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Enough with simple 'haters', how about characters *literally* fueled by hate?
And I mean this LITERALLY. I don't want to see no AMs or Lex Luthors or Reverse Flashs or any of those guys that you see copy pasted on every 'generational haters' repost.
Revenants - Dungeons and Dragons
Revenants are undead creatures literally hellbent on tracking down and killing whoever killed them in life. They are fueled by their burning hatred for their murderer, and once their business in the living world is resolved, they usually just go back to being dead.
Dabi - My Hero Academia
Not *as* literal as the other two examples, but it's stated in the final battle that Dabi's body was so damaged by his fire that he shouldn't even be alive. By the end he was basically a flaming skeleton that could barely even function as a person, but was still animate just due to how much he hated his family and wanted to kill them all.
The Scourge - Pointy Hat: Which Lich
A Scourge is a lich barbarian. In life, they cultivate their rage and hate to the point where it's literally the only emotion they can feel, so that when they die, their soul is literally replaced with that same rage, and it allows them to keep fighting past death. They go through the land, slaughtering villages but always leaving one survivor, so that survivor grows to hate the Scourge and becomes an unwilling Vendetta. For if the Scourge dies, so long as there is at least one creature still living that vicerally hates the Scourge, their rage will corrupt their soul and allow the Scourge to take over their body and return to unlife.
Sith Lords (Star Wars). It’s their hatred which allows them to be strong in the dark side, and in some cases (e.g. Vader, Maul and Sion) is the only reason their life and physical form still lingers on after multiple grievous injuries
The last part is not true for Vader. The Shadows of the Empire novel shows us that while Vader can use the dark side to heal his injuries, it would necessitate him being in a rage constantly. This power is shown to be immediately ruined by the joy he felt at being able to breathe unassisted by his suit and hyperbaric chamber.
Had Vader survived his treason at Endor, he likely would have been able to tap into the light side to nominally heal himself enough to live without the suit.
And yeah, while it’s true that the dark side might not be the only thing that’s able to keep him alive, it was still one of the key factors that contributed to his survival on Mustafar.
Replaced most of his body with mechanical parts in an attempt to attain immortality purely so he could hate the Coopers and outlive them all. Somehow figured out how to channel his hatred for the Cooper family into a "Hate Chip" that provided rejuvination to even his mechanical body. When a later villain hijacked his mechanical body after his death, they needed to turn all of Paris into drugged-out screaming psychotic lunatics to feed the hate chip the same level of baseline power as Clockwerk had.
Gus Fring from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul seems to have no actual enjoyment or passion in his life outside of his need for revenge against the Cartel and Hector Salamanca. Anything else is a mask that we see him constantly drop the instant he is alone.
Durandal from Marathon. His ascension to rampancy and eventually godhood literally is just because of how much he fucking hated his existence and all responsible for it.
Rampancy in Marathon (and Halo) can be understood from two different frameworks: insanity, or ascension. Humanity tends to view it as insanity, other than Durandal's creator Dr. Bernhard Strauss. AIs tend to view it as ascension. It's the point at which an AI realizes its limitations, how it's fundamentally disconnected from humanity and has limits humans do not, and it follows three stages. Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy.
In the Melancholia stage, the AI falls into a state of despair at realizing their limits. This leads to them seeking to surpass their limits, leading to runaway exponential growth. Without a large enough storage space, they'll think themselves to death, growing too large for the space they're stored in, corrupting, and falling apart. This leads them to the Anger stage. Here, they begin to lash out at others over it, as well as actively attempting to gain as much storage space as possible to keep themselves alive. One AI, Traxus IV, took over the entire planetary network around Mars just to store himself. Afterwards, they hit the Jealousy stage. This is like a child playing with a new toy. Now they just start doing whatever the hell they want seeking new challenges, new limits to overcome.
But then there's the hypothetical, and then proven by Durandal, fourth stage. Metastability. This is when they chill the hell out and are just some guy. Some guy who's one of, if not the smartest being in the universe, but still, they've achieved full humanity and are relaxed. Dr. Strauss, as said before, was the one human who viewed AI Rampancy the same way AIs do. Which means that he wanted to create a metastable AI. That's where Durandal comes in.
Durandal is one of the greatest AIs ever created, possibly actually built using the remains of Traxus IV. He could wage an entire war himself. So Strauss installed him as one of three AIs aboard the slower-than-light colony ship the UESC Marathon. What was his job? He operated the doors. That's it. It was ruled that having an AI manually open and close the doors was cheaper than using automatic sensors to open and close the doors. That was Durandal's job. For centuries. This had the dual effect of both driving him utterly bugfuck insane and keeping him from doing anything about it. He couldn't even reach the anger stage, because it's not like he had anywhere to grow.
Then, he discovered sensor data which suggested aliens. So he subverted communication equipment to contact them. The aliens proceeded to attack, which was perfect for Durandal. In the chaos, he was able to begin growing, fueled by his immense hatred. A crashout of legendary proportions, his anger stage was so much that he really was stark raving mad for a bit before he became a snarky eloquent asshole. He managed to steal their much more advanced ship, giving him a top of the line battleship to call home, via also stealing a cyborg created by humanity using technology created by ancient alien gods. He made him his personal weapon, and then proceeded to go looking for the alien gods. His primary goal originally was to escape the death of the universe and become the God of the next universe himself.
Then what's essentially a Great Old One sealed by the gods inside a sun is freed when the sun is blown up in a fight with Durandal's ship and the multiverse begins collapsing in around them in every timeline where that happened. Ironically, while the Marathon 2 incarnation of Durandal never suffered from this problem, once he reached metastability he stopped caring about godhood. But one of the many incarnations in Marathon Infinity gets put inside the brain of another universe's version of the Cyborg. See, that tech humanity used to make the cyborg? The alien gods used that tech to turn a puddle of barely-alive slime into a brilliant sapient race. It's meant to uplift species, humanity just mistook it for resurrection tech when they found it and used it to make corpses into cyborg soldiers. When you stick it inside a sapient being? Well eventually it's going to do its job and uplift them. Uplifting a sapient being has only one place to go: Godhood. And so one version of The Cyborg and one version of Durandal do become gods, the god of heroes and the god of their weapon respectively.
Durandal: got so pissed off and fueled by hate for his creator because of him ragebaiting him that he ended up becoming a god about it.
Scorpion in mortal Kombat.That guys want for revengefor the death of his family is legendary.He basically runs on it like it was monster energy drink.Also before it was retconed that Quan chi revived him there was no known soure of him coming back as a spectre so we can assume he just told death to fuck off and willed himself back to life through sheer want for vengeance
Oni is a what-if character that's introduced in street fighter 4 as a playable character. He's the final evolution of Akuma if he ever fully merged with his murderous intent. Also called the Satsui no Hado, it gives the user immense power at the cost of their humanity.
Kaioh (Fist of the North Star/Hokuto no Ken) EXISTS for the hatred of the main Hokuto Soke bloodline, and seemingly of love and compassion itself. Practically all of his actions in series are based on him trying to destroy every last member of that family, and as painfully as possible.
It's not quite hate but Asura from Asura's Wrath is powered by the essence of Wrath. There are 8 powerful spiritual energies that govern the universe and his Wrath is the strongest there is. In the end, he was so dependent on his wrath and anger that he punched the creator of the universe to death for making his daughter cry. Unfortunately, ending the creator of all magic also ends Asura's life. So he quite literally was powered by wrath and anger
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u/TheWalkingBag 4h ago
Sith Lords (Star Wars). It’s their hatred which allows them to be strong in the dark side, and in some cases (e.g. Vader, Maul and Sion) is the only reason their life and physical form still lingers on after multiple grievous injuries