Accused: Jason is a rich asshole who's uninterested in really doing anything with his son or wife at first. He seeks sole custody when they get divorced simply to spite her as a power play. When that fails, he has his cop brother frame her on drug dealing charges, and then threatens to drag him down with him after he starts getting second thoughts.
ALF can be this surprisingly at times, especially in the last season. Dorothy Halligan, Kate's mother, is more of this than ALF was, though.
All The Small Things: Rude, smug, condescending, arrogant, cruel, selfish Ethel Tonks.
Almost Live!: The reoccurring unnamed antagonist in the "Billy Quan" Kung-Fu parody skits; every one of these ends with him receiving a well-deserved beat-down from Billy.
Arrested Development: George Bluth, Sr. His company builds substandard housing, he steals company funds, hates at least two of his children, constantly has affairs and puts his entire family at risk with his attempts to evade justice.
Band of Brothers: Pvt. Cobb is one. In episode 4 he guilts one of the New Meat into removing a ribbon that he says he didn't earn (a veteran sergeant puts him in his place by pointing out his hypocrisy). He gets really annoying in episode 8 until his shit is finally confronted by an Ensign Newbie and a Sergeant Rock. However, Cobb in the miniseries could be considered a Historical Villain Upgrade. The real Roy Cobb was described by Stephen Ambrose as "generally good-natured," and certainly not the Jerkass the series made him out to be. Another Jerkass on the show was Captain Sobel, being just a total dick and making the men run miles just after deliberately feeding them a heavy spaghetti meal. Although if you read about his life after the war he attains Woobie status.
The owner of Headhunters, in Austin, Texas, seemed to go out of his way to be a total bastard, being dismissive of the huge cockroach problem Taffer found in the bar and then finding every excuse he could think of to claim why he had to keep employees' pay rock bottom when Taffer forced him to hire his employees properly.
Dave from the Black Light District thought that being "punk" meant insulting everyone who disagreed with him about anything, including Taffer, Taffer's mixologist, and longtime Vandals bassist Joe Escalante (for pointing out that punk music is not for everyone and would not keep a bar in business by itself).
Almost everyone at O'Face in Council Bluffs, Iowa, aside from Cerissa and Syck.
Sheldon is probably the most unusual case for this trope. While he is very intelligent, he has been known to be a real nuisance to his friends, by trying to take all charge for Leonard's app idea, trying to sabotage them after they kick him out, staying at Raj and Howard's houses and keeping them up, never accepting gifts from others, kicking Raj out of his apartment due to regulations, and so on. He also forces the others to obey his ridiculously rigid schedules to the point of trying to control them and belittles his friends (especially Howard for daring to be an engineer).
Almost anyone who fits into a role as a Romantic False Lead, including most of Penny's boyfriends and hookups (except notably for Zack, who is just an idiot).
Wil Wheaton (at least, his character, not the man himself) for intentionally increasing the wedge between Penny and Leonard, supposedly just to get back at Sheldon. Or, was he just being truthful to Penny, and did Wheaton spite Sheldon only by making him think it was for spite?
Sheldon:YOU DID THIS, didn't you! Wil Wheaton: Do you really think I would break up a couple, just to win a bowling match? Sheldon: No... I suppose not. Wil Wheaton: Good. Keep thinking that. Sheldon: Wheeeeeatooooon!
Jimmy Speckerman, who bullied Leonard in junior high. He gets drunk and apologizes but the following morning he demonstrates he's a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
Black Books: Bernard Black. Not only is he rude and deliberately unhelpful to his own customers, but he's just as bad to the only two friends he has left; he's a pretentious, patronising, lazy alcoholic who barely lifts a finger to operate his bookshop (which is only barely keeping afloat) and takes actual pleasure out of torturing Manny using his moblie-phone induced head pains and alienates one his oldest friend by showing up drunk to his house and puking in his sink. Is somewhat justified since he's Surrounded by Idiots, (although they pass around the Idiot Ball from episode to episode) and by his Freudian Excuse (although when it's explained fully, it turns out that he must have been just as bad as he is now, if not worse, as she faked her own death to get away from him. It still seems to have affected him, though.
Blake's 7: Avon in is a combination of this and Deadpan Snarker. Also Del Tarrant and almost everyone else on the whole show.
The Boys (2019): Most of the superheroes turn out to be this. A-Train actually jokes about killing Robin and has zero remorse (admittedly, it was accidental, but he doesn't feel bad at all, comparing it with a bug on the highway).
Cordelia Chase, although she got better after the first season.
In the seventh season and the comic book, Kennedy.
Forrest in Season 4.
When the series was running it was not outside the realm of possibility that Vegas took bets on whether Angelus sought Principle Snyder out on guidance on how to hurt Buffy, and that was before it was shown that Snyder almost gets a sexual kick out of it.
Most of the main cast have had major Jerkass moments, up to and including Buffy herself, especially in the show's later seasons.
The Catherine Tate Show: Lauren Cooper, an overblown parody of unruly high school students who seemed to go out of her way to humiliate other people as much as possible for her own amusement. She gets her comeuppance morethanonce, though. (She still ain't bovvered, tho'.)
Cheers: Cliff Clavin is not only a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, he's also the Jerk Ass — so much so at one point he tries to give himself electroshock therapy to stop being a jerkass. Needless to say, it doesn't work. Carla Tortelli also serves as a Jerk Ass — at one point, Rebecca tells Carla, "There's some customers over there having a good time. Shouldn't you be putting a stop to it?"
Pierce is insulting and insensitive, and before he leaves the show he becomes outright hateful towards people he sees as disrespecting him, racist beyond simply "that's just the way he is" and on occasion he acts like an asshole for no reason other than he can. His character got so bad that his actor Chevy Chase eventually blew up in a much publicised rant that included Chase using a racial slur in the context of "is Pierce just going to start saying X now?" and quitting the show.
Chang qualifies for the biggest Jerkass on the show. He's constantly abusing his power as a teacher, he regularly insults the students and faculty, and it's revealed early on that the only reason he's like that is because his wife left him. And even after Jeff convinces her to take him back, he's still a Jerkass to everyone. After season one he becomes a mix of Jerkass and Ax-Crazy.
Control Z: Pablo is very sexist, controlling and unsympathetic and he only gets worse as the series progresses.
Conviction (2016): Hayes introduces herself to her new staff by openly admitting that she expects them to do all the hard work for her, and repeatedly debates whether or not Sam Spencer is a moron while he's standing right there. Over time she gets more involved and nicer to people.
Coronation Street: Depending on the Writer, many characters have at a hand at playing this. Currently, Kevin Webster is playing up it the biggest. After sleeping with his friend's wife several times, he sabotaged her car. After Molly died and the affair was exposed, Kevin went around acting as though hewas the victim. Twice he attacked Molly's widower Tyrone in the street and then filed for divorce, claiming that Sally was behaving unreasonably. He also treated his daughter Sophie's girlfriend Sian like dirt and blaming her for Sophie falling off the church roof.
The Crossing: Portrays General Horatio Gates like this. He insults and belittles Washington to the extent of questioning his sanity, never mind his fitness to command (and it's common knowledge that Gates thinks that he deserves to be Commander-in-Chief). In Real Life, Gates really did try to scheme his way into Washington's job twice and was considered something of a Glory Hound, until he torpedoed his career by ditching his troops in a losing battle.
The Cry of Mann: Sam Weiner, who is ego-centric, rude, aggressive, and openly disrespectful toward his fellow cast and crew members.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: This show of Larry David fits the bill. Nearly every character seems to be an unhappy, neurotic, oversensitive, needlessly-hostile Jerkass. The fictional Larry David himself is merely a crass and socially-backwards Jerkass.
Damages: Has Arthur Frobisher, who is all the more so because, in his mind, he's The Woobie.
Danger 5: Ilsa may fight Nazis, but she's willing to make out with one if he's hot enough. Most of her jerkassery comes from her putting her whims and base desires above her sense of ethics.
Dead Set: Patrick was a total Jerkass. On top of demanding that the survivors save him, risking their own lives, he ate some of the last food they had without permission, cut up a dead friend to use as zombie bait, and was willing to sacrifice every other survivor to try and escape Britain. And look how that turned out. In an interview, the actor who played Patrick believed everything the character did was justified.
One of the most notable is Lucas, who is a bully, the Disappeared Dad to Mia's daughter Isabella, and is so bad that his sister, Jane, actually changed her last name because she didn't want it to be known that she was his sister. If you're so bad that your sister changes her name to avoid being associated with you, then you have cemented that status. On the other hand, Lucas's calling out of his Disappeared Dad for sexually abusing Jane could be considered a CMOA.
Drew Torres. However, his Pet the Dog moments with his brother Adam and his girlfriend Bianca put him more in the Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory.
Young-min thinks it's hilarious to almost kill terrified pedestrians.
A firefighter sees Yo-han and Elijah survived the fire. Instead of helping them he steals Isaac's watch and leaves them still trapped in the church.
Young-choon conned hundreds of people, including Ga-on's parents, out of their money and got away with it for years. When Ga-on and Yo-han track him down they find he hasn't changed at all, and is willing to leave his wife and daughter in a burning house while he tries to save his money.
The Doctor frequently exhibits fickle, merciless, almost psychopathic behaviour, but as he is a godlike being, i.e. a Time Lord, some degree of inhumanity is to be expected. A lot of the Doctor's jerkiness is not so much cruelty so much as it is his totally overlooking people's feelings — usually he genuinely doesn't know when he's being a jerk (like when the Tenth Doctor has to stop and ask if he's being rude in his first episode). The people and creatures whom he does act particularly hostile to usually have it coming or have no one to blame but themselves.
Even after the First Doctor stopped being the Token Evil Teammate and Took a Level in Kindness he still isn't someone most people would willingly hang around with, being rude and unbelievably condescending to everyone as his default setting, and occasionally even racist. Ian, Barbara, Steven and Ben all express severe irritation with his behaviour not infrequently. His hearts are in the right place and his love of his companions (especially Ian and Barbara) is staggeringly intense and meaningful, but his companions only really figure that out because the circumstances of his travel have it so that they can't leave his company.
The Third Doctor had quite a lot to be in a mood about — his exile to Earth and being put by the Time Lords into a new body he didn't want — but it's difficult to use that to justify his outright condescension to all of his coworkers, especially bellowing at Jo for being a "stupid girl" or his occasional sexism towards Sarah Jane.
The Fourth Doctor is generally one of the nicer ones but he loves tormenting people for fun (occasionally going very much too far), and generally has a "difficult" personality, prone to sudden intensely dark moods and periods of brooding interspersed with attention-seeking and selfish unreliability. On his good days he's lovely to be around, fun and magnanimous and interesting and wise and hopelessly adorable — on his bad days, he's virtually impossible to talk to and no sensible person would consent to being in the same building as him.
When it comes to being obnoxious, the Sixth Doctor most certainly appropriates the gateau. Good examples are him repeatedly calling Peri fat for no apparent reason.
The revival series tended towards nicer Doctors at first. Nine was intense and short-tempered, but also had an iron-hard moral core; Ten could be arrogant and dismissive, but generally came across as a fun nerd who wanted to tell you all about the thing he just learned; and Eleven could be profoundly thoughtless but was never maliciously so...but then came Twelve. While certainly not the biggest prick that Peter Capaldi has ever played, Twelve was notoriously harsh and unpleasant to associate with in his earlier episodes, especially when he was taking his Time War trauma out on Clara's boyfriend for the affront of having once been a soldier. At one point he refers to Clara as his carer, in the sense that she cares so he doesn't have to. Even at the end of his tenure, after all of his Jerk with a Heart of Gold tendencies are have been shown off, after all of the pontificating on whether or not he's a good man, his Final Speech is careful to draw a distinction between "being nice" and "being kind" - with the latter being mandatory, but the former merely...encouraged.
Maxtible in "The Evil of the Daleks" is an utterly self-centred douchebag who sells out humanity to the Daleks for the secret of metal transmutation. That would be bad enough, but he can't even play nice with the Daleks, constantly coming across like he's demanding to speak to their manager about the things they promised him. Any expectation that he might care about someone else is bluntly dismissed, and any attempt to get him to see reason greeted with hostility; he is capable of acting nice for short periods to get people to do what he wants, but it's usually pretty transparent and unconvincing. When he's subjected to the Dalek factor, he doesn't become nicer, but at the very least he stops bloviating about himself every five minutes.
Every crew member in "The Robots of Death" is a jerk, but Borg is the most pointlessly nasty and spiteful. His Establishing Character Moment is describing a freak accident where a robot masseuse pulled off a man's arm, to a man having his arm massaged by a robot. He constantly interrupts other characters when they try and talk, makes (empty) death threats to his coworkers in order to control them, and then when called on it immediately backtracks and protests that he's done nothing wrong. He slaps Jelly Babies out of the Doctor's hand, and starts choking him in response to a sarcastic joke the Doctor makes at his expense. At one point he becomes affronted that people are accusing him of murdering his friends, causing Zilda to retort, "you don't have any friends!"
"Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood": Several of the school bullies, particularly Hutchinson and Jeremy Baines, who are introduced making and laughing at, respectively, a racist remark towards Martha. Being possessed by an insane alien doesn't help Baines much.
"Voyage of the Damned": Rickston Slade, an unpleasant businessman who acts callous and selfish while the spaceship he's on nearly crashes due to a serious emergency, constantly insulting people, although he does have a couple Jerkass Has a Point moments. He then spoils his Pet the Dog moment at the end by revealing that, thanks to selling his stocks in the company that owned the ship, he's become wealthier, gloating about it.
"Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead": Strackman Lux, sponsor of the expedition into the Library, which his family built, is rude, unhelpful and self-centred, most notably refusing to give the Doctor important information about the Library's central computer because he won't sign a nondisclosure contract even though, as the Doctor points out, his pride could lead to everyone's deaths. In the second half, however, he turns out to be a subversion, as he actually has good reason to be so secretive, or rather protective, of the computer.
Even worse are the passengers in "Midnight". While the whole repeating thing was a bit creepy, it didn't justify their attempts to throw the Doctor and Sky off of the vehicle into the instantly lethal sun.
Dracula (2020): Quincey, Lucy's American boyfriend/fiancé has exactly two scenes. The first is mostly about him revealing that he's only into Lucy because she's pretty, the second consists of him impatiently waiting for her funeral to end so he can fly home, with his packed bag at the ready right outside his pew.
Nate is an abhorrent person who mentally and physically abuses his girlfriend, terrorizes Jules when they first meet, beats up a man for sleeping with Maddy and blackmails Jules in the cruelest manner possible to secure his family's security. While not above flashes of humanity, he's a ridiculously nasty and cruel person for most of his screentime.
Cassie herself becomes as cruel, sadistic and cold as Nate in Season 2 when she starts having an affair with him. She stops caring about how Maddy will feel despite the fact she knew about the abuse she suffered and is willing to cross lines and destroy, abuse and torture those who stop her "happy life" with him, especially Maddy and Lexi both of whom she begins to have a lot of hatred in her heart for them and has zero remorse for the damage she caused.
Ray is a whiny, lazy Manchild who constantly lies to get out of sticky situations.
Debra is a shrieking, verbally abusive and hypocritical housewife.
Robert is selfish and often cruel with only a Freudian Excuse to back him up.
Marie is a Manipulative Bitch who uses guilt, food, and her old age to get everyone to do whatever she wants, effectively making her the "Queen" of the Barone family, and could arguably be considered the root of every conflict of the show, because of how she raised her two sons, and how she treats her daughter-in-law.
Frank is a loud and rude Grumpy Old Man, who constantly belittles everyone in the family, and treats his wife analogous to a slave.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: John Walker at his worst is rude, insensitive, impatient, and a colossal egotistical douche-bag when he tries to assert his authority as Captain America, especially after failing to reach out to Sam and Bucky. It especially gets worse after he takes the Super Soldier Serum, due to him being on the "bad becomes worse" side of the spectrum, to the point that he's willing to resort to murder on one of the Flag Smashers, Nico, in front of a crowd as he was surrendering and incapacitated.
Fallout: Knight Titus is unlikeable from his first minute of screentime. He humiliates Maximus by making him clean his power armor's codpiece, drops down out of a vertibird halfway to his destination simply because he's bored and wants to shoot something, sends Maximus — dressed in a simple Squire jumpsuit and armed with only a pistol — into a cave, then when Maximus saves him from being outright killed by a Yao Guai, berates him for letting him get wounded in the first place and threatens him with summary execution. After all of this, it's little wonder Maximus elects to let Titus bleed out and steal his armor.
Rygel is greedy, selfish and vindictive. He does have his more noble moments, especially later in the series, so he's really on the border between Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Jerkass, but he can be a complete prick at times.
Ka D'Argo is if anything worse. Quick to anger, and for the first two seasons does absolutely nothing but make their situation worse whilst belittling everyone else. His inability to control his temper and incredible speed to jump to conclusions despite reality is amazing and he never learns from his mistakes. Someone brings news your son is being sold as a slave, strangle them!
Crais, at least while he was the Big Bad, who dropped everything to go on a chase against Crichton for killing his brother, something that was blatantly an accident. He spent much of his time either snapping his men, screaming at them, berating them, declaring them “irreversibly contaminated” (read: exiling them), getting them killed pursuing Crichton, on occasion killing them himself, and having the disposition of a rabid, snarling animal. It gets to the point that his own crew hates him and they happily send him up the river when Scorpius discovers proof of the “killing his own crew” thing, which leads to him being punished with Mind Rape. This actually manages to make him nicer, since it made him realize his own failures and promptly pull a Heel–Face Turn, or at least something approximating it.
Tauza from “Incubator”, the Scarran assigned to train Scorpius, a Scarran-Sebacean hybrid, is this up to eleven. Her “training” was just flat-out torturing him both mentally and physically from the day he was born out of Fantastic Racism, and was at best cold and condescending and at worst torturing him out of sheer sadism. She somehow manages to get even worse when she puts Scorpius through insanely hellish torture (so painful that remembering it nearly killed him) and showing him a video of his mother being raped. This, however, leads to Scorpiusstabbing her in the eyes with a broken coolant rod and leaving her to freeze to death.
Crichton himself, usually the nicest of the crew outside of Zhaan, can be this on occasion, mainly when wormholes come into the equation.
Father Ted: Several characters. There's Father Jack, Bishop Brennan, Father Dick Byrne, Father Stack, and Father Ted himself to a lesser extent. While Ted is the most sympathetic character in some respects, in others, he's actually worse than the others, having stolen funds from "that Lourdes thing." On the other hand, Father Stack is the most clearly malicious character, as his motivation for literally everything he does is to upset people.
Fawlty Towers: Basil Fawlty is mean, snide and abusive to everyone from his wife to his employees to the guests at the hotel he owns. Many of his victims are just as obnoxious as he is, but it's impossible not to feel for poor Manuel, the naive Spanish waiter who takes the most abuse of all.
Firefly: Jayne Cobb is another example. He freely admits to holding his loyalty out to the highest bidder and on several occasions proves to be willing to leave other members of the crew to die, on top of being misogynistic, crude, and a dick in general.
The Flash (2014): Season Two introduces the Harrison Wells of Earth-2, who is abrasive, rude, and uninterested in making friends with the Earth-1 characters. In flashbacks to his life on Earth-2, he's antagonistic towards Jay Garrick, and seems to have some Bad Boss tendencies. However, he starts to defrost a little as Team Flash warms up to him, suggesting that at least some of his behaviour is just an act caused by his heartbreak over Zoom having kidnapped his daughter eight months previously.
Josie is a female example, at least with her behavior in the first two series. She sleeps with two guys while still with her long-term boyfriend, and breaks her "best friend"'s arm pretty much deliberately.
One of Joffrey Baratheon's most defining characteristics. He somehow manages to redefine what it means to be a complete and utter cunt with each word that comes out of his mouth. His cruelty, sadism and delightful glee in it all make him such an irredeemable little dick that it's actually kind of impressive, if not anything else. Perhaps his most jerkassy moment is at his own wedding, which he uses as a platform to humiliate Tyrion, treat everyone with disdain and put on a show that mocks his defeated foes while relatives of said foes are in bloody attendance. Loras Tyrell (his new brother-in-law) has to leave out of pure fury, Tyrion and Sansa try to, and Olenna Tyrell (the matriarch of his most powerful allies) isn't remotely pleased.
Whilst Roose Bolton is usually pretty measured, he likes to indulge in this if he feels he can get away with it. For example, giving Jaime Lannister, who's just had his hand chopped off, a steak that's too hard to cut on his own and making Brienne the Beauty wear an extremely unflattering dress at a dinner.
Viserys Targaryen was self-absorbed, childishly entitled, disrespectful to pretty much everyone — even his sister Daenerys, whom he was also abusive to, thoughtlessly cruel and generally unpleasant. Pretty much every scene with him involved some form of Kick the Dog, and he served as a reminder that the Targaryens were once horrible, horrible people. His Karmic Death at the hands of Khal Drogo via a crown of molten gold was most assuredly cheered for by many viewers.
On top of being a complete psychopath, Ramsay Bolton is also just a dick even in regular conversation. It's particularly telling when he makes Joffrey of all people look like a nice guy by comparison.
Locke, unrepentantly so. He's a sadist to the core.
The Master Torturer goes back to torturing Theon and insisting on the truth right after he claimed Theon's answers were "very good." And then there's his eagerness to rape Theon for escaping The Dreadfort.
Rickard Karstark. Granted, we only really see him after the deaths of his sons, which would put him in a bit of a poor mood...but Karstark is still a Grumpy Old Man.
Harald Karstark is cold and unfriendly at the best of times.
Umbers aren't exactly known for being friendly, but Smalljon truly shows himself to be this when he betrays Rickon to Ramsay.
Polliver is this to the prisoners, whom he treats with sadistic contempt.
Sandor Clegane is unrepentantly one, at least at the start of the series. Later appearances reveal that he is more of a Jerkass WoobieTragic Villain who is not without standards.
Aerys Targaryen was rotten to the core. The History and Lore on the Kingsguard reveal how Jaime had to stand guard while he raped his wife, unable to intervene. He also tried to blackmail the Martells, his in-laws (and long-time allies), by virtually holding Elia Martell and her children hostage. The Martells saw their collaboration with the Targaryens (Aerys and Rhaegar) as Teeth-Clenched Teamwork for a bunch of ungrateful bastards who insulted and dishonored their beloved princess.
While Rhaegar Targaryen was by all accounts a classic case of Prince Charming adored by all, his treatment of his wife, Elia, after he meets Lyanna Stark is rather appalling. At a tourney he won and had to crown his Queen of Love and Beauty, Rhaegar passed over his own wife in favor of crowning the already spoken for Lyanna, publicly humiliating his wife in the process. Then when he ran away with Lyanna, he left his wife and children behind at the mercy of his father so that he could annul his marriage to Elia and marry Lyanna. Doing so likely removed his children by Elia from the line of succession — possibly even making them bastards. Oh, and he had the nerve to so in Dorne, his wife's homeland. His actions get even worse in episode seven of Season 7, when Jon Snow's true name is revealed; Aegon Targaryen, which is also the name of Rhaegar's son with Elia, his previous heir, which makes it come off as not only was he removing his first son from the line of succession, but he fully intended to have him replaced.
Robert is generally an obnoxious oaf, but only really mean to the Targaryens and Lannisters, all of whom he sees as guilty by association for the death of Lyanna and his horrific relationship with Cersei, respectively.
Befitting of their piratical tradition, the Greyjoys are rough, callous, and ruthless as a general rule. That being said, Theon has the lion's share of his unpleasantness beaten, tortured, and abused out of him by a far worse person than he ever was, and Yara's honor and affection for her family cast her in a much better light than the rest of her house. Euron is the worst by far.
Balon impugns Theon's masculinity close to half a dozen times within the first five minutes, after not having seen him for over a decade. He also shows contempt for the idea of either buying or negotiating for things from people, believing that it is more desirable to murder them and then rob their corpses instead. This man is an asshole in Dennis Leary's sense of the word. In Season 3, it is revealed just how much of a scumbag he truly is when he abandons Theon to a life of unspeakable torture at the hands of Ramsay Snow after receiving Theon's castrated penis in the mail, and repeatedly insults him as an idiot who "isn't a man anymore" despite the fact that Theon sacrificed everything to make him proud and was only captured by Ramsay due to his attempt to bring honour to his family.
Euron Greyjoy repeatedly mocks Theon for being a eunuch, and is in general a deranged sociopath capable of killing his own kin without feeling a shred of remorse or guilt.
The George Lopez Show: George's mother Benny often treats him with disdain and makes joke at his and his family's expense, George's father Manny was also one for running out on Benny and George and never giving them any money when they needed it.
Benny's parents are even worse then she is, it's implied that they're the reason for Benny's own mistreatment of George.
Carmen's boyfriend Zack Powers was the worst, he abandoned his last girlfriend while she was pregnant and was planning on doing the same to Carmen
Glee: Sue Sylvester spends her days verbally (and occasionally physically) abusing her students and co-workers, blackmailing her boss, and scheming to destroy anyone who crosses her. She's kind to her sister, but that's about it. Other characters has had Jerkass moments too.
Groundling Marsh has Hegdish, a fuzzy purple Groundling who's grumpy, grouchy, and takes great joy in messing with the others.
Hannah Montana: Rico. London Tipton also has her moments, but never more so than in the crossover where she throws Hannah's anklet, the one her mother gave her overboard, and then flounced off as if it wasn't a big deal. And she wanted Miley to give her a receipt and two forms of ID for a bracelet that her mother had given her.
Jim Cryer is the biggest example. In addition to being surly, arrogant and wholly corrupt, he is physically and emotionally abusive to his recovering addict son Wyatt (while, oddly, being nice and doting to his daughter Amanda), and routinely mocks and insults his wife Katheryn (whom it's implied he only married so he could get her wealth).
Veronica Harrington is the second biggest Jerkass on the show. She's extremely snobbish, self-centered, controlling, and bigoted, and constantly bullies her son Jeffrey for not being the man she wants him to be. When Jeffrey admits his homosexuality, her response to deliver a hateful speech, deprive Jeffrey of his finances, and fire him from his counseling job, and she later blackmails Jeffrey into dating women by threatening to have him arrested as an accomplice for the vehicular manslaughter of a young girl. Additionally, she generally treats just about everyone around her like shit, and her cruel behavior ends up alienating her husband David, who moves out of their house and declares he won't return unless she changes her ways.
Himitsu no Hanazono (2007): Osamu Kataoka is selfish and often calls Natsuyo "a little girl" to mock her. He also frequently gets in trouble and needs his brothers to bail him out. He also frequently plays loud music that irritates them when they're trying to sleep.
Homicide: Life on the Street: Frank Pembleton was a major one until Season 5. He was condescending, cold, arrogant and never gave anyone else, including the partner who idolised him, any credit for their work. He was kept because he was an excellent detective and because, compared to fair amount of the other members of the squad he wasn't entirely unlikeable. In Season 5, after a major stroke, the other characters prove to be getting on fine without him with Bayliss doing brilliant work on his own. He then realizes that he can't do it alone and asks to be partners again. There were a number of others who weren't as sympathetic or likeable as Pembleton, chief among them being Detective/Captain Gaffney, who was a total prick and hated by literally everyone on the squad, especially after he got promoted ahead of Gee.
Hotel Hell had John of the Roosevelt Inn, a Manchild who was making numerous death threats half way through the episode. Robert and Ari of Juniper Hill as well, snobs who are asocial and didn't want those who didn't have a fortune at their inn.
House: Dr. Gregory House, the main character, is obnoxious to an almost religious degree, devoting his life to proving that kindness is rooted in selfishness and fear. He usually gets away with it because he's the patient's only chance of survival, although the show does put a strain on your Willing Suspension Of Dis Belief in its realism, as a House who actually did suffer the consequences of his behavior would make the show's premise impossible. The writers seem to realize how far he's stretching his luck. Boss Cuddy notes that she got House for a fraction of what he's worth because the other hospitals won't touch him with a barge pole; he's in a legal mess by Season Three; and in the season finale, his entire medical staff quit, although he fired one of them (after the other two quit on their own accord). It's then immediately reversed at the beginning of the fourth season, when, despite his Jerkass tendencies and his well-deserved reputation for being an asshole, he still has forty very qualified (with one exception) doctors damn near killing each other to be on his team. And he forces each and every one of them through a season-long hazing ritual, but people have put up with worse to learn under a genius, and in spite of his attitude, House is a genius with diagnostic medicine. Later seasons, though, pushed the envelope even further, with the drug-addicted House being (temporarily) fired, committed to an asylum to dry out, and then later imprisoned after nearly mowing down Cuddy in his sedan. Realizing that they'd likely gone too far with that last, Season 8 toned it down and worked to re-establish him as the Jerk with a Heart of Gold he had been at the beginning of the series, but by then, they already had multiple seasons of stretching the bounds of credibility to an absurd extent.
How I Met Your Mother: Barney Stinson treads the line between Jerkass and Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He's definitely the latter towards his friends — despite often being manipulative, insensitive, and insulting towards them, he's done a number of incredibly sweet and selfless things for them out of sheer love and devotion. But to the people outside of a tight-knit circle that seems to consist of Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, his mother Loretta, his brother James, his brother's husband Tom, and his nephew Eli, he's a straight Jerkass who demonstrates barely any trace of scruples or conscience. At least, until season six, where his Character Development reaches a new level that includes glimmers of self-awareness about how his actions affect strangers.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Every single one of the main characters is selfish, arrogant, amoral, conniving, and dishonest. Many of the show's episodes involve them hatching elaborate schemes for either personal gain or revenge.
The Joe Schmo Show: In this parody of reality shows in which everyone except the designated Schmo or Schmoes was an actor, the characters were all archetypes of the typical types seen on reality shows, such as "The Schemer" and "The Rich Bitch." In the first season, Hutch was designated as "The Asshole" and in the third season, Randy filled this role.
The King of Queens: Carrie Heffernan. Don't let her pleasant appearance fool you. She has an incredibly short fuse, is incredibly demanding of everyone around her, makes ridiculously selfish requests (often for minor reasons), and even caused a Downer Ending. In addition, she's a status-seeking social ladder climber. She most likely inherited it from her father, Arthur, who was as demanding, short-tempered, and ridiculously selfish as his daughter. He also regularly yells loudly and throws temper tantrums when everything doesn't go his way or if gifts don't meet his standards (which they never do).
Leave It to Beaver: Classic TV Example: Eddie Haskell. Unctuous towards adults, a complete jerk around his fellow teen-agers, and a bully to younger kids. At one time Wally Cleaver tells him: "Eddie, even I don't like you — and I'm your best friend."
Lost: James "Sawyer" Ford spent much of the first season as the Jerkass before his evolution into Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Jack Shephard had his moments too, though he got better in the later seasons.
Love and Destiny: Tian Lei Zhen Jun. He has Ling Xi abducted and whipped with lightning just because he suspects her of having some connection to the Demon tribe.
Malcolm in the Middle gives us several: Reese's favorite activity is physically assaulting Dewey, Malcolm is an Insufferable Genius, Hal regularly puts his own wants and desires ahead those of his family, Francis was one until he emancipated himself and became a generally nice person (although he seemed to go back on that one after he got fired from the dude ranch), Dewey usually shows these traits toward someone who has wronged someone in some way, making him a subversion; even a toddler Jamie is shown stealing, framing his brothers and being an overall asshole, even by toddler standards. The mother of them all is Lois: specific examples are numerous but for simplification, while the entire family is generally disliked by their neighbors, they seem willing to at least tolerate everyone except Lois. Watch one episode and it will become entirely clear how much of a Jerkass you need to be to make the rest of that family tolerable by comparison.
And if you go one step further, Grandma Ida makes Lois look tolerable by comparison.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Phyllis was a huge Jerkass directly toward Rhoda. In the very first episode, she keeps calling Rhoda a "dumb awful woman" and admits to getting Mary her apartment mainly to keep Rhoda from getting it. The height of her jerkassery may be in the episode "My Brother's Keeper," where she nearly has a nervous breakdown over the possibility of her brother dating Rhoda, causing the first of Mary's traditional bad parties in the process.
M*A*S*H: Major Frank Burns. Though only one of the characters qualifying as a Dr. Jerk, Burns stood out for his lack of surgical skills, constant scheming to get rid of Col. Blake, and all around nastiness to tentmates Hawkeye, Trapper, Spearchucker, and B.J. (whom he once shot in the leg). Shooting B.J. was an accident attributable to Frank's idiocy rather than his jerkassity. He has both in spades. This was the reason Larry Linville (Burns' actor) left the series — he felt that he had gone as far as he could with the character, and that Burns' jerk tendencies were so awful there was no way at all to redeem him.
Mohawk Girls: A lot of the Mohawks give poor Anna (who's very nice and just trying to reconnect with her heritage) a huge amount of flack over not fitting in initially, acting blatantly rude to her face (plus disliking that she's half white). Many are rude in general, over basically anything, and won't spare anyone's feelings.
Næturvaktin: Georg, the Bad Boss. He confiscates his employees' pay, assaults a stroke victim, offends customers with racist tirades, and is utterly obnoxious to everyone he meets, all while absolutely convinced that he's in the right. Much of the humour in the series comes from schadenfreude when Georg's behaviour backfires on him.
Tony. He's consistently rude and disrespectful to his colleagues, his superiors, other law enforcement agencies, and even the friends and families of the victims. However, that's more of a act than anything else.
Gibbs. Regardless of personal problems, he comes off as very abrasive and cold towards others. Later shows his nice side and gets to be Jerk with a Heart of Gold, as he is also a venerable and respected.
Noah's Arc: Ricky is this at times, particularly when putting his consorts before his friends. One particularly notable example is when his friend Chance is lost in a dangerous neighborhood at night and calls Ricky to pick him up. Ricky says yes, but then immediately forgets about it when distracted by a stripper (who he consequently has sex with). The really Jerkass part though is that when Chance confronts him about it, Ricky laughs the whole thing off as a joke.
The Office (UK): Chris Finch. His jerk-assedness was used to help David Brent be more appealing in the final episode, when he finally tells "best friend" Finch what he can do.Word of God has it that he was created so that Brent wouldn't seem like quite so much of a tosser in comparison. The American version of Chris Finch is Todd Packer. They're both obnoxious, over-sexualized, condescending sales reps.
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd: Eddie McDowd is the epitome of The Bully, not to mention that his face is not shown to the viewers. He arrives to school stealing a student's sandwich for breakfast, probably bullies a teacher for money, pushing a student to a trash can, and bullies another student for milk. When Justin Taylor came to the school, he is spilled milk on him by accident. Eddie starts to retaliate by putting paint on him and hanging him on a flagpole. Later on, he skips classes just to "exercise" by tossing rocks into windows. Noticing a dog, Eddie starts throwing rocks on the car that it's hiding until it explodes. The Drifter shows up and knows everything about Eddie of how he took people's lunch money, the bikes he stole, the kids he terrorized, and his heart-shaped birthmark. The Drifter, to a lesser extent, as he may be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but he acts like an a-hole about Eddie doing good deeds.
Only Fools and Horses: Reg Trotter, who just packed his bags and left his family to fend for themselves after his wife Joan died. He later returned only with the intention of tricking Del into thinking he was the result of his mother having an affair.
Outnumbered: Karen's headmaster is a massive one to Karen, channeling The Trunchbull (ironic, given how she was ranting about how she hates Roald Dahl) by essentially telling Karen that she's nothing special and that she's a stupid little girl for thinking otherwise. Whether you think the speech was needed for Karen to Take A Level In Kindness or not, it was still incredibly nasty and not at all something anyone in charge of children should do.
Oz: Being a show centered around prison, it's inevitable that a large number of characters are complete assholes with varying levels of sociopathic and malevolent behaviour on both sides of the law. The worst has to be Kenny Wangler, who only isn't a total monster because most of his actions only amount to him behaving like a complete jerkass. Yet despite his pettiness, he still comes across as more evil than actual monsters like Schillinger and Adebisi due to having absolutely zero redeeming qualities and taking sadistic glee in everything cruel.
The short-lived sitcom A Prince Among Men gives us Gary Prince. Prince constantly insults his colleagues and his wife, has tried to make decisions such as replacing a Church with a Go-Kart track, and has a general It's All About Me attitude to life.
Yuwen Yue starts out as one, with his callous disregard for servants' lives, refusal to investigate whether Lin Xi was actually guilty, and not even caring that he cuts Chu Qiao's arm when he kills a spider. Luckily he gets better later.
Madam Song beats up the servants for any small — or imagined — mistake.
Zhu Shun helps Yuwen Huai carry out his plans, which is bad enough, and sexually harasses the female servants, which is even worse.
In the Quantum Leap episode "Runaway," the leapee's big sister harasses Sam throughout the episode and gets a smug grin whenever he gets into trouble (usually her fault). After resolving the main issue of the episode, Sam doesn't leap out until he threatens the girl into being nicer to her brother (by dangling her over an old well).
Rimmer qualifies, though he's got enough sympathetic traits that it's hard to say how much worse than everybody else he is. Nonetheless, the man's avarice is shown to have virtually no limits, going so far as to steal his crew mates' bodies against their will, attempt to seal them in a quarantine cell for several months just to torture them, alter history to prevent Lister from becoming a successful millionaire, and many, many more.
Similarly, Cat is a vain, shallow, narcissistic Jerkass who, in the early seasons especially, has absolutely no problem leaving a clearly unwell Lister slumped unconscious on the floor in favour of going to find something to eat (although he does draw the line at stealing Lister's shoes in the process). It says something that when a universe-hopping stimulant arrived on Red Dwarf seeking to remove the useless and worthless from the ship, both Cat and Rimmer were spared because their own shallow, narcissistic personalities and low expectations for themselves meant that, by their own selfish standards, their lives were worthwhile.
Miles Matheson started out as a surly bartender in "Pilot", but he seemed to become a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold as of "Sex and Drugs". He did temporarily relapse into being a jerkass in "The Love Boat".
Charlie Matheson became more of a jerkass, but it was only blatant in "Sex and Drugs". She got better after that episode.
Rachel Matheson didn't start out as one, but she certainly became one after "The Stand", with her attitude turning into It's All About MeWangst. "Ghosts" had her slapping Charlie because her daughter tried to call her out on never being there for her or Danny Matheson. "The Longest Day" had her stooping low by leading the Blackmores to believe that she could heal their son Philip, and then abandon them. Not only that, but she reveals to Aaron Pittman that the only reason she wants to turn the power back on is to give the other Republics the ability to kill Sebastian Monroe and thereby avenge Danny's death. She also warns Aaron that if he doesn't help her, she'll abandon him too. This is after he refused to abandon her and went to a lot of trouble to heal her wounds, which were the result of one of her screw-ups in "The Love Boat".
Major Tom Neville has been one since "Pilot", but he was mostly able to pass himself off as an Affably Evil villain. "The Plague Dogs" had him arresting Danny again and this was after the kid saved his life. "Soul Train" had Neville use Danny as a punching bag to vent his frustrations out on. "The Children's Crusade" has Neville snatch Eve Jaffe, and when Rachel tried begging Neville to let her go, Neville coldly reveals to Dr. Bradley Jaffe that Rachel told him about Jaffe in the first place and making it easy to find Eve in the first place. "Ties That Bind" had him calling the Californians "heathens" and throwing his so-called friends the Fabers under the bus to save his son's life. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" had him say that he was a big fan of Aaron, but then went into a childish Who's Laughing Now? speech because Aaron had the nerve to ask where Charlie and Miles were taken to. "The Stand" had him gloating over the systematic extermination of rebels, and then beating up his son and throwing him out because the son refused to call in the air strike. "The Song Remains the Same" has him suffering humiliations, not being upset over Danny's death, as well as killing a rebel preacher. "The Love Boat" emphasizes the Jerkass part of him by having him lord it over Team Matheson, treat Dr. Ethan Camp and his family like dirt, and flying off the handle over things like Charlie putting a gun to his head, his son criticizing him and saying he hates him, and so on. "The Longest Day" has Neville slapping his son around and taunting him for not having the guts to shoot him dead on the spot. "Children of Men" and "The Dark Tower" have Tom Neville successfully take over the Monroe Republic in a coup, murder Major Mark Franklin and pass it off as self-defense, betray Team Matheson and the Georgia Federation, and go back on a promise he made to his son to spare Rachel and Charlie.
The Ricky Gervais Show and An Idiot Abroad: In both these shows, Ricky can come off as a huge jerkass to Karl Pilkington. In the former, he reacts to Karl's admittedly dumb statements by screaming at the top of his lungs about how much of an idiot Karl is. In the later, he blatantly admits to delighting in making Karl miserable by forcing him to do painful things or stay in sub-standard hotels, at one point ordering Karl to stay the night in a cave because he disagreed with a metaphor about the ruins of Petra (fortunately, Karl ended up liking it).
The spoiled and traumatized-by-going broke Rose family are all snooty jerks when the series begins. Very quickly, however, it is clear that Johnny is a hard-worker and The Determinator who intends to rescue his family, and Alexis might be a ditz, but she's cheerful, optimistic and not-nearly the snob she appears to be. Gradually, Moira and David firmly land in the Jerk with a Heart of Gold category.
The uncouth and obnoxious Roland Schitt seems to live to make the Roses' lives miserable early on, but he's later revealed to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and appoints himself Johnny's Best Friend.
Townspeople Ronnie and Ray are both jerks often, but with Ronnie, she's often just telling the truth about whatever ridiculous thing the Roses are doing. With Ray, he may be obnoxious and mildly corrupt but he's nevertheless a hard-worker and a valued member of the community.
Both Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso (especially Dr. Kelso) are mean spirited misanthropes bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling to everybody that comes in contact with them (especially each other). They both soften as the series goes on, or at the very least have their jerkass-a-tude played for laughs more.
The Janitor especially when J.D. is nearby him. He went out of his way to screw with JD and make his life miserable for eight years (sometimes with sadistic or even potentially fatal pranks) simply because JD accidentally lodged a penny in the door in the first episode.
Seinfeld: Much of the humor is derived from all the characters being complete self-interested jerks who have zero Character Development over the course of the series.
Sex/Life: Brad treated Billie quite poorly while they were together a lot of times. Probably the worst is, after she miscarries, making out with another woman at her cousin's wedding and then breaking up as he's unable to deal with his daddy issues which this triggered.
And then there's Sergeant Sally Donovan, who is universally detested and loathed by the fanbase for being a jerk in all appearances, calling Sherlock a freak, mocking him and taunting him constantly and generally being a Karma Houdini. The ultimate example is probably in "The Reichenbach Fall", where her Jerkassness goes right through the roof. By right through the roof, we mean "it's so bad, John wanted to beat her up but couldn't do so."
In the early seasons, Lionel Luthor, while Affably Evil, shows definite signs of legitimate jerkassery, mostly toward his son Lex but toward other characters as well. One Season 3 episode had Lionel mockingly compare Clark to Sancho Panza for believing Lex's story about Lionel conspiring with Morgan Edge to murder his parents.
Lex, starting in Season 5 following his turn towards full-blown villainy.
The ventriloquist Chuck seemed like a sweet mild-mannered guy, but his dummy alter-ego Bob was a massive flaming jerkass to everyone in sight. Hilariously, Bob's victims almost always took out their rage on Bob, the dummy, and left Chuck alone. (And it's a testament to Jay Johnson's ventriloquism talents that you could find yourself totally going along with that until Fridge Logic kicked in.)
Elaine was a supreme Jerkass, culminating in Mary throwing a pie in her face at dinner. Then Elaine opened up to Danny about her dysfunctional upbringing and started to turn things around — only to wind up getting killed.
The Sopranos is full of people with anti-social if not downright sociopathic behavior. Ralph Cifaretto stands out as the meanest character in the show; rude, disrespectful, obnoxious, depraved and pointlessly violent.
Jang Deok-su is the most cruel player in the games, established from his introduction where he beats up Kang Sae-byeok for being a female defector from North Korea. He is also a selfish Dirty Coward who is perfectly willing to throw any ally he gains under the bus, one of whom being his right-hand man during the fourth game.
Han Mi-nyeo is unpleasant to be around, as she is an obnoxious Compulsive Liar to the point that nobody wants to be her partner during the fourth game. At one point she throws racist insults at Ali, a Pakistani immigrant, after he points out her hypocrisy.
Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) starts out as this. Constantly complaining, constantly obnoxious, egotistical, and cowardly. As his character matures he is shown to have redeeming characteristics though, developing into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. He also still manages to come up with the plan almost every time regardless of his Jerkassitude, usually saving many lives in the process.
More completely straight examples from Stargate Atlantis would be Sergeant Bates and Dr. Kavanagh, although they're clearly Designated Villains as they do have legitimate points, but because these are directed against the main characters they're portrayed as petty jerks (Bates, unlike Kavanagh, turns out to be, although not entirely, right and the leads apologize). Bates continues to improve over the course of the series. Kavanagh remains a dick.
The living Ancients that showed up in "The Return". "Thanks for protecting our city, now get the fuck out so we can wallow in our misery." Not verbatim, obviously, but this is essentially what they wanted. They blamed the Atlantis team for everything that was happening with the Wraith (Woolsey at least has the good sense to call their commander on this and she shuts up real fast), threw the Athosians off the planet (they weren't even living in the city, the Ancients apparently felt they needed the entire planet — they only repopulated Atlantis mind you — to themselves), and only allowed O'Neill and Woolsey to stay as guests. Frankly, it's hard to sympathize when they all die in the next episode.
Stargate Universe: Ups the ante on Atlantis by having an entire cast composed of extreme jerkasses, with only one or two exceptions. But then it is pretty much BattlestargateGalactiverse (with the worst qualities of both). They do get better though, when Rush and Young come to an agreement and when Rush sits in the Ancient chair and sees his wife die again. They all have moments, but in general the characters, except for Telford, have escaped from this trope. Telford may be stepping away from Jerkass territory, now that he's no longer under the brainwashing influence of the Lucian Alliance.
T'Pol, possibly Star Trek's biggest Jerkass. Of course, like many Vulcans, it was a case of acting aloof on purpose. And there was the whole sex appeal thing...
However, she didn't even come close to the Krenim from Star Trek: Voyager. Listen to the minor Krenim functionary before the time shift, and you will have looked into the very face of Jerkass.
Whenever Q gets bored, he goes to f*** with the Enterprise.
Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek: The Next Generation is essentially Dr. McCoy's occasional Jerkass behavior Flanderized up to Eleven. She regularly insulted Data on a regular basis, ignored the fact that he could not comprehend her insults, and was often callous to the others. No wonder she left at the end of her only season.
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Zack Martin could be this. Not only is he disobedient and lazy, he has, more than once, been responsible for the titular pair's problems. He once locked Cody (who was wearing only a towel) out of the hotel room, was told not to do it again under pain of grounding by his mother, did it again, then acted surprised when she grounded him. He also once worked a job with Arwin, and spent most of the time goofing off at the store where Cody was working. He once did this even after Arwin told him to put a filter on the pool to keep all the junk from going into the pool, got a paper cut and left for hours. By the time he got back, it was too late. The Suite Life On Deck also has shades of this, as he and Cody now have part-time jobs on the ship because he used up all of their student money buying things for girls. He even stole Cody's, insisting that he "left it lying around" when it was in Cody's wallet under his pillow, guarded by his teddy bear.
While John's awful, emotionally abusive behavior towards Dean in "Something Wicked" could be excused because of how Azazel killing his wife broke him, the "I wouldn't have given you the damn thing [The Impala] if I thought you'd ruin it" incident in "Dead Man's Blood"—lashing out at Dean (who had been a good little soldier throughout the entire episode) because Sam (who had been rightfully asking questions) annoyed him—is just cruel. Far more callous is the exchange where John bitches at Dean for not calling to pass along important information. As Dean points out, "Sam called you when I was dying" and John didn't pick up; John's response to this is to admit that his son's got a point...and then to criticize his tone.
Sam can approach this, especially when the darkness introduced into him as a baby gains more influence on him. In Season 4, where we see him under the influence of demon blood, he's prone to lying, being condescending, declaring openly that Dean is too weak to get the job done, and even fights with his brother and almost strangles him after Dean calls him a monster, then approves the bleeding of a possessed woman for the power to defeat the Big Bad of the season. Flashes of this in Season 5 accompany cravings, and Sam even tells his Big Brother Instinct-driven brother that Dean's controlling behavior is part of what drove him towards his Evil Mentor girlfriend Ruby.
Dean approaches this too, most notably in "Point of No Return," when he coldly tells Bobby "You're Not My Father," tells his brother that Sam's so "angry and self-righteous" that he'll eventually give in to Lucifer, and decides to give in to the angels' plan for him even though that will invalidate everything Castiel has done against Heaven's orders for Dean and destroy most of the world. Even before this, Dean has repeatedly called his brother a "freak" and a "monster," even though he knows that's Sam's biggest fear.
Then there's Dean in "The End", in which he kills a man—one of his own soldiers—in cold blood for suspicion of being infected with the zombie plague and sends his oldest friend to die so as to get a shot at his objective.
Let's just say they all go through so much trauma that it isn't surprising when the boys lash out, and continual proximity means their brother is usually the victim.
Hamish, who constantly tries to catch the hosts in a logical trap and deliberately speaks slowly to kill time.
EF, otherwise universally known as Darth Dawkins, is an irritable Know-Nothing Know-It-All who vehemently tries to bend the talk show to his whims and is dismissive of the hosts oftentimes desiring to speak uninterrupted. In one, he accuses Eric of being "rude" when he was cutting him off.
John from SC chastises the hosts for swearing and accuses Eric and Jamie of being gay after not understanding a joke.
Nindo, a supporter of the presupposition argument, is an abrasive caller, so much so, he was banned from calling into the show. Not that it stopped him from trying to call into the show with different guises.
Latka's alter ego Vic Ferrari managed to make Louie look good. Latka's actor Kaufman himself, in his alter ego of Tony Clifton, was such a jerk that "Clifton" was fired and thrown off the set (Kaufman showed up for the next episode as if nothing had happened, since he consistently behaved as if "Tony Clifton" was a separate person).
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Jesse Flores. Resistance fighter from the future who came back pretty much solely to wreck John Connor's life. With a seemingly counter-productive desire to destroy the only thing protecting the savior of the human race, she brought a sidekick Scrappy of her own to seduce John Connor, and then promptly disposed of said girlfriend as part of her scheme. What's potentially even more disappointing than Fox's cancellation of the show is that we never got to find out if Derek really killed her or not.
That '70s Show: Pretty much everyone on the show is a jerk at times but Laurie takes it to an art form. She obviously gets it from her father Red Forman who is insanely strict (to everyone except Laurie; a couple of episodes implied that he's just given up on her). Kitty is a borderline alcoholic, Jackie and Kelso are narcissistic and shallow, Hyde is antisocial and mean even to his friends (with some justification, since there's nothing "borderline" aout his mother's alcoholism), Donna is often petty... about the only characters who are (almost) never jerks are Cloud Cuckoolander Fez and Donna's father Bob who is mostly just stupid.
The Thick of It: Malcolm Tucker, obviously. However, everyone else have their moments, because they were in no way better than him.
Torchwood: Owen Harper. Despite being unbelievably rude, sexist and condescending — not to mention opening the Rift, with apocalyptic results, and shooting his superior, Captain Jack Harkness, in the head three times (don't worry, he got better) — everyone on the show seems to love him (sometimes, inexplicably, in a romantic sense; not one, not two, but three of his female co-workers have been strongly sexually attracted to him). Flashbacks in "Fragments" showed he was nice, but losing his fiancée and joining Torchwood really took its toll and he gradually dialed back to a Jerk with a Heart of Gold by series 2.
Lily started off really wangsty but in episode 2 she become really mean with her best friend Carmen because she was spending time with her sisters. It would come across as Clingy Jealous Girl if they weren't her sisters. She also is a Karma Houdini.
Turner & Hooch (2021) has Judge Nelson from "In the Line of Fur." The guy doesn't seem to have any redeeming qualities. He has a complete It's All About Me attitude, is spiteful of the Marshals' and Hooch's attempts to protect him and has such a low sense of self-preservation that it's amazing one of the many criminals who have threatened his life hasn't already managed to off him by now.
The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Shatterday", Peter Jay Novins is a very unpleasant person. While visiting his extremely ill mother in Miami, he told her that he had to return to New York City earlier than he actually had to because he could not stand being around her any longer. He convinced a woman named Patty to leave her husband, set her and her son up in an apartment and abandoned her as soon as he became bored with her. Novins also mistreated his current girlfriend Jamie but it is not specified how. He works for a PR firm and took the Cumberland account, knowing full well that the company would destroy a small town with its unsafe environmental practices. His alter ego, who describes him as having the ethics of a weasel, is a far better person and sets about making amends for everything that the original Novins has done.
Two and a Half Men: Virtually everyone: Charlie, Judith, Jake, Berta (to an extent), Evelyn, several of Charlie's girlfriends and flings (including Rose) and even Alan.
Victorious: Ryder Daniels from one episode. He has a reputation for using girls to get a good grade and then cruelly dump them. Even worse is that he dumps Tori midway through the episode just to make her try to get him back (though that was somewhat a Justified Trope by the fact that she was snooping through his phone at Trina's advice), even though he had the intention of dropping her afterward. It's made clear that he doesn't care about breaking others' hearts.
Not to the point of being malicious—maybe—but Lyn's seducing of an old flame of hers, knowing he had a fiancee who was pregnant with his kid, as well as going on shopping sprees using her dead mother's credit cards don't point towards good character on her part. A saint she is not.
Marisol falls into this as well. Fighting against gentrification may or may not be a worthy cause depending on one's point of view but Mari gets pretty racist about it, to the point where she considers Emma and Lyn a pair of race traitors and "White-inas" for leaving their neighborhood.
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?: Mindset from the second US season. Aside from insulting Ms. Limelight, he deliberately failed a challenge out of refusal to spell words with the extra "bee" word, getting his teammates stung by bees in the process. According to Mindset, at least in the second case, he was refusing to play by Bee Sting's twisted rules and banking on that being the secret challenge of the day. (On this show, stranger things have happened.) Except it turns out it wasn't, and he was reprimanded for putting himself above his teammates, who had no say in his choice even though it affected all of them, and they were understandably not pleased. The Iron/Dark Enforcer from the first season also counts.
Willow (2022): Kit, oh so very much. She can be pretty obnoxious at times, simply rude or even callously indifferent to others' wellbeing.
The Young Ones was focused around a house of students who all but despised each other:
Rick is an over-the-top example of this character type — whiny, egocentric, quite hypocritical about his leftism, and so on. His reaction when he found out his parents died? "I WAS GONNA SPEND THE WHOLE SUMMER WITH THEM!" One of his housemates describes his name as being spelled "with a silent P."
Vyvyan is all but a psychotic madman — every episode has him trashing the entire house without any regard for the well being of, well, anything.
Mike might be milder than Rick and Vyvyan, but that's not saying much — he's still a self-absorbed schmoozer who's pretty much bribed and blackmailed himself through school. He didn't tell Rick his parents were dead until Rick mentioned what he was going to do over summer.
Even Neil tosses around the Jerkass Ball occasionally — his particular brand of Jerkassery simply takes the form of whining, self-absorbed Wangst rather than the more sociopathically violent form of his housemates. His response upon learning of the death of both Rick's parents was to moan "You think that's bad?" Even with leeway for the fact that the other three pretty much used him as a punching bag, that's a bit of an aloof response.
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