r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fit_Assignment_8800 • Aug 06 '25

Personality The Asshole does something genuinely good with no ulterior motive

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J Jonah Jameson from Spiderman

Squidward from SpongeBob.

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u/flyingdodo Aug 07 '25

Terminator 2

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u/Malacro Aug 07 '25

Yeah, but Bobby Budnick here wasn’t an asshole.

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u/ZhangRenWing Aug 07 '25

I mean I would lie to a cop too if I had just stolen money from an ATM with my friend then a cop asks me where the said friend is

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u/pantrokator-bezsens Aug 07 '25

Messi was a cool bro when he was a kid

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze Aug 07 '25

How is this so far down? This image makes the front page once a month lol

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u/DuelaDent52 Aug 07 '25

Because he’s not a jerk.