Its All About Me / Other Media

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Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: Smart S has quite the ego, constantly calling himself “the main character/superstar”, fretting about his appearance and how he is seen by others and becoming extremely jealous of anyone more popular or impressive than him, mostly Careful S. He’s still genuinely a hero and will jump in to help like the rest of the Superheroes, he just gets caught up in his need for popularity sometimes.

Comedy

• Brian Regan had a joke about people at dinner parties who spend too much time talking about themselves.
  Brian: Me! Me! ME! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Beware the Me-Monster.

Pinball

• Heist!: Everything Mr. Big does serves to either glorify himself or ensure that he remains in control of Ocean City. This includes bribing the police for his own ends and plastering his name on every industry and billboard in the area.

Puppet Shows

• The Muppet Show:
  • Miss Piggy is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold version. She does care about the others on the show, deep down, but she has a narcissistic streak that barely fits in the Muppet Theatre and no compunction about letting it out to play. She's spread ridiculous rumours, tried to trick Kermit into marrying her, and even tied up guest stars backstage in order to get what she wants.
  • Fozzie slips into this during the Cleo Laine episode. Since his mother is in the audience, he becomes obsessed with being onstage as much as possible, including stealing Miss Piggy's outfit and taking her place in Pigs in Space.
  • Link Hogthrob is an extraordinarily selfish, arrogant and vain jerk. Between his ego and Miss Piggy's, it's amazing there's room on the Swine Trek for Dr Strangepork.
• On The Pajanimals, Cowbella sometimes suffers from this, which can also result in Green-Eyed Monster, such as in "Apollo's Special Day," when she's jealous of Apollo's birthday and wants a party of her own.
• The Ferals: Rattus fundamentally views most of the other characters as existing solely so he has someone to screw with to pass the time, and Modigliana isn't much better.

Radio

• The Doctor Who audio "Time in Office" affirms that the Doctor's old teacher Borusa was completely defined by his own ego towards the end; he apparently created a complex and twisted political system that was totally dependent on the idea that he would rule Gallifrey forever, leading to the Time Lords appointing the Doctor as Lord President in his place as the only one with the necessary strength of will to undo Borusa’s current system without Gallifrey collapsing on itself in the process.
• If Sir Gregory in The Men from the Ministry thinks One and/or Two are in mortal danger, he'll often get very worried... since their deaths might end up hurting his chances of getting a promotion.

Theater

• 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)".
• 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.
• In the Mrs. Hawking play series: The key difference between Mrs. Hawking and Mrs. Frost. The former is of the mindset that women should help each other by railing against the patriarchal systems that imprison them, while the latter thinks there's no point in trying to change society, and so exploits it for wealth, power, and her own betterment.
• Robert Grove in the Play That Goes Wrong series is pompous, self-serving, egotistical and has no care about the feelings of others, expressed through his Brutal Honesty.
• The Show Within a Show "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers features, in the musical version, Hitler singing a song entitled "Heil Myself", which is everything the title promises.
• 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.

Web Animation

• Anon: While she has her moments of being nice, Miranda is known for her spoiled, egotistical ways and throwing tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants. Examples include her throwing a hissy fit over not getting a Porsche from her dad and attacking her cousin for dating the boy she liked, all while referring to herself as "humble as fuck".
• JP of Terrible Writing Advice considers negative (or even lukewarm) reviews of his book more important then wars, serious social issues and actual people. He also likes conventions because he can block the exits with his body and have a captive audience to tell about his book.
• The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: It’s usually Ridiculously Epic’s attitude in general, but he really takes it up a notch in “The Most Epic Day in the Life at a Soul-Sucking Job” and “The Most Epic Teaching Experience”, where his self-centered attitude and need for his every whim to be catered to makes it incredibly difficult for the protagonists to get through a day in the life at their jobs.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Church is insanely self-centered and arrogant, tending to view people and events in terms of how they relate to him. Even when he becomes more heroic, he's still pretty self-serving and tends to make decisions for his friends and project his own wants onto them, particularly with Tex, and he gets insanely pissy whenever he feels like someone is undermining his role as the leader.
  • Whatever Felix does, it's always for himself, and he often manipulates others into giving him what he wants with no remorse for the often-negative ramifications for whoever he tricked. The most damning example of this is his relationship with his partner Locus. The two were soldiers in the Great War, and after it ended Locus was afflicted with severe PTSD that made it nearly impossible to adjust back to civilian life; rather than help him, Felix manipulated Locus into becoming a mercenary with him so that he could survive his new profession, completely uncaring about the damage it did to Locus' mental health.
• RWBY:
  • It's perfectly clear that Salem only cares about herself. Her hatred of the gods isn't because of their capricious, egotistical nature, or the damage they've done to humanity. It's because of what they did to her. Even her hatred for Ozpin is solely because he won't take her side.
    Salem: The moment you put your desires before my own, they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found through me.
  • When Salem isn't around, Cinder Fall makes it very clear that she thinks she's the one calling the shots and that everyone has to go along with her lead whether they like it or not. During his fight with Team RNJR, Tyrian goes so far as to muse that Cinder's wildest dreams involve her being in Salem's place.
  • When it comes down to it, despite doing such things as charity events and fundraisers, Jacques Schnee is only concerned with maximizing profits and his own image, and doesn't give a damn about anyone who's not him unless he can use them to his own benefit.
  • Adam Taurus wants to wipe out humanity, not because he believes peace between them and the Faunus is impossible, but because he blames them for the personal injustices he's faced. He also makes it a priority to hunt Blake down and hurt everyone she cares about because she left his abusive butt in the dust when she deserted the White Fang, displaying a Why Did You Make Me Hit You? attitude towards doing so. In "Haven's Fate", the thing that seems to tick him off the most is Blake saying that she's "got bigger things to deal with". Even in his past, as shown during the Volume 6 Character Short, he starts off by telling the Faunus that they will claim "what we deserve"; by the time he's taken full control of the White Fang and is assaulting Haven Academy, he's instead talking about "what I deserve" and has no problem killing the Faunus who serve him to achieve his goals. His song "Lionize" reveals that he has a savior complex about his role in the White Fang, and suggests that at least partly, he was a glory-hound.
  • Arthur Watts may honestly be the biggest example of this trope in the entire show. Why does he serve Salem in destroying humanity's only hope of survival against the Creatures of Grimm, causing countless innocent deaths? Ironwood gave credence to Pietro Polendina's P.E.N.N.Y. project over his Paladins. The Paladins were still built and are a common fixture of Atlesian armies, but all Watts cared about was an extremely minor slight to his ego.
  • James Ironwood may want to save Remnant from Salem, but his efforts are hamstrung by his own Moral Myopia. He frequently double-crosses people for the flimsiest of reasons, and never takes responsibility for the negative repercussions of his actions. In his own mind, he's the hero and leader Remnant needs because he makes the hard choices no one else wants to, and anything that goes wrong is the fault of those who won't go along with his increasingly ruthless methods. He repeatedly refuses to acknowledge any method that requires being anything less that the most powerful man on the board, and never once considers that he was wrong about any of his choices. When recalling the Fall of Beacon, the one thing Ironwood obsesses over is how helpless Salem made him feel. During the climax of Volume 8, he rants about how everyone is an Ungrateful Bastard for not appreciating how much he sacrificed to protect Remnant, only for Winter to retort that he sacrificed nothing and forced everyone else to do so.
  • Jaune Arc in Volume 9, after being shunted into the past and healed after being betrayal by Alyx in the Ever After, decides to take up being The Caretaker for a village of Paper Pleasers. However, doing so prevents them from Ascending and moving on to a new purpose as Jaune turns them all into his Companion Cube friends. When Team RWBY learn of this, they realize he’s really not mentally there. When they finally die and Ascend, Jaune snaps at Ruby, accusing her of this trope due to the fact that she was the one whose plan failed and sent them here, despite the fact that he was onboard with said plan and it only went wrong due to circumstances impossible to predict.
• Epithet Erased:
  • Mera has some sympathetic elements, because her powers give her what amounts to a severe chronic illness as a side-effect, but her actual actions are pretty mercilessly self-centered. Instead of removing her Epithet to get rid of the side effects, a thing Molly outright points out that she could do, she'd rather steal Molly's Epithet, because she spent a lot of time and effort on mastering her own abilities...and doesn't respect that Molly might also have worked hard on hers, or that she might also need it in her life.
  • Lorelai, Molly's older sister, spends most of Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic behaving like a self-obsessed, immature brat. She constantly blows off her responsibilities, leaving them to the already extremely overworked Molly, then complains that Molly doesn't have time to make her happy. Even when she's tried to do something nice for her sister, her failure to actually empathise with Molly dooms it - she built a big world to adventure through for their traditional birthday celebration (the sisters having birthdays only one week apart), without considering that the last thing Molly needed at that point was more stuff to do...and, naturally, when Molly sought out a moment of peace and quiet instead, Lorelai counted it as a damning insult. When Molly suggests that Lorelai could carry some of the burden of running the house and toy store so that Molly would have the time to play with her again, Lorelai instead demands that Molly drop her best friends so she could do what Lorelai wanted; a recurring theme is Lorelai accusing Molly of "making everything about herself" for daring to want anything for herself. It is very satisfying when Molly hits her Rage Breaking Point and starts on her "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Eclipsing everyone is Martin Blyndeff, an utterly selfish Manchild who, with the loss of the stabilising influence of his wife, totally loses the ability to care about either of his children beyond how they can make him happy, outright lying to Child Protective Services at least once in order to keep them under his thumb. He may constantly take Lorelai's side when she and Molly argue, but he doesn't seem to actually value her as a person beyond the ideas he can get from her dream bubbles, and his refusal to do anything that could be considered "adulting" has left Molly exhausted and constantly on the edge of burning out, undergoing an emotional breakdown. The man left his twelve-year-old daughter in a museum because he was playing games on her phone and just assumed that she'd figure out her way back eventually. Needless to say, nobody likes Martin Blyndeff.

Web Video

• Regular Car Reviews holds the Honda S2000 to be a car dedicated to this, with the entire dashboard being crowded over onto the driver's side, with only one concession to the passenger.
  "Okay, fine. Fine. Here. Have a VENT. You can have a VENT. Have fun with your VENT."
• Oxventure:
  • Their Dungeons & Dragons game has dashing pirate Corazón as one of these: He constantly looks for merchandizing opportunities, plugs his penny dreadfuls, and at one point, wants to wear a large tri-cornered hat to a wedding because it would take attention away from the bride and groom and put it squarely on him.
  • Their Blades in the Dark campaign gives this characterisation to Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue III, a rich, self-infatuated jerk who decided to become a criminal because daring heists sounded fun.
    Barnaby: I am Barnaby "the Butcher" Fortescue III, at your service - actually, you should probably be at my service. I'm very wealthy.
    Zillah: How is that guy still here?

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