Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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