History ItsAllAboutMe / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/Numb3rs'': [[spoiler:Chandler]] in "Hotshot" has this view of the world, treating other as his playthings. [[spoiler:His mother]] seems to have this, albeit a more benign variation, as well, as she appears more concerned with the possibility of [[spoiler:Chandler]]'s actions embarrassing her than about the victims he might hurt.

** Gul Dukat might talk a good game about patriotism, but ultimately he'll switch sides to whoever would benefit him the most, including signing an alliance with the Dominion on behalf of all Cardassia and attempting to make a DealWithTheDevil in the form of the Bajoran Pah-Wraiths.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E145TheMasks The Masks]]", Paula Harper is extremely self-obsessed and spends most of her time admiring her looks. Her grandfather Jason Foster says that she sees the world as nothing more than a reflection of herself.

** In episode 7, Tim is furious that his heart-to-heart conversation with Hawk ended up being meaningless because latter continues to self-destruct through drugs and alcohol.

* ''Series/Willow2022'': Kit has a self-centeredness akin to her father before he found his reason for being. Downplayed slightly, because she raises some valid complaints, but ultimately upheld because she handles them in a bratty manner. She's not that gracious about her friend Jade getting to live her dream of becoming a knight, and it doesn't occur to her that Graydon may not be any more interested in their arranged marriage than she is. It's so much about her in her own eyes that she, at times, completely dismisses the wellbeing of her allies, examples being when she's about to perform a stunt that may injure or kill her brother until she's stopped, verbally supports leaving Boorman to his potential death when they need all the help they can get and screams at Elora about how her father placed said girl prophesied to save the world over her. She never mentions her brother, nor her mother, only herself.

* ''Series/StarTrekProdigy'';
** The Diviner has come back from the future and seeks to destroy the Federation before they can make contact with his people because the possibility of First Contact drove his civilisation into a civil war that destroyed it, when he could just as easily just ask the Federation ''not'' to contact his planet and ensure that nobody has to die simply because he refuses to take the easy option.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** [[SinisterMinister Kai Winn]] is made of this. Despite being the Bajoran pope, she hates [[TheCaptain Sisko]] for being chosen as the Emissary of the Prophets (even though Sisko [[ReluctantRuler never wanted the job]] and spends over three seasons trying to distance himself from it). Even when she admits that her lust for power has led her astray, [[IgnoredEpiphany she refuses to resign her position]], thinking that Bajor needs ''her'' to be their kai.
** Starfleet traitor Michael Eddington basically adopts this after he defects to the Maquis, with his later contact with Sisko and Starfleet framing every action taken against him as though they're all just petty children picking on the Maquis for making them look bad. Granted, Eddington has a point in this considering Sisko's personal vendetta against him, but Eddington also uses this to overlook the legitimate reasons Starfleet has for hunting them and basically ignore any negative impact his actions have, to the point that Eddington calls Sisko out as a villain for adopting basically the same tactics Eddington was using. Right up to the end, even when Sisko tries to move past their history to stop an apparent missile attack, Eddington literally can't move forward without framing Sisko's every action as a personal slant against himself.

** In the spin-off novel ''Strike Zone'', the Selelvian Jaan Devin uses his species' mental compulsion technique to unintentionally "push" Wesley Crusher to obsessively search for a cure for the Selelvian disease known as "the Rot" once Jaan learns that he is suffering from it. The disease only affects a small portion of the Selelvian population and Wesley has no real experience in medicine, but under Jaan's influence, he moves several computers to his quarters to carry out his research and even neglects his own duties and health. Despite seeing that Wesley is pushing himself so hard that he's even trying not to sleep, Jaan lets Wesley continue his work on the grounds that it's more important that he survive than whether or not Wesley misses "a few hours of sleep".

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder]]", Lestat de Lioncourt inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for Louis de Pointe du Lac's ''brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected. It's an early red flag that Lestat has the profile of a DomesticAbuser.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for Louis de Pointe du Lac's ''brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected. It's an early red flag that Lestat has the profile of a DomesticAbuser.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Tracy and Jenna. Liz has her moments of this too. And Jack. And... okay, everyone not named "Kenneth". The first two are the prime offenders, though, and it's [[LampshadeHanging frequently pointed out]] by other characters. Liz once reminded Jenna that she (Jenna) can't bear to be around babies because they get more attention that her.

** Laurel. First [[spoiler: Tommy dies because he had to rescue her from a collapsing building because she thought what she was doing was more important than anything else.]] She then becomes an alcoholic and drug addict to deal with his death, ignoring everyone else's grief over him. When her sister Sara comes BackFromTheDead her response is to blame her for everything that's ever gone wrong, even though Sara has spent the last six years fighting for her life and going through horrors even Oliver doesn't want to think about.
** Felicity [[TookALevelInJerkass gradually becomes like this]] over the course of the third season, before hitting this attitude full-force in Season 4. When Oliver [[spoiler:learns that he has a long-lost illegitimate son]] she accuses him of being untrustworthy (even though he just learned about it a day prior), only thinking of himself and not caring about what she feels, ignoring what he's going through over this knowledge, and breaks up with him over it. And she gets upset with him going behind her back, [[{{Hypocrite}} even though she was doing the same thing]] at the beginning of the season when she was still assisting Team Arrow without his knowledge. It was these events that lead to her turning from an EnsembleDarkhorse into BaseBreakingCharacter.

** A common failing among owners, managers and employees alike. They get so wrapped up in their personal affairs, or what they want out of the bar, that they forget they need to actually run a business.

** The owner of the Black Light District was so adamant about keeping the punk rock theme of his bar he fought with Taffer and his staff at every turn and claimed outright he would throw Jon's changes out after he left. They didn't even get to start the renovations before Jon called the entire thing off and left.

** Then there's lord Flasheart.
--> Alright, dig out your best booze and let's talk about me!

** Spike is as self-serving with the soul as he was without it, even asking Angel what's the point of doing good if they're just going to go to hell anyway. He does get a bit better after being tortured by Dana, because he finally gets that he can't exactly feel bad being mistaken for the guy who killed her family when he killed hundreds of families anyway.

** Of the study group, Jeff in particular has a problem with this; he actually is a self-obsessed narcissist convinced the entire universe exists for his benefit, and can get very touchy if someone or something suggests this isn't the case. Lampshaded and demonstrated in one episode:

** This is brought up again by María in 2.08, still assuming that Pablo is giving the same excuses, when he actually came to properly own up to his actions following Raúl's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him.

--->'''Rebecca:''' You... you talk?\\

** The last example concerning Pacey is especially bad. Despite being 'best friends' their ''whole lives'', Dawson completely misses the emotional degradation Pacey's father puts him through and dismisses it as 'kidding around'. In contrast Jack takes ''one day'' to figure out the situation and sympathize with Pacey. Seriously, where was Dawson's head for the last sixteen years?

** The Doctor's EvilCounterpart, the Master. While the Doctor has used up several [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] saving their companions, the Master has a history of throwing others under the bus to save themself -- or just ForTheEvulz; spin-off media has shown the Master manipulating an entire planet into civil war just to create the necessary technological development to repair his TARDIS, and on another occasion one of the Master's incarnations was willing to kill ''his own past self'' as part of a wider plan. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], the Simm Master assumes the ominous prophecy the Doctor's heard is all about him, unaware he's actually Rassilon's errand boy.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]]: The Isolus is effectively a selfish child. First, it tries to remove anyone and everyone who threatens to separate it from Chloe, and is willing to threaten the girl herself with her worst nightmare in order to keep them together. After its pod is repaired and it leaves, it tells Chloe it loves her, but leaves her to deal with the scary drawing of her abusive father that it created.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'': Kerry Weaver's girlfriend is being investigated for sexually harassing/assaulting a patient. The woman comes to her, clearly looking for some compassion and support and Kerry's only reaction is to ask if she's told anyone about their relationship, which she wants to keep secret, fearing that their homophobic supervisor will find some contrived reason to fire her. Kerry promptly spends the rest of the episode doing everything she can think of to make sure that the relationship remains a secret, to the point where she refuses to even ''look'' at the woman, much less say a single word in her defense, lest it make anyone suspect that they're involved. When the hurt, angry, and fed-up woman dumps her, Kerry ''still'' doesn't get it, accusing her of not considering Kerry's feelings in the whole mess. This is sadly par for the course with Kerry, who's first concern whenever the going got tough was to protect herself, even if it meant stepping all over others.

** All six have their moments, but Ross is probably the worst. He was [[ParentalFavoritism obviously his parents' favorite growing up]] but was also an unpopular dork, so as an adult most of what we see is an EntitledBastard who's ego is as big as it is bruised. Highlights include starting fight after fight with Rachel over her working too much when she's finally found a job that she is actually interested in and relatively good at, considering his sleeping with Chloe as not being cheating because he and Rachel "were on a break" even years after the fact, sending a joke Chaldler most likely came up with to Playboy magazine and taking credit for it and blaming his own marijuana smell on Chandler when his parents were visiting. If you pay close attention, every joke he makes is at someone else's expense, Joey outright calls him out on it once (while they were in college, Ross nicknamed Chandler "Sir Limps-A-Lot" because he limped after [[AgonyOfTheFeet having the tip of one of his toes cut off]]).

** Both of them being spoiled brats who refused to compromise was the main reason those two had the most turbulant relationship on the show. In the final season, Ross finally learns to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Rachel go away if that's what makes her happy]] and Rachel finally decides that she loves Ross more than the opportunity that has come her way, but they sure take their sweet time getting there. Most importantly, the drama between them damages the group more than any other kind of dividing situation, Chandler compared their post-breakup bickering to his parents' behavious post-divorce, they were always bitter to each other's partners out of pure bitter jelousy and then there's that time they fought all afternoon and all night in Monica's apartment, not even noticing that none of the gang has [[DropInCharacter shown up]] (they were all hiding in Monica's bedroom).

** Note that Phoebe's being sarcastic in that quote. Monica definitely has these tendancies too, especially [[{{Bridezilla}} around the time of her wedding]] or any time there's some sort of competition going on.

** Michelle, who insists on having the family all live in the same house just because that's the way she wants it to be. She even guilts her uncle Jesse into feeling the same way (he was eager to move out before Michelle started complaining). Ultimately, Michelle gets her way, and Jesse and Rebecca remodel the house's attic to become a private apartment -- and even then, Michelle is prone to barging in and demanding attention.

** Viserys Targaryen treats everyone like they're his subjects and thinks everything should go his way. He never shares credit that it was his sister and Magister Illyrio that got him the Dothraki alliance, insisting it was his idea. Also he claims that the Dothraki are his people and army to command when they aren't and are actually Daenerys'. In the DVD extras, he narrates the history sections, giving the perspective of House Targaryen. While recounting the Sack of King's Landing, he mentions that he was spirited out of the city before it fell as, with his brother Rhaegar's death, he was now heir to the throne. Technically, he was second in line behind his nephew, Aegon. In fact, as his sister-in-law was a Dornish princess, he may well have been third in line behind his niece and nephew (Dornish law puts women in the line of succession; while Dornish law doesn't officially apply to the royal line, had the Targaryens won, Dorne would have had a significantly stronger army than the Targaryens, having not taken part in the war). And that's to say nothing of where Rhaegar's ''other'' son may have fit in.

** For all her natural positive qualities (empathy, curiosity, intelligent) Rory Gilmore is a RIDICULOUSLY self centered human being (she actually once compared her getting arrested for stealing a yacht to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, a man arrested for marching for equality, and the person talking to her reacted appropriately). To be fair, it is not entirely her fault. She was raised by a teenage mother with a SEVERE case of arrested development (Lorelai talks, acts, and dresses like a 16 year old girl) who raised her as more of a surrogate sister/ best friend than daughter and who refuses to believe Rory is anything less than perfection personified, has old money grandparents who constantly buy her whatever she wants and pays for everything, grew up in a town where everyone adored her, had no trouble getting any guy she wanted, and was constantly told she was the smartest/best at whatever she did. Reality smacks her HARD in the face anytime she has to deal with someone who doesn’t buy into her reputation and isn’t from Stars Hollow.

** Sue Sylvester ...everything she says and does, really. However, she at least has a MoralityPet in the name of a older sister with Down's syndrome who she dearly, genuinely loves -- [[spoiler: just look at what happens when she dies.]] As such, Sue treats Becky, a teen with Down's syndrome and her own personal henchwoman, with respect as well, even making her the cheerleading captain.

** It turns out that [[spoiler:Tahani]] actually went to the Bad Place since, though she did good things, it was for corrupt motives: to make herself look good for her parents and show up her sister.
* ''Series/GossipGirl'': Blair Waldorf was always this from the word go, but in Season 5 she turned it up to eleven -- which is one of the reasons why she went from fan favorite to a character most people dislike.

** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Sieg, the ShelteredAristocrat [[MonsterOfTheWeek Imagin]], starts off '''extremely''' arrogant, referring to everyone around him as servants; in fact, his two catchphrases are "Advent; the one who stands above all" and "The world revolves for my sake". Once he gets owned by Hana ([[WhatTheHellHero verbally]] and [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan physically]]), he mellows out and starts acting more benevolent, but still does it in arrogant fashion.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGhost:'' Alain thought that everything has to be like he wants it because he only wants good after all. Naturally, his idea of good was terrible. His mean PsychopathicManchild streak and extremely possesive attitude didn't help at all.

*** Parado considers himself the main character of ''[[DeadlyGame Kamen Rider Chronicle]]'' and by extension, hero of the story as whole. Naturally, his idea of what that means is horrible. Like with Alain, his mean PsychopathicManchild streak and extremely possesive attitude ddn't help at all.

** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild:'' Gentoku Himuro sees himself as the savior trying to unify Japan and help it recover after the [[BalkanizeMe Skywall incident]], but it's all just an outlet for how incredibly power hungry he is. He started a ''freaking war'' just to be on the top of the other leaders and they are no better.

* ''Series/LabRats:'' Donald Davenport should be the spokesperson for this trope. If it's not about him or his achievements, he has no interest in it. He also puts his "name and face on everything" he invents or has made. Even the tech demos for his gadgets are preprogrammed to tell the potential owner how great he is. Add in the fact he believes his instructions are absolute, perfect and will not tolerate disaggreement with his ideas, the package is complete.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': The fallen angel Lucifer is living on Earth because he decided to take a holiday from Hell. He manipulates the LAPD into making him a civilian consultant to a homicide detective, Chloe Decker, because she's mysteriously immune to his powers and he thinks investigating murders will be a thrill; he proceeds to make both her job and her private life difficult by interpreting everything that happens in terms of his own problems and his "daddy issues"; she feels like she's babysitting him while his therapist feels like an enabler due to how he twists her advice in ways that create chaos for everyone. When he and Chloe encounter a serial killer who is "punishing" people who humiliate others on social media, his interest in the case stems from the fact that his therapist asked him why he needs to punish and he wants to ask the serial killer the same question to better understand himself rather than to stop any murders. When they investigate one murder, Lucifer latches onto the rebellious son, initially assumes the son is the murderer and excitedly asks him what it's like to finally escape from under the shadow of an all-powerful father. He gate-crashes a bereavement group counselling session to talk about his own, non-bereavement problems. Even when he briefly explores the concept of philanthropy, it's about trying to prove that people are as selfish as him and to explore the rush it gives him; his therapist warns him to stop thinking of "being good" as a toy, but he confirms that's exactly what it is for him.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': It's been said that Adrian Monk has to make an issue personal in order to exert more self-control over his world. In one episode Sharona, his first caretaker, confesses to Monk that she is afraid of elephants (a fear with a [[FreudianExcuse legitimate history]] -- as a child, she saw another little girl fall into an elephant pit and nearly ''die''). Monk, who himself is full of phobias, dismissively tells her to "suck it up." She spends a good part of the rest of the episode furious at his callousness, and he can't figure out why she's mad at him, even when she throws his own words back in his face, until she spells it out for him.

** Another example of this trope being a CompressedVice for a character is shown in "Orchid's Almost Half-Hour Talent Show", where Orchid becomes incredibly vain in regards to preparations for the titular talent show. While normally bossy and demanding, she's not selfish and doesn't usually put herself above others.

--> '''Todd:''' ''[counting his watermelons]'' 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6! 6 Oak Street! I'm a ''genius!''
--> '''Otis:''' ''[quietly]'' Pretty sure that one was me.

* ''Series/TheOtherTwo'': Most of the time, Brooke and Carey make their brother's superstardom all about themselves. They are not wrong, as it does charge both their lives dramatically. Also, they do occassionally snap out of it enough to be concerned about their little brother.
* ''Series/APrinceAmongMen'': Gary is this in spades. In one episode, he mentions that his first memory was him stealing a prize from the nursery school teacher since he believed his picture (a self portrait of himself) was the best. Another episode had him name a company he had just purchased after himself.
* ''Series/{{Reba}}'': Barbara Jean is blind to her own flaws in general, and therefore expects that everyone -- especially Reba -- will like her. Reba's husband has had an affair with Barbara Jean and then divorced Reba to marry Barbara Jean. And Barbara Jean's insensitivity extends to a failure to understand that this is a reason why Reba might not be too comfortable being best friends with the woman who stole her husband.

** Moira makes everything about herself most of the time, often forgetting or not noticing her children or friends problems. She is also always pushing to be the lead or featured voice in the Jazzagals, even though they are an ensemble singing group.
** David's natural tendency is to put himself first, though usually he will relent if someone he loves needs something. This happens in the ChristmasEpisode when he won't give up any of his store's ornaments for his father's party because he's saving for a fancy espresso machine, until he realizes how upset Johnny is. During a touching carol at the end, his boyfriend Patrick realizes David needs consolation about the espresso machine.
** Alexis begins the series perfectly willing to dump her family and run off with her douche boyfriend. She still tends to think about herself, such as when she asks Ted to whip up a few dozen extra cookies to take her her parents or when assumes every woman is jealous of her.
* ''Series/SeaChange'': Although not a villain -- this show doesn't really have any villains -- Jules Jelly, the daughter of town JerkAss Bob Jelly, is probably the paramount example. The worst example is in the episode "Balls and Friggin' Good Luck", where a young man she dated for a while, Jerome, committed suicide. Jules constantly exaggerates and grand-stands to make everything about her while showing absolutely no sorrow at Jerome's death. Even worse is when at the inquest, she tries to act like everything's about her, while Jerome's family are there, crying their eyes out. It gets so bad that her own mother tells her to stop it.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': This trope is a staple of any good portrayal of Franchise/SherlockHolmes, but [[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 recent]] [[Series/{{Sherlock}} incarnations]] of the character seem bound-and-determined to raise it to new levels entirely. In the series three premier, Holmes returns to England after a two year absence, during which the public -- including Dr. John Watson -- [[spoiler:believed Holmes to be dead]]:

* ''{{Series/Spellbinder}}'': Spellbinder Ashka sabotages Regent Correon's suit to get him exiled after he loses the WizardDuel. Then she destroys a book of technological secrets that would've drawn her world out of prolonged stagnation and barbarism so as not to jeopardise her position in power. Then she tricks Paul's father to build her a new powersuit and as a token of gratitude she locks his entire family in an electrified cage and leaves them there to die. In the sequel she steals a valuable mask that is also an interface of a super-computer that governs a whole country, thus leaving it defenceless against an invading horde of barbarians.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Senator Robert Kinsey may be one of the few people in government who knows about the Stargate Program, but he makes it repeatedly clear that he would only consider the program worthwhile if it offers a benefit for ''him''; in one future timeline (later [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse erased]]) where he won the presidency due to an alliance with a race who have now discreetly taken over the planet, he thanks SG-1 for what they have done for ''him'' before he thanks them for what they have done ''for the entire planet'' (and in the present, after SG-1 have erased this timeline by sending a message back to the past, Kinsey assumes that the ''only'' reason SG-1 sent that message was because Jack O'Neill couldn't stand the idea of Earth winning because Kinsey was the one who made the relevant deal, rather than believe that O'Neill had a wider legitimate reason for erasing that timeline). This arrogance eventually works against Kinsey when [[spoiler:he tries to force new SGC commander Elizabeth Weir to let ''him'' leave Earth when he thinks SG-1 are going to fail to stop Anubis, prompting the new President to decide to use recently-accumulated evidence to get Kinsey fired from his new role as Vice-President]].

** In the spin-off novel ''Strike Zone'', the Selelvian Jaan Devin uses his species' mental compulsion technique to unintentionally "push" Wesley Crusher to obsessively search for a cure for the Selelvian disease known as "the Rot" once Jaan learns that he is suffering from it. The disease only affects a small portion of the Selelvian population and Wesley has no real experience in medicine, but under Jaan's influence he moves several computers to his quarters to carry out his research and even neglects his own duties and health. Despite seeing that Wesley is pushing himself so hard that he's even trying not to sleep, Jaan lets Wesley continue his work on the grounds that it's more important that he survive than whether or not Wesley misses "a few hours of sleep".

* ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'': When Rachel uploads photos to her social media account, she crops the image to remove anyone else standing nearby when the photo was taken, even if they're literally centimetres from her! She prefers that her boyfriend Cuff remain unemployed because a job distracts him from spending 100% of his time focussed on only her.

** Russell from ''Samoa'' and ''Heroes Vs Villains'' seemed to believe that he was such a good player and his strategy -- which involved voting off members of his own alliance, constantly backstabbing people and lying to everyone -- was so good that the jury would just automatically vote for him, even though he got most of them voted off in the first place. In the end, out of the eighteen votes he could have got from both juries, he got ''two''. And both of those were from the ''Samoa'' jury. Jeff tried to tell him that maybe if he hadn't lied to the jury, back-stabbed them and generally treated them like shit, he might have got some votes… and he ''still'' couldn't understand, refusing to acknowledge the idea of the social game. At one point he even said that America should be able to vote, [[SoreLoser he was that frustrated.]]
* ''Series/TheTick2001'': In the episode "The Tick vs. Justice", a car accident between Batmanuel and a supervillain named Destroyo reveals the villain's trunk is full of [[NoodleImplements ransom letters, nuclear weapons, and very strong rope]]. Despite an obvious threat to national security Batmanuel spends the entire episode worried about his insurance premiums, even turning his statement to the court into a plea for them to lower his deductible.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "To See The Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin sentenced to one year of invisibility. He manages to chat with a blind man named Bennett Gershe for a while, before Gershe is told that the stranger talking to him is 'invisible' and he shouldn't be talking to him or even acknowledging his presence. When alerted to this, Gershe mutters "Damn you!"

* ''Series/UglyBetty'': Betty briefly dates a musician who has this attitude. When he begins to show off his new song for her on a date, she has a trippy hallucination of him singing a song consisting of nothing but "Me me me me me!" Hilariously, the actually chorus of the song turns out to be "The only one I can depend on...is me."

** Klaus. He is extremely selfish and only cares about his power, his goal and his agenda.

** Rob first states that his attraction to Beth Ann about how subservient she was to him and how she made his life easier. He never thinks when his behavior might embarrass or hurt her, and when she brings up that she might need to get a job or a hobby to prepare her for when he inevitably dies one day, all he cares about was if this might keep him from getting more delicious dinners from her and can't think beyond more about her being his widow.

* ''Series/BarRescye'':

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for Louis de Pointe du Lac's ''brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lestat de Lioncourt inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for ''Louis' brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected.

* The central premise of ''[[Series/KevinCanFuckHimself Kevin Can F**k Himself]]'' is that Kevin sees the entire world in terms of a classic studio sitcom where he's a bumbling but well-meaning nice guy putting up with the bad breaks he gets. The reality is that he's an egotistical jerk who doesn't care about anyone. This is a man who thinks a great anniversary present for his wife is to just take a vacation on his own and takes slights to a ludicrous degree. In the GrandFinale, we finally see him outside his sitcom world to see he's even worse as an openly abusive man who [[spoiler: ends up abandoned by everyone and killing himself when he sets his place on fire]].

* The central premise of ''[[Series/KevinCanFuckHimself Kevin Can F**k Himself]] is that Kevin sees the entire world in terms of a classic studio sitcom where he's a bumbling but well-meaning nice guy putting up with the bad breaks he gets. The reality is that he's an egotistical jerk who doesn't care about anyone. This is a man who thinks a great anniversary present for his wife is to just take a vacation on his own and takes slights to a ludicrous degree. In the GrandFinale, we finally see him outside his sitcom world to see he's even worse as an openly abusive man who [[spoiler: ends up abandoned by everyone and killing himself when he sets his place on fire]].

* ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'': This was the main joke of "The Lovely" Aimi [=MacDonald=], who instead of doing transitions between the sketches (her supposed role on the show) would talk about how lovely she was, try to raise money for the "Make Aimi [=MacDonald=] A Rich Woman Fund," and just generally try to draw all attention to herself.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter White. Originally [[JustifiedCriminal having turned to cooking crystal meth to pay his hospital bills and provide some extra money for his family should he die]], his motivations increasingly turn to serving his own ego and hunger for power. He even says this word-for-word in the Season 4 episode "Cornered," and it gets even worse in Season 5, where he [[spoiler:flat-out admits that he's continuing to cook meth in order to build an empire. He even tells Jesse that "this business is all I have left," despite the fact that the reason he's lost most of what he had at that point was due to his desire to continue cooking]]. Mike even calls him out on this [[spoiler:after Gus's death and the death of his drug empire due to Walt, saying "he just had to be the man"]]. In the finale, Walt finally admits to Skyler that [[spoiler:cooking meth was something he did for himself, and his family was always just an excuse]]. This marks probably one of the very few times the admission of this trope has been portrayed in a sympathetic light, as he is finally being honest with himself and his wife.

*** In "Prophecy Girl," when she finds out that she's destined to die at the Master's hands, she freaks out and quits being the Slayer, stating outright that she doesn't care that she's the only one who can stand up to him and he'll unleash HellOnEarth if he isn't stopped. Despite her claims, Buffy clearly ''does'' care, but [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne she just can't take it anymore]].
---->'''Buffy''': Giles, I'm sixteen years old. [[TearJerker I don't wanna die]].
*** In "Sanctuary," Buffy doesn't care about Faith's HeelRealization, or that Angel wants to try to redeem her. All she cares about is getting back at Faith for [[GrandTheftMe swapping bodies with her]] and [[PowerPerversionPotential sleeping with Riley]] during that time. When Angel calls her on it, Buffy blows him off, declaring that [[EntitledBastard she has a right to vengeance]].
*** In "Blood Ties," when laying into Spike for letting Dawn find out that she was the Key from the book in the Magic Box, Buffy accuses Spike of helping her just because he hates and wanted to hurt Buffy herself rather than bringing up the effects it had on Dawn.

-->'''Mama''': [[IllKillYou I could kill Eunice!]]

--->'''Rebecca''': You... you talk?\\
'''Mrs. Hernandez''': I talk all the time. You're too busy staring at the Narcissus pond of your bewitching self to even notice.

** All six have their moments, but Ross is probably the worst. He was [[ParentalFavoritism obviously his parents' favorite growing up]] but was also an unpopular dork, so as an adult most of what we see is an EntitledBastard who's ego is as big as it is bruised. Highlights include starting fight after fight with Rachel over her working too much when she's finally found a job that she is actually interested in and relatively good at, considering his sleeping with Chloe as not being cheating because he and Rachel "were on a break" even years after the fact, sending a joke Chaldler most likely came up with to Playboy magazine and taking credit for it and blaming his own marijuana smell on Chandler when his parents were visiting. If you pay close attention, every joke he makes is at someone else's expense, Joey outright calls him out on it once (while they were in college, Ross nicknamed Chandler "Sir Limps-A-Lot" because he limped after [[AgonyOfTheFeet having the tip of one of his toes cut off)

** Both of them being spoiled brats who refused to compromise was the main reason those two had the most turbulant relationship on the show. In the final season, Ross finally learns to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let Rachel go away if that's what makes her happy]] and Rachel finally decides that she loves Ross more than the opportunity that has come her way, but they sure take their sweet time getting there. Most importantly, the drama between them damages the group more than any other kind of dividing situation, Chandler compared their post-breakup bickering to his parents' behavious post-divorce, they were always bitter to each other's partners out of pure bitter jelousy and then there's that time they fought all afternoon and all night in Monica's apartment, not even noticing that none of the gang has [[DropInCharacter shown up]] (they were all hiding in Monica's bedroom)
--->'''Monica''': It’s three in the morning. They don’t know that I’ve come home yet. You'll notice how neither one of them are wondering where ''I'' am!\\
'''Pheobe''': Yeah, people can be so self-involved.

-->'''Mycroft''': He [Watson's] got on with his life.\\
'''Holmes''': What life? I've been away.

* Michelle, who insists on having the family all live in the same house just because that's the way she wants it to be. She even guilts her uncle Jesse into feeling the same way (he was eager to move out before Michelle started complaining). Ultimately, Michelle gets her way, and Jesse and Rebecca remodel the house's attic to become a private apartment -- and even then, Michelle is prone to barging in and demanding attention.
** The Season 7 finale manages to take this up to eleven. The Tanner household is more crowded than ever -- D.J. and Stephanie are both teenagers now (and Stephanie is still sharing her room with her much younger sister), while Becky has given birth to twin boys (which means there's now a family of four living in a renovated attic). An extremely wealthy man shows up and explains that he grew up in the house, and is ready to buy it for a huge sum. Danny calls a family meeting to discuss the idea, and everyone begins to excitedly plan (and not just on luxuries -- Joey hopes to get his own personal life settled, while Becky and Jesse are looking forward to creating a private space to call home). Everyone, that is, except Michelle, who decides (for the ''whole family'') that they have to be together no matter what. It's clear that the group will find homes relatively close to each other (Danny and Becky are coworkers, for example) and will still spend a good deal of time together. But that doesn't matter to Michelle: they have to live in the same house to be a "family." And ''everyone agrees to this.'' Is it anyone wonder the fans (and even some of the actors on the show) have come to hate her so much?