Jerkass/Anime

"Why do you put so much energy into pissing people off?"

- Kagura (to Tomo), Azumanga Daioh


 * Kei Kurono from Gantz. He gets better though. Then he dies. Then he, un-dies.
 * And Nishi when, after gaining 100 points, instead of choosing to revive Inaba, he chooses a new weapon, leaving him dead.
 * Zelgadis Graywords of the Slayers franchise, though only in the original novel series. It really doesn't help that he was shipped off without any justification after the first eight novels were over. And even Gourry showed scant shades of this trope in the novels; justified because he isn't The Ditz in that media.
 * No, that would be Novel-only. He's not like that in the mangas, the animes, or the mangas not connected to the anime.
 * Bando from Elfen Lied. In his introduction, he casually backhands a woman for the hell of it, laughs, then calls her an idiot for "sneaking up on him". And all she was doing was bringing him some tea. He later punches a doctor in the face with his new prosthetic hand moments after the doctor installs it in order to "test it out".
 * Black Lagoon has a cast that's almost all villains, but even among them,  stands out for sheer Jerkassery. From the moment we see him   to later   and his final exploit where , he goes on in the same old way. He gets his comeuppance big-time when.
 * In the OAVs, Princess Ayeka's petty rivalry with Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo! was a humorous chink in her formal armor, deflating her pomposity. Through several TV series—especially Shin Tenchi Muyo (Tenchi In Tokyo in the US) - made it so noticeable that she became rather ditzy.
 * Ryoko pushes this, especially in the TV adaptations. Many times she goes after Tenchi just to provoke Ayeka, including when Ayeka and Sasami were about to leave Earth forever. She once left the entire team to almost starve to death in space when she spent the money that was supposed to buy them food on partying. However, even in her more selfish adaptations, she still truly loves Tenchi and proves under tougher circumstances to be more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, especially by the time period of the third movie (set in the first TV series timeline) in which she and Ayeka still haves squabbles, but now live together and actually respect each other.
 * OVA Washu has them both beat in the jerkass department, hands down.
 * In the spin-off, you have Yume from the manga and Ramia and Konoha from Pretty Sammy.
 * Bleach: Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Gin Ichimaru.
 * The title character of Suzumiya Haruhi appears at first to be a Jerkass more than a Genki Girl, more or less hitting every point on the list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. . It's played down as the series progresses, though thanks to the episode shuffling it gets sort of unclear just how much.
 * Tomo from Azumanga Daioh, though the characters tend to treat her appropriately. Yomi occasionally hits her, but probably not as often as she deserves. Although there are quite a few examples that show Tomo DOES care.
 * Also Yukari. You can just tell she's got no other friends apart from Nyamo. But then, strangely, neither does Nyamo. This may be justified, though, because they work at a Three ...ish Teacher School, and the third teacher, Kimura, is a Dirty Old Man. And then there's that one no one remembers who made Chiyo freak out.
 * Kamineko surpasses them all. That cat is evil.
 * In Tomo's case, getting scratched by Maya is taken as an opportunity for Yomi and Kagura to point out several times over that she should learn a lesson about how she treats others. It goes over her head.
 * Dr. Eggman in Sonic X. Lampshaded in the final episode of series 1, where he's yelling for Sonic over a microphone (keeping everyone in the forrest up at an unreasonable hour) he says 'This world will have to face the music!' before disco lights come on in his ship and he starts doing a dance that his robots call 'The Jerk'.
 * Miu from Ichigo Mashimaro, to whom the other characters respond accordingly. Cutting to Miu lying face down and sprawled after a Jerkass moment is a Running Gag of the anime series.
 * Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist is not only one of the more evil homunculi, but he also enjoys taunting and insulting his enemies, prisoners, allies and even fellow homunculi. Basque Grand is also a huge one in the first anime.
 * Aika from Aria has a very competitive attitude and she often corrects her friends in a loud tone when she thinks they make embarrassing remarks. Nobody really cares though and she has her nice moments as well. Her mild crush on Alicia is also pretty cute.
 * Basically everyone in Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura have fallen into this at least once.
 * Almost entire cast of Maison Ikkoku, save for the protagonist and his love interest.
 * Notable jerkass-exceptions aside from those two: Grandpa Otonashi, the Godai family (save for Grandma Godai, who can be a jerkass just for kicks), Asuna Kujo (she's just sheltered and somewhat naive... if she's ever being a jerkass, it's entirely unintentional) and possibly Ikuko Otonashi, who isn't able to keep her attention focused on anything for longer than half a minute. Oh, and Soichiro (Otonashi, anways; the dog, most of the time)
 * Yotsuya takes the cake, tho. If there is any point to his existence other than making life miserable for others, parasitising, causing massive property damage, hurling insults, mind screwing, and not only never providing the tiniest benefit whatsoever to society but making it a point not to, and FLAUNTING IT, it's escaped me. If there is a more utterly annoying Rumiko Takahashi character, that too has escaped me. Did I mention that he never has to answer for anything he does, ever?
 * Mamoru Takamura from Hajime no Ippo has always been portrayed as being serious and knowledgeable when it came to boxing, but a big jerk in anything not related to it. This is the guy who actually pranks the new boxers by surprising them in the showers and grabbing their cocks, after all.
 * Not to mention hitting kids who want an autograph from him.
 * Sakuya from Hayate the Combat Butler, is a textbook example, that does not get much better as the story progresses. Of course, her cousin and main heroine Nagi treats her like The Idiot From Osaka that she is.
 * She does get better. Or rather, it's shown that she never was a Jerk Ass to begin with. It's revealed in chapter 90 of the manga that in her year, there were three places for students skipping grades from elementary school to high school. Those places had been awarded to Sakuya, Nagi and Isumi, but Sakuya gave up her place to Wataru so that he could be in the same class as Isumi (whom he has a crush on).
 * Rima from Shugo Chara, she is a slightly sympathetic character due to her home life but in
 * Hardly. She didn't "challenge" them, they wanted to make her laugh to cheer up. When Amu and Nagihiko screwed up trying to make a joke, then you could say she challenged them. However - it wasn't a challenge to make her laugh - she was just telling them off and that they should do better on their gags. Plus, this happened in the anime only, not in the manga. Heck, it wasn't even Rima's fault: it was the chara's idea.
 * Lilie from Princess Tutu sometimes gets dangerously close to this trope. When she's first introduced, she merely seems a little gossipy and quick to assume the worst. But by the second season she's downright sadistic, to the point where she literally attempts to push two friends into a fight over a boy, and freaks out when they tell her they're too good of friends to fight. In fact, most fans consider her sadistic to the point of comparing with Drosselmeyer,.
 * Princess Tutu also has Fakir, but.
 * Jin Akutsu from The Prince of Tennis is a big, scary jerkass who hits people from other teams, treats his Hot Shounen Mom rather badly, humiliates his childhood friend when he attempts to call him out on his jerkiness, almost hits his coach when the old man tries to recruit him, and in flashbacks he picks on other guys several times. Still, after losing his official match with Ryoma he evolves more into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
 * On the subject of jerkasses in this manga/anime series, Ryoma Echizen himself is already a hell of a big jerkass to start with, frequently taunting his opponents with the phrase "Mada mada dane (You still have a lot to learn)". In fact, Prince of Tennis is ripe with jerkasses, including the narcissist Keigo Atobe.
 * While James and Meowth of the Pokémon anime have been played sympathetically many times since their first character development episodes, Jessie has always been the "nasty one" of the trio and doesn't get many episodes to herself. To her credit, she has had Pet the Dog moments, like when she let Dustox go away to mate or her bond with a certain Blissey...but these are somewhat sparse.
 * There's also Ash's Sinnoh rival Paul...whose methods of training make Kanto Gary seem tame by comparison. This was so bad even Jessie was appalled by it.
 * Being the character Paul was based on, Silver is also this in the GSC chapter of the Pokémon Special manga. Both go through a bit of character development.
 * Unova rival Trip didn't really care about Pikachu currently lacking access to its Electric attacks, though he's a bit more friendly than Paul. However, this is subverted later when he has more of a Jerkass Facade as shown when he does care about Ash's Pokemon as saving Ash's Pidove from Venipede that attacked her and then later telling Ash that his Oshawott needs to open his eyes when using Aqua Jet.
 * The Black and White series also gives us Burgundy and Georgia, respectively the rivals to Cilan and Iris. To be fair, Burgundy isn't that dislikable, because despite her obnoxious attitude, she is too much of a screw-up to be taken seriously. Georgia, on the other hand, spent her whole time onscreen being a bitch to both Cilan and Iris. The two of them get better eventually as shown during the Dynomite arc.
 * Gary Oak from the original saga, who spent most of his appearances taunting Ash. He becomes less of a jerk as the series goes on, and by the end of the Johto arc, a lot of his Jerk Ass status is more or less gone.
 * The title character from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water comes across like this for any scene where she loses her temper and says nasty things to Jean and occasionally Nemo (both of who obviously don't deserve it). Nonetheless, she does apologize numerous times to Jean for her outbursts and even does something reconciliatory (e.g. comforting him about his father, bringing him something to eat, or going on walks with him).
 * The eponymous character of Nie A 7 is a lazy, loudmouthed freeloader who seems to care so little about other people that it sometimes crosses into full-fledged sociopath territory. Why the other characters put up with this is a mystery.
 * Strange enough it's the other aliens who have the most trouble with her. Human Mayuko seems to genuinely care for her, despite their differences.
 * The agents of the O'Hara Foundation tend to act this way towards Ray Steam in the movie Steamboy. By the end, it seems that they're trying to kill him out of sheer spite, despite having no particular reason to do so and much, much better things to do with their time (such as ).
 * Vegeta from Dragonball Z. In the early stages of the anime, the arrogant prince of the Saiyans is a complete genocidal asshole with nary a nice bone in his body, constantly insulting his teammates even after doing the Heel Face Turn, and even being perpetually jealous of his Future Badass son Trunks. He does mellow out once the sense of family with Bulma and Trunks sets in for him. Which takes some time.
 * The whole soccer club in Clannad are made of douchebags, it is no wonder why Sunohara left the club since day one. This gets even worse in the Sunohara path (and in After Story anime adaptation), when Youhei's sister Mei asks to let her brother rejoin to get his spirit back, they instantly dismiss him roughly. Then when Tomoya helps out in requesting, they tell him, Mei and Nagisa to be ball-catcher, and purposely throw the ball out just so they can see the three struggle. And when Mei begs about it again, they start bullying her ON PURPOSE. No wonder when Sunohara saves her in a Big Damn Heroes moment, it becomes a Crowning Moment of Awesome for someone who's usually treated like a Butt Monkey.
 * Too bad they revert Sunohara's status back in the episode right after it, when he gets.
 * Hibari from Katekyo Hitman Reborn the school is his life..and he will bite you to death if you do anything to hurt the school in any way, disrupt its functioning, or really just irritate him.
 * Luxus from Fairy Tail. One of the most powerful mages in the guild (the most powerful, according to him, but he's pretty full of himself so that might not be very accurate), he has absolutely no redeeming features and seems to exist solely to anger other people, and try to get into the pants of the guild's female members. His accomplishments thus far include goading the protagonists into putting themselves into life-threatening danger, refusing to help in the conflict with rival guild Phantom Lord, even after the Guild Master, Makarov, was badly injured in the fight, and afterwards mocking the people who got hurt in the conflict, calling them weaklings. When he succeeds Makarov as the guild's master, he fully intends to rid the guild of anyone he deems too weak. He's quite certain he'll be named the next guild master, as not only is he the only qualified mage in the guild at the moment, he's also Makarov's flesh-and-blood grandson. This is, in fact, precisely the reason why Makarov hasn't retired yet: because he knows that if he does so, Fairy Tail will be left in his Jerkass grandson's hands.
 * Most recently Luxus, tired of waiting for his inheritance, pit the entirety of Fairy Tail against itself in a Battle Royale situation. This is accomplished by turning the guild's female members to stone, threatening that they'll turn to dust if not healed soon, then setting up various traps that won't fade unless the male members fight one another. When this fails, by virtue of the hostages being freed, Luxus ups the ante and takes the entire town hostage. All to force Makarov to step down as master and place himself there instead.
 * Turns out he has a Freudian Excuse.
 * Shingo in Initial D is one of these at first. Remains a Jerk, but his until then almost unexisting heart of gold does shine through more than one. (And, well, his interactions with Nakazato are funny.)
 * Eguchi in Wa Ga Na Wa Umishi isn't content with being an arrogant genius. No, he's gotta go out of his way to ruin other people's efforts as sneakily as possible just so he can keep being better than them. Even his bosses don't like him, even though he's their best worker.
 * In Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha wavers for quite a while between being a straight-up Jerkass (especially after the Time Skip) and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and/or wearer of the Jerkass Facade; despite his constant posturing, and especially prior to his Heroic BSOD (Rival edition) and Face Heel Turn courtesy of his Aloof Big Brother, he is shown warming up to his team mates and putting his life on the line to protect them. Then he Jumps over The Slippery Slope, which is a pity.
 * Sakura was like this in the first episodes, towards Naruto. She always sided with Sasuke in any argument, and gave Naruto insanely powerful punches for the smallest of reasons. She got better.
 * Neji Hyuuga is introduced as this until Naruto beats it out of him. Before this happened, the nicest thing we have seen him do is offer his cousin a chance to surrender before their match. And then, for all intents and purposes, he tries to kill her and only fails because the adults in charge are quick enough to jump in and stop him.
 * And then he has the audacity to get upset and cry favoritism when they stop him from essentially murdering his defenseless cousin.
 * When he isn't killing everything in sight, Hidan is a godawful fucking dick to everyone he's not supposed to kill.
 * Makoto Ito from School Days starts out as a fairly typical loser protagonist only to turn into one of the biggest jerks of all time by the end of the series, first cheating on his girlfriend Kotonoha with his classmate Sekai, then cheating on her with most of the rest of the female cast - and, when Sekai, Makoto . It does not end well.
 * He isn't as much of an asshole in the OVAs or the spin-offs though.
 * Both Leon Oswald and May Wong from the second season of Kaleido Star start like this. Oswald is an arrogant French headliner who seems to think because he is the headliner he now runs the Kaleido Stage, and Wong is a bitchy baby diva whose attempts to supplant Sora barely stop short of getting herself adopted by Sora's parents. To their merit, once they do get to see how devoted Sora is to her dreams, they start getting better.
 * Futana from Futaba Kun Change. She even attempts to sexually molest her own brother and at one point vomits into his mouth simply because he is closer than the toilet is.
 * Every male character in Rosario + Vampire except the male lead.
 * The bus driver and guy running the school are okay. They're still jerks but they're watching out for him.
 * Gin, the werewolf, is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, actually.
 * And the male members of the recently introduced Wong family seem to be more-or-less decent guys. Kinda weird, but nice. Which is ironic, considering they're a 'family' in both the blood-related sense and the Mafia sense...
 * Vampire Moka and Kokoa Shuzen were both introduced this way. But they improve.
 * Floe from Simoun.
 * Sesshomaru from Inuyasha definitely counts. The guy is a cold-hearted, emotionless killer who tried to kill his own brother simply because he's half-human! It's only when he gets a Morality Pet that he FINALLY starts to care for something other than himself, and that's an understatement. The guy went to save the little girl.
 * In Eyeshield 21 it sure seems like Hiruma is going to be the (only) resident jerkass, until Jerk Jock Agon comes along. The only area where Agon doesn't fit this trope's definition of jerkass perfectly is that he knows his behavior is inappropriate, excessive and/or cruel, and he's totally fine with that.
 * Mahou Sensei Negima has Tosaka, who acts like a dick in regard to the slave girls. Although
 * Ryouhei Ogawara in Jinki Extend fits this trope pretty nicely; he starts out the series looking like a clear villain, dressing up like a woman and headbutting Aoba in order to kidnap her. He insultingly calls her "Ahobaka" (a nickname made up of two Japanese words for "stupid"). He then starts genuinely hating her after an accident of hers ends up permanently crippling his grandfather. Later, as she matures and becomes more reliable, he starts warming up to her (and "Ahobaka" becomes a sort of term of endearment), but he doesn't quite become a Jerk with a Heart of Gold; he's still quite snide and impatient. He's also often shown to be surrounded by women but never shows any of them any interest.
 * Baccano!!'s Dallas Genoard is practically this trope personified, with nearly every scene he's in being punctuated with a Kick the Dog moment. Hell, even his Pet the Dog scene ends with him Kicking The Dog. Karma does, however, bite him hard.
 * One Piece has only one particularly standout Jerkass, and his name is Wapol. While every other Big Bad has a fundamental goal or Freudian Excuse when they do what they do, Wapol doesn't have any, other than to be the king of Drum Island, and he was born to the throne. He partakes in acts of cruelty, most notably gathering up twenty of the island's best doctors, for which it was famous, and then banishing all of the rest just because he wanted the citizens to beg him to let them see one of the Twenty, and also because he could, and there was still no guarantee that he'd let them. This is just the start.
 * He did get some Character Development in the Side Story title pages, however. Pretty much he was hungry and tried to eat garbage and reshape them into toys to keep him entertained, except kids loved them so he started selling them to everyone. Then he made a factory, married a model, and was last seen doing some good in the world.
 * Actually, it seems that he's turned into a full-blown Corrupt Corporate Executive, as the final chapter of his cover story was entitled "The Rebirth of Evil".
 * As shown in recent flashbacks, Arlong seems to have always been a Jerkass Anti-human racist.
 * Many of the opponents that Gash and Kiyomaro encounter in Gash Bell are assholes, though some more so than others. While it's a given they're all just doing whatever they can to become King of the Demon world, some are just unforgivable. Zophise in particular robs that whole damn bakery.
 * Candy's bitchy stepsister Eliza from Candy Candy, who gets a kick out of using her money and status (among other things) to humiliate Candy and those of lesser status than her. For the lulz. The biggest thing preventing her from being a Complete Monster is that she doesn't send Candy into deadly slave labor or any such abuse.
 * In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Arisa Bunnings was initially a bully who was unwilling to consider others' feelings before Nanoha slapped her (her first "befriending") for stealing Suzuka's ribbon. In one of the StrikerS sound stages, Vita admits to having been constantly abrasive and rude to the rest of the Wolkenritter out of battle during the first Reinforce's existence. She mellowed out somewhat between when Hayate became her mistress and StrikerS, but still has a fairly hot temper.
 * Arisa is just a fluffy bunny compared to Precia Testarossa. She constantly batters and abuses Fate whenever she fails on a mission- she whips the poor eight year old girl with a bullwhip! All Fate wanted to do was see her mommy smile again. She didn't care how much she had to suffer, as long her "mommy dearest" became nice again. Unfortunately for her,
 * Nijima of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, otherwise known as "that guy who could solve all of Kenichi's problems by shutting the hell up and not attracting attention". Although he does have some moments that prove that he's not all bad.
 * King Draven from Helios Eclipse is a real dick. Even more evil characters like Soileh is more likeable.
 * Pretty much everyone in Sekirei who isn't part of the main cast.
 * Bonus points for Higa, the Ashikabi of the East. His crimes thus far: holding a sickly Ashikabi hostage and making her Sekirei fight for him, kidnapping the protagonist's sister (apparently he wants to marry her!), manipulating her Sekirei into fighting for him, using both the first and third things to rampantly cheat at the game  as well as cheating in general (he brought at least one extra Sekirei to the current round of the game), and (very important in this sort of plot) he treats his Sekirei like objects. He tried to form an alliance with Minato a few chapters ago, which was rejected because of that last point alone (Minato doesn't even know about his sister yet, and I don't think he'll be happy when he finds out!). If Higa made that offer knowing Minato and Yukari were siblings, then he's an idiot on top of the Jerkass thing...
 * The Yukari thing is actually extra stupid because not only does Minato have powerful Sekirei on his side,
 * For those who aren't outright Jerkass material, though, they fall more into Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Examples include: Seo Kaoru and his twin Sekirei, both Yukari and Takami Sahashi, Haruka Shigi, and possibly even Hiroto Minaka (when he does Pet The Dog). Outright aversions include #95 Kuno (Haruka's Sekirei), #107 Shiina (Yukari's Sekirei) and Chiho Hidaka.
 * Ruki Makino (Rika Nonaka) in Digimon Tamers was absolutely unsufferable at first, mocking poor Takato and Jenrya for being friendly to their Digimon, putting them down every chance she got, and even ordering her partner Renamon to kill Guilmon and absorb his data, only so that Renamon could get stronger. Of course, later Character Development mellows her out, turning her into a Defrosting Ice Queen.
 * Izaya Orihara from Durarara!!. The first time you properly see him in the anime, he spends most of the episode Pretty much anyone who meets him in the series is wary of him, has a number of tales to tell about how manipulative and dangerous he is to be around, or just skip the talking completely and throw vending machines in his face.
 * Kururu/Kululu in Keroro Gunsou. He's far more interested in dicking around with the other members of his squad anyone and everyone around him, than actually doing anything useful.
 * Yanda seems to genuinely enjoy picking on a five-year-old girl. Koiwai probably wouldn't have anything to do with him if he had a choice (he doesn't; Yanda is his kohei and thus he's socially expected to let him hang around). As it stands, Yanda does get put in his place - a lot.
 * Kanda Yu, from D Gray Man, is the sort of guy who threatens to kill his allies when they try to help him out with a fight. Or steal his hair tie. But since he's freaking gorgeous and incredibly traumatized, we tend to cut him some slack.
 * Kanda gets a lot better in later arcs (threatening to kill his friends starts sounding pretty unconvincing), but his real Jerkass moment was when he callously considered all non-exorcists cannon fodder in the first volume of the manga and bullies a weaker man (granted, the weaker man LOOKED stronger, but it's obvious that Kanda's more powerful).
 * Nishijima Shigeo from Area no Kishi is the resident jerkass of the school football team, unabashedly taking pleasure in the misfortune and mistakes of his teammates.
 * Zero no Tsukaima: So far its shown nobles of Louise's world are pretty much this, including our pink haired main character, although there are exceptions of course but too few.
 * Louise herself comes off as SUCH a bitchy, whiny and violent Tsundere that her antics against Saitou are less funny and more disturbing as time passes.
 * Kirie Kojima in the first season of Girls Bravo as shown by her frequently (and unfairly) beating up her 'best friend' Yukinari, despite knowing he's scared of girls because of her actions and developed a rash to girls because of it. Really, acts of kindness on her part don't really hold much water when she just immediately follows these acts of kindness with frequent beatings and verbal abuse. It should be noted that she's only a Jerkass in the first season, as she becomes much nicer in the second season. However, even in the second season her actions are questionable, like when she emotionally manipulated Yukinari into cross-dressing for an event and allowed him to get molested by Fukuyama since it meant Fukuyama would pay her.
 * Hibari, Byakuran, and Reborn from Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
 * Naru from Love Hina can come across as this at times, especially in the anime.
 * Toka from Saki is like this. She constantly tries to whore attention to herself, doesn't necessarily care about others well being if they aren't one of her people, and in recent chapters promised to make Nodoka her maid if she lost the match. Her Pet the Dog moments with Koromo make her a bit more bearable, though.
 * Hiroe is even worse. She doesn't hesitate to mock her opponents in battles, and to add injury to insult treats her teammates with a fair amount of respect.
 * Gundam has lots of this: Amuro Ray, Kamille Bidan, Judau Ashta, Setsuna F. Seiei, etc... you name it!
 * Nena Trinity from 00 especially deserves mentioning, being a Yangire who enjoys killing people simply out of boredom.
 * Kirisaki Yuichi and Yukino Azusagawa of Yakitate!! Japan. To the point where they're like terrorists.
 * Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho, and egregiously so, especially in the manga. By the end of the anime, he manages to squeak into Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory, but just barely. Considering that he's a demon who was cast out of the female-only society he was born in, despite his own mother actually wanting to raise him, he would naturally be an ass, but Kurama's noteworthy companionship and respect makes it more of a Freudian Excuse.
 * Excalibur from Soul Eater is an absurdly powerful being, his weapon form once wielded by King Arthur. But his fame seems to have gone to his head, turning him into an insufferable jerkass, with a list of 1000 rules you must follow if you want to wield him. Yes, 1000.
 * On the other hand, it's hard to tell how much of this is intentional. Excalibur spends most of his time being too incoherent to give the impression of intentionally being a jerk, rather than just obnoxious as a result of his eccentric personality.
 * Prince Baka from Level E. He constantly trolls the main character and guilt-trips him, plays sadistic games with his own loyal subordinates, and is generally a gigantic jerk on purpose towards everyone purely because It Amused Me: It's so bad that he has interstellar renown as a gigantic selfish jerk. Episode 5 of the anime sees him kidnap a random bunch of schoolkids off the street and forces them to become a Sentai team to fight their homeroom teacher (who is a disguised alien, but hasn't actually done anything) for his amusement. When the kids grow wise to his schemes, he instead sics the kids on his own second-in-command (who is completely unaware of the whole thing), as said second-in-command holds the only way for the kids to get the suits off again.
 * Fatora and Jinnai from El Hazard.
 * Tsuchimikaido To Aru Majutsu no Index is a fair bit of this, especially in the light novels where he
 * Holland from Eureka Seven bounces between this and Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He definitely leans towards Jerkass for the first two thirds of the series, especially regarding Renton, but eventually grows out of it.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! has a bunch:
 * Seto Kaiba pretty much starts out as this, forcing Yugi's grandpa to duel and mocking anyone, especially Joey, who he considers beneath him in terms of dueling skills.
 * Weevil Underwood, an annoying little dweb who is willing to do anything to get ahead of the competition, from asking Yugi to see his Exodia set in order to chuck it overboard to finding out about the tournament rules before anyone else.
 * Bandit Keith is like the above, only worse. When Bones fails to beat Joey in a duel, he not only has his cronies block the exit to a cave where Yugi and Co. are in, but beats the crap out of said cronies and steals their star chips.
 * Tsugawa the manager in Japan Inc.
 * In Happy Yarou Wedding, Kazuki is none too nice to his brother-in-law Yuuhi, especially over his sexuality. On the flip side he's a good uncle to Shouta which is why Yuuhi tolerates him at all.
 * Skip Beat's Fuwa Sho is a different person depending on how you view him. A jackass of the first degree beyond all narrative redemption? A sixteen/seventeen year old boy who's had a little too much positive attention for his own good? Somewhere in between? No matter what way you pick, you can't deny some of his unsavory characteristics and actions
 * Asuka Langley Soryu of Neon Genesis Evangelion is practically the epitome of a jerkass who regularly announces that she hates everyone and everything at times of emotional intensity (which is mostly when she fails due to her own fault and tries to blame it on something else). She is not even trying to be playful or joking when she says she hates people; she almost always means it, especially in the case of Shinji or Rei for merely not being nice to her, despite the fact that they did absolutely nothing to deserve it; in other words, she hates them just for being there. There is a good reason for this, though: like all the main characters, she has an extremely traumatic past, which has instilled her with a severe inferiority complex, for which she compensates by aggressively attempting to keep the people around her from getting too close to her, as she does not want anyone controlling or pitying her.
 * In Saint Beast, Kira is one, in part thanks to Loners Are Freaks. His main issue is his aloofness and that he enjoys getting a rise out of angels like Rey.
 * Hatori from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi mainly due to his Yandere tendencies that seems to extend not just to his rival Yanase but also to Chiaki (his boyfriend mind you) and to a certain extent Ritsu (Kisa and Mino like to pick on Ritsu too but given his Yandere tendencies, it's probably intentional unlike Kisa who admits to like teasing Ritsu since he's the newbie. Some of his actions include, constantly harassing Yanase for being near Chiaki and
 * Hatori from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi mainly due to his Yandere tendencies that seems to extend not just to his rival Yanase but also to Chiaki (his boyfriend mind you) and to a certain extent Ritsu (Kisa and Mino like to pick on Ritsu too but given his Yandere tendencies, it's probably intentional unlike Kisa who admits to like teasing Ritsu since he's the newbie. Some of his actions include, constantly harassing Yanase for being near Chiaki and