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* ''{{Blade}}'': BigBad Deacon Frost is dissed as a {{Vampire Wannabe}} by the elder vampires despite actually being one. As probably the only person on this page who [[{{Shut Up Hannibal}} didn't wild under the repeated]] {{Pretender Diss}}, he produces to torture the head vampire to death and sacrifice the rest for his evil scheme. That'll show 'em.

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* Xanxus from ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}' constantly insults Tsuna and his [[{{Nakama}} family]] about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students.

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* Xanxus from ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}' ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}'' constantly insults Tsuna and his [[{{Nakama}} family]] about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students.
* One early episode of ''VampirePrincessMiyu'' includes a subplot where a young man suspects there's something otherworldly about her. After she's dealt with the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Shinma of the Week]], he '''demands''' she [[VampireVannabe make him a vampire, too]], gushing about how amazing her powers are. Miyu calmly but firmly refuses, calling him out for just wanting power so he can abuse it, then turns to leave. He chases after her into the fog... [[spoiler: and runs right off the building. Splat.]]
-->'''Miyu''': At least you won't be bored anymore.
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* Xanxus from ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}' constantly insults Tsuna and his [[nakama family]] about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students.

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* Xanxus from ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}' constantly insults Tsuna and his [[nakama [[{{Nakama}} family]] about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students.
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* ''SouthPark'' played with this trope a while back in an episode featuring the hilariously [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "Goth Kids." The ''{{Twilight}}'' movies have just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school have begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their antiquated black clothing and LooksLikeCesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not....but, ironically, [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Goths fit this description themselves]]. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible (that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall). They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires."

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* ''SouthPark'' played with this trope a while back in an episode featuring the hilariously [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "Goth Kids." The ''{{Twilight}}'' movies have just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school have begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel antiquated black clothing clothing]] and LooksLikeCesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not....but, ironically, [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Goths fit this description themselves]]. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible (that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall). They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires."
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* ''SouthPark'' played with this trope a while back in an episode featuring the hilariously [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "Goth Kids." The ''{{Twilight}}'' movies have just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school have begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their antiquated black clothing and LooksLikeCesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not....but, ironically, the Goths fit this description themselves. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible (that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall). They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires."

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* ''SouthPark'' played with this trope a while back in an episode featuring the hilariously [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "Goth Kids." The ''{{Twilight}}'' movies have just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school have begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their antiquated black clothing and LooksLikeCesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not....but, ironically, [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Goths fit this description themselves.themselves]]. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible (that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall). They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires."

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* Take a FrankZappa song about hippies. Any FrankZappa song about hippies.
-->Think I'll just drop out, I'll go to Frisco, buy a wig and sleep on Owsley's floor
-->I'll stay a week and get the crabs and take the bus back home
-->I'm really just a phony but forgive me 'cause I'm stoned!
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** It also goes the other way around.
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->''Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.''

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->''Senator, I served with [[JohnFKennedy Jack Kennedy, Kennedy]], I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.''
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->''Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.''
-->-- '''Lloyd Bentsen''' to '''Dan Quayle''', 1988 US Vice-Presidential debate.
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* Averted in ''TheMaskOfZorro'', when a crowd of prisoners [[IAmSpartacus all pretend to be Zorro when their jailer demands that Zorro identify himself]]. The ''real'' Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega) just hangs back and doesn't say anything.
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* ''SouthPark'' played with this trope a while back in an episode featuring the hilariously [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "Goth Kids." The ''{{Twilight}}'' movies have just become popular, and quite a few of the "cool" kids at school have begun dressing like vampires (complete with fangs and capes, and drinking tomato juice while pretending it's blood). The Goth quartet already seen in earlier episodes is annoyed at this, especially since they now get mistaken for vampires themselves due to their antiquated black clothing and LooksLikeCesare face paint. They angrily tell the "little Justin and Britney wannabes" to stop pretending to be somebody they're not....but, ironically, the Goths fit this description themselves. In fact, it's revealed that the only difference between them and the "vampire" kids is that they chose to become "Goth" not as the result of a fad, but because they were social outcasts who were picked on by the other children and so decided to embrace their outsider status as dramatically as possible (that, and also the fact that they presumably made their costumes and makeup at home rather than buying them prefab from Hot Topic at the mall). They end up giving a speech before the entire school in which they pointedly explain the differences between Goths and "vampires."
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* Subverted in another recent episode, where Lisa has to do a school report on her family's ancestry. Dismissing her Anglo/French roots as too bland, she decides to pass as part-Native American and invents a fictional tribe to belong to. Her ploy backfires when some actual Native Americans in the area not only believe her, but invite her to speak at a large Native American conclave about her experiences - and, of course, Lisa doesn't have any! At the conference, she confesses that she made everything up....prompting [[FlockOfWolves half the attendees at the conclave to shamefully stand up and confess that they are impostor Native Americans, too]]! One of the genuine Indians at the meeting, however, is not offended, and takes the fakery as flattery: "Who ''wouldn't'' want to be like us?!"
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* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.

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* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom [[MisaimedFandom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.
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* Captain anarachy by anti-flag, basic jist, you can't be an anarchist if you buy designer jeans

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* Captain anarachy anarchy by anti-flag, basic jist, you can't be an anarchist if you buy designer jeans
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* Captain anarachy by anti-flag, basic jist, you can't be an anarchist if you buy designer jeans
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* Xanxus from ''{{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}' constantly insults Tsuna and his [[nakama family]] about not being real mafia. Granted they are all junior high students.
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* From ''[[CarlitosWay Carlito's Way]]'':

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* From ''[[CarlitosWay Carlito's Way]]'':Way]]'': Carlito Brigante does not like gangster wannabes. At all.

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* William Mumy's reaction to the Schofield Kid in ''{{Unforgiven}}''.

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* William Mumy's Munny's reaction to the Schofield Kid in ''{{Unforgiven}}''.
* From ''[[CarlitosWay Carlito's Way]]'':
-->'''Carlito:''' Who the fuck are you? I should remember you? What, you think you like me? You ain't like me motherfucker, you a punk. I've been with made people, connected people. Who've you been with? Chain snatching, jive-ass, maricon motherfuckers. Why don't you get out of here and go snatch a purse?
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** He disses ''most'' vampires, including his own fledgling.
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** Also from ''TheSandman'', Thessaly's disdainful attitude towards neo-pagans.

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** Also from ''TheSandman'', Thessaly's disdainful attitude towards neo-pagans. Perhaps unusually, this isn't meant to be a TakeThat to make the audience feel superior--she definitely has qualities of JerkAss and HeroicSociopath, and [[TheGrimReaper Death]] rather definitively disagrees with her on [[TransGender one important point]].
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** As a kind of BrickJoke, Mirage!Raphael says he kinda dug the belt buckles in the ending scene.

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** As a kind of BrickJoke, Mirage!Raphael Mirage!Michaelangelo says he kinda dug the belt buckles in the ending scene.
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** The Mirage Turtles first comments to the others are mumblings about "colored bandanas" and "wannabes".
** As a kind of BrickJoke, Mirage!Raphael says he kinda dug the belt buckles in the ending scene.
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** And maybe ''vice-versa''.

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** And maybe ''vice-versa''.Well, the ones that look up to them anyway.
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** And maybe ''vice-versa''.
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* ''TrueBlood'' - Redneck Vamp threatening frat boy as well as wannabe-vamp clerk. "I'll f**k you then I'll eat you."

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* ''TrueBlood'' - Redneck Vamp threatening frat boy as well as wannabe-vamp clerk. "I'll f**k fuck you then I'll eat you."
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** [[SarcasmMode For some reason]], it's also been the go-to song for satirists doing musical sketches about DavidCameron.
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* William Mumy's reaction to the Schofield Kid in ''{{Unforgiven}}.

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* William Mumy's reaction to the Schofield Kid in ''{{Unforgiven}}.
''{{Unforgiven}}''.
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* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.



* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.

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* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.
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* JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac takes the "extermination with extreme prejudice" route when Jimmy the wannabe homicidal maniac shows up at his door, raving about his "work." This is a [[TakeThat reminder]] to the [[MisaimedFnadom reading audience]] that ours is a VillainProtagonist.

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