Tropescilloscope: Small Name, Big Ego

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

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