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* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] has a tremendous ego. His entire goal is to make everyone and everything an extension of himself. His vision of the future is to essentially turn all creation into an everlasting monument to himself.

* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': The original tales show how Stephen Strange was an incredibly self-centered and arrogant man boasting of his greatness. He was brought low by a car accident ruining his career and later becoming Sorcerer Supreme. Yet there are still times when Strange can fall into the thinking that almost any major magic threat in the multiverse ''has'' to somehow involve him rather than just be a coincidence.
** Strange and Doctor Druid (no stranger to arrogance himself) are doing battle against demons. Strange is worried that Druid will take advantage of this to backstab him over years being angry that Strange was chosen to be Sorcerer Supreme rather than Druid. When he realizes this, Druid openly calls Strange "an arrogant prat" and "will you get it through your skull, not everyone wants to be Stephen Strange!"

* In the Creator/{{Elseworlds}} series ''ComicBook/DarkKnightDynasty'', Vandal Savage has spent at least thirteen centuries trying to capture the meteor that made him immortal in the hopes of learning the "reason" for his immortality. Not only does this ignore the possibility that his change may have been nothing but pure luck, but his plans escalate to the point where he is willing to destroy all of New Gotham in the twenty-fifth century to retrieve the meteor, to say nothing of a long-standing 'vendetta' against the Wayne family where each generation becomes a new Bat-person to oppose Savage's efforts.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'' has the titular villain, Dr. Kenneth Anderson. As watching the news, Anderson gets mad because journalists are talking about the prison reform pushed by [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] instead of discussing ''further'' about ''him'' and ''his'' amazing discovery.

* In the Elseworld series ''ComicBook/DarkKnightDynasty'', Vandal Savage has spent at least thirteen centuries trying to capture the meteor that made him immortal in the hopes of learning the "reason" for his immortality. Not only does this ignore the possibility that his change may have been nothing but pure luck, but his plans escalate to the point where he is willing to destroy all of New Gotham in the twenty-fifth century to retrieve the meteor, to say nothing of a long-standing 'vendetta' against the Wayne family where each generation becomes a new Bat-person to oppose Savage's efforts.
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has a tremendous ego. His entire goal is to make everyone and everything an extension of himself. His vision of the future is to essentially turn all creation into an everlasting monument to himself.
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom, the man even goes as far as to rename the capital of Latveria after himself. Heck, when he was in control of Counter-Earth, he renamed the planet after himself. He also thinks everyone is inferior to him.

** Also the Doctor Doom (or Victor Van Damme) from ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, albeit with even less justification than for his 'prime' self. In ''ComicBook/UltimateFF'', after his initial transformation into his organic metal state, he initially attacks the rest of the Baxter Institute staff with microbots, assuming that he was the only person to be mutated, and later assumes that Reed wasn't mutated because he wasn't 'special' enough. Later, when a set of cyclop monsters dissapear, Van Damme congratulates himself for saving everyone yet again, but the problem with that statement is that it wasn't him. As well as the others, he was stalling the monsters while Sue's baby generate energy that drove them away.

* In the Creator/CrossGen graphic novel series ''ComicBook/TheFirst'', the gods of House Sinister live by this trope. In fact, part of Ingra's speech is to "place the self before all".
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The original Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne. He cares for nothing but himself and irrationally blames Barry Allen for everything wrong in his life (although it is suggested that this may be the result of a repressed memory, as his 'first' trip to the past saw him learn about his future death at Barry's hands only for him to lose all conscious memory of it after taking a beating from Barry's successor Wally).
* In ''ComicBook/GiraffesOnHorsebackSalad'', Linda insists on being the center of attention wherever she goes. She becomes visibly angry when the [[MysteriousWaif Surrealist Woman]] appears and draws everyone's interest, and she seethes at Jimmy for simply being inquisitive about her.
* Invoked in ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', where Renee Montoya's brother believes that she is actively trying to hurt their parents by being more concerned about herself instead of them regarding what her homosexuality would do to them if they found out.

* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', the serial killer Roxxas 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 Roxxas to stop, and then joined the fight against him. When Roxxas downed all his foes, he [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicked Mekt]] and complained that he would have shared.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheMultiversity The Just #1]]'', Earth-16 is a world where the children of superheroes and supervillains are celebrity darlings since there's no more crime to fight (to the point where the contemporary Justice League roster has done nothing but battle reenactments). The solicits and cover refer to this world as "Earth-Me."
* Inverted in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #2 . In the end, Rainbow realizes that turning her own attitude around isn't enough; she needs to instill happiness and inspiration in ''everypony else''.


* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker had this attitude after he got bitten by a spider, saying that all he cares about is himself and Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and the rest can go to hell. An attitude that has its logical and tragic consequence when it leads directly to the death of his father figure. This attitude of selfishness is also something shared by many of Peter's supporting cast and on some level, all his villains. Jameson in particular, though he also navigates it somewhat.

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel

*** 616 Osborn as well. As this quote illustrates:
---> "''My father used to say to me, "it's not all about you." I told him I was working on it."''
--->- Norman Osborn, Dark X-Men #4

* Cassandra Nova from Grant Morrison's run on ComicBook/XMen. A psychic parasite who accidentally became Professor Xavier's stillborn-but-not-really twin sister, Cassandra believes that the ''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 interplanetary civilization, and initiate a ''genocide'' with pure sociopathic impunity.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Priscilla Rich became the first ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} because she couldn't get over it when Diana got more attention than her at a party, ''and'' survived the ensuing murder attempt.