History Main / JerkassToOne

** Jimmy Pesto is an overall arrogant and condescending man who doesn't have pleasant relationships with anyone ([[AbusiveParents not his own kids]] or his OnlyFriend Trev, and it's been stated that he's divorced). This particularly reigns true for titular restaurant competitor Bob, with Jimmy using business rivalry as an excuse to be as antagonistic towards him as possible.

* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is of the Crueler to One variety. No one is immune to his malice, but he has a special loathing for Private Lawrence, or as Hartman maliciously nicknames him, Private Pyle. Very early on, he singles out Pyle for his incompetence and both directly and indirectly abuses Pyle in every way that he can, which [[spoiler:causes Pyle to go off the deep end and murder Hartman]].

* ''Literature/{{Holes}}'': Mr. Pendanski is a self-centered man deep down, but he tries to motivate the campers under his authority by playing friendly uncle towards them. The exception is Zero, whom he considers too stupid and passive for the act to be necessary. As a result, he makes no effort to hide his disdain for Zero or butter him up.

*** Felix is rather abrasive to most people besides Annette, although in Dimitri's case, it's implied that he still inwardly cares about Dimitri despite being on bad terms with him. Felix is outright hateful toward Dimitri's retainer Dedue, calling him a "dog" and other insults for what Felix perceives as BlindObedience to Dimitri. Like with Dimitri, this is implied to stem from concern that Dedue's dedication to Dimitri might be self-destructive.

*** Felix is rather abrasive to most people besides Annette, although in Dimitri's case, it's implied that he still inwardly cares about Dimitri despite being on bad terms with him. Felix is outright hateful toward Dimitri's retainer Dedue, calling him a "dog" and other insults for what Felix perceives as BlindObedience to Dimitri.

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* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney''
** Wendy Oldbag is rather unpleasant to anyone she doesn't have a crush on, but she's especially nasty to [[NiceGuy Will Powers]], being rather convinced that he's the culprit of 1-3 for the first two days of the trial.
** Godot is usually coldly professional toward most people, save for his condescending and borderline misogynistic treatment of Franziska in 3-5, but he loathes Phoenix Wright, rudely calling him "[[MaliciousMisnaming Trite]]". His reasons are complicated, since [[spoiler:he blames Phoenix for not protecting Mia, though this is mostly PsychologicalProjection on his part since he really blames ''himself'' for Mia's death. Phoenix finally manages to win his respect by outing him as the culprit of 3-5, at which point Godot calls him by his proper name.]]
** Maggey Byrde is friendly to most people, but she can often be rather cold to Detective Gumshoe, since, he, as a detective, testifies whenever she's on trial for murder, which tends to help the prosecution.
** 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 façade, 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]].
** In ''Spirit of Justice'', Nahyuta is generally a polite person, but he's got it out for defense attorneys (Khura'inese belief is that all defense attorneys are evil) and frequently insults them and calls them "sinners". [[spoiler:Subverted; he actually realizes that this line of thinking is stupid and was the result of [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Ga'ran]] having a grudge against them and conducting a propaganda campaign to that effect. He's just putting on an act because Ga'ran is holding his little sister hostage.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}''
** In [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair the second game]], Sonia is a Cruel to One. She's generally a NiceGirl but tends to be unusually mean to Kazuichi. Considering that Kazuichi is her StalkerWithACrush, it's not hard to see why she treats him differently, but expressing disappointment that he's not the culprit and won't be executed is a very cruel thing to do.
** Hiyoko, on the other hand, is a Crueler to One example. She tends to be a {{Jerkass}} to everyone besides her best friend Mahiru but seems to be especially cruel to Mikan. After Chapter 2, she becomes highly abrasive toward Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, [[spoiler:whom she very rightly blames for Mahiru's death]], and for a while, he becomes the one she hates most.
** Speaking of Fuyuhiko just like Hiyoko, Fuyuhiko treated everyone like shit but in particular, went after Mahiru Koizumi due to her feisty nature and not being afraid of him [[spoiler:eventually Fuyuhiko's hatred towards Mahiru ended up with him indirectly killing her when Monokuma framed her for involvement in the cover up of the death of his sister. Said sister was also a bully of Mahiru's ]]
** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Kokichi is a {{Jerkass}} who alternates between saying very cruel things and acting in a dishonest and manipulative manner. Miu, however, seems to get the brunt of his hostility and is the target of several rather over-the-top insults, which she seems oddly aroused by. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, Miu plans on killing Kokichi in Chapter 4.]]

* ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'' has Kamen Eiga, who's unusually nasty to the protagonist, Raiko Shinpuku, frequently mocking the latter's gloomy demeanor. It turns out that [[spoiler:in the past, Raiko had helped save Kamen from being accused of shoplifting and offered to meet up a week later, only to end up standing Kamen up and returning to Kamen's life a totally different person (both of which are implied to be because of Raiko's sister's death). In the good ending, after Raiko clears Kamen's name, Kamen realizes how unfair she was to Raiko and apologizes]]. Interestingly enough, Kamen is noticeably ruder to Raiko than Kotoba(a pervert who [[spoiler:stalked Kamen's best friend Momoko]]), and Hiro(perhaps the biggest jerk in the cast, [[spoiler:who was planning on cheating on Momoko]]), and while she snarks at the latter, it almost comes off as good-natured teasing.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Jonathan Kent is generally a good man and supportive parent, but he openly despises the Luthors, especially Lionel, and is almost constantly rude and cruel to them. Justified with Lionel, since he's an [[CardCarryingJerkass openly evil]] CorruptCorporateExecutive who ''everyone'' hates, but with Lex, he basically hates him and blames him for everything [[SinsOfOurFathers just for being Lionel's son]]. This bites him in the ass come "Suspect," where he's rather easily framed for an assassination attempt on Lionel.

* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is of the Crueler to One variety. No one is immune to his malice, but he has a special loathing for Private Lawrence, or as Hartman maliciously nicknames him, Private Pyle. Very early on, he singles out Pyle for his incompetence and both directly and indirectly abuses Pyle in every way that he can, which [[spoiler:causes Pyle to go off the deep end and murder Hartman.]]

* ''Film/LadyBird'': 80% of the time, Marion is caustic to her daughter Lady Bird, in the way only close family can be. Both feel trapped by circumstances. Marion wants the best for Lady Bird, but they clash over the general and specific approaches. Marion's own trauma makes parenting even more of a struggle. Hurt people hurt people, [[spoiler:and they can't get enough distance to stop hurting each other and reconcile until Lady Bird escapes to the other end of the country for college.]] The movie shows Marion being a sweet and considerate angel to everyone else, which helps Lady Bird know her mother is a JerkwithaHeartofGold. Deep down, they always love each other. All that makes Marion's cutting remarks even more painful in the moment.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: Thanos is rather abusive to his children but he has a form of twisted love towards them in that he believes he is doing what's best for them. However, he is infamously cruel to Nebula whom has shown to be a failure to him in that he openly declares Gamora as his favorite daughter right in front of her, is fully willing to torture her just to extract the Soul Stone's location from Gamora, and later declaring that the only reason he didn't kill her is that it would have been a waste of [[{{Cyborg}} parts]].

* In ''Film/OfficeSpace'', [[PointyHairedBoss Bill Lumbergh]] is a petty, passive-aggressive nightmare of a boss who's despised by everyone at Initech. For whatever reason (possibly because he knows his target won't fight back), he chooses to pick on Milton, a mousy, obsessive nerd. He repeatedly moves Milton's cubicle (eventually moving him into the basement), doesn't inform Milton he's no longer being paid (a glitch in the payroll meant Milton kept getting paid, despite having been laid off five years prior...which nobody ever told Milton about), and takes his beloved red stapler. LaserGuidedKarma strikes back, as Milton proceeds to [[GoingPostal burn the building down]] (which he'd been threatening to do the whole film) [[spoiler:and if a DeletedScene is canon, kill Lumbergh]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Despite being one of Hell's most feared overlords, Alastor is generally [[AffablyEvil a surprisingly friendly guy]]. The exception is his bitter rival Vox, who he doesn't bother trying to hide his contempt for. Notably, a run-in with Vox causes him to let loose with a stream of swears; [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Alastor's language is normally squeaky-clean]].

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Despite being one of Hell's most feared overlords, Alastor is generally [[AffablyEvil a surprisingly friendly guy]]. The exception is his bitter rival Vox, who he doesn't bother trying to hide his contempt for. Notably, a run-in with Vox causes him to let loose with a stream of swears; [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Alastor's language is normally squeaky-clean]].

** The Janitor is a Crueler to One example. While he's not above tormenting other people, J.D. is always his favorite target, mocking or pranking him almost every time they interact.

*** Seteth. While not the friendliest individual, he's not as cold to others as he is to [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint His supports have him explain his position to them]]: While he would like to trust them, it's hard for him to put his faith in someone who seemed to come out of nowhere and gained an important position despite not being able to remember certain details, like whether or not their father really IS their father. He does begin to warm up to them after they [[spoiler:rescue his sister Flayn]]. Depending on which route you take, it can even be a case of ProperlyParanoid.

--->'''Homer:''' Hey, we just got away with murder. And it was so easy! ''[sees Milhouse crossing the street]'' You know, I never liked that little wiener Milhouse. ''[steers toward him]''

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': Arial Kuyumaya is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and tends to be snippy and bitchy to everyone save for Dark, Felucia, Sun, and Complica. She's ''especially'' a {{Jerkass}} to Mizore, and spends most of Act VI making things difficult for her and being rude and bitchy even as Mizore is trying to be nice to her, to the extent she [[UngratefulBastard completely blows it off when Mizore saves her life]].

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa''

** [[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 herelf is an example, as while she's kind to her brother Nil([[spoiler:both the original and Rafal]]) as well a her suborinates, the Four Winds, sh is rather cold to Alear for the first half of the campaign. As a result, there is tension between the two, with 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 supports.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectSekai'': Shiho Hinomori comes off as cold and antisocial towards most people, but she's ''especially'' cold towards her older sister Shizuku. In spite of this, Shizuku frequently dotes on Shiho, much to her chagrin.

* Valentina in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' is mean and rude to everyone, but she's more abusive towards Dodo, who works for her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': Gary has his faults, but is ultimately a heroic JerkWithAHeartOfGold. That is, setting aside his relentless contempt for KVN, whom Gary berates and maligns at every given opportunity like [[{{Series/TheOfficeUS}} Micheal Scott does Toby]]. It's to the point it ''hurts'' Gary to show KVN some form of appreciation when he actually does something right, and he cries TearsOfJoy one episode later when [[spoiler:KVN is seemingly killed in battle.]]

--->'''Homer:''' Hey, we just got away with murder. And it was so easy! [sees Milhouse crossing the street] You know, I never liked that little wiener Milhouse. [steers toward him]

** While Calvin himself is typically a BrattyHalfPint and causes mayhem for anybody around him, his preferred target of torment is Susie Derkins. (Although it almost always immediately comes back to bite him in the ass.)

** Jimmy Pesto overall is not pleasant to be around ([[AbusiveParents not even to his own kids]] or his OnlyFriend Trev, and it's implied he's divorced). This particularly reigns true for titular business rival Bob, who Jimmy is obsessively arrogant and condescending towards way beyond business competition.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', Akane is resentful toward her father Zenkichi but is relatively polite toward the Phantom Thieves when they come visit her. She thankfully drops this after her CharacterArc.

* Francis in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is a prick towards Bill and Louis while he's pretty chill with Zoey. It would make sense for Francis to have dislike towards Bill since Francis is an outlaw and Bill was a soldier, but Francis's dislike towards Louis seems to be only based on Louis's annoyingly (in Francis's eyes) positive and chipper attitude while they're fighting for their lives in a zombie outbreak. Regardless of Francis's attitude towards Bill and Louis, he will still look out for them and will sound genuinely upset if either is killed. When Francis meets the other survivors in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', he's pretty jovial towards Ellis and Rochelle, but is quite hostile towards Nick, which makes sense given Nick's very sour attitude.

** Heather is a major AlphaBitch who openly despises nearly everyone in the series. However, if there is one person that Heather loves to go after the most, ''especially'' in the first season, it's [[ArchEnemy Gwen]]. [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna]] is second to Gwen in often running into personal conflict with Heather, but she doesn't pick on her as much because she can and does give as good as she gets. While not above retaliating herself, particularly when pushed too far, Gwen will often take the abuse. Heather not only basically threw a challenge to read Gwen's personal diary to the entire world, but she even personally caused the breakup of Gwen and Trent. It should be noted that these actions even disgusted [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chris]].

** While Robo Fizz is kind of a prick in general, he really enjoys picking on Blitzo, due to the two having developed a rivalry when Blitzo took a job at Loo Loo Land.
** Striker is very good at [[FauxAffablyEvil acting friendly and genial]], but he has it out for Moxxie and doesn't bother keeping up his usual persona towards him. He even goes so far as to write a country song with lyrics insulting Moxxie and perform it in front of a crowd.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Arthur Watts]] is a completely ruthless [[TheSociopath high-functioning sociopath]] aiding Salem's campaign of terror and genocide, but he usually acts at least [[FauxAffablyEvil moderately polite and well-spoken]] when interacting with others. With his [[TeethClenchedTeamwork ally]] Cinder Fall, however, he goes out of his way to verbally disparage her and try to make her feel insignificant, whenever they're within each-other's line of hearing. Cinder likewise despises him.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Arthur Watts]] is a completely ruthless [[TheSociopath high-functioning sociopath]] aiding Salem's campaign of terror and genocide, but he usually acts at least [[FauxAffablyEvil moderately polite and well-spoken]] when interacting with others. With his [[TeethClenchedTeamwork ally]] Cinder Fall, however, he goes out of his way to verbally disparage her and try to make her feel insignificant, whenever they're within each-other's line of hearing. Cinder likewise despises him.
** The [[EvilAllAlong Curious Cat]] is ruthlessly self-serving, and they despise all humans to the point of cruelty due to their past with Alyx, but they single out their former compatriot Jaune Arc in particular; directing disparaging remarks on his personal shortcomings at him when they cross paths again. This occurs even while the Cat is pretending to be Team RWBY's ally, in contrast to how the Cat acts impeccably polite towards Team RWBY, and it continues after the Cat's true colors are revealed.

** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Arthur Watts]] is a completely ruthless [[TheSociopath high-functioning sociopath]] aiding Salem's campaign of terror and genocide, but he usually acts at least [[FauxAffablyEvil moderately polite and well-spoken]] when interacting with others. With Cinder Fall, however, he goes out of his way to verbally disparage her and try to make her feel insignificant whenever they're within each-other's line of hearing. Cinder [[TeethClenchedTeamwork feels the same way towards him]].

** [[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]].