Tropescilloscope: Small Name, Big Ego

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

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