History Main / DoesNotLikeMen

* Played with Yanagin of ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''-- while she claims boys are pathetic puddles of mess, she can actually get along well with her male classmates as well as Karasawa, [[spoiler:not to mention that she was one of the kids assembled to fight the "Archdemon" with intent to avenge Karasawa's terrible wound.]]

* Sasha La Fleur from ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2''. In her entire introduction song "Count Me Out" is about how she's not interested in a relationship. Presumably, she dislikes most of the male dogs she's met because most of them are jerks. [[AntiHero Charlie]] is initially no exception, but she warms to him once his nobler qualities start to come on display.

** Rias' closest friend, Akeno, is a more straightforward example. [[spoiler:Her mother was killed by their clan for getting into a relationship with her Fallen Angel father; said clan continued to pursue Akeno until Rias took her in. Her father was absent at the time, so Akeno recalls the incident as him fleeing and leaving them to die]]. However, she's never displayed any hostility toward random men; her distaste manifests as a disinterest in romance ([[LesYay with men, anyway]]) and enjoying her job as a {{Dominatrix}} quite a lot. When Rias reminds her of her proclaimed misandry to [[ClingyJealousGirl make her stop flirting with Issei]] in a later volume, she replies that she finds Issei to be really [[SingleTargetSexuality cute,]] and also the one help her "understand" men, so it's possible that she got over it once her circumstances improved.

* Ayana Amamoto of ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect'' ''strongly'' dislikes men. She can't even look anyone other than a girl in the eye and believes all men are disgusting perverts, which is a belief she held for a very long time. [[spoiler:She became an idol singer with the help of her friend Himari to try and get over this (something she likens to shock therapy), but it instead became much, ''much'' worse after Himari was assaulted by a LoonyFan and DrivenToSuicide. Her dislike (and fear) of men got so bad that it's implied that her wish upon entering Mobius was not being able to see men at all, which is shattered when Stork appears before her.]] However, she also acknowledges that [[spoiler:this has led to a disconnect with her family, as she became fearful of even her own father who loved her unconditionally.]] Notably, she's the one character who interacts much differently with the player character, depending on whether you've picked a male or a female protagonist; she gets along much better with the female protagonist, and [[LesYay seems to even develop romantic feelings for her.]]

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* [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-054 054]] is a sentient humanoid mass of water that has a strong distrust of male personnel. This is because of excessive and painful experimentation which was performed almost entirely by male personnel.

* Mrs. Janet Barch in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' hated all men (including the male students, like Mack and Kevin, and especially the history teacher, Mr. [=DeMartino=]) thanks to an abusive marriage and the messy divorce that followed. Despite her misandry, she soon found a place in her heart (and in her pants) for Timothy O'Neill (the [[HippieTeacher shy, sensitive English teacher]]) and ropes him in a PitbullDatesPuppy relationship that [[spoiler:soon turned into Pitbull ''Marries'' Puppy as of the series finale movie, "Is It College Yet?"]].

** [[FieryRedhead Numbuh 86]] absolutely hates boys. Apparently she thinks that girls are much smarter than them, to the point that her favorite member of the Decommissioning Squad is Numbuh 91 because she's female. As time goes on, she seems to lessen this and is generally a bitch to both boys and girls equally. Amusingly, she also had PuppyLove with Numbuh Nineteenth-Century, who comes off as a bit of a StrawMisogynist after being unfrozen.
** Madame Margaret (or Margie) tried to turn all the boys on Earth into girls.

** A brief villainess, Aresia the Amazon, had a bitter grudge against men in general and was determined to purge the whole world of men. She managed to stir up a disease to kill every single male on the planet and she nearly succeeded, infecting the males of the Justice League and leaving Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl to deal with her. Even ''after'' she's told by the Amazon queen that, after the boat she was on was destroyed, the ship's captain found her clinging to the wreckage and [[HeroicSacrifice swam her to the nearest island, then died of a heart attack]]. Sadly, she wasn't told this... the queen didn't feel it was important. Of course, this only causes Aresia to change her view from "all men are evil" to "all men are evil except him" and she goes right back to trying to wipe them out.
** Wonder Woman herself seems to have a rather low opinion of the average man in general. Keyword being average. The many, many male heroes of the League have her undying respect and friendship for showing her the nobility and strength males can have first hand. Even the Flash's antics are met from her with amused exasperation at best. She's also receptive to males who are shown to be polite, and even competent villains like Lex Luthor are treated as worthy foes. However, show her a thuggish goon or an otherwise rude and disrespectful male, and the "Stupid man" comments will begin. This attitude lessens after the first season though, especially after her having run into many females who are essentially the same. [[spoiler:It particularly irks Diana that Hawkgirl (the only other female League member at the time) ends up being a traitor]].
** This extends to a lesser extent to the other Amazons. They still are very anti-man but respect and honor the males of the Justice League. Showing the dichotomy is the aspect of the dying ship captain mentioned in Aresia's backstory. The Amazons honored the man's sacrifice and buried his body nobly, but didn't think the death was important enough to mention to Aresia. At the end of the episode, Hawkgirl [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls them out on it]] and points out that Aresia's actions were due 100% to the way the Amazons had raised her- placing all the blame for what happened to her on men and not thinking that it was important to even bother telling her that a man had sacrificed his own life to save hers. And then after nurturing her hate while she was growing up, they trained her to be a warrior and gave her super strength, with obvious results.
* Used by ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' to describe Sappho (whom The World's Oldest Woman described as being "not into men"... by which we mean lesbian). Pretty much typical for the series.
%%* Sassie the Puma from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
* This is a fairly common aspect of the characterization of the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse's'' Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy. It's particularly visible during her [[LesYay ... team-up]] with Harley Quinn.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': The show downplays this side of Poison Ivy, instead focusing more on her general misanthropy. Instead, Harley picks up this trait. While Harley is comfortable with employing men and working with them, her prejudice acts up when she sees men in relationships. Between her deadbeat dad and her abusive relationship with Joker, she tends to immediately assumes the worst of any guy in a relationship.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', we have [[HideYourLesbians Kitty]] and [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Bunny]]. They don't explicitly hate men, per se, but they do hate dogs, which leads to subtle hints at a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bigger picture]].
* Saranoia from ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' is very openly man-hating, her FreudianExcuse being that she grew up being TheUnfavorite to her brother Mark. She goes out of her way to be nice to Yin and try to become her friend while trying to kill Yang. She also has a habit of calling Yang "Mark".
* Betsey Trotwood in ''WesternAnimation/DavidCopperfield1993'', an exaggeration of her literary counterpart's disappointment over David being a boy, and distrust of ''some'' men following her unhappy marriage.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In the episode "Equal Fights", a minor villainess and StrawFeminist named FemmeFatale hates men so much that she only steals [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar Susan B. Anthony coins]]. She drives the [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Powerpuff]] [[BeautyBrainsAndBrawn Girls]] to temporarily hate males as well so she can get off scot-free, until Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane help them see the error of their ways.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': VillainOfTheWeek Viola Vanderfleet is a WomanScorned. She's been dumped so many times, she now thinks of all men as heartbreakers and seeks to ''destroy the entire planet's male population''.

** [[FieryRedhead Numbuh 86]] absolutely hates boys. Apparently she thinks that girls are much smarter than them, to the point that her favorite member of the Decommissioning Squad is Numbuh 91 because she's female. As time goes on, she seems to lessen this and is generally a bitch to both boys and girls equally. Amusingly, she also had a ToyShip with Numbuh Nineteenth-Century, who comes off as a bit of a StrawMisogynist after being unfrozen.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' has an obscure, all-female villain team called the Rainbow Squad. The group learns that, since Captain Marvel is [[OlderAlterEgo actually a young boy]], they can [[GirlsHaveCooties make him flee in terror]] by running up to him and acting kissy. One rather [[ButchLesbian butch]] member refuses, however, and [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay repeatedly mentions how much she hates guys]] without [[AmbiguouslyGay confirming anything else]].

* An obscure Franchise/{{Batman}} villain named Water Lily was a [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] StrawFeminist with a [[EvilGenius genius-level of intellect]]. She captured Batman and Robin and tried to kill them because she saw them as figures of male supremacy.

* Man-Killer from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Has no problems working with men who don't lie to her, but she still doesn't ''like'' them. One notable exception: she once took a job tending bar in an establishment frequented by [[ComicBook/ThunderBolts Erik Josten]], and seemed to enjoy talking with him during his visits.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'' has an obscure, all-female villain team called the Rainbow Squad. The group learns that, since Captain Marvel is [[OlderAlterEgo actually a young boy]], they can [[GirlsHaveCooties make him flee in terror]] by running up to him and acting kissy. One rather [[ButchLesbian butch]] member refuses, however, and [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay repeatedly mentions how much she hates guys]] without [[AmbiguouslyGay confirming anything else]].

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': Saint Denis's Suffragette, Dorothea Wicklow. As she says:

* Near the beginning of ''WebComic/{{Avalon}}'', Joe tells Ceilidh that the unrepentantly anti-male Phoebe "really hates guys." Ceilidh shrugs this off until he follows up that she "really likes girls," which sets off an "[[MistakenForGay is she or isn't she]]" subplot that lasts throughout. ([[spoiler:Not only is she, she's the one who gets Ceilidh.]])

As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character Does Not Like Men can and does vary, from simple nervous avoidance to violent retaliation. However, this is a separate trope rather than a simple [[GenderInvertedTrope gender inversion]] of StrawMisogynist or HeManWomanHater, [[DoubleStandard as there is almost always an explanation given for why the character feels this way]], rather than it being depicted as an inherent character flaw in the way that men who dislike women are usually written. Often, the misandrist in question is a sympathetic protagonist or major character, and the author has her hatred [[TragicBigot come from a bad experience]] and vilifies whatever man or men drove her to hate the rest of the gender, whereas misogynists are typically one-dimensional ''antagonists'' who hate women for no real reason, making this trope more often than not tie into FemalesAreMoreInnocent. This mentality exists because there is a long history of women being viewed as second-class citizens throughout many cultures in RealLife, even though men can suffer [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale systemic]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale issues]] with mistreatment by women as well. This trope also frequently ties into WomenAreWiser, due to the fact that in many cultures women are frequently seen as being in the right by default, meaning if a woman is a misandrist, she must have a good reason for her views.

As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character Does Not Like Men can and does vary, from simple nervous avoidance to violent retaliation. However, this is a separate trope rather than a simple [[GenderInvertedTrope gender inversion]] of StrawMisogynist or HeManWomanHater, [[DoubleStandard as there is almost always an explanation given for why the character feels this way]], rather than it being depicted as an inherent character flaw in the way that men who dislike women are usually written. Often, the misandrist in question is a sympathetic protagonist or major character, and the author has her hatred [[TragicBigot come from a bad experience]] and vilifies whatever man or men drove her to hate the rest of the gender, whereas misogynists are typically one-dimensional ''antagonists'' who hate women for no real reason, making this trope more often than not tie into FemalesAreMoreInnocent. This mentality exists because there is a long history of women being viewed as second-class citizens throughout many cultures in RealLife, even though men can suffer [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale systemic]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale issues]] with mistreatment by women as well.

''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': A ghost at the Roxy theatre was [[RunawayGroom abandoned by her beau]] and takes out her rage on the men who work there. This harassment ranges from whispering insults in the projectionist's ear to causing the head chef to be stabbed in the hand.[[spoiler: She also channels a more powerful force to curse womanizers and pick-up artists into becoming vampires.]]

* This is the general attitude of the inhabitants of the alternate reality Femizonia in the MarvelUniverse.

* Monica from ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' used to be this in [[CharacterizationMarchesOn early strips]], to the point where one in particular comic had the punchline of her normally ''male'' stuffed rabbit suddendly [[GenderBender changing gender]][[note]] Which are simply [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics longer eyelashes]] [[/note]] just to emphasize how much she hated men (more specifially, the ones that were close to her age, like [[WithFriendsLikeThese Jimmy Five]]).

As with all dislike tropes, the degree to which a particular character Does Not Like Men can and does vary, from simple nervous avoidance to violent retaliation. However, this is a separate trope rather than a simple [[GenderInvertedTrope gender inversion]] of StrawMisogynist or HeManWomanHater, [[DoubleStandard as there is almost always an explanation given for why the character feels this way]], rather than it being depicted as an inherent character flaw in the way that men who dislike women are usually written. Often, the misandrist in question is a sympathetic protagonist or major character, and the author has her hatred [[TragicBigot come from a bad experience]] and vilifies whatever man or men drove her to hate the rest of the gender, whereas misogynists are typically one-dimensional ''antagonists'' who hate women for no real reason, making this trope more often than not tie into FemalesAreMoreInnocent. This mentality exists because there is a long history of women being viewed as second-class citizens throughout many cultures in RealLife.

* This is a fairly common aspect of the characterization of the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'s'' Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy. It's particularly visible during her [[LesYay ... team-up]] with Harley Quinn.

* ''LightNovel/KamikazeGirls''. In the book and the movie, both Ichiko and Momoko have discomfort around men in varying quantities. Momoko doesn't like talking to, interacting with, or being friendly with men that are either familiar or unfamiliar to her. [[spoiler:The sole exception of her androphobia is Akinori Isobe of her beloved Baby, The Stars Shine Bright.]]For the most part, she considers them disgusting. Ichiko doesn't appear to have a problem interacting with them (albeit in an often hostile manner), but she hates being touched by them. She even freaks out when Ryuji touches her hand to show her how to properly play pachinko.

* [[BrokenBird Angel]], the heroine of ''Literature/RedeemingLove'', really hates them. {{justified}} since the only men she knew well [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] her, [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] her, and [[SexSlave sold her into prostitution]], and almost every man she’s met since has only objectified her. In one of her encounters with the hero, she also comments that she’s always found men’s bodies “ugly”—again {{justified}} by the fact that pretty much every male body she’s ever seen up close has been in the process of effectually raping her. Fortunately, the novel’s premise is ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]) LoveRedeems, and the hero is the model of chivalry.

* [[EvilDiva Miku Izayoi]] from ''Literature/DateALive'' is a [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Spirit]] with a low opinion of humanity in general, but can at least put on a sweet facade in front of other girls who she really just views as servants to her CompellingVoice. Her hatred toward males is much more overt, to the point that she attacked the protagonist Shido for trying to talk to her and he had to [[DraggedIntoDrag cross-dress]] to get close to her at her all-girls school. She does have a FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:she was once an ordinary human IdolSinger whose manager suggested that she [[SexForServices “get to know”]] a TV producer interested in putting her in a show. When she turned him down, he retaliated by posting several defamatory stories about her (including multiple boyfriends, abortions, and drug parties), which her 90% male fan base unhesitatingly bought into. She tried to win back her audience with another show, only to find that she’d lost her voice from all the stress. On the verge of suicide from losing everything, she was given a Sephira Crystal focused on [[MagicMusic sound]] which restored her voice, but her attitude toward humans (especially men) was set in stone.]] After being saved by Shido, she falls in love with him and even starts calling him “Darling”, while gradually learning to at least stay friendly to male fans on a surface level.
* Mayu Tsukimura from ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' suffers from androphobia due to her uncontrollable ability as a Succubus to attract the opposite sex. However, her androphobia does not act up when it comes to the protagonist Shungo Ninomiya.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': The Red Ajah Aes Sedai have a strong dislike of men, particularly those able to channel, denouncing them as using the One Power when Nature wished otherwise in their view.

* Hippolyta from ''Series/WonderWoman''. She named the island "Paradise" specifically because there were no men.

* Satellizer el Bridget, the ActionGirl protagonist of ''Manga/{{Freezing}}''. Well, {{downplayed|Trope}} a bit. She's NotGoodWithPeople generally, but she has a real dislike for men especially. She has quite the FreudianExcuse, though: [[spoiler:she was horribly mistreated and possibly raped by her half-brother Louis, and everyone else treats her like a psychopathic monster, so it's no wonder she thinks the way she does]].