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Sometimes, it turns out a character who seems to think the world of themselves actually doesn't; their high-and-mighty attitude hides crippling insecurity. They're often eager, even desperate, to prove themselves, and they won't take it well if their attempt fails. Often, the reason for their insecurity is because they have such a high opinion of themselves that they can't deal with any kind of perceived failure or rejection, bringing the whole thing into a large and angry circle. Commonly they'll try to feel more secure by putting others down. If they go through a Break the Haughty situation, expect it to have shades of Break the Cutie, as this character is almost always a Jerkass Woobie. May be a trait of the Broken Ace and Beta Test Baddie or show up in deconstructions of the Alpha Bitch, Jerk Jock, Bratty Half-Pint, Smug Snake, Smug Super, Sub-Par Supremacist, Insufferable Genius, Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, Small Name, Big Ego, or even A God Am I (i.e straight superiority complex). Compare Sad Clown, someone who masks their insecurities with humor rather than arrogance. Contrast with Heroic Self-Deprecation, where the person is in fact awesome but the person themselves doesn't believe that they are worth much. Might also overlap with Easily Embarrassed Youngster if they're under 18. Truth in Television. A subtrope to the sin of Pride. Compare Beta Test Baddie, Big Ego, Hidden Depths, Boisterous Weakling, Compensating for Something, Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond, and Sour Outside, Sad Inside. |
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The song "Oh No!" by Marina Diamandis includes the line "I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best." | |
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Megamind. A hammy villain who prides himself on presentation, but only became that way because he couldn't fit in at school. The mini-sequel has him first trying to be a hero Metroman's way instead of his own. | |
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Miu Iruma from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony tends to act like an Insufferable Genius, bragging about her good looks and talent while talking down to her classmates. This is an attempt to cover up that she is actually a timid girl with self-esteem issues, and it is not very hard to break her haughty exterior anyway. She also very clearly wants people to like her because of her beauty and genius, and she quickly shrinks back to her meek self when her attempts fall flat. For example, in her first Free Time Event with Shuichi: | |
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Manga Soprano: In stories featuring a female main character who has to face a female antagonist who bullies her, she will usually explain that the FMC was more liked by everyone than she is, even when the stories imply it's the antagonist's fault that they're not liked. "My twin sister, whom I had insulated, pretended to be me and did evil things.": Rui strived to take what's precious to her twin sister Ram because people liked the latter more than the former ever since they were little. "I work in a lunch box shop and my mom's friends are harassing me...": Lisa picks on Kanade because the latter is way happier than her despite working at a part-time job to make ends meet. "My sister called me to report that my fiancé engaged to her →But then I was at the wedding...": Uta stole potential boyfriends from her sister Kanade to feel better, since Kanade was better than her. |
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The titular character of Bojack Horseman, a fact that he's aware of (if in denial over). | |
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The Mighty Thor: Thor's adopted brother Loki is sometimes a haughty sorcerer who thinks that Asgard and Mjolnir rightfully belong to him... and sometimes he's The Un-Favourite brother who can never be an adequate Jotunn or Æsir. Thor himself has shades of a complex, both prior to being sent to Earth to learn humility, and in moments when he sways into Jerkass territory with loud reminders that he is the God of Thunder. All of this comes from his relationship with his father, who was emotionally distant at best and Cannot Spit It Out. During the God-Butcher Saga, Old King Thor outright told young Thor that he'd never get what he wanted most. Young Thor objected, assuming that he meant Mjolnir. As it turned out, what he really meant was that Odin would never tell him he was proud of him. Then, he actually did, grabbing all three Thors (present, past, and King) in The Glomp at the end of War of the Realms and telling them that he's proud of them. Their identical expressions of utter bafflement are both hilarious and depressing. |
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X-Men: Some writers (such as Grant Morrison and Kieron Gillen) depict Emma Frost as this; riddled with self-loathing but utterly unwilling to let anyone see any sign of weakness, so she covers it up with her ice queen façade and lashes out at the world with vicious sarcasm... which just fuels her own self-loathing further. Fat Bastard villain the Blob likes to throw his weight around to compensate for a lifetime of being mocked for his porcine mutation. When forced to confront his worst fears by psychic hero Mirage of the New Mutants, he saw a crowd of kids, a ringmaster, and the mutants Wolverine and Exodus all laughing at him. |
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Both Donatello and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are this in varying flavors. Leo, despite being somewhat of The Ace, also happens to be painfuly cocky and overconfident to the point where it annoys just about everyone around him. The act is also easily shattered whenever he fails at something, and he openly admits that he feels like he's nothing without his brothers. Donnie is an Insufferable Genius who's always happy to remind you just how much smarter and better he is tha you and practically lives for praise. In fact, it's his desperate need for approval that leads to him chasing that validation whilst ignoring warning various times throughout the serise. He eventually admits that he leans so hard into it because he feels like his role in the group is "the science guy", and without that no one would need or want him around. |
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Kevin Owens actually had this as his Start of Darkness, feeling that his own son would never respect him as much as he did John Cena, and even going so far as to accuse WWE of being nothing more than a gigantic propaganda machine that brainwashes its fans with constant pro-Cena hoopla - with which many actual WWE fans agree! Cena himself, in fact, pitied Owens, and tried to break through his anger by reasoning with him instead of being a jerk back to him like most faces would. | |
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Princess Amaltea in Sword Princess Amaltea has been all her life under the shadow of her big sister Dorotea and thinks her mother considers her a failure. She acts as a Royal Brat around everyone (even a fellow royal) because she's afraid being a princess is all she has. | |
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What's New? with Phil and Dixie: One strip suggests that all supervillains are like this. And that, as a hero, the worst thing you can do is defeat them, because they'll think that proves you saw them as a threat, and just follow you around seeking more validation. | |
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Runaways: Xavin loves to boast about how they have the most training and military experience of anyone on the team and is happy to lord their Super-Skrull abilities over their teammates, but beneath all the bravado, Xavin is insecure about their abilities (by Super-Skrull standards, they are considered a Master of None), is ashamed of their failure to end the war with Majesdane, and fears that Karolina is only putting up with them out of pity. Part of this comes from their upbringing as the little we hear of their upbringing sums up the fertile breeding group for psychological issues: When written by Kathryn Immonen, Nico's Control Freak tendencies are all a mask for someone who fears that none of her teammates respect or even like her. |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson occasionally drifts into this trope, with a side order of Sour Grapes. ("Why won't those idiots let me into their crappy club for jerks?!") Lisa Simpson’s Fatal Flaw is that she defines herself by being smarter than others and due to flanderization, this aspect of her has only gotten worse throughout the years. Lisa has done things such as willingly staying a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond, to completely alienating her fellow students (by being a Soapbox Sadie to those who don’t share her interests and an Insufferable Genius to those that do). At her worse, Lisa will flat-out sabotage someone she considers her better out of jealousy. While she will usually feel sorry for her actions it’s only after she gets what she wants. Bart Simpson's brashness and delinquent behavior do little to hide the fact that he's insecure about his academic and social struggles and perceived intelligence as compared to Lisa. |
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Thomas & Friends: Gordon always wants to prove himself, feeling his importance is threatened if any other engine rivals or surpasses him. He's visibly distraught when he bursts his safety valve in "Henry to the Rescue" and Sir Topham Hatt is ashamed of him. James has it far worse than Gordon. James will lose his cool if he's not the center of attention from the passengers. On the other hand, he is often shown taking his mistakes or fall-outs with others rather badly. He actually cries after causing the bootlace incident. |
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The Sapphires is the story of an Aboriginal girl group that goes to Vietnam to entertain the troops. The darkest of them, who has spent years being bullied because of her complexion, almost relentlessly bullies the lightest-skinned one because of her skin tone. Among her crueler comments include suggesting that her sole interest in a black GI is to make herself blacker. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Tai Lung from the first Kung Fu Panda was raised to believe he would be made the Dragon Warrior (his given name's literal meaning in Mandarin is "great dragon"), and became arrogant, prideful, and convinced of his own heroism and perfection...until he was denied the scroll by Master Oogway, after which he went on a rampage through the Valley of Peace. By his own admission that all he ever did was to make Shifu proud, it's obvious that Tai Lung believed he needed the validation of the scroll to make himself have any worth, let alone to earn Shifu's love and pride. This is made clearest of all when Po explains the meaning of the Dragon Scroll to him—not only is he unable to accept that the only real power comes from within (because he thinks he has no worth and thus needs outward validation), but when he first stares into the scroll to see only his reflection, he declares, "It's nothing!" Lord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2. Born sickly to a proud, noble family, he thought that his parents never loved him, and goes as far as genocide in an attempt to prove that he's worthy of their love and happiness in general. They disown him and force him to leave, making him even more sure of his convictions. |
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Eddie Guerrero was a (semi-)sympathetic version during his final heel run. | |
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Subverted in Ozy and Millie, when an arc centering on Jerk Jock Jeremy's ceaseless bullying of Ozzy, brings up the "bullies are really just insecure and have low self-esteem" stereotype. The arc closes with a look into Jeremy's head, where we see that he's actually an egomaniac with a vastly inflated sense of self-worth. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Priscilla Rich needed to feel superior to everyone else because deep down, she hated herself. Wonder Woman upstaging her at a party was what prompted her to develop her Split Personality and become the supervillain Cheetah. | |
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Rick and Morty: It's shown that Insufferable Genius Rick has this to the point that he feels so threatened by the idea of someone being smarter than him that he created a metaphysical wall spanning the entire infinite multiverse, blocking out any Alternate Universe with someone smarter than him from their section of the multiverse to turn reality itself into a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond situation for him for the sake of his own ego. In Season 6 we learn why he's frequently referred to as the "smartest mammal"; some of the dinosaurs survived and became ultraterrestrials colonizing the universe. Upon meeting them Rick initially enjoys having what he views as intellectual equals around, but upon discovering they're even smarter than he is, he does an immediate 180 and becomes hellbent on humiliating them. Rick's Sitcom Archnemesis President Curtis also has this issue, which is why the two are Vitriolic Best Buds. He's incredibly petty and can't stand the fact he's Always Second Best to Rick, despite the fact he's the second most powerful man on the planet with access to plenty of impressive sci-fi tech of his own and inside knowledge of every conspiracy that not even Rick has. After his Karma Houdini Warranty expires in Season 7 and he starts being held responsible for his Psychopathic Manchild behavior, he's so desperate to have people like him again that he tries to turn the country into a Hive Mind with him in control. Rick's Evil Doppelgänger Rick Prime took this to the extreme. He was the first Rick to discover interdimensional travel, and handed the technology off to other Ricks so they wouldn't discover it themselves and he could lord his superiority over them. When he meets our Rick who's Happily Married and not interested in his hedonistic lifestyle, he takes it as an insult and dedicates his life to torturing him For the Evulz. |
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The Twins (2022): Lake seems to hit a nerve when he states that the only reason why Lucas is so hellbent on getting him in trouble and acting like he's better than him is just to make himself feel better. | |
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Solange of the Whateley Universe. She's rich, she's beautiful, she has superpowers... But she grew up a fat, ugly, picked-on kid, and so now she abuses the people around her to make her feel better about herself. | |
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Peggy Hill from King of the Hill suffers from this. She's smug, self-satisfied, and convinced she's the smartest woman in the world when she's really a Know-Nothing Know-It-All. But that's all to cover up the fact that as a little girl in Montana, she grew up with an overly-critical mother who threw out all of her opinions and told her she was outright useless at their ranch. When she moved away she convinced herself she was brilliant since it was the only way to forget her mother's abuse. She still has plenty of moments when it's revealed she's not as clever as she thinks she is (or is just reminded of her abnormally large feet), and falls into a depression because of it. | |
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Tai Lung from the first Kung Fu Panda was raised to believe he would be made the Dragon Warrior (his given name's literal meaning in Mandarin is "great dragon"), and became arrogant, prideful, and convinced of his own heroism and perfection...until he was denied the scroll by Master Oogway, after which he went on a rampage through the Valley of Peace. By his own admission that all he ever did was to make Shifu proud, it's obvious that Tai Lung believed he needed the validation of the scroll to make himself have any worth, let alone to earn Shifu's love and pride. This is made clearest of all when Po explains the meaning of the Dragon Scroll to him—not only is he unable to accept that the only real power comes from within (because he thinks he has no worth and thus needs outward validation), but when he first stares into the scroll to see only his reflection, he declares, "It's nothing!" | |
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Lord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2. Born sickly to a proud, noble family, he thought that his parents never loved him, and goes as far as genocide in an attempt to prove that he's worthy of their love and happiness in general. They disown him and force him to leave, making him even more sure of his convictions. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: Mitchell suffers from one. It's very obvious that he has an inflated image of himself, and sometimes acts like he's better than Jet and the gang in the contest-focused episodes. However, his attitude and abrasiveness are a psychological coverup for his insecurity and self-esteem issues. He's socially awkward/shy and tries to act tough to hide it. "Try and Try Again" has him try to impress the other kids with his kick scooter, but gets nervous when they actually come to see it. | |
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Homestuck: This is a big part of why Karkat acts like an angry jerk. He constantly tries to act like the ideal, aggressive troll leader to make up for his perceived genetic inferiority. Internalized racism (hemospectrumism?) is a hell of a thing. Another example is Vriska. She's always bragging melodramatically, trying to hog the spotlight, and being a Smug Snake, but once she stops bragging, it rapidly turns into railing against herself for not living up to what she thinks she should be according to the example set by her ancestor. Though one could make the case that the self-hatred is actually the facade, that Vriska just wants to come off as humble so people will like and respect her more, and that she really does think the world of herself. Dave does his best to act like the coolest Deadpan Snarker possible because he feels inferior to his Bro. |
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Vaarsuvius of The Order of the Stick fame, so very much. It gets even worse when a string of (partially perceived) failures combined with PTSD drives them nearly mad for months. | |
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In Turning Red, Ming normally portrays herself as a Proper Lady certain that she has her daughter, and her daughter's red panda, firmly under control, even bragging about it to her relatives. Her true personality is seen when she is interacting with her mother over the phone which shows her crippling insecurity. Her facade is broken when Mei stands up to her. | |
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In Slaughterhouse Rulez, "House God" Clegg (basically a prefect) relies on his position to put down those he sees as beneath him, but when faced with a genuine threat in the form of the monsters that live under the school, he basically suffers a breakdown and ends up getting his arms torn off by the monsters. | |
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In Company, Larry states that Joanne is "wildly conceited" with "no self-esteem". | |
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Marvel Universe: Avengers Academy: It's noted that Striker tries really hard to look like he's not trying at all. His overbearing, glory-seeking mother is part of the problem. Fantastic Four: This has been suggested about Doctor Doom. Mark Waid wondered if his need to be a ruler who's feared and revered is just trying to forget that as a boy he was penniless and miserable, and that his bitterness and hatred toward Reed Richards comes from the fact that he knows, deep down, that the machine that exploded and burned his face really was due to his own miscalculation (despite his insistence to the contrary) and that he's just bitter that Reed spotted the flaw that he missed (and also that he was too stubborn to listen to Reed's advice). The Mighty Thor: Thor's adopted brother Loki is sometimes a haughty sorcerer who thinks that Asgard and Mjolnir rightfully belong to him... and sometimes he's The Un-Favourite brother who can never be an adequate Jotunn or Æsir. Thor himself has shades of a complex, both prior to being sent to Earth to learn humility, and in moments when he sways into Jerkass territory with loud reminders that he is the God of Thunder. All of this comes from his relationship with his father, who was emotionally distant at best and Cannot Spit It Out. During the God-Butcher Saga, Old King Thor outright told young Thor that he'd never get what he wanted most. Young Thor objected, assuming that he meant Mjolnir. As it turned out, what he really meant was that Odin would never tell him he was proud of him. Then, he actually did, grabbing all three Thors (present, past, and King) in The Glomp at the end of War of the Realms and telling them that he's proud of them. Their identical expressions of utter bafflement are both hilarious and depressing. Runaways: Xavin loves to boast about how they have the most training and military experience of anyone on the team and is happy to lord their Super-Skrull abilities over their teammates, but beneath all the bravado, Xavin is insecure about their abilities (by Super-Skrull standards, they are considered a Master of None), is ashamed of their failure to end the war with Majesdane, and fears that Karolina is only putting up with them out of pity. Part of this comes from their upbringing as the little we hear of their upbringing sums up the fertile breeding group for psychological issues: When written by Kathryn Immonen, Nico's Control Freak tendencies are all a mask for someone who fears that none of her teammates respect or even like her. She-Hulk: A large factor in Titania's enmity with Shulkie. Titania hates feeling weak (as it reminds her of childhood), so whenever Shulkie manages to get the upper hand, Titania just loses it. Inversely, when she out-muscles She-Hulk, Titania is all high and mighty and quick to rub it in her foe's face. In fact, Spider-Man calls her out on it, comparing her to nothing more than a cowardly bully whose true colors come out when she's on the losing end. After she beats She-Hulk for the first time and thinks Spidey would be easy pickings, he utterly crushed her through greater agility and experience, all while calling her out on this. It left her terrified of him for years. Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus certainly fits the trope. The Superior Spider Man series constantly compared him with Peter Parker, often in an Evil Counterpart sort of way. But in the end, Otto himself finally admitted the greatest difference between them: while Parker is humble and filled with self-doubt because he knows for a fact he's stronger and thus holds more responsibility, Octavius was simply attempting to overcome his inner inferiority complex. Once he realized this, our self-proclaimed Superior Successor took a Heroic Sacrifice, but not before giving the hero a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech. |
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Jem: Pizzazz is a loud Attention Whore and a Spoiled Brat who loves to boast about her and her band's worth and loathes when anyone tries to outshine her. She is really trying to make up for her mostly loveless childhood. Her mother left her dad at an early age and her dad subsequently neglected her, only giving her attention by spoiling her with presents. Pizzazz uses her fan's adoration as a substitute for the affection she didn't have growing up. The comic book reboot and The Misfits spinoff comic go more into depth on her insecurities. Riot at first seems like a narcissist through and through, however it turns out that it's mostly a facade. He also has a troubled past, being a Military Brat with a Fantasy-Forbidding Father who hates male musicians and disowned him when he joined a band. Riot has deep insecurities revolving around his family. |
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The Nostalgia Critic admitted in the crossover with CR that he acts like a Bad Boss because he's really insecure and is scared of people going into his territory because they'd do it better than him. The Nostalgia Chick counts too. She abuses the hell out of Nella to boost her damaged self-esteem and to make herself feel better. Ask That Guy with the Glasses is a narcissist whose ego is "always drowning and always thirsty". Another Doug character, Donnie Dupre from Demo Reel, tries his best to be happy all the time but cracks keep showing through where we see that his movie-making enthusiasm is actually pretty fragile. |
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Avengers Academy: It's noted that Striker tries really hard to look like he's not trying at all. His overbearing, glory-seeking mother is part of the problem. | |
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Zigzagged with Ickis of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. While his insecurity is very obvious, he swings into high-and-mighty mode whenever given the chance. A flashback episode revealed that he acted incredibly smug on his first day of school but was publicly humiliated when he couldn't mimic his father's tactics on command. By the time the series starts, he's already had his biggest Break the Haughty moment and can't cover up his lack of inner confidence, much as he'd like to. | |
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She-Hulk: A large factor in Titania's enmity with Shulkie. Titania hates feeling weak (as it reminds her of childhood), so whenever Shulkie manages to get the upper hand, Titania just loses it. Inversely, when she out-muscles She-Hulk, Titania is all high and mighty and quick to rub it in her foe's face. In fact, Spider-Man calls her out on it, comparing her to nothing more than a cowardly bully whose true colors come out when she's on the losing end. After she beats She-Hulk for the first time and thinks Spidey would be easy pickings, he utterly crushed her through greater agility and experience, all while calling her out on this. It left her terrified of him for years. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Originally, this was the whole point of Paperinik (Donald's superhero/antihero alter ego): in the first story, and generally most Italian stories of the time, he was constantly put down by Scrooge and Gladstone, so when he stumbled on the journal and equipment of Fantomius, the Gentleman Thief, he used it to steal the money-filled bed Scrooge was sleeping on and humiliate Gladstone. While he started becoming a more heroic character even in the earliest stories, the trait never fully disappeared, leading to such things as feigning an Easy Amnesia and literally steal away half the city just to track down a crime boss that he couldn't find (early in the story he was so furious at his inability to find them that he was about to beat up an already captured minion when the police stopped him). This seems to be a recurring theme in Paperinik's stories: Paperinika, Paperinik's Distaff Counterpart, was born of Daisy being unable to take being put down for being female when she's just as smart if not more than Donald. At the same time, Italian authors (at least the ones who remember she exists) depict her rivalry with Paperinik as being caused by him being the only one she cannot consistently one-up and Paperinik feeling the same toward her. |
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In Weak Hero, when Bryce starts badmouthing his newfound friend Stephen- insulting his intelligence and try-hard attitude- Gray quickly pegs that he's lashing out due to his long-standing inferiority complex. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Princess Azula initially comes across as extremely arrogant, manipulative, and brilliant. She constantly belittles her older brother and treats her friends like the help. Season Three slowly reveals her extreme Mommy Issues, her tendency to put down those she secretly envies (she outright admits this to Ty Lee), and her utter dependence on her father's "love". By the season finale, her friends have left her and her father has made it clear that he's only using her. It doesn't end well. Zuko also behaves very arrogantly early on, though his arrogance dissipates as he starts to go through his prolonged Heel–Face Turn. He's rude to his uncle, berates his crew, and frequently loses his temper over small things. It becomes clear later that this attitude is merely Zuko trying to behave as the son his father wants, and a defensive result of the pressures and frustrations this desire causes. Zuko is actually a sensitive and compassionate kid, but he sees himself as inferior due to these perceived "weaknesses", especially next to his prodigious, ruthless sister Azula. Furthermore, his compassion and sensitivity were what got him in trouble in the first place (after speaking against a general for planning to use new recruits as cannon fodder. He ends up fighting his dad and getting his telltale scar). After joining the Avatar's group, he comes to realise these are his strengths, not his weaknesses. Their father Ozai himself may be a near-identical case. He was The Un-Favourite to his Evil Overlord and emotionally distant father Azulon (who possibly was an abusive father with him) compared to his older brother, the talented and powerful "Dragon of the West" General Iroh. It's less clear than with Azula what Ozai felt about this relationship, but it's not difficult to see the similarities in their cases, their personalities, and their temperaments. He is so bitter about not receiving as much respect as his brother that he demands perfection from his own children and punishes perceived weakness or insubordination in his eldest son with extraordinary brutality; when he promotes himself from Fire Lord to Phoenix King and plans to exterminate the Earth Kingdom, he essentially acts like a Psychopathic Manchild revelling in childish fantasies of power and greatness, but he was so obsessed with the two mostly because of his insecurities. |
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In Mom and Dad Save the World, Emperor Tod “The Destroyer� Spengo is basically built entirely around this trope. | |
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Steven Universe: Amethyst is a carefree braggart who in one episode tries to cheer up Steven by telling him "You can't let anyone else make you feel like garbage!" Later episodes demonstrate that Amethyst has a number of insecurities of her own, stemming first from having been created in a Gem "Kindergarten" on Earth that sucked the life out of the ground for miles around to create new Gems, and later from being much smaller than a typical Quartz-class Gem. Pearl has it worse. Yes, she's Condescendingly Compassionate and disdains organic life, but she herself harbors extreme self-esteem issues, stemming from her past where she was made to be a glorified handmaid. She was a Clingy Jealous Girl to Rose Quartz because Rose treated her like she was important, and she ends up causing severe problems in Cry for Help because she desired to feel Garnet's self-confidence and did so by exploiting the threat of Peridot in order to trick Garnet into fusing again. When Garnet found out, she was Not Happy. The Crystal Gems don't have a monopoly on unhealthy compensation for self-esteem issues. Peridot may feel superior to the Crystal Gems because she fits into Homeworld's system whereas Amethyst's defective, Pearls are low-caste, and Garnet's very existence is illegal, but she's also an Era 2 gem with no natural powers (or at least, none that she knew of) while the Crystal Gems are all Era 1 gems. Peridot feels that her worth is defined by the technology she uses, which is why she freaked out over the loss of her limb enhancers and when Amethyst tried to throw away her tablet. And then there's Jasper, who's arrogant because she's the Ultimate Quartz, but also insecure because she was made on Earth and born fighting a war that was half over before she was even made. And she keeps getting beaten by fusions. This fundamental self-hatred drives her to a Redemption Rejection and ends with her corrupted. By the Steven Universe: Future episode "Prickly Pair", Steven has a tangled mess of a desire to be needed along with a resentment of feeling like he needs help. He has somewhat condescending perceptions of the Gems' flaws but also still wants them to be impressed by his new hobby. When they're rightfully disturbed by the fact that he named his plants after people he knows to pretend they'll never leave him, he takes it as a sign that his gardening is unimpressive instead of concern for his wellbeing. |
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Batman: The Riddler is an Insufferable Genius extraordinaire, yet so deeply willing to prove his smarts to the world. It bites him in the ass pretty much every single time. His gimmick is that his plans are interspersed with riddles and puzzles that, if solved, allow his schemes to become unraveled. This is obviously counterproductive, but for the Riddler, proving that he's smarter than the authorities (and Batman) is a compulsion so powerful that he literally can't resist it. According to most of his backstories, this is a compulsion he developed in childhood due to being abused into having some major self-esteem issues. This tends to be the case with every Batman villain except for the Joker and Ra's al Ghul (who really do think they're as great as they say they are, and often can back it up too). Prominent examples include the Penguin, the Scarecrow, Killer Croc, and even Poison Ivy (despite her talk of the plants, recall she became this after her professor used her and her lifetime of being pushed around by everyone). At their worst, these villains often go so far as to murder — or attempt to murder — their real or supposed former tormentors, partly out of spite and partly because, deep down, they feel that the world really must be made safe for people "of their kind". Worse yet, this attitude sometimes is extended to all of Gotham City. |
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Sunset Shimmer in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. She's smugly confident in her own abilities and status at Canterlot High when Twilight first runs into her. Throughout the movie, she insists she's the superior pupil, that the crown really belongs to her and she aims to prove it. The switch is flipped when Twilight refuses to hand over the crown under the threat of Sunset destroying the portal back to Equestria and her friends call her a true princess who earned her crown. Sunset, who up to this point managed to keep her cool even in the face of defeat, proceeds to lunge at Twilight in rage to take the crown by force. By the time she's beaten, she's reduced to sobbing after being turned back from being a demon. Even in the later movies, it's shown that, while much better about it and willing to admit to her failures, she doesn't take things that question her abilities too well. | |
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Kaeloo: Kaeloo claims to think of herself as cute-looking and talented, but the moment she sees a prettier girl or someone who is more talented than her, she becomes jealous of them because she actually has rather low self-esteem. It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the reason Mr. Cat constantly brags about his intelligence, strength, and other talents is that he has no self-esteem, so he inflates his ego to make himself feel better. |
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Taako of The Adventure Zone: Balance shows many signs of self-loathing despite his Awesome Ego. He carries an immense amount of guilt over the disaster at Glamour Springs and his comments early on describing himself as an "idiot" could be seen as Self-Deprecation. Finally, when he reveals his undisguised appearance to Kravitz he immediately expects to be rejected. | |
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Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire. He's a swaggering, brutish, ill-tempered braggart, all of which is meant to hide his resentment at his outsider status, both as an immigrant and a member of the American working class. Blanche, his aristocratic Southern Belle sister-in-law, gets the brunt of it. | |
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In Noob Judge Dead turns out to have this plus a father who's a "Well Done, Dad!" Guy. What do the father's attempts at gaining approval consist of? Being better than his son at things in which he's interested. Yes, it's as much of a recipe for a bitter relationship as one can imagine. | |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses is a narcissist whose ego is "always drowning and always thirsty". | |
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Widdershins: Will Sharpe projects an image of suave, cheerful self-confidence to hide the fact that he's struggling as a student, is the Black Sheep of his family, and has no friends. Once this is exposed to people who genuinely care about helping him out of a tight spot, he starts to build up real self-confidence. | |
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Deviant: The Renegades: Cephalists usually affect a sense of arrogance and superiority, presenting themselves as having exceeded the limitations of humanity, tweaked their makers' noses and achieved heights that both baseline humans and other Deviants can only dream of. Beneath this confident veneer, they are burdened by just as much mental trauma as any other Deviant, and are particularly haunted by the fear that they should lose control again and return to being a helpless lab rat. | |
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Fate/Apocrypha: Mordred will often go on rants about how much better she is than her father, King Arthur, with no prompting whatsoever. It is eventually revealed that her wish to become king is not due to a desire to surpass Arthur, but simply to ease Arthur's burden of leadership. Unfortunately, due to being a pre-teen with an artificially aged body, Mordred is super immature and chose the worst way to express this desire. | |
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The Dragon Prince: Implied in Season 2. While he acts smug, when Viren is having difficulty figuring out the secrets of his magic mirror, the way the scene is framed makes it look like he's talking about himself. Bonus points for his use of a Truth-revealing serum on his eyes in the operation: the truth which it reveals might not have been about the mirror at any moment. | |
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Ben 10: Ben's Evil Counterpart Kevin 11- he is arrogant and acts like he's the best, yet cannot abide anyone making fun of him or calling him a freak. To a lesser extent, Gwen's Evil Counterpart Charmcaster has this problem too. Subverted with Kevin 11,000, a grown-up Kevin from an alternate future, who has settled on a plain old superiority complex and is even more cold-blooded as a result. Malware, the mutated villainous Galvanic Mechamorph in Ben 10: Omniverse fits this. Despite all of his talk about being the perfect being, he feels that he's Azmuth's failure, even though Azmuth denies it, and even tries to destroy all normal Mechamorphs and become a living planet. |
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Blitzo in Helluva Boss is a Sad Clown who shows subtle signs throughout Season 1 that despite his projected confidence, he is secretly desperate to prove himself as somebody capable and worth something, with his boasts being acts of denial that he lashes out with at anybody who gets too close to the issue. "Truth Seekers" reveals that before I.M.P., he tried to go solo but the result didn't work out, leading to self-doubt about his worth since he needs to rely on others. This causes him to push away anyone close to him until they have enough, end up hating him and leaving, which makes him crave love and companionship but gets hampered by his confidence issues, making him fear that his employees and boyfriend Stolas will leave him too and he'll end up Dying Alone. | |
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Maui in Moana. He likes to constantly brag about all the great deeds he's done because he's desperately looking for approval and friendship due to knowing that his human parents didn't want him and threw him into the sea as an infant to drown. This is actually his fundamental motivation for even doing all his great deeds in the first place; to receive love and admiration from humans. | |
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Another Doug character, Donnie Dupre from Demo Reel, tries his best to be happy all the time but cracks keep showing through where we see that his movie-making enthusiasm is actually pretty fragile. | |
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Chang Ho from The Breaker, at first, appears to just be a random bully who really doesn't have a reason to harass the protagonist Shi Woon, going so far as to nearly make Shi Woon Driven to Suicide. However, near the end of The Breaker, and early in the sequel, The Breaker New Waves, the reason becomes clear. Chang Ho is an abject failure in everything. Beating up Shi Woon, and getting away with it was the only thing he was good at. Once Shi Woon is strong and skilled enough to defend himself Chang Ho completely loses it and becomes downright desperate to beat Shi Woon, and anyone close to him. He goes after Sae He, trying to gang-rape her. When that fails, thanks to Shi Woon's reckless Big Damn Heroes, and he ultimately gets his ass handed to him, he joins "Soldiers Under Command" and happily swallows their lies about him being "the True disciple" of 9AD, along with a bunch of experimental drugs, like the Illwundon, and was actually willing to die, rather than admit that Shi Woon is actually a better fighter, never mind a better person in every way. It doesn't excuse his behavior by any means, but it does explain it to some extent. | |
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Irredeemable: A huge factor in the Plutonian's Face–Heel Turn was that despite the vast majority of people being grateful to him, he was so emotionally needy that he had to be universally beloved, and the one-in-a-billion Ungrateful Townsfolk who didn't lavish him with praise and affection drove him nuts. It didn't help matters that thanks to his Super-Senses he could hear every single one of them. One flashback shows an entire stadium cheering his name after he saves them from a giant robot, but he is hyper-focused on a couple of people whispering that they don't trust him, they think he's a showoff, et cetera. | |
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The DCU: Batman: The Riddler is an Insufferable Genius extraordinaire, yet so deeply willing to prove his smarts to the world. It bites him in the ass pretty much every single time. His gimmick is that his plans are interspersed with riddles and puzzles that, if solved, allow his schemes to become unraveled. This is obviously counterproductive, but for the Riddler, proving that he's smarter than the authorities (and Batman) is a compulsion so powerful that he literally can't resist it. According to most of his backstories, this is a compulsion he developed in childhood due to being abused into having some major self-esteem issues. This tends to be the case with every Batman villain except for the Joker and Ra's al Ghul (who really do think they're as great as they say they are, and often can back it up too). Prominent examples include the Penguin, the Scarecrow, Killer Croc, and even Poison Ivy (despite her talk of the plants, recall she became this after her professor used her and her lifetime of being pushed around by everyone). At their worst, these villains often go so far as to murder — or attempt to murder — their real or supposed former tormentors, partly out of spite and partly because, deep down, they feel that the world really must be made safe for people "of their kind". Worse yet, this attitude sometimes is extended to all of Gotham City. Wonder Woman Vol 1: Priscilla Rich needed to feel superior to everyone else because deep down, she hated herself. Wonder Woman upstaging her at a party was what prompted her to develop her Split Personality and become the supervillain Cheetah. |
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In Futurama, both Bender and Zapp Brannigan need practically nothing to dent their confident facades. | |
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In the NYTW and London productions of Hadestown, and to a lesser extent Edmonton, Orpheus projected an air of confidence and self-assuredness that was at least partly a facade; he only felt truly confident when around Eurydice, and privately felt lonely despite having crowds around him. | |
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The two most recent directors of the Chaldea Security Organization in Fate/Grand Order are this: Olga Marie Animusphere's attempts at maintaining the picture of an unflappable magus and no-nonsense director of Chaldea all cover up the crippling insecurities she has as both a victim of Parental Neglect and knowing she can't actually be a Master to fight for the cause of humanity on the front lines. Ironically, as admitted by Daybit Sem Void, one of the biggest geniuses in Chaldea and who has no reason or desire to sugarcoat his opinions, if she could just overcome those insecurities naturally she could become every bit the leader Chaldea needs and then some. Goredolf Musik spends a lot of time self-aggrandizing, saying how he'll lead Chaldea to fame and fortune, but his rant near the end of the prologue shows that underneath it all, he feels he's something of a failure who's hated by everyone else and he saw Chaldea as his final shot to be successful in life. He does get over this as you go throught hte Lostbelts, as shown by the fact that he didn't feel the need to give a commanding sendoff to the protagonists during the start of Lostbelt 4. |
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The Nostalgia Chick counts too. She abuses the hell out of Nella to boost her damaged self-esteem and to make herself feel better. | |
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Magnus the Red is depicted as this is If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device. He's painfully aware of all his flaws and mistakes but masks that with arrogance and flaunting his knowledge and power. This is actually justified: as a Daemon Prince, Magnus is shaped by his self-image; if he ever dwells on his shortcomings too much, he will actually start to physically and mentally diminish in proportion to his self-loathing. When Cegorach forces him to perform standup comedy to gain access to the Black Library (It Makes Sense in Context), he finds that the only thing that gets a laugh is Self-Deprecation and starts so bitterly listing all his personal failures, beginning with being born. It actually starts killing him, which shouldn't even be possible. | |
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Loki edges into this towards the end of Thor and has fully embraced it by The Avengers. The discovery that he's actually a Frost Giant drives him to prove he's a son worthy of Odin...by committing genocide against the other Frost Giants. He spends The Avengers demanding that everyone on Earth bow before him, but looks completely shocked when people actually do. | |
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Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus certainly fits the trope. The Superior Spider Man series constantly compared him with Peter Parker, often in an Evil Counterpart sort of way. But in the end, Otto himself finally admitted the greatest difference between them: while Parker is humble and filled with self-doubt because he knows for a fact he's stronger and thus holds more responsibility, Octavius was simply attempting to overcome his inner inferiority complex. Once he realized this, our self-proclaimed Superior Successor took a Heroic Sacrifice, but not before giving the hero a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech. | |
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In season one of Young Justice, Artemis always acts cocky and confident, but it's slowly revealed that she is deeply unsure of her own abilities, especially in comparison to her sister (an assassin) and the other heroes, many of whom have super-powers. | |
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Fate/stay night: This is the entire reason why Matou Shinji is a jerk to everyone. In Heaven's Feel it's shown how as a child, he learned that he came from a family of magi but was incapable of doing magecraft, and eventually found out that his adopted sister, Sakura, had replaced him as heir to the family's craft. Thereafter, his grandfather Zouken manipulates him by making him feel worthless. This is why he jumps into the Holy Grail War, as he sees it as a chance to prove himself. He breaks down as any chance of being considered noteworthy is destroyed in Heaven's Feel when Rider reveals that her real Master is Sakura, not Shinji. Fate/Apocrypha: Mordred will often go on rants about how much better she is than her father, King Arthur, with no prompting whatsoever. It is eventually revealed that her wish to become king is not due to a desire to surpass Arthur, but simply to ease Arthur's burden of leadership. Unfortunately, due to being a pre-teen with an artificially aged body, Mordred is super immature and chose the worst way to express this desire. The two most recent directors of the Chaldea Security Organization in Fate/Grand Order are this: Olga Marie Animusphere's attempts at maintaining the picture of an unflappable magus and no-nonsense director of Chaldea all cover up the crippling insecurities she has as both a victim of Parental Neglect and knowing she can't actually be a Master to fight for the cause of humanity on the front lines. Ironically, as admitted by Daybit Sem Void, one of the biggest geniuses in Chaldea and who has no reason or desire to sugarcoat his opinions, if she could just overcome those insecurities naturally she could become every bit the leader Chaldea needs and then some. Goredolf Musik spends a lot of time self-aggrandizing, saying how he'll lead Chaldea to fame and fortune, but his rant near the end of the prologue shows that underneath it all, he feels he's something of a failure who's hated by everyone else and he saw Chaldea as his final shot to be successful in life. He does get over this as you go throught hte Lostbelts, as shown by the fact that he didn't feel the need to give a commanding sendoff to the protagonists during the start of Lostbelt 4. |
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Hazbin Hotel: Alastor's rival Vox is a Psychopathic Manchild whose Villain Song is a rather blatant display of this trope. Vox acts like he's the hot new act in Hell and has toppled Alastor in terms of popularity and power, but his frequent claims that Alastor is old news come across as really desperate and trying too hard, which Alastor is quick to demonstrate by completely upstaging him. Alastor himself is a suave, confident Magnificent Bastard that became a Perpetual Smiler in order to give everyone the idea that he's always in control. However, very rarely the mask slips and he shows that he's Not So Above It All. He starts up a rivalry with Lucifer himself because he was incensed at being snubbed by one of the few beings more powerful than he was, and is deeply insecure over the fact that his own immense power comes from a Deal with the Devil. Losing to Adam in the first season finale puts him on the edge of a Villainous Breakdown while nobody's looking, before he cleans himself up and rejoins the others. |
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In El Goonish Shive, Nanase gets consistently weird about how Ashley doesn't seem very impressed by her or her powers. As she's The Ace when it comes to combat ability, magic, and even physical attractiveness (going by Tedd's analysis at least), in addition to being a Nice Guy, being ignored probably isn't something she's used to. Becomes a bit of a vicious loop, as her efforts to impress give Ashley the impression Nanase is flirting with her, causing her to awkwardly change the subject or move on, further reinforcing Nanase's insecurity. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash, a skilled, super-speedy pegasus who knows she's talented and isn't afraid to let everybody else know it. However, she's also a Lazy Bum who enjoys shirking work and hates dealing with strict rules, something which led to her either dropping out of or outright failing Flight School. Perhaps because of this, she's extremely sensitive about losing, to the point where the thought of screwing up in something as big as the Best Young Flyer Competition leaves her practically paralyzed from fear. She also hates being alone, having thrived on others' attention for so long. The Great and Powerful Trixie may be one as well. It would explain her compulsive boasting and how she STILL puts down Twilight after being outdone by her. Twilight Sparkle can be rather condescending and arrogant about her intelligence over the others at times, even after her character arc in the series premiere. However, it's revealed later on that she has imposed very high standards on herself and is absolutely terrified of disappointing her peers or friends (especially Princess Celestia). She once had a complete psychotic breakdown when she was out of schedule for even one single task. While not egotistical in general, Applejack can get very prideful and stubborn concerning her work, if only because she hates being incapable of committing to a task. She is also famed for her reliability in Ponyville and hates letting anyone down in the slightest (even if they are far more understanding about it). She almost worked herself to death, blowing off offers of help, after she promised to harvest all her orchard's apples by herself. In a way, this was also Princess Luna's Start of Darkness (so to speak). When she and Celestia first took the thrones, they saw each other as equals — harmonious, evenly splitting the day and night. However, while ponies frolicked during the day, they either slept through or outright feared the night, and by association seemed to love Celestia and — at best — be ambivalent towards Luna. This lack of any significant compassion from her subjects went on so long and got so serious that Luna felt the only way to get any actual love, adoration, or just plain respect was to take on the persona of Nightmare Moon and rule Equestria ENTIRELY as well as bring about The Night That Never Ends (which would have caused the extinction of all life in Equestria; it's not clear whether Nightmare Moon was simply unaware of this consequence or purposefully intended to take revenge on her former subjects by killing them all, and possibly herself with them), all because she felt she couldn't measure up to her sister in the ponies' eyes. |
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Chancellor Esteban from Elena of Avalor. At the beginning of the show, he's a Jerkass who has little to no faith in Elena's leadership capabilities and even tries to screw with her during negotiations with other kingdoms to show that he's the "true power behind Avalor", something that was true during his tenure under Shuriki in the pilot movie. As the show goes on, he undergoes Character Development and we learn that he has always felt he was Always Second Best to his more talented royal cousins and his best friend, to the point that he felt that his family didn't love him, and so he betrayed them to Shuriki by helping her take over Avalor. He came to regret it. | |
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Eduardo from Eddsworld is this, always having to be better than everyone, especially Edd, in order to make up for constant harassment as a child that was caused by Edd. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show has Daffy. Tina accurately guessed that he's an "insecure little weirdo who lies about everything and probably cries himself to sleep". Daffy wasn't offended, in fact; he was impressed that she could see through him so easily. | |
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By the Steven Universe: Future episode "Prickly Pair", Steven has a tangled mess of a desire to be needed along with a resentment of feeling like he needs help. He has somewhat condescending perceptions of the Gems' flaws but also still wants them to be impressed by his new hobby. When they're rightfully disturbed by the fact that he named his plants after people he knows to pretend they'll never leave him, he takes it as a sign that his gardening is unimpressive instead of concern for his wellbeing. | |
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Glimmer in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is specifically called out as having "crippling self-doubt mixed with overwhelming hubris". True enough, Glimmer feels a strong need to prove herself, while also believing herself to be always right. This becomes an issue when she becomes queen, as she still feels the need to prove how right she is while also having the authority to ignore any objections. | |
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Eddy from Ed, Edd n Eddy is revealed to have this at the end of The Movie. There were hints given throughout the series that he might not feel as awesome as he claims himself to be, however; and it turns out that his Jerkass tendencies and high opinion of himself were a mere façade to cover up a nasty Inferiority Complex. You can thank his brother for that. | |
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Haruka from Little Busters! acts like an energetic Manic Pixie Dream Girl who's always showing off and joking that people should praise her, but deep down she's very insecure and for very good reason. Growing up constantly compared to your 'better' twin, being beaten every time you fail compared to her, and told that you're a terrible person because your father beat up your mother does that to a kid. It's made clear later on when Haruka's praise me comments are given an Ironic Echo — she suddenly challenges Riki to a thumb fight and when she wins demands just one thing: that he praise her. That she's so genuinely overjoyed when he does such a simple thing really drives home her Woobie status. | |
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Malware, the mutated villainous Galvanic Mechamorph in Ben 10: Omniverse fits this. Despite all of his talk about being the perfect being, he feels that he's Azmuth's failure, even though Azmuth denies it, and even tries to destroy all normal Mechamorphs and become a living planet. | |
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Joaquin from The Book of Life, heavily implied by his reaction whenever someone messes with his Medal of Eternal Life. Confirmed from a statement in The Art of the Book of Life: "Joaquin is obsessed with his mustache, which is a mask that hides his insecurities." | |
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The King of All Cosmos shows signs of this in Katamari. One arc has him start seriously questioning his ability to lead after he can't solve Ace's problem with a katamari, leading up to a Heroic BSoD. | |
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Arguably the case of Galatea in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. While she has a massive conceit about her intellect, she's also a raving paranoid who was starved for affection from birth and has a very difficult time believing anyone can really love her. | |
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In A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Veronica's relentless bullying of Meg is her way of covering up her own massive self-loathing. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Dave's such a bully because it's his way of taking out all the anger he has on the world. He hates just about everything, and being a brute empowers him and makes him think he can take on anything, but he knows he will never be strong enough to handle everything life throws at him, which just fuels his hate. | |
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Ace Attorney: Franziska von Karma tries to hide this about herself. She constantly proclaims her superiority to "fools" like Phoenix and Edgeworth (so far, she has failed to win against either of them). However, the epilogue of Justice For All shows that she feels constant pressure to live up to her family legacy of 'perfection.' This has left her feeling inadequate despite becoming a fully-fledged criminal prosecutor at the age of thirteen. Yumihiko Ichiyanagi (or Sebastian Debeste, as named in the unofficial English dub) from Ace Attorney Investigations 2 also has similar issues to Franziska. He thinks he's number one and insults everyone else who is obviously smarter than him. Even characters like Gumshoe and Larry call him out on his stupidity. Yumihiko is incredibly slow to pick up what is going on around him and tends to jump in at the point where everyone is past that. He obviously wants to please his father, but after said father reveals that he's the one who arranged all of Yumihiko's achievements, the young prosecutor suffers a massive breakdown, resulting in the longest and hardest Logic Chess sequence in the game. Instead of exposing the target's secret, Edgeworth has to use this Logic Chess sequence like a counseling session, helping Yumihiko get back on his feet. Edgeworth finds this exceptionally difficult given how Yumihiko has been acting for most of the game. |
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Both Zen and Jumin from Mystic Messenger show shades of this. Long-Haired Pretty Boy Zen is constantly gushing about how he's the world's most handsome man and an amazing actor, but flashbacks in his route show that as a child he was both objectified by almost everyone, from teachers to strangers, and ruthlessly insulted and belittled him, constantly telling him that he was ugly and incompetent, and his mother even once tried to forcibly shave all his hair off. Word of God is that he talks himself up constantly because he's never really had someone consistently in his corner and he secretly hides a lot of insecurity, and Jumin muses that maybe people who are vain are only that way because they've never known the privilege of being able to love someone else safely. Jumin, on the other hand, is less mouthy about his accomplishments, but he does take pride in being an excellent businessman CEO-in-line of a massive business conglomerate, as well as being handsome, intelligent, and level-headed. He also turns out to be extremely lonely, hence why he dotes on his cat Elizabeth the Third, and tells you in his route that he feels like a mutant who's unable to relate to or be close with almost anyone. This can be attributed to growing up with parents who treated him as a project instead of a child, as well as the heavily implied sexual grooming that one of his stepmothers tried to exact on him as a kid. |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Benedict acts cold and arrogant to hide that, due to his father's abusive treatment, he thinks he has no worth as a person. David feels threatened by the amount of power that the others wield, and so tries to overcompensate by becoming as powerful as he possibly can. |
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Later seasons of Family Guy tend to play Brian into this trope. He has a very pretentious and condescending attitude at times. However, he has insecurities about being neglected and ignored (Lois even pointed out he needs to be on the arguing side of every hot topic just so he can get attention), not to mention is often bullied and treated as sub-human for being a dog. | |
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Chaos;Child: The protagonist, Takuru, is shown to look down on people and considers himself a "right-sider", placing everyone he knows as inherently underneath him as a way of justifying his faults. | |
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Mao Mao of Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart has this in spades. He goes to great lengths to be a hero and look cool while doing it, but he really just wants to prove himself in the eyes of his family and the people around him; this was most evident in the episode "Not Impressed" where he stalks a Sweetie Pie who was unimpressed with his heroism. | |
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Fantastic Four: This has been suggested about Doctor Doom. Mark Waid wondered if his need to be a ruler who's feared and revered is just trying to forget that as a boy he was penniless and miserable, and that his bitterness and hatred toward Reed Richards comes from the fact that he knows, deep down, that the machine that exploded and burned his face really was due to his own miscalculation (despite his insistence to the contrary) and that he's just bitter that Reed spotted the flaw that he missed (and also that he was too stubborn to listen to Reed's advice). | |
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Maxwell of Housepets! is a Deadpan Snarker cat who often tries to assert his own coolness to anyone who might pay attention, particularly Grape (whom he later hooks up with). However, his ego gains more depth when we see that he's constantly on pins and needles to get people to even be impressed with him, especially Grape, and later that he just wants to live up to be the person he believes that Grape deserves to be with. | |
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Wander over Yonder: Part of the reason Lord Hater is evil is to cover up for his insecurities by being an intimidating tyrant. It's implied this is one of the reasons Wander tries so hard to be his friend, as he is the only one who sees right through his facade. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Rodimus shows certain signs of this, but Getaway goes past "signs" and into "fireworks displays and alarm bells". Psycho Psychologist Froid mentions that watching Getaway's inferiority complex spiraling out of control is a rare treat for him. | |
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