Basic Trope: A character being hated by others is seen as a positive thing.
- Straight: Bob is one of the most talented basketball players in his team, which causes others to talk down on him.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob IS the greatest basketball player of all time, and this made him the most hated player in basketball history.
- Bob is so great at basketball, he has many people sending out threats of murdering him in cold blood.
- Bob is the greatest basketball player of all time, which makes everyone, even his own teammates, friends, and family, wishing that he dies a Cruel and Unusual Death.
- Downplayed: Bob takes pride in having a talented Friendly Rival to keep him sharp, and enjoys practicing with them.
- Justified:
- Bob's detractors are just simply resentful and hate how they have failed to be more like him.
- Bob sees their hatred as a method of motivation in becoming more better than he ever was.
- The reason why they hate Bob is because he rightfully thinks are horrible and he is not afraid to act on this belief.
- Inverted:
- Bob sees that having a lot of friends means that he's a nobody.
- Bob is a talented basketball player because of the friendly support of his fans, including his teammates.
- Bob is the worst basketball player of all time, yet his friends like him for it.
- Bob hates all of his teammates for being more talented than he is.
- Finding out that there's people who loathe him make Bob fall to pieces as he tries to correct it.
- Subverted:
- Bob finds out that the people are acting like they're hating him because they actually want him to succeed.
- Bob asks why does he get no respect from his peers, and their reason is that he has a highly prideful attitude that has been grating on everyone's nerves since day one.
- Bob has been suppressing his teammates latent talents from the beginning, caring more about being the best one on the team then the success of the team. In essence he is complaining about Tall Poppy Syndrome despite being the one who enforces it.
- Double Subverted:
- ...But then they realize that their plan went all too well and start to genuinely hate Bob, which is making him an even better player.
- ...But Bob is so good at playing basketball that they can't help themselves but to become resentful and envious of him.
- Parodied: Bob is mostly antagonized for being skilled at making jelly donut recipes.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Having detractors is seen as neither positive nor negative.
- Enforced: "A lot of great people in the world are the most hated. Let's teach our children about the importance of having enemies."
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked:
- One day, Bob comes to this resolution...
Bob: "I'm being ignored. I need some people to start talking about me so they can act like they care."- Since Bob believes that having enemies is awesome, he behaves like a despicable jackass towards everyone hoping this will validate himself.
- "It doesn't matter if they hate you, Bob. What matters is that they wish they're just as awesome as you."
- Exploited: When Bob's Arch-Enemy finds out about the baffling amount of people that have a grudge against him, he decides to manipulate them into forming a team hellbent into ruining Bob's life.
- Defied:
- "Enemies are not good. You're just saying that to excuse your bad behavior."
- "Having enemies isn't good for me! What kind of person would come up with such an absurd statement like that?"
- "Being hated doesn't means you're great. It only means people hate you."
- "I don't care about you. And there's no atrocity you can do to me that would leave me a lasting memory of you. So what I'm going to do is walk away and live my life, and you can stay here going crazy over the fact that I don't hate you, for all I care."
- Discussed: "Why does he think that being hated is awesome?"
- Conversed: "I bet the writers are going to have Bob say 'haters gonna hate' in the next episode."
- Deconstructed:
- It is found out that the reason Bob is hated by everybody is because of his ego, yet Bob believes that their hatred is what makes him better than others. Eventually, Bob's ego has finally got the best of him as it has cost him and his teammates to lose the finals, thus beginning his permanent downfall as a basketball player and a human being.
- Bob's optimistic attitude is starting to wear him out. He realizes that the criticism and hatred of others isn't bringing him up, it's bringing him down to the point that he and his teammates suffered a terrible losing streak. Thus, Bob loses all hope and quits playing basketball for the rest of his life.
- Bob eventually realizes that because every other player on opposing teams hates his guts, he's part of the problem and he realizes that if he keeps this up, he won't have any friends to vouch for his character.
- Reconstructed:
- But over the course of time, Bob uses their resentment and hatred to better himself, making himself an even better player than usual. This makes everyone hate him even more, but Bob doesn't mind at all.
- Bob begins to pull himself together and makes a huge comeback in the basketball court. Expecting all of his haters to do what they do best, he finds out that they all turned into his begrudging supporters. After that, Bob continues to play basketball.
- Bob decides to use his fame as a basketball player for to help with charity, and his hard work and charisma brings in millions for the needy… which makes people hate him even more, with an actual escalation to cyber bullying, stalking and physical violence. At that point, Bob figures out that some people are just looking for any reason to hate Bob and there is just no pleasing them.
- Untwisted: Bob comes to realize that the "stop making the rest of us look bad" comments are not in good fun and are from genuine resentment.
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