History Main / IrrationalHatred

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', [[RiddleForTheAges there may or may not be]] a reason why the Monarch is so obsessed with tormenting Dr. Venture. If there is one, we've never been told it, making the Monarch's constant arch-villainy against Venture come off as baseless. Dr. Venture is completely in the dark as to why he hates him and any attempt to get a reason out of the Monarch just results in him getting indignantly furious that it's not obvious to everyone else.

* In ''Manga/SPYxFamily'', Yuri's BigSisterAttraction to Yor makes him instantly hate Loid just by virtue of being her husband. However, Yuri keeps making this worse by seeing everything Loid does as antagonistic. When Yuri asks if Loid has an AffectionateNickname for Yor, Loid says he just calls her "Yor". Yuri gets mad at this, saying "that's our thing", despite the fact that Yor is the woman's name. Yuri even admits that Loid is basically perfect -- Loid is a good cook, handsome, charming, a doctor, and rich. All things that just make Yuri even more angry, since he can't find a good reason to hate Loid.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', [[RiddleForTheAges there may or may not be]] a reason why the Monarch is so obsessed with tormenting Dr. Venture. If there is one, we've never been told it, making the Monarch's constant arch-villainy against Venture come off as baseless. Dr. Venture is completely in the dark as to why he hates him and any attempt to get a reason out of the Monarch just results in him getting indignantly furious that it's not obvious to everyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman has an irrational hatred of... well just about anything that pushes his buttons. It starts with jews, hippies, and gingers... and it goes on and on from there. Though it's hard to say how much of this is genuine hatred and how much is just Cartman resorting to severe DisproportionateRetribution.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': After being reborn as an infant in the season 3 finale, Meteora still hates Marco. 2/3 of the way into season 4, she's temporarily aged up to a teenager and it's confirmed she has no memory of her previous life (in which Marco was her ArchEnemy) and has no idea why she hates him. Apparently it's just that her hatred of him was so intense than it was burned into her soul, and a minor thing like having no memory of it won't erase the hatred.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Molly [=McGee=] has an irrational hatred of magicians and their fake magic tricks.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Bob and across-the-street Italian restaurant owner Jimmy Pesto [[SitcomArchNemesis hate each other equally]] in what Linda describes as a years-long pissing contest. In Bob's case, it's at least implied he's jealous of Jimmy's more successful restaurant, but that doesn't explain why Jimmy goes out of his way to try and sabotage Bob in contests and the like, even if he doesn't win.
** Though it's also implied that Jimmy hates Bob because unlike Jimmy, Bob can actually cook delicious food.

** Near the end of the series, when Gaia [[FallenHero breaks]] her own [[BrokenPedestal pedestal]] and shows how utterly screwed up her priorities are, Doc basically admits that he’s been an asshole to Frost for no reason and accepts him into the family.

** ''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. [[spoiler: Albeit that she's absolutely correct that her brother was wrongfully accused of the crime and is on death row because of it. And once the true murderer is found, she does give up gracefully.]]
** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' takes people's Irrational Hatred of defense attorneys to an extreme in the Kingdom of Khura'in. Phoenix is faced with nuclear heat from the moment he steps into a courtroom and reveals that he's a defense attorney, with the crowd calling for his head on a plate. That's not much of a euphemism, considering that the Kingdom even has a law that gives the same punishment to any lawyers that defend a suspect that is found guilty (read: [[FelonyMisdemeanor execution for]] [[AlwaysMurder murder]]).

** 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 exists.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', Monarch Alice Hiiragi instantly develops a hatred against Ann Takamaki when finding out Ann is a fashion model, accusing her of being an AlphaBitch of the sort that had made Alice's life miserable. Not only is Ann nothing of the sort, but Ann herself was a victim of bullying and SlutShaming while at school, just like Alice. But Ann's repeated insistence that she's not an Alpha Bitch falls on deaf ears. It's only after taking down her Shadow that Alice finally listens to reason.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'', this is invoked by [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]], pretending 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.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/DoctorDoom has built his entire career as a supervillain around spiting his old college pal 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. 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.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': General Ross's initial obsession with hunting down 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.
* Post ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', Wolverine despises Cyclops because he killed Charles Xavier...while the Phoenix Force- a mind-warping EldritchAbomination with godlike power- was possessing Cyclops. Wolverine has seen firsthand that the Phoenix Force overwhelms its hosts' minds, often driving them to insanity, and that no mortal mind [[note]]except for that of TheChosenOne, which Cyclops is not[[/note]] can control it. (And that Xavier was trying to kill Cyclops at the time.) He also knows that Tony Stark ''forced'' the Phoenix into Cyclops' brain, and Cyclops himself had no choice or agency in the matter. Yet he decries Cyclops as a murderer, demands he be imprisoned, and never once acknowledges that ''maybe the alien, sun-eating '''''''god''''' in Cyclops' head at the time influenced his actions in any way. Cyclops actually points this out in Bendis' ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', not that Wolverine listens. Logan most likely uses Xavier's murder as an excuse to hide his previous enmities towards Cyclops. It should also be noted that shortly prior to the events above hostilities between Cyclops and Wolverine had reached a new level due to disagreements over the methods the X-Men had been using, so Xavier's death may well have been TheLastStraw for Wolverine.
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'', this is invoked by [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]], pretending 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.
* ''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.
** Near the end of the series, when Gaia [[FallenHero breaks]] her own [[BrokenPedestal pedestal]] and shows how utterly screwed up her priorities are, Doc basically admits that he’s been an asshole to Frost for no reason and accepts him into the family.

* ''Fanfic/LivingTheDreamKickass222urmom'': Cody Benson's reason for wanting to kill Lance 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.

* ''FanFic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': The fact that he wears a flaming, demonically-grinning pumpkin head should be enough to indicate that [[AxCrazy Jack O'Lantern]] isn't exactly the sanest of people. However, his obsessive hatred of his ArchEnemy Spider-Woman goes far beyond the enmity between most heroes and villains. Jack's hatred encompasses overinflated blame (Jack blames Spider-Woman for protecting the innocent bystanders he enjoys preying on and for interfering with his sick "fun"), ungrounded prejudice (because Spider-Woman didn't give in to her dark side the way he did) and inarticulate dislike (the fact that Spider-Woman uses her powers to protect innocent people when she could be wreaking all kinds of havoc makes Jack's blood boil) to the point where he spends half his time plotting larger criminal schemes and the other half of the time obsessing over Spider-Woman and how he wants to make her suffer.
* Sora in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8608709/1/Lost-Boys Lost Boys]]'' clings to ''severely'' overinflated blame of Ventus for destroying his home and ruining his life (but for Ventus's support, he really couldn't help, nor predict, Vanitas taking him over. He was honestly trying to help). Just the mere mention of his name, or any attempt to clear it, [[BerserkButton is enough to send Sora over the edge.]] [[spoiler:In the sequel, ''Broken Heroes'', when Ven wakes up, Sora is so driven with hatred and anger that he EXPLODES and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown reminds you why you shouldn't mess with him]]. If Kairi and Riku weren't there to stop him, it would be very likely Sora would have ended up killing Ven.]]
* Raijax in ''Fanfic/RipplesWavesTsunamis'' sees pirates as monsters that destroy everything people care about and leave ruin and misery behind, Marines as being only 1/10 decent, and the World Government as being thoroughly evil. Now, all things considered, none of that is unreasonable; heck, he doesn’t attack Marines, and he doesn’t even hold pirate offspring responsible for SinsOfTheFather. The only real irrational part is that he utterly refuses to believe that anyone who sails under a Jolly Roger isn't a monster…up until Nami jogs his memory.
* Vale, the heroine of the ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', is usually a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter in that she trusts people she shouldn't. However, when it comes to Career tribute [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Obsidian]], her hatred of him tends to fall into this. Sure, he is from District One (the home of a tribute who killed Vale's best friend in a previous Hunger Games) and is a trained killer, but he shows surprising kindness toward her and even [[spoiler: saves her life more than once]]. Eventually, [[spoiler: she does get over her hatred and warm up to him]] after [[spoiler: they become allies]].
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7010227/35/Emancipation Emancipation]]'', Dumbledore firmly believed that everything which conflicted with his plans for the Greater Good [[note]]Mostly trying to control Harry's life and being a general busybody.[[/note]] was the fault of Snape and his evil Slytherin machinations.
* Fai to [[spoiler: R!]]Syaoran in ''FanFic/{{Shatterheart}}''. Fai hates [[spoiler: R!]]Syaoran [[spoiler:for the actions of his clone]] who betrayed the group and ripped Fai's eye out despite knowing that Syaoran wasn't at fault and he attempted to stop [[spoiler: his clone]]. To Fai's credit he does eventually realize how unfair he's being to Syaoran and does grow past it.
* ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'': {{Defied}}. Morgan avoids the problem of her tactical officer Sahuel t'Khnialmnae being ex-[[StateSec Tal'Shiar]], against whom Morgan's fellow captain D'trel has a pathological hatred, by ordering her command crew to not mention Sahuel's "prior affiliations" in D'trel's hearing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'', Gwen has this towards Cody. Despite Cody doing nothing to warrant this hatred and hooking her up with Trent, she still treats him with distress. Even Gwen's friends Leshawna and Trent don't understand why she hates Cody, pointing out he's done nothing to her. And Gwen refuses to give them a straight answer on why she hates Cody. It's finally revealed that Gwen had some bad experiences with geeks in the past and, sadly, is taking all that resentment out on Cody. However, Gwen reached the limit of her hatred during an argument with Cody when she told him to kill himself, causing Cody to run away. Gwen was horrified with herself for saying that and admitted she mess up.
* 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.

* Bakugou utterly ''despises'' Midoriya in the ''FanFic/SleeperHitAU''. Why? Because he has the ''audacity'' to have persevered and become the first Quirkless Pro Hero after all the abuse and discrimination he faced, including Aizawa [[YankTheDogsChain expelling him from U.A. on their first day]] while claiming he 'lacked potential'. Having thoroughly convinced himself that Midoriya only ever wanted to become a Pro to [[ItsAllAboutMe spite and upstage him]], he's utterly ''furious'' to learn that he actually ''succeeded'', and attempts to [[NeverMyFault blame all his problems]] on him. Especially the ones he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard creates for himself]] by going after him.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' [=/=] ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SwappingGenres'': Regina instantly hates Captain America before even meeting him for little reason. It's pointed out that just mentioning him is enough to make her angry.
* ''Fanfic/ThreeStrikes'': When Trigger’s heritage (her Belkan decent and that her father is [[spoiler:Solo Wing Pixy]]) comes to light, many at the 444 start to hate her. Count in particular, although it seems he is just looking for a reason to distances himself from everyone. After Operation Three of a Kind everyone but Count is back on her side. It just takes longer for him to reconnect with her.

* Amy in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24974500/chapters/60460699 Hardlight]]'' completely despises Taylor from the moment she meets her. Initially, it's played as her hating Taylor because her stepmother is Purity, a former member of the same gang that killed Amy's adoptive aunt. However, even though Taylor very much isn't a nazi and just wants to be a hero, Amy still hates her. It's later revealed that Amy's hatred is due to internalizing her adoptive mother's BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Taylor has a great deal in common with Amy: Both being the child of a villain, both can heal others, both are lesbians. But if Taylor isn't evil then that would mean Amy isn't either and she can't handle her entire worldview being flipped so suddenly. Amy ends up having a mental breakdown as a result and is PutOnABus.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29619246 Everything has a Price]]'': Peter Parker hates Tony Stark because he's a billionaire and in fact once sent him hate mail about why billionaires can never be heroes. In reality, Peter's hatred boils down to being upset that Uncle Ben's death put them in debt and a total misunderstanding of how money works. Notably, he believes that Tony couldn't possibly be a philanthropist if he hasn't "spent his precious money" to completely solve climate change, permanently end world hunger, or "pay the college tuition of every student in the world", ignoring that even Tony Stark doesn't have ''that'' much money.

* In Creator/LJagiLamplighter's ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'', Eramus is always at Miranda. Even learning he was {{curse}}d to feel that way does not give him pause. [[spoiler:Learning that he could have recovered what he had lost if only he had not kept blaming her for -- that does give him pause.]]

* In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', the Arranda kids hate TheEmpire and every single Imperial they see. Well they would, they're orphans of [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan]]. But this series averts BlackAndWhiteMorality in that while there's certainly plenty of evil in the Empire, it's emphasized in the story that parts of it do good and there are definitely good individuals in it. The kids even hate people who worked for it for a while, to their uncle's dismay.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Cersei hates her brother Tyrion because she blames him for their mother's DeathByChildbirth. Its in the later books do we find out [[spoiler:Cersei heard of a prophecy saying she will be killed by her younger brother. Its implied she misinterpreted it]].
** Quite a lot of the abundant factionalism, sexism, racism and classism found in the series is repeatedly shown to have a whopping great wedge of this supporting the various grievances and "justifications". Even the goodish guys aren't above writing whole groups of people and families off for highly emotive, questionable reasons. Sure, every side can find both fictional and non-fictional rationalizations to hate on another to seek revenge for perceived wrongs done... but, that's [[CycleOfRevenge kind of the whole problem]]. Although families like the Boltons, Greyjoys and Freys ''really'' don't help themselves by how they react to being panned by public opinion.
* In ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', Christian loathes his birth mother, blaming all of his delinquent behavior and present-day issues on the fact that she was a "crack whore" (his nickname for her) who was unable to protect him from her pimp and who didn't feed him properly. That level of resentment seems pretty harsh when memories and flashbacks show that his mother was unable to even protect ''herself'' from being beaten by the pimp, that she loved her son enough to bake a birthday cake for him, and, based on Christian's focus on having submissives within their late teens to early twenties because they remind him of his mother, that she was in her teens herself when she gave birth and had to raise a child on her own, in terrible conditions. It also comes across as harsh, given that Christian doesn't direct anywhere near that level of hatred towards the pimp himself, who was the one who actually ''did'' hurt Christian.
** In the third book, Ana's ex-boss Jack Hyde breaks into her home with the intention of abducting, raping and possibly killing her. Christian, who is at a business conference that day, ordered Ana to stay home instead of going out with her best friend; Ana defied him and thus isn't home when Hyde broke in. When Christian and Ana discuss this, Christian, rather than being relieved that Ana is OK, is absolutely livid that she defied him to the point that he outright states that he wants to hit her, even though her defiance saved her life. While the reader is probably meant to infer that he's angry because he has irrefutable evidence that his ControlFreak desires would have got his wife killed, the Blog/DasSporking team pointed out that he comes off as having hired Hyde to abduct and murder his wife, and is furious that Hyde failed.
* OlderThanFeudalism: In Literature/TheFourGospels, none other than UsefulNotes/JesusChrist claims this is true of his enemies' attitude toward him. Considering how irrational you'd have to be to hate an AllLovingHero, he clearly had a point.
-->"But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’" (John 15:25)

* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox has an irrational hatred of Hugh Jackman. John C. [=McGinley=], his actor, jokes that he hates him because he's a better actor.
** The Janitor also counts to this with JD. Why? Because JD blocked a door with a coin...''accidentally.''
** Dr. Cox and JD towards Lester Hedrick, Sacred Heart's grief counselor. They're openly hostile to him, despite the fact that he's only ever shown doing his job with a great deal of compassion. He tells the pair that he's used to this treatment from doctors, because he forces them to face the fact that there are people they simply can't save. The fact he isn't remotely intimidated by Dr Cox also doesn't help.
* Crais from ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' had an irrational, borderline psychotic hatred of protagonist John Crichton, who accidentally caused the death of Crais's brother. He eventually admitted he was actually trying to protect his rapidly waning career.

* This is what Evil Queen Regina feels towards Snow White on ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Regina's mother Cora puts the young Princess Snow in danger so Regina will rescue her, enabling Cora to marry Regina off to King Leopold. Snow is delighted by the idea of having a new mother, and Regina begins to care for her. However, Regina is in love with the stable boy, Daniel, so she doesn't want to marry Leopold. Snow discovers Regina and Daniel's affair, but basically understands Regina's explanation that although Leopold is a good man, Regina doesn't love him but instead loves Daniel and wants to be with him; she promises to keep their secret. Cora then tricks Snow into revealing Regina's secret, by claiming she only wants to help Regina be happy and by playing off of Snow's idealized concept of a mother due to the loss of her own. Cora then murders Daniel. Regina is angry at Cora, but inexplicably assigns at least as great a measure of blame to the child Snow White who was manipulated by the same harridan who destroyed her own youth, and dedicates the next four decades to efforts at destroying Snow's happiness.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' Robin despises her co-worker Patrice; they've never had a single conversation that didn't involve Robin screeching at her. This despite Patrice being quite possibly the nicest, friendliest person since Series/{{Mister Rogers|Neighborhood}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** Jerry and Newman had a mutual IrrationalHatred of each other, making them [[SitcomArchNemesis Sitcom Arch Nemeses]]. Both are prone to waxing poetical about how vile and detestable the other is, but these statements are usually devoid of actual ''reasons'' for their hatred.
** In Season 4, Joe Davola had an IrrationalHatred of Jerry after somehow deciding Jerry was responsible for Davola losing a job at NBC. Davola making plans to kill Jerry was a RunningGag throughout the season. Of course, Davola is mentally disturbed and spends most of the season off his meds.
* Principal Snyder on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' hates and mistrusts all young people (suggested to be a result of being bullied during his youth), but reserves a special loathing for Buffy and her friends. He appears to have decided she is dangerous based on her having been kicked out of her previous school, but goes much further than should be acceptable for someone in his position. At one point he even expels her for being a suspect in a crime she was soon cleared of ([[spoiler: Kendra's death]], which he probably already suspected she was innocent of), and Joyce has to go over his head to get Buffy re-enrolled.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls,'' Rose becomes [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond obsessed]] with the fact that one of her co-workers hates her for no real reason, since she considers herself somebody that everyone likes. Her efforts to befriend him only make things worse, until he agrees to be her friend on the condition that she never contact him again.

* One episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' revolved around Dick discovering that the cafeteria lady at his college hated him for no particular reason. What makes this even funnier is that he wasn't upset about [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond the fact she hated him]], [[SkewedPriorities but the fact that she had]] ''no'' reason to hate him (for context: a lot of other recurring characters hated him as well, but it was them being sick of [[{{Jerkass}} his belligerent know-it-all attitude]], and he was perfectly okay with that).
* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': El Cid, the leader of the Latinos, despises his underling Miguel Alvarez for no apparent reason. He leads the rest of the gang in bullying Alvarez and [[UriahGambit frequently tries to get him killed]] to satisfy his vendetta, and he [[VillainousBreakdown loses his mind]] when [[spoiler:Alvarez escapes prison before he can kill him]]. He eventually admits that his hatred is pretty baseless.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Many an Imperial or Sith {{NPC}}s towards aliens, and sometimes, it seems, with people in general. Most Imperials and Sith are simply arrogant and xenophobic, but some advocate straight-out genocide.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
** Yes Man has a rather bizarre hatred of the Great Khans. While it might have come from hearing Benny privately insult them, he is particularly fixated on wanting them in particular to suffer, despite being one of the least influential factions of the game, but cannot force you to do so. If you manage to get the Khans to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave the Mojave peacefully]], Yes Man will hope that they get eaten by radscorpions.
** In the DLC ''Dead Money'', it's revealed over the course of the heist into the Sierra Madre that Dean Domino (now a ghoul and one of your companions) was trying to rob Frederick Sinclair, creator of the Sierra, for all this fortune prior to the nuclear war that caused the ''Fallout'' setting. If Dean's still alive by the end, you can ask him why he had such a beef with the apparently cheerful, philanthropist Sinclair. His response? "[[TallPoppySyndrome He was just too damn happy]]", and he needed to be "brought down a peg". Dean is apparently prone to this, as if you're "impolite" (read, refusing to placate his ego for the entire DLC), he'll try to kill you after you get into the Sierra Madre.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has Barret return to what's left of Mount Corel to a less-than-warm welcome, up to and including a physical assault by the townspeople. This is because Barret was in favor of Shinra building a Mako reactor ther years ago. Thing is, everyone else except Dyne also approved it. The whole town took part in making it happen, and yet it's only Barret who gets blamed for Shinra razing the town to the ground. The blame should ultimately fall on Shinra -- which Barret does, hence why he started AVALANCHE to fight them -- but Mount Corel just blames Barret for everything, and Barret seems to think he's partly responsible.
* ''VideoGame/StarControl'': The VUX hate humanity because HumansAreUgly. For this reason, they want to exterminate the species (though they claim a diplomatic faux pas on the human's part during first contact as an excuse). Hilariously, they will even admit to knowing full well that this is irrational and unreasonable of them, that humans cannot help looking the way they do, but humans are just so repulsive to them that they don't care.
* Copen in the ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' series has this towards septima[[note]]special powers that some people possess, including Gunvolt himself.[[/note]] users (also known as "adepts") after an adept killed his father.[[note]]It was an "azure striker'; implied to be Asimov, the first game's true final boss.[[/note]] He's even willing to kill adepts that don't pose any threat to humanity whatsoever. Unfortunately, it becomes clear by the end of the second game that he [[spoiler: not only hasn't learned his lesson, but [[IveComeTooFar doesn't even think he should]] [[IAmAMonster because of what he's already doing]]; after learning that his sister Mytyl is really an adept herself (the "cyber diva / muse" septima originally belonged to her), he decided to [[FakingTheDead cut all ties]] [[MoralityPet to his family]] and just disappear]], essentially taking a very lopsided look at the issue.
* Reyes from ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' is openly hostile towards Lara for most of the game, going as far as blaming her for the ''Endurance''[='=]s crash, as well as [[spoiler:the deaths of Grim, Roth and Alex]] (the latter two right to her face, [[{{Jerkass}} immediately after they happen]]), all of which she had absolutely nothing to do with. An optional journal entry implies that she's been antagonistic towards Lara long before the events of the game, too.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney''

* In ''Aiyoku no Eustia'', there is a whole special force dedicated to hunting and capturing people who (allegedly) have an infectious disease that causes them to [[CursedWithAwesome grow wings]]. They are reviled and outcast by pretty much everybody. Which makes little to no sense considering that the plot-defining problem of that soaring city is the fear of falling out of the sky. Faced with that, having people with wings around should sound more like a glimpse of hope than a predicament. Needless to say, [[spoiler: the winged ones are neither sick nor dangerous and [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is the actual problem.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', [[spoiler:Cecilia blames the protagonist for Lainie’s death, and seeks to destroy his life because of it. She “forgets” some important details that would refute her belief on this issue (for example, their father had cut Lainie off by the time of her death).]]

* Ollie from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' has an irrational hatred of Davan, to the point that he considers him his ArchEnemy. He blames Davan for killing his directing career before it could really start, even though it was own mistakes concerning copyrights that killed his play. Davan actually feels bad about this. He's used to being hated, but only after he's done stuff to earn it. He doesn't think too much about it, though other characters warn him to be careful, since irrational hatred + resources to act on it (Ollie has a lot of money) = danger.
* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[BigBad Zenith]] absolutely ''[[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/07/04/nothing-like-a-good-rant/ hates]]'' Nin Wah for being an "imperfect" cyborg. This seems to also extend to jealously over [[BreakingTheFourthWall Nin Wah having her own button for the reader to buy when she doesn't]].

* The most excuse Vriska Serket from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' ever gives for throwing Tavros off a cliff is "His [[TheSocialDarwinist weakness]] offends me!" Given Vriska's personality, she's almost certainly lying to herself, and her true motivations remain a common debate among fans.
* The main character from the Smackjeeves comic "Betovering" suffers from this as part of a curse. While a few people are immune (his family, his crush, his best friend), most people literally hate him on first sight and will do everything to make his life hell.

* ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' has a man asked about his pet peeves. The man says that he doesn't hate anything, because hatred is an unproductive emotion. He's then asked what he thinks about Music/JohnMellencamp and goes on a furious rant about what a sell-out he is. It's then pointed out that the man has devoted a significant portion of his energy to hating somebody who [[UnknownRival has no idea he even exists.]] "I don't find that funny." "I'll bet he would."

* [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-584 RPC-584 - The Star, The Hateful]] from the ''Website/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.
* As detailed in ''Time Heals No Wounds'' and ''Resentment and Insanity'' (along with some stories after that), Toki's hatred of Frailine (then called "Jaynine"), as, while she was a brat, the latter was only a baby when the former was suffering abuse and neglect, making this also a case of MisplacedRetribution, considering Toki felt that abusing Frailine was payback towards her late abusive mother.
** Also Bunny and Madgie, however, the feeling is rather mutual but its clear that Bunny hasn't liked the latter at all since she was born, as mentioned in ''Bunny Bitch''

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', [[RiddleForTheAges there may or may not be]] a reason why the Monarch is so obsessed with tormenting Dr. Venture. If there is one, we've never been told it, making the Monarch's constant arch-villainy against Venture come off as baseless. Dr. Venture is completely in the dark as to why he hates him and any attempt to get a reason out of the Monarch just results in him getting indignantly furious that it's not obvious to everyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman has a irrational hatred of... well just about anything that pushes his buttons. It starts with jews, hippies, and gingers... and it goes on and on from there. Though it's hard to say how much of this is genuine hatred and how much is just Cartman resorting to severe DisproportionateRetribution.

* Will Harrangue from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' basically is to Ben Tennyson what Jameson is to Spider-Man; for no apparent reason, he obsessively hates Ben, constantly calls him a menace, spends thousands of dollars to build a KillerRobot to eliminate him and even ''praises'' alien invaders for getting rid of him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Mr. Turner's "rivalry" with Dinkleberg boils down to this. At first, it seemed to be out of jealousy that he had a lot of disposable income, but even that fell apart in later seasons. Adding to this, Dinkleberg eventually became as nice as Mr. Rogers, yet Mr. Turner just hated him.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Bob and across-the-street Italian restaurant owner Jimmy Pesto [[SitcomArchNemesis hate each other equally]] in what Linda describes as a years-long pissing contest. In Bob's case, it's at least implied he's jealous of Jimmy's more successful restaurant, but that doesn't explain why Jimmy goes out of his way to try and sabotage Bob in contests and the like, even if he doesn't win.
** Though it's also implied that Jimmy hates Bob because unlike Jimmy, Bob can actually cook delicious food.
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Master of the Djini". Glomgold actually manages to pull TheBadGuyWins against Scrooge by claiming a magic lamp and using it to torment him, only to accidentally reset it all with a badly worded wish. He ends up being chased by Scrooge in the reset timeline for reasons neither can even remember.
-->'''Scrooge:''' Come back here, Glomgold! Something tells me I should be very angry with you.

* In ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Yuri's BigSisterAttraction to Yor makes him instantly hate Loid just by virtue of being her husband. However, Yuri keeps making this worse by seeing everything Loid does as antagonistic. When Yuri asks if Loid has an AffectionateNickname for Yor, Loid says he just calls her "Yor". Yuri gets mad at this, saying "that's our thing", despite the fact that Yor is the woman's name. Yuri even admits that Loid is basically perfect -- Loid is a good cook, handsome, charming, a doctor, and rich. All things that just make Yuri even more angry, since he can't find a good reason to hate Loid.

* The fact that he wears a flaming, demonically-grinning pumpkin head should be enough to indicate that [[AxCrazy Jack O'Lantern]] isn't exactly the sanest of people. However, his obsessive hatred of his ArchEnemy [[FanFic/UltimateSpiderWoman Spider-Woman]] goes far beyond the enmity between most heroes and villains. Jack's hatred encompasses overinflated blame (Jack blames Spider-Woman for protecting the innocent bystanders he enjoys preying on and for interfering with his sick "fun"), ungrounded prejudice (because Spider-Woman didn't give in to her dark side the way he did) and inarticulate dislike (the fact that Spider-Woman uses her powers to protect innocent people when she could be wreaking all kinds of havoc makes Jack's blood boil) to the point where he spends half his time plotting larger criminal schemes and the other half of the time obsessing over Spider-Woman and how he wants to make her suffer.

* ''Fanfic/ThreeStrikes'': when Trigger’s heritage (her Belkan decent and that her father is [[spoiler:Solo Wing Pixy]]) comes to light many at the 444 start to hate her. Count in particular, although it seems he is just looking for a reason to distances himself from everyone. After Operation Three of a Kind everyone but Count is back on her side. It just takes longer for him to reconnect with her.

* Back between 2010-2013, Wrestling/KevinSteen hated [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]] and Wrestling/JimCornette so much he turned into a low-grade version of an OmnicidalManiac, [[CrazyConsumption devouring fan signs]] (or a cooling fan at ''Wrestling/{{P|roWrestlingGuerilla}}WG Death to All But Metal'') for having the slightest hint of them and repeatedly threatening to destroy the entire business and replace it with a WretchedHive [[IncrediblyLamePun of scum and villainy]], starting with Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

* The elderly Zora (aside from King Dorephan and Kapson) in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' harbor resentment towards Link regarding Mipha's death which is very misplaced for many reasons.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad Stark Raving Dad]]" provides us with a rare InUniverse view of this trope: when Homer is MistakenForInsane because of a HumiliationConga and put in an insane asylum, he makes things a hell of a lot worse for himself by constantly being enraged at Bart (a major contributor to said conga). When Marge finally arrives to talk the doctor into letting Homer go, the doctor is horrifed to discover that Bart is an actual person and Homer's child instead of a paranoid hallucination.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': It is PlayedForLaughs for the most part, but nevertheless Neito Monoma's unrelenting obsession with upstaging and demeaning the students of Class 1-A at every possible moment ([[AllThereInTheManual even going to their dorm before he leaves the school for the day, almost every day, to spend some time insulting them]]) goes way past [[TheRival inter-class rivalry]] and straight into this territory, with even his fellow class students and closest friends being occasionally unnerved and wondering just [[AmbiguousDisorder what the hell is wrong with him]].

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' deals with [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond the only kid in the school who doesn't like TJ]], causing TJ to obsess over why the guy doesn't like him. In the end, the person just tells him that he doesn't need a reason to dislike TJ. He just does. And even he thinks TJ's cool, but he still dislikes him all the same. And because it's a Saturday Morning cartoon and thus LighterAndSofter, he then gives TJ [[AnAesop the Aesop of the week]]: that TJ shouldn't get so obsessed about it that he's letting his friends aside.

** Dolores Umbridge absolutely ''loathes'' part-human beings, from giants to werewolves to centaurs to goblins and everything else. She doesn't show hatred towards ones who pose a threat to people. She hates ''all'' of them, referring to them as "half-breeds" and generally treating them with disdain. Not that she has anything but disdain for everyone but herself. Given her behavior towards Hagrid and [[TooDumbToLive the centaurs]], she also seems under the impression that part-humans all share "near-human intelligence" and thus treats them like small children, which is especially insulting considering that Hagrid and the centaurs are clearly of human intelligence (well, Hagrid can be a bit of an idiot sometimes, but so can all humans, including Umbridge). The only reason remotely given for his mindset is Sirius's guess that she's afraid of them. And then we learn from WordOfGod that he is right. Her megalomania and desire to control and dominate leads her to feel insecure by those who cannot be categorized and she is unable to accept the existence of people outside her sphere of control. In the movie, she also tells Harry and Hermione, "You know, I really hate children."

* Bakugou utterly ''despises'' Midoriya in the ''FanFic/SleeperHitAU''. Why? Because he has the ''audacity'' to have preserved and become the first Quirkless Pro Hero after all the abuse and discrimination he faced, including Aizawa [[YankTheDogsChain expelling him from U.A. on their first day]] while claiming he 'lacked potential'. Having thoroughly convinced himself that Midoriya only ever wanted to become a Pro to [[ItsAllAboutMe spite and upstage him]], he's utterly ''furious'' to learn that he actually ''succeeded'', and attempts to [[NeverMyFault blame all his problems]] on him. Especially the ones he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard creates for himself]] by going after him.

* In ''Anime/PokemonaTheSeries'', [[CampGay Harley]] has an irrational hatred for May, essentially blacklisting her only because she made some off-handed comments about his Cacturne being "scary" and his cookies being "not half-bad" (which were meant to be compliments). He later claims that his dislike of her stems from an incident in his childhood, when a girl who looked like May stole his snack in kindergarden, but it's implied he was making up the whole story.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[CampGay Harley]] has an irrational hatred for May, essentially blacklisting her only because she made some off-handed comments about his Cacturne being "scary" and his cookies being "not half-bad" (which were meant to be compliments). He later claims that his dislike of her stems from an incident in his childhood, when a girl who looked like May stole his snack in kindergarden, but it's implied he was making up the whole story.