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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Or Is It? 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Apocalypse How Character Development Loophole Abuse Parental Neglect Fan Disservice Ripped from the Headlines Blatant Lies Killed Mid-Sentence Reality Ensues Totally Radical As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Alleged Car Fanservice Music Stories I Did What I Had to Do Hypocrite Fingore Dirty Old Man Dogged Nice Guy No Antagonist Broken Aesop As the Good Book Says... Rasputinian Death Groin Attack Heroes Want Redheads Badass Normal The Casanova Took a Level in Jerkass Dual Wielding Laser-Guided Karma Mind Screw What the Hell, Hero? Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gratuitous English Mr. Exposition Tranquil Fury Poor Communication Kills Idiot Ball Chase Scene Dutch Angle Throwing Your Sword Always Works As Himself Ship Tease Line-of-Sight Name Fatal Flaw Improvised Weapon Well-Intentioned Extremist Rape as Drama Wicked Cultured Badass Boast Domestic Abuse Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gainax Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Paper-Thin Disguise Big Bad Duumvirate Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Narrator From Bad to Worse Film Series Every Car Is a Pinto B-Movie Camera Abuse Hair-Trigger Temper Shoot the Shaggy Dog Villain Ball Daylight Horror Only One Name All Just a Dream I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Taking You with Me Bittersweet Ending Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Eureka Moment Crapsack World Cruel and Unusual Death Russian Films Meaningful Echo The Mole Manipulative Bastard Dying Moment of Awesome Age Lift He Who Fights Monsters Costume Porn Fire-Forged Friends Blackmail The Dog Bites Back The Smurfette Principle Cloudcuckoolander She's Got Legs Light Is Not Good Logo Joke Brother–Sister Incest The Oner Love at First Sight Easily Forgiven Bar Brawl Grey and Gray Morality Badass Longcoat Visual Pun Cool Car Big Damn Heroes Eiffel Tower Effect Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene It Can Think Beware the Nice Ones Foregone Conclusion Woman Scorned Novelization Male Frontal Nudity Credits Gag Needs Wiki Magic Love Bad Boss Those Two Guys Implacable Man Cool Old Guy Get Out! 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Taking the Bullet Captain Ersatz Honor Before Reason Same Language Dub Anachronic Order French Films Offscreen Teleportation Punny Name Cool Old Lady Flipping the Bird Manchild Television Movie Index Lampshade Hanging Femme Fatale Parental Incest Really Gets Around Humiliation Conga Psychopathic Manchild Heterosexual Life-Partners The Place Karma Houdini The Cameo Alpha Bitch Reality Has No Subtitles Punch-Clock Villain Left the Background Music On Shown Their Work Closed Circle Chewing the Scenery Spiritual Successor Death by Adaptation Leitmotif Aww, Look! 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Posthumous Character Authority Equals Asskicking Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Police are Useless Dramatic Gun Cock An Arm and a Leg BFG Insane Troll Logic Ungrateful Bastard Film Noir Index Truth in Television You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mr. Fanservice Intrepid Reporter Say My Name Interrupted Suicide Stock Footage Love Triangle Spanner in the Works Henpecked Husband Brainless Beauty Fanservice Extra For Want of a Nail Peek-a-Boo Corpse Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Captain Obvious The '80s Babies Ever After The Hero Would Hurt a Child Parental Abandonment Bloody Hilarious Artistic License – Biology Spell My Name with an "S" Sacrificial Lion Action Survivor Sinister Minister The '60s Riddle for the Ages Pretty in Mink Drill Sergeant Nasty Let's Get Dangerous! "Awesome McCool" Name Reckless Gun Usage Fat Bastard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fate Worse than Death Jerk with a Heart of Gold I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Red Right Hand Berserk Button Australian Movies Those Wacky Nazis Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Martial Arts Movie This Is Gonna Suck Diabolus ex Machina Actor Allusion Book-Ends Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" La Résistance Freeze-Frame Bonus Market-Based Title Gory Discretion Shot Skewed Priorities Japanese Films Celebrity Paradox Body Horror Undying Loyalty Damsel in Distress Zombie Stories Asshole Victim Vitriolic Best Buds Not Using the "Z" Word Morality Pet Early-Bird Cameo The Ace Pyrrhic Victory Blood from the Mouth Sadistic Choice It Will Never Catch On Unusual Euphemism Villain Song Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Revenge Stalker with a Crush How We Got Here Batman Gambit Suddenly SHOUTING! Cowboy Cop Gorn It's All About Me Rewatch Bonus Immune to Bullets Air-Vent Passageway Getting Crap Past the Radar Death by Sex No Celebrities Were Harmed Motor Mouth Black Dude Dies First A Date with Rosie Palms Meet Cute Anachronism Stew Abusive Parents Evil Is Petty Adult Fear Big Eater Bloodless Carnage Cat Scare timeperiod Fourth Date Marriage Blood Knight More Dakka Freudian Excuse Slashed Throat Better to Die than Be Killed Catapult Nightmare Framing Device Would Hit a Girl Creative Closing Credits Naked People Are Funny Cat Fight Dark Is Not Evil One Steve Limit Bloodier and Gorier Random Events Plot Epic Movie Car Fu The '50s Sequel Escalation Pragmatic Adaptation Match Cut Good Is Not Nice Eye Scream No Ending Badass in a Nice Suit The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Precision F-Strike Adorkable Historical In-Joke Mercy Kill Anti-Villain Instant Death Bullet Not What It Looks Like '80s Hair Knight Templar Early Installment Weirdness Sanity Slippage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Black Comedy Rape Soft Glass Pragmatic Villainy Madness Mantra Large Ham Mexican Standoff Guns Akimbo Wretched Hive Whole Plot Reference Plot Hole The Mafia Disney Villain Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Arranged Marriage A.I. Is a Crapshoot Darkest Hour Kids Are Cruel Crazy-Prepared Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fantasy Films In Name Only For the Evulz Smug Snake Dull Surprise Translation Convention Boom, Headshot! Villain with Good Publicity Cool Shades Mistaken for Gay Hate Sink Not So Above It All After the End "Well Done, Son!" 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Jerk Jock Never My Fault Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Heel–Face Turn