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