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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Naruto]]'' When Kakashi has Sasuke tied to a tree pre-time skip and is talking about bonds, Sasuke says something along the lines of "How would you feel", then Kakashi says all his loved ones are already dead. Admittedly Sasuke's ''[[Took a Level In Jerkass|later character]]'' outshines this little moment, still was a accidental Jerkass moment.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' When Kakashi has Sasuke tied to a tree pre-time skip and is talking about bonds, Sasuke says something along the lines of "How would you feel", then Kakashi says all his loved ones are already dead. Admittedly Sasuke's ''[[Took a Level in Jerkass|later character]]'' outshines this little moment, still was a accidental Jerkass moment.

* ''[[School Days]]'': Say what you will about Matoko Ito, but he gets hit with his twice in the anime. {{spoiler|Though the second time it happens, he gets hit with a knife in the gut before he can actually make amends.}}

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** When Hermione criticizes The Quibbler in front of Luna in very Jerkass way, then finds out Luna's the daughter of the Quibbler's Editor, though seeing as how the girl had been reading it when Hermione walked in, it was rather rude regardless.

** In [[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]] Dudley has one when he is attacked by the dementor and is [[Word of God|shown the sort of person he really is]]. This causes Dudley to cease bullying Harry (he is never shown to pick on him again after this point in the books) and try to be a better person (leaving tea outside Harry's room, telling Harry he doesn't think he's a waste of space).

** Harry himself went through this in [[Harry Potter ~~(Franchise)~~/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|the fifth book.]] When his mental connection to Voldemort as well as Umbridge's actions at Hogwarts make him rude and short with Ron and Hermione, he realizes how moody he'd been. He tries to reel himself in, though he keeps being rather touchy throughout the book {{spoiler|until Sirius dies.}}

** Harry himself went through this in [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|the fifth book.]] When his mental connection to Voldemort as well as Umbridge's actions at Hogwarts make him rude and short with Ron and Hermione, he realizes how moody he'd been. He tries to reel himself in, though he keeps being rather touchy throughout the book {{spoiler|until Sirius dies.}}

* The novel ''How To Rock Braces and Glasses'' by Meg Haston is basically a book-long one of these for protagonist Kacey Simon. She's the [[Alpha Bitch]] of her school, but she genuinely believes that her [[Brutal Honesty]] is helpful and beneficial to those she uses it on. After losing her popularity due to the sudden acquisition of braces and glasses, she realizes that her fellow students mostly consider her a colossal [[Jerkass]] and sets out to change this fact by being nicer.

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* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', "Stimpy's Fan Club": Ren becomes jealous of Stimpy getting all the fan mail, so when he finally gets one, he reads it to Stimpy to rub it in his face (even literally rubbing the letter in his face), all the while adding comments on how Stimpy is finished and how he is now the most loved. Then he gets to the end and realizes the letter is from Stimpy himself. Ren, you're a jerkass... and to drive the point home, he briefly turns into a person's ass.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Nelson points at his reflection and delivers his trademark laugh. He then remarks, "Hey, that hurts. No wonder no-one came to my birthday party."

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Fluttershy]] has one in the episode "Putting Your Hoof Down." In the episode she took assertiveness lesson in order to quit being a [[Shrinking Violet|pushover,]] but took them too far and [[Took a Level In Jerkass|became a jerk ass.]] She comes to her realization after brutally hurting Rarity and Pinkie Pie's feelings.

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Fluttershy]] has one in the episode "Putting Your Hoof Down." In the episode she took assertiveness lesson in order to quit being a [[Shrinking Violet|pushover,]] but took them too far and [[Took a Level in Jerkass|became a jerk ass.]] She comes to her realization after brutally hurting Rarity and Pinkie Pie's feelings.

** Rainbow Dash learns it very fast in ''Hurricane Fluttershy'', realizing that her brusque manner of coaching and motivating the other pegusi is only terrifying her friend early in the episode, and makes an effort to be much calmer and praises her when she really improves, despite the improved to level still being a bit low.

*** Played both ways, since Fluttershy first agrees to training out of guilt when a dejected Rainbow Dash submits to her refusal to take part.