Basic Trope: An instance in which an All-Loving Hero hates somebody, usually to show just how bad that person is.
- Straight: Bob is an All-Loving Hero, and one of the few people he doesn't like is his arch-enemy Alice.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is ordinarily extremely polite to everybody, but absolutely hates Alice and wants to watch her die.
- Bob has befriended and redeemed many villains who are incredibly evil and malicious, but yet still hates Alice so much to the point of wishing to murder her.
- Downplayed:
- Calling Bob an All-Loving Hero is a stretch, but he tends to get along with most people and still doesn't like Alice.
- Bob doesn't necessarily hate Alice, but he doesn't really like her either.
- Nobody likes Alice, so Bob doesn't consider his own feelings to be special.
- Justified:
- Alice is a terrible person to such an extent that even someone as overly friendly as Bob can't stand her.
- Alice is a Complete Monster who has committed atrocities that are so horrific that Bob finds it impossible to ignore them, and such a thing makes him enraged. It essentially spits in the face of his "everyone is good deep down" philosophy, making it hurt that much more.
- Inverted:
- Alice shows legitimate respect for somebody, despite being usually a terrible person.
- Bob Hates Everyone Equally... except for Alice, who he adores completely. Bonus points if he’s a villain.
- Alice is the only person who hates Bob.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones
- Subverted:
- Bob eventually learns to like Alice and forgives her.
- Bob only pretends to hate Alice, but he's actually secretly in love with her.
- Double Subverted: Bob eventually learns to like Alice and forgives her... until Alice betrays him again.
- Parodied: Bob hates Alice simply because she parked in a no parking zone.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob's relationship with Alice is complicated. He cares for Alice, despite her being a terrible person, but hates the things she did and doesn't trust her anymore.
- Averted: The All-Loving Hero doesn't hate anyone at all.
- Enforced:
- Everyone Has Standards
- To show that Alice is so bad that even a very nice person doesn't like her.
- To expand the above, the author wants to show a Hard Truth Aesop that some people are too horrible to be worthy of love or redemption, and they deserve nothing but utter hatred and punishment.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, you must really be a piece of shit if even Bob can't stand you."
- Invoked:
- Alice purposely causes numerous disasters and commits atrocity after atrocity, all in an effort to see if Bob really is an All-Loving Hero. Will he still like her in spite of her villainy, or will he display hatred of her like any other person?
- Bob's constant insistence on redeeming the genuinely irredeemable Alice has started to become a problem, so his allies constantly remind Bob of how awful she is in order to make him start hating her.
- Exploited: The Straw Man News Media use this an opportunity to smear Bob, claiming that if he hates Alice, then that surely means he's truly a horrible person under that persona he sports. Right?
- Defied:
- Bob doesn't hate Alice, even after she pushes every single one of his Berserk Buttons.
- Bob is a Ridiculously Human Robot who is programed to be unable to hate anyone, no matter how much trouble they cause.
- Discussed: "Is there anyone you really hate? Like, truly and genuinely despise with every ounce of your being?" "...well. There is one person."
- Conversed: "I wonder what Alice did to make Bob hate her so much."
- Implied: Bob and Alice don't usually interact, but whenever Bob is looking at her, he often adopts a scowl. This is despite the fact that he's a Perpetual Smiler.
- Deconstructed: See Invoked. Bob starts to feel a lot of strain and stress because of Alice trying to get him to hate her, and eventually, it works... and then it's revealed WHY he's so happy - if he was ever truly resentful of someone, they'd be subject to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Alice is on the receiving end and realizes too late what she's done.
- Reconstructed: Afterward, Bob is horrified at himself, and withdraws for a while to dwell on if he should still be an All-Loving Hero if he has the capacity to hate. After some time, he comes to the conclusion that just because he hates one or two people shouldn't stop him from giving others a chance. Sure, his peace offerings may fall flat sometimes, but he still has to try. And if he grows to hate his enemies, it will be because of the pain they've caused to earn that ire.
- Played for Laughs: Bob's hatred of Alice isn't a sign of a flaw on her part, it is Bob's Irrational Hatred which is the flaw.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob struggles to reconcile his all-loving philosophy with the fact that he genuinely despises Alice, causing him much angst.
- Alice is Hated by All for no good reason, and she hopes that the all-loving Bob won't hate her. When he does, she nears the Despair Event Horizon because apparently nobody can like her.
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