History Main / HatePlague

* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} [[Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent and the Roman Agent]]'', Tortuous Convolvulus has the ability to cause discord by his presence alone (indicated by SpeechBubbles [[PaintingTheMedium gaining a green background]]), which he complements with a good deal of mundane skill in psychological warfare and sowing mistrust and fear, allowing him to quickly escalate situations into shouting and fistfights. He also had been sentenced to death at the Colosseum, and is alive at the beginning of the book due to making the beasts attack one another.

* The SoBadItsGood ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' program featured main recurring villain Hugo A-Go-Go creating "hoke", a combination of hate and smoke. After it was released, the eponymous hero and his sidekick began arguing, including [[LampshadeHanging placing a lampshade]] on the overuse of the hero's "[[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe My wings of steel will protect me]]" catchphrase, with the henchman replying, "Yeah, yeah, why don't you get some new dialogue?"

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': In ''Trauma Team'', almost all of the case solved by Naomi involves the victim being infected with the [[spoiler:Rosalia]] virus. Though it isn't straight up hate, but rather a result of frontal lobe tumors causing dementia among with other symptoms. One of the cases involves [[spoiler:the murderer being infected with the virus and thought she was trying to save her family from a FateWorseThanDeath due to the hallucinations she was having]].

* In ''Series/AgentCarter'' it turns out Howard Stark accidentally created a gas form of this (it was intended to allow soldiers to avoid fatigue and not have to sleep as often, but it ended up causing symptoms similar to those of extreme sleep deprivation). When the villains get a hold of it do a few tests, all hell breaks lose.

** In one episode, Courage faces a literal sweeping Hate Plague called the "Cruelty Curtain". This energy barrier causes anyone it touches to become ridiculously rude to the point that benevolence is considered a crime. Courage manages to re-wire the Curtain so that it turns people nice -- [[HeelFaceTurn even its evil creator]], who is later elected mayor. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Eustace]] is nasty enough that he isn't affected, and when the effect is inverted, [[DisabilityImmunity he's still a big jerk]].

** In one episode, [[BigBad the Hacker]] attempts to take over {{Cyberspace}} with the "Curse of the Mean Green", which can [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turn entire worlds mean and green]]. First person to be infected: [[FisherKing Motherboard]]. [[OhCrap Oh, dear]].
** This happens again in "Hackerized". The plague is pretty much limited to Sensible Flats... but works on ''Matt and Jackie!''

** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2089 SCP-2089]] is John_████████_Is_Here, an Internet blogger which drives viewers of his content into prejudice towards him, posting hateful content about him (comments expressing dislike, fan art of him being harmed, encouraging him to kill himself). Combined with his inability to die, [[MundaneUtility his condition is exploited]] to provide entertainment for other users by self-harm or suicide.

* In another comic of Creator/GarthEnnis, ''Rover Red Charlie'', the premise is that one day the whole human race got hit with strange plague which results in "feeders" all (apparently) killing each other and/or committing suicide in many brutal ways. The focus is instead on a trio of dogs who are left to inherit the world humans left behind.

* In the Neo Tribes source book for the ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' RPG, America and other western countries in Cyberpunk's world collapsed because of a selfish ideological sickness. Which was born out of the need for people wanting to be seen as special. Where everyone had to be "equal" to or preferably better than others, and fought to protect its "special" rights. If anyone had something that someone else wanted, they were painted as racist, sexist, elitist, or worse.

* ''VideoGame/LisaThePointless'': The Infinity Franchise is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane a potentially supernatural murder-cult]] that sprung up thanks to [[ArtifactOfDoom unearthed boxes of]][[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg jerseys with no original]]. Anyone who wears one ends up becoming extremely homicidal, killing in order to reach different "folds" of infinity for no real reason than to keep killing[[note]]although [[spoiler: Arnold Shpitz’s OneWingedAngel from implies there’s genuine abilities one gains from the Franchise]][[/note]]. The Franchise sweeps over [[UrbanHellscape Downtown Olathe]] during Alex and Joel’s travel through it, turning previously friendly NPCs hostile and wiping out the inhabitants, with [[spoiler: the ending sequence implying they moved on to terrorizing the surrounding territories]].

** This is the main shtick of the villain named the Hate-Monger, whose original M.O. is to spread bigotry and aggression with his "hate-ray" and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain usually directs people's hatred towards minorities]]. His consciousness eventually becomes a more literal Hate Plague, able to spread his evil ideals more directly. Fitting, given that he's the disembodied, body-hopping mind of the infamous real-life hate-monger UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.

** In ''[[/Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]", the Toymaker uses a puppet called Stooky Bill, whose image and SignatureLaugh (the eponymous Giggle) has been burned into every television, screen, and monitor by 2023, to induce a plague upon humanity where they always believe they're right and become [[HairTriggerTemper borderline psychopathic]] in the face of literally any confrontation. This plague doesn't force humanity into madness, however, only makes them refuse to back down from what they believe in regardless of logic, rationality, or even their own safety. The Doctor gives humans [[HumansAreBastards quite the speech]] about this halfway through the episode.

** In the episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E2AllBottledUp All Bottled Up]]'', Starlight, who was angry at Trixie for using a spell that teleported the Cutie Map to who knows where and acting like she doesn't care that it could get them both in trouble with Twilight, uses a spell that bottles up all of her anger in a jar. But then the jar breaks, and all the anger infects Bulk Biceps, Granny Smith, and a pony who works at the jewelry store, who all go after Trixie and start yelling at her about all the stuff she did to make Starlight mad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1978'', the episode "The Frightful Four" at one point has the Wizard use a gas to make the Fantastic Four become hostile toward each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the episode "Tough Love", where [[{{Satan}} Him]] replaces everyone's love for the girls with hate, causing them to turn against the girls -- even the {{narrator}} is affected. It really hits when the girls go to see the Professor; imagine all the love that a parent has for their children magically swapped with hate.