Basic Trope: A character trying too hard to come off as "cool", when in truth they aren't.
- Straight: Ryan believes he's a descendant of a family of vampires and has Magic and Powers that could bring calamity to the world if left unchecked. He believes himself able to convince these kids of the path of justice, and able to hold his own in battle, when in reality none of these are particularly true.
- Exaggerated: Not only that but he says that he has a darker, wittier and terrifying personality and is the "manipulator of fate". No one buys it.
- Downplayed:
- Ryan is a script kiddy who boasts of and deludes himself as a world-class hacker who hacks into governments and corporations. Technically true but he only had two targets, his chronically underfunded school which still uses Windows 98 and a poorly run paper mill's dated website.
- Ryan has a flair for the dramatic and likes "cool" things, but he's not obsessive about it and it only comes up sometimes for the sake of a joke.
- Justified: Ryan tries so hard to be "cool" because he wants to be special, and he's still fairly young and immature.
- Inverted:
- Turns out Ryan legitimately has powers and is a descendant of a vampire family, but he just wants to live a mundane life.
- Ryan himself is a stern, professional, and to the point hero, it's just that his powers are unsuitably flashy, loud, and over-the-top in contrast to his serious and grounded personality.
- Subverted: Turns out what all he said was legit. Apparently the entire family all act like this.
- Double Subverted: Buuut... their powers are Awesome, but Impractical.
- Parodied: Ryan is a Warrior Prince Magic Knight who pretends he is works a boring and mundane future job like a Salary Man from in universe fiction of our world. It is considered baffling even by the standards of nobles romanticizing farming as idyllic.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Ryan is actually a normal person.
- Enforced: We want our viewers to cringe as they can relate to these characters' mindset because let's be real here, we all used to be them too didn't we?
- Lampshaded: Ripcord: "My god, this guy's got eighth grader disorder..."
- Invoked: Ryan acts like one to conceal that he actually is what he says he is.
- Exploited: Bob manages to manipulate Ryan into assisting him for free by playing into his fantasies.
- Defied: Bob gives Ryan a lecture which shakes him out of this, highlighting everything wrong with it and how it will inevitably end.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Ugghhh.... This is so 8th grader syndrome it's making me cringe."
- Deconstructed:
- Turns out he's doing this as a coping mechanism for all the discrimination and social isolation he suffered in the past.
- He makes some bone-headed decisions in becoming this. attempts to look cool also make him come across as an complete dick towards other people and will be ridiculed for it.
- Reconstructed: Surprisingly enough, but his behavior motivates Ryan to become a character that he want to be. He starts self-improvement through physical exercises and learning, makes his appearance more attractive to people. In other words, his chuunibyou behavior inspires him to become cooler.
- And his rich imagination encourages him to become an artistic person. He becomes a writer or actor.
- Implied: Alice bemoans that her older brother Ryan is "just plain embarrassing, he can't stop playing pretend".
