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