Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

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

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