Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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