History Literature / Hater

* JustBeforeTheEnd: The first part of the trilogy.

'''Minor Spoilers...'''[[spoiler: It turns out that almost half the people on the planet suddenly develop an Us Versus Them mentality, and divide people into those who kill and those who don't, and then kill those who don't. Those who do kill are called Haters, and seem to get just slightly stronger and smarter than they were before their transformation as a self-aware Hater, and the only advantage that non-Haters have is greater numbers. Haters can sense who is a Hater and who is not. Non-Haters cannot sense which team a person belongs to. Haters can sense other Haters even before they become a self-aware Hater. What's the cause? Mental illness? A government experiment gone awry? Is it Mother Nature's population control? The mystery is still unsolved by the end of the book.]]

'''MEGA SPOILERS..''' [[spoiler: the main character pulls a AndThenJohnWasAZombie by suddenly realizing that he is a Hater. He has a wife and two sons and a daughter, and his father-in-law is staying with them as the steadily escalating crisis heats up outside. The only other person in his family that is a Hater is his daughter, though she doesn't know it yet. He kills his father-in-law, and then attacks the rest of his family to get his daughter away from them, but his wife brains him and escapes with all of the children. He's quickly picked up by the authorities and taken to a facility, forced to wait in a long line, not knowing his fate, but finding an identity among the Haters. He finally gets to the front of the line and realizes that he's at an extermination camp as he's hurried into a gas chamber with a dozen other Haters. Suddenly, a wall explodes and he escapes the gas chamber because there are Haters in the military and other authoritarian positions, and those Haters are trying to protect their own. They've usurped a helicopter and blown up the gas chamber with a missile and rallied the Haters outside to fight against their captors. He escapes and sees that the Haters are fighting the non-Haters, and he helps wage an epic, revolutionary battle against non-Haters, ultimately gaining the upper hand and turning the tables on the non-Haters, greatly reducing their only advantage of greater numbers. [[VillainProtagonist Our hero]] feels refreshed and more alive than he ever has, throwing off the shackles of his former life and "their" oppression and bigotry, because "they" still judge people on things such as looks and beliefs and nationality and gender and sexuality, etcetera. The Haters embrace and love everyone on his varied team of Haters across the world. He's confident, knowing that the so-called non-Haters are divided and weak, and knowing that the dawning of a new age has come that presents a very ironic utopia of love amongst the global family of Haters.]]

'''MEGA SPOILERS..''' [[spoiler: the main character pulls a AndThenJohnWasAZombie by suddenly realizing that he is a Hater. He has a wife and two sons and a daughter, and his father-in-law is staying with them as the steadily escalating crisis heats up outside. The only other person in his family that is a Hater is his daughter, though she doesn't know it yet. He kills his father-in-law, and then attacks the rest of his family to get his daughter away from them, but his wife brains him and escapes with all of the children. He's quickly picked up by the authorities and taken to a facility, forced to wait in a long line, not knowing his fate, but finding an identity among the Haters. He finally gets to the front of the line and realizes that he's at an extermination camp as he's hurried into a gas chamber with a dozen other Haters. Suddenly, a wall explodes and he escapes the gas chamber because there are Haters in the military and other authoritarian positions, and those Haters are trying to protect their own. They've usurped a helicopter and blown up the gas chamber with a missile and rallied the Haters outside to fight against their captors. He escapes and sees that the Haters are fighting the non-Haters, and he helps wage an epic, revolutionary [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome battle]] against non-Haters, ultimately gaining the upper hand and turning the tables on the non-Haters, greatly reducing their only advantage of greater numbers. [[VillainProtagonist Our hero]] feels refreshed and more alive than he ever has, throwing off the shackles of his former life and "their" oppression and bigotry, because "they" still judge people on things such as looks and beliefs and nationality and gender and sexuality, etcetera. The Haters embrace and love everyone on his varied team of Haters across the world. He's confident, knowing that the so-called non-Haters are divided and weak, and knowing that the dawning of a new age has come that presents a very ironic utopia of love amongst the global family of Haters.]]

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* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: The main character releases he is a Hater and then kills his father-in-law with plans to kill the rest of his family save for his daughter.]]

The {{Sequel}} ''DogBlood'' came out in 2010.

* {{ILLKILLYOU}}: big time.