History SmallNameBigEgo / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' brings another main (and title) character example. He does have [[LetsGetDangerous genuine competence lurking beneath the surface]], though. Though that didn't stop Frank Angiones, showrunner for [[WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 the Ducktales reboot]], from declaring Darkwing's ego his greatest villain.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' brings another main (and title) character example. He does have [[LetsGetDangerous genuine competence lurking beneath the surface]], though.

'''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Timon]]''': No one asked the ''opinion'' of Gaston.

* ''Rubberdubbers'': Finbar the mighty shark who considers himself to be the most fearsome shark in the sea. Ar ar ar

'''Alvin''': Why that's easy!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Robert Otto is the self-appointed neighborhood safety supervisor, with no apparent actual authority to back him, and he's completely convinced he performs a vital service that people should appreciate. In reality he's just a busybody that harasses everyone for innocently breaching obscure regulations.

** 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.

** 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/{{Chowder}}'': Mung Daal often thinks that he's the greatest chef around. While his greatness is debatable, he does at least outstrip his rival Endive in actual commitment (Endive values dignity above all else, which leads to methods which seriously abrade Mung "It's not even edible if there's no love" Daal).

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Appropriately-named Dash Baxter is a slight variation in that only the audience and the main characters see through his self-image, the rest of the characters viewing him exactly as he views himself.

** Smiler is so full of herself that she only cares about her business than the others around her.

** Brian Griffin spent years working on a novel entitled ''Faster Than The Speed of Love'' which turned out be a complete rip-off of the ''Film/IronEagle'' film series, even though Brian claimed he never saw any of them. Everyone who had heard of the book's plot mercilessly taunted Brian about it being a rip-off but he refused to acknowledge it. When the book did get published yet did not sell a single copy after being critically lambasted, the next day Brian read a rave review for a celebrity self-help book and thought self-help books were the reason the novel sold so terribly. He then decided to write a similar book out of spite; the book became popular and Brian slowly began raving "I have created a best selling PHENOMENON" until he was taken down on ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''. Brian is also egotistical when it comes to women. Brian always tries to act intelligent and suave to impress women so that he can easily have sex with them, but whenever they break up, Brian tends to blame the women he dates as the reason they broke up instead of admitting that his negative behavior was his own fault. One episode has Brian being confronted by every single woman he ever dated and they all point out how flawed he is, only for Brian to retort with flaws he sees in every woman he dated, saying [[NeverMyFault it's their fault their relationships with him went sour]].

** Quahog Channel 5 news anchor Tom Tucker, who has earned multiple comparisons to Ron Burgundy (and not only due to his mustache).

** Goofy became this when he got replace by Von Drake's automatic waitering system, thinking he can do more than be a waiter without any skills.

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Lucius Heinous VII. Sure, he's supposed to be {{Satan}}, but he's really not as good as keeping Miseryville, well, miserable as he likes to think he does. The fact that he can't even get one happy-go-lucky kid out of his horns really speaks to that.

** Done as part of Rainbow Dash's character development. In season 1 she was this trope to it's fullest, but as the show's gone on she's not only [[TookALevelInKindness Taken A Level In Kindness]] and [[BreakTheHaughty humility]] but also done quite a few acts of heroism to make a name for herself. As of Season 7 The Wonderbolts claimed to have been eagerly waiting for her to join for quite a while, and Dash (for the most part) is more humble: you could call her a Big Name Moderately-High Ego now.
* King from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has major delusions of grandeur, constantly talking about how he's the king of demons and seeking to reclaim his lost power (According to him, King is both his name and title). In his current form, however, he's smaller than a human child and prone to throw child-like temper tantrums. Most people indulge him, since he's too adorable to resist, but Lilith calls his claim into question, since demons have never had a unified authority. [[spoiler:Early on in Season 2, it's revealed that reveal that he is entirely delusional, and was never a king. Eda found him as an infant and took him in, calling him King after his first words. When he started developing delusions of grandeur, she indulged him because she didn't have the heart to shoot him down. However, his birthplace is notably grand, a bas-relief of his father depicts him in a position of authority, and there's an entire army of dead golems dedicated to guarding him, so there may be something about his claims. And then it turns out at the end of the season that he's actually a titan (and not just any titan, but the son of [[GiantCorpseWorld the Boiling Isles itself]]).]]

* ''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 dirty fighting 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/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': 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.

** Sandy plays with this. She is actually the most intelligent and talented member of Bikini Bottom by far. However this does lead her to overestimate her skills at times and sometimes gets rather overcompetitive and arrogant when someone implies she is isn't the best at something.
* ''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 at one point even referred to herself as ''the new leader of the Crystal Gems''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': Finn, whilst a talented sniper, is nowhere near the ladies man he thinks he is.

** Henry Masterson, aka the Headmaster, is thoroughly convinced he's a big-time criminal and a bigger-time scientist, when he's mostly just a GeniusDitz who is respected by nobody.

** 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/TheSmurfs'': Brainy Smurf will brag and moralize to his fellow Smurfs in invariably any situation, only for his advice to be dubious at best and completely wrong at worst. (In the animated series, when one of the Smurfs tires of him, he will be thrown out of the village ...) He believes his quotations (compiled in volumes usually titled "Quotations From Brainy Smurf") will get other Smurfs to see him as a great orator and with insightful wisdom, although the quotes are little more than nonsensical ramblings, or copied wisdom from one of his fellow Smurfs. He thinks of himself as a ''de facto'' second-in-command whenever Papa Smurf is gone or needs someone to reinforce his authority, but this authority is often better handled by other Smurfs.

* Reggie from ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds'' is a [[TheEeyore depressing]], [[GrumpyBear moody]], [[TheNapoleon napoleonic]] [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] turkey who wishes that he was treated way better than he was in the entire film.

* WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}} is another main character who embodies this. Duckman's awareness of how pathetic he is [[DependingOnTheWriter varies from episode to episode]] ([[UpToEleven 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).

** Mr. Burns regards himself as handsome despite being ridiculously old and as a superior intellect SurroundedByIdiots despite being just as prone to blundering as any of the (admittedly) [[IncompetenceInc incompetent people on his payroll]]. It probably doesn't help that his loyal underling Smithers [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling has exactly as high an opinion of Burns as Burns has of Burns]].

** Mr. Burns regards himself as handsome despite being obscenely old and as a superior intellect SurroundedByIdiots despite being just as prone to blundering as any of the (admittedly) [[IncompetenceInc incompetent people on his payroll]]. It probably doesn't help that his loyal underling Smithers [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling has exactly as high an opinion of Burns as Burns has of Burns]].

** Mr. Burns, big-time. He regards himself as a superior intellect SurroundedByIdiots despite being just as prone to blundering as any of the (admittedly) [[IncompetenceInc incompetent people on his payroll]]. It probably doesn't help that his loyal underling Smithers [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling has exactly as high an opinion of Burns as Burns has of Burns]].

* King from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has major delusions of grandeur, constantly talking about how he's the king of demons and seeking to reclaim his lost power (According to him, King is both his name and title). In his current form, however, he's smaller than a human child and prone to throw child-like temper tantrums. Most people indulge him, since he's too adorable to resist, but Lilith calls his claim into question, since demons have never had a unified authority. [[spoiler:Season 2 reveals that he is entirely delusional, and was never a king. Eda found him as an infant and took him in, calling him King after his first words. When he started developing delusions of grandeur, she indulged him because she didn't have the heart to shoot him down. However, his birthplace is notably grand, a bas-relief of his father depicts him in a position of authority, and there's an entire army of dead golems dedicated to guarding him, so there may be something about his claims]].

* Captain Smek from ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'' thinks himself to be a competent leader but is in fact too stupid to realize he isn't as competent as he likes to imagine himself.

* [[MadScientist Romeo]] [[ChildProdigy Mecano]] from ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' tailors himself as the greatest scientific mind in the world due to his genius that he should be recognized immediately by everyone if they see his face. Ironically, nobody even knows who Romeo even is due to the fact that he only operates at night and the only people that he encounters aside from the PJ Masks are other "Night Time Villains" that inhabit the town and also commit their evil deeds at night. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where his evil scheme involved changing the written text in every book to have pictures of himself on every page, only for everyone else in the town ''but'' the PJ Masks to openly question who exactly he even is.[[note]][[TooCleverByHalf Not helping matters is that he didn't bother to caption his pictures with his name]] because he's [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate.]][[/note]]

* [[MadScientist Romeo]] [[ChildProdigy Mecano]] from ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' tailors himself as the greatest scientific mind in the world due to his genius that he should be recognized immediately by everyone if they see his face. Ironically, due to the fact that he operates at night and the only people that he encounters aside from the PJ Masks are other "Night Time Villains" that inhabit the town and also commit their evil deeds at night. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where his evil scheme involved changing the written text in every book to have pictures of himself on every page, only for everyone else ''but'' the PJ Masks to openly question who exactly he even is.[[note]]Not helping matters is that he didn't bother to caption his pictures with his name because he's [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate.]][[/note]]

* [[MadScientist Romeo]] [[ChildProdigy Mecano]] from ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' tailors himself as the greatest scientific mind in the world due to his genius that he should be recognized immediately by everyone if they see his face. Ironically, due to the fact that he operates at night and the only people that he encounters aside from the PJ Masks are other "Night Time Villains" that inhabit the town and also commit their evil deeds at night. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where his evil scheme involved changing the written text in every book to have pictures of himself on every page, only for everyone else ''but'' the PJ Masks to openly question who exactly he even is.[note]Not helping matters is that he didn't bother to caption his pictures with his name because he's [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate.]][/note]

** [[JerkJock Brad]] who's practically a Creator/{{Disney}} equivalent of Dash.

* [[ManChild Dr.]] [[TheDitz Glickenstein]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}’'.

* Oscar the IdiotHero from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale’'.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman though he displays a number of tropes at a number of different times. There are also several occasions where Cartman was incognito and openly tried to make his image look better if someone didn't say anything cool about him, [[WhatAnIdiot even if he had to blow his own cover to do so]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': ''Alvin'' in spades. Yes, the Chipmunks are successful but Alvin takes it to a wild level.

** 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.

-->'''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman though he displays a number of tropes at a number of different times. There are also several occasions where Cartman was incognito and openly tried to make his image look better if someone didn't say anything cool about him, [[WhatAnIdiot even if he had to blow his own cover to do so.]]
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': Kyle and Salty Mike.

** Quahog Channel 5 news anchor Tom Tucker, who has earned multiple comparisons to Ron Burgundy (and not only due to his BadassMustache).