Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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