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There are certain mentalities that create Jerkasses, or at least allow them to tolerate themselves. They come in many versions, but most of them boil down to one of a few justifications: Appeal to Inherent Nature: "That's just the way I am, and I can't (or don't care to) change. If you don't like it, deal with it!" Appeal to Market Forces: "The demand is there! Someone's going to get rich doing this, it might as well be me!" Bad Mood as an Excuse: "Something's got me worked up and I'm gonna take it out on someone as a form of release, and if they can't take it, then they're a total wuss!" Blaming the Victim: "It's their own fault for provoking me into hurting them!" Brutal Honesty: "I never sugarcoat the truth! If they're offended, then that's their fault, not mine!" Culture Justifies Anything: "It's how I do things from the culture I was raised in! Get used to it!" Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: "I have Asperger's, so I don't know how to behave!" Freudian Excuse: "I had a rough childhood, so of course I'm going to act like a jerk!" Humans Are Bastards: "I'm just doing what most people in my situation would do! The only difference is that they hide behind smug pretenses and I don't." "Just Joking" Justification: "Come on, can't you take a joke? I'm Too Funny to Be Evil! You people have No Sense of Humor." Might Makes Right: "I have all the power here and there I make all of the rules. If you don't like that, then suck it up and deal with it!" Moral Myopia: "I'm right and all these peasants are wrong, so it's OK to treat them like crap just to hammer my point in." The stock phrase "I'm not a jerk, I just don't suffer fools" may be used in their defense, the implied insult of which only serves to prove the accuser's point. Revenge: "They were horrible to me first! Two wrongs don't make a right, you say? Pfft, they started it, so me being horrible to them is right!" Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: "I'm old, so I can be a jerk if I want!" The Social Darwinist: "The strong survive! Weak people are a bane to us! It's survival of the fittest!" Tough Love: "I'm treating you like crap just to toughen you up! After all, Misery Builds Character." Virtue Is Weakness: "Kindness is weakness and Nice Guys Finish Last. If you want to get ahead in this world, you have to be ruthless, mean, and manipulative." Straw Nihilists, Manipulative Bastards, and Jerkasses of every type will self-righteously spout one of these philosophies whenever called out on their hostility, arrogance, and general pissy behavior. Can overlap with Obliviously Evil if the jerk genuinely believes they are right to hurt others, instead of merely coming up with excuses to make themselves feel better. Just because an author believes this about a character doesn't mean that every sympathetic character in the story should view the character as a justified jerk. In real life, some people have a hard time dealing with people who act abrasively and are unlikely to know why they act like jerks in the first place. Having everyone make excuses for the character in the story itself may result in a Jerk Sue. When the fans do this on their own, a Draco in Leather Pants is born. See also What the Hell, Hero?, a frequent response to Jerk Justifications. If a character's Jerk Justifications are the result of painful experience, can result in a Jerkass Woobie. |
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"Take Me Or Leave Me," from RENT, is essentially an entire song of the Appeal to Inherent Nature justification. Most of it is on Maureen's part, but Joanne does a lot of justifying and refusing to compromise by the number's end. | |
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Nabiki from Ranma ½ tends to invoke Virtue Is Weakness if she gets called on her behaviour (which is rarely). | |
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Don John in Much Ado About Nothing has a speech declaring himself to be this. | |
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House, from House, M.D., combines Moral Myopia and Appeal to Inherent Nature. At least he has a point as House is an amazing doctor, which is pretty much the only reason he's still working at that hospital, despite being such an utter jackass who is committed to the Good is Not Nice trope. | |
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The Simpsons: In "At Long Last Leave", the shows 500th episode, Springfield finally decides to banish The Simpson family, fed up with the increasingly destructive and obnoxious nature of their hijinxs, especially Homer and Bart. Marge eventually resorts to this excuse when she gives "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the townspeople, claiming that it's wrong to punish someone for "being who they are" as an excuse for her complete inability to control her dysfunctional family. Of course, the entire town ignores that they're not exactly perfect themselves, which Marge also points out to them. | |
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Gunsmith Cats: Rider's justification for running drugs: it'll happen whether or not he does it, so he might as well make money off it. Rally eventually gets him to give it up. | |
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Sam Puckett on iCarly very much this type. Has had another character say outright that it would be weird if she didn't make them miserable, simply because Sam refuses to grow up or act maturely. Could very well be a Freudian Excuse because, in a later episode, it's revealed that Sam's mother Pam is exactly the same way. | |
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Carrie: "The World According To Chris" is basically Jerk Justifications: The Song. In it, Chris Hargensen sings about how she sees life as a vicious competition where it's "better to be screwed than screwed". When Sue asks "What does it cost to be kind?" Chris scoffs and mocks her. Worst of all, she seems to think she has the right to be cruel to Carrie just because she's more powerful. | |
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The Joker presents a Humans Are Bastards variation in The Killing Joke, declaring that "one bad day" would make anybody as crazy as he is, and it's just luck of the draw that he actually ended up that way. | |
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Souther of Fist of the North Star. For him, to be ahead in the Crapsack World where he lives, one has to be as ruthless and devoid of compassion as possible. | |
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The Gulag Archipelago has the line, "What can I do with the incorrigible directness of my personality! ... I am compelled to utter reprimands; it disciplines those nearby." | |
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Rick Sanchez believes in the trope due to his being smarter than most people he's around. He even claimed niceness was "something stupid people use to get ahead in life". | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Both Calvin and Hobbes are guilty of this in different ways; Calvin claims that he has a "natural inclination towards evil" (in other words, he likes being a brat) and it's unfair for his parents, school and society in general to stifle him by forcing their morals and ethics on him. Hobbes, on the other hand, believes that as a tiger and a natural predator, it's in his nature to constantly stalk and attack Calvin, ignoring that, whatever his real nature is, he's clearly not a regular tiger, since he's sentient, can talk and walk upright. | |
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Lucifer (and most evil angels) in Supernatural think of themselves as being above humans, making it OK to kill them. | |
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Absolute Power (BBC): Charles Prentiss. He's a bastard because being a bastard works. You might wish it didn't, and he has some sympathy with that viewpoint. But it does. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon Cooper combines Moral Myopia and Appeal to Inherent Nature. Basically, he's House without the Deadpan Snarking or any sort of personality. He's also an Insufferable Genius. | |
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Silver from Pokémon Gold and Silver and its remakes, though he eventually gets over it. | |
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In Berserk, Guts, after his horrific ordeal during the Eclipse, adopts this attitude during his vengeance-obsessed Black Swordsman days, considering innocent civilians to be "small fry without the strength to truly live," who he would not lift a finger to help against the ravening demons that are drawn to his Brand of Sacrifice and which he regularly has to fight. Thankfully, he gets over this when he finds Casca again and gathers a new circle of True Companions, though he still has to deal with a very nasty Enemy Within that represents the worst of what he used to be. | |
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Damon on The Vampire Diaries has used "I'm a vampire" as an excuse for his behavior a few times. It would be a lot more convincing if not for the behavior of several other vampires demonstrating that it really isn't one. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Azula, while more Ax-Crazy than Jerkass, claims Virtue Is Weakness and Appeal to Inherent Nature for herself (during the Beach Episode she says that her mother was right about her being a monster, and a later episode has her frantically claiming that trust is for fools). | |
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Mello from Death Note. In order to catch Kira, he enlists the help of The Mafia and holds Sayu hostage in order to get the notebook. He says he'll do whatever it takes to get ahead, and it seems he cares more about besting Near than he does about bringing Kira to justice. | |
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''And that's how Sue C's it!" | |
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Sawyer from Lost is Appeal to Inherent Nature, with a little bit of self-loathing and a whole lot of Heart of Gold thrown in. At least, he was in the first seasons. He would usually justify his actions with "I'm not a good person." | |
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In Wings of Fire, Qibli's mother beat him to make him "strong". This is why he ran away from her while still a child and is currently under the care of Queen Thorn. | |
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Guy of Gisborne from Robin Hood is of the Virtue Is Weakness variety in regards to his pursuit of his ambition, but also a little Appeal to Inherent Nature in that he is well aware that he has "committed heinous crimes." Only he isn't prepared to do anything about it except to rely on Marian to "wash away his sins." She begs to differ. It does not end well. | |
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Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place is a mixture of the Virtue Is Weakness and Humans Are Bastards types, with a Freudian Excuse in the form of her idiotic and selfish Abusive Parents leaving her with severe trust issues. In her earthly life, she was flagrantly selfish and generally was The Cynic, viewing the world as a big sack of crap and that there was no point in doing anything remotely altruistic; in fact, she couldn't fathom people being genuinely nice for the sake of being nice and always assumed they had some ulterior motive. A large part of her Character Development is her not only learning to be a kinder and more considerate person but also accepting kindness from others and that Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse. | |
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In volume 6 of Cooking With Wild Game, Yamiel Tsun offers her (bound, drugged) captive a "choice": he can abandon his own family to join hers and make them the money necessary for them to go legit, or he can be brutally murdered. Apparently, the fact that redemption requires effort and responsibility exempts her from having to do it. | |
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Lelouch from Code Geass puts on this kind of act as a mask but does believe some of it (mainly the Nice Guys Finish Last and World Half Empty parts). However, his ultimate goal is to make the world a better place and completely overturn this kind of attitude, and he's willing to take some extreme measures to achieve it. | |
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Kratos' justification in God of War. Not entirely wrong, since many times he must kill innocent bystanders if he wants to survive. The Olympians' justification is more like Moral Myopia. | |
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Reynauld de Chatilllon from Kingdom of Heaven. Lampshaded by him at one point when he slaughters one of many of Saladin's camps. | |
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Multiple types tend to show up on Survivor, with people saying Virtue Is Weakness and That's The Way I Am (or That's The Way Everyone Is) almost verbatim to the Confession Cam. By definition, nobody really wants to own up to Moral Myopia, but it's there; and it appears to be the specialty of Russell, from Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains. | |
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South Park: Used twice, in "Quest For Ratings" and "Raising The Bar", where the characters (Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Cartman and Butters in the former and Token in the latter) use this as a defence for why they're appealing to the Lowest Common Denominator and creating garbage entertainment. This is what makes money, so it's okay to make it even though it's having a visibly negative effect. | |
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In Fruits Basket, this is the excuse Shigure gives for being so selfish and manipulative. | |
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Galatea ("Golly") from The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is raised with nothing but kibble to eat and various Nietzsche-inspired literature to read, so it's no real surprise that she produces these justifications. | |
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Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After he takes Xander's radio: | |
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Least I Could Do will twist itself into storytelling pretzels in order to let Rayne be a Jerkass wish-fulfillment character and still look like a good guy in the end, usually by pulling a justification out of thin air that leads to everyone apologizing to Rayne and saying he was right all along. In one arc, Rayne's company is hiring but he doesn't tell his jobless friend Issa. When she angrily confronts him and demands to know why he didn't get her a job, he says that she needs to earn it by merit rather than getting it through favoritism — and this is after weeks of comedic backpedaling to avoid telling the truth. | |
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In Firefly, a historical figure named Shan Yu is described as having fancied himself a "warrior poet," and in one of his writings waxed on about how, essentially, the only way to truly know a person was through torture. Simon sarcastically sums up this story as "sadistic crap legitimized by florid prose." | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Jessica uses her newfound Compelling Voice superpower to nearly commit Rape by Proxy. When she's called out on it, she defends herself by appealing to the idea of Humans Are Bastards; anyone who got superpowers would inevitably think about doing something awful with them, she was just the one who went through with it. | |
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Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother uses multiple types with great abandon and inconsistency, depending on whichever one will best get him out of a conundrum without admitting he's wrong/non-awesome or showing weakness: when his friends call him out on Appeal to Inherent Nature by saying they're sick of "dealing" with him, he insists upon Moral Myopia. When they prove Moral Myopia wrong by showing him how much damage his jerkassery causes, he falls back on Virtue Is Weakness. When they argue against Virtue Is Weakness by demonstrating that they're all happy without being jerks, he seizes on to Moral Myopia to dismiss their opinions as signs that they're "lame" and then insists upon Appeal to Inherent Nature, because he's "awesome". And so it begins again. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, Organization XIII uses this kind of excuse for their actions. Since they're Nobodies, who don't have hearts, it's simply in their nature to screw with the universe and the heroes, but it's clear from the start that 80% of the excuse is Moral Myopia. To be fair, the whole "missing a heart" bit makes them sociopaths by design. It's rather easy to be a jerk when you're completely incapable of empathy. | |
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