Tropescilloscope: Small Name, Big Ego

Character who thinks they're better than they really are. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Bury Your Gays Missing Mom Scare Chord A Father to His Men Hero of Another Story Reasonable Authority Figure Slashed Throat Kick the Dog Manly Tears Five-Man Band Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Tap on the Head Nice Hat One-Man Army Expy Dogged Nice Guy In Name Only You Have Failed Me Show Within a Show Book-Ends Asshole Victim Catch-Phrase Wounded Gazelle Gambit Amoral Attorney Really Gets Around Boom, Headshot! Demoted to Extra Take a Third Option Stepford Smiler Gory Discretion Shot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Camera Abuse Intrepid Reporter Deal with the Devil Contrived Coincidence Dirty Old Man Politically Incorrect Villain Nothing Is Scarier Beauty Is Never Tarnished Retired Badass Same Language Dub Hypocrite Hell Is That Noise Bait-and-Switch Big Eater All There in the Script Alas, Poor Villain Dying Moment of Awesome As You Know He Who Fights Monsters Awesome, but Impractical Jerkass More Dakka Riddle for the Ages Narrator Spared by the Adaptation Eye Scream The '70s Dramatic Gun Cock Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Camp Gay Shipper on Deck Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Plan Freudian Excuse Naïve Newcomer Dark Reprise Brainless Beauty Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Men Are the Expendable Gender The Sociopath Deus ex Machina Canon Foreigner Batman Gambit Four-Temperament Ensemble Accidental Murder Double Entendre Romantic False Lead Kill It with Fire B-Movie Big Brother Instinct Wham Shot The Lancer Novelization Race Against the Clock Children Are Innocent Lock and Load Montage Slasher Movie Black Comedy Rape Foregone Conclusion Motor Mouth Tagline The Brute Translation Convention Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dutch Angle Not Quite Dead Spiritual Successor Ambiguous Ending Large Ham Film Noir Black Dude Dies First Distracted by the Sexy Kubrick Stare Disappeared Dad Shown Their Work Manipulative Bastard Cluster F-Bomb Framing Device Cool Old Guy Rule of Three Adaptation Dye-Job Downer Ending It Can Think Meet Cute Thriller Only Known by Their Nickname Artistic License – Biology Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pretty in Mink Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rousing Speech Russian Films Creative Closing Credits Mr. Fanservice Idiot Ball Death by Adaptation Evil Sounds Deep Insistent Terminology Berserk Button Henpecked Husband Animal Motifs Freeze-Frame Bonus Sci-Fi Horror Adaptational Villainy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Storming the Castle Fanservice Extra Fatal Flaw Ambiguous Disorder Parental Neglect Overly Long Gag Cain and Abel Rasputinian Death Put on a Bus Homage Air-Vent Passageway Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Psychological Thriller Obviously Evil An Arm and a Leg Epic Fail Evil Is Hammy Small Name, Big Ego Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Retcon Drives Like Crazy Famous Last Words Shirtless Scene Defiant to the End Dressing as the Enemy Arranged Marriage Comically Missing the Point Mooks Plot Hole Action Survivor Fantastic Racism Shoot the Shaggy Dog Call-Forward Smug Snake Adaptational Heroism The Voiceless Funny Foreigner Fanservice What the Hell, Hero? Betty and Veronica Historical Villain Upgrade Adaptational Badass Break the Cutie Shut Up, Hannibal! Ambiguously Gay Insane Troll Logic Spell My Name with an "S" Product Placement Biopic "The Reason You Suck" Speech Chiaroscuro Fatal Family Photo Eiffel Tower Effect Pragmatic Villainy Disproportionate Retribution Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Vamp Greater-Scope Villain Attempted Rape Dual Wielding I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Pay Evil unto Evil All Girls Want Bad Boys Took a Level in Jerkass Accidental Misnaming Film Series Sexy Discretion Shot Scenery Gorn Eyepatch of Power Stealth Hi/Bye Babies Ever After No-Holds-Barred Beatdown It's Personal Adaptation Expansion Token Minority Foreshadowing Paper-Thin Disguise The Ace Improbable Aiming Skills The Chick Based on a True Story Spiteful Spit Heterosexual Life-Partners Catapult Nightmare Gender Flip Bilingual Bonus Tempting Fate Animated Credits Opening Spanner in the Works The Ditz Bare Your Midriff Off with His Head! As the Good Book Says... Recycled IN SPACE! Obstructive Bureaucrat Credits Gag "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Actor Allusion Here We Go Again! Red Oni, Blue Oni Not So Stoic Hypocritical Humor Needs Wiki Magic Love Suddenly SHOUTING! The Cameo Improvised Weapon Line-of-Sight Name Man on Fire Evil-Detecting Dog Broken Bird Pet the Dog Stalker with a Crush Closed Circle Jerk Jock Instant Death Bullet Would Hurt a Child Alpha Bitch Artistic License – Military Fiery Redhead Beard of Evil Jump Scare Villain Song Bond Villain Stupidity Dirty Coward True Companions In the Back Authority Equals Asskicking Smoking Is Cool Jerkass Has a Point Tranquil Fury Costume Porn Genre Throwback Crazy Jealous Guy For the Evulz Darkest Hour Let's Get Dangerous! Face–Heel Turn The Stoic Vomit Indiscretion Shot Playing Gertrude An Aesop Suspiciously Specific Denial Dark Action Girl Badass Bookworm Unreliable Narrator Self-Deprecation Double-Meaning Title Dirty Cop Unspoken Plan Guarantee Shell-Shocked Veteran Curb-Stomp Battle The Dragon Big Bad Karmic Death Mistaken for Gay Older Than They Look Affectionate Parody Rule of Cool Sealed Evil in a Can Trailers Always Spoil Flipping the Bird Auto Erotica Chewing the Scenery Red Eyes, Take Warning The Smurfette Principle Captain Obvious Drugs Are Bad Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Department of Redundancy Department Shout-Out Composite Character Despair Event Horizon Disney Villain Death Bland-Name Product Funny Background Event The Alleged Car Outrun the Fireball O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fat Bastard Groin Attack Meaningful Name Handicapped Badass Race Lift Soft Glass Mind Screw Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fish out of Water Bald of Evil Toplessness from the Back Sanity Slippage The Power of Love The '50s Taking the Bullet Fan Disservice Punny Name Redemption Equals Death Rape as Drama How We Got Here Stealth Pun Cowboy Cop Offscreen Teleportation It Will Never Catch On Almost Kiss Sole Survivor Meaningful Background Event NO INDOOR VOICE Intergenerational Friendship Vitriolic Best Buds Implacable Man Non-Indicative Name Sinister Minister I Need a Freaking Drink And the Adventure Continues Foil Shower Scene As Long as It Sounds Foreign After the End A Minor Kidroduction Music Stories Fate Worse than Death Dark Is Not Evil Even Evil Has Standards Sequel Hook Cool Old Lady Word of God The Big Guy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Facial Horror Historical In-Joke Pretty Little Headshots Ungrateful Bastard Guns Akimbo Body Horror Only in It for the Money folderlabel He Knows Too Much Video Credits Due to the Dead Extreme Doormat Undying Loyalty Serious Business Faking the Dead Blatant Lies Rule of Funny Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bullying a Dragon Epic Movie Slap-Slap-Kiss Badass in a Nice Suit Villainous Breakdown Crucified Hero Shot Male Frontal Nudity MacGuffin Dramatic Irony The Musical Author Avatar Anti-Villain Adaptational Attractiveness Green-Eyed Monster Last-Name Basis No Name Given Hoist by His Own Petard Love at First Sight Woman Scorned Action Genre Establishing Character Moment Dissonant Serenity Ship Tease Vacation Films You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Never Trust a Trailer Japanese Films Reality Has No Subtitles Adorkable Daddy's Girl Real Life Writes the Plot Did Not Get the Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Time Skip Precision F-Strike Irony No OSHA Compliance Rated M for Manly Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Psycho for Hire A.I. Is a Crapshoot "Shaggy Dog" Story Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bavarian Fire Drill For Want of a Nail Deconstruction Science Fiction Films Heroic BSoD Not So Above It All The Bad Guy Wins Crazy-Prepared War Is Hell Training Montage Sacrificial Lion German Films Knife Nut Bunny-Ears Lawyer Animal Title Index Grey and Gray Morality Unusually Uninteresting Sight No Antagonist Say My Name Adapted Out There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mr. Exposition Abusive Parents Light Is Not Good Loophole Abuse Award-Bait Song Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The '80s The Atoner The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Good Is Not Nice Brick Joke Creepy Child Hooker with a Heart of Gold Badass Normal Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Knight Templar Lampshade Hanging Pre-Mortem One-Liner Random Events Plot Does This Remind You of Anything? Documentary Determinator aka: The Determinator Left the Background Music On She Cleans Up Nicely Back from the Dead Protagonist Title Coming-of-Age Story Bowdlerise Immune to Bullets Our Vampires Are Different Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Love Triangle One-Word Title All Men Are Perverts Eagleland Television Movie Index Empathic Environment Flashback Sir Swears-a-Lot Would Hit a Girl Fantasy Films Blood from the Mouth Everyone Has Standards Reckless Gun Usage May–December Romance Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Important Haircut Wretched Hive You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Laser-Guided Karma Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Yandere Unusual Euphemism Mad Scientist Guile Hero From Nobody to Nightmare From Bad to Worse Male Gaze Ironic Echo Not So Different In Medias Res The Oner Bloodless Carnage Sassy Black Woman Covers Always Lie All Just a Dream Get Out! Card-Carrying Villain Once More, with Clarity! Rewatch Bonus Gone Horribly Right Amusing Injuries La Résistance Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Leitmotif Twist Ending Faux Affably Evil Heroes Want Redheads Kill 'em All Arch-Enemy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sequel Escalation Casting Gag Broken Aesop Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Names to Run Away from Really Fast Didn't Think This Through Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Overprotective Dad Military and Warfare Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Skewed Priorities Anachronism Stew Not What It Looks Like Genre Savvy Hair-Trigger Temper Honor Before Reason Exact Words Becoming the Mask Visual Pun Meaningful Echo The Casanova Only a Flesh Wound Ms. Fanservice Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Big "NO!" The '90s Creator Cameo Karma Houdini Early-Bird Cameo Fourth Date Marriage Badass Boast The Place I Did What I Had to Do The End... Or Is It? Noodle Incident Wicked Cultured Madness Mantra Death by Sex Big Applesauce She's Got Legs Not Even Bothering with the Accent Informed Ability Leave the Camera Running Neck Lift Parental Incest Anti-Hero Every Car Is a Pinto Final Girl Stuff Blowing Up Villain with Good Publicity Character Development Exactly What It Says on the Tin Worthy Opponent Ominous Latin Chanting Star-Crossed Lovers Papa Wolf Revenge Author Appeal Advertised Extra Getting Crap Past the Radar The Mafia Oh, Crap! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rule of Symbolism Christmas Movies Index The Reveal Very Loosely Based on a True Story Chekhov's Gun Fingore Actually Pretty Funny Manchild Malevolent Masked Men Beware the Nice Ones Setting Update Whole Plot Reference Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cruel and Unusual Death Retirony Anyone Can Die Armor-Piercing Question Hate Sink Artistic License – Law Chekhov's Gunman Bi the Way Big Damn Heroes Refuge in Audacity The Smart Guy Never My Fault Destination Defenestration Pyrrhic Victory Punch-Clock Villain Rich Bitch Public Domain Feature Films The X of Y Disney Death Breaking the Fourth Wall Martial Arts Movie Drowning My Sorrows Danny Peary Cult Movies List Roaring Rampage of Revenge Humiliation Conga The Dreaded My Greatest Failure Bond One-Liner Red Herring Hope Spot Fainting All There in the Manual Police are Useless '80s Hair Mugging the Monster The Stoner Historical-Domain Character Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptation Distillation Leaning on the Fourth Wall Diabolus ex Machina Bloodier and Gorier Those Two Guys Be Careful What You Wish For Big Bad Duumvirate Frame-Up Agony of the Feet The Great Depression Genre Shift Works Set in World War II What Happened to the Mouse? Hidden Depths Killed Mid-Sentence Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beta Couple Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique An Axe to Grind "Well Done, Son!" Guy Half the Man He Used to Be Early Installment Weirdness Cloudcuckoolander Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Faceless Title Drop Black Best Friend Improbable Weapon User Defrosting Ice Queen The Hero Dies The Bully The Un-Reveal Silent Movie The Film of the Book Heroic Sacrifice Ascended Extra Psychopathic Manchild Better to Die than Be Killed Action Girl Super Strength Cool Shades The Cavalry Peek-a-Boo Corpse Death Glare Adult Fear Index of Film Westerns Driven to Suicide Your Head A-Splode Dramedy Domestic Abuse My Beloved Smother Parental Abandonment Age Lift Deadpan Snarker Maybe Ever After Butt-Monkey Eldritch Abomination Hong Kong Films Action Prologue Gorn Plucky Comic Relief The Dog Bites Back I'm a Humanitarian Match Cut Re-Cut Horror Films Evil vs. Evil The '60s Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Badass Grandpa Fire-Forged Friends Dwindling Party "Awesome McCool" Name Monumental Damage Villain Protagonist Posthumous Character Aluminum Christmas Trees Big Fancy House The Load Extremely Short Timespan 20 Minutes into the Future Logo Joke Stock Footage Death of a Child Combat Pragmatist Australian Movies A Date with Rosie Palms Reality Ensues It's All About Me Made of Explodium Pimped-Out Dress Artistic License – History Up to Eleven Does Not Like Shoes Cassandra Truth Mighty Whitey Calling the Old Man Out Manic Pixie Dream Girl Damsel in Distress Historical Hero Upgrade Apocalypse How Real Life Arc Words Lighter and Softer Femme Fatale Corrupt Corporate Executive Demonic Possession Silence Is Golden Country Matters Blood Knight N-Word Privileges Annoying Younger Sibling Straight Gay Market-Based Title Kids Are Cruel Film Noir Index I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Hero Antagonist BFG Affably Evil Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dies Wide Open Evil Laugh As Himself The Starscream Sadistic Choice Daylight Horror Broken Pedestal The Hero Bar Brawl Break the Haughty Serial Killer Wrong Genre Savvy Ripped from the Headlines Humans Are Bastards Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Disguised in Drag Horror Comedy Together in Death Death Seeker Fake Shemp Gilligan Cut Aside Glance Running Gag And I Must Scream Cool Guns timeperiod Never Found the Body All for Nothing The Ghost Curse Cut Short Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Woman in White Gold Digger Darker and Edgier Red Shirt The Quiet One Too Dumb to Live Made of Iron World of Ham Hollywood Darkness Italian Films Bound and Gagged My God, What Have I Done? Mythology Gag French Films Eureka Moment Ghost Fiction I Have Your Wife Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Interrupted Suicide Married to the Job Imagine Spot Poor Communication Kills Celebrity Paradox Cat Scare Nice Guy Developing Doomed Characters Cat Fight Moment Killer Black and Gray Morality Properly Paranoid Artistic License – Physics No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Remake Continuity Nod Bad "Bad Acting" Romantic Comedy Gratuitous English Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Failed a Spot Check Canadian Movies Dumb Blonde The Stinger Bolivian Army Ending Your Cheating Heart Deliberate Values Dissonance Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Counterpart This Is Gonna Suck Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Victoria's Secret Compartment No Celebrities Were Harmed Stylistic Suck Decoy Protagonist Abhorrent Admirer Face Death with Dignity Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sports Stories Ass Shove Central Theme Totally Radical Death by Irony Crapsack World Those Two Bad Guys Grievous Bottley Harm Unwitting Instigator of Doom Offscreen Moment of Awesome No Ending Take That! Dull Surprise Dark and Troubled Past Parental Substitute Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pragmatic Adaptation Well-Intentioned Extremist Happily Married Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Gainax Ending Morality Pet Truth in Television The Alcoholic One Steve Limit Bittersweet Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Artistic License – Gun Safety Vampire Fiction Mercy Kill Loads and Loads of Characters Jitter Cam Vomit Discretion Shot Heel Realization Brother–Sister Incest A God Am I Alliterative Name Bottomless Magazines Villain Ball And Starring Only One Name Artistic License – Geography Scenery Porn Major Injury Underreaction Suspiciously Similar Substitute Slasher Smile Mexican Standoff Scary Black Man Black Comedy Drill Sergeant Nasty Kick the Son of a Bitch Red Right Hand Taking You with Me Mystery and Detective Films Mundane Made Awesome Bring My Brown Pants Unresolved Sexual Tension Easily Forgiven Room Full of Crazy The Chessmaster Cool Car Wham Line Our Zombies Are Different Determinator Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Depraved Bisexual Insult Backfire Soundtrack Dissonance Villain Opening Scene Big-Bad Ensemble Took a Level in Badass Antagonist Title Car Fu Neck Snap Friend to All Children The Lost Lenore Belligerent Sexual Tension Evil Brit Conspicuous CG Not Using the "Z" Word Call-Back Anachronic Order Superhero Dropped a Bridge on Him Only Sane Man Earn Your Happy Ending Those Wacky Nazis Chekhov's Skill No-Sell Adaptation Name Change Hollywood Law Deliberately Monochrome Laughing Mad Police Brutality Redshirt Army Bad Boss You Killed My Father What You Are in the Dark Ax-Crazy Mama Bear Zombie Stories Fun with Acronyms Adults Are Useless Enemy Mine Chase Scene Naked People Are Funny Bloody Hilarious Blackmail Make It Look Like an Accident Mood Whiplash Evil Is Petty British Films Captain Ersatz Reality Is Unrealistic Have a Gay Old Time Heel–Face Turn Brutal Honesty Badass Longcoat Expository Hairstyle Change The Mole Corpsing