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See also: [[Took a Level In Badass]], [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]. The [[Counter Trope]] to [[Took a Level In Kindness]]. Contrast [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]], who was always a jerk. A character taking his/her level in jerkassitude was genuinely nice.
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Due to unexplained happenings during the [[Time Skip]], Hei of ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Than Black]]'' has gone from a ruthless [[Anti-Hero]], to a ''drunk'' ruthless [[Anti-Hero]] with an unwanted [[Morality Pet]]. {{spoiler|Hei had been nicknamed "Chinese Electric [[Batman]]", but unfortunately, he's just "Chinese Batman" since he was [[Brought Down to Badass]].}}
* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' uses this trope every now and then, such as in the Hueco Mundo arc with Ichigo's infamous scene with his childhood friend Tatsuki demanding to know why their classmate Orihime had suddenly vanished. The dialogue seemed to be setting up for a classic "[[
** In fairness, even if Yamamoto had handled that a lot more gracefully, Ichigo being the [[Leeroy Jenkins|hot head]] that he is would have rushed into Hueco Mundo anyway.
*** The earlier example with Ichigo was actually a [[Jerkass Facade]] on his part because he was attempting to push his friends away knowing full well he was getting ready to go on a near suicide mission that would easily get them all killed.
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* In his earlier appearances, Curt Connors of ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' was a reasonably sympathetic character when he wasn't [[Super-Powered Evil Side|the Lizard]], and even as the Lizard retained some protective instincts towards his family. He was [[Retcon|retconned]] into being [[Evil All Along]], and as of ''The Gauntlet'' he {{spoiler|completely lost control of the Lizard persona and ''killed and ate his own son''}}. After that, his more sympathetic characterization likely won't be coming back any time soon.
* ''Everybody'' in Archie Comics' [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] during Ian Flynn's run. Sonic was derailed to the point where he dissed Tails' parents in front of him and didn't apologize, and Fiona spontaneously turned evil despite the fact that nothing in the comics' past could have possibly hinted at such a turn. Even '''Tails''', the lovable eight-year-old child genius, was turned into a lovesick, smug, self-aggrandizing show-off.
* Batman to a ''huge'' extent in ''[[JLA: Act of God (Comic Book)|JLA: Act of God]]'', infamously.
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* Dr. Eric Foreman on ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', who started off as a fairly self-possessed guy who didn't really appreciate House's shenanigans, and then progressed to the type of guy who screwed over a colleague and then stabbed her with a dirty needle (the latter under duress, but still). His jerkassery has calmed somewhat, but hasn't completely gone away. To be fair, the growing jerkassery did become a plotpoint after that -- Foreman was afraid that spending so much time around House was causing him to become more like him. He quit Princeton-Plainsboro to try to stop this... but then got fired from a job in New York after using very House-like tactics. Cuddy even once called him "House-Lite."
* Phoebe of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' seemed to take a level in jerkass at the end of her relationship with Cole.
* Admiral Adama drifts this way toward the end of the fourth season of ''[[
** Actually, BSG seems to have tons of examples. Lt. Felix Gaeta, anyone?
** Also, Tom Zarek. Early in the series, he was a recurring political provocateur and alleged terrorist, but he actually managed to be somewhat nice towards the main characters, especially in the Kobol and New Caprica arcs. Flash forward to mid-season 4, and he's [[Flanderization|perpetrating a mutiny among the fleet]] and [[Moral Event Horizon|having the Quorum of Twelve gunned down]] in a petty power-grab while President [[Iron Lady|Roslin]] is in the midst of a [[Heroic BSOD]]. {{spoiler|Fortunately, he doesn't [[Karmic Death|survive it]].}}
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* ''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]'': Dr. Sheldon Cooper turned from a shy, socially awkward [[Hollywood Nerd]] into a full on [[Insufferable Genius]]. Both [[Lovable Nerd|Leonard]] and [[Casanova Wannabe|Wolowitz]] became rather nasty [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarkers]] themselves. [[The Chick|Penny]] gradually adapted a policy of [[Brutal Honesty]] toward the guys, but developed a mutual respect for their nerdy tendencies as well.
** Priya and Raj in season four. For Priya, she basically forbade Leonard and Penny to hang out together due to jealousy, then {{spoiler|she lies to Leonard about not moving back to India. For no adequate reason}}. [[Karma Houdini]] doesn't cover it. For Raj, he begun to have lust for Howard's fiance Bernadette (and when being told a rumor of them breaking up, wanted to date her even though Howard possibly wouldn't let that fly) and then after {{spoiler|[[It Makes Sense in Context|Penny falling asleep before they could have drunken sex]] still acted like an ass that slept with her.}}
* [[Doctor Who
* ''[[Beverly Hills 90210|90210]]'': Adrianna in season 3. She even went as far as [[spoiler: {{swapping out Silver's medication for Bipolar Disorder with placebos.}}
* We've seen this happen a few times on ''[[Deadliest Catch (TV)|Deadliest Catch]]'' as various crewmembers' clout increase, especially in season 6:
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** The case can also be made for Courtney after her return to the show in season two. She went from being a slightly stuck-up and haughty girl who was still civil enough to be the [[Team Mom]], to a scheming, spoiled princess who uses her lawyers to cheat her way to numerous advantage on the show. She basically transformed from a significantly more good version of [[Rich Bitch|Heather]] to a straight up [[Expy]].
*** In ''World Tour'', both Geoff and Courtney (the latter at least in the first half of the season) are back to form, only for Cody, Gwen, and Duncan to get jerkier.
* [[Family Guy (Animation)|Peter Griffin]], after his show was [[
** Cleveland has had some Jerkass moments since he got [[The Cleveland Show (Animation)|his own show]].
** Connie went from being the standard [[Alpha Bitch]] to a downright bitch, which was best demonstrated when she made fun of Meg shortly after the latter returned to school from being in prison for three months (to compensate [[No
** Lois, originally a [[Mama Bear]] and arguably the most [[Closer to Earth]] character in the show has gradually became what is basically a female variant of Peter. Made worse by the fact the cast still [[Jerk Sue|often treats her as the same character she was before]].
** Even Brian followed this route to the point where he got [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|told off]] by ''Quagmire'', of all people.
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