Tropescilloscope: Abhorrent Admirer

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

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