![]() What he lacks for in tact he makes up for in usually having the right idea. Batman tends to fall into this whenever he opens his mouth.While the Commander is a rapist (in fact, saying this to Apollo after raping him), he's right that the Authority was composed of pretty screwed-up people themselves. The Authority sees the Commander, an evil expy of Captain America, criticize the Authority for thinking they know how to best how to tell people how to live their lives and how a "better world" should be.Sister Trope to Dumbass Has a Point, The Extremist Was Right, Hypocrite Has a Point, Villain Has a Point, Wisdom from the Gutter, and The Dissenter Is Always Right. Compare The Horseshoe Effect, wherein two people claim to be ideologically opposed and yet have beliefs in common. Also a likely response to an Insufferable Genius. See also Not Himself/ Not Herself (a situation likely to inspire this), What the Hell, Hero? (same), and Don't Shoot the Message (when this occurs in Real Life). A response of " Shut Up, Hannibal!" would be out of place and is likely to get shot down if it appears but a Kirk Summation could work. While our hero's friends may be hesitant to insult them, these characters don't really care what they think and are willing to say exactly what they're doing wrong, without sugarcoating their " What the Hell, Hero?".Ī rare outcome of the claim that " We are not so different". It's worth noting the Alpha Bitch (or Bastard) and the Jerk Jock, two of the main distributors of this trope, have a tendency toward bluntness. The other main reason a character is likely to say something like, " I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with them." It is all too often that the character is Right for the Wrong Reasons, making some legit points, albeit for entirely selfish reasons. Or maybe it's the antagonist who is a hypocrite and sees the moral failings of the others but not his own. After all, at least the antagonist is honest about it. Perhaps even the protagonist is caught on a moral stumbling block, and the antagonist is all too glad to point out their hypocrisy. Cases typically involve the listener conceding the point or a trustworthy source agreeing with the jerkass. ![]() ![]() Then they have a moment where they say something undeniably true - the good guys don't have to like what they're saying, but they can't deny that they're right without deluding themselves. Whoever this jerkass is, they're seriously deficient in the morals department, at least from the point of view of the perspective characters. The jerkass in question can be anything from your standard Jerkass (including its Sub-Tropes, Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Jerk with a Heart of Jerk) or Anti-Hero all the way up to any flavor of villain (though the chance is inversely proportional to the distance they go down the "slippery slope"). But the worst part is that they're right. What they just said is probably the last thing you wanted to hear. ![]()
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