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