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* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin constantly overestimates himself. (While this is quite natural for any 6-year-old, it looks very weird on Calvin since he uses language and glimpses abstract thinking on levels far above his real-life peers.)
* Played with in [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Secret Wars]]''. The Beyonder was a [[Cosmic Being]] who believed it was the ''only'' thing that existed until it discovered the [[Marvel Universe]]. Subverted in that it ''really'' was omnipotent, although this was later [[Ret Conned]] to be a delusion (it was powerful, just not ''the'' most powerful cosmic being.)
* ''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]]'': Larfleeze of the Orange Lantern Corps might be this. For eons he was locked away in a secluded system with his treasures, content to consume anyone who crossed him until the Controllers woke him. And while he is a formidable being, having the power of an entire corps and an entire legion of orange constructs at his command, his view of things is partially shattered when he encounters the rest of the universe after so long, circumstances force him to make deals and alliances with beings just as powerful as himself. Afterward he also realizes that some beings in the universe, like humans, are better at being greedy than he ever was.
* In ''[[Logicomix]]'', Ferge is totally honest and devoted to truth & logic. Sadly, this devotion combined with [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]] leads to [[Black and White Insanity]] in the form of a [[Straw Vulcan]] despise for women and jews. On the whole, this make him a [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot]] who is desperately trying to do the right thing.
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
 
* Subverted and partially played straight in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]''. Played Straight in the way that Truman grossly overestimates his popularity in his circle of friends. They actually hate him, or at least don't care about him very much, and merely suck up to him because they want to be in the spotlight. Subverted in the way that Truman actually underestimates his importance in the world. He thinks he's a normal guy at a normal job in a normal town. But the town is actually a [[Small Secluded World]], and Truman himself is "on the air, unaware", having millions of fans without knowing it.
** Also subverted in that he is [[Properly Paranoid]] and has always had a sneaking suspicion that all was not quite right, something only more evident to him as the movie progresses. He's not totally ignorant of what his friends and family think of him either- he asks his wife, at one point, why she married him, when "you can't stand me". Plus, one of the hints he gets that he's being spied on is that random strangers know who he is.
* Much like ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]'', ''[[The Matrix]]'' , ''[[Dark City]]'' and ''[[The Thirteenth Floor]]'' obviously apply.
* The male lead of ''[[Blast Fromfrom the Past]]'' has quite a bit of this, having grown up in a [[Small Secluded World]] and not getting any real experience of the outside world. For example, his very heteronormative upbringing doesn't make him a [[Heteronormative Crusader]] — instead, he doesn't consider his gay friend to be strange at all, not having any division between heterosexuality and homosexuality included in his worldview.
** It's more that he doesn't seem to realize he's homosexual, or even know what homosexuality ''is''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
 
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the [[Energy Being]] called [[Leonardo Dada Vinci]] believes himself to be a great scientist and inventor, when the reality is that he's merely a ignorant victim of cruel computer programming.
* There's a case for House being this in "The Doctor's Wife" episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''.
* Dean Pelton in the ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E09 Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design|Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design]]". Jeff quickly realizes that the Dean isn't capable of forming a conspiracy on his own and actually fails to understand what a conspiracy is with the Dean in the end 'conspiring' with everyone involved.
 
== Philosophy ==
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