Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

A mean, cruel, and insufferable person. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Shirtless Scene Take a Third Option Dwindling Party Badass in a Nice Suit Villain with Good Publicity Double Entendre Sanity Slippage Rewatch Bonus From Nobody to Nightmare Dogged Nice Guy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Downer Ending Bury Your Gays She's Got Legs Fake Shemp Married to the Job Hong Kong Films Composite Character Red Herring Author Appeal Heel–Face Turn Broken Bird Vomit Discretion Shot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Room Full of Crazy Extreme Doormat Deadpan Snarker Unreliable Narrator Hollywood Law The Un-Reveal Dual Wielding Cool Old Guy Truth in Television Sir Swears-a-Lot Evil Counterpart The Atoner Actually Pretty Funny Meaningful Background Event Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Horror Films Chewing the Scenery Properly Paranoid Gory Discretion Shot Grey and Gray Morality Line-of-Sight Name Femme Fatale Red Right Hand Suddenly SHOUTING! Due to the Dead Killed Mid-Sentence Deconstruction Smoking Is Cool Mr. Fanservice The Starscream The Place Funny Background Event Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Reality Has No Subtitles French Films Mood Whiplash Rule of Funny Book-Ends Knight Templar I Have Your Wife Would Hit a Girl Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Batman Gambit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Face–Heel Turn Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Applesauce Fainting Really Gets Around NO INDOOR VOICE Camera Abuse Adaptational Villainy Arc Words Ghost Fiction Broken Aesop Only One Name Groin Attack Token Minority Abusive Parents The Hero Dies Mundane Made Awesome Yandere Boom, Headshot! Science Fiction Films Parental Neglect Psychopathic Manchild Awesome, but Impractical Missing Mom Pet the Dog Eiffel Tower Effect Dies Wide Open I Need a Freaking Drink Reasonable Authority Figure Only in It for the Money Not What It Looks Like Cool Guns Needs Wiki Magic Love Woman in White Plot Hole What Happened to the Mouse? Meaningful Echo The '70s A Minor Kidroduction Frame-Up Driven to Suicide The '80s Fantastic Racism Jump Scare Hate Sink Lampshade Hanging Only a Flesh Wound Foregone Conclusion The Bully The Stoner Exactly What It Says on the Tin Establishing Character Moment Non-Indicative Name It Can Think Slasher Movie No Name Given Zombie Stories Mugging the Monster '80s Hair Black Best Friend Bowdlerise Evil vs. Evil Ironic Echo Never My Fault Hypocritical Humor Beware the Nice Ones Adaptation Name Change Meet Cute Ambiguously Gay Historical Hero Upgrade Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Artistic License – History Coming-of-Age Story Faking the Dead Spanner in the Works And the Adventure Continues Nothing Is Scarier Rape as Drama Armor-Piercing Question Didn't Think This Through Homage Bland-Name Product All for Nothing Reckless Gun Usage Parental Substitute The Sociopath For the Evulz Made of Iron Taking the Bullet Despair Event Horizon Stylistic Suck Diabolus ex Machina Daddy's Girl Chekhov's Gun Historical In-Joke Demonic Possession Mr. Exposition "Well Done, Son!" Guy You Killed My Father Hoist by His Own Petard Disappeared Dad The Vamp Five-Man Band Closed Circle Does This Remind You of Anything? Vampire Fiction Anyone Can Die Red Shirt An Aesop Military and Warfare Films Back from the Dead Depraved Bisexual Retcon Paper-Thin Disguise Slap-Slap-Kiss Cruel and Unusual Death Silence Is Golden Take That! Adapted Out Drowning My Sorrows Pre-Mortem One-Liner Not Using the "Z" Word Card-Carrying Villain Fish out of Water Deal with the Devil Sadistic Choice Historical-Domain Character Have a Gay Old Time Based on a True Story Anti-Hero The Reveal The Chick Guns Akimbo The Casanova Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fun with Acronyms Took a Level in Jerkass The '90s Berserk Button Neck Snap Evil Laugh Half the Man He Used to Be Daylight Horror "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Early-Bird Cameo Affectionate Parody Important Haircut Narrator Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Kick the Dog Curse Cut Short Logo Joke Moment Killer Henpecked Husband Male Frontal Nudity Wicked Cultured Sassy Black Woman Police are Useless Knife Nut Obviously Evil Flipping the Bird For Want of a Nail Dissonant Serenity Biopic Deus ex Machina Rasputinian Death Cat Fight Arranged Marriage Bloodless Carnage Belligerent Sexual Tension Anguished Declaration of Love Fan Disservice "Awesome McCool" Name Gratuitous English The Stoic As Long as It Sounds Foreign Silent Movie Victoria's Secret Compartment Mama Bear Combat Pragmatist Credits Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Karmic Death Totally Radical Kill It with Fire Unusual Euphemism Amoral Attorney Break the Haughty Vacation Films Ass Shove The Smurfette Principle Revenge Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Abhorrent Admirer Translation Convention Bar Brawl How We Got Here Asshole Victim Thriller Disney Villain Death Rule of Cool Epic Movie Sole Survivor The Musical Drugs Are Bad Reality Is Unrealistic It's Personal Wounded Gazelle Gambit Real Life Covers Always Lie Star-Crossed Lovers Almost Kiss Heterosexual Life-Partners Ambiguous Disorder Villainous Breakdown Be Careful What You Wish For Villain Ball Fatal Family Photo Time Skip Cowboy Cop Dramatic Irony Freudian Excuse The Ditz Blood from the Mouth Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Empathic Environment Once More, with Clarity! Soft Glass Our Zombies Are Different Stepford Smiler Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ms. Fanservice Redemption Equals Death Bad Boss Our Vampires Are Different Unspoken Plan Guarantee An Axe to Grind Creator Cameo Genre Savvy Expository Hairstyle Change Becoming the Mask Film Noir Meaningful Name Big Fancy House Music Stories Market-Based Title Crucified Hero Shot Chekhov's Skill Broken Pedestal Too Dumb to Live Serial Killer Artistic License – Gun Safety Pretty Little Headshots Costume Porn The '50s Slasher Smile Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Apocalypse How Facial Horror The Alleged Car The Cavalry Blackmail A Date with Rosie Palms Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Leitmotif Beard of Evil Author Avatar Scare Chord The Load Getting Crap Past the Radar Storming the Castle Nice Guy Death Seeker Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Corrupt Corporate Executive Smug Snake Corpsing Plucky Comic Relief Big-Bad Ensemble Hero of Another Story folderlabel Adults Are Useless Sacrificial Lion After the End Manchild Destination Defenestration Shower Scene Accidental Misnaming Dark Reprise Pretty in Mink Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dressing as the Enemy B-Movie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Kids Are Cruel Even Evil Has Loved Ones Historical Villain Upgrade "Shaggy Dog" Story Title Drop Ripped from the Headlines Deliberately Monochrome Foil Good Is Not Nice A God Am I Artistic License – Military Chiaroscuro Death Glare Humiliation Conga The Big Guy In Medias Res Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Is Hammy Affably Evil Dutch Angle Sequel Escalation Crapsack World Ragtag Bunch of Misfits You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! From Bad to Worse Defiant to the End Well-Intentioned Extremist Evil Is Petty Your Head A-Splode Butt-Monkey Those Two Bad Guys Soundtrack Dissonance Small Name, Big Ego Cold-Blooded Torture World of Ham The Lost Lenore Sports Stories Adaptation Expansion Psychological Thriller Badass Bookworm Heroic Sacrifice Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Artistic License – Physics German Films Death by Adaptation Bait-and-Switch Show Within a Show Skewed Priorities Wretched Hive BFG Hell Is That Noise Freeze-Frame Bonus Air-Vent Passageway Cool Old Lady Intrepid Reporter Police Brutality The X of Y Evil Plan Bond One-Liner Leave the Camera Running Badass Grandpa Celebrity Paradox Improbable Aiming Skills Public Domain Feature Films Catapult Nightmare Implacable Man Mercy Kill Hair-Trigger Temper It Will Never Catch On You Have Failed Me Brother–Sister Incest I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Badass Longcoat Early Installment Weirdness Dark and Troubled Past Overprotective Dad The Hero Fatal Flaw Wham Shot Pimped-Out Dress Annoying Younger Sibling Animal Title Index Chase Scene Leaning on the Fourth Wall Pragmatic Adaptation Mad Scientist Not Quite Dead Romantic Comedy Fat Bastard The Dreaded My Beloved Smother No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Laughing Mad Green-Eyed Monster Cool Car Scary Black Man Stealth Pun Only Sane Man Roaring Rampage of Revenge Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bittersweet Ending Television Movie Index Naked People Are Funny Bolivian Army Ending Adaptational Heroism Off-into-the-Distance Ending Taking You with Me Badass Normal Big "NO!" Older Than They Look Noodle Incident He Knows Too Much Action Prologue Deliberate Values Dissonance Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Award-Bait Song No Ending Blatant Lies Final Girl Cloudcuckoolander Hero Antagonist The Bad Guy Wins Distracted by the Sexy Children Are Innocent Famous Last Words Madness Mantra Offscreen Moment of Awesome Demoted to Extra Pay Evil unto Evil Genre Throwback In Name Only Double-Meaning Title Karma Houdini Names to Run Away from Really Fast An Arm and a Leg The Alcoholic Those Two Guys Disney Death Spiritual Successor Expy Product Placement My God, What Have I Done? There Is No Kill Like Overkill Failed a Spot Check Romantic False Lead Works Set in World War II Determinator Adaptational Badass Casting Gag Undying Loyalty Crazy-Prepared Match Cut Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lighter and Softer Ship Tease Suspiciously Specific Denial Black Dude Dies First "The Reason You Suck" Speech Shout-Out The Mole Aside Glance As the Good Book Says... Dying Moment of Awesome I'm a Humanitarian Domestic Abuse Lock and Load Montage Dull Surprise The Ghost Mind Screw True Companions Super Strength Antagonist Title Christmas Movies Index One Steve Limit Neck Lift Happily Married Death by Irony Every Car Is a Pinto Creative Closing Credits Mistaken for Gay Shut Up, Hannibal! Authority Equals Asskicking Body Horror Damsel in Distress Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Worthy Opponent The Stinger Four-Temperament Ensemble Exact Words Aluminum Christmas Trees Manly Tears Obstructive Bureaucrat Fiery Redhead Grievous Bottley Harm Easily Forgiven Brainless Beauty Black Comedy Curb-Stomp Battle Even Evil Has Standards Darkest Hour Dark Action Girl Stalker with a Crush Bloody Hilarious Bare Your Midriff Maybe Ever After Dark Is Not Evil Dumb Blonde Tempting Fate The Voiceless Funny Foreigner The Dragon Action Girl Men Are the Expendable Gender Reality Ensues Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fingore What the Hell, Hero? The Chessmaster The Film of the Book Ax-Crazy Insane Troll Logic The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite He Who Fights Monsters Big Brother Instinct Not So Stoic Eyepatch of Power Obfuscating Stupidity Scenery Gorn Extremely Short Timespan Blood Knight Rule of Three It's All About Me Greater-Scope Villain Artistic License – Law Spell My Name with an "S" No Celebrities Were Harmed A Father to His Men Twist Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Parental Incest Bad "Bad Acting" Eagleland Parental Abandonment Evil Sounds Deep Badass Boast Everyone Has Standards Laser-Guided Karma Ungrateful Bastard Together in Death Adaptational Attractiveness Oh, Crap! Actor Allusion Humans Are Bastards Make It Look Like an Accident Race Against the Clock As You Know Rated M for Manly Riddle for the Ages Never Trust a Trailer Defrosting Ice Queen Epic Fail Training Montage Kill 'em All Overly Long Gag Bottomless Magazines Death of a Child Bloodier and Gorier Horror Comedy And Starring Tranquil Fury Irony All Men Are Perverts Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Let's Get Dangerous! Shown Their Work Idiot Ball Self-Deprecation Retirony Precision F-Strike A.I. Is a Crapshoot Naïve Newcomer Death by Sex Would Hurt a Child Determinator aka: The Determinator Hypocrite Handicapped Badass Hope Spot Sealed Evil in a Can Alpha Bitch Cool Shades Stuff Blowing Up Vitriolic Best Buds Sexy Discretion Shot Jerkass Danny Peary Cult Movies List Psycho for Hire Babies Ever After Alliterative Name Black Comedy Rape Fire-Forged Friends Motor Mouth No-Sell Call-Forward Drives Like Crazy Improvised Weapon Disguised in Drag Canadian Movies Insult Backfire Captain Obvious Anachronic Order Bullying a Dragon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Villain Opening Scene Dirty Coward Wrong Genre Savvy Bilingual Bonus Action Survivor Mooks Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Brick Joke Stock Footage Peek-a-Boo Corpse Agony of the Feet Jitter Cam Mystery and Detective Films Ambiguous Ending Call-Back Heroes Want Redheads Race Lift Superhero Large Ham Protagonist Title Poor Communication Kills I Did What I Had to Do Earn Your Happy Ending Say My Name Serious Business Rule of Symbolism Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Red Oni, Blue Oni Adorkable Dirty Cop Continuity Nod Genre Shift Film Noir Index Nice Hat Dramedy Contrived Coincidence Politically Incorrect Villain La Résistance Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Age Lift Papa Wolf Refuge in Audacity The Lancer Beauty Is Never Tarnished You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Scenery Porn Off with His Head! No Antagonist Index of Film Westerns Advertised Extra Playing Gertrude Woman Scorned Slashed Throat Setting Update Flashback Department of Redundancy Department Calling the Old Man Out Light Is Not Good Fantasy Films Malevolent Masked Men Redshirt Army Big Bad More Dakka timeperiod Anti-Villain Re-Cut Retired Badass Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene War Is Hell Hollywood Darkness Morality Pet Cluster F-Bomb Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Vomit Indiscretion Shot Brutal Honesty Cat Scare Video Credits Bound and Gagged All Girls Want Bad Boys Shell-Shocked Veteran Loads and Loads of Characters My Greatest Failure Ascended Extra Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fanservice Disproportionate Retribution Comically Missing the Point Not So Different Black and Gray Morality Red Eyes, Take Warning Mighty Whitey Guile Hero Artistic License – Biology Kubrick Stare Gold Digger Creepy Child Dirty Old Man The Brute Immune to Bullets Whole Plot Reference Novelization Does Not Like Shoes Evil-Detecting Dog Big Bad Duumvirate Decoy Protagonist Loophole Abuse Ominous Latin Chanting Central Theme Pragmatic Villainy Bald of Evil Cain and Abel Imagine Spot Enemy Mine Made of Explodium Outrun the Fireball Punny Name Last-Name Basis Bring My Brown Pants Gone Horribly Right Posthumous Character No OSHA Compliance Instant Death Bullet Major Injury Underreaction Gorn Your Cheating Heart What You Are in the Dark Running Gag Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Heel Realization The Great Depression Not So Above It All Eldritch Abomination Interrupted Suicide In the Back Wham Line Arch-Enemy Fate Worse than Death Beta Couple All There in the Manual Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adult Fear Gender Flip Rich Bitch Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Trailers Always Spoil Character Development Sci-Fi Horror And I Must Scream Unusually Uninteresting Sight Australian Movies Took a Level in Badass Action Genre The Dog Bites Back Hidden Depths Evil Brit All Just a Dream O.O.C. Is Serious Business Random Events Plot Jerkass Has a Point Visual Pun Jerk Jock Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Here We Go Again! Foreshadowing Sinister Minister Better to Die than Be Killed Russian Films Intergenerational Friendship Bi the Way Shipper on Deck Breaking the Fourth Wall Country Matters The Oner Developing Doomed Characters Fourth Date Marriage The Smart Guy Eureka Moment She Cleans Up Nicely Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Power of Love Spiteful Spit Unwitting Instigator of Doom The End... Or Is It? Love Triangle Unresolved Sexual Tension Crazy Jealous Guy The Mafia Word of God Adaptation Dye-Job Dropped a Bridge on Him Face Death with Dignity Left the Background Music On Fanservice Extra Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Catch-Phrase Martial Arts Movie Tap on the Head No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Gilligan Cut Get Out! Tagline Manipulative Bastard Straight Gay Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Ace One-Man Army Put on a Bus Did Not Get the Girl The Faceless The Remake Honor Before Reason Auto Erotica Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pyrrhic Victory Monumental Damage MacGuffin All There in the Script Dramatic Gun Cock This Is Gonna Suck Same Language Dub Mythology Gag Spared by the Adaptation Friend to All Children Informed Ability Attempted Rape Big Damn Heroes Documentary Bavarian Fire Drill Film Series Kick the Son of a Bitch Heroic BSoD Those Wacky Nazis Only Known by Their Nickname Male Gaze Punch-Clock Villain Villain Song Bond Villain Stupidity Man on Fire Chekhov's Gunman Anachronism Stew British Films Animal Motifs I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Rousing Speech Betty and Veronica Conspicuous CG Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Italian Films May–December Romance Alas, Poor Villain Eye Scream The Cameo The Quiet One Offscreen Teleportation Real Life Writes the Plot Canon Foreigner Framing Device Camp Gay Big Eater Shoot the Shaggy Dog The '60s One-Word Title Up to Eleven Animated Credits Opening Sequel Hook Accidental Murder Gainax Ending Adaptation Distillation Never Found the Body Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cassandra Truth Artistic License – Geography Car Fu Japanese Films Villain Protagonist 20 Minutes into the Future Recycled IN SPACE! Faux Affably Evil Insistent Terminology Amusing Injuries Jerk with a Heart of Gold Toplessness from the Back Mexican Standoff Captain Ersatz Darker and Edgier As Himself Stealth Hi/Bye N-Word Privileges Love at First Sight Break the Cutie Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Improbable Weapon User