History Main / TookALevelInJerkass

** One of this troper's least favorite episodes, ''The Card'', revolves around SpongeBob getting a rare Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy card, and lending it to Patrick for a while. However, Patrick abuses the card in so many ways (using it as a lockpick, grilling it and eating it in a Krabby Patty, scratching his back with it) you'd think he's actually doing this all just to torture SpongeBob, who gets increasingly stressed and worried about the card. [[Sarcasm Mode Surprisingly enough,]] after doing much more dangerous things with it (such as potentially smashing it or setting it on fire), when SpongeBob warns him, Patrick just says, "[[TookALevelInJerkass You can't expect my usual brand of stupidity, SpongeBob. I like to mix it up. Keep you on your toes.]]" [[WallBanger WTF?]] [[CharacterDerailment I don't think this is the dumb, innocent Patrick we knew]] [[SeasonalRot in the first few seasons.]] And Patrick flimsily makes it up to the TooDumbToLive SpongeBob by just giving him new cards. Most people would have ''at least'' demanded forgiveness for how he freaked out S

** Because Dumbledore is an [[{{sarcasm}} infallible paragon of virtue]] [[ProtaganistCenteredMorality who must be respected by everyone]].

* Batman has an on-and-off again history of this. ''All-Star Batman and Robin'' probably takes the cake though.

* ''{{Bleach}}'' does use this trope every now & then, couple of known examples in the Hueco Mundo arc like when Ichigo's infamous scene with Tatsuki when she demanded to know whats going on with Orihime. And we all know how despite that Tatsuki's fanbase would wish otherwise that Ichigo would pull a "ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies" dialogue with her but telling her to "mind her own business" was... lets just say deemed a bit [[{{Understatement}} much]]. There is also the scene of Yamamoto deeming Orihime a traitor shortly after being kidnapped (in which is one of the biggest reasons why some fans deem him a KnightTemplar). While both of those characters received a fairly substantial amount of WhatTheHellHero plenty of fans have felt that they could handled those situations a bit better.
** However one fan pointed out on how while its quite apparent that Yamamoto could have, let's just say, handled that infamous situation a lot better. But in fairness, even if Yamamoto handled that a lot more gracefully, Ichigo being the LeeroyJenkins that he is would have rushed off over to Hueco Mundo anyway.
** Aizen is a better example.
*** The earlier example with Ichigo was actually a JerkassFacade on his part because he was attempting to push his friends away knowing full in well he was getting ready to go on a near suicidal mission and that he didn't want them to be involved and end up getting hurt.

* Used with Vegeta from ''DragonBallZ'', but then he keeps going back and forth until it stops being interesting.

*** The earlier example with Ichigo was actually a JerkassFacade on his part because he was attempting to push his friends away knowing full in well he was getting ready to go on a near suicidal mission.

* Carrie from ''TheKingOfQueens''.

* Geoff from TotalDramaIsland undergoes this in season two when, as the host of the aftermath show, he let fame go to his head, to the point where he tried to drop an anvil on his former friend DJ and feed Gwen to a piranha.

* Nathaniel in the ''{{The Bartimaeus Trilogy}}'' starts out as a kid you can sympathize with and becomes a complete {{Jerkass}}.

* Velma on ''ScoobyDooMysterInc'' has been noted to have taken on Jerk Ass traits, but only because she can't get time with Shaggy to herself due to Scooby Doo himself. She'll be JerkAss to start then sadly wistful (to her mom: "Am I radioactive?"). More recently, Scooby has taken on the JerkAss label as well.

* [[TheTerminator Sarah Connor]].

* Oh, [[DeathNote Light Yagami...]]

* WinnieThePooh of all people is this in his [[http://www.creators.com/comics/winnie-the-pooh/43564.html comic strip]], though everyone else in the Hundred Acre Wood besides Christopher Robin gets a chance.

* Debra from ''EverybodyLovesRaymond''.

* KATARA from "Avatar: The Last Airbender" went from being an angry, yet sensitive human being to (in the leate parts of season 3) a homicidal bitch. Though Zuko kind of did deserved her mean behavior toward him, there's "The Southern Raiders" episode where she treats Sokka and Aang horribly. And honestly if you watch her behavior from "The Cave Of Two Lovers" and "The Day of Black Sun Pt.1" then "The Ember Island Players" it can be viewed that she was leading Aang on for a while and never properly explained to him what she was "confused" about. She just yelled at him and ran away from him. Thohe creators though the creators did say they talked about everything afterwards (after his deafeat of FireLord Ozai but before the Finale Kiss) that episode still "left a bad taste in my mouth", so to speak.

*** There's an episode ([[SeasonalRot New, obviously]]) ''Yours, Mine, and Mine'', where Patrick 'borrows' money from Spongebob to 'share' a Krabby-meal together. He of course eats the whole thing himself. Mr. Krabs then makes Sponge pay ''extra'' for the toy (which is really just a Krabby Patty that Krabs dressed up as a doll. ''[[TookALevelInJerkass Score one Jerkass point for Mr. K!]]'') Patrick then claims that since he and spongebob are still 'sharing' that he gets to play with it. Long story short, Pat eventually never lets Spongebob play with the 'toy' (that he paid for!) and Pat inevitably ''eats it'' just so he can't have it. ...After the two eventually make-up, Pat offers to pay for some new toys, '''[[WallBanger by using spongebob's wallet!]].'''
** Mr Krabs can border into {{Evilly Affable}} territory in some episodes.

* Nathan Spencer in the 2009 ''Bionic Commando'' sequel.

* [[StarTrek Captain Kirk]] was ''way'' more of the a sarcastic prick in the movies than he was on TheOriginalSeries.

* Seth Cohen from ''TheOC'' becomes noticeably more self-absorbed in later episodes. Arguably this helped round out his character a bit more and explain his previously [[CoolLoser inexplicable]] unpopularity.
* Ditto Ross on {{Friends}}.