Tropescilloscope: Small Name, Big Ego

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

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