Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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