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