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21st May '13 10:41:05 AM JuanAditya

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17th May '13 3:37:45 PM Lokia

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* Luxus from ''Manga/FairyTail''. One of the most powerful mages in the guild (''the'' most powerful, according to him, but he's pretty full of himself so that might not be very accurate), he has absolutely no redeeming features and seems to exist solely to anger other people, and try to get into the pants of the guild's female members. His accomplishments thus far include goading the protagonists into putting themselves into life-threatening danger, refusing to help in the conflict with rival guild Phantom Lord, even after the Guild Master, Makarov, was badly injured in the fight, and afterwards ''mocking'' the people who got hurt in the conflict, calling them weaklings. When he succeeds Makarov as the guild's master, he fully intends to rid the guild of anyone he deems too weak. He's quite certain he'll be named the next guild master, as not only is he the only qualified mage in the guild at the moment, he's also Makarov's flesh-and-blood grandson. This is, in fact, precisely the reason why Makarov hasn't retired yet: because he knows that if he does so, Fairy Tail will be left in his JerkAss grandson's hands. Tired of waiting for his inheritance, he as pit the entirety of Fairy Tail against itself in an InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath situation. This is accomplished by turning the guild's female members to stone, threatening that they'll turn to dust if not healed soon, then setting up various traps that won't fade unless the male members fight one another. When this fails, by virtue of the hostages being freed, Luxus ups the ante and takes the entire town hostage. All to force Makarov to step down as master and place himself there instead. Although, it turns out he has a FreudianExcuse.

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11th May '13 10:23:17 AM EarlOfSandvich

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* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'':
** Everyone who isn't part of the main cast.
** Higa, the Ashikabi of the East. His crimes thus far: holding a sickly Ashikabi hostage and making her Sekirei fight for him, kidnapping the protagonist's sister (apparently he wants to marry her!), manipulating ''her'' Sekirei into fighting for him, using both the first and third things to rampantly cheat at the game [[spoiler:(like when he had Uzume and Shiina take out the winner of the second round of the current arc's game and steal the [[PlotCoupon prize]])]] as well as cheating in general (he brought at least one extra Sekirei to the current round of the game), and (very important in this sort of plot) he treats his Sekirei like objects. He tried to form an alliance with Minato, which was rejected because of that last point alone (Minato doesn't even ''know'' about his sister yet, and I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out!). If Higa made that offer knowing Minato and Yukari were siblings, then he's an idiot on top of the JerkAss thing... The Yukari thing is actually extra stupid because not only does Minato have powerful Sekirei on his side, [[spoiler:Minato and Yukari's mother is the [[TheDragon second-in-command]] of Minaka, the guy running the Sekirei game. Not that she seems to ''care'' about her kids...]]
** For those who ''aren't'' outright {{Jerkass}} material, though, they fall more into JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Examples include: Seo Kaoru and his twin Sekirei, both Yukari and Takami Sahashi, Haruka Shigi, and ''possibly'' even Hiroto Minaka (when he ''does'' Pet The Dog). Outright aversions include #95 Kuno (Haruka's Sekirei), #107 Shiina (Yukari's Sekirei) and Chiho Hidaka.

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* ''{{Sekirei}}'' has quite a few characters with a serious case of jerkassery, on both sides of the morality spectrum.
** The Sahashi women are both enormous jerkasses, which probably examples why Minato is such an ExtremeDoormat. Mother Takami enjoys being a {{Troll}}, while little sister Yukari regularly [[GroinAttack kicks men in the balls]] if they annoy her. 
** Izumi Higa is probably one of the biggest examples in the series, being a SmugSnake that mistreats his own Sekirei and blackmails [[spoiler: Uzume and Shiina]] into working for him. He has no problem doing anything necessary to get what he wants, whether it's forcefully winging Sekirei against their will or ordering assassinations. 
** Seo and Hikari both fall into the HiddenHeartOfGold variation, balancing their jerkass tendencies with kinder moments. Miya can also be quite the jerkass, but is skilled enough at PassiveAggressiveCombat to make it easily missed.
** Mikogami Hayato is a SpoiledBrat that mocks his rivals, and is willing to [[StalkerWithACrush hunt down]] any Sekirei that catches his eye in hopes of adding them to his collection. However, he turns out to have shades of the JerkassWoobie when his [[LonelyRichKid backstory]] [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation is]] [[ParentalAbandonment revealed]].

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* ''{{Manga/Bakuman}}''
** Ishizawa is incredibly arrogant, thinking he's better than Mashiro when he can't draw anything other than cutesy girls in the same pose. After he insults Mashiro's artwork despite not having tried anything like Mashiro did, Takagi [[BerserkButton becomes enraged]] and punches him. [[spoiler:Ishizawa later ends up being the one to publicize the news about Mashiro and Azuki's relationship, thus causing her great difficulty in getting the lead role in Mashiro's anime]].
** [[spoiler:Nakai]] becomes one over time, such as by making becoming his girlfriend a condition of collaborating with a fellow mangaka. He later ends up as Nanamine's assistant and tends to treat the others poorly unless they're women and attractive.
** Nanamine plans on rising to the top of Jump with online collaborators, [[spoiler:and later, using out of work mangaka to test his new method]], but views everyone as utterly expendable, blackmails his editor, Kosugi, into accepting his proposal by threatening to go elsewhere, and is fairly arrogant and short-tempered. Sasaki gives him a ThisIsUnforgivable speech after learning about him  [[spoiler:casting his mangaka aside]], and Kosugi gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, saying that because he [[LackOfEmpathy has no empathy]] for others, [[FatalFlaw he can't write believable characters]].

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* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''
** Erika Itsumi, Maho's vice captain and Miho's successor in that position. She's introduced mocking Miho and the rest of Oarai as a no-name school that shouldn't even enter the tournament, complains about Maho [[spoiler:letting Mako and Saori borrow their team's helicopter to quickly get to Mako's grandmother in the hospital]], and shoots a nasty glare at [[spoiler:one of her teammates when she goes over to thank Miho for saving them, an act that resulted in Black Forest losing the tournament for the first time in a decade]].
** Miho's mother, Shiho Nishizumi has [[IceQueen a cold and abrasive personality]], and after one meeting with her in ''Little Army'', Miho's friends consider her "a scary mother", and immediately notice that Maho acts differently when Shiho's around, unable to oppose her. Shiho considers Miho a disgrace to the family [[spoiler:and is planning to disown her]].
** Anchovy, commander of Anzio Academy's tankery crew, goes up to Miho before the match and calls her way of tankery weak. After her defeat, she's so far the only commander who ''is not'' a GracefulLoser, and accuses Miho of causing her own team's defeat in the last tournament by way of [[spoiler:the aforementioned rescue of a teammate]].
* Emi Nakasuka of the ''Little Army'' prequel manga starts out as this, being someone who speaks whatever is on her mind no matter how much it hurts others, causing friction within her group of friends, and is bitter toward Maho because she [[spoiler:shot her older sister's team's flag tank when it went to rescue one of Maho's teammates]]. [[CharacterDevelopment Over time]], Emi becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is able to force Miho to confront her own problems.

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* Nishijima Shigeo from ''Manga/AreaNoKishi'' is the resident jerkass of the school football team, unabashedly taking pleasure in the misfortune and mistakes of his teammates.
* Aika from ''{{Manga/ARIA}}'' has a very competitive attitude and she often corrects her friends in a loud tone when she thinks they make embarrassing remarks. Nobody really cares though and [[{{Tsundere}} she has her nice moments as well]]. Her [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship mild crush on Alicia]] is also pretty cute.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'':
** Tomo, though the characters tend to treat her appropriately. Yomi occasionally hits her, but probably not as often as she deserves. Although there are quite a few examples that show Tomo does care.Getting scratched by Maya is taken as an opportunity for Yomi and Kagura to point out several times over that she should learn a lesson about how she treats others. It goes over her head.
** Also Yukari. You can just ''tell'' she's got no other friends apart from Nyamo. But then, strangely, neither does Nyamo. This may be justified, though, because they work at a [[TwoTeacherSchool Three ...ish Teacher School]], and the third teacher, Kimura, is a DirtyOldMan. [-And then there's [[SternTeacher that one]] no one remembers who made Chiyo freak out.-]
** Kamineko surpasses them all. That cat is ''evil''. Perhaps its worst act is when, near the end of the series, it responds to Sakaki's apology for offending it by trying to pet it many times by offering to let her pet it, and then biting her hand again.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'''s Dallas Genoard is practically this trope personified, with nearly every scene he's in being punctuated with a KickTheDog moment. Even his PetTheDog scene ends with him [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]]. Karma does, however, [[CementShoes bite]] [[AndIMustScream him]] [[FateWorseThanDeath hard]].

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* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
** In the {{OAV}}s, Princess Ayeka's petty rivalry with Ryoko was a humorous chink in her formal armor, deflating her pomposity. Through several TV series -- especially ''Shin Tenchi Muyo'' (''Tenchi In Tokyo'' in the US) - made it so noticeable that she became rather [[TheDitz ditzy]].
** Ryoko pushes this, especially in the TV adaptations. Many times she goes after Tenchi just to provoke Ayeka, including when Ayeka and Sasami were about to leave Earth forever. She once left the entire team to almost starve to death in space when she spent the money that was supposed to buy them food on partying. However, even in her more selfish adaptations, she still truly loves Tenchi and proves under tougher circumstances to be more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, especially by the time period of the third movie (set in the first TV series timeline) in which she and Ayeka still haves squabbles, but now live together and actually respect each other.
** [[AbusiveParents OVA Washu]].
** In the spin-off, you have Yume from the manga and Ramia and Konoha from ''Pretty Sammy''.

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* The title character of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' appears at first to be a {{Jerkass}} more than a GenkiGirl, more or less hitting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria every point on the list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder]]. And the fact that [[spoiler:she is capable of destroying the world if she's seriously naysayed -- or bored --]] just puts icing on the cake. Though in her defense, she does not know she's got said powers... and it's much better to keep her LockedOutOfTheLoop. It's played down as the series progresses, though thanks to the episode shuffling it gets sort of unclear just how much.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'':
** Tomo, though the characters tend to treat her appropriately. Yomi occasionally hits her, but probably not as often as she deserves. Although there are quite a few examples that show Tomo does care.Getting scratched by Maya is taken as an opportunity for Yomi and Kagura to point out several times over that she should learn a lesson about how she treats others. It goes over her head.
** Also Yukari. You can just ''tell'' she's got no other friends apart from Nyamo. But then, strangely, neither does Nyamo. This may be justified, though, because they work at a [[TwoTeacherSchool Three ...ish Teacher School]], and the third teacher, Kimura, is a DirtyOldMan. [-And then there's [[SternTeacher that one]] no one remembers who made Chiyo freak out.-]
** Kamineko surpasses them all. That cat is ''evil''. Perhaps its worst act is when, near the end of the series, it responds to Sakaki's apology for offending it by trying to pet it many times by offering to let her pet it, and then biting her hand again.
* Dr. Eggman in ''Anime/SonicX''. Lampshaded in the final episode of series 1, where he's yelling for Sonic over a microphone (keeping everyone in the forest up at an unreasonable hour) he says 'This world will have to face the music!' before disco lights come on in his ship and he starts doing a dance that his robots call 'The Jerk'.
* Miu from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', to whom the other characters respond accordingly. Cutting to Miu lying face down and sprawled after a Jerkass moment is a RunningGag of the anime series.

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* Candy's bitchy stepsister Eliza from ''Manga/CandyCandy'', who gets a kick out of using her [[RichBitch money and status]] (among other things) to humiliate Candy and those of lesser status than her. [[ForTheEvulz For the lulz]]. The only thing that prevents her from being a monster is that she doesn't send Candy into deadly slave labor.
* The whole soccer club in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' are made of douchebags, it is no wonder why Sunohara left the club since day one. This gets even worse in the Sunohara path (and in ''After Story'' anime adaptation), when Youhei's sister Mei asks to let her brother rejoin to get his spirit back, they instantly dismiss him roughly. Then when Tomoya helps out in requesting, they tell him, Mei and Nagisa to be ball-catcher, and purposely throw the ball out just so they can see the three struggle. And when Mei begs about it again, they start bullying her on purpose.
* Tsuchimikaido ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is a fair bit of this, especially in the light novels where he [[spoiler:picks on Kanzaki and her love for Touma and the way he gets Touma's help in a couple international incidents]].
* ''Most girls'' in the ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' are jerkasses, especially if they're the main characters' sisters. The few exceptions include the Literature Girl, Emi (but she randomly drop-kicks people she knows), Ringo and Habara [[spoiler:(or at least [[RetiredOutlaw she used to be a jerk herself]])]].
* Kanda Yu, from ''Manga/DGrayMan'', is the sort of guy who threatens to kill his allies when they try to help him out with a fight. [[SeriousBusiness Or steal his hair tie]]. But since he's [[MrFanservice freaking gorgeous]] and [[JerkassWoobie incredibly]] [[FreudianExcuse traumatized]], we tend to cut him some slack. Kanda [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold gets a lot better]] in later arcs (threatening to kill his friends starts sounding pretty unconvincing), but his real Jerkass moment was when he callously considered all non-exorcists cannon fodder in the first volume of the manga and bullies a weaker man (granted, the weaker man ''looked'' stronger, but it's obvious that Kanda's more powerful).
* Ruki Makino (Rika Nonaka) in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' was absolutely unsufferable at first, mocking poor Takato and Jenrya for being friendly to their Digimon, putting them down every chance she got, and ordering her partner Renamon to kill Guilmon and absorb his data, only so that Renamon could get stronger. Later CharacterDevelopment mellows her out, turning her into a DefrostingIceQueen.
* Vegeta from ''Manga/DragonBallZ''. In the early stages of the anime, the arrogant prince of the Saiyans is a complete genocidal asshole with nary a nice bone in his body, constantly insulting his teammates even after doing the HeelFaceTurn, and being perpetually jealous of his FutureBadass son Trunks. He does mellow out once the sense of family with Bulma and Trunks sets in for him. Which takes some time. 
* Izaya Orihara from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. The first time you properly see him in the anime, he spends most of the episode [[spoiler:orchestrating the kidnapping and rescue of a girl he spoke to online, only to hold her over the side of a building, toy with her desire (or lack thereof) to actually commit suicide, and then wander off to watch from a distance as the girl decides to jump anyway. (Luckily for her, someone else was a little more worried about her safety and saves her.)]] Anyone who meets him in the series is wary of him, has a number of tales to tell about how manipulative and dangerous he is to be around, or just skip the talking completely and throw vending machines in his face.
* Bando from ''Manga/ElfenLied''. In his introduction, he casually backhands a woman for the hell of it, laughs, then calls her an idiot for "sneaking up on him". And all she was doing was bringing him some tea. He later punches a doctor in the face with his new prosthetic hand moments after the doctor installs it in order to "test it out". 
* Fatora and Jinnai from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''.
* Holland from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' bounces between this and JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He definitely leans towards Jerkass for the first two thirds of the series, especially regarding Renton, but eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it]].
* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield21}}'' it sure seems like Hiruma is going to be the (only) resident jerkass, until JerkJock Agon comes along. The only area where Agon doesn't fit this trope's definition of jerkass perfectly is that he knows his behavior is inappropriate, excessive and/or cruel, and he's fine with that.
* Luxus from ''Manga/FairyTail''. One of the most powerful mages in the guild (''the'' most powerful, according to him, but he's pretty full of himself so that might not be very accurate), he has absolutely no redeeming features and seems to exist solely to anger other people, and try to get into the pants of the guild's female members. His accomplishments thus far include goading the protagonists into putting themselves into life-threatening danger, refusing to help in the conflict with rival guild Phantom Lord, even after the Guild Master, Makarov, was badly injured in the fight, and afterwards ''mocking'' the people who got hurt in the conflict, calling them weaklings. When he succeeds Makarov as the guild's master, he fully intends to rid the guild of anyone he deems too weak. He's quite certain he'll be named the next guild master, as not only is he the only qualified mage in the guild at the moment, he's also Makarov's flesh-and-blood grandson. This is, in fact, precisely the reason why Makarov hasn't retired yet: because he knows that if he does so, Fairy Tail will be left in his JerkAss grandson's hands. Tired of waiting for his inheritance, he as pit the entirety of Fairy Tail against itself in an InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath situation. This is accomplished by turning the guild's female members to stone, threatening that they'll turn to dust if not healed soon, then setting up various traps that won't fade unless the male members fight one another. When this fails, by virtue of the hostages being freed, Luxus ups the ante and takes the entire town hostage. All to force Makarov to step down as master and place himself there instead. Although, it turns out he has a FreudianExcuse.

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* Aika from ''{{Manga/ARIA}}'' has a very competitive attitude and she often corrects her friends in a loud tone when she thinks they make embarrassing remarks. Nobody really cares though and [[{{Tsundere}} she has her nice moments as well]]. Her [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship mild crush on Alicia]] is also pretty cute.
* Everyone in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' and ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' have fallen into this at least once.
* ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'':
** Almost entire cast, save for the protagonist and his love interest.
** Notable jerkass-exceptions aside from those two: Grandpa Otonashi, the Godai family (save for Grandma Godai, who can be a jerkass just for kicks), [[TheOjou Asuna Kujo]] (she's just sheltered and somewhat naive... if she's ever being a jerkass, it's entirely unintentional) and possibly Ikuko Otonashi, who isn't able to keep her attention focused on anything for longer than half a minute. Oh, and Soichiro (Otonashi, anways; the dog, most of the time)
** Yotsuya takes the cake, though. The entire reason of his existence seems to be making life miserable for others, parasitism, causing massive property damage, hurling insults, mind screwing, and not only never providing the tiniest benefit whatsoever to society but making it a ''point'' not to, and ''flaunting it''.

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* Futana from ''Manga/FutabaKunChange''. She even attempts to sexually molest her own brother and at one point vomits into his mouth simply because he is closer than the toilet is.
* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'':
** Kei Kurono. He gets better though. Then he dies. Then he, un-dies.
** And Nishi when, after gaining 100 points, instead of choosing to revive Inaba, he chooses a new weapon, leaving him dead.
* Kirie Kojima in season 1 of ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' as shown by her frequently (and unfairly) beating up her 'best friend' Yukinari, despite knowing he's scared of girls because of her actions and developed a rash to girls because of it. Really, acts of kindness on her part don't really hold much water when she just immediately follows these acts of kindness with frequent beatings and verbal abuse. She's only a {{Jerkass}} in season 1, as she becomes [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold much nicer]] in season 2. However, even in the second season her actions are questionable, like when she emotionally manipulated Yukinari into cross-dressing for an event and allowed him to get molested by [[CasanovaWannabe Fukuyama]] since it meant Fukuyama would pay her.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** Amuro Ray, Kamille Bidan, Judau Ashta, Setsuna F. Seiei, etc... you name it!
** Nena Trinity from ''[[{{Gundam 00}} 00]]'' especially deserves mentioning, being TheFakeCutie who enjoys killing people simply out of boredom.

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* ''Anime/PrincessTutu''
** Lilie sometimes gets dangerously close to this trope. When she's first introduced, she merely seems a little gossipy and quick to assume the worst. But by the second season she's downright sadistic, to the point where she tries to push two friends into a fight over a boy, and freaks out when they tell her they're too good of friends to fight. In fact, most fans consider her sadistic to the point of comparing with Drosselmeyer, [[spoiler:the series' BigBad]].
** ''PrincessTutu'' also has Fakir, but [[spoiler:[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not quite as bad as he first appears]]]].
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
** Jin Akutsu is a big, scary jerkass who hits people from other teams, treats his HotShounenMom rather badly, humiliates his childhood friend when he attempts to call him out on his jerkiness, almost hits his coach when the old man tries to recruit him, and in flashbacks he picks on other guys ''several times''. Still, after losing his official match with Ryoma he evolves more into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Ryoma Echizen himself is already a big jerkass to start with, frequently taunting his opponents with the phrase "Mada mada dane (You still have a lot to learn)". In fact, ''Prince of Tennis'' is ripe with jerkasses, including the narcissist Keigo Atobe.
* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'':
** While James and Meowth have been played sympathetically many times since their first character development episodes, Jessie has always been the "nasty one" of the trio and doesn't get many episodes to herself. To her credit, she has had PetTheDog moments, like when she let Dustox go away to mate or her bond with a certain Blissey...but these are somewhat sparse.
** There's also Ash's Sinnoh rival Paul...whose methods of training make Kanto Gary seem tame by comparison. This was so bad [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jessie was appalled by it]].
** Being the character Paul was based on, Silver is also this in the GSC chapter of the ''PokemonSpecial'' manga. Both go through a bit of character development. 
** Unova rival Trip didn't really care about Pikachu currently lacking access to its Electric attacks, though he's a bit more friendly than Paul. However, this is subverted later when he has more of a JerkassFacade as shown when he does care about Ash's Pokemon as saving Ash's Pidove from Venipede that attacked her and then later telling Ash that his Oshawott needs to open his eyes when using Aqua Jet.
** The ''Black and White'' series also gives us Burgundy and Georgia, respectively the rivals to Cilan and Iris. To be fair, Burgundy isn't that dislikeable, because despite her obnoxious attitude, she is too much of a screw-up to be taken seriously. Georgia, on the other hand, spent her whole time onscreen being a bitch to both Cilan and Iris. And it is also hard to get mad at Georgia when her rival is almost if not just as rude and petty as her. Iris herself may or may not be a jerkass but the fact of the matter is in her very first episode as part of the main cast she insulted Ash for getting knock on his ass by Patrat when he was pre occupied with Deerling. The two of them get [[CharacterDevelopment better]] [[TookaLevelinKindness eventually]] as shown during the Dynomite arc.
** Gary Oak from the original saga, who spent most of his appearances taunting Ash. He becomes less of a jerk as the series goes on, and by the end of the Johto arc, a lot of his Jerk Ass status is more or less gone. 
** Harley, the Pokemon Coordinator, from the Advanced Generation is a jerkass towards May and her friends. He manipulated a naive Max into telling an embarrassing story about May to air it while May was competing against him in a competition. He also manipulated May with "tips" to help her win a competition, only to be exposed by Drew for his stunt.
* The title character from ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' comes across like this for scenes where she loses her temper and says nasty things to Jean and occasionally Nemo (both of whom obviously don't deserve it). Nonetheless, she ''does'' apologize numerous times to Jean for her outbursts and does something reconciliatory (e.g. comforting him about his father, bringing him something to eat, or going on walks with him) but [[spoiler:she never gets to do so with Nemo, until she realizes, too late, that she could have been nicer]].
* The eponymous character of ''Anime/NieaUnder7'' is a lazy, loudmouthed freeloader who seems to care so little about other people that it sometimes crosses into full-fledged sociopath territory. Why the other characters put up with this is a mystery; strange enough, it's the ''other'' aliens who have the most trouble with her. [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Human Mayuko]] seems to genuinely care for her, despite their [[OddCouple differences]].
* The agents of the O'Hara Foundation tend to act this way towards Ray Steam in the movie ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}''. By the end, it seems that they're trying to kill him out of sheer spite, despite having no particular reason to do so and much, ''much'' better things to do with their time (such as [[spoiler:trying to escape the giant, flying steam-powered castle that's about to self-destruct around them]]).
* Vegeta from ''Manga/DragonBallZ''. In the early stages of the anime, the arrogant prince of the Saiyans is a complete genocidal asshole with nary a nice bone in his body, constantly insulting his teammates even after doing the HeelFaceTurn, and being perpetually jealous of his FutureBadass son Trunks. He does mellow out once the sense of family with Bulma and Trunks sets in for him. Which takes some time. 
* The whole soccer club in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' are made of douchebags, it is no wonder why Sunohara left the club since day one. This gets even worse in the Sunohara path (and in ''After Story'' anime adaptation), when Youhei's sister Mei asks to let her brother rejoin to get his spirit back, they instantly dismiss him roughly. Then when Tomoya helps out in requesting, they tell him, Mei and Nagisa to be ball-catcher, and purposely throw the ball out just so they can see the three struggle. And when Mei begs about it again, they start bullying her on purpose.
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'':
** Hibari. The school is his life, and he will bite you to death if you do anything to hurt the school in any way, disrupt its functioning, or really just irritate him.
** Byakuran, Xanxus, Mukuro, and Reborn.
* Luxus from ''Manga/FairyTail''. One of the most powerful mages in the guild (''the'' most powerful, according to him, but he's pretty full of himself so that might not be very accurate), he has absolutely no redeeming features and seems to exist solely to anger other people, and try to get into the pants of the guild's female members. His accomplishments thus far include goading the protagonists into putting themselves into life-threatening danger, refusing to help in the conflict with rival guild Phantom Lord, even after the Guild Master, Makarov, was badly injured in the fight, and afterwards ''mocking'' the people who got hurt in the conflict, calling them weaklings. When he succeeds Makarov as the guild's master, he fully intends to rid the guild of anyone he deems too weak. He's quite certain he'll be named the next guild master, as not only is he the only qualified mage in the guild at the moment, he's also Makarov's flesh-and-blood grandson. This is, in fact, precisely the reason why Makarov hasn't retired yet: because he knows that if he does so, Fairy Tail will be left in his JerkAss grandson's hands. Tired of waiting for his inheritance, he as pit the entirety of Fairy Tail against itself in an InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath situation. This is accomplished by turning the guild's female members to stone, threatening that they'll turn to dust if not healed soon, then setting up various traps that won't fade unless the male members fight one another. When this fails, by virtue of the hostages being freed, Luxus ups the ante and takes the entire town hostage. All to force Makarov to step down as master and place himself there instead. Although, it turns out he has a FreudianExcuse.

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* Eguchi in ''Manga/WaGaNaWaUmishi'' isn't content with being an arrogant genius. No, he's gotta go out of his way to ruin other people's efforts as sneakily as possible just so he can keep being better than them. Even his bosses don't like him, even though he's their best worker.
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** Sasuke Uchiha wavers for quite a while between being a straight-up JerkAss (especially after the TimeSkip) and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and/or wearer of the JerkassFacade; despite his constant posturing, and especially prior to his HeroicBSOD (Rival edition) and FaceHeelTurn courtesy of his AloofBigBrother, he ''is'' shown warming up to his team mates and putting his life on the line to protect them. Then he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps over The Slippery Slope]], which is a pity.
** [[{{Tsundere}} Sakura]] was like this in the first episodes, towards [[DoggedNiceGuy Naruto]]. She ''always'' sided with Sasuke in any argument, and gave Naruto [[MegatonPunch insanely powerful punches]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution the smallest of reasons]]. She got better.
** Neji Hyuuga is introduced as this, looking down on those he saw as weaker than him [[hottip:note:Virtually every genin-level ninja, but especially Lee, Hinata and Naruto]] until Naruto [[DefeatMeansFriendship beats it out of him]]. Before this happened, the nicest thing we have seen him do is offer his cousin a chance to surrender before their match. And then, for all intents and purposes, he tries to kill her and only fails because the adults in charge are quick enough to jump in and stop him. And then he has the audacity to get upset and cry favoritism when they stop him from essentially murdering his defenseless cousin.
-->'''Kurenai''': ''(thinking while looking at Hinata)'' Oh no, she's going into cardiac arrest... ''(glares at Neji)'' Was he really trying to kill her?
-->'''Neji''': ''(smugly)'' I wouldn't waste time glaring at me when you really should be taking care of her.
** When he isn't [[AxCrazy killing everything in sight]], Hidan is a godawful fucking ''dick'' to everyone he's not supposed to kill. For example, he taunts Team 10 [[spoiler:and their dead sensei, whom he killed]] in order to provoke them.
** Madara Uchiha. [[spoiler:Or, more specifically, both the real Madara Uchiha and Tobi/Obito Uchiha. The former is exceptionally arrogant and enjoys talking down to his opponents. The latter launched a deadly attack at Naruto, and when Neji ended up dying from TakingTheBullet for him (as well as for Hinata, who was also planning on doing so), he mocked Naruto for failing to live up to his promise not to let his comrades die]].
** In the pilot, Naruto was an even bigger BrattyHalfPint than even his worst in canon, especially [[UrineTrouble urinating on]] a boy [[DisproportionateRetribution for spreading rumors about him]], and [[KickTheDog this exchange with the chief]]:
-->'''Chief''': Humans and Yokai need to live together in peace. Why can't you make any human friends?
-->'''Naruto''': [[DeadpanSnarker Oh, like you have so many. I've never even seen one]]!
-->'''Chief''': Fool!!!! I had eight... UNTIL YOUR FATHER KILLED THEM! We took pity on the baby... it was dumb luck that saved you. Now you're a friendless, sullen brat.
-->'''Naruto''': If friends are so important... why don't you go join yours?
* Makoto Ito from ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' starts out as a fairly typical loser protagonist only to turn into one of the biggest jerks of all time by the end of the series, first cheating on his girlfriend Kotonoha with his classmate [[MatchmakerCrush Sekai]], then cheating on ''her'' with most of the rest of the female cast - and, when Sekai [[spoiler:reveals that she is pregnant with his child]], Makoto [[spoiler:ditches her for Kotonoha]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It does not end well]]. He isn't as much of an asshole in the [=OVAs=] or the spin-offs though.
* Both Leon Oswald and May Wong from the second season of ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' start like this. Oswald is an arrogant French headliner who seems to think because he ''is'' the headliner he now runs the Kaleido Stage, and Wong is a bitchy baby diva whose attempts to supplant Sora barely stop short of getting herself adopted by Sora's parents. To their merit, once they ''do'' get to see how devoted Sora is to her dreams, they start getting better. 
* Futana from ''Manga/FutabaKunChange''. She even attempts to sexually molest her own brother and at one point vomits into his mouth simply because he is closer than the toilet is.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':
** Every male character in except the male lead.
** The bus driver and guy running the school are okay. They're still jerks but they're watching out for him.
** Gin, the werewolf, is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, actually.
** And the male members of the Wong family seem to be more-or-less decent guys. [[CloudCuckooLander Kinda weird]], but nice. Which is ironic, considering they're a 'family' in both the blood-related sense and the ''Mafia'' sense...
** Vampire Moka and Kokoa Shuzen were both introduced this way. [[DefrostingIceQueen But they improve]]. 
* Floe from ''Anime/{{Simoun}}''.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'''s Dallas Genoard is practically this trope personified, with nearly every scene he's in being punctuated with a KickTheDog moment. Even his PetTheDog scene ends with him [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]]. Karma does, however, [[CementShoes bite]] [[AndIMustScream him]] [[FateWorseThanDeath hard]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Wapol. While every other BigBad has a fundamental goal or FreudianExcuse when they do what they do, Wapol doesn't have ''any,'' other than to be the king of Drum Island, and he was ''born'' to the throne. He partakes in acts of cruelty, most notably gathering up twenty of the island's best doctors, for which it was famous, and then banishing all of the rest just because he wanted the citizens to beg him to let them see one of the Twenty, and also because he ''could'', and there was ''still'' no guarantee that he'd let them. This is just the start. He did get some CharacterDevelopment in the side story title pages, however. He was hungry and tried to eat garbage and reshape them into toys to keep him entertained, except kids loved them so he started selling them to everyone. Then he made a factory, [[UglyGuyHotWife married a model]], and was last seen doing some good in the world. Actually, it seems that he's turned into a full-blown CorruptCorporateExecutive, as the final chapter of his cover story was entitled "The Rebirth of Evil". [[spoiler:And now [[KarmaHoudini he's once again the ruler of his own country]], called the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Evil Black Drum Kingdom]]]].
** As shown in recent flashbacks, Arlong seems to have always been a JerkAss [[FantasticRacism Anti-human racist]]. [[spoiler:Fisher Tiger's death and his stint in Impel Down just made him even worse.]]
* Many of the opponents that Gash and Kiyomaro encounter in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' are assholes, though some more [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold so than others]]. While it's a given they're all just doing [[CombatPragmatist whatever they can]] to become King of the Demon world, some are just unforgivable. Zophise in particular robs that whole damn bakery.
* Candy's bitchy stepsister Eliza from ''Manga/CandyCandy'', who gets a kick out of using her [[RichBitch money and status]] (among other things) to humiliate Candy and those of lesser status than her. [[ForTheEvulz For the lulz]]. The only thing that prevents her from being a monster is that she doesn't send Candy into deadly slave labor.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Arisa Bunnings was initially a bully who was unwilling to consider others' feelings before Nanoha slapped her (her first "[[DefeatMeansFriendship befriending]]") for stealing Suzuka's ribbon.
** In one of the [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]] sound stages, Vita admits to having been constantly abrasive and rude to the rest of the Wolkenritter out of battle during the first Reinforce's existence. She mellowed out somewhat between when Hayate became her mistress and [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]], but still has a fairly hot temper.
** Precia Testarossa constantly batters and abuses Fate whenever she fails on a mission- she ''whips'' the poor eight year old girl with a bullwhip! All Fate wanted to do was see her mommy smile again. She didn't care how much she had to suffer, as long her "mommy dearest" became nice again. Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler:Precia reveals that she was just a clone of her dead daughter, Alicia, that she was simply a tool and that she never loved her at all; if anything, she hated her! Fate tries to give her one last chance to repent for her crimes, telling her that while she isn't Alicia, she still cares for Precia because she brought her into the world. And the queen bitch laughs at her face and chooses to die instead!]]
** Pick ''any'' Eclipse infectees in ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'', but special mention goes to Huckebein.

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* King Draven from ''Manga/HeliosEclipse'' is a real dick. Even more evil characters like [[BigBad Soileh]] is more [[MagnificentBastard likeable]]. 
* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'':
** Everyone who isn't part of the main cast.
** Higa, the Ashikabi of the East. His crimes thus far: holding a sickly Ashikabi hostage and making her Sekirei fight for him, kidnapping the protagonist's sister (apparently he wants to marry her!), manipulating ''her'' Sekirei into fighting for him, using both the first and third things to rampantly cheat at the game [[spoiler:(like when he had Uzume and Shiina take out the winner of the second round of the current arc's game and steal the [[PlotCoupon prize]])]] as well as cheating in general (he brought at least one extra Sekirei to the current round of the game), and (very important in this sort of plot) he treats his Sekirei like objects. He tried to form an alliance with Minato, which was rejected because of that last point alone (Minato doesn't even ''know'' about his sister yet, and I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out!). If Higa made that offer knowing Minato and Yukari were siblings, then he's an idiot on top of the JerkAss thing... The Yukari thing is actually extra stupid because not only does Minato have powerful Sekirei on his side, [[spoiler:Minato and Yukari's mother is the [[TheDragon second-in-command]] of Minaka, the guy running the Sekirei game. Not that she seems to ''care'' about her kids...]]
** For those who ''aren't'' outright {{Jerkass}} material, though, they fall more into JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Examples include: Seo Kaoru and his twin Sekirei, both Yukari and Takami Sahashi, Haruka Shigi, and ''possibly'' even Hiroto Minaka (when he ''does'' Pet The Dog). Outright aversions include #95 Kuno (Haruka's Sekirei), #107 Shiina (Yukari's Sekirei) and Chiho Hidaka.
* Ruki Makino (Rika Nonaka) in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' was absolutely unsufferable at first, mocking poor Takato and Jenrya for being friendly to their Digimon, putting them down every chance she got, and ordering her partner Renamon to kill Guilmon and absorb his data, only so that Renamon could get stronger. Later CharacterDevelopment mellows her out, turning her into a DefrostingIceQueen.
* Izaya Orihara from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. The first time you properly see him in the anime, he spends most of the episode [[spoiler:orchestrating the kidnapping and rescue of a girl he spoke to online, only to hold her over the side of a building, toy with her desire (or lack thereof) to actually commit suicide, and then wander off to watch from a distance as the girl decides to jump anyway. (Luckily for her, someone else was a little more worried about her safety and saves her.)]] Anyone who meets him in the series is wary of him, has a number of tales to tell about how manipulative and dangerous he is to be around, or just skip the talking completely and throw vending machines in his face.

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* Yanda from ''{{Manga/Yotsuba}}'' seems to genuinely enjoy picking on a ''five-year-old girl''. Koiwai probably wouldn't have anything to do with him if he had a choice (he doesn't; Yanda is his kohei and thus he's socially expected to let him hang around). As it stands, Yanda does get put in his place - [[ButtMonkey a lot]].
* Kanda Yu, from ''Manga/DGrayMan'', is the sort of guy who threatens to kill his allies when they try to help him out with a fight. [[SeriousBusiness Or steal his hair tie]]. But since he's [[MrFanservice freaking gorgeous]] and [[JerkassWoobie incredibly]] [[FreudianExcuse traumatized]], we tend to cut him some slack. Kanda [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold gets a lot better]] in later arcs (threatening to kill his friends starts sounding pretty unconvincing), but his real Jerkass moment was when he callously considered all non-exorcists cannon fodder in the first volume of the manga and bullies a weaker man (granted, the weaker man ''looked'' stronger, but it's obvious that Kanda's more powerful).
* Nishijima Shigeo from ''Manga/AreaNoKishi'' is the resident jerkass of the school football team, unabashedly taking pleasure in the misfortune and mistakes of his teammates.
* ''LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima'': So far it's shown nobles of Louise's world are this, including our pink haired main character, although there are exceptions but too few. Louise herself comes off as ''such'' a bitchy, whiny and violent {{Tsundere}} that her antics against Saitou are [[AmusingInjuries less funny]] [[DudeNotFunny and]] [[DomesticAbuse more disturbing]] as time passes.
* Kirie Kojima in season 1 of ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' as shown by her frequently (and unfairly) beating up her 'best friend' Yukinari, despite knowing he's scared of girls because of her actions and developed a rash to girls because of it. Really, acts of kindness on her part don't really hold much water when she just immediately follows these acts of kindness with frequent beatings and verbal abuse. She's only a {{Jerkass}} in season 1, as she becomes [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold much nicer]] in season 2. However, even in the second season her actions are questionable, like when she emotionally manipulated Yukinari into cross-dressing for an event and allowed him to get molested by [[CasanovaWannabe Fukuyama]] since it meant Fukuyama would pay her.

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* ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}'':
** Hiyori. Let's say, in the second episode, [[spoiler:[[PokeInTheThirdEye she made Haruka to read her mind, which is full of disdain against the latter]]. Haruka, who has been recovering from [[BreakTheCutie destroyed childhood]] due to her {{telepathy}}, fell into a HeroicBSOD and vomited. Hiyori and classmates then proceeded to [[TheBully bully]] Haruka for being vomited in school...]]
** Haruka herself is seen as arch version of this by those fed up with her (which was only an unfortunate combination of {{telepathy}} and InnocentlyInsensitive). Eventually, though, she [[JerkAssFacade kept that as a facade]] until the beginning of the story.
* Prince Baka from ''Manga/LevelE''. He constantly trolls the main character and guilt-trips him, plays sadistic games with his own loyal subordinates, and is generally a gigantic jerk on purpose towards ''everyone'' purely because ItAmusedMe: It's so bad that he has interstellar renown as a gigantic selfish jerk. Episode 5 of the anime sees him kidnap a random bunch of schoolkids off the street and forces them to become a {{sentai}} team to fight their homeroom teacher (who ''is'' a disguised alien, but hasn't actually done anything) for his amusement. When the kids grow wise to his schemes, he instead sics the kids on his own second-in-command (who is completely unaware of the whole thing), as said second-in-command holds the only way for the kids to get the suits ''off'' again.

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* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'':
** Toka is like this. She constantly tries to whore attention to herself, doesn't necessarily care about others' well being if they aren't one of her people, and in recent chapters promised to make Nodoka her maid if she lost the match. Her PetTheDog moments with Koromo make her a bit more bearable, though. 
** Hiroe doesn't hesitate to mock her opponents in battles, and to add injury to insult treats her teammates with a fair amount of respect.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** Amuro Ray, Kamille Bidan, Judau Ashta, Setsuna F. Seiei, etc... you name it!
** Nena Trinity from ''[[{{Gundam 00}} 00]]'' especially deserves mentioning, being TheFakeCutie who enjoys killing people simply out of boredom.
* Kirisaki Yuichi and Yukino Azusagawa of ''Manga/YakitateJapan''. To the point where they're like terrorists.
* Hiei from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', and egregiously so, especially in the manga. By the end of the anime, he manages to squeak into JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory, but just barely. Considering that he's a demon who was [[ParentalAbandonment cast out]] of the [[LadyLand female-only society he was born in]], despite his own mother ''actually wanting'' to raise him, he would naturally be an ass, but Kurama's companionship and respect makes it more of a FreudianExcuse.
* Excalibur from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is an absurdly powerful being, his weapon form once wielded by King Arthur. But his fame seems to have gone to his head, turning him into an insufferable jerkass, with a list of 1000 rules you must follow if you want to wield him. Yes, 1000. On the other hand, it's hard to tell how much of this is ''intentional''. Excalibur spends most of his time being too incoherent to give the impression of intentionally being a jerk, rather than just obnoxious as a result of his eccentric personality.
* Prince Baka from ''Manga/LevelE''. He constantly trolls the main character and guilt-trips him, plays sadistic games with his own loyal subordinates, and is generally a gigantic jerk on purpose towards ''everyone'' purely because ItAmusedMe: It's so bad that he has interstellar renown as a gigantic selfish jerk. Episode 5 of the anime sees him kidnap a random bunch of schoolkids off the street and forces them to become a {{sentai}} team to fight their homeroom teacher (who ''is'' a disguised alien, but hasn't actually done anything) for his amusement. When the kids grow wise to his schemes, he instead sics the kids on his own second-in-command (who is completely unaware of the whole thing), as said second-in-command holds the only way for the kids to get the suits ''off'' again.
* Fatora and Jinnai from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''.
* Tsuchimikaido ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is a fair bit of this, especially in the light novels where he [[spoiler:picks on Kanzaki and her love for Touma and the way he gets Touma's help in a couple international incidents]].
* Holland from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' bounces between this and JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He definitely leans towards Jerkass for the first two thirds of the series, especially regarding Renton, but eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has a bunch:
** Seto Kaiba starts out as this, forcing Yugi's grandpa to duel and mocking anyone, especially Joey, who he considers beneath him in terms of dueling skills.
** Weevil Underwood, an annoying little dweeb who is willing to do anything to get ahead of the competition, from asking Yugi to see his Exodia set in order to chuck it overboard to finding out about the tournament rules before anyone else.
** Bandit Keith is like the above, only worse. When Bones fails to beat Joey in a duel, he not only has his cronies block the exit to a cave where Yugi and Co. are in, but beats the crap out of said cronies and steals their star chips.
* Tsugawa the manager in ''Manga/JapanInc''.
* In ''Manga/HappyYarouWedding'', Kazuki is none too nice to his brother-in-law Yuuhi, especially over his sexuality. On the flip side he's a good uncle to Shouta which is why Yuuhi tolerates him at all.
* ''Manga/SkipBeat'''s Fuwa Sho is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation a different person depending on how you view him.]] A jackass of the first degree beyond all narrative redemption? A sixteen/seventeen year old boy who's had a little too much positive attention for his own good? Somewhere in between? No matter what way you pick, you can't deny some of his unsavory [[{{Pride}} characteristics]] and [[ForcedKiss actions]]
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', Kira is one, in part thanks to LonersAreFreaks. His main issue is his aloofness and that he enjoys [[TheBully getting a rise]] out of angels like [[TheChick Rey]].
* Hatori from ''Manga/SekaiIchiHatsukoi'' mainly due to his {{yandere}} tendencies that seems to extend not just to his rival [[JerkassFacade Yanase]] but also to Chiaki (his boyfriend) and to a certain extent [[NaiveNewcomer Ritsu]]. ([[StepfordSmiler Kisa]] and [[CuteandPsycho Mino]] like to pick on Ritsu too but given his {{yandere}} tendencies, it's probably intentional unlike Kisa who admits to like teasing Ritsu since he's the newbie.) Some of his actions include [[spoiler:brutally raping Chiaki]], constantly harassing Yanase for being near Chiaki and [[spoiler:almost beating the shit out of him in his own house after Yanase [[BreaktheCutie breaks down]] from being rejected by Chiaki a second time.]]
* ''Most girls'' in the ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' are jerkasses, especially if they're the main characters' sisters. The few exceptions include the Literature Girl, Emi (but she randomly drop-kicks people she knows), Ringo and Habara [[spoiler:(or at least [[RetiredOutlaw she used to be a jerk herself]])]].

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* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Arisa Bunnings was initially a bully who was unwilling to consider others' feelings before Nanoha slapped her (her first "[[DefeatMeansFriendship befriending]]") for stealing Suzuka's ribbon.
** In one of the [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]] sound stages, Vita admits to having been constantly abrasive and rude to the rest of the Wolkenritter out of battle during the first Reinforce's existence. She mellowed out somewhat between when Hayate became her mistress and [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]], but still has a fairly hot temper.
** Precia Testarossa constantly batters and abuses Fate whenever she fails on a mission- she ''whips'' the poor eight year old girl with a bullwhip! All Fate wanted to do was see her mommy smile again. She didn't care how much she had to suffer, as long her "mommy dearest" became nice again. Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler:Precia reveals that she was just a clone of her dead daughter, Alicia, that she was simply a tool and that she never loved her at all; if anything, she hated her! Fate tries to give her one last chance to repent for her crimes, telling her that while she isn't Alicia, she still cares for Precia because she brought her into the world. And the queen bitch laughs at her face and chooses to die instead!]]
** Pick ''any'' Eclipse infectees in ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'', but special mention goes to Huckebein.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has Tosaka, who acts like a dick in regard to the slave girls. Although [[spoiler:he ''does'' eventually reveal that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not all bad.]] ]]
* ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'':
** Almost entire cast, save for the protagonist and his love interest.
** Notable jerkass-exceptions aside from those two: Grandpa Otonashi, the Godai family (save for Grandma Godai, who can be a jerkass just for kicks), [[TheOjou Asuna Kujo]] (she's just sheltered and somewhat naive... if she's ever being a jerkass, it's entirely unintentional) and possibly Ikuko Otonashi, who isn't able to keep her attention focused on anything for longer than half a minute. Oh, and Soichiro (Otonashi, anways; the dog, most of the time)
** Yotsuya takes the cake, though. The entire reason of his existence seems to be making life miserable for others, parasitism, causing massive property damage, hurling insults, mind screwing, and not only never providing the tiniest benefit whatsoever to society but making it a ''point'' not to, and ''flaunting it''.
* The title character from ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' comes across like this for scenes where she loses her temper and says nasty things to Jean and occasionally Nemo (both of whom obviously don't deserve it). Nonetheless, she ''does'' apologize numerous times to Jean for her outbursts and does something reconciliatory (e.g. comforting him about his father, bringing him something to eat, or going on walks with him) but [[spoiler:she never gets to do so with Nemo, until she realizes, too late, that she could have been nicer]].
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** Sasuke Uchiha wavers for quite a while between being a straight-up JerkAss (especially after the TimeSkip) and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and/or wearer of the JerkassFacade; despite his constant posturing, and especially prior to his HeroicBSOD (Rival edition) and FaceHeelTurn courtesy of his AloofBigBrother, he ''is'' shown warming up to his team mates and putting his life on the line to protect them. Then he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps over The Slippery Slope]], which is a pity.
** [[{{Tsundere}} Sakura]] was like this in the first episodes, towards [[DoggedNiceGuy Naruto]]. She ''always'' sided with Sasuke in any argument, and gave Naruto [[MegatonPunch insanely powerful punches]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution the smallest of reasons]]. She got better.
** Neji Hyuuga is introduced as this, looking down on those he saw as weaker than him [[hottip:note:Virtually every genin-level ninja, but especially Lee, Hinata and Naruto]] until Naruto [[DefeatMeansFriendship beats it out of him]]. Before this happened, the nicest thing we have seen him do is offer his cousin a chance to surrender before their match. And then, for all intents and purposes, he tries to kill her and only fails because the adults in charge are quick enough to jump in and stop him. And then he has the audacity to get upset and cry favoritism when they stop him from essentially murdering his defenseless cousin.
-->'''Kurenai''': ''(thinking while looking at Hinata)'' Oh no, she's going into cardiac arrest... ''(glares at Neji)'' Was he really trying to kill her?
-->'''Neji''': ''(smugly)'' I wouldn't waste time glaring at me when you really should be taking care of her.
** When he isn't [[AxCrazy killing everything in sight]], Hidan is a godawful fucking ''dick'' to everyone he's not supposed to kill. For example, he taunts Team 10 [[spoiler:and their dead sensei, whom he killed]] in order to provoke them.
** Madara Uchiha. [[spoiler:Or, more specifically, both the real Madara Uchiha and Tobi/Obito Uchiha. The former is exceptionally arrogant and enjoys talking down to his opponents. The latter launched a deadly attack at Naruto, and when Neji ended up dying from TakingTheBullet for him (as well as for Hinata, who was also planning on doing so), he mocked Naruto for failing to live up to his promise not to let his comrades die]].
** In the pilot, Naruto was an even bigger BrattyHalfPint than even his worst in canon, especially [[UrineTrouble urinating on]] a boy [[DisproportionateRetribution for spreading rumors about him]], and [[KickTheDog this exchange with the chief]]:
-->'''Chief''': Humans and Yokai need to live together in peace. Why can't you make any human friends?
-->'''Naruto''': [[DeadpanSnarker Oh, like you have so many. I've never even seen one]]!
-->'''Chief''': Fool!!!! I had eight... UNTIL YOUR FATHER KILLED THEM! We took pity on the baby... it was dumb luck that saved you. Now you're a friendless, sullen brat.
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* The eponymous character of ''Anime/NieaUnder7'' is a lazy, loudmouthed freeloader who seems to care so little about other people that it sometimes crosses into full-fledged sociopath territory. Why the other characters put up with this is a mystery; strange enough, it's the ''other'' aliens who have the most trouble with her. [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Human Mayuko]] seems to genuinely care for her, despite their [[OddCouple differences]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Wapol. While every other BigBad has a fundamental goal or FreudianExcuse when they do what they do, Wapol doesn't have ''any,'' other than to be the king of Drum Island, and he was ''born'' to the throne. He partakes in acts of cruelty, most notably gathering up twenty of the island's best doctors, for which it was famous, and then banishing all of the rest just because he wanted the citizens to beg him to let them see one of the Twenty, and also because he ''could'', and there was ''still'' no guarantee that he'd let them. This is just the start. He did get some CharacterDevelopment in the side story title pages, however. He was hungry and tried to eat garbage and reshape them into toys to keep him entertained, except kids loved them so he started selling them to everyone. Then he made a factory, [[UglyGuyHotWife married a model]], and was last seen doing some good in the world. Actually, it seems that he's turned into a full-blown CorruptCorporateExecutive, as the final chapter of his cover story was entitled "The Rebirth of Evil". [[spoiler:And now [[KarmaHoudini he's once again the ruler of his own country]], called the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Evil Black Drum Kingdom]]]].
** As shown in recent flashbacks, Arlong seems to have always been a JerkAss [[FantasticRacism Anti-human racist]]. [[spoiler:Fisher Tiger's death and his stint in Impel Down just made him even worse.]]
* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'':
** While James and Meowth have been played sympathetically many times since their first character development episodes, Jessie has always been the "nasty one" of the trio and doesn't get many episodes to herself. To her credit, she has had PetTheDog moments, like when she let Dustox go away to mate or her bond with a certain Blissey...but these are somewhat sparse.
** There's also Ash's Sinnoh rival Paul...whose methods of training make Kanto Gary seem tame by comparison. This was so bad [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Jessie was appalled by it]].
** Being the character Paul was based on, Silver is also this in the GSC chapter of the ''PokemonSpecial'' manga. Both go through a bit of character development. 
** Unova rival Trip didn't really care about Pikachu currently lacking access to its Electric attacks, though he's a bit more friendly than Paul. However, this is subverted later when he has more of a JerkassFacade as shown when he does care about Ash's Pokemon as saving Ash's Pidove from Venipede that attacked her and then later telling Ash that his Oshawott needs to open his eyes when using Aqua Jet.
** The ''Black and White'' series also gives us Burgundy and Georgia, respectively the rivals to Cilan and Iris. To be fair, Burgundy isn't that dislikeable, because despite her obnoxious attitude, she is too much of a screw-up to be taken seriously. Georgia, on the other hand, spent her whole time onscreen being a bitch to both Cilan and Iris. And it is also hard to get mad at Georgia when her rival is almost if not just as rude and petty as her. Iris herself may or may not be a jerkass but the fact of the matter is in her very first episode as part of the main cast she insulted Ash for getting knock on his ass by Patrat when he was pre occupied with Deerling. The two of them get [[CharacterDevelopment better]] [[TookaLevelinKindness eventually]] as shown during the Dynomite arc.
** Gary Oak from the original saga, who spent most of his appearances taunting Ash. He becomes less of a jerk as the series goes on, and by the end of the Johto arc, a lot of his Jerk Ass status is more or less gone. 
** Harley, the Pokemon Coordinator, from the Advanced Generation is a jerkass towards May and her friends. He manipulated a naive Max into telling an embarrassing story about May to air it while May was competing against him in a competition. He also manipulated May with "tips" to help her win a competition, only to be exposed by Drew for his stunt.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
** Jin Akutsu is a big, scary jerkass who hits people from other teams, treats his HotShounenMom rather badly, humiliates his childhood friend when he attempts to call him out on his jerkiness, almost hits his coach when the old man tries to recruit him, and in flashbacks he picks on other guys ''several times''. Still, after losing his official match with Ryoma he evolves more into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Ryoma Echizen himself is already a big jerkass to start with, frequently taunting his opponents with the phrase "Mada mada dane (You still have a lot to learn)". In fact, ''Prince of Tennis'' is ripe with jerkasses, including the narcissist Keigo Atobe.
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu''
** Lilie sometimes gets dangerously close to this trope. When she's first introduced, she merely seems a little gossipy and quick to assume the worst. But by the second season she's downright sadistic, to the point where she tries to push two friends into a fight over a boy, and freaks out when they tell her they're too good of friends to fight. In fact, most fans consider her sadistic to the point of comparing with Drosselmeyer, [[spoiler:the series' BigBad]].
** ''PrincessTutu'' also has Fakir, but [[spoiler:[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not quite as bad as he first appears]]]].
* Everyone in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' and ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' have fallen into this at least once.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':
** Every male character in except the male lead.
** The bus driver and guy running the school are okay. They're still jerks but they're watching out for him.
** Gin, the werewolf, is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, actually.
** And the male members of the Wong family seem to be more-or-less decent guys. [[CloudCuckooLander Kinda weird]], but nice. Which is ironic, considering they're a 'family' in both the blood-related sense and the ''Mafia'' sense...
** Vampire Moka and Kokoa Shuzen were both introduced this way. [[DefrostingIceQueen But they improve]]. 
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', Kira is one, in part thanks to LonersAreFreaks. His main issue is his aloofness and that he enjoys [[TheBully getting a rise]] out of angels like [[TheChick Rey]].
* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'':
** Toka is like this. She constantly tries to whore attention to herself, doesn't necessarily care about others' well being if they aren't one of her people, and in recent chapters promised to make Nodoka her maid if she lost the match. Her PetTheDog moments with Koromo make her a bit more bearable, though. 
** Hiroe doesn't hesitate to mock her opponents in battles, and to add injury to insult treats her teammates with a fair amount of respect.
* Makoto Ito from ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' starts out as a fairly typical loser protagonist only to turn into one of the biggest jerks of all time by the end of the series, first cheating on his girlfriend Kotonoha with his classmate [[MatchmakerCrush Sekai]], then cheating on ''her'' with most of the rest of the female cast - and, when Sekai [[spoiler:reveals that she is pregnant with his child]], Makoto [[spoiler:ditches her for Kotonoha]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It does not end well]]. He isn't as much of an asshole in the [=OVAs=] or the spin-offs though.
* Hatori from ''Manga/SekaiIchiHatsukoi'' mainly due to his {{yandere}} tendencies that seems to extend not just to his rival [[JerkassFacade Yanase]] but also to Chiaki (his boyfriend) and to a certain extent [[NaiveNewcomer Ritsu]]. ([[StepfordSmiler Kisa]] and [[CuteandPsycho Mino]] like to pick on Ritsu too but given his {{yandere}} tendencies, it's probably intentional unlike Kisa who admits to like teasing Ritsu since he's the newbie.) Some of his actions include [[spoiler:brutally raping Chiaki]], constantly harassing Yanase for being near Chiaki and [[spoiler:almost beating the shit out of him in his own house after Yanase [[BreaktheCutie breaks down]] from being rejected by Chiaki a second time.]]
* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'':
** Everyone who isn't part of the main cast.
** Higa, the Ashikabi of the East. His crimes thus far: holding a sickly Ashikabi hostage and making her Sekirei fight for him, kidnapping the protagonist's sister (apparently he wants to marry her!), manipulating ''her'' Sekirei into fighting for him, using both the first and third things to rampantly cheat at the game [[spoiler:(like when he had Uzume and Shiina take out the winner of the second round of the current arc's game and steal the [[PlotCoupon prize]])]] as well as cheating in general (he brought at least one extra Sekirei to the current round of the game), and (very important in this sort of plot) he treats his Sekirei like objects. He tried to form an alliance with Minato, which was rejected because of that last point alone (Minato doesn't even ''know'' about his sister yet, and I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out!). If Higa made that offer knowing Minato and Yukari were siblings, then he's an idiot on top of the JerkAss thing... The Yukari thing is actually extra stupid because not only does Minato have powerful Sekirei on his side, [[spoiler:Minato and Yukari's mother is the [[TheDragon second-in-command]] of Minaka, the guy running the Sekirei game. Not that she seems to ''care'' about her kids...]]
** For those who ''aren't'' outright {{Jerkass}} material, though, they fall more into JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Examples include: Seo Kaoru and his twin Sekirei, both Yukari and Takami Sahashi, Haruka Shigi, and ''possibly'' even Hiroto Minaka (when he ''does'' Pet The Dog). Outright aversions include #95 Kuno (Haruka's Sekirei), #107 Shiina (Yukari's Sekirei) and Chiho Hidaka.
* Floe from ''Anime/{{Simoun}}''.
* ''Manga/SkipBeat'''s Fuwa Sho is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation a different person depending on how you view him.]] A jackass of the first degree beyond all narrative redemption? A sixteen/seventeen year old boy who's had a little too much positive attention for his own good? Somewhere in between? No matter what way you pick, you can't deny some of his unsavory [[{{Pride}} characteristics]] and [[ForcedKiss actions]]
* Zelgadis Graywords of the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' franchise, though only in the original novel series. It really doesn't help that he was [[PutOnABus shipped off without any justification]] after the first eight novels were over. [[ObfuscatingStupidity ''Gourry'']] showed scant shades of this trope in the novels; justified because he isn't TheDitz in that media.
* Dr. Eggman in ''Anime/SonicX''. Lampshaded in the final episode of series 1, where he's yelling for Sonic over a microphone (keeping everyone in the forest up at an unreasonable hour) he says 'This world will have to face the music!' before disco lights come on in his ship and he starts doing a dance that his robots call 'The Jerk'.
* Excalibur from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is an absurdly powerful being, his weapon form once wielded by King Arthur. But his fame seems to have gone to his head, turning him into an insufferable jerkass, with a list of 1000 rules you must follow if you want to wield him. Yes, 1000. On the other hand, it's hard to tell how much of this is ''intentional''. Excalibur spends most of his time being too incoherent to give the impression of intentionally being a jerk, rather than just obnoxious as a result of his eccentric personality.
* The agents of the O'Hara Foundation tend to act this way towards Ray Steam in the movie ''Anime/{{Steamboy}}''. By the end, it seems that they're trying to kill him out of sheer spite, despite having no particular reason to do so and much, ''much'' better things to do with their time (such as [[spoiler:trying to escape the giant, flying steam-powered castle that's about to self-destruct around them]]).
* Miu from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', to whom the other characters respond accordingly. Cutting to Miu lying face down and sprawled after a Jerkass moment is a RunningGag of the anime series.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
** In the {{OAV}}s, Princess Ayeka's petty rivalry with Ryoko was a humorous chink in her formal armor, deflating her pomposity. Through several TV series -- especially ''Shin Tenchi Muyo'' (''Tenchi In Tokyo'' in the US) - made it so noticeable that she became rather [[TheDitz ditzy]].
** Ryoko pushes this, especially in the TV adaptations. Many times she goes after Tenchi just to provoke Ayeka, including when Ayeka and Sasami were about to leave Earth forever. She once left the entire team to almost starve to death in space when she spent the money that was supposed to buy them food on partying. However, even in her more selfish adaptations, she still truly loves Tenchi and proves under tougher circumstances to be more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, especially by the time period of the third movie (set in the first TV series timeline) in which she and Ayeka still haves squabbles, but now live together and actually respect each other.
** [[AbusiveParents OVA Washu]].
** In the spin-off, you have Yume from the manga and Ramia and Konoha from ''Pretty Sammy''.
* Eguchi in ''Manga/WaGaNaWaUmishi'' isn't content with being an arrogant genius. No, he's gotta go out of his way to ruin other people's efforts as sneakily as possible just so he can keep being better than them. Even his bosses don't like him, even though he's their best worker.
* Kirisaki Yuichi and Yukino Azusagawa of ''Manga/YakitateJapan''. To the point where they're like terrorists.
* Yanda from ''{{Manga/Yotsuba}}'' seems to genuinely enjoy picking on a ''five-year-old girl''. Koiwai probably wouldn't have anything to do with him if he had a choice (he doesn't; Yanda is his kohei and thus he's socially expected to let him hang around). As it stands, Yanda does get put in his place - [[ButtMonkey a lot]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has a bunch:
** Seto Kaiba starts out as this, forcing Yugi's grandpa to duel and mocking anyone, especially Joey, who he considers beneath him in terms of dueling skills.
** Weevil Underwood, an annoying little dweeb who is willing to do anything to get ahead of the competition, from asking Yugi to see his Exodia set in order to chuck it overboard to finding out about the tournament rules before anyone else.
** Bandit Keith is like the above, only worse. When Bones fails to beat Joey in a duel, he not only has his cronies block the exit to a cave where Yugi and Co. are in, but beats the crap out of said cronies and steals their star chips.
** Noah also counts.
* Hiei from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', and egregiously so, especially in the manga. By the end of the anime, he manages to squeak into JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory, but just barely. Considering that he's a demon who was [[ParentalAbandonment cast out]] of the [[LadyLand female-only society he was born in]], despite his own mother ''actually wanting'' to raise him, he would naturally be an ass, but Kurama's companionship and respect makes it more of a FreudianExcuse.
* Many of the opponents that Gash and Kiyomaro encounter in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' are assholes, though some more [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold so than others]]. While it's a given they're all just doing [[CombatPragmatist whatever they can]] to become King of the Demon world, some are just unforgivable. Zophise in particular robs that whole damn bakery.
* ''LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima'': So far it's shown nobles of Louise's world are this, including our pink haired main character, although there are exceptions but too few. Louise herself comes off as ''such'' a bitchy, whiny and violent {{Tsundere}} that her antics against Saitou are [[AmusingInjuries less funny]] [[DudeNotFunny and]] [[DomesticAbuse more disturbing]] as time passes.
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