Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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