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