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• 12 Angry Men: Jurors #3, #7 and #10 share this role. The film's action is confined to the deliberation room, so it relies on their insistence that the defendant is guilty (which they share with the otherwise reasonable Juror #4) and their respective pronounced character flaws to provide a lot of the drama. All three of them have different reasons for qualifying, though, and gradually fall out of this role as the movie/play goes on.
  • Juror #3 is a loudmouth with a Hair-Trigger Temper who's way too emotionally invested in the trial and the verdict despite his claims otherwise. As Juror #8 points out, he's only pushing so hard for a Guilty verdict because he personally wants to send the defendant to Death Row, and he starts yelling at and insulting the other jurors with little, if any, provocation. It's foreshadowed, and eventually confirmed, that he's acting out of resentment and self-loathing over his ruined relationship with his own son, whom the young defendant reminds him of; at the end he's given a tragic moment where he rips up his Precious Photo of him and his son in happier days, quietly weeps at this and ultimately changes his vote to Not Guilty, which prompts Juror #8 to comfort him.
  • Juror #7 is a passive-aggressive Jerkass who has no interest in the deliberation process because he just wants to leave as quickly as possible so he can go watch a baseball game. (In the stage version, he wants to attend a Broadway show.) He shows minor but noticable acts of douchery as well, such as making fun of Juror #5 for being a fan of then-unsuccessful baseball team the Baltimore Orioles, or choosing to change his vote to Not Guilty when the vote is 6 apiece just to break the stalemate. Eventually, though, he just stops actively antagonizing the other jurors and settles into the background.
  • Juror #10 is a Grumpy Old Man who firmly believes the defendant must have done what he's accused of purely because of his appearance and background. He acts more and more like he's Surrounded by Idiots as the ballot gradually swings in favour of Not Guilty, culminating in a long-winded rant against people like the defendant that makes all the other jurors, including #7, leave the deliberation table and stop listening to him. When he realises they're doing this, he loses his energy and pomp and starts begging them to listen to him; upon being told to "Sit down and don't open your mouth again" by Juror #4, he ends up sitting by himself at a small table and staring blankly into the distance, not becoming involved again until he's asked for his vote and shakes his head to indicate Not Guilty.
• 22 Bullets: Pascal Vassetto, the assassin who tried to kill Charly, is characterized entirely by his sadism. Aside from nearly killing him and actually killing his dog, Pascal cuts an informant's finger off and then feeds him to vicious dogs. He's then hired to kill Charly's young son, and kills a goon who refuses to help.
• 2012: A downplayed with Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who keeps the impending global disaster a secret from all but those who can afford to buy a ticket to safety, to not mention being a belittling Jerkass to those who put honor or humanity over survival. He's given slightly more respect than the above examples, with a couple of Jerkass Has a Point moments and much less of a comeuppance at the end.
• 30 Minutes or Less: Christopher, the "Pizza Boss", is Nick Davis’s greedy and both emotionally and verbally abusive employer at Vito’s Pizza. When Nick is about to end his shift, Christopher makes him deliver the last minute order (that will inadvertently end up getting Nick the bomb strapped to his chest) by also threatening to take it out of his paycheck if he’s late doing so. In a deleted scene that would’ve happened earlier, Christopher also fires Nick for tricking customers into paying him despite being late (which Nick points out it’s an unrealistic gimmick anyway) and then guilts Nick into staying only to begin degrading and berating him again until Nick eventually does quit and tell him off later on.

A

• Annie (2014): The spin doctor is conspicuously given no excuses for his actions and casually references a resumé of other people he's covered for.
• A Wedding (1978): Muffin's father Snooks is implied to lust after his younger daughter Buffy, but then considers her Defiled Forever after she sleeps with several boys from the Military School. He is also extremely rude to his wife and shows some Skewed Priorities by bringing up how much he paid for the wedding when everyone thinks Muffin and Dino are dead.
• A Cinderella Story: Shelby is a cruel, unlikable Alpha Bitch who enjoys harassing Sam for being "uncool". The moment she loses any sympathy is when she has the entire school ruthlessly chant "Diner-Girl" at Sam, and even continues to harass her as she's in tears in the hallway.
• The Afflicted:
  • After killing her husband for trying to leave her, Maggie descends into religious mania and starts abusing her children. Aside from beating them in random rages, Maggie forces her son into manual labour and her eldest daughter into prostitution while Force Feeding her middle daughter in an attempt to make her fat. When said middle daughter resists, Maggie shoots her in the shoulder before fatally poisoning her in an attempt to remove the bullet. After the eldest daughter escapes, Maggie makes her two remaining children beat her bloody before locking her in a closet to starve and pimping out her remaining girl.
  • Randy is a Dirty Old Man and the only customer we see Maggie procure in her child prostitution ring. He regularly rapes the daughter, being especially happy that she's a minor. After said daughter dies, Randy gladly goes to the youngest daughter, roughing her up some before raping her. When he finishes, he tells Maggie to beat her for resisting him.
• After School Massacre:
  • Mr. Wheatley, the school principal, fires Anderson from his job for being pressured into accepting a student's friend request, then mentions being sexually attracted to the same student anyways. Luckily, he's Anderson's first victim.
  • Luke Dalton spends his entire screentime sexually harassing his girlfriend's minor sister and her friends, and almost hooks up with two of them behind her back.
• The entire army of the Teutonic Knights in Alexander Nevsky since they slaughter innocent civilians and throw crying toddlers into bonfire. Grand Master in particular since he is their leader is this.
  • The Bishop counts too. He might not directly ordered the crimes, but he gave his blessings to them.
  • Finally, Tverdillo qualifies big time. He betrayed the Russian people and helped the German Teutonic knights in their crimes. It was very satisfying to see him being torn by the mob.
• Aliens: Paul Reiser's company guy, Carter Burke. The aliens are already scary, so the filmmakers are hedging their bets by offering Burke as the weaselly company guy that only cares about money and fame. He knows about the aliens ahead of time and sends the colonists to investigate. He disagrees with nuking the site from orbit. He tries to impregnate Newt and Ripley with alien embryos with a plan to sabotage and kill the other heroes. Finally he cravenly retreats behind a door locking the other heroes out, where he is deliciously killed by an alien. Clearly, it worked: Paul Reiser said his own mother, who sat next to him at the premiere, cheered at his on-screen death!
• Alligator: Mr. Slade, a Corrupt Corporate Executive, has his researchers experiment on puppies to get the hormone, and has them pay a pet store owner to dognap puppies when they run out of their legal supply. These experiments lead to an alligator who lives in the sewers becoming giant and getting a ravenous appetite. This was an accident, so it can't be held against him. However, he has the mayor hinder the investigation in order to keep his company going. During the climax, the alligator attacks his daughter's wedding. He makes a beeline for his car, locks it, and tries to drive away and leave everybody else to die. The alligator gets him anyways.
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Donald Menken is a corrupt employee of Oscorp who seeks to usurp Harry Osborn as CEO after his father's death. Menken has Max Dillon, A.K.A. Electro committed to Ravencroft, where he uses footage of Max to frame Harry for the accident that turned him into Electro. Menken kicks Harry out of Oscorp, but not before spitefully telling him that he's going to die a horrible death and no one will care.
• American Gangster: Trupo is a detestable Smug Snake with zero redeeming qualities or any Freudian Excuse beyond being a hateful prick. Nobody in-universe seems to care much after he dies.
• American History X: Despite the movie's message that hate is baggage, Cameron Alexander comes across as a completely despicable individual without a single redeeming quality. He is responsible for the corruption of Derek and others, feeding into their latent bigotry and inciting hate crimes. While he acts the part of A Father to His Men, in the past, he has been more than willing to throw his men under the bus when it benefits him. When Derek returns from prison reformed, he makes a mockery of his rape in prison. In a deleted scene, he appears to display compassion towards a homeless veteran, but only with the intent of spreading his racist beliefs. Shortly after, he menaces an interracial couple and drives them out of the diner.
• American Justice: Sheriff Payden is a racist thug who treats his police department like a protection racket, forcing the local drug dealers to give him a cut under pain of death and browbeating the mayor by threatening his dog. When his men kill one of the dealers, and he personally guns down one for complaining about the corpse not having money, Payden decodes to frame Jack Justice, a black cop passing through town, for the crime and then kill him for "escaping." When he captures Jack, he explains all this to him while also spouting off racist jokes. After Jack escapes, Payden tries to coax him back by threatening to have his men gang rape a woman he befriended before trying to shoot him In the Back.
• American Mary: Dr. Grant and Dr. Walsh are the films Asshole Victims, seeming harmless despite them being pricks; Grant would belittle Mary in class; Walsh had Mary falsely tell a patients family that their father just died to teach a lesson. It’s discovered Grant and Walsh are a duo of serial rapists, who’d often host parities where the female guests are all drugged and raped on film. Mary ends up at one of these parties and is raped by Grant. For these, Grant is later tortured by Mary, and put through a horrific body modification surgery; while Walsh is beaten to death by Billy for his involvement.
• Paul Sarone in Anaconda. You can't hate the anaconda, but you can hate him. He is willing to sacrifice the protagonists in order to capture the anaconda.
• Angst: The unnamed killer has no sympathetic qualities worth mentioning, and overall, he is just a disgusting, repulsive and loathsome animal who kills innocent people to satisfy his own twisted bloodlust.
• Animal House: Doug Neidermeyer, the leader of Faber College's ROTC chapter and Trope Namer for The Neidermeyer, is a bitter, abusive, and downright unstable man. He treats his cadets like slaves, constantly bullies Delta House, and reacts to be sprayed with water by Flounder by shooting at him with his rifle.
• Another Cinderella Story gives us Dominique. She's an Abusive Parent toward poor Mary and is a complete Jerkass. Believe it or not, no one actually calls her out for her terrible treatment, and she never gets any redeeming qualities at all. Sure, she breaks her legs at the end of the movie and Mary gets to escape her horrible treatment, but she still leaves quite a terrible impression.
• Antebellum: "Him", real name Senator Blake Denton, is a slaver who runs a plantation where black people are forced to pick cotton that he'll never actually sell and where anyone who tries to escape will be tortured or killed. He also deliberately kidnapped Veronica for himself from her family to rape, and personally sticks an ax in Eli's chest when he tries to fight back.
• Army of Frankensteins: Alan Jones' life before he's sent back in time absolutely sucks, and these two are significant reasons why:
  • Mrs. Henderson, Alan's landlady, sexually harasses him when trying to collect the rent. After seeing the ring Alan intends to propose to his girlfriend, Ashley, with, she demands the ring on the threat of eviction. She's also a brazen hypocrite, Slut-Shaming Ashley not five minutes after trying to sleep with a taken man.
  • Eugene, Ashley's boss, regularly hits on her even though she rejects him every time. Eventually, he starts to force kisses on her. One of the kisses happens at just the wrong time for Alan to walk in and think she's into it.
• The ABCs of Death:
  • "D is for Dogfight": The unnamed trainer runs an organization where he kidnaps dogs. When their humans come looking for them, he has them kidnapped too. He subjects both human and dog to Training from Hell before forcing them to fight to the death.
  • "H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion": As a parody of WWII British propaganda films, this short has a loathsome Nazi in the form of Frau Scheisse. After seducing Ace Pilot Bertie the Bulldog, Scheisse has a small robot punch him in the groin to capture him. She then proceeds to subject Bertie to Electric Torture while slowly lowering him into electrified water to shock him to death.
  • "V is for Vagitus (The Cry of a Newborn Baby)": Stoker is an agent of a dystopian government in a Bad Future where procreation without a permit is banned and psychics are subjected to genocide. When two of his agents capture a psychic family, Stoker has all of them killed with the intent to resurrect the baby for experimentation, flat admitting that he doesn't consider them to be people. When the baby reanimates and starts massacring his goons, Stoker orders the guy holding its head gunned down in a desperate attempt to wipe out the child. Cold and ruthless, Stoker exists to put a hatable face on a nightmarish regime.
  • "Y us for Youngbuck": The unnamed Villain Protagonist is a school janitor and secret pedophile. After he pervs on some boys playing basketball, he licks the sweat from the bleachers with disgusting glee. Eventually convincing one of the boys to go hunting with him, the janitor rapes the kid after he kills a deer.
• Avatar: While Colonel Quaritch is the one really calling the shots in the RDA's mining operation, and displays a nasty combination of Fantastic Racism and aimless cruelty, he's at least, charismatic and badass, so it's kind of hard to completely hate him. By contrast, Parker Selfridge, the very definition of a slimy corporate boss who's just as racist as Quaritch. Selfridge mocks the Na'vi as "fleabitten savages" and "blue monkeys" but won't lift a finger to respond to them himself and clearly cares about nothing except the corporate bottom line. His lack of respect for human life is made evident in a scene where he almost runs over Jake Sully's avatar with a massive mining truck just to prove a point, and unlike Quaritch, who's at least good to his men, Selfridge is rude and condescending to Grace Augustine and the science team in the most galling of ways. Even his one redeeming quality, when he's horrified by the destruction of Hometree only serves to make him more hateable when it's shown that he strongly disapproves of Quaritch's tactics but is either too greedy or too spineless to do anything about it, despite the fact that he's supposed to be in charge.
  • Mick Scoresby, an antagonist in Avatar’s sequel “The Way Of Water” is also a greedy prick like Parker but shows it in different ways. He leads the whale int efforts against the intelligent whale-like aliens called the Tulkuns, frequently killing them in the ocean so he could extract special enzymes from their brains For Science! and to create a special serum that completely stops human aging. He kills a Tulkun mother to get the serum along with her calf to try to lure Jake Sully and his family. He is also implied to be indirectly responsible for the death of Payakan’s mother as Scoresby was leading the whaling operations. It is satisfying to see Payakan outsmart Scoresby during a major battle in which Scoresby attempts to place a tracker on Payakan only for Payakan to take advantage of the steel cable attached to it and use it to sink Scoresby’s ship and sever Scoresby’s right arm in the process.

B

• Babe:
  • Duchess, who regularly bullies Babe and causes him to run away after cruelly telling him his mother was eaten.
  • Hoggett's granddaughter spends the time complaining about her food and eventually callously disowns her grandfather's well-crafted dollhouse since it wasn't from TV. It's clear she's meant to bring audience contempt.
  • The granddaughter's parents are shown to be just as contemptible by giving the Hoggetts a fax machine for Christmas, which really is just for themselves. They also never bother to reprimand their bratty daughter and obviously show No Sympathy towards Mr. Hoggett when his dollhouse gets cruelly disowned by her. You can even see them smiling at their daughter's fit. One may even say they're responsible for her behavior.
• Baby Driver: Leon Jefferson III a.k.a. Bats is an Ax-Crazy Jerkass without any of the redeeming features of his fellow criminals, and who treats everyone he encounters with either disdain or homicidal mania.
• The Babysitter: Killer Queen: Upon her reveal as the main villain, Melanie stands in a jarring contrast to both her previous innocent characterization and the Laughably Evil cultists. In addition to being manipulating to Cole, she is revealed to be the de-facto leader of the new cult, and restarting the sacrifice, showing a new cruel and narcissistic personality to boot while she tries to kill Cole and Phobe. Even her extremely neglectful father (whom she also kills) isn't used as an excuse for her, as her reasons for making a Deal with the Devil was to gain followers and become a successful online influencer.
• Bad Education (2004): Pasco and Susan are the main antagonists, but their motives are understandable. Atticus Hoye meanwhile is a plain old bully with no depth or reason to his cruelty.
• Bad Times at the El Royale: While all other characters have at least some redeeming qualities, Billy Lee is utterly devoid of them.
• The Bagman: Randy Joyner is a vicious bully who led other kids in attacking Jack Marshall for his deformities. He eventually bears Jack to seeming death and makes his cronies agree to cover it up. A decade later, a Sackhead Slasher shows up to kill everybody involved with the attack, and Randy uses his job as a police officer to destroy all the evidence of his involvement. When Sue Cresswell confronts him about his crime, he only helps her solve it to save his own skin. Near the end, Randy reveals that he is Jack's half-brother, and initially set the fire that disfigured the boy to kill their father and his mistress for abandoning him.
• The Banana Splits Movie:
  • Stevie is the token human of the Banana Splits television series. A mean-spirited alcoholic, Stevie torments the animatronics with the knowledge that their show was to be cancelled before becoming the first to fall victim to their killing spree when a lollipop prop is lodged down his throat.
  • Andy is the studio executive of Taft Studios who was indirectly responsible for the Splits' spree by cancelling the show for no other reason than considering it boring. He gets the worst death at the hands of the animatronics when he won the "banana split".
  • Mitch is the husband of Beth Williams and the father of Austin and Harley. Irritated that his wife was giving his sons more attention, he has an affair with a coworker before attempting to apologize to his wife after getting ran over by Snorky's Banana Buggy.
• Both Batman (1989) films.
  • Carl Grissom is a Smug Snake and a coward. It's okay to hate Tony Rotelli for being a smartass who's still not smart enough to keep his mouth shut. And it's certainly okay to hate Lieutenant Eckhart because he's a Fat Bastard and an all-around traitor. The two muggers of the film's opening who hit a man over the head and threaten to shoot his son are also particularly loathsome.
  • In Batman Returns, The rapist whom Catwoman righteously kills. Josh, the smarmy image consultant whose nose Penguin nearly bites off, is also a good candidate.
• The Batman (2022): At his core, Carmine Falcone is a contemptible human being who prefers to lord over others by making them fear him, and is also an unrepentant murderer, killing Selina's mother and Annika without remorse as well as actually having very little respect for anyone he's worked with, be it Thomas Wayne or Oswald. As a result, it's easy to root against Falcone and to not care when he's shot dead by the Riddler.
• Batman Begins: Ra's al Ghul is the main antagonist of the movie, but he's ultimately too noble and tragic to hate. His Dragon the Scarecrow is also too cool to hate. The same can't be said for Carmine Falcone, a Smug Snake who taunts Bruce over his father's death, or Arnold Flass, who steals from and abuses civilians.
• Beauty and the Beast (2017): The unnamed King of the French kingdom where the story takes place. Unlike his dear wife and son (the Queen and the Prince), the King was known for ruling his kingdom with a cruel iron fist and raising the young Prince to be selfish and arrogant; even forbidding the servants to ever question or object to his ways of raising the Prince. He also showed no concern over the loss of the Queen, which was seen when he leads his son away from his wife's deathbed without any emotion. This treatment is what drove the Prince to rebuff Agathe the Enchantress, who then casted a curse on his castle in retaliation, transforming the Prince into the Beast and the servants into enchanted objects. Ever since then, the Beast showed nothing but shame for his actions and hated his cruel father for raising him to be a tyrant; even tearing up a family portrait of himself and the King out of anger. Even the servants themselves are in full regret of their reluctance to speak out against the King, implying that they truly despised him for his cruel nature.
• Beetlejuice. The villain of the title is funny, creative, stylish, and highly susceptible to Draco in Leather Pants — and anyway, he's really just a "bio-exorcist" taking on a job. And we certainly can't hate the heroes of the story: Barbara and Adam Maitland and Lydia Deetz. Even Lydia's self-absorbed stepmother, Delia, is understandable to a certain extent and has undergone a Heel–Face Turn by the end. But we're certainly welcome to hate the snooty New York yuppies Delia wants so desperately to impress, and Betelgeuse gives them exactly what they deserve. Her husband Maxie is equally hateworthy as he even goes as far as to shush Lydia when Barbara starts to literally rot in front of them.
• Bernie: Marjorie "Marge" Nugent is universally despised in the town of Carthage for her Jerkass behavior. Though she becomes fond of Bernie for comforting her when her husband recently passed, she soon becomes extremely abusive and possessive of him demeaning him every day, chewing every bite 25 just to unease him, making him do errands and chores for her, quit his job, forcing him to kill an armadillo, and trapping him in her property when he tries to leave. Bernie would eventually snap from Marjorie's horrid treatment and shoot her four times In the Back killing her, to when the town found out nine months later they were more concern that Bernie would go to prison rather than Marjorie was killed.
• Better Watch Out: Luke is one of the most odious child villains ever put to screen. He stages a home invasion, then murders Ashley's boyfriend and ex-boyfriend in cold blood, and later Garrett, his own friend and accomplice for trying to save her when he sees the error of his ways, all in a twisted ploy to seduce Ashley, who he later tries to kill when he realizes she won't come around to him. As much as he might initially appear to be intelligent and a good planner, his petulance reveals itself whenever his plans go out the window.
• The Big Lebowski:
  • The title character is not exactly an endearing character. The other antagonists are often so bumbling and have plenty personality quirks that make them fun to watch, but the Big Lebowski is just thoroughly unlikable, on top of being a phony millionaire.
  • The Two Crooks of Treehorn's are introduced having broken into the Dude's home, one of them giving him a very violent swirly while the other pisses on his living-room rug just to be mean. Then the first thug carelessly drops the Dude's bowling ball onto the bathroom floor cracking the tiles, they call him a loser and leave, treating the situation as though it was the Dude's fault they mistook him for the Big Lebowski.
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Tabitha is a mean-spirited Straw Critic who openly brags about how she's planning to give Riggan's theatre performance a scathing review — when she hasn't even seen yet — purely because she hates the idea of film actors being on stage. When Riggan confronts her, he paints the entire profession of critics in a negative light by pointing out that she gets paid to write negative drivel about the labours of others — whose income is reliant on good publicity — while she faces no risk or consequence.
• Bit: Vlad Manfred Castaneta, Duke's sire, who spent his life mind-controlling women into joining his harem, which is outright acknowledged as rape and is as traumatic as any other rape. When he returns, his every line is dripping with misogynistic contempt and he tries to claim making a lesbian his Sex Slave was "making [her] feel love."
• Black Butler: Shinpei Kujo is a pharmaceutical executive hired by Lady Hanae Wakatsuki to make an immortality serum. To do so, he buys women from Human Traffickers and experiments on them until their bodies give out. After discovering a drug called Necrosis, which mummifies people within minutes, Kujo tests it on various people. This eventually culminates in him poisoning a nightclub full of people and watching them tear each other apart for the antidote.
• Black Christmas (2006): Constance Lenz is Billy's mother, who locks him in the attic after he witnesses her kill his father. She leaves him there for years while living a seemingly-idyllic life with her new lover. After learning that said lover is infertile, she rapes Billy to produce a daughter. These years of abuse lead Billy to snap and murder her, making her indirectly responsible for the film's carnage.
• Blades of Glory:
  • Jimmy's wealthy, adoptive father Darren MacElroy adopts orphans who possess exceptional athletic abilities, like Jimmy, with the sole purpose of honing their skills so they gain glory for him. A former horse breeder who implements dubious methods for Jimmy's training, Darren, who has minimal regard for him beyond his talents, scolds Jimmy's coach for expressing pride in him and also dissuades him from interacting with other people by referring to them as "a beehive for germs and bacteria" derogatorily, contributing to his Friendless Background as well as his mysophobia. After Jimmy's banned from competitive skating, Darren promptly disowns him then remorselessly leaves him on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. A deleted scene has him accidentally killed by Hector
  • Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, offended by the very thought of two men competing in pairs figure skating and afraid their thunder will be stolen from them, start utilizing increasingly underhanded tactics to ensure their victory and unbalance their opponents. The siblings' most appalling moments are directed towards their little sister Katie, who they've kept under their heel ever since their parents died in a car crash while taking her to her own skating lessons. They've held this incident over Katie's head to have her serve their every whim, including forcing her to function as a Honey Trap for Jimmy. When Katie begins to have real feelings for Jimmy, Stranz and Fairchild bully her into pretending to seduce his skating partner Chazz in such a manner that Jimmy will stumble onto it and break their partnership.
• The Bleeding: Johnny the Perv, a scumbag who helps lure people to Cain's vampire nightclub, and takes the opportunity to sexually harass random women.
• Blood of Beasts: Sven, Freya's fiance, acts like a warrior of great valor, but is secretly a scumbag out to become chief at any cost. After leaving the chief to die at the hands of the monstrous Agnar, Sven consolidates his power by threatening his best friend's life and declaring that Freya will marry him whether she likes it or not. Freya then rescues her father, whom Sven decides to kill to keep his power going. However, he is distracted by leading the trie to rescue Freya so he doesn't look a coward, an accusation he threatens to kill anybody who makes.
• Bloodshot (2020):
  • Dalton shows that he is a big asshole who enjoys tormenting Ray every time he resets him and making unwanted advances towards KT. He also shows that he doesn't really care for anyone as during the final battle against Ray, he deliberately allows his partner Tibbs to fall to his death rather then save him, not even shedding one ounce of remorse to which Ray is so disgusted that he forces Dalton to share the same fate.
  • Dr. Emil Harting is just a real sociopathic monster at that, who intentionally implanted fake painful memories in Ray in order for him to track down and kill his former employers for leaving him, repeating the same process over and over. Harting would plan to remove Ray's nanites when he fully finishes his purpose. He forcefully subjagate KT by turning off her lungs when she grews tired of him using Ray and tries to resist him showing that he doesn't care about anyone not even his current employers and would freely use and discard when he likes. Needless to say, no one is going to miss Harting when Ray finally kills the arrogant prick.
• Bohemian Rhapsody: Paul Prenter, Mercury's personal manager. He’s a slimy, bigoted, racist, and manipulative piece of shit with no redeeming characteristics who leads Freddie down the life of sex and alcohol.
• BrainDead:
  • Ever since her husband died, Vera Cosgrove has bullied her son Lionel into spending all his time with her. When he actually gets a date, she stalks the two and manipulates him into leaving her after getting bitten by an animal. The infection eventually turns Vera into a zombie, who turns several of the neighbors. As Lionel tries to deal with the zombie attack, he learns that Vera drowned her own husband along with his mistress. Soon after, she mutates into a giant monster and tries to force Lionel into her womb to be with him forever.
  • Uncle Les manages to be an even worse person than Vera. He blackmails Lionel into giving him the house and his half of Vera's fortune, attempts to rape Paquita, then leaves her and Lionel to die at the hands of the zombies. He proves himself to be a competent zombie killer, but enjoys the slaughter way more than he should, torturing the zombified Father McGruder by pulling his teeth and boasting about how he's going to dismember an infected woman. In the end, it's quite satisfying to watch Paquita smash his head to bits against the counter.
• Breakdown: Since most of the film revolves around Jeff Taylor desperately clawing his way through for his missing wife, Amy, it's very obvious that the supposedly helpful trucker who calls himself "Red Barr" when his name is actually "Warren" is meant to be rooted against as he turns out to be a cruel, cold-blooded, and sociopathic serial killer who lures his unwary victims into a trap and has them killed by his thugs in disguise for both a living and for his own greed. Red fulfills his schemes by means of lying, making Jeff paranoid and distraught by playing mind games, refusing to listen to reason, and deliberately breaking promises to let Amy go. Even though Red has a beloved wife and son, this was obviously meant to be inexcusable since he has lied to them entirely as well. Since all of this is evident in the third act, the audience can tell how much Jeff hates that guy, and Amy's abundant fear of him also counts.
  • Earl, one of Red's thugs, is almost assuredly this as well. He's an obnoxious, bullying hypocrite who not only blames his problem on Jeff, but after holding him hostage, he gloats about how easy Jeff and Amy fell into a trap, how they sabotaged their new vehicle, and how the rest of the criminals intend to kill them anyway. The mustachioed hick finally gets what's coming to him afterwards when Jeff finally snaps.
• Bronx Warriors series:
  • 1990: The Bronx Warriors: Hammer the Exterminator is a mercenary who left the crime-ridden Bronx to make a name for himself. When the daughter of a recently-deceased MegaCorp president flees to the Bronx so the Vice President can't use her as a puppet, Hammer is sent in to capture or eliminate her. When the girl is defended by a criminal named Trash, Hammer kills some of his gang and pays others to betray them. When this doesn't work, he starts a Mob War with a rival group so he can kill the two and escape undetected. Trash manages to end the war, so Hammer gives up and has sone thugs burn both gangs alive.
  • Escape 2000:
    • Floyd Wengler is a mercenary hired to clear out the Bronx so it can be gentrified. Being Only in It for the Money unlike his well-intentioned bosses, Wengler immediately starts massacring the borough. Trash survives one of these attacks and starts a rebellion, so Wengler has various rebels' relatives kidnapped and forced to suicide bomb their base. When his boss President Clark is kidnapped, Wengler takes the opportunity to betray him so his replacement can pay him more, forcing his goons to kill themselves in booby traps while he hunts them down. The people of the Bronx start to openly revolt against Wengler, so he simply abandons his men to their fates, killing anybody who hinders his escape.
    • Vice President Hoffman is one of the people managing the gentrification project, and easily the most loathsome of the bosses. Happily signing off on Wengler's genocidal plans, Hoffman secretly plots to usurp the company from Clark. He seizes an opportunity to do so when Clark is kidnapped, offering Wengler a raise if he kills him. After the assassination succeeds, Hoffman has his chauffeur drive him away from the ensuing battle between his men and the Bronx's residents in cowardice.
• In Bruiser, Miles Styles is completely devoid of any redeeming characteristics. He is obnoxious, demanding, patronising, sexist, racist, miserly, unfaithful...the list goes on. He elevates being an Asshole Victim to the next level.
• In a departure from how its parent film franchise portrays its human antagonists, Bumblebee has Jack Burns portrayed quite sympathetically, being caring of his subordinates, wanting to destroy Bumblebee only to protect the planet and eventually realizing Bumblebee is a hero at the end. However, the movie gives every reason for us to hate Charlie's Alpha Bitch classmate Tina. Aside from being petty towards the former, including humiliating her at work, she decides to take things too far by making fun of Charlie's dead father. Thus, no sympathy is given to her when Bumblebee takes a prank involving egging her car one step further by jumping on it, thus turning it into scrap metal. He, Charlie, and Memo are clearly enjoying it, and the audience likely is too.
• Bullet Train: While other assassins Prince, the White Death and Wolf are vicious and clearly evil, they at least have some sympathetic qualities. Hornet possesses none. She's basically a sociopathic murderer who is willing to kill anyone.

C

• Candyman: Trevor, Helen's husband, proves himself to be a gigantic asshole when it's revealed that he's been having an affair with his student, Stacy, behind his wife's back. And even worse, he allowed her to move in with him when Helen was locked up in the asylum, which heavily implied he was willing to let her rot in there as he began a new life with his mistress. Even though he begins to show some regret over his unfaithfulness, his death at the hands of his wife's vengeful ghost is very much earned.
• Casino: Ginger is a shrill, greedy, and self-destructive character who has no genuinely human moments. The story makes it clear that you are not supposed to sympathize with her.
• Castle Freak (1995): Duchess D'Orsino, a noblewoman who responds to her husband abandoning her by torturing their son for forty years, down to castrating him. This drives the son to utter madness, therefore indirectly creating the film's plot by making him the Big Bad.
• The Cat in the Hat: Lawrence "Larry" Quinn is a repulsive bum and con man who deceives Joan Walden into thinking that he's highly-successful so that she'll go out with him. When Joan's troublemaking son Conrad shows such intense dislike for him that he wants him out of the way, Quinn insists Conrad be sent to a military school and then smugly taunts him about it privately only to pretend to be friendly again right after. Losing things in his house to repo men and wanting to leech off Joan by marrying her, Quinn also chases the kids down in order to plan for both Conrad and now Sally too to be sent away, only ultimately stopped by The Cat's interference—and Quinn's own allergic reaction to him—in the end.
• Central Intelligence: As a teenager, Trevor cruelly humiliated Bob by tossing him naked into the gym during the pep-rally. When Bob meets up with him 20 years later, he seems to be apologetic... only to continue verbally humiliating Bob to lower his self-esteem. After trying to belittle Bob again at the high school reunion, he earns himself a well-deserved decking from Bob himself.
• Chappie: Vincent Moore was made to be hated. A Corrupt Corporate Executive and Armchair Military who wants people to purchase his Moose project come hell or high water, he tortures Chappie (who is a robot but alive, and Moore hates that) to get his hands on a decryption key to hack all of the Scout robots in Johannesburg, shut them down and turn the whole place into an Urban Hellscape in a hurry so he will have perfect conditions to demonstrate the Moose (which, by the way, is packing the kind of firepower only meant for battlefields and most definitely not non-lethal riot control — the Johannesburg police told Moore this to his face as they pointed out how Awesome, but Impractical the machine is, which only incensed him to make his insane plan). He also brings a gun to the company offices and puts it to Deon's face when he gets angry at him at one point and tries to play it off as a joke when the other employees witness it.
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has Violet's absolutely horrendous mother. While a major point in the book and both films is that the brats' parents made them the way they are, this overbearing Stage Mom in particular gets a lot of emphasis. And it's clear she's groomed her daughter to be an overachiever for herself and only herself.
• Charlie's Angels trilogy:
  • 2000 film: Vivian Wood is Eric Knox's girlfriend and helps assist him in his plans to kill Charles "Charlie" Townsend to avenge his father. Though loyal to him, she comes off as way more smug and unlikable, displaying a taunting demeanor as she goes along. Angel Dylan Sanders ends up captured because of Vivian and she destroys Angel Natalie Cook's phone during a fight too for no real good reason.
  • Full Throttle: Seamus O'Grady is an Irish mobster who dated and was put away by Dylan who ended up in Witness Protection because of it. Released early from prison, he taunts and fights Dylan and threatens to kill her friends Natalie and Angel Alex Munday just to hurt her even more. During the climax, O'Grady kills the Thin Man by stabbing him in the back with his own blade.
  • 2019 film:
    • Hodak is the cruel assassin hired by John Bosley to help the latter achieve the energy saver turned weapon Callisto. Hodak targets and tries to kill future Angel Elena Houghlin and kills Angel Jane Kano's mentor Edgar "Bosley" Dessange instead. Unlike the Thin Man who is very suave and mostly composed, Hodak, while also chilling calm, is nothing but a sadistic and cold blunt instrument.
    • Peter Flemming is Elena's greedy and sexist supervisor who intends to sell Callisto to Bosley despite hearing how dangerous it is and shuts Elena down on warning about how dangerous it is given the flaw that makes it a biological weapon. Flemming also goes along with Hodak targeting Elena to get her out of the way. By the end of the day, Flemming has no idea how to work the device and ends up killed as nothing but a useless pawn.
• Chicago: Fred Casely is a furniture salesman claiming to Roxie Hart that he can get her a headliner show and uses it as a means of seducing her into an extra martial affair (having done it to other women before her too while lying about having a family)—and after they're done, when she presses him on it, he says it was the only way to convince her to go to bed with him. When Roxie is understandably upset and is begging him not to say that, Casely pushes her down violently while saying that he'll punch her out if she touches him again. With Roxie in a fit of rage then pulling her husband Amos's gun and shooting Casely dead, given what he did leading into it, one simple sentence said many times sums it up: "He had it comin'".
• Chinatown: Noah Cross, despite being one of cinema's most iconic villains, is an absolute scumbag with no sympathetic traits whatsoever. Despite his facade of being a Cool Old Guy working to help with the drought, he's really trying to profit from it. He'll also kill anyone (directly or indirectly) who could stand in his way, including assorted innocents or his own son-in-law. He even raped his own daughter when she was a teenager. In the end when Evelyn's shot by the police, he barely shows concern and tried to forcibly take Katherine away with him. And he gets away with it all.
• Christopher Robin: Giles Winslow Jr. is smug, demanding, and lazy, making him easy to root against. Cementing his status as one is the nit is revealed spent the weekend golfing instead of helping Christopher Robin work out the cost-cutting at the company. It's here that it's revealed that the whole 'swimmer or sinker' spiel he gave to Christopher was nothing more than a manipulation tactic Winslow spun just to get someone else to do his work for him, all the while knowing full well that his own job security was almost assured because his father Winslow Sr. is the company founder.
• Circle had the Pragmatist faction conflict with the Idealist faction over whether the group should favor a pregnant woman and little girl, or adopt an "every man for himself" attitude. The Rich Man, in particular, is The Social Darwinist who'll stop at nothing to be the last person standing. At the end, Eric becomes one as he was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing the entire time.
• City Warriors: The secondary villains of the picture are a prostitution ring who tricks young, desperate woman in need of financial support to join them, and sell their services to wealthy clients who are usually abusive and have no qualms physically and sexually abusing helpless hookers. Any prostitutes who tries to make a getaway are quickly recaptured and delivered a thrashing, and those who knows the true nature of their businesses are summarily hunted down and executed, like the prostitute discovered in a sack early in the film.
  • The transvestite sister is a Transgender enforcer, an effeminate creep with violent tendencies who takes delight in beating up prostitutes personally, licking a scared prostitute too afraid to defend herself in her cheek, and orders an abused hooker that attempts a getaway to be tied upon a chair and tortured by having a plastic bag filled with cockroaches wrapped around her face. When not creeping out the audience by flirting with other men, he's (yes, he) also in charge of stalking and murdering prostitutes who tried to leave, and clearly takes delight in gutting hookers slowly and painfully just For the Evulz. If audiences doesn't hate him for being violent and ruthless, they can sure hate him for being creepy and revolting.
  • Senator Chor is a Corrupt Politician secretly running the prostitution ring while keeping their shady activities hidden using his power. When Lok Han's sister, forced into prostitution by her husband, escapes the ring, he personally orders his enforcer and The Dragon, Sai-kit to hunt her down, killing several police officers and witnesses. With nobody to testify against him, he then smugly rubs his position of power before the presses saying how he's an honest politician that cares for the people, with rivals who spread false lies about him to tarnish his good reputation.
• Clockstoppers: Henry Gates is the head of the government funded QT Labs who oversees the creation of the HyperTime watch. He threatens and forces scientist Earl Doppler to continue to work on it and in it and Doppler ages quickly as a result. Gates then forces the same on Dr. George Gibbs later on and threatens Dr. Gibbs's son Zak and his girlfriend Francesca to help further his possession of the technology with the intention of betraying the NSA with it.
• Con Air: Johnny 23, real name Johnny Baca, is the worst prisoner onboard the titular plane. An unpleasant misogynist, Johnny 23 was convicted of 23 counts of rape (hence the nickname), though he boasts that the number is closer to 600. Because of his crimes, every other ruthless and dangerous criminal is disgusted by him, with criminal mastermind Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom threatening to kill him if he tries to rape the lone female guard onboard. As such, none of the convicts bat an eye when, after Johnny tries to rape said female guard, he is brutally beaten, chained up, and gruesomely killed when the plane crashes.
• Dr. Gerhard Klopfer in Conspiracy (2001), who stands out as the most detestable character in a film filled with Nazis. He and his colleagues are all genocidal imperialists, but most of them are at least pragmatic, coldly efficient, or not completely unsympathetic (Kritzinger and Lange). Klopfer tops them all by being morbidly obese, gluttonous, ugly, rude, an open pervert, even more simple-mindedly racist than the others, and cowardly (he makes jokes about Heydrich's possible Jewish ancestry behind his back but dares not to say it to his face when dared to do so by Mueller).
• In Contagion (2011), you can't really hate a nonsentient virus. You can hate Alan Krumwiede, a fame-hungry conspiracy theorist that's more than willing to lie to and defraud thousands of people, possibly resulting in their deaths.
• The Craft:
  • First film: Chris Hooker is an arrogant and misogynistic student despite seemingly befriending Sarah. After wooing her on an innocent date, Chris begins to spread rumors about Sarah putting out to brag about "scoring" with her and getting Sarah shammed. It's evident that he did the same to Nancy, and is implied to have even given her an STD. It's also implied he does the same with other girls in his school. As punishment, Chris is subjected to a spell that turns him a lovesick lapdog for Sarah, but it ultimately backfires when he becomes an obsessed stalker and ultimately tries to rape her.
  • The Craft: Legacy: Adam Harrison seems to be a stern but understanding stepfather to Lily, but slowly shows himself to be a controlling leader of a patriarchal cult, and a practicing warlock trying to prey on Lily's power. When he reveals this, he goes on a rant about how women should know their place, and that he murdered Timmy for being a "weak" man when he started showing his sensitive side; it's also implied that he killed him due to Timmy's bisexuality and knew that Timmy slept with his son.]]
• Crime Story: Detective Hung initially appears to be Eddie’s (Jackie Chan) Pointy-Haired Boss, but he’s secretly a triad informant and The Mole who abuses his power constantly. His Establishing Character Moment depicts him as a Fat Bastard and pervert who forces his fat, oversized gut into a bar-girl he hired, sexually humiliate her while forcing her against a corner in an elevator, and slaps her for crying when they get out. He pretends to be on the same side as Eddie, but actually double-crosses everyone (such as the Taiwanese triad boss he’s supposedly an informer for) if it means things will go in his favour. While Hung and Eddie both gets arrested, Hung uses his triad connections to snake his way out while allowing Eddie to take a beating from the Taiwanese police. When Eddie finds out Hung is a traitor, Hung tries to get Eddie killed by trapping him in the lower hull of a ship filling with water. When all hell breaks loose in the finale, Hung ditches his mooks and tries making a run for it, and further takes advantage of Eddie (when Eddie had to momentarily stop to save a child trapped in the fire) by closing the nearest possible exit after he got through, trying to have Eddie and a child killed in the inferno.
• Cruella: The Baroness lacks any likable or redeeming traits, and is made to be much worse than Cruella even in her most villainous depictions.
• Curly Sue: Walker McCormick is an outright snobby businessman with zero redeeming qualities. He jealously looks down upon the homeless Bill Dancer and Bill's surrogate daughter Curly Sue for being cared for by his fiancé Grey Ellison and ends up getting Bill arrested and Curly Sue sent into welfare to try to get rid of them. Both the loathing and remorseless traits Walker exudes only seals how detestable he is and makes Bill and Curly Sue all the more likable.
• Cursed (2005): A contrast to the more entertaining Joanie, despite starting out as a loving boyfriend, Jake Taylor loses such qualities upon being revealed to be the Alpha Werewolf who bit Ellie and Jimmy. This may also imply he might have killed his ex girlfriend Becky, and possibly Jenny. Jake is a womanizer seeking for the perfect girl to be his life mate, and upon revealing his true colors, becomes possessive towards Ellie and trying to kill her brother. Throughout this, he belittles Ellie for being "weak", mocks her over her failures in life and her parents death.

D

• Damsel: Queen Isabelle is a vile class snob who looks down on self-made wealthy people and is willing to sacrifice innocent women to a bloodthirsty dragon.
• Dawn of the Dead (2004): From the moment Steve the sarcastic yuppie first appears on screen, you're rooting for him to become zombie-chow.
• D.E.B.S.:
  • Ms. Petrie, the supposed Big Good and head of the titular D.E.B.S program, turns out to be an arrogant glory seeker, who cares more about her program's reputation and image than actually stopping threats. When Lucy and Amy's relationship is discovered, she threatens to have Amy exiled and upturn her life, before agreeing to force Amy to claim she was a brainwashed captive and publicly denounce her relationship with Lucy.
  • Bobby Matthews is Amy's clingy, pushy and controlling ex-boyfriend, who not only refuses to accept their breakup, but take offence over her and Lucy's relationship — with exception that her being a lesbian is "hot". As Amy is being forced to denounce Lucy, Bobby resumes dating Amy against her actual will, and soon tries to kill Lucy, spitefully after Amy publicly declared her love for her.
• Death Machine: The movie makes it clear from the get-go that the Greater-Scope Villain is MegaCorp CHAANK Industries, a cabal of corrupt executives perfectly willing and able to do horrible things to children, soldiers (and anybody unlucky enough to get in the effective lethal radius of their weapons projects) to get a dime. This company's mentality is represented by Carpenter (a Fat Bastard Corrupt Corporate Executive), who himself is grossed out by Brad Dourif's Jack Dante (the Psychopathic Manchild Mad Scientist that heads some of CHAANK's most brutal projects, including Hardman and "Warbeast", the titular Mechanical Abomination).
• Simon Canton in Deep Rising. The monsters are predators that live to consume, and most of the mercenaries are too cool and entertaining to reallly loathe. Canton, however, is only selfish, cowardly, and greedy. He's not so bad at first (having clearly established with Finnegan that he had planned for everyone aboard the boat to be safely evacuated), but he eventually tries to leave the other survivors for dead, then tries to kill Trillian, shrugs off all of the passengers' deaths because he can still scam the insurance agency if the ship sinks, and tries to steal Finnegan's boat. He meets a deliciously Karmic Death.
• Demolition Man: Dr. Raymond Cocteau, Mayor Pain of San Angeles, is one of the two main villains and by far the more detestable. While Simon Phoenix is a total mass-murdering psycho, he is hilarious and charismatic; Dr. Cocteau is a smarmy, arrogant moral busybody who has outlawed anything that can possibly offend everyone, like meat, swearing, and sex, maintains total control over his citizens, and has turned the populace into a bunch of easily-frightened cowards. He also forces the dissidents, the Scraps, to live in the sewers and starve to death, while releasing Phoenix from prison specifically to kill them all for daring to rebel against his utopia. Dr. Cocteau is shown to be a self-righteous Smug Snake who cares more about his vision than actual human lives, and lacks the coolness factor of Phoenix, ultimately dying pathetically to one of Phoenix's henchmen.
• Detention: Sander Sanderson is introduced making unwanted advances towards Riley Jones, a process he repeats on a regular basis. Having murdered popular students Taylor Fisher and Billy Nolan, as well as Principal Karl Verge and Exchange Student Gord, Sander goes back in time, and, after being rejected by Riley one too many times, tries to convince a young Karl Verge to detonate Grizzly Lake with his assistance. When Riley and Clapton Davis interfere with his plan, Sander attempts to set off the bomb himself, only succeeding at killing himself. In the altered timeline, Sander attacks Riley and Clapton, breaks Riley's leg, then expresses his frustration with Riley's refusal to have sex with him, as well as his hatred for Grizzly Lake, killing fellow classmate Alexis when she walks in on him and Riley. Overall, Sander reveals himself as a petty douche who would murder a large number of people for immature reasons.
• The Devil All the Time:
  • Carl Henderson is an absolute monster who traps his wife in a violent relationship and murders people by offering them false rides. It is very satisfying when Arvin kills him.
  • Reverend Preston Teagardin is also this as he not only raped Lenore, but had also refused to take responsibility for his actions.
• Les Diaboliques has the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school Michel, so cruel that his wife, Christine, to protect the schoolboys, as well as herself, from his violent streak, conspires with his Mistress Nicole to kill him. However, in one of the biggest twists in film history, it's revealed it was all a hoax, and Michel is alive, which he lets Christine know in a such a terrifying way, it causes the physically frail woman to have a heart-attack, which he intended all along so that he and Nicole could be together.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
  • Patty Farrell pretty much exists to give Greg someone more arrogant and unpleasant than to put up with (especially when he mellows out in the second and third films). Throughout the trilogy, Patty is not only shown to be a two-faced, and hot headed student body president; she takes every chance to take a potshot against Greg, due to a grudge from being teased by Greg in kindergarten, even beating him up twice over it. She also threatens to ruin the theatre teacher's job if she doesn't get the part she wants. It doesn't stop her from being superficially friendly to other students, and she gets little to no comeuppance throughout.
  • Heather Hills is Holly's older sister, and their differences couldn't be any more stark. Perhaps a nastier bully than Roderick. Throughout Dog Days, she's portrayed as a callous, self centered alpha bitch, who spends her screen time either insulting or bullying someone, and getting outraged when her demands aren't met. She wouldn't even help pool goers when she was on lifeguard duty. When her Sweet Sixteen is accidentally ruined by Roderick, ending with her humiliation, even Holly agrees she deserves it.
  • Also in Dog Days, Stan Warren is a neighbor to the Heffley's, initially shown to have a better family life than the Heffley's. Later on, it turns out Stan is a petty arrogant scout leader, belittling and insulting Frank behind his back. It also turns out he's lying about being a better camper as he included several modern day conveniences in his camp.
• Die Hard:
  • Harry Ellis is Holly's creepy coworker who makes unwanted advances towards her while disparaging her estranged husband John McClane. During the Nakatomi Plaza invasion led by Hans Gruber, he proves to be an incompetent coward by despicably trying to sell John out to Hans before being shot in cold blood by Hans out of annoyance.
  • Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson is a high ranking LAPD officer who is dismissive of Sgt. Al Powell's suggestions with regards to the course of action the police must take. Rather than investigate the body of a dead gunman, Robinson dismisses the body as a suicide victim, ignoring the bullet holes on Powell's car. When John McClane tries to warn Robinson about a trap laid by the gunmen, Robinson ignores the former's warning, then complains about his men being covered in glass when John neutralizes two gunmen using explosives. How much of a Hate Sink is he? Roger Ebert gave the film a bad review and declared that he hated the movie just because of him!
  • Special Agent "Big" Johnson and Agent "Little" Johnson^note No relation. are arrogant FBI Agents who talk down to Powell and the aforementioned Robinson. Against Robinson's protests, the agents unwittingly play into the robbers' hands by cutting the power. Upon estimating a 20-25% loss of hostages if they take out Hans Gruber and his crew, the agents decide to attack regardless of civilian casualties. After mistaking John McClane for a gunman, both agents end up getting killed when Hans blows up the roof and their helicopter is caught in the blast.
  • Richard "Dick" Thornburg is the amoral reporter that ends up exposing Holly McClane's identity by threatening the McClanes' housekeeper with deportation and terrorizing their kids, all for the sake of a story. When Dick attempts to interview John and Holly, he receives a well-deserved punch in the face, courtesy of the latter. In Die Hard 2, Dick is mentioned to have made a scathing article about airlines and stewardesses, and to whit treats the stewardesses with disrespect. When Dick broadcasts on international TV that the airport has been hijacked, thereby causing a panic that the authorities were desperately trying to avoid, he is tased by Holly to shut him up.
• Django Unchained:
  • Calvin Candie is a slavemaster who owns the infamous plantation Candieland in Mississippi, where the titular protagonist's wife Broomhilda was sold. Initially presented as a charming, intelligent Francophile, Candie ultimately subverts Evil Is Cool as the film progresses. With his bigotry, arrogance and borderline sadism, Candie is a representation of much of the negative stereotypes involving people from the Deep South. Viewing his slaves (and other people of African origin) as nothing more than property and participates in a gruesome blood sport called Mandingo fighting, where male slaves were forced to fight to the death for a small amount of money. When one slave attempted to escape to avoid being part of the brawl, Candie orders him to be eaten alive by a pack of dogs. His cultured facade is nothing more than a sham, as shown by his violent reaction after Schultz called him "Mister" rather than "Monsieur", and is implied to be nothing short of envious that Schultz actually displays more culture than he does. In addition, Candie's seemingly profound interest of France is proven to be a skin-deep farce, as he barely has as much knowledge as he presents of the country (he didn't know that his favourite author Alexandre Dumas was black), let alone speak French.
  • Between his Boomerang Bigot outlook and his severely unforgiving cruelty towards his own people, Stephen manages to rival, if not completely trump his master in sheer hatefulness. Samuel L. Jackson has, on record, said that he intended for Stephen to be the most hated black character ever seen on the silver screen.
• Do Revenge: Max Broussard is the rich, sexist and self-absorbed ex-boyfriend of Drea Torres who leaked the sex tape that she made of herself for him to the whole school because he felt threatened by her power and dominance and falsely claims his phone was hacked to be absolved of any wrongdoing. Max then uses the incident as well as his already powerful platform to launch a group to empower girls when really he's only interested in continuing to bolster his own image—and takes many opportunities to cheat on his girlfriend Tara too, much like it's discovered he did with Drea before her. While everyone is squarely on Max's side, it's eventually revealed that they all suspect how truly awful he really is and only did so because he proved too influential to challenge or go against—which makes it even easier for everyone to eventually turn completely against him once his deception is fully exposed.
• Don't Kill It: Pastor Erikson is a priest in a small Mississippi town. When a young Evelyn Pierce is saved from certain death by her mother's angelic blood, Erikson accuses them if being in league with the Devil and leads a campaign to drive them out of town. Twenty years later, a body-jumping demon is terrorizing the town and Pierce returns as an FBI agent to solve the case. Erikson accuses her of helping the fiend, even trying to exorcise demon hunter Jebediah Woodley. When Woodley and Pierce manage to capture the demon, Erikson leads an Angry Mob to rescue it thinking it's an innocent townsperson, trying to personally murder Pierce when she gets in his way.
• Don't Look Up:
  • The audience can’t hate Comet Dibiasky, as it is a force of nature, but they can hate President Janie Orlean for being a complete idiot whose actions lead to humanity’s mass extinction. She treats the heroes with apathy, is revealed to have an affair with the sheriff, agrees with Isherwell’s plan to mine the comet instead of destroying it like in the first attempt, starts a smear campaign against Kate and Randall in response to their “Just Look Up” movement, is shown to have a callous disregard for rules and responsibilities and cuts China, India and Russia off from the deflection mission. She finally accepts the gravity of the situation once the BASH BEADs fail to completely obliterate the comet, but instead of going down with the planet, she escapes in a Sleeper Ship with 2,000 other people just to save her pathetic hide and to add to that, she leaves her own son behind by accident. But the karma gods are not mocked. In the film’s epilogue, she ends up becoming a bronteroc’s lunch.
  • Janie's son Jason is being a super dumbass who treats the heroes with apathy and doesn’t take the threat seriously. Depending on your interpretation, it can be hard to feel sorry for him after his mother and Isherwell abandon him to his fate.
  • Peter Isherwell is being an absolutely arrogant moron. He has the most direct influence on humanity's extinction at the end of the movie, and is presented without any redeeming traits. His aborting the initial deflection mission is an Establishing Character Moment that shows how greedy and uncaring he truly is. He doesn’t even give Randall the time of day when the former tries to correct him on the sync-rates of his BEADs.
  • The Orlean administration and the other government and media officials are hated for their apathy, ignorance, in general, being a bunch of dumbasses. The karma gods are not mocked by the elites survival, as they end up getting stuck on a planet full of hungry Brontorocs.
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold: Alejandro Gutierrez is the true Big Bad of the film. A greedy (and apparently murderous) treasure hunter, Alejandro has the teenaged Dora Márquez, her cousin Diego and their classmates abducted and eventually abducts Dora's parents to use them all to find the lost city of gold Parapata and then plans to kill them all when he is done. Alejandro's greed eventually leads him to ruin though as he is captured and imprisoned in the city forever.
• Double Impact: The corrupt Nigel Griffith and his partner, crime-lord Raymond Zhang, conspire to kill off Griffith's business partner Paul Wagnar for profit, even ordering the deaths of his family, including his young twin sons, Alex and Chad. Hunted down by the twins decades later, the cowardly duo hide behind their goons, attempt more crimes and when finally confronted, both run for their lives, loathsome entirely.
• Downfall: While Adolf Hitler himself is portrayed as a pitiful shell of a man, Reich Minister of Propaganda Jospeh Goebbels embodies all of Hitler's evil with none of his delusional madness. A fanatical Nazi loyalist, Goebbels encourages Hitler's worst impulses and attacks anyone who dares question their Führer. He knowingly sends civilians to die in a futile attempt to stop the Soviets, and then admits he doesn't care because he blames them for losing the war (by following the Nazis in the first place). And rather than accept surrender, Goebbels and his wife Magda murder their children before killing themselves in one of the darkest scenes of the film.
• Dumbo (2019): Rufus Sorghum, the cartoonishly evil hick who works at Medici’s circus, exists purely to piss people off and to abuse the animals. Vandemere’s lieutenant is also only there to serve as a more physical threat to the heroes during the climax.
• Dune (1984): The Baron, more so than in the book as he's physically repulsive, devoid of the original character's suave manners and even gives a Spiteful Spit when he has Lady Jessica at his mercy. Funnily enough, the Fremen consider that a compliment.

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• Edward Scissorhands:
  • Jim is Kim Boggs' boyfriend, who gets violently possessive when the childlike Edward is brought home by her mom. He decides to manipulate him into picking a lock for his gang to rob a place, leaving him to be arrested when a burglar alarm goes off. When Kim dumps him over this, he drives around in a drunken rage and almost runs over her kid brother. He then blames Edward for a scratch the kid got from being rescued and leads an Angry Mob to kill him, eventually slapping Kim when she tries to stop him.
  • Joyce is a bored housewife whose interest is piqued when Edward arrives. She offers to help him use his scissor hands to open a salon, but this is a front to seduce him. When he resists, not understanding what's happening, she tries to force herself on him. Edward successfully escapes the assault, but Joyce uses a scratch she got in the process to claim he tried to rape her.
• Elf is a feel-good holiday comedy about reconciliation between father and son Walter and Buddy Hobbs, and as such lacks a true villain, but it does have Fulton Greenway, the blowhard publisher of the book company Walter works for, and the reason why the latter is such a Christmas-hating workaholic. Greenway is the only character not to learn the True Meaning of Christmas in the film, and Walter's big redemption moment comes during a meeting with Greenway, held at night on Christmas Eve, where he realizes that his son is more important and tells Greenway where to stick it, leaving the latter ranting and raving in the boardroom. He's played by the same actor as Godzilla's Mayor Ebert, below.
• The Equalizer:
  • Nicolai is a remorseless, sociopathic mob enforcer without any redeeming qualities.
  • Slavi. He's a scumbag pimp who casually brutalizes the sex slaves under his thumb and sees them more as merchandise than actual people. Nobody is sorry to see him go.
  • They're not even associated with the Russian mafia, but Detectives Gilly and Harris are just greedy assholes who extort local businesses and set fire to them when they're late on "payments."
• Enemy Mine: Stubbs is an illegal miner who takes advantage of the human-Drac war to enslave the latter, trapping them in hellish conditions where they're worked and starved to death. Stubbs even does this to children, leading a stranded soldier named Davidge to go after him when he kidnaps his adopted Drac kid. When Davidge shows up to rescue the boy, Stubbs tries to kill him for an advantage in the fight.
• The Exorcist: Pazuzu, the demon possessing Regan McNeil, is not only one of the most infamous movie monsters, but also one of the few designed to be unambiguously vile and repulsive in every way. He subjects poor Regan and her mother to horrifying trauma, including raping the girl with a crucifix, mocks the priests trying to help her with their past tragedies, and constantly spews violently misogynist drivel. Pazuzu is just as loathsome in The Exorcist III despite his limited presence, trapping Father Karras in his own body with the bloodthirsty Gemini Killer solely to torment his foe. He is utterly devoid of any amusing or cool qualities, leaving only a disgusting, cowardly worm hiding behind the victims he abuses, and a demon the audience will want to see burn.
• Elvis (2022):
  • Colonel Tom Parker is a monstrously selfish, out-of-touch con artist who parasitically leeches off of Elvis's success while cutting the fog any opportunities that allow Elvis to do what he wants so Parker can keep his grip on his meal ticket. Not only that, but he refuses to accept responsibility for his actions and points the fingers at pretty much everyone but himself for Elvis' downfall.
  • Even more so is the political racist bigot that is Senator Eastland, whose close-minded, bigoted views against African-Americans are the reason why he blackmails Tom Parker into "sanitizing" Elvis under the threat of exposing Parker's immigration status. This results in the "new", more family-friendly Elvis Presley, much to the frustration of Presley himself and his fans. What makes this scumbag of a person even more jarring is that the exact same scene where Presley rebels against the Colonel and Eastland during a concert, Eastland is seen proudly preaching white supremacy under the confederate flag, showing how proudly devoted he is to his close-minded and hateful views.
• Amir in Extraction was made to be hated. He's a crime lord who will stop at nothing to kill the target child Ovi.

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• Fanny and Alexander: Edvard Vergérus is a deeply corrupt bishop and becomes the step-father to the titular children. Everything changes as he turns the kids and their mom Emelie's lives into a living hell with his fanatical and horrendously abusive parenting. It even goes to the point when the children are forced to escape his house. Not only this, but he is shown to be very manipulative as he tries to have the kids back by blackmailing Emelie and her brothers. Oh, and he is openly anti-Semitic too. Ingmar Bergman and Jan Malmsjö did a great job at making you hate this man as much as possible.
• Faster: In contrast to the moral complexity of the other characters, Old Guy is presented as a loathsome old weasel who gets his rocks off from other people's suffering and begs for undeserved mercy when the cards are stacked against him. Furthermore, due to his involvement in snuff filmmaking, his murder is seen by the police as a public service.
• Fast X: Aimes has NO redeeming characteristics throughout the film, as he not only antagonizes Dom and his crew, but when he seemingly pulls a Heel-Face Turn as a result of the attack launched by Dante, it was revealed that he was a mole working for the man the entire time. Because of this, those traits make him very unsympathetic.
• Fear (1996): David McCall is an Ax-Crazy sociopath who believes himself deserving of total ownership of Nicole. He starts out engaging in relatively minor rebellious behaviors but escalates when he beats up Gary for hugging Nicole and hits her in the process. Once he wins her back over, he proves himself to be just as detestable as ever, stealing Margo away from her boyfriend to rape her and threatening her when he suspects she told Nicole. Later, he murders Gary, and he and his gang break into Nicole's house with the intention of killing her entire family and Margo, then taking Nicole with him.
• Feast Of The Seven Fishes: Beth's mother (and her boyfriend) just serve to pressure her into something that she doesn't want.
• Firewall: There is nothing to like about psychopathic Big Bad Bill Cox, he deserved to be defeated and killed by Jack Stanfield for all of his crimes. And besides Cox himself, two of his four men are pretty terrible themselves:
  • Pim is the most ill-tempered of Cox's men. Aside from almost constantly screaming and yelling at Beth Stanfield and the kids, he grabs Andy and holds him down on the ground, grabs Sarah by her throat to threaten her and when Andy nearly suffocates from the tape around his mouth, he is willing to let him continue to struggle to breath. Pim is easily the most despicable and irritating of Cox's men without question.
  • Liam is probably the coldest of Cox's men. Aside from nearly breaking Andy's arm on Cox's behalf, Liam has no trouble threatening Vel at gun point when Vel is shocked by Cox killing Willy; he at times hits Jack for either lying about his gun or causing problems for them; flat out tells Sarah: "I just don't care about you" when she ask why he is so hateful toward them and then threatens Beth at gun point in order to help sell Cox's lie about her and Harry Romano. Liam is then unceremoniously the first after Willy to be killed by Jack not long after.
• The Flintstones: Cliff Vandercave is a Corrupt Corporate Executive at Slate & Co. and probably the darkest villain in the franchise. Having Fred Flintstone promoted to an executive position and forcing him to fire best friend Barney Rubble, Cliff seeks to embezzle and cheat the company—which he does so by firing everyone in the quarry through tricking Fred into signing papers and then framing Fred as his patsy—before Cliff intends to flee to a tropical getaway—even conspiring to abandon his lover and co-conspirator Miss Sharon Stone in the process. Cliff even tries to kill Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in a rock crushing machine to get what he wants, even after Fred and Barney trade him the Dictabird—the only viable witness against Cliff—and even shoots at both Fred and the bird too.
• The Fly II: Anton Bartok, the head of Bartok Industries, is the human face of corporate and scientific cruelty. Having previously funded Seth Bundle's experiments, he tricks Seth's lover Veronica into giving birth to Seth’s mutant offspring, to Barton's apathy. Raising the child Martin, as seemingly affectionate father figure, Bartok plans to exploit both Martin's genius to recreate the Brundle's telepods, as well as Martin's inborn mutation. Infamously, Bartok kept a dog mutated by his experiment alive and in agony for years, lying to Martin about having it put down. Fittingly, when the transformed Martin goes on a vengeful rampage against Bartok, he picks Bartok to be the one to swap him mutant genes within the perfected telepods. This leaves Martin cured and Bartok a miserable mutated monstrosity, kept prisoner by his former company.
• Footloose, being a film with a very sympathetic main villain in Rev. Shaw Moore, has two of these.
  • Principal Roger Dunbar is of the weaselly but ultimately ineffectual variety; Bomont's Smug Snake head educator, he is a fundamentalist Christian to a degree that creeps out out even Reverend Moore. Dunbar shares all his scenes with Moore and his role in the film consists entirely of making Moore look better by comparison. Dunbar's role in ultimately brief, but Moore's witnessing how far he's willing to go is the push he needs for his own Heel–Face Turn.
  • Chuck Cranston, meanwhile, is a threat in his own right. Ariel Moore's trucker boyfriend, he bashes women both verbally and physically, looks down on college students, manipulates Ariel's emotions following her brother's death to get in her pants, spreads rumors about Ren McCormack after Ariel becomes interested in him, and is involved in the drug trade. He ultimately suffers a one-two karmic punch of having his prized truck trashed by Ariel, and then being beaten up himself by Ren later on.
• Ford v Ferrari: Leo Beebe is an Obstructive Bureaucrat who personifies the bloated upper management of the Ford Motor Company that plagues Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles' efforts to build a world-class race car and beat Ferrari. A smug Control Freak with a personal grudge against Miles, Beebe does everything in his power to deny Miles to chance to race the 24 Hours of Le Mans and later sabotage the team for resisting his authority, even if it means that Ford loses to Ferrari once again.
• Free Guy: Antwan Hovachelik is the greedy and selfish head of Soonami Industries who stole the "Life Itself" game coding from programmers Millie Rusk and Walter "Keys" McKeys to create the game "Free City". Eventually learning of the sapience of the NPCs in the game created through the AI's original coding, Antwan—who let them all be subjected to constant abuse by the players and even reset the game in order to try wiping the NPCs' memories away too—seeks to destroy Guy and the rest of the game to prevent his theft of the code from being exposed by having the world attacked and then his new character Dude nearly kill Guy with his bare hands. Antwan then nearly personally wipes out all life in the game by viciously destroying almost all the servers with an ax—only relenting when Millie offers him the only thing he truly cares about—all current and future profits moving forward. His victory ends up being a pyrrhic one as "Free City 2", the game he was overseeing with the intent of replacing the original, is released as a buggy, disastrous mess that financially ruins him and his company.
• Freeway:
  • Ramona and Larry, Vanessa's parents, are white trash junkies who neglected their daughter so badly that she's barely literate. Ramona is introduced emotionally abusing Vanessa, and Larry regularly sexually abuses her.
  • Bob Wolverton, a psychiatrist who moonlights as a necrophiliac Serial Killer of teenage girls. When Vanessa cripples him to stop his crimes, he plays the innocent victim and tries to get her thrown in prison for life before trying to kill her himself. He's also revealed to have a shed full of child porn.
• Friday the 13th:
  • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood has the biggest one in the series in Dr. Crews, Tina's not so well intentioned doctor. He brings Tina back the place where her father died under the guise of helping her but is really trying to invoke stress in her so he can record and document her powers to get famous. To further invoke her powers he verbally abuses her, bringing up that she caused the accident that killed her father and calling her crazy and dangerous. When Tina is trying to warn everyone about a murder on the loose (i.e. Jason), he steals the evidence to try to further convince Tina she is crazy. When Tina's Mom finally realizes what he's doing, he threatens to use his doctors privilege to have Tina taken away from her and committed to an asylum to be in his "care" full time. Finally, when he and Tina's Mom encounter Jason, Crews pushes her on Jason to give himself time to run away. All of this makes it very satisfying when Jason kills him with a weed whacker to the stomach.
  • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan has Principal Charles Mc Culloch, the chaperone to the kids and Rennie's uncle. He spends the entirety of the movie criticizing others and reins in on the teens' fun. The thing that really pushes him over the edge is when it's reveal that, when Rennie was young, he told her a story about Jason drowning because he didn't know how to swim before he pushes Rennie into Crystal Lake to force her to learn how to swim. Jason repays him for that when he drowns him in a barrel of sewage.
    • Also the two thugs who drug and try to rape Rennie.
• The Frighteners: Johnny Bartlett and Patricia Bradley are the deranged serial killing couple who back in 1964 brutally shot and killed 12 people in a psychiatric hospital together before Bartlett was executed and Patricia was freed due to both lack of evidence and being a minor at the time. With Patricia performing a curse decades later that brings back Bartlett's ghost, the two kill at least a couple dozen more people by means of Bartlett reaching into their chests and stopping their hearts—including Frank Bannister's wife Debra and Dr. Lucy Lynskey's husband Ray—with the intent of breaking every serial killer record in the book and then past that indefinitely. Patricia also kills her own mother who was trying to keep her in check with Bartlett also holding Lucy down while Patricia nearly kills her with an ax—shortly after she's killed Milton Dammers and brutalized Frank who then promptly sends both Bartlett and Patricia straight to Hell.
• Full Metal Jacket:
  • Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was specifically played by ex-drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey as a bully who sucks at his job. Hartman spends his time berating his recruits more than instructing them, eventually latching onto one who's clearly out of his element. Nicknaming him "Gomer Pyle" after a dimwit from a popular TV show of the time, Hartman proceeds to encourage the rest of his trainees to mistreat the poor guy in an attempt to break his mind. It ends up backfiring horribly, as this drives him into a psychotic breakdown and ultimately gets Hartman killed when he abuses and berates him one time too many when he has a loaded weapon in his hands.
  • The door gunner is a sociopathic sadist who enjoys warfare far more than he should. While transporting Joker to his destination, he picks off every Vietnamese person he sees, soldier or civilian, with a smile on his face. claiming they're all the enemy whether it's true or not. His last line is him jokingly asking "Ain't war hell?," despite clearly loving it.

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• The Galaxy Invader: Joe Montague is a drunken redneck who is introduced slapping his adult daughter for dating a man he dislikes. When she slaps him back, he blasts at her with a shotgun, only barely missing. When an alien crashlands near his house, Joe obsessively hunts it down for the money, not caring who gets killed in the process. Soon after the alien kills his supposed best friend, Joe tries to rape her and then shoots her In the Back. His family eventually has enough and tries to leave, so Joe tries to kill them all.
• Onodera in Gamera vs. Barugon is a gargantuan asshole whose pursuit of wealth is carried out with neither empathy nor honour. It's hard not to cheer when he gets eaten.
• The General's Daughter: General Joseph Campbell is responsible for his daughters downward spiral, and ultimately her death. He is shown care more about his ambitions than justice for his daughter Elizabeth — as well as West Points image of integrity over its actual integrity. Years prior, Elizabeth was gang-raped by a group of soldiers, and Campbell agreed to help cover it up in exchange for a promotion. When Elizabeth tried to recreate her rape to get him to redeem himself, he refuses and abandons her. As this is exposed, he tries to maintain the cover up to the bitter end. When Campbell is court-martialed in disgrace, Warrant officer Brenner cites that it was his betrayal that broke Elizabeth worse than her rape.
• The Gentlemen: Dry Eye is an enforcer in the Chinese mob. Introduced receiving humans to potentially traffic for Lord George, Dry Eye gives a veiled threat to the seller when he does not have the money to pay him. The crime syndicate Dry Eye works for distributes heroin, which leads to the fatal overdosing of the teenager Laura Pressfield. Dry Eye helps Matthew Berger to try to undermine Mickey Pearson's own cannabis business for a lower price, but threatens him when he decides he wants it only for himself instead. Dry Eye then has Lord George killed when he confronts him about his betrayal and then later threatens and attempts to rape Mickey's wife Rosalind when she fights back. Despite mob violence from others as well, Dry Eye is the coldest and most uncaring by comparison.
• Get Out (2017): The Armitages were designed to be as despicable as possible, and their body-snatching scheme is an exaggerated allegory for the institutional racism black people have faced in the US for hundreds of years at the hands of white people.
• Gifted: Evelyn, is she ever. She single-handedly ruined the life of her daughter, Diane to the point where Diane is Driven to Suicide, tried to steal Mary from Frank, goes out of her way to ruin her son's life, reneged the custody agreement by sending Fred to an animal shelter against Mary's wishes, and clearly sees her own granddaughter as a tool instead of a person. She's pretty much an easy target for the audience to root against.
• The Gift (2000): Keanu plays a redneck named Donnie and he is the poster child of this trope. When he's not harassing Annie and her kids, he abuses his wife, cheats on her and would remind us that he's also a racist and anti-semitic.
• Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning:
  • Reverend Gilbert is the fire and brimstone preacher of Fort Bailey, expressing vehement racist views in his sermons, blaming the First Nations and interracial marriages for the presence of werewolves — even though they were brought over from Europe. A particular target of his ire is his leader, Wallace, Rowlands for his marriage to a Native woman. Taking an immediate disdain for the Fitzgerald sisters for being a "temptation", Gilbert tries to have them killed by a werewolf and later tries to burn Brigitte alive, denouncing her as a witch.
  • James is an arrogant, thuggish and racist Sargent of Fort Bailey, who regularly bullies everyone around him. Over the course of the film, he leaves one of his soldiers to be ripped apart by werewolves; attempts to rape Brigitte; throws a mixed race boy out of Fort Bailey to die after his father's death; and tries to batter Ginger herself when she shows up to rescue Brigitte.
• Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters (1984): Walter Peck is made especially obnoxious and slimy so that his entirely reasonable request to check the Ghostbusters' equipment quickly escalates into him rashly shutting down their containment grid and unleashing a literal hell on earth. Granted, Peck is absolutely right about the inadequacy of the containment procedures, but he proves it by breaking them. The fact that his first reaction to a disaster, which he is clearly responsible for bringing about in front of multiple witnesses, is to have the Ghostbusters arrested while totally ignoring his own culpability with such Smug Snake self-righteousness seals the deal securing the audience's hate for him. Presumably being drenched in marshmallow wasn't karma enough for him in the producers' opinion, because he gets possessed by Ivo Shandor in the video game/unofficial third "movie".
  • Ghostbusters II: Jack Hardemeyer makes Peck look NICE by comparison, due to having the 'Busters committed to the psych ward just as Vigo made his big play. He would have gotten himself pulled into the Museum's slime-shell, but this has yet to actually be seen and his comeuppance in the film proper is getting fired from the Mayor's cabinet.
• The Girl Next Door (2004): Kelly is Danielle's ex-boyfriend and manager from the porn industry. At first he seems charming, but after Danielle leaves the industry for good because of Matt, Kelly retaliates by twice assaulting him, and tries to ruin his life by setting him up as the fall guy for theft, as well as stealing all the money Matthew raised for a charity, and finally a bungled attempt to ruin his image by showing his family a "porn video" Matthew and his friends made which turns out to be a sex education tape.
• The Godfather's main villains are either Bitches in Sheep's Clothing whose villainy isn't discovered until late in the movie (Barzini), have little screen time (Tattaglia), or are Affably Evil and hard to hate (Solozzo). However, the same cannot be said of these characters:
  • Carlo Rizzi. He's a Jerkass who abuses Connie verbally and physically, plays a key role in setting up Sonny's murder and turns out to be working for Barzini. He receives two immensely satisfying retributions: a No Holds Barred Beat Down from Sonny, and a gruesome strangulation death courtesy of Clemenza on Michael's orders.
  • Captain McClusky, a boorish Dirty Cop who's introduced calling Michael a guinea and breaking his jaw, precipitating his Protagonist Journey to Villain. It's extremely satisfying when Michael blows his brains out.
  • The studio head, Jack Woltz, who famously winds up with a horse's head in his bed. In the movie he tries to wreck Johnny Fontane's career out of a petty grudge, along with some anti-Italian bigotry, which makes the Corleones' revenge on him seem fully justified. In the original Mario Puzo novel, his hatefulness is taken up to eleven, as Woltz is also a pedophile who takes advantage of underage starlets (something shown in a deleted scene of the movie which disgusts criminal lawyer Tom Hagen) and uses his friendship with J. Edgar Hoover to avoid bad publicity.
  • Don Fracesco Ciccio from Part II is a sociopathic mob boss who killed Vito's entire family when he was a child. When Vito's mother goes to beg him to spare his son's life, he flatly refuses, kills Vito's mother in front of him and chases him all over Sicily to kill him too. Immoral and ruthless, Don Ciccio stands out among the few characters in the trilogy with absolutely zero humanizing and redeemable traits.
  • Don Fanucci is a Slimeball whose main job is to terrorize and extort small business from Little Italy in the 1910s. In many ways, he's more of a small-time bully than a true mobster.
• Many Godzilla films have one of these. After all, you can't hate Kaiju, but you can hate objectively terrible people.
  • Mothra: Clark Nelson, a greedy, smug, and unpleasant businessman whose actions cause Mothra's rampage. He kidnaps the Shobijin from Infant Island, first gunning down several of the natives who try to stop him and then profiting off of the girls by forcing them to sing in concerts (and for good measure, he and his henchmen tie up a kid who tries to help the Shobijin). When Mothra tears through Tokyo and Nelson's ordered to release the girls, he flees to Rolisica, evading a nation-wide manhunt as well as Mothra. When surrounded by an angry mob with nowhere to run as Mothra demolishes New Kirk City, Nelson gets gunned down in a shootout with the police. The original ending even had Mothra dealing with Nelson personally, sending him off a cliff to his doom as she swoops in to rescue the Shobijin.
  • Godzilla (1998):
    • Mayor Ebert is portrayed as an obstructive, belligerent, and childish politician that only cares about his election, spending most of his screen time arguing with Colonel Hicks about the militaries occupation in New York, despite the present threat of the monster, and bullying his assistant Gene. This is an infamously backfired example as the Mayor and Gene was meant to be a potshot at Siskel and Ebert, for disliking Roman Emmerich’s previous films, though both critics famously questioned that if Emmerich wanted to make characters to mock them, why didn't he go all the way and have the titular monster kill them ?
    • Charles Caiman is a pompous and skeevy news reporter, who is introduced sexually harassing aspiring journalist, Adurey Timmons, despite the fact he is married. Later in the film, when Audrey steals Nick's research tapes on the titular monster for an expose, Caiman airs Nick's findings, and passes the report off as his own. Despite everything, the only comeuppance he receives is Audrey telling him off and quits working under him, though as we see in the sequel series, Audrey does gain a successful career of her own.
  • Godzilla vs. Kong:
    • Walter Simmons, behind his claims of good intentions, is the egotistical and power hungry corporate head of Apex Cybernetics, creating Mechagodzilla to usurp Godzilla, using Ghidorah’s brain to power it. This results in Godzilla going on the warpath, which Simmons uses to try to turn the public against Godzilla. Simmons ultimately gets his, when the Ghidorah possessed Mechagodzilla signals him out and crushes him to death, whilst Simmons is gloating to the protagonists. In the novelization, he's worse, deliberately endgangering the millions living in Godzilla's rampage for his Engineered Heroics; plays mind games with his daughter to see if she's worth inheriting his corporate empire; and had Bernie's wife murdered to cover up his involvement in creating the Oxygen Destroyer, and all the damage he inadvertently caused with it.
    • Maia Simmons is Walter's daughter and heir, sent to oversee the Hollow Earth expedition. Throughout, she acts pretty stuck up and arrogant towards Monarch's agents, dismissing Kong as "The Monkey" and even suggests leaving him to his fate during Godzilla's initial attack. When they reach the Hollow Earth and begin collecting its energy, Maia and the Apex Team betray the rest of the crew, holding them and nine year old Jia at gunpoint, earning Kong's ire. This, on top of needlessly shooting at Kong as they attempt to escape, gets Maia crushed to death in her HEAV.
  • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: There is nothing redeemable about the Skar King - he's a relentlessly cruel, sadistic, vindictive, batshit-insane tyrant who enslaves his subjects and keeps a harem which he forces to bear his children. The MUTOs, Skullcrawlers and Ion Dragon were just dangerous animals and while King Ghidorah (and by extension Mecha-Godzilla) was pure evil his was more "supervillain destroy-the-world" evil - he was too alien in nature and too charismatic in personality to really hate hate. Skar King on the other hand, despite being a 300-hundred foot tall ape king, is a much more realistic evil - he's a bully that uses his power and authority to abuse and belittle those beneath him.
• Golden Swallow is a wuxia whose characters exists somewhere between Grey-and-Gray Morality, but it does give the audience someone to hate with the Chao Brothers, a pair of corrupt, wealthy landlords who takes delight in stomping on peasants and treating the poor like dirt. Their Establishing Character Moment had them framing a farmer's son for stealing an expensive goose, and using that as an excuse to confiscate the farmer's homeland. When the farmer's young son kills himself to prove his innocence, the Chao Brothers doesn't even bat an eye and have the farmer executed for trying to defend himself, causing the farmer's wife and Sole Survivor of the family massacre to go insane overnight. Nobody will feel sad when the Chao Brothers ends up getting killed, one after the other, by the swordsman Silver Roc the next day.
• Good Burger: Kurt Bozwell is the greedy, strict and ill-tempered manager and owner of Mondo Burger who demands a cultish devotion from employees that insists nothing else matter to them at all except Mondo Burger and fires and berates Dexter Reed for not taking any of it seriously. Kurt nearly succeeds in running Good Burger out of business while using a potentially harmful and illegal chemical to expand the size of his own burgers and attempts to poach or trick Ed for his special sauce when it proves too difficult to compete against. When those things fail, Kurt gets Ed, Dexter and the elderly Otis committed to an asylum and then attempts to poison the sauce so that customers will either get extremely sick or die and blame Good Burger for it.
• GoodFellas: An infamous example, as this film was well-known for portraying The Mafia in a very unsympathetic light. The movie actually manages to portray the monstrosity of most of the mobsters, but Tommy DeVito is the most blatant example. The man is a confrontational mobster who disturbingly teases or antagonizes with people for very pathetic reasons. He's really a kind of fear even to his own partners (as given to notice in the "funny guy" scene), because they know that any phrase or word misunderstood by Tommy can easily lead to a senseless murder. He certainly crosses this territory with the cruel treatment to Spider (a 19-ish year old boy), shooting him in the foot with a sadistic glee before ruthlessly killing him. Tommy eventually gets too much for even his bosses to handle when he makes the mistake of killing a made man (something you do NOT do in the mob without a sitdown), which ultimately leads to him getting whacked himself.
• Good Morning, Vietnam: We have Sgt. Maj. Dickerson, who is a Gung Holier Than Thou Jerkass that hates Adrian Cronauer's guts just because he wishes to bring humor to the troops on the front line and does everything in his power (including accepting Cronauer's request to interview some troops on the field and then sending him into an area with strong VC opposition and mined roads without telling him in hopes of getting him killed) to get rid of him. At the end of the film, he's able to get Cronauer kicked out of the Air Force because he had unwittingly made friends with a VC guerrilla, but General Taylor (their commanding officer) finally sees Dickerson for the overly petty and psychotically vindictive asshole that he is and has him reassigned to Guam while pointing out that everything Dickerson did was just to maintain control over a radio station.
• The Greatest Showman:
  • The men who start a brawl in the circus and end up burning it down. These men are quite clearly not meant to be liked.
  • Jenny Lind by way of her Historical Villain Upgrade and causing Phineas to neglect his circus.
• Gutterballs: Steve is a rival bowling team leader who leads his men in committing a hate crime on a transgender member of the team after they kick his ass. After the protagonists kick his ass, he leads his team in raping their team leader, threatening the one member who tries to resist. Aside from his evil deeds, he also verbally abuses everybody else throughout the whole film.

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• Halloween:
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers: John Strode gets this for not only being an abusive father, but for disowning his daughter because she got pregnant premaritally. Needless to say, people were cheering for Michael when he electrocutes him.
  • Halloween Ends only: Terry Tramer is the leader of a group of teenagers who regularly bully and harass the more sympathetic Corey Cunningham. Ostensibly, their reasonings are due to Corey's accidental killing of a young boy Jeremy, but as Jeremy's own father surmises, folks are using the tragedy as an excuse to attack easy targets; in Terry's case to distract from his daddy issues. When Laurie stands up for Corey, Terry mocks Laurie by claiming that Michael's rampage years before was her own fault. When Corey later stands up for himself, Terry has him tossed off a bridge, before later trying to vandalize his motorbike. Naturally, Terry and his friends are wiped out by Corey when he goes on his own killing spree.
• The Hangover: Melissa, Stu's ex-girlfriend, is shown to be emotionally abusive towards Stu by being unaffectionate towards him, controlling his life and cheating on him. It is even mentioned that she had beat him up on several occasions. None of the other characters unsurprisingly like her, and they (as well as the audience) are overjoyed when Stu calls out Melissa for her cruelty towards him and breaks up with her for good.
• Hannibal Lecter film series: Along with the far-less charismatic and likable Dr. Hannibal Lecktor; child molester and sadist Mason Verger and Nazi crime boss Vladis Grutas, these prove to be the most despised characters in the universe—especially glaring as Dr. Hannibal Lecter himself is a surprisingly empathetic character:
  • The Silence of the Lambs & Red Dragon: Dr. Frederick Chilton is the smug and slimy psychiatrist running the Baltimore State Hospital where Lecter is imprisoned and proves to be a far more detestable and irritating person than even the cannibalistic Serial Killer himself—constantly trying to get publicity from the "Tooth Fairy" and "Buffalo Bill" cases respectively. Dehumanizing Lecter and referring to his as a "prized asset", Chilton has resorted to petty punishments toward him and exposes FBI Trainee Clarice Starling's fake deal to get the FBI removed from the case so he can get attention for himself instead. After Lecter's escape in part thanks to Chilton's reckless actions, Chilton tries to flee the country to make sure he's safe, only for Lecter to secretly follow him, fully intent on "having [his] old friend for Dinner."
  • Hannibal: Paul Krendler, briefly introduced in The Silence of the Lambs, is a jerkass member of the Department of Justice leading the charge against Starling—now a full agent and has a particular grudge against her because she rejected the idea of having an extra marital affair with him and threatening to find any small infraction he can to get her kicked out of the agency altogether if she's difficult. Krendler then immediately agrees to a hefty bribe offered to him by Verger later on to frame Starling to further shame and disgrace her and so Verger can dangle her misery in front of Lecter to trap him as well. Krendler is then eventually abducted and drugged by Lecter who then cuts off the top of his head, removes part of his brain and then cooks it to save for later—even feeding Krendler himself a little bit of it too.
• Happy Gilmore: Hal, the abusive nursing home caretaker. He mistreats Happy's grandmother by yelling at her to sleep, forcing phone call time limits, and physically implying to hurt her if she mentioned her mistreatment to Happy. Never mind what he does to other residents just for speaking up.
• In Hart's War the Nazi officers running the POW camp are mostly flat characters, except for Colonel Visser, who is exceptionally likable for a Nazi commanding officer due to his Evil Virtues and genuinely polite, open demeanour; Colonel McNamara initially comes off as a flawed individual willing to throw a fellow soldier under a bus for the sake of his mission, but eventually he lets himself be killed for the sake of his men. The falsely accused Lieutenant Scott, his attorney Lieutenant Hart (the titular character) and the prosecutor are all honour-bound men only interested in seeing the truth come to light. Who's to hate? Sergeant Bedford, whose death drives the plot of the movie. Initially shown as a screaming racist, it is eventually revealed that he traded information about his fellow soldiers' assignment for a petty grudge against a fellow prisoner because he was black (like Scott, incidentally) whom he framed and got killed, and was willing to give them a lot more in exchange for the means to escape and save his own hide. Scott says that even though he didn't kill Bedford, he sure wanted to; he was just beaten to the punch. Even the prosecutor says that while he hates Bedford's guts, the law is still the law and it can't be broken.
• Heat: Waingro is easily the most hateful, vile, depraved and despicable character in the entire film. He lacks any kind of Evil Virtues or sympathetic qualities, being a petty, sadistic jerkass who is not particularly smart. And for bonus, he's also a Dirty Coward.
• Hellbenders: Clint LaPierre starts off as a stuffy Straight Man who doesn't understand the Hellbound Saints' unusual ways of Demon Slaying, but eventually evolves into an obnoxious Obstructive Bureaucrat who tries to shut the Order down in the middle of their fight against the Apocalypse because he refuses to believe in the forces of Hell. It takes Clint's nose getting ripped off by Surtr for him to accept the existence of demons.
• The Help: Hilly Holbrook, a seemingly sensible debutante and community leader, has an insanely disgusting and putrid racist outlook on life—such as considering Black people to be diseased. Such is the case when she refuses to let her mother's own maid Minny use the bathroom at their house and then heartlessly and angrily fires her when Minny sneaks in there to use it, but then only pretends to to rile Hilly up. Later, she exploits Minny's apparent groveling by consuming a pie that Minny made her only to find out that she literally got Hilly to "eat [Minny's] shit"—a fact which even Hilly's own mother laughs histerically at her for and Hilly is further humiliated with when it's published in Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan's book name redacted. Hilly also demonizes her own fellow socialites such as Celia Foote for being an outcast and Elizabeth Leefolt who is forced to reluctantly fire her maid Aibileen Clark for an apparent theft. Aibileen then snaps at Hilly for how awful and disrespected she truly is by everyone for using fear to yield her power and reduced to a dejected wretch because of it too.
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer: The killers serving as the Big Bad Duumvirate are both awful in their own ways:
  • The titular Henry displays absolutely no genuine empathy for those around him, simply sitting back and watching a man being murdered in the park. He kills several people before meeting Otis and teams up with him to kill several more, including a whole family, snapping the young son's neck on camera. In the end, although he seems to show a redeeming quality by killing Otis to save Becky from being raped by him, he subverts this by killing Becky — who was being shaped up as a Morality Pet to him — and leaving her dismembered remains on the side of the road.
  • The aforementioned Otis, while not on the same level of depravity as Henry, proves to be plenty contemptible in his own right. He is Henry's former cellmate who's letting him stay with him as he passes through the town. Implied to have been in prison for rape, Otis is introduced perving on his own sister Becky while helping her escape her abusive husband. After witnessing Henry murder a couple of prostitutes, Otis joins him in the killing, though Henry has to regularly stop him from raping women. However, he pushes the envelope as far as he can without crossing the line, including molesting the mother of a family the two massacres. Eventually, Otis gives in to his urges and rapes Becky, only to be stabbed to death by her and Henry, who has gotten sick of his perversion getting in the way.
• Hercules (2014): Eurystheus is the King of Athens, who grew jealous of Hercules after saving his city. He drugged Hercules and set wolves on his family, using his delirium to frame him for killing them himself. Years later, Eurystheus has united with the ruthless tyrant Cotys to divide Greece between them. After Hercules arrives to stop them and uncovers his betrayal, Eurystheus immediately breaks down sobbing for his life.
• Master Leung Chun-yu in HEX is a Domestic Abuser, Rich Jerk and absolutely humungous Jerkass whose first scene have him whipping a maid for spilling his red bean soup. When his long-suffering, abused wife, Lady Chan — who had contracted chronic tuberculosis — tries stopping him, Chun-yu beats her for getting in his way. A later scene reveals that Chun-yu had caused at least nine maids, all of them from poor farming families only trying to make a living, to run away because of his repeated abuse, which Chun-yu shows no remorse over. It gets even worse when the film later reveals that Chun-yu is a Gold Digger who wanted to torment his wife and make her die a slow, painful death from tuberculosis, so that he can claim her massive inheritance, a collection of jade antiques worth millions, which he achieved by faking his own death and pretending to return and haunt his wife until she ends up dying slowly and agonizingly. Later when a distant friend of Lady Chan comes to visit, Chun-yu beats the innocent man to death because He Knows Too Much.
• The Hitman's Bodyguard: Rightfully called a monster by one of his victims, Vladislav Dukhovich has no concern for human life, committing various atrocities, including genocide, out of bloodlust and pettiness. When he's exposed to the court, he arrogantly says that he can do whatever he wants and shows no remorse for his actions.
• Alfrid Lickspittle in The Hobbit Trilogy (especially The Battle Of The Five Armies), a Suspiciously Similar Substitute of Gríma Wormtongue without any redeemable qualities. He's a greedy opportunist who immediately kisses Bard's ass after the death of the former chief, yet before that he was supporting the latter against him. He treats the civilians like crap, especially the women. When orcs invade the refugees' camp, he flees all battles, and goes as far as disguising himself as an old woman so he doesn't have to fight. Needless to say, the audience would beg an Orc to kill him. Unfortunately, the theatrical cut has him pull a Karma Houdini, so audiences had to wait a year until the extended edition for his much-applauded Karmic Death.
• The Holdovers: Kountz is entitled, arrogant, intentionally obnoxious, and unlike the other flawed characters, he never shows the slightest decency towards another individual and has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
• In the live-action version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the title character is still The Heavy causing the story's conflict, but receives a sympathetic backstory thanks to Adaptation Expansion, and even if he hadn't is pretty lovable all the same. A more directly loathsome character is original creation Augustus Maywho, Whoville's greedy mayor who thinks Christmas is all about the commercialism. He even turns out to have been one of the Grinch's boyhood bullies and to have stolen his adolescent flame Martha Whovier from him, thus playing a part in his Start of Darkness.
• Talbot in the 2003 Hulk seems purpose-made to make the audience loathe him. The real threat of the film is Bruce's evil, obsessed father David who is the root cause of the entire Hulk problem, and General Ross is a man trying to do what's right to stop a genuine menace, even if he goes out of his way to persecute Bruce out of prejudice. Talbot is just a smug corporate bastard who only wants fame and glory, endangers everyone by going over Ross's head to unleash the Hulk, bullies Bruce whenever he can and being a dickish romantic foil, and contributes little to the story besides repeatedly getting Bruce into Hulk-mode.

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• I Come in Peace: Victor Manning is the leader of the White Boys, a gang of drug dealers who hide their crimes behind kitschy attempts at glamour. Before the start of the film, Manning killed Jack Caine's partner when he tried to bring him down, a fact he regularly taunts Caine with. Manning opens the story by bombing an FBI office to steal some drugs they seized, killing several officers in the process. Despite Caine's attempts to track him down, Manning flees to another country, last seen in a postcard he sent his nemesis.
• I'll Be Home for Christmas: Eddie Taffet is Jake Wilkinson's rival for Allie Henderson's affections. Wanting to get Jake out of the way so he can have Allie for himself, Eddie sabotages Jake's attempt to help Eddie's own friends cheat on their midterms while also for the second time snagging and imprisoning Jake's friend Ian in his own locker, this time over Christmas break. Eddie then has his friends help him strand Jake in the desert with no means of getting out easily and convinces Allie to ride with him, while later preventing Jake from getting to them at a rest stop at one point too. He later seems willing to help Jake ride home after Allie leaves them both, only to abandon Jake again when Eddie shows jealousy and decides it's not in his character to do so.
• In the Line of Fire: Chief of Staff Harry Sargent is pompous and condescending unlike Secret Service Agent Bill Watts, who while tough on Frank Horrigan, is very professional. Sargent refuses to cancel any of the President's upcoming campaign events due to wanting to push for him to be in full public eye and not ever taking Mitch Leary's threats seriously or wanting security that would make the President come off as scared. Even when there's a false alarm at one particular rally, Sargent runs and hides in fear. When Frank has managed to stop Leary's actual attempted assassination, Sargent attempts to get credit for being involved only to quickly be denied it by Frank.
• Indiana Jones:
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark:
    • Satipo is a greedy, backstabbing, rotten scumbag with a complete lack of empathy who deserved to die.
    • Arnold Toht is the only notable villain in the film with no real redeeming qualities to his character. He basically exists to be despised by the audience.
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Thuggee Chief Guard is a ruthless slaver that would whip children for failing to work properly.
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Smith and Taylor come across as utter jerks who can't be reasoned with in the slightest and embody all of the worst aspects of the Red Scare.
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: There's nothing likable about Jürgen Voller. He's cold, taciturn, a bigot, ruthless, and fanatically dedicated to Nazism. Even his (utterly despicable) loyalty to Nazi Germany is tempered by the heavy implication he believes he is the only capable leader for it.
• Independence Day: The Secretary of Defense, Mr. Nimzicki (dubbed by RiffTrax "Foily McAntagonist"). The aliens are inscrutable and the reason the audience bought the tickets. This guy knows about the aliens ahead of time but stays silent to give the President "plausible deniability." He continually pushes the use of nukes even after they're proven ineffective. He cockily celebrates victory too soon only to immediately be proven wrong. Finally he is the only person to disagree with the final plan that ends up working. His comeuppance is being fired by President Whitmore in person. Though he's then thrown a bone by being allowed into the prayer circle David's father is starting.
• Inspector Gadget (1999): "Dr. Claw", real name Dr. Sanford Scolex, is an undeniable Smug Snake who in order to get ahead on utilizing living AI, murders scientist Dr. Artemus Bradford to steal his tech and then blows up lowly security guard John Brown—the future "Inspector Gadget"—in his car too—an action which cost Scolex his left hand. Now known as Claw, he also tries to romance Bradford's scientist daughter Brenda while trying to dispose of Gadget in order to replace him with RoboGadget who commits crimes all across Riverton in order to ruin John's good name. While kidnapping Brenda, Scolex then maniacally tries to kill John who's trying to save her and then when caught, angrily swears that he'll get him next time. Contrast with the sequel though where Claw not only Took a Level in Badass, but became far-more of a focused, suave and competent antagonist too.
• The Invisible Man (2020): Both of the Griffin brothers are downright scumbags.
  • Adrian is Cecilia's sociopathic ex-boyfriend who controlled every aspect of her life. Creating an invisibility suit, Adrian ruthlessly gaslights Cecilia, murdering her sister to incriminate her of the crime. He also thinks nothing of striking Sydney, and attempts to have her killed.
  • Tom is Adrian's weak-willed brother who assists his brother in destroying Cecilia's life to force her to come back to him. While not as vile as his brother, Tom nevertheless remorselessly tries to kill Sydney and James showing, as Cecilia attested to, his utter lack of a backbone.
• The Italian Job (2003): Steve Frazelli is a petty and smug member of John Bridger's team of thieves who kills John, betrays and nearly kills the team and steals their haul of $35 million in gold bricks for himself just because "I wanted it". Arrogant and volatile, Steve also not knowing what he himself wants to do with all that gold uses about 8 million of it to mostly buy things other members of the team wanted instead. Eventually, Charlie Croker and the rest of the team after stealing the gold back hand Steve over to Ukrainian mob boss Mashkov who intends to make Steve deservedly suffer as he kills him.
• The Irishman: As hilarious as his lines can be, the film makes it very clear that "Tony Pro" Provenzano is easily the most despicable and unpleasant character in the story, with practically zero redeemable traits. Despite the fact that he has good publicity, he had one guy murdered and mutilated for coming up big in the union. It doesn't help the fact that he's despised by anyone who knows his psychopathic personality, even by other mobsters.
• It's a Wonderful Life: Mr. Henry F. Potter is the richest and meanest man in the town of Bedford Falls. Throughout the film, Mr. Potter strives to bring the town under his heel through buying everything out, with only George Bailey keeping him at bay. On Christmas Eve 1945, Potter finds a check misplaced by George’s Uncle Billy. Potter pockets the money and when George comes to him for a loan when Billy’s mistake is discovered, Potter gloats about the fact that George is ruined and sends out a warrant for his arrest out of spite, nearly causing George to commit suicide. When George wishes he was never born, he is transported to a reality where Potter has taken over the town of Bedford Falls and renamed it Pottersville, a Wretched Hive with rampant crime, alcoholism and unhappiness. Mr. Potter stands out as one of film history’s most infamous misers.

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• James Bond series:
  • Thunderball: SPECTRE Number 11 steals from his organization's drug-running scheme, smugly thinks he won't be noticed, and passes the blame to another colleague on their scheme's less-than-expected profits. Blofeld proves him spectacularly wrong. While the crime he commits is bowdlerized compared to the original book (raping a hostage SPECTRE took in for ransom), Number 11 still gets a High-Voltage Karmic Death during the SPECTRE board meeting. Despite being an amoral crime lord, Blofeld doesn't like it when his henchmen try to con him.
  • The World Is Not Enough: Sir Robert King is an amoral oil baron, Elektra King's lousy excuse of a father, and the man who made his daughter's life miserable. He used his British citizenship to con his immigrant wife out of her rightful inheritance, bulldozed centuries-old landmarks to make room for oil pipelines (which triggered riots in Armenia), and abandoned his daughter to be kidnapped and raped as a teen rather than pay a ransom. Elektra assassinates him with a booby-trapped briefcase full of money, meaning he dies showered in the only thing he ever cared about.
  • Die Another Day: Ex-MI6 agent Miranda Frost is this once Bond realizes she's the one responsible for his 14-month imprisonment in North Korea. And the ridiculous reason why she did this? She came in second at the Olympics for fencing, but was awarded gold after the previous winner OD'ed on steroids which was planted by Gustav Graves's people, thus effectively buying her loyalty. Thus the Second Place Is for Losers trope comes into play in that she'd sell her country out for money and power rather than accept second place. She totally had her Karmic Death coming when Jinx stabbed her at the end of their sword duel.
  • Quantum of Solace: General Medrano comes off as one, having no qualms letting the criminal organization Quantum engineer a drought in his own country so he'll be the next dictator of it and even thinks of himself as Dominic Greene's equal, but backs down when Greene threatens him. It's no reason why Bond Girl Camille is after him, having raped her mother and sister before killing them, and attempts to rape a hotel waitress in the climax. He even tries to do the same thing to Camille, but she puts a bullet to his head.
  • Spectre: Max Denbigh/C is a Corrupt Politician who poses a threat to MI6's operations, compounds it by acting like a Smug Snake to Bond and M, and advocates the replacement of human spies with Attack Drones and mass surveillance. Later on, he's revealed to be a SPECTRE flunky who plans to turn control of the new surveillance system he's designing over to Ernst Stavro Blofeld née Franz Oberhauser. At the end of the film, he gets a well-deserved Karmic Death when he plunges to the bottom of the headquarters of the merged MI5 and MI6, which he had paid for with SPECTRE's blood money.
  • No Time to Die:
    • Obruchev starts out as a loyal MI6 scientist assigned by M to create Project Heracles, a bioweapon containing nanobots that spread like a virus upon touch and are coded to specific DNA strands so they are only dangerous if programmed to an individual's genetic code. Turns out he's in bed with Safin, hoping to use the nanites for nefarious purposes. He becomes even more loathsome when he taunts Nomi's African heritage in front of her and claims that he can reprogram the nanobots to wipe out Africans. Nomi's response? Kick him right into a toxic vat full of nanobots.
    • Logan Ash is an Ascended Fanboy of 007 after hearing all of the stories Felix Leiter told of their adventures together. Bond is put off by his excessive smiling and smells a rat, something which is affirmed when it's revealed that Logan works for SPECTRE and murders Leiter. Despite this, Logan has the gall to ask Bond for mercy when at risk of being crushed by a car despite the fact he murdered Felix and tried to kill James as well. Unimpressed, Bond drops the car on him instead.
• Subverted with Mayor Vaughn in Jaws. Since the shark is just an animal, you can't really blame it for following its nature. You can blame the mayor however for ignoring the danger the shark poses, keeping the beach open, and outright lying to people about the danger. Early on, he seems much more dislikable than the shark. However, later on, we see that he does have a heart when he comforts Chief Brody, telling him he shouldn't blame himself for what happened to Alex. He has a Heel Realization moment when he sees the shark attack in a pond, and the second film implies that he's learned his lesson.
• Jennifer, also known as "Carrie...WITH SNAKES!" gives us two: Alpha Bitch Sandra Tremayne and the principal, Ms. Calley. Sandra is a sociopathic monster who tries to frame Jennifer for cheating on a test, then decides to ruin her life for exposing her as a liar. She goes as far as attempted murder and brutally kills Jennifer's beloved cat just to spite her. Ms. Calley is much less proactive, but always takes Sandra's side, despises Jennifer for her poor background, and even tries to fire the one teacher who does stand up for her. Both actresses are clearly aware this trope is in effect and pitch their performances accordingly.
• Jennifer's Body: Nikolai Wolf, lead singer of Low Shoulder, is the only character with no redeeming qualities. At first he appears to be a standard Jerkass rock star, making misogynistic comments and seemingly creeping on Jennifer, who's a minor. Then, it's revealed that he's a Satanist plotting to sacrifice her for fame. After it's strongly implied he supernaturally started a fire that kills dozens, he gleefully kills Jennifer. Moreso, he exploits the aforementioned fire to make his band look good, falsely claiming to have saved people from the flames.
• Jigsaw: Anna seems like an empathetic Final Girl figure throughout the movie, trying to help others caught in one of Jigsaw's games, but is soon to be revealed one of his most deserving victims. It's revealed she was neighbors with John Kramer, who witnessed how she smothered her baby to death because the crying annoyed her, and framed and gaslighted her husband into thinking he did it. This causes her husband to be institutionalized and commit suicide out of guilt. The reason Jigsaw picked her for his game was to force penance on her. What makes her worse is not only does she not feel remorse, but she believes she did nothing wrong as well and doesn't deserve what's happening to her. She also selfishly tries to kill the last survivor, thinking it'll ensure her survival.
• Johnny Handsome: Rafe Garrett and Sunny Boyd are a pair of robbers (whom had a former relationship) who aid the protagonist John Sedley and his friends in a robbery. But then they end up killing his friends and leaving John for dead while taking the goods for themselves. And before then, they making insulting comments about John's deformities. And they're also insulting towards each other. Later on, John resurfaces under a new identity after reconstructive surgery, planning revenge and earns their trust by staging a robbery. They go through with it, with Sunny trying to ditch Rafe for Johnny, but he told them he would meet them later on at the cemetary. And before the meeting, Rafe and Sunny go to John's place and discover the truth about him and kidnap his Love Interest and when they finally do meet, Rafe taunts him about who he really was and takes sadistic glee cutting and punching John's face. And despite the film having a Downer Ending where John ends up dead, it's still satisfying to see him take them down before he dies.
• John Wick:
  • Original film:
    • Iosef Tarasov is the spoiled, condescending and stupid son of mobster Viggo who starts the movie by killing John's dog Daisy after John refuses to give him his car. When John goes after him in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, he knowingly puts innocent people in the way to protect himself. As soon as John finally catches up to him after defeating his posse, the only thing Iosef can think of saying is "it was just a fucking - (dog)!", right before getting shot straight in the head.
    • Ms. Perkins is a sadistic, greedy hit-woman vowing to destroy John Wick for ransom. She even kills her colleague Harry for good measure. For breaking the Continental's rules, she gets gunned down by Winston's hitmen, a rather fitting punishment for a self-serving sadist.
  • Chapter 2: Santino D'Antonio. He blows up John Wick's house after John refused to affiliate with him, then orders John to murder his own sister simply to take control of New York. After John "does the deed", Santino hires a bunch of ex-men to murder him. He earns himself no sympathy when he gets Boom, Headshot! courtesy of John himself.
  • Chapter 4: Imagine the already loathsome and cowardly Santino with even more authority and even less restraint when it comes to exercising his cruelty. That's the Marquis de Gramont in a nutshell. Not only does he kill Charon just to prove a point, he has no respect for the rules of the High Table, and proves perfectly willing to bend them whenever he sees fit.
• Joker (2019): The three businessmen working for Thomas Wayne bully a helpless Arthur simply because his laughter brought their attention. They almost beat him to death, but Arthur fortunately manages to kill two of them with his gun in self-defense before pursuing and gunning down Ryan, killing him as well. Their presence serve as one of the contributions to Arthur Jumping Off the Slippery Slope.
• Joy (2015):
  • Peggy is an overachiever who frequently rubs it in Joy's face and ends up landing her $20,000 in debt.
  • The mother refuses to get out of bed, spends all day watching soap operas and expects Joy to do everything.
  • The father doesn't really care about Joy, preferring Peggy. He constantly gives bad advice, only cares about his own skin in detriment of his daughter, and constantly antagonizes her ex-husband, despite said ex-husband actually caring about Joy and constantly giving honest and helpful advice.
• Judy: Jack is a target in Judy's crusade against Abusive Parents. He openly neglects his ex-wife and son, laughs at his son's bullying and hospitalization even though it nearly killed him. On top of that, he openly sexually abuses his stepdaughter, Jamie. When Judy tortures him for his abuse, he's completely unrepentant, cowardly trying to justify himself and arrogantly acting like he's untouchable.
• The Jungle Book (1994): The film has at least three of these:
  • William Boone: A snobbish, classist bully and a malevolent, greedy opportunist who is damn impossible to sympathize with. He's known to having captured and tortured Mowgli under false pretenses, harbouring a wanted outlaw named Buldeo from the law, killing animals for sport and mounting up their heads in his quarters, and humiliating Mowgli while announcing his proposal to Mowgli's friend Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon. Even when an angry Kitty breaks off the relationship, Boone takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping Kitty and her father Colonel Brydon (who also happens to be Boone's former superior), murdering many of Brydon's loyal officers, all just to coerce Mowgli into leading him to the lost treasure hidden in the jungle. He even shot down the bear Baloo and left him for dead; even vowing to hunt down the fierce tiger Shere Khan for his skin. He also showed no concern or remorse over the loss of his own men (including Buldeo and Sergeant Harley); even leaving a wounded Brydon to die in the jungle while still holding Kitty hostage. Even after being defeated in combat by Mowgli, Boone steals a bag of treasure for himself to compensate his loss, leading to his Karmic Death at the jaws of the angry python Kaa.
  • Buldeo: Wanted for poaching and indirectly causing the deaths of two British soldiers at the jaws of Shere Khan. After being saved by Mowgli's father Nathoo from Shere Khan, rather than returning the favor by shooting down Khan on Nathoo's orders, Buldeo instead leaves Nathoo to be mauled to death by the tiger. This event is what led Mowgli to be separated from civilization and spend most of his life in the jungle and for an angry Colonel Brydon to declare Buldeo a wanted outlaw. Even when Mowgli returned back to civilization, Buldeo knocks him out and steals his dagger while turning him over to Boone. He even aided in kidnapping Colonel Brydon and his daughter Kitty, as part of Boone's plan to coerce Mowgli to leading them to lost treasure hidden in the jungle.
  • Sergeant Harley: Nothing positive is shown about Harley due to being a racist jerk who enjoys torturing others (including Mowgli); even willing to commit treason against Colonel Brydon by holding Kitty hostage on Boone's orders, all for the sake of finding treasure to satisfy his own greed.
• Just Mercy: Quite a few examples throughout the film, as the town is teeming with bigots. Tommy Chapman (the prosecuting attorney) and Sheriff Tate are the most prominent examples throughout the film, both being vile scumbags who do everything they can to keep McMillian behind bars. Chapman at least does the right thing in the end; no such change of heart from the sheriff, though. There's also the two clearly racist cops who pull over Bryan without given anything in the way of a reason, all while searching his car and pointing a gun at his head.

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• Kick-Ass 2: While both this and the first film have antagonists that are too funny, the same cannot be said about the absolutely vile Alpha Bitch Brooke, whose only purpose in the film is to bully and mock Mindy, even going so far as to pull a horrible prank on her. When Mindy finally gets her revenge, no tears are cried for her.
• Kill Bill: Buck fills much the same role as Zed and Maynard in the same director's Pulp Fiction. Beatrix Kiddo does horrific things to people but has enough justification to maintain audience sympathy. Bill and the Deadly Viper Assassination squad — even including the psychopathic Elle Driver — have personal codes of honor, albeit ones that conflict with both each other and the audience. Buck, though, is in the habit of raping coma patients just because he can. So when he and his nameless john find that one of them can kill them when she's just woken up and barely mobile, they garner no sympathy.
• Killers of the Flower Moon: Despite his grandfatherly demeanor, William King Hale is nothing but a cruel, racist, and greedy psychopath who terrorizes an entire tribe of people and manipulates and abuses his own family members for self-gain.
• Kindergarten Cop: Mr. Sullivan is the father of a kindergartener named Zach, whom he regularly beats along with his wife. When Detective John Kimble goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to find the son of a crime boss, he suspects Zach is the kid because of just how emotionally distraught the abuse makes him. Eventually, Kimble discovers the truth and beats Sullivan into a pulp, only stopping because his class starts watching. Even the school's principal, who was unable to do anything about the abuse, congratulates Kimble for taking him down.
• Kingdom of Heaven:
  • Raynald de Chatillon fanatically hates the Muslims and seeks any excuse to slaughter them. He also believes that since he is a noble, he can do as he likes. When he gets punished and imprisoned for it, he merely tries to find a way out of it, and when he does ultimately get freed (due to a new king pardoning him) Raynald slaughters yet another caravan including Saladin's sister. In the end, when he gets captured by Saladin, he shows no remorse for his actions.
  • His boss, Guy de Lusignan could arguably be considered even worse. He participates in all of Raynald's actions and asks Raynald to take a blame for all of them. While Raynald does it out of fanatism, Guy uses Raynald's fanaticism as a way to gain power. At one point, when a Muslim messenger comes and offers peace, Guy murders him as a declaration of war. It is very satysfying to see the humaliation that Guy later goes through.
• Kingsman:
  • Charlie Hesketh was a prospective Kingsman agent competing with Eggsy for the job. After bullying Eggsy all through training, Charlie is thrown out when it's proved that he'd sell Kingsman out for his own life. Then when Eggsy is trying to prevent Valentine's genocide plan, Charlie turns out to have joined Valentine and alerts the gaurds to Eggsy. Charlie returns in The Golden Circle as The Dragon to new Big Bad Poppy. While he loses his Dirty Coward tendances and becomes a lot stronger, he also assists Poppy in killing all of Kingsman (bar Eggsy and Merlin) and kills his girlfriend when he finds out she cheated on him.
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service:
    • Dean Baker is a rude, selfish, domestic abuser and gang leader who thinks he owns his family and can do with them whatever he pleases. Throughout the film, Dean neglects his own baby daughter, abuses Michelle, and regularly threatens Eggsy.
    • The unnamed pastor of the South Glades Mission Church stands out as loathsome despite having very little screentime. Leading a recognized hate group, he spends his sermons deriding people of colour, LGBTQ people, Jews and anybody else who isn't a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Richmond Valentine decodes that his church will be the perfect place to demonstrate a rage-inducing signal, and forces the entire church to slaughter each other so superspy Harry Hart can understand his scheme.
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle: The President is The President of the United States during Poppy Adams's attempt to legalize all drugs by poisoning drug users and holding the cure for ransom. The President, however, plans to let all the millions of drug users die to "win the war on drugs". He lies to the public and Poppy, promising to legalize drugs with no intention to follow through, despite his Vice President's warning that children could die. Even after he finds out that she is infected too, The President proudly proclaims that all the "degenerates" deserve to die. After the day is thankfully saved, he is promptly impeached and arrested.
• Knives Out:
  • First film:
    • Hugh Ransom Drysdale is Harlan Thrombey's grandson who attempts to trick Harlan's caretaker Marta Cabrera into giving him a fatal overdose and this results in tricking Harlan into slitting his own throat. Ransom also murders the housekeeper Fran when she tries to blackmail him and then when caught and exposed by Marta and Benoit Blanc, attempts to kill Marta with a knife he thinks is real. Smug, utterly arrogant and as it turns out, murderous, Ransom rubs pretty much everyone around him the wrong way.
    • Ransom's father Richard isn't a murderer like him, but he's still utterly detestable. He's openly anti-immigrant, he cheats on his wife Linda (who he used for her money), and he tries to blackmail Marta with her mother's immigration status. When his son is rightfully arrested for his crimes, he tries to bribe the police officers before Linda then discovers his infidelity and punches him in the face. And unlike Ransom, he doesn't even have much charisma.
  • Glass Onion: Miles Bron is the seemingly genius and affable tech billionaire of high intelligence who is actually nothing but a weasel and an air-headed fraud who profits from others' genius and labor. When his obsession with a dangerous energy source placed others in danger and threatened his position at the company, he betrayed his much smarter and more inspired business partner, Cassandra "Andi" Brand, by ousting her from their company and coaxing their friends into perjuring themselves in court against her. When Andi finds the evidence to prove the truth, Miles drugs and kills her. Miles later kills another of his "friends" by fatally poisoning Duke Cody and then tries to shoot and kill Andi's twin sister Helen. While he's able to destroy the evidence that proves he's lying, Miles's career and life still end up irrevocably decimated the moment the product he created is used to destroy the Mona Lisa and everyone who helped him before finally abandons him too.

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• Ladyhawke: The Big Bad, the Bishop of Aquila, is very, very hateable. He casts a curse on two lovers so they will never be able to love each other — Navarre also says that while hawks and wolves mate for life, the Bishop did not even leave them that option, just because he wants the lady of the pair, Isabeau, for himself. He also instructs the hunter Cezar to trap wolves, hoping to actually kill Navarre during the night when he is in his wolf form. Plus his ways to rule over the region.
• The Last House on the Left: Krug Stillo is a prisoner on the run, having been freed by his son, whom he deliberately got addicted to drugs to control him. After he encounters two girls, he leads some fellow escapees in raping and torturing them before murdering one of them. When he learns that the parents of one of his victims are coming for revenge and his son helped them out of guilt, he orders the kid to kill himself.
• Last Night in Soho:
  • Jocasta, Eloise's classmate and former roommate in accommodation, initially puts on a friendly front, but is soon revealed to be an arrogant bully who openly belittles Eloise and her fashion sense. She isn't a villainous abuser like Jack, or a murderer like Sandie, but Jocasta is still an unrepentant Jerkass and doesn't get any better as the film goes on.
  • Once he shows his true colors, Jack is little more than a reprehensible pimp who repeatedly abuses Sandie while yelling slurs at her. Absolutely no one feels remotely sad when Sandie kills him in self-defense.
• Legend of the Red Reaper:
  • Ganesh raped a Reaper, stole their daughter, framed her as having given the child up willingly, horribly abuses her for years and sends an army to massacre the Reapers after she's freed.
  • Sigurd betrays the Reapers to the demons, berates his son for the slightest mistake, and forces him to drink Reaper blood against his will.
• Lesbian Vampire Killers: Judy, Jimmy's ex-girlfriend who dumped him at least seven times only to convince him to get back with her when she came back. She's shown to be cheating on him even when she is with him. It's incredibly telling that when she gets turned her behaviour is nearly identical.
• Let the Right One In and Let Me In: Jonny (or Kenny as he's called in Let Me In) and his older brother Jimmy lack their redeeming qualities from the original novel. Jonny/Kenny relentlessly bullies Oskar/Owen in violently humiliating ways, before threatening to drown him in a frozen pond. Jimmy is an even bigger sadist than his brother, and seen bullying him too. When Oskar/Owen stands up for himself, they later gang up on him in retaliation. Jimmy makes a "bet" with him about holding his breath underwater for three minutes, and either getting his cheek cut open, or his eye cut out.
• Liar Liar: Samantha Cole is the greedy, shrewish and deceptive ex-wife of Richard, who caught her red-handed constantly cheating on him thanks to a PI he hired—with even deceitful attorney Fletcher Reede knowing the case is seemingly un-winnable unless they lie about what happened. Even with Fletcher being inhibited with son Max's birthday wish so as to avoid lying, Samantha only wins thanks to Fletcher discovering a loophole through her own lies: she falsely claimed she was 18 when getting married so therefore both that and the prenup are not legal. Even after winning, Samantha to Fletcher's horror reveals she lied and intends to contest the custody of their two kids—despite Richard clearly loving them dearly while she treats them horribly herself—just so she can get even more money from child support.
• Lincoln, being a historical drama about the passage of the 13th amendment, has no real villain to speak of except for "racism", and even the Confederates are portrayed somewhat sympathetically, wherein it's clear that the Civil War has become so destructive and brutal that all involved are simply desperate to see it end. So who's the audience supposed to hate in this movie? Well, that's where lead Democratic orator Fernando Wood comes in, played by Lee Pace to sneering perfection. As the chief advocate against passage of the Amendment, he's such a slimy, obnoxious, holier-than-thou yuppie that you'd hate him even if he wasn't an avowed white supremacist (as are most of his colleagues, but Wood still stands out as easily the most unpleasant one by far.) Even without the whole "freeing the slaves" thing, the audience would still be invested just to see Wood lose, and his arrogant grandstanding gives Thaddeus Stevens the chance to hurl awesome speeches in Wood's face.
• Little Shop of Horrors: Despite the situation that Seymour got himself into, we understand that he's doing this out of his love for Audrey, who is the sweetest character in the story. You can't hate the sassy Man-Eating Plant Audrey II because even though it eats blood, it also sings a few interesting songs. However, you can hate Orin Scrivello D.D.S., who abuses Audrey and takes glee in tormenting his patients.
• George A. Romero's Living Dead Series of Zombie Apocalypse movies always include at least one of these; they usually have a big share of the blame in making things go From Bad to Worse.
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie: Lizzie's Romantic False Lead Paolo Valisari is a pop singer who befriends and woos Lizzie during her trip to Italy. He uses Lizzie's resemblance to his ex girlfriend and singing partner Isabella, to have Lizzie sing in her place at an law adds show. It turns out he was actually planning to frame Isabella for lip synching and embarrass Lizzie in front of an international, just to get back at Isabella and avoid being sued for contract breech.
• Of all the Jerks in the movie "Love Don't Cost a Thing", Ted is on top of the list. He's just a one-dimensional bully, who has a vicious hate-boner for Alvin and his friends for being "losers".
• Low Tide: Red is an Ax-Crazy jerk who threatens his friends regularly, nearly killed someone for dating his ex-girlfriend in the past, almost stabs someone for playing music he doesn't like, and callously abandons the young Peter during a robbery attempt gone wrong. As the film progresses, he only gets worse.

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