Tropescilloscope: Smug Snake

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

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Or Is It? 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Is Serious Business Improbable Weapon User Woman in White Gender Flip Stuff Blowing Up Cowboy Cop Hope Spot Big Fancy House Danny Peary Cult Movies List Grey and Gray Morality What Happened to the Mouse? Deconstruction Not What It Looks Like Anti-Villain Break the Haughty Setting Update Italian Films British Films Title Drop Those Two Bad Guys The Power of Love Does Not Like Shoes "The Reason You Suck" Speech Small Name, Big Ego Overly Long Gag Stepford Smiler Sole Survivor Accidental Misnaming Evil Is Hammy Curb-Stomp Battle Beware the Nice Ones The Sociopath Jerk Jock Only Sane Man Married to the Job Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Epilogue Knight Templar Author Avatar The Chessmaster Not So Different Curse Cut Short Shirtless Scene Never My Fault Police are Useless There Is No Kill Like Overkill Canadian Movies Film Noir Index Evil Is Petty Pyrrhic Victory Posthumous Character Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Historical Hero Upgrade It's All About Me Children Are Innocent Super Strength Line-of-Sight Name Punch-Clock Villain Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Love Triangle Science Fiction Films Friend to All Children Camera Abuse Composite Character And Starring Kill It with Fire Authority Equals Asskicking Sacrificial Lion Early-Bird Cameo Fourth Date Marriage Heroic Sacrifice Advertised Extra Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Good Is Not Nice Novelization Recycled IN SPACE! 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Creepy Child Pragmatic Adaptation My God, What Have I Done? Coming-of-Age Story Bury Your Gays Victoria's Secret Compartment Abhorrent Admirer Instant Death Bullet The Atoner The Vamp Cruel and Unusual Death Outrun the Fireball A Date with Rosie Palms Horror Films Black Comedy Rape Cat Fight Real Life Writes the Plot It Can Think Hero Antagonist Pay Evil unto Evil Cassandra Truth Abusive Parents Fire-Forged Friends Cool Guns Beauty Is Never Tarnished Unusual Euphemism Last-Name Basis Anachronism Stew Taking You with Me Catapult Nightmare Get Out! 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Unreliable Narrator I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Due to the Dead Black Comedy Eldritch Abomination Bloody Hilarious Intrepid Reporter Villainous Breakdown Martial Arts Movie Meaningful Background Event Malevolent Masked Men Flipping the Bird Creative Closing Credits Lampshade Hanging No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Chewing the Scenery 20 Minutes into the Future Important Haircut Bound and Gagged Mexican Standoff The Dog Bites Back