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* PeterSBeagle's ''TheLastUnicorn''. King Haggard, in a unnerving variation of this trope.
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* PeterSBeagle's ''TheLastUnicorn''.''Literature/TheLastUnicorn''. King Haggard, in a unnerving variation of this trope.
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* [[OccidentalOtaku Birch Smalls]] of ''MyLifeMe'' is this through and through. When her manga idol offers criticism of her "manga" artwork, she flips out and chews him out.
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* [[OccidentalOtaku Birch Smalls]] Small]] of ''MyLifeMe'' is this through and through. When her manga idol offers criticism of her "manga" artwork, she flips out and chews him out.
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga is, well, the embodiment of Greed, and therefore wants everything for himself and anything he does is for the skae of either himself or his own gain. He hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when an reborn and amnesiac Greed unknowingly kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps at the fact his "possessions" were taken away from him.]]
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga is, well, the embodiment of Greed, and therefore wants everything for himself and anything he does is for the skae of either himself or his own gain. He hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when an reborn and amnesiac Greed unknowingly kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, as well as the memory of his former underlings and his past underlings, and snaps what happened to them, triggering him into an explosive rage at the fact his "possessions" were taken away from him.]]
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*** This incident is also the cause of a his HeelFaceTurn and transformation into a NobleDemon by the end.
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga is, well, the embodiment of Greed, and therefore wants everything for himself and anything he does is for the skae of either himself or his own gain. He hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when an reborn and amnesiac Greed kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps. Though technically it wasn't in spite of, but ''because of''; it being punishment by Father. Of course then he subverts this somewhat when he is called out on his supposed 'desires' and admits that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends all he wanted were friends]].]]
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga is, well, the embodiment of Greed, and therefore wants everything for himself and anything he does is for the skae of either himself or his own gain. He hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when an reborn and amnesiac Greed unknowingly kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps. Though technically it wasn't in spite of, but ''because of''; it being punishment by Father. Of course then he subverts this somewhat when he is called out on snaps at the fact his supposed 'desires' and admits that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends all he wanted "possessions" were friends]].taken away from him.]]
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* [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki]] seems to have this attitude, but [[strike:then goes through major character development]] it turns out he's pretty much always been TheMessiah... while still happily bragging about how awesome he is.
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* [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki]] ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'''s Tamaki seems to have this attitude, but [[strike:then goes through major character development]] it turns out he's pretty much always been TheMessiah... while still happily bragging about how awesome he is.
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* ''{{Big Time Rush}}'': James Diamond is essentially a male version of Trina. Gustavo can also be like this as well, considering how greatly he thinks about his music and never thinks he needs relaxing.
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* ''{{Big ''Series/{{Big Time Rush}}'': James Diamond is essentially a male version of Trina. Gustavo can also be like this as well, considering how greatly he thinks about his music and never thinks he needs relaxing.
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* Any human that has gone through their teenage years has experienced this at some point or another.
** Some people don't grow out of it though add sociopathy and geniune lack of empathy and completely knowledgeable ignorance of boundaries.
** Some people don't grow out of it though add sociopathy and geniune lack of empathy and completely knowledgeable ignorance of boundaries.
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* Any human that has gone Most people go through this in some way or another during their teenage years has experienced this at some point or another.
** Some people don't grow out of it though add sociopathy and geniune lack of empathy and completely knowledgeable ignorance of boundaries.years.
** Some people don't grow out of it though add sociopathy and geniune lack of empathy and completely knowledgeable ignorance of boundaries.
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* Peggy Hill of {{KingOfTheHill}} is a huge egomaniac who thinks she's right about everything even things she has very little knowledge of and thinks she can do no wrong, and if she's involved in something she will often completely take over it, and often takes credit for others ideas.
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* In TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', Pucci. It would be inaccurate to say that she confesses [[spoiler:at the climax]] -- "confessing" implies admitting to doing wrong. She's considerably closer to bragging.
** Tiffany Aching of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' is a heroic example. TheFairFolk kidnapped ''her'' obnoxious brother and are invading ''her'' country, and now ItsPersonal.
** Tiffany Aching of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' is a heroic example. TheFairFolk kidnapped ''her'' obnoxious brother and are invading ''her'' country, and now ItsPersonal.
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* In TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', Pucci. Pucci Lavish. It would be inaccurate to say that she confesses [[spoiler:at the climax]] -- "confessing" implies admitting to doing wrong.''wrong''. She's considerably closer to bragging.
** Tiffany Aching of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' is a heroic example. TheFairFolk kidnapped ''her'' obnoxious baby brother and are invading ''her'' country, and nowItsPersonal.ItsPersonal. It's hinted that "turning selfishness into a weapon" like this is a major source of power for witches.
** Tiffany Aching of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' is a heroic example. TheFairFolk kidnapped ''her'' obnoxious baby brother and are invading ''her'' country, and now
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*** And just a couple months later, the song is turned over to the Nexus (which is just [[TheStarscream David Otunga]] and [[{{Ptitlei20tntia}} Michael McGillicutty]] now) and Gabriel has a new instrumental rock theme. Much better fit for Mike and Otunga, actually.
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*** And just a couple months later, the song is turned over to the Nexus (which is just [[TheStarscream David Otunga]] and [[{{Ptitlei20tntia}} [[FailOSuckyname Michael McGillicutty]] now) and Gabriel has a new instrumental rock theme. Much better fit for Mike and Otunga, actually.
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest (presented in the form of basic instincts and drives). Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and is the main push behind Natural Selection]].
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest (presented in the form of basic instincts and drives). Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary [[TropesAreNotBad The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and is the main push behind Natural Selection]].
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest (presented in the form of basic instincts and drives). Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and it allowed humans to come out ahead in the first place]].
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest (presented in the form of basic instincts and drives). Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and it allowed humans to come out ahead in is the first place]].main push behind Natural Selection]].
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest.self-interest (presented in the form of basic instincts and drives). Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and it allowed humans to come out ahead in the first place]].
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* Not too long ago the prevailing scientific opinion was that all living things were motivated by ''individual'' self-interest. Though Biology Has Marched On CommonKnowledge still dictates that altruism seldom extends beyond the boundaries of a creature's ''own species'', with the few acknowledged exceptions not always including homo sapiens. Exceptionally cynical analysts claim that ''all'' human motivations can be boiled down to self-interest, whether enlightened or ignorant, direct or via some nebulous philosophy. [[YourMileageMayVary The counterpoint is that this is necessary for survival and it allowed humans to come out ahead in the first place]].
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* Taken BeyondTheImpossible with [[spoiler: Zanza]] from XenobladeChronicles, the local JerkassGod who is ''utterly incapable'' of adknowledging the value of ''anything'' that isn't himself, and is constantly using his power to destroy and rebuild the universe because '''[[ForTheEvulz fuck you]]'''.
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** There's also a little character named Lockhart who had [[{{Understatement}} a bit of an ego]]. His idea of a Defense Against the Dark Arts test contained only questions like "What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?" and "When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday, and what would his ideal gift be?"
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** There's also a little character named Lockhart who had [[{{Understatement}} had...a bit of an ego]].ego. His idea of a Defense Against the Dark Arts test contained only questions like "What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?" and "When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday, and what would his ideal gift be?"
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--> See, I'm gonna make the world a better place... {{beat}}
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--> See, I'm gonna make the world a better place... {{beat}}<{{beat}}>
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* DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots": "See, I'm gonna win the human race/See, I'm gonna make the world a better place - for me."
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* DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots": "See, Robots".
--> One fine day when I've got my army made
--> My flying saucers and toys invade
--> Every city and every town
--> And then I'll plaster my face up all over the place
--> See, I'm gonna win the humanrace/See, race
--> See, I'm gonna make the world a betterplace - for place... {{beat}}
--> For me."
--> One fine day when I've got my army made
--> My flying saucers and toys invade
--> Every city and every town
--> And then I'll plaster my face up all over the place
--> See, I'm gonna win the human
--> See, I'm gonna make the world a better
--> For me.
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* DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots": "See, I'm gonna win the human race/See, I'm gonna make the world a better place - for me."
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* Mitchell of ''BeingHuman'' gets regularly called out on this. He focuses on how miserable and guilty he feels and forgets all the people he killed and the suffering of their families. It might actually be a survival trait for vampires as those who are too emphatic would be prone to suicide or exposing the Masquerade.
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* Mitchell of ''BeingHuman'' ''Series/BeingHuman'' gets regularly called out on this. He focuses on how miserable and guilty he feels and forgets all the people he killed and the suffering of their families. It might actually be a survival trait for vampires as those who are too emphatic would be prone to suicide or exposing the Masquerade.
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when the new Greed kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps. Though technically it wasn't in spite of, but ''because of''; it was punishment by Father.]]
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* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga is, well, the embodiment of Greed, and therefore wants everything for himself and anything he does is for the skae of either himself or his own gain. He hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when the new an reborn and amnesiac Greed kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps. Though technically it wasn't in spite of, but ''because of''; it was being punishment by Father.Father. Of course then he subverts this somewhat when he is called out on his supposed 'desires' and admits that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends all he wanted were friends]].]]
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** This is also a DisproportionateRetribution, definitely. Sure, the woman was being selfish, but nobody deserves ''that''. And her husband was ostracized even though he didn't say anything selfish.
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Not even our {{Nakama}} is safe; it exists to be loyal to us, not [[WeHaveReserves vice versa]]. Indeed, we may [[VillainousDemotivator sacrifice them for our own amusement.]] That's what they're ''there'' for. We may, of course, be angry at their harm or death at the hands of others, but that is because it removes a useful resource from our plans, or infringes on our authority. (As a consequence, a frequent source of inexplicable HelpFaceTurn or TheDogBitesBack. Why would they ever want to leave us?!) Similarly, if we reveal [[TheStarscream our intentions of betraying our superiors]], and our subordinates revolt against us, we'll be shocked by the RebelliousRebel's treachery -- don't they know how good things will be when we succeed?. The hero's coterie, on the other hand, merely provides a good source of RevengeByProxy.
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Not even our {{Nakama}} is TrueCompanions are safe; it exists they exist to be loyal to us, not [[WeHaveReserves vice versa]]. Indeed, we may [[VillainousDemotivator sacrifice them for our own amusement.]] That's what they're ''there'' for. We may, of course, be angry at their harm or death at the hands of others, but that is because it removes a useful resource from our plans, or infringes on our authority. (As a consequence, a frequent source of inexplicable HelpFaceTurn or TheDogBitesBack. Why would they ever want to leave us?!) Similarly, if we reveal [[TheStarscream our intentions of betraying our superiors]], and our subordinates revolt against us, we'll be shocked by the RebelliousRebel's treachery -- don't they know how good things will be when we succeed?. The hero's coterie, on the other hand, merely provides a good source of RevengeByProxy.
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* In ''Film/AllStarSuperman'', [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] is interviewing Lex Luthor in prison when the Parasite escapes and attacks him to drain his powers, which have become supercharged due to extra exposure to the sun. Parasite is clearly draining the energy from ''something'', since he is literally growing in size, and he keeps shouting about the strength and power he is sensing, explicitly comparing it to the sun, but Luthor ''never'' realizes that he himself is not the target. Even after Parasite has been defeated, [[AwkwardAbility by a fortunate earthquake that happened to save Clark Kent just in time]], Luthor rants and beats his unconcious body, explaining that this is the penalty for daring to challenge Luthor.
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* In ''Film/AllStarSuperman'', [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] is interviewing Lex Luthor in prison when the Parasite escapes and attacks him to drain his powers, which have become supercharged due to extra exposure to the sun. Parasite is clearly draining the energy from ''something'', since he is literally growing in size, and he keeps shouting about the strength and power he is sensing, explicitly comparing it to the sun, but Luthor ''never'' realizes that he himself is not the target. Even after Parasite has been defeated, [[AwkwardAbility [[CoverBlowingSuperpower by a fortunate earthquake that happened to save Clark Kent just in time]], Luthor rants and beats his unconcious body, explaining that this is the penalty for daring to challenge Luthor.
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This seems to be much more about the author than Summers himself. Last I checked, Rayne Summers does not have a webcomic. Hence, fixing.
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* LeastICouldDo: Rayne Summers acts like a complete [[JerkAss jerkwad]] to everyone around him, from ridiculing to humiliating them, and they love him for it. He's allowed to do whatever he wants in his company because they '[[LameExcuse need his talent]]' and has gone on record as stating "[[PresentCompanyExcluded Webcomics suck]]" in not any an ironic manner.
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* LeastICouldDo: Rayne Summers acts like a complete [[JerkAss jerkwad]] to everyone around him, suffers from ridiculing to humiliating them, this, and they love him for it. He's allowed at one point had to do whatever he wants in get his company because they '[[LameExcuse need his talent]]' and has gone on record as stating "[[PresentCompanyExcluded Webcomics suck]]" friend to explain said friend's impending wedding in not any an ironic manner.a way that makes it about him.
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* In ''HonorHarrington'', a subordinate muses on AristocratsAreEvil poster-boy Pavel Young as she betrays him:
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The characters Rayne encounters are a team. Just like what Ryan and Lar are.
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** The last one is even better. Rayne calls a web cartoonist out for expecting accolades and praise when he's not fully committed to giving 100% and sticking to a strict update schedule for the comic he writes and draws on his own. Ryan Sohmer himself relies on paid professional artists to draw his comic, which is funded by ads and merchandising.
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* [[OccidentalOtaku Birch Smalls]] of ''MyLifeMe'' is this through and through. When her manga idol offers criticism of her "manga" artwork, she flips out and chews him out.
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* {{Soul Eater}} has [[IdiotHero Black*Star]], who frequently proclaims himself the hero (it's Badass Bookworm Maka), insists up the whole cast/plot relying upon him ([[TedBaxter long before]] he had the skill to back up such a claim), and justifies any deviation from this ('allowing' Maka to fight Crona for e.g) as him simply being a 'great' man and warrior. His single-minded attitude recently allowed him his own heroic piece; being the one to rescue Kid from the Book of Eibon. In a different kind of series, he ''would'' be the hero.
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->''"[[LackOfEmpathy I'm not like other people. I can't stand pain. It ]]'''[[LackOfEmpathy hurts ]]'''[[LackOfEmpathy me]]."''
-->--'''[[LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]]''', ''The Abominable Snow Rabbit''
->''"Hego, can we focus here? [-ON ME-]!"''
-->--'''[[MeaningfulName Me]]go''', ''KimPossible''
EvilCannotComprehendGood? Hardly! [[ClassicVillain We]] understand the value of what good deeds we do, and [[{{Pride}} how much we deserve]] in return for the most trifling sacrifice we give. People should be ''grateful'' to us. No, offsetting [[GoneHorriblyRight our]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong mistakes]] by the good we've done is not sufficient; it's just ingratitude not to give us more, which is an injury.
And we understand that injury is evil -- when it's done to us. We know how terrible it is that people ComeToGawk, and that they're lying when they say they didn't realize the character was there. [[EntitledBastard We know how entitled we are to rescue]] -- certainly before those InnocentBystanders. We even understand the evil of breaking bargains that the other person hadn't agreed to, but [[VillainProtagonist unfortunately, we]] had assumed they would; little equals the rage of those proud few of us whose offer that WeCanRuleTogether is turned down -- or a FemmeFatale turned WomanScorned. And ''of course'' we know what [[DisproportionateRetribution punishment]] should be meted out for it.
Not even our {{Nakama}} is safe; it exists to be loyal to us, not [[WeHaveReserves vice versa]]. Indeed, we may [[VillainousDemotivator sacrifice them for our own amusement.]] That's what they're ''there'' for. We may, of course, be angry at their harm or death at the hands of others, but that is because it removes a useful resource from our plans, or infringes on our authority. (As a consequence, a frequent source of inexplicable HelpFaceTurn or TheDogBitesBack. Why would they ever want to leave us?!) Similarly, if we reveal [[TheStarscream our intentions of betraying our superiors]], and our subordinates revolt against us, we'll be shocked by the RebelliousRebel's treachery -- don't they know how good things will be when we succeed?. The hero's coterie, on the other hand, merely provides a good source of RevengeByProxy.
Conversely, doing us a good turn may result in a wide degree of gratitude and "reward" for our helper. It can range from [[UngratefulBastard understandably none at all]] to [[YouWillBeSpared generous offers of a quick and painless death]]. More benevolent overlords, as of course we are, may offer a ShinyNewAustralia for a good manicure, or [[DisproportionateReward a lifetime of friendship.]] Of course, we ''might'' just be an EntitledBastard and expect the world to always forgive and oblige us whenever we do wrong... but how often is that? Then there's times where we, regretfully, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper simply kill our benefactor]]; [[DontYouDarePityMe how dare they see us as weak?!]]
Nothing shocks us more than ShutUpHannibal Still more when someone says GetItOverWith. What could be more interesting than what we have to say?
[[DownplayedTrope Milder forms]] may have an [[MindScrew elaborate]] [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for why [[MinorInjuryOverreaction injuries to us are so serious]] and our good deeds are more generous than anyone else. Or we may attempt to BuyThemOff... if it's worth it. On the other hand, the [[CompleteMonster very wise and powerful]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality don't even comprehend]] that someone might judge our actions by the same standards as those with less potential for greatness. [[AntiVillain Some]] [[WorthyOpponent of]] [[NobleDemon us]], on the other hand, may show their lack of evil by admitting that our behavior and our enemies' can be judged by the same standard.
Can be either totally [[GreenEyedMonster selfish]], [[{{Pride}} arrogant]], and [[{{Greed}} greedy]] or, for a WellIntentionedExtremist, [[TautologicalTemplar totally oblivious to the idea that others can grant the same importance to their cause that they do]].
Some may express the view that what they do is DirtyBusiness, but their sympathy is exclusively for themselves. "[[IDidWhatIHadToDo Having to do such horrible things]], {{God}} rest our souls. [[LackOfEmpathy The sufferings of our victims never disturb us - and why should we care about such bugs?]]"
May declare themselves AboveGoodAndEvil, with our affairs being more important than petty morality. The disdain never applies when we have suffered an injury. [[ExaggeratedTrope When things are really rolling]], we may even declare ourselves above humanity [[AGodAmI and as (or above) gods]].
This does not cover characters who have a case: the GentlemanThief for example only robs from those who can afford it, has saved several lives, and can reasonably argue that on the balance, he's done more good than evil. Of course, in those cases, the character is aware of what evil he has done, and is merely looking for clemency.
Contrast EvilCannotComprehendGood, where the character does not understand why the hero does not behave as selfishly as he does, but does expect him to act in his own interest. When the trope is EvilCannotComprehendGood, the villain can't understand why the hero saved him from falling; in ItsAllAboutMe, the villain can't understand why the hero insists on arresting him after. We ''said'' we were grateful, didn't we?! The ''least'' he could do is let us go!
Compare ProtagonistCenteredMorality, where the author has a similar bias in favour of the protagonist. When a usually-good character is morally self-centered and it goes unnoticed, MoralDissonance is present.
Also see MoralMyopia, still more distilled. The [[MoralMyopia Morally Myopic]] character at least acknowledges the rights of other characters in his own group. We suffer from moral blindness -- if that's even the right word for it. Suffer, hah!
When the cause of the attitude is being raised in a family of great power and wealth, you have a case of the SubTrope RoyalBrats. For religious cases, see SpoiledBratOfTheLord.
Alas, TruthInTelevision, known as narcissism. Capable of reaching the heights of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. [[TheSociopath Sociopaths]] also frequently evince it. Also commonly related, both in-universe and otherwise, to MuseAbuse.
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* Ryoki Tachibana from the manga ''HotGimmick''. Although he's obsessed with Hatsumi he's usually far too up himself to ever do anything as pointless as care about her. His response to most of her (considerable) problems is "forget it, just focus on me".
* The Homunculus Greed of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga hates Wrath for killing his underlings - not because he particularly cares about them, but because they're ''his''. [[spoiler:Later, when the new Greed kills off the last of them, he regains the memories of his old manifestation, and his past underlings, and snaps. Though technically it wasn't in spite of, but ''because of''; it was punishment by Father.]]
** To be fair, he doesn't treat his underlings as expendable and he's about as humane as could be hoped for as an ArtificialHuman formed from the evil impulses of an EldritchAbomination.
*** This incident is also the cause of a HeelFaceTurn into a NobleDemon by the end.
*** Envy also falls into a version of this, given that he/she/it loves to sadistically harm people, but complains about others not fighting fair on the occasions where they get the better of him/her/it. For instance, when Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye fail to be impressed with Envy's ShapeshifterGuiltTrip, Envy scolds them for their lack of humanity, because they didn't hesitate before shooting their friends.
**** And Pride shows some of this too. He berates Greed for betraying their "family" and then shortly afterward devours his "brother", Gluttony to absorb his powers while Gluttony cries out in agony.
***** The primary antagonist of the FullmetalAlchemistAnime can be seen as an example, as well. [[spoiler: Despite trying to pass herself off as a WellIntentionedExtremist, it is pretty obvious that Dante is only motivated by her own selfish desires. She has ruined countless lives for the sake of her own immortality and tries to justify it by saying that humans should accept that life isn't fair. Of course, once ''her'' plans backfire in her face, she throws a hissy fit.]]
* In ''SpiritedAway'', after Chihiro has pried a job out of Yubaba, over relentless and vicious attempts to intimidate her out of asking, Yubaba laments her promise to employ anyone who asked for a job: it makes her have to be so nice all the time, and she really hates that.
** Also, the bathhouse employees could count. They don't care that a strange spirit has somehow taken up residence in the bathhouse and is demanding all of the food and water. He's getting them ''gold''! And they only start to be careful around him after [[spoiler:they realize that he might eat one of them]].
* The world of ''[[FateStayNight Fate/stay night]]'' and everyone in it belongs to Gilgamesh. He'll kill anyone he [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans thinks needs killing]]. He'll allow a self-admittedly evil man to kidnap, betray, and murder, because the victims were worthless scum anyway. But if someone goes around the city killing its citizens without his permission, well, that's a disgusting crime. Oh, Gilgamesh also eats the souls of forsaken orphans for magic energy, thinks that a little genocide would improve what he sees as a global overpopulation problem, and brutalizes, humiliates, and would-have-raped LawfulGood LadyOfWar Saber in a grotesque parody of courtship. In short, the "Good" part of his WordOfGod ChaoticGood alignment is practically impossible to swallow. Possibly the real reason TheCorruption had no effect on him was because he was ALREADY rotten inside.
** He doesn't amuse himself ''only'' with evil, however. He's also de-aged himself to play soccer with a bunch of kids who needed an extra teammate. He might be too bad to be Neutral, but even Evil, he's not pure evil.
** This also applies to Lord El-Melloi of ''[[FateZero Fate/zero]]''. He fully expects the world to be handed to him on a platter and everything to always go his way. When Kiritsugu is battling him, he is of course 'naturally' going to be the winner, because he's a prodigy! Except he doesn't win. Things don't go well for him in that fight at all. But the whole time he's losing, he doesn't even realize it, because for him, the world works by giving him stuff and letting him always triumph. Also, his relationship with [[strike:Waver Velvet]] everyone alive except his fiancee.
* Unless your name is [[MoralityPet Mokuba]], don't expect [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Seto Kaiba]] to show you anything other than cold indifference. Unless Mokuba [[DesignatedVictim has been kidnapped]], Kaiba has shown he has no problem at all standing back and watching Yugi and company save the world while he mutters insults under his breath.
* Vegeta from ''[[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]'' certainly fits, specifically around the Androids/Cell arc. Keep in mind [[DesignatedHero he was technically on the good guys side]], so a few guys would find his attitude irritating. Even ''Bulma'', who had a child with Vegeta, found his personality grating, but she had a whole seven years to deal with that later.
* This is why ''DeathNote'''s Light Yagami is ultimately a [[VillainProtagonist villain]]. Even [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans if you agree with him that criminals should be exterminated]], as far as he's concerned, even Kira supporters are just garbage to be manipulated and discarded when they've [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. [[spoiler: Poor Takada.]]
* A staple of many ''OnePiece'' villains. Notable examples include Kuro, Don Krieg, Wapol, and Spandam.
* Sasuke Uchiha from ''{{Naruto}}''. The world only matters for him and his revenge. Anyone else who's not involved with his revenge, can die for all he cares, and the growth of this trait is what slowly leads him from team {{Jerkass}} through a FaceHeelTurn all the way to eventual CompleteMonster status.
** He also is perfectly willing to kill people even if they are ''helping'' him get his revenge [[YouHaveFailedMe but fail him]] or if their continued living is no longer immediately convenient to him. [[spoiler:He also wants to kill his entire home village because they dared to have happy lives, unlike him, unknowingly at the expense of his traitorous clan.]]
** This could be a Uchiha family trait, as [[spoiler:Madara]] might be an even bigger case. [[spoiler:Madara was mad because his clan didn't do what HE wanted, then he was mad because HE didn't get to be Hokage, and then he was mad because he felt his clan didn't respect him enough. Fast forward to the present, 80 years later, and he's STILL not quite over it and occasionally attacks Konoha, not to mention helping to destroy his clan just because he was STILL mad. And his plan is pretty much to brainwash the whole world and become a god, because HE thinks he should be in charge. Madara is possibly the most egotistical character in the series.]]
** Danzo is a fanatic who believes that Leaf Village must dominate its rivals by any underhanded tactic available. He is even willing to sabotage the Leaf to advance his ends. ''He'' sees it as being all about the Leaf, but it's pretty clear that a large part of it is about his rivalry with Sarutobi and being proven right.
** Naruto himself starts off this way as a braggart who talks himself up to get attention and who wants to become the Hokage just for personal recognition. Part of him growing up is finding more selfless reasons to be a ninja and to dedicate himself to breaking the cycle of selfish revenge.
*** [[spoiler:And it later played straight, thinking that only he can defeat Madara and co. and [[WhatTheHellHero Itachi calls him out on it.]]]]
** Subverted by [[spoiler:Itachi]] who pretends to this trope [[spoiler:to make his brother stronger, but who sacrificed '''everything''' -- his family, his home, his reputation, and eventually his life -- to protect the Leaf and avert the civil war his family's coup would have caused.]]
* [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi Suzumiya]] has [[strike:a slight bit of]] this going on. Especially when she drags a senior, and [[RapeAsComedy sexually assaults]] [[RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnFemale her]]. And drugs said senior with sake for an amateur movie and mistreats her (It's funnier than it sounds). Let's just ignore the fact that [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod it pretty much]] ''[[PhysicalGod is]]'']]. Eventually she undergoes a little bit of CharacterDevelopment from {{Jerkass}} to JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* Mayo Sakaki from FushigiYuugi: ''Eikoden''. Miaka was bratty and immature, yeah, but at least she had good intentions; Mayo was a pure, rotten self-centered ''[[JerkAss bitch]]''.
* [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki]] seems to have this attitude, but [[strike:then goes through major character development]] it turns out he's pretty much always been TheMessiah... while still happily bragging about how awesome he is.
** Tamaki is very self centered but he's also insanely interested in EVERYONE because they're different from him. That's what makes him closer to TheMessiah. While half is interest in other's lives come from how he finds it fascinating, he also does it with rather pure intentions. (Like his love of pleasing ladies comes from his self image of a prince, but a prince wants to make ladies happy...it's rather circular)
* From the LiarGame, CompleteMonster Yokoya only cared about benefitting himself. He doesn't care if his own teammates who allied with him get money or if they go further into debt.
* ''HoneyHunt'' has the protagonists (Yura) famous celebrity parents, Yukari and Takayuki. But especially Yukari who is hardly at home for her daughter and is very selfish. In all of her interviews she lies and says that she and Yura are close and spend much time together as a result of Takayuki being abroad so often, when in reality she is just as cold and distant as Takayuki. Also, immediately after showing up after being away from home for about a half a month, Yukari coldly announces that she and Takayuki are getting divorced before telling Yura that she can go wherever she wants. Also, while Takayuki was having an affair she was having one of her own with Yura's neighbor and crush, Shinsuke. When Yura finds out about the affair Yukari's response is to smile, declare that Shinsuke likes her more than Yura, that she's going to allow Shinsuke to live with her in a mansion she had bought, and that Takayuki had a baby with his mistress so neither he nor Yukari will have time to look after Yura anymore. She then demands that Yura leave the house. It's eventually revealed that she and her husband were only together for the sake of their careers and their images, they didn't love each other. The two of them even agreed on a rule with each other that they would stay married as long as they hide their own adulterous affairs. After she decided to divorce Takayuki because the press found out about his affair, however, it is shown that she has no intentions of taking care of Yura and merely cared about repairing her image in the eyes of the public because they had originally thought she was the "ideal mom". Seriously, poor kid.
* Ryo and Sae from ''PeachGirl''. Though they both eventually [[CharacterDevelopment become better people as a result of how their selfish actions come to negatively affect their lives]] and the lives of others.
* Hana Mizuki in the manga ''Papillon''.
* Souma and Sakurako from ''SakuraGari''. Initially, it seems as if ItsAllAboutMe with them, and that they'll do whatever it takes to get what they want even if they hurt/kill others in the process. They get better, somewhat, by the end though.
* Hibari from ''KatekyoHitmanReborn''.
* Sayaka from ''PrincessPrincess''. It doesn't matter to her if she ends up hurting people in the process or if Tooru doesn't feel that same about her. It's all about her and having Tooru for herself. Thankfully, [[CharacterDevelopment she gets better]].
* ''WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' has both Ryuuko and Haguro.
* ''{{Gankutsuou}}'': Although Baron Julian Danglars maintains that he only wants his daughter to be happy and that everything he does is for her sake, he clearly [[MoneyFetish cares more about money]] and himself rather than his own daughter (or wife for that matter).
* Prussia from ''{{Axis Powers Hetalia}}''. He calls himself 'Ore-sama' (a narcissoid way of saying 'I' in Japanese). He likes to remind himself how awesome he is, and he tells the others to praise him, and bow down to him. It's also known that he kept diaries since he was formed; all of the entries start with "I am so cool", "I was so cool today", or something along those lines.
* When May walks into [[KaleidoStar Kaleido Stage]] in the second season, she's amazed and pissed off that no one but her sees how wonderful and perfect she is and haven't handed her every lead roll over the current star who worked for everything she has. [[BreakTheHaughty She gets better]], but she'll really make you want to jam your thumbs in your eyes for about a dozen episodes.
** Leon is the same, in a subtler and colder way. He believes his skill makes him so important he demands script changes and special treatment at the drop of a hat. [[spoiler: It turns out he even puts his costars out of commission when he decides they are not worthy of being his partner. If he deems them unworthy, there's no point in them ever continuing to perform.]]
* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Miyu Greer]] and [[EnfanteTerrible Alyssa Searrs]] from ''MaiHiME'' have a variation of this, in that they believe it's all about ''them'': they believe that no bond could possibly be stronger than the one they share with each other, and as a consequence of this, they have no problem with hurting other people for the sake of their syndicate's UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plans. When ''they'' are the ones being wronged, though, they lament the injustice of it all.
** Nao is also purely motivated by self-interest in both the manga and anime. In the anime, she uses her powers to exact revenge on men for [[spoiler:the robbery that killed her father and left her mother comatose]], and later, on those who she blames for [[spoiler:her [[EyeScream losing her eye]].]] In the manga, she mainly goes along with the fight against the Orphans so that she can break rules without being held accountable.
* Griffith from {{Berserk}} did initially seem to care at least a bit about his group of mercenaries, particularly Caska and Guts, and generally treats the other members kindly enough, but eventually, achieving his dream is the only thing he cares about, so much so that [[spoiler: he sacrifices the entire Band of the Hawk to a group of demons, in order to become one himself. The first thing he does with his newfound power and body is rape Casca in front of Guts, presumably just to spite him for daring to leave him. Never mind that Guts had fairly good reasons for doing so, Griffith just didn't understand, or if he did, didn't care.]]
** Earlier when Guts tried to leave Griffith's service, how did Griffith respond? Did he thank Guts for his hard work and wish him good luck? Nope. Griffith was so incensed that Guts would want to leave ''him'' that he ''tried to kill Guts.'' Keep in mind that Guts was the closest thing Griffith had to a real friend.
* ''PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'' brings us [[BigBad Grings Kodai]], who is this trope incarnate. Even those who don't know what a CompleteMonster he is know he'll do absolutely anything to get what he wants. And that's the people who believe his VillainWithGoodPublicity ruse. He outright says this during his EvilGloating rant that he doesn't give a darn about anyone- as long as he gets what he wants, it's all worth it. Please note that refers to falsely causing a mass panic, {{Blackmail}}, kidnapping, and [[MoralEventHorizon electrocuting a baby in front of its mother]].
* Claw from ''KimbaTheWhiteLion''. The main reason he wants to take over The Kingdom of the White Lions is so that he could do whatever he wants.
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* In ''{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'', the serial killer Rokkas arrived on planet to kill Legionnaires and spotted another villain, Mekt Ranzz, Lightning Lord. He offered to share the kills. Unbeknownst to him, Mekt had [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]] and was there because his brother and sisters were Legionnaires; first he appealed to Rokkas to stop, and then joined the fight against him. When Rokkas downed all his foes, he [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicked Mekt]] and complained that he would have shared.
* Susanita from ''{{Mafalda}}'' is made of this trope:
** When she reads the famous phrase [[TheGoldenRule "Do not do unto others as you do not wish they would do unto you"]], what is her reaction? "What a shame."
** In another strip, she read a book of Christian prayers and noticed how frequently the expression "mea culpa" was used. She then proceeded to stay up reading it all night trying to find a prayer that allowed her to pass guilt on to other people to no avail.
** In yet another strip, she is shown reading about grisly murders and crimes on the newspaper and referring to it as "reading about what a good person [she] is" (by comparison).
* The series ''[[FiftyTwo 52]]'' deals with the "missing year" of DC comics between the InfiniteCrisis and the One Year Later storylines. In this timeframe {{Superman}} has [[BroughtDownToNormal lost his powers]] and is living life as Clark Kent while a new superhero, christened Supernova, has stepped in as the new protector of Metropolis. Lex Luthor, however, is convinced that Superman '''''is''''' Supernova, simply in a new disguise. Why would Superman do this? Why would he create a new identity, give himself new powers and sever all ties with friends and allies? Why go to all this trouble? To ''toy'' with Luthor.
* Cassandra Nova from Grant Morrison's run on {{X-Men}} is an extreme example. A psychic parasite who accidentally became Professor Xavier's stillborn-but-not-really twin sister, Cassandra believes that the ''entire universe'' is still the womb she shared with Xavier, in which she has to completely destroy him in order to be "born." Therefore every living being she encounters is either not real or a mindless drone Xavier conjured up. This lets her commit psychological torture, wreck an entire interplanetary civilization, and even initiate a ''genocide'' with pure sociopathic impunity.
* This page, everyone mentioned on it and everyone who's contributed to it, belong to [[GreenLantern Larfleeze]].
* DoctorDoom, the man even goes as far as to rename the capital of Latveria after himself. He also thinks everyone is inferior to him.
** And [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to himself in the third person.]] And thinks that every single thing wrong with his life is Reed Richards' fault, because the great DOOM is infallible, and [[ArchEnemy that accursed Richards]] is [[{{Hypocrisy}} obviously jealous of his intellect and wants to destroy him.]]
* [[TheFlash The original Reverse-Flash]] Eobard Thawne. He cares for nothing but himself and irrationally blames Barry Allen for everything wrong in his life.
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* At the end of ''{{Brazil}}'', the protagonist is tortured by his old friend and [[TortureTechnician informational retrieval specialist]], Jack. As he begs for mercy, Jack angrily calls the protagonist a "stupid bastard" for putting ''him'' in the position of having to torture a friend.
* Proving how subtle the people behind the ''Film/{{Bratz}}'' movie are, TheLibby villain actually [[VillainSong sings a song entitled]] [[ShapedLikeItself "It's All About Me".]]
* [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast "Belle, it's about time you got your head out of those books and paid attention to more important things...like me!"]]
* Magneto calls Wolverine on this (if not lampshades [[WolverinePublicity the obvious]] to fans) in ''[[Film/XMen X2]]''...
-->'''Magneto''': Mystique has discovered plans of a base that Stryker's been operating out of for decades. Only we don't know where it is. We thought one of you might.
-->'''Wolverine''': The professor already tried [to look for hints about Stryker in my mind].
-->'''Magneto''' (sighs): Once again, you think it's all about ''you''.
** It's also a callback to the first movie, when everyone is certain that Magneto is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]]
--> '''Wolverine:''' What do you want with me?
--> '''Magneto:''' ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting you? *glance towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expression from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine*
* Waldo Lydecker of ''{{Laura}}'' is so full of himself, even when he flashes back to Laura's old life, it's through the filter of how great he is.
* In ''{{Antz}}'', General Mandible justifies [[spoiler:sending soldiers loyal to the Queen on a suicide mission against a peaceful termite colony just to get them out of the way, assassinating said Queen, and flooding the ant colony to kill off the "weak" workers]] by claiming it's "for the good of the colony". Near the end, his own second-in-command Cutter has had enough of Mandible's murderous ways and sides with the heroes, saying it's [[IronicEcho "for the good of the colony"]]. Mandible [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]] and screams "I ''am'' the colony!", revealing it was all about his satisfying his own ego.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Voldemort complains that his Death Eaters lack loyalty to him, but he has none to them, [[spoiler:making Draco try to assassinate Dumbledore [[strike: despite]] because of the pain his danger causes his parents, and murdering Snape for power]].
** Let's not forget that he's a sociopathic dictator and doesn't care about any of his Death Eaters.
** There's also a little character named Lockhart who had [[{{Understatement}} a bit of an ego]]. His idea of a Defense Against the Dark Arts test contained only questions like "What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?" and "When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday, and what would his ideal gift be?"
*** In theory, testing the students on meaningless details like this could have been quite a clever way of gauging how closely the students had read the course material, had he not assigned course material where these details where the whole point. He was ''this close'' to bullshitting himself an excuse. Truly the ego is it's own worst enemy.
*** There's also a point towards the end, when Harry and Ron find out the secret behind Lockhart's success, namely stealing credit from genuinely talented wizards and witches, and call him out on it. Lockhart responds by insisting that it was ''justified'' because they were all unattractive, before bemoaning how hard it was to track down and brainwash them all.
** Also, Dudley, Petunia, Marge, and Vernon Dursley. Of the four, Dudley is the only one who becomes less self-centered by the series end.
*** Although it was implied that Petunia was less self-centered than she appeared, and her desire for "normalcy" [[spoiler:was just a result of jealousy that her sister got to go to a magic school and learn cool stuff.]]
** Dolores Umbridge would certainly count.
** Barty Crouch, Jr. boasts that he and he alone was faithful to Voldemort. Apparently Bellatrix, who was proclaiming her loyalty to Voldemort while Crouch, Jr. was begging innocence, doesn't exist in his little world. Crouch, Jr. also seems to take for granted his mother and Winky's pity for him.
* In DanAbnett's {{Eisenhorn}} novel ''Malleus'', Cherubael sets up an elaborate plan to get Eisenhorn [[spoiler: to free him]]. It involves the death of several innocents, including some that Eisenhorn has to kill in self-defense. When Eisenhorn [[spoiler: reimprisons him]], Cherubael laments the gross injustice of it.
* In CSLewis's ''The Great Divorce'', a damned soul manages to convince himself that he has made great sacrifices for his wife, because he once let her use the last stamp to mail a letter when he wanted to mail a letter, too.
** And [[TheChroniclesofNarnia The Magician's Nephew]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress Jadis]], the BigBad, relates how, when she lost the planet-wide civil war to her sister, [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum she refused to accept defeat]] and spoke [[WordsCanBreakMyBones The Deplorable Word]] to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wipe out all life]] [[MoralEventHorizon on her planet.]] She justifies her actions thus:
-->'''Jadis''': I was the queen. [[WeHaveReserves They were all]] ''[[WeHaveReserves my]]'' [[WeHaveReserves people.]] What else were they there for but to do my will? ... You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people [[AboveGoodAndEvil is not wrong in a great queen such as I]]. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. [[IronicEcho Ours is a high and lonely destiny.]]"
** Uncle Andrew most certainly would count as well. He makes his first appearance by tricking Polly into being teleported to another world which, by his own admittance, he knows ''absolutely nothing about'', and then starts guilting Diggory into going there as well. At one point, he launches into an explanation of his experiments and is annoyed when Diggory shows concern first that Andrew didn't obey his godmother's wishes and destroy the magic powder and then over the guinea pigs used for the initial experiments (which Uncle Andrew said exploded like "little bombs"). In fact, he even says that it was fine that he killed a number of helpless animals, because "that was what they were for!" When Diggory continues to ask about where Polly went, Uncle Andrew replies "How you go on about that! As if it mattered!" When Diggory asks why Andrew didn't just send himself to this other world to see what it was like, he outright states that he doesn't want to put himself in danger. And when Diggory is afraid to send himself to an unknown place, Uncle Andrew reminds him that Polly could be starving or drowning or being killed by wild animals. By this point, Diggory wishes he were tall enough to punch his uncle. Later, an explicate parallel is drawn between Andrew and Jadis. Oh, and when they're all in Narnia, all Uncle Andrew thinks about is his own safety (willing to abandon his own nephew, Polly and a cabbie to get home) and how he can profit from the place. When Diggory asks if Narnia might hold something that would cure his mother, Andrew rudely replies that it's not a pharmacy.
* The father of [[TheMoomins the Moomin family]] is one of these. It is most evident in the two books where he's a reasonably main character (''The Exploits of Moominpappa'' and ''Moominpappa at sea''), but it turns up in the other books as well.
* In SandyMitchell's CiaphasCain novel ''The Traitor's Hand'', a daemon kills a trooper in front of Cain and talks of how she will transform the planet into a warp gate to allow daemons to run wild. When, with the help of Jurgen's "blank" abilities, Cain goes to kill her, she objects: "It's not fair!"
** The villain of ''Duty Calls'' turns out to be like this. He actually complains that, in the face of a [[HordeOfAlienLocusts tyranid]] attack, when he ''shot'' some civilians for ''trying to get their children onto his escape vessel'', the others "got quite abusive". Cain observes that this must have been distressing for him, and he [[SarcasmFailure appreciates the sympathy]].
* In DanAbnett's GauntsGhosts novel ''First Only'', [[spoiler: Flense]] attacks Gaunt for killing his father, but his complaints are that he, personally, lost his estate and family name, and had to rise up in the world like any common trooper.
* In GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} {{Ultramarines}} novel ''Nightbringer'', Taloun complains to the SpaceMarine Uriel that he has lost thousands of man-hours of production owing to bombs. Uriel wonders how many men he had lost, and whether he cared.
** This is 40k. Those men only mattered to the Imperium inasmuch as they work for its defense; the loss of a million men is considered a good trade if it will keep a manufacturing planet for one more day. The loss of 20 men at one factory is irrelevant next to the loss of the thousands of man-hours of munitions they would have built.
*** It's also important to remember that the Ultramarines are one of the few Space Marine chapters (along with the [[SpaceWolf Space Wolves]], BloodAngels, {{Salamanders}}, and SoulDrinkers) who actually care more about the people of the Imperium than keeping [[TheGovernment the Adeptus Terra]] happy.
* Objectivist hero [[SwordOfTruth Richard Rahl]] becomes like this about mid-way through the series, all while apparently wearing a massive set of irony blinders.
* In GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', Braxton is enraged that the primarch keeps him waiting, because keeping people waiting is what he does to other people, to demonstrate his superior status.
* This is basically [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]]'s mindset. Something to effect of justified since [[BlackHoleSue everything really does revolve around her]]. It's only not all about her when it's about her and Edward together. And [[StalkingIsLove Edward]] acts just the same.
** A particularly bad example is in ''Breaking Dawn''. Throughout the series, Bella is terrified of vampires who drink human blood and thinks that the Cullens are great because they don't. When human-killing vampires show up to do favors for her though, she's just peachy with them. (Yes, there's one scene where she's mildly bothered that her guests are ''committing murder'', but that's it).
* The BigBad of MercedesLackey's ''Jinx High'' understands the magical law of karma ... specifically she understands that when others do wrong, it leaves them open for her to harm them. The idea that ''she'' might be subject to this same law doesn't even occur to her.
** In her defense, she's actually ''not'' entirely subject to it: her body-switching magic has allowed her to let the karmic consequences land on someone else's head while she escapes scot-free, several times. One of the saddest things about the series coming to an unplanned and abrupt halt after ''Jinx High'' is that [[KarmaHoudini her ultimate escape at the end]] and its consequences (notably, that Diana Tregarde has entirely unknown to her actually killed an innocent person in the villainess' stead) are never, ever addressed.
* ''WarriorCats'': Hawkfrost, since it seems his main motivation in [[spoiler:trying to rule the forest, is the fact that he believes that he, and only he, is capable of leading the Clans properly]], also how he constantly addresses the crowd at Gatherings, even though he has no right to.
* PeterSBeagle's ''TheLastUnicorn''. King Haggard, in a unnerving variation of this trope.
* In TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', Pucci. It would be inaccurate to say that she confesses [[spoiler:at the climax]] -- "confessing" implies admitting to doing wrong. She's considerably closer to bragging.
** Tiffany Aching of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' is a heroic example. TheFairFolk kidnapped ''her'' obnoxious brother and are invading ''her'' country, and now ItsPersonal.
* The Gentleman with the thistle-down hair in Susanna Clarke's ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''. He is convinced he is a great friend of Stephan Black despite his complete obliviousness to Black's feelings, and as a FisherKing, he has turned his land into a sad and dismal place, a derelict manor on a windswept moor surrounded by a dark leafless wood, with the remains of ancient battles rotting outside. [[TheFairFolk The fairy inhabitants]] spend their time in endless balls, they have "idled away their days in pointless pleasures and in celebrations of past cruelties." [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath Fittingly enough]], he ends up dying at Stephan Black's hands, for what he thought was a favor.]]
* In ''HonorHarrington'', a subordinate muses on AristocratsAreEvil poster-boy Pavel Young as she betrays him:
-->''No one else was quite real to Pavel Young. That was especially true for women, but it applied to everyone else around him, as well. He lived in a universe of cardboard cutouts, of human-shaped ''things'' provided solely for his use. He had no sense of them as people who might resent him -- or, indeed, who had any ''right'' to resent him -- and he was too busy doing things to them to even consider what they might do to him if they got the chance.''
* Betelgeusians can be a bit like this in ''HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. In ''H2G2/MostlyHarmless'', Ford refers to making a "great personal sacrifice" - he lost a pair of shoes. And they were really nice shoes, and they were ''his''.
-->'''Arthur''': I think we have different value systems.\\
'''Ford''': Mine's better.
** And don't forget Zaphod.
---> '''Trillian''': Can we leave your ego out of this? This is important.
---> '''Zaphod''': Hey, if there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now.
*** To put a finer point on it: One book introduces a torture device called the Total Perspective Vortex, which drives the victim insane by showing them just how tiny and insignificant they are compared to the rest of existence. Zaphod walks away from it just fine because, as he sees it, what it showed him was that the universe really '''does''' revolve around him.
* The titular character in {{Oscar Wilde}}'s short story "The Remarkable Rocket."
--> "What right have you to be happy? You should be thinking about others. In fact, you should be thinking about me. I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy. It is a beautiful virtue, and I possess it in a high degree."
* [[{{Redwall}} Emperor Ublaz Mad Eyes]] is under the impression that it's perfectly reasonable to slaughter dozens of innocents to get himself a pink pearl crown.
* Katniss's prep team in ''TheHungerGames''. Who comment on what they were doing when they saw someone die in the games.
** In ''Catching Fire'', they [[WaterWorks wail]] over her. Though when Cinna deals with them, they at least pull out when they start crying again.
* In AaronAllston's ''GalateaIn2D'', Kevin. Out to ruin Donna and Roger's lives out of [[GreenEyedMonster envy]]. Laughs at the way his first discovery of ArtInitiatesLife killed a bunch of painted men. [[HelpFaceTurn Taunts]] his {{Mook}} Red with the possibility of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes letting his beloved Penny die]] and makes him beg, repeatedly, before he saves her. Instead of just killing his opponents, locks them up somewhere with monsters that will kill them if they close their eyes -- preventing Roger from using his powers but ensuring they will die of sleep deprivation. Takes advantage of a truce flag to try to kill Roger. Sees a random piece of good art, checks the name so that he knows who to ruin. ''And'' when the heroes have attacked him all out, he demands that Roger explain something he did -- Roger ''owes'' him it, for this attack.
* In ''PrideAndPrejudice'', Mrs. Bennet and Lydia Bennet suffer from this; while Mrs. Bennet is perceptive enough to note that without husbands her daughters face a lifetime of ruin upon the death of their father, her primary concern seems mainly to be self-involved whining about how this will affect ''her''. Similarly, her favourite daughter Lydia (who takes after her mother in many ways), on running away with Wickham, writes a giggly letter expressing how much fun she's having and what a laugh it'll be to be married to Wickham without any concern for the fact that she might be putting her family's fortunes at risk through her actions. Mr Bennet suffers from this too: his failure to keep his wife and younger daughters' behaviour in check puts Lizzy and Jane's romantic prospects in jeopardy, and creates a bit of a monster in Lydia. Also, he fails to even try to marry Mary off to Mr Collins, even though she is plainly suited to him (lampshaded in the 90s BBC adaptation and recent film), and would secure his wife's future
* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Daisy]], [[JerkJock Tom]], and [[RichBitch Jordan]] from ''TheGreatGatsby'', to the point where [[spoiler: Daisy accidentally kills Tom's mistress and Tom's solution is to let Daisy's LoveMartyr Gatsby take the fall, manipulate his mistress' husband into killing Gatsby, and leave all this unpleasantness behind them]]. Jordan would have viewed the spoilered bits as light entertainment.
** Heck, this trope is pretty much the entire ''theme'' of ''TheGreatGatsby''. During [[spoiler:Gatsby's funeral]], Nick is disgusted to see that only one person shows up. Keep in mind that Gatsby spent a lot of money throwing lavish parties, which a lot of people attended and enjoyed, yet only one cared enough to show up. A particularly nasty bit had one of Gatsby's regular guests call up the mansion. Upon hearing about [[spoiler:the funeral]] and being asked if he would attend, the guest casually states that he ''might'', but he wasn't even aware that [[spoiler:Gatsby had died]] and just wanted to ask if he could get a pair of shoes that he'd left over there.
* In the {{novelization}} of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', part of the reason Anakin killed [[MoralityPet his wife]] was because he refused to see her actions, and Obi-Wan stowing away in her ship, as anything but an attack on him. Waking up in the suit, he realizes that he was thinking with this trope. But it's far too late to turn back; even ''he'' knows he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon.
--> You killed her because, finally, when you ''could'' have saved her, when you could have gone ''away'' with her, when you could have been thinking about ''her'', you were thinking about ''[[ItsAllAboutMe yourself]]''...
--> It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of {{the dark side}}, [[BeingEvilSucks the final cruelty of the Sith]] --
--> Because [[WeCanRebuildHim now]] your ''self'' [[FateWorseThanDeath is all you will ever have]].
* Heather Babcock from AgathaChristie's ''The Mirror Crack'd'' is a non-villainous example of this. She isn't mean, and actually goes out of her way to do nice things for other people, like rescuing MissMarple after a nasty fall or taking in a homeless family. However, she is incapable of recognizing that her actions affect other people or that what something means to her might not be the same for other people involved. [[spoiler: The primary example of this was that when she got sick, she didn't recognize that the doctor's instructions to "Stay in bed and don't go out to meet people" might not have been just for her benefit...]]
** In ''AndThenThereWereNone'', Anthony Marston embodies this trope, seeing a hit-and-run accident merely in the light of losing his driver's license.
* [[TheBelgariad Torak]]. It's pointed out at least once that his brutal, almost sadistic actions make perfect sense if one accepts his premise that he's the sole reason the universe exists. He originally stole the Orb of Aldur because it was inconceivable that such a powerful magical gemstone could belong to anyone but him. Then he killed half of mankind in a catastrophic seismic upheaval with said Orb when the forces of literally everyone else came to take it back. A ''lot'' of bad things can happen when the one espousing this viewpoint is a GodOfEvil.
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* ''TwoAndAHalfMen'': This arguably applies to everyone, but especially Evelyn, the two brothers mother. She frequently reacts to news that affects anyone except her with "Do you have any idea what you put me through?!"
* The Cat from RedDwarf actually makes a logical argument that the world revolves around him. It finishes with ''The most exciting things that have ever happened to me, have been whenever I was in the room!''
** Although it's considered unfair to call the Cat vain as he isn't human, the entire Cat race supposedly displayed vain and self centred attitudes.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Boom Town," Margaret Blaine Slitheen tells the Doctor that, on one occasion, she could have murdered someone to benefit herself, but didn't. The Doctor points out that there are a lot more people that she has murdered.
* One episode of ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' had this as the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain Of The Week]]'s weakness. He pretty much betrays everyone who helps him but expects complete loyalty from his "allies". To this end they simply make him think his latest accomplice is planning to betray him, causing said accomplice to realise how dangerous he is and turn to the police for help.
* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}} Volume 3: Villains'' finale, Sylar personifies this trope. He says that Angela is a monster because she was willing to kill her husband, blow up New York, and worst of all, hurt him by [[spoiler:making him think he had a family]].
** Possibly justified in that by [[spoiler:making him think he had a family, she was really just using his mommy issues to trigger his season-one persona of rampaging powers-Darwinist lunatic. Since the bomb didn't go off and her other crime involved just one (attempted) murder (which even that was technically to protect Nathan Petrelli, since the dad [[AssholeVictim did try to off Nathan Petrelli, and was also responsible for crippling Nathan's ex-wife Heidi]]), this could technically be the worst of her crimes as it culminated in a ''lot'' of deaths. Still, I don't think the writers deserve the credit that statement implies: logic in a season three script.]]
* Although not a villain- ''SeaChange'' doesn't really have any villains- Jules, the daughter of the mayor, pretty much personifies this trope. She's a selfish bitch to the point of everyone being disgusted, like the bit in "Balls and Friggin' Good Luck", where everyone's getting ready for the ferry, and she whines, "This is so awful! How could Jerome do this to me?" when he was the one who committed suicide, and she's acting like she's the one who is most affected, without considering his family, which is worse when you consider the next scene, which is the inquest, and Jerome's mother and almost everyone else is bawling their eyes out.
** Although it was subverted later when her mother is talking to her father about how Jerome might have deliberately crashed, and she starts talking about how she sometimes thinks about suicide, and what she wants at her funeral, until her mother snaps and says, "Julie Ann Jelly, I'm sorry that Jerome Hall's death has temporarily taken attention away from yourself! Now would you please stop grandstanding!" So good.
* AllyMcBeal. Actually treated sympathetically by the show; when asked why her problems are so much more important than everyone else's, she responds "because they're mine" while angsty music plays in the background.
* Sieg, the WhitePrince [[MonsterOfTheWeek Imagin]] from ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}'' 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.
* Tendou Souji of ''KamenRiderKabuto'' makes a play at this, particularly with two lines of his grandmother's wisdom. One is his CatchPhrase: "Walking the Way of Heaven, I am the man who rules over all." The other may be more of a [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]]: "The world revolves around you. ... It's fun to think like that."
* Sheldon from ''TheBigBangTheory'' takes "the world revolves around me" as an axiom.
-->'''Leonard:''' Sheldon, not everything is about you.
-->'''Sheldon:''' <Pause> I don't follow you.
* Cordelia, in the first season {{Buffy}} episode, ''Out of Mind, Out of Sight'', after noticing that all of the victims have a connection to her:
-->'''Cordelia''': This is all about me! Me, ''me,'' '''me!'''
-->'''Xander''': Wow! For once she's right!
** This is Cordelia's whole schtick until she starts getting CharacterDevelopment in the second season, whether she's complaining about the trauma of hitting a cyclist with her car (and the cyclist wanting it to be all about ''their'' leg), shushing her companion as a motormouth for ''almost'' getting a word in edgewise, or (as above) realizing that the MonsterOfTheWeek is [[{{Karma}} targeting her.]] (All this is even funnier when considering what happens to her on the [[{{Angel}} spinoff]].)
* In ''{{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. Wow, what a whore.
* Jane in ''{{Coupling}}''. When we see her under "Captain Subtext" mode, all of her dialogue is translated as "Let's all talk about me! Me... Me... Me!"
* ''{{Victorious}}'': Trina has a vain and narcissistic ego.
--> '''Trina:''' So she said "You think you're better than everyone else" and I said "Well, yeah, pretty much."
** While not to the same extent as her sister, Tori can be pretty selfish as well.
* ''{{Big Time Rush}}'': James Diamond is essentially a male version of Trina. Gustavo can also be like this as well, considering how greatly he thinks about his music and never thinks he needs relaxing.
* In ''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."
* In ''{{Supernatural}}'' [[spoiler: Lucifer]] suffers from this, with several characters pointing out that his motivation is basically the cosmic equivalent of a child throwing a tantrum for not getting his way.
* Tracy and Jenna on ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]''. Liz has her moments of this too. And Jack. And... okay, basically everyone not named "Kenneth".
* {{House}} has been called this, for many, many reasons.
* London Tipton from ''TheSuiteLifeOnDeck''.
* Radiguet from ''ChoujinSentaiJetman''. He wants to take everything for himself, even from fellow elites.
** From KaizokuSentaiGokaiger, we have Basco Ta Jolokia. He will betray everyone and do anything to get what he wants. Yes, that include [[WouldHurtAChild threatening to kill a wounded child]] which he was very willing to do. In fact, his catchphrase is: ''To gain something, you must throw something else''.
* Shows up all the time on ''{{Survivor}}'', especially with jury members in the final episode: many reflect on their time in the game and conclude that they were TooCoolToLive, and their questions for the Final Two/Three revolve around getting the finalists to suck up to them.
** Naonka from the ''Nicaragua'' season is one of the more extreme examples. Immediately after winning a challenge, she announces her intention to quit the game. After a few minutes on this subject, the host gets back to business and gives the winning team a choice: one member can give up reward (which includes food) to get food and shelter for the tribe. Naonka, even though she'll be fed that night at the Loser Lodge [[strike:if]] once she quits, makes ''no'' move to give up the reward and talks to the ConfessionCam about how she doesn't care, she wants food ''now''. She spends the rest of the episode talking about how awesome she is (even though she's quitting because the experience is too hard) and how she knows she would've won if she stayed (not a chance; she was being carried to the end because she'd be easy to win against).
* Particularly notable examples in {{Glee}} are Rachel Berry (accuses Mr Schue of giving other students solos purely to punish her; sends a rival to a crackhouse instead of an audition to avoid losing her top spot in the club), Finn (lies to Rachel to get her back into glee so he can get a music scholarship; yells at Kurt in front of the whole club for not telling him about Kurt's father's heart attack before anyone else, less than 24 hours after it happened), and Sue Sylvester (...pretty much everything she says and does, really).
** Mr. Schue gets accused of this when he focuses too much on his own personal musical preferences and not what is best for the students. He did start the Glee club partly to relive his glory days and will occasionally slip into behaving like it is all about him. Having to deal with Sue and Rachel usually knocks him out of it.
* Mitchell of ''BeingHuman'' gets regularly called out on this. He focuses on how miserable and guilty he feels and forgets all the people he killed and the suffering of their families. It might actually be a survival trait for vampires as those who are too emphatic would be prone to suicide or exposing the Masquerade.
* On ''TheBigC'', Rebecca has a rather selfish reaction to Cathy revealing that she has cancer:
-->'''Rebecca:''' You will be my first real friend with cancer. I will be forever changed.
-->'''Cathy:''' ''(dryly)'' Hopefully for the better.
* LexLuthor goes this way as ''{{Smallville}}'' progresses, allowing his obsessions to dominate his life, and refusing to [[NeverMyFault accept the blame]] for any of the disasters he's caused. He blames his father, Clark, Lana, and anyone else he can, has dozens of skeletons in his closet, but takes anyone else keeping a secret as a personal betrayal, and tries to control the lives of everyone around him, never understanding why they might have a problem with that.
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* The ''[[{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]'' is a condemned murderer's self-pity. Never once do we hear the narrator express remorse for the murder; he's only sorry he got in trouble for it.
* TheDecemberists' "The Rake's Song": the Rake murdered his entire family just because he was bored with raising children:
-->"And that's how I came, your humble narrator,\\
To be living so easy and free,\\
I 'spect that you think that I should be haunted,\\
But it never really bothers me."
** Oh come on, you're not giving him enough credit. He wasn't bored - he was actively horrified that he'd ever allowed himself to be in a position that hampers his rakish ways.
* TheSistersOfMercy song ''I Was Wrong'' (and really most of their ''Vision Thing'' album) veers off in this direction: ''"Pain looks great on other men, that's what they're for."''
* Marshall Mathers aka EMINEM put out a wonderful EarWorm called "Without Me"
-->Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
-->cuz we need a little controversy,
-->cuz it feels so empty without me
* Obscure New Zealand jazz group Hot Club Sandwich have a song all about this, entitled 'Let's Talk About Me'
-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
-->I'm much more interesting than you
-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
-->My life is fabulous, it's true
-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
-->It's something that we all should do, come on
-->That's enough about me, let's talk about you
-->What do you think about ME?
* The WeirdAl song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?" shows the narrator getting increasingly sociopathic, from getting mad that the news interrupted ''TheSimpsons'' to report a horrific earthquake, to lamenting the fact that a friend who owed him five bucks just got killed in a car accident and he'll never see the money again, to bending the tip of his really nice knife when he stabbed his boss in the face.
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* All three main characters in ''{{Candorville}}'' do this from time to time--Susan and Lemont because their problems are so great, Clyde because he's just self-centered. None of them have ''anything'' on [[ClingyJealousGirl Roxanne]], though--she has never shown concern for any individual human being other than herself and her son with Lemont, and the latter is more a means of guilt-tripping Lemont than someone she really cares about.
* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]], taking it to extreme levels in his naivete. It comes up all the time, but perhaps the clearest example was when he used advanced cardboard box technology to create multiple identical copies of himself and was amazed and outraged when instead of doing all his work for him they all did whatever they damn well pleased and got him into trouble repeatedly. He has also remarked that the world owes him everything for the simple fact that he made it a better place by being born, and that he's tired of everyone being so selfish and only thinking about themselves when they should focus on him.
** What may set some kind of a record is when two time-travelling versions of Calvin decide to gang up on the Calvin between themselves in time, blaming him for being lazy and not doing the homework assignment neither of them is going to do either because they want to get it by time travel. They threaten to beat him up to make him do it until he points out they're going to suffer from it too because they're him. In other words, it's not even just all about me at the expense of everyone else, it's all about me ''at this moment'' at the expense of me at other times.
** To his defense, he's ''six'', which would explain his lack of perception in such issues.
* AndyCapp is about as bad in this respect, as if it isn't bad enough he leeches off everyone else. There's a [[MeaningfulName reason]] why [[PunnyName his name sounds like "handicap"]].
* {{Garfield}}. Just Garfield.
-->'''[[ButtMonkey Jon]]''': Do you have ANY idea what I have to put up with because of you!?\\
'''[[CatsAreMean Garfield]]''': *[[BeatPanel thinks]]* No, I've never thought of that before.
* Lucy van Pelt from ''{{Peanuts}}'', who like Calvin has the excuse that she's a child.
** At one point, studying history, Sally Brown is astonished to learn how many people existed before she was born. She feels sorry for them, because it can't have been much fun without her in the world. When Charlie Brown comes back from being lost in the woods, her reaction is "[[IfYouDieICallYourStuff I suppose you'll want your room back?]]"
* J.J. of ''{{Doonesbury}}'' - to the point where she somehow made the funeral of Widow Doonesbury (Mike's mother and her former mother-in-law) all about her forgiving Mrs. Doonesbury for the mean things she said about her over the years. For bonus points, she says this in front of Alex, her daughter (and Mrs. Doonesbury's granddaughter).
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* In the {{WWE}}, this is Batista's new gimmick in that EVERYTHING has to be about him. His entrance? Every other light in the arena going off and a single spotlight being focused on him as he is walks to the ring. Is he not in the World Championship match going on? He will run in and beat the crap out of both participants for daring to not have him in the match. If he cuts a promo, he will say this line at least twice.
* In {{TNA}}, Dixie Carter's decision to fire Abyss. She was shown bullying General Manager Eric Bischoff into enforcing her wishes, which is admittedly her right as his superior. The problem here is that she wanted to fire Abyss not because he has been randomly attacking and even attempting to kill high-profile wrestlers (such as his assault on then-TNA Champion Rob Van Dam, forcing Van Dam to vacate the title), but because Abyss took Dixie hostage in front of the entire TNA "Impact Zone" (what TNA calls its in-studio fan base) and reduced her to a sniveling wreck on national television. She even orders it to be public just to humiliate Abyss just as he did her. Keep in mind that she's already been put into harm's way before (via Fortune, which led to her husband Serge being assaulted in an attempt to come to her rescue) and she didn't bother to at least suspend them. [[CompleteMonster Abyss's]] [[MoralEventHorizon actions]] aside, this makes Dixie comes across as caring more about herself and how she appears than the well-being of her employees. When she talked to RVD about his match, the discussion was pretty much "I want you to beat him for what he did to me! ...Oh, and to you, too!"
** Subverted in that HulkHogan and Eric Bischoff were actually working Dixie; they were the ones that had Abyss become an AxCrazy monster, carve up Rob Van Dam, warn maniacally about the coming of a force called [[NebulousEvilOrganization "They"/"Them"]] that was telling him to do everything, and finally grab Dixie in order to frighten her into signing a contract Bischoff presented and said was for the firing of Abyss following ''Bound for Glory''…but was actually for them to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the company]]. Ironically, this trope basically built the entire motivation behind not just Hogan and Bischoff, but ''everybody'' involved in their MassiveMultiplayerScam.
* Often a cause for a FaceHeelTurn or HeelFaceTurn in tag teams and stables.
** An interesting recent example comes from Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater. after first leaving TheNexus and joining the Corre, then later on disbanding the Corre, they stayed partners and friends. Then they betrayed each other and became this trope, with Slater pretty much saying in pre-match promos "I want my spotlight, cause I'm the [[RedBaron One-Man Rock BAND]], baby!", whereas Gabriel is actually working on a HeelFaceTurn while the hook of his new theme song, "Power" by S-Preme, ''says this exact line'' three times within fifteen seconds.
*** And just a couple months later, the song is turned over to the Nexus (which is just [[TheStarscream David Otunga]] and [[{{Ptitlei20tntia}} Michael McGillicutty]] now) and Gabriel has a new instrumental rock theme. Much better fit for Mike and Otunga, actually.
**** Of course, nothing related to Nexus or Corre would be here if Wade Barrett could actually give a crap aobut his people for more than a couple months.
* '''TheMiz''' that is all.
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* The entire Beholder race from ''DungeonsAndDragons'', combined with a heaping helping of FantasticRacism. A typical Beholder's world view: It is the pinnacle of creation and the perfect reflection of the Great Mother that spawned their race. Other Beholders of the same breed are tolerable inferiors who have their uses. Beholders of other breeds are disgusting abominations against nature that must be destroyed on sight. Anything that's not an Beholder is barely worth considering -- either flies to be swatted when they become a nuisance, or potential slaves. For added fun, although the difference between Beholder breeds is sometimes quite large, other times it can be things so minuscule that nothing that's not a Beholder would even notice. The Beholder with slightly bumpier skin or a different number of teeth is as much a hated inferior as the one who has flame-based powers instead of the standard Beholder suite or has a differing number of eyestalks.
** In fact, at least one splat claims that ''every single Beholder'' is technically its own breed, and even siglings will soon attempt to kill each other over, say, a particular spot or mole.
* This is the primary characteristic of the [[MagicTheGathering colour Black]]. Mind you, [[DarkIsNotEvil not every Black character is evil]], but all are selfish.
** [[SignificantAnagram Liliana Vess]] is the most extreme of this. Even Sorin Markov feels repsonsibility to the people of Zendikar.
* The Eldaar of ''Warhammer40000'' will go to ''any'' lengths to preserve their dwindling race. To them, the lives of billions of other races aren't nearly as valuable as a single Eldaar. Their situation is so dire (they are the favorite prey of the Slaanesh, the Chaos God of Squick that ''they created'') and their numbers so few that this extremely ruthless attitude is the only way they can delay their extinction.
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* Lulu of ''Shine: A Burlesque Musical'' has a number with this title.
* Glinda ("It's Gah-linda!") acts like this in the beginning of ''Wicked.''
* The ShowWithinAShow "Springtime for Hitler" in TheProducers features, in the musical version, Hitler singing a song entitled "Heil Myself", [[SoBadItsGood which is everything the title promises]].
* The villainess Lady Jacqueline Carston lampshades this trope in her hilarious song ''Thinking of no one but me'' in the comedic musical ''Me and My Girl''.
* ''[[Theatre/TheBookOfMormon The Book of Mormon]]'' has Elder Price. The first song he and his nerdy missionary brother, Elder Cunningham, sing together is even called, "You and Me (But Mostly Me)".
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}''. Reaver, the Hero of Skill.
* Dr. Weil, the [[CompleteMonster utterly despicable]] BigBad of the ''MegaManZero'' series. It all started with how he, and HIM ONLY, thinks humans deserve to rule the Reploids, single-handedly triggered the Elf Wars. Later, he is given a FateWorseThanDeath that is technically [[WhatAnIdiot escapable]]. Then he starts taking over the world, and making people suffer just because they all made him suffer. As Weil puts it:
-->'''Dr. Weil:''' Justice!? Freedom!? Worthless ideals! You Reploids are just machines, but you started a war a long time ago in the name of freedom! And humans! Look what they did to me! Driving me away while spouting the word "justice!" Zero, would you insist on saving them!? [[CompleteMonster Controlling the Reploids is nothing! The destruction of all mankind is only fleeting!]]
* Possibly Wario in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare'', although he's also heavily obsessed with [[{{Greed}} monetary gain]]. On a similar note, most of his enemies are like this as well, which is probably why he's never really portrayed as the villain.
* Similarly, the villains from the VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi series, the first and third games in particular. Cackletta starts out more or less like any normal villain, but turns into this roughly when she takes over Bowser's body to become Bowletta. Fawful is already in this in the first game (he has a literal camera crew with spot lights and speech before his boss battle), but by the time of Bowser's Inside Story, has gone straight off the deep end, with his face on every object in sight (statues, floors, trains) and the entirety of Bowser's minions treating him as a celebrity under mind control.
* ''MyWorldMyWay''. It's in the title. After all, when you're a {{princess}} who can ''[[RealityWarper change the fabric of reality by pouting]]'', why ''wouldn't'' it be about you? Of course, the reason she's doing anything is to learn how not to be a stuck-up princess.
* [[FinalFantasyIX Kuja]] pretty much robs the whole friggin' bakery. The motivation for his SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: He was informed of his mortality, as well as the fact that he would be dying soon, and found it utterly unfair that the rest of the universe was allowed go on existing ''without him''. Naturally, something had to be done.
* ''GodOfWar'', has Kratos, a man who killed an entire pantheon rather than admit once that maybe, just maybe, something was ''his own damn fault''. Most evident in the second game, when he starts doing the exact same thing that Ares did. The thing that prompted the gods to help Kratos kill him. And then he claims that the Gods of Olympus betrayed ''him'' by stopping him.
** This gets called out in the third game, where Hermes gives him a HannibalLecture on how his path only leads to destruction and Kratos undergoes a slow HeelRealization.
** Lampshaded in the first game, where it's shown in a flashback that his wife Lysandra refused to believe that his brutality was for "the glory of Sparta" as he claims, telling him that he does it all for his own personal glory.
* Mouri Motonari from ''SengokuBasara''. What we have here is a guy who claims himself to be 'The Child Of The Sun', commands a battalion of devoted soldiers... that he considers disposable pawns, and will kill when it's beneficial to him, then takes all the glory for himself (to be fair, he does come up with 100% of the strategies). His goal is to, you guessed it, [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Land]]. And while others have pretty righteous reasons for doing this, Motonari does it for himself only.
-->'''[[StreetFighter M. Bison]]''': ''[[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!!!]]''
* Arl Howe from DragonAge: Origins, who was also TheResenter. He betrayed his best friend, Bryce Cousland, and slaughtered most of his family before throwing his lot in with [[FallenHero Teryn Loghain]]. When questioned about this later by a human noble PC, he has the audacity to claim that Bryce was a traitor because he made frequent trips to Orlais. Throughout the conversation, however, he reveals that he was simply resentful of the Couslands' success. As shown in the Awakenings expansion, Arl Howe's actions end up bringing shame to his family and his children end up as pariahs. Even his FamousLastWords are an example of this trope.
-->''Maker spit on you … I deserved more …''
** And Marjolaine too. Marjolaine betrayed her disciple and lover under the belief that Leliana would EVENTUALLY betray her, and then attempted to sell out her own country to Harwen Raleigh, a man who can be charitably described as a CompleteMonster.
*** When you meet her in the main game, she ''still'' thinks it's all about her. If you try to tell her that Leliana has moved past her betrayal to help fight the Blight she angrily dismisses you and insists otherwise. Marjolaine actually believes she is more important than the freaking Darkspawn.
* [[MassEffect Tali]] WILL find a way to mention the Quarians, even if the situation isn't related to them at all.
** The Illusive Man is this trope to an even greater extent because apparently "Cerberus ''is'' humanity!".
* TalesOfTheAbyss main character Luke starts out this way. Anything that does not involve either himself or Master Van is boring and unworthy of his attention. A large part of the story focuses on his transition from a self-centered, spoiled brat into a self-sacrificing hero.
* Prince Laharl from ''{{Disgaea}}'' is, by his vassals' accounts, a self-centered brat with a massive entitlement complex. For example, he didn't expect to actually pay his vassals, since he'd have to share his allowance. He eventually shapes up (a little) when he realizes that they won't work for or respect him otherwise.
** His vassal Etna is not above it either. She's perfectly willing to send her minions on [[{{Prinny}} suicide missions]] to satisfy her SweetTooth, and barely pays them anything. In the [[{{Disgaea2}} second game,]] she joins the party after an incident where she [[spoiler: screws them over by giving them a fake ingredient ForTheEvulz. This backfires when their ritual inadvertently causes her power to vanish, then she proceeds to demand they fix her problems for her despite being the one at fault.]] However, she later opens up to [[MoralityPet Hanako]] after she shows interest in her, and eventually [[spoiler: takes in and trains her to become a FutureBadass Demon Lord after the two grow closer together.]]
** After the sheltered princess Rozalin is accidentally summoned, she initially does this when she demands Adell focus entirely on her needs. She [[CharacterDevelopment gets over it]] over the course of the story after befriending Adell's siblings, seeing the effects of her father's curse on the world, [[spoiler: and being touched by Adell's commitment to his promise.]]
* The first hint that [[PokemonBlackAndWhite Ghetsis]]' motives [[CompleteMonster may not be wholesome]] is when he slips up in a speech at Castelia City. He is quick to correct himself, but for the observant, the damage has already been done.
* Jon Irenicus from ''BaldursGate'' ''2'' to a horrifying degree. He was like this even ''before'' his soul was stripped away. Irenicus endangered the lives of his ''entire race'' by trying to siphon the power of the Tree of Life in his bid for godhood; an act so heinous and sacrilegious that the Elven Queen Ellisime (who was his lover at the time) tore away his immortal elven soul and banished him with the Elven gods' blessings. Irenicus of course considers them monsters for taking away his soul and doesn't even acknowledge that ''maybe'' he had it coming what with nearly killing his own species. ItGotWorse when the lack of a soul caused him to develop a LackOfEmpathy as well. Irenicus doesn't see people as people anymore after that point. To him, they are just tools to be exploited, slaves to be worked to death, experimental subjects, or targets for revenge.
** Note that he needed some prodding by his much more [[LackOfEmpathy empathy-lacking]] sister Bodhi before he started this kind of mindset.
* Rift - Prince Hylas comes to mind as while this isn't necessarily the primary motivation for the rest of House Aelfwar departing to join up and work with Greenscale's life plane, it certainly is for him. When his lover left for war and returned as basically one of TheMessiah, he spurned her for no other real reason than that he and the other High Elves were no longer the Vigil's favourite.
* Shun in ''EienNoAselia.''
* What self-professed Objectivist Andrew Ryan says of himself through the creation of his underwater capitalist paradise Rapture in the first two BioShock games.
* Alex of ''GoldenSun''. When you encounter him in ''The Lost Age'' after adding Piers to your party, he's quite offended that you found a new Water Adept who actually cares about your mission enough to, you know, ''tag along and help you himself''... and then he reveals his hypocrisy by introducing you to ''his'' new allies. [[spoiler: And then he [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder double-crosses]] ''[[UpToEleven everybody]]'', [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness including Karst and Agatio]].]]
* James Tobin from {{In The 1st Degree}}. Yvonne Barnes states that Tobin is completely full of himself, and that he ended up blaming his business partner Zack for all his problems. Interestingly, it is stated that he slept around, and that he was likely cheating on his girlfriend Ruby. However, the minute he finds out that Zack and Ruby had a one-night stand, he flies into a terrible rage and decides that he has to murder Zack. Yes, he thinks it's okay for him to cheat, but it's not okay for his girlfriend to cheat. What you have here is a man who lives and breathes this trope.
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* Regina of ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' was [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_972.php quickly established]] to be of this type.
* Angelika of ''OurLittleAdventure'' shows traits of this, though she's one of the protagonists...
** A less amusing example would be Angelo, one of the [[BigBad main villains]] in the story. This attitude also extends to [[PathOfInspiration many of his followers,]] with [[MonsterOfTheWeek Toby]] being the most blatant example in this miniarc [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0159.html here.]]
* [[AMagicalRoommate Alassa.]] "Do my homework!"
* The DVD release of DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog contains a commentary track entitled "Commentary: The Musical". One of the songs in the musical is actually titled "It's All About Me", and consists of small sections sung by each of the extras in the production, explaining how it really is all about them...
* There is a song from TheBatterysDown in which a Jewish 13-year-old sings about how her bat mitzvah is all about ''her'', so everybody better practically worship her.
* ''OrderOfTheStick'': Nale, more than anyone, is a firm believer in this trope. What matters most to him isn't necessarily the end result, or the methods used, but that ''he'' wins and that the opponent ''knows'' he was the one to do it. This contrasts him with both his brother, a selfless hero who [[GenreSavvy cares deeply about genre conventions]]. Their father Tarquin also acts this way, not even understanding why [[PoisonousFriend murdering people for the few he cares about]] would bother them.
* HomestarRunner gives us the now legendary Strong Bad, whose self centered-ness is rivaled only by his self-perceived awesomeness.
* LeastICouldDo: Rayne Summers acts like a complete [[JerkAss jerkwad]] to everyone around him, from ridiculing to humiliating them, and they love him for it. He's allowed to do whatever he wants in his company because they '[[LameExcuse need his talent]]' and has gone on record as stating "[[PresentCompanyExcluded Webcomics suck]]" in not any an ironic manner.
** The last one is even better. Rayne calls a web cartoonist out for expecting accolades and praise when he's not fully committed to giving 100% and sticking to a strict update schedule for the comic he writes and draws on his own. Ryan Sohmer himself relies on paid professional artists to draw his comic, which is funded by ads and merchandising.
* ''SquidRow'' [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=1174 Max]]
* TheNostalgiaChick pays little attention to any feelings or problems that aren't her own. It's not clear whether she even notices them or just doesn't give a crap.
* ''{{Sinfest}}'' [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1743 Monique considers the possibility of giving it up.]]
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* Eric Cartman from ''SouthPark''. For example, the Imaginationland episodes had him not caring about the possible destruction of all imagination by evil characters or by the US government's nuke. Instead, he just cared about proving that he won a stupid bet so that Kyle would have to suck his balls.
** Satan in the episode "Hell on Earth 2006". The main plot is about him trying to host the perfect Halloween party. He wants a Ferrari cake to be wheeled into the room at midnight, but [[TheThreeStooges the Three Murderers]] accidentally smash the cake when they pick it up from the shop. Because they murdered all the bakers in the shop, they have to bake a new cake themselves, but they make it a different car model so they can bring it back in time. When they finally get back with the new cake, Satan is disappointed that it's not a Ferrari. When his minion says the guests are still happy, Satan screams, "It's not about the guests! IT'S ALL ABOUT '''ME'''!" This prompts a MyGodWhatHaveIDone, when he realizes he's acting like those spoiled 16 year old girls in those reality shows like "My Super Sweet Sixteen" that the episode was parodying.
* In ''BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle'', [[VainSorceress Lydia]]'s villainous motivation comes from her desire to be the only muse and keep all music for herself.
* In case you don't know who the robot's talking about when he (repeatedly) invokes this trope, he always ends his this-trope-invoking statements with "...[[{{Futurama}} me, Bender.]]"
* Although Kuzco of ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and later ''[[TheEmperorsNewSchool -School]]'' isn't a villain, it's definitely all about him. A lesson he [[AesopAmnesia learns and forgets in every episode]]. Heck, he's arguably the TropeCodifier, considering the fact that his picture is used for the page.
** At least he had learned his lesson by the time of Kronk's New Groove, at which point he's downright selfless.
** How bad is his narcissism? The opening theme for TheEmperorsNewSchool involve him claiming the trope title twice (once he had nameless guards [[WildMassGuessing #4, #7, #13 and #57]] sing "EXACTLY" after he said it, and the other was because the lyrics mentioned his friends), and his name being spelled out twice. Once just because he liked it so much the first time.
* [[TheStarscream Starscream]], from ''TheTransformers'', in every incarnation, in every timeline. His MoralMyopia is so acute that despite being the TropeNamer of treachery, he has blown up in fury at anyone else's attempts at betraying, nay, even insulting Megatron.
** [[TheStarscream Starscream's]] objections to people attacking Megatron are perhaps closer to TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou. Still fits the trope every time he, himself, is betrayed.
** ''[[TransformersEnergon Energon]]'' Starscream doesn't have this trait [[NobleDemon at all]], then again his links to the character were mostly created by the English dub (in the ''SuperLink'' original edit he is "Nightscream" and linked to the character merely by appearance).
* Azula from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is another perfect example, and when things start to fall apart she goes nuts. [[DaddysGirl She does have some desire to prove herself to Ozai]] although [[CompleteMonster Ozai]] [[AbusiveParents couldn't care less]].
** Though it is implied that part of the reason she goes nuts is that she realized her friends actually meant something to her, and cannot deal with the realization that their betrayal indicates that ''she'' was unworthy of ''their'' trust.
* [[strike:Bobby]] [[MyNaymeIs Bobbi]] Fabulous in ''PhineasAndFerb''. Lampshaded in his IAmSong, predictably titled "Fabulous" in which one of the lines is "It's all about me!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': In "Titans East Part 2" Robin accuses Cyborg of being this.
** Ironically Robin himself was actually pulling this trope as well during the conversation.
* Angelica from ''{{Rugrats}}''.
** Demonstrated when she tells a doctor on TV she's worried about a new sibling and throws it in the garbage when he explains the world doesn't revolve around her.
* Most of the characters in ''FamilyGuy'' fall into this trope at one point or another, especially in the later seasons.
** Due to her being the ButtMonkey and {{Woobie}}, Meg rarely has this anymore. And when she does, it's entirely justified.
*** In earlier episodes, prior to overly sadistic reinventions of the rest of the cast, Meg acted as a much less provoked BrattyTeenageDaughter however.
-->'''Meg:''' I can't believe you would put your family before your own daughter!
* The majority of scenarios and problems caused by the cast in ''AmericanDad'' also usually revolve around this trope. Roger is almost this trope at it's most intensified. He will walk over, victimise or outright kill for the most minor indulgences or offenses on his behalf (It is possible he has this attitude towards humanity due to being a parody of TheGrays however).
* {{Gorillaz}} bassist Murdoc Niccals. The song "Murdoc Is God" should be a sufficient warning sign.
* As proved by the page quote, DaffyDuck represents this trope well too, especially Chuck Jones' later version, which WordOfGod stated to in fact be revolved around the word "Selfish". He would often try to [[DirtyCoward place a threat to his well being against another poor shmuck]] (usually Bugs, who had no problem sending them back on him). That said this tendency and a lot of Daffy's other JerkAss traits were also provoked slightly by his [[ScrewySquirrel sadistic sense of humor as well]].
* Shake of AquaTeenHungerForce lives for his own amusement. And everyone around him better do the same.
* King Julien from ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. "...which is not very interesting to me because it is not ''about'' me. You see how that works?"
** In other words, he's just like [[TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], but taken UpToEleven.
* In ''Film/AllStarSuperman'', [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] is interviewing Lex Luthor in prison when the Parasite escapes and attacks him to drain his powers, which have become supercharged due to extra exposure to the sun. Parasite is clearly draining the energy from ''something'', since he is literally growing in size, and he keeps shouting about the strength and power he is sensing, explicitly comparing it to the sun, but Luthor ''never'' realizes that he himself is not the target. Even after Parasite has been defeated, [[AwkwardAbility by a fortunate earthquake that happened to save Clark Kent just in time]], Luthor rants and beats his unconcious body, explaining that this is the penalty for daring to challenge Luthor.
* Syndrome aka Buddy Pine in ''TheIncredibles''. As a boy, he constantly pesters Mr. Incredible and implores him to let him be his sidekick. When he tries to show his skills, and almost gets killed doing so, the resulting damage leads to a widespread SuperRegistrationAct which forces Mr. Incredible into retirement and hiding. Yet years later, Syndrome still has the gall to say ''he'' got the short end of the stick.
* Lucius on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}''.
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* As the Titanic sank, a first-class passenger on one of the lifeboats was heard to remark that her favorite night-gown was still aboard the ship. [[NeverLiveItDown Society ostracized her and her husband for the rest of her life.]] Of course, she could have been babbling in shock.
* In one of the more tragic examples, it's one of the common motivations behind familicide. The warning signs are almost identical to those for suicide, but some people can't conceive of their family surviving without them, so they take the entire family with them.
** Case in point, [[PaterFamilicide John List]], who killed his entire family because he couldn't own up to his financial woes and evaded capture for decades, almost becoming a KarmaHoudini.
* Any human that has gone through their teenage years has experienced this at some point or another.
** Some people don't grow out of it though add sociopathy and geniune lack of empathy and completely knowledgeable ignorance of boundaries.
* One case from NotAlwaysRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bridezilla-on-line-1 A newspaper wrote about me! Why don't everyone know this already?]]
** Make that several cases. Some customers will make demands that are illogical, illegal, or just plain stupid and will fly into a tantrum if they don't hot to it immediately. A few of them seem to expect that cashiers, salespeople, and tech support specialists are all telepaths, so why should they make any effort at all to describe the problem? Those cashiers, salespeople, and tech support specialists are all idiots are who are too damn lazy to do something I could easily do myself.
** And one infamous golf incident that was dubbed "Always right, even when shooting down a helicopter". The guy was upset because another golfer was having a heart attack on the green, and the EMT helicopter was blocking his shot.
* Many or most real life dictators, and even a few not-so-bad political rulers. Some religious authorities might also qualify, but of course opinions will vary.
* In addition to the narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders mentioned in the description other mental problems that can cause this kind of behavior are grandiose delusions, manic states, and hypomanic states.
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->What about ''me''?
--> [[{{Lost}} What]] ''about'' you?
