History Main / JerkassToOne

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Watts]] is not a particularly nice person to begin with, but he usually puts up a [[FauxAffablyEvil mask of politeness]] when interacting with others. He doesn't bother doing so with Cinder Fall, who he openly despises and goes out of his way to verbally put down at every opportunity he can find. Of course, Cinder's feelings for Watts are [[TeethClenchedTeamwork mutual]].

** Xander is generally a goofy NiceGuy, but he outright ''hates'' Angel and Spike, taking every possible opportunity to throw their past sins in their faces and disapproving of Buffy's relationships with both. This is in large part motivated by FantasticRacism against vampires (who are almost AlwaysChaoticEvil) and, in Angel's case, jealousy due to Xander's crush on Buffy during the high school seasons; come Season 10, he's taken therapy and managed to curb his anger issues, befriending Spike and making peace with Angel.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Porco Galliard is generally fairly nice to most everyone in the Warrior Unit, but he's never been on good terms with Reiner. In the past the root of it was him wanting to knock down Reiner a peg due to him being a BoisterousWeakling. In the present, he's resentful of Reiner being the cause of his brother's death (Marcel pushed him out of the way and saved him from being eaten by a Titan, getting eaten himself) and feeling that their mission would've been successful if Reiner didn't "steal" his rightful place as the Armored Titan (in reality, Marcel manipulated the results so Reiner would be chosen to keep Porco safe).

** At times, Ash Ketchum, an otherwise AllLovingHero and NiceGuy, can be this to [[HarmlessVillain the Team Rocket trio]]. In "[[Recap/PokemonS1E41WakeUpSnorlax Wake Up Snorlax]]", Ash blasts off the trio in a Pokémon battle simply over the right to capture a wild Pokémon. While Team Rocket are thieves, Ash is rarely if ever shown acting that vitriolic towards other people who commit the same kind of crimes as them; notably, in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E49SoNearYetSoFarfetchd So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd]]", Ash and company {{easily forgive|n}} a far more competent Pokémon thief. During throughout the Johto arc, Ash started to constantly call Team Rocket "losers" and even by "Team Losers" on a few occassions.

* In ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Fiona Frost, aka Agent Nightfall, has a selfish infatuation with Loid Forger aka Agent Twilight, and dispassionately views most people as assets or obstacles. The one exception is Yor Forger, Twilight's wife- Yor and Loid married each other for the sakes of their missions but gradually develop feelings over time. Fiona has little but contempt for Yor and tries to lie to her by claiming that Loid sees her as a burden.

** [[PlayerCharacter Alear]] is generally [[NiceGuy nothing but polite and friendly to their allies]], but they have an initially strained relationship with Nel, a new character they meet in the [[DownloadableContent Fell Xenologue]]. Nel is rather cold to Alear for the first half of the campaign, resulting in Alear calling her out for her attitude, as well as some of her actions, such as [[spoiler:killing the royals of the alternate Elyos(which turns out to be justified due to the fact that all of them are Corrupted).]] It turns out that Nel's attitude is because [[spoiler:she was in love with the Alear of her world, who died some time ago, and she does not wish to see Alear as a ReplacemenGoldfish for her world's Alear.]] She and Alear get onto friendlier terms later on in the campaign, and can work through their issues in their supoports.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Mei Meido is a maid with UndyingLoyalty to her master Hahari and their boyfriend Rentarou. She is rarely, if ever, seen without a calm smile on her face, she will [[ExtremeDoormat obey any order without question]], and never has an unkind word to say about anyone. The sole exception to this is her junior subordinate maid, Mai. When Mai joins Rentarou's Family, she tells Kurumi and Chiyo of how she would often be scolded by Mei for one screw-up or another, much to their surprise given how Mei is normally. Indeed, soon after this scene Mei would put Mai over her knee and spank her because of her behavior throughout that chapter. Chiyo regards it as a sign of how close they are, since Mei doesn't express herself to anyone else like that.

* ''Anime/BattleAthletes Victory'' has the cold and aloof Jessie Gurtland, who is especially mean to Akari Kanzaki, the daughter of her idol Tomoe Midou and the academy's lowest-scoring student.
* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' has a largely downplayed example. Sayaka is on good terms with most of Toomi East's student council and is best friends with Touko, but there's some largely unspoken hostility between her and Yuu since Sayaka is jealous of Yuu's closeness to Touko. The two of them do eventually work things out.

** Pre-CharacterDevelopment, Vegeta was a Crueler to One example. While Vegeta's a bitter, cynical asshole who looked down on everyone in general, he's much ruder and nastier to Goku than he is to everyone else, unable to tolerate being AlwaysSecondBest to him since he's the Saiyan prince while Goku is a lower-class Saiyan born at the bottom of the pecking order. By the end of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ Z]]'', he's gotten over it, and in ''[[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]]'', they're {{friendly rival|ry}}s and VitriolicBestBuds. However, this gets revisited once again in ''Super'' at a time when Vegeta had become TheAtoner who saved a Namekian child from Moro, earned the respect of Z fighters like Piccolo who praised him for how much he had changed and selflessly gave up his own energy to help Goku defeat Moro in a previous arc. When Goku attempted to fight Grandolah in Vegeta's stead after Vegeta was weakened, Vegeta angrily cheap shotted Goku away and told him he'd rather die than team up with him, edging him closer to a Cruel to One example during this time period.

*** Yuki also acts similarly hostile towards his older brother Ayame. In this case, Yuki resents Ayame for [[AccompliceByInaction never standing up for him]] when their parents and Akito were abusing Yuki and denying him a normal childhood. In comparison to Kyo, though, Yuki begins reaching an understanding with Ayame sooner.

--->'''Shigure''': You've got that right. I hate you. I truly, truly do. You really ought to thank me for putting it so bluntly. It'll make it that much easier for you to play the poor, pitiful martyr. Your favorite role.

* In ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'', Nako is generally quite nice, especially to Bocchi, but enjoys pushing Aru's buttons by [[HeyYou sometimes refusing to refer to her by name]], or [[BerserkButton calling her "unfortunate"]]. As a result, the two end up having a VitriolicBestBuds relationship.

* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': For some inexplicable reason, Minami's BigFriendlyDog Cherry dislikes Hiyori. This can't even be chalked up to AnimalsHateHim, since Hiyori has a pet dog herself.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Neji Hyuga regards most of the Leaf ninja he knows with indifference or mild disdain, but he doesn't hate them as much as he does his cousin Hinata. This relates to the internal politics of [[BigScrewedUpFamily his clan]], in which Hinata was the heiress to the head family, and Neji is a branch family member kept in line by a Curse Mark (which the main family members can activate, causing the bearer excruciating pain or killing them). Neji also blames Hinata for Neji's father's death, since Hinata's father killed a foreign ninja who tried to kidnap Hinata, and Neji's father was killed and passed off as Hinata's father. Later, Neji realizes that his father wanted to protect his brother, and begins treating Hinata better.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': While [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] generally doesn't get along with most people, [[SociallyAwkwardHero Shinji]] is often the brunt of her aggression and callousness. It turns out [[LovingBully she actually has feelings for him]], but he understandably doesn't reciprocate, creating more friction between the two.
* In ''Manga/NewGame'', Tsubame "Naru" Narumi gets along well with most of the Eagle Jump staff, but is fairly hostile to Nene Sakura, since Naru believes (not without reason) that Nene got her job due to connections with her boss Umiko, and doesn't take said job seriously. The latter strikes close to home for Naru, who's desperate to prove herself and get a job in the gaming industry in spite of her parents' opposition to it. It's lampshaded in a conversation between Momo (Naru's best friend) and Nene -- after the former says that Naru's like a caring older sister figure, Nene ruefully notes her own status as the one person Naru's mean to. Naru eventually gets over this when Nene offers to help fix the bugs in Naru's minigames, and Naru apologizes to Nene for how poorly she treated her.

** The entire Vinsmoke Family are a group of ruthless mercenaries (except for [[TokenGoodTeammate Reiju]]) who could care less about any one else but themselves especially [[AbusiveParents Judge]]. They do get along with each other for the most part, however, when it comes to [[WhiteSheep Sanji]], it's borderline inhumane. Judge in particular orders his three other sons to ruthlessly beat up Sanji every chance they get and even punishes Sanji by locking him in the dungeon while wearing a heavy iron mask with barely anything to eat. There is a good reason that even into his adulthood, Sanji wants ''nothing'' to do with them anymore and could care less if they live or die (except for [[CoolBigSis Reiju]] of course).

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': At times, Ash Ketchum, an otherwise AllLovingHero and NiceGuy, can be this to [[HarmlessVillain the Team Rocket trio]]. In "[[Recap/PokemonS1E41WakeUpSnorlax Wake Up Snorlax]]", Ash blasts off the trio in a Pokémon battle simply over the right to capture a wild Pokémon. While Team Rocket are thieves, Ash is rarely if ever shown acting that vitriolic towards other people who commit the same kind of crimes as them; notably, in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E49SoNearYetSoFarfetchd So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd]]", Ash and company {{easily forgive|n}} a far more competent Pokémon thief. During throughout the Johto arc, Ash started to constantly call Team Rocket "losers" and even by "Team Losers" on a few occassions.

* Kicker of ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' is an arrogant loudmouth all around, though his teammate Ironhide tends to get the bigger brunt of it, being ordered around, insulted, and even physically abused to a degree. Perhaps due to dealing with him far less often, [[NoSympathy everyone else tends to just think it's funny]] (par Ironhide's fanboy team, Kicker's treatment lightened after a DeathGlare from one too many kicks to the shin).

* ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob''

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Eric Cartman is a {{jerkass}} in general when he's not being TheSociopath, but he likes to rip on Kyle more than everyone else, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain especially for being Jewish]]. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In the first few seasons]], however, it was often Kenny that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kus7v4qlWe0 Cartman would single out for unprovoked prejudice]].

** While Squidward is generally a snide, rude asshole to everyone around him, and has personally admitted to hating everyone in Bikini Bottom on more than one occasion, he's ''much'' ruder and meaner to [=SpongeBob=] than he is to anyone else. To be fair, much of Squidward's attitude toward [=SpongeBob=] is justified, since [=SpongeBob=] constantly bothers him and his antics often ruin Squidward's day. It doesn't help that they're not only neighbors but also co-workers at the Krusty Krab.
** [=SpongeBob=] is typically the only person whom Mrs. Puff holds a grudge against. Aside from him, she's usually outgoing and friendly to everyone. Like Squidward, it's easy to see why she's hostile toward him, considering the number of times he has endangered her with [[DrivesLikeCrazy his reckless driving]] and gotten her arrested.

* Principal Perry from ''Series/LabRats'' is a SadistTeacher who delights in torturing all of her students, but is especially cruel towards Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo.
** Also there’s Eddy, Donald’s home computer system, who seems to hate everyone except his creator, but especially despises Donald’s wife Tasha.

** Eva, known for being pretty much known for being HatedByAll and HatesEveryoneEqually, she was ''hostile'' toward only Bridgette in the episode "No Pain, No Gain." This was because Eva felt like she was betrayed by her "backstabbing Killer Bass team" (even though it was her ''own fault'' for her elimination due to her blind rage). Eva made it her mission to make Bridgette's life hell and, at one point, even forces [[DumbBlonde Lindsay]] to make Bridgette do a painful dare.

** Jorgen Von Strangle, the toughest fairy in the universe, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but Timmy, Cosmo, and Binky are his favorite targets. [[JerkassHasAPoint He has good reasons for that]], as Timmy is constantly causing trouble with his wishing, Cosmo is a reckless idiot, and Binky is a wimp who’s easy to pick on.

** Carter Pewterschmidt is a [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]] but is [[ObnoxiousInLaws particularly cruel to his son-in-law Peter]].

** Crueler To One with Alliser Thorne, who picks on all the recruits but has a particular disdain for [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] and [[LovableCoward Sam Tarly]].

** Tywin is Crueler To One to his son Tyrion. While Tywin has no problem treating everyone around him as pawns, the fact that [[DeathByChildbirth Tyrion's birth killed his mother]] means that [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild he is the only person Tywin exhibits outright hatred towards]].

* Sonic from the ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' series is portrayed as a very immature and callous {{Jerkass}} to others, including his own friends, but he treats [[KidSidekick Tails]] more awfully than he does with others, as he would always insult him, belittle him, and make cruel jokes at his expense.

*** Neelix is usually a NiceGuy, wanting to make everyone happy, but in earlier seasons, he was antagonistic to Tom Paris, even having a FoodFight with him. This was due to Paris having an unrequited crush on Neelix's girlfriend Kes, and being afraid that Paris would steal her from him.

** Dahlia is a minor Crueler To One case, as while she doesn't care for anyone but herself, she's a BitchInSheepsClothing who pretends to be a sweet, demure young woman. Even in that facade, Dahlia doesn't even pretend to be nice to Mia, making derisive remarks about Mia's age despite the fact that Mia is only a few years older than her. This is probably because [[spoiler:Mia is defending people whom Dahlia wants to see convicted since they're accused of the murders that Dahlia herself committed.]]

* ''Fanfic/LimitlessPotential'': Roll is usually nice to everyone, but she maintains a cold attitude towards Zero, owing to the fact that he kidnapped her during his time as a Maverick and put her brother in danger. While she's not outspoken about it, her inner thoughts often show that she doesn't like that X remains friends with Zero even after the ten-year TimeSkip.

** More notable is Gary, who consistently treated Ash like crap over the Indigo League. After he undergoes BreakTheHaughty, he's nicer to Ash...but moves on to Goh in ''Journeys'' (though it's possible this is to motivate him into proving himself, as Goh initially didn't want to be involved in Project Mew).

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': At times, Ash Ketchum, an otherwise AllLovingHero and NiceGuy, can be this to [[HarmlessVillain the Team Rocket trio]]. In "[[Recap/PokemonS1E41WakeUpSnorlax Wake Up Snorlax]]", Ash blasts off the trio in a Pokémon battle simply over the right to capture a wild Pokémon. While Team Rocket are thieves, Ash is rarely if ever shown acting that vitriolic towards other people who commit the same kind of crimes as them; notably, in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E49SoNearYetSoFarfetchd So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd]]", Ash and company {{easily forgive|n}} a far more competent Pokémon thief. During throughout the Johto arc, Ash started to constantly call Team Rocket "losers" and even by "Team Losers" on a few occassions.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': At times, Ash Ketchum, an otherwise AllLovingHero and NiceGuy, can be this to [[HarmlessVillain the Team Rocket trio]]. In "[[Recap/PokemonS1E41WakeUpSnorlax Wake Up Snorlax]]", Ash blasts off the trio in a Pokémon battle simply over the right to capture a wild Pokémon. While Team Rocket are thieves, Ash is rarely if ever shown acting that vitriolic towards other people who commit the same kind of crimes as them; notably, in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E49SoNearYetSoFarfetchd So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd]]", Ash and company {{easily forgive|n}} a far more competent Pokémon thief.

** Marge's sisters Patty and Selma are usually apathetic and not very pleasant company for anyone. However, [[ObnoxiousInLaws they are absolutely hostile and hateful towards Homer]] and never miss a chance to insult him or even hurt him. Their reaction to Homer FakingTheDead was buying a tombstone with "Homer J. Simpson. We are richer for having lost him" and in one episode they exploit the fact that [[NotReallyMarriedPlot because of plot reasons Homer and Marge are not currently married]] to kidnap him and torture him à la ''Film/{{Saw}}''.

* ''Fanfic/DannyPhantomStranded'': Joy Strong is presented as a kind and doting grandmother to Star and is very friendly and hospital to Danny and his friends. However, she does not have a positive opinion of her former daughter-in-law, Stella, mainly because of how she left her son for another man. Joy has made her feelings about Stella clear and doesn't hesitate to badmouth and make snide comments about her, even when Stella is within earshot. She also doesn't seem to hesitate to show blatant favoritism to Solene (her son's current girlfriend), even stating that she's an improvement over Stella. When Joy meets Stella again, she doesn't hesitate to degrade her for being a trophy wife and asks if she and her "home-wrecking skunk (Jean Luc) are still together.
** Thankfully, despite hating Stella now, Joy still has some boundaries that she is still willing to respect:
*** Joy's hatred for Stella thankfully doesn't extend to Pierre, her infant son from her second marriage, and she has the decency not to mistreat him.
*** When Joy tried to compare Stella to her mother Beatrice (who is an abusive parent) when her son told her that was not true, Joy actually concluded to his point, admitting that the comparison wasn't fair.
** However, when Joy and Stella cross paths at the restaurant where they are celebrating Kirk's birthday, she makes it clear that Stella is not welcome and not part of the family anymore. Even when Stella tries to make it clear that she just wants to talk to the Fentons and even tries to give Kirk a gift as a sign of goodwill, Joy still relentlessly degraded her, to the point where Johnathan notes that she is not even trying to be civil anymore and Stella noted that Joy is using every excuse to insult and hurt her.

** The AlmightyJanitor is a Cruel to One example. He makes a point of tormenting JD while leaving everyone else alone (unless he's provoked). He sometimes even uses this fact to make JD look bad in front of everyone else.

Compare EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes, when it's the AllLovingHero who openly dislikes one person. Contrast HatesEveryoneEqually (when they mistreat everyone to the same extent), MoralityPet (when they're a jerk to all ''but'' one), and BullyTurnedBuddy (when the person they become friends with is the only one they ''don't'' still bully). If the Jerkass is a teacher and the one is the student, see TeachersUnfavoriteStudent. If the Jerkass is a boss and the one is an employee, see BosssUnfavoriteEmployee. For a similar trope with a different perspective, see SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond. See also SitcomArchnemesis. Can be a sign of OOCIsSeriousBusiness if the motivation is a plot point. If you choose to only torment your target when others are not around, then it's JerkassAtYourDiscretion.