Tropescilloscope: Smug Snake

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

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