History Jerkass / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse'': Lobo the Duck, given that his Creator/DCComics [[CompositeCharacter component]] is [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]], shamelessly cheats on his love interest Bevarlene (a mash-up of Lobo's Darlene Spritzer and Howard the Duck's Beverly Switzler) and, after seeing that all the superheroes have been killed, [[SpeakIllOfTheDead gloats that he never liked them and is happy that they're dead]].

* ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo: Both [[BalefulPolymorph Adventurer turned Duck]] Cliff Carlson and his ex-boss Norbert Nuskle are this in spades.

* Ray of ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'' is a bully who insults everyone around him - except for his abusive father.

* In ''ComicBook/JupitersCircle'', Walter is shown to have always been a prick, calling Bluebolt a "homo" and [[spoiler:brainwashing Sunny into loving him]].

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Desire. Whoo boy.
** Dream himself. DisproportionateRetribution is just ''one'' of the things he gets called out on.
* Guy Gardner of the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational. Exactly how much of a jerk he is varies (partly due to complicated mental issues), but at his worst he's tolerated mainly because he's useful in a fight (although getting him to stop can be more of an issue). Thankfully, he received some CharacterDevelopment over the course of a decade and a half, cleaned up his act, and became a BoisterousBruiser instead.

* [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Ollie Queen]], while ultimately a force of good, has never been particularly nice about it. On his best days, he's rude, arrogant, and is always convinced that his idea is better. On most days, he's a sanctimonious, elitist jackass. At his worst, he's a complete asshole who pisses everyone off and alienates his allies, which explains why he always seems to be having to make amends with someone.
* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] consistently treats everyone he knows as inferior to him, often engages in hypocritical rebukes of others, and won't stop trying to get into Sue Storm's pants, marriage be damned. And those are the days he isn't hobnobbing with despots like Osborn or Doom or sending giant tidal waves to drown New York City. Even when he is actually doing something for someone other than himself, you can guarantee he'll be a self-congratulating, entitled dick about it. The only people he's shown being genuinely nice to are old friends from the Invaders, Captain America (because being a Jerkass to ''him'' truly puts one in their own league) and Bucky (likely due to the guy's TraumaCongaLine), where he makes a half-ass attempt to keep up a jerkass front.
** He usually shows some respect for the Hulk, as a fellow superstrong, ill-tempered perpetual outsider (at least, as long as they're not being magically compelled to serve together in the Defenders; when ''that'' happens, he gets sick of ol' Jade Jaws pretty quickly).

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} can be a huge jerkass at times. Especially when it comes to blind Al, Weasel and Bob.
* The Comedian from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'':
** Gregory Stark is rude, demeaning and abrasive to everyone who isn't Nick Fury. And that's before he turns out to be evil. Apparently he makes people book appointments just to make small talk with him.
** In general, the Liberators besides Abdul and to a lesser degree Perun are overall very unpleasant, arrogant individuals who take pride in pointlessly harming the American citizens.

* [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] superfast mutant ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} has been a good guy, bad guy, and in-between, but never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick. This extends to his other incarnations, such as his appearances on ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.
** Creator/PeterDavid wrote a great story in X-Factor that gave a reason why Quicksilver's always such a tool. He explains to psychiatrist Doc Samson that everyone gets irritated waiting in a long line because someone else's slowness is holding it up. Imagine if everyone on else the planet is like the person holding up the line. That's the way Quicksilver feels.
* ComicBook/NickFury ''is'' this trope. He is a huge jerkass so you don't have to. Nick wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His Ultimate Universe incarnation tends to reflect this trope more, while the mainstream version tends to channel his Jerkass behaviour at appropriate times, and generally is a CoolOldGuy.

* DependingOnTheWriter, J. Jonah Jameson from ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' is either this or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He wastes no opportunity to fabricate stories falsely accusing Spider-Man of being a criminal [[UngratefulBastard in spite of all the good he's done for the city]], but he will sometimes be portrayed with redeeming qualities.
** In issue 6, Peter had just been hired and Jameson had decided to treat Spiderman like a criminal. When everybody leaves, Peter asks Jameson "How do you know he's a criminal?" and Jameson replies "I don't. I could just as easily send good press his way. Why don't I? This will sell more papers." Twenty years later he has a nervous breakdown, why? He didn't unmask Spidey when he had the chance. Complete. Total. Jerkass.
* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] wanders in and out of this trope DependingOnTheWriter.
* [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Batman]] ([[InNameOnly otherwise known as]] [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "Crazy Steve"]]), in ''All Star Batman and Robin'' is by far the most asshole-ish incarnation of the character ever depicted. He not only seems to get a kind of sadistic joy out of any pain he causes criminals (as well as any cops in his way), but he kidnaps and verbally assaults Dick Grayson, (who just moments before had seen his parents killed before his eyes), leaves him to fend for himself in the Batcave and then when he finds out Alfred fed him a proper meal, ''picks him up by the scruff of his collar and '''threatens''' him'' (this is guy who in most other versions is [[ParentalSubstitute the closest thing Bruce currently has to a father]]). And all the other superheroes ain't much better (Franchise/WonderWoman shoving a male bystander out of her way whilst calling him a [[StrawFeminist "sperm bank"]]).
** In the Millerverse version of DC, superheroes are either brutal psychotic (Black Canary, Crazy Steve) or a witless moron that Batman pretty much controls or treats with utter contempt (Superman and Green Lantern).
*** This gets to the point where Millerverse Batman/Crazy Steve just randomly insults Superman during a Spawn/Batman crossover penned by Miller. Made particularly bad by the fact that the [[FanNickName Big Blue Boy Scout]] is never so much as mentioned up anywhere else in the comic.

* Part of the reason ComicBook/LexLuthor is such a good villain is that he's not just a MagnificentBastard of an obsessed, megalomaniacal CorruptCorporateExecutive-turned-PresidentEvil — he's also an asshole to everyone he meets, including strangers, and goes out of his way to treat the people around him like shit for no reason whatsoever. And he doesn't just do horrible things to people either — he's an asshole [[EvilIsPetty even when his actions are incredibly small-scale and pointless]] (e.g., calling [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] "Mr. Lois Lane" all the time for no reason except to be dickish and irritating).
** He once offered a huge sum of money to a married waitress to be his mistress for a year for the sole purpose of leaving just before she comes to a decision. It was all just to mess with her sense of morality and leave her never knowing what choice she ultimately would have made.

* Another Franchise/XMen example in Julian "Hellion" Keller: Arrogant, angry, self-entitled, and just generally a dick to anyone outside his clique. When Noriko Ashida arrived at the school seeking help for her out of control powers, Julian tried to run her off for no better reason than because she'd been living on the streets and looked (and smelled) it. He takes an immediate dislike to ComicBook/{{X 23}} for no real reason whatsoever. Julian can even be [[VitriolicBestBuds a dick to his own friends]], yet at the same time fiercely loyal and protective of them. As a result, he does get better after Stryker's attacks on the school, which allows his [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold softer and more noble side]] to peak through. However he gets angrier again [[spoiler: when his hands get blow'ed up by Bastion]], and starts to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope slide towards the edge of the slippery slope]] afterwards. Lately, though, he's started to turn things around again and get back to being more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* Victor Van Damme from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. He's basically Doctor Doom without any of the latter's strangely charismatic bearing and ability to try and be charming despite his arrogance, leaving the self-centered egotist that is Doom's core personality exposed for all the world to see.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ComicBook/{{Circe}} is traditionally a cruel, self centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Nina Close's husband is abusive, cheats on her, and brushes off anyone who questions him without hiding that he considers himself their superior and everyone to be beneath him. When Nina snaps and kills him it's quite understandable.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Bruct--the Sangtee Emperor's replacement D'Tasloo Parva after the capture of A'iir--is a misogynistic bigot who manages to make the Emperor look like a nice person, and is not only gleeful about slaughtering innocents to force the rebels into an obvious trap to try to save them he's also quite happy to pull a gun on his own Emperor to prevent their capture, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself and suicidal overconfidence and arrogance.

** Lucy was, however, a bit of a brat. Once she even told everyone Charlie Brown was hitting her when he hadn't, for no reason whatsoever (in a Sunday strip from November '52). She also teases and bullies her little brother Linus without stopping, forces respect out of other kids through sheer intimidation, and uses Charlie Brown's "sessions" at her booth as an excuse to make him feel even worse about himself. And that's not even getting into the annual football gag, which seems meaner every time she does it. Toward the end of the strip, she started taking on a surprisingly nurturing role toward Rerun, softening up some.

** Mainstream Batman can be one at times too. Actually, scratch that. Mainstream Batman is one MOST of the time.

** Spike Witwicky. Nuff said.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* Both title characters of ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes occasionally delve into this, though Calvin is more of a JerkassWoobie.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''

** ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':

** Circe is traditionally a cruel, self centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} can be a huge jerkass at times. Especially when it comes to blind Al, Weasel and Bob.

* Reggie from the beloved ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' is an egotistical prick who has no problem making remarks at the expense of the other characters.

* King Max Acorn in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'', with everything he's gone through, had devolved into this. A big part of his assholishness is because he was raised to follow royal traditions. That also includes using a mystical golden pool with a strange, undefined connection to make his decisions instead of, say, the guy you hired to be part of your Intelligence Agency. Thus, most of his decisions boil down to "because the pool told me to", including but not limited to disbanding your daughter's well-trained team of heroes over his just-recently formed Secret Service and forcing said daughter to marry someone she really didn't want to. When the CosmicRetcon Button is hit following ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' and Max was rewritten to have [[TookALevelInKindness taken a level in kindness]], Sonic took this as a ''good'' thing.
** Sally Acorn can be one [[DependingOnTheWriter at times]], especially in the early issues, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn before her modern characterization surfaced]]. Granted, her moments of these stems from the fact that she is weighed down by stress of having to be responsible of her duty as a princess AND a leader of the Freedom Fighters. So she is a very mild example of this.
** Sonic himself in the [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Fleetway comics]] is one, he picks on Tails for no reason,(constantly calling him an idiot),is a dick towards his friends, and once made [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mq48da5-jeE/TGxJVMkVTOI/AAAAAAAAA8g/PELXYDMcoeY/s1600/richardelson-01.jpg Porker Lewis cry]].

* [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Batman]] ([[InNameOnly otherwise known as]] [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "Crazy Steve"]]), in ''All Star Batman and Robin'' is by far the most asshole-ish incarnation of the character ever depicted. He not only seems to get a kind of sadistic joy out of any pain he causes criminals (as well as any cops in his way), but he kidnaps and verbally assaults Dick Grayson, (who just moments before had seen his parents killed before his eyes), leaves him to fend for himself in the Batcave and then when he finds out Alfred fed him a proper meal, ''picks him up by the scruff of his collar and '''threatens''' him'' (this is guy who in most other versions is [[ParentalSubstitute the closest thing Bruce currently has to a father]]). And all the other superheroes ain't much better (WonderWoman shoving a male bystander out of her way whilst calling him a [[StrawFeminist "sperm bank"]]).

* [[Creator/CarlBarks Gladstone Gander]]. He can get anything he wants [[BornLucky just by wanting it]], and yet keeps on tormenting his poor cousin DonaldDuck with his insufferable jackassery and SmugSnake behavior.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Gregory Stark is rude, demeaning and abrasive to everyone who isn't Nick Fury. And that's before he turns out to be evil. Apparently he makes people book appointments just to make small talk with him.

** In the Millerverse version of DC, superheroes are either brutal psychotic (Black Canary, Crazy Steve) or a witless moron that Batman pretty much controls or treats with utter contempt (Superman and Green Lantern). Kind of like the Ultimate Marvel universe without Spider-Man.

* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is notorious for being one of the ''worst'' examples of this trope, being infamous for his cruel antics towards both Jon and Odie, his arrogance and his '''extreme''' bouts of laziness, though he ''can'' be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold DependingOnTheWriter. [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1994/ga940717.gif Here is a big example of him at his worse]].

* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is one of the ''worst'' examples of this trope. [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1994/ga940717.gif Here is a big example]].

* Guy Gardner of the GreenLantern Corps and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational. Exactly how much of a jerk he is varies (partly due to complicated mental issues), but at his worst he's tolerated mainly because he's useful in a fight (although getting him to stop can be more of an issue). Thankfully, he received some CharacterDevelopment over the course of a decade and a half, cleaned up his act, and became a BoisterousBruiser instead.

* [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Spider-Man]] is practically the ''only'' non-JerkAss in ComicBook/UltimateMarvel. And even ''he'' gets his moments. But for more specific examples:
** [[JerkJock Flash Thompson]]. In this [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] incarnation, he pretty much lost all redeeming and likable qualities he had. One reason for this is that most of them were transferred over to original character Kenny Kong, turning Flash into a [[FlatCharacter flat]] parody of his mainstream counterpart.
** Jean Grey casually abusing her power by switching Peter and Logan's minds (having threatened to do so to Logan, but Peter, being nowhere near the X-Men, had no clue) just because Logan hit on her one time too many for her taste. Peter flatly calls her and the rest of the X-Men out on this, accusing them of being hated not because they were mutants, but because they were complete assholes.
*** It should be noted that Jean didn't purposefully do this to Peter. She made it so Logan would switch with the last person he wanted to be and that turned out to be Peter. This arguably makes it worse - she decided some random person deserved to be possessed by Wolverine, and didn't care enough to bother checking who that was.
*** There's also the fact that she's always reading people's minds without their consent. This is the same comic that brought up the morality of such an action multiple times with Professor X, who is respectful enough to refrain from doing this.
** And speaking of Logan, the implications of just ''what'' he tried to do with Mary Jane while in Peter's body, just for ''starters''.
*** Also, let's not forget that Logan deliberately left Scott to die in the Savage Land, just so he could try and get Jean in bed.
** Not that mainstream Wolverine isn't one himself. The guy tried to hit on the already-in a relationship Jean Grey, generally is unpleasant as possible without being violent about it, except when he is, and is a gigantic hypocrite who carries petty grudges and calls people on them whenever he can.
** Hank Pym's [[NeverLiveItDown wife-beater]] status may be mostly undeserved in the 616-verse, but boy howdy, does he ''earn'' it here. And on top of being a JerkAss, he's batshit insane on his bad days.
** Ultimate Daredevil is a complete tool. He's still a good guy, but his methods are a little more extreme and when a disheartened and down on his luck ([[SarcasmMode for a change of pace]]) Spider-Man asks him for advice, he thoroughly chews him out in the rudest, most dickish way imaginable--something to the effect of "You're a stupid little kid who's in over his head. Get out of this business before you get someone, [[{{Jerkass}} or more importantly]] ''[[JerkAss me]]'', killed." Afterwards, several times when Peter came to his aid Daredevil gave him a mild beating and threw him out of the fight. [[spoiler: Eventually, when Daredevil hits his lowest point, it's Peter who talks him out of killing an innocent woman just to get back at Wilson Fisk.]]
** Ultimates 3 turns Hawkeye into a melodramatic, gun-crazy DeathSeeker. When he goes to Spider-Man for information after "Venom" attacks the mansion, he gets Spidey's attention by ''shooting at him'', paralyses him with a tranq dart, and then leaves him lying in the snow after getting called back by Cap. Man, [[ButtMonkey Spidey]] gets this from both teams.
--> Spider-Man: Hey...uh...guys? Little help here?...I hate you.
** Even ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' is an asshole. While the original writer merely made him a jingoistic "1940s-average-Joe" type, with all the fish-out-of-water attitude that came with it, later writers added in racism and sexism, just to make him match the rest of the universe's assholery. [[spoiler: He eventually has an [[HeelRealization Asshole Realization]] when Peter Parker dies, having done so by taking a bullet for Steve, mere hours after Steve had given him a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about why he was a terrible hero.]]
*** While anything Creator/MarkMillar says in interviews can be taken with an entire bucket of salt, he's gone on record saying that this Cap's personality (which he charitably just calls "social conservative") is ''specifically'' what makes him ''cool'', in a Film/DieHard kind of way. Then again, this is the same interview where he compares Cap to ''Batman'' in a "He goes in, ''3000 people die''', and the situation gets resolved" comment, and that no one's ''ever'' taken a superhero in the direction he's taken Ultimate Cap, so once more, take it with a lot of salt.

** Mainstream Batman can be one at times too.

* Toyota from ''CpmicBook/YTheLastMan'' makes a point of being as unpleasant as possible to everyone she comes into contact with, as if sticking swords through them (not to mention [[KickTheDog cutting Ampersand's tail]]) wasn't enough.