History Main / HatedHometown

Compare NeverAcceptedInhisHometown, and contrast AHeroToHisHometown, although it is very possible someone could dislike his hometown and still be considered a hero there.

Compare NeverAcceptedInhisHometown, and contrast AHeroToHisHometown.

Compare NeverAcceptedInhisHometown, and contrast HometownHero.

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* Cody Maverick from ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'': "Good-old Shriverpool. *razz* This place ''sucks'', bro!"

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* JanisJoplin was known to feel this way about her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers'', Keiss, upon visiting his home, reluctantly says "home sweet home... I guess." He's not on good terms with the local leader.

* ''CodeGeass'': Lelouch to the Brittanian empire.
* ''{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke [[spoiler: after learning the scarifices Itachi made and due to his unstable nature, swore to destroy Konoha. He seems to have gone against this after meeting a revived Itachi.]]
* ''StarWars'':

* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson has sometimes expressed this feeling about Springfield.
** "A Star is Torn":
--->'''Homer:''' You [Lisa] and I are gonna write and sing our way out of this godforsaken hellhole.\\
'''Marge:''' But your song said you liked Springfield.\\
'''Homer:''' I wrote it about Shelbyville then changed the names.
* Cody Maverick from ''SurfsUp'': "Good-old Shriverpool. *razz* This place ''sucks'', bro!"
* Billy Candle from ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' hates his hometown (as well as everything from his crappy childhood, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas except his mother]]), but has to return to it in the beginning of the first game.
* In ''FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers'', Keiss, upon visiting his home, reluctantly says "home sweet home... I guess." He's not on good terms with the local leader.
* In ''CreatureTech'', Dr. Ong hates Turlock, CA, because he thinks there's too many rednecks for his taste.
* When SweeneyTodd agrees that "there's no place like London," his tone is acid. And when we learn what happened to him, we learn he has every reason to believe such.

* ''{{Struck by Lightning}}'': Carson despises his hometown, Clover.
* {{Music/Voltaire}} song "Bomb New Jersey"
** The song "Hate Lives in a Small Town" is more generically SmallTownsAreEvil, but the singer grew up in one and hates it; one verse mentions him being beaten up by football players for supposedly being gay, and he left as soon as he could for the big city.

* Blog/OffThePageAndIntoLife is set in Pageson, a vaguely Southern but [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield never-actually-plotted-on-the-map]] small town, where there's nothing for the local teens to do but get on each other's nerves and cause trouble. Most of the cast can't ''stand'' Pageson, but due to circumstances (natural disasters, the economy, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the fact that they're reincarnations of literary characters and a]] MadGod is messing with things to keep them where they are...), no one ever leaves.

* Kazusa Touma from VisualNovel/WhiteAlbum2 hates Japan, especially after being away from that country for five years. Not for a real dislike of the country, but because [[spoiler:it's the place where she was forced to leave behind the man she loved]].

* ''{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke.

** The song "Hate Lives in a Small Town" is more generically SmallTownsAreEvil, but the singer grew up in one and hates it; one verse mentions him being beaten up by football players for supposedly being gay, and he left as soon as he could for the big city.

"Oh, so you're from troperville? I'm going there next month, how is it?" "Hell on Earth."

* {{Music/Voltaire}} song "Bomb New Jersey"

* Billy Candle from ''CallOfJuarez'' hates his hometown (as well as everything from his crappy childhood, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas except his mother]]), but has to return to it in the beginning of the first game.

* ''{{Struck by Lightning}}'': Clover

* When SweeneyTodd agrees that "there's no place like London," his tone is acid.

--->"Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, [Tatooine is] the planet that it's farthest from."