Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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