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* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Infidel thinks more of the names hurled at him than of the objections that he kidnaps people for experiments.

** Once he got his powers back, Superman proceeded call Luthor out about his claims of Superman "holding humans back". Pointing out that while he was gone, Luthor had spent the entire year obsessing over him rather than [[CutLexLuthorACheck doing anything useful]].

--->'''Superman:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Where's the cancer cure, Lex?]]

** Also the Doctor Doom (or Victor Van Damme) from ComicBook/UtimateMarvel. In ''ComicBook/UltimateFF'', when the cyclop monsters dissapear, Van Damme congratulates himself for saving everyone yet again. Problem is, it was not him. As well as the others, he was stalling the monsters while Sue's baby generate energy that drove them away.

* Doctor Doom, the man even goes as far as to rename the capital of Latveria after himself. Heck, when he was in control of Counter-Earth, [[UpToEleven he renamed the planet after himself]]. He also thinks everyone is inferior to him.

** The series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' deals with the "missing year" of DC comics between the InfiniteCrisis and the One Year Later storylines. In this timeframe Franchise/{{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. Comicbook/LexLuthor, 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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'''s villain Reactron in the [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis comics]] attempted to rape and murder Kara several times, slaughtered her parents, blew up her new homeworld up... because when he attacked her out of nowhere and with no provocation whatsoever, she beat him down.

* Doctor Doom, the man even goes as far as to rename the capital of Latveria after himself. He also thinks everyone is inferior to him.

** Luthor has ''always'' been like this. He smashed a chair over Doomsday's inert body because [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman he wanted to be the one to kill Superman]], gave away his baby daughter to gain control over Brainiac 13 tech and hired someone to frame [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] because he cancelled contracts in protest of Luthor's presidency.
** Lex may just be the trope codifier for this one. He is so incredibly self-obsessed that he has formed this view that any and all actions taken to destroy Superman, whom he can only perceive as a threat to him, is justified so that he can be Earth's saviour, even though he couldn't care less about anyone who gets hurt in the process and it's clear it's all only for his own sense of pride.

* [[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.

* The series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' deals with the "missing year" of DC comics between the InfiniteCrisis and the One Year Later storylines. In this timeframe Franchise/{{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.

-->'''Superman:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Where's the cancer cure, Lex?]]

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* Cassandra Nova from Grant Morrison's run on ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. 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.

* DoctorDoom, the man even goes as far as to rename the capital of Latveria after himself. He also thinks everyone is inferior to him.

* Susanita from ''{{Mafalda}}'' is made of this trope:

* [[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.

* {{Darkseid}} has a tremendous ego even for a GodOfEvil. 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.

* In the Craetor/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".
* [[TheFlash The original Reverse-Flash]] Eobard Thawne. He cares for nothing but himself and irrationally blames Barry Allen for everything wrong in his life.

-->'''Superman:''' Where's the cancer cure, Lex?
** Luthor has ''always'' been like this. He smashed a chair over Doomsday's inert body because [[TheDeathOfSuperman he didn't kill Superman]], gave away his baby daughter to gain control over Brainiac 13 tech and hired someone to frame [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] because he cancelled contracts in protest of Luthor's presidency.
** Lex may just be the trope codifier for this one. He is so incredibly self-obsessed that he has formed this view that any and all actions taken to destroy Superman, whom he views only as a threat to him, is justified so that he can be Earth's saviour, even though he couldn't care less about anyone who gets hurt in the process and it's clear it's all only for his own sense of pride.
** In the Silver Age, Superman made an enemy in Luthor because the former accidentally destroyed the latter's research in creating life, which Luthor assumed is deliberate because he thought Superman was jealous of his genius. The fact that Luthor lost his hair from the lab accident was treated as a casuality. Post-Crisis, Luthor became a villain because Superman caused him to lose his hair. This says a lot about how much Luthor's characterization changed over the years.
** This tendency of Lex's has actually come back to help Superman a few times. In spite of meeting and interacting with Clark Kent several times, at points even being his childhood friend, Luthor has never been able to pick up on his PaperThinDisguise. This is partly just because Luthor just doesn't realize Superman has a life totally independent of opposing him or does anything else with his time. He also projects his own arrogance onto Superman, believing him to be so full of himself that he would never pretend to be a human when he can spend all day lording over mankind as a God-like alien.
** Even Luthor's more humanist tendencies, as introduced in later comics, tend to be framed in this fashion. He frames his distrust of Superman as a fear that humanity is becoming meaningless and irrelevant by worshipping a super-powered alien who is far from human, but it's pretty clear that the main reason Luthor resents this is because he believes humanity should be busy worshipping ''him'' instead.

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* Cassandra Nova from Grant Morrison's run on ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. 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.

* The graphic novel ''AsteriosPolyp'' does an interesting treatment of this: Asterios is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who hogs the spotlight and flashbacks to the days when he was married showed that his wife certainly felt that he smothered her at times by having to be the center of attention and make everything about his issues, but he's not quite this. He does have the heart of gold after all, and throughout the course of the story he learns to be better. Obnoxious and unlikable JerkAss theater director Willy, on the other hand, who is sometimes presented as being NotSoDifferent and who shamelessly attempts to seduce Asterios' wife really is this, and will use, abuse, and then discard people and projects according to his whims.