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Films — Animation

  • Animal Crackers (2017): The villain, Horatio P. Huntington, and his circus performers are disliked by everyone in general. None of the citizens are interested in watching Horatio's circus perform. Horatio's circus also has a bad reputation with the performers at Bob's circus, as they react with fear and uncertainty whenever Horatio and his goons (but especially Horatio) arrive at the circus.
  • The Christmas Light: Burton is hated by the other workers in Santa's shop, including Santa himself, for being an Insufferable Genius. When he falls into his own invention and becomes an evil snowman monster, his plan is to ruin Christmas and get revenge on all of them.
  • Eight Crazy Nights: Davey Stone's drunken antics and criminal record have earned him the hatred and disgust of virtually everyone in Dukesberry. When he's about to be arrested during the awards ceremony, everyone in the room is delighted to see him get carted off to prison.
  • Frozen (2013): After he exposes himself as the villain, Prince Hans is viewed with disdain anytime he's mentioned in the franchise, partly because he faked his romance with Anna and tried to kill Elsa so he can seize control of Arendelle. When he's punched off the boat by Anna, the dignitaries clap at the sight when they realized the two-timing man he turned out to be.
    • In Frozen Fever, his trademark white suit is dirty, having been condemned to do physical labor back home. Suddenly, he gets pummeled into a wagon full of literal Road Apples by a giant snowball accidentally launched by a sick Elsa. The nearby horses even laugh at his misfortune. The Frozen Ever After attraction at the Epcot theme park revealed that people in the Southern Isles found it funny when he was knocked into the wagon.
    • In Frozen II, he's the butt of jokes during a game of charades the heroes play, and Elsa even destroys an ice statue of him.
    • In spin-offs, the heroes voice their contempt for him. In Frozen II: A Forest of Shadows, Anna thinks of him as "villainous" and "evil", and in The Secret Admirer, he is the only person Olaf does not like.
    • He isn't even safe in other Disney films, as shown in Big Hero 6 when a statue of him is promptly destroyed by Baymax.
    • In Kingdom Hearts III, despite not knowing who he is, Sora immediately became suspicious of Hans due to being able to detect a great amount of darkness within him. Said evil is what led him to become a Savage Wolf Heartless that attempted to drown the world in darkness.
  • Hercules: The moment he makes his "hunk of moussaka stuck in [his] throat" joke, Hades kills the party atmosphere in his Establishing Character Moment by getting silent stares of contempt from his fellow Olympians, who are unhappy to see him. This is done to show how out-of-touch he is with his fellow gods. It's implied he's despised for the cruel way he treats mortal souls for his sick amusement as Lord of the Underworld. When Zeus makes a similar pun about his workaholicism, the entire pantheon bursts open in laughter, causing Hades to storm off. Pain and Panic also have no love for him, given that he's a Bad Boss.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Judge Claude Frollo is reviled by just about everyone in Paris for his Holier Than Thou Knight Templar attitude, but everyone is too afraid to stand up or speak out against him. Of course, after he goes on a rampage through the city, burning most of it down in search of Esmeralda, they all get sick of it; they all protest his attempt to burn Esmeralda at the stake, and when he attacks Notre Dame itself in pursuit of Quasimodo, Phoebus is able to rally the citizens against him.
  • The LEGO Ninjago Movie: With the exception of the Secret Ninja Force (Kai, Nya, Jay, Zane, and Cole) and his mother, Lloyd is widely hated just for being Garmadon's son. When he enters the school bus, everyone immediately moves to the other side of the bus, which makes the bus tip over on one side. The cheerleaders' song "Boo Lloyd" also becomes very popular in town.
  • The Lion King (1994): After he took over the Pride Lands, Scar is such an unpopular ruler that even the land itself seems to hate him, becoming Mordor due to his slackness. Even the hyena lackeys who helped him come to power came to realize that his brother Mufasa was a way better ruler. That Scar gets irritated whenever he's criticized about his rule speaks volumes. Yet no one tried overthrowing the guy until Simba returns from exile to take him down. Nobody felt sorry for Scar when the hyenas maul him to death after they overheard his plot to betray them. Once Simba takes over, Pride Rock becomes the Ghibli Hills it once was.
  • Melody Time: Little Toot from his self-titled segment gets this treatment when he inadvertently causes an ocean liner to crash into a city and is banished beyond the 12-mile limit. Even light from a lighthouse bends to avoid touching him!
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: Even though Sunset Shimmer has become a better person, almost no one in school has forgiven her, with the exception of the Rainbooms. Even then, they still have their share of friction with her.
  • Robin Hood (1973):
    • The Sheriff of Nottingham, thanks to his gleeful enjoyment of his work as a tax collector, is loathed by all of the townsfolk in Nottingham; so much so that every one of his shots on the archery tournament is met with boos and jeers.
    • Prince John, a whiny, greedy cowardly tyrant who, along with Sir Hiss, hypnotized King Richard into going on a crusade so that he may take the crown for himself. No one in Nottingham likes or respects him, not even his servants. Hiss mostly just goes along with him out of fear and both he and the sheriff mock the Prince behind his back.
  • Toy Story 3: Everyone in-universe either fears or hates Lotso. His followers abandon him after his treatment of Big Baby gets revealed, and the protagonists deem him Beyond Redemption after he leaves them for dead in the incinerator despite them risking their own lives to save him about a minute beforehand. Even before his subordinates pulled a Heel–Face Turn, Bonnie's toys and the Chatter Telephone were visibly wary of Sunnyside, and the Bookworm knew Andy's toys were escaping the daycare center but just didn't care.
  • Wreck-It Ralph:
    • Ralph suffers from this because he's an '80s video game villain. What makes this worse is that his working buddy (and the title star of the game) Fix-It Felix, Jr. is loved by everyone and the Nicelanders use it to shun and ridicule Ralph. In fact, this is what forces Ralph to start the main plot: he's tired of being ostracized.
    • All the Sugar Rush racers look down on Vanellope for being a glitch due to King Candy altering their memories. They accept her once their memories are restored.
    • Played for Laughs with the Surge Protector when he implies that he isn't well-liked by most people:
      Surge Protector: Anything to declare?
      Ralph: I hate you.
      Surge Protector: I get that a lot. Proceed.

Films — Live-Action

  • The A-Team: Agent Lynch, CIA. Even his own partners in crime hold him in extreme contempt as an inept administrator with delusions of adequacy who has no idea what he's doing in the field, and depending on how you interpret the final scene, his CIA superiors may be taking him away to be executed for his repeated failures and embarrassments. (The CIA itself comes in for this treatment as well: several Army officers recall previous interactions with people wearing the "Agent Lynch" identity, none of which left them impressed, and if Hannibal's right, the Agency leaders themselves are all in on Lynch's plan to get rich from counterfeit money).
    • Brock Pike, the Black Forest mercenary, is a runner-up. Even more than with Lynch, Hannibal can't even bother to pretend to respect him, calling him "a thug," "a cartoon character," and his team "assassins in polo shirts"; Morrison (despite being his partner in crime) just laughs along with Hannibal's insults; and any goodwill he might have gotten from Lynch died when he tried to double-cross him. He's still competent enough to talk Lynch into giving him a second chance, though.
  • In the Blade Trilogy, Deacon Frost is not well-liked by the vampire community, with the House of Erebus hating him. In fact, in the second film, when Damaskinos first meets Blade, he actually thanks Blade for killing Frost, saying he "did [him] a favor."
  • District 13: Taha Ben Mahmoud, the mob boss who rules the B13 district like a feudal overlord. The heroes and the ordinary residents hate his guts, but due to his Bad Boss tendencies, even his men live in terror of him. A couple of times in the movie, Leito is able to get him to do what he wants by reminding him that some of his underlings would probably be glad to take his place if given the chance. Sure enough, as soon as it's found that all his bank accounts have been drained by the French government, his men decide that there's no reason to keep him around anymore, and he dies in a hail of bullets.
  • The Expendables: James Munro, the Big Bad, and his ex-CIA partners. They're The Man Behind the Man controlling the dictator of a Banana Republic, using his island to grow narcotics that they then export to the United States and paying him off with a share of the profits. The problem is that they're such pathological assholes that they can't even pretend to show the dictator and his troops any respect, ultimately leading them to turn against Munro at the worst possible moment (the same night the Expendables attack the presidential palace they're all holed up in).
  • The Expendables 2: The Sangs, the East European crime syndicate and mercenary army led by Jean Vilain. They've angered the U.S. government by trying to traffic in nuclear material, angered the Expendables by killing their newest member, and the local population lives in terror of them after their many years of abuse and leaps at the chance to overthrow them. Possibly the best example, however, comes when the Expendables randomly run into Booker, another gun-for-hire, who's in the middle of his own killing spree against the Sangs (calling them "the lowest form of scum" and saying that killing them has been "good work.") It's never clear whether Booker's crusade against them is personally driven, whether he's being paid for it by another party with its own grudge against them, or whether he simply stumbled into the region and decided that they needed killing, but it illustrates how widely hated they are.
  • Halloween: Michael Myers is such a notorious serial killer, everyone in Haddonfield would often team up to try to stop his reign of terror regardless of whether they'd stand a chance against him.
  • In The Phantom of the Opera (1962), it's made incredibly clear that no one involved in the production of Lord Ambrose D'Arcy's opera likes him. They all can see him for the Jerkass he is but are afraid to stand up to him because of his power and influence.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Absolutely no one in the MCU seems to like Thaddeus Ross. From heroes like Captain America, to villains like the Abomination, and even his own daughter have voiced their hatred of him. That being said, his actions against Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk (2008), and the Avengers in both Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War make this trope one hundred percent justified. Special mention goes to how in Civil War, Rhodey, as a fellow military man, was respectful of Ross for his military achievements and supportive of the Sokovia Accords. By Infinity War, two years of working with the man have deeply soured Rhodey's outlook of both Ross personally and the Accords in general.
    • Downplayed with Thanos, he is hated and feared by most of the galaxy due to his reputation as a genocidal warmonger; going from planet to planet and halving the population of every world you visit in the name of a bizarre self-appointed mission to balance the universe is not a good way to make friends. That being said, he does have quite a number of underlings who are loyal to him — but even then, Thanos' status as a harsh taskmaster means even working for him is no guarantee. Loki only continues to serve him in The Avengers out of fear for what Thanos will do to him if he doesn't conquer Earth, while Ronan initially works for him in Guardians of the Galaxy, only to later turn on him because of Thanos' unfiltered contempt for him.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: No one likes Freddy Krueger, and quite justifiably so. He's a vile, sadistic child-killer and a Smug Super who relishes torturing his victims with grotesque nightmares before killing them. Freddy's own mother outright states his birth was a curse on all mankind. Even Jason Voorhees, a brutal Serial Killer himself, is rational enough to view Krueger as human garbage. In fact, Freddy is so awful he remains one of the only big name Slasher villains to never gain like-minded accomplices, nor inspire any loyalty, affection, or friendship, even temporarily.note 
  • Independence Day: Resurgence: It turns out that the wider galaxy (or what's left of it) shares the Earth's view of the Harvesters. Not surprisingly, since their MO of exterminating a planet's population, consuming all its resources, and then moving on is one they've followed on planet after planet for thousands of years. The film's Sequel Hook reveals that there's a planet where survivors of all the Harvesters' previous rampages are gathered and still trying to bring the war back to them.
  • Indiana Jones: It's a truism of this universe that nobody likes the Nazis. Indy "hates these guys," his father even more so, and all their friends feel the same way. However, the same is true of their supposed allies. René Belloq, the French mercenary they hire to find the Ark in the first movie, calls them "primitive" and "necessary evils." Walter Donovan, the American industrialist who allies with them in the third movie, thinks they're short-sighted fools for caring only about the glory of the Grail hunt and not the practical benefits of a cup that can grant immortality. And Elsa Schneider, an Austrian archaeologist who works for them, is mortally insulted at Indy thinking she's no different from them. Slightly deconstructed, however, in that just because everybody holds them in such contempt doesn't mean they're going to do anything to stop them: Belloq, Donovan, and Schneider are all perfectly happy to take their money.
  • It's a Wonderful Life: For trying to squeeze them dry, no one in Bedford Falls likes Tyrannical Town Tycoon Henry Potter, who is a Morally Bankrupt Banker — he even flat-out says this at one point and admits that he Hates Everyone Equally. In fact, he was outvoted by the Building and Loan's board when he attempted to dissolve the bank. Only George Bailey keeps him at bay. When George wishes he was never born, he is transported to a reality where Potter took over Bedford Falls and renamed it Pottersville, a Wretched Hive full of sin and debauchery. Potter stands out as one of film history's most infamous misers, especially when he stole $8,000 from the B&L and tried framing George over it. Seriously, does this jackass who views others "worth more dead than alive" care about anybody?
  • Jingle All the Way gives us Booster, the furry animal sidekick to Turbo Man and an in-universe Scrappy. Whereas Turbo Man dolls are ridiculously hard to find, every toy store seen has an abundance of Booster dolls that no one wants. A crowd even reacts angrily when a store manager proclaims how many Booster dolls they have in stock. Near the end of the movie, Myron says "No one likes you, Booster!" when he shoves the actor playing the character off the parade float. He's then beaten up by a crowd of kids all proclaiming how much they hate Booster. He overall seems to be Take That! to useless sidekick characters shoved into TV shows for the sake of appealing to kids and selling more merchandise, as what's seen of Booster from the Turbo Man show demonstrates how badly he clashes with the aesthetic and brings nothing to the plot.
  • No One Will Save You: At first it seems like Brynn is a socially awkward recluse with some rude neighbors. But by the time she runs to town and marches down the main street, it becomes clear by the surprised and disgusted reactions of random passersby that she's specifically known and hated by everyone in town. The specific reason why is ultimately revealed in the final act.
  • Not Okay: Danni, to the n-th degree, after her lies are revealed. Because she not only lied about surviving a terrorist attack, but also wrote about her "experience" online and went to a support group for people who were real survivors, all for attention, she winds up becoming one of the most hated people in the country (and possibly even the world)note .
  • Bill Lumbergh from Office Space is held in contempt by pretty much everyone who works for him, since he's a petty, passive-aggressive Pointy-Haired Boss; Peter described him as "all that is soulless and wrong". It's no surprise that the consultants he brought in begin to question his management track record, while his employees embezzle from the company and another (who he'd bullied for no apparent reason) ends up burning the office to the ground.
  • Maureen Prescott of Scream is a posthumous example which is Played for Drama as more is revealed about her past. A year after her murder the people of Woodsboro remember her as a homewrecker who "slept around like she was Sharon Stone" due to cheating on her husband with Billy Loomis's father and Cotton Weary. It's revealed she was murdered by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher because Maureen's affair with Billy's dad drove his mother away and broke up their family. When Nancy Loomis tries to kill Maureen's daughter Sidney to avenge her son's death, Mrs. Loomis blames Maureen for breaking up her family. The third movie then reveals Maureen's death was orchestrated by Roman Bridger, the Child by Rape she gave up after she was sexually assaulted by director John Milton years prior. After Roman found Maureen but she rejected him, he manipulated Billy and Stu into killing her. The only people who still care about Maureen are her daughter and husband despite her actions, with the movies showing she was ultimately a flawed woman who made a lot of mistakes but did not deserve to be killed so violently nor to be hated so much by the world.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Robotnik is despised by almost everyone except for Agent Stone. And given he's a rude, obnoxious Mad Scientist with no scruples, it's not hard to see why. The government only hires him because he's just that good in spite of how much of a jerk he is, and only brings him in to capture Sonic once they realize they have no other choice. When Robotnik is banished to the Mushroom Planet, they're happy he's gone and immediately remove any trace of his existence.
  • The Dark Tribe leader from Tyranno's Claw, despite appearing as a high-ranking member of his clan, turns out to be hated by all his underlings. The moment he gets killed by the film's main lead, the rest of his clan cheers, and some of them even take turns kicking his body.
  • The Wizard of Oz: The Wicked Witch of the West. The second she died, her minions started cheering Dorothy for killing her because she was controlling them with magic.
    • One might also consider The Wicked Witch of the East. When the munchkins realized she was dead, they broke into song for a good long while (Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead).
  • World's Greatest Dad: Absolutely nobody likes Kyle. He is openly sexist, ableist, homophobic and disrespectful. He looks down on music, sports, and just about anything that doesn't involve sex. He has nothing remotely nice to say about his own father, the only person in town who cares for him despite being aware how awful he is. The only time people have anything nice to say about him is when Lance forges a suicide note to make him seem more troubled than he really was.

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