History SmallNameBigEgo / WesternAnimation

-->'''Host''': Who is the greatest musical band of all time?
-->'''Alvin''': Why that's easy!
-->'''Simon and Theodore''': No, Alvin, don't say it!
-->'''Alvin''': Alvin and the Chipmunks! ''(is sent into the pie as the answer the host wanted was The Beatles).''

-->'''Gaston''': No one makes faces in spoons like Gaston!
-->'''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Timon]]''': No one asked the ''opinion'' of Gaston.

--> '''Park Avenue:''' Yes, I am the one who did it! I am the graffiti artist! I fill the world with knowledge! I paint the truth! I paint rebellion! I-
--> '''Benson''': I'm calling the cops.

** Dr. Venture. He is a slothful and incompetent "scientist" who has ridden his father's coattails his entire life. He often believe he is the life of the party and highly desirable even when no woman wants to have anything to do with him. Of course, this does vary from episode-to-episode; at times he's ''deeply'' aware of his own inadequacies.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Henry Masterson, aka the Headmaster is very deliberately a parody of this trope. During the season two finale, Starscream builds a small army of clones of himself, each of whom represents an aspect of his personality and almost all of whom are [[MythologyGag references to the G1 Seekers]]. The Thundercracker homage, "Egomaniac Starscream", represents...well, it's in his name. Starscream has a pretty high opinion of himself, but at least he can back it up (to everyone except [[BigBad Megatron]]).

** Dr. Venture. He is a slothful and incompetent "scientist" who has ridden his father's coattails his entire life. He often believe he is the life of the party and highly desirable even when no woman wants to have anything to do with him.
** Dermott Fictel, Hank Venture's teen-aged friend, seems incapable of opening his mouth without uttering a conveniently unconfirmable boast. He teaches ninjutsu (actually wears padding and takes hits in a self-defense class), can hot wire a car (except Hank had the keys), can fly a plane (except the Ventures' jet is the wrong class for his license), and is also known as "The Wolf" and/or "Psycho" (to the guys in his old neighborhood who supposedly fought a gang war over the choice). He is also a KnowNothingKnowItAll, claiming that the Retsyn from Certs mints can be used to make napalm, and a BoisterousWeakling, since the only time we see him actually fight he loses to the show's most notorious wimp.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Gaston. His VillainSong suggests he might even be CompensatingForSomething, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre If You Know What I Mean]].

** Mortimer Mouse is another overinflated ego--a [[TheSchemer constantly plotting]], cocky mouse who thinks he's going to impress people but really doesn't. Minnie had to change his act in "Ladies' Night" to make fun of him, just so the ladies wouldn't all leave (or worse, considering that [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland the Queen of Hearts]] was in attendance).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco was this at the beginning having absolutely no doubt that everyone admires him. That turned out not so right.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'': several characters from Nintendo games, like VideoGame/KidIcarus and VideoGame/MegaManClassic. Simon Belmont from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' was depicted as a vain and arrogant "Ted Baxter"-like vampire hunter and rival to the main hero, Captain N. Hilariously, he even had the look down, [[YouDontLookLikeYou looking NOTHING AT ALL like the two canon versions of Simon.]] He dresses and prepares more like a jet-setting hiker than a vampire hunter.

** Minor recurring character Charlton Woodchuck was this on both his major appearances, first convinced he was one of Hollywood's new rising stars despite never having had a single job, and the second time around believing himself to be a genius, visionary director. In both cases he fully expected everyone around him to treat him as thus, and threw major hissyfits when not accommodated. Unfortunately for him, Hollywood, and Slappy Squirrel, did not share his assessment of his own talents.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], Temple Fugate sincerely thinks that the guy who shares his seat at the subway after one year had to know his name, or that Counselor Hill knows his impending legal case simply because his law firm is handling it, or that he gave the AdviceBackfire on purpose. This is also the best way to sum up Riddler's world view in most ''Batman'' related media and the animated series is no exception. He claims to be a genius and even smarter than the "World's Greatest Detective" and will go to great lengths to prove it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'': Antoine sees himself as a heroic, intelligent "and so very handsome" Freedom Fighter who can take Swatbots in their thousands. In reality he is a sniveling DirtyCoward that often acts as TheLoad. Sonic and Sally, though much more genuinely competent, frequently have IdiotBall moments due to their conflicting egos.

** Blaineley has a very high opinion about her TV host abilities that seems unwarranted considering the TDWT Aftermath's reveal she was fired from her old show.

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Gaston. His VillainSong suggests he might even be CompensatingForSomething, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre If You Know What I Mean]].

* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco was this at the beginning having absolutely no doubt that everyone admires him. That turned out not so right.

** In TheMovie, it's revealed that [[spoiler:his behavior is all a JerkassFacade due to him believing that if he acted more like his brother (who is an even bigger {{Jerkass}}), he'd be more popular.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Master Shake constantly refers to himself in ways that assume whoever he's talking to has heard of him and always believes everything should involve him in some way. He's also a KnowNothingKnowItAll who's clearly making it up as he goes along, and more clearly thinks he's getting away with it.

** The eponymous character is despised by his ''species'' due to the combination of this trope and TooDumbToLive.
** All Irkens are this trope, as the Almighty Tallest demonstrate. Zim just takes it much farther because he single-handedly destroyed their invasion fleet once - yet thinks he behaved properly.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': Park Avenue, graffiti artist from "Under the hood".

* Mr. Cat from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' considers himself to be better than everyone else on the show.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Lucius.

* WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}} is another main character who embodies this. Duckman's awareness of how pathetic he is varies from episode to episode (and sometimes from scene to scene). When he's not being this trope he's usually being a JadedWashout (with little middle ground in between).

** The High Priestess of [[ReligionOfEvil the Cult of Aku]] truly believes that she's a trusted and valued ally of Aku. In reality, Aku only visited her cult one and has largely forgotten about her in the intervening years.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': we're introduced to [[BlaxploitationParody Da Sam'rai]] in one episode: a flamboyant, rude, and aggressive poser who, to his credit, ''does'' manage to take down some MechaMooks with ConfusionFu and FightingDirty before calling out Jack. Jack demands they fight with bamboo and utterly schools him, so Da Sam'rai draws his sword and gets utterly schooled by Jacks' bamboo ''again''. To the man's credit, though, he ''does'' man up enough to shove Jack out of harm's way when Aku's minions show up, and gets acknowledged as having potential to be a real samurai for it:

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Peridot. She has referred to herself as "The Great and Lovable Peridot", takes any chance she can get to show of how smart she is, will use her newfound [[ExtraOreDinary metal powers]] any chance she gets just to show how great she is, and post-HeelFaceTurn believes herself to be '''the new leader of the Crystal Gems'''.
* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': Finn whilst a talented sniper, is nowhere near the ladies man he thinks he is.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Control Freak is actually fairly competent as villains go, but the Titans still don’t take him seriously. He wasn't even mentioned on the list of "villains to watch out for" the Titans East got when they were housesitting the tower!

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'':

%%* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': Johnny Bravo.