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Basically, the trope is about the attitudes of those who actually belong (or think they belong) in a particular category and those who actually know them, or think they do (including their enemies) towards those who pretend to be in the category. Vampires towards Vampire Vannabes, Big Bads towards Big Bad Wannabes, real heroes towards Heroic Wannabes - you get the drift. The trope also has a number of Real Life and less fantastic counterparts, not least because of the (minor) distinctions differentiating those who would admit (if reluctantly) that yes, We ARE Struggling Together. The attitude can vary from amused to outraged, and express itself in anything from shrugging and snarking through more serious annoyance to termination with extreme prejudice. It is not, however, incompatible with using the wannabe as The Renfield, Sycophantic Servant, or treating a group of wannabes as "useful idiots", minions, or Cannon Fodder. It can be justified (or not) according to a number of different variables, such as whether the wannabe(s) actually stand any chance (by nature or nurture) of achieving their Wannabe goals, whether it would actually make them happy (or cool) if they did (cf. Be Careful What You Wish For, I Hate You, Vampire Dad, Super Loser), and whether there is something... questionable about their reasons for wannabeing it in the first place (e.g. white middle-class suburbanite kids pretending to be gangsta rappers, or claiming to be "spiritually" Native American, or hardcore anime fans from the west who try to emulate Japanese culture). This trope is not uncommon (depending on self-awareness) in those on the receiving end of in-universe Fan Dumb and Misaimed Fandom, let alone in-universe versions of Draco in Leather Pants delusions. Also not uncommon, conversely, by despisers of both, whether for or against the relevant misapprehensions. Not that the disdain always goes in one direction. The wannabes might well be trying to "clean up" the genuine guys' ethos or subculture, thus declaring themselves The Moral Substitute. The real guys might also be seen by both the wannabes and the general public as elitists, jealously guarding for themselves something that is actually part of the mass culture. (See also It's Popular, Now It Sucks!.) Bonus points if the wannabe uses phrases like "I want to be like you!" or "But I really do understand!" or "I totally am X!" See also Never Be a Hero. Frequently made while walking past a Wannabe Line. When the reason for the diss is youth and inexperience, it's While You Were in Diapers. If the disser's reason for being the real thing are very arbitrary, see No True Scotsman. If this takes place between different works and creators, see Knocking the Knockoff. Please keep Real Life examples light on Flame Bait. |
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Salvation Run: Monsieur Mallah attempts to form an alliance with Gorrila Grodd, saying as fellow gorrilas, they should rule. Grodd mocks him for being created by a science experiment unlike him, "a proud child of Gorrila City", even though the inhabitants of Gorrila City were uplifted by an alien scientist. Mallah angrily hits him for the insult, leading to Grodd beating him to death. | |
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Megamind gives an awesome diss to his arch-rival Tighten as his Big Entrance before their battle over the city. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction, MaNi/Elder Brother gets this treatment from the middle and left heads of Ghidorah for vainly claiming that he's still a part of Ghidorah like them even after he's separated from their body and formed an autonomous body for himself. | |
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Hephaestion mocks Waver Velvet and says he's so weak and average that he does not deserve to call himself one of Iskandar's followers. While Waver is very shaken up by this, he manages to retort that he never saw her when Iskandar summoned his Badass Army, Ionian Hetairoi, back in Fate/Zero, so she's not a real follower of Iskandar either. | |
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The villain bikers in Wild Hogs don't like Tim Allen's little group because they're a bunch of middle-aged men who just bike for fun instead of riding across the nation leaving terror in their wake, and call them posers. Then it gets turned around on them when their hero shows up and points out that they're a gang of fifty-someodd young men in their prime; and four middle-aged office workers, who only bike for the wind in their hair and the road beneath their wheels, are standing up to them; so who's the poser again? | |
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Fate Azure Destiny: While Ritsuka Fujimaru attempts to escape a Lotus-Eater Machine, it attacks him with a simulated Goetia. Ritsuka easily wards off its attacks and says it is nothing compared to the real thing. | |
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Lampshaded in Corpies. Most Heroes tend to look down on PEERS, corporate-sponsored Supers working as emergency responders. Unlike licensed Heroes, these "corpies" aren't allowed to engage criminal Supers unless directly threatened. At the beginning of the book, Titan (a disgraced retired Hero deciding to come back) feels the same way about "corpies", believing they're nothing but pretenders and sell-outs, even as he accepts their offer to join their team because no other team wants him. He eventually gets called out on it by both his new teammates and his agent. He quickly changes his tune when they start going out and rescuing people, realizing that they genuinely want to help and are doing it the best way they know how. Even if they don't rush into battle against criminal Supers, they're still entering burning or crumbling buildings in order to save people. Sure, they have to do photoshoots and wear corporate logos, but they see it as a necessary evil in order to be able to do their job. | |
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Bleach: In the anime adaptation of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc, Aizen accuses Yhwach, the Father of the Quincy, of pretending to be a Shinigami, and refuses to join forces with him for that reason. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: In Vegeta VS Shadow, Vegeta calls Shadow's super form a ripoff. Then in Shadow VS Ryuko, Shadow proceeds to call Ryuko a faker for basically copying his Golden Super Mode. Apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as in Trunks VS Silver, Vegeta's son, Trunks, proceeds to call Silver's super form a ripoff. |
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On July 23, 2019, Shawn Michaels called Dolph Ziggler nothing but a Shawn Michaels wannabe. Ziggler responded by superkicking him. | |
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What's New? with Phil and Dixie warns: ghosts do not appreciate reruns of Casper the Friendly Ghost. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Brunhild Eiktobel is one of the Valkyries. When she meets GREMLIN member Hel, who emulates the Norse Goddess Hel, Brunhild mocks her as an idiot and says she used to have that title. | |
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What would have happened if Goku fell into the world of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: When Shiva calls himself the God of Destruction, Beerus says he is nothing compared to the true God of Destruction and kills him. | |
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Along the same line and for much the same reasons, Beck in TRON: Uprising gets a fair amount of snark from everyone - enemies, potential allies, criminals, and even Tron's former apprentices about trying to pass himself off as the legendary hero, who most Programs believed died in the coup. | |
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In Arrow Season 3, Laurel decides to become the Black Canary...and is met with hostility and derision from Team Arrow, who repeatedly tell her "You're not Sara". This (understandably) rapidly starts to piss her off. Felicity eventually takes a much gentler approach, and points out that while Laurel's desire to be the Black Canary is understandable and admirable, she is trying too hard to be like Sara. This is doomed to fail because one, she isn't Sara, and two, she has a light inside her that Sara never had. She needs to stop being like Sara, and just be herself. That's enough. | |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]: Shirou and Archer use copied weapons in a copied combat style fighting for borrowed ideals in a battle way out of his league. Several characters have issues with this, especially Gilgamesh, who repeatedly calls them both fakers. Shirou does score points, however, in that he has no illusions about it; he has no pride in his creations, but he knows that they aren't worthless at all. "Who says a copy can't surpass the original?" Shirou also ends up doing this to Gilgamesh, calling the King of Heroes a one-trick pony like him because he uses his Gate of Babylon just as a weapon while not knowing how to use any of the huge number of weapons in it. That just pisses Gilgamesh off, since he does know how to use the two weapons within that belong solely to him and no other. |
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In TNA, Abyss and Mick Foley were engaged in a feud in late 2009. Mick Foley started attacking Abyss, both physically and verbal, by bringing up that many of Abyss's mannerisms are a copy of himself and his multitude of characters in his wrestling career (something that the fandom has been known for doing as well). Their feud ultimately culminated at Bound For Glory with Abyss emerging victorious. It was later revealed that Mick only said those things to fire up Abyss, and wanted to see how tough he truly was after hearing stories about what Abyss has done in his time in TNA. | |
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The Simpsons: Lisa receives a failing grade on a test and the rest of her class accepts her as one of them, "normal". When it turns out that her test wasn't a failing grade, they shun her as "gifted", and therefore, "fake normal". Subverted in another episode, where Lisa has to do a school report on her family's ancestry. Dismissing her Anglo/French roots as too bland, she decides to pass as part-Native American and invents a fictional tribe to belong to. Her ploy backfires when some actual Native Americans in the area not only believe her, but invite her to speak at a large Native American conclave about her experiences - and, of course, Lisa doesn't have any! At the conference, she confesses that she made everything up....prompting half the attendees at the conclave to shamefully stand up and confess that they are impostor Native Americans, too! One of the genuine Indians at the meeting, however, is not offended and takes the fakery as flattery: "Who wouldn't want to be like us?!" Though in the end, it's revealed she does have some marginal Native American heritage from Homer's side of the family. She never thought of asking him anything, and her response to Homer mentioning that fact of his family tree is a deadpan "yeah, I think I should have". |
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One promotional trailer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate featured this trope, wherein King Dedede pranked Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong into believing that their Arch-Enemy, long-requested fighter King K. Rool, was outside their house... only for the real King K. Rool to show up behind him and knock him aside - no doubt a Take That! towards the poor reception towards the Mii Fighter costume of him that featured in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Many months later, a similar trailer played at the end of the E3 2019 Nintendo Direct with the same outcome, except with Dedede being replaced by that notorious Memetic Troll, Duck Hunt, who shows up wearing a costume that would look very familiar to fans of Rare prior to their purchase by Microsoft. Cue the two of them being shoved aside by another long-requested fighter, Banjo-Kazooie. |
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From the MilkCan album Make It Sweet!, the second half of interlude track "Radio Signal Jam" is a brief skit called "You Can Look Like You're Playing The Guitar Even Though You're Not That Good", mocking people who pretend to act like rock stars without the skill set to back that up. | |
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Justice League: A thug, being threatened by the Flash, in the episode "Secret Society" just before Flash drops him off a building to get some information: Another variation shows up in "Hereafter" when Lobo tries to invite himself into the League to replace Superman after his apparent death: |
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David Allan Coe's song "Jimmy Buffett" is a Take That! towards Buffett calling him out for living in Malibu, California ("Jimmy Buffett doesn't live in Key West anymore") and essentially calling Buffett a poser. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) when King Hiss fought He-Man. | |
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Luffy sees The Joker as no real threat, dismissing him as a lesser version of both Doflamingo and Buggy. | |
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Implied to be the purpose of Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist. It claims to be a wide array of things, including God and the Universe, and it only appears to people who have tried to "play god" by performing human transmutation, taking something symbolic from them as punishment (but giving incredible knowledge of alchemy in return). Edward didn't think he needed anyone to help him stand, so he lost his leg. Alphonse wanted to feel their mother's warmth, so he lost his body. Edward gave up his right arm to get Alphonse, his "right-hand man", back. Mustang didn't willingly attempt to play god, but he did so nonetheless, and he lost his eyesight, so he could no longer see the great ambitions he had. | |
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Escher from Myst V: End of Ages has some very nasty things to say about the efforts of the D'ni Restoration Council - all of whom are ordinary Earth humans, not D'ni - to rebuild his people's underground city. Of course, that's the Fantastic Racism talking. | |
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Mel Tillis once sang about a wannabe Casanova cowboy in his 1979 No. 1 hit "Coca-Cola Cowboy." Although cowboys might be laughed at if at a saloon they order a carbonated or non-alcoholic beverage, the lyrics seemingly imply that the title is metaphoric – the cowboy has "an Eastwood smile and Robert Redford hair," but when it comes to substance he falls well short of being able to romance the woman who's trying to tell him off. The song was, incidentally enough, included as part of the Every Which Way but Loose soundtrack and one of two No. 1 country hits from the movie (the title track was the other). | |
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Amakusa disses the shape-shifting weapons of the RWBY cast. He says real weapons like his katana are for killing, while their weapons are just for showing off. Ruby Rose doesn't take kindly to his remarks and fights him while pointing out her weapon has killed countless Grimm. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition has this in the form of the Dalish elves, who see themselves as the "last true elves" and take a great degree of racial pride in this. Abelas, an ancient elf who was around at the time when Thedas was dominated by the ancient elven empire, looks upon a Dalish Inquisitor with scorn, because the tattoos that the Dalish place so much emphasis on are actually slave marks, and dismisses their claims that the Inquisitor is one of his "people." | |
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Fate/Harem Antics: Gilgamesh tells Kirei that he is disappointed in all the Servants except Saber, saying none of them deserve to be called warriors. He concedes that Scathach may be worth his time, but so far, he is not impressed. Avenger angrily calls Lancer's ability to make copies of her spear a cheap knockoff of her ability to summon burning stakes. |
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In Vegeta VS Shadow, Vegeta calls Shadow's super form a ripoff. | |
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Bane has his own taunt for Batman during their fight in The Dark Knight Rises. | |
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William Munny's reaction to the Schofield Kid in Unforgiven. Bill Daggett has a similar reaction to English Bob. The difference between the two men is that Daggett loves to boast about how badass the real thing is and slam down pretenders. Munney has enough self-awareness to know that he and Daggett are horrible, disgusting people, and that the "pretenders" are ultimately better than the genuine article. | |
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In Batman: Hush either Clayface pretending to be Jason Todd or Jason himself (retcons confirm Jason was active in the Hush plot, just not where he and Clayface switched out) call his successor as Robin Tim Drake "pretender". | |
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Occurs sometimes in The Dresden Files: At least one Black Court vampire was contemptuous of a crowd of LARP players in vampire get-up (ironically, one of their number really was a relatively decent White Court vampire), but for the most part, vampires don't rate their food highly enough to feel proper disdain. Vampires like Lara Raith are pretty businesslike about the whole thing (including eating their own wounded servitors), which is made all the more chilling by the fact that Lara can be quite warm and empathetic to humans she respects. Done again in another short story in which Dresden is confronted by a small group of teens wearing a combination of goth and "wizard" garb (as in Slytherin scarfs). They were upset that Dresden removed a curse so weak he could barely detect it (he basically improved the feng shui of the place, which removed the "curse" as an incidental), placed by the leader (assuming there was one in the first place). Dresden laughs at them and points out that none of them have any real magical potential, then pulls a gun on them when they threaten him. |
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Manowar loves this trope. They refer to themselves as True Metal and many of their songs take jabs at wimps and posers ("LEAVE THE HALL!"). | |
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In a Documentary about F. Scott Fitzgerald they told that after his wife Zelda died and when his reputation as a writer faded, he was in a May–December Romance with a young Englishwoman literature critic and he showed her The Great Gatsby and asked her opinion. The Documentary showed us the now grow up woman remembering saying: “At that time of my life I was very direct and plainly told him: “Well, Dickens it’s not�. | |
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Supernatural: The monster hunters dislike wannabe-hunters since they tend to derive their knowledge of monsters from popular fiction — which can get them and others killed. When Dean meets Samuel, Samuel tests him with a question about vampires that a wannabe would fail. Sam and Dean are also very derisive of Vampire Wannabes and vampire fandom in general. Supernatural's vampires are, with very few exceptions, brutal killers who will use their fans for food without a second thought. And the exceptions don't act anything like Pattinson. Death himself delivers one to a power-tripping Castiel in the season seven premiere. |
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Star Fox: Andross is typically depicted as a giant floating head and hands. In Star Fox: Assault, Andrew mimics this by transforms his warship into a head and hands. Falco is unimpressed. | |
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Lost to Dust: Charlemagne declares that Ruby Rose and all other Huntsmen are not heroes, claiming that Huntsmen are selfish and only care about killing the Grimm, while real heroes like him care about protecting people. Ruby protests that she is also dedicated to protecting people, but he says she is a failure because she couldn't save Astolfo. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! R: Seto Kaiba mocks the Wicked God Cards and says they are nothing but cheap knockoffs of the Egyptian God Cards. | |
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The Mandalorian offers several looks into what a Mandalorian really is. Din at first declares Bo-Katan to not be a real Mandalorian for removing her helmet, and she dismisses him as a zealot for keeping his on. He also insists on retaking a set of Mandalorian armor from Marshal Cobb Vanth, who doesn't pretend to be Mandalorian but recognizes a good set of armor when he sees one, and then returns the armor to Boba Fett, who also doesn't profess to be a Mandalorian but wants the armor as a family heirloom; because his adoptive father was a Mandalorian foundling, Din believes Boba to be a legitimate owner of the armor, whereas because he is a clone of his adoptive father, Bo-Katan believes him to not be a Mandalorian and barely even a person. Some time later, Bo-Katan's old lieutenant Axe Woves again calls Din "a misguided zealot" and claims he has not one drop of Mandalorian blood, but Bo-Katan now defends Din, as he took the Creed and Mandalorians are a people defined by their ethos, not their race or home planet. | |
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Fates Collide: Similar to canon, Gilgamesh calls Archer a faker for copying weapons. Amakusa disses the shape-shifting weapons of the RWBY cast. He says real weapons like his katana are for killing, while their weapons are just for showing off. Ruby Rose doesn't take kindly to his remarks and fights him while pointing out her weapon has killed countless Grimm. |
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In the Spawn film, The Clown gets annoyed by three moronic Satanists and asks, "How come God gets all the good followers and we get all the retards?" | |
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In their earlier issues, the Thunderbolts had to go up against a new incarnation of the Masters of Evil. Problem is, the Thunderbolts are the original Masters of Evil, disguised as heroes in order to win the population's trust. And they feel pretty insulted about another group of villains taking their name. | |
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Justice: Jinbe sees Aquaman as a spoiled child compared to King Neptune and Queen Otohime who resorts to threats of violence to protect his people as opposed to the diplomacy his royalty strived for. Luffy sees The Joker as no real threat, dismissing him as a lesser version of both Doflamingo and Buggy. |
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In the wretched 80s rock/horror flick Trick or Treat, the protagonist verbally provokes the Satanic rocker's ghost to lure him into a trap. He finally succeeds in getting the reaction he wants by calling the ghost a fucking wimp poser. | |
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Luke Cage (2016): Zip walks into a meeting with Diamondback wearing sunglasses, in imitation of Shades, who has fallen out of favor with Diamondback. Diamondback's first reaction is "Take those off!" He still sets Zip up for a promotion. | |
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"Low Budget Horror" by RedHook: | |
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In a Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Deep Cover for Batman!", Dyna-Mite calls Batman on impersonating Owlman, paraphrasing Bentsen's famous diss (see page quote and Real Life section). | |
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In SLC Punk!, the movie's beginning is largely about the main character explaining who the fake punks are and why he hates them. It closes with him finally admitting that he is himself a poser, accepting it, and moving on from the lifestyle. | |
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In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Trigon, an ancient demon who most likely has met the actual gods, tells the New Gods of Apokolips that he is unimpressed. | |
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In one issue of Green Lantern Corps, Kyle Rayner confronts Sinestro, who tells him something along the lines of "I want the real Green Lantern". Rayner responds, "A few years ago, that would have stung, but not anymore. You want the REAL Green Lantern? You're looking at him." | |
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The Order of the Stick: The prequel book Start of Darkness has one as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Xykon to Redcloak: Xykon mocks Redcloak for being "whiny, 'evil, but for a good cause'" rather than "capital-E Evil" and explains to him that he'll never be as effective a villain as Xykon because he, unlike Xykon, has lines he won't cross. Xykon (a sorcerer whose magic power comes naturally to him) has been on the receiving end of this from wizards (whose magic requires study and effort). He vents his resentment about this while defeating Dorukan by repeated applications of brute-force magic. In the comics proper, he gives a Hannibal Lecture to Vaarsuvius about the nature of Power after dispelling their Soul Splices. |
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When Darkseid first encounters Thanos in Marvel Versus DC Darkseid calls him a "pale imitation of me." | |
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Sonic Adventure 2: Sonic and Shadow never pretend to be each other, but between the army (suposedly) and Amy confusing them for each other, and both being hedgehogs with Super-Speed, things get heated between them instantly. They spend the whole game trash talking each other about who is the real hedgehog between the two and calling each other "fake hedgehog" and "faker" - which they keep doing for the rest of the franchise. | |
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The bikers of Sons of Anarchy do not like posers. However, they usually skip the dissing and go right to severe beating, especially if they feel the poser is disrespecting their colors or their motorcycle. | |
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In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the Joker calls the Jokerz gang, "A disgrace to the name Joker." This also comes up during the climactic fight, and gets an Ironic Echo when Terry, the new Batman, taunts the Joker with "I thought you wanted to make Batman laugh!" | |
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One early episode of Vampire Princess Miyu includes a subplot where a young man suspects there's something otherworldly about her. After she's dealt with the Shinma of the Week, he demands she make him a vampire, too, gushing about how amazing her powers are. Miyu calmly but firmly refuses, calling him out for just wanting power so he can abuse it, then turns to leave. He chases after her into the fog... and runs right off the building. Splat. | |
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In 2011, Vendetta Pro Wrestling Commissioner Christian Cole, having disputes with Billy Blade over ownership of the company and not appreciating Blade's treatment of the Latino community, booked him in a match with Carlito Caribbean Cool. Believing that wrestling a Puerto Rican was a waste of his time, Blade tried to get out of the match by bringing in a Carlito "lookalike" who would throw the match. Cole wasn't convinced. | |
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The Dark Knight: Batman scolds the band of vigilantes. Though, while it comes across this way, it's actually a very practical concern. He's wearing ridiculously advanced body armor, and these well-meaning idiots are going to get themselves killed. And they do. |
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In the original Fright Night (1985), vampire Jerry Dandridge shakes Peter Vincent's hand, telling him that he's seen all of his old vampire-hunter films and found them very amusing. He and Billy later poke fun at Peter's show dialogue. | |
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Resident Evil 6: Carla Radames, the Big Bad of the game, was turned into a clone of Ada Wong by Derek C. Simmons, Ada's Stalker with a Crush, and seeks revenge on him and the whole world for it. During their final battle, the real Ada openly dismisses Carla as a "cheap knockoff at best." | |
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Heroic Myth: Gilgamesh mocks a monstrous bull that has been possessed and enhanced by a Demi Spirit and says it is nothing compared to Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven. | |
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Blip got three friends, a witch, a vampire and a cyborg. So they had a "Movie Marathon" of things they "love" most: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Twilight, and Terminator Salvation. | |
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Spider-Man: The Animated Series: in season 3, after Norman Osborn becomes the Green Goblin, he comes to regard his predecessor, the Hobgoblin, to be nothing but a cheap knockoff, and wastes no time to attack him while calling him out for being just an imposter the moment they meet. It helps in his case that the Hobgoblin is just a normal thug with fancy gear, while the Green Goblin has genuine superpowers and more advanced equipment.note Possibly meant as a Mythology Gag since in the comics, the Green Goblin did come first and the Hobgoblin copied his gear. It could also be considered a reference to the fact that story editor and showrunner John Semper hated the character Hobgoblin, thus making Green Goblin an Author Avatar | |
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In The Last Jedi, Supreme Leader Snoke tells Kylo Ren that he's no Vader, just a child in a mask. Ren gets so upset that he smashes his mask to pieces. | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki uses his "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner to tell Thanos "You will never be a god". Thanos, for all his power, is just a man playing with powers beyond his means. | |
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At Ramen Fighter Miki, Miki and Akihiko discover a high school student out of school drawing pathetic graffiti and ask him what is he doing: | |
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In Codex Alera, Aldrick ex Gladius, regarded as one of the greatest swordsmen alive, is legendary partly because of his famed duel with Araris Valerian. At multiple points throughout the series, he crosses swords with other famed warriors, calmly informing each of them "The only man who has ever matched me in battle was Araris Valerian himself, and you aren't Araris." When it turns out that one of them actually is Araris, Aldrick practically collapses. | |
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Charlemagne and Asia's Magnificent Journey: Lancer Artoria Alter mocks the High School D×D verse's Excalibur, calling it a fake because it broke and is much weaker than the Nasuverse Excalibur, which is indestructible and is the crystalization of mankind's wishes. | |
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Darius, head of the Abomination coven in The Owl House, which focuses around conjuring Golems made of purple muck, finds the Abomitons (abominations which continue to exist without a witch sustaining them and which incorporate advanced technology to empower them) created by Alador Blight to be disgusting, and outright calls Alador a hack. | |
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Batman Beyond: In the pilot, "Rebirth", as the Jokerz, a street gang styled after The Joker, face Bruce Wayne, thinking he's just some old man. Also during the pilot, after Terry steals the Batsuit and gets into a fight with Mr. Fixx, who murdered Terry's father: In "The Call", Superman invites Terry to join the Justice League, but the other members say he's not the real Batman, just some punk. Terry manages to win their respect by saving the world. |
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Iron Man #178: Mikey, a kid who was a member of a heroic Avengers fan club who kept the peace around their neighborhood, is impersonated by a troublemaker named Blackie Donovan, who stole his Iron Man suit. With his name dragged through the mud, and the reputation of the Avengers club in tatters, Mikey fashions a new suit of armor and confronts Blackie, telling him that he has no idea what it means to be Iron Man. | |
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Avatar: A villainous example from the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Crossroads of Destiny": In The Legend of Korra episode "The Voice in the Night", Tarrlok brings up Aang's defeat of a man named Yakone 42 years before the start of the series during his speech calling for an anti-Amon task force, resulting in Tenzin chewing him out for it. Considering that Tenzin is Aang's son, he was rightly outraged by Tarrlok's comparison. Ironically, it would turn out that Tarrlok and Amon are both sons of Yakone. |
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In The Venture Brothers Brock Sampson pulls this twice on 21 on two separate occasions: both times 21 makes a big deal about settling their score once and for all Brock coldly replies "do I know you?" The first time it ends badly for 21, but the second time around "Two-Ton 21" actually puts up a good enough fight to earn Brock's respect. | |
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Done again in another short story in which Dresden is confronted by a small group of teens wearing a combination of goth and "wizard" garb (as in Slytherin scarfs). They were upset that Dresden removed a curse so weak he could barely detect it (he basically improved the feng shui of the place, which removed the "curse" as an incidental), placed by the leader (assuming there was one in the first place). Dresden laughs at them and points out that none of them have any real magical potential, then pulls a gun on them when they threaten him. | |
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Implied at the end of the Scream: The TV Series' second season. In this universe, the Ghostface killers of season 1 and 2 actually were copycats inspired by Brandon James, a killer who committed a murder spree a few years ago. Season 2's final episode end with a hint that he is still alive, and paying a visit to surviving Ghostface Kieran to give him a piece of his mind. | |
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In Spider-Man Beyond, Ben Reilly gets this twice: In a tie-in to The Death of Doctor Strange, the Black Cat tells him that he's no Spider-Man and he has no right to be. At the end of the comic, she only gives him a begrudging "You're Spider-Man.. for now." Miles Morales is utterly appalled at the fact that Ben is working with Beyond, who are trying to get him to stop him from using the Spider-Man name, and calls him an imposter. |
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In the Smallville Season 11 comics, Bart Allen is being chased by the Black Flash. Clark Kent wants to help, but since he's not fast enough, he can't keep up with them or even see the Black Flash. With the help of some scientists, they manage to transfer some of Bart's speed to Clark, allowing him to see and battle the figure. The Black Flash mocks Clark as not a real speedster. | |
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In the Alex Benedict series, real archaeologists often have this attitude toward Benedict, an antiques dealer who is basically only in it for the money. He does get occasional respect for not having messed a site up too badly, but in general, the real scientists loathe his breed, even if they grudgingly come to tolerate him personally. | |
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Fate/strange Fake: In her backstory, False Assassin was a member of The Hashshashin who dreamed of becoming their leader, Hassan-i-Sabbah. In an attempt to prove herself worthy, she studied the 18 previous Hassans until she was able to perform all of their Zabaniyas. She was rejected and mocked for doing nothing but copying people. In reality, her ability to master all the Zabaniyas plus her religious fanaticism scared her colleagues, so they deliberately put her down and stopped her from advancing. Alexandre Dumas has a flashback to a time he watched the play The Vampire with Charles Nodier. Nodier incessantly heckles the performance, saying these hacks don't know anything about how real vampires are like. To Dumas' confusion, Nodier claims to have met real vampires. Gilgamesh mocks Saber's Excalibur when he notices it is a replica of the real one. |
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In Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Clark Kent of Earth-167 isn't impressed by the Lex Luthor of Earth-38. | |
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A villainous example from the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Crossroads of Destiny": | |
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OG Loc from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a black kid who tries so hard to be gangsta it hurts to watch. His rapping is just as bad. | |
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Eric Bischoff would refuse to let WCW's announcers know about anything that wasn't happening in the ring, so their dialog would supposedly sound more natural, like a "shoot". Bobby Heenan said Bischoff didn't know what a shoot was. | |
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The climax of The Flash storyline "The Return of Barry Allen." Reverse-Flash later does this when he encounters the younger Wallace West, giving the new Kid Flash a Curb-Stomp Battle and spitefully declaring he's not the real Kid Flash or the real Wally West. This is foreshadowing the confirmation Wallace was an accident as a result of Barry and Doctor Manhattan screwing up the timeline. |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement The Cthulhu Companion, adventure "The Rescue". A werewolf despises two insane men who want to be werewolves like him. He has told them that the power of transformation lies within everyone and only the oppression of society and the lies of religion prevent people from using it. He has them perform ludicrous and humiliating "meditative rites" that he says will open their eyes to the truth (they're actually useless). He will kill either of them if they ever pose a threat to him. | |
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On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a group of genetically enhanced humans watch Legate Damar delivering an address to Dominion-occupied Cardassia, shortly after his former boss Dukat's fall from grace. While watching him, Jack (the ringleader) shouts "Pretender! You don't belong on that throne and you know it!" | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look had a "Police Constable and Community Support Officer" sketch, which consisted of the PC constantly insulting the support officer for being 'pretend police' before beating him up for warning a kid off of cycling on the pavement. | |
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The first line in X-Wing: Rogue Squadron is Wedge Antilles knocking an overconfident rookie pilot down several pegs with "You're good, Corran, but you're no Luke Skywalker." When the squadron is officially formed Wedge makes sure to remind the next generation of pilots that they'll never be considered as good as those who fought and died before their time. Corran's mental response is "I can dream, can't I?" | |
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In Kung Fu Panda, Old Master Oogway is meant to choose the Dragon Warrior, The Chosen One who will supposedly gain some unknown and unheard-of kung fu powers. Then he seemingly by random coincidence chooses Po, a kung fu fanboy who doesn't know any kung fu and seems like an extremely unpromising student — instead of any of the highly skilled Furious Five. Obviously, the Five and their teacher Shifu are not amused. Shifu sets out to mock and torment Po until he gives up on training, and the strict and humourless Tigress makes it perfectly clear she doesn't approve. The more laid-back members of the Five vary between pity, scorn and embarrassment on Po's behalf. | |
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A similar approach to Satanists is taken by the demons in Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels. | |
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The Jerry Springer Show: Jerry delivers a pretty epic one to a Ku Klux Klan member after the latter puts on a Nazi armband and an SS cap on the basis that the Klan hood wasn't bad enough and America needed something "stronger". This is a very personal insult for Jerry, who lost a lot of his extended family in the Holocaust. | |
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Mass Effect: The Reapers despise the A.I. geth who see them as their Gods — in fact, they find the worship (and the idea that the geth could ever be like them) insulting. Also, Renegade Shepard's dealings with Conrad Verner. Even Paragon Shepard, to some extent, although (s)he at least tries let him down gently in telling him he doesn't have what it takes. Which gets even better in the Citadel DLC — Shepard tells the villain, an evil clone of Shepard, that "Conrad Verner is better at being me than you!" |
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In Quigley Down Under, Quigley remarks to Marston before their Showdown at High Noon, "This ain't Dodge City, and you ain't Bill Hickok." | |
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Rebuild World: Since Shiori and Kanae are agents of the ancient Lion Steel MegaCorp who used to employ only Artificial Intelligence androids, when one of them, Olivia, meets them, she gives them one of these. Considering said androids are each a One-Man Army due to their Lost Technology, one can see her point. | |
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In Getting Back on Your Hooves, Checker Monarch as a last-ditch effort transforms into an Alicorn. The heroes are not impressed, with Rarity remarking that they've already beaten a real Alicorn (Nightmare Moon), so beating a fake should be easy. They prove it. | |
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In the final rap battle in 8 Mile, Jimmy reveals that Papa Doc is a well-off guy named Clarence from a stable family and went to a private school. Jimmy, despite being white trash, has far more in common with the poor black community in downtown Detroit because he's actually from there and went through the same things they did. | |
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In the first episode of season 4 of The Flash, Wally tries to fill Barry's shoes and be the Flash. However, even with Cisco's help, he's clearly overwhelmed. When the Samuroid threatens the city if the Flash doesn't show up, Wally puts on Barry's suit and tries to pretend to be him, only for the Samuroid to handily beat him and tell him that he's not the Flash. | |
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Final Fantasy VII Remake: Due to his Fake Memories, Cloud Strife thinks he is a former First Class member of SOLDIER. A few people like Reno and Professor Hojo, who know the members of SOLDIER personally, call him out and say he is no SOLDIER. | |
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Galaxy Quest has a double example during the final battle. Sarris constantly reminds the Protector crew that he is a General with actual war experience, while they are merely actors. Jason (who plays Commander Taggart) throws this back in his face by pointing out how Sarris has lost his cool from the last time they fought, letting slip that he thinks they might have a chance this time. | |
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In Alan Dean Foster's Glory Lane, punk rock guy Seeth points out you can always tell the posers by their nice shoes. | |
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Batman: During Knightfall, Nightwing delivers one of these to Jean-Paul Valley when the two fight. In Batman (vol. 2) #42, a pair of children are shown playing with action figures of the original Batman and the new James Gordon Batman. The kid playing with the original version has this to say: In Batman: Hush either Clayface pretending to be Jason Todd or Jason himself (retcons confirm Jason was active in the Hush plot, just not where he and Clayface switched out) call his successor as Robin Tim Drake "pretender". |
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Star Trek: Worf, in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, gets this frequently because he was raised by humans and serves in Starfleet with its mission of peaceful exploration. The first time he does serve with Klingons, he doesn't fit in because he's spent his life patterning himself as what Klingon stories say: serious and honor-bound, rather than a bunch of hard-drinking Boisterous Bruisers. Expect any Klingon adversary in a given episode to tell him, at some point, that he's not a real Klingon. Also from DS9 is Jadzia Dax, who used to be Curzon Dax, an Ambadassador who brokered the peace treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire and became a bit of an honorary Klingon himself. Most Klingons treat her with the same respect that they would Curzon, but one notable exception is Martok's wife Sirella. When Jadzia wants to marry Worf, Sirella treats her not as Curzon but as an alien interloper riding on someone else's reputation. On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a group of genetically enhanced humans watch Legate Damar delivering an address to Dominion-occupied Cardassia, shortly after his former boss Dukat's fall from grace. While watching him, Jack (the ringleader) shouts "Pretender! You don't belong on that throne and you know it!" |
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The Maltese Falcon: Sam Spade has venomous contempt for wannabe tough-guy and "gunsel", Wilmer. | |
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In the Transformers: Prime episode "Rebellion", Megatron mockingly tells Ultra Magnus that he's "no Optimus Prime" after brutally beating him to the ground after he leads the other Autobots against the Decepticons at a time when everyone assumed Optimus was missing and/or dead. In Megatron's eyes, only Optimus could ever hope to beat him, and anyone else was beneath notice. Similarly, in Beast Wars, Ravage (a Decepticon-turned-Predacon) tells the Predacon Megatron that he's a far cry from the original Megatron, whom Ravage knew personally. Of course, the irony is that, due to a Stable Time Loop, the original Megatron named himself after the Predacon Megatron. |
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Fate/Requiem: Erice Utsumi dislikes fighting in tournaments, saying fights that are not to the death are not real fights and are nothing but a mockery. Karin scolds her and says tournament fighters still give it their all and deserve respect. | |
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Girl Genius has a big armored red dragon doing this to Franz, the Heterodyne guardian. Franz thinks him a pretty boy who talks too much, though he does seem to be losing the fight until Agatha gives him a recharge. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a reminder to the reading audience that ours is a Villain Protagonist. | |
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Death Note: Light looks down on L's successors, Near and Mello, contemptuously regarding them as inferior to L and unworthy of his mantle. He's especially enraged to see Near wearing a mask of L's face. | |
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Being Human: Mitchell responds to a wannabe-vamp girl who wants to be fed on by sending her away and later feeding her to a friend. | |
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Tommy Oliver faces an evil duplicate of himself, derides him as a cheap copy, and proves it by kicking the fake's ass. It helped that the fake was not as powerful since he could only draw on the Black Dino Ranger powers, while Tommy had the Master Morpher that let him use all of his previous powers. | |
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From Dark Nights: Death Metal: When confronted by a version of Wally West from the Dark Multiverse, who went mad and became a bloodthirsty gun toting killer after Heroes in Crisis, Barry Allen responds by saying that he isn’t Wally, he’s "just a bad idea." In the Speed Metal tie-in, after Wally West beats the Darkest Knight (A warped version of Batman drawn entirely as a featureless black void except for a glowing mouth and eyes) to the Mobius Chair, he turns to look back at the villain before calling him "Batman Who Tries Too Hard." In the Multiverse’s End tie-in, Owlman's Taking You with Me moment is punctuated by him making it clear to Baby Batman and the Rainbow Batman Corps that he'll survive this because he's the true dark reflection of Batman and much too good of an idea to die. |
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In the Kim Possible episode "Number One", Global Justice agent Will Du radiates disdain for Team Possible, insisting that world-saving should be left to the trained professionals. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Harley Quinn once dressed as a sexy policewoman (light blue shirt, dark blue knee-length skirt, billed cap, baton, and whistle) while crashing a police banquet held in Commissioner Gordon's honor. Renee Montoya, who is an actual policewoman, was not amused by this. Harvey Bullock is always giving Batman a hard time. He mostly seems to hold Batman in contempt for doing the police's work with his vigilantism despite the fact that Bullock, though honest, is possibly the most slovenly-behaved cop in Gotham. And, just like Batman, he's been known to rough up suspects and neglect proper procedures. "Birds of a Feather" has the Penguin being mocked for trying to pass himself off as one of Gotham's cultural elite (and failing miserably). He doesn't take it well. |
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The Wheel of Time: Mat Cauthon, Childhood friend of The Chosen One, Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has a.... complex.... relationship with The Dragon Sworn, the ten of thousand men and women who once Rand proved himself the promised savior of mankind, flocked to him. He considers the very idea of anyone blindly following anyone else's rules and commands the very definition of idiocy... while blindly (if snarkingly) following any request Rand asks of him... since this is Rand, not The Dragon Reborn, asking, not ordering, him, his best friend since Childhood. | |
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In Kill Six Billion Demons, Demiurges come into power either by being gifted a Magus Key by the Conquering King, the first of their number, or by killing another Demiurge and claiming their Key and the worlds that come with it. Of the seven who survived their massive civil war, Incubus got his Key and a seventh of the universe because his Key's former holder willingly abandoned the position. The other six are fully aware of this and never stop bringing it up, seeing the seventh as little but an undeserving pretender. | |
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Fate/Apocrypha: After Siegfried sacrificed his life to save the Homunculus, the being names himself Sieg in his honor. Sieg later discovers he has inherited Siegfried's power and can temporarily transform into Siegfried. Mordred mocks Sieg as nothing but a faker and a cheap knockoff. Like Shirou, however, Sieg is under no illusions about this, though he declares it still won't stop him from fighting to pay tribute to Siegfried's memory. | |
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The Detective is Already Dead: When Nagisa says she is the deceased Siesta's successor as a detective, Charlotte mocks her as a little girl playing make-believe cops and robbers and that only Charlotte herself deserves that title. Nagisa gets pissed off and roars that Charlotte doesn't know how much she worked and sacrificed to get to where she is. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: The first time Goku Black fights Vegeta, he wins decisively. The second time, Vegeta just whales on him while dishing out a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, declaring that Black is just a fake Saiyan who stole Goku's body and thus the power Goku worked so hard to achieve, and he could never use Goku's body as well as the real deal. During the Universe Survival Saga, Frieza does this to Frost, his Universe 6 counterpart, dismissing him as a weak amateur. |
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Jerry Lawler constantly mocks ECW, saying they are not real wrestlers because they depend on weapons and other illegal tactics instead of skill. | |
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Pony POV Series: The Blank Wolf kills an Expy of Nahmat and calls it a disgrace to wolves. | |
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One Ultimate Spider-Man comic had the Hobgoblin, who in this continuity is a huge, monstrous juggernaut with fire powers (and is Harry Osborn), go on a rampage. When Nick Fury orders him to stand down he says "This is a full-trained Hulkbuster unit!! You know, for the Hulk. And you, kiddo, are no Hulk." | |
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Just as the above example, So much for suicide by Tiamat ridicules wannabes: | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX / Sailor Moon crossover Clash of Heroes, Shingo Tsukino disses Judai Yuki and his Elemental Hero cards, saying they are not real heroes compared to the Sailor Senshi and his cards that emulate the Senshi. When Judai defeats him, he apologizes. | |
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Parodied in the Swedish comic book Arne Anka in an episode set in Ancient Rome, where the failed poet Arne Anka's identical Roman ancestor slags off Virgil as a "fucking dilettante" who only writes about "shepherds and sheep-shaggery" (referencing Eclogiae, the original pastoral love poems and considered to be one of the high points of Roman literature) and "keeps going on and on and ON about the huge epic about the founding of the city he's going to start working on any day now...". The artist has stated that this is largely self-referential since bad-mouthing some young buck who was hailed six months later as "the voice of his generation" was a frequent and regular occurrence in his life until he learned to keep his trap shut. | |
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Jinbe sees Aquaman as a spoiled child compared to King Neptune and Queen Otohime who resorts to threats of violence to protect his people as opposed to the diplomacy his royalty strived for. | |
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In Batman Returns the Penguin gives Batman a dose of his own medicine with, "You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!" Batman admits he may have a point. | |
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Good Omens: Demons are said to feel like this towards Satanists, whom they also treat as useful idiots. There is also a later reference to how Hell's Angels feel about weekend bikers. On the other hand, literal Hell's angels (well, the Badass Bikers of the Apocalypse), tolerate the Hell's Angels they meet, finding them rather cute — though not enough to avoid leading them to their deaths, in passing and without even bothering to laugh at them. It's unclear if they even noticed. After all, killing everyone was on their to-do list for later that day. |
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Batman towards Spider-Man in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC, upon learning the web-slinger wants to be more like him. That said, he never disses Spider-Man for his actual heroism, and later tells Superman that he thinks Spidey is a pretty impressive and admirable hero. You could go even further into Alternate Character Interpretation and say that Batman secretly wishes he was like Spider-Man, since both took a lot of crap in their lives but Spidey is heroic without being moody and depressing — exactly why he's annoyed that Spidey wants to be more like him. | |
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In New Maps of Hell, Martian Manhunter has this to say when they discovered the "god" they were fighting (who'd ravaged Mars in the distant past) was merely a highly advanced artificial intelligence with, well, a god complex. "We're the Justice League. We've beaten up real gods and made them cry. You are nothing to us." | |
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Jim Cornette really hates Garbage Wrestlers (he's called ECW "hardcore bullshit") and comedy wrestlers like Joey Ryan, Kenny Omega (he also criticizes Omega for cosplaying, like the time he cosplayed as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, saying he is not being original), Orange Cassidy, and Chuck Taylor, saying they make a mockery of the business and are not real wrestlers. He used to feel this way about Colt Cabana, but later admitted that Cabana is a real wrestler; he just wishes he'd stop doing comedy skits in the middle of matches. He's criticized Marko Stunt and Johnny Gargano (he's acknowledged Gargano's legitimate skills, but says he doesn't belong in the ring and should just be a trainer instead) for being short and Kevin Owens and Joey Janela for being fat. He's also called The Young Bucks less talented Hardy Boyz imitators, mocking them as the "Hardly Boys". He gave a rant denouncing Lucha Underground as fake. He really hates All Elite Wrestling and derides them as nothing but cosplayers pretending to be wrestlers. He is also not a fan of wrestlers with supernatural gimmicks like Bray Wyatt and several of the Gimmick Matches. Though he hated The Undertaker's supernatural gimmick, he admitted he has real talent and was happy when Undertaker made it into the WWE Hall of Fame. | |
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Cassidy from Preacher, faced with Les Enfants du Sang, a group of Vampire Wannabes: "Bunch of poncy rich kid goth wannabes." Though he isn't any nicer to the actual vampire who cultivates their fanboyism and uses them as food stock, possibly because the guy acts like every vamp cliché in the book. (That book being The Vampire Lestat, not Dracula). | |
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The Bible: In the book of Acts, the apostle Paul casts demons out of the possessed. Some travelling Jewish exorcists try to do the same and invoke the name of Jesus. The evil spirit answers them "Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?" and proceeds to thrash them all. | |
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Hellsing: Alucard absolutely disdains Millennium's "Freak" artificial vampires. He disses most vampires, including his own fledgling. He even disses himself because he really does value humanity in his own warped way. His opinion is that one must earn immortality. Becoming a vampire either through submission to dark forces or artificial means (including Walter) seems to be more taking it than earning. As for his fledgling Seras, that was more toward her reluctance to drink blood and complete her transformation, but also fully admitted she had a point in her reasons and such. In all honesty, he does admire humanity, and may find himself to be a facsimile of the man he once was. A traitorous officer who became a vampire barges in on a Round Table meeting and holds a gun to Integra's head; she reminds him that he's only a mere fledgling vampire and that her organization has been hunting vampires for over a century, before Walter dices him to pieces. |
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At the climax of Civil War (2006), Hercules delivers one to the Pro-Reg side's evil Thor clone. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics A2, a Vaan impersonator speaks in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe (that he and his fellow Penelo impersonator can't even keep straight!) for no obvious reason, constantly asserts that he is Vaan, and mangles his catch phrase. Luso isn't fooled for a moment and calls him out on it. | |
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Werewolf: The Forsaken: the Idigam known as Lul'Aya is a creature obsessed with becoming Father Wolf, the deceased spirit who fathered the Werewolves, to the point he fashioned his appearance after him and now seeks to convince the werewolves to join him and accept him as their new father. Basically everybody around him reacts with this trope: the Forsaken sees him as nothing but a grotesque parody of the real thing, the Pure are so outraged by him pretending to be Father Wolf they are actually willing to enter an Enemy Mine with the Forsaken for the sole sake of defeating him, and Mother Luna (the moon spirit and Father Wolf's mate) hates him so much the spirits of her court actually go in murderous rage whenever in his presence. | |
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Crimson and Noire: In Chapter 29, Citrine HúlÃ, the true Fox holder, let's Volpina and Monarch know that an akuma can never match up against a Miraculous holder. He outmatched Volpina with his own illusions and despells her own, making it easier for Crimson Beetle and Lady Noire to find and remove her akuma. | |
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SINoALICE: The Villainy, Justice and Forgery collab event has Pinocchio end up becoming a second incarnation of The Joker. The Clown Prince of Crime himself doesn't take kindly to Pinocchio's inept mimicry of him. | |
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Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: In both this and the Vow in the Snow movie, Angelica says Shirou's ability to copy weapons and fighting styles is nothing but a mockery of real mages like her. This may be because she was channeling Gilgamesh's powers and personality. Interestingly, the real Gilgamesh, who had been turned into a child and is much nicer as a result, compliments Shirou's abilities. | |
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In The Magician's Nephew, Jadis mocks Andrew Ketterley for claiming to be a magician, but only knowing minor tricks and barely knowing what he is doing, unlike her, a real witch. | |
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Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Sho instantly sees through Akira's Bonebud disguise because he was once a Bonebud, and he notices that their behavior and knowledge of the Bonetown Elder don't match real Bonebuds. He mocks Akira for thinking they could fool a real Bonebud, though he notes that most people outside Bonebud culture wouldn't be able to tell. | |
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In My Immortal, Enoby frequently disparages "posers" who try to be "goffik". | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: After Simba blames Kovu for the Outsiders' attempt on his life and banishes him from the Pride Lands, Kiara urges him to give Kovu another chance. Simba defends his decision, saying that he's following in the late Mufasa's pawprints, just like Kovu is apparently following in Scar's. Kiara is furious that he'd even dare bring him into this, and yells that he'll never be the king his father was. As you can imagine, Simba, who loved and admired Mufasa so dearly, is deeply hurt that his own daughter has told him in such a heart-wrenching way to stop trying to be someone he isn't. | |
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Xanxus from Reborn! (2004) constantly insults Tsuna and his family about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students. | |
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On Leverage, experienced combatant Elliot (who earned his experience doing deeds he now regards as morally indefensible) gets a few moments over the course of the series. Summed up nicely when he and his Non-Action Guy friend have decided to go back after escaping a group of Right-Wing Militia Fanatic types, to stop them from carrying out a terrorist attack with plenty of collateral damage to civilians: | |
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Blade: Big Bad Deacon Frost is dissed as a Vampire Wannabe by the elder vampires despite actually being a vampire (in this universe, some vampires are born vampires while others are born human and turned, and Frost was turned). As probably the only person on this page who didn't wilt under the repeated Pretender Diss, he proceeds to torture the head vampire to death and sacrifice the rest for his evil scheme. That'll show 'em. Bonus points for said evil scheme being to transform himself into the vampire god. Especially since said scheme worked (mostly). Ironically, Frost also says the reverse to Blade himself (who, being half-vampire as a result of having been infected by vampire blood as a fetus in his mother's womb, is arguably more of a vampire than even Frost is): "Oh, back to pretending we're human again?" | |
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The Incredibles has Buddy, a powerless (though talented) fanboy of Mr. Incredible. Bob brushes him off for several reasons, among them that he was just a kid, that he followed Mr. Incredible around to incessantly harass him (which put Buddy and others in very real, life-threatening danger), and that he was really, really irritating. Unfortunately, Buddy took the brush-off as Bob saying he'll Never Be a Hero because he hasn't got superpowers and grew up to massacre innocent Supers specifically to screw over Bob in revenge. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has the rivalry between the Imperial Guard and various worlds' Planetary Defense Forces, similar to the Army/National Guard divide mentioned below. When the Redshirt Army looks down on you, you know you're bad. The Great Crusade in the Imperium's backstory also had this in the Imperium's attitude to other human civilizations. Anyone who styled themselves as the "true" humanity was very rapidly reminded of their place by the Legiones Astartes. |
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Shadowrun has the Elf Poser and Ork Poser disadvantages. Humans look on "posers" (normal humans who alter their bodies to look like elves or orks) as either pathetic or (for extremists) race-traitors; actual elves consider posers irritating and a little insulting. Orks vary in their outlook. They hate humans who are just pretending to be orks because it's "cool", but may be willing to embrace any poser who can act orky enough. | |
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Also in Vendetta, Jimmy Wang Yang wasn't impressed with Jimi Mayhem's attempts to emulate Shonuff of The Last Dragon. | |
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Team Fortress 2: Most of the domination lines against an enemy of the same class have shades of this: | |
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In Star Wars: Legacy, Darth Krayt summons the spirits of the ancient Sith Lords Darth Andeddu, Darth Bane, and Darth Nihilus and tries to ask for advice. They pretty much tell him to screw himself, calling him a phony Sith Lord doomed to fail because he disobeyed the Rule of Two. This is a particularly odd case, in that Andeddu and Nihilus had been dead for thousands of years when Bane instituted the Rule of Two. They just found Krayt's rather unimpressive methods unworthy of their title. |
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Worm Grand Order: Billy the Kid defeats a bunch of train robbers and learns their leader was also named Billy. He says in disgust that they were not real outlaws. | |
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The Priscilla Hutchins series is much the same, except that in this case, the archaeologists are the protagonists (except for Hutch, who's a pilot working for the Academy), and their scorn for the amateurs tends to be better justified. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Twin Dilemma", the Doctor gives a brilliant one to Mestor: | |
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Freedom Fighters: In the 2006 miniseries, Miss America contemptuously tells each Freedom Fighter that she fights that the people they are Legacy Characters of are dead and that they are pale imitations. This gets turned on her when the real Miss America shows up and reveals that the one serving Father Time is an imposter who knows nothing of true heroism. | |
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In Star Wars Rebels, surviving clone troopers from the Clone Wars are shown to be very underwhelmed by the stormtroopers who took their place in the Empire in both their shoddy equipment and their general incompetence. The clones outright laugh at the thought of stormtroopers giving them any real trouble, with the only things proving a challenge being the AT-ATs. | |
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This is the theme of The Great Gatsby: The Old Money West Egg will never accept Nouveau Riche Gatsby. | |
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Very minor example: In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, you can give your sword to the blacksmiths to be sharpened, they do this by beating comically large hammers onto an anvil. Using your own hammer on the anvil gets you a response of "Hey, hey, amateurs shouldn't try to do this." Of course, smithing in real life is highly skilled labor and if you don't know what you're doing, you're probably going to screw over the poor sap using that sword (and quite possibly wreck the blacksmith's tools, as well). Especially Japanese smithing, which refines the metal as the blade's being shaped due to the low-quality ore in that country. | |
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In issue #4 of Secret Wars, God-Emperor Doom descends on the survivors of Earth 616 and Earth 1610, calling out "RICHARDS!" | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: People like Seto Kaiba and Siegfried von Schroeder who treat Duel Monsters as Serious Business tend to mock Katsuya Jonouchi as not a real duelist because of his relative lack of skill and experience and his use of luck-based cards. | |
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Nails' song “You Will Never Be One of Us�, aimed at musicians who try to live the rockstar lifestyle. | |
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Similarly, in Beast Wars, Ravage (a Decepticon-turned-Predacon) tells the Predacon Megatron that he's a far cry from the original Megatron, whom Ravage knew personally. Of course, the irony is that, due to a Stable Time Loop, the original Megatron named himself after the Predacon Megatron. | |
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Nasuverse: Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]: Shirou and Archer use copied weapons in a copied combat style fighting for borrowed ideals in a battle way out of his league. Several characters have issues with this, especially Gilgamesh, who repeatedly calls them both fakers. Shirou does score points, however, in that he has no illusions about it; he has no pride in his creations, but he knows that they aren't worthless at all. "Who says a copy can't surpass the original?" Shirou also ends up doing this to Gilgamesh, calling the King of Heroes a one-trick pony like him because he uses his Gate of Babylon just as a weapon while not knowing how to use any of the huge number of weapons in it. That just pisses Gilgamesh off, since he does know how to use the two weapons within that belong solely to him and no other. Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: In both this and the Vow in the Snow movie, Angelica says Shirou's ability to copy weapons and fighting styles is nothing but a mockery of real mages like her. This may be because she was channeling Gilgamesh's powers and personality. Interestingly, the real Gilgamesh, who had been turned into a child and is much nicer as a result, compliments Shirou's abilities. Fate/Apocrypha: After Siegfried sacrificed his life to save the Homunculus, the being names himself Sieg in his honor. Sieg later discovers he has inherited Siegfried's power and can temporarily transform into Siegfried. Mordred mocks Sieg as nothing but a faker and a cheap knockoff. Like Shirou, however, Sieg is under no illusions about this, though he declares it still won't stop him from fighting to pay tribute to Siegfried's memory. Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Hephaestion mocks Waver Velvet and says he's so weak and average that he does not deserve to call himself one of Iskandar's followers. While Waver is very shaken up by this, he manages to retort that he never saw her when Iskandar summoned his Badass Army, Ionian Hetairoi, back in Fate/Zero, so she's not a real follower of Iskandar either. Tsukihime: At the end of the first route, Roa plays Smug Snake, trying to say he's similar to Shiki since they've both died and they both see and can manipulate death. With Roa having royally pissed him off at that point, Shiki calmly asks whether Roa can see the "lines of death" on inanimate objects, and from that Shiki realizes that Roa really doesn't understand death at all. Afterwards, he calmly and quietly tears Roa apart. "I'll show you what it truly means to kill something." |
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Many months later, a similar trailer played at the end of the E3 2019 Nintendo Direct with the same outcome, except with Dedede being replaced by that notorious Memetic Troll, Duck Hunt, who shows up wearing a costume that would look very familiar to fans of Rare prior to their purchase by Microsoft. Cue the two of them being shoved aside by another long-requested fighter, Banjo-Kazooie. | |
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People who read pre-Twilight era vampire books feel this towards The Twilight Saga and its Follow the Leader style books. Of course, some of them can get just as vehement about what vampires are and are not ("scary!" "romantic!" "nocturnal only!" "sparkles during the day!" etc.) that they're almost as bad. | |
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Then in Shadow VS Ryuko, Shadow proceeds to call Ryuko a faker for basically copying his Golden Super Mode. | |
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In Star Wars: Clone Wars, Asajj Ventress declares herself a Sith Lord, only for Count Dooku, a real Sith Lord, to mock and beat her down. Specifically, Dooku tells Ventress how despite her wearing Sith clothing and having a Sith fighting style, he senses fear in her, which a true Sith would lack. While fear can indeed be used to draw power from The Dark Side, a Sith is supposed to draw power instead from hatred. He later proves this when ambushing her in a room, defeating her and saying "It would not be so easy to defeat a Sith." | |
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In Ford v Ferrari, this overlaps with Inadequate Inheritor when Enzo Ferrari insults the head of Ford by implying that he's a weak copy pretending to be equal to his much more accomplished grandfather. | |
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Sailor Moon: Sailor Uranus and Neptune, due to underestimating the Inner Senshi, especially Sailor Moon, and thinking they are too idealistic, call them out on doing a "half-baked play war". They end up forced to eat their words, when Sailor Moon saves the world without sacrificing anyone like they were planning to do and later beats them in a 2 on 1 fight. | |
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The Sandman (1989) has a few examples: In Collectors, the actual serial killers take this attitude to the fanboy who has infiltrated their "Cereal Convention". When they penetrate his cover, the fanboy's fate is...unpleasant. Thessaly's disdainful attitude towards neo-pagans; she herself is an ancient and ruthless witch who would under no circumstances act like a cuddly environmentalist in harmony with all things. Perhaps unusually, this isn't meant to be a Take That! to make the audience feel superior — she's frightening (almost monstrous) in her behaviour and prickly in attitude, and Death rather definitively disagrees with her on one important point. Another example: Morpheus's response to the ghost of Hector Hall calling himself "The Sandman" is — in stark contrast to his usual behavior — laughing his head off. Then there is a couple of Satanist-wannabes greeting when they went to hell. |
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The Matrix Reloaded. Neo and the rest of the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar can't stand the Kid, who's always following them around and bothering them because he wants to become a member of the crew too. | |
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Shannon Moore went through a period of calling himself the Prince of Punk and would cut promos telling people to "Question Authority" or similar sayings. Eventually, CM Punk called him a poser and slapped him across the face. CM Punk then easily defeated him in their later matches. | |
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South Park played with this trope in a 2008 episode featuring the hilariously snarky "Goth Kids". The Twilight movies had just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their antiquated black clothing and Looks Like Cesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not... but, ironically, the Goths fit this description themselves. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible — that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall. They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires". And burning Hot Topic to the ground so the vamp-kids can't buy their clothes anymore. This is then continued in "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" when Henrietta (the chubby Goth girl) gets send to a help camp and she comes back as an emo. Thus, the above becomes expanded in the Goths looking down on the Emo kids (With the differences being marginal, best explained as the emos hating themselves and the goths hating everyone else.) After Micheal (the tall one) is also sent to the camp, Pete (the one with bangs) and Firkle (the kindergoth) are forced to team up with the aforementioned Vamp kids (and apologizing for burning the Hot Topic) to stop the camp. All while enduring people not seeing the differences. Then it's exaggerated when they summon the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe, the original goth/vamp kid/emo, and he looks down on them all for being pretenders while they find him too much for them. We even get this immortal line from Pete after Poe (initially) refuses to save them for nihilistic reasons: |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions: Seto Kaiba duels a holographic simulation of Yami Yugi. When Kaiba easily wins, he says the simulation was nothing compared to the real Yami Yugi. | |
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Sam and Bucky can't help their disdain for John Walker being the replacement for Captain America seep into their interactions with him. Bucky especially barely even tries. | |
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The whole point of Mobb Deep's Diss Rap "Shook Ones". He's basically just calling out wannabe "gangstas" who don't have the courage to deliver on their boasts. | |
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In The Legend of Korra episode "The Voice in the Night", Tarrlok brings up Aang's defeat of a man named Yakone 42 years before the start of the series during his speech calling for an anti-Amon task force, resulting in Tenzin chewing him out for it. Considering that Tenzin is Aang's son, he was rightly outraged by Tarrlok's comparison. Ironically, it would turn out that Tarrlok and Amon are both sons of Yakone. | |
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True Blood: In the opening scene of the series, a redneck vampire threatens a frat boy and a goth clerk pretending to be a vampire. | |
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Tsukihime: At the end of the first route, Roa plays Smug Snake, trying to say he's similar to Shiki since they've both died and they both see and can manipulate death. With Roa having royally pissed him off at that point, Shiki calmly asks whether Roa can see the "lines of death" on inanimate objects, and from that Shiki realizes that Roa really doesn't understand death at all. Afterwards, he calmly and quietly tears Roa apart. "I'll show you what it truly means to kill something." | |
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In Shadow Hearts: Covenant the leader of the terrorist cult Sapentis Gladio, Rasputin, puts down the Big Bad of the first game, Albert Simon, seeing himself as far more powerful and ambitious. However, Yuri, our hero, respects the past foe a great deal, and, following the battle, Yuri disses Rasputin for even remotely comparing himself to a true Big Bad. | |
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In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, Mr. Wednesday expresses hatred towards a neo-Pagan waitress who doesn't know anything about the religion she's following. His exact words were "doesn't have the faith and won't have the fun". Further, he knew all of her sins, some of which were pretty heinous; she's even shown to be a pretender there, because Wednesday made it clear he felt that, terrible though the actual acts of wrongdoing were, the worst was that once she reached the point of no return she would chicken out rather than follow through on her transgressions. Another example: Shadow does a coin trick to entertain a young girl. Jackal, one of the Egyptian gods, says, "I saw Harry Houdini once, and believe me, man, you are no Harry Houdini." |
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: The Big Bad, creates an Evil Knockoff of Bowser named Dark Bowser who is the Final Boss of the game. Once Bowser catches up to him, the Koopa King delivers an Eviler than Thou speech before defeating him with five consecutive charged punches. Dark Bowser is flabbergasted over his defeat, to which Bowser responds that he was only acting like him, which doesn't make Dark Bowser the real thing. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, if Claude takes part in Shamir's and Alois' paralogue battle of defending a city from Almyran pirates attempting to infiltrate, Claude will call them out on this. Confronting any of them during battle results in him telling them that if they are gonna pretend to be Almyrans, they'd better act like Almyrans. Claude actually coming from Almyra himself would know best how they act. | |
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Harley Race's World League Wrestling has been visited by the Roman Dynasty, Karim Brigante and Monica Passeri, since at least 2015. They don't think much of the various "Italians" in the USA (the FBI, Tommaso Ciampa, etc). They Dynasty are in their own words, "legit Italians" who "do it better". | |
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Ric Flair to Shane Douglas. | |
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When confronted by a version of Wally West from the Dark Multiverse, who went mad and became a bloodthirsty gun toting killer after Heroes in Crisis, Barry Allen responds by saying that he isn’t Wally, he’s "just a bad idea." | |
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In 2008, Santino Marella announced his intention to surpass Honky Tonk Man's legendary 64 week reign as Intercontinental Champion to prove he was superior and the greatest Intercontinental Champion. At Cyber Sunday, Honky confronted him and said Santino couldn't sing or dance like him and even if he was champion for ten years, he would never be as great as him. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Tiki has this initial reaction to "Marth," since she's a 3000-year-old dragon who knew "Mar-Mar" personally. But it doesn't take long for her to decide that maybe the appellation is fitting after all. | |
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In Drive Angry, The Accountant mocks the Satanists and says that Satan hates them too. This is because, Satan and his minions are not evil, they are merely the enforcers of Hell, and are annoyed that humans think they are evil. | |
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Fate/type Redline: Some Imperial Japanese Army soldiers try to ambush and assassinate Tsukumo Fujimiya, but Servant Assassin/Okada Izou kills them. He says in disgust that he can't believe trash like them is what passes for an assassin these days. | |
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In the lead up to their Wrestlemania 33 match, John Cena mocked The Miz by pointing out Miz only started winning matches again when he started copying Ric Flair and Daniel Bryan's moves, and he's a poor imitation. | |
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Turtles Forever: 2003 Raph tries to suck up to the more badass Mirage Turtles by ripping on the 1987 Turtles' initialed belt buckles. This causes his Mirage counterpart to roughly twist his arm behind him before shoving him. The Mirage Turtles first comments to the others are mumblings about "colored bandanas" and "wannabes". As a kind of Brick Joke, Mirage Michaelangelo says he kinda dug the belt buckles in the ending scene. 2003 Shredder is disgusted by 1987 Shredder and says he takes the Shredder's name in vain. |
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Doom Eternal: The Marauder mocks the Doom Slayer as not being a true Night Sentinel because he was a human from Earth taken in by them and not a native of Argent D'Nur. This is hypocritical because the Marauder is a traitor of the Night Sentinels who joined the demons and willingly became one of them. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: V gets this reaction from at least one old "Samurai" fan, who insists that no-one who wasn't "there, man!" in the 2020s could ever understand "Samurai". In a grand case of glorious irony V has a copy of the consciousness of Johnny Silverhand, lead singer of "Samurai" in their head, who is screaming at said fan for settling down and becoming as much a part of the establishment "Samurai" railed against as the corporations Silverhand fought in life, and in Silverhand's words, knowing all the lyrics but understanding none. Old chromatic rockerboy and anti-corporate anarchist Kerry Eurodyne has a violent, visceral reaction to having one of his songs covered by corporate-owned, chart-topping lazr-pop group "Us Cracks", to the point where he decides to express his disapproval by kicking in the door to "Us Cracks"'s green room and waving a gun around. After learning that the band members are in fact independents, and, if anything, even more creative, driven and passionate about music than he is, Kerry mellows, to the point that before they split ways they are taking selfies and tentatively discussing a possible future collaboration. |
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Rurouni Kenshin: In a filler episode, while beating up evil sumo wrestlers coming at him with clubs and other weapons, Sanosuke calls them out for resorting to weapons and says they do not deserve to call themselves sumo wrestlers. When Kenshin fights Raijuta, who constantly boasts about being a killer, Raijuta manages to give Kenshin a small cut and starts celebrating. Kenshin then immediately sees through his lie of being a killer because a real killer would be disappointed in not landing a killing blow. Kenshin derides him for being a coward and an amateur before defeating him. This is in the manga only. While the manga version of Raijuta is exposed as never having killed anyone before, the anime version had killed dozens of people and gives Kenshin a tougher fight. When Kenshin is fighting Senkaku, Senkaku tries to do a Badass Boast about how dangerous he is because he's killed 99 people (quite a few of which were probably helpless civilians, incidentally) and wants to make Kenshin number 100. Saito, who is sitting on the sidelines during the fight and has done everything from fighting bloody civil wars to putting down rebellions and conspiracies against the government, responds by snorting in derision and saying something along the lines of "Only 99? And you even bother to call yourself a warrior?" |
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In The Mountain and the Wolf, Wulfrik the Wanderer says that the Chaos Gods consider Euron Greyjoy Wulfrik's counterpart in the ASoIaF's world, being a badass barbarian that has travelled, explored, seen and fought things few people of his world even believe exist. As he makes clear during their "fight", he also considers Euron inferior in every aspect. | |
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Breaking Bad: Walter White aspires to be every bit the cunning, dignified drug lord as Gustavo Fring, not realizing that his own pride, stubbornness, and recklessness means he will never match up to Fring's legacy. Mike points this out after Walter kills Fring. | |
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In God-Emperor of Dune the terraforming of Arrakis has reduced the Fremen, once the hardest warriors in the Empire, to tourist attraction staff who just go through the motions of the old rituals while hassling people for money. Duncan Idaho refuses to acknowledge them as Fremen. | |
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In a tie-in to The Death of Doctor Strange, the Black Cat tells him that he's no Spider-Man and he has no right to be. At the end of the comic, she only gives him a begrudging "You're Spider-Man.. for now." | |
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The Sopranos: A few times, it's shown that the New York families don't consider the New Jersey branch of the Mafia to be one of them. Carmine Sr. refers to them as a "glorified crew", while Phil more insultingly calls them "that fucking pygmy thing". | |
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Ryan Sohmer, the author of several webcomics, once tried to enlist his fans to petition Marvel Comics and demand that they hire him to write comics for Deadpool. During a panel at a convention, some of his fans started asking Joe Quesada, then the editor-in-chief of Marvel, "Why isn't Ryan Sohmer writing Deadpool?" Quesada's deadpan response was to say "Never heard of him." | |
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From Carlito's Way : Carlito Brigante does not like gangster wannabes. At all. | |
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Worf, in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, gets this frequently because he was raised by humans and serves in Starfleet with its mission of peaceful exploration. The first time he does serve with Klingons, he doesn't fit in because he's spent his life patterning himself as what Klingon stories say: serious and honor-bound, rather than a bunch of hard-drinking Boisterous Bruisers. Expect any Klingon adversary in a given episode to tell him, at some point, that he's not a real Klingon. | |
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