Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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