Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

Ugly and/or obnoxious character in romantic pursuit of another. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Plot Hole Freeze-Frame Bonus The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Tranquil Fury Kick the Son of a Bitch Danny Peary Cult Movies List Needs Wiki Magic Love Belligerent Sexual Tension Chiaroscuro One Steve Limit Calling the Old Man Out Actor Allusion Fingore Older Than They Look Badass Normal Disguised in Drag Jitter Cam Eureka Moment Deus ex Machina Break the Cutie Narrator Berserk Button Smoking Is Cool Poor Communication Kills Celebrity Paradox The Load Shoot the Shaggy Dog Dressing as the Enemy Bloody Hilarious "Shaggy Dog" Story Famous Last Words The Hero Dies Hope Spot Big Eater Love Triangle Disney Villain Death The Stoic Sexy Discretion Shot Defrosting Ice Queen She's Got Legs Didn't Think This Through Man on Fire Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Lock and Load Montage Laser-Guided Karma For Want of a Nail Last-Name Basis Animated Credits Opening Police are Useless Genre Savvy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Creator Cameo Captain Obvious Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Musical The Lancer Psychopathic Manchild Protagonist Title Those Wacky Nazis Anti-Hero Names to Run Away from Really Fast Everyone Has Standards Not Quite Dead Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Evil Plan Grievous Bottley Harm All There in the Manual Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Neck Lift Knife Nut Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Drill Sergeant Nasty Flashback An Axe to Grind Destination Defenestration Bullying a Dragon Hell Is That Noise Asshole Victim Yandere Stuff Blowing Up Heel–Face Turn Parental Incest The Ace Framing Device Action Survivor Adult Fear Maybe Ever After Never Found the Body Slasher Movie From Nobody to Nightmare The Hero Science Fiction Films Adults Are Useless Mundane Made Awesome Meaningful Background Event One-Word Title As You Know Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bad Boss Brother–Sister Incest Toplessness from the Back Humans Are Bastards Wham Shot Adaptational Attractiveness Distracted by the Sexy Black Dude Dies First Historical Villain Upgrade Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Tagline Animal Title Index Mighty Whitey The Un-Reveal Awesome, but Impractical Punny Name Spiteful Spit Offscreen Teleportation Beard of Evil Index of Film Westerns Japanese Films Moment Killer Sir Swears-a-Lot This Is Gonna Suck Crucified Hero Shot Amoral Attorney Dirty Cop Even Evil Has Standards World of Ham Action Girl Bound and Gagged Lampshade Hanging And Starring Your Head A-Splode Kill 'em All Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Department of Redundancy Department Canon Foreigner Evil-Detecting Dog No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Loophole Abuse Romantic Comedy Blatant Lies Brick Joke Villain Opening Scene The Brute No Ending Flipping the Bird Pet the Dog Thriller 20 Minutes into the Future Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Improbable Weapon User All for Nothing Make It Look Like an Accident Naked People Are Funny Sadistic Choice MacGuffin Small Name, Big Ego Early Installment Weirdness Zombie Stories Shut Up, Hannibal! Red Shirt Straight Gay Drives Like Crazy Film Noir Serious Business Intrepid Reporter Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Dark Reprise Dramedy Badass Grandpa Age Lift Woman in White Took a Level in Jerkass Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Black Best Friend Karma Houdini Really Gets Around Cat Fight Improvised Weapon Body Horror Unreliable Narrator Disappeared Dad Woman Scorned folderlabel Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Artistic License – Law Cowboy Cop Would Hurt a Child Fiery Redhead Psycho for Hire Diabolus ex Machina Italian Films The Casanova Rule of Cool Works Set in World War II Obviously Evil Alpha Bitch Killed Mid-Sentence Tempting Fate BFG Getting Crap Past the Radar Evil Is Hammy He Knows Too Much Death by Sex Advertised Extra The Atoner Music Stories Red Oni, Blue Oni Costume Porn Big "NO!" Failed a Spot Check Coming-of-Age Story Badass Boast The Big Guy Accidental Misnaming Almost Kiss Breaking the Fourth Wall Match Cut Market-Based Title Properly Paranoid Henpecked Husband Mind Screw Insane Troll Logic Hypocritical Humor Recycled IN SPACE! Black and Gray Morality Skewed Priorities Irony Aside Glance Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Rasputinian Death Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Quiet One Leaning on the Fourth Wall Silent Movie Historical Hero Upgrade Aluminum Christmas Trees Taking You with Me Country Matters Let's Get Dangerous! Off with His Head! Bury Your Gays Sequel Hook Wicked Cultured Combat Pragmatist Antagonist Title Break the Haughty Broken Aesop Exact Words I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Face–Heel Turn Casting Gag Video Credits Ambiguous Disorder Book-Ends Russian Films Insult Backfire No-Sell Soft Glass Catch-Phrase Spell My Name with an "S" Deliberately Monochrome Freudian Excuse Large Ham B-Movie Dwindling Party Dies Wide Open Affectionate Parody War Is Hell Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Time Skip Kill It with Fire The Chick Ship Tease Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Facial Horror Bottomless Magazines Police Brutality Bunny-Ears Lawyer Expy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Does Not Like Shoes Storming the Castle The Place Adaptation Dye-Job Have a Gay Old Time Determinator The Dreaded Manchild Fantastic Racism Only Known by Their Nickname Nice Guy Reckless Gun Usage Wham Line Love at First Sight Victoria's Secret Compartment Dirty Coward Gainax Ending Face Death with Dignity Arranged Marriage Public Domain Feature Films Sinister Minister Reality Is Unrealistic Translation Convention The '80s Papa Wolf Decoy Protagonist Re-Cut Redemption Equals Death The Lost Lenore Meet Cute Novelization Four-Temperament Ensemble Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Revenge Amusing Injuries Plucky Comic Relief Daylight Horror Air-Vent Passageway Actually Pretty Funny Camp Gay The Mole Dirty Old Man Rape as Drama True Companions "Well Done, Son!" Guy Word of God Fanservice Extra Faux Affably Evil Blood Knight Better to Die than Be Killed Parental Neglect Peek-a-Boo Corpse Biopic Never My Fault Kubrick Stare Whole Plot Reference Reasonable Authority Figure Beware the Nice Ones Bond One-Liner Ambiguous Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Pretty Little Headshots Hypocrite Empathic Environment For the Evulz Spiritual Successor Extreme Doormat Artistic License – Physics Kids Are Cruel The Ditz Male Frontal Nudity Made of Explodium Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Voiceless Imagine Spot Soundtrack Dissonance Unwitting Instigator of Doom Mystery and Detective Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dissonant Serenity Death of a Child Lighter and Softer Heroic BSoD Military and Warfare Films Ambiguously Gay Rich Bitch Cool Old Guy Self-Deprecation A Minor Kidroduction Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Hate Sink Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Easily Forgiven Back from the Dead Room Full of Crazy Corrupt Corporate Executive Wretched Hive Big Bad Duumvirate Friend to All Children Psychological Thriller The Great Depression Crazy Jealous Guy Humiliation Conga All There in the Script Mad Scientist Central Theme In Medias Res Those Two Bad Guys Too Dumb to Live Villain with Good Publicity Action Prologue Credits Gag Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Horror Films Jerk with a Heart of Gold Token Minority Anguished Declaration of Love Eye Scream The Vamp Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday My Greatest Failure Corpsing Throwing Your Sword Always Works As Himself Informed Ability Big Damn Heroes Spanner in the Works Adaptation Distillation Villain Protagonist Outrun the Fireball Defiant to the End Armor-Piercing Question Manipulative Bastard I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Establishing Character Moment Double-Meaning Title The Film of the Book Took a Level in Badass Curb-Stomp Battle Mercy Kill Arch-Enemy The Power of Love Naïve Newcomer Creepy Child Broken Bird Malevolent Masked Men Meaningful Echo Guile Hero It Can Think Morality Pet Dark Is Not Evil I Did What I Had to Do Mood Whiplash Bar Brawl Beta Couple Award-Bait Song Unusual Euphemism Jerkass Overprotective Dad N-Word Privileges Rule of Symbolism Obstructive Bureaucrat Dramatic Gun Cock There Is No Kill Like Overkill Despair Event Horizon A Father to His Men Cool Guns Gratuitous English British Films Vitriolic Best Buds Final Girl Author Appeal Dumb Blonde Improbable Aiming Skills Pimped-Out Dress Ghost Fiction The X of Y Based on a True Story Overly Long Gag Historical In-Joke Smug Snake Babies Ever After Abhorrent Admirer Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Creative Closing Credits Not So Stoic You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! A Date with Rosie Palms Insistent Terminology Take a Third Option Alliterative Name Evil Sounds Deep It's All About Me Cain and Abel Hollywood Law Call-Forward Attempted Rape After the End Fatal Flaw Left the Background Music On Bad "Bad Acting" Dramatic Irony Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dying Moment of Awesome Bavarian Fire Drill All Men Are Perverts Rated M for Manly Karmic Death Crazy-Prepared Scenery Gorn Anachronism Stew Death by Irony No Antagonist Chewing the Scenery Genre Shift A.I. Is a Crapshoot Half the Man He Used to Be Only in It for the Money Cool Shades Evil Laugh Villain Song Nothing Is Scarier Oh, Crap! Due to the Dead Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sports Stories Slashed Throat Bare Your Midriff Rousing Speech Logo Joke Batman Gambit Up to Eleven Hoist by His Own Petard Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene It's Personal Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Pragmatic Adaptation Stylistic Suck Only One Name Accidental Murder Big Bad The '90s Parental Substitute No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Neck Snap Ironic Echo The Bully Homage Jerk Jock Foil Vampire Fiction Darkest Hour Hair-Trigger Temper Not Even Bothering with the Accent Fanservice Authority Equals Asskicking Nice Hat Noodle Incident "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Visual Pun Star-Crossed Lovers Auto Erotica Femme Fatale Ungrateful Bastard Fun with Acronyms Brainless Beauty Retired Badass Bowdlerise Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas NO INDOOR VOICE Cloudcuckoolander Gold Digger Genre Throwback Villainous Breakdown Fan Disservice Line-of-Sight Name And the Adventure Continues Hong Kong Films Shell-Shocked Veteran Cluster F-Bomb Off-into-the-Distance Ending Darker and Edgier You Have Failed Me Broken Pedestal Evil Is Petty Vomit Discretion Shot Ass Shove Earn Your Happy Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Australian Movies Big-Bad Ensemble "The Reason You Suck" Speech Riddle for the Ages Leave the Camera Running Sacrificial Lion Mistaken for Gay Adaptation Name Change French Films Mexican Standoff Betty and Veronica Deadpan Snarker Deliberate Values Dissonance I Have Your Wife Scenery Porn Drugs Are Bad Light Is Not Good An Arm and a Leg Laughing Mad Contrived Coincidence German Films Mama Bear Every Car Is a Pinto Undying Loyalty Instant Death Bullet Never Trust a Trailer Car Fu Action Genre Fantasy Films Implacable Man Brutal Honesty It Will Never Catch On Children Are Innocent Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Gun Safety What Happened to the Mouse? Dark Action Girl Jerkass Has a Point Sassy Black Woman Artistic License – Biology What the Hell, Hero? Here We Go Again! Butt-Monkey My Beloved Smother Suddenly SHOUTING! Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Historical-Domain Character Vacation Films Mr. Fanservice Fainting Sealed Evil in a Can Our Zombies Are Different Bloodier and Gorier Cold-Blooded Torture Your Cheating Heart Hidden Depths Roaring Rampage of Revenge Same Language Dub Greater-Scope Villain The Alcoholic Continuity Nod Eiffel Tower Effect Intergenerational Friendship Dual Wielding May–December Romance Scary Black Man The Cavalry Those Two Guys Hero Antagonist Adorkable Bland-Name Product The Ghost Demonic Possession Once More, with Clarity! The Stinger Heel Realization The Oner One-Man Army Bi the Way Martial Arts Movie Bolivian Army Ending Funny Foreigner Did Not Get the Girl Cool Car Good Is Not Nice Real Life Writes the Plot '80s Hair Eyepatch of Power Sequel Escalation Black Comedy Non-Indicative Name Expository Hairstyle Change Frame-Up Adaptational Badass Punch-Clock Villain How We Got Here In the Back Dark and Troubled Past Black Comedy Rape Slap-Slap-Kiss Double Entendre Not Using the "Z" Word Sole Survivor Death by Adaptation Be Careful What You Wish For Developing Doomed Characters Shower Scene Cool Old Lady Depraved Bisexual Hooker with a Heart of Gold Rule of Funny Gorn Villain Ball My God, What Have I Done? Fatal Family Photo The Cameo Affably Evil Wounded Gazelle Gambit Grey and Gray Morality Mythology Gag Badass Bookworm Put on a Bus Manic Pixie Dream Girl Training Montage Card-Carrying Villain Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Artistic License – Geography Motor Mouth The Dog Bites Back An Aesop Captain Ersatz Gilligan Cut Dogged Nice Guy Daddy's Girl Shown Their Work What You Are in the Dark Heroes Want Redheads Shirtless Scene Apocalypse How Gender Flip Anachronic Order Pragmatic Villainy Ominous Latin Chanting Posthumous Character Product Placement Author Avatar Canadian Movies Eagleland Tap on the Head Dropped a Bridge on Him Boom, Headshot! Arc Words Slasher Smile Does This Remind You of Anything? Reality Ensues Annoying Younger Sibling Knight Templar Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience He Who Fights Monsters Heroic Sacrifice From Bad to Worse Adaptational Heroism Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pyrrhic Victory No Celebrities Were Harmed Very Loosely Based on a True Story Curse Cut Short Not So Above It All Enemy Mine Big Fancy House Obfuscating Stupidity Blood from the Mouth Men Are the Expendable Gender The Starscream Handicapped Badass Covers Always Lie Demoted to Extra Camera Abuse Disproportionate Retribution Dutch Angle Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Five-Man Band Christmas Movies Index Bring My Brown Pants Evil Brit Artistic License – History Get Out! Only Sane Man Pretty in Mink Chekhov's Skill Fire-Forged Friends Stealth Pun Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Idiot Ball Setting Update Stock Footage Drowning My Sorrows Parental Abandonment Animal Motifs The Remake Reality Has No Subtitles She Cleans Up Nicely Epic Movie Becoming the Mask Deal with the Devil Ascended Extra Hero of Another Story Pay Evil unto Evil Closed Circle Jump Scare Death Seeker Retcon Say My Name Bilingual Bonus The '70s Super Strength The End... Or Is It? I Need a Freaking Drink timeperiod Downer Ending Epic Fail All Just a Dream Take That! Madness Mantra The Alleged Car Foreshadowing Fat Bastard "Awesome McCool" Name Real Life Sanity Slippage A God Am I Kick the Dog All Girls Want Bad Boys Red Eyes, Take Warning Immune to Bullets Artistic License – Military Title Drop Anti-Villain Stepford Smiler Happily Married Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Composite Character The Stoner Fourth Date Marriage Anyone Can Die Foregone Conclusion Made of Iron Groin Attack Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The '50s And I Must Scream No Name Given Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The '60s Loads and Loads of Characters Truth in Television Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Call-Back Alas, Poor Villain Bald of Evil Evil vs. Evil Monumental Damage The Sociopath Retirony Romantic False Lead More Dakka Totally Radical Character Development Heterosexual Life-Partners La Résistance Running Gag Extremely Short Timespan Funny Background Event Taking the Bullet Stalker with a Crush Bond Villain Stupidity Badass in a Nice Suit Green-Eyed Monster Rewatch Bonus Scare Chord Chekhov's Gun The Bad Guy Wins Badass Longcoat Chase Scene Agony of the Feet You Killed My Father Leitmotif Damsel in Distress Race Against the Clock Together in Death Our Vampires Are Different The Faceless Politically Incorrect Villain I'm a Humanitarian As the Good Book Says... Superhero Cat Scare Guns Akimbo The Mafia Silence Is Golden Red Right Hand Fish out of Water Driven to Suicide Serial Killer Suspiciously Similar Substitute Interrupted Suicide Bloodless Carnage Stealth Hi/Bye Death Glare Paper-Thin Disguise Big Applesauce You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Missing Mom In Name Only Domestic Abuse Fake Shemp Only a Flesh Wound Male Gaze Comically Missing the Point The Dragon Conspicuous CG Documentary Red Herring Manly Tears Bait-and-Switch Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Smurfette Principle Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Random Events Plot Worthy Opponent Rule of Three Cassandra Truth Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bittersweet Ending Ripped from the Headlines Faking the Dead Blackmail Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fate Worse than Death Important Haircut Adapted Out Film Noir Index The Smart Guy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Shipper on Deck Race Lift Mooks No OSHA Compliance Disney Death Adaptation Expansion Mugging the Monster Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hollywood Darkness Unresolved Sexual Tension Horror Comedy Evil Counterpart Trailers Always Spoil Ax-Crazy Spared by the Adaptation Catapult Nightmare Twist Ending Film Series Playing Gertrude Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Gone Horribly Right Adaptational Villainy Refuge in Audacity Honor Before Reason The Reveal Suspiciously Specific Denial Meaningful Name Crapsack World Would Hit a Girl Not What It Looks Like Show Within a Show Dull Surprise Even Evil Has Loved Ones Not So Different O.O.C. Is Serious Business Deconstruction Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Early-Bird Cameo Television Movie Index Abusive Parents Mr. Exposition Ms. Fanservice Precision F-Strike Major Injury Underreaction Wrong Genre Savvy Chekhov's Gunman Married to the Job Sci-Fi Horror The Chessmaster Big Brother Instinct Shout-Out Redshirt Army Gory Discretion Shot Determinator aka: The Determinator