Tropescilloscope: Jerk with a Heart of Gold

A character who is a Jerkass for the most part, is really a Nice Guy deep down. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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