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