Tropescilloscope: Smug Snake

A slimeball with an unjustly-overinflated ego and delusions of grandeur. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Captain Ersatz My God, What Have I Done? Pyrrhic Victory This Is Gonna Suck Reasonable Authority Figure Biopic Guile Hero Cold-Blooded Torture No Antagonist A God Am I Names to Run Away from Really Fast I Have Your Wife Car Fu British Films Race Lift Ms. Fanservice Death Seeker Ship Tease Downer Ending One Steve Limit Heroes Want Redheads Genre Savvy Narrator Black Comedy Rape Catapult Nightmare My Beloved Smother Really Gets Around Vomit Discretion Shot An Arm and a Leg Dark Action Girl Grey and Gray Morality Man on Fire Shipper on Deck Not What It Looks Like Big Applesauce Superhero Genre Throwback Never Trust a Trailer Have a Gay Old Time Too Dumb to Live Faux Affably Evil Guns Akimbo Face–Heel Turn Mercy Kill Unspoken Plan Guarantee As Long as It Sounds Foreign For the Evulz Villain Ball Hero Antagonist Random Events Plot Alas, Poor Villain Disney Villain Death Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Gorn Naïve Newcomer Not Quite Dead Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Damsel in Distress Action Prologue Authority Equals Asskicking Not So Different Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Awesome, but Impractical Sequel Hook You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mighty Whitey Morality Pet Shown Their Work Curb-Stomp Battle Freeze-Frame Bonus timeperiod Wicked Cultured Honor Before Reason As You Know Badass Longcoat "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dark and Troubled Past Laughing Mad Male Frontal Nudity Conspicuous CG Trailers Always Spoil Parental Substitute Fantastic Racism Dual Wielding Belligerent Sexual Tension Real Life Writes the Plot Reality Ensues More Dakka Casting Gag Cat Fight Getting Crap Past the Radar Never Found the Body Intrepid Reporter The Starscream Shirtless Scene Annoying Younger Sibling Karmic Death The Load Extremely Short Timespan Bare Your Midriff Call-Back Bond Villain Stupidity Time Skip Humiliation Conga Based on a True Story Badass Grandpa Darker and Edgier Didn't Think This Through Not So Above It All One-Man Army Fatal Family Photo Scenery Gorn Funny Foreigner Creator Cameo Idiot Ball Evil Is Hammy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Immune to Bullets Disappeared Dad Yandere Gory Discretion Shot Pre-Mortem One-Liner Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fat Bastard Tap on the Head BFG Malevolent Masked Men Monumental Damage Slasher Movie Parental Neglect Men Are the Expendable Gender Jump Scare Dark Reprise Drill Sergeant Nasty Get Out! Manly Tears Taking You with Me Sexy Discretion Shot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Together in Death The Lost Lenore Deal with the Devil Gender Flip Call-Forward Thriller Tranquil Fury Half the Man He Used to Be As the Good Book Says... 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Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Contrived Coincidence Horror Films Armor-Piercing Question Woman Scorned The '80s Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Motor Mouth "Shaggy Dog" Story Historical Villain Upgrade Here We Go Again! 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Interrupted Suicide The Reveal Early Installment Weirdness Fainting Eagleland Beauty Is Never Tarnished Loophole Abuse The Stoner Heel–Face Turn Cool Car Neck Lift Cool Guns Canon Foreigner Maybe Ever After Blood Knight Department of Redundancy Department Soundtrack Dissonance Cluster F-Bomb An Axe to Grind Novelization Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Auto Erotica The Chessmaster Gainax Ending Hoist by His Own Petard Destination Defenestration Coming-of-Age Story Ass Shove Chiaroscuro Epic Fail Paper-Thin Disguise You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Improbable Weapon User What Happened to the Mouse? Film Noir Index Neck Snap Mythology Gag Creepy Child Spell My Name with an "S" The Cameo Almost Kiss Market-Based Title Real Life Heroic Sacrifice Body Horror Black Comedy Blackmail Mooks Everyone Has Standards Adaptational Heroism Woman in White Comically Missing the Point Super Strength Continuity Nod Does This Remind You of Anything? Artistic License – Gun Safety Sole Survivor Our Vampires Are Different Domestic Abuse The Bully Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Boom, Headshot! 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Is Serious Business Smoking Is Cool The Brute Rule of Three Deliberate Values Dissonance Wretched Hive Romantic Comedy The '90s Refuge in Audacity Final Girl Death of a Child Noodle Incident Stealth Hi/Bye Kick the Son of a Bitch Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Corrupt Corporate Executive Fiery Redhead Advertised Extra Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Anachronic Order No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Christmas Movies Index Frame-Up He Who Fights Monsters Red Eyes, Take Warning Posthumous Character Oh, Crap! Artistic License – Geography Dramatic Gun Cock Girl-on-Girl Is Hot In Medias Res Big Brother Instinct There Is No Kill Like Overkill Precision F-Strike Fantasy Films Ambiguously Gay Pragmatic Adaptation Serial Killer Foreshadowing Cool Old Lady Alliterative Name Bullying a Dragon Loads and Loads of Characters Vitriolic Best Buds Black and Gray Morality Stock Footage The Quiet One The Alleged Car Anti-Villain Japanese Films Unusual Euphemism Spared by the Adaptation Every Car Is a Pinto Drives Like Crazy Captain Obvious Eyepatch of Power Visual Pun Mr. Exposition All There in the Manual Ripped from the Headlines Ambiguous Ending Red Shirt Air-Vent Passageway Broken Aesop Villain Opening Scene I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Reality Has No Subtitles Parental Abandonment Rule of Symbolism You Killed My Father Action Girl Henpecked Husband Greater-Scope Villain Spiteful Spit Closed Circle Red Right Hand Femme Fatale The Lancer Redshirt Army Covers Always Lie Adult Fear Left the Background Music On Chekhov's Gunman Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Chase Scene Deadpan Snarker Be Careful What You Wish For Rule of Funny Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dwindling Party Manic Pixie Dream Girl Manipulative Bastard Kill It with Fire Worthy Opponent Brother–Sister Incest Groin Attack Becoming the Mask Lampshade Hanging Ascended Extra The '70s Hooker with a Heart of Gold Book-Ends Butt-Monkey Easily Forgiven Daylight Horror Action Genre Villainous Breakdown Off-into-the-Distance Ending Darkest Hour In the Back Aside Glance Broken Bird Show Within a Show Retcon German Films Card-Carrying Villain Stalker with a Crush Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Mad Scientist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Happily Married Evil vs. Evil Demoted to Extra Defrosting Ice Queen Obviously Evil Your Cheating Heart Death by Adaptation Artistic License – Military Suddenly SHOUTING! Hell Is That Noise Amoral Attorney The Alcoholic Redemption Equals Death Bring My Brown Pants It Can Think Badass Normal Scenery Porn May–December Romance "The Reason You Suck" Speech Badass Bookworm Retirony Vomit Indiscretion Shot Establishing Character Moment Brainless Beauty Foil Dirty Cop Drowning My Sorrows Blood from the Mouth Silence Is Golden Foregone Conclusion Mr. Fanservice Obfuscating Stupidity Jitter Cam Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Mind Screw Stealth Pun Deliberately Monochrome Sports Stories Friend to All Children Improvised Weapon Canadian Movies Humans Are Bastards Shower Scene Historical In-Joke Corpsing Mugging the Monster Television Movie Index Asshole Victim Bury Your Gays The Faceless Dies Wide Open Stuff Blowing Up The Un-Reveal Action Survivor "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Historical Hero Upgrade Framing Device Translation Convention Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Award-Bait Song Shout-Out Eureka Moment "Awesome McCool" Name Roaring Rampage of Revenge And the Adventure Continues Babies Ever After Overprotective Dad Take a Third Option Sacrificial Lion The Remake Rated M for Manly Shoot the Shaggy Dog Only in It for the Money 20 Minutes into the Future Our Zombies Are Different Did Not Get the Girl Ironic Echo The Power of Love What the Hell, Hero? Back from the Dead Heterosexual Life-Partners The Smart Guy My Greatest Failure Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bar Brawl Works Set in World War II Rewatch Bonus Retired Badass Kids Are Cruel Suspiciously Similar Substitute Affectionate Parody Apocalypse How Face Death with Dignity The Bad Guy Wins Bad Boss Arc Words The Stoic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Laser-Guided Karma Bad "Bad Acting" Evil Sounds Deep Married to the Job She's Got Legs Famous Last Words Sealed Evil in a Can Horror Comedy From Bad to Worse Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Beware the Nice Ones Antagonist Title Bland-Name Product Psychopathic Manchild Your Head A-Splode The Stinger Re-Cut He Knows Too Much Playing Gertrude Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Casanova Extreme Doormat Catch-Phrase Romantic False Lead Unreliable Narrator Evil Brit Made of Explodium Very Loosely Based on a True Story Once More, with Clarity! It's Personal B-Movie The Chick Crapsack World Important Haircut