Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

When a Nice Guy becomes a jerk. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Dark Reprise Silence Is Golden Posthumous Character Deliberately Monochrome All Men Are Perverts Annoying Younger Sibling Action Genre Rule of Funny All for Nothing Alpha Bitch In Name Only Peek-a-Boo Corpse Those Wacky Nazis Happily Married Canon Foreigner Drives Like Crazy Match Cut Action Survivor The Musical Bolivian Army Ending Your Head A-Splode This Is Gonna Suck The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Evil Plan Black Dude Dies First Australian Movies Outrun the Fireball Romantic Comedy Gory Discretion Shot Foregone Conclusion Time Skip Dark and Troubled Past Sole Survivor Sequel Escalation Defrosting Ice Queen Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Kids Are Cruel Be Careful What You Wish For Whole Plot Reference Cool Shades Honor Before Reason Male Frontal Nudity Disappeared Dad Overly Long Gag Artistic License – Gun Safety The '80s Greater-Scope Villain NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Cannot Comprehend Good And Starring Hero Antagonist Police Brutality Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Shower Scene Retired Badass Abhorrent Admirer The Voiceless Pay Evil unto Evil The Ditz 20 Minutes into the Future Up to Eleven Japanese Films Badass Bookworm Expy Rich Bitch Pyrrhic Victory Extremely Short Timespan Soft Glass Eldritch Abomination Bring My Brown Pants Star-Crossed Lovers The '60s Deliberate Values Dissonance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Cavalry Drugs Are Bad Blood from the Mouth Stepford Smiler Dirty Old Man The '50s Revenge No-Sell Disproportionate Retribution Meaningful Background Event Shown Their Work The Great Depression Hell Is That Noise Guile Hero Fat Bastard The Stoner Brainless Beauty Even Evil Has Loved Ones Unusual Euphemism Dramatic Gun Cock Curb-Stomp Battle Man on Fire Bond Villain Stupidity Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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An Arm and a Leg A Minor Kidroduction Sadistic Choice Setting Update Genre Throwback Frame-Up Bunny-Ears Lawyer Zombie Stories Jump Scare The Reveal Woman in White Christmas Movies Index All Just a Dream Batman Gambit Daddy's Girl Facial Horror Neck Snap Developing Doomed Characters British Films Once More, with Clarity! Brick Joke Flipping the Bird Evil Is Hammy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Mafia Hoist by His Own Petard Rousing Speech Dying Moment of Awesome Never My Fault Evil Brit Slasher Movie Too Dumb to Live Insistent Terminology Costume Porn Tempting Fate Novelization Adaptation Dye-Job Slashed Throat Mythology Gag Pragmatic Villainy Dropped a Bridge on Him Dies Wide Open Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Final Girl I'm a Humanitarian Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptation Name Change Accidental Murder Fiery Redhead The Big Guy Good Is Not Nice Instant Death Bullet Yandere Pretty in Mink Room Full of Crazy Earn Your Happy Ending Deus ex Machina Cassandra Truth Extreme Doormat MacGuffin Dark Is Not Evil Hidden Depths The X of Y The Sociopath Redshirt Army Black and Gray Morality Fanservice Extra Face–Heel Turn The Faceless Anachronic Order Blackmail Bad "Bad Acting" Intrepid Reporter Anguished Declaration of Love Not So Above It All Villainous Breakdown Ominous Latin Chanting Big-Bad Ensemble Cruel and Unusual Death Horror Comedy Disguised in Drag The '90s Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Death Glare The Place Creator Cameo Artistic License – Physics Really Gets Around Important Haircut Mood Whiplash Deal with the Devil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Brother–Sister Incest No OSHA Compliance Affectionate Parody A Father to His Men Affably Evil Artistic License – Law Canadian Movies Villain Song Expository Hairstyle Change Slasher Smile Those Two Bad Guys The Lost Lenore Fake Shemp Obfuscating Stupidity The Dog Bites Back Worthy Opponent Laser-Guided Karma Scenery Gorn Adaptational Villainy The '70s Catch-Phrase Pimped-Out Dress He Who Fights Monsters Ascended Extra Manchild Psycho for Hire Show Within a Show Never Trust a Trailer Hypocrite Politically Incorrect Villain Double-Meaning Title Did Not Get the Girl Humans Are Bastards Continuity Nod Face Death with Dignity The Stoic How We Got Here Determinator aka: The Determinator Attempted Rape Villain with Good Publicity The Hero Dies Narrator Well-Intentioned Extremist Improbable Aiming Skills The Smurfette Principle Small Name, Big Ego Actually Pretty Funny Accidental Misnaming Spared by the Adaptation Insult Backfire Market-Based Title Papa Wolf Pre-Mortem One-Liner Award-Bait Song The Film of the Book Naked People Are Funny Unusually Uninteresting Sight Disney Villain Death Historical In-Joke For the Evulz Eye Scream More Dakka B-Movie Plot Hole Shell-Shocked Veteran Groin Attack Chase Scene Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The Quiet One Dutch Angle Obstructive Bureaucrat Obviously Evil The Atoner Thriller Historical-Domain Character Cat Fight Card-Carrying Villain You Killed My Father Arranged Marriage Break the Haughty Names to Run Away from Really Fast Heroic Sacrifice Camera Abuse Rasputinian Death Cold-Blooded Torture Contrived Coincidence Genre Shift Get Out! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Playing Gertrude Military and Warfare Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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