Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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