Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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