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Line 10: A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]. When a disabled character is not entirely jerkass, but just snarky, they are a [[Disabled Snarker]]. When a character uses their age rather than an illness to get away with similar behavior its [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]. {{noreallife\|calling somebody a jerkass is [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment\|rarely complimentary]]. Also, and unfortunately, this is too common to trope.}} ~~'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''~~ {{examples}} Line 16 ⟶ 17: * In ''[[House Rules]]'', Jacob is a Jerkass and considers his autism as a legitimate excuse for being such, as well as that autism is the next step in evolution. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * The eponymous character in ''[[House (TV series)\|House]]'' justifies his jerkassery with his injured leg, but he was a [[Jerkass]] before that. * In an American episode of ''[[The Office]]'', Michael suffers from a ''very'' mild burn on his foot, and ends up using a wheelchair. Line 34 ⟶ 35: == Web Comics == * ''[[Something Positive]]'': As a young boy, Fred was admitted to a hospital for an ear infection, where he was antagonized at every turn by a boy in a wheel-chair, who used his disability as an excuse to rage at the world, and every other child at the hospital hates him. Eventually, Fred and his friends team up to scare him and teach him a lesson... {{spoiler\|whereupon it is revealed that the boy is in the hospital for a heart condition, and the shock of the scare ends up killing him.}} == [[Western Animation]] == Line 41 ⟶ 42: * Inverted with Joe, who is paralyzed from the waist down, but is generally outgoing and friendly. In one episode where Joe regains the ability to walk, NOT being disabled turns Joe into a complete ass hole to his friends and his wife. It isn't until Joe gets crippled again that he is brought back down to humble levels. * In ''[[The Proud Family]]'', Penny dates a disabled boy, Johnny , who seems angelic at first, but turns out to be a rude prick who uses his disability to get his way. * In ''[[South Park]]'', Eric Cartman once claimed to have [[Hollywood ~~Tourettes~~Tourette's\|Tourettes]] so that he could get away with making racial slurs and insulting people. ** In the episode "Ass Burgers" he attempted to do this with Asperger's Syndrome, but failed due to a very basic misunderstanding of the condition. (He thought it meant that burgers come out of his ass.) * Earl of Lemongrab of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is a bizarre variation of this. He has obvious mental/emotional/social problems as a result of being a failed science experiment. He also think it's okay to be a complete asshole to everybody. Line 51 ⟶ 52: [[Category:Disability Tropes]] [[Category:Plots]] ~~[[Category:Disability as an Excuse For Jerkassery]]~~ [[Category:No Real Life Examples, Please]] [[Category:The Jerk Index]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]