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)

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