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  • The Amazing Digital Circus: Jax. He trips over Ragatha in his teaser, knocks Gangle over in her teaser, and puts centipedes in Ragatha's room in the pilot. He is basically GLITCH Productions' version of Master Shake.
  • Anon: Taylor, your run of the mill gold-digging two-timing bitchy cheerleader. Is an absolute nightmare for the first few seasons and is Chelsea's biggest enemy.
  • Battle for Dream Island:
  • Brackenwood:
    • Bitey is practically the living embodiment of this trope. No matter how many times he gets beaten up, tossed, humiliated, or so on, he never shows any regret, and is always back to extreme Jerkass-hood in the next toon.
    • Bitey creates a lot of his own problems-in fact, the only time Bitey's ever been attacked without provocation was his encounter with the Yuyu.
  • Dreamscape: Jenna is a bitch, no questions asked. Good Is Not Nice is in full effect here. The same goes for her friend Aseir.
  • DSBT InsaniT: Dave's a bully and an asshole towards pretty much everybody, especially Koden. Even after his characterization evolves, he is still a jerk.
  • Epithet Erased:
    • Zora Salazar's claims to hate her Epithet (because it's hugely overpowered and No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction) ring a little hollow when you consider how much she enjoys abusing it to screw over other people and rub her superiority in their faces. She does occasionally get an Even Evil Has Standards moment, but it is telling that her first move in Redwood Run, over and above tracking down the magic amulet she's actually after, is to go to the jail to bully Ramsey. When she actually makes her move to capture Ramsey, she takes a moment to inflict Rapid Aging on Howie Honeydew, leave him hanging in midair with his fall indefinitely delayed, and rust away the scaffolding on the building he was working on, for no reason.
      Zora: (causing Percy's gun to rust away to nothing) There it goes, there goes the peashooter, oh no, oh noo, [blows dust in Percy's face] oh nooo
    • Mid-tier villains Bugsy Pugsler and Arnold Markdown are petty, bullying dicks who take all of five minutes to make Giovanni reconsider his membership in the Banzai Blasters when they reward his accomplishment in obtaining the Amulet by mugging him for it.
    • Lorelai Blyndeff, main antagonist of Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic, has enough personal standards and a Freudian Excuse that help her occasionally evade status as a Hate Sink, but she's still an awful person. Selfish and irresponsible, she leaves Molly to take care of all the actual things that keep them alive - manning the toy store, doing taxes, cooking - while blowing off her own jobs to disappear into worlds of her imagination. At every disagreement, she abuses Parental Favouritism because their father tends to take her side, then goes back into her bubbles to resent Molly for daring to expect her to actually shoulder any part of the burden, with any remaining bond between the sisters being slowly eroded by her immaturity and entitlement. While she does have reasons for being the way she is, some of them quite sympathetic, and Giovanni - probably the most emotionally intelligent character - does see in her the potential for something better, it's virtually impossible to root against Molly when she calls her sister out.
    • Molly and Lorelei's father Martin Blyndeff does not evade status as a Hate Sink. A self-obsessed, lazy, terminally oblivious Manchild who ultimately doesn't seem to care about either of his daughters - taking Lorelai's side in sibling disputes but ultimately seeming indifferent to her wellbeing - Martin starts out forgetting to bring his own child home from a school field trip because he was playing games on her phone - the same child, by the way, who has been forced to be a Triple Shifter just to make sure anything in the Blyndeff house or business gets done at all between him and Lorelai - and only manages to get worse from there. Many fans making character tier lists give him his own special tier, right at the bottom, just so no other character needs to be associated with him.
    • Stink is an obnoxious kid in Molly's class who mostly just seems to exist to make other people's lives just that little bit harder. His appearance in Prison of Plastic is just to be an ass about the Blyndeff Toy Emporium for no reason at all. Feenie, a Love Freak who has at some point created a wedding scrapbook for almost everyone male who's crossed her line of sight, is specifically mentioned as having had very little material to work with during her thankfully brief infatuation with the little punk.
  • Goodbye Kitty: Black Kitty always tries to kill White Kitty out of bitterness of being The Unfavorite (but thankfully, it always backfires).
  • Tinkerballa from The Guild. All she does is insult the other guild members, and openly admits that she only plays with them to swell her own ego.
  • Happy Tree Friends:
    • Lifty and Shifty are a pair of Rascally Raccoons who swindle, steal and pillage from others. Shifty is even willing to leave Lifty (a member of his own family) to die.
    • Disco Bear is a narcissist with a massive ego and a tendency to shove others. Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya and Easy Comb, Easy Go are good examples of this.
  • Helluva Boss: While Hell is a World of Jerkass, special mention goes to Stolas' wife Stella. She inflicts heaps of Domestic Abuse on her husband (who just takes it for his daughter's sake) and is an unapologetic bigot toward lower class demons. Any legitimate points she has against Stolas for cheating on her are undermined in "The Circus", where it's made clear she'd been abusing Stolas long before he started sleeping with Blitzo. There's also the fact she outright hires Striker to kill Stolas for his adultery.
  • Strong Bad of Homestar Runner. From making fun of Homestar, prank-calling Marzipan, kicking The Cheat to terrorizing Strong Sad, if he doesn't qualify as one, then who does?
  • There's almost no characters in the infamous GoAnimate "Grounded" videos who don't show signs of this trope at least once. Whether it's the troublemaking kids who make everyone miserable (often for no given reason other than to screw with everyone), or their parents who go to absurd extremes to punish them, or the trouble-makers' peers who laugh at them when they get in trouble and often join in on the punishing. On the troublemakers' side, the biggest example is Caillou, whose Bratty Half-Pint tendencies are often Flanderized to absurd extremes. On the other side, there's Caillou's own dad, who oftentimes is just a straight up sociopath who beats up or tortures people at the drop of a hat.
  • In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Tzeentch is Jerkass God personified, who's mostly running around the galaxy taunting and ruining people's lives for the kicks. The Emperor may qualify as well with how he treats Kitten and Magnus, although there are shades of Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and Inquisition qualifies as an organization, willing to kill, main and burn planets just because they don't get things their way.
  • Inanimate Insanity:
    • MePhone4, the host of the show. He doesn’t have a problem making the contestants go through inhumane or disgusting challenges and treats the eliminated contestants with absolutely no mercy, isolating them on a small island surrounded by a cage in Season 1 and teleporting them to a cramped closet in Season 2. He also treats his assistants, MePad and Toilet, with little to no respect despite all the work they do for him.
    • Knife was this in Season 1, spending much of his free time harassing Marshmallow. One method of abuse he inflicted on her was setting her on fire and turning her into a s’more. This malicious behavior got him voted off early in the game, but once he starts receiving Character Development in Season 2, he becomes more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and has successfully been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
    • Nickel gradually becomes this as Season 2 progresses, constantly dismissing Suitcase’s feelings and showing very unfair bias towards Balloon, who is trying to atone for his behavior in Season 1. Even worse, he temporarily obtains Karma Houdini status, as he forces poor Suitcase to steal a battery (which puts some serious strain on her mental state and causes her to start doubting her alliance) and somehow manages to avoid being voted off, which is lampshaded by Soap in Episode 9. This increasingly worse behavior has caused him to become The Scrappy.
    • Season 2 introduces Trophy, a Jerk Jock with little to no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He’s very intolerant and hurls insensitive comments at others almost every time he opens his mouth, which includes scorning Baseball for his intelligence and calling Fan “pathetic” for taking care of an alien egg. He also likes to put others to shame, as he blackmails Knife into becoming his slave and threatens to reveal his softer side to the others if he does not oblige. All of this got him eliminated in Episode 4, and it’s safe to say that he deserved it.
  • While most of the bots of the Jolly Roger Telephone Company are designed be sympathetic, there is one called Barbarossa who in general is not. During a call with him, he will admit to having cheated with his boss's wife (and is rather unapologetic about it because you're supposed to hunt for women), gone out for a night of drinking, drugs and more girls, calls his child "stupid," calls for someone else to clean up his dog's mess, and eating a foot-long burrito he shouldn't have and breaking his toilet.
  • The YouTube Poop "Link's on Strike":
    • Link plays this straight, if not taking it to an extreme. Sure, Link has dealt with a lot of garbage before, but that doesn't justify Link's behavior in this poop. He insults everyone, and even when King Harkinian tries to make peace offerings, Link still refuses. Even after...well, you might know if you watched the video...he still refuses. To put it simply, Link is a manipulative bastard.
    • King Harkinian can often be this in some poops. Usually, though, he gets his comeuppance.
  • Lobo (Webseries):
    • Lobo isn't any nicer than his usual depictions. In fact, it's quite common in this series for him to kill people just for pissing him off.
    • Sunny Jim, the first villain faced in the series, isn't any better, as he made a bet with Lobo over which of them would date Darlene first and makes some rather sexist remarks towards Darlene.
  • Neurotically Yours:
    • Foamy the Squirrel. Even your garden variety Jerkass doesn't do things like encourage his owner to call back a stalker/serial rapist who keeps leaving psychotic messages on her answering machine.
    • When you think about it, every character is an asshole in Neurotically Yours to an extent. (Possible subversion in Pilz-E's case - his pills may make him this way)
  • Over The Hills: In episode 2, a diesel locomotive was brought to the Penwyth Valley Railway to take the still-usable goods trucks off it. Dai, Leslie, and the board of directors run into it at a station, and it has this to say.
    Diesel: Pah, you steamers never give up, do you? Broken horn guides, cracked frames, you don't have a chance. This line is finished, just like the rest of you steamers. You might as well just give up now.
  • Too many characters in Red vs. Blue fit this trope to name at once, most notably Sarge and Church, though both eventually turn into Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
    • A more serious example would be the Director, who has a serious lack of empathy for almost anything.
    • A few episodes after being introduced, South Dakota shoots Washington in the back after he went through the effort of faking her death attempting to get her to safety, and trusting her with the AI Delta. When a still alive Wash meets her again later, Delta reveals South betrayed her brother when both were attacked so she could escape, making Wash even less reluctant to kill her - and excessively dispose of the body. The flashbacks in seasons 9 and 10 show even more of South being a Psychopathic Womanchild and an overall unpleasant person.
    • Season 10 beautifully shows how little Carolina cares for the BGC and their reluctance to assist her, even attempting to have them become Cannon Fodder while she and Wash go after the Director after discovering where he's hiding, while it only minorly involves them as the Director's literal "trash-for-shooting" in the Project and it's nothing that truly concerns them. Although later seasons fixed this, as she learns to value the Reds and Blues and downright starts behaving more like them.
    • But they all pale in comparison to Felix, who likes to brutally taunt people, has habit of twisting knives, and attempts to manipulate a rebel army into getting themselves killed and nearly succeeds.
  • RWBY:
    • Team CRDL is made up of bullies. The main focus is on their leader, Cardin Winchester, who actively bullies both Velvet Scarlatina and Jaune Arc in the first volume. However, the rest of his team can be seen laughing while Cardin torments Velvet for having rabbit ears; Russel Thrush even calls her a freak for it.
    • Roman Torchwick is prone to insulting everyone except Neopolitan, whether they're allies or enemies.
    • Mercury Black is a smug asshole, casually joking about murdering a White Fang defector in Volume 2 and cruelly toying with Ruby Rose one volume later; after she tearfully falls to her knees in tears over what happens to a friend Mercury prevented her from saving, he leaves in satisfaction. Later, when Cinder Fall asks him to live-feed the suffering of people in front of him, he enthusiastically declares he's capturing all of it. By Volume 6, Tyrian Callows assesses Mercury as someone who was raised in pain and violence and thus sticks with the villains solely because it's all he's ever known and is too afraid to leave it.
    • Harriet Bree is cold and professional at best; stubborn, condescending and short-tempered at worst. Initially somewhat friendly — if a bit competitive — towards Team RWBY, she shows her true colors once they refuse to go along with James Ironwood's orders. Out of all the Ace-Ops, she shows the least bit of inner turmoil over coming to blows with the heroes, refuses to listen to anything they have to say about how butting heads will play into Salem's hands, and willingly uses lethal force against others even when unnecessary.
  • Every character in the web series Sanity Not Included is a jerkass, but extra points go to Lyle for having the last name McDouchebag to emphasize this.
  • Sonic from Sonic for Hire is an extreme jerkass. Most of the other characters in the show have their jerkass moments too.
  • Suction Cup Man is a foul-mouthed obnoxious climber who regularly insults everyone around him and shows no concern for all the inconvenience he's causing. He especially likes climbing the tower of the same business guy that regularly yells at him because Suction Cup Man loves making him miserable, because he thinks it's funny.
  • SMG4 : Many characters are huge jerks, but Mario is also one, being a selfish, mentally unstable spaghetti-obsessed lunatic that abuses Luigi and causes tons of deaths and destruction without any remorse.

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