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1	'''Basic Trope''': An egocentric character who insists that they're always right, even when they're horribly wrong.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is a self-absorbed, insufferable person who makes wildly inaccurate claims and ''insists'' they're completely true, despite all evidence to the contrary.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice regularly makes claims like "Two plus two is ''obviously'' twenty-two, ''duh''!" and won't hear anything different.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but is too stubborn to admit it.
6	** Alice has some fields of genuine competence. She just overestimates her skill in all the others.
7	** Alice is actually fairly knowledgeable about the topic, but is nowhere near as good as she thinks she is.
8	** Alice is BookSmart, but lacks experience and screws things up whenever she tries to put her knowledge to practical use.
9	** Alice has subpar intelligence but thinks she's of average intelligence, but is stubborn when she thinks she's right (even when she's not).
10	* '''Justified''':
11	** Alice was [[CantTakeCriticism criticized]] and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.
12	** Alice was {{spoiled\|brat}} and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.
13	** Alice is SurroundedByIdiots, being the marginally smarter one of the group, she can wow her friends with outrageous claims.
14	** Alice is a complete idiot, but would rather die than admit her idiocy.
15	* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl [[Creator/{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre much smarter than she thinks she is]]; she's actually a genius, but [[ShrinkingViolet lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up]].
16	* '''Subverted''': Alice regularly makes claims that sound absurd. It turns out that this universe operates under different laws than they're used to.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': While the universe may operate under different rules, Alice's claims are still wrong.
18	* '''Parodied''': Alice is constantly wrong - but the rest of the world doesn't think so. In fact, she has a global reputation as a fountain of wisdom due to an overwhelming personality, a big bank account (which she uses to toot her own horn) and a ''very'' few lucky guesses. Anyone challenging her will be hooted and hawed ''at best''.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is an idiot when it comes to some subjects, but a genius when it comes to others; her self-confidence also wavers depending on the subject. She recognizes that her knowledge in some areas is woefully inaccurate, and underestimates her comprehension of other topics, but is also overconfident about topics she really doesn't understand that well.
20	* '''Averted''': Alice is fully aware of the limits of her own knowledge, and doesn't claim to be smarter than she really is.
21	* '''Enforced''':
22	** The writer's retcons the errors as InUniverseFactoidFailure on Alice's part.
23	** Executives point out that Alice, TheSmartGuy of the team, has become annoying to the audiences because she is always right. The writers decide to write an episode in which she definitely does not knows certain necessary data but she is too stubborn to admit it and her making it up is going to lead to tears.
24	* '''Lampshaded''':
25	** After hearing one of Alice's obviously absurd claims, Bob calls her crazy. Alice answers "Like a fox!"
26	** "Alice Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong".
27	* '''Invoked''': Alice is the First Lady to the President-For-Life of Tropesylvania, who gets very angry when someone makes her upset. People very quickly learned not to make Alice upset by agreeing to whatever nonsense she claimed to be true.
28	* '''Exploited''': ???
29	* '''Defied''': After Alice makes [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace a particulary egregious claim]], a REAL expert in the subject steps forward with the straight dope. They shoot down every logical fallacy and poisonous retort Alice spits out, and ultimately they drive her out of the room in tears.
30	* '''Discussed''': "Ever noticed how Alice speaks like a crazy person?"
31	* '''Conversed''': "And that is the character who is a idiot that thinks that knows more than everyone else".
32	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome She doesn't.]] In fact, she [[EpicFail fails]] [[FMinusMinus horribly]] and flunks the whole class, [[ShockingDefeatLegacy something which leaves her confidence severely shaken]].
33	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is too self-absorbed to remain shaken for long. Two minutes later she concludes that [[InsaneTrollLogic she is so intelligent that even the teacher can't comprehend her superior mindset.]] She immediately regains her confidence.
34	* '''Played For Laughs:'''
35	** Alice is an arrogant, spoiled AlphaBitch who thinks she is always right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.
36	** Alice is relentlessly incompetent in every meaningful way while also thinking that the apparent authority conferred upon her by her title (really just KickedUpstairs, as her "managerial" position is little more than a sinecure) was due to merit rather than just a mix of office politics and outright pity (as she is practically unemployable otherwise), and she doesn't know that her greatest skill is providing tons of schadenfreude and derisive laughs at her expense whenever she tries to exercise the authority that she doesn't really have, and is ignored or has some stuff moved around to make it look like she got something done while people have a good chuckle.
37	* '''Played For Drama:'''
38	** Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism, however she can barely function in the society, having no friends and has a great deal of trouble in holding a job.
39	** Alice is not just wrong, but ''dangerously'' wrong, and maintains, through nepotism or ThePeterPrinciple, a position where she can do real harm. Safety protocols get ignored, and when things go wrong, the very people who suffer the greatest risk also get the blame from on high because Alice ''seems'' like she's competent.
40	* '''Played For Horror''':
41	** Alice's know-it-all attitude makes her LethallyStupid.
42	** Alice's BerserkButton is to be deemed wrong on anything. She kills anybody who pushes that button. The fact that she doesn't even knows two plus two equals four means that a lot of people tend to push it.
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44	You idiot! The KnowNothingKnowItAll page is this way! I'm sure of it!
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48	%%* '''Implied''': ???

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