Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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