Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Jerkass

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

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