History SmugSnake / FIlm

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': ComicBook/TheJoker likes to think of himself as the greatest comedian and supervillain, and always wanted to make Batman laugh. But when Batman ''does'' laugh, [[IShallTauntYou he's mocking]] how utterly pathetic Joker really is. For all his snark and bravado, Joker is just a stupid manchild whose jokes are [[BoringInsult lame]] once the props are removed. Joker doesn't take this diss [[VillainousBreakdown lightly]]. Who knew the clown had NoSenseOfHumor when he's the ''punchline''?

* ''Film/{{Fracture|2007}}'' also shows a good contrast between a Smug Snake and a MagnificentBastard, (or, [[spoiler:considering how he [[VillainBall screws everything up at the end]],]] a much more high-functioning Smug Snake). The former is a smarmy prosecutor who believes he has gotten a completely open-and-shut case, and consequently has not bothered to do his job properly. The latter is a murderer who believes he has made himself untouchable despite the case against him seeming to be bulletproof, and is not worried about [[SmugSmiler showing how confident he is]]. The reason you are almost rooting for the murderer is because his arrogance comes from having planned everything very carefully, rather than smugly assuming he's going to win. The fact that he's played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins certainly helps.

* The douche-tacular Captain Styles of the USS ''Excelsior'' in ''Film/{{Star Trek III|The Search for Spock}}''. He exists for Kirk to tap-dance rings around.

* Eddie Brock in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' is, at least initially, a slimy, unctuous creep who sucks up to Jameson to advance his own career prospects, is a bit too creepy-stalkerish with Gwen Stacy, the 'girl he intends to marry' (although Gwen is quick to point out that they've only ever been out for a coffee once) and ends up manufacturing a photo of Franchise/SpiderMan robbing a bank to frame the superhero and secure a staff job at the ''Bugle''. Then Peter exposes his fake, he loses his job, and Gwen breaks up with him -- and then he meets the Venom symbiote...

* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' has the suitably named Barkis Bittern, who can't seem to go two steps without leaving a trail of slime behind him and can't even concede defeat without smugly rubbing it into his [[spoiler:late finacee Elizabeth's face that she was "always the bridesmaid -- but ''never'' the bride!" before [[SelfDisposingVillain accidentally killing himself drinking a goblet of poisoned wine.]]]]

** And just to hammer the point home, the kids even got wise his smugness. One episode had Lucas, Nick and Jessica mess up his plan by simply pointing out how painfully obvious it was, which caused him to lose his head and attack.

* Le Chiffre in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' is a Smug Snake, albeit a very competent one. He's a mathematical genius who displays tremendous grace under pressure during poker games and is gifted at intimidating his opponents but pretty soon the cracks in his shell appear larger. When things start turning sour for him, he immediately starts to lose his cool. He's highly intelligent, but not quite so clever as he thinks himself to be. His entire plan throughout the film is just to pay off debts he got himself into with the world's terrorists by betting the wrong way with their money which shows his overconfidence and as Bond says "all he gets in return is a name he already has." [[SharpDressedMan He still wears a suit damn well though]].
** Though quite unusually for a Bond film, Le Chiffre doesn't really get a lot of chances to be smug, since [[AlasPoorVillain his life is in danger]] and he even gets [[EvilerThanThou attacked by other villains]].

** See below for [=MonsterVerse=] examples.

* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Packard]] becomes increasingly AxCrazy and is fully confident that he can take out Kong. [[spoiler: Five seconds before having the chance to do so, Kong squashes him like a bug with no problem whatsoever]].
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'':
*** [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Walter Simmons]]. Underneath his initial charming if proud exterior is an egotist who's brimming with hubris. As the film progresses, he treats Team Godzilla with faux-polite haughty disdain and is quick to get abrasively demanding with Ren when hearing something he doesn't want to. He sees himself as the next visionary architect of humanity's entry into a bold new era, but he's possibly the single most TooDumbToLive major villain in the entire Franchise/MonsterVerse with how he [[spoiler:doesn't see anything wrong with using a known OmnicidalManiac Titan[='s=] ''incomprehensibly BizarreAlienBiology and still-telepathic remains'' as the direct ''nervous system of something he designed to be WorldsStrongestMan'']]. He has an OhCrap too right before meeting his HoistByHisOwnPetard doom. In the novelization, he gets extra points for seemingly unknowingly having a DragonWithAnAgenda. The fancy glass of alcohol that Simmons carries in several scenes accentuates his Smug Snaky-ness.
*** Simmons' [[TheDragon Dragon]] Ren Serizawa is also confirmed to be one in the {{novelization}}. Besides sharing the above spoiler-y point with Simmons, he considers himself and Godzilla to be CainAndAbel, and he's wholly confident that he will succeed in killing Godzilla where rival Titans and the Oxygen Destroyer have failed, but Word of God on ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' and the novelization itself have suggested that Mechagodzilla would've lost in a fair fight against Godzilla. The novel also shows when Ren is in [[spoiler:the Skull Room]] piloting Mechagodzilla that he outright believes his mind deserves to be in a PhysicalGod body rather than his human body (though it's also hinted this might be [[spoiler:MoreThanMindControl from the Ghidorah skull affecting him]]), but he's really no more nor less a Titan-ant than every other human around him and he's, again, ridiculously Too Dumb to Live.

* The hero of ''Film/SweetSmellOfSuccess'' is a press agent without a scruple to his name, willing to do anything to succeed, even using his friends. He slithers around trying to make deals with people by selling them on rhetoric, but many note that he's little more than a hired hand for his boss Hunsecker, and pretty much all of his own schemes end up falling completely flat. And so he ends up getting RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.

** The Other is also an example of this, as he's certain that Earth will surrender the instant his Chitauri launch their assault. [[spoiler: He wisely becomes more cautious of the humans after the Avengers repel the invasion.]] This might qualify him as a subversion, as a key characteristic of a Smug Snake is [[spoiler: an inability to learn from their mistakes, a weakness he clearly does not share. Unfortunately, he showed in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' that he didn't apply that lesson to dealing with the Kree, especially a murderous fanatic like Ronan the Accuser who kills the underling when he gets mouthy on behalf of Thanos]].

* Bison from ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi''. Far from the frighteningly unstable OmnicidalManiac of the [[StreetFighter gameverse proper]] (or the LaughablyEvil MagnificentBastard [[Film/StreetFighter as played by the late Raul Julia]]), he comes across in the movie as "Kung-Fu [[Series/{{Heroes}} Arthur Petrelli]] (as played by a Malcolm [=McDowell=] impersonator)."

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' has [[FourEyesZeroSoul David]], Dianne's BastardBoyfriend who is very smug about his supposed superiority to Shaun but ultimately proves to be far more unreliable, incompetent and just plain stupid than he ever was at any point in the movie. He proves to be TheLoad, loudly complaining constantly about Shaun's plans while doing nothing but complaining. When they reach the Winchester pub and find the door locked, he immediately goes to ''smash the window'', which attracts every zombie within earshot and forces Shaun to risk his life distracting the horde to ensure their safety; when Shaun returns he simply enters through the unlocked back door. And he gets worse from there.

* ''Film/{{Fracture|2007}}'' also shows a good contrast between a Smug Snake and a MagnificentBastard, (or, [[spoiler:considering how he [[VillainBall screws everything up]] [[WhatAnIdiot at the end]],]] a much more high-functioning Smug Snake). The former is a smarmy prosecutor who believes he has gotten a completely open-and-shut case, and consequently has not bothered to do his job properly. The latter is a murderer who believes he has made himself untouchable despite the case against him seeming to be bulletproof, and is not worried about [[SmugSmiler showing how confident he is]]. The reason you are almost rooting for the murderer is because his arrogance comes from having planned everything very carefully, rather than smugly assuming he's going to win. The fact that he's played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins certainly helps.

* In ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'', [[spoiler:after Franco gets raptured for freeing both Jay and Seth from [[ImAHumanitarian McBride's]] wrath, he [[IShallTauntYou taunts McBride and his followers with crass remarks]] [[WhatAnIdiot as he's being ascended]]... which cancels the Rapture immediately. He then [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gets chewed alive by McBride and his followers]].]]