Line #24 PlayingWith/JerkWithAHeartOfJerk


1	'''Basic Trope''': A jerk character seems like he may have a nice side, but turns out is just a bigger jerk.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob, the {{Jerkass}}, [[PetTheDog helps Alice win a ton of money]], but it turns out he just did it to scam her out of it.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** BaitTheDog
5	** Bob throws a huge party at Alice's house. When she comes back she is shocked, because he and his revelers trashed and looted her house, and left her with the mess.
6	** Bob seems to have turned soft and helped Alice achieve her wildest dreams, but it turns out he just did it because he knew it would cut her life short.
7	** Bob tries to help Alice obtain her dreams, while telling her unrealistic they are. He then watches her HeroicBSOD when her dreams get shattered, and mocking tells her that he "[[SarcasticConfession warned her]]".
8	** Alice thinks that Bob is a jerk because he was [[LonersAreFreaks isolated by society]], and decides to give him a chance. She later finds out that [[TheFarmerAndTheViper many people tried to do the same for him]], and he would [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder turn on them]] no matter [[UngratefulBastard what they did for him]].
9	** Bob, the {{Jerkass}}, saves a person he doesn't know from being brutally murdered... but only so he can enslave him.
10	** Bob is a CompleteMonster at worst who is appropriately HatedByAll, and apparently makes a HeelFaceTurn and starts performing random acts of kindness to anyone he meets, but [[FalselyReformedVillain only does so]] to gain a VillainWithGoodPublicity status so he can get away with his cruelty better.
11	** NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist
12	** PragmaticVillain
13	** FauxAffablyEvil
14	* '''Downplayed''':
15	** Bob almost does something nice, but it was a practical joke.
16	** Bob does something nice, but it's only because [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency it benefits his selfish desires.]]
17	** All of Bob's friends help out Alice in her time of need, and Bob does to, but he does so grudgingly and drags his feet when no one is looking.
18	** TheGadfly.
19	* '''Justified''':
20	** Bob is not a good enough actor to [[BitchInSheepsClothing play nice]] full time, an occasional "nugget of fools gold" is the best he can do.
21	** Bob is well aware of Alice's savior complex. He acts like a jerk knowing that she will try to help him, and then feigns a few nice moments that Alice will see as progress.
22	* '''Inverted''': Bob, a NiceGuy, seems to have a darker side, only to turn out to be [[SheepInSheepsClothing really as nice as he seems]].
23	* '''Subverted''': Turns out Bob's secretly using Alice's money to provide for his ill, elderly mother.
24	* '''Double Subverted''': His mother's already rich and is in on the scam as well.
25	* '''Parodied''': Bob's obviously a jerk, who's daily activities includes bullying people smaller and weaker than himself and scamming old ladies out of their money, but people repeatedly tell his victims they shouldn't judge him too hard and insist that he's a good man deep down.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''':
27	** Bob is usually a douchebag, but he saves Alice from a rampaging tiger. He tells her he only did it to get laid that night. When she turns him down, he decides to buy her a new TV, no strings attached, to make up for his behavior. Then he tells her he doesn't actually care about what Alice thinks about him, and the real reason he bought the TV was ...nothing, he just felt like doing it.
28	** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk [[HiddenHeartOfGold with a Hidden Heart of Gold]] [[RunningGag which hides a Soul of Jerk]] [[OverlyLongGag but then he]] [[BecomingTheMask becomes the mask]] [[OverlyLongGag - twice over, so Bob is now a regular]] JerkWithAHeartOfJerk [[OverlyLongGag - but is he...? As it turns out, yep. Wait, maybe not! Nah, he's a jerk. Or is he?]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom Then the world explodes.]]
29	* '''Averted''':
30	** [[PetTheDog Bob’s good intentions are genuine]].
31	** Bob [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes wasn't a jerk]] [[WhatTheHellHero to begin with]].
32	* '''Enforced''': The author starts Bob's CharacterDevelopment by showing his nicer side, but {{Executive\|Meddling}}s insist on sticking to the {{status quo\| Is God}}.
33	* '''Lampshaded''':
34	** "Trust me, what you see of Bob is pretty much what you get. In fact, he's even worse than you'd think..."
35	** "You think I use meanness as some defense strategy, or that it's some type of cry for help? No, I'm a jerk through in and through out! The only gold my heart's made out of is fool's gold, maybe!"
36	* '''Invoked''': Bob was told to trust no one except him self when he was young.
37	* '''Exploited''': Bob wants nothing more than to be left alone, so he acts like a dick to drive everyone off.
38	* '''Defied''': Bob decides to drop the jerkass act entirely. Emphasis here: ''act''. Whether he becomes a NiceGuy or a [[{{Jerkass}} grade-A asshole]] is up in the air.
39	* '''Discussed''':
40	** "I should have known [[{{Jerkass}} rudeness was your only defining trait]]."
41	** "It was clever of you not to trust someone who seemed to nice. What you didn't think however, was that if someone seemed mean, they might really be that mean if not worse.
42	* '''Conversed''': "Here's his moment to reveal his heart of gold, [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark and, it's gone...]]"
43	* '''Deconstructed''': Thanks to Bob's asshole attitude, [[HatedByAll everyone avoids him like a plague]] lest they get tricked by him. And because of this, no one is there to save him when Bob gets into trouble, [[DyingAlone leaving him to die alone.]]
44	* '''Reconstructed''': Even when he's going to die, [[IRegretNothing Bob regrets nothing]], and even said that it was WorthIt.
45	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob tries to prove to everyone that he really does have a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart]] after all by doing even more acts of {{jerkass}}ery like if he was from a BizarroUniverse where his douchebag activities make him a NiceGuy over there.
46	* '''Played For Drama''': Alice believes that maybe Bob could have been a nicer person [[{{DarkAndTroubledPast}} if things in life turned out differently for him.]] She learns more about his past... but finds that he ''[[ForTheEvulz always]]'' was a douchebag, [[MortonsFork regardless of whatever he may or may not have experienced in life.]] Upon learning this, Alice decides to [[{{BeyondRedemption}} give up on Bob]] since he mostly likely hasn’t changed and never will.
47	* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is FauxAffablyEvil and makes clear, as he sets up the devices to give Alice a ColdBloodedTorture, that every single apparent moment of friendship he did for her was a perfectly calculated move to draw her into this room.
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49	Back to JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, dumbass. Aw, well, maybe that wasn't nice. I'll just call you a dimwit, okay?
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51	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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53	%%* '''Implied''': ???
54	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
55	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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