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Author: troublegum

Mar 30th 2012 at 1:59:08 AM

^ Exactly the problem this initially had: the description says (I'm paraphrasing) "this is a guy who is CEO of a non-entity company or who is releasing an upgrade and puts on a massive show in spite of his / the product / release's insignificance" but the example originally used was Tony Stark in Film/IronMan 2 arriving at the Stark Expo. Multi-billion dollar company, superhero CEO, making an entrance at the huge technology expo his company regularly holds. Yeah....

Likewise: Steve Mobbs in TheSimpsons doesn't fit this trope as currently described. In the episode in which he appears, ''MyPods And Boomsticks'', Mobbs doesn't make a showy entrance involving parachuting, teleportation or scantily-clad dancing girls, he comes up on a big screen in the Mapple Store. We also have no idea what his announcement was going to be, since Bart unplugs the audio feed and substitutes his own. The only concession to this trope would be Mobbs describing himself as "your insanely great leader."

Description needs rewriting to either limit this to [=CEOs=] who have delusions of grandeur about themselves and / or their products OR make it a trope about [=CEOs=] who engage in highly theatrical stunts as part of their public appearances regardless of the significance of themselves, their product or their company.