Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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