Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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