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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]] (such as Hal Jordan going crazy and forcing the Corps to disband during ''ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight'' or Fatality choosing to kill Green Lanterns after John Stewart caused her homeworld Xanshi to be destroyed), Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all and [[UngratefulBastard never showing the slightest gratitude towards the things Hal, Guy, John and Kyle did right]].

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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]] (such as Hal Jordan going crazy and forcing the Corps to disband during ''ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight'' or Fatality choosing to kill Green Lanterns after John Stewart caused failed to prevent the destruction of her homeworld Xanshi to be destroyed), Xanshi), Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all and all, [[UngratefulBastard never showing the slightest gratitude towards the things Hal, Guy, John and Kyle did right]].right]] and refusing to acknowledge that many of the human Lanterns' screw-ups weren't entirely their fault.
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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]], Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all and [[UngratefulBastard never showing the slightest gratitude towards the things Hal, Guy, John and Kyle did right]].

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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]], recruits]] (such as Hal Jordan going crazy and forcing the Corps to disband during ''ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight'' or Fatality choosing to kill Green Lanterns after John Stewart caused her homeworld Xanshi to be destroyed), Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all and [[UngratefulBastard never showing the slightest gratitude towards the things Hal, Guy, John and Kyle did right]].
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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]], Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all.

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** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]], Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all.all and [[UngratefulBastard never showing the slightest gratitude towards the things Hal, Guy, John and Kyle did right]].



** Captain Boomerang stood out as a TokenEvilTeammate amongst a team of BoxedCrooks not because he was the most evil or ambitious, but because he was the most unpleasant person to work with. A PoliticallyIncorrectVillain with a penchant for [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] and [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], Boomerang was HatedByAll. It’s almost impressive considering he’s a simple bankrobber in a team filled with mercenaries, monsters and the DC universe’s biggest scum.

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** Captain Boomerang stood out as a TokenEvilTeammate amongst a team of BoxedCrooks {{Boxed Crook}}s not because he was the most evil or ambitious, but because he was the most unpleasant person to work with. A PoliticallyIncorrectVillain with a penchant for [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] and [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], Boomerang was HatedByAll. It’s almost impressive considering he’s a simple bankrobber in a team filled with mercenaries, monsters and the DC universe’s biggest scum.
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** Captain Boomerang stood out as a TokenEvilTeammate amongst a team of BoxedCrooks not because he was the most evil or ambitious, but because he was the most unpleasant person to work with. A PoliticallyIncorrectVillain with a penchant for [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] and [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], Boomerang was HatedByAll. It’s almost impressive considering he’s a simple bankrobber in a team filled with mercenaries, monsters and the DC universe’s biggest scum.

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* Guy Gardner of the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational. Exactly how much of a jerk he is varies (partly due to complicated mental issues), but at his worst he's tolerated mainly because he's useful in a fight (although getting him to stop can be more of an issue). Thankfully, he received some CharacterDevelopment over the course of a decade and a half, cleaned up his act, and became a BoisterousBruiser instead.

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Guy Gardner of Gardner's characterization around the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps time of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' mainly consisted of being a belligerent jackass who constantly insulted Hal Jordan and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational.John Stewart due to believing he's a better Green Lantern than either of them. Exactly how much of a jerk he is varies (partly due to complicated mental issues), but at his worst he's tolerated mainly because he's useful in a fight (although getting him to stop can be more of an issue). Thankfully, he received some CharacterDevelopment over the course of a decade and a half, cleaned up his act, and became a BoisterousBruiser instead.instead.
** Creator/GeoffJohns' run featured a Green Lantern Corps member named Turytt, who picks fights with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner solely because he's a hotheaded asshole who's [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards humans]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Even taking into consideration how a lot of the Corps' problems can be traced to happening after the inducting of human recruits]], Turytt still goes way out of line due to believing this means the Green Lantern Corps shouldn't allow humans at all.
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** ComicBook/{{Circe}} is traditionally a cruel, self centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.

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** ComicBook/{{Circe}} Circe is traditionally a cruel, self centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.

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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to [[TimeTravelingJerkass use his time-travelling abilities abilities]] to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.

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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.game.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': One of the members who joined the team during Paul Kupperberg's run is Karma, who is consistently depicted as a total asshole who spends most of his time insulting his teammates for no reason.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], condescending, and entitled asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.

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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], condescending, and entitled [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.
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** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Bruct--the Sangtee Emperor's replacement D'Tasloo Parva after the capture of A'iir--is a misogynistic bigot who manages to make the Emperor look like a nice person, and is not only gleeful about slaughtering innocents to force the rebels into an obvious trap to try to save them he's also quite happy to pull a gun on his own Emperor to prevent their capture, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself and suicidal overconfidence and arrogance.

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** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Bruct--the Sangtee Emperor's replacement D'Tasloo Parva after the capture of A'iir--is a misogynistic bigot who manages to make the Emperor look like a nice person, and is not only gleeful about slaughtering innocents to force the rebels into an obvious trap to try to save them he's also quite happy to pull a gun on his own Emperor to prevent their capture, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself and suicidal overconfidence and arrogance.arrogance.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Eobard Thawne's defining trait isn't just that he's a supervillain, but he's also a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], condescending, and entitled asshole on top of it. He goes out of his way to use his time-travelling abilities to either {{Retgone}} or ruin the lives of anyone who so much as annoys him, particularly his ArchEnemy Barry Allen. It isn't enough that Thawne murdered his mother and framed his father for the crime, he also has to go out of his way to do things like causing Barry's homework to blow away or screwing up his baseball game.
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* ''Batman'': Batman's entire RoguesGallery stands out as jerks, but ComicBook/TheJoker, [[CardCarryingVillain unsurprisingly]], is also one. Because whenever he's not killing people, he's either taunting them or trying to get under their skin.

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* ''Batman'': ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Batman's entire RoguesGallery stands out as jerks, but ComicBook/TheJoker, [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], [[CardCarryingVillain unsurprisingly]], is also one. Because whenever he's not killing people, he's either taunting them or trying to get under their skin.



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** There have been moments where the writers make the man himself into one of the most uncomfortable human-beings in comic-history. Combined with his semi-successful attempts to solve his issues, fans commonly accept Batman to be a brat to literal god-like beings!
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*** This gets to the point where Millerverse Batman/Crazy Steve just randomly insults Superman during a Spawn/Batman crossover penned by Miller. Made particularly bad by the fact that the [[FanNickName Big Blue Boy Scout]] is never so much as mentioned up anywhere else in the comic.

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*** This gets to the point where Millerverse Batman/Crazy Steve just randomly insults Superman during a Spawn/Batman crossover penned by Miller. Made particularly bad by the fact that the [[FanNickName Big Blue Boy Scout]] Superman is never so much as mentioned up anywhere else in the comic.
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* ''Batman'': Batman's entire RoguesGallery stands out as jerks, but ComicBook/TheJoker, [[CardCarryingVillain unsurprisingly]], is also one. Because whenever he's not killing people, he's either taunting them or trying to get under their skin.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Desire. Whoo boy.
** Dream himself. DisproportionateRetribution is just ''one'' of the things he gets called out on.
* Guy Gardner of the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational. Exactly how much of a jerk he is varies (partly due to complicated mental issues), but at his worst he's tolerated mainly because he's useful in a fight (although getting him to stop can be more of an issue). Thankfully, he received some CharacterDevelopment over the course of a decade and a half, cleaned up his act, and became a BoisterousBruiser instead.
* [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Ollie Queen]], while ultimately a force of good, has never been particularly nice about it. On his best days, he's rude, arrogant, and is always convinced that his idea is better. On most days, he's a sanctimonious, elitist jackass. At his worst, he's a complete asshole who pisses everyone off and alienates his allies, which explains why he always seems to be having to make amends with someone.
* [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Batman]] ([[InNameOnly otherwise known as]] [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "Crazy Steve"]]), in ''All Star Batman and Robin'' is by far the most asshole-ish incarnation of the character ever depicted. He not only seems to get a kind of sadistic joy out of any pain he causes criminals (as well as any cops in his way), but he kidnaps and verbally assaults Dick Grayson, (who just moments before had seen his parents killed before his eyes), leaves him to fend for himself in the Batcave and then when he finds out Alfred fed him a proper meal, ''picks him up by the scruff of his collar and '''threatens''' him'' (this is guy who in most other versions is [[ParentalSubstitute the closest thing Bruce currently has to a father]]). And all the other superheroes ain't much better (Franchise/WonderWoman shoving a male bystander out of her way whilst calling him a [[StrawFeminist "sperm bank"]]).
** In the Millerverse version of DC, superheroes are either brutal psychotic (Black Canary, Crazy Steve) or a witless moron that Batman pretty much controls or treats with utter contempt (Superman and Green Lantern).
*** This gets to the point where Millerverse Batman/Crazy Steve just randomly insults Superman during a Spawn/Batman crossover penned by Miller. Made particularly bad by the fact that the [[FanNickName Big Blue Boy Scout]] is never so much as mentioned up anywhere else in the comic.
* Part of the reason ComicBook/LexLuthor is such a good villain is that he's not just a MagnificentBastard of an obsessed, megalomaniacal CorruptCorporateExecutive-turned-PresidentEvil — he's also an asshole to everyone he meets, including strangers, and goes out of his way to treat the people around him like shit for no reason whatsoever. And he doesn't just do horrible things to people either — he's an asshole [[EvilIsPetty even when his actions are incredibly small-scale and pointless]] (e.g., calling [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] "Mr. Lois Lane" all the time for no reason except to be dickish and irritating).
** He once offered a huge sum of money to a married waitress to be his mistress for a year for the sole purpose of leaving just before she comes to a decision. It was all just to mess with her sense of morality and leave her never knowing what choice she ultimately would have made.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ComicBook/{{Circe}} is traditionally a cruel, self centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Nina Close's husband is abusive, cheats on her, and brushes off anyone who questions him without hiding that he considers himself their superior and everyone to be beneath him. When Nina snaps and kills him it's quite understandable.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Bruct--the Sangtee Emperor's replacement D'Tasloo Parva after the capture of A'iir--is a misogynistic bigot who manages to make the Emperor look like a nice person, and is not only gleeful about slaughtering innocents to force the rebels into an obvious trap to try to save them he's also quite happy to pull a gun on his own Emperor to prevent their capture, showing no loyalty to anyone but himself and suicidal overconfidence and arrogance.

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