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10* ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse'': Lobo the Duck, given that his Creator/DCComics [[CompositeCharacter component]] is ComicBook/{{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]].
11* Reggie from the beloved ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' is an egotistical prick who has no problem making remarks at the expense of the other characters.
12* Jason, the protagonist of ''ComicBook/LongAgoAndFarAway'' is a big fat jerk who used to be the "[[KidHero Child Knight]]" who saved Elvenwood many years ago.
13* ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo: Both [[ForcedTransformation Adventurer turned Duck]] Cliff Carlson and his ex-boss Norbert Nuskle are this in spades.
14* Both title characters of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' occasionally delve into this, though Calvin is more of a JerkassWoobie.
15* Toyota from ''ComicBook/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.
16* In ''ComicBook/BigFootBill'', the titular character counts as one. Despite his [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold mostly-friendly nature]], he can be at times very harsh towards the other cryptos.
17** While Bigfoot Bill tries to escape the Crypto-guards, he encounters a slime creature who greets him. Bill immediately grabs the slime creature and pastes it onto one of the guard's face, blinding him.
18** When a [[ItMakesSenseInContext pair of walking pants]] walks up and asks Bill and his friends if he could join in on their game, Bill outright rejects him because... [[FantasticRacism he's a pair of pants, and they're animals.]] The pants then runs away crying, [[WhatTheHellHero and Bill's friends call him out for his bigotry.]]
19* [[Creator/CarlBarks Gladstone Gander]]. He can get anything he wants [[BornLucky just by wanting it]], and yet keeps on tormenting his poor cousin WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck with his insufferable jackassery and SmugSnake behavior.
20* While Lucy might have been the worst Jerk Ass in the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' cartoons, Violet was the worst Jerk Ass in the comic. She constantly abused Charlie Brown both verbally and physically, and once firmly declared that he had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
21** 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. (most infamousy in the animated special ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'', where Lucy keeps that routine in an actual homecoming game, which predictably leads to the defeat of Charlie Brown's team... and worst of all, ''everyone blames Charlie Brown for it'', [[NeverMyFault Lucy most vocally]], something that led to many angry letters complaining that even for [[ButtMonkey how much Charlie Brown suffers]], him being berated for something that was Lucy's fault was just too mean-spirited) Toward the end of the strip, she started taking on a surprisingly nurturing role toward Rerun, softening up some.
22* 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 worst]].
23** Let's not forget Nermal either. He seems to visit Garfield purely to steal his food, rub it in Garfield's face that Nermal's cuter and younger than he is, use his cuteness to steal Jon's affection and con him into giving Nermal food, and after all that still seems to think that Garfield likes him. Thankfully, Garfield always makes him pay for it.
24* Stanley the Talking Fish in ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem'' and Mario to a lesser extent.
25* ''ComicBook/MiniMonsters'' has Victor Von Piro, although he's sometimes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
26** Morty Vivente is a mix of this and AlphaBitch, without the "popular" thing.
27* Kyle Bell from ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', whose only real redeeming quality is pulling off a HeroicSacrifice.
28* Many of the superhomies from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', especially Major Havoc.
29* Joseph Boulier from ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe''. Longtarin and Gaston himself had their moments as well.
30* Jason Fox from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'''s strips (pre-Sunday Only)
31* Jokey Smurf of ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' with his constant pranks.
32* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
33** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
34*** King Max Acorn, 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.
35%% *** 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.
36** Sonic in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' 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]].
37* Kenton's father Praxton in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand''. He constantly puts his son down, treats Kenton's new ideas with disdain, argues that brute force is the only way for a Sand Master to be successful, mocks the idea of using a sword, laughs at Kenton's inability to slatrify and states that even if Kenton accomplishes Mastell's Path, Praxton still won't promote him above the lowest rank, which is just blatantly unfair. Later, when Kenton is on the Path, he mocks him from above for not "gliding elegantly on the sand" like Sand Master should. That's not to mention that he's engaged in a shouting match with his son in front of all the Sand Masters in their order.
38* ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'': Ray is a bully who insults everyone around him - except for his abusive father.
39* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5'' : This series does not paint a good picture of Captain Dynamo/William Warner. It was revealed in the series that he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife, Maddie Warner, and fathered numerous children, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties. He used his shape shifting power to impersonate women's husbands in order to sleep with them. He had a relationship behind his wife's back with Chrysalis one of his Arch Enemies, and even fathered a daughter with her, Cynthia, who inherited all of Dynamo's powers, and goes by the code name Synergy. According to Chrysalis, Dynamo was a presence in Synergy's life, and led a second life behind Warner's back as he helped to raise her. Unknown to Chrysalis, he was cheating on her as well. Finally, we learn that he fathered a child with an alien woman that he had met in outer space, after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. Because of the taboo of raising a half-breed on her world, she came to Earth to give custody of their son to Dynamo. Because he viewed the child as a threat to his marriage, he left the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grew up without parents. When he began to bond with Dr. Bridges, one of the scientists there, the two were separated, and Dynamo refused Bridges' pleas to free the boy from the facility.
40* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' and its successor series:
41** It's rare to find another Autobot who likes Prowl. He spent ten issues of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' under the control of Bombshell, one of the resurgent Decepticons, and ''nobody noticed''. Even Optimus Prime doesn't like him much. The Constructicons, on the other hand, like him quite a lot. [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame He finds this disturbing.]]
42** In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersWindblade'', Starscream is a monumental prick who [[ItsAllAboutMe cares for nothing and no-one but himself]]. People who ''try to nuke cities'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards would rather not be associated with him]].
43-->'''Chromia:''' Millions of years of civil war and ''no one'' killed that guy?
44* ''ComicBook/JupitersCircle'': Walter is shown to have always been a prick, calling Bluebolt a "homo" and [[spoiler:brainwashing Sunny into loving him]].
45* ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': Captain Ogden is presented mainly as a pompous, unhelpful and snide jerk who keeps getting in the way of the main characters' attempt to rescue refugees and fight the Vong.
46* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has the Point Man, the obnoxious Guy Gardner-like 1980s anti-hero.
47* ''{{ComicBook/Laika}}'':
48** Tatiana's landlady, who immediately demands that she get rid of the puppies that her dog gave birth to because "[she] won't have mongrels in this house!"
49** Mikhail, a mean kid with a short fuse who bullies his cousin Liliana, explodes at his friends, and rejects Kudryavka the dog when she tries to show affection to him. It runs in the family--both of his parents are short-tempered and his father is physically abusive.
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