History HateSink / DCExtendedUniverse

* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': This film's version of ComicBook/LexLuthor could be considered the patron saint of hate sinks. His mannerisms get on people's nerves, he openly mocks people who don't help him, he projects his personal issues on people who had nothing to do with them (his reason for hating Superman in this incarnation is that his worldview, shaped by being a victim of abuse by his father, is that power and benevolence can't go hand in hand), and he'll kill anyone who refuses to help him or even [[spoiler: has a crisis of consciousness at his actions]]. He takes Senator Finch's "Take a bucket of piss and call it 'Granny's Peach Tea' " jab and throws in back at her in a very literal way [[spoiler:before blowing her up to discredit Superman, and creates Doomsday to kill Superman.]] This makes it very cathartic in the [[ReCut Ultimate Edition]] when [[spoiler: after Luthor smugly mocks Batman over knowledge about his secret identity as Bruce Wayne and that he pulled an InsanityDefense for his crimes, Bruce wipes the smug look off by revealing he's arranged for Luthor to be sent to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].]]

** Steppenwolf in the theatrical cut is what you get when you take away General Zod's sympathetic motivation. He wants to conquer Earth and terraform it into an unsustainable hellscape, but rather than doing so in a misguided attempt to save his dead world, Steppenwolf only conquers Earth to score points with Darkseid. He's a bully who brags to Diana about all the Amazons he killed, and like a lot of bullies he's easily humbled once Superman and Wonder Woman manage to destroy his axe, leaving him defenseless.

* ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'': The film has a morally ambiguous cast, but for the most part they're all given qualities that should make them likable or at least not loathsome. The Joker is a loving boyfriend this time and Harley Quinn makes the grade by merit of being Harley Quinn. Deadshot's a killer, but comes across as a loving father. El Diablo killed his family, but is genuinely remorseful. Killer Croc and Amanda Waller are too cool to hate. Captain Boomerang is the TokenEvilTeammate, but is also the comic relief so he gets by as well. Enchantress and Incubus look cool but were more plot devices than characters. That leaves the prison guard in charge of Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Diablo and Killer Croc. He treats his prisoners with utter disdain and enjoys every moment of it, with implications that he may have sexually abused Harley. Slipknot could also qualify, [[DisproportionateRetribution given that he punched a woman just for giving him lip]].

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* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'': Peacemaker's father Auggie Smith is a white supremacist leader and an infamous supervillain. Auggie abused Peacemaker throughout his childhood [[TykeBomb to train him into being an assassin who would target minorities]], and he constantly blames Peacemaker for his brother Keith's death [[spoiler:even though it was caused by Auggie forcing the two to fight each other for the amusement of him and his white supremacist buddies]]. He's casually racist, and relentlessly antagonizes anyone he meets who isn't white or straight in the most obnoxious manner possible while hiding behind a thin veneer of self-righteousness. It all culminates in him trying to kill his own son due to a misunderstanding all the while [[BlasphemousBoast comparing himself to Abraham]] and acting like he's on a holy crusade. Even his actor described him as being a totally repugnant piece of shit.

** His ancestor Ahk-Ton was also this, having put his own people into grueling labor for the Eternium he needed to make the Crown and having anyone who displayed even the slightest hint of resistance put to death. When Teth-Adam bursts into his palace to make him pay, Ahk-Ton [[DirtyCoward then starts pleading for mercy he doesn't deserve even an ounce of]].

** His ancestor Ahk-Ton was also this, having put his own people into grueling labor for the Eternium he needed to make the Crown and having anyone who displayed even the slightest hint of resistance put to death. When Teth-Adam bursts into his palace to make him pay, Ahk-Ton [[DirtyCoward then starts pleading for mercy he doesn't deserve even an ounce of]].
* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too, torturing and brainwashing the wizard "Shazam" to cooperate as well and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses RevengeBeforeReason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her--and trying to finish her off later on for switching sides too; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.

* ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'': The film has a morally ambiguous cast, but for the most part they're all given qualities that should make them likable or at least not loathsome. The Joker is a loving boyfriend this time and Harley Quinn makes the grade by merit of being Harley Quinn. Deadshot's a killer, but comes across as a loving father. El Diablo killed his family, but is genuinely remorseful. Killer Croc and Amanda Waller are too cool to hate. Captain Boomerang is the TokenEvilTeammate, but is also the comic relief so he gets by as well. Enchantress and Incubus look cool but were more plot devices than characters. That leaves the prison guard in charge of Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Diablo and Killer Croc. He treats his prisoners with utter disdain and enjoys every moment of it, with implications that he may have sexually abused Harley. Slipknot could also qualify, given that he punched a woman just for giving him lip.

* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' has Ishmael, who seeks the power of SABBAC. Entitled and power-hungry because of his descent from King Ahk-Ton, who also sought the powers of SABBAC, Ishmael [[TheQuisling betrays his countrymen]] to Intergang and works with them while they oppress the Khandaqian people. There is no line he won't cross to get what he wants, including [[WouldHurtAChild threatening a child]]. His ancestor Ahk-Ton was also this, having put his own people into grueling labor for the Eternium he needed to make the Crown and having anyone who displayed even the slightest hint of resistance put to death. When Teth-Adam bursts into his palace to make him pay, Ahk-Ton [[DirtyCoward then starts pleading for mercy he doesn't deserve even an ounce of]].

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too, torturing and brainwashing the wizard "Shazam" to cooperate as well and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses RevengeBeforeReason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her--and trying to finish her off later on for switching sides too; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.

* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too, torturing and brainwashing the wizard "Shazam" to cooperate as well and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses RevengeBeforeReason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her--and trying to finish her off later on for switching sides too; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.

* ''SHAZAM!'' films:
** ''Film/Shazam2019'':
*** The Bryer Brothers waste no time planting themselves as such, given that they and their friends frequently beat up [[HeroWorshipper Freddy Freeman]] through out the film, [[BullyingTheDisabled who is handicapped.]] It's not hard to cheer when Billy Batson smashes one of their face in with Freddy's crutch, and that's only the beginning of what they go through as they get their truck smashed and go through [[{{Irony}} suitcase wedgies, which they gave to Freddy]], much later as well.
*** Despite being the main villain of the film and [[WouldHurtAChild willing to target children for the sake of power]], [[BigBad Dr. Thaddeus Sivana]] is ultimately [[FreudianExcuse motivated by his childhood ostracism]], and the [[SevenDeadlySins Deadly Sins]] are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil ultimately forces of nature motivated by their respective sins.]] Sivana's [[BigBrotherBully older brother Sid]] and [[AbusiveParents their father]] on the other hand aren't so lucky. They exist in the film to be purely despicable, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom are the reason behind Sivana’s descent to villainy]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are some of the first characters in the film]], and [[AssholeVictim both become the cathartic targets of his rampage and the only ones the audience won't feel bad for.]]

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses RevengeBeforeReason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her--and trying to finish her off later on for switching sides too; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.

* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' has Ishmael, who seeks the power of SABBAC. Entitled and power-hungry because of his descent from King Ahk-Ton, who also sought the powers of SABBAC, Ishmael [[TheQuisling betrays his countrymen]] to Intergang and works with them while they oppress the Khandaqian people. There is no line he won't cross to get what he wants, including [[WouldHurtAChild threatening a child]]. His ancestor Ahk-Ton was also this, having put his own people into grueling labor for the Eternium he needed to make the Crown and having anyone who displayed even the slightest hint of resistance put to death. When Teth-Adam bursts into his palace to make him pay, Ahk-Ton [[DirtyCoward then starts pleading for mercy he doesn't deserve even an ounce of]].

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses RevengeBeforeReason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.

* ''Film/Shazam2019'':
** The Bryer Brothers waste no time planting themselves as such, given that they and their friends frequently beat up [[HeroWorshipper Freddy Freeman]] through out the film, [[BullyingTheDisabled who is handicapped.]] It's not hard to cheer when Billy Batson smashes one of their face in with Freddy's crutch, and that's only the beginning of what they go through as they get their truck smashed and go through [[{{Irony}} suitcase wedgies, which they gave to Freddy]], much later as well.
** Despite being the main villain of the film and [[WouldHurtAChild willing to target children for the sake of power]], [[BigBad Dr. Thaddeus Sivana]] is ultimately [[FreudianExcuse motivated by his childhood ostracism]], and the [[SevenDeadlySins Deadly Sins]] are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil ultimately forces of nature motivated by their respective sins.]] Sivana's [[BigBrotherBully older brother Sid]] and [[AbusiveParents their father]] on the other hand aren't so lucky. They exist in the film to be purely despicable, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom are the reason behind Sivana’s descent to villainy]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are some of the first characters in the film]], and [[AssholeVictim both become the cathartic targets of his rampage and the only ones the audience won't feel bad for.]]
*** Out of the two, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Sivana]] ultimately proves to be the worst. Aside from being an [[AdultsAreUseless incredibly unhelpful]] father [[ParentalFavoritism that is playing favourites]], he's also a self-righteous hypocrite that emphasizes familial love [[SocialDarwinist and standing up for yourself]], [[DirtyCoward while possessing none]] [[{{Jerkass}} of those qualities himself.]] His very first scene has him give his elder son Sid an approving smile for ''bullying'' his younger son Thaddeus. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma His comeuppance comes in two fold]]: First he gets paralysed from the waist down following a car crash (with the horror of it downplayed by a Christmas carol playing at that exact moment), and finally years later, [[KarmicDeath Sivana shows up to murder both his preferred son and the rest of his company before finally letting Greed kill him off.]]]]
*** [[CainAndAbel Sid]] himself is no slouch, tormenting his little brother [[ForTheEvulz for almost no reason]] and [[SmugSnake in general being a smug prick.]] Aside from his [[PetTheDog genuine love for his father]], there is nothing even remotely likable about him [[InsaneTrollLogic and he's not even that smart,]] [[NeverMyFault blaming his brother over the car crash that crippled his father]] and [[{{Nepotism}} is implied to have only gotten as far as he did in Sivana Industries due to his father.]] [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack As such, his death via crashing through an office window on a high floor skyscraper was as satisfying to the audience as it was to his little brother.]]]]

* ''Film/Shazam2019'': While this is definitely [[LighterAndSofter the lightest]] of the DCEU films, it still manages to find itself with the most Hate Sinks so far in a single DCEU movie.

** [[spoiler:While Marilyn Batson was shown to have a mildly tragic background of her being a single teenage mother to Billy after her parents disowned her for her teen pregnancy and her boyfriend ended up getting incarcerated, her treatment towards Billy does not endear the audience since she has abandoned Billy through a needlessly selfish move by leaving him behind without telling him (while he ''was'' with the police, she should still know that doing that to him regardless would emotionally scar him for life). Not only that, but she [[KickTheDog holds no sense of love or affection towards her own son]] and [[NeverMyFault doesn't take fault for ruining his life]]. Her callous abandonment has shown to have bit her in the ass as [[LaserGuidedKarma her life has not improved in the slightest afterwards]]. Her existence is to give Billy the motivation to [[BrokenPedestal move on from her]] and [[FamilyOfChoice stick to his foster family]] after initially being distant towards them.]]

* Just like it's predecessor, ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', the majority of the characters are given likable qualities in spite of moral ambiguity. However, there are still quite a few pretty despicable scumbags among the cast. In the first squad, Blackguard [[spoiler: is an annoying prick who [[DirtyCoward betrays the team to the Corto Maltese military]], while The Thinker is pretty funny with all his ham, [[spoiler: but then it's revealed that for ''THIRTY'' years, he's been experimenting, torturing, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping Starro and the political enemies of the current regime]] (which includes their families, by the way). Mateo Suarez could count as well, considering he burned the aviary of his predecessor, with the birds still inside, and planned on using Starro to conquer the world.
* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'': Peacemaker's father Auggie Smith is a white supremacist leader and an infamous supervillain. Auggie abused Peacemaker throughout his childhood [[TykeBomb to train him into being an assassin who would target minorities]], and he constantly blames Peacemaker for his brother Keith's death [[spoiler:even though it was caused by Auggie forcing the two to fight each other for the amusement of him and his white supremacist buddies]]. He's casually racist, and relentlessly antagonizes anyone he meets who isn't white or straight in the most obnoxious manner possible while hiding behind a thin veneer of self-righteousness. It all culminates in him trying to kill his own son due to a misunderstanding all the while [[BlasphemousBoast comparing himself to Abraham]] and acting like he's on a holy crusade. Even his actor described him as being a totally repugnant piece of shit.

* Just like it's predecessor, ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', the majority of the characters are given likable qualities in spite of moral ambiguity. However, there are still quite a few pretty despicable scumbags among the cast. In the first squad, Blackguard [[spoiler: is an annoying prick who [[DirtyCoward betrays the team to the Corto Maltese military]], while Savant [[KickTheDog kills a bird for no reason]] and [[DirtyCoward runs away screaming when the mission goes pear-shaped.]]]] The Thinker is pretty funny with all his ham, [[spoiler: but then it's revealed that for ''THIRTY'' years, he's been experimenting, torturing, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping Starro and the political enemies of the current regime]] (which includes their families, by the way). Mateo Suarez could count as well, considering he burned the aviary of his predecessor, with the birds still inside, and planned on using Starro to conquer the world. For unseen and posthumous Hate Sinks, the US and Herrera family are revealed to have made a deal whereupon enemies of the latter and their loved ones were to be horrifically experimented on to weaponize Starro, who the American government had ripped out of space and planned to use as a weapon, but didn't do on their own soil to hide their dirty secrets. In the present, the real mission of the squad, which Peacemaker is tasked with making sure gets carried out, is that US involvement is buried, so America can deny responsibility.]]

* Just like it's predecessor, ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', the majority of the characters are given likable qualities in spite of moral ambiguity. However, there are still quite a few pretty despicable scumbags among the cast. In the first squad, Blackguard [[spoiler: is an annoying prick who [[DirtyCoward betrays the team to the Corto Maltese military]], while Savant [[KickTheDog kills a bird for no reason]] and [[DirtyCoward runs away screaming when the mission goes pear-shaped.]]]] The Thinker is pretty funny with all his ham, [[spoiler: but then it's revealed that for ''THIRTY'' years, he's been experimenting, torturing, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping Starro and the political enemies of the current regime]] (which includes their families, by the way). Mateo Suarez could count as well, considering he burned the aviary of his predecessor, with the birds still inside, and planned on using Starro to conquer the world. For unseen and posthumous Hate Sinks, the US and Herrera family are revealed to have made a deal whereupon enemies of the latter and their loved ones were to be horrifically experimented on to weaponize Starro, who the American government had ripped out of space and planned to use as a weapon, but didn't do on their own soil to hide their dirty secrets. In the present, the real mission of the squad, which Peacemaker is to make sure gets carried out, is that US involvement is buried, so America can deny responsibility.]]

** Just like it's predecessor, ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', the majority of the characters are given likable qualities in spite of moral ambiguity. However, there are still quite a few pretty despicable scumbags among the cast. In the first squad, Blackguard [[spoiler: is an annoying prick who [[DirtyCoward betrays the team to the Corto Maltese military]], while Savant [[KickTheDog kills a bird for no reason]] and [[DirtyCoward runs away screaming when the mission goes pear-shaped.]]]] The Thinker is pretty funny with all his ham, [[spoiler: but then it's revealed that for ''THIRTY'' years, he's been experimenting, torturing, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping Starro and the political enemies of the current regime]] (which includes their families, by the way). Mateo Suarez could count as well, considering he burned the aviary of his predecessor, with the birds still inside, and planned on using Starro to conquer the world. For unseen and posthumous Hate Sinks, the US and Herrera family are revealed to have made a deal whereupon enemies of the latter and their loved ones were to be horrifically experimented on to weaponize Starro, who the American government had ripped out of space and planned to use as a weapon, but didn't do on their own soil to maintain an image of democracy.]]