Tropescilloscope: Small Name, Big Ego

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

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