Tropescilloscope: Jerkass

A mean, cruel, and insufferable person. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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