Adaptational Jerkass / Fan Works

Adaptational Jerkasses in Fan Works.

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Crossovers

• Against Despair has a justified case. Since the four members of RWBY are not teammates here, they haven't had the chance to get to know each other... and Ruby still accidentally caused Weiss' luggage to be destroyed. As a result, Weiss is much colder towards her and the others.
• All For Luz:
  • After her experience at the Death Camp, Luz Noceda is a lot more open to using lethal force on her enemies and is less tolerant of people who try to bully her, being more than happy to shut them up with either threats or violence.
  • Edric and Emira Blight see their younger sister as freak for being a Quirk user. They can be quite unpleasant to those they see as beneath them and engage in Fantastic Racism towards other races that was never displayed in the show.
• In Bendy and Boris: The Quest For The Ink Machine Cuphead is more rude and mean towards others, he insults Bendy and Boris and is mean towards his brother Mugman, calling him "worthless" until he almost kills Mugman by accident. Even after he decides to treat Mugman better he is still cynical.
• Carl Clover is given a case of this in BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant. While he was fairly rough around the edges in the games, he was still polite and respectful. Not so much in this story, where he's far more confrontational and rude in the beginning.
• C.C.'s cynicism is brought up more often throughout Code Prime R1, as the Black Knights are more idealistic than in canon due to interacting with the Autobots. Being immortal, she witnessed plenty of humanity's worst traits, and feels Cybertronians aren't that much better either. At the end of R1, C.C. becomes more optimistic.
• Codex Equus:
  • King Aspen's portrayal in "Root of the Problem" was still racist, but he was willing to let the Mane Six stay in Thicket overnight, and was genuinely grateful towards them for saving Bramble and helping him take down Well-To-Do. Here, he's extremely belligerent, self-righteous, close-minded, xenophobic, and arrogant, largely due to fawnhood trauma and the toxic influence of those who mentored him and passed on their own unsavory traits onto him. It's noted by the Codexverse writers that this depiction of Aspen is the real him, as the comic was produced by his radical supporters In-Universe as propaganda to glamorize his actions while portraying the non-Deer (including then-Princesses Celestia and Luna, who were off elsewhere dealing with another incident off-country) as idiotic and incompetent.
  • Unlike her canon self, Princess Magicum Ponyland (born Magic Star from Generation 1) is depicted here as a very cynical, bitter, and reclusive goddess who was broken down by four Ages worth of abuse and exploitation. And because of her experiences, she became self-righteous and judgemental, seeing herself as morally superior for not misusing her own artifacts while focusing on sapientkind's worst aspects to make herself feel better. She eventually realizes that she let her own traumas turn her into a Jerkass and feels ashamed of it, but it took her a long, long time for her to do so because of her beliefs at the time.
• The Devil Fruit Hero: Monoma is borderline malicious compared to his canon counterpart, constantly belittling his fellow UA students for the pettiest of imagined slights even after he's dropped down to General Education for his behavior.
• Downplayed with Charlie Morningstar in A Divine (Romantic) Comedy. It's made clear that she's still the same All-Loving Heroine who fully believes in redeeming Sinners, is in a happy relationship with her girlfriend Vaggie, and treats all her fellow demons with as much kindness as possible. However, she does not take the news that Lucifer has started dating Camila well at all, due in no small part to her desire to see her father reconnect and reconcile with her mother, Lilith Morningstar, and having found out about the relationship in one of the worst ways possible (on live TV no less). As a result, she winds up thinking the worst of Camila, seeing her as either a Gold Digger or having some form of malicious intent. This leads to her internally Slut-Shaming Camila in a moment of weakness and sending Dazzle to monitor her and Lucifer's date. Unlike most examples, Charlie herself is aware of this, and isn't proud of it.
• In Honey and Vinegar, Seras is a lot cruder and more aggressive than she was in Hellsing, where she was one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the series. This stems from her being much older and having become jaded towards humanity due to living in the Crapsack World that is the Medieval era.
• Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail:
  • Big time with Parker Cerise. In his home series, he was a very sociable and friendly kid whose worst sin was merely being a brat to his sister, Chloe Cerise. In this series, he has a massive anger problem and is overall unhelpful, self-serving and vengeance-obsessed, from refusing to admit to his faults to going above and beyond with his punishments. He eventually crosses Adaptational Villainy as of Arc 2, where he becomes a Big Bad Wannabe.
  • In the anime, Professor Cerise is eventually shown to be aware of his daughter's problems. But as it took 31 episodes of Journeys before he acknowledged her struggles at all and the story takes place before Episode 29 starts (which is when the anime finally decided that Chloe needs to grow as a character) the story was already well underway. As a result, the Professor in Blossoming Trail is completely oblivious to just how little he knows Chloe. When he starts trying to learn more about her after her disappearance, he goes into denial when he doesn't like what he finds — namely that she's a talented writer who loves monsters (just not Pocket monsters). He also looks for scapegoats he can take out his frustrations on, blaming them for either driving her away or not doing enough to warn him about what was going on.
  • Chloe provides an In-Universe example when she writes a story loosely inspired by her experiences. The analogue for Mew, a wish-granting creature that the protagonist pursues as feverishly as Goh chases after the Pokémon, turns out to be a Jackass Genie who cruelly mocks his pain, reflecting how much she resents Mew for being the object of his obsession.
• Kage: The Rebellion as a whole receives this. While straight up heroes in canon, here they're shown to not be above their own share of distasteful acts, such as the events that led to the destruction of Sonder Hill. And post-victory, their pride from defeating Phobos and resentment towards his followers is only making them undertake more morally questionable actions.
  • In canon, Caleb was a standard hero, but here he's got a borderline Black-and-White Insanity view of things that causes him to take such extreme actions that the Knights find him no different from Cedric.
  • Aldarn is a straight hero in canon, here he shares Caleb's anger and aggression towards anyone who might have served Phobos.
  • Likewise Vathek, who shows a cruel streak towards Phobos' minions that wasn't present in canon. Also, while canonically he showed some remorse for framing Raythor to cover his own tracks as The Mole, that is completely absent here.
• The dark never consumes all, for the light remains within its core:
  • Par for the course for Salt Fics like this, Most of the akuma class (save for Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chloe Bourgeois, Juleka Couffaine) have begun a campaign of bullying against Marinette, including Adrien (through gaslighting).
  • Lloyd Garmadon has undergone a personality change, becoming the ice king alpha bastard of the school, and not above committing murder. Although he still has a soft spot for Marinette, time will tell if it’s genuine or because his father ordered her protection without her knowing.
• It's Always The Quiet Ones: Marietta Edgecombe was The Stool Pigeon in the books who told Umbridge about the existence of Dumbledore's Army, albeit with the possible justification that she was afraid of endangering her mother's job at the Ministry, but not an outright bully. In this story, she steals Luna's pendant along with another girl and accuses her of being a liar when asked to give it back.
• The Dragon and the Bow: Astrid. In addition to being cruelly dismissive of Hiccup, she's down right hostile to Merida due to her Tragic Backstory. That said, she gets better with help from her mother scolding her, and with her growing relationship with Fishlegs.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
  • Sam's negative qualities from the show are given more emphasis in TMDDF: Danny and Kara. Although, this may be justified given she came home from a vacation she never wanted to be a part of and finds the boy she likes is now involved with another girl.
  • In the original version of TMDDF: After Many Dates: Danny and Kim chapter 3, Danny's parents and sister all say how much they like Kim and favor her over Sam. While it understandable why they like Kim, in the show they are very supportive of Sam and her interest in Danny and it comes off as rather out-of-character of them. Fortunately, the author edited the chapter, downplaying this attitude of theirs.
  • Clover in TMDDF: Danny Chooses Alex After the Many Dates. In canon she always had a slight dislike of nerds and was a little shallow. In this story she's far more vocal about her dislike of nerds and openly looks down on them; moreover, she's also more shallow in this story then she is in canon.
  • In the canon series, The Masters Blasters were just Vlad's pawns who were more than eager to charge for their "heroic" services. Here, they are shown to be bullies, even messing with a kid at the beach.
• The Marvelous World Of DC:
  • In modern Marvel comics, Doctor Doom is depicted as a fair ruler to his people, and very even-minded and respectful towards most of Marvel's heroes-apart from Reed Richards, obviously. That's not the case here. Doom is blatantly rude and violent towards Bruce Banner, a shameless misogynist, and is implied by Ben Grimm to have killed his father, the former king of Latveria. And since Doom's the only Latverian to appear in the story, we never see him contradict this.
  • Tom Manning is vocally expressive of the fact he doesn't like the "freaks" he works with at the BPRD, making Hellboy a more sympathetic figure.
• Both Shota Aizawa and Hitoshi Sinsho get hit with this in My Driver Academia.
  • Aizawa not only does he not like Drivers and Blades, deliberately rigging his Quirk assessment test to ensure that they end up at the bottom of the barrel, he downright says that Bakugo scored the highest in the Entrance Exam, even though Izuku and Pyra were the ones who took the top score and beat All Might's record, both because he's a Driver and because he caught All Might's eye.
  • Shinso is much more antagonistic to Midoriya and the other members of Class 1-A, the Drivers in particular. He's openly Quirkist against Izuku (going as far as to call him "baseline") and brainwashes his fellow Gen-Ed students into sabotaging themselves during the Sports Festival to give himself a better chance of winning. It's implied that this is partly from jealousy that he didn't resonate with a Blade, which he thinks alone would have gotten him in the hero course.
• In My Huntsman Academia, Cardin is even more of an asshole than he is in the original RWBY, lording himself over others as nobility, calling Yang a bimbo and a slut, and going out of his way to bully anyone smaller and weaker than him. He also holds a grudge against Izuku for exposing him as the one who tried to frame Katsuki for blowing up the bathrooms and gets CRDL to try to gang up on Izuku behind closed doors.
• In The Night Unfurls, a lot of characters are subjected to this in the fic's remastered version, compared with their characterizations in the original.
  • Alicia's Jerkass to One attitude to Kyril is explored in further detail, due to their increased interaction with each other.
  • As much as how Olga feels that she owes Kyril for saving her and her servant Chloe from the Black Dogs, she is more reluctant to feel that way in the remastered version. She is also less cordial to him, since he did best and imprison her personally, which does not happen in the original version.
  • Chloe acts more hostile in the remastered version than the original version, because her Fantastic Racism towards humanity is more pronounced in the former. Moreover, the remastered version includes additional members accompanying Kyril, Olga and Chloe in the journey from Garan to Eostia^note only the trio is present in the original, giving Chloe ample opportunity to start arguments.
• The MLP and Dan Vs. crossover The Wheel and the Butterfly Saga applies this to the whole cast. Dan Vs., to be fair, never really had any "likable" characters to begin with (Chris being the only exception), but everyone from My Little Pony is much, much nastier then their canon counterparts. Pinkie gets turned into a Psychopathic Mare-child, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and The Fake Cutie, Twilight has no problem killing her friends, Celestia gets into fights for no reason, and even Fluttershy seems much colder then she does in the show. Pinkie Pie at least has the excuse of the much more cynical and mean spirited world of Dan Vs. warping her mind while she's stuck there, but the others have no such excuse.
• Voltes V Versus Voltron The Godaikin Wars:
  • Princess Allura (someone reluctant to using violence in the original anime) is in favour of hitting kids.
    "Why... this Voltes Team is just kids..." Princess Allura voiced her observations. "And these children need spanking!"
  • Late in the fic, Keith and Lance have an arguement. Keith tries to settle it by shooting his laser pistol at Lance's head.
  • In Chapter 50, Hunk starts screaming that the staff of Daimovic are "yellow bellied gooks".

Amphibia

• A Moth to a Flame: Even before getting Mind Raped by The Core, flashbacks reveal that Marcy was already worse than in canon, such as when she framed another student for bringing alcohol to school because she was jealous of her relationship with Anne.

Animorphs

• In A Princess, a Treehugger, and a Space Cadet Walk Into a Library, Jake mentions that Tom "hasn't been himself lately". Since there are no aliens, we can only assume this version of Tom became distant from Jake of his own volition.

Arrowverse

• To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) does this with Eddie Thawne. In The Flash (2014), Eddie is a Nice Guy behind his initial bluster, makes friends with Barry, and is an attentive boyfriend to Iris. Even when he briefly leads an anti-Flash task force, he remains level-headed. In To Hell and Back, he's openly resentful of Barry's connection to Iris and becomes so obsessed with and paranoid over the Flash that he temporarily drives Iris away.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• The Stalking Zuko Series:
  • In canon, Aang's an incredibly compassionate Nice Guy who refuses to kill his enemies. Here, he comes off as more of a Dogged Nice Guy when it comes to Katara (who ultimately gets paired up with Zuko), while his Thou Shalt Not Kill policy is portrayed as being the result of wanting to uphold Air Nomad traditions, which is considered a selfish desire on his part, rather than principle.
  • Arnook was canonically a fairly benevolent leader, but here, he looks down upon the Southern Water Tribe, takes joy in hearing about the Fire Nation fleet being wiped out by the Ocean Spirit, and only really cares about his family and his tribe.

Batman

• Eight Count:
  • Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle run a less-than-above-board boxing league, which includes fight-fixing and even an underground component.
  • Kate Kane is an adulteress, cheating on her wife Renee Montoya with Dr. Pamela Isley.
  • Years before the story begins, Victor Stone loaded his boxing gloves with metal before a fight, causing his opponent, Slade Wilson, to lose an eye.

Care Bears

• In the HELLWINKLE Care Bears videos, all of the Care Bears act horrible to each other, going completely against the peace and love the canon Care Bears represent.

Code Geass

• Marianne was already a piece of work considering her canon involvement in the Ragnarok Connection and pulling a Grand Theft Me on Anya, but she's even worse in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Night due to using Anya as her personal blood bank, her sucking blood from Anya's limp form as she weekly tries to resist highly reminiscent of rape, and something even Charles is unnerved by.

Cool Cat Saves the Kids

• Cool Cat Saves Vietnam: Daddy Derek is willing to have Cool Cat die in a war (that he started) all because he wanted some alone time with his wife.

Cross Ange

• Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda:
  • While Jill is depicted more or less the same as in canon, in this story she's shown to be willing to cross lines she may or may not have been willing to in the canon series, such as reorganizing Aurora's security into her personal band of enforcers, being prepared to kill Momoka immediately if Ange doesn't follow her orders, and even threatening to do the same to Tusk next. Justified as in this version, the Aurora's crew is a mixture of not only Norma but members of the Network, requiring a more iron grip on her role as commander to fulfill her agenda of revenge against Embryo.
  • Rosalie is a bit more confrontational during the final arc than in canon, due to Hilda vanishing alongside Ange and the others into the True Earth, leaving Rosalie to shoulder being the only veteran Mail-rider by herself.

Danganronpa

• Danganronpa: Galactic Melancholy:
  • Byakuya abuses Toko much more, and is openly violent to the point of breaking Chihiro's nose. As a result, Chihiro struggles to find anything good to say about him, even cursing him out for his behavior.
  • Kanon doesn't appear in the Killing Game itself, but is revealed to have murdered Sayaka in a fit of jealous rage.
• Danganronpa: Parallel Island has a Downplayed example with Chiaki. While she still retains some elements of being the Nice Girl she usually is, she also comes across as having some Deadpan Snarker tendencies, often quipping about certain situations. In addition to that, she is also shown to be significantly less tolerant of her companions' antics compared to her canon self. This is best exemplified in the case of the petty rivalry between Celeste and Ruruka and later on, the initial rivalry between Mondo and Taka.
• Everyday Life with Ultimate Girls:
  • A light example with Hajime Hinata, who just got out of a conversation with Nagito who preyed on his insecurities about being a Reserve Course student with no talent. He overhears Makoto saying he shouldn't have accepted to come to Hope's Peak Academy without hearing the full context (Makoto was talking about how he felt that he had been causing the school a lot of trouble). Angered by the seeming ingratitude, Hajime ends up punching him in the jaw, giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and cut ties with him and Chiaki all together, not answering her calls or messages and leaving the Ultimate Gamer utterly despondent and heartbroken. Thankfully, they manage to work it out and restore their friendship after Jin's announcement of the Ultimate Talent Development Program, although things are still awkward between Makoto and Hajime.
  • Juzo Sakakura. In canon, he was portrayed as a violent brute that let his fists do the talking, and would even kill people who opposed his best friend Kyosuke Munakata; despite his actions, however, it was hinted that he truly wanted to help, with mixed results. In this story, the only positive quality shown so far is his loyalty to Kyosuke, and nothing else, as in Chapter 19, when his friend Chisa asks him about her failures as a teacher concerning Hiyoko almost being raped and sold, he coldly reminds her that her job is just a cover-up for Kyosuke to become Headmaster, and that students are just a distraction. Him considering Makoto the root of the school's problems and agreeing to Kyosuke's plans doesn't help either.
    Juzo: School needs to put these fuckers on a tighter leash. These students are out of control.
  • Also applies to Kyosuke Munakata, who is portrayed here with a personality close to the one he had in Side:Future. His cold attitude is already shown at the beginning of Chisa's chapter (like him showing disdain with the concept of Lucky Students by the tone of voice), but it goes further when Sonia almost gets shot and when Akane's siblings get lost in the forest, where the man is either unreceptive to Chisa's main concern and focuses on the school's next actions, or when he starts blaming her for this course of action, and then shifting the blame on Akane as he thinks it shouldn't be the school's problems to begin with. It's only later on when Chisa finds both of her classmates at a bar, in a drunk state, that he reveals his intentions: becoming the Headmaster to keep the status quo by blackmailing the Steering Committee using Chisa and Juzo's work. If what he said during this is true, then he also planned to not only get rid of the Reserve Course altogether (and possibly of the Lucky Students), but 'reform' the Ultimates to get rid of their wild behaviors and make them act like ladies and gentlemen, completely ignoring the fact their quirks were the reason they were enrolled in the first place.
    Kyosuke (drunk): We'll preserve the world's order and guide it to a brighter future on no one's request! It is what we must do! The Act of Charity from the Ultimates of Hope's Peak Academy!
    Chisa: Act of Charity?! Do you even hear yourself?! You talk as if you own the Ultimates!
    Juzo: That's what he's saying! He's gonna be Headmaster soon, so he's got to tell people who's in charge and how things should be!

Dimension 20

• The Seventh Player: Kristen Applebees is a downplayed example. Due to still following the "script" of the original Fantasy High campaign for the most part, Kristen doesn't veer too far into this territory, but the story still portrays her as being more obnoxious and ignorant, and less respectful of people's boundaries and troubles in general, than the original story treated her. Word of God has made it an effort to justify this, as they wanted to further highlight and demonstrate the realistic repercussions of these same behaviors that Kristen did demonstrate in canon that were otherwise disregarded by the original cast in the original story.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

• What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Tanjiro lacks the defining compassion of his manga counterpart, physically or emotionally torturing demons without remorse.

Disney Animated Canon

• Disney Villain Songs (Lydia the Bard):
  • "Anastasia's Villain Song" features a Downplayed example with the Dowager Empress Marie; unlike in the original movie, she refuses to believe Anya is the real Anastasia, dismissing her as just another would-be Con Artist.
  • "Cinderella's Villain Song": While Prince Charming extensively searched for his original dance partner, and getting married to somebody else after his failure was politically pragmatic, he doesn't show any regret or remorse when Cinderella shows up, only angry when she goes on a rampage against him and his new wife.
  • "Belle's Villain Song" paints her as a Proud Beauty who openly brags about her good looks and intelligence while revealing herself to be a Soft-Spoken Sadist.
  • "Isabela's Villain Song" has another Downplayed instance. In the original movie, Isabela had no idea that she could make anything other than pretty flowers with her powers, and never showed any interest in playing around until the latter half of the movie. Here, it's revealed that Alma actively forbid Isabela from making anything other than flowers, constantly pressuring her to be her perfect, model grandchild. At one point, she catches Isabela playing in the mud and drags her all the way to her room, throwing her inside and locking the door.
• Encanto fanfiction:
  • While Alma was Innocently Insensitive in canon, in A little dinner scandal she is much less subtle when it comes to Mirabel. When Mirabel offers to wash the dishes at breakfast, Alma thinks that someone "more capable" should do it, causing Mirabel to point out that she is the one doing all of the house chores without a gift. One time, Camilo transformed into Mirabel for the hell of it, only for Alma to go off on "her" for just standing there.
  • While Abuela Alma was the antagonist of the movie, she was Obliviously Evil and wouldn't intentionally hurt members of her family, rather hurting them unintentionally with her desire to uphold the miracle out of fear of losing it, and ultimately saw the error of her ways when called out for it. In The Two Seers, she is much more cruel, having actively evicted Bruno from the family for having a gift they had no use for and doing the same with Mirabel (who was five at the time) for inheriting his gift.

Dragon Ball

• In What If Goku Married Bulma?, Future Trunks is still the son of Bulma and Vegeta from the main timeline, and is none too pleased to learn that this reality's Goku got together with her instead. This spurs him to seriously contemplate not warning Goku about his future heart disease and letting him die. Ultimately, however, he can't bring himself to go through with it, giving him the medicine and helping out against the Androids.

Dream SMP

• Between Dreams and Memories Universe:
  • Wilbur is much more of a jerkass here than he was in canon, where he only really started behaving cruelly after undergoing a severe mental breakdown. Wilbur here is a rather selfish man prone to fits of paranoia and frequently lashes out at the people around him. He's genuinely well-meaning, but a lot of his good intentions are ruined by his many flaws.
  • In canon, Skeppy was genuinely disgusted by Dream's actions towards L'Manberg and he only actually sided against the country after they had destroyed his house unprovoked; even then, he still came off as one of the nicer and more thoughtful members of the SMP even after joining the Badlands. Here, he's rather amoral and his portions of narration make it clear he doesn't care if the rest of the world burns so long as he and Bad are alright.
  • Dream's grudge against Tommy is somehow made even worse than it was in canon. In the original source material, Dream had a longstanding enmity with Tommy because of a feud the two had during the early days of the server during which Tommy looted Dream's items and tried to kill him. Here, Tommy does no such thing that would truly justify earning Dream's anger; he's mainly just a follower of Wilbur, and he's actually pretty friendly to Dream when he allies with Pogtopia. Dream's hatred of him here seems to stem from how Tommy tries to stop him from worsening Techno and Wilbur's Sanity Slippage with his manipulation, making his horrific psychological torture of Tommy during Exile somehow even more petty than it already was.

Elfen Lied

• The Butterfly Effect (Elfen Lied) pulls this off with the orphanage girl who sold Lucy's puppy out to the bullies. In the original manga and anime, she pretended to be remorseful over it, only to secretly smile behind her tears. Here, the girl, named Rika, doesn't even try to fake remorse and openly tells Kaede she finds her disgusting, following up with a minor Did You Actually Believe...? over how Kaede actually believed she would want to be friends with her.

Family Guy

• Family Guy Fanon:
  • Peter has one in terms of his father Francis. Compared to the original, where Peter still loved his father despite of all of his obvious flaws and cantankerous behavior, here he treats Francis more harshly. From calling him out, slapping him, rarely calling him Dad and calls him more "Francis" or "Howard", blackmailing him and even trying to shoot him. Though considering what Francis has done to him in the past and present and how ungrateful he was to Peter's attempts to love him, and also added to the fact Peter in this adaption started the same way as original Peter before being driven off the rails, Peter's more rough treatment of Francis is greatly justified.
  • Cleveland's girlfriend Bernice. While in the original, she was a little bland and had no real personality, here she does have a personality... that being of a sassy abusive girlfriend that's no better than Cleveland's old wife Loretta. Of course, Cleveland dumped her in "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing".
  • Roberta Tubbs. In both the original and this version of The Cleveland Show, Roberta was a popular, but polite girl, who had respect for those less fortunate than her. However, when she came to Quahog, she fell victim to the Crapsack World clique at James Woods High set by Connie D'amico and became now a stuck-up bully. With a constant case of Meg trying to be friends with her, but Roberta ignores her because she doesn't wanna associate with her due to her being so lame. However, she does still have her standards, as when they bully her brother Cleveland Jr., Roberta makes a deal with the clique, saying that they can't bully members of their own family.

Fire Emblem

• A Brighter Dark:
  • Corrin's personality is almost a complete 180° shift from her portrayal in Fire Emblem Fates. Rather than fighting to peacefully end the war between Nohr and Hoshido, Brighter Dark's Corrin is a foul-mouthed Blood Knight who passionately hates Hoshido and relishes in going to war with them, not showing a shred of remorse when Mikoto, her birth mother, dies at her hands.
  • Takumi, whose jealousy and anger over Corrin rejecting her Hoshidan family steadily gets more intense over the course of canon Conquest, jumps right into Hate at First Sight of Corrin simply for claiming to be from Nohr, refusing to even acknowledge her as a person.

Girls und Panzer

• Turtles:
  • Applies to the protagonist, Koume Akaboshi, who accompanies Miho to Oarai here. Canonically, Koume is a Nice Girl who's grateful for Miho bailing her out during the finals, and doesn't appear to have anything bad to say about anyone. Here, however, she resents Maho for being an Aloof Big Sister, and is bitter towards the Student Council for forcing Miho to take tankery.
  • Downplayed with Maho, whose nature as an Aloof Big Sister is played up... though that could be partly due to how Koume, as mentioned above, doesn't like her very much.
  • The Student Council is also portrayed this way. In canon, their threat to expel Miho from Oarai if she refused to take tankery was partly a bluff and partly a case of Exact Words — not nice, but understandable given the circumstances. Here, it's a serious threat, and they also shoot down many of Miho and Koume's proposals despite the pair clearly knowing more about tankery than the council does.
  • Darjeeling is much more insensitive towards Miho, attempting to pry into her reasons for leaving Kuromorimine. According to Miho, the students at St. Gloriana consider those at Oarai to be their inferiors, and that they'll field the Tortoise against them if they aren't shown "proper respect".^note Apparently, they expect to be addressed using the extremely formal "-dono" honorific, which only the somewhat eccentric Yukari employs. Canonically, Darjeeling is perfectly fine with being addressed as "-san", which she uses in turn on Miho.

Harry Potter

• In Mudsnake, Ron doesn't befriend Hermione and, if anything, dislikes her more than he initially did, due to her being Slytherin. He bullies her but even he has standards as he tells adults when their prank gets too dangerous.

How to Train Your Dragon

• While Astrid was not exactly nice to Hiccup at the start of the series, she was much more focused on herself and her potential than Hiccup. In Rivalry, she is much more of a bully, their family's long-standing rivalry and him being the one thing standing between her and being the next chief being a big deciding factor in her behavior.

Kingdom Hearts

• Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode: The fourth installment, (aptly titled "Act 3: All That's Left") has a few examples.
  • Syndrome somehow manages to be even worse in this continuity. As if attempting to kill Mr. Incredible's family whilst forcing the poor guy to watch wasn't bad enough, Syndrome decides to take it a step further and replay the footage four times to further break his spirit.
  • Downplayed with Elsa. Though her personality is unchanged, Elsa isn't a candidate for a Princess of Heart like she is in Kingdom Hearts III, instead possessing a normal amount of darkness in her heart like any other person. Thus, instead of protecting her for her heart of pure light, the Organization tries to push her to succumb to darkness, with the intent of turning her into a Heartless and recruiting her as a Nobody. Zig-Zagged later, when Elsa gets stabbed in the heart with a shard of enchanted glass, amplifying her darkest feelings. In this possessed state, Elsa gives Anna a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech before trying to kill her. However, in the climax of the Arendelle Arc, Elsa manages to wrest back control long enough to apologize to her beloved sister before freezing her own heart to rid herself of the glass' corruptive influence.

Land of Oz

• In The Witch of Oz, a genderbend fanfic of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorian Gale started out as a rebellious punk since his parents got divorced. His adventures in Oz helped him become a better person.

The Loud House

• Anger Management:
  • Downplayed for Lincoln. While he spends most of the fanfic being good, it's only to prevent himself from being grounded, and he is very violent towards Lynn over a stuffed animal. The real Lincoln is rather diplomatic.
  • Lynn spends the majority of the story trying to deliberately make her brother mad enough to pulverise her, just to stroke her own ego.
  • Lynn Sr., who canonically is a very nervous, non-violent man, spends the entire story being proud of Lincoln for "sticking it" to Lynn, even when he knocks her unconscious.
  • Luna, Lana, and Lincoln's school friends are impressed that Lincoln beat up Lynn and (with the exception of Luna and Clyde) they don't sympathise with Lynn for being beat up. Lana even thinks it was "awesome" that Lincoln beat up Lynn.
• The Boy Who Cried Idiot:
  • Mollie, who in the show was just a bit character without much personality, claims most of her male classmates are ugly and says, "Make me, Zach!" when he tells her to shut up.
  • When Martin first shows himself, everyone in the class starts judging him for being ugly, even the usually-kind Lincoln and Clyde.
  • While Lincoln was in-character getting frustrated with Martin for throwing away his textbook, and with the bullies for embarrassing him, he escalates to violence and death threats a lot sooner than the canon Lincoln would. He also calls Martin ugly, which he probably wouldn't do in canon, even to a bully. Exaggerated in the third alternate ending, whereupon he strangles Lynn Sr. (though not fatally) just for wrongly grounding him, knocks out Rita, and beats up everyone else who wrongly blamed him.
  • Mrs. Johnson blames Lincoln for getting beaten up by Martin and simply says, "I don't want to hear it" when he calls her out on this, whereas in canon, she's a pretty reasonable teacher.
  • When Lincoln tries to defend himself to Rita, she snarks at him, whereas in the show she hardly ever snarks at anyone and certainly not Lincoln. At least she apologises later.
  • Lynn Sr. is also uncharacteristically snide, pulling out the old, "Oh, I don't know" line. Later, he calls Lincoln a baby just for defending himself and shoos away the four main pets for no reason. He does lift Lincoln's grounding and apologise for wrongly grounding him, but he doesn't apologise for snarking at him or calling him a baby.
  • While Leni is mostly in-character, she does apparently keep coming into Lincoln's room to watch him sleep.
  • Even Charles the dog, Cliff the cat, Geo the hamster, and Walt the canary got hit with the "mean" stick, since they find it cute when Lincoln cries.
  • Zigzagged for Lincoln's sisters. When they hear that Martin isn't Lincoln's friend but rather a stalker, not one of them believes him, and they throw him out of the house. However, when they hear Lincoln's angry speech, they believe him and call out Martin for causing them to kick him out. But then, when it's revealed that Martin is taking their things because of something Lincoln said in his sleep, they blame Lincoln and beat him up even though talking in one's sleep is not anyone's fault.
• It's (Not) Your Fault:
  • Luna herself is given some of this. She is much more aggressive and prone to anger than she was in the show. It is also strongly hinted throughout the story that she was the one responsible for the breakup of the Loud family. We do see part of this later on, as due to Rusty's fake photo, she ends up nearly beating the two up and essentially disowns Lincoln.
  • Rusty in the show, while he had his jerk moments, he was an overall normal and good person. In the comic, when he gets jealous of Lincoln and Stella's relationship, he sets out for revenge by altering a photo of Lincoln and Sam.

Love Hina

• In For His Own Sake, the various flaws of the Hinata Girls are treated much more seriously, with Naru and Motoko being significantly more violent, Kaolla Su more dangerously naive and thoughtless, and Mutsumi developing an obsession with forcing Keitaro and Naru back together because she refuses to accept the notion that she stepped aside and supported their relationship only for it to fall apart.

Mandela Catalogue

• The Mandela Magazine: In Mandela Catalogue, Mark is willing to help Cesar with his house's security system as soon as the latter explains the situation. In Magazine, Mark only agrees to help once Cesar starts pleading. He also starts arguing with him once he hears an odd "eeee" sound coming from Cesar's side of the call, accusing him of playing a prank on him and using the excuse of his mother being hospitalized to do so.

Mario & Luigi

• Mario & Luigi: Darkest Timeline: The future version of Mario himself is a lot more condescending and ruder than his past counterpart. This especially shows when Future Mario resorts to sacrificing a large number of the rebels in order to lure Bowser's army out, a tactic the past Mario would never use.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• The Devil's in the details: While Nick Fury in the films tended to do questionable things in the name of national security, here his actions border on Guantanamo-levels. He hijacks Peter's Europe-trip and starts throwing threats around when Peter refuses to cooperate with him, he does nothing to help Peter when Mysterio tries pinning the London attacks on him, he botches a kidnapping attempt on Matt Murdock that almost puts him in a coma, attempts to use him to recruit the Defenders into their initiative (an initiative that might be illegal considering SHEILD's legitimacy is suffering at the moment) and tries turning Matt into an Infinity Stone-detector despite Matt refusing to be a part of it.
• Legacy (DocSuess):
  • In canon, Tony Stark is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who's fast-talk and hedonism hides a troubled man burdened with his family legacy, his aloofness towards Peter built around a fear that he could get hurt. Here he is a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who treats Peter like a burden.
  • While Howard Stark was implied to be aloof and judgmental to Tony in canon, here Tony recalls him being a physically violent alcoholic to him and his mother and considers his own neglectfulness to Peter a step-up.
• While canon-Peter Parker was a naive Nice Guy, in Lies of omission he comes across as a snob that likes to press people's buttons, all born out of a mistrust in others hammered into him by his parents.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Burning Bridges, Building Confidence:
  • Alya turns on her former 'bestie', becoming violent enough that she files her nails into points and attempts to gauge out another girl's eye, all on Lila's say-so.
  • Kim's Establishing Character Moment is attempting to trip the newest addition to their class on her first day, with his bullying only escalating from there.
  • Chat Noir's canonical decision to withhold his help during certain battles until Ladybug apologized for perceived slights has ramped up here to being a regular occurrence, as he's attempting to blackmail her into "admitting how she really feels". Meanwhile, Adrien is standing aside and watching Marinette and Cole get bullied, saying it's their fault for trying to expose Lila. Despite being fully aware that Lila is a Manipulative Bitch, he also buys her claims that Cole is faking her vision issues.
• In the Dad Villain AU, Emelie Agreste turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is just as big a Control Freak as her husband. She's simply "nicer" about it, raising Adrien with the intent of keeping him helplessly dependent upon her. She's also been fully aware of Nathalie crushing upon her for years, blithely acting oblivious while using her feelings to manipulate and string her along. While Gabriel uses her as an Unwitting Pawn, it's telling that his Batman Gambit hinges upon him trusting that Emelie will freely abuse the Peacock Pin's powers despite how the Miraculous is clearly broken, without sparing a single thought to how this might be hurting Duusu.
• I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors makes clear that Adrien's Nice Guy persona is entirely a facade. Beneath the Mask, he's an incredibly Entitled and Manipulative Bastard who starts dating Marinette purely because she looks like Ladybug, so that he can fantasize about being with "the real deal"... unaware that she IS Ladybug. He's also very proud of his manipulative abilities, though he winds up dramatically overestimating what he's capable of...
• Leave for Mendeleiev:
  • Along with losing his Protagonist-Centered Morality protection, Adrien's worst traits are brought to the forefront here. He refuses to take his responsibilities as a hero seriously, preferring to focus on flirting with Ladybug and trying to figure out her secrets. His disregard for The Masquerade goes so far that he sees nothing wrong with casually outing Lila's claimed Secret Identity while she's being held hostage by an akuma.
  • Canon Nathaniel is generally a Nice Guy; though he grabs the Jerkass Ball in "Reverser", he makes amends with Marc offscreen by the end of the episode. Here, meanwhile, he never apologizes to Marc for destroying his notebook, instead sulking over being called out on his behavior and getting Jean thrown out of the Art Room. He also creepily fantasizes about Marinette, envying her friends and trying to punish them for being closer to her than he is.
• Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist has this happen to Alya between its two versions. In the original fic, Alya is more of an Unwitting Pawn of Lila's manipulations, as Lila exploits her hurt over Marinette abruptly transferring schools and Ladybug choosing a replacement Fox to make her increasingly reliant upon her False Friend. In Remix, both she and Lila go significantly further: Lila further slanders Marinette and Ladybug's good names, and Alya accepts her claims because that's easier than facing the prospect that she was wrong to dismiss Marinette's warnings. This leads to her being far more antagonistic, actively joining Lila's efforts to destroy both her former BFF and the superheroine's reputations, and getting akumatized more often.
• Weight Off Your Shoulder does this in an interesting way to Bunnyx. Like the work that inspired it, Two Letters, Bunnyx has No Sympathy for Marinette's decision to give up her Guardianship and pass the Ladybug Earrings on to a new holder. But in Two Letters, Bunnyx at least has a point about her chosen successor being highly sketchy and using the Earrings for their own gain. Here, by contrast, Marinette's successor is legitimately heroic, swiftly bringing Shadow Moth down and preventing future horrors like his becoming Monarch and enslaving nearly all the Kwami. But Bunnyx straight up does not care about anything other than preserving HER timeline — the one where she gets to become a Nominal Hero who's been abusing her powers to twist reality to her own selfish ends, making her a Time-Traveling Jerkass of the highest order.
• The Wolves in the Woods:
  • The majority of Marinette's classmates turn against her due to Lila here, which is extra notable in how this particular incarnation of Lila isn't nearly as awful and never actually intended for things to go so far.
  • Alya is easily the worst of the lot, as she convinced the others that Marinette was a bully who needed to be 'punished'... despite being fully aware that Lila wasn't telling the truth, brazenly exploiting the situation to 'cut her down a few notches' and intentionally trying to destroy her 'bestie's' self-esteem. Throughout all of this, she stubbornly blames Marinette and Lila for everything, yet also feels entitled to the former's friendship, insisting that 'she just wants her bestie back' regardless of how the other girl feels about it.
  • Kim and Alix become a pair of Barbaric Bullies who subject Marinette to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in hopes that Lila will 'reward' them by using her supposed connections to arrange sports scholarships for them both.
  • Adrien not only sits by and lets all this happen, he blames Marinette for attempting to expose Lila in the first place. His canonical jealousy of other superheroes 'stealing the spotlight' also spurs him to physically assault Ladybug when the Iberian Heroes introduce themselves, literally twisting her arm while demanding to know why they're there.

Monsters vs. Aliens

• God Help the Outcasts: Derek already wasn't that nice in canon, but it's taken up a notch here. Along with focusing more on his career than anything else (even his future wife), he was apparently a bit of a Manipulative Bastard who, every time they fought, managed to make Susan think she was to blame. He also apparently only liked her for her looks, and (once Susan gets Internet access and manages to watch the Modesto News) seems completely unconcerned by her sudden transformation/disappearance. Susan calling him out and flicking him into the sky at the end was definitely deserved.

Muted

• All my homies hate Athalie Severin: In canon, Avaline, Camile, and Silvia don't cuss out Athalie right after she died in front of them; they make their distaste for her clear, but don't cross the line. They also don't ignore her dead body and start talking about Camille's romantic prospects right then and there, for that matter.

My Hero Academia

• Breathe In, Breathe Out: Shinso falls into this while trying to taunt Izuku into responding during their fight. Not only does he accuse him of having things easy due to his Quirk, he insults Ochako, Tetsutetsu and Itsuka... all of whom had helped Shinso out by teaming up with him during the Dungeon Crawl. Naturally, Izuku and his friends are pissed off at Shinso being such an Ungrateful Bastard.
• Coyote:
  • Bakugo is hardly a saint in canon, since even without the Suicide Dare to Midoriya that feels out of place considering his later characterization, he's a hot-tempered and abrasive individual, whom the League of Villains considered recruiting. That said, in spite of his flaws, he does seek to become a hero, which is why he refused the League's invitation, and there are small moments when he cares for his classmates. In this fic, after learning that Midoriya's friend Coyote is afraid of hurting people, Bakugo ponders blackmailing him with it, only for Midoriya to let him know in no uncertain terms that he won't tolerate it. Canon Bakugo, for all his flaws, most likely wouldn't even consider stooping that low.
  • Aizawa's tendency to expel students who don't meet his standards is canon at least prior to Chapter 254, in which it's revealed that he re-enrolled the students who he expelled, but he's shown to be surprisingly caring toward those who do prove themselves. In the fic, however, after being called out on what became of the students he expelled- at best, they transferred elsewhere, while at worst, they became villains or committed suicide- Aizawa doesn't seem to care and stands by his decision. Aizawa is also accused of only passing the students who are so talented that he won't have to spend much effort training them, meaning that instead of setting the standards high to prepare students for the trials associated with being a hero, he just wants to make himself seem like a better teacher than he is.^note While, in canon, Aizawa eventually becomes a mentor to Shinso, a General Studies student whose Quirk was unsuited to the Hero Course entrance exam, it's unclear whether Aizawa would have considered doing this for him in the past, or whether it's the result of Character Development.
• Emerald Furnace - Path Of Storms: Bakugou believes that Izuku's Quirk is nothing more than a villain Quirk, and that Izuku will rot in prison or in the grave, where he belongs.
• Emerald Furnace - Path of Waves: Bakugou believes Izuku's Quirk makes him a future villain or a dead man, and he's eager to see that come true.
• Several characters in Mean Rabbit, to the point that it becomes a World of Jerkass:
  • Rather than simply wanting to help people, Izuku wants to become a Pro Hero for the fame and popularity. He's also far more cynical than his canonical counterpart, and his attempts to "no longer be a bitch" mostly entail taking a page from Katsuki's handbook and being extremely rude.
  • Aizawa repeatedly singles out Izuku for punishment, including blatantly fudging his scores on the Quirk Assessment Test and attempting to expel him (ranking him last despite Izuku being firmly in the middle of the pack in every event). Aizawa justifies his cruelty as Tough Love, claiming that as his teacher, it's his job to teach him that life is unfair and that people will always despise him for being Quirkless... because it's certainly not like Izuku's own experiences would have ever taught him that.
  • The majority of Class 1-A see Izuku as a Jerkass, blaming him for Aizawa giving the five lowest-placing students an expulsion scare after Izuku stands up for himself. Similarly, they blame Izuku for defending himself against Katsuki's attempt to use lethal force on him by turning his own Quirk against him. Jirou, Kaminari and Mineta stand out in particular amongst their peers for being willing to abandon an injured Izuku during the USJ assault, only prevented from doing so by Sero. Kyouka also kicks Izuku in the balls when he tells her to stop yelling because there's villains around.
  • The audience of the Sports Festival immediately turns on Midoriya after they witness him calling out Monoma for one of his anti-Class 1-A spiels, lacking the context of what was actually said and seeing Midoriya as the aggressor. Unlike their canonical distaste for Bakugou, the crowd is soon whipped up to the point of throwing not just insults, but food and parts of the stadium at him. And aside from adding a few extra security guards, the staff of U.A. does nothing to address the problem, with Present Mic goading them into an ever-larger furor by embracing painting Midoriya as a heel.
• In My Hero Playthrough, Shinso uses his Quirk to brainwash students into helping him in the Sports Festival, like in canon, but in this fic, he abandons Ojiro and Hagakure once he's done using them, resulting in them doing poorly and nearly being put on probation. As a result, Aizawa gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech criticizing Shinso for making such a stupid move, and saying that Shinso's personality, not his Quirk, is what's holding him back.
• Bakugo of The Norse Hero: Fenrir is in the firm belief that Izuku's quirk makes him a villain and has done everything in his power to ensure that such a thing will happen. Every class they ever shared, Bakugo has ensured that his fellow students would be afraid of him, and has tried to nail it into Izuku's head that he is not hero material even if he was too intimidated to try and beat it into him. It eventually reaches I Reject Your Reality levels when he thinks that Izuku is a member of the League of Villains when both of them get kidnapped, and when Ragnarök is fighting All For One, Bakugo wants to stick around to watch Izuku die.
• Peace's Apprentice:
  • Aiwaza's worst traits are amplified, as he expels Izuku before the Quirk Assessment Test purely because he wants to make room for his protege Shinsou. His constant cruelties under the guise of 'testing' his students leave them anxiety-ridden and paranoid, afraid that he'll punish or expel them if they can't divine precisely what he wants out of them.
  • Shinsou is also much more antagonistic, knowing that Aizawa will punish others no matter how much he acts out. When Momo politely asks him if he's willing to scoot down the bench so that all the girls can sit together, he refuses... then gets up and follows her when she moves herself, taunting her and using his Quirk to further humiliate her. Aizawa then backs him up by blaming Momo and saying she should've moved from the start rather than 'demanding' Shinsou move.
• Rise of the Last Villain: Subverted. Izuku rejects All Might's offer not because All Might was meaner than in canon^note in fact, the story begins after the rooftop scene, but because he had to be forced into action to save Bakugo by Izuku rushing in, causing Izuku to refuse to speak with him.
• Think Before You Speak: Aizawa sets the whole plotline into motion by lying to Tensei about how his younger brother was hurt, exploiting his Big Brother Instinct in order to set him against the innocent Izuku. Why? Because he wants Tensei to help him ruin Izuku's reputation and get him kicked out of the Hero Course.
• Whispered Tribulation:
  • While Aizawa was a dick in canon, he was a Pragmatic Hero to a fault. This version of Aizawa suffered a Sanity Slippage due to the constant villain attacks and his students being forced into life-or-death situations and wound up taking the unscrupulous route, catching and "interrogating" an innocent Izuku until he "confesses". The same applies to his co-conspirators Vlad King and Snipe.
  • Without Izuku becoming a proper rival to him, Bakugo remains the emotionally unstable bully he started out as. He is caught before assaulting a defenseless Izuku to teach him "his place" (thinking Izuku being in the Gen-Ed course is still him being above his station) and expelled by Nedzu.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Princess Celestia in the show is shown to have a playful side underneath her wise and regal appearance, but fan works have tendency to make her out to be a full on troll that borders on Heroic Comedic Sociopath.
• In Alicorn, a lot of characters - namely Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Twilight - are a lot more rude, insensitive, and confrontational than their canon counterparts, which is justified by the fact that they're all going through stressful and emotional situations that cause them to lash out in anger, fear, or jealousy;
  • Rainbow Dash, aka. Princess Aurora, has learned that she's adopted, that Celestia is her mother, and that her life will never be the same again. She's had to move to a city where she knows no one, no one cares about the pony she is beyond her title and alicornhood, and the royal guard treats her more like a prisoner than a princess. She's lost control over her life completely, so she lashes out in anger and acts impulsively and with no care about the damage she's causing because at least then she regains some control.
  • Rarity nearly loses her sister and father in the first terrorist attack on Equestrian soil in over a hundred years. This rips away any sense of safety and security she had, and she projects her fear onto Rainbow. To Rarity, who's terrified for her and her family's safety, Rainbow being constantly guarded and without living family other than Celestia and Luna, seems like a blessing, and what she perceives as Rainbow's ungratefulness causes a bad fight between them.
  • Twilight has a bad case of Mommy Issues regarding Celestia, and would love to actually be the sun princess' daughter. So, when Rainbow suddenly turns out to be Celestia's daughter, it causes Twilight a lot of jealousy, especially since Rainbow does everything in her power to reject the thing Twilight would do anything to have. While she knows that her jealousy is unfair and that Rainbow is going through a lot, she can't help but let some of the envy bleed into how she treats her. Add to that Shining Armor being put in critical condition in the line of duty and Rainbow treating her guards (guards like Shining Armor) as an annoying pest, and you get a perfect cocktail for a broken friendship.
• Camaraderie is Sorcery:
  • This is downplayed with Celestia. She's still a genuinely good pony, but she's a great deal more bitter and wrathful than her canon counterpart. This is best shown when Twilight and her friends beat Nightmare Moon, and Twilight is surprised when Celestia chooses to forgive her sister and is shown even better when she says Twilight is allowed to give twenty lashes to anyone who harasses her.
  • Also, Twilight herself. She's still more or less as nice as her canon counterpart, but it's comes pretty clear she's this when we see she's perfectly willing to have ponies who bother her whipped.
• Equestria: Civil War: Moon Dancer in this story is more openly hostile towards Twilight than how she was portrayed in the show. Most of this stream from the fact that her sister was injured because of Starlight's recklessness.
• Spike is this in Feral World. Especially when you compare him to both his canon self and the author's other incarnations of the character as he's a lot more ruder and abrasive. When the girls rescued him the first two times, he didn't exactly show a lot of gratitude towards them and thought they only did it out of pity. Granted, he lost his parents to the pandemic when he was young, was kicked out of an orphanage when he turned thirteen, lived in a rundown, rotting apartment, and was constantly pushed around by many Equestrians solely becuase he was a human. So, his attitude is somewhat justified. Thankfully though, he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and slowly but surely warm up to the girls when he finds out they've been there for him in secret.
• Orion from Rainbow Factory is a nice young colt that saw Aurora Dawn fail her flight exam and was apalled that nopony would bother to go down and help her due to her breaking her wings, after being threatened that he would automatically be failed if he goes to help out the Failure, he does it anyway, gladly foregoing his chance to live in Equestria if it means showing a little bit of compassion in the world, even standing up to other adult ponies when they keep insulting Aurora for having broke her wings. In My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series telling of the story "Captain Hook The Biker Gorilla", Orion is transformed into a Straw Character that while is still concerned about Aurora falling; doesn't bother to raise a hoof to go help her out. While Orion is still failed, it was due to him passing a note to Scootaloo asking if she would date him. Orion spends most of the short constantly insulting Aurora Dawn, claiming that she has Pony AIDS and during a Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory skit screams that Aurora is "The Fat Kid".
• While most aren't outright villains, just about everyone is more cynical and mean in Friendship is Witchcraft than they are in the original cartoon.
• Long Road to Friendship: In canon, Sunset Shimmer, after her redemption, is a much kinder, albeit timid person. In this fic, Sunset retains a lot of her nastier traits, and struggles much more with being a good person. Despite being proven wrong, she still holds a massive grudge against Princess Twilight.
• My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: Due to DWK's style, everyone. Starlight Glimmer in particular is portrayed as an autistic, depressed, perverted alcoholic who turns her friends into her sex slaves on a whim.
• Pinkie Tales: Pinkie in canon will, at worst, possibly reach Innocently Insensitive with some of her actions. Here though she is outright uncaring about what she does to the stories, refusing to stop her antics even when its clearly explained to her just what she's doing is rude and annoying to those around her.

Naruto

• Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison is set in a world where the Uchiha Massacre didn't take place. Despite this, Sasuke's Inferiority Superiority Complex makes him incredibly rude, to the point that his Establishing Character Moment is telling Sakura that she's nothing more than expendable Cannon Fodder after she manages to land a couple hits on him during a spar.
• Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto portrays Kurenai as a Social Climber rather than a Team Mom. Several other ninja gossip about her using them or others to improve her chances of being promoted to Jounin, and she only took a Genin team to increase her social standing further.
• In Konoha's Fatal Joke, Neji is much more openly antagonistic towards anyone who doesn't accept his insistence that You Can't Fight Fate... to the point that he insults the Third Hokage over it.
• Son of the Sannin: While Madara Uchiha in canon was a Smug Super who earned the hate of pretty much almost everyone In-Universe, he was at least capable of respecting opponents who could put up a good fight against him. Here, he will still praise opponents who can last more than a few seconds, but if they start getting the upper hand on him, he loses it and proves himself to be the ultimate Sore Loser. Case in point, one of the most noticeable changes is how he acts towards Maito Gai when the latter opens the Gate of Death: Canon!Madara comes to see Gai as a Worthy Opponent for besting and almost killing him, and his final attempt to kill Gai before he succumbed to the fatal aftereffects was done as an act of mercy from his point of view. Here, Madara actually mocks Gai for using a technique that will kill him, insulting his efforts and laughing after he barely survives Gai's final attack. Needless to say, his insults towards Gai's memory earns the ire of his students, fueling their desire to avenge him in the final battle.
• Space to Breathe: Sasuke swiftly proves to be much more arrogant and self-absorbed here. Not only does he not bat a lash when Sakura leaves Team Seven in order to apprentice under Ibiki, he convinces himself that he forced her out of the group and was right to do so, declaring that "Abandoning something that's only weighing you down is the smart thing to do." His lack of care for her or anything outside of himself also means that he doesn't have any Morality Pet or Chain to help him resist the allure of Orochimaru's Cursed Seal, and he freely abuses the techniques Kakashi taught him, including putting a Chidori through Naruto's chest when he calls him out on being a jerkass.
• What You Knead casts a harsher eye on Jiraiya's faults, setting him up as a Foil to Kakashi. His Establishing Character Moment has him barging into his bakery to give the former copy-nin hell over his own misassumptions, trying to guilt-trip him out of retirement, then trying to pull a No, You when he has his own hypocrisies pointed out. While the author states that Jiraiya would be more supportive if he actually knew the full story, he has no interest in actually learning anything about it; one of his Fatal Flaws is being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All who refuses to acknowledge his mistakes.
• Your Heart a Haven of Thorns takes a rather dim view of the Sandaime. Hiruzen himself regards his grandfatherly persona to be nothing more than a facade he adopted as part of his second stint as Konoha's leader, as it's useful for manipulating others. It's also revealed that he went out of his way to ensure Naruto was isolated throughout his childhood, rather than 'merely' turning a blind eye towards how he was mistreated.

NUMB3RS

• Amita in Brothers love becomes much more of a jerk when Charlie reveals he was adopted and that he is her cousin David and she blames him for the death of his birth parents and even becomes homophobic when she sees Don being protective of Charlie.

Odd Squad

• Numerous fanfics, such as All Mixed Up!, tend to make Oprah a complete uncaring jerk, if not an out-and-out villain. This deviates quite a bit from her canon personalty, where she is a Tiny Tyrannical Girl that isn't above giving implied death threats and yelling at her agents, but still has a hidden heart of gold and is willing to help her agents out when needed, with later episodes having her mellow out considerably into a Benevolent Boss in part due to viewer criticism.
• O'Brian in Forever And A Mile is portrayed as more of an asshole than he is in canon, where he was, at best, a jerk that just so happened to be one of Precinct 13579's resident bullies. He still tube-blocks agents, but the reason this trope applies to him is particularly due to the deconstruction of how his actions seriously hurt one of his victims, and how he seems to have no remorse for it, nor does the victim want to interact with him again.

The Owl House

• One of canon Odalia's very few remotely pleasant qualities (lack of prejudice against same-sex relationships) is scrubbed away in A Blight on Bonesborough since this version doesn't reside in a Non-Heteronormative Society, prefering if Amity ended up with a boy instead of a girl.

Persona

• In the Persona 4 fanfiction Into the Fog, Chie is far more hostile towards Rei than she ever was to the protagonist.
• In Queen of Hearts, unlike in canon, Makoto is the leader of the Phantom Thieves and Ryuji is not one of the founding members. As a result of not joining the Phantom Thieves, Ryuji ends up being more of a jerk than in canon. Ryuji actually believes rumors of Ann being in a relationship with Kamoshida, unlike in canon, where he refused to believe that Kamoshida was her type, even if he butted heads with Ann over trying to gather evidence on Kamoshida. In the fanfic, he requests a change of heart for Makoto on the Phan-Site, unlike in the game, where he viewed Makoto's investigation of the Phantom Thieves as, at worst, an annoyance.

Pokémon

• Guys Being Dudes: Candela is notably meaner than she is in canon, displaying more snark and petty behavior towards her coworkers and more direct dislike of Arlo beyond her canonical feelings about her former friend joining Team GO Rocket.
  • Sierra is written as Affably Evil in her canon dialogue. Here, she states that she joined Team GO Rocket to crush people's dreams and is the least sympathetic of her trio.
• "The Ash Ketchum Chronicles" makes AJ a particular example of this; while he had rougher training methods than Ash in canon he still clearly cared about his Pokemon and was just pushing them to succeed. This version of AJ takes his training to a more brutal level, such as whipping his Beedrill and poisoning his Rattatta during a battle to activate their Rage and Guts ability respectively, culminating in Pikachu managing to defeat Sandshrew because Pikachu trusted Ash's ideas compared to AJ just brutalising his Pokemon to push them further. This escalated to AJ attacking Ash after the battle when Ash simply offered constructive criticism of his methods, culminating in AJ being arrested by a disguised Officer Jenny.

Prehistoric Park

• Prehistoric Park Reimagined: Drew Luczynski is far more caustic and abrasive than his counterpart in Prehistoric Earth, who was cocky and impulsive, but overall a nice guy. His treatment of his team, especially Leon, is a bit more jerkish - in particular, using Leon as bait for an escaped Torvosaurus. This is emphasized by Leon's increased timidity.

Pretty Cure

• In Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, Sora and Mashiro getting Kabaton's name wrong was a genuine accident. In PreCure in a Nutshell, they do it on purpose.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

• While the Thanks Kyubey incarnation of Mami Tomoe is still fighting against the witches, she's also much more of a jerk than she was in canon.

RWBY

• Coeur Al'Aran:
  • Whilst some of Coeur's fics characterize Ironwood as a virtuous and helpful Reasonable Authority Figure, others like Knight of Salem and Professor Arc go in the opposite direction by dialing up his pettiness and bull-headedness.
  • The Eternal Crown: Yang, having been raised by Raven in the bandit tribe, is just as cutthroat and brutal as the rest of them barring a soft spot for cute things, instead of being a well-meaning huntress.
  • In Your Wildest Dreams: Neptune's dream reveals some highly unpleasant things about his personality. Not only does he deny wrongdoing for standing Weiss up at the school dance and publicly embarrassing her, he's a serial skirt-chaser who picked Weiss solely for the sake of having a dance partner and didn't care how it might affect her when she realized he was stringing her along. His dream also implies that he previously spread malicious rumors about a fellow student at Haven who slept with him, because he was insecure about her seeing his size.
  • Knight of Salem: Salem, at least initially, acts a lot more childish and petulant than her sophisticated, Faux Affably Evil canon self, although she does get slightly better as the fic goes on.
  • A Rabbit Among Wolves: Blake's worst qualities are heavily dialed up for this fic's purposes, bashing Jaune and going out of her way to break the rules for reasons that go beyond irrational.
  • Raise: Where Jaune is concerned, Weiss ends up becoming an increasingly awful girlfriend, on account of her being more in love with the idea of him than with him as a person and on account of her subconscious fears of turning into her mother which drive her to overcompensate. She increasingly becomes controlling, puts Jaune's job and reputation ahead of his mental wellbeing, doesn't bare a single thought for Jaune as a person so much as an idol, and she constantly refuses to admit fault, with her behavior only escalating as the fic goes on.
  • Relic of the Future:
    • Vernal is a lot more rude and crude than her canon portrayal, who could at least trade barbs and insults with her foes without using three curse words per sentence, and she's more outwardly abrasive and determined to antagonize everyone within hearing range. It's ambiguous if this is a deliberate creative exaggeration by the author, or if it's a sign of what Vernal used to be like in the past before Raven groomed her to be the decoy Spring Maiden (an event which ultimately doesn't happen in the new timeline with Vernal becoming more autonomous from Raven).
    • Pyrrha's father Alexander has previously been referenced or outright appeared in Coeur's other fics, but he was usually portrayed as a very loving, caring and ideal Good Parent who values Pyrrha's happiness first. The Alexander Nikos of this fic is instead a corrupt, fame-obsessed, controlling male Stage Mom who puts raking in glory before his daughters' mental wellbeing, and he's willing to bully, threaten, sue, or hypocritically use any underhanded means to get his own way.
  • Remnant Invicta: Instead of a Shrinking Violet, Velvet in an apocalyptic Remnant is, as Jaune's thoughts note, a hardass "giant bitch".
• Misshapen Sparks is a RWBY AU where Yang was raised by Raven amongst her tribe of bandits. She's much more aggressive and morally dubious than in canon.
• Ruby and Nora:
  • Qrow, while still a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, is even more of a belligerent drunk in this series. Due to Winter’s Adaptational Nice Guy, he looks like a complete tool for messing with her.
  • Salem was Affably Evil on the show, was an otherwise Benevolent Boss when people did as they were told, and regarded Ozpin and humanity with a level of respect despite trying to wipe them out. Here, she is incredibly arrogant and loves to lord her superiority over others as well as being rather sadistic. She's more Faux Affably Evil with the veneer of civility barely concealing her unpleasantness. The fact that she's a Composite Character of herself and Cinder Fall explains this. She takes on Cinder's arrogance and impulse to gloat.
• Several of the characters in RWBY Abridged, but arguably the most noteworthy example is Ruby herself, who while still heroic, is very cynical, short tempered, snarky, and abrasive, unlike her very friendly Wide-Eyed Idealist canon counterpart.
• RWBY: Scars:
  • Adam's depicted as abusive and cruel from the start. He lacks the initial calmness of his canonical counterpart.
  • Blake starts off as a much darker character with a vivid hatred of Weiss. She's also much meaner, which includes moments such as punching and threatening Yang in the initiation due to not wanting to be her partner.
  • Weiss' racism towards Faunus is ramped up. She was taught by her father that they were beneath humans. She also vented out much of her anger on Faunus instead of directing them at her parents.
• Team LVDR portrays Ironwood as an amoral Jerkass who is willing to cover up murders and torture for no other reason than to secure Atlas’ reputation.
• Vale's Underground portrays Cardin as a police officer, but he is still no less unpleasant. However, it also shows him regularly sexually harassing colleagues and even being homophobic to a degree. It becomes outright Adaptational Villainy when it is revealed that he works for Cinder.
• War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology:Weiss. As part of her Deconstructed Character Archetype, is much more of a petulant, whiny, spoiled, bigoted jerk who none of the Beacon students could stand.
• RWBY Alternate: Yang's personality is tweaked to put emphasis on her abandonment issues. She is an Aloof Big Sister towards Ruby due to feeling that their father favors her and scorns Yang as the reason his first marriage didn't last. While Ruby sees Yang as a role model, Yang is much colder towards her. It's a major part of her character arc that she learns to love Ruby and realizes her disdain towards her family is unwarranted.

Saki

• Saki: After Story:
  • Teru. While her estrangement from her sister is canon, there are hints that their relationship is a bit more complicated than her simply hating Saki, and she does eventually admit that Saki is her sister. In the fic, she not only angrily denies having a sister, but also beats up Saki after losing to her. She even is willing to beat up Sumire if pushed far enough.
  • Sumire also counts. While cold and unemotional in canon, she does seem to have a certain fondness for Teru, since they've been friends since the start of high school. Here, she pushes Teru's buttons so hard, from calling Teru out on lying about not having a sister to noting her Perpetual Frowner status, that Teru attacks her.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong

• SV Wishes
  • Yue Qingyuan isn't the too forgiving Big Brother Mentor that Shen Yuan sees him as in canon. He is an entitled "nice guy" who frequently takes his spouses for granted and frequently neglects his household much to everyone's detriment.
  • Qi Qingqi is notable for being the only female Peak Lord in canon, here she is Shang Qinghua's neglectful spouse that he lives in fear of. Even though Shang Qinghua knows that she doesn't give a damn about him and rather spend time with her wives and concubines, he cannot be suspected of cheating on her without being castrated or executed as punishment in principle.

The Smurfs

• Hefty, normally a friendly Smurf in the mainstream Smurfs media, is made into a Jerkass in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story series, with most of his jerkassery aimed squarely at Empath as well as Duncan McSmurf (the Adaptation Name Change version of Gutsy from The Smurfs live-action film series).

Sofia the First

• A Magical Evening:
  • While he was a villain in the series at first, Cedric was also a Tragic Villain who ended up redeeming himself at the end. In the fic, he remains a villain and is even the one who outs Sofia and Lucinda’s relationship.
  • King Henrik in the series is a loving father who mostly just tries to appease his spoiled daughter a bit too much. In the fic, he is a cruel jerkass who forces his daughter to break away from Sofia and Lucinda after they are outed as being in a relationship and behaves in a nasty way towards them. The same thing technically applies to Clio’s parents and Hildegard’s mother, but in the series, they aren’t given much characterization.
  • Downplayed. While King Nasir isn’t outright cruel like Hildegard and Clio’s parents, he does show disapproval towards the idea of Sofia and Lucinda being together and thinks Roland should help them instead of supporting them and gets mad when Roland refuses his idea. He also forbids Maya and Khalid from attending Amber and James’ party. Though he does in the end, at least he accepts his daughter Maya making her own choice to renew her friendship with Sofia, Amber, and James, even if he disapproves.
  • While Prince Hugo was a jerk at the beginning of the series, he Took a Level in Kindness later on. In the fic, he is shown to still be nasty even as an adult, rejecting Amber and James’ invitation to their party and leaving a rude note simply because their sister is with another girl.

Spider-Man

• Open For All:
  • While the original comic-book Flash Thompson was your stereotypical Jerk Jock bully, MCU!Flash is portrayed more as a Nerdy Bully who preferred to throw his privileged life around and bother Peter with hurtful comments and name-calling. Here Flash starts out like that, only to upgrade to physically pushing him around when Peter gets sick of his and Harrington's shit and tells them off.
    Flash Thompson: Learn your place, Penis.
  • Roger Harrington in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home was an Apathetic Teacher at his worst, a harmless nuisance at best who tried to be an applicable adult to the students he is responsible for. Here not only does he let Flash's verbal and physical harassment of Peter go on unobstructed, but he actively makes sure that Peter is unexempt from the OFA program and refuses to believe that Peter actually does work with Tony Stark, accusing him of forging his signature and jeopardizing his own future by lying about it. It takes an Armor-Piercing Response from Peter (who is usually an Extreme Doormat) to shut him up.
• In Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, Mr. Harrison is at his best an ineffectual dork, at worst an Apathetic Teacher. In Peter Parker's Field Trip (Of course it's to Stark Industries), not only does he make it clear he does not believe Peter when he says that he works at Stark Industries, but he has him sent to the principle office when he refuses to "admit" to forging Tony's signature, having his field trip and school activity privileges suspended, two weeks of in-school-suspension and expecting Peter to write hand-written apology to all of his classmates and teachers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• The Shredder in Same Difference is far more brutal and Ax-Crazy than his canon self, with far fewer Pet the Dog moments. Word of God states in the author's notes at the end of Chapter 6 that Oroku raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.

Thomas & Friends

• In The Brother's Grimm, the Grumpy Passenger goes from grumpy to outright hostile and antagonistic, to the point where he hits Bernard and Emily with a cane.
• Engines Together: Some characters are much meaner than they were in canon.
  • Sir Handel is a far more vain and selfish engine in the fanfic as he whines and complains about everything. It all comes to a head when his attitude causes a major accident that almost kills Bear. He does get better in the second season though, especially once he meets Luke.
  • Spencer is much more insulting to the other engines than he was in canon as he puts others down without a care in the world.
• NWR Hidden Stories: Henry in the original books was just young and naive when he went into the tunnel. Here, he ends up ruining Conan and Jewelie's wedding and doesn’t care, more concerned with his paint.

Total Drama

• A TDA Love Triangle with Betty, Cody, and Gwenny: Geoff gets fully corrupted by fame during his time as host of the Aftermath and starts treating his former friends like garbage, and even insults and demeans his girlfriend Bridgette.
• From Surfboards to Diapers: Bridgette's mother is described by Bridgette's online Island bio to be very close to her daughter and very proud of her. Here, she's a far less pleasant woman who expels her daughter from her home after learning she's pregnant and goes off the deep end afterwards, bullies her son and husband into disowning Bridgette, and generally treats her daughter and her pregnancy like a mistake to be ashamed of.
• Loud Ed Drama A short-lived example with Tyler. In his boot episode "Phobia Factor", he is blamed for his team losing, but he tries to deflect his mistakes by saying only four people on his team passed their fears. He even acts similar to how Noah acted in canon when he got eliminated, which is to stand up and protest his elimination, only to have a bunch of marshmallows thrown at him, and finally Leshawna calling him a "turkey."
• In Rick and Morty New Drama Adventures: Courtney in canon was certainly a control freak, and hostile when she knew she'd been screwed over. In this fic however, she is openly hostile to others with little reason, trying to butt in to others problems without being asked, and talks about having someone's grandfather sent to an institution or worse based on rumours. Though to be fair on the last one, she has a very good reason to be concern about Rick and the danger he brings.
• Second Chance at Love: Duncan. He freely admits to Leshawna, while fighting her, he's mainly with Gwen because she’s willing to accommodate his sexual demands. He also really does not like the idea of Cody being with either Lindsay or Leshawna. Not because he thinks they are too good for him, but because he doesn't like the idea of the guy being with 'any' girl.
• Total Alternate Island: Courtney, obviously. Even though she was arrogant and focused on the money in canon, here, her bad traits are extended to the point that she actually attempted murder (it didn't work, but still).
• Total Drama All-Stars Rewrite
  • Despite canon never indicating otherwise, here, Cody admits that his I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy schtick during Island was entirely fake (and actually an attempt to get closer to Gwen) and that he had actually stolen Gwen's bra rather than receiving it as a gift for helping her hook up with Trent.
  • Courtney's attitude towards Duncan is a lot more hostile than it was towards him All Stars. Here she continues to fight Duncan on issues and refuses to accept she pushed him away. In "All Stars" she handles it rather maturely not wanting to acknowledge his existence despite Duncan's constant goading and her refusal to forgive Gwen comes from Gwen's refusal to own up to the fact she betrayed a friend.
• Total Drama: Cody's Redemption: Gwen, while also cold to Cody in the beginning of the canon series when he pursued her, she did warm up to him when he hooked her up with Trent and came to consider him a friend. In this story, she never warms up to him despite Cody never pursuing her and hooking her up with Trent. And she also is meaner and more distressing of Cody in this story than she was in canon. Then chapter 22 reveals that Gwen has a very petty reason to dislike Cody and her hatred of him is so strong that she outright ignores all the good he does and admits she wishes he was mauled by the bear. However, Gwen reached the limit of her hatred during an argument with Cody when she told him to kill himself, causing Cody to run away. Gwen was horrified with herself for saying that and admitted she mess up.
• Total Drama Do Over
  • Dakota, not being presented the same opportunities for Character Development as canon (where she became more friendly and less selfish), definitely qualifies. In World Tour, she forges a breakup letter from Abigail to cause drama, rigs Noah out of the competition, and is generally a fame-obsessed, unpleasant person.
  • From what little we see of him in canon, Beth's boyfriend Brady seems to be an altruistic, friendly guy who genuinely cares about Beth. When he appears in the fic, he's a jerk who meets Beth via a dating service, then robs her entire family.
• Total Drama Omega
  • Invoked by Dave, who's noticeably a lot nastier here than even at his worst in Pahkitew Island in hopes of getting voted out early and getting away from the teammates he dislikes so much.
  • While Sky could get hyper-competitive at times in Pahkitew Island, she was mostly defined by her desire for fair play and dislike of cheating. Here, more focus is placed on her competitive side, resulting in her becoming a bossy player of near-Courtney levels.
• Total Drama Superstars: Scott, who is obviously meant to be the Big Bad, in canon was a very pragmatic villain who never resorted to violence, and was actually the least Jerkass of the six canon antagonists. In ‘’Superstars,’’ he is extremely petty, violent, much more of a bully than he was in canon, and has absolutely no friends. Sure, he wasn’t exactly popular in All-Stars, but many of the first-generation contestants found him endearing enough.
• Total Drama What If Series: Topher is an example of this trope. In canon, although he was narcissistic, he was mostly kind. When hosting the Aftermath in Action, he takes a page from Chris and starts to act like a huge asshole to the point that Ella had to put her foot down and stand up to him (similar to what occurred between Geoff and Bridgette in canon).
• Total Shuffled Island Series
  • Unlike canon, Justin doesn't start off as a humble person, and immediately plans to manipulate the others.
  • Dave is an interesting example in that many of his actions have been translated over to the shuffled version of Pahkitew Island just as they were in canon, but several of his kinder moments like saving Ella from drowning and giving Shawn relationship advice have been outright removed with no equivalent given, and due to the more gimmicky characters of his team being moved to different seasons, Dave's anger at his team comes off as much more unjustified. And while he may have been a Jerkass to his teammates, he was nowhere near as nasty as he is to Mike here.
• Twinning With a Twist: Dave's positive traits are ignored in favor of making him a one-dimensional jerk, justifying his much earlier elimination, and right before the rest of the team starts bonding with Sammy. Subverted however, Sammy later learns from Amy at Playa de Losers that Dave just happened to be having a bad day when he arrived on the show, which ended up not getting better in the two days he was there. She finds him to be much more approachable when they speak again.
• Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: Dakota is only mentioned briefly in the early chapters of the story, as a rival of Heather’s who claimed her spot at the top of their high school's pecking order after Total Drama flushed Heather's popularity down the toilet. Despite not actually appearing in-person, whenever she's mentioned none of her canon counterpart's hidden depths and compassionate side are present.

Transformers

• Armada - The REAL Story: Optimus Prime, in stark contrast to his presentation as a kindly father-like figure in the source material, calls Hot Shot and Jolt respectively "wierd (sic) deformed guy" and "stupid little helicopter guy".
• In TFA Kaleidoscope, Optimus lacks many of his kinder qualities and is a lot ruder, such as trying to force Sari out of her only home because he perceived her as a nuisance and potential threat to the AllSpark. However, he grows out of this later on and it's replaced with a mix of Big Brother Instinct and Papa Wolf, though he's still more jaded and aggressive than other versions of the character.

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