History Main / EnmityWithAnObject

* A non-fiction example from ''Ignition! An Informal History Of Liquid Rocket Propellants'', the memoirs of research chemist John Drury Clark. His experiences with UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers were frequently an exercise in frustration, leading to this memorable (and accurate) quote:

* In one gag of ''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'', [[AuthorAvatar Katie Tiedrich]] goes to Staples to buy... well, staples. But when she sees that all the boxes are labeled the same she leaves while angrily telling the boxes "You're jerks and imposters and ''I hate all of you!''"

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Charlie Brown and the Kite-Eating Tree.

* Anakin Skywalker expresses a distaste for sand in ''Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones''. This is likely due to growing up in slavery on the desert planet Tatooine, but he will NeverLiveItDown.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series:

* In ''Videogame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Sasha Nein has a deep hatred of Tiffany Lamps and uses them as target practice.It's implied that this is because since one was nearby when his mother passed he associated them with that memory.

-->-- '''Creator/OscarWilde'''[[note]] He lost. [[/note]]

Careful when your object is/turns out to be an AnimateInanimateObject - the object must not be sentient/sapient, or at least the person with the enmity must not know about it. Otherwise it doesn't fall here.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', a RunningGag is that everyone in the crew besides Rodimus despises the "Rodpod", a dropship modeled after [[{{Faceship}} Rodimus' head]]. When exploring the ancient remains of a titan, they intentionally leave it unlocked in the hopes that someone will come by and steal it. When they wind up going in a circle, Whirl yells "I blame the frigging Rodpod!" and starts beating it with a stick.

* As any pet owner can attest, animals, and dogs in particular, hate loud appliances. Even the most mellow puppy goes nuts when a vacuum cleaner is turned on. Cats, on the other paw, are much more inclined to run and hide from such racket.

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[[caption-width-right:335:Edward Elric: Picking fights with [[DoesNotLikeSpam milk]] since 2001.]]

'''Gumball:''' Uh... oh yeah. Well, sorry. It’s pretty stupid to take it out on an object. It's not like you did it on purpose.\\

'''Table:''' Uh... because -- it's because you’re always putting your feet on me!\\

** Peter Griffin really doesn’t seem to like the stairs of his house. Whenever he tries to walk down them, he will almost inevitably stumble all the way down, getting seriously injured in the process. Even when he’s as careful as possible, or strapping dozens of pillows onto his body, things always seem to head south whenever Peter goes down those stairs.

* Captain Fanzone of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' hates machines (sentient or otherwise) to the point of it being his CatchPhrase. This includes his cell phone which, for added effect, is so obsolete it has a rotary dial.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' takes this in a humorous direction when Al, the support ArtificialIntelligence in Sosuke's [[HumongousMecha ARX-8 Laevatein]], declares that BigBad Leonard Testarossa's mech the Belial is his ArchEnemy. Al constantly trash-talks it, including calling it a "cheating pile of junk" that can't even function without a Lambda Driver; while these descriptors could also apply to the Laevatein itself, Sosuke decides not to say this out loud.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Stewie Griffin and the toilet. Because it's funny when Stewie shows the ignorance of a real baby. Brian has a few bones to pick with it, too.

* Anakin Skywalker expresses a distaste for sand in ''Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones''. This is likely due to growing up on the desert planet Tatooine, but he will NeverLiveItDown.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', Ralsei reluctantly gives the ax-wielding Susie a WhatTheHellHero lecture about what kind of a hero she's being -- including not only being needlessly, counterproductively violent, in keeping with the well-established pacifistic themes, but having eaten an innocent man's cake. Susie has already asserted her opponents were ''enemies'' -- and, therefore, "FOR terrorizing" -- before here offering the rationale, "Cakes... are also my enemy." Ralsei gives her a deadpan DisapprovingLook. It's implied that this is because since one was nearby when his mother passed he associated them with that memory.

* In ''Videogame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Sasha Nein has a deep hatred of Tiffany Lamps and uses them as target practice.

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[[caption-width-right:335:Edward Elric: Picking fights with [[DoesNotLikeSpam milk]] since 2001.]]

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Mikoto Misaka has an enmity with a certain vending machine which once swallowed her 10,000 Yen (about $100) note. She often gets revenge on it by kicking or using her ShockAndAwe powers on it to induce it into giving free drinks.

* One panel of a ''[[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac Happy Noodle Boy]]'' comic has the titular character yelling at a toaster.
-->''You fucking toaster!! You're nothing! That's all you'll ever be! A toaster! Damn! I have no kiwis!!''

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield and RX-2, the talking scale.

* A running joke in ''Fanfic/AVoiceAmongTheStrangers'', where Jessica at various points swears vengeance against a tree (after bashing her already injured shoulder into it), stones on the path (which she has to walk on in bare feet), a staircase (again due to her bare feet) and her own brain (after she gets a headache from trying to rationalize the world around her).
* In ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' fanfiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5447380/1/Service_in_His_Shadow Service In His Shadow"]], Commissary Ariel Abel decides the recaff machine -nicknamed [[Literature/HorusHeresy 'Little Horus']] by the office staff because of being an irritating, treacherous thing- has to die:
-->I thought my day was just about hitting rock bottom when Adders' negotiations with Little Horus resulted in a stream of hot recaff nailing me square in the face.\\
"That does it!" I hollered, caring not for repercussions or potential hitting somebody hitting somebody with a ricochet. I drew my laspistol, shouted something about His divine wrath and blasted a hole straight through Little Horus, sending sprays of recaff in all directions.
* In ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'', Sasuke's eternal rival is The Log. Sasuke even notes how he keeps mistaking logs for people, causing him to mess up his aim. All because he hates the Log.

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Battle Creek'' (a.k.a. ''The Big Brawl''), Jerry maintains a venomous relationship with the practice dummy.

* In ''Film/OfficeSpace'', the main characters have a very antagonistic relationship with a fax/copy machine. They end up dragging into an abandoned field and executing it with a baseball bat.

* From ''If Chins Could Kill'', Creator/BruceCampbell's autobiography, "The Classic", Sam Raimi's 1973 Delta 88 Oldsmobile. Raimi in particular is convinced that Campbell is out to destroy it in jealousy.
* ''Literature/InDeath''. Eve Dallas has an irrational fear and hatred of all [[VengefulVendingMachine vending machines]]. If at all possible she refuses to use them directly, preferring to hand her money to someone else and have them buy the candy bar or whatever for her.

* On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Chief O'Brien hates the station's computer so much he calls it his archenemy. Eventually an alien A.I. makes a home in it that makes it better disposed to him.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' a big man in a tiny car gets pulled over for speeding and he beats up his car in retaliation, tearing it to pieces right there on the highway. His name in the credits is "car killer."
* The villain Annorax from the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' two-parter [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell "Year of Hell"]] considers ''time itself'' to be his archenemy. And no, it's not meant in a mundane way like worrying too much about punctuality or about one's age or something; he believes that space-time itself is determined to punish him for his multiple temporal incursions by repeatedly denying him his heart's desire to resurrect his wife. Tom Paris decides that he's a paranoid megalomaniac.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' had George express anger towards a watch with "I hate you, you time piece from Hades!"

* Granville and the cash-register in ''Series/OpenAllHours''. The spring is wound too tight and Arkwright is too cheap to fix it, but Granville is convinced it hungers for fingers. In ''Still Open All Hours'', he now believes it's haunted by Arkwright's ghost, and becomes particularly vicious if he thinks about spending money.

* In one episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', new neighbors move in, and each character gets their own arch nemesis from the group, with the exception of Hal, who loves his counterpart. Dewey's nemesis is a garden gnome.
* Liz Lemon spends an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' feuding with a plastic bag, which was hanging in a tree outside her new apartment.

* The ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' character Frederick is convinced that his then-boyfriend hated a duck ornament Frederick owned so much that he stole it from their shared apartment and threw it in the trash, going so far as to break up with the guy over it. The heroes play along with this belief to get Frederick to do something for them. [[spoiler:He's completely right. Holt did steal the "ugly and gross" duck and tipped it into a nearby river. If the flashback to the act is any indication, he did it with slow, deliberate relish.]]

* There's a gag in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' where a taxidermied squirrel that [[spoiler: John Marston gets in the epilogue that his wife Abigail]] hates gets put in increasingly well-hidden places in the house. The last place you find it is on the top of a rugged mountain the next state over.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', Ralsei reluctantly gives the ax-wielding Susie a WhatTheHellHero lecture about what kind of a hero she's being -- including not only being needlessly, counterproductively violent, in keeping with the well-established pacifistic themes, but having eaten an innocent man's cake. Susie has already asserted her opponents were ''enemies'' -- and, therefore, "FOR terrorizing" -- before here offering the rationale, "Cakes... are also my enemy." Ralsei gives her a deadpan DisapprovingLook.
* In ''Videogame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Sasha Nein has a deep hatred of Tiffany Lamps and uses them as target practice. It's implied that this is because since one was nearby when his mother passed he associated them with that memory.
* The Director in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is, essentially, a bunch of lines of code; it's the AI routine that determines what enemies you face and when. You will not find a single [=L4D=] player who does not bear a lifelong, burning-hot grudge against the Director.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' it's inverted: Saturn thinks that their moons (which are just completely normal rocks) hate ''them'', rather than them hating their moons.
* In one gag of ''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'', [[AuthorAvatar Katie Tiedrich]] goes to Staples to buy... well, staples. But when she sees that all the boxes are labeled the same she leaves while angrily telling the boxes "You're jerks and imposters and ''I hate all of you!''"

* ''LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}}'' with barrels, and to a lesser extent statues.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd will often holler and screech at whatever game is upsetting him this week, usually to highlight how pathetic the Nerd is for getting so mad at a simple video game.
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Vox Machina's enmity with doors became a RunningGag ever since a series of bad rolls resulted in a simple church door barred from the inside [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-T1xeEBqg requiring an over-complicated plan and three spells to open.]] And their luck didn't improve with any later doors.
* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'': The nighthawks in the episode "Perky's Buds" start a rivalry with a scarecrow, offended that it refuses to speak to them.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Mikoto Misaka has an enmity with a certain vending machine which once swallowed her 10,000 Yen (about $100) note. She often gets revenge on it by kicking or using her ShockAndAwe powers on it to induce it into giving free drinks.

* Anakin Skywalker expresses a distaste for sand in Film/AttackOfTheClones. He will NeverLiveItDown.
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