Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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