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