Fiction
"Evil, and yet amusing."
— Dilbert
"Mm, mm! Don't you just love to hate this guy?"
— Doc Louis about Aran Ryan, Punch-Out!!
SpongeBob: Holy Krabby Patties! Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's archnemesis! The Dirty Bubble! I can't believe it!
Dirty Bubble: (snickers) You cannot save them, sponge of mystery! They are trapped, by my awesome surface tension! (Evil Laugh)
SpongeBob: You don't understand! You're my most favorite supervillain! Can I have your autograph?
Dirty Bubble: (snickers) You cannot save them, sponge of mystery! They are trapped, by my awesome surface tension! (Evil Laugh)
SpongeBob: You don't understand! You're my most favorite supervillain! Can I have your autograph?
"I am not interested in conflicted antagonists. Nor, for that matter, is anyone else. People want a bad guy they can hate unequivocally. Someone whose brutal demise they can cheer without remorse. Life, sadly, rarely treats them to such a luxury."
— Contagion, Wolverine: The Best There Is
Real Life
"I was the type of character you wanted to hate, but you had to admit, 'He's good.' And that's good heat."
— Shawn Michaels, describing his character.
"But then all hell broke loose when the loathsome, demonic beast with fake hair returned to WWE. No, not Alicia Fox."
"Once upon a time, at my first SHIMMER show, I happened upon something that’s stuck with me for almost half a decade now. Daffney was outside the afterparty, and at the time she was a heel, but she was telling everyone stories and showing us cat pictures on her phone. One dude approached her and said, in this super proud way, “I love you so much, I NEVER boo you.” Daffney looked at him and in the saddest voice I’ve heard, asked, “Why? Am I doing a bad job?” And this guy seemed so confused. He was like, no, I love you. I want you to know it, so I cheer! And Daffney said, and this sticks with me, “If you like what I’m doing, boo me louder than anyone.”"
— Chewsh
"If I had to design someone to be the embodiment of slimy evil, [King Joffrey]'s the guy I'd design. He looks like if vanity, smugness and blond hair had a baby. He's what entitled douchebags bow and pray to at dawn. At all times he looks like he just can't wait to go home and smell his own poop. Slimy, slimy little twerp, I hate him."
"Just as it's hard to pin down at what precise point that Cranston's character became more Heisenberg than Walt, it's impossible to say when in the series Skyler became the most hated female character on television. When she devised, businesslike, the elaborate gambling-addiction cover-up to tell Hank and Marie? When she bought the car wash and became complicit in Walt's crime? The infamous 'I fucked Ted' line, basically the only way she could assert her autonomy? The latter would be my guess."
— Anna Breslaw, "Anna Gunn's Just Trying To Understand Why People Want To Kill Her"
, "Anna Gunn's Just Trying To Understand Why People Want To Kill Her""We need to crush Battletoads. We want to see it bloodied and bruised. We want to stand over it, like Ivan Drago over Apollo Creed, and say 'If it dies, it dies'... we would rain hot, repressed justice all over our consoles, just for a chance to hate-fight the foxy, infuriating Dark Queen."
"'Contrary to legend, it is not a transcription error on a character who was supposed to be Monkey Kong. No. Donkey was picked deliberately — to give the character a feeling of simple-minded stubbornness. Kong was picked, of course, to evoke King Kong, thus tying him into the great tradition of movie monsters. He is the first video game character I know of to have an expressive face. This is huge. From the manic, toothy grin he makes as he pounds around between throwing barrels to the panicked, goofy look on his face as he falls at the end of the rivets level, Donkey Kong is an antagonist that forces you to personify the game... The game taunts you and mocks you, and in doing so makes you want to beat it more.
To see how brilliant this bit of sketched storytelling is, one need only jump ahead to Donkey Kong Jr., a game that retains most of the irritating play mechanics of Donkey Kong, but switches the roles around — Mario is the villain, Donkey Kong is the captive, and the player is Donkey Kong Jr. The result is, frankly, a bit of a mess. Donkey Kong Jr. is as lousy an avatar as Mario is a villain."
To see how brilliant this bit of sketched storytelling is, one need only jump ahead to Donkey Kong Jr., a game that retains most of the irritating play mechanics of Donkey Kong, but switches the roles around — Mario is the villain, Donkey Kong is the captive, and the player is Donkey Kong Jr. The result is, frankly, a bit of a mess. Donkey Kong Jr. is as lousy an avatar as Mario is a villain."
— El Sandifer on Donkey Kong
on Donkey Kong Get what you get and you don't get upset? Fuck that, he would wipe out everybody in his way if he wanted the last fucking DOUGHNUT badly enough. That's why I love him so much, he's my favorite character of all time.
... Still, Tyrion takes this shit personally, as well as his sister's unmitigated glee over beating up on the innocent. And he says, "I will hurt you for this. A day will come when you think you are safe and happy, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth. And you will know the debt is paid." And if people could RSVP for that day, it would be the most popular event on Facebook.
— Angela Lutz describing Cersei Lannister
describing Cersei LannisterViewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.
"A lot of people will pay to see someone shut your mouth."
— Gorgeous George, giving advice to a 19 year old Muhammad Ali
Interviewer: Who's your favorite Sonic character in the IDW books?
Jack Lawrence: Mimic. I love how bad he is, and he looks so cool! He's a tiny bundle of nastiness and I love him!
: Mimic. I love how bad he is, and he looks so cool! He's a tiny bundle of nastiness and I love him!— "Creator's Corner: Jack Lawrence", Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Bad Guys #2
"Oh, God, what a bitch! She's so fucking awesome!"
—The Nostalgia Critic describing Azula
