Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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