow worse than his comic counterpart, Gyrich is a smug, self-righteous, bigoted zealot who will do anything to oppress mutants.
  • Fabian Cortez from "Sanctuary" and "The Four Horsemen". Despite claiming to be a rebel against humanity's oppression of mutants, he is anything but, when he backstabs Magneto and the X-Men on Asteroid M, and attempting to use all of its missiles, which were almost enough to wipe out all of humanity on Earth. He gets even worse in his next appearance, attempting to kidnap young girls to use as a vessel for Apocalypse, which, if he brought him back, would kill everyone on Earth, mutants included, making his initial claim even less valid.
• X-Men: Evolution: Duncan Matthews starts out as an unpleasant bully and rival to Cyclops, but once Scott and his friends are discovered to be mutants, he grows really unpleasant, calling Jean's abilities a "condition" while hitting on her, and relentlessly antagonizing the other mutants at his school, hoping to goad them into misusing their powers. The final season has him really go off the deep end when he and several accomplices start hunting for mutants to kill, even trying to murder children like Leech.
• Young Justice (2010):
  • Crusher is a self-interested thug, sociopath, abusive parent, and all-around jerkass. Even when he gets the chance to express some humanity after Artemis's faked death at Aqualad's hands, he's more upset that the apparent loss of his daughter was at the hands of another member of the Light and how it harms his reputation.
  • From giving the Justice League bad publicity to the annoying voice and being a huge Jerkass, there's not much to like G. Gordon Godfrey / Glorious Godfrey. Hell, his one moment of awesome turns out to be part of Darkseid's plan.
  • Ma'alefa'ak (aka M'comm M'orzz) is a slightly downplayed example, given the racism he endured in his youth. However, he provides no shortage of loathsome actions, murdering two teenage mutants brainwashed into working for him just to hurt Miss Martian, trying to murder all other races on Mars with a bioweapon (shrugging off the risk of hurting mixed-race White Martians like his siblings), and assisting Darkseid in inciting wars and snuffing out dissent against his reign. After Connor seemingly dies, M'comm insults him to M'gann's face, despite their shared background as outsiders. In spite of undergoing discrimination and abandonment, M'comm is a petty, vindictive, genocidal maniac who is little better than those who persecuted him, blaming everyone for his actions but himself.
  • Stands out as one of the vilest and most repulsive villains in the series. Not only is Baron Bedlam behind the metahuman trafficking of children, he has his own sister and brother-in-law murdered, and their children turned into metahumans.
  • Mayor Thomas Tompkins is a jerkass that tries to get a bunch of superhero teens and his daughter's groupies arrested for stopping a supervillain for a petty reason. Aquaman and the Outsiders have no patience for him and put him in his place when he tries to stop them from doing their jobs.
• Zak Storm: Recurring enemy Flint is loathed by everyone in The Bermuda Triangle. Heroes, villains and non-aligned characters alike consider him a crook and have nothing but contempt for him.

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