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