Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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Say My Name It Will Never Catch On My Beloved Smother Gender Flip Death by Irony Police Brutality Unusual Euphemism The Faceless For the Evulz Retirony Evil Is Hammy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Agony of the Feet Defrosting Ice Queen Trailers Always Spoil Anti-Hero The Dreaded Slasher Movie Freudian Excuse Refuge in Audacity Punny Name Coming-of-Age Story Alas, Poor Villain And I Must Scream Badass Longcoat Cluster F-Bomb Call-Forward Based on a True Story Did Not Get the Girl Everyone Has Standards Reality Ensues Training Montage Important Haircut Never My Fault Papa Wolf Visual Pun "The Reason You Suck" Speech Expy Parental Substitute Foreshadowing Death of a Child Break the Haughty Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pet the Dog Guile Hero Developing Doomed Characters All Men Are Perverts Vomit Indiscretion Shot Double Entendre Male Gaze Genre Shift Frame-Up Not Using the "Z" Word Moment Killer Missing Mom Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Physics Curb-Stomp Battle Artistic License – History Cowboy Cop Evil Is Petty Those Wacky Nazis Serial Killer Drowning My Sorrows Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Obfuscating Stupidity O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not Even Bothering with the Accent Breaking the Fourth Wall Kill It with Fire A God Am I Funny Foreigner Match Cut Only in It for the Money Taking You with Me Fan Disservice Disappeared Dad He Knows Too Much Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Black Best Friend Offscreen Moment of Awesome Be Careful What You Wish For Taking the Bullet Mood Whiplash In the Back Black Dude Dies First Public Domain Feature Films Badass Boast Worthy Opponent Never Found the Body Take That! 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Attempted Rape Mr. Exposition Only a Flesh Wound Camp Gay Cool Shades Extremely Short Timespan Disney Villain Death Meet Cute Hero of Another Story Aluminum Christmas Trees "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Random Events Plot No Name Given Not What It Looks Like Truth in Television Dropped a Bridge on Him Domestic Abuse Insult Backfire Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Protagonist Title The Great Depression Adaptation Expansion Fanservice Extra Body Horror Irony Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Jump Scare Animated Credits Opening Crazy-Prepared Scary Black Man Outrun the Fireball Offscreen Teleportation Expository Hairstyle Change The Cavalry Chase Scene Noodle Incident Fantasy Films Crucified Hero Shot Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? He Who Fights Monsters Only Sane Man Took a Level in Badass Instant Death Bullet The Dog Bites Back Exactly What It Says on the Tin Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Stealth Pun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Eureka Moment Real Life Writes the Plot BFG Kick the Dog Take a Third Option Mama Bear Film Series Manipulative Bastard Kill 'em All Sir Swears-a-Lot Ambiguous Disorder Shout-Out Last-Name Basis The Load Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Honor Before Reason Race Against the Clock Combat Pragmatist Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fiery Redhead Hero Antagonist Mexican Standoff Smug Snake Arranged Marriage Red Herring Implacable Man Diabolus ex Machina Bait-and-Switch Mind Screw Humiliation Conga Framing Device Adults Are Useless Blatant Lies Ironic Echo Only Known by Their Nickname Heel–Face Turn Plot Hole Downer Ending Brick Joke Annoying Younger Sibling Same Language Dub Dual Wielding Pimped-Out Dress Fake Shemp Politically Incorrect Villain Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Apocalypse How Thriller Corpsing Rule of Cool Adaptational Villainy Smoking Is Cool Car Fu Idiot Ball Author Avatar Properly Paranoid Naïve Newcomer Cool Old Guy Love at First Sight Kubrick Stare "Awesome McCool" Name Jitter Cam Revenge Gold Digger Crapsack World Establishing Character Moment Damsel in Distress Dark and Troubled Past Casting Gag Video Credits Made of Explodium No OSHA Compliance Soft Glass Wham Shot Rewatch Bonus You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Alcoholic Depraved Bisexual All for Nothing From Nobody to Nightmare Informed Ability Interrupted Suicide Dissonant Serenity Mooks British Films Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Wicked Cultured The '90s Brutal Honesty Ripped from the Headlines The Atoner Product Placement Black Comedy Rape Market-Based Title Older Than They Look Russian Films Hollywood Darkness Deliberate Values Dissonance Credits Gag Immune to Bullets Due to the Dead Authority Equals Asskicking Bullying a Dragon Cool Guns Playing Gertrude Shoot the Shaggy Dog Police are Useless Chekhov's Gunman And the Adventure Continues Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Improbable Aiming Skills Darker and Edgier You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Humans Are Bastards Face–Heel Turn Stepford Smiler Demonic Possession Better to Die than Be Killed Bi the Way Cruel and Unusual Death Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Symbolism Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Butt-Monkey Historical Hero Upgrade The Smart Guy What You Are in the Dark Closed Circle Chiaroscuro Small Name, Big Ego Re-Cut Big-Bad Ensemble Really Gets Around Biopic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Betty and Veronica Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sexy Discretion Shot Big Fancy House Easily Forgiven Victoria's Secret Compartment Tempting Fate Mighty Whitey Karmic Death Ass Shove Boom, Headshot! Television Movie Index Music Stories Neck Snap Disproportionate Retribution Chekhov's Gun Throwing Your Sword Always Works Big "NO!" 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Happily Married The Brute Star-Crossed Lovers '80s Hair German Films Every Car Is a Pinto Naked People Are Funny Nice Guy Red Oni, Blue Oni Animal Motifs Decoy Protagonist Dies Wide Open The Smurfette Principle Loophole Abuse Heroic Sacrifice Pragmatic Adaptation Pay Evil unto Evil Race Lift An Aesop Beta Couple Your Head A-Splode Sports Stories Reckless Gun Usage Mythology Gag May–December Romance The Chick Kids Are Cruel Belligerent Sexual Tension Bland-Name Product Sanity Slippage Villain Opening Scene Fat Bastard The '70s Armor-Piercing Question Those Two Bad Guys Homage Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Romantic False Lead In Name Only Grey and Gray Morality Character Development timeperiod Famous Last Words Abhorrent Admirer Killed Mid-Sentence Big Eater Hate Sink Foregone Conclusion Daylight Horror Dogged Nice Guy Fire-Forged Friends Not So Above It All Didn't Think This Through Brother–Sister Incest Evil Brit Bowdlerise Manchild Put on a Bus Insistent Terminology Here We Go Again! Country Matters An Axe to Grind No Ending Mistaken for Gay From Bad to Worse Superhero Adaptational Badass My God, What Have I Done? Drives Like Crazy Arch-Enemy Our Vampires Are Different Psycho for Hire Children Are Innocent Bald of Evil Gilligan Cut Broken Aesop Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Took a Level in Jerkass Hell Is That Noise Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer All There in the Manual Ms. Fanservice The Ghost What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Anguished Declaration of Love Slasher Smile Bolivian Army Ending Super Strength Dramatic Irony Evil-Detecting Dog Heterosexual Life-Partners Author Appeal Does Not Like Shoes Malevolent Masked Men Mystery and Detective Films Bound and Gagged Shut Up, Hannibal! Meaningful Name Parental Incest Unreliable Narrator Whole Plot Reference Badass Bookworm Cloudcuckoolander Recycled IN SPACE! Henpecked Husband Meaningful Echo Serious Business Evil Sounds Deep Berserk Button N-Word Privileges Even Evil Has Standards Asshole Victim Call-Back Slap-Slap-Kiss Bare Your Midriff World of Ham Suddenly SHOUTING! Black Comedy Scenery Porn Italian Films Fun with Acronyms Adaptation Name Change Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bar Brawl Intergenerational Friendship Eldritch Abomination Twist Ending Bavarian Fire Drill Rule of Funny Manic Pixie Dream Girl Genre Throwback Redshirt Army Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dull Surprise The Un-Reveal La Résistance Vampire Fiction Dirty Old Man Comically Missing the Point Calling the Old Man Out Film Noir Unusually Uninteresting Sight Card-Carrying Villain Rich Bitch Off with His Head! Creepy Child One Steve Limit Greater-Scope Villain There Is No Kill Like Overkill Riddle for the Ages Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Guy Gratuitous English No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Beard of Evil No Celebrities Were Harmed Cool Car Groin Attack Catch-Phrase Anachronic Order Continuity Nod Martial Arts Movie Adorkable Off-into-the-Distance Ending Self-Deprecation The Remake Love Triangle Dramedy Dramatic Gun Cock Wham Line Death Seeker Unspoken Plan Guarantee Storming the Castle Stalker with a Crush Wretched Hive Bad Boss Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Red Right Hand Death by Adaptation Aside Glance Ascended Extra Rated M for Manly True Companions Gone Horribly Right No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Deliberately Monochrome Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bond Villain Stupidity Romantic Comedy Darkest Hour Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Failed a Spot Check Despair Event Horizon Vacation Films Oh, Crap! Death Glare Red Eyes, Take Warning Hong Kong Films Faking the Dead Dirty Cop Room Full of Crazy An Arm and a Leg Almost Kiss Would Hurt a Child Wounded Gazelle Gambit Corrupt Corporate Executive Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ship Tease Christmas Movies Index Posthumous Character Canadian Movies Shown Their Work Overprotective Dad Running Gag Death by Sex Neck Lift Babies Ever After Captain Ersatz Accidental Misnaming Hope Spot Novelization Unresolved Sexual Tension In Medias Res Big Damn Heroes Guns Akimbo Military and Warfare Films Too Dumb to Live Roaring Rampage of Revenge Historical Villain Upgrade You Have Failed Me Evil vs. Evil The X of Y Suspiciously Specific Denial Reasonable Authority Figure Hollywood Law Artistic License – Geography folderlabel Daddy's Girl French Films Show Within a Show Disguised in Drag Spiteful Spit Imagine Spot Obstructive Bureaucrat Line-of-Sight Name War Is Hell Silent Movie Handicapped Badass Early Installment Weirdness Exact Words Affectionate Parody Anyone Can Die Half the Man He Used to Be Major Injury Underreaction Empathic Environment Freeze-Frame Bonus Antagonist Title Setting Update The Mole Plucky Comic Relief Kick the Son of a Bitch Accidental Murder Cain and Abel The Vamp Sassy Black Woman Five-Man Band Punch-Clock Villain Rousing Speech Age Lift Improvised Weapon Leitmotif Air-Vent Passageway Reality Has No Subtitles Epic Fail Flipping the Bird Knight Templar Sequel Hook Bottomless Magazines Driven to Suicide I Need a Freaking Drink Documentary Laughing Mad Woman Scorned As Himself Psychopathic Manchild Nothing Is Scarier Batman Gambit Good Is Not Nice Married to the Job Does This Remind You of Anything? Department of Redundancy Department Chekhov's Skill Jerkass Has a Point Adaptational Attractiveness Curse Cut Short Parental Neglect Black and Gray Morality MacGuffin Back from the Dead Karma Houdini Cassandra Truth Distracted by the Sexy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Blood from the Mouth Spared by the Adaptation Rasputinian Death Evil Plan Retcon Cool Old Lady Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ax-Crazy Faux Affably Evil