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* Kei Kurono from ''[[Gantz]]''. He gets better though. Then he dies. Then he, un-dies.

* 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.

* 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 [[Tsundere|she has her nice moments as well]]. Her [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|mild crush on Alicia]] is also pretty cute.

* Basically everyone in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' and ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' have fallen into this at least once.

** 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) {{spoiler|but she never gets to do so with Nemo, until she realizes, too late, that she could have been nicer}}.

** Strange enough it's the ''other'' aliens who have the most trouble with her. [[Ordinary High School Student|Human Mayuko]] seems to genuinely care for her, despite their [[Odd Couple|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 {{spoiler|trying to escape the giant, flying steam-powered castle that's about to self-destruct around them}}).

* 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.

** Too bad they revert Sunohara's status back in the episode ''right after it'', when he gets {{spoiler|beaten up by Misae several times}}.

* 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.

** As shown in recent flashbacks, Arlong seems to have always been a [[Jerkass]] [[Fantastic Racism|Anti-human racist]]. {{spoiler|Fisher Tiger's death and his stint in Impel Down just made him even worse.}}

* Many of the opponents that Gash and Kiyomaro encounter in ''[[Gash Bell]]'' are assholes, though some more [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|so than others]]. While it's a given they're all just doing [[Combat Pragmatist|whatever they can]] to become King of the Demon world, some are just [[This Is Unforgivable!|unforgivable]]. Zophise in particular robs that whole damn bakery.

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', Arisa Bunnings was initially a bully who was unwilling to consider others' feelings before Nanoha slapped her (her first "[[Defeat Means Friendship|befriending]]") for stealing Suzuka's ribbon. In one of the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|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 [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|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, {{spoiler|Precia reveals that she was just a clone of her dead daughter, Alice, that she was simply a tool and that she never loved her at all; if anything, she hated her! Fate tries to give her one last chance to repent for her crimes, telling her that while she isn't Alice, she can still be her daughter. And the queen bitch laughs at her face and chooses to die instead!}}

** Kanda [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|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.

** Louise herself comes off as SUCH a bitchy, whiny and violent [[Tsundere]] that her antics against Saitou are [[Amusing Injuries|less funny]] [[Dude, Not Funny|and]] [[Domestic Abuse|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 [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|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 [[Casanova Wannabe|Fukuyama]] since it meant Fukuyama would pay her.

* 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]]''.

* 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 [[Character Development|grows out of it]].

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a bunch:

* 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.

* 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: [[Freudian Excuse|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 [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|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 [[The Bully|getting a rise]] out of angels like [[The Chick|Rey]].