Those who display Pride Before a Fall at or near the beginning of their story in Video Games.
- The Assassin's Creed series begins with one of these, as Altaïr - The Dragon for the head of the Assassin's guild - is cast down from his lofty position and has to start over as a low-ranked rookie.
- King Trode in Dragon Quest VIII. He's an annoying, overproud king who's awfully fond of the line, "Do you know who I AM?" Just before the beginning of the game, he is transformed into a toad-like creature, and his kingdom is laid in ruins, leaving him to wander a world where most humans fear or despise him as a monster. Depressingly, he never seems to learn humility.
- Then again, he was transformed and his kingdom was devastated because of an Omnicidal Maniac, not because of him. So why would he need to?
- Considering said maniac was really using Trode's court jester as a temporary vessel on a mission of revenge against those who had belittled him, there probably should have been a lesson in there somewhere.
- He does eventually come to understand that simply being a king doesn't entitle him to order everyone around. Sure, he does it anyway, but later in the game, there's a distinct shift from "Do it because I tell you" to "Please help me do this".
- Then again, he was transformed and his kingdom was devastated because of an Omnicidal Maniac, not because of him. So why would he need to?
- Subverted in God of War II. In the first level, Kratos is in his full God of War glory, but it ends with him drained of his godly power and killed by Zeus. Unfortunately for...well, everyone, Zeus forgot that when you're dealing with Kratos, it doesn't matter how 'right' you are or how 'wrong' he is: 'petulant' doesn't begin to describe the man. This turn of events unravels what little sanity Kratos had remaining, and he goes on a deicidal temper tantrum that leaves the world a flooded, darkened, zombie-infested hellhole.
- Kingdom Rush: Vengeance has Gerald Lightseeker in the Lightseeker Camp level. Within the span of the level, he starts out boasting about how he's a One-Man Army but refuses to fight because he feels his men can "deal with you one-handed", to having his Linirean forces beaten by your Dark Army which forces him to fight you directly. By then, your defences have become strong enough to defeat him. His final action before being captured by Vez'nan and the dark army is to plead "Could I keep my honor?" while kneeling down, injured.
- Marietta in Knights in the Nightmare, at least in Maria's route; happily enough, Maria is mortified at what Marietta's pride led to, and the other half of Marietta's soul, Melissa, is more worried about finding Ancardia than her dignity. We're introduced to Marietta's usual nasty attitude in Yggdra Union and Riviera: The Promised Land, along with Meria's route. (And for all her flaws, Meria's own pride doesn't stop her from being a loyal and caring individual. Marietta's still does.)
- Revali, the Rito Champion from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The first thing you find out about him is that he and the other Champions were swiftly killed and their respective Divine Beasts possessed when Calamity Ganon returned to Hyrule. When Link subsequently recovers his memories, Revali is revealed to have been a smug, vainglorious guy who was openly disdainful of relative newcomer Link being the primary Champion — he went so far as to "challenge" Link to a test of skill atop Vah Medoh just to rub in the latter's inability to fly. It takes being trapped as a ghost inside Vah Medoh for a century and being freed by Link for Revali to finally acknowledge that the Hylian is worthy of being The Chosen One.
- In Persona 5, after the takedown of Medjed, the Phantom Thieves are feeling very proud of their abilities and of the immense public support they are receiving. In their very next heist, they are framed for the murder of Okumura as well as all of the Mental Shutdowns that have been plaguing the town for years.
- Resident Evil 6: Big Bad Carla Radames, Ada Wong's reluctant Doppelgänger, suffers from this. Her Evil Plan is going off without a hitch, but then she calls up the real Ada to gloat about what she's doing and how Ada will take the fall for it. Ada's subsequent intervention is the very thing that ruins Carla's otherwise flawless plan.
- Warlord Asura, the final warlord Sinjid is tasked with killing in Sinjid. Due to Sinjid dispatching his troops and the other warlords before going after him, Asura only has one remaining ally left in the form of a mysterious man named Kazuro, who abandons him after explaining that he's grown tired of him constantly turning his help away because he was too overconfident in his fighting abilities. Having lost his last remaining ally, he is forced to fight Sinjid on his own, and is killed in combat, ending the war.
- The first quarter of the Tales of the Abyss. The main character finds out the hard way that being rich does not make you right all the time — it's only when he stops relying on his family's reputation (among other things) that he becomes useful.
- Them's Fightin' Herds: This happens in Arizona's boss fight with the extremely egotistical, but admittedly powerful, Velvet in the first chapter. Velvet wanted to take the fight outside Reine's museum as it would be best to have witnesses for her fight with a rival Champion. She winds up publically beaten and humiliated by Arizona in the middle of her home city.
- Clearly "inspired" by The Emperor's New Groove, Dragon Prince Ao-Jun of Tradewinds Caravans is turned into a lowly talking camel as punishment for a life of debauchery and caravan-eating, and must do one truly selfless deed to regain his true form. It goes about as well as you might think, and he briefly becomes an invisible lowly talking camel after denouncing his faith (of which he is a deity) to tithe a ridiculous sum of someone else's money to heathens because it was just the easiest thing he could think of.
- Mr. Slam's ending in Twisted Metal 2; The driver Simon Whittlebone wanted to build the tallest tower ever. With Calypso's wish, he does just that, but soon feared that someone will someday make a taller tower than his. Standing at the top of Whittlebone Tower, he furiously declared himself a god, but slipped and fell to his death.
- In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, one of the random battle victory conversations has Rex gloating about how nothing can stop him now, with Azurda reminding him of this trope.
