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{{quote|''Why do you put so much energy into pissing people off?''|'''Kagura''' (to Tomo), ''[[
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* Kei Kurono from ''[[
** 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 [[Put
** 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".
* ''[[
* In the [[OAV|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 [[The Ditz|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
** [[Abusive Parents|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 [[wikipedia:Antisocial personality disorder#Diagnostic criteria|every point on the list of diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder]]. {{spoiler|And the fact that she is capable of destroying the world if she's seriously naysayed -- or bored -- (though in her defense, she does ''not'' know she's got said powers... and it's MUCH better to keep her [[Locked Out of the Loop]]) just puts icing on the cake}}. It's played down as the series progresses, though thanks to the episode shuffling it gets sort of unclear just how much.
* Tomo from ''[[
** 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 [[Two-Teacher School|Three ...ish Teacher School]], and the third teacher, Kimura, is a [[Dirty Old Man]]. <small>And then there's [[Stern Teacher|that one]] no one remembers who made Chiyo freak out.</small>
** Kamineko surpasses them all. That cat is ''evil''.
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* 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 [[Complete Monster|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 ''[[
* Basically everyone in ''[[Ranma ½
* 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), [[The Ojou|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)
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* 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 ''[[
** 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 {{spoiler|episode 62, she challenged everyone to make her laugh.Why does everyone buy into her like that? I'd just say shut up. It was made worse by the fact that Nagihiko dug a load of holes for Amu to fall into. When he was Nadeshiko he was cool.}}
** 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 [[Filler|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, {{spoiler|the series [[Big Bad]]}}.
** ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' also has Fakir, but {{spoiler|[[Jerk
* Jin Akutsu from ''[[
** 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 (
** There's also Ash's Sinnoh rival Paul...whose methods of training make Kanto Gary seem tame by comparison. This was so bad [[Even Evil Has Standards|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.
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* 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.
* The whole soccer club in ''[[
** 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.
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** Turns out he has a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* Shingo in ''[[Initial D]]'' is one of these at first. {{spoiler|1=But after an attempt to destroy Takumi's AE86 in a race ends in disaster for him, he develops a change of heart when [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Itsuki and Iketani take him to the hospital]].}} Remains a Jerk, but his until then almost unexisting heart of gold ''does'' shine through more than one. (And, well, [[Vitriolic Best Buds|his interactions with Nakazato]] ''are'' funny.)
* Eguchi in ''[[Wa
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Sasuke Uchiha wavers for quite a while between being a straight-up [[Jerkass]] (especially after the [[Time Skip]]) and a [[Jerk
** [[Tsundere|Sakura]] was like this in the first episodes, towards [[Dogged Nice Guy|Naruto]]. She ''always'' sided with Sasuke in any argument, and gave Naruto [[Megaton Punch|insanely powerful punches]] for [[Disproportionate Retribution|the smallest of reasons]]. She got better.
** Neji Hyuuga is introduced as this until Naruto [[Defeat Means Friendship|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 [[Ax Crazy|killing everything in sight]], Hidan is a godawful fucking ''dick'' to everyone he's not supposed to kill.
* Makoto Ito from ''[[
** He isn't as much of an asshole in the [[OV As]] 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
* Every male character in [[Rosario to 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
** And the male members of the recently introduced Wong family seem to be more-or-less decent guys. [[Cloudcuckoolander|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. [[Defrosting Ice Queen|But they improve]].
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* 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 {{spoiler|into hell, of which there is no return, killed the hell god and then ''purified hell''}} 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 {{spoiler|he ''does'' eventually reveal that [[Jerk
* 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
* ''[[
* ''[[
** 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, [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|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".
**** {{spoiler|And now [[Karma Houdini|he's once again the ruler of his own country]], called the [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Evil Black Drum Kingdom]]}}.
** 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
* Candy's bitchy stepsister Eliza from ''[[Candy Candy]]'', who gets a kick out of using her [[Rich Bitch|money and status]] (among other things) to humiliate Candy and those of lesser status than her. [[For the Evulz|For the lulz]]. The only thing that prevents her from being a [[Complete Monster]] is that she doesn't send Candy into deadly slave labor.
* 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
** 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!}}
* Nijima of ''[[Kenichi:
* King Draven from ''[[Helios Eclipse]]'' is a real dick. Even more evil characters like [[Big Bad|Soileh]] is more [[Magnificent Bastard|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 {{spoiler|(like when he had Uzume and Shiina take out the winner of the second round of the current arc's game and steal the [[Plot Coupon|prize]])}} 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, {{spoiler|Minato and Yukari's mother is the [[The Dragon|second-in-command]] of Minaka, the guy running the Sekirei game. Not that she seems to ''care'' about her kids...}}
** For those who ''aren't'' outright [[Jerkass]] material, though, they fall more into [[Jerk
* 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 {{spoiler|orchestrating the kidnapping and rescue of a girl he spoke to online, only to hold her over the side of a building, toy with her desire (or lack thereof) to actually commit suicide, and then wander off to watch from a distance as the girl decides to jump anyway. (Luckily for her, someone else was a little more worried about her safety and saves her.)}} 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.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Yotsuba&!
* Kanda Yu, from ''[[D
** Kanda [[Jerk
* Nishijima Shigeo from ''[[
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* 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 (
** 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 ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|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 ''[[
* 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.
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* 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 {{spoiler|picks on Kanzaki and her love for Touma and the way he gets Touma's help in a couple international incidents}}
* Holland from ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' bounces between this and [[Jerk
* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[
* 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]].
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