History Main / IrrationalHatred

** Vathek has this for Jade/Kage, refusing to see her as anything other than a monster created by Phobos, ignoring evidence to the contrary and insulting her immediately and repeatedly when seeing her again. The story's authors have addressed this, pointing out that he's blinded by his hatred of Phobos and belief in allies like "the Mage", and as such will not readily stop believing the story that she's a monster Phobos created, which makes her an easy target for his anger.
*** However, by the next chapter after this encounter, Vathek has had time to think over everything that was said without the heat of the moment, and has seemingly let go of his hate of Kage -- while he still fears her, it's implied that he does feel guilty and he's willing to acknowledge she was telling the truth.

* Vento of the Front in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' despises the Science Side of the world because she and her brother were critically injured in a ride that claimed to be scientifically proven safe and doctors were able to save only one of them.
* At least two groups in ''LightNovel/CheatMagicianLifeThatStartedFromBeingJudgedUseless'' hate the protagonist Kento for very irrational reasons.

* Hana Kimura had an eery case of this with Mayu Iwatani in World Wonder Ring STARDOM. While unprovoked cruelty was a calling card of Oedo~tai, the PowerStable Kimura was a part of, she took it a step further by masterminding several attempts to abduct Iwatani and even interrupted a match with an attempted public execution by directing other Oedo~tai members to bring the STARDOM stage down on Iwatani's head.

** Caleb also has this for Kage. He refuses to believe that she's not Phobos' minion or that she's telling the truth about "the Mage" (even when presented with the comatose Nerissa), even going so far as to abandon the Guards during the attack on the castle because some of them questioned the likelihood of her connection to Phobos, and making it clear that he intends to execute her if he gets the chance. The authors have explained in the reviews that after spending practically all of his short life fighting a war to bring down a tyrant, accepting that all the losses and sacrifices of his comrades and himself were all part of ''another'' villain's masterplan is simply too much for him, so he resorts to TheoryTunnelVision to [[IRejectYourReality hold on to the reality he has always taken for granted]].

* [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-584 RPC-584 - The Star, The Hateful]] from the ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'' hates humans, all of them no exception, so much so it wants to make us go exctinct. The reason for this? As far as anyone can tell, there isn't any.

** Caleb also has this for Kage. He refuses to believe that she's not Phobos' minion or that she's telling the truth about "the Mage" (even when presented with the comatose Nerissa), even going so far as to abandon the Guards during the attack on the castle because some of them questioned the likelihood of her connection to Phobos, and making it clear that he intends to execute her if he gets the chance.

** Caleb also has this for Kage. He refuses to believe that she's not Phobos' minion or that she's telling the truth about "the Mage" (even when presented with the comatose Nerissa), even going so far as to abandon the Guards during the attack on the castle because some of them questioned the likelihood of her connection to Phobos.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'', [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] pretends to completely hate and mistrust [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] regardless of evidence and the opinions of those who know her better as part of one of [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce]]'s gambits.

* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', [[HateSink Rachel]] is the [[ObnoxiousInLaws hateful sister-in-law]] of Sheriff Tom Wachowski, who constantly tells her sister to divorce him (and this is ''before'' Tom becomes a wanted fugitive by the government because he's helping Sonic). Not only is she crazy and hateful enough to [[EstablishingCharacterMoment tell her sister to divorce Tom right after a casual (as in the "hi, honey, I am driving and wanted to say 'I love you'" kind) call]], the specific reason she hates Tom so much is never mentioned at all. She gets better in the sequel tho.

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': Vathek has this for Jade/Kage, refusing to see her as anything other than a monster created by Phobos, ignoring evidence to the contrary and insulting her immediately and repeatedly when seeing her again. The story's authors have addressed this, pointing out that he's blinded by his hatred of Phobos and belief in allies like "the Mage", and as such will not readily stop believing the story that she's a monster Phobos created, which makes her an easy target for his anger.

* ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'': Juzo Sakakura has an extreme hatred of [[AllLovingHero Makoto]] for being hailed as a hero despite all the lives his decisions have cost... and despite Makoto himself doing his level best to save everyone. [[spoiler: He's actually jealous of Makoto, because while both of them had opportunities to stop Junko (Makoto during the first game and Juzo when he discovers her connection to the riots in ''Side: Despair''), Makoto actually went through with it while Juzo folded under Junko's blackmail.]]

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': Tony Stark/Iron Man has a bout of this against [[spoiler: Bucky, when he learned that [=HYDRA=] used a brainwashed Bucky to kill his parents, resulting in him attacking Bucky with intent to kill and causing the final split between him and Captain America]]. It's downplayed since a) this was at the end of a very emotionally-trying couple of days, b) Baron Zemo was manipulating him, and c) he got over it sometime after the movie.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', [[HateSink Rachel]] is the [[ObnoxiousInLaws hateful sister-in-law]] of Sheriff Tom Wachowski, who constantly tells her sister to divorce him (and this is ''before'' Tom becomes a wanted fugitive by the government because he's helping Sonic). Not only is she crazy and hateful enough to [[EstablishingCharacterMoment tell her sister to divorce Tom right after a casual (as in the "hi, honey, I am driving and wanted to say 'I love you'" kind) call]], the specific reason she hates Tom so much is never mentioned at all.
* ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'': Creator/JonahHill hates Creator/JayBaruchel with a passion for seemingly no reason, to the point of wanting the latter dead.

* ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'': Argo Garcia hates Ginga and his friends the moment he sets his eyes on him for no apparent reasons and attacks Yuu in hopes of sabotaging Ginga's chances of advancing into the final of the World Beyblade championship. Ultimately, his plan fails and and started hating Tsubasa just for beating fairly. In Beyblade Shogun Steel, he along with family creates the organization DNA to get revenge on Tsubasa just for beating him this one time.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] pretends to completely hate and mistrust [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina]] regardless of evidence and the opinions of those who know her better as part of one [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce]]'s gambits.

* Vento of the Front in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' despises the Science Side of the world because she and her brother were critically injured in a ride that claimed to be scientifically proven safe and doctors were able to save only one of them.

* Vento of the Front in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' despises the Science Side of the world because she and her brother were critically injured in a ride that claimed to be scientifically proven safe and doctors were able to save only one of them.

* ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'': Argo Garcia hates Ginga and his friends the moment he sets his eyes on him for no apparent reasons and attacks Yuu in hopes of sabotaging Ginga's chances of advancing into the final of the World Beyblade championship. Ultimatily, his plan fails and and started hating Tsubasa just for beating fairly. In Beyblade Shogun Steel, he along with family creates the organization DNA to get revenge on Tsubasa just for beating him this one time.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': The King of Melromarc constantly belittles and [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem even abuses his authority to hamper Naofumi's efforts]], such as denying him just reward for his troubles and the possibility to do a class change to become stronger (something all heroes need as the waves of monsters grow in strength and number every time) solely because he's the Shield Hero. It's later revealed that this is because demi-humans worship the Shield Hero as a god, and he hates demi-humans because [[spoiler:[[FreudianExcuse some of them apparently took away his little sister]]. It's even more irrational considering that not only did he project his hatred on someone who wasn't to blame, but the king was willing to risk going to all-out war with other countries or being wiped out in the waves of monsters [[RevengeBeforeReason just for petty, unjustifiable revenge against demi-humans as a whole]]]].

* In the first ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' OAV, Jinnai comes to view Makoto as a hated enemy and rival, for no other reason than he's AlwaysSecondBest when compared to him. Makoto, in his turn, isn't even ''aware'' that his actions have been pissing Jinnai off.

%%* A dominating theme in Hayao Miyazaki's ''Anime/PrincessMononoke.''

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** "Antagonist" J. Jonah Jameson, while almost never an outright villainous force, scratches the limits of the impossible in regards to his hatred of [=Spider-Man=]. He despises him with ''extreme'' passion, constantly referring to him as a [[HeroWithBadPublicity menace]], nevermind the fact that Spidey has saved [[UngratefulBastard Jonah's]] life, and New York and the ''world'', on a regular basis. Whether or not there's an explained reason for it depends on the adaptation, but even when there ''is'' an excuse, it generally falls apart given everything Spider-Man's done for the world.
*** He finally does [[http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e345/DoctorOck/JonahJ.jpg figure out why]]. Though there's a number of other "reasons" (excuses) dislike of masked vigilantes, possibly the fact that he shows up in ''his'' newspaper, and possibly even the reason that just making a crusade after him sells more papers so the madder he gets the better the sales.
** [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]] wasn't much better. His entire reason for hating Spider-Man was that Spidey unwittingly exposed his shoddy journalism, although mentally bonding to the also-unstable Venom symbiote didn't help ''either'' party. It took ''decades'' in real-time and years in comic book time for Brock to get over it and become a better person.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''
** ComicBook/LexLuthor's legendary vendetta against Superman has, over the continuities, various causes. All of them agree on the fact that Luthor, in truth has relatively little objective reason to waste so much time, money, and effort on attacking the Man of Steel beyond sheer jealousy. Superman himself has called him out on this numerous times, which only makes Lex hate him even ''more''. General consensus is that Lex hates the mere fact that Superman ''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence exists]]''.
*** Near the end of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', Superman (who had spent most of the year-long arc BroughtDownToNormal and only recently regained his powers) confronted Luthor, after the horrific end of the latter's "Everyman Program". Superman reminds Luthor of the numerous times Luthor claimed he could change the world for the better if Superman didn't keep getting in his way. Superman points out that he'd been gone for an entire year; all Luthor did with that time -- when Superman literally could have done nothing to stop him -- was [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech make contingency plans for Supes coming back.]] In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Supes even says "you could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor".
** Another Superman villain, Hank Henshaw, is based on this trope. Trapped in a rocket ship that his technopathic powers made out of Superman's Birthing Matrix, Hank [[GoMadFromTheIsolation went mad]] and reasoned to himself that Superman put him in there, fearing he was too dangerous. Thus, he decided to try to get back at him by attempting to destroy the Earth while wearing his face.
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom has built his entire career as a supervillain around spiting his old college pal [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] for a freak lab accident that left him disfigured. Reed didn't actually ''cause'' the accident or anything. In fact, he actually tried to warn Doom that his calculations had errors that could lead to disaster before the experiment began. Doom just ignored him out of arrogance. Doom's subsequently decided that Reed ''obviously'' sabotaged the experiment, and spends every waking moment since then trying to destroy Reed, his friends, and family because, otherwise, [[InsufferableGenius he'd have to admit Reed was simply smarter than him]] and that [[NeverMyFault he made a mistake]].
** That said, he may be closer to the mark than he knows. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] admitted (in a sort of last will video, played when he was thought dead) that he messed with the wiring of Doom's device because he was upset with Doom's treatment of his friend Reed. He has since harbored a secret fear that he may be responsible for Doctor Doom's becoming a scarred villain.

* In ''ComicBook/NobleCauses'', the Noble family despise Frost, constantly assume the worst about every action he takes and mistrust him no matter what he does. To be sure Frost is a full blown ChaoticNeutral who robs jewellery stores for kicks, but the fact that many of the Nobles refuse to cut him some slack even as he’s actively saving their lives or immediately assume he's plotting to stab them in the back when he tries to negotiate their peaceful exit from hostile territory shows they’re incapable of being objective where he’s concerned. Doc hates Frost for fairly [[AffairBlameTheBastard obvious reasons]]; while Rusty and Race hate him because he‘s a living, breathing reminder that the mother they idolise isn’t perfect and the image of the ideal superhero family they’ve had to live up to their entire lives is a lie. Zephyr, who has more ambivalent feelings towards their parents and the family; and Liz, who doesn’t have the Nobles’ baggage, are more sympathetic towards him but are still prone to knee-jerk hostility at times. The only one who consistently gives him a fair shake is Celeste, as she also feels like an outsider to the family.

* In ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Carol Danvers holds this for Alex Harris, based on two things: the fact that Alex [[CurbStompBattle threw her two beatdowns without even trying]] and the fact that Alex is casually (and vocally) contemptuous of the SuperRegistrationAct and everyone who supports it.
* In ''[[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]]'', the LemonyNarrator attempts to pin the blame of every terrible moment in Equestrian history on Celestia, even when it's clear that she had nothing to do with it. She tries to [[TheConspiracy connect Celestia to events that had nothing to do with her]], and seems to take great joy in relishing in her failures. Given that the fic is to cover all of Equestrian history, it makes for some [[InsaneTrollLogic great leaps in logic]] to reach her desired conclusions. But it's all PlayedForLaughs though, simply because Loose Change's InsaneTrollLogic makes her such an UnreliableNarrator that it loops back around to funny. [[spoiler:Reading between the lines makes it clear that Loose Change's hatred of Celestia is due to [[DrivenByEnvy jealousy]] over the fact that, as an earth pony, Loose Change can't use magic.]]
* Cody Benson's reason for wanting to kill Lance in the MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/LivingTheDreamKickass222urmom Living The Dream]]'' is entirely nonsensical. Back on Earth, Cody Saved Lance from a random mugging, but during the skirmish Cody lost a check. A check that had the money to save his father from a LoanShark. Not only does he not realize he can get another check, he also [[NeverMyFault pushes]] [[BlamingTheVictim blame]] onto Lance.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Agnes is hated by [[spoiler:her own father]], because she reminds him of how he was unable to [[spoiler:prevent the death of her mother]].

* General Ross's initial obsession with hunting down [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]. His motivations are a combination of his overprotectiveness of his daughter Betty, and a deep down envy of Hulk's might and power.

* Severus Snape still hates Harry in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13003733/11/Deadly-Nightshade Deadly Nightshade]]'' even after learning the boy isn't related to James Potter at all, but rather the result of a one-night stand between [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] and Lily Evans's sister Ivy aka Pamela Isley. Instead Snape hates Harry for "being the wrong sister's child" and that Lily died for him despite Harry being her nephew rather than her son.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': This is a big part of Sasuke Uchiha's motives in the later half. While he had a perfectly legitimate reason to hate his elder brother Itachi for the murder of the entire Uchiha clan, he let himself get consumed with RevengeBeforeReason. As a direct result, when he later learns that Itachi [[spoiler:performed the massacre on orders from Leaf Village because the Uchiha were planning a coup]], his craving for vengeance transfers over from Itachi to the Leaf Village as a whole for [[spoiler:using his brother and living happy lives because of it.]] It's a sign of his declining sanity.

** ComicBook/LexLuthor's legendary vendetta against Superman has, over the continuities, various causes. All of them agree on the fact that Luthor, in truth has relatively little objective reason to waste so much time, money, and effort on attacking the Man of Steel beyond sheer jealousy. Superman himself has called him out on this numerous times, which only makes Lex hate him even ''more''.

** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', it is revealed that the reason Godot hates Phoenix is because [[spoiler:he blames him for the death of Mia Fey, even though there wasn't anything he could have done to save her.]] Eventually, he admits that he was really just desperate for someone to blame [[ItsAllMyFault to ease his own guilt about not being there to prevent it]].

** ''Dual Destinies'' has the antagonist [[spoiler:Aura Blackquill]], who has allowed her certainty that a nine-year-old child murdered a grown woman to shape the last decade of her life.